party's presidential nominee. and good afternoon to you, everyone. i'm tim rosenfield live inside the arena. behind me a picture perfect view of the stage that will be in the spotlight all week long. all officially gets under way any moment from now. dnc party chair debbie wasserman schultz was expected to gavel the start of this week's convention, but we learned this afternoon that will not happen amidst the fallout from that leaked e-mail scandal. dnc secretary in baltimore mayor stephanie rawlings-blake will take over the gavel role that was scheduled to happen at 4:00. we are just past that time, of course, and while we wait for that to happen, here are the headlines we've already seen today. the two big stories are very clear right now. on one side bernie sanders, who rallied his supporters, told them to continue the revolution and vote for hillary clinton, but their boos indicate that might not happen. on the other side, more drama surrounding debbie wasserman schultz who as you just saw will not gavel or as you will see will not gavel in the

convention. we'll get back to all of today's dnc developments coming up in just a moment. before we go any further, we do have to turn to a weather threat that could impact our entire area. severe storms moving in, and they will be with us through the evening. let's talk to first alert weather center and meteorologist sheena par convenient tracking the storms for us. >> yeah, jim, a couple of severe thunderstorms through parts of the lehigh valley. if you look at the radar, most are going through the lehigh valley and parts of burks county and that's where you see the yellow shaded area, and that's a severe thunderstorm warning. we'll zoom in right now with one thunderstorm into lower parts of montgomery county and burks count knee the lehigh valley into the poconos, that's a severe thunderstorm warning until 4:45. a lot of lightning and heavy rain. could see winds near 60 miles per hour. heavy downpours could lead to localized flooding and the possibility for some hail. now, as far as lightning strikes are concerned, in the past 15 minutes alone we've seen 716 lightning strikes.

this storm is going to move straight east so over carbon and monroe counties currently and through the lehigh valley and whitehall township seeing very heavy rain from it. aside from that the entire area is under a severe thunderstorm watch until 8:00 tonight. if you're in the philadelphia area and points north. south of that, reports through south jersey and delaware until 10:00 until so that basically means with any strong to severe storms we see, we could see 60-mile-an-hour winds, damaging winds, lightning, heavy rain and possible hail, so throughout the rest of the evening we'll be tracking all these storms for you. coming up, i'll show you the timing of the storms and what you can expect and we also have dangerous heat to deal with. meteorologist krystal klei are a look at that. >> we're looking at storms all across the map. this is looking in center city, and what we see here is there are people out and about. not the best time to be out and about. these temperatures seriously

hot. let's look now at those temperatures. these are your feel-like temperatures, so we're talking humidity and making it feel even hotter than it actually is. this is in philadelphia. 108 is what it feels like outside right now. we're talking almost 110 degrees, and we see it above at 114, the feel-like temperature in dover. you can tell where the storms are moving through. dropping quickly and allentown 96 and the feel damage like temperature 105 in atlantic city. across the board, it feels like triple-digits or has felt like triple-digits. these are the record temperatures compared to what we've seen so far today. we've now tied a record for heat in philadelphia as well as in allentown. that temperature has now started to drop. elsewhere, not tying records yet but close in some spots, as well as mt. pocono? this heat going to continue. the first alert lingering into tomorrow. we'll have more details on the storms and the seat, but for now let's go back to jim reasons field live at the wells fargo

center. >> krystal, thank you. >> so far the dnc has been filled with chaos before the gavel even falls here. listen to the reaction of bernie sanders' supporters just this afternoon when he told them to vote for hillary clinton. >> and we have got to elect hillary clinton and tim kaine. [ crowd booing ] brothers and sisters -- brothers and sisters, this is -- this is the real world that we live in. trump is a bully and a demagogue. >> trying to turn attention to trump there amidst the booze.

