court's ruling, sports gambling could be legalized in places like casinos and racetracks. cydney long is live in cherry hill for us. some lawmakers are applauding this possibility. >> reporter: as you might imagine, we saw a pretty unanimous social immediate cheer, if you will, by state and federal lawmakers with tweets today. as you might imagine, sports fans are also weighing in. they are betting that a win at the supreme court level will be a game chinger and other states will follow suit. new jersey's secure battle to legalize could line their own pockets and new jersey at the same time. >> i would say that anything we could do to bring revenue to the state of new jersey would be a good thing. >> a lot of my friends are 21

and they lo to bet on sports under the table with each other. if they could do it and help the economy, it would be awesome. >> it's fuelling a $150 billion sports e betting market. >> from where i come from, a lot of my neighbors, it is something that they will be doing on the weekend. >> gaming expert told me even though the fight is still in its impb fancy, it will add another layer of gaming. out of state residents will cross the bridge. he doesn't see a downside. if atlantic city comes anywhere close to nevada with sports bets, it could bring $4.5 billion in added revenue to the garden state. >> it's an income generating revenue for the state. >> he isn't old enough to gamble. by the time the argument moves

through the supreme court, she might be. >> any time we come to a place like pjs or a local sports bar, they will be like i'll bet you this. if they could did it through the restaurant, it would help everybody. it would be really cool. >> reporter: the supreme court of the united states didn't have to say yes to hearing the case. in fact, they take 2% of the overall cases presented for consideration. they will begin hearing those oral arguments as early as this fall in october and you can bet we'll be watching closely. live in cherry hill, cydney long, nbc 10 news. also developing now in washington, senate republicans postpone their vote on the new republican health care overhaul. now they will vote some time after the 4th of july. republican leaders say they just don't have enough support to pass the health care bill roigt now. at least five republican senators came out against it when the party could only afford to lose two votes. . the congressional budget office says 22 million more people could lose their insurance over

the next ten years compared to obamacare. a group of 52 republican senators meeting with president trump a at the white house shortly after the health care vote was postponed the president called the meet meeting as an effort to push forward a successful vote. overseas at least 15 isis militants were killed in a u.s.-led coalition airstrike in eastern syria today. islamic state-run jail was the target of the attack. this comes amid-allegations that the syrian government is preparing for a a new chemical weapons attack. the government and russian allies deny those claims. "nbc nightly news" with lester holt will have the latest on these developments out of washington at 6:30 right after this broadcast. developing right now, human remains found at a construction site in north philadelphia today. a construction crew made the discovery. they were doing work along west street in the nice town section. we're working to find out how long the human bones may have

been here. that's coming up tonight on nbc 10 news at 11:00. new at 6:00, it may soon be harder for the public to see some police dash cam video in pennsylvania. a new bill would police departments from having to release footage to comply with public records laws. tom wolf says he will sign the measure, which just passed the law today. sglmpx that's the deal prosecutors say a local bar owner bartered with seth williams. deanna durante with e details from the federal corruption trial of philly's top prosecutor. >> reporter: a bar owner on the witness stand today says his bar is is so popular and buys the liquor on his american express black card that he has lots of airline miles to spare and didn't mine mind sharing them. at the defense table, he's noding in agreement with his friend as he testified. outside the presence of the jury, williams' defense team is

scolded. the judge saying it williams reacts to things heed a agrees with he will be admonished this front of the jury. wies rattled off a long list of politicians he says he has held fundraisers for. he and williams are long-time friends and didn't mind lending seth williams money. one time $700 and says his gave seth williams $1500 in loans. the brothers knew they'd never be paid back. at one point, wooiss he and his brother talked about cutting williams off, but they never did. he gave the cash for political favors and help with an out of state liquor license. the attorneys tried to show a long-time friendship where the families would gather and he and his niece would be with the da's kids. the jury also heard about a beach trip that williams took wies on using a a city-owned

tahoe ols also in the car the daughters as well as woois's partner. they say williams and wies went to the beach bash and the girls went to the boardwalk. deanna durante, nbc 10 news. >> we are hearing from a local man who witnessed a dirt bike rider get shot and killed by police. e he did not want to e e reveal his last name, but he did want to tell the day what he saw. he was in the backseat of this suv with his two children. they were on their way to speak with detectives about his son's abduction when the shooting went down. the whole ordeal was traumatic. >> sit issing in the police suv like this. >> absolutely it was. >> the shooting happened on june 8th. the officer tried to pat down jones, but jones broke free after a struggle and that's when the officers shot three times. turning to your weather now

