more than 3 million people came to pompeii last year.lly. for the first time, the ruins will be open to the public at night. parts of the city will be eliminated, these buildings and columns lit up, an echo of what things might have been like on a summer's evening nearly 2000 years ago. it is thought more than 10,000 people lived in pompeii, a major port in the roman empire. the nearby volcano, mount vesuvius erupted, smothering the city in scalding hot ash. men, women and children were buried alive. their bodies perfectly preserved and later on earth to. —— their bodies perfectly preserved and later unearthed. these are plaster—cast models on some of those remains. small groups of around 60 people will be allowed to wander the streets, gaining a new insight into one of the most famous legends of the roman empire. don't forget you can get in touch with me and some of the team on twitter. especially if you have a story to tell — we would love to hear from you. we will be back with the latest in business and the news review — don't go away

to pompeii before in italy. matt, you've created one of those volcanoes before? >> i did in grade show. pretty sure, i think i exploded provided it on the kitchen table, i don't know, but you know, hey it, happens. we're onto bigger and better things, talking about the weather tax you can about how nice it will be this afternoon before our second round of some thunderstorm activity, later this afternoon and this evening. 89 degrees, though, another hot day, it will be muggy. thunderstorms start to fire up in the western suburbs around 6:00 they move into the center city area here around 9:10 guys, so going to be a little bit wet. >> thank you, matthew. that's "eyewitness news" at noon, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon for meisha, matt, all of us here, thank for watching. >> "eyewitness news" continues at 5:00. always on line at cbsphilly.com. the young and the restless is next. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ fios is not cable. we're a 100% fiber optic network. and with the new fios gigabit connection... you

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the president paused a moment and stayed, pompeii, are -- pom, are you sure? i will admit i took my breath away. hope it did for some of you as well. but i knew that the intelligence community had solid evidence, evidence we could provide to the president that he could count on, and and i was able to look at him and say, mr. president, we have high confidence that is what truly took place. he never looked back. based on the judgment me made one of the most consequence shall decisions on his young administration, launch an air strike against the very air field from which the attack only nateed. for us to be successful at confronting the security threats there's one thing that the ceo -- cia has to do and that's imof and adapt to the changing times and changing threats. i'm proud to say the agency is operating full throttle with respect to that today. i have taken over an agency with great capability that only needed the pridele -- bridle removed to accelerate to full speed. we have the responsibility for global governing coverage but will create new priorities.

. >> reporter: at pompeii's grotto, the manager says extra employees are scheduled to work the holiday. she says what happened july 4th last year is a good indicator of what's to come. >> on the street there's people just standing there just to get the view of the fireworks for two hours. they wouldn't move because they don't want to lose the spot. >> reporter: people along the water front tell us they plan to be back for the independence day celebration. >> in this political climate it's nice to just take a step back and all come together and enjoy the day and think about our country and feel a bit more united. >> everybody does seem to band together to celebrate on such a beautiful, wonderful day. >> reporter: the fireworks will be set off from two barges. one at pier 39. the other at aquatic park. the show is scheduled to start at 9:30 and last 25 minutes. the show producer tells me 5,000 effects will be fired off from each barge to create this spectacular show. >> live in the city tonight, amber, thank you. >>> we want to go now to chief meteorologist bill martin in the weather cen

it was almost like the mental pompeii. all that was there. the damage to the beer hall come into being the beer hall manager. it was incredible. he had papers of the lawyers at the trial growth prosecution and defense. one of my favorites is a nonpublished deputy prosecutor to reviews pitt learned after he interviewed them for the first time he was not impressed. among other things in this file you had the admission passes to get in because they were very much afraid of riots, attacks and thugs and hooligans coming in. you have to use special passes and his was there. memoirs and of course there was hate mail. hate mail of the prosecutor including some from united states. going after patriot like hitler, memoirs besides the obvious was published ones. hitler's bodyguard, there he was in munich. he gets shot up jumping in front of hitler. maybe he saved his life. the valet the guy walking arm in arm with hitler dies. his valet at broder published memoir. it's on and on and on. publish handwritten notes of the man who hid hitler in her attic. n

