expect to be a extraordinary day in washington d.c. in a few hours fbi director james comey will testify on capitol hill about his interactions with president trump and what he says were calls from the president, to drop the investigation in, to michael flynn. we're live with more on what to expect. he wanted coffee and bag of doughnuts but ended up bagging a robber. we are hearing from a quick thinking south jersey man who went toe to toe with an armed man inside this wawa. we will see a mix of sun and included, as we look live at parkway in center city, temperatures are about to start feeling like summer,

very soon, so today is thursday, june 8th, i'm jim donovan. i'm rahel solomon. katie's keeping an eye on things on this alex tell -a-thon thursday. >> it is an amazing day start to finish because of it, i can tell you right now it is starting off really nice just a bunch of construction out there. >> yes, what else is really new. >> that is right. >> i tried to do something new >> construction, i know. >> it is true. it really is looking to be a very pleasant day, not quite, what you would normally find on june 8th but i'm cool with that. wait until you see what we will end up with here, very, very comfortable, warmth expected but we can expect that sun will eventually, you see more cloud cover, going through the rest of the afternoon. storm scan is totally empty, nice and quiet, very light win , cool start to the day, when we look at these area temperatures. in atlantic city we are at 48. mid 50's at the airport and

that wind is very, very light. we will hardly notice it. we are flirting with the 30's at this hour at mount pocono, so that is cool, so expect some sunshine. nice afternoon. certainly warmer then yesterday, but, still not quite average. seventy-five is best we can hope for but that is very comfortable with time though these temperatures will spike, we will let you know how high later on. >> wonderful, all right katie, that is great news. >> very good morning if you are just joining us we are happy you are here, you can see the skies just starting to light up, you can see a little , and, and very, very light. ninety-five before girard, as you are traveling in the southbound direction. overall i-95 in the 5:00 o'clock hour i'm hoping to keep you there until 6:00 o'clock hour. thursday you usually can. we will see what happens. vine closed overnight between the schuylkill and broad but we were waiting for ramp, eastbound schuylkill to open up, eastbound on the vine we are looking, grand.

schuylkill at boulevard taillights moving in the eastbound direction this is what you're looking at there sky is lighting up, looking beautiful east and westbound on the schuylkill, enjoy opened roadways while we have them. one area we have that car fire in ambler, ambler road at church street, more coming up in a bit, jim and rahel, back over to you. all eyes are on capitol hill where former fbi director james comey is testified before congress. >> yesterday, his interactions with the president on record by making his opening statement public. jan carabao joins us now from our news center with a preview of today's hearing, good morning, jan. >> reporter: good morning. former fbi director james come y is putting it all out there today in his opening statement he details a number of meetings with the president , some of the most concerning to him, private one on one conversations. it is seven pages of remarks, former fbi director james come y details numerous uncomfortable interactions he had with president trump. one of the most notable came

in february, when comey says the president, cleared the oval office before pressuring him to drop the bureau's ongoing investigation of michael flynn, president's former national security advisor confirming earlier reports, comey wrote that mr. trump told him quote i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go to letting flynn go, he is a good guy. >> what we see is mounting evidence of obstruction of justice. >> reporter: testimony was released thursday by senate intelligence committee at come y's request leading up to his firing last month, he says that president trump called him and describe the russia investigation as quote a cloud that was impairing his ability to act on behalf of the country. comey then admitted he reassured the president he was not personally under investigation, something that the president's personal attorney says vindicates the president. comey recalls having 91 on one conversation was president trump in just four months, one in which he said the president asked him for a pledge of loyalty. >> what the president asked for was loyalty to the country

