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>> live from the cbs broadcast center in philadelphia. this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news" this morning. a young woman's life cut short. now what starts as an investigation into a fatal crash reveals new information on what happened to her, and why police believe it is an act of road rage. >> a fall from grace. seth williams as a once promising career as a prosecutor with a guilty plea. we'll tell you how much time he faces behind bars after a plea bargain. >> and as philadelphia get ready to lead the celebration of america's first day, what to wear when the fireworks go off. today is friday, june 30th, good morning, i'm jim donovan, rahel solomon is off. let's gather check with the forecast with katie, and
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meisha. >> morning. tgif. looking outside right now, construction work work he is out there, they're everywhere. >> everywhere. >> you have to get real creative how to get to work these days. >> every morning, yes, it is always something. >> i try to take, again, i understand why they shut it down in the middle of the night, but common, really easy commute most times when you get up this early in the morning. getting you out the morning, looking good, guys. off to pretty quiet start. starting to in the hint of the humidity creeping up on us, how much cents as the day goes on, definitely turning more steamy. still breezy, too. so it feels like summer. and it is going to be a hot one out there. in addition, notice, far off to the northwest, just behind the lettering of storm scan3 there, in the couple of little showers rolling through. for the most part, this is having and will have no real
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impact on our area, specially heading further north. going to the poconos maybe for the weekends you may end up with isolated shower or under this earl storm, primarily toward evening. at the moment though, mild start. take a look, 75 the current value at philadelphia international airport. so we can only heat up from here. might drop off another degree or two before the sun comes up. take a look where we end up, even the poconos back to the 80s, but in philadelphia, 93, now the call. so day one of several days, meisha, in the 90s, but hey, it is what you expect this time of the year. i think even hope for sometimes. >> not complaining, no way, no way you're going to to hear a complaint out of me. >> good morning this early friday morning. so we do have an accident here. fishtown, delaware avenue, northbound, all northbound lanes were closed. they have now reopened and it has been pushed all the way off to the shoulderment see the squad car out there. looking okay there, get that cleared out of your way. vine is katie, jim and i all
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talking about at the desk just moment ago, yes, on the construction still, overnight construction in place, see the flashing lights, i'll let you know as soon as the crews move out of the way. more construction there, between valley forge circle and gulph road. we are looking at part of 23 going over 422 here. one lane is open there. again, ill of course let you know when crews are out of the way. more construction to talk about when we come back in the next ten minutes, back to you. >> manhunt underway for driver who allegedly shot and killed a recent high school graduate on a highway in chester county. this happened in the southbound lanes of route 100, near route 202, in west goshen township. "eyewitness news" reporter trang do live outside the west goshen township police department, good morning, trang. >> reporter: well, good morning, jim. this has turned from accident investigation to a murder investigation late last night, chester county da tom hogan released new details about possible suspect and the vehicle he was driving, what police believe done deadly act
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every road rage. police are looking for this faded red chevy pick-up truck seen driving next to 18 year old bianca rover son's green chevy mal bo around 5:30 wednesday evening, chester county district attorney tom hog err say traveling southbound on route 100 toward 202 in west goshen township, attempted to merge at the same time as red pick-up truck, the driver of the pick up truck then pulled out a gun and shot robe errson in the head killing her instantly. her car left the roadway, slammed into a tree. the other driver sped away, off to 202, and continued on the paoli pike. >> to that person, to that man who fired the shot, turn yourself in now. every second you are out there, you are only making this worse for yourself and worse for this young lady's family. >> and again, police are looking for a faded red chevy pick up, with a extended cab, we are told this truck is smaller in size, it is driving
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around 5:30 wednesday evening, again, south on route 100 near the 202 intersection, now, da tom hog end releasing possible description, described him ace while male, 30's four's, medium build, light brown hair or possibly blonde hair. for now live outside the west goshen township police department. trang do, cbs-3, "eyewitness news," jim, back to you. >> thank you, trang. meanwhile in other news, one person injured after a shooting in delaware county. office cents corded off part of plaza street in marcus hook last night. police say multiple shots were fired, here sometime before midnight. one person was hit by gunfire and taken to the hospital. no word on the extent of the person's injuries, or what led to the shooting. >> former philadelphia district attorney, seth williams, is waking up in jail after pleading guilty to a corruption charge. williams also resigned from office. this is a copy of the hand written resignation letter, that williams signed yesterday. the stunning admission came on the eighth day of his corruption trial. once promising political star
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pleaded guilty to single count of excepting a bribe. he had been charged with 29 counts of bribery, extortion, and fraud. >> mr. williams asked me to express to you and to the public his sincerest apologies, in the only to his supporters and the voters of philadelphia but also to the hard-working men and women of the is district attorney's office. >> judge in the case ordered he immediately go to jail, sentenced october 24. williams could get five years behind bars. family and friends are remembering disable veteran shot and killed by trying to stop a robbery in olney. surveillance video shows the moment before a gunman opened fire on howard white outside the green parrot bar, happened at fifth and spencer just before 1:00 yesterday morning. authorities say the one time marine was trying to stop the gunman who had been canvassing the bar. philadelphia police have arrested a suspected gunman.
