but none of us should think for one second this will be easy. the outcome of this election depends on us and how we contend with an incredible onslaught that is coming my way, this is not the first glimpse of the clinton machine in action as bernie sanders can tell you. in this time around she will have the press doing half her work for her. the goo the good news is it won't be nearly enough, not against the candidate who captured the attention of the country the way donald trump has. [cheers and applause] on issue by issue he and i will take our case to the voters, pointing out the failures of the obama-clinton agenda and showing a better way.

we will win the hearts and minds of the american people with an agenda for a stronger and more prosperous america. [cheers and applause] now the establishment in washington d.c. thinks it's only a narrow range of voters who are giving donald trump a serious look. but i can tell you firsthand there is a lot of americans out there who feel like democrat politicians have taken them for granted. [cheers and applause] it's union members who don't want a president who promises to put a lot of coal meaners and companies out of business. [cheers and applause]those mine know donald trump digs coal.

[cheers and applause] [ ch it's african/americans who remember generations of hollow promises about safe streets and better schools and they know donald trump will fight for equal opportunity and he loves educational choice. [cheers and applause] and it is hispanic americans who respect the law, want jobs and opportunities for their families and knows that donald trump will up hold the law and get this economy moving for every american. [cheers and applause] you know the party of lincoln was founded on equality of opportunity and during these

difficult days it will be our party and our agenda that opens the doors for every american to succeed and prosper in this land. [cheers and applause] you know in so many ways the democratic party has abandon those that it used to protect. maybe they have become too entrenched in power, so comfortable at times that they lose patience with the normal legislative process. it's so much simpler to empose values by executive order or court action and make no mistake about it hillary clinton has some big ideas along those lines too. [boo] as this election approaches, every american should know that while we are filling the presidency for the next four years this election will define

the supreme court for the next 40. [cheers and applause] we all better think very carefully, very carefully about what this means for our constitution and limited government. elect hillary clinton and you better get used to being subject to unelected judges using unaccountable power to take unconstitutional actions. [cheers and applause] well, let me say, for the sake of the rule of law, for the sake of the sancitity of life, for the sake of our second amendment and for the sake of all or other god given liberties we must ensure the next president appointing justices to the supreme court is donald trump. [cheers and applause] and hillary clinton's record on

foreign affairs gets even worse. you know it was hillary clinton who helped undo all the gains of the troop surge, a staggering failure of judgment that set i.s.i.s. on the loose. it was hillary clinton who integrated the president's disaster agreement with the radicals in iran. and it was hillary clinton who left americans in harm's way in benghazi and after four americans fell, said what difference at this point does it make? [boo] does it make? [chanting]

[chanting lock her up] as the proud father of the united states marine let me say from my heart anyone who said that, anyone who did that should be disqualified from ever serving as commander in chief of the armed forces of the united states of america. [applause]]7 and a half years o obama and hillary clinton's policies have weakened america's place in the world. terrorist attacks at home and abroad, grim and heartbreaking scenes from france just a few short days ago and the attempted

coup in turkey all a test to a world spinning apart. history teaches us that weakness aroses evil. hillary clinton and barack obama's foreign policy of bleeding from behind, moving red lines, feigning resets with russia and the rise, rule and reign of i.s.i.s. are a testament to this truth of history. we cannot have four more years apologizing to our enemies and abandoning our friends. america needs to be strong for the world to be safe and on the world's stage, donald trump will lead from strength. [ cheers and applause ]

donald trump will rebuild our military and stand with our allies, confront islamic terrorism at its source, and k else, it will know this. america stands with israel. [ cheers and applause ] you know, if you looked at the calendar this morning, you might have noticed. the presidency of barack obama ends exactly six months from today.