and a live look at university city. really comfortable out there. meteorologist glenn schwartz joining with us your most accurate forecast. i wish this could last awhile. >> we have had a pretty nice day after the early morning showers. and we're going to have another spectacular day tomorrow. this is ocean city, new jersey, and you can see just a few folks left on the beach. it was all a lot more crowded a couple hours ago. pretty good beach conditions overall. high today was 80. that's pretty cool for a sunny afternoon in late june. got a couple showers down in central and southern delaware. got some more up in northern pennsylvania heading in the general direction of the poconos and burkes county. we have one thunderstorm that's come over chesapeake bay.

these have been dying out. they have gotten closer. so we're going to keep an eye on them through the evening. but more showers and storms for at least a part of the weekend will get into that a little bit. developing at 6:00, an 18-year-old man shot and killed in south philadelphia. outside the home on marshal street. at least 15 shell casings were found on the ground. they have no motives or suspects in the case. a violent skateboard attack. a 25-year-old man air lifted to the hospital after he was beaten with a skateboard at harbor island shopping plaza. tonight he's in critical condition. he's charged with aggravated assault. local lawmakers in washington, d.c. today drawing up measures to try to combat the heroin crisis. they are crossing party lines to pass legislation addressing drug addiction in america. the proposal suggests $75

million in grant money for two years to expand educational efforts to treat drug abuse. funding would come in part. homelessness is declining in new jersey. the numbers dropped by 4.6% between january of 2016 and this year. more than 8500 people are believed to be homeless across the state. governor christie taking steps to come back bat that issue today. e he announced $9 million in funding to subsidize the construction of atordable house ing. pope francis announce itted a new bishop will lead the diocese and the pick is a familiar face to catholics. he treated to loud applause in allentown. he's worked in the area for more than 30 years and born and raised in easton. they are working to restore trust in the clergy after accusations of sexual abuse by putting new training and policies into place. >> tens of thousands of people

we have trained to recognize and deal with the signs of abuse. >> the church says pope francis was involved in making this very decision. back in court, bill cosby's attorneys are defending the actor against more sexual abuse claims when the next case will go to trial. from the ground up, how teachers and students are getting an important outdoor lesson that will last them a lifetime. the wawa welcome america stage is going up. so is the excitement level for all this free fun we're going to have. we're on the parkway to get you pumped, coming up. ♪

lawyers were in court defending bill cosby against more sexual abuse accusations. this time cosby is named an civil lawsuit. he's accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl 40 years ago. this case will go to a civil trial. a jury two weeks ago announced they were dead locked on charges of drug iging a university employee. >> he larned to tour to teach it

people to avoid sexual assault accusations. the propaganda that i'm going to conduct a tour is false. any further information will be given at the appropriate time. >> lawmakers taking steps to protect department of education employees against discrimination. that inclouds employees using the restroom facilities corresponding to their gender identity. the literacy conference is going on. advocates have gathered to discuss strategies to promote literacy across the state. they highlighted the keystones to opportunity program, which uses targeted interventions for students reading below grade level to advance literacy skills. it runs through thursday. a group of atlantic city police officers can now add another language to their repertory. they graduated from spanish

class. >> they put the course together. the group of officers trained over the course of several weeks. . the classes were free of charge and the officers graduated with basic spanish knowledge. . free events tr the wawa celebration begins in two days. tonight the stage is going up in front of the philadelphia art museum. from free sandwiches to fireworks and a star studded concert, tim furlong has a look at the line up. >> reporter: she's got usa nails, his name is rocky, they are from germany but they love it here in our town and they love our fictional boxer hero. >> they and most of the tourists i met here today will be back in their hometowned by the time we kick off wawa on thursday they are going to miss out employees making and serving thousands of

