of a luxurious reinvention now moth balled casting a long shadow of disappointing across atlantic city. but atlantic city's mayor remains optimistic. >> welcome to the beautiful boardwalk of atlantic atlantic city. my name is don guardian. i'm here to welcome you again. >> "america tonight" met mayor guardian last year. >> the beautiful building has got to be sore for you to look like. >> absolutely, it represents at least 3,000 jobs we don't have and the best restaurants and clubs we don't have. we're trying to get it open again. >> it's still up in the air? >> it's still up in the air. this time next year we got omake sure revel is open. >> the ones that are reopening, with revenue up thanks to less competition. still the atlantic city area has an unemployment rate 30 times the national average. >> reporter: how are casino workers faring in this revelation of atlantic city? >> if you are in the existing casinos you did well this year. the numbers were up but a lot of casinos cut back to part time workers so they lost their health benefits. i'm concerned about that. we need to be concerned about ev

understand the first victim is a male, mid 20's, from egypt, just came to atlantic city to start working here, and the suspect, atlantic city person. in atlantic city, cleve bryan cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> see you at 5:00. chester county principal arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a teenage student. george simons was head of the concept school, private school in thorn berry township. the 63 year old accused of having inapropriate contact with a boy starting last spring and continuing until winter when the boy was between 14 and 15 years of age. police are concerned that there could be other victims. >>> hot and humid day making it tough to be outside. "eyewitness news" in haddon township where this man was mowing his lawn early even this morning, it was uncomfortable outside. now, take a look at this dog and let's take the dog's advice to stay hydrated with little pup, i guess getting some water. let's get first look at the forecast with meteorologist katie fehlinger. hey, katy? >> ukee, that's absolutely it. this will be one of those days that's classic july really for us, as we spike to near or about 90 d

atlantic city. now, i hate that any of them had to close because people lost their jobs. it's a natural downsizing. what's happening in atlantic city, nongaming revenue is going up. gaming revenue is staying flat. atlantic city is going to be fine over time. >> i spent a lot of time on the jersey shore. i would tell you that's one area i would not go to for any other reason than to go to a casino. that place needs a lot of cleaning up. a lot of cleaning up. >> listen. is this going to be about living in new jersey? because we have a whole audience of americans. >> no. but to look at this on a bigger scale. unemployment going on in atlantic city specifically new jersey. >> the unemployment is lowest since 2008. even with the awful things that have happened in atlantic city, which were naturally going to happen. what we've done is the state has taken over with a special district policing the boardwalk and marine area. came has gone dawn significantly in those areas. we need to move from a gaming-based system to a resort-based system. that's what we're moving towards and making progress. the last bit is the municipal government t

at the multi-billion rebel mothballed casting shadow of disappointment across downtown atlantic city but atlanticyor remains optimistic. >> when people talk about the failure of atlantic city in the last few years the beautiful building sitting empty has to be sore for you to look at. >> absolutely and it represents at least 3,000 jobs that we don't have and some of the best restaurants and clubs and bars that we had so we are doing everything we can to try to get it open again. >> reporter: there is a silver lining to the casino closures. the ones that remain are rebounding with revenues up thanks to less competition. still the atlantic city area has an unemployment rate three times the national average. >> after talking with you over the last year your plan to me sounds like diversification. is gaming still going to be the backbone of this economy though? >> it's not the only choice. there is no single answer to make our city great. everything is going to be important. so great libation and cool bars and fun dining and bars is all part. >> reporter: intoxicating dream but one that may not inclu

let's get you outside, down the jersey shore we're down in atlantic city. atlanticwas beautiful yesterday, the sun broke through it turned out to be a nice beach day. this morning is similar, we'll start out with clouds and this afternoon things will brighten up again. double scan live, crystal clear looks like the second half of this holiday weekend promises to be better than what we saw yesterday. rainfall totals range from .005 of an inch. winds are calm at the airport the barometer is steady. quakertown 61. martins creek 61. warrington, 66. pottstown, 64. coatsville 62. south jersey buena 65. on the boards in atlantic city and avalon they share 69. here's satellite and ray -- radar, high pressure is skirting to the north it will hit binghamton and pass on by to the east and hit new england. that will suppress this to the south. whatever clouds you're seeing along with the patchy fog will get out of here around 9:00, 10:00 a.m. from that point on it's a combination of sun and clouds. it should be a nice day. tomorrow things change a little bit. we notice clouds r

. >> reporter: in atlantic city, fireworks capped off a perfect day at the shore for the this family from willow grove. >> it's great in the summertime to be at atlantic city boardwalk watching the fireworks on the 4th july of. >>> if you didn't get a chance to see the fireworks you can catch them tonight in atlantic city, weather permitting. in atlantic city, jeff cherico channel 6 "action news." >>> wawa america festival started philly pops held their concert. one family came from canada. >> i showed the kids a bit of different history than our own what a place to come, i wanted to come to philly, what a fantastic place. >> as the proud broadcast partner of the wawa welcome america celebration, "action news" got close to the fireworks, they are planning for the complicated choreography started in january. the payoff will be in a continuous 15 minute aerial bombardment. >>> a dazzling display lit up the skies over the wissahickon high school. hundreds of families enjoyed the carnival rides games and food. our live coverage of fourth of july festivities begins at 10:00 a.m. join tamala edwards and matt o'donnell as they host the celebration of freedom

into the atlantic city area. atlantic city could see thunder and lightning as well. a mostly cloudy day. the temperatures will climb into the 80s this afternoon. occasional showers and thunderstorms possible this afternoon but they're out of the picture for tomorrow. instead, it is heat and humidity. 91 the high temperature on tuesday. and the temperatures keep on climbing. look at that 95 for wednesday. a steamier day on thursday. 94 will feel even hotter. wednesday with storms late day thursday and a break in the humidity. thatples could down but the temperatures are right back up into the 90s friday. 94 saturday and hot, humid conditions sunday. >>> eight minutes before 6:00 right now. wet roads to contend with with your monday ride to work. >> let's see if problems are popping up out there because of that. nbc 10's first alert traffic reporter jessica boyington. >> we are still dealing with the wet roads pretty much all across the board, the schuylkill expressway having flooding in some spots as well. we'll do a run-through of some of those areas right now. schuy

otherwise, we have a disabled bus in atlantic city on the atlantic city and brigantine connector. that's actually near the convention center on on the southbound side we're blocking out the right-hand lane. heading down the pa turnpike, smooth sailing so far. see the cars are green, westbound or eastbound. 21 minutes or 22 minutes at the most from route 1 up towards valley forge. coming up in five minutes, we'll do one quick check on drive times. >>> now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. >> 6:19. the sun has been up for less than a half hour. this is typically the coolest time of day, just after sunrise. you can see the sun starting to peek through the leaves. this is the view from the nbc 10 studio. clouds, very thin clouds. a hazy start for much of the area and a warmer start, 2 degrees warmer in philadelphia, 77 degrees. not a lot warmer but this afternoon it will feel hotter than yesterday. also because of the humidity is high. there's the cool spot this morning, low 60s in the pocono mountains. scattered clouds no sign of any showers for lake wall

drying out in delaware still some steady rainfall in cumberland county moving into atlantic county. atlantic cityin on the way before we start to see drying conditions and get some sunshine for you. hour by hour future weather, well be watching for a chance of isolated showers. not expecting anything like what we saw yesterday. there's a possibility of a few rain drops here and there and an outside chance of a thunderstorm. but most of the area is likely to stay dry today. the rain will be pushing out, the temperatures warmer into the upper 80s this afternoon. winds at 15 miles an hour, yes, a slight chance of a late-day shower, a better chance we'll see late-day storms tomorrow and the threat for tomorrow is greater in delaware and south jersey, the shore more likely to see that activity than areas north and west. 84 degrees for thursday. the showers continue into friday morning and then clearing out friday afternoon. still some clouds around but we'll get sunshine too. for the fourth of july. can't rule out a late-day shower or thunderstorm on the fourth but this weekend we will see improving c

so sea isle city same temperature, just about, as the inland areas. what about in atlantic county? atlantic city marina 77. northfield is 80. nothing like those kind of big contrasts you can get at this time of year when you start getting sea breezes. we will get a little more of that as we head over the weekend. we won't get a whole lot more moisture. there's a lot of dry air around and it's going to stay that way. this is the future cast showing hour by hour as we go through 11:00 tonight and overnight, we are down into the 50s north and west. we are in the 70s toward the shore. it's staying pretty warm there. during the day tomorrow getting well up into the 80s. this particular model takes us to near 90 but it's also bringing in the sea breeze tomorrow afternoon which we haven't seen in the last couple days. that's going to be a change. then here we go saturday night and into sunday still not much in the way of cloud cover. lot of sunshine here even on sunday. there we are, temperatures going up but not a whole lot of moisture. it's looking good. so the forecast for the shore generally i

