broadcast center in philadelphia. this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news" this morning. >> well, the heat streak continues as we look live at center city. we will tell us just how hot we will be getting today, as we're officially in the heatwave. >> attorney general, jeff sessions, facing his former senate colleagues today. the big questions they're expected to ask, and the way he may be able to avoid the toughest one. and the goal end state warriors world champs. the big moment from their win against the cleveland cavaliers. >> today is tuesday, june 13th, good morning, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. katie and meisha keeping an eye on things on yet another hot morning. good morning. >> yep, good morning, happy

tuesday, you guys, so looking outside right now, a lot of construction, construction, construction, also a couple of accident, those have cleared out of our way. and they're always out there until i would say, 5:00, 5:30,. >> the vine, that vine. i always grunt. >> oh, i'm telling you, it is rough. but the heat also, a rough story for us here today. it will be another really really steamy day for us out there. looking at the heat advisory, that will take effect as of high noon. we will be going right on the air as it is taking effect here on "eyewitness news" at noon, and it lasts until 7:00. notice not for everyone it, really is only confined to philadelphia, and the immediate vicinity, urban heat island effect essentially the reason for. that will but this is where you will ends up with the worse of the heat index values throughout the day. you may be flirting with triple digit heat index values here. so, this is definitely a really steamy day. this is where we actually peak with the warmth, too. storm scan3, quiet as can be. does not necessarily stay this

way, shotty -- spotty shower will ignite at some point later toward evening, but for now, you can walk out the door without a jacket absolutely, it is so mild outside. mid 70s, low 70s up and down i95 at this hour, 75 currently even in the a.c. airport. outside of town, palmyra checking in at 76, one of the mildest checks, quakertown, only 66, so kind of depend where you are, what you will walk out the door to. regardless this is hot day for everyone. man, what a great beach day. it will be steamy for sure. but, you want to be by the water, on days like this, 96 though in the city would mean a new record, for the daily books here today. meisha? >> breaking another record, all right, katie, thank you so much. very good morning to awful you at home. take look at the gorgeous sky. just starting to light up little bit. and the roadways looking real niles. this is 95 south at cottman, making your way toward center city headed out the door right now in great company. looking great and hopefully we can keep you at the levels until more toward the 6:00 hour. we look at the vine, women,

the vine that overnight construction it is all clear. so moving in the wean direction toward the schuylkill, and looking good, eastbound side, looking really good, too. so again, hoping to keep you at those levels for as long as we can today. outside we do have an accident, 611 old york road in abington near heart road. that will road is blocked, so if this is your neighborhood, just know that it is out there. and it has not cleared yet. construction on the pa turnpike as well westbound between 29 and downingtown, the left lane blocked, and the pa turnpike eastbound between 29 and valley forge, the left lane is block there, as crews are working on both sides. garden state parkway we have crews out there as well southbound between ac service area and route 30. right lane compromised there, and then in cherry hill, crews still out there this morning, route 70 between haddonfield road and kings highway, one lane blocked in each direction there, as well. more to come in about ten minute, rahel, over to you. >> meisha, thank you. we have early dismissals to pason for schools in our area due to the excessive heat. the philadelphia school district will close at noon today. all after school activities are canceled. the camden city school

district will submits at 1:00. after school activities also canceled. and hamilton township school district will have a one session day. >> we are officially on verdict watch in the bill cosby trial. >> this morning jurors will be shown two pieces of evidence that they've requested. "eyewitness news" reporter trang do live outside the courthouse in norristown, with more on what we can expected to. good morning, trang. >> reporter: well, good morning, jim, rahel. lalls night jurors deliberated for about four hours before wrapping up around 9:30 p.m. it really capped off a bizarre day in court that saw the defense taking just six minutes and one witness to present it it case. >> bill cosby left court monday night, sink ago tune to himself. arm in arm with his publicist, andrew wyeth. his fate now in the hands of 12 people from allegany county. >> we feel that the jury has information, and they saw the truth. >> the jury every seven men, five women, got the case around 5:30 p.m., and deliberated for about four

hours. about mid-way through, they asked the judge to see part of a 2005 deposition, where cosby called the pills he gave central witness andrea constand, quote, his little friends. cosby maintained he gave constand benadryl to relax, to a visit to his home in 2004. prosecutors say more powerful drugs were at work, ren erring their client incapacitated and unable to fend off cosby's advances. another accuser, victoria valentine owe, says the story is early familiar. >> there was a thread of continuity between all of us, 60 women, who have gone public, who never had met each other before. and suddenly we're going oh, my god, that's a pattern. >> bill cosby's team is confident he will be acquitted. >> the jurors are sophisticated, they're smart enough. i really feel like we have that one person, and more than one person, who is looking at the evidence, and they're taking everything into account. and that reasonable doubt is probably coming into play.

