. >> thousand to cydney long in logan square. also battling the heat i'm sure. >> when it's too hot for school, the splash pad or spray ground you might call it is a must. it serves a dual purpose. shades for the parents and all this a week before the official start of summer. >> when it's the second heat wave of the season, let's face it. you do what you need to to keep cool. it means a dip in the art museum fountain. >> the hot metal tables wasn't for the lunchtime crowd in center city today where tables sat empty. >> does that feel good when it's too hot outside? >> yeah. >> reporter: footsteps away, r perfectly shaded grass at logan square. >> it feels 10 degrees cooler in the shade. it's very comfortable. i don't feel hot at all. no sweat rolling down the face or anything like that. >> students didn't have a half day. >> she's soaking up the fun on this splash pad not sad about today's early dismissal. >> it feels good, nice and cool. it's the perfect temperature. >> and for those school field trips like the one i was on yes

live at logan square, cydney long, nbc 10 news. >>> our first alert team coverage continues.glenn schwartz will be back to talk more about tonight's chance for storms and the big cooldown coming. >>> it comes on the heels of former fbi director james comey's testimony last week. today attorney general jeff sessions is on the hot seat, as you just saw and heard. keith jones is lye in our breaking news center with details. >> sessions wasted no time defending himself. in his opening statement, he said he never talked with russian officials about campaign interference. he stuck by his words over and over again. here's a live look at that hearing going on. jeff sessions is currently being questioned by angus king, a a senator from maine. he recused himself from the investigation because regulations required him, not because of any wrong doing. he also said that former fbi head james comey did express concern to him over meeting alone with president trump. sessions said he wasn't silent. he stressed the need to be careful and to follow proper policy. >> and a suggestion that i par

"eyewitness news" at logan square as kid splashed around the fountain there trying to beat the heat, meteorologist lauren casey is on the sky deck braving the brutal temperatures, so lauren, what is latest. >> reporter: it is really, really, hot, yes, temperatures , soaring, today, up in the 90's, day number three, so it is officially a heat wave and today, the hottest day, of the three, we soared to 96 degrees, in philadelphia, so far today breaking the previous record of 95 setback in the 1950's. a record today in allentown, in the middle 90's. scorching down the shore, high temperature of 95 in ac, 91 in wildwood, temperatures right now still very hot, sitting close to our record, high temperatures, right now, 95 in allentown. still in the mid 90's in ac. ninety-five in philadelphia we do have a bit of the feels like temperature going when you factor in that steam factor feeling like 100 degrees, ouch, right now, in dover, delaware. so definitely take it easy throughout the evening hours, heat advisory remains in effect for philadelphia and surrounding counties, until the 7:00 o'c

. >> live look now at logan square center city philadelphia and a very hot night across the region. meteorologist lauren casey will tell us when the intense heat breaks. that's when eyewitness news >> pan handling is an issue in all cities. now the city has a new plan to cut done on you practice. city officials are asking public to pick up cell phones. and text share to 80077 and that makes a $5 donation to out reach organizations city leaders say many time money handed on the street is not being used for good. >> evident that we see is that money is quite likely going to be used for drugs. >> we won't criminalize behavior and won't arrest yourselves out of panp handling problem and it benefits existing social service agencies in place to help the homeless. >>> mcdonald's is using social immediate what to get the word out it's hiring. it will put 250,000 jobs on snap chat this summer. mcdonald's will use series of 10 second snap chat ads. people ready interested will be directed to a hub to download and fill out an job application. >> "forbes" magazine named highest paid entertainer

this is taking from central baker live overlooking the basilica and logan square, it's tranquil and lookse's no traffic out there. but regardless, we are looking ahead to a day that features warmth but cloud cover and a shower or thunderstorm at some point here today. checking in with the "eyewitness news" weather watchers not one reported any wet weather here at least within the last half hour after the slew of reports. start things in delaware, new castle comes in from john, cloudy skies for him. in glasgow and it's all calm at the moment. little bit further to the north, take you into john hagman's report, he has a lot of clouds and one more to the northern branch of this map, 62 from john in perk see also stuck in overcast sky. there are brighter spots than others but you'll notice it's an active storm scan picture. nothing looks all that organized a frontal boundary is actually nearby. right through tomorrow as well as sunday, heat up with passing day by a couple of degrees, festive father's day to tell you it will be steamy but some sun and also the spotty shower or thunderstorm. if

