Yesterday ring ago this bell. It was a thousand degrees outside, baking in the sun. You were saying how people were dressed up. Yes, im thinking better you then me. Looking outside, it is looking busier then what we saw monday and tuesday. But so far, so good. So far, so good in weather as well. We got unlucky with that heavy batch of rain that came in just over the parkway but that has new cleared out. We are at this moment looking quiet all and all. Could there still be a shower left here today, i think that is a possibility but things are dry. I will she you storm scan in a second. First a quick check on the area. Conditions at the airport it feels like what the thermometer read, wind out of the northeast. Not all that humid either. As day goes on we are still stuck with a disturbance more so a frontal boundary, nearby, so you still see speckles of green firing up on the radar and i think some of you may see a shower at some point today especially true for western suburbs but this does look like a decent day all and all with some sunshine. Quickly checking Area Temperatures elsewhere in the 60 ease from millville to ac and mid 50s where that cooler air is in place in the pocono region. As day progresses here, all and all a nice day but we have more thunderstorms down the road. We will get to that later on. Thanks very much for that information. Looking outside right now, so heading back to work today, welcome back. Looking quiet here. We are looking at Spring Garden that is blocked at art museum. Parkway still closed but it looks like they are just reopening this. Hopefully we are seeing some vehicles out here blocking the road. This might be just opening right now. They were hoping to open up the parkway by 5 00 a. M. Hopefully that is the case. Parkway is still saying it is closed but might be reopening, vine street expressway westbound ramp to ben franklin parkway heading out reopened just an fyi. Vine was not closed for that construction. It will be closed tonight and thursday. So enjoy this for those who do not like that vine closure, vine west and eastbound looking good a little busier then what we saw monday and tuesday, the fourth yesterday, we will see if it gets busy today. We will see very dark conditions out there, jim, back over to you. We will begin with break ing news, new York City Police officer is ambush, shot in the head while sitting in her patrol car. Officials are calling this an attempted kopa as nation, shooting happened around 12 30 this morning. The officer was rush to the hospital where we are told shes under going surgery. Police officers rush to the scene and fatally shot the suspect. Stay with us on Eyewitness News as we follow this break ing story. Here at home, the holiday ended violently in philadelphia with at lee four separate shootings, three were in the same neighborhood and one was fatal. Officers found a 21 yearold man lying between two parked cars, on the 300 block of west see more street in germantown. He had been shot multiple times in his torso. This happened just before 2 00. Police do not have a motive for shooting but they are getting information from eyewitnesses. They saw two young, males runninge, on seymore toward wayne avenue. Now police dent know if those two young men were involved in this shooting, victim lived in the neighborhood but not on the block where he was shot. Police say another man is fighting for his life this morning after being shot in the forehead in west germantown. This happened on the 6300 block of loyola street just before 10 30. The victim was waiting outside the girlfriends house when two men, walked up and fired shots. No word on what led to the shooting. And, in East Germantown half a mile away authorities responded to gunfire that left a man in Critical Condition here. Police say victim was shot just before 1 30 right in front of his own home on the 500 block of east walnut lane. Police are focusing on that toy motorcycle we saw there victim was fund lying inches from it. It is unclear if any of these shootings are connect. Well, clean up is underway this morning after thousands pack the parkway to celebrate americas birthday. Eyewitness News Reporter trang do is live at the parkway with the wrap up of the celebrations and trang do, i assume we were all sleeping last night but it looks like a good time. What does it look like right now. Reporter it is an absolute mess. Im so glad i dont to have clean this up. You can imagine this took days to set up so we have seen these crews just working tirelessly nerd to get this parkway cleared before the morning rush but as you can see in the video that these crowd really appreciated all of this effort the bar is always high for birthplace of america to throw the nations best Birthday Party and philly did not disappoint. It is good to come and spend americas birthday in americas birthplace. Pretty exciting time. Reporter pair of philadelphia originals starting with the philly pops big band got the crowd of thousands moving. Unaudible. What is up philadelphia. Reporter followed by smooth harmony of the cities favorite son, boys two men. Performances werent the only things that brought people to their feet, soaking rain delayed head