the anger amongst sanders supporters has been growing for the past couple of days all starting with the e-mail scandal which forced the chair of the dnc, of course, to step down just hours before the convention. >> debbie wasserman schultz! >> debbie wasserman schultz greeted by booze from delegates in her home state of florida. >> all right, everybody. now, settle down. >> the chair of the democratic national committee announced she would step down following the publication of hacked e-mails suggesting her committee favored hillary clinton in the presidential primaries. wasserman schultz was supposed to gavel the convention in. >> please be quiet so debby can speak. >> the controversy is casting a cloud over the first day of the convention. >> i'm going to issue a formal statement of apology. >> this morning the second in command of the committee

apologized and now it's up to her to bring the party together. >> we don't need folks that are going to be a lightning rod for division. >> for more reaction we go to nbc 10's lauren mayk. what kind of reaction are you seeing from delegates. >> reporter: they are a few minutes late to gavel in. we now know debbie wasserman schultz will not be the one doing that gaveling in today, but i can see as i look around me in this arena delegates are still arriving here today. want to bring in a delegate from pennsylvania, from northeast philadelphia. this is malcolm. we've been chatting about everything that's been going on the past 24 hours. we now know debbie wasserman schultz not gaveling in here today. do you think that's the right decision? how do you feel about it? >> i think it's time to now move forward. we have a pro in donna brazille and she understands the democratic party and is an amazing inspirational leader and we're ready to move forward and

get through this convention and come out unified, to beat donald trump. >> and donna brazill, of course, will now be taking over as the interim chair of the dnc. this is your family for this week. >> this is our family. >> reporter: do you feel like the family is getting along? >> i feel like -- you've been to any type of family reunion, families fight and those fights are hard and they are difficult because we're fighting over real issues. the decisions that we make right now is going to decide whether or not some mom can take care of her kid or, you know, take care of her parents that are getting older, so we're fighting, but we're figuring out the best way forward unlike the republicans who are figuring out how best to divide us and how best to drive us back to the 1950s, 1960s. i'm still trying tofying out when this great american time is that we're going back to. it's a time when people are less rights, when less people were a part of the process and a gay

black guy like me from north philly wouldn't even be allowed on a floor like that. >> reporter: thank you. we'll check back in with you a little bit later. that's the mood here that they do want to move forward, but as you saw today there's a lot of bernie sanders folks who are not particularly happy with how things went, and they are also very much looking forward to hearing bernie sanders speak tonight. it's going to be a very interesting night here at the d.n.c. jim? >> all right, lauren mayk on the floor there. big names scheduled to speak on the first night of dnc. once rumored vp option elizabeth warren and cory booker, and first lady michelle obama and perhaps the most anticipated of the speakers is senator bernie sanders. many wondering what he will say to get his supporters to back clinton. >> what do we want? >> justice! >> meantime about, 100 activists, including many bernie sanders supporters marched across the ben franklin bridge

starting in camden this morning. protesters wanted sanders to get the democratic nod for president over hillary clinton. they are hoping the march will change the minds of super delegates pledged to vote for clinton. all right. let's go to nbc 10's tim furlong who is down there with some of those protesters right now. we see them walking there with them. tim, what's going on? >> reporter: yeah. it's a hot, angry day here in center city, philadelphia. about 2,000 protesters, i estimate, have just left city hall heading south to fdr park, a and you can see everywhere you look it's jill stein, it's bernie sanders, nobody talking about hillary clinton in a week that is supposed to be all about hillary clinton and tim kaine. a lot of anger and a lot of people feel that bernie sanders had this election stolen from them, and they are not going to let anybody stop hearing about

it. if this week is supposed to be about democratic party unity, the plan isn't working. >> we want bernie! we want bernie! >> reporter: sanders army not backing down, clogging city streets all day today. they don't think hillary clinton belongs at the top of the democratic ticket. >> i think she's a dangerous candidate, and the last thing she is progressive. >> people try to tell me you should be scared of trump because of what he might do. we know for a fact that hillary has already done everything trump supposedly could go dow. >> we're a little [ bleep ] off and i want to let you know why. >> reporter: bernie delegates were pulled and 80% think tim kaine is unacceptable as a running chase saying clinton slapped them in the face by choosing a centrist and they are seething over the wikileaks e-mails.

>> this is violent and evil and were won't tolerate it. >> reporter: so it looks at this point like you have a very fractured democratic parliament i want to talk a little bit about traffic. if you need to get through any of this in i? city, it's going to be a tough afternoon for you. as you turn around, it's literally thousand of people blocking broad street. remember the blue cross broad street run, remember what that was like. nobody getting around except behind the larger pack. a very spread out crowd and sparse in some areas and then a big crowd up behind it so it's a little trick to get around. if you can avoid broad street south of city hall down to fdr park, i advise you to do that. there's a lot of people out here and, again, people that are not happy and most of those people are supporting bernie sanders and they don't want to hear that he's giving up and endorsing hillary clinton. live in "sex in the city." tim furlong, nbc 10 news. >> we see lester holt joining us and we'll talk to you in a second and first we'll check on traffic delays in "sex in the city." jessica boynton, how is it

