at 11:00, it is official, the nfl is bringing the 2017 draft to philadelphia, the impact this big event could have on the city's economy. donald trump delivers his long awaited immigration policy speech, this after the republican presidential nominee holds a private meeting with the president of mexico >> first we're keeping a close eye on the tropics.

florida is bracing for tropical storm hermine and we're watching the storm's path and what it could bring us over the labor day weekend. factorers say hermine is getting strength as it churns towards florida's gulf coast >> i'm jessica dean >> i'm ukee washington. more than 50 counties in florida are under a state of emergency. parts of the state are experiencing flooding already. and residents are preparing for the worst. >> justin drabick is closely watching the path and what it could mean for our region. justin? >> good evening, we have the latest advisory in now as of 11:00 and hermine has strengthened, still tropical storm status but still a lot of activity going on. we still got to deal with tropical depression 8 moving out to sea a still producing strong rip current. we got to focus on hermine, that could impact us for the upcoming holiday weekend. here's the latest status from the national hurricane center. winds up to 60 miles per hour in the center of the storm moving north north and east slowly at

ten miles per hour. it will head towards north florida probably making land fall potential as a low end hurricane late thursday, early friday, weakens as it moves inland. and then it starts to head back out to sea some time during the weekend. you can still see wind speeds up to 50 miles per hour. forecast models still take it up the coast. if it's on the far eastern side to have the spread, close enough to bring strong winds and high surfs to shore. if it's farther inland better chance to see heavy rain and kicks on out for labor day. nonetheless we're going to deal with strong rip current into next weekly we'll talk about the potential impact if the storm tracks over our region when the full forecast comes up in just a few minutes. >> we will see you in a bit republican nominee donald trump just wrapped up a policy is speech on immigration >> he met with mexico's president.

nicole brewer joins us with more on that. >> reporter: ukee and jessica, donald trump issued a ten-step plan he says will reduce crime eliminate gangs and decrease welfare youth if followed and enforced, his strategy will accomplish more in a matter of months than our politicians have accomplished on this issue in the last 50 years. ♪ >> hours after meeting with mexico's leader donald trump addressed his supporters in arizona reenforcing his hard line position on immigration >> it's our right as a sovereign nation to choose immigrants that we think are the likeliest to thrive and flurryish and love us. >> reporter: he said his immigration plan will not offer a path to citizen ship, promising to detain those who illegally cross our borders and send them back. also a 0 tolerance policy for criminals and block funding for sanctuary cities like

philadelphia. >> we will build a great wall along the southern border and mexico will pay for the wall. they don't know it yet. >> it is a great honor. >> reporter: trump accept add last minutes invitation to meet with mexico president enrique pena nieto where the republican presidential nominee told reporters that hasn't discussed who would foot the bill >> we did discuss the wall but not payment. it was an excellent meeting. and we are, i think, we're very well on our way. >> reporter: president pena nieto took to twitter writing at the beginning of the conversation with donald trump i made clear that mexico will not pay for the wall. meantime, democratic presidential nominee hillary clinton who spoke to veterans at

the american leakage end's annual convention's she said her rival has a lot to learn about diploma mace >> it takes a lot more to make up for a year of insults and insinuations. >> reporter: as trump tries to establish himself as is a at any times man, hillary clinton faces her lawful approval ratings ever. documents sent on her private e-mail server may have been related to the benghazi attacks that kill for americans. a lot going on on the campaign trail. hillary clinton's running mate tim kaine wrapped up his two-day swing through pennsylvania. virginia senator rallied with supporters in hanover township north hampton county. he will return to the commonwealth soon. he'll be in pittsburgh for had a labor day parade monday. we are now less than 69 days away from election day. stay with "eyewitness news" for continuing coverage of campaign 16. it's been talked about for