. >> live look now at logan square center city philadelphia and a very hot night across the region.eorologist lauren casey will tell us when the intense heat breaks. that's when eyewitness news heat breaks. that's when eyewitness news continues >> pan handling is an issue in all cities. now the city has a new plan to cut done on you practice. city officials are asking public to pick up cell phones. and text share to 80077 and that makes a $5 donation to out reach organizations city leaders say many time money handed on the street is not being used for good. >> evident that we see is that money is quite likely going to be used for drugs. >> we won't criminalize behavior and won't arrest yourselves out of panp handling problem and it benefits existing social service agencies in place to help the homeless. >>> mcdonald's is using social immediate what to get the word out it's hiring. it will put 250,000 jobs on snap chat this summer. mcdonald's will use series of 10 second snap chat ads. people ready interested will be directed to a hub to download and fill out an job application. >> "

before we went on the air, what, half hour ago, i said let's just take the fountain shot here at logan squareand sure enough it looks like day camp or something, maybe soccer team. >> hallahan. >> that's right, floor director di, that's right, that's right, the tradition of the hallahan kids jumping in the fountain. man, this was meant to be. i love it. well it looks like they're having a blast, what better day for it, right? so hot out there already, we hit 90. as of 11:00 a.m., they're having a blast, i just want to walk down there and jump in them after the news show, just walking or sitting distance from the program. yes, it is hot obviously. and so far, for the month of june, where you have three days including today, now, sin we've already hit 90, we through that in the mix, three days this month so far at zero nine or above. in may we had three. season so far obviously doing the math, had six. average is 23 days that hit at least 09 degrees, so on our way at least. now, there is also an air quality alert we have to mention here, good portion of the delaware valley is included in this.

this weather is perfect fun an all you'll event on logan square.here the graduating class from john w hallahan catholic girls high school. they had a nice time, just splashing in the fountain on the last day of school, for seniors. congratulations. >>> that is for watching "eyewitness news" at 6:00 we are back at 10 on our sister station cw philly and we are back here on cbs-3 at 11:00. up next tonight "cbs evening news" and tonight more from attorney general sessions testimony before congress. now from new york here's scott pelley. >> pelley: daytime drama. >> to suggest they participated in any collusion is an appalling and detestable lie. >> pelley: the attorney general denies a trump russia connection but faeses tough questioning. >> you're impeding this investigation. >> i am not stonewalling. >> pelley: also tonight, the hunt is on for two inmates wanted for murdering two prison guards. >> i am begging to the korean people and government for my forgiveness. >> pelley: after being imprisoned by north korea, an american college student is comin

in our area are letting children go home early and some chose to cool off at swan fountain at logan squarerday. even adults were trying to stay cool to. trying to find some shade out there. >> oh, my goodness, i had my feet in a pool yesterday but my head was baking. >> well, today it's going to bake a little bit more. we've got high heat similar to yesterday but higher humidity than we had yesterday. storm tracker6 live double scan shows us in the meantime that we are dry and as we take a look outside, there is some cloud cover out there but we do expect a fairly sunny start before the clouds get a little bit thicker later on in the morning and afternoon. 75 degrees is your current temperature in philadelphia. 73 degrees in wilmington. 68 in allentown. 74 in beach haven and 71 in cape may, new jersey and again, those dewpoints are starting to climb and it definitely feels a bit more humid on the bus stop and climbing into the car than it did yesterday. you can see a fair amount of sunshine early in the i-95 corridor. some of this cloud cover to the south and west will have a tendency to w

counter at a giant foods it its it happened sometime between june 1st and june 10th at the giant on logan square in new hope. at least 35 customers were hit. the crook making off with $30,000. skimming devices aren't new, but putting one inside a grocery store is. >> skimming devices is actually a face plate cover so it will look like the credit card machine at the register or at the self check out. that cover gets placed directly on top of that device. makes it look like it's in its original normal working condition. >> police have not found the device. giant says customer credit information is important to them and they are now working with police. >>> in delaware the state senate is schedule to vote on increasing the state's minimum wage. the bill would increase the current $8.25 sent minimum wage by 50 cents cents a year. the vote comes after similar mesh stalled in the general assembly last year. now after 2020 the minimum wage would increase by a percentage equal to the cost of living adjustment under the federal social security act. >>> a similar bill passed the democratic lead senate las

there's all the construction around logan square, and i found myself circling is around logan turkeyget back to -- logan circle to get back to the vine. a miracle you were here to start the morning. if you were dealing with this week, and last week the vine street expressway closure, that typically clears around the 5:00 mark. if you're not awake or heading out before then, it doesn't matter to you. moving through center city, we've seen the closing at broad and the schuylkill. now it's open. it's been open for about an hour and 20 minutes or so. right around the vine and 8th is where we're watching here. here is the westbound side. that moves toward the schuylkill, here eastbound toward 95. we're not seeing any problems or delays right now. minor delays for septa. war minister train 404 running about ten minutes late. minor there. new jersey, amtrak, and patco on time. in pottstown a crash at wilson at north adams. we'll end on the schuylkill expressway. always like to watch the schuylkill on a friday because we look good for a long time. 14 minutes now. no slowdowns at all on the e