liner mary j. Blige set but r and b superstar eventually took the stage setting off her own kind have vocal fire works. After the big show a massive clean up effort, and gratitude from the many who came out to celebrate the freedom we enjoy on Independence Day and every day. Independence day means a lot to me because after we see a lot of reasons and freedom is main one. Reporter clean up will likely take several days but we have been seeing so far the parkway has opened up to traffic, but for now we are live on the ben franklin parkway, im trang do cbs3 Eyewitness News. Quite the mess, trang do, thank you. In other news, the new jersey government shut down, shuttered state own beaches and parks ended in time for fourth of july holiday. Governor Chris Christie signed a new budget early yesterday and reopened facilities but lingering effects of that day closing were still being felt. It was an unusually slow day at Rancocas State Park in burlington county. That park is typically a popular spot for walking and hiking especially on a holiday i was appalled, you know, no state park should be closed down due to impasse in the state legislature, lieutenant of grandstanding and bally ho ing, i will remember at the polls. Crowd where is light at par vin state park in salem county locals there say it is usually one of the busiest dates have the year. Anyone who could not renew driving documents during shut down is getting a reprieve. Met or Commission Offices have been closed since saturday but they are set to reopen today. Officials are granting a two day extension to anyone whose drivers license, permits, registration or inspection stickers expired last friday, documents are now valid until tomorrow. Authorities in bucks county of recovered body of the missing swimmer from the delaware river. Police say 27 yearold man from philadelphia disappeared yesterday afternoon swimming in the river, near Washington Crossing park in solebury township. Rescue crews searched for an hour before locating that victims body. At this point his identity has in the been released. Take a look at a man wanted for robbery after finding him unconscious in the store bathroom. Delaware state Police Arrested 31 yearold richard oneill, officers were called to the Convenient Store in laurel around 3 30. There they found oneill passed out in the stores bathroom. Background check shows oneill was wanted for june 25th robbery so he is facing robbery and drug possession charges. Pennsylvania Health Network that was hit by a worldwide cyber attack says it is backup and running. Heritage Valley Health system says it will be accepting patients at all Community Location is today. Company serves part of the western pennsylvania and ohio, and last week, a global psycheds tack brought down its computers. Medical procedures mean it had to be pushed back. It is in the clear if employees or patient record were affected by the attack. U. N. Security council will hold an emergency meeting after north korea claims to have successfully tested its first inter continental ballistics missle. Kristin holmes has the latest on the u. S. Response which included a joint missle drill with south korea. Reporter u. S. Condemned the launch on have what they believe is a International Ballistics missle, secretary of state Rex Tillerson says test quote represents a newest lacing of the threat, and global axis required to stop a global threat. South Korean Military estimates missle traveled about 580 miles, u. S. Saying it flew for 37 minutes. Experts calculate the missle could have a max range of roughly 4,160 miles, long enough to reach alaska but not the rest of the united states. Lot of it is just figuring out how to do hardening nearing and basically get everything to work at the same time which is not always easy to do. Reporter launch comes as north korea continues to pursue development of the nuclear war head. Nuclear war head with ballistics missiles in the hands of jim jong un, it is a recipe for disaster. Reporter top officials from the state statement and white house held meetings, nikki haley, u. S. Ambassador to the u. N. Requested an emergency obsession u. S. Security council will meet wednesday in response to north koreas missle lawn. There are no good military options. If you take military option off the table you come back to sanctions. We have seen in the pennsylvania it will not solve the problem. Reporter rush and and chinese president offering a solution at their meeting in moscow announcing they will Work Together to try to freeze north korean program, im Kristin Holmes reporting. More than 100 Fire Fighters struggled to get a building fire under control in california. How a fire was able to spread from one, to four in such a short period of time. A car slams in the Apartment Building in florida before a dramatic explosion. We will tell but the dangerous thing that was inside that car that caused so much when thyou remember. Here, quilted northern is designed to work so well, you can forget your bathroom trips. But sir froggy can never forget. I used to be a prince. But no princess would kiss me now. This is big apple in new york city they held their fire works show last night. It was cities