and loyalty to make sure the american people have justice system. >> is it concerning to you. >> of course. >> why? >> because it is not the job of the president of the united states. >> reporter: senate lawmakers on both side plan to press comey why he only put information in memos and shared witt his closest aid. comey maintains he approached attorney general jeff sessions with concerns. now today's hearing is highly anticipated and some republicans have reportedly urged president trump not to tweet, during the hearing, we will have to wait and see. we are live from the news center jan carabao, cbs-3 back inside to you. cbs news will carry testimony of james comey as a special report this morning. join nora o'donnell, charlie rose, gayle king at 10:00 a.m. right here on cbs-3. today there is a bail hearing for government contractor charged with leaking u.s. secrets to reporters. twenty-five year-old reality lee winter is accused of copying top secret information and mailing it to an on line

news organization. her parents say they are afraid that prosecutors will try to use this case to send a message to the trump administration that security leaks will not be tolerated. well, president trump tweets his pick for the next fbi director. president nominated christopher ray, he served his department of justice from 2003 to 2005. wray defended governor chris christie during the bridge gate scandal. governor applauded the president's decision. >> i commend the president for extraordinary and agent to the fbi, and men and women of the you had, will be extraordinary well served, by having a fbi director. well, confirmation hearing for wray will take place in the next two weeks or so. polls are opened in england this morning where all 650 seats in the house of common are are up for grabs. teresa may and labor party leader jeremy corbett have rival plans for brexit and

fighting threats. party need 326 seats to form a majority government there. polls are opened until 5:00 this afternoon our time. jurors in the bill cosby sexual assault trial will hear from cosby himself even if he doesn't take a stand. prosecutors are expected to show jurors statements that cosby made about giving accusers pills in 2004, were engaging in sex acts with her. andrea constand testified for seven hours as montgomery county courthouse in norristown. seventy-nine year-old cosby faces a decade in prison if quick. new investigators are trying to figure out what sparked a fire in the home in old kensington. fire fighters arrived on the 1400 block of north hope street to find heavy flames, just before 11:30. we put out a fire by midnight. no one was injured. and no injuries reported, this morning when fire broke out in manayunk, you can see the front is covered with some ot this happened at 100 block of du pont street around 3:00. fire fighters were able to douse flames before 3:30. good samaritan can rest

easy to day after taking down an armed robber at a convenient store this took place just before 2:00 in the morning yesterday at about a was on cross keys road in sicklerville. surveillance video shows a customer running at a man whom police say was robbing a store at gunpoint. customer who only identified himself as darryl, is twice the suspect's age. he wrestled him for several minutes until police arrived. >> my first reaction, my good ness this is real. you know, then things, just kicked in and immediately separate this guy. and some give up everything to come to work with their family expecting them to come home, stay with me, my family, i get up, go to work my family wants to come home. i just want a cup of coffee and bag of doughnuts. >> few stitches and bandages. police stress that people should not intervene in similar situations. by the way, suspects faced charges including aggravated assault.

a drug bust shuts down a chipotle restaurant. three people including an employee face charges. two suspects arrived for a court hearing just hours after their arrest yesterday. 22-year old robert lane, walked in the chipotle, under cover officers say they found a half pound of pot on him. kadeem chokes was also arrested. police superintendent says the investigation began weeks ago. >> the employee will come out of the store with the marijuana on his person, which is the case, that he had it on his person handling food. >> and township health inspectors found drug paraphernalia in the bathroom toilet tank and health code violations in the restaurant. family, friend and community members are rallying around a mother and her young son after they were injured in the gunfire. dozens formed a prayer circle yesterday, just a day after the six year-old was shot in the head on the 700 block of east sixth street. his mother suffered cuts to the arms. wilmington police chief bob tracie says he is ready for the violence to end.