looking out there? >> reporter: exactly as you would think it would look like. we're dealing with a lot of different areas of volume, and i'm going to start to tell you y.of course, we obviously know the dnc is here in philadelphia. it's impacting a lot of areas around "sex and the city" and down in south philadelphia and near the wells fargo center. the closures and restrictions begin on friday and they will last until midday on friday the 29th. xhert commercial vehicles weighing five tons or more will be restricted from a nine-mile portion of 95 between exit 13 and 22 and though there's no full highway closures there will be ramp, the ramp to broad street and the schuylkill eastbound and there's also security checkpoints for the five-top vehicle restrictions. here's one of them, 95 right around the philadelphia international airport so a slow go past that scene as you can see. right now not too bad headed northbound to the vine street expressway and anywhere into center city is where we're seeing that. there's dnc planned closures, of

course, until friday on broad street. terminal avenue and darian street are some. areas that are planned and when i say planned, also we have to plan for the demonstrations. 150 people marching down broad street for one demonstration and a bigger group of 1,000 people heading southbound down broad street into fdr park. jim? >> jessica, thanks. >> now we'll talk to lesterhold holt. >> for traffic if you tried to make your way here, you could give a traffic report. it's a little tough out here. "nightly news" coming up at 6:30, okay. controversy at the convention seems to follow us from cleveland here to filly. >> this was -- it was assumed that this was going to be a sharp contrast to the disharmony going to the republican convention, but, no, that's not the case. a lot of issues, debbie wasserman schultz essentially heading out of town, not going to be chairing this convention here. she's resigned. all eyes, a lot of anticipation on bernie sanders, what he is going to say tonight, although he's made it perfectly clear

that he is going to call on his supporters to unite behind hillary clinton but a lot of them are resisting. >> what's going to be their reaction on the floor here and how will the optics play to the rest of the country? >> because he got boos when he met with supporters earlier in the day and a lot of booze and a lot of sighs, you know, listen, support hillary clinton, so that's one gathering, but when it plays out on this floor with the national audience look, it's certainly not the message that the democratic party wants to proje project. >> and the clinton campaign has to be very concerned about how this is all playing out right now. >> very concerned and at the same time i'm sure there's a feeling, hey, look, it's monday. it's the beginning. whatever happens here will be long gone. you look at the republican convention. you had the ted cruz moment. that played out later in the convention, so it had kind of a linger effect, but, you know, it's all about optics here. >> talk about the e-mails and hacking and russians involvement. like a clancy novel. you are working into that has well. >> richard engel is work up a story and the experts agree this has the fingerprints of state-sponsored russian operation, of leaking these

e-mails with an eye towards affecting the u.s. election. it's pretty remarkable, right out of a novel. >> can't forget about the history that's going to be made here, the first woman nominee for president. >> when she comes out and says i accept the nomination, i think that the weight of history will certainly fall not only in this building but around the country. >> lester holt, thanks for being here. need an hour. >> pleasure to see new person. always talking to that little box every afternoon. >> thanks, lester. more on "nightly news" tonight. >> see you soon. >> this convention isn't all about politics, there's family fun to be had by families heading into the city. cidney long is here with more about for a cool way to get involved. >> well, jim, it's called political fest and as if tiny meeses of washington, d.c. and poignant moments in political history have essentially come to life inside the convention center. we've seen tons of political passion and just a lot of energy

outside today, but the interactive exhibits inside, they may be the coolest way to beat this heat. >> this is betsy's hat. >> reporter: she is betsy ross for the day. rosemary reed of detroit, michigan is among hundreds enjoying political fest. >> i was looking over there at the dresses designed by elizabeth hackley who was an african-american dress designer by mary todd lincoln and that's what made me look over here for the outfits. >> reporter: how does it feel to be betsy ross? >> i love it. >> reporter: the hands on interactive six-day tour brings the oval office to philadelphia and climb on board of an exact replica of president john f. kennedy's air force one, right down to the first lady's quarters and his bomber jacket. it's the donkeys versus the elephants for father and son eric and zuri of philadelphia. >> heading over to check out the air force one fuselage and looking forward to that as well as the oval office and getting a