[ cheers and applause ] >> we like mike! we like mike! we like mike! we like mike! we like mike! we like mike! we like mike! we like mike! >> and this much is certain. this much is certain of the obama years. they're not ending well. there seems to be so many things that divide us. so few great purposes that unite us as they once did. and it's at moments like this, moments when politics fail.

that i believe we do well to remember that what unites us far exceeds anything that sets us apart in america. [ cheers and applause ] that we are as we have always been one nation under god indivisib indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [ cheers and applause ] should i have the awesome privilege to serve as your vice president, i promise to keep faith with that conviction. to pray daily for a wise and

discerning heart. for who is able to govern without it? my fellow americans, i believe we have come to another rendezvous with destiny. and i faith that god can still heal our land. [ cheers and applause ] but we have a choice to make. this is another time for choosing. if you want a president who will protect this nation, confront radical islamic terrorism and rid the world of isis. if you want a president who will

restore law and order to the country, and if you want a president who will cut taxes, grow our economy and squeeze every nickel out of the federal bureaucracy, if you want a president who will build strong borders and enforce our laws, and if you want a president who will upend the status quo in washington, d.c., and appoint justices to the supreme court who will uphold the constitution, we have but one choice. and that man is ready. this team is ready. our party is ready. and when we elect donald trump, the 45th president of the united states, together we will make america great again. [ cheers and applause ]

thank you. and god bless you. and god bless the united states of america. >> strong, polished performance from mike pence, indiana governor. donald trump's running mate. >> here he comes. >> here comes donald trump. he called donald trump the outsider. and he labeled hillary clinton the secretary of the status quo. donald trump seems proud right now. david muir, he spoke a lot to the camera, but had a lot of the hall on his side, especially the

indiana delegation. >> what did you make of your governor tonight? >> he crushed it, grand slam. >> they were chanting i like mike over here in indiana. but take a look, as they call it the "q" here in cleveland, completely packed. this is the first night at the convention at the end of the primetime hour, the crowd on its feet, complete crowd here. mike pence took the stage to make the case that donald j. trump is fit to be president. >> joined on the stage by his mom now, nancy pence. and his daughters and his son. wife karen pence. so, matthew dowd, we're three days in now. mike pence, bringing the crowd to its feet as david said. ted cruz making a lot of the news.

where is the republican party, what does donald trump have to do tomorrow? >> he cleaned up the living room after cruz turned the furniture over. and i think he set donald trump up. i think if the polls are going to move and the krrace is goingo close, it's up to donald trump tomorrow night. >> martha raddatz? >> the voters on the fence, d donald trump needs to let them know he has the trust and temperament to be president. >> jon karl? >> that was about unifying republicans. >> cokie roberts? time for choosing. >> choosing donald trump, who has to make the closing argument

tomorrow. his showmanship, coming in just as ted cruz was ending, with the audience really angry with him, and coming out for pence, we will have something to watch tomorrow. >> and we'll be right here tomorrow night at 10:00 p.m. eastern. that's all for now. a special edition of "nightline" is coming up. you can always find out the latest on abcnews.com. i'll see you tomorrow morning on "gma." >> this has been a presentation of abc news. abc news. action news delaware valley's leading news program with jim gardn gardner. >> it is wednesday night, we are live at the republican national convention in cleveland and the big story on action news tonight

is the tale of two conservatives and ted cruz delighted supporters tonight with his speech but he infuriated trump supporters because he refused to endorse donald trump for president of the united states and it was left to vice presidential candidate mike pence to bring these delegates together. >> it was a fascinating study and hard cold politics, ted cruz wants to be president and should donald trump lose in november cruz will automatically be one of the favorites in four years. so you could say that his speech tonight was this effect a kickoff for a possible 2020 campaign. >> stand and speak and vote your conscious, vote for candidates up and down the ticket, who you trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to the constitution. >> reporter: but mike pence isn't thinking about 2020, he is

thinking about november and his presence on the ticket could be a huge plus in making donald trump more appealing to the republican establishment and the conservative wing of the party. pence painted trump as a good man who can lead this country into an uncertain future. >> you have nominated a man for president who never quicks, who never backs down, a fighter, a winner, until now he has had to do it all by himself against all odds but this week, with this united party he has got backup and on november 8th i know we will elect donald trump to be the 45th president of the united states of america. >> reporter: donald trump coming after to congratulate running mate mike pence and giving the delegates here another glimpse of what they hope will be the ticket to defeat hillary clinton. let's go live outside the arena now to action news reporter sarah bloomquist and sarah quite a night on the floor of this

convention tonight. >> jim, we were right next to the stage when senator ted cruz completed his speech and got booed out of the arena. we were right with the pennsylvania delegation when the crowd on the convention floor erupted in boos and people were fighting, openly arguing with one another and cruz never said to vote for donald trump and it made them so angry and listen from our vantage point as the boos erupted and listen to the reaction from pennsylvania delegat delegates. >> boo. i think the senator says exactly what we believe but i think the ultimate thing is to unite the party, unite the country. >> doesn't seem like a united party out here. >> by endorsing the nominee. i think what he really needed to say and i think what people were hoping and expecting he would