months and now we know. the nfl draft will be here in philadelphia next year. >> the league is expected to make the official announcement tomorrow. and lesley van arsdale is here. a little early with more on this. listen, we heard rumbling. now we know for sure. >> right. not really breaking news. we've been hearing the rumors since april but sources have confirmed that philadelphia will be hosting the nfl draft in 2017. details will all be unfolding during a press conference accident happened tomorrow at noon with mayor kenney. the philadelphia convention and visitors bureau will all be put be in attendance. trang do is live in penns landing with more on what fans think about the draft as well as the economic impact. hi, trang. >> reporter: hi lesley. city officials are remaining tight lipped until tomorrow, but fans had plenty to say about this. >> fantasy football draft night at chuckie and pete's in south

philly. >> the guys out together, bragging rights are obviously a good thing. >> reporter: fantasy will soon become reality. with the news that the city of brotherly love will host a 2017 nfl draft >> the dnc, i mean, the pope came here. obviously, this is a city where things are happening. so it's fitting that how to nfl draft will be here. >> i think it's wonderful. i think we're a big sports town. i think it's going to bring a lot of. >> reporter: 16 was a memorable one for philadelphia. >> we're the second pick in the 2016 nfl draft. the philadelphia eagles select carson wentz. >> now even without a first round draft pick next year, fans are still pumped. >> if we had a first round draft pick. >> first round doesn't matter mostly your best picks are in the later rounds. >> chicago hosted the draft the past two years.

it showed it was a touchdown for the second city. pumping more than $81 million into the local economy and filling 36,000 hotel rooms. chickie's and pete's owner said it should be just as lucrative here. >> i think it will be a great shot in the arm for all businesses in philadelphia. at great consumer. eat, drink and go out. that's what football is about. >> reporter: again, we expect to learn much more tomorrow at noon at city hall. live from penns landing trang do cbs3 "eyewitness news." >> thanks so much. we also caught up with former eagles rodney pete and had us wife, holy robinson pete and they're excited about the draft. we're going to hear from them later in sports. police investigating the case of a stolen statue taken from a church in port richmond. take a look at the statue before and after. a child sitting to at the feet

of jesus disappeared last night. this happened at our mother of divine grace church at monmouth and east thompson. someone would have had to climb an iron fence. the suspect broke a stained glass window to get outside our lady lady of calvary church on. pride a collection box and took money from another. that church been robbed three times. if you recognize the person call police, they do believe he could be responsible for several other burglaries. a 29-year-old man is gunned down in west philly and police say his 12-year-old son possibly witnessed the shooting. of police found the victim laying on the front steps of the mantua haverford community center. he had been shot multiple times. man was pronounced dead at the hospital. police have reviewed surveillance video and say it appears the victim got into an

argument with another man who opened fire. the shooter ran from the scene. two big clues are helping philadelphia police close in on a hit-and-run driver who struck and tidal killed a motorcyclist in feltonville. david spunt joins us from police headquarters to explain. >> reporter: law enforcement source told me they know exactly who they're looking for. they're waiting for himtown himself in. who hit and killed 58-year-old. the philadelphia father was hit and killed by someone driving this gmc yukon >> he was a lovable person caring. of. >> reporter: she was devastated when she got the call that her boyfriend was struck and killed just moments after he left her. this surveillance footage shows perez leaving his car wash business down the street a few hours before the crash. >> it was a great impact to me. i cannot believe it that he passed away. >> reporter: police say the driver left the scene in the

yukon, then pulled into this alley. home surveillance video shows the driver outside of the car removing something from the back. authorities believe it was the license plate to try and throw off detectives. but they had the vehicle identification number and found a trail of motor oil and other fluid. >> we also take the initiative and good police work, really good investigation and followed that approximately five blocks to where he finds it end with the yukon. >> the owner of the car was located but is not the suspect. owner or suspect, it doesn't matter to him who wants someone to speak up and do the right thing >> he didn't deserve that. be a human being, come on, turn your face, come on. >> reporter: i learned that perez was a first responders during the horrible events that happened in 911 in lower manhattan. if you have information about this accident, give police a call. you can remain anonymous, they're just looking for