it is senseless, and things that we will do moving forward and what we have been doing to the small percentage of individual that go back and forth, causing this violence in the city. as you can see all of the good people in the city are tired of it. >> young boy remains in critical condition, his mother has been released from the hospital, still no word on an arrest. well, it is time to get your office pool going, power ball is now reached 435 million-dollar, and after no one matched all six numbers in last night's drawing. >> winning numbers are announced yesterday are five, 21, 67, 66, 69 and power ball is 13. double-check those tickets because someone in pennsylvania did win a million-dollar, just one of the five people across the country cash option for saturday's drawing comes out to 273.1 million-dollar. >> we will pick that option, yes. >> of course. >> yes. >> well, coming up mother nature's fury, caught on contact use. >> it looked like it would

turn back at me. >> look at this. >> we're hearing from the man, who took video of the tornado just feet away coming up next. blank. and the thief uses stolen construction equipment to try to rob an atm machine, show you more and show you how much more damage was left behind. i like the cold play but i like that album. >> i'm with you big day for us here at cbs-3 "eyewitness news" lots of us are wearing yellow, for 11th annual alex scott a stand for hope tell -a-thon, but we will be right back.

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in the atm. suspect did not get any gas but did manage to cause $10,000 in damage to the cash machine and bank. authorities are now searching for that suspect. and, talk about a chosen counter. >> footage of the tornado tearing through a field in north dakota was caught by a man a few hundred feet away. take a closer look, jesse bye says he was working on his farm when this huge funnel touched down. bye says he was a football field away but that didn't stop him from filming, thankfully he said tornado wasn't very destructive. >> if it wasn't for power lines, it just got a lot of power on these lines and they are still standing. we got lucky, didn't go through a farm or anything or go through town. >> well, bye says tornado mainly acted like a vacuum cleaner just sucking up dirt, other than that there were no reports of any injuries or structural damage. >> talk about maybe the best potentially a bad situation heavy rain, flooding in florida apparently was not all that bad for some people, in

fact, sun in miami made the best of it, they can be seen here surfing and splashing out , yesterday afternoon, rain and flood are common in florida during hurricane season which began last week. >> it is like dirty water though. >> it is not good. >> i have to say i always get a kick out of seeing people, in creative canoes rowing down the street. >> ingenuity. >> yes. >> yes, you know me i'm a germ phobic. >> that one guy looks like he was surfing on the mattress. >> that is exactly what it was >> okay. >> live and let live is what we like to say around here. >> indeed, indeed. >> you just said that yesterday, this is your new theme. >> yes. >> okay. so, you talked about florida, and certainly still, the moisture that had rolled across the sunshine state, is still, on the map, it is starting to move off to the north ande, however, so it is eventually going to end up having a minor impact. we will see a few more cloud from it but we will skirt past

us. there you can see it, again some very soaking rain out of this, especially true for carolina coastline but, there may be, just a little bit of this that gets close enough to bring in some cloud, perhaps a shower near the shore over next day and a half as this continues its trek northe here in the meantime we have a nice clear sky at the moment but there will be additional cloud with time. we will take you through a couple stops on future weather and see on this wide zoom how that moisture basically just cleared out to our east but note is what happens with the wrap around cloud cover, that will funnel in so later on today you may be stuck in the cloud across parts of the new jersey, a persian of the state let alone del marva peninsula. more likely to end up with more sun then anything but worst is going to clear us to thee, so we will not have any major worries from it. tomorrow there may be a left over shower that wraps around in the wake of this over northern counties perhaps but we are generally expecting dry weather tomorrow and sunshine

not to mention a warming trend , so today is not bad at all, it really looks like a nice day, since we are celebrating lemonade days here with alex's lemonade stand tell a then today we have a fun special map for you here. around the region there are a handful of different stand that will be taking place here i will be at wynnewood later this morning if you want to come out and say hi but mid to upper 70's are out there through the rest of the day every where. handful of other spots doing this, man talk bay day for lemonade, phoenix, right, 107 degrees for the high there getting wrap let me give you the eyewitness weather seven day. we are warming up back to the 90's meisha starting on sunday >> that is sounding, great to me, thanks, katie, good morning, everyone. so, nice, weather on tap, that is going to help us too, looking outside we have nice dry roadways and see skies starting to light up as we are pushing in the 5:00 o'clock hour. forty-two freeway north bound at creek road, to 295, we are looking good, hopefully we