little flavor of what life is like as a president. >> since we're not delegates we can't go to the dnc and we wanted to be involved somehow. we're 18 and just registered to votes. >> reporter: it's where young voters are learning about the evolution of american politics and where democratic history is beginning to click. tiny young minds guessing how many knex bricks it took to build this liberty bill. a photo in the oval office, a special memory as history unfolds at the dnc. >> how does it feel taking part it in philadelphia where democracy was born? >> oh, didn't think of it that way. i thought philadelphia was not too far from west orange so i would come. >> reporter: so it is just day one of the dnc but political fest, in fact, started on friday. it runs six days so it runs through wednesday of this week. the tickets for adults are $15, $5 for anyone under 18 and one

ticket and you can catch a flash bus to get to any of the search locations for political fest around the city. the one ticket, it's good for every day. i'm cidney long in center city, back for you. >> all right, cidney long, thank you. our dnc coverage getting you started. want to take you down to the podium because this convention is about to officially begin. >> it is an honor and a pleasure to welcome you, delegates, alternates, standing committee members and all of our honored democrats and other guests here in philadelphia and all of you who have joined us by television, by radio and online here in the united states and around the world, i hereby call the 47th quadrennial democratic national convention to order!

>> there you have it, dnc secretary and baltimore mayor stephanie rawlings-blake gathering in this democratic national convention, and there it is. she went back to the podium to actually wield the gavel there, so our coverage here from the democratic national convention is continuing right now. and then join us back here at 7:00 for a one-hour special report this. will happen one week long with more analysis and insight into this important political event happening right here in our backyard. for now we want to send it back to the nbc 10 studios where first alert meteorologist sheena par convenient is track the storms >>the storms, jim, we're watching them track through moving north and west of philadelphia. a ton of thunderstorm activity in the lehigh valley and pock knows and showers towards south philly and it may start raining here at the dnc very shortly.

that's moving currently and what we're watching is the severe thunderstorm right over the lehigh valley. there is a lot of heavy rain. if you're in parts of berks county, monroe county, still a severe thunderstorm warning here until 4:45. there's a lot of lightning. heavy rain towards whitehall township and this is the heaviest where see all the lightning. the deep shades of red and, again, that's a severe thunderstorm so winds near 60 miles per hour. those are damaging winds, lightning and heavy rain and also hail. not even possible hail at this point because we do have hail in this storm. lightning strikes in the past 15 minutes coming in a little over 300 so less than we had about 15 minutes too, but it is still a very strong storm. now here's a look at the hail inside this storm and golf ball-sides hail. this is right over east allen. it's heading towards moore right near lehigh township and this is going to continue to move

through north hampton county and we're watching this storm very strong at this point. it's traveling straight east so if you see that yellow you can see the severe thunderstorm warning. that storm is traveling straight eve. i also mentioned real quick one. storms developing neither philadelphia area, lower montgomery county and there is one shower. it is heading into south philly right now so we'll be watching that one for the south phillie area. it's very small at this pain. don't see lightning yet, but we are under a severe thunderstorm watch. for most of this area the severe thunderstorm watch will go until 8:00 tonight. in south jersey or delaware, until about 10:00. either way severe thunderstorms and damaging winds, lightning and heavy rain and possible hail. we're also talking about the heat, dangerous heat still out there. this is really helping to fuel the storms. allen town has cooled down to a feels dark like temperature of 85 degrees. look at this everywhere else. between 105 and 14 in dover.

still very hot and the storms will cool us down coming up. we'll take a look at timing of the shorts. >> count on the severe weather team to continue tracking the storms. more on a mass shooting at a teen nightclub and when we know about the suspects and victims next. >> people in one philadelphia neighborhood are dealing with no power and no way to cool off. but first, a look at the closing bell here on wall street. okay, ready?

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and everyone is enjoying boyz ii men on day one of the dnc. "motown philly" back again. more gathering of info on the e-mail scandal with the dnc and the impact of the convention on you. more coming up in ten minutes. a shooting at a florida nightclub ended with two teenagers dead and nearly 20 others wounded. it happened in the parking lot outside the club as parents picked up their children up from a party. the two teenagers killed were 14 and 18 years old. police now have three people in custody and say the attack was not terrorism. philadelphia police say a fight outside a popular penn's landing bar may have led to a murder. it happened just before midnight outside cavanagh's river deck on columbus boulevard. a man at that scene point out three men seen running away to police shouting they just shot

my boy. police say one of the suspects threw his gun into the delaware river which is now being searched. we are following two big stories this afternoon. first, storms that are moving into this area this afternoon. first alert meteorologist sheena par convenient is also tracking the heat. >> yeah, jacqueline, a lot of severe thunderstorms moving through parts of the area. otherwise more storms developing near the philadelphia area and coming i'll show you where they are heading and what you can expe expect. i'm hillary clinton and i approved this message.