. >> reporter: in atlantic city fireworks capped off a perfect day at the shore for the dennis family from willow grove. >> it's great to be at atlanticoardwalk watching the fireworks on the fourth of july. >> reporter: if you didn't get a chance to see last night's fireworks, you can catch them tonight in atlantic city weather permitting. in atlantic city, jeff c >> philly pops held their annual concert one family came all the way from canada. >> i meanted to show -- i wanted to show the kids a bit of different history than our own i always wanted to come to philly, what a fantastic place. >> 700,000 people are expected to attend tonight's main event. crews loaded thousands of she shells into canisters planning for this complicated choreography starting in january. it will end in a 15 minute bombardment over the parkway. >>> many came out in camden county last night to see fireworks in the area. there were fires over wissahickon high school. our festivities begin at 10:00 a.m., join matt o'donnell and tamala edwards as they host the freedom ceremony and the independence parade. join the jam on the parkway rick williams and cesily tyn

atlantic county atlantic city marina only 1 degree cooler than northfield. we have a 10 degree difference. wind directions it is the most important thing about the weather at the shore. the atmosphere incredibly dry, nothing more than fair weather clouds. nothing more than fair weather clouds in chicago and even beyond. it's going to be while -- that's going to be the last place -- even sunday is looking pretty decent at the shore, even though it will be a little more humid. we have real nice conditions. the sunshine makes the uv index pretty high. weekend in the poconos there is a chance for showers or storms developing. by sunday afternoon. not going to have to worry about anything in the tropics, we're getting closer to the peak months of hurricane season. there is nothing out there. southwest atlantic and from the scrubbian all the way across to africa, a big nothing. the main development area where the storms have a chance to develop, is very unfavorable conditions. for any control. 66 degrees in philadelphia 56 north and west that's a little on the cool side. very low humidity. and the 7-day forecast pressty much a repeat performance friday, and another repeat performance saturday. sunday the humidity goes up. still looks like we're not going to be seeing showers until maybe sunday night at the earliest chance for showers early next week, but we could be seeing the heat building back up. so this beautiful stretch of weather, of course cannot last. we just kind of hope it lasts all the way through the weekend. >> won the that be nice? thanks, glenn. >> a rare disease showing up in babies across our area. >>> nbc10 has learned pennsylvania and delaware have some of the highest numbers of infant botulism in the country. we talked to a family whose baby girl got sick and the lesson t

. >> he says he pulled out of atlantic city just at the right time? >> atlantic have made so much more of those properties in atlantic city when he controlled them at a time when atlantic city was rolling in dough. he didn't. >> lot don't realize this. he licensed correct me if i am wrong. he licenses his name to buildings all around the world. that is a big part of his business. >> big part of his business. he gets a fee for doing that. that doesn't mean he owes the building. trump international at columbus circle is not owned by donald. >> if his name is on a building doesn't mean he owns it. >> correct. that's correct. correct. >> jeffrey, a lot of people like that donald trump is so wealthy. don't know if it is an aspirational thing, i don't know if it means that they believe he is above special interests. they like the fact. >> a combination. >> his brashness. go ahead. >> yes, a combination of the two. you know when he talks about the american dream, or making america rich again, you know, the american people historically have wanted to better themselves. t

immune, even though do you have that ocean breeze that's still awfully steamy outside, here in atlantic city, atlantic county, you can tell there is a haze that settled in upon the shore points here. quickly checking storm scan3 we've got hint of moisture out there, don't worry about that actually triggering any showers or thunderstorms until little later today. meantime please, be smart about this heat. again, you know, we can get through it you just got to be smart about it, don't do your mid-day run at high noon, that was great pointer kay made. you just want to do any of the outdoor activities early in the day or later in the day if you absolutely must. we get it. some of have you to work in this casino of an environment. outside landscaping, outside construction work, that kind of thing but make sure you're taking precautions getting lots of hydration and all of the rest of it, to take care. 95 degrees is our expected hi, meantime another scorcher after day with just an isolated shower or storm just enough to cool couple of you off. but not enough unfortunately to drench everybody, and really coo

this is ocean city but just to the north in atlantic city we have some rain. atlantic city especially toward airport and couple of these showers are drifting down toward ocean city. it is looking glummy, it doesn't look like it is raining there yet but people are taking a stroll. but very humid just about every where. those humidity levels will continue to rise as we go through next couple days. lets take a look at storm scan three. you can see what we have going on. the there is that shower over atlantic county. zooming in you can see how heavy rain is pushing further tout south here. steady rain around egg harbor city, mckey city, same place it has been over past hour or so but pushing further south toward shore communities absecon, atlantic city. this could drift toward sea isle, ocean city eventually as it pushes south. it may fizzle and tie out but definitely something to watch down the the shore. heading in southern delaware we will see this rain moving south in maryland but still pretty steady rain southeastern delaware and we have two flood advisories for these

in atlantic city a disabled bus on the atlantic city brigantine connector. watch out for that. as for mass transit, a bunch of delays, the airport 402, 14 minutes late, the warminster 402, 13 minutes late and the airport 499 11 minutes late. >>> head coach of the new england patriots bill belichick will get questions on the nfl's decision to uphold tom brady's four-game suspension. vai sikahema is here with more on that. >> we learned about the tom brady deflategate decision yesterday. the nfl players union is vowing to take brady's suspension to court. league investigators say brady destroyed his cell phone and nearly 10,000 text messages which could have been evidence in the case. the nfl says the patriots intentionally deflated footballs in lastier's afc championship game. >>> the phillies traded papelbon to the national washingtons for a minor league pitcher. papelbon is the phillies all-time leader in saves. he lobbied the team for the trade. >>> the clock is ticking on trade talks for phillies ace cole hamels. the major league trading deadline is friday afternoon at 4:00.

very steady rain there and further south along atlantic city expressway and egg harbor we are seeing heavy rain. lightening is popping up in parts of the atlantic county and in cape may county as well and starting to rain in atlantic city and down through ocean city and shore towns to the south of that. heavy rain right in the middle of the cape may county around middletown ship right now and then some pockets of heavy rain in southern delaware including lewis delaware. other even of the cape may lewis ferry there heavy rain at the moment. that is where the rain is here's where it is going this frontal system will continue new until 8:00 to move off shore. we will get a break and see sunshine here and there and that will allow enough instability to build up that we have pop up thunderstorms anytime after 12:00 noon today but more toward three or 4:00. these will be isolated, but you may not get one and it could last through the evening hours those thunderstorms, and easing up, rest of the day of precipitation. well and allentown 65 degrees in mount pocono, and, temperatures in the 40's last week. well the stickies are back. 71 degrees in philad

very much so they are causing some problems from philadelphia all the way down the atlantic city expressway towards atlanticcity. there is the ac expressway right there. it is right over the ac expressway. the white horse pike black horse pike affected. flood advisory for those areas around 9:15 because the rate of rainfall one to two inches per hour and it hasn't been moving that much so we've gotten that much rain one to two inches in just an hour. showers around philadelphia pretty much died out. one shower around williamstown is still there. and the one storm that was in southern delaware that caused the flood advisory that has moved down to the south into maryland. so that's a good sign too. as we go through tomorrow nothing more than an isolated shower again, but then as we head into thursday the atmosphere starts getting a little more moist along with the heat and humidity that sheena just showed you where it's feeling like 100 degrees, could get some thunderstorms during the afternoon, then drier air starts to come in behind it and that sets us up for lower humidity friday but it's not going to be t

much better. >> reporter: in atlantic city, fireworks capped off a perfect day at the shore for the dennis family of willow grove. >> great time summertime, to be on the atlantictching the fireworks on the fourth of july. >> reporter: if you didn't seep the fireworks last night you can catch them tonight in atlantic city weather permitting. >> thousands of people from near and far are flocking to philadelphia for the fourth. the wawa welcome america festival started last saturday. yesterday people filled independence mall for the block party, the philly potassium held their concert one family came all the way from canada. >> i told the kids about a bit of different history than our own, i always wanted to come to philly. it's a fantastic place. >> 700,000 people are expected to attend the main event. as the broadcast partner of the wawa america celebration "action news" was able to get up close to the set up for the fireworks. crews loaded thousands of shells in canisters. plans for the complicated choreography started in january. the payoff will be in a continue outlines 15-minute aerial bombardment tonight. the fest activities get underway join matt o'donnel