>> the deliberations are set to resume at 9:00 a.m. if cosby is convicted, co-face up to 30 years in prison. but for now, outside the montgomery county courthouse, trang do, cbs-3 "eyewitness news," jim, rahel, back to you. >> thank you, trang. stay with us here on "eyewitness news" as trang just mentioned, deliberations resume at 9:00 a.m. and as soon as there is averred, we will have it for you on tv and cbsphilly.com and the cbs local app. >> faa is investigating a plane crash at a private airport in ocean county new jersey. >> this happened just before 11:00 last night at the eagles nest airport in eagleswood. authority tell us the small plane crashed into a wooded area as it approached the runway. police say the pilot suffered very minor injuries. at last check, that airport remained closed. officers in montgomery country looking for shooters this morning, after a street is riddled with bullets. they found at least 45 bullet casings on the 1,000 block of powell street in norristown just after midnight.

it looked like several car windows were also shot out. police say one man was shot in the leg. he is expected to survive. >> well, a big day on capitol hill as the investigation into russia's meddling in the 2016 election continues. >> later today attorney general jeff sessions will face questions from the senate over his connections to the russian ambassador. correspondent weijia jiang live in washington now with more. good morning, weijia. >> reporter: good morning, rahel and jim. sessions will be answering all of those questions during a public hearing. the justice department says he requested it not happen behind closed doors, because he believes it is important for the american people to hear the truth, directly from him. >> attorney general jeff sessions praised president trump and fellow cabinet member monday ahead of his testimony before the senate intelligence committee today. he is expected to face questions about his contact with russia's ambassador to the u.s. during the presidential campaign. sessions, though, has recused

himself from all ongoing investigations into russia. >> i should not be involved in investigating a campaign i had a role in. >> sessions may also have to answer for what role if any he played in the firing of former nbi director james comey. comey during his testimony to the senate hinted there might be more to session's recusal. >> we also were aware of fact i can't discuss in a open setting. >> session also have the option to avoid some questions by siting executive privilege. a move the white house has not ruled out. >> i think it depends on the scope of the questions, and to get into hypothetical at this point, would be premature. >> the attorney general may also be asked if there are tables of the president's private conversations with comey. as mr. trump suggested last month. but refuse to confirm monday. the secret service revealed yesterday it is unaware of any

recording devices inside the oval office. the white house has not offered any clarity about the possibility of those tapes. we'll address the issue sometime in the future. rahel, jim? >> weijia, check me if i'm wrong, didn't sessions get himself into some sort of trouble during his last senate hearing a few month ago? >> reporter: the last time he testified back in january, was during his confirmation hearing, and back then he said he had no communication with the russians, which of cours course -- he recused himself from all investigations. >> i guess we're losing weijia's signal there. we apologize for that technical glitch. >> thank you, weijia jiang live for us in the nation's capitol this morning, thank you. just reminder cbs news will carry the testimony of attorney general jeff sessions

liver, coverage begins at 2:30 this afternoon, of course you can catch it right here on cbs-3. >> and turning now to sports, the goal end state warriors are the champions of the nba for the second time in three years. >> kevin did your around came to the warriors to win a titan he d he had 39-point last night, named finals mvp, the warriors went out on a 28 to four run in the second quarter to pull away. labron james had 41 points and the cavaliers made it close but the warriors win 129 to 120. >> love that it, led the celebrations at or call arena,, inside and outside, and the arena itself lit with linking light. high light and more from the players coming up in sports. >> coming up: president trump's friends made pretty interesting come hasn't has a lot of people talking. how the administration is responding the president may fire the special council heading up the russia

investigation. also, some storm chasers get up close and personal with a tornado. where this one touched down when we come back. introducing fios gigabit connection. superfast internet at an incredible price. with speeds up to 940 megs.

that's 20x faster than most people have. and, it's just $79.99 a month online for 1 year. and only $5 more per month for the second year. get fios gigabit connection for $79.99 with tv, hbo for 1 year and multi-room dvr service for 2 years. all with a 2-year agreement. switch now at fiosgigabit.com.