say is that not vote your conscious but vote trump. >> pretty disappointed to be honest with you. it was a good speech that was ruined. unfortunately you know ted cruz could have been a hero tonight. would have brought the house down. pretty embarrassing to get booed off the stage at a republican convention. >> reporter: we have also confirmed that one delegate the former attorney general of virginia had to help get heidi cruz out of the convention arena. he told abc news that other delegates were screaming at her, it was getting physical, it was getting dangerous and he had to help her get out of the convention arena. also of note florida senator marco-rubio did not tell the delegates directly to vote for donald trump, another extraordinary night here at the republican national convention and not necessarily a positive one for the republican party. live in cleveland, ohio i'm

sarah bloomquist channel six action news. >> was saw the first real clash between protesters and police today, 17 people were arrested after a protester tried to set fire to an american flag. cleveland police are reporting that that protester accidentally set his clothes on fire and the claim spread to others. nobody was seriously hurt. police responded fast and in large numbers, one officer used mace to quiet an individual. police far out numbered the protesters and photographers may far out numbered the police. meanwhile the trump campaign did admit today that portions of malania's speech were taken from michelle obama's speech from 8 years ago and contained two sections that used the same words and phrases as obama speech but for 35 hours the trump people denied that there was any hint of plagiarism.

but today meredith mcgiver a trump mro i helped her with the speech and used portions of michelle obama's address and offered to resign but donald trump refused to accept the resignation. back to the business at hand we can now look forward to the climax of this convention. tomorrow night evanka trump will introduce her father to the delegates here and to perhaps the biggest television audience he has ever had. at that time he will accept his party's nomination for president and will begin to explain why he should be president. a year ago no one could have imagined what will happen here tomorrow night. with the possible exception of donald trump. and that's the story here from cleveland at the republican national convention, monica? >> thank you, jim. meantime hillary clinton is closing in on two possible picks for vice president tonight, presumptive democratic

presidential nominee is deciding between virginia senator cane and agricultural secretary tomso vilsack as leading contenders and a leader of the state and one time missionary fluent in spanish and vilsack is part of the cabinet and clinton may decide by this friday or saturday but sources caution she has not made up her mind yet and she may actually still pick someone else. there is controversy tonight over who is and is not invited to speak at the democratic national convention in philadelphia and it's all about policing. we will have that a little bit later in the broadcast plus the city's e merging plan for the homeless population next week and rushing to prepare for thousands of delegates descending on center city, that is all coming up. ♪ we do have breaking news near out of north philadelphia where we do have breaking news a live

out of lower marion township where the river has been searched for a man suspected of jumping in the river in the last 40 minutes in his quest to evade police, no word on why police were pursuing him but apparently this is happening near hollow and river roads and again about 40 minutes ago a man apparently jumped into the river to evade police and are now searching for him with police boats launched into the river, choppers are overhead as well as they continue that evening search. also breaking news out of north philadelphia a 16-year-old was shot during a robbery tonight, it happened about 9:30 here at sesel and wood bee street the victim just left his girlfriend's home when two tried to rob him and shot him twice. the teen was rushed to st. christopher's hospital the suspects fled, they remain at large. meanwhile the gunman who shot a 15-year-old boy tonight in philadelphia's frankfurt section

is also on the run and police know who they are looking for in the case and believe the motive was an argument yesterday with some pushing and shoving. today the shooter came back with a gun. he opened fire in the 4800 about 5:20 tonight. the teenage victim is in surgery in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the stomach. a 20-year-old firefighter suffered burns to his legs battling this blaze at a new castle motel late this afternoon and broke out in one of the motel rooms in the 200 south dupont highway, investigators don't know what started it, no one in the unit was hurt but a 60-year-old woman and a neighboring room needed to go to the hospital for some breathing problems. the manhunt is over tonight for thomas gould and zanaatul and naim in bucks county surrendered