county, delaware but you can see if you're in atlantic city, watch out a lot of folks out on the boardwalk still tonight. heavy rain is moving down the atlanticity expressway right around galloway down toward egg harbor township. you can see the bulls eye and lightning reported with this as well. so rain and lightning headed toward atlantic city at the moment. we'll continue to track that. i also want to show you the next system again back to the west. the storms moving through kansas city right now this moisture lining up and it's going start lifting north as we get into tomorrow. some of that moisture could head down the shore once again. so the same areas seeing the showers and storms tonight will see it as we get into the day tomorrow and here it is. showers and thunderstorms break out just for the shore points tomorrow afternoon. could put a little damper on early start to the holiday weekend. i'll have your full july 4th weekend forecast coming up. jessica. >> kate, see in you a bit. thank you. right now rescue teams are searching for a missing swimmer in gloucester county. they were called to a quarry on jackson road near piney hollow

atlantic county saw on average three to 4-inches of rainfall causing some problems down the shore. you can see that very heavy rain around atlantic city, pleasantville, earlier today. folsom saw some of the action as well. plainfield township almost 5is. east galloway almost four. atlantic city about three and counting. 78 degrees right now. still pretty humid and tropical if you're stepping outdoors. look at the humidity. 91% in atlantic city. 85% in wilmington. so one or two left over showers out there muggy right now but we're drying out as we move toward the overnight. coming up we'll talk about beautiful conditions to close out the week and if it will last into the upcoming weekend. iain and lucy? >> scott, thank you. >>> a 79-year-old woman shot twice while sitting on her front porch is recovering and now the search is on for the shooter tonight. that shooting happened on 25th street in north philadelphia last night. just after 10:30. the woman says she heard an argument and then moment later gunfire. she says she ran for her life but fell in the doorstep and was hit twice by stray bullets once in the ankle and then a second time in the left leg. >> oh, my god, i've been shot. and i called my son. i said, i've been shot, i've been shot. feel like sitting on my por

atlantic county. they're starting to move into that area atlantic city cape may, expect to see the rainfall while it will be coming to an end in philadelphia and wilmington. j)q futurecast shows 10:00 this morning, a few spots possible on the radar screen and then the showers pop up this afternoon. heavy downpours expected later today. could lead to some localized flooding. but then the break for this evening and once we dry out tonight, the heat is on for tomorrow. the seven-day forecast when i come back in ten. >>> you may want to give yourself extra time if you're leaving soon. >> jessica boyington has a look at the roads and the conditions for you. jessica? >> good morning, chris and tracy. we're out on 95 starting off around girard avenue. everything moving along just fine. we are dealing with slippery conditions and ponding throughout some areas on major highways. you can still see not really reflected in that drive time, tacking on three minutes or so. there's a 14-minute total. if you're headed out the door on 202, rain falling in the distance as well. 11 minutes if you're headed north or southbound. not a lot of traffic through that area as well from 30 up towards the schuylkill expressway. we are still watching an accident scene in towamencin valley forge road and morris road. mass transit, currently no problems for new jersey transit, septa or patco. we'll check in with more drive times and wet roads coming up. >>> the case against bill cosby is about to become even more public. >> we'll tell you what dozens of his accusers are doing together to make sure they're not forgotten in the court of public opinion. >>> ahead, we'll tell you how badly potholes are still hitting drivers in the wallet. >>> four firefighters in california are recovering from injuries they suffered fighting a wildfire that scorched 1,500 acres. according to a fire spokesman it's unclear exactly what those crew members were doing when they were burned in the fire. firefighters say this one is particularly tough to fight because of drought conditions and rough terrain. >> in a fast-moving fire obviously things do happen. >> dozens of people were forced to leave their homes in nevada county california there because of a mandatory evacuation in place. as of this morning, the fire is just 15% contained. >>> meantime new information about a fire at a hotel swimming pool on the las vegas strip. the rooftop pool at the cosmopolitan hotel re-opened yesterday, a day after flames and smoke sent guests running. some hotel rooms damaged by smoke are still closed. two people were treated for smoke inhalation. investigators are looking for the cause of that fire. >>> 5 women are on the cover of the latest "new york" magazine which hits shelves today. there's a portfolio of port trats and group pictures. the woman behind the spread noreen malone says her work illustrates the scale and diversity of the abuse that accusers say cosby inflicted upon them. >>> 4:46. 457ing ing happening today, vice president joe biden and cuomo announce proposals to improve airports. >>> fiat chrysler has to offer to buy back more than 500,000 ram pickup trucks. this is part of a deal with safety regulators to settle problems in about two dozen recalls. those trucks have defective steering parts that can cause drivers to lose control. some previous repairs have been unsuccessful. to get those cars off the road fiat chrysler agreed to the buy back. >>> league officials of the nfl will compare pregame pressure readings with random halftime and post-game inspections. of course this policy comes in the wake of deflategate, alleged football tampering by the new england patriots last season. >>> 4:47. the big game hunt continues in milwaukee, wisconsin this morning. police are still trying to find a lion on the loose. the city has been on alert ever since cell phone video of the animal surfaced last week and over the weekend people at a cookout say they spotted the lion and it wasn't alone. >> first it was one, then a baby came out and it looked for a little bit. i was really scared. >> it's a huge mystery there. the milwaukee zoo says all of its lions are present and accounted for. police say they last saw the big cat early sunday morning. >>> an update on a story out of our south jersey bureau. an artist who lost his tools to thieves now says that help is coming to replace what was taken someone stole brian ackley's chain saws from his shed in upper deerfield township cumber county. he makes art carvings in trees damaged by storms. since the theft, a local farm store gave him two chain saws on credit and other people have come by with donations. >> i don't even know this guy and he's offering me a chain saw. this is good stuff. >> the outpouring of concern from the community has been very humbling. >> and we're still checking with police to see if they've made any progress in that theft case there. >>> happening today in north wildwood the annual -- seventh annual beach day for people with downs syndrome. the beach patrol and the 21 down nonprofit are hosting event. families are invited to lend support. the event is schedule for lincoln avenue on the beach from 11:00 to 4:00. >>> now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. >> almost ten minutes before 5:00. showers and thunderstorms to start with this morning. it's rain falling in center city. that's a live view from the comcast center. it's 71 degrees. a light breeze. the winds won't be strong except in and around thunderstorms. we saw the thunderstorms roll through philadelphia first thing this morning. the line of storms moved on into new jersey. a light rainfall for philadelphia now. look at the heavy downpours in ken the county and moving towards sussex county across delaware bay and into south jersey burlington county gloucester camden counties have seen the rainfall. now it's cumberland into atlantic county getting the rain. so far cape may and atlantic city is dry. that's a temporary situation. that line is on its way to you. mostly cloudy day. won't be an all-day rainfall but occasional showers and thunderstorms. in fact, there's a good chance of more storms popping up as we head into the afternoon hours. clouds, 80s this afternoon. up to 87 degrees in philadelphia possible if we get a little bit more sunshine. otherwise it will be in the middle 80s today. that changes tomorrow. sunshine will be bright hot and humid. 91 degrees. that's the first day of what will likely be an extended heat wave. 96 wednesday and really steamy on thursday. the humidity takes a leap and that will help fuel some late-day showers and thunderstorms thursday. not quite as hot, nor as humid on friday 92 the high. another hot one saturday and back into the 90s with more humidity returning for sunday. >>> all right, bill. nine minutes before 5:00 right now. we know you need your umbrellas as you head out

