Major last second shake up in party leadership. Dnc chief Debbie Wasserman schultz is being forced to step down. Sunday night im walter perez. The big story tonight is a rocky start for Democratic National convention. Lets get to action news anchor Sarah Bloomquist to lead our coverage from the Wells Fargo Center. Sarah huge news before the Convention Even begins. That is right, we have news of leadership shake up as final touches were being made right here at the Wells Fargo Center for start of this convention. Secret service swept every inch of this building for much of the day yesterday, and into this morning. We are looking live at the stage where Hillary Clinton will accept her historic nomination, on thursday. But the big head line as we go into this convention is the surprise resignation of dnc National Chair woman Debbie Wasserman schultz. Late this afternoon Wasserman Schultz announced she will is he down at the end of the convention in the wake of the email leaks. Those email
Heat, david murphy has that and matt pellman is in for karen rogers with the commute. Its warm this morning and warmer than the last several mornings. Cloud cover is trying to sweep through, were expecting partly sunny skies overall. Air quality is not great for seniors and for those of you with heart and lung a lot of ai. 74 degrees in philadelphia, 70 in reading and trenton. 73 in cape may, new jersey. The dewpoints which are the best indicators of whether or not its humid out there, we have higher numbers for you. Close to 07 in philadelphia. We are in the 70s down south. Allentown and reading not as humid. 78 degrees on your thermometer by 8 00 a. M. Those of you commuting are going to be looking at a warm one to starting point out. And 85 by 10 00 a. M. , the afternoon will be hot, 90 by noon, 94 by 3 00 p. M. The high of 95 degrees will clock in rather late in the afternoon say around 4 00 p. M. We have an excessive heat watch saturday and sunday, i could see this being extended
Celebrate the fourth of july but will Mother Nature cooperate . Sue serio has your holiday forecast. That seems like a perfect transition on this fourth of july, right to sue serio. Anything you want to do, do it as early as possible. You know im new. I had my first wawa welcome america concert. Have you ever guys cancelled it. No, you do not cancel. I have watched fire works in the driving rain storm. They will have the concert rain storm. Some people standing in the rain. If you have a patriotic picture, what do i mean by that . Youre dressed up like monte g. Hey monte g. He is dressed as a flag. If you are dressed up in patriotic stuff, send it in and we will broadcast that to the rest of the delaware valley. Or if you have anything you are preparing for, maybe people will cook out and get things ready. Yes. More embarrassing the better. Sometimes people think it is cake and strawberry and they make them look like the stripes. Yes. All kind of ways to be patriotic and we are doing y
Populated but the same kind of thing. Pea to marble size hail. Dark skies, a few showers, but there is a band of heavier storms and again notice the movement over the last half hour heading back to the west. We have a chance of picking up stronger storms yet this evening. This is near fort morgan looking back at the dark skies. This is downtown denver right now and farther up the hill it has been a chilly, wet day in temperatures its 40s to low 50s with rain up at the continental divide. What comes next . Your first alert forecast in a few minutes. Tonight this man is behind bars. Police say he tried to kill his little boy in a car crash. That story is horrifying because it gets worse. He is accused of beating up his twoyearold son inside the crashed car when he realized he russell, this is sickening. Reporter yes. 29yearold Nathan Weitzel admits to police he was drunk add high on cocaine in this park when he deviced a plan to kill his own son. He attempted to do so by putting his son
With the latest on the firefight. Reporter this fire now stands at nearly 4,000 acres, 22 contained. Behind me a much different story than yesterday when there was a lot of smoke. Now its everywhere and thats because of the wind. Firefighters slowed down the spread of the loma fire but now theres a new concern up ahead. We do have some concerns tomorrow with possible forecast to 30 to 40mileperhour winds at the ridgetops. Reporter the cooler weather is bringing winds that could shift the loma fire. A team behind the scenes is hard at work. Im the incident meteorologist. Reporter bob is the loma fires only meteorologist. He works 24 7. We basically predict the weather for that incident specifically. Reporter bob then gives that information to this man. Im the fire behavior analyst. Reporter he predicts what the fire wants to do based on the weather, fuel and fire history of the area. Their main goal help firefighters fight the fire while keeping them safe. We are giving them as much inf