tv Eyewitness News at 530 CBS June 19, 2017 5:30am-6:01am EDT
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>> good morning i'm rack rac rack. rahel solomon. >> and today is june 19, 201 2017. >> a dadly crash in london when a van runs into worshipers leaving a mosque. >> he has brought himself down entirely through self up picture toed wounds. >> jury selection begins today in corruption trial of philadelphia district attorney seth williams. jury will be chosen from a nine county area in eastern pennsylvania.
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>> say sailors killed on board a destroyer off. >> thousands of people celebrate at the city's 29 annual gay pride parade and festival. >> these are are youth, past, present, future together it's so much love at one time i cannot believe. it. >> 25,000 people took part in yesterday's philly pride parade. it was a hot one out there. >> yes t. was. we saw brief storms yesterday katie and apparently more today. >> today, looks like everyone will get hit by that. not everyone did over the course of the weekend. yeah, we had heavy rain. not everyone was getting soaked by that and today it's pretty much sure pet we get in on something. timing is different depending where you are because it's a
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line of storms that will move in primarily into evening and as early as after lunchtime far north and west suburbs. as we look at localized version of storm scan 3 off to the north a few spotty showers or thunderstorms popping. generally you'll start the day off on very steamy and dry not. here's leading edge of this. looks like it's moving along long swiftly doesn't. it not so fast. takes ample or multiple hours before this gets here. we're able to heat up from here and steam up from here and eventually end up with perfect opportunity for some pretty heavy duty thunderstorms. the primary risk in enhanced deliver of that storm prediction center is categoryization of severe weather risk today. downpours, strong wind, freak wept cloud to ground lightning and possibility of hail out of this. i cannot totally rule out a tornado owe. that's a low chance. 82 current temperature meanwhile at the airport.
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rather that's how it feels i should say. your current temperatures technically upper 70s. you know, sky deck duty on mornings like this is not good for the hairstyle. it's streamy the hair goes that when you walk out the door and puffs out. one or the other for you toda today. expect it will still feel warm certainly and steamy with that humidity. cold front itself moves in later today. we'll get a lot more specific coming up here with timing on all this you can try to plan around it if you must get in those outdoor perhaps. we'll you have covered there. >> katie checking my hair it looks okay i think in the studio. >> head the to the city of philadelphia. where is everyone. i guess on vacation. roads are clear. and jersey some holds true for 202 paoli pike and no delays out there. everyone offer the road.
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and there's an accident though south philly. south 16 between fitzwater and katherine. lanes blocked here. it will be a little bit of slow go as you traverse south philly streets. the right lane is blocked here due to over turned vehicle. little mess. it doesn't look like any delays and got to tell about you this one. regional rails septa.org a bunch of changes going on. if you take regional rails you have to go there first this morning, jim, back to you. >> thank you so much, pat, police are investigating a deadly shooting in west philadelphia it happened after 3:00 north udall street 5 had and market. the victim under house arrest is sitting on front pourp of home at the time when shot multiple times. so far police made no arrests. >> philadelphia top prosecutor becomes defendant as seth williams goes own trial. >> accused of taking bribes
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for legal favors. liver at the federal courthouse where jury selection starts this morning, good morning, trang. >> good morning, rochel and jim. there's a larger pool to pick from in a federal trial. the jury will be selected from a nine country area of eastern pennsylvania indluding as far away as lancaster county. district attorney seth williams faces 29 counts of corruption and bribery charges and accused of accepting tens of thousands of broybz from two different business owners in exchange for legal favors. prosecutors say those gifts included inclusive vacation to dominican rep and jaguar. williams is charged with defrauding nursing home and his mother of money intended to be used for her care and he denied any wrong doing. a time line for this trial and
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attorney following this case says it could still take sometime. >> this case obviously has a lot of notoriety and trial itself could take three to four weeks because of number of different theories per sued against seth williams and number of witnesses required by the prosecution to prove series. >> and despite legal troubles sem williams ignored calls for him to step down. he announced he will not seek a third term. juror selection begins 9:30. live outside the federal courthouse i'm trang do, rochel and jim back to you. >> stay with eyewitness news as we follow district attorney selling william. coverage condition continues online as well at cbsphilly.com. >> in business news this morning google fights hate on youtube. >> live from the new york stock skaij, good morning,
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hanna. >> investigators are waiting to hear from fed president william dudly for thinking on monetary policy and economic recovery. weaker than expect the housing and consumer septemberments slowed a wall street rally. dow closed 23 points and nasdaq down 14. >> google cracking down on hate-filled content posted on youtube. goingle plans to fight terrorism with better detection and fast rear vow and standrd and early intervention. google energy here's have technology to prevent upload of terrorist content using image matching technique. >> new money about laundry determ enter pods. some adults with memory loss may mistake the pods for food there's been eight deaths tied to ingesting the deter get packages. six were adults with dementia and two children. >> multi-million train deal for general electric.