♪

>> thinks the president is considering firing the special council in the russian investigation. >> chris rudy shared on pbs. in may the justice department made robert muller the special council to investigate potential russian activity in the 2016 election. what the house told cbs news, was not speaking for the president. president trump's travel ban continues to receive push backs, the attorney general of hawaii urging the supreme court to keep the travel ban blocked. yesterday, the ninth circuit court of appeals ruled the ban to be unconstitutional. block refugees and foreign nationals from coming into the us from six muslim majority countries. >> several tornados tore across the country yesterday including one that got little too close for comfort. >> oh, no. we're staying here. hang on. >> storm chasers caught this video of one of the three tornados that touched down in wyoming. brought dangerous storms and report of severe rain and golf weather service received a report of at least one injury after severe

weather. look at that stuff flying through the air. >> incredible video. >> that's what i'm always afraid of, not only getting suck up but things knocking me in the head. >> do we have a lot of those on our side of the county from. >> not as they do other parts. >> definitely higher incidence in that part of the country, but it is certainly not unheard of for us to see that happen here. a tornado could spin up anywhere. and there is this weirds mitt cities immune to seeingtoado, n. anyone can see it, just doesn't necessarily always happen over a sit. that's part of the problem, too, when you think about it, if no one was there to see the tornado, and caused no damage, did it really happen? yes, part of the issue when it comes to actually, you know, keeping the record on these things. but regardless, that's neither here nor there. know tore in the i can activity in our forecast for today, certainly a lot mover heat to tell you about. let's get you on outside by starting off just with a view of the live neighborhood network. not the prettiest view you've ever seen, but definately

looks hazy, obviously the center city skyline, view from palmyra cove nature park in the live neighborhood network. mild beginning to the day for sure. but you can see, that haze, and you're going to see more sun than anything throughout the day today. but, eventually, shower or thunderstorm will fire up. it is enough that we have's got to mention it, not enough to cancel outdoor plans. i'll explain in future weather. but look at storm scan here across the region as a whole. basically clear. couple of scattered clouds, really all that's visible on the satelite. but because there is so much moisture, because the dew point are hi, there is the haze that tends to show up. and the air quality is, again, less than ideal, specific to the sensitive group. kids, elderly, nun one that suffers from asthma or respiratory problems this will not be a comfortable dale for you specially the height of the day, 10:00 a.m., to 4:00 p.m., try to stay inside, take it easy out there. but, with that said definitely pluses to days like there is wonderful beach and pool weather. we're up at 74 currently in

atlantic city. cooler by comparison in mount pocono. you won't stay that way. with time, everybody heats up with no problem. so, here's the call in philadelphia. shooting for 96, that would be new number for the records books, breaking the records of 59 last set in 1956. and looking forward, this really is going to be a temperature range that gets scaled back. back to more typical territory tomorrow. all-in-all i think a dry day, shower at least early in the day. but come thursday, that looks great. temperatures being knocked back, humid, high hits 79, real comfortable, then the unsettled weather returns, looks to me like it will stick around not only through the weekend but probably into monday too. >> yes, look at that, another little roller coaster we've got on our hands, katie, thank you so muchment and very good morning to all of you, happy tuesday. so, looking outside right now, construction crews out there. we do have one accident, overall your morning commute, looking pretty good. we have nice dry roadways, climate, looking pretty good. outside, ben franklin bridge, looking great as you push in

the westbound direction from jersey in center city. and hazy shot there. but overall, the visibility is looking good. schuylkill at conshohocken curve taillights moving in the eastbound direction, gorgeous shot here, again, some of your neighbors out there, overall things looking good there. boulevard at wissahickon, same stormy. everyone traveling at posted speeds, just as we should. and i'm hoping to keep you there until we reach into the 6:00 hour. right now, it is look being like we'll have good chance of doing. that will then we do have an accident in abington. let me see. there we go. 611, near heart road, that roadblock, so for those every you, if that's your neck of the woods, just know it is still out there. has not cleared yet. and also, construction on the pa turnpike. so westbound between route 29, and downingtown, the left lane blocked. and eastbound between route 29 and valley forge, that has actually now just been cleared. more construction to talk about when we come back in the next ten minute, rahel, over to you. and now for a look at newspaper headlines from across our region. >> governor tom tomorrow wolfing signed legislation that hopes to tackle penn sean

