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
Reporter david murphy has more on the storms coming in. Reporter we have severe thunderstorms moving into cherry hill, Burlington County and camden and Gloucester County all in line for this very quickly. You can see that the time of arrival in edgewater park, bristol, cherry hill, belmawr all within the next couple of minutes, maple shade 35 00, mullica hill 4 minutes past 5 00 a. M. Takes a halfhour for it to move the length of the red arrow. In 20 minutes or so, Medford Lakes will get hit. The main concern strong damaging winds gusts 60 Miles Per Hour. Theres hail and lots of lightning, you can see the recent flashes there and heavy heavy downpours, if you can take cover indoors on the lower floors until they get past you, that would be a good idea. It will take a halfhour for it to go by and longer for the threat of lightning to expire. We have excessive heat warning in effect that kicks in at 6 00 a. M. In the central counties. In these areas in the urban centers we could see heat
Mate virginia senator tim kaine and on to philadelphia where clinton will accept the democratic nomination and be the first woman with top billing on a major party ticket, the excitement is moving to the start of the Democraic National Convention in just two days the delegates will pack the Wells Fargo Center for a history making four days. We have Team Coverage but we begin with abcs karen travis with more on Hillary Clintons pick for vp. Reporter fired up crowd of 5,000 waving the fresh off the press clinton signs. Hillary clinton and tim kaine in their first joint appearance as running mates. Make no mistake behind that smile tim also has a backbone of steel, just ask the nra. [cheers and applause] as kaine gets set to take the mic it picks up clinton cheering him on telling him go get them. Kaine speaking in spanish. [cheers] and wasting no time slamming donald trump. Do you want a youre fired president or a youre hired president . Reporter trump firing back tweeti tweeting crooked
The heaviest is drifting to the east, lbi. Surf city to beach haven seeing heavy downpours, Seaside Heights Point Pleasant beach, seeing more downpours. This is for central ocean county, lacey, toms river. The bulls eye was northwest of lacey everything is starting to wind down. Thats good news there. Clouds limited sun, similar to yesterday, more showers and thunderstorms are expected, although its not expected to be as busy as what we saw yesterday. These are going to be pop up storms that 89 will feel like 93, 94 with the oppressive amount of humidity. We have showers and thunderstorms in the forecast, those could produce flooding problems, ill be back in a few minutes with the latest from the sevenday forecast. The overnight storms wreaked havoc in some areas. Look at this, a tree snapped and fell on to a parked suv between 10th and 11th street on south street. Nobody was inside the suv at the time. Well, police had to block off part of the road in strawberry plans overnight after
At traffic. Were off to a dry start after that threat of heavy downpours last night. We did get a couple of them coming down to the west and down south but thats all done. Now were looking at clouds mixing with potential sunshine as we go through the day. A slight chance of an additional popup shower. Most of you stay dry today. 72 in allentown, similar numbers in wilmington and trenton and down the snore cape may. What about that humidity . We were in the 70s with those dewpoints yesterday with oppressive humidity. Now most areas down into the mid to upper 60s which is still humid but an indication of things are a little bit better today. As we go out running, 71 degrees, no rain to bother you this morning. Hydrate ahead of time of course especially with that humidity still noticeable. 77 degrees by 10 oclock and by noon, 79 degrees. This afternoon well be in the low 80s. Your shy going to be 82. Well hit that at about 3 oclock. Again a popup little shower or thunderstorm here or ther