atlantic county and right along the white horse pike, and that's drifted toward the atlantic city expressway and the black horse pike and some of that rainfall pretty heavy, one to two inches per hour. we will talk about when the showers become more widespread and the worst of this heat wave with the seven-day. >>> septa is hoping the second time around will be a success when it comes to selling papal transit passes. >> that's right. septa's website crashed last week during online sales for the special regional rail passes. today there's a new plan in place and you have to win the lottery. nbc 10's deanna durante got answers on how this will work. >> she's live outside septa headquarters in center city. >> reporter: that lottery will begin on monday august 3rd and will last one day starting at 12:01 in the morning, ending at 11:59 in the evening. septa says it doesn't matter what time of day you enter the lottery and from then a philadelphia firm will pick the winners. >> we did not anticipate the high demand that we saw last week. >> reporter: after its e-commerce site crashed, septa is moving to a lottery system to sell 300,000 passes for the papal visit. >> no need to set your alarm clock for midnight and be standing beside your computer so you can log on to enter the lottery. you can do it any time during the day. >> reporter: you must enter the lottery by 11:59 on august 3rd. then the lottery begins. the chosen winners will have three days to make the purchase and will be notified via e-mail. if you don't act -- >> we will call another entry and let those people know they now have the opportunity to put in their credit card information and to make their purchase. >> reporter: each lottery winner will be able to buy up to ten passes per day, saturday and sunday. this is only for those riders on regional rail the weekend of the papal visit. septa says that other plans are in the works and will soon be announced when it comes to city transit as well. >> sorry for the technical problem there. thank you, deanna. we have the answers to a slew of questions about the pope's visit to philly. go to the nbc 10 app. >>> this evening new information about that two-hour police chase that had thousands uf glued to your phones and computers last night. we took our sky force 10 video to a security expert and pennsylvania state police and asked them what went right and wrong here. the chase ended when police used a maneuver to stop the van and it flipped. our cameras catching all of it. police had another opportunity to stop the car and that time their move didn't work. at 6:00 doug shimell live in wynfield heights. doug? >> reporter: pennsylvania state police say they know very well what could have happened with this chase. >> he was wanted for armed robbery with a weapon. he's immediate threat to the public. we had to get him off the road. >> reporter: oaklyn new jersey officers followed the white van driven by robert ritter as he heads for the walt whitman bridge and they alert pennsylvania state police. >> of course we want to try to end the pursuit as soon as we can. however, if there's not a safe opportunity to do so we are not going to do so. >> reporter: the corporal supervised the chase as the van came into philadelphia then went back to new jersey blowing through intersections. >> the last thing you want to do is hit another vehicle during a high speed pursuit. >> reporter: also analyzing the chase, law enforcement expert who says new jersey police clearly thought about knocking the van off the road. >> it's a residential neighborhood. what is the cost/benefit analysis to me conducting a pitch maneuver? that's what's going through this officer's mind. >> reporter: that precision mobilization technique would come into play after robert ritter avoided a tire flattening spike strip and box trap. >> you want to keep it in tight quarters with all vehicles to have that individual have no out. >> reporter: as the van comes back to philadelphia and exits i-95 near the airport, state police said it was time. >> the trooper actually got permission to use the pit maneuver. i granted permission. >> reporter: you assessed the situation to see if you are going to have this vehicle veer off and take out more lives or property. that was a perfect textbook pit maneuver. while no gun was recovered from robert ritter, our law enforcement expert grades all three responding departments an average b-plus because he says that box trap didn't work but he rounds the grade up to an a because he says that pit maneuver did. i'm doug shimell, nbc 10 news. >>> nbc 10 has learned the man police say was behind the wheel of the van was wanted for stolen briefs. this is robert ritter the camden county man who led last night's police pursuit for two hours in two states. police say ritter shoplifted underwear worth about $20. he was caught on surveillance video inside brown's shop-rite. brooklawn police say ritter assaulted a loss prevention officer to get away with the underwear. nbc 10 uncovered copies of ritter's arrest warrant and complaint detailing $20,000 in outstanding warrants including violating a restraining order earlier this month. >> he's well known to law enforcement and he has ran from us before. >> ritter also is accused of stalking and harassing a woman who works in gloucester township less than 15 days after getting out of jail. nbc 10 is working to learn when he will be extradited to new jersey. >>> this chase spanned three different counties in new jersey and philadelphia. keith jones was on the ground last night following the chase. he joins us to give us more perspective on just how dramatic this chase was. >> reporter: many people watched the chase from sky force 10. we streamed it live on the nbc 10 news app. it started in oaklyn camden county. keep in mind the whole time police are on his tail. he goes over the walt whitman bridge right here down 95 gets off, wraps around the stadiums and gets right back on 95. goes right back over the walt whitman bridge. this time however, goes down 295 south to the black horse pike, gets off. he goes right back up and around, gets back on to 676 and wraps around camden. let me do that. wraps around camden. gets off, comes back on 676 and this time he's headed farther south. 42 south all the way down to the deptford mall. in fact he gets off and gets in the parking lot of the deptford mall. we thought when we followed him in that he was done for right there but he still eluded police. comes right back up 42 this time passes the walt whitman bridge all the way up to the ben franklin bridge right here and what does he see? independence mall. hello, liberty bell. goes up frankford avenue with police hot on his trail, wraps around on delaware avenue. that of course parallels 95 heading south. he gets on the highway, 95. that is where doug shimell was just talking about where he tried to -- police, rather tried to box him in there. it didn't work. he goes past sugar house casino all the way down up to the airport right here gets off on enterprise, drives and that's of course where police use that pit maneuver right here. he flips over. i got there about five minutes later. the guy was arrested without incident. but this right here less than about two hours and frankly, after drawing this i'm exhausted. jim, back to you. >> i don't blame you. it was a long chase. we have a lot more on this chase on nbc10.com and the nbc 10 app, including this time lapse video showing the two hour chase in just six minutes. >>> police say a driver took off when he saw a cruiser in his rear view mirror and blew through two stop signs and crashed into another car. this all happened this afternoon at allegheny and tulip in the port richmond neighborhood. the driver in custody. the passenger is in critical condition. >>> at 6:00 a man points a gun right at a woman's face. watch as two men approach the woman sitting on her stoop in southwest philadelphia monday at midnight. the other guy checks her pockets and takes her phone right there. she told police they demanded the password for her phone and wanted to make sure it worked. then they took off. >>> 30 years in jail the son of a former philadelphia mob boss learned his punishment today in a racketeering and conspiracy case. little nicky scarfo was convicted of trying to take over a texas financial firm to steal $12 million from shareholders. three co-defendants will be sentenced later this week. scarfo's father is serving a 55-year sentence on similar charges. >>> every interaction you have with the new jersey state trooper will soon be recorded in a new way. today the acting attorney general announced the plan to spend $4 million on body cameras for all troopers and some local police departments. they should be in place within a year. the state also put out a policy for how to record and store the video. camden county will add body cameras by september. the police chief tells us he's looking forward to it. >> it's going to be a tremendous tool, an asset, particularly in some of our most challenged communities to help rebuild trust. >> new jersey is also adding new standards for how to investigate deadly use of force by police. >>> we hit 93 degrees today and the heat isn't going to stop. coming up in my first alert forecast, some advisories you need to know about for tomorrow. >>> it is hot all over our viewing area. it is really hot at the delaware state fair. coming up i tell you how humans and animals are staying cool. >>> pack your bags and head to florida for under $50. all new at 6:00 when you can hop on board a new nonstop flight from philly. >>> lots of people flocking to the delaware state fair despite the hot temperatures out there. >> they're enjoying the popular fair food, fried everything and of course, the rides. delaware bureau reporter tim furlong even found out there are places where you can enjoy some air conditioning. >> he's live -- are you on a ride? >> reporter: we are at the top of the ferris wheel. no air conditioning here but it feels pretty good because there's a breeze. look at the view. i will show you the view. it really is beautiful. i assure you it is hot out here. for both humans and animals. we are all doing okay. at the delaware state fair it's like a colorful pop-up main street of food and fun and like other years you have the mechanical bull you have rides that will get you rethinking the deep fried pickles you ate. you can win a calf no joke. and you have the heat. when your sun is out i learned the sweating like a pig metaphor doesn't work. >> they can't sweat. the biggest thing is the heat. keep them cool. wintertime, when it's cooler they huddle up together, keep themselves warm. summertime's the worst. >> reporter: you see from the whirly-bird tour the fair ground is huge. there are plenty of places to he go enjoy some ac. 73 degrees inside the infirmary. they are ready for the inevitable fair goers who go go go a little too hard in the heat. some food stand workers might need cool-down time too. >> the fryer is 400 degrees. >> reporter: they are hot. the taco guys are hanging in there, too. the big clouds are doing their best for us. keep drinking water, go easy on big rides and for the people gussying up their cows do whatever it takes to keep cool as we enter the long heat wave ahead. megan trainor played here last night. bryan adams plays here tonight. singing all the big hits. we will get off the ferris wheel because a lot of people think we have been hoarding it for the last half hour. do me a favor, drink lots of water, wear light clothes and you will have a great time. tim furlong, nbc 10 news. >>> today, looks like it will be the first day of the heat wave that may last quite awhile. the record is like 18 days straight. we don't have to worry about that. but the heat starts today. we got it. 93 degrees. long heat wave going to be a close call on a couple of those days but we have a chance of going a whole week and it will be muggy, too. just like today or even worse. 91 degrees, the humidity making it feel like 95. it's seven degrees hotter than this time yesterday. tomorrow's going to be hotter than today. 95 tomorrow 96 on thursday. higher humidity both days so it will feel even hotter than that. 93 in northeast philly and trenton, those are the warm spots. cooler in georgetown delaware. not because of any kind of breeze, but because of some showers. we have a bit of a sea breeze keeping atlantic city marina only 79, beach haven 80 degrees. some showers near the shower along the atlantic city expressway and the black horse pike. some of that rain has been pretty heavy. fortunately it's weakening. there is a flood advisory for that part of the area until 9:15. we've had one to two inch rainfall rates. that's the reason. they're not moving very much. the showers around philadelphia have dissipated. the ones down by williamstown that has fall anden apart. still heavy stuff in southern delaware. flood advisory until 9:45 there. as you can see, those cells are weakening as well. this is not weakening. the air quality is gradually getting worse. we have a code orange for ozone tomorrow. that means people with respiratory issues want to spend as much time indoors as possible. children and the elderly are generally the most vulnerable. then let's watch the temperature go up and see if there are any thunderstorms to relieve us. 94 degrees there, 2:00 in the afternoon. nothing more than