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egypt send a $575 million agreement over the weekend for ge to provide 100 new multi-purpose lobe motives with first shipment to arrive next year. jim and rochel. >> thank you. >> in other news this morning authorities in london arrested us is spetioned drive of a van that crashed in a crowd of pedestrians killing one person and injuries ten hours. this happened 12:35 a.m. london time. worshipers were leaving a mosque after midnight prayers when a van slammed into the ground. someone talks about help one of the victims. >> the van turned left with no indication and with no -- like suddenly. >> officials say this has the hall marks of to ror attack. police have not publicly identified the 48-year-old suspect yet this incident
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comes of course weeks after the london bridge and burrow market attacks. >> philadelphia kicks oven rolement for second year of phl prek this morning and it will be made at montgomery early learning center. philadelphia's reince priebus k early education program will expand to include 20 slots in september. they'll share information on how families can sign up for the program. >> well coming up bill o'reilly says story of firing if fox news is not over. >> what ousted host is promising this morning that he says will explain the true reason he was fired. >> and man suffering medical emergency on a cruiseship we'll tell
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>> a huge congratulations to jay-z and beyonce on their twins. he wished the baby as i happy birthday. tmz say they welcomed baby boy and girl last monday. still waiting to hear names though. congrats. >> i have to tell you movie goers waving checked plaque for cars 3. >> time to go. >> whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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>> the beach. >> animated comedy raced to top spot at the box office making projected 53 million. wonder woman holding on strong came in close second breaking in close to 41 million and tu pack all eyes on me came in third delivering estimated 27 million. i have to tell you fired fox news host bill o'reilly is saying he'll make headlines once against. had he and the network paid millions to settle sexual harassment stories against him. news stories will uncover a conspiracy behind his firing. he said to a crowd of fans "has to do with far left progressive organizations bent on destroying anybody with whom they disagree." >> has nothing to do with harassment suit obviously then. >> more to come there. back to beyonce and jay-z exciting. >> i thought we were talking about this on friday you were
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off i thought they were delivering the baby this weekend. >> she's been quiet. >> indeed. >> some people are saying why is jay-z announcing this. >> her father, baby's grandfather. >> i keptp it close to vest, too, a lot of times twin bab babies go into the nicu you don't know what will happen and make sure everybody is healthy. tote atly appreciate wanting privacy until they're ready. >> congratulations. >> i can't wait to see pictures. >> very excite exciting. >> very much told. >> we've been told to talk about the weather. >> couldn't we talk about that forever? i want to get you out the door armed and repaired with what you need to know today. thiscy beautiful view. it as lifely shot. however it's steamy. you have got serious humidity building out there. high dewpoint into 70s a lot
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of spots throughout the course of day and kutztown area middle cool one of the cooler spots of the pack. there's been a lot of places flirting with 80s throughout the morning and we'll continue to do that before we rebound. now that the sun is up. checking in quickly with the eyewitness weather watchers temperatures now upper 70s in many locations. we'll go owe to a couple cooler spots like 74 that comes in with john carol. 91% humidity though. that's saying it all. let's take you inside out of center city, still reporting cloud cover now in philly. and regardless off to a quiet start. just very humid humid outside. we'll take to you one more. any in delaware? no one in delaware now. western suburbs 75 coming in and generally full sunshine, steamy, >> absolutely and you'll really notice it when you walk out the door all in advance of this leading edge of cold
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front that will continue progression eastbound and throughout the course of day sluggishly make it across the region and so as of 1 to 3 p.m. poconos are first to get hit and that is slanted into the line here. it will be moving in from northwest to southeast essentially and but fuel ind storms around city 7, 8 . it will take time. 5, 6 p.m. is go time for outlying suburbs north and west and later further south and east you travel. widespread amounts 12" of rainfall. locally could be higher amounts than this. with flash flood watch noontime today and lasting through this evening dealing with really, really tricky travel out there lieu the evening rush especially outlying suburbs norm and west. if you encounter flooded roadway never, ever, ever, drive through it. we will hammer that home as long as we have to. but, turn around, don't drown is the same from the national weather service and one we
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will repeat. storm could get here not just with the crowd to ground lightning and can't rule out hail and back to the 80s. >> beautiful next six days after today. as long as we can get through a rainy monday looks like it will be all good. also all good couple cameras this morning. there's no one out on roadways. that's a beautiful thing. we'll keep an eye on it. 5:47 time things heat up so far so good a look at vine. no delays as you head through the schuylkill this side headed into the city of philadelphia. also looking good boulevard at the schuylkill seeing more volume as you head towards the schuylkill expressway. again no delays in this area. normally that fires up a little. also, 95 southbound cottman as you head on s curve inside city of philadelphia. no delays here either. it's a beautiful morning major
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roadways. there's a couple of smaller incidents throughout the city in in south philly between fit water and katherine seats. all lanes blocked. you have to move your way around 18 or broad and if you head in towards city to center city and accident mays landing at route 40 atlantic city expressway right lane blocked right here. also some construction we're going to have to keep an eye on. happening today and tomorrow between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., 76 between the blue rite and city avenue and it will be intermittent lane closures. that's something to keep an eye on if you take the schuylkill expressway, jim. >> thank you, pat. >> in other news this morning investigators are trying to figure out what caused a hasive fire that destroyed london apartment building. this is what it left of gree greenfield tower. detectives released this yesterday. some officials believe the materials to build the highrise were flammable but the condition that made the materials denies claims.