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and right now at 4:30, the democratic national convention under way in philadelphia. gaveled into session in the past 30 minutes. you're live right now on the floor of the wells fargo center.

this is the invocation by the reverend dr. cynthia hall founder of ray of hope christian church out of decatur, georgia, and then we'll see the presentation of colors coming up at any moment now. good afternoon, everybody. i'm jim rosenfield. we're joining you live from the convention where day one is off to a very fast start. here's what's making headlines right now. the embattled dnc chairperson debbie wasserman schultz did not gavel in the start of the convention. those duties went to dnc secretary and baltimore mayor stephanie rawlings-blake just a few moments ago. bernie sanders rallied his supporters today telling them to continue the revolution and vote for hillary clinton which drew a cascade of boos. this as sanders is set to address the delegates tonight right after first lady michelle obama takes the podium. bringing sanders supporters together is a very process for the democratic party right now, but with the controversy at this convention so far it appears there is still a big divide. nbc 10's monique braxton spoke

with delegates from pennsylvania during their breakfast this morning. >> so ecstatic and excited about putting the first woman in the white house as a president. >> but supporters of vermont senator bernie sanders are saying not so fast. >> hillary clinton has not won my trust so far. >> reporter: we met delegates here at this jam-packed dnc breakfast. one by one national heavy hitters rallied 400 party faithful from pittsburgh to philadelphia, but chair debbie wasserman schultz was a no show one day after stepping down as e-mails surfaced showing her support of secretary hillary clinton. >> she had become a distraction and did the right thing by deciding to resign as chairwoman of the party. >> reporter: labor leaders told the delegates in this election working people are in the driver's seat. governor wolf talked fairness and inequity as the convention opened and there's the

in-your-face appearance of divided delegates. >> we need to keep focusing on what brings us together. >> reporter: do you think there's going to be unity? >> i have no idea. >> reporter: in center city, monique braxton, nbc 10 news. >> we want to go down to the floor now. we're getting ready to listen to the national an them from 14-year-old bobby hill. all remember him for his performance before the pope here in philadelphia. ♪ o say, can you see by the dawn's early light ♪ ♪ what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? ♪ ♪ whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight ♪ ♪ o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? ♪

♪ and the rockets' red glare the bombs bursting in air ♪ ♪ gave proof through the night that our flag was still there ♪ ♪ oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave ♪ ♪ o'er the land of the free ♪ ♪ and the home of the brave? ♪

once again that voice of an angel, bobby hill, a member of the keystone state boys choir singing the national an them. our other big story this afternoon is the weather. storms moving in. let's go back to the nbc 10 studios where first alert meteorologist sheena par convenient is tracking those storms. >> yeah, jim. air lost thunderstorms across the area. mostly north of philadelphia, and we do have one tornado warning. that's farther north of poconos. right now we are dealing with some severe thunderstorms and more developing so now you see it right around the allentown area, north hampton county and still in the severe thunderstorm warning here so all these storms we are keeping a very close eye on. they are very strong at this point, especially in the lehigh vale, right where you see the red and purple shading that indicates very heavy wind and hail. severe thunderstorm warning and a lot of lightning in this thunderstorm. 60-mile-an-hour winds and he have downpours as well and like i mentioned we're looking at hail. now, next tends all the way down

through the allen tune area and here down towards rich land and parts of upper bucks county. precip rates 2.5 inches or more per hour and could be looking at localized flooding. see what the hail is showing us. this is really extending now off to the west. this is golf ball-sized hail right around the allen town area and can you seat track shown by the purples and red and even showing us potentially softball-sized hail. going to keep watching this. right around nazareth now and the hail is moving in that direction. golf ball sized hail, and this is a very strong thunderstorm right through the lehigh valley. damaging wind, hail, lightning and very heavy rain so if you are in the path of this storm you want to go inside. it's moving straight west to east so we'll see it move into new jersey here very soon. otherwise we are watching one thunderstorm developing right into parts of lower montgomery county moving into lower bucks county. this thunderstorm we'll be watching for moving into the trenton area and mercer county