live from logan square i'm anita oh for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> thanks very much. proper precautions, take it easy, don't go for that jog during heating of the day.t just relax, drink plenty of water, take it easy. who doesn't like an excuse for that. mother nature is giving us that right now. 93 degrees as we take a live look at center city philadelphia hot, steamy southeasterly wind at 14 miles an hour. at lee that air is moving. it is not stagnant but feels like when you open up that oven door but the beach is place to seek relief from. some of this heat. look at rehoboth beach, pretty packed for a monday, lucky people, stralling the boarden joying that nice, ocean breeze , bringing temperatures down just a little bit. 86 degrees in wildwood. we are at 93 in atlantic city. ninety-two in trenton. ninety-one allentown. calling in at 91 in wilmington our comfort index, it could be worse but we have a steam factor am reporting sites, dew points in the middle 60's, down to around 60 degrees. we have muggy steamy factor just add to go that oppressive heat feel and we

someone brazenly installed skimming device on a self check out machine inside this giant food store logan square knee new hope. >> with those skimming devices being put in place, the information from those cards were compromised. which were later used in philadelphia at several atm locations. >> reporter: the account information of at least 35 people was stolen. the crooks then duplicating the cards to withdraw so far more than $30,000. >> unnerving and scary i've heard about it atm's i've heard about, you know, things that you can walk by and like steal magnet klee steal people's information and like that's why they switched to the chip cards and not the magnetic strips but the grocery store you go there every day you don't think about it. >> reporter: device can be put on so fast the clerk may never even notice. >> skimming device is actually a face plate cover it will look like the credit card machine at the register or at the self check out. that cover gets placed directly on top of that device makes it look like it's in its original normal working condition. >> reporter: it was installed so

we of course have our eyewitness skycam, you can see, we can see spring garden, see down into logan square, and even from the top here, of "eyewitness news," we are actually already starting to see some skies clearing within philadelphia. >> right. >> so after this line of thunderstorms moves through, we're really going to be looking at some dry conditions, it is going to be clear. we're not looking for another rounds of thunderstorms later this afternoon. it is going to be strong line every thunderstorms this morning, and then we look for much more calm, more tranquil conditions this afternoon. >> right. really is interesting. you've been saying all morning long that these storms were going to be morning storms, they were going to move through, and then in the afternoon we could see some sun. looks like that's performing exactly as expected. >> yes, that looks like it is going to come true. again, this morning, you're going to walk outside, you're going to think to yourself my goodness, it is chilly but will get warm again this afternoon, get ready for temperatures up to the upper 80s aro

. >> it is like logan circle square. everybody in the pool. it is the first day of summer. >> it is 11 past 6:00. we fill pools. oh, do you really? we'll tell you what company this is in case you ever want to use them. it is full every water, we're concerned it is nothing but cold waterment filled the pool to the brim. >> this will make you up in the morning. >> looks like it has yet in there, too. >> oh, okay. jared, our photographer, he said it feels good. >> oh, it feels good? >> you know what? he would totally jump nap ice cold pool of water. >> true. i've seen him. definition of sledge-age. >> oh, stop it. >> oh, well, down the jersey shore, violent confrontation involving police, is being investigated after home video surfaces on social media of course. >> video shows a wildwood police officer punching a man. the incident happened along the jersey avenue this past weekend. the 192nd clip is not showing what happened before the punch. but, police received reports that the man was being disruptive. witnesses are still being interviewed, th

square miles of land, forcing more than 1500 people to evacuate their homes. >> villagers trying to steal fuel from an overturned tanker got caught in a firewall that killed 150 of them. kenny logane in london with this as they are still claiming the mess up. >> i come aside the are seizing the death toll is raising higher. people have very severe burns indeed good all this came about shortly after hundreds of local people rushed to a fuel tanker with containers to take some of that leaking fuel that spilled from the truck on the road in all around it. this is not surprising that she might think. still very valuable in his rural areas. but it's also highly risky and is always people are gathered around the fuel around the track caught fire. you can see a massive fireball in the area all around the track which is why so many people were hurt. one rescue worker claims the blaze was stopped by a bit cigarette. that is yet to be officially confirmed. rescue workers were at the scene pretty quick, but it was too late in that it pushed in. at least 18 people were injured. many of those in a critical condition. doctors say the patients had extensive burns on most of their bodies. it is