will keep you there until we approach the 6:00 o'clock hour 422 headlights moving in the eastbound direction approaching trooper, starting a long line now and i will say that we are traveling at posted speed. we are still looking okay on 422. i-95, headlights moving in the southbound direction toward airport we will take that up, this is what it will be looking like no cancellations in delays at the airport we will keep you informed if we hear of anything that happens to happen because mother nature is on our side. we still have this car fire in ambler road at church street is still out there, i'll let you know when this clears, rahel, back over to you. all right, meisha, thank you. for a look at newspaper headlines. >> from the news journal drug enforcement said they have captured men with mexican drug cartel connections who are involved in the high volume, california, to delaware, cocaine trafficking operation. the operation involves secret entrance, hidden compartments and tunnels, under a bear, delaware home. the spirit of the delaware county an event designed to

bridge gap between law enforcement and young people and ended early because not a lot of teens showed up. meeting was hosted last weekend by pennsylvania state senator anthony williams of folcroft. full hour scheduled open hour discussion ended after an hour and a half. press of atlantic city ac will hoe a grand reopening for new section of the boardwalk from rhode island to oriental avenue. atlantic city mayor don guardian will hold a ribbon cutting at 11:00 a.m. at vermont avenue. work began a year ago and included demolishing and reconstructing the boardwalk. >> that is a look at newspaper headlines around the delaware valley. up next, lebron james comes up big in game three of the nba finals but was it enough for calves to get their first win of the series in sports is up next. plus this. >> ♪ >> are. >> you know me i love my country music we have more performances and results from last night's 16th annual cmt music award. we will be right back.

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welcome back to cbs-3 "eyewitness news" checking sports golden state warriors just keep on winning. >> warriors can thank a former sixer. cavilers are looking for their first win in the finals and they got 39 points from lebron james but warriors got 31 from kevin durant and took the lead with less than a minute to play. james had a chance with 122nd left bye former sixers andre iguodala comes up with the block, warriors win, 118-113. >> having a close game down the stretch, honestly, it has

been a while, and that was, a great feeling to kind of just overcome, stick to it and find a way to win. >> i have never been in this position being up in the finals and trying to close it out, so i know how exciting that will be for us as a team. >> now warriors can win it all with a win in game four tomorrow night in cleveland. >> another unhappy morning for cleveland this morning. well, meanwhile phillies had a good thing going, right. but last night their four game winning streak ended. don bell has our morning sports. >> ben lively will make their second start tonight as phillies wrap up with the braves, now last night, fightins four game winning streak came to an end. now, in june and jared eickoff is still looking for his first win this season. he is always sick no score in the fourth, nick marquez with the fly ball and howie kendrick cannot get to, brandon phillips coming home, beats the throw, and it is one to nothing braves. next inning, two on for dan

swanson, three run shot to left center, phillies trail four love. eickoff went five innings giving up four runs. in the seventh, braves break ing the game wide open, they scored four run in the fray, and, two run double off the glove of miguel, and infielder andres blanco came into pitch and matt adams was happy to see him, that is gone two run shot. fourteen-one, is your final score. that is all for sports. i'm don bell. have a great day. coming up in the next half an hour of eyewitness nice a new jersey woman is suing chipotle we will tell you why she was denied overtime pay, trang do? >> reporter: andrea constand wraps up her testimony in bill cosby's sexual assault trial. i'm trang do and we will have we have a recap of day three and looking at day four. we will tell but a bill that just passed a few hours ago that could expand casino

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aim eyes are on capitol hill where james comey is testifying about his meeting with the president. >> some republicans urged president trump not to tweet during the hearing. and, day four for bill cosby trial after seven hours of testimony, from his chief accuser, jurors may hear the comedian's own word. >> as we know bill cosby is not expected to testify, where prosecutors are expect to bring up a damming deposition. >> chipotle restaurant on the main line raided after employees, sell drugs to under cover cops. >> i am in the trying to be a hero. >> risking his life to take down a robber, customer tackles an armed man inside a sicklerville wawa. >> can you feel the anticipation. i can feel, comey in the air