you missed them friday there is another round right here in atlantic city on the marina saturday at 9:30, reporting from the boardwalk in atlanticy steve patterson cbs3 "eyewitness news". >>> looking good there. they celebrated america's birthday in upper darby tonight "eyewitness news" was there for a wonderful fireworks display everyone feeling very patriotic, kettle tick band black thorn also there to entertain the crowd. you can head over to cbsphilly.com for a list of activities and events all around the region. once you get there click on top spots. you can also get the very latest on the forecast any time. it's all there for you at cbsphilly.com. >>> philadelphia police are investigating a deadly qatar drupe pell shooting in nicetown. a suspect wearing a ski mask tried to rob three people early this morning along the 1900 block of june i can't at a street, one person was armed and a shootout erupted. all entertained people shot. a suspect found dead a block away. two men and women were rushed to the hospital where one of the men died. >> it's just another act of violence, this is why the department works so hard to try to

atlantic city is a hell hole a cesspool. >> a lot of people go to atlantic city would take exsession . >> it's a dump. >> why did you build it if it was a hell hole? my point is this -- >> the liberals that ran atlantic city destroyed it. >> why did he pick it? he's not a smart man. >> let's not debate the real estate value of atlantic city. it's very entertaining. i want to ask you about one other thing that trump has some explaining to do. he has been asked to explain. could be another problem for him. his ties to democrats. earlier today on msnbc he said he identifies with some things as a democrat. he goes on to say, i am a -- he says he is a conservative republican. but that comment in and of itself you don't hear republicans who are going to win a primary say that very often. is that a problem for him? >> no. it's not a problem. all the conservatives -- they want to put him in a box. donald is a real person with real positions. if he has to run as an independent, he will do it and probably win. >> he laid out that threat. can we continue this again? thanks so much. >> yes. >> su

atlantic city. same thing hardly a cloud in the sky. nice calm seas. nice and quiet on the sand. 70 degrees in atlantic city. dewpoint, 63. e calm. the water temperature nights and inviting. 74. atlantic city at the airport. 65. that temperature that you just saw for ac that was on the the sand. the official number was inland at the airport. reading, 62. 54 in the poconos. 64 for trenton. dewpoints are all on the comfortable side. the exception being on the water, which is expected this time of the day. boardwalk in atlantic city. 67. sea isle city, that's oppressive, 70. those numbers will drop during the course of the day. everybody will enjoy 50s for dewpoints this afternoon. things change. starting tomorrow, 61 in the morning. mid 60s later on. oppressive category for monday. this will work out beautifully. monday even though the humidity increases, the temperature pull back him and tuesday and wednesday when the temperatures start to skyrocket the humidity pulls back. even though we have a heat wave on our hands which you will see in the forecast in just a moment. we're not talking about the oppressive heat indices of

atlantic city new jersey early this morning. that cluster of intense thunderstorms is out over the open waters of the atlantic but flood warnings remain in and around atlantic city in new jersey this morning and the rain continues to fall. there are probably flight delays in and autoof philadelphia today if you're waiting for someone there. for us just a couple of light rain showers. northern prince george's county moving out of southern montgomery for now. not everyone is going to get rained on today but where the rain comes down, just about a quick quarter to a at the present time to maybe a quarter of an inch of rain. temperatures in the low to mid 80s. clearing out tonight and cool by morning. >>> we now know who will receive this year's kennedy center honors. the named came out this morning. among the honorees the star wars creator and carole king and the eagles. rita morena and sicily tyson. in the past there have been five people honored each and every year. organizers this year didn't want to miss a chance to honor these artists. it's scheduled for december 6th. it will be broadcast several weeks later. >>> great names o

atlantic county. they're going to clear atlantic city probably within the next half hour. those are fast-moving showers. the temperatures will be moving quickly, too. a southwesterly wind will be developing, 83 degrees by lunch time today. at noontime we'll be watching north and west. there will still be clouds around. there's a slight chance of a shower popping up in some areas. could see an isolated thunderstorm, that's 4:00 this afternoon. don't expect to see severe weather today. a big warmup into the upper 80s by 7:00 this evening, the temperatures start to come down. as we go into the evening hours, showers, thunderstorms are less likely. so during the day, we'll see the clouds break for partly sunny skies. yes, a few scattered showers or thunderstorms are possible later today. middle to upper 80s this afternoon. tomorrow we'll start off dry but showers later in the day, especially likely in delaware and south jersey. 80 for the high on thursday. friday morning we start with the showers and they're out of here friday afternoon. there's a chance of a late-day shower o