information. reporting a the police headquarters, david spunt cbs3 "eyewitness news." >> thank you. >> trouble for the lower merion school district tonight. a judge ruled the district misled taxpayers to justify tax hikes. earlier taxpayers sued the district. a montgomery county judge ruled in their favor saying the district has repeatedly warned of financial clam mit ty and raised taxes even though the districts has plenty of cash. in reality, the district pocketed $42 and a half million over the past six years and some parents in that area are upset >> they broken their fiduciary responsibility to the taxpayers. of they've somehow cooked the books to make it look one way when, in fact, it's actually not that way. >> the judge calculated an average lower merion taxpayer would qualify for a $1400 rebate. he also ordered a 4.4% tax increase passed in june to be reversed. the district declined our

request to interview the debate over parking in the middle of south broad street heats up. >> a group against the parking started a petition to stop it. now, those in favor are fighting back. find out what they are doing to keep the south philly tradition alive. local authorities are cracking down on texting while driving. where the fine is doubling for first offenders. a chester county couple gets the surprise of a lifetime. see what happens when the can publisher's clearing house prize patrol shows up meteorologist justin drabick is keeping a close eye on tropical storm hermine. how

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with police, he was finally taken into custody, the singer posted bail later that day. his court date september 20th. brown maintains his innocence today marked first commercial flight between the u.s. and in more than 50 years. the historic flight departed fort alloweder dale this morning and landed about an hour later in cuba. within weeks, ten different u.s. airlines will offer flights to cuba from many different cities including philadelphia. an effort is underway to preserve parking in the median on south broad street in philadelphia. "eyewitness news" was on south broad as supporters of median parking gathered signatures. they're working in opposition to another group that's gathering signatures in hopes of getting rid of the parking. drivers caught texting or using hand-held phones behind the wheel. governor sign re signed a bill that doubles the penalty for a

first time offense. if you're caught a second time, you'll pay at least $200 in fines and you will get points on your license. you've seen it on tv. the publisherring clear's house surprising lucky winners with millions of unexpected dollars. but is it real? >> you've won $1 million >> just as diana from west chester "eyewitness news" news tagged along as the a pch prize patrol arrived at diane's jobs with balloons, flowers and most importantly the check for $1 million. what are some of diane's plans >> play the lottery at work and i'll be buying the lottery tickets this week. hopefully the luck will continue with my coworkers here. >> the publisher's clearing house rewarded more than $280 million since 1967. atlantic city is preparing for a big holiday weekend with three beach font concerts >> storm activity far out in the

atlantic is causing rip current, lifeguards are keeping beach goers close to the shore and city's resources are stretched thins half lifeguard are back at school. the easton had to close beaches >> it's wicked. you have to keep them on you. >> it's going to be a challenge because we are with a diminished staff and we have three beach concerts this weekend. fortunately we have a lot of college aged kids coming home to help out >> live nation is paying extra to have extra lifeguards on hand. the huge stage is designed to withstand hurricane force winds because roof can slide to the ground with a motorized system. >> planning ahead. >> we talked about last night fresh as dawn this weekend. nothing like a good tropical system to mess up a forecast. it happens this time of year, a lot of tropical activity. we're going to be focusing on hermine over the gulf of mexico and again if it tracks close enough to the coast, we could

get rain, especially around the sunday time period. even if it's far enough offshore and keeping us with sunshine it's still going to be gusty winds be dodging few showers overnight. cold front will bring a change in our forecast the next couple days, knock out the temperatures and humidity, back to average or a slightly below average, 74 looking across the delaware, calm wind, nice conditions you can see the skyline, showers around earlier more off to our west, heavier showers moving you don't have the north of baltimore. so heads up cecil county maryland and next hour you could get a rumble of thunder or two, more showers breaking out towards southern poconos, northern berks. that's heading to the e the no the out of the woods yet. the threat for a few showers extends into tomorrow. going to be scattered, not everybody sees them. temperatures 70 in allentown, 75 in philadelphia, it's still muggy tonight. but you'll start feeling the humidity drop a little bit through the day tomorrow at my south breezes along the shore,