free sandwiches from noon to 2:00 on dependence mall. the good news is none of your watching now have to miss any of the fun. wherever you are, you're invited to come down and see the philly live at independence hall for free and see the stage going up on the parkway. thousands and thousands of us will gustaver to see this legend tuesday night. mary j. blige will put on a big show and when the stage goes dark, the sky will light up. >> you really need to go to nbc10.com and lay out your plan. plot things out. there's so many family-friendly things to do 37 we want you to have a good plan in place. if you can't get down here, we're going to have you covered on air and online. tim furlong, nbc 10 news. here's a look at even more free events you can enjoy during wwa welcome america. the go forth and learn soerz is is thursday through sunday. find out what it's like to be a a mummer. >> students and teachers growing

their gardening skills here in southwest tld. the hort tul churl society is teachers and students. it's made possible by a grant. a great day to be out in the garden. >> thanks. it was a beautiful afternoon across much of the area. philadelphia skyline looks really nice. thicker clouds toward the lehigh valley. around the same temperatures today.

>> you're all going to feel that. as we lock at the radar, we see a couple showers to the south. a couple to the north. not much in between. starting to see in sufficient fox county, that's the main area that's going to get hit over the next couple of hours. you can see how dry it is to the west. that is what is going to be affecting us tomorrow. a lot of dry air. so there it is. full sunshine tomorrow. thursday the temperature goes up a lot. humidity goes up somewhat. so you may be able to feel that. i don't have any rain in for those days. i do for friday. in the lehigh valley, a chance for thursday and friday afternoon. this is what we do with naiperhood weather.

we try to specify for the areas that have the best chance of seeing rain in any it given day. we can separate the shore too. look how much cooler it is at the shore than it is in the rest o of new jersey with that sea breeze that is coming in. it's going to get hot everywhere by friday except right at the beaches. now as we head into the weekend, plenty hot friday and saturday. the chance of thunderstorms on saturday, especially late in the day into saturday night and then sunday morning. that locks like the wettest part of the holiday weekend for thousand. sunday not quite as hot as saturday when it could start feeling like it's close to 100. i expect more clouds. for the philly pops, warm and not especially humid. it looks hot and humid.

a pretty good chance of thunderstorms at least in parts of the area. >> coming up, a phillies player sounds off. he wants to see more effort from the team. an eagles hall of famer can relate. and the sixers interested in a reunion. that's next.

i'm john clark from csn. how bad are the phillies. they have lost 13 of 16. they start a series in seattle tonight. jim salisbury reports the manager fined for stealing a

base saturday night. freddie went off after last night's loss. he wants more. in spring training if you told me we were going to have this record, i wouldn't believe it. i believe we had a good team. it's hard. it's hard to see it it's hard to bleep it. we need to try to do better. how about scott king ri. he tried real hard at aaa. his debut for the iron pigs, what a catch. kind of reminds you of a younger chase utley. he made his debut after getting promoted and tonight he is leading off. >> try not to think about it. try not to think too far ahead. it's definitely awesome to have the phillies think enough of me to bump me up here. from here i just got to figure out what i can do here. >> i like to see him in the majors. the eagles first round draft pick has been considered a busby some fans. but a hall of famer can relate.

early in his career, he tried to do too much, put too much pressure on himself. he talked with nelson and says nel on is trying to do too much. nelson has a new, fresh attitude this year. listen to herald. >> my problem was try iing to carry the team. and it's something that i told nelson. i said you can't carry this team. everybody has their part. he's trying to run before he catch the ball. i went through that. i think he's going to correct that. i think he has that ability to correct it. i think he's going to be fine with it. >> hope so. we will see. sixers are reportedly interested in free agents jj reddick of the clippers. iggy was drafted by the sixers. and last night basketball meets wrestling. the ball family, lakers second overall pick, the younger brother and dad.

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>> as we move into the holiday week. >> pressure is on. >> thanks for watching. i'm jim rosenfield. "nbc nightly news" is up next. breaking news tonight. they won't vote. senate republicans retreat on a plan to push through an obamacare repeal this week. losing support, all gop senators summoned to the white house. heavy price. the trump administration threatens military action, warning assad may be preparing for another chemical attack on the syrian people. held for ransom. a massive cyber attack hitting airlines, banks and utilities around the world, even at american pharmaceutical giant. hackers demanding money, holding computer systems hostage. chaos underground. dozens injured after a subway derails in new york city. passengers evacuated through smoke and darkness. and battle of the sexes. serena williams fires back as john