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Right, its warm and sticky. Pottstown 69 degrees at this hour. Coatsville 66. Saint davids, 66. Ken net square, 66. Over the river we go into south jersey were seeing temperatures around 66. Cinnaminson, browns mills ewing gandys beach 67. Buena, muggy 68 degrees this morning where we had fog earlier on, a lot of that is beginning to lift. Still haze left over, once the clouds begin to pull away well see sunshine later this afternoon. That will help to get the temperatures up into the upper 80s, the forecast goes like this, lots of sunshine, mixed with clouds from time to time. 83 degrees by lunchtime. 3 00 p. M. , 87. 6 00 p. M. , 85. What youre not seeing there is how high the humidity will be. 88 degrees, thats the forecasted high. It will feel like 90 with all the humidity. Sun sets at 8 22. The humidity sticks around through the duration of the weekend, as a matter of fact it peeks peaks on monday. Thunderstorms are possible late sunday afternoon into the evening. Heavy downpours
Feeds and minds, Vladimir Putin paying to write garbage and spread it on social media. Today, the troll farm at the very heart of the russia probe. Welcome to the lead. We begin with breaking news in the russia investigation involving president Donald Trumps own family. Cnn has learned that special counsel Robert Muellers interest in the president s soninlaw and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, has expanded now beyond kushners contacts with russia and now includes his efforts to secure money for his company from Foreign Investors during the president ial transition. This according to multiple sources. During that time, kushner was also the lead contact for foreign governments trying on reach his fatherinlaw, the president elect. Joining me to break this story, also with us, sarah murray on a key new development. Though i want to start with you. What is at the center of what youre learning in terms of muellers investigation . Thats right. Cnn has learned that mueller is asking questions a