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58 people are presumed dead because of that fire. >> portugal decleared three days of national mourning after a for elingtest fire kills people. they believe it started after lightning truck a tree. many victims were trapped in cars. rescue teams believe they were trying to escape the fair fir fire. prime minister expect death toll to rise and injured 50 others. >> a coastguard crew from washington state hoisted a cruise ship paerm to the hospital. they conducted medevac of a man with stroke-related symptoms off the cruiseship smund sunday morning. that patient was if table condition throughout the flight. >> and maybe hot here at home but some people out in southern california are trying to cool off during record breaking hot. how about this. temperatures rose to 108
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degrees. health experts are advising resident to stay hydrated during the up tense heat and also limit their time outdoors. temperatures are expected to keep climbing throughout the week and some residents fled to nearby peaches and water parks to cool down. >> it's really hot and you're like want to go to water. so you can cool down. >> is it working. >> yes, it's too hot. >> here i'll tell you it's hot. you're getting fried. >> i'll say 108 is too hot. we agree to that. national weather service issued heat advisory until wednesday fight. researchers could reach as high as 12 degrees as if 108 was not enough. back at home the month of june marks pride month. >> no one chose pride quite like city of philadelphia. >> it was yizzi out there
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yesterday. the colorful procession kicked off 13 and locust and ended festival location penn's lan landing. folks we talked to say the parade is get are more popular everyier symbolizeing progress made in the lgbt community. >> there's hope for future. these are youth and past and future together. it's so much love at one time i can not believe it. i'm so happy. >> everybody can come out and be free and be whoever you want to be today. >> each year philly pride parade and festival attracts more than 25,000 people. i was pleased to be on hand as grandstand announcer. >> a lot of people out there. >> hot, though. >> elephant born prematurely as pittsburgh zoo and now we get to watch her cleanup. >> a new call of born a month early. at first they were worried because she was 50 pounds under weight. she's doing well now. the cat's birth is important
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in battle to save species. she's not on exhibit for the next few months. >> that's premature holy cow. >> do you think coye get one as a pet. >> no. >> if you travel to india you can ride them. >> right? >> yeah one of my friend did that. >> i don't know about that. i've ridden and camel i don't know about elephant. >> because of elephant or -- >> i don't know. >> hot. >> hump on camel at least you have something to hold on to. i don't know about elephant i think they put you on chair. >> these are semantics. >> these are things i worry about. >> a young boy is quick to react when he notices 3-year-old struggle and disappear in school. >> how that boy and mother were able to save toddler's life as it's all caught on
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surveillance captured the moment the young child in the circle there wandered to deeper water drug struggles and can be seen going under. 9-year-old kobe heard pulled the boy ft. water. >> he deposit come back up when under the water and swam him from there over to there. and then i picked him up and gave him to his parent. >> wow. >> authorities say colby's mother registered nurse began cpr immediately on the boy. when the crews arrived the boy was breathing again and taken to the hospital in serious condition and is expected to be fine. >> coming up in the next hour of cbs3 eyewitness news keeping your lawn grown and lush requires time and hard work and many turn to a pro for help. advice for you if you are loo looking to hire someone. >> facial recognition technology being tested at parents. how it works and what people how it works and what people are saying about it next
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katie is tracking rain and i when it moves out. >> jury selection is underway today in construction trial of da seth william environmental live with details on the jury pool. >> developing now a van nows into a crowd of worshipers leaving a months, in london. police are investigating the act at terrorism. what we learned. >> everyone is off and my job is easy. >> mine is not. >> sorry. >> works that way right. >> feast or famine on one side of the desk. for sure we have stormy weather going to erupt. it's not here yet. but when you walk out the doorman do you notice humidity and plenty of sunshine to work with and that to
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