>> live from the cbs broadcast center in philadelphia. this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news" this morning. >> it is about to get tropical around here, not the kinds we look. storm scan3 tracking showers, thunderstorm headed our way. we'll tell when you you can expect it, and the big change coming next week. >> protesters are keeping watch on pat toomey's office overnight. unhappy with the gop healthcare bill. live with more more coming up. >> and it is friday, that means, another cbs-3 summer fest. this week live down the shore. next, we will show you what makes sea isle city so special. >> today is friday, june 23, good morning, i'm jan carabeo.

>> i'm rahel solomon. we have rain coming in, matt peterson filling in for katie. >> looks like sea isle summer fest weather should be pretty good. silver lining. we do have showers this morning, but we will be seeing some drier conditions, at times, later this afternoon, that is some good news for us, but before we get to that better weather we see later today we have again showers, maybe isolated rumble every thunder here this morning, then as we go into the weekends, watching for an influx of tropical moisture, renmant every cindy will be sliding into the region, colds front comes on through, too, that will give us showers, maybe isolated rumble every thunder, as we go later tonight, into tomorrow morning, higher heat, humidity, starting today, and lasting throughout our saturday. then improvement for us as we get into sunday. much drier air moving in on the back side of the cold front coming out of canada. it will be a little cooler, real nice, as we get toward the end of the weekend.

storm scan3 for us right now, though, shows the cloud cover don't see any precipitation, that's good, but for the most part this rain is going to hold together as it tracks eastward, and it will be moving in to the western suburbs, northern delaware, probably in the next couple of hours, and then as it get into fill at this will be right in time for moving rush looks like right now. do be prepared for that. 70s for us currently out there, warm, muggy, 87 degrees the high in fill, in the 80s down the shore, too. >> 70s up in the pocono, talking more about the showers, thunderstorms, nicer weather by the end of the weekends, giles, in just a bit. >> matt, thank you, see you in a bit. >> burlington bristol bridge scheduled to open for ship crossing at approximately 5:25. you can however use the delaware river bridge as an alternate. >> and here is a live look at some construction on route 322, chester, delaware county, left lane as we can see here is block, in both directions, between highland avenue and

i-95. >> and to our nation's capitol, senate republicans unveil their plan to repeal and replace obamacare, that plan has sparked protests nationwide. >> trang do live outside senator pat toomey's office in old city where protesters have been camped out all night. morning, trang. >> good morning, local protest started 3:00 p.m. yesterday, and it will go for 24 hours, ending at 3:00 p.m. today. these folks you see here have been here all night long, but many more people are expected to join them, later this morning, at 8:30 to make sure pat toomey hears their voices. >> outside senator pat toomey's office in old city 24 hour rally in opposition to senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, newly unveiled healthcare bill. it content finally revealed thursday. >> kathleen o'donnell said her biggest concerns about the bill include hefty cuts to

medicaid, and allowing states to reduce coverage for people with pre-existing conditions like herself. >> it will hurt a lot of peoplement and it will hurt it to give tax break to rich people. >> the bill get rid of the individual mandate and it taxes, but retains many of obamacare's tax credit. >> while ongoing protest in remains peaceful, capitol police arrested 43 people, caring some of the angry protesters away from senator mcconnell's office. the senator, though, remained un-phased on the senate floor. >> because the obamacare is a direct attack on the middle class and american families deserve better than its failing status quo. >> president trump tweeted his support, but at least four senate republicans have already voiced their opposition to the bill. >> this current draft doesn't get the job.