last week pompeii talked regime change for the nor, cansorks. >> they are telegraphing their punches,ow we'll take it, they know we're unprepared for a conflict on the korean peninsula. kennedy: are they prepared? if so, how so. >> that is the scary part, they are, they have been doing it for 60 years, this is like a tiger cub 20 years ago, we thought it would stay cute, but it kept eating knowingful well, tha, fut will grow up, they spend 60 years tunneling and building shelters, they would not have done this i don't think enough americans understand they would not have done this, if they were not prepared too use them could they are no longer test they are drills. >> shelters hold small percentage of their population, a large percentage are in labor camps? what happens to those people? are they tem terminated or is ta refugee crisis. >> that government does not care. that is what we're dealing with, they are really, truly, sitting down, doing the math on how to survive a counter attack by u.s., they have been playing strip poker with us, we have taken our pants now, they are prepare

it's the bicycles, it was almost like a mental pompeii. it was like the nazi party, all that was there. the damage to the beer hall, interviewing the beer hall manager, it was incredible. he had the papers of the warriors at the trial, both fusion and defense. one of my favorites was this unpublished memoir of the deputy prosecutor who reduce hitler after he interviewed him for his first time. he was not impressed. among other things in his file have the tickets to the trial, you had to have these admission passes to get in because they were very much afraid of riots and attacks and thugs and hooligans coming in and trying to free hitler. you had happy special passes, is was there. memoirs area of course there was a male, a quick mail was in the archive in munich. they hate mail from the prosecutor in the united states, the prosecutor, go after somebody on patriot like hitler. memoirs, besides the obvious public ones there were unpublished memoirs by hitler's bodyguard. there was in munich, he could just sign up, jumping in front of hitler

. >>> in it al five-story apartment building collapsed near the famous pompeii archeological site.inuing to dig by hand hoping to find any survivors trapped in the rubble there. workers sadly have already found the bodies of three people. seven people including two children are still missing. witnesses say they did not hear an explosion before the collapse. the cause is still not known. >>> it's still recess for the senate but majority leader mitch mcconnell is talking about health care. speaking in kentucky, mcconnell said, he has plans to produce a fresh bill in about a week replacing much of the obama care. this was his most explicit acknowledgment that the current bill on the table does not have enough support support from his fellow republicans. republicans who are not on board with the new bill have several concerns one of them being cuts to medicaid. >>> concern tonight in hawaii following north korea's latest missile test and it has leaders rethinking old safety measures. emergency management officials in hawaii say that time from a potential missile launch in north korea t

. >> reporter: at pompeii's grotto, the manager says extra employees are scheduled to work the holiday. she says what happened july 4th last year is a good indicator of what's to come. >> on the streets there were people just standing there, just to get the view of the fireworks for two hours. they wouldn't move. because they don't want to lose their spot. >> reporter: people along the waterfront tell us they plan to be back for the independence day celebration. >> in this political climate it's nice to just take a step back and get to come together and enjoy the day and think about our country and be a little bit more united. >> everybody does seem to band together to celebrate on such a beautiful, wonderful day. >> the fireworks will be set off from two barges. one at pier 39. the other at aquatic park. the show is scheduled to start at 9:30 and will last 25 minutes. the show producer tells me 5,000 effects will be fired off from each barge to create this spectacular fireworks show. >> amber lee in the city tonight. thank you. >> b.a.r.t. will be running on a sunday schedule tomorrow

the ancient roman period, they're vacationing on capri and in pompeii and so on. so i'm concerned that we're heading towards a civilization that is so complex and so dependent on other people and in electric power, all it will take is one gigantic asteroid burst. that takes down the power grid andall of a sudden , that time is going to be scrabbling back to the primitives and barbaric realm again so i do feel some concern about the fragility of our culture and our removal from nature. and with secular humanism, there's also gone this constant vigilance i was talking about and the lack of this larger perspective. yes, i think there's reason here, i feel shadows coming. >> in exit from disciple? >> my theory of history is cyclic. everything, you know, i see a kind of organic pattern in history as an artistic style. things begin and good ideas, high energy. it goes to a certain point and you start to get the decadence. i love decadence. oscar wilde was after all my very first influence. i feel like i am in decadence at the sprawl of imperial rome. just the androgyny,