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kickoff is set for 7:00. thousands of pets found a forever home in our area thanks to this past weekend's clear the shelters event. locally more than 4,000 animals have been adopted since july 2nd. more han 1,000 on saturday alone. the providence animal center and media found a forever family for more than 100 homeless pets. the atlantic county animal shelter, 57 cats and 38 dogs found homes. sheena, you and jessica were giving tlc to a lot of loving pets. >> we were. fantastic event. we love it so much and we're so happy that all the animals were able to find homes and hopefully the adoptions can continue. we have a new severe thunderstorm warning for parts of bucks county and parts of mercy county. coming up we'll talk about this and what to expect for the rest of the evening. more strong storms heading our way. that's coming up next.

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moving in. can you see them starting to move in from the west here on the nbc 10 radar. meteorologist sheena par convenient will track the storms in a couple of minutes. meanwhile, the heat is the other concern today. it's an especially bad time for the power to go out, but that's the reality in one delaware county neighborhood. nbc 10's deanna draent joins us live from where people are dealing with serious heat and no electricity to cool off. really dangerous. >> and there's been some evacuations in the area. you can see peco crews have been working. all of this happened a little after 9:00 this morning. several power poles pulled down here on to south avenue near grand avenue putting out the lights for more than 100 customers at this point. >> it's hot, and we don't quite know what we're going to do. >> reporter: for nancy and bruce se serano this is the worst day for this to happen.

a and that could be hard with the dnc in town. just after breakfast a box truck carrying furniture took out the power lines right in front of house and a chunk of the block. >> and it sounded like i scraped a tree branch and when i got to where the truck was stopped the truck started to twist on its own and i knew i hadn't love control of the vehicle. >> the pole snapped and power lines came down around him. >> you feeling pretty lucky? >> yeah. >> reporter: no one was hurt despite the sweltering weather. the line is believed to have been hanging after a recent summer storm is what got caught on the truck but the couple doesn't want to be caught in the heat so bruce just came home in a again rater? >> i think so if i can get the generator started. >> reporter: he did get the generator going and you can hear it in the neighborhood. you can see the crews behind me still working. peco here on the scene. again, we're told that that shelter is still open for residents who need to seek shelter. people may be coming home at

this point that don't know that the lights and air conditioning are out. that's at ridley high school and peco says you can expect the power to be out here until at least 10:00 tonight. reporting live in delaware county, deanna durante, nbc 10 news. >> well, a severe thunderstorm warning across the area and this one includes parts of bucks county and mercy county. lower bucks county, still dealing with the very strong thunderstorm up through the lehigh valley right now. very heavy rain here. a lot of lightning and looking at lehigh and north hampton counties. a lot of lightning and very heavy rain which could lead to potential localized fighting and even indications of big hail. severe thunderstorm warning for most north hampton county will go until 5:30. with any severe thunderstorm warning we're talking about damaging winds near 60 miles per hour. lightning, heavy rained and like mentioned hail. take a look at this hail. this is right near route 22 heading towards easton.

we're getting radar indications of potentially baseball-sized hail. this is the biggest hail we've seen so far i think on radar, at least radar indicated, and this is heading towards easton right near route 22. this is a very strong thunderstorm and further north than that indications of golf -- ball sized hail heading straight west to east. sliding through northampton county and then through new jersey. severe thunderstorm warning through 5:15 until lower bucks county heading to mercy county. yeardley is seeing this right now. heavy rain across 95. this is moving into mercy county and trenton right on the doorstep of that heavy rain. it's all moving mostly to the northeast right around 40 miles an hour. if you're in hamilton square, expect it by 4:55. west windsor 5:00, and like i mentioned, it is currently moving into trenton, and, again, another severe thunderstorm so winds near 60 miles per hour and lightning and heavy rain and possible hail developing in this storm as well so if you're in