atlantic care regional medical center in atlantic city. two men and a woman were taken to southern ocean county hospital. authorities telling "action news" that their injuries appear to be non-life threatening. now the boat has since been towed to a nearby marina, new jersey state police and coastguard are investigating. we are continuing to gather new details but to recap we understand that four people have been injured when a ship went a ground, here on a sandbar tossing people around, injuring four people, and the most serious a 61 year-old woman with head and neck injuries but fortunately authorities say, they all have non-life threatening injuries. we are live right now in little egg harbor township ocean county jeff cherokee, channel six a "action news". >> jeff, thanks for that report. >>> a mother and daughter drawn last night kyacking in the delaware river. it happened near bull's island state park in hunt are done county. investigators say right around 8:15 they received a call regarding kyackers in distress. rescuers quickly arrived at the scene but could not find them in time. victims are identified as 45 year-old dorris rake, and her 19 year-old daughter catherine haney of raritan township. two were experienced but were not wearing personal floattation devices. >>> moving to the accu weather forecast. today was an absolutely perfect summer day, not too hot, bright sunny skies, and we are hoping for a repeat come tomorrow. meteorologist melissa magee is in the sunny glow this evening and joins us with the accu weather forecast, hi there, melissa. >> hi there, walter. we had a great start to the weekend. plenty of sunshine with high pressure in control and humidity was in check today. lets check out the delaware and lehigh valleys. it is 88 in philadelphia. eighty-four in trenton. seventy-eight, comfortable in the poconos long the coast. beach haven 81. sea isle city coming in at 78. you look at the dew point and it is level how much moisture is not at months fear. right now we have wind coming in from a northerly direction so anytime you have the dew point temperature at 60 degrees or below, we have a comfortable air mass overhead and that is the case for philadelphia that 95 corridor, points north and west a touch more humid as we get close to the shore and close to the influence of the ocean water. but we got you covered if you are stepping outside or heading over to ppl parkas our philadelphia union are at home at 7:00 p.m. it is mostly sunny and comfortable for the start of the game. temperature around 85. once we get in the 90th minute we will drop down to 82. still, under mostly sunny skies. we will talk about what is ahead. if you like today, it is heating up tomorrow. we will turn more humid for start of the workweek on monday w that also comes a threat of some showers and storms, we will take a closer look walter, with the full, exclusive accu weather forecast. >> thanks, melissa. talk to you in a bit. >>> a beach in row rhode island a has been shut down after an explosion sent a woman to the hospital. tonight officials are stressing there is no evidence of the explosive device or foul play but just after 11:00 this morning there was a a explosion under the san at salty beach and it was so powerful it was felt by beach goers on land and water. a woman sitting in the chair nearby was reportedly blown in the air. >> some lady that was sitting over here in the corner near the rock, didn't get up in time and it was a rumbling and a explosion and she ended up getting shot 6 feet in the air and landing on her head. >> once again caution of the explosion remains a mystery tonight. the beach is expect to reopened sometime tomorrow. >>> world news saturday will have much more on that explosion coming up at 6:30 right after "action news". >>> police in philadelphia are investigating a reported sexual assault on the ground of the cobbs creek golf course. about 4:30 this morning police found the victim wandering near the course. they say she had been walking to work when she was attack. she told the officer what happened and took them to the crime scene but no arrests have been made. would the man was taken to the nearby hospital n word tonight of her condition. >>> from our delaware news room one person was killed in a two car crash in middletown. it happened just before 3:00 this afternoon at summit bridge road near moral pit road. investigators say the victim was pronounced dead at the scene. two other people were rushed to christiana medical center. no word on how the crash happened or whether any charges could be filed. >>> a nasty crash late last night in montgomery county. it landed with five people injury. it happened at 1:11 p.m. at black rock and hallow road. a pickup truck landed on its side. five victims were taken to paoli in memorial hospital with non-life threatening injuries. no word on any possible charges, here, either. >>> five other people were injured, during an overnight crash in bucks county. one vehicle crashed it occurred at 3:00a m on state road near route 413 in bristol township. police say that the driver failed to navigate a turn there, and veered off the road and then flipped over several times. but the victims were taken to two different hospitals with serious injuries. >>> and a new emergency response vehicle was dedicated today to philadelphia fire fighters and police officers kill in the line of duty. "action news" reporter trish hartman spoke with family members of those fallen heroes. >> reporter: as the the sheet fell away a memorial emblem was unveiled on a new wrapped response vehicle. it was a solemn moment for families of the philadelphia police officers and fire fighters, killed in the line of duty. >> just to be prepare and to help other people, that is what he did. he helped other people in his family and we miss him for that too. >> reporter: new truck, purchased using donations will be used on the scene of working fires and other incidents by the philadelphia second alarmers, volunteers, dedicated to supporting emergency responders in the line of duty. as it was put into service a ceremony honored lives of sergeant robert wilson the third, killed earlier this year in an attempted robbery in north philadelphia officer moses walker, junior, shot and killed during a robbery attempt in 2012. fire fighters joyce craig killed in 2014, while battling a house fire. and battalion chief michael goodwin who died in 2013 while battling a blaze in a south philadelphia fabric store. >> it has been two years yet we still feel the love and support every day from the fire department and the police department, from the city at large, this truck dedication means my father will be able to save more lives. >> reporter: one of the most important features 20 vials of oxygen to be yule used for fire fighters in the line of duty. the decision to dedicate this new truck and it is for volunteers. >> we are hoping in the future we will meet police recruits, fire cadets, strike up a story and say who are these people, the truck will explain who they really were. >> to have something like this is a joy especially from the last couple of years, from the different upsets in our family, this ace a break through in a positive thing for all of us. >> reporter: in hunting park, trish hartman channel six "action news". >>> young people in montgomery county gave some of their time saturday morning this saturday morning to learn how to be better drivers. this is at riva live program at montgomery county community college, right there in blue bell. the hand on exercises this course teaches teens the skills they need to stay safe behind the wheel. there is emergency breaking, skip control and, of course, how to avoid crashes all together. >>> this is going to be a great night for the kenney chessany concert. here's a live picture from sky six. fans have started to pack into lincoln financial field. brandtly gilbert will perform first, eric church and at 9:00 kenney takes the stage. he have is on a big rerival tour. >>> a major conference kicks off in center city, thousands come to town for the naacp's 106th national convention. >>> plus a long awaited welcome home for some members of the delaware national guard. >>> and, some possible big news for a sixers big man jeff skversky has sports when "action news" comes right back. >>> ♪♪ >> it was quite the welcome home celebration, in new castle delaware. twenty members of the delaware national guard, just returned from overseas. it was part of the aero medical evacuation unit trained to evacuate injured troops from battle field. while deployed this unit reestablished in medical evacuation protocols in northern and central iraq. >>> an eight three-year old man with alzheimer's from northeast philadelphia has been reported missing and his family is asking for your help. this is a picture of the man who left his home on the 5200 block of pen way street on friday a bit pennsylvania past noon. when he did not return by six credit 30 his family reported him missing. we are told he is not carrying a cell phone nor is he carrying any money. if you see him or any information, please contact the philadelphia police right away. >>> naacp's 106th annual convention kick off in center city. this years theme is pursuing liberty in the face of injustice. there were authors exhibits, and help pavilion at the pennsylvania convention center this conference will focus on everything from voting rights to presidential election toss criminal justice reform this event runs through july 15th. >>> thirty-first police district hosted a movie day kid of all ages were invited to the york house in philadelphia's logan section this morning. they took a break from the summer heat to catch a screening of the animated movie turbo. what is a movie without popcorn and hot dogs. a great way for local district to connect with neighbors and put a few smiles on the faces of local children. >>> still to come on "action news" tonight serena williams is one step closer to a grand slam plus a local teen says she owes so much to the game of volleyball, she's giving back. what she's doing for her hometown when "action news" comes right back. flo: hey, big guy. i heard you lost a close one today. look, jamie, maybe we weren't the lowest rate this time. but when you show people their progressive direct rate and our competitors' rates you can't win them all. the important part is, you helped them save. thanks, flo. okay, let's go get you an ice cream cone, champ. with sprinkles? sprinkles are for winners. i understand. >>> the fire company in moorestown, new jersey hosted a a car crash to benefit kennedy's cause. kennedy hubbard just graduated from moorestown high school where she played volleyball. she was born with a malformation and says being part of the team gave her more self-confidence and friendships then she had ever expect. so she thought it would be great to have volleyball courts at jeff young memorial park. the town agreed. this fundraiser brings her dream one step closer to being a reality. >>> and time for a check on sports. jeff skversky is here to talk about the most talk about foot in the history of the delaware valley. >> joe he will embiid's right foot could push this rebuilding project way behind another year in fact. the despite no pain and feeling great sixers center joel embiid is heading for surgery on his slowly healing right foot according to multiple reports. this could keep him out all of next season too. surgery does not believed to be required, going in this direction could be in the best interests of embiid's long term health. as opposed to it ising back and waiting for foot to completely heel on its own. while sixers have yet to make an official announcement here's what general manager sam hinkie said about embiid's dilemma a few weeks ago. >> what do we do to give him the best chance to have the best longest nba career he can possibly have? what does that look like? what are those range of options and what is the upside and down side and what the likelihood of each of those and let's talk through all of that. those are not small decisions. >> the phillies are in san francisco tonight trying to avoid, tying the team record for the most losses before the all-star break in phils history. david buchanan returns to the mound. he has allowed 24 runs in just over 24 innings. >>> phillies have the worst starting pitching in baseball and yes even cole hamels was a giant disappointment last night. frustrated hamels allowed a career high nine runs, coming in the fourth inning alone. big blow grand slam by hunter pence. hamels doesn't get out of the inning. the his shortest outing in four years. it only got worse. they went down 15-two. they lost 60 games this season. we're not even at the break. they have lost a total of 60 games in back 2011, and speaking of going over the edge yeah. >> what is he doing. >> a goalie's best friend defenseman so no surprise former goalie turn general manager ron hextall is stockpiling their pharmacist with big blue liners. hextall is keeping their eye on defenseman. gm is in no rush to promote his d man including ivan prop love. hextall wants them to return but competition will heat up for jobs come prove love and sam maron and others. >> all of them guys, you know we see them every day. it is not a competition. we're young guys. we're, right now i'm the oldest. it is definitely fun. >> right now we're just showing these players and i don't try to do too much. i don't try to think too much. i am not here to impress. i like it like that. i'm just enjoying it right now learning. >> and the union remember them? they are back in action after a ten day break. union looking for their first ever w against the portland timber. two previous matches at ppl park they have ended in scoreless draws to the timber. see union host portland tonight top of the hour right here on six abc. >>> and can you even imagine what serena williams trophy case must look like at home? unreal. surina has not lost a match in years and the tennis star has won 21 grand slam titles, third most all time. but anything but easy for serena williams in the wimbledon final against her opponent. serena gets off to a slow start but she saves the the best for last. match point, serena, wins, six-four six-four, her sixth wimbledon title and 28th straight w. first player in 27 years to win, the first three grand slam events of the year. steffi graf went on a sweep a slam. will serena dot same. tomorrow in the mens final roger fedder, and novac djokovic. >> serena gets tougher as time goes on. >> unbelievable. >>> coming up next gorgeous day as sky six is over cape may where folks are still on the beach. will this weather hold? meteorologist melissa magee has the exclusive accu weather seven day forecast when we come right back. we work weekends here. because it works for our patients. here, at cancer treatment centers of america in philadelphia, we give our patients the freedom to make appointments that fit their schedules, even on weekends. because we believe in being here when our patients need us, so they can keep living their busy lives. weekend appointments are now available here. learn more at cancercenter.com/eastern. >>> ♪♪ >> lou grass and blue berries peddler's village is one tasty fun place to be this weekend and be sure to bring your appetite there this weekend celebrating national blue berry month. get blueberry pies muffins fudge and sewed a fun continues through tomorrow. >> wow okay. >> i want blueberries. >> yes. >> time for a check of the accu weather forecast. today, melissa was absolutely perfect. >> really nice today, walter. we have humidity in check, as well today. that will be the case tomorrow. and it heat up but it is comfortable across the area we will talk bit. storm tracker six live showing you that it is dry quiet. no issues with precipitation. high pressure has been in control all weekend. it will stay put tomorrow. we will show you the picture outside, action cam was outside earlier at eakins oval. you can see close to the art museum. blue skies plenty of sunshine overhead and people just enjoying, this saturday afternoon, with comfortable conditions. so we had a beautiful start across the area. only exception down across extreme southern sections of delaware where we did have a area of low pressure moving through early this morning with some showers. that has since departed to our south and east. otherwise high temperature 89 degrees. not bad. average this time of the year is 87. outside it is 88 in the city. comfortable in the poconos with the northeasterly wind. seventy-eight there. eighty-four in reading. out in the west of lancaster 82a long the coast we have an afternoon sea breeze kicking in. beach haven 80 degrees. seventy-eight at the boardwalk. moving over into dover delaware that temperature coming in at 83. here's satellite six with action radar high pressure is really dominating new england down across mid-atlantic this is a disturbance i was talking about that moved through this morning with some showers, cross extreme southern sections of delaware, and it did trigger some showers as well as above washington d.c. and richmond, virginia. this stays off to the south and east for rest of tonight and high pressure takes over for the rest of this evening. so here's the setup on this second half of our weekend on sunday, lots of sunshine. high pressure still stays in control. it heat up. today's high 89. tomorrow we will max out at 90. it is a dry heat because we have those wind out of the south with the humidity that will stay in check. it is not until the start of our workweek on monday that you will notice an up tic in the humidity and threat of some showers and storms returning. we will see tomorrow, in philadelphia poconos. sunday beautiful. sunny and nice. high temperature coming in at 83 degrees. down the shore we have ocean temperature like bath water 75 degrees. inland on the beach and on th