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>> pennsylvania lawmakers nooning vote today on $32 billion budget. what they don't know is how they're going to pay for it. they'll work on that next week, the budget has the backing of golf for tom wolf, in a statement he said this plan is bipartisan compromise that invests more in our schools, protect seniors, create jobs, and builds on fight to ends the heroin epidemic. >> new jersey governor chris christie is warning the state government could shutdown at midnight tonight if lawmakers don't pass the state's $35 billion budget there. the legislature has set up a voting session, despite a stalemate over a bill overhauling the state's largest health insurer. that legislation is part of a bipartisan budget agreement. the last government shutdown in new jersey was in 2006. part of president trump's travel ban are now in place, on monday, the supreme court ruled some part of the orders could go into effect until it hears arguments, on it merits in the fall. as nicky batiste reports, many
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visitors coming to the u.s. will find it they're not allowed don't err the country. >> attorneys and members of the new york immigration coalition, are standing by at new york's john fk denny faint nash airport, ready to help family members of travelers from six predominantly muslim countries, who are having difficulty getting into the of the s. we are here to help. if you are in need of assistance, contact us. >> under the new travel restrictions, only those from the six affected countries was still cold bone fight family business or university relationships in the u.s. will be allowed to enter the country. that means, parents, spouses, children and siblings can come. but grandparent, aunts, awning else, cousins, some in law's, do not qualify. >> this administration is redefining what a family is. i was raised by my grand parent, so the idea of grandparent not being part of a family is very for town me. >> who is making these
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decisions? is it going to be customs and border officers at the boards earl, people turned around because you can't proof that your sister-in-law or mother-in-law? >> those already holding visas will be allowed to enter the us, along with john lists, and those in need of urgent medical care. >> pretty good idea, very good idea, who is coming and why they are coming. >> the supreme court will hear argue many on the president's revised executive order in october. nicky batiste, cbs-3 "eyewitness news." >> president trump is under fire from republicans and democrats a lot for twitter attack on two cable tv host cents, some calling it sexist, the president called nicky and joe low iq crazy nick a and psycho joe. then he added the two visited him at his resort, and said, one was bleeding badly from a facelift. the tweets came after questioned the president's manhood and called him a liar. >> i think he's been very clear, when he gets attack, he
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is going to hit back. i don't think that it is a surprise to anybody that he fight fire with fire. >> now, responded to the president's tweets by posting a cheerios promo that reads: made for little hands. can't make this stuff up, folks. well, there is much more to cover on cbs-3 "eyewitness news." graves unearthed at a construction site in old city philadelphia, what archeologists are trying to find out about them now. >> are you with a religion of any kind? >> they're offering a trinket, then ask for money. are they amongst? how to know if those dressed like them are the real thing. back in two m
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month. the report says williams ran a red light into the path after sedan. a passenger in the dead and died two weeks after the crash. williams has not been cited or charged in the case. >> archeologists are starting to unearth and analyze remains that were discovered in old city earlier this year. student and expert unloaded the bodies to be examined in burlington, new jersey yesterday. in march, crews found the remains at a construction site on arch street. since then they've been towards if south philadelphia. now, analysts want to know who these historical philadelphians were. >> we want to learn about the health, about the disease, how disease went around early city population. we want to learn burial practices. we want to learn about the material culture of the past, and then, ultimately, we want to get these people back in the ground where they need to be. >> now, it is believed that the people being studied lived between 1707 and 1869.