upper 70's ocean city barnegat 70 at cape may. tomorrow's beach forecast, not best. more clouds around couple of showers possible. maybe a few peaks of sun in the afternoon, highs near 80. friday looks good, lots of sunshine at 78. we're going to watch clouds increase during saturday. becomes windy. planning out your weekend as of now, sunshine saturday overall pleasant, comfortable sunday we'll watch the potential for rain and wind, far inland as the poconos, depending on the track of hermine and labor day looks like we may dry out and get lucky, see sunshine as the storm moves on out. of given the official hurricane track, strong winds specially along the coast line, potential heavy rainfall but how much rain we see and where it sets up will be determined by track of the storm and intensity of it. cold front moving south and east through the overnight hours,

going to try to push out hermine offshore. maybe a little bit too late the. that's why hermine is able to track a little bit more to the west. carolinas early friday morning and possibly as far north at virginia friday night. where it goes from then is the question, depends how the upper level interacts with the storm. maybe kicks it out far enough to sea. we'll have to wait and see. scattered showers, few thunderstorms possible overnight, 70 for the city, 60s in the suburbs. cooler tomorrow, 84 degrees still couple showers possible. especially during the morning hours. and the extended forecast so we're going to start off the holiday weekend ok. friday looks good. sunny, pleasant at 80 degrees, clouds increased saturday. once again high near 80. watch out for sunday, that could be periods of rain and windy at times. labor day starts to dry out and sunshine back up to 84 and if you like a warm temperatures, wait till next week, signs of heat building again, upper 80's

maybe making another round at 90. >> thank you, sir. >> lesley what's next in sports >> the phillies trying to savage their series with the nationals downs at the bank and check this out, really, really enjoying a four-hour bruce springsteen concert at met life. we'll hear from him and explain

as we told you philadelphia will host the 2017 nfl draft. official details for the draft will be released tomorrow but tonight we caught up with former quarterback rod rodney pete and his wife holy robinson pete. they know what a big deal this is for the city. >> it's great for the city of philadelphia. i love the fact that the nfl is moving it around from city to city, not just stuck in new york anymore. it's going to be great, the passion of these fans here, the draft or the nfl anybody seen anything about what's to happen in philly the next year with the draft. these fans will go crazy.

every single pick. it's going to be amazing >> he's right tomorrow eagles will play the fourth and final game against the jets, the starters will sit this one out but for many of the younger players this is their final shot. beauallen has been there before. of >> it's incredibly important to them. you want to put on the best show that you can. a lot of people don't realized even though there are guys might not make this roster, every single team is looking at that and. they're trying to avoid the sweep with adam morgan on the round-to the game we go. jason in the first crushes the ball in deep center field and right on to the camera platform and that's going to put the nationals ahead 1-0. phillies answered back a hopple

run from freddy galvis. that will tie up the game. unfortunately they will score again, they lose 2-1, after the game, pete mackanin said he has nothing but praise for adam morgan. morgan pitched well. did a great job with his off speed stuff. located extremely well. best i've seen probably ever. >> it was fun. i mean, it was just a simple game plan. i believe the use of the two team has helped me a lot. trying to keep the ball down. ♪ ♪ >> are flyers jake vorachek a huge

bruce fan and we have never heard born to run as you know quite like he did. good thing he has the day job. >> he's having a good job. >> he's having great time. that's for sure. >> up nex

he's making it up. of course, anyone who commits a violent crime needs to be prosecuted -- and put behind bars. narrator: katie mcginty will keep us safe -- more police on the streets, better training and equipment, and take on the gun lobby for gun safety laws.

katie: i'm the daughter of a police officer, and the mother of three. i'll stand with law enforcement to fight crime, and protect our families. i'm katie mcginty, and i approve this message. we talked with former quarterback rodney pete about the nfl draft coming to town. >> he's in philadelphia with his wife for the event at the venture aquarium in camden. they organized an evening of fun for families in our area who have children living with autism. pete's son was diagnosed with autism at age three. he's now 18. ♪

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