debt, beginning in 2019, the commonwealth will begin introduce ago 401k style benefit, for future school and state government employees. >> and the morning call, the lehigh valley, do plans quiet debut for murphy the giraffe. the 16 year old giraffe arrived at the zoo last month with his six year old son ernie but the excitement took sad turn when ernie suffered apparent neck injury in a stall and died. un obtrusive approach both giraffes even before ernie's death. >> some residents at the new jersey veterans memorial home in vineland will be the recipients of some amazing works of art, 13 hand made killed are being delivered, that were designed around stitched by sewing student at millville senior high school, at their final class assignment. just sounds just great. >> and that's a look at some of the numerous headlines from around the delaware valley. >> pat is here with a preview every sports. >> and pat the nba season comes to an end. >> sadly it does, warriors, second straight title last year, but, they get it back

last night, beating the cavs in game five. hear from warriors mvp kevin durand after his first title. plus, reflect on the cavs run, coming up in

to make a good school day. miss hoffman gets. takes a lot of peoe mrs. migliaccio teaches us all about fractions - and haikus - and the erie canal! miss reeves makes us sound amazing. and miss santoro always takes time to see how we're doing.

miss simpkins keeps our school looking great. recess wouldn't be recess without miss basile. and mrs. mccarthy always has tons of good books to read. which makes for a pretty good day at school. ♪ >> welcome back, pat gallen, back from extended vacation. >> sorry to be back. just kidding, guys. war yes, sir fell back-to-back because of the greatness of labron james. but, with kevin durant entering the mix golden state just too much for the cavs to handle. and for the second time in three years, the warriors are nba champions.

it was of course the rant fueled that game five. thirty-nine points, seven rebound, five assists against the calves. he takes home the finals mvp. labron could have won it, labron james dropped 41, he becomes the first player ever to average a triple double in finals history. but the warriors win 129-120. and in this series i just stayed in the moment. and we did it pocket, man. >> to be world champs again, to be able to celebrate, enjoy this experience, it is unbelievable. >> i love everything i have -- i have out on the court, you know, you come up short. >> there have been some disturbances in oakland during the celebrations, but no word on arrests. the victory parade is set for thursday. >> it was a late night for the phillies as well. they started this week's four game home at home series against the red sox. and it started well, but, like most phillies games, it didn't

ends that way. the phils scored four runs in the first inning, last night, at fenway. tommy joseph, knocks in two right here. but as usual, the bullpen, full-on let down. eighth inning, blocking ramirez, would tie it at five. to the 11th, dustin, singles home the winning run. phils lose again six-five, they're back at it tonight at fenway. >> phils did something in last night's mlb draft they hadn't done since drafting chase utley in 2,000. that is take a college hitter with first pick. >> with the eighth selection of the 2017mlb draft the philadelphia phillies select adam hazily, outfielder from the university of virginia. >> adam hazily will be outfielder even though he pitched last jeer for virginia. pitched last handed. battling .390 this past season with 14 homeruns. >> it doesn't feel real at all. i just feel, you know,

extremely grateful and blessed. and i know the phillies are, you know, an amazing organization. you know, i'm just super excited to get started and, you know, go through the process. >> he was the one player at this point right here that we targeted, and we're fortunate enough to get him. but he was pretty much very de viable by everybody in the room. >> we can see him as early as 2019. >> here hopes that help or that we don't need him by then, though. >> taco bell is looking you up with a free meal today. thanks to golden state's win. >> free did you say? how celebrating what it calls crunch time during the nba finals. we will be right back. but first, let's go to katie. >> thanks, guys, yes, looking ahead here to the upcoming weekends it, does promise at this point to be on the unsettled side. there will be another temperature rebounds by that point. kind of all over the place on the thermometer. but, an unsettled pattern set to return with more showers, more thunderstorms expected, for both weekends days.

we will be right back with the rest of your forecast.

>> good morning, i'm rahel solomon. >> i'm jim donovan. katie and meisha will be along in a moment. first, here's what you need to get your day started. >> you got to take it easy on

days like. >> this we expect the high to hit 96. that would be new number for the record books. >> we feel that the jury has information and they have the fact. >> deliberations are set to pick up at 9:00 a.m. >> they asked the judge to see two court documents. >> what role did he play, if any? >> the senators will push for details, but attorney jeff jeff sessions testifies on capitol hill today. >> the goal end state warriors, are waking up nba champions. the warriors clinch the title on home turf last night. >> now we are cooking. oliver, are you sure you're okay to drive? see the thing on your nose? i now your hand in the air. ya. >> i'm coming through. i'm coming through.