biggest july 4th celebration in the decade using 60,000 fire works. That was National Symphony orchestra performing in washington d. C. , annual pbs capitol fourth concert took place in the Capitol Building west lawn, john stamos hosted and jammed with the beach boys sky made for a great backdrop at the freedom fire works show in pittsburgh, downtown pittsburgh there, filled with music, food, performers all day long. Security however was stepped up this year after four people were shot in the city last july 4th. Out west now, quick moving fire in los angeles fueled by wind gusts destroyed four condos and 100 Fire Fighters and helicopter were called to that fiery scene yesterday afternoon. Authorities say blaze began in one unit, before quickly, spread to go three others, through a common attic, condo all shared. Three were treated for minor injuries, causes still under investigation. Well, more than a dozen people including five children are in the care of the red cross in one Florida Community after a car crashed into their apartment complex. Now, 31 yearold driver of the car was killed and investigators say man had six propane tanks, inside of the car, and two of them exploded when the car hit the building. Obviously neighbors were shaken up. All of a sudden we heard a boom, we thought it was trash that it is trash day and we heard another boom so i looked outside window and we saw the car that was on fire. Flames from the explosion reached the second floor of the victims name which has in the been released. When two Police Officers showed up to the fourth of july block party in North Carolina residents werent expecting what happened next. Oh, no. Now, a neighbor, or a grumpy neighbor called to complain that a slip and slide was blocking road. Officers say that wasnt the case, once they determined the giant water slide wasnt a problem hey they joined in on the fun. I love that, i love stories like that that go viral for good reason. Yes. Looking like he is having a blast. Katie, i didnt realize it had rained last night until i looked on line this morning. I thought there was fire works i guess im a very sound sleeper. Yes, there was a very heavy downpour that came. It barely clipped the parkway. Unfortunately. We had called for that. Hopefully folks were ready. I saw videos on line, twitter, a lot of umbrellas shooting up , when the skies just opened up but it was something we had expected, so it was unfortunate that one of them cells ended up over the parkway, just luck of the draw i guess, right . We will look at storm scan, wider zoom and the system responsible for that is still nearby and that could still today, trigger a left over shower in a couple spots. We wouldnt be talking about the deluge we saw last night necessarily but there may still be activity on the area radar and you are finding that , in fact, cross the leading edge at least here or frontal edge of the appalachians through virginias we will take a look at future weather, everything you see out here moving forward is very, very scattered in nature , mostly staying dry but where we have these showers im thinking western suburbs, yeah you might be flipping the windshield wipers for the tail end of the morning. Even as skies brighten up for sunshine there will be some for sunshine. We will break out in sunshine before the day is said and done. Cloud will rebuild happening later tonight as our next system, yep, another one moves in. You dont catch too much of a break between systems. We will end up with additional showers and thunderstorms into tomorrow. Once again scattered fashion but i would say that the umbrella is probably more of the requirement tomorrow, certainly then today with some sun we will still see a stray shower high hits 84, overnight we will drop down to 68, very seasonal but those included are beginning to rebuild and as we take a look at eyewitness weather seven day forecast, generally speaking it looks like temperatures will stale in, at lee low to mid 80s through this forecast eightysix, 84. But the weekend looks great, so that system, that is out of here come saturday, so those days look nice, right now. They look beautiful. Great, katie, great news for weekend coming up. Looking outside still dark and early. We are dealing with disabled vehicles. This isnt the only one. Ninetyfive near cottman it is pulled off moving southbound essentially approaching cottman. Head up on that. What a difference then what we saw monday and tuesday, already, not even in the 5 00 oclock hour and that, cars are out on the roadway. Factor that into your plans today. Maybe cant walk outside your door when you would on that manor tuesday this week, might to have leave a couple minutes early heading out toward the 7 00 oclock hour. Spring garden this one is blocked for art museum, parkway was closed scheduled to open up at 5 00 a. M. It is now opened. Parkway is looking good there. We have had this just letting you know ben franklin parkway has reopened, crews moved out. We have another disabled vehicle schuylkill westbound near south street pulled off to the shoulder, hard to see. It might just moved out of the way now. We could see that. That disabled might be gone as well. Another