tonight to police and he was dating gould but also had an on again, off again relationship with dubinsky and he was shot in the head at his home and naim is considered a person of interest, gould has already been charged with the murder. now to a developing story southwest airlines is trying to come back from a technology glitch. some of them have grounded flights across the country for hours. the airline says more than 600 flights have been delayed, 17 flights have been cancelled, the computer outage at one point today kept passengers from even being able to buy ticks online to check flight status or check in for a flight, that led to lines like this enormous line in baltimore, maryland take ebb -- taken by an action news viewer and not all are frustrated and we spoke to passengers arriving on southwest at philadelphia international and called it uneventful and smooth sailing

and may have tracked down the source of a problem that put more than 100 rail cars out of service the silver liner five trains says it is due to what is called faulty welds, the weld is part of the suspension system and it involves a load bearing beam. now that the problem has been identified the train manufacturer hundai says two possible replacement beams are being considered, the company blames the bad welding job on one of its subcontractors but that office did not return e-mails or calls or comment to the associated press and has not given its official determination of just what caused all the cracks. a darby bureau neighborhood is up in arms or a tire slashing spree and woke to a dozen flat tires all in the 1100 of chest nut street and no idea why they were targeted and they had two cars hit and cost that one family hundreds of dollars to

fix them. >> and it's just absolutely ridiculous and it's people that come out of this neighborhood and it's not this neighborhood so i wish they would stay where they are and do their own cars and see how their mom and dad like it. >> reporter: believe it happened about 2:30 a.m. between then and dawn, they have not had any other car slashings lately and say this crime is unusual for that area. it is the great coffee caper of chester county if you will and has been brewing for months, west chester police say a woman has been stealing bags of coffee from one walmart store then driving to another to return them for cash. she has apparently hit the entire try state area, racking up $3,000. investigators believe she is a traveling healthcare worker since sometimes she is seen on surveillance video here wearing scrubs. authorities really hope someone will recognize her. 25 cadets are on their way to becoming sworn officers of the law. they graduated from the

montgomery police academy tonight in a ceremony held at the community college center in blue bell, montgomery commissioner val was among the speakers on hand thanking them for taking on the job and we also want to wish them well. it was an unforgettable night for this world war ii veteran honored in camden, new jersey and honored him at the meeting and navy gunner was badly burned when his ship the ss henry knot was torpedo and signed on for three more tours of duty in the navy and won a victory metal, purple heart and distinguished service metal, take our hats off to you sir. getting the homeless off the streets during the dnc and a brush with death, we will hear from the driver rescued by a dozen good samaritans after his convertible flipped and rolled over.

police concern that the zika virus may hit a new infectious milestone in the united states, adam. >> monica, warnings and heat advisories taking up a good chunk of the country in the midsection that is pushing to the east and talk about some dangerous heat index coming up, in the full out weather forecast. >> phillies looking to real -- reel one in against the fish in action news tonight. a man driving a convertible can

barely believe he is alive after this rollover crash and says it's thanked to good samaritans who rushed to save him on a south carolina highway yesterday and 20 year old driver lost control, flipped up side down this a ditch and the car was leaking gas. more than a dozen people pulled over to help him and to roll his car up right as you saw. he was stunned but barely injured, suffering just a slight burn on his arm.

>> didn't know whether the car was going to blowup and they still risked their lives to save one stranger. >> reporter: clearly moved by it. jonathan jansen praising the seat belt that kept him being thrown from the car. ramsey will speak to the dnc next week and after a controversy with lodge five of the fraternal order of police criticized hillary clinton of choice of speakers in philadelphia saying she excluded widows and family members who suffered so month and in hours they added ramsey to the schedule as well as new york police detective sweeney a 9-11 survivor and a rush to set up after estimated 50,000 visitors come to the dnc and wells fargo is closed off except to delegates and dignitaries and the convention center expects to host political junkies if you

will of all stripes at an event called political fest with memorabilia and history on display and the front end of a replica airforce one. city officials working hard to show philadelphia in its best light for the dnc but having a large homeless population presents a tough challenge, how to get them more help and get them off the streets before the nation turns its attention here and christie joins us live along the been franklin parkway with more, christie? >> monica this is the same strategy the city used when the pope came to town last year. the city says this is not about hiding the homeless, just helping them but some living out the street they say they feel otherwise. >> it was right where they put the picnic tables and stuff is where i sleep. >> reporter: on any given night more than 700 people are sleeping on philadelphia's street and hamilton is one of them. >> last night they came