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>> well, a warning to be on the look-out in center city for fake among. you may have seen these people, hand people trinket, and take donations, real ones say don't be fooled. we showed this man to an among of a temple in new jersey. he said these alleged amongst give real amongs a bad name the ones who practice allow kindness, and live a good life, not to take something from people. >> now, there is even a facebook page called fake monks in philadelphia. i've actually seen them in my neighborhood. time is 4:44. >> so unfortunate. >> they're very nice, i see the same man all the time, he always tries to give me things, i say no thank you, and i move on quickly, just watch out. never know inch. >> deed, absolutely. well, we've got very important
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weekend forecast coming up. actually, if you could pop that up. put it back on air, i don't think i put my show in play. back to where i wanted to start, back to life, back to reality. am i at the beginning? there you go. our weather machine has to warm up sometimes as well. but i wanted to take you back and start off, just by looking at storm scan3, thanks for that, my bad. take a look here, we are finding some showers, some thunderstorms beginning to fire up back toward lake erie, portions of northwest ohio, some of this may just put the far northwest suburbs, i really don't think that philadelphia's going to see anything out of. >> this we're lawing for isolated shower or thunderstorm in case one rogue cell tries to nudge little further to the south. you're at the shore right now, waking up to us, i think you're fine it, looks to me like dry just hotter day for everyone, especially at the shore, i don't think you have to worry about any wet weather here today. meantime storm system getting it way sever together across
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the central planes, into the weekend, where/best chance for any wet weather comes from into the holiday weekends which we will get to in the seven day. for now at 75 mild degrees, winds is i would say noticeable, but not necessarily all that bothersome. it is out of the south-southwest. so warm wind as well. we do have building humidity. looking at the dew point, remember, the dew point which measure the moisture content in the air. the higher the number gets, the steamier it is, so hello dover. waking to up very steamy conditions there. but even at the a.c. airport in wildwood, six a, tends to be about the benchmark where it begins to feel steamy. so that's the graphic i want to get to next. down the shore water temperatures actually at 65, generally, little milder, little cooler depending where you are. but on the stands, talking 82 to eight a degrees max, in the sunshine, all day, in the the winds, you may want to think about one of those shade tents maybe, help block out sand that could be whipping toward you. uv index, yes, that's hi, so even better excuse to have
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umbrella ready to go or something, to shelter yourself and shade yourself. let's take a look at the rest of the forecast, i don't want you to get too scared off by the thunderstorm icons, keep your outdoor plans, just scattered showers, storms, especially late day saturday, and otherwise, anything we see would be very isolated, meisha. >> all right, katie, that looks good for this holiday weekends, thank you so much for. that will very good morning to you. still early out there. do have problem spots. we have an accident here in talcony, torresdale avenue, robbins street. a lane block here. you can see the flashing lights, not that it will slow you down much, but if this is your neck of the woods, your neighborhood, pull it to your attention, accident in fishtown, so what was going on, delaware avenue northbound before columbia avenue. all northbound lanes were closed. now, the cars, shifted all the way off. won't slow you down too much watch might slow you down little the cones in the roads, actually construction project. so, travel on slow through that area, that accident like i said now moved off to the shoulder, won't slow you down too much. construction crews, between
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valley forge circle and gulph road. looking at part going over 422, only one lane open here. one driveable lane. that will will start to hang us up little bit. push deep near the 5:00 hour when things maybe start to pick up just a little bit. jim, back over to you. >> thank you so much, meisha. still ahead on "eyewitness news" this morning, hook on credit cards. we will tell you how often people are using them, and how much debt is adding up. >> and we will also explain how this drone is part of facebook's new strategy to connect with the worlds. the details when "eyewitness news" continues. as the host of access health, people often ask me if there's something more effective for joint support than glucosamine chondroitin. move free ultra is a better solution. its clinically-proven ingredient gives you better mobility, flexibility and comfort than glucosamine chondroitin, all in one tiny, easy-to-take pill. stay on the move with move free ultra, also in (delicious) new gummies, and enjoy living well.