>> and in a statement to the media, senator pat toomey seemed to express support for the bill, so he says, he will examine it thoroughly and welcomes any feedback. meanwhile, senate leaders are hoping for a vote on this bill before the fourth of july. for now, live in old city, trang do, cbs-3, "eyewitness news," back to you. >> turning to sports, it appears the process is really taking shape now. >> that's right. and this morning, we are welcoming the newest sixer to the city of brotherly love. >> with the first pick in the 2017 draft, the philadelphia 76ers select markelle fultz. >> there goes. markelle fultz is the player most people projected as the sixers first rounds pick. the guard from washington averaged more than 25-point a game as a freshman last season. our don bell went on one with fultz who says he knows all about philly fans. >> the fans are crazy, growing up, ai, even you go to watch

play last year, fans there love you. no matter what's going on, they'll be behind you. >> i mean, they'll get on you, what you want them to do, get motivation, work harder, and they love their players. >> that's the truth. sixers fans celebrate the the pick with a draft party at the piazza at schmidts, we got the chance to hear what those fans liked about the newest sixer. >> he compliment ben simmons, simmons get the wide open shot, no doubt, shultz will mock it down. >> the process just about done, and basketball about to blow up in philadelphia again. >> all right, let's see. season ticket are blowing up, that's for sure. the sixers have set a team record, for sales already. >> and markle sure sounds like he's ready to have some fun. he tweeted: philly the process led me here, we won't rest until we're number one. check out the rookie card. >> philadelphia man who refers to himself as dirty old santa is facing child sex charges this morning. police say he tried to solicit

sex from a girl who turned out to be an undercover cop. william mckinney arrested at rita's water nice ridley township, told the 56 year old ex guaged in explicit secretary all language with the undercover officer. the set up part of the internet crimes against children task force. now, we talked to delaware county district attorney, jack wheel and, who said it is you have to a parent, but parent time to step up. >> we have to say to parent you got to try to be vigilant, have discussions with your children, do you have make sure that they're not interacting on the internet with individuals that they don't know. >> mckinley was seasonal employees at macy's, and we reached out to see what position he had exactly. waiting to hear back. >> manna tacked a woman jogging in south jersey. this happened at par vin state park in pit grove, salem county monday. investigators say the suspect hit the woman in the face and neck with a stick, she hit the

suspect back and got help from police at nearby camp site. sketch of the man, white man, 20, 30 years man, 6-foot two, skinny build, short dirty brown hair. >> man is killed after losing control of his dirt bike in juniata parkment chopper three was over the scene yesterday afternoon, police say the dirt bike driver tried to squeeze between a box truck and some parked cars there. when he lost control, hit two parked cars, and slid underneath one of the truck's tires. no one else was injured. >> bill cosby says he wants to hit the road for some town hall meetings this summer. representatives for the 79 year old comedian say they're fielding requests for cosby to go on public speaking tour talking about the us justice system. his sexual assault trial end in the mistrial last week, the representatives say the requests have come from churches and other organizations including athlete one, right here in our area, in philadelphia. >> and meanwhile, jurors from cosby sexual assault trial are speaking out at least one telling reporters that it was

a deadlock from the very beginning of deliberations, take a listen. >> it was hopeless, we wanted to sends that in, about three people jump up, hold it, i want a change. so not a true ten to two, two to ten. >> they say they'll retry cosby, the judge says they must do it within the next four months. >> up next, right here on cbs-3, resident in the south now dealing with the effect of tropical storm cindy. >> we will have a look at the damage when we come back. plus, meet a man hoping to set a swim record. but to do it, he'll first have to overcome fatigue, rough current, even sharks. >> okay. and it is summer fest at the shore. pat? >> reporter: here in sea isle city a company has been keeping your drinks cold for years. not just frozen water. we will show you how they do

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>> more than 700 people have been forced out of their homes in utah, heat, high winds, continue to fuel massive wilds fire there. 800 firefighters are battling that blaze, near the ski

resort town of brianhead. so far the fire has scorched more than 17,000 acres destroyed one home. officials say the fire is growing at an unprecedented rate, but, they're not surprised. >> we new we would have some of the same weather conditions we had yesterday. fire of this magnitude with this much energy out there, just does what it want. >> authority believe the fire was spark by someone trying to burn weeds with a torch. that suspect could face charges with fire fighting costs expected to reach mower than a million dollars. tornado formed the heals of tropical storm cindy causing serious damage in central alabama. take a look, twister destroyed several buildings around birmingham, debris went through windows, torre part structures, local inside of a kfc also torn apart. roof of an auto shop caved in. one person in the area was hurt but not life threatening