the path of any of these storms you want to remain inside until you get all leer and it will be a while. precip rates through the lehigh valley, maybe a little bit over 2 1/2 inches and if you're in allentown you're finally getting out of that heavy rain. the lightning is about to pass your area so at least we're seeing some clearing in the lehigh valley and take a look at what's off to the west. we have more showers and storms heading our way and a lot of the thunderstorms are currently severe and this could certainly hold that strength as we go through the next several hours. still in the severe thunderstorm watch for the rest of this evening for the entire area. so here's future weather. it's picking up on the thunderstorms moving in and into the philadelphia area. possibly by 7:00 p.m. or so. later on this evening by about 11:00 p.m. i think we'll be in the clear and then tomorrow a sunny hot day and feels like temperatures right now are currently still in the triple digits, but when you factor in that humidity tomorrow, it's still going to feel very hot. look at the feels like temperature, anywhere from 100

to 114 in doefrmt allentown has seen the rain-cooled air and now feeling like 75. a closer look at the storms. i'll keep tracking them for you coming up. >> a broken fridge, hundreds of dollars in spoiled food and a warranty that wasn't offering any help. it's a problem that forced one woman to call nbc 10 responds. we'll explain what happens after harry hairston got involved. and all new on nbc 10 news at 5, tiger trouble. a camera rolls as a woman steps out of a car at a wildlife park. the terrifying moments when the tiger strikes. that's ahead at 5:00.

turning to nbc 10 responds. a fewer develops us her refrigerator studley stopped working and getting it repairs

would not be easy, so she contacted harry hairston and nbc 10 responds and he's here with more. >> well, we went to work right away for this woman who said she had already lost hundreds of dollars in food. >> hilda quintero tells us hours before she was about to prepare a large fourth of july dinner she discovered her fridge had died. >> i opened my refrigerator. my milk is warm. >> quintero says when she checked the frears the meats were. >> the ice cream was like soup. >> reporter: she pulled out her sears warranty and culled customer service hoping to get the fridge repaired quickly. >> they said they will attend to it right away. >> reporter: she says right away turned into waiting day after day after day and making more phone calls to sears. >> you called them how many times? >> three times. >> reporter: she says without a fridge she started spending more money on food to feed her family. >> i'm running out to the store every day to get something, you

know, to cook because i don't have a freeze sneer she called nbc 10 responds. >> your response was really fast. i thought it was fabulous. >> reporter: we contacted sears the same day we met quintero. the company's public relations director told us its customer care team would work to resolve the issue, and they did. hours after we left, a repairman showed up and the next day sears delivered parts to make the repairs. now she tells us her old fridge is working like new. >> i called channel 10's harry hairston and he got me results. thank you very much. >> and you are very welcome. quintero says she's been shopping with sears for 20 years and always bought the extended warranty, and this was the first time she ever had a problem with a sears appliance. now we'll add that money to our tally and that brings us up to over $56,000. >> really good. meat is expensive so to realize

that all that meat was thawed. thanks for helping her out. >> sure thing. philadelphia finds itself in the spotlight tonight as the democratic national convention gets under way. and nbc 10's jim rosenfield is heading up our coverage. >> coverage rolls on. right now at 5:00, a look at drama and controversial surrounding the start of this convention and the protests and how it's all affecting traffic at this hour. also, the nbc 10 investigators get exclusive access to how authorities are making sure the convention stays secure. those stories and more straight ahead on nbc 10 news at 5:00. >> and a lot of strong storms heading our way and moving through part of the area right now. i'll show you where the rest are heading and when you can expect for the rest of the evening. >> and the birds are back. eagles training camp is under way and csn's john clark joins with us a look at what unfolded on day one. that and much more on nbc 10 "news at 5:00."

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the gavel sounchds, and the eyes of the political world focus on philadelphia. the democratic national convention is under way tonight. grampa. the head of the party greeted by booze a day after announcing she will be stepping down while bernie sanders calls for unity and separation becomes the story inside the wells fargo center.

meantime outside, we're tracking a double threat, severe storms and scorching heat. first alert radar shows severe storms rolling across the region right now all while we're baked by the highest temperatures we've seen so far this summer. the wait is over. convention time is here tonight. >> if i could ask everybody to settle down. >> and it starts with a scandal. >> we don't need folks that are going to be a lightning rod for division. >> discord among democrats as they convene to crown their presidential nominee, and our city is center stage. >> and good evening, we're coming to you live from south philadelphia. a live look inside the wells fargo center adorned in red and blue. the democratic convention began about an hour ago as new controversy swirls. good evening, everyone. i'm jim rosenfield. going to bring you complete coverage from here at wells fargo center, throughout the region as well, but