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atlantic city. >> reporter: families on the beach in atlantic city are on high alert. police are asking them to look out for this man who they say groped a young girl while she was in the water. >> we do come here often. >> reporter: never had any problems? >> no, never. we keep an eye on our kids. make sure that they are you know they don't far away from our side. >> reporter: it happened july 11th just after 4:00 in the afternoon on the annapolis of a section of the beach. police released a suspect of the this week who says the man has several freckles on his back 12-year-old girl was swimming with a friend when they noticed the man staring and getting closer to them. the girl says he first swam underwater and grabbed her thigh. she says minutes later he swam under again this time behind her. and grabbed between her legs. she screamed and went to tell her mom. >> 12-year-olds are old enough to be in the water themselves up to their waist deep, but now we have to keep an eye on the 12-year-old to watch out for predators, too, on the beach and it shouldn't happen. >> th

atlantic city which more now cleve. >> reporter: i can tell you from the ride down and now being here on the atlantic city boardwalk people have flock in max to the shore. here in atlantic city we are at the new attraction the play ground former pier shops and it is one of just countless reasons that people are coming to the shore. the frisbies are flying, dads are digging and that surfer guy is wearing stars and stripes trunk as mother nature rewarded those who battled shore traffic with the picture perfect start to the fourth of july weekend. >> definitely worth it. you might to have wait a while to park but it is worth it. >> reporter: beach is just as much tradition as flags and fire work on the fourth. >> we have been coming to the shore since i was young since his age and we are passing the tradition on. >> reporter: many people enjoying a three day weekend for those who have to work, doing business on the beach isn't half bad especially in the fudgeywudgy ice cream man. >> business has been g fourth of july is a great day to sell ice cream because is there so many people on the beach. always fun to meet new people.

atlantic city. down 8 degrees in millville. down 4 degrees in philadelphia. checking out a few areas of fog mainly situated near mt holly. it's down to two miles for atlantic city. four mills in millville. our radar shot shows that we're seeing very quiet conditions. we just had a few lingering showers. they're well off the shore. we're barely even seeing any clouds this morning as well. our future cast shows us that as we go into the rest of today, plenty of sunshine even into tomorrow. same thing. just a few passing high thin clouds. but then we start to cloud up monday night into tuesday morning. by the time you head out for lunch, we're going to be dealing with rain even a chance of a few isolated thunderstorms and this is going to continue overnight tuesday and linger into wednesday. today we're going to see temperatures ranging between 88 and 91. a few degrees warmer than yesterday. sunny and hot out of the south. your seven day forecast shows similar conditions as we head back to work on monday. we do track a chance of storms tuesday and wednesday before we clear out towards the end of next week. >> country music star kenny chesney had his fans danc

atlantic city. this is moving out. cape may county, linger clouds. but up through atlantic city and lbi where we are seeing heavy rain and frequent lightening. zooming up to the north and west you can see around norristown we have a heavy shower. west goshen township in towards west chester we are seeing steady rainfall. this could start to have move toward main line, schuylkill, schuylkill expressway at 6:17 at night and city as well within the next 15 minutes to a half an hour. we are not out of the woods just yet and then this rain moves in and line of strong thunderstorms with the cold front will come through tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow evening around dinner time and could bring heavy rain once again and strong wind. look at this bull's eye of green where flooding has been taking place and rain has come through, much cooler in the wake of the storms. it is 74 in atlantic city. eighty-three at the the airport. twenty-eight in reading. dew points in the 70's. this is very humid air. lots have moisture in the air. p-6 in dover. that feels like walking in the sauna righ

atlantic city, sitting at # -- 70. 59 at the airport. ocean 70 degrees, cape may 72. speaking of atlantict right here, there's bally's right there. there's the sun, not a cloud in the sky. no humidity at all a breath taking day on the beach. this is cape may look how flat the water is. chop of one to two feet. if you're doing boating you'll have tranquil conditions, doing a little fishing a perfect morning on the sand. 88 degrees, sunny and warm but no humidity, it will feel okay, jersey shore 81 degrees, you'll be sun soaked down there. don't forget the sunscreen. poconos splendid, 80 degrees. >>> you want to give your bar stools a little flare designers from the show knock it off says you can change it with is them seating. >> reporter: high end bar stools cost big bucks but you can dyi your way for less for 15 bucks a pop. this project could not be easier to do. the fimpg we did was -- the first thing we did was spray paint all the legs of the cool black. once that dries we'll take the rug and flip the stools on top of it, and trace it out and cut the tape out. fold it under the stool

atlantic city, 80 degrees. look at the cooler air working inland. atlantic city and wildwood, 77. millville, 79.it should be a nice finish to the weekend here this afternoon. satellite and radar the trouble spots, the travel trouble spot over the next 48 hours next couple of days look like. any of the major hubs through minneapolis through chicago and the ohio and tennessee valley. this area here this kidney bean shaped area that will get clammed over the next couple of days. >> reporter: for us, the upper level steering currents are going like this. that's what fire up all the severe weather, they will stay well west of the delaware valley this time around. all this charges east it gets up here as opposed to the delaware valley. one or two storms on tuesday could turn severe, but for the most part, i think a lot of storms you see tuesday afternoon are going to be the rainmakers, maybe 40 miles per hour, not a big deal, not 70 to 80 we've seen previously. we have complexes developing across great lakes. sunny skies poconos 81 degrees, very comfortable in the mountains. for the engineers -- jerse