injuries, and that was good considering the damage you see there. >> flooding turns into some fun with residents near the louisianna coast. >> part of this lake front took in few feet of water yesterday. so locals decided to soak up every last inch of it. >> this is across the lake from new orleans, people brought out their inflatable rafter, paddle boards, while the water was still high. >> work out for the day, pulling her down the road, in a raft. >> this is actually the first time i've done it in a street. and i'm having a little difficulty with the shallow water sometimes. but the wind helped a lot. >> fuel local businesses took in some water, however, the town's mayor say it fared pretty well during tropical storm certainly i. serious storm for other people, too. >> we know there have been at least one death, contributed to. that will turning now to matt in our region, look like we may see renmant every cindy. definitely not as bad as any of that. >> definitely not like that. yes, rahel, you're right. we'll see a little bit of the

tropical moisture, moving in as we head through the nighttime hours tonight, then early on our saturday. renmant of tropical storm going to get mixed up in a cold front. and then that is going to spawn some showers, few thunderstorms for us here in the delaware valley actually as we get into the weekend. headlines, tropical moisture moving in round every showers start to fire up today then see them tail off. then re emerge in the forecast, for saturday morning, but, a much nicer sunday for us. >> much quieter, a lot less humid maybe even tad on the cool side. show you the seven day forecast in a second. colds front, off to the west, checking getting thunderstorm activity, northern miss ooh, he see the renmant of cindy spiraling. those will fade, as we like to call it. as they move eastward will still draw moisture from the gulf of mexico that will feed our shower and thunderstorm chances going through really

kind of the day today and even getting through tonight, into tomorrow morning. just cloud cover for us right now, there goes the rem nan every cindy. north and east, you see by tonight, over kentucky then fade out as it moves into the delaware vale. >> pressure moving off to the north, cold front draped to the south, absorb cindy, showers and thunderstorms in the first half of the day saturday. much quiet err, though, sunday. and really again just recap here, the cold front, it will move on n thunderstorm chances today and tomorrow, not going to be real widespread. not overly heavy rain. >> temperatures for us this morning, in the 70s, waking up to very mild conditions, here is your seven day forecast, it is warm, and muggy. but check out sunday into neck week, eight an on sunday with plenty of sunshine for us, very seasonable end of the weekends, then even high every only 79 on monday, maybe a stray shower there.

and then we are going with high temperature of 80 degrees on tuesday, again, really looking at below average temperatures through wednesday and thursday. >> matt, thank you. we do have a disable vehicle that we want to tell you about, the westbound platt bridge near i-95. the right lane is blocked, approaching the airport. we will keep you up-to-date on that one. also the burlington bristol bridge, telling you about this one all morning, scheduled to open for shift crossing approximately 5:25. you can however use the delaware river bridge as an alternate. >> headlines across our region. >> in the trentonian new jersey department of children and families has stripped vital funding from day care program for young children with special needs. the contract with the state ran through the ends of the year, so, this was abrupt decision by the dcf. no other alternatives at this time. >> this morning's reading

eagle, lawmakers pushing legislation that will regulate pennsylvania tatoo shops. the bill would banta too long or body piercing someone under 18, without the written consent of a parent or legal guardian. >> and get your sparklers ready for the forest, the burlington county times is reporting, legislation to legalize the possession and use of sparklers, and some other small fireworks, was approved and sent to governor chris christie's desk, could be approved just in time for the fourth of july holiday. >> and that's a look at some of the newspaper headlines from around the delaware valley. >> trying to make history in hawaii. >> he's training to become the first person to swim solo from aloha to hawaii. chris showup, former resident hawaii, has been preparing for the 75-mile swim for years. the swim is expected to take 32 to 34 hours, you know, just 32 to 34 hours, and the dangers include current, shark, and possibly the the most challenging, the

dangerous man of war jellyfish. >> a lot of nerves, apprehensions and stuff cents, just like when i did iron races, as soon as the gun goes off, i start moving it, all goes aside. >> now, he's not actually the first person to attempt. a swimmer tried and failed in 2010 after hitting group of stinging man of war's, to avoid that threat, the makeshift man of war screen will be dragged off the back of the swimmer. >> so hopefully that helps him. >> see, none of that, role, sounds worth it to me. >> no. >> i would love to go to hawaii. hey, i would love to watch him swim that, from the shore. >> get some float is. >> good for him, though, good luck. >> yes, up next, we will hear more from the sixers top pick, don bell at the nba draft. >> plus find out the rookie mistake, markelle fultz made on social media. he's getting some jokes about it. we're doing sport next. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪

>> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> do not be alarmed, it is not actually cold outside. >> no. certainly not. i think we're done with that for couple of the months. >> down the shore in sea isle city celebrating summer fest today. pat gallen will take us behind the scenes of sea isle ice. later in the show we'll be back. >> ♪ >> ♪

>> fans who trusted the process got their pay off last night. >> don bell always get the best,'s in brooklyn with more on the number one draft pick. >> for the second straight

year, the sixers with the number one overall pick here, at the nba draft at the barclay center in brooklyn, new york. shortly after 7:30 p.m. the commissioner adam silver stepped into the podium and making the announcement. >> with the first pick in the 2017nba draft, the philadelphia 76ers select markelle fultz. from the university of washington. >> confirm wag we already know, markelle fultz, the guards out of washington is the number one overall selection in the nba draft. he's a six-four, play maker, and he is weighing about 190 pounds, average 23-point per game, during his only season in college. the interesting thing about this guy is that he was cut from his varsity team, just a few years ago, and now, here he is, the number one overall selection. i had a chance to go one-on-one with him, and i asked him what his emotions were once he heard the commissioner call his name. >> i just felt like god

calling me, god giving me another opportunity in life, something i've been dreaming about since i was young, i'm just happy right now, words can't explain. >> something you have been dreaming about. at what point did you know that you could be an nba player and potentially the number one pick? >> going onto my 11th grade year, i really realize i had a chance to make it to the nba as long as i kept working the way i was. i set the goal to be number one pick in high school. going through college i really realized i had a chance to be the number one pick just how hardy worked. and every opportunity i got from working hard, i just felt real confident. >> after the selection was made, joel embiid tweeted that fans are calling these guys the feds, as in fultz, embiid, dario, and simmons. and hopefully that means that the process is now finally come to an end. at the nba draft, in brooklyn new york, don bell, cbs-3 eyewitness sports. >> so we're not going to deny he may be a start on -- star

on the court but his social media game might need little work. check this cap hon on his strand game post. excited to head to (city) and join the (team name). >> oops. >> rookie mistake. obviously. >> we all make mistakes. >> pre wrote that. >> was sex cited, he just sent tweets, but he knew, we all new he was coming here. >> it's okay. we forgive that. >> also, worth a mention, nova's josh heart head today la to play for the lakers, congrats to him and his family, huge. >> still ahead in the next half hour here on "eyewitness news," new twist in the controversy, uber ceo. >> asking who is asking for him to come back. also ahead tell you why this stuffed animal is being credited with saving a young boy's life. >> plus, we're celebrating cbs-3's summer fest, in sea isle city. and today, pat's chilling with a local company whose ice is known in south jersey and

beyond. >> reporter: it is going to be a weaken where we see showers, maybe few rumbles every thunder start things out on our saturday. cold front sweeps the moisture leaving us with wonderful end to the weekends with very seasonable temperatures, we will be talking

from the cbs broadcast center in philadelphia. this is cbs-3 "eyewitness

news." >> good morning, i'm rahel solomon. >> i'm jan carabeo, in today for jim donovan. your forecast in just a minute. but first, here's what you need to know to start your day in the morning minute. today is friday, june 23rd. ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> pro at the cents here at home, and until the's capitol, senate republicans roll out the much anticipated hell care reform plan. >> senate leaders hoping for a vote on this bill, before the fourth of july. >> the philadelphia 76ers select markelle fultz. >> he is guy everyone expected still plenty of excitement as the sixers land the number one pick in the nba draft. >> i've been dreaming and i'm just happy right now. >> and he said i'm a bad santa or referred to him as a dirty old santa. >> under arrest child sex charges, police say the girl he tried to lure for s