one northeast extension north bound before lansdale block ago this right lane, jim and rahel back over to you. Well, days of using a pass code to get into your iphone could soon be over, sooner then you think. We will explain a new feature apples testing in the money watch report, w its been awhile since you first knew. Theres something very different about you. You have the power to make your marshmallow wishes. Come true. You can make your marshmallow wishes come true by winning one of 10,000 boxes of only marshmallows. Find your code in special boxes of lucky charms. Theyre magically delicious. It says you to me. The blue one here . No. Have a little fun together, or a lot. Ky yours and mine. Two sensations that Work Together, so you can play together. Time for a check of business news. Money watch rocks san a saberi joins us live from the new york stock exchange. U. S. Stocks return to business following the holiday. What are investors looking for reporter good morning jim and rahel. Traders are watching for minutes from the Federal Reserve latest meeting due later today. This morning future are pointing down, the dow jones on monday, gained 129 points but nasdaq, who 30, jim and rahel. Roxana im hearing about more leaks on some of these new features to come out with the next iphone. So what are you hearing . Reporter well, that is right, more leaks, new phones will reportedly let you unlock your phone with a face scan instead of your fingerprint. Would it use a 3d sensor. Apple is reportedly testing an eye scanner. Jim and rahel. I dont know what do you think about this. Initially i would have been opposed but i just came back from vacation, and airport where i flew in from, it uses your picture for your passport they walk through, eye scans and it is so easy. Im interested. Im opened. Reporter did it save time. Yes, it did. I just want a good picture, then it wont open up if you had a bad day. Priorities. Thanks, roxana, appreciate it. You bet. Yesterdays rain took a lot of people on the parkway by surprise but not katie. No, katie called it. When is our next chance of rain. It could be as early as today, guys, the same disturbance is still messing with us a little bit. We will talk about that coming up. There is a better chance when you want umbrella on hand. Ill let you know when that the moments that connect us dont happen overnight. They happen one morning at a time, and one cup at a time. Folgers, the best part of wakin up. How dixie ultra plates . Roved with two pounds of steak. In each hand. Dixie ultra. Stress tested so you can stress less at dinner. Welcome back everyone. Om have us are still cleaning up from barbecuing, parkway, cleaning up from all of the festivities from yesterday thinks up in bethlehem where outside hotel bethlehem, all looking pretty calm right now, we are waking up generally to some quieter weather. It is not completely quiet. We have a frontal Boundary Close by that could still for some of you mean thaw are flipping windshield wipers once or twice this isnt a major deal. You can getaway without an umbrella but note thinks regional zoom there is a hint of wet weather off to the south. We are not looking too bad, couple stray cloud, it will be a beautiful sunrise at Pleasant Valley middle and high school where it is currently 59. Far enough north it is quite cool, still northeasterly wind flow but it is very calm, your wind flow is more on shore today but with that said it is light wind, at war five to 10 Miles Per Hour throughout the course of the day. Seventytwo is value at philly international airport. It is much, much milder even just what 60, 70 miles off to the south. Looking forward our temperatures will stay somewhat steady, thursday and friday, we are looking un settled with another, pair of disturbances coming in here but saturday, sunday, meisha are looking pretty amazing. They do look nice. Speaking of unsettled, today looks like a big difference in terms of action on the roadways that we saw monday and tuesday probably good reason but today we are hoping it would be another calm day. 295 south before route 38 mount laurel new jersey that left lane is compromised just a head up for those in that area another accident at 611 old york road near susquehanna road and disable vehicle as well, the 95 south approaching cottman pulled off to the right shoulder but you can see how many vehicles are out there, and another disabled vehicle we did have out there, northeast extension that has been since cleared and more coming up, jim and rahel, back to you. Thirteen children are u. S. Citizens following july 4th naturalization ceremony at betsy ross house. The children range from nine to 17, they came from 10 Different Countries including algeria, china, egypt, Ivory Companies and syria. U. S. Welcome nearly 15,000 new citizens and more than 65 naturalization ceremonies. 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It is wednesday, july 5th im jim donovan. Might call it a back to work wednesday. Yes. You are back a lot of people returning back to work. Im rahel solomon. Katie and meisha are keeping an eyes on things this morning everybody is back together and it is looking busy out there we have accidents