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>> none i watch's roxanna joins us from the new york fock stock exchange, good morning, roxanna. >> reporter: good morning, jim. well, americans are using credit cards to pay more often than debit cards or cash. the federal reserve says the us has rack up more than one traveled in recovering debt, mostly credit cards, that's
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the highest tally since the financial crisis in 2008. >> so roxanna, what's this? i'm hearing a rumor about facebook and a drone. what's this all about? >> reporter: that's right, well, a large solar powered drone that facebook has designed to stay in the air for long periods every time. the company hopes it will connect part of the worlds that have not had reliable internet access, the first test last summer, the drone's wing snapped off in a rocky landing, jim? >> i'm not a suspicious person, roxanna, at all, but big brother is watching. >> reporter: watching and providing internet access at the same time. >> exactly, so good part and bad part. thank you, roxanne, a we'll check in with you in the next hour. coming of after the braining, another check on traffic. plus serious messages with a sense every humor. the people behind amusing road signs coming up. katie? >> oh, boy, those look interesting. folks, we've got a holiday
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welcome back, as we take a look ahead to today, generally speaking expect full sunshine, a hot and stickier day, as well as building dew point. we will make it feel a lot more humid, wider more region wide zoom, you will notice there are some heavier thunderstorms actually rumbling through the buckeye state. that eventually at least tries to clip our area. but i'm thinking it it is primarily the poconos that get hit with anything. if our big camper like i used to be back in the day you are headed northbound on the northeast extension later this afternoon, maybe couple of thunderstorms that fire up. could be brief, but heavy downpours, and will bring in heavier wind gusts, but very isolated, would have to be head that way to ruin into that at all. down the shore, not a drop of
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rain, sunnier, just hotter. starting off, you can only imagine where we will ends up later today, low mid zero nine ', the expectation, both today and tomorrow. flirt with 90 then from that point forward. and in the meantime, i'm thinking, your best chance for anything to be at all widespread in terms every wet weather mainly p.m. saturday, as a front clears the area, though, sunday, we brighten up for sunshine, most isolated showers sunday, fourth of july looks hot and sticky with sunshine. not bad. >> not bad at all, especially people that want to watch the fire work, no rain, awesome. thank you for. that will looking outside, vine westbound side just now starting to open. westbound vine looking good between the schuylkill and broad. eastbound side you are still slow. let you know that opens up. then we have an accident here, fishtown, delaware avenue northbound before columbia avenue. all northbound lanes were closed, now, it looks like just pulled off to the shoulder. now, when you see the cones, not obviously related to the accident. there is some construction going on, heads up on that if
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that's your neighborhood. construction here route 23 westbound between valley forge circle and gulph road, looking at 423, going over 42 it, one driveable lane open here. again, i'll let you know when the crews move out of the way, usually do in the early part of the 5:00 hour. hopefully the case in this area as well. then construction going on betsy ross bridge westbound, two left lanes are blocked, you can see, our censor zones, showing clearly, though, still early, one still traveling at posted speeds, crossing over the bridge, then construction delaware, 495 southbound, edgemore road, closed between 7:00 a.m., and 7:00 p.m. then, 495 northbound, between terminal avenue and 12th street, two left lanes are block, there as well. so when we look around the area, though, i like to see this, all green, it will start to change as we dip little deeper into the 6:00 hour on a friday, but right now enjoy the open roadways shall for those of you heading out there. real quick, septa fares starting tomorrow. they're increasing. jim, back over to you. >> thank you shall meisha. oklahoma department of transportation is getting creative, as it tries to cut
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back on distracted driving. every wednesday, boards just like this one flash an important message about safety on the road. they're nearly 70 boards across the state on highways, the signs are part of campaign geared toward getting folks to pay attention while behind the wheel. >> the goal to get them to think about the message, and kind of unaware while driving. >> now, small team comes up with clever messages to be sure they can be red quickly as drivers zoom past it at 7 miles an hour, organizers hope the fun sayings will drive a serious point home. >> coming up in the next hour of cbs news, what's behind the recent drop in gas prices, then we will show you more of the chase involving pennsylvania state police. it ended in front of their barracks. hear from the man who shot this footage from inside a bucket truck. >> and we're celebrating summer fest in the birth place of our nation.
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>> live from the cbs broadcast center in philadelphia. this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news" this morning. >> this is bianca robertson, investigators believe the recent high school graduate was the victim of deadly case of road rage. and this morning, the search is on for the driver who allegedly shot her in the head leaving her to die. >> as a modified travel ban takes effect, the trump administration works to define certain details. i'm set lemon on capitol hill with more. >> and it is summer fest. we're keeping it local celebrating everything that makes philadelphia such a great plates to live. we'll show you some of the hidden gems here, that's coming up. today is friday, june 30th, good morning, i'm jim donovan. rahel
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