atlantic city little egg harbor. we're talking downpours. one to 2-inches per hour and also some pretty vivid lightning so this is right now right on the heart of the atlanticity area on the boardwalk. we'll zoom in a little closer right now and just take a look at all of the lightning abase couldn't moving toward bring teen, atlantic city, ventnor city. not a good time to be on the beach right now. as we move a little farther up the road you can see around the stafford area barnegat light moving toward forked river still looking at downpours and because of that heavy rain, we have some aerial flood advisories for atlantic county also for sections of cumberland county. this one here is until 8:30 and then the one for atlantic county until 9:30. so ponding on the roads due to that heavy rainfall and some of those creeks and streams could be compromised. the heaviest of the rain lifting on to the east and then as we move north and west of philadelphia watching some downpours right now around places like norristown moving toward the conshohocken area. we'll zoom in right now. you can see some downpours impacting the conshohocken curve here be on the look out f

atlantic city millville, dover, stone harbor. temperatures there right below that 70 degree mark. locally, the heavy rain has really cleared out from this morning. it's all well offshore. in parts of south jersey in atlantic county just north of atlantic city, this is where we still have light rain. across the a.c. expressway light rain and right along slaughter beach and points farther north, milford seeing light to moderate rain. this will be moving offshore from the delaware beaches very soon. if we take a wider look you see all the clouds all the rain and basically this weather pattern is for the most part going to stay in place over the weekend. this is an area of moisture that's going to be stuck to our south and eventually by part of the weekend, trying to work its way to the north a little before trying to clear out. as we go through time there's going to be rain in the forecast for your weekend but for the rest of this evening, i think we will be on the mostly dry side. can't rule out an isolated shower. tomorrow, if you are starting your holiday weekend early, 2:00 in the afternoon we could see isolated showers around. not a washout tomorrow. saturday more clouds start to move in. saturday morni

atlantic city electric's response in wake of storm. roughly 280,000 people lost power. a spokes person for atlantic city electric said the company restored service for 100 pous and you had 1600 workers on field. still to come. >> it's delaware father and sons boys ones in vision your. they're trying to get tou tomorrow's gatherings all concerned about isis. >> and the other rocket red glare caused for celebration one, much needed flies on the way after 3 previous disaster. >> cecily. >> yes. you're day ever year. you have timing on rain and what when is clears out in the accuweather forecast. >> phillies looking to keep stretch after dropping four straikts to brewers can they make the hold fins action. >> as 4th of july celebrations get underway this weekend lawn enforcement around the country will be on heightened alert. they're ramping up security and urging caution because of the increased concern about a terror attack. >> in boston, police are deploying special undercover teams to detect suspicious behavior. new york city ratcheting up police presence on the ground, in the air and water. los an

atlantic city and 85 currently in mt. holly. our actual temperatures are closer to the mid-70s in allentown, 78 in reading, 79 in wildwood, 80 degrees in dover, 81 in atlanticcity and 80 degrees in mt. holly. our weather alert shows that all of these areas highlighted in orange, that's a heat advisory. all the areas highlighted in pink, the excessive heat warning. what that basically means is our entire area will see dangerous heat today. this will stay in effect until 8:00 p.m. with the heat index we'll see anywhere between 100 and 105 degrees, our feels-like temperature. our actual temperature will stay closer to the mid-90s throughout today. i'll continue to track what you can expect. here's a closer look at the feels-like temperatures as we head into the rest of the afternoon. it's going to feel like 96 degrees in philadelphia. this is by the time you head out to have lunch, it's going to feel like 94 in pottstown 95 in wilmington, 95 degrees in dover, 96 in northeast philly and a few locations it will feel like we're in the triple digits as we push into the afternoon hours. i am tracking how long this will stick around. that's coming up in my full seve

jersey shore, atlantic city, cape may, delaware beaches and you can see rain moving out of the washington d.c. area into southern delaware. so, yeah, worst of it right now probably around atlantic city and ocean city and we have reports it is loud with that thunder around atlantic city as well. 71 degrees. it is still cloudy in philadelphia we expect a high of 85 degrees with pop up thunderstorms, throughout the the afternoon. we will get a little break in the action, with a little bit of sunshine and this will be just enough to fire things up again later on in the day. ready for another heat wave? we have it, coming up, in the seven day forecast, good morning, bob kelly. >> sueby, good morning. 6:31. it looks like in one has their umbrellas up. that is good news. rain is turn off but brake lights are turned on. anyone coming back from the shore, right into the office here's a live look right where the atlantic city expressway end and turns into the 42 freeway. there you go, already that delay from the ac x towards philadelphia with a gorgeous weekend. i took every advantage to stay down the shore. road are wet. little damp. here's a live lot at schuylkill in or out of the city

friday night, there is another round right here in atlantic city on the arena saturday night at collette 306789 reporting from the boardwalk from atlantic city i'm steve paterson for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> they celebrated america's birthday in upper darby as well. "eyewitness news" was there for a wonderful display. everybody feeling pay tree why the i can there. celtic band black thorn was there to entertain the crowd. >>> we have you covered this holiday weekend. head over to our web site at cbs philly.com for list of activities and event throughout the region. just click on top spot. get the very latest on the forecast anytime on cbs philly.com. >>> well philadelphia's national constitution center hosted a special event to mark the 50th anniversary of the first lgbt equality protest. pioneers of that movement were treated to a private tour to a new exhibit called speaking out for equality. contribute chronicles lgbt movement and debate over how much the constitution protects gay rights. >> it is still work to be done but i think no american group in the last 50 years has ever made such a astonishing progress progress that we co

atlantic city. warm and humid from north north to south today. along the ocean front. 77 in surf city, 83 in atlantic city. 75 in the water so warm in the water, on or about 80 along rehoboth beach and cape may and bethany beach. future tracker 6 picking up a story tomorrow, sun and clouds mix. through the afternoon there's a chance of pop-up shower or thunderstorm, as well. wednesday will be unsettled before he get back to a more tranquil pattern. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, warm and humid, look out for a spotty shower or thunderstorm. tomorrow sticky, 89. still unsettled shower or thunderstorm around. wednesday, hot and humid 90 degrees, there's a chance of showers and thunderstorms there, as well. particularly in the afternoon and evening. mainly dry thursday, clouds and sun, 86. and then it becomes seasonable warm as we head into the weekend. friday, 88. saturday 89 degrees, the union at home getting the mls schedule back on track, that's a 6abc game and fireworks at ppl. can't shake summer in the seven-day forecast, that's for sure. >> deteriorated nails caused a deck collapse

atlantic city's new gamble. >> over here is a wonderful atmosphere holding 2,000 people. >>> what you won't find in the newest atlanticy resort wednesday on "america tonight". >>> back on the coast another reason for worry, and it comes as a result of a supreme court decision which ruled against the e.p.a.'s efforts to limit hazardous emissions from power plants. the rules on emissions from mercury and other pollutions failed to consider the cost. that is a big concession, but who pays the cost. michael oku found residents who say they have had enough. >> this is a beautiful area. the beach and then you come after the coast line and you look at that. that mon have tosity. >> reporter: walter fuller has been watching over the wetlands for nearly 20 years. >> you can see just about all the wetlands you want to see. >> reporter: an avid bird-watcher, he found this in the "90, and found refuge when he world crumbled. >> reporter: you were laid off in 1996 and lost your mother. >> yes. >> reporter: homeless and alone this became his home and the birds his family. what was it about losing your mum and losing your job that d

atlantic city's struggling gaming market. new jersey voters won't decide in november whether to expand casino gambling beyond atlantic city. the senate president steve sweeney said the referendum will not be on the ballot in november. sweeney says he wants a public discussion before taking a vote. democratic assemblyman ralph caputo supported a bill to expand the state's gambling market. he said the issue is not going away. >>> there have been proposals to open casinos in camden newark and jersey city. developers also proposed a $1 billion hard rock casino and racetrack in the meadowlands. >>> switching gears now, temple university is hiking tuition and fees by nearly 3% for this fall. the school board of trustees says the hike is due to mandatory increases in employee salaries and benefits. in-state students will pays $492 more next year. out of state students will pay $772 more. >>> there are new modern apartments in the strawberry mansion neighborhood. check it out. the oakdale apartments behind the widener library are energy efficient. this is one of three new housing developments for strawberry mansion. the developmen