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Ukee has the night off. Septa Regional Rail is running with one third less of its fleet because of a structural problem. Eyewitness News Reporter david spunt has been following this story season life outside septa headquarters with more on what computers are facing and how theyre dealing with this rough ride. David . Reporter such a frustrating day for those septa commuters, but the head of septa predicts that tomorrow will actually be a bigger problem. Rush hour just a few hours ago packed more than usual. And you Better Believe that commuters noticed. They were ill prepared. There was no excuse for this. Reporter septa pulled 120 silver liner five cars on friday after an employee discovered a leaning train. Officials found small cracks on beams in 115 of the cars. As long as our safety is being considered i think thats the most important thing. Reporter theres no question the reduced service is an inconvenience. The impact is so immense that i hope that this was something that they thought of long and hard about and it wasnt just a last minute decision. Reporter septa officials held the third News Conference in three days to address the issues. Were moving very very quickly and focusing on our customers and getting the silver liner five cars back in service. Reporter tears eat yall laser beams currently being repaired. Eyewitness news has learned the 120 silver liner five cars built at this hyundai rotem facility in south philadelphia. Late tuesday, the Transportation Workers Union local 234 released a statement accusing septa officials of knowing about the issues for at least a month. Septa spokesperson fired back refuting the charges. Customers just want to see the cars spiffed and fast. Im not really sure when the trapes will actually start running and how well get home. Reporter the fix will happen according to septa. It just wont be fast. One day at a time. I am concerned that well have even more people coming back to this system tomorrow. I think people may have still been off today. Reporter and theres no word how long it will take to fix each specific rail car but a septa official told me tonight that the number one priority which it always has been is the safety of the passengers thats why they took this move. Reporting live tonight david spunt cbs3 Eyewitness News. All right, david, thanks so much. We want to hear from you about how your commute on the Regional Rail is going. Let us know on twitter, facebook just use the hash tag cbs3 commute. And our coverage continues online for a complete list of at as Rail Services changes plus more information about refunds septa is offering to some customers much head on to cbsphilly. Com. New to note, a septa bus driver and passenger are recovering after being maced by a woman in olney. Police tell us the driver stopped the bus at fifth street and west olney avenue to help a passenger in a wheelchair get on to the bus. Thats when they say a woman who thought the bus passed her earlier got on the board and maced that driver and passenger in the wheelchair. She ran away but officers caught her a few minutes later and placed her under arrest. After an he can tense seive investigation f bitch says charges should not be filed against former secretary of state Hillary Clinton for her use of a personal email server. But investigators stopped short of giving her the all clear. With president obama by her side, Hillary Clinton smiled and waived at a Campaign Rally tuesday. Just moments after the fbi announcing it would not recommend charges against the former secretary of state following a high profile email probe. Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutregarding the happen linkf classified information our judgment is no reasonable prosecutor would bring just a case. James comey was highly critical of clinton saying she was extremely careless to send and receive classified information op a private email server housed in her basement. Any reasonable person in should have known unclassified system was no place for that conversation. Reporter according to director comey, 36 of her email chains contained information secret at the time it was sent and eight chips contained topsecret information. The democratic nominee has denied. I never center or received any classified material. There is no classified materials. There was no transmission of any classified information. Reporter director comey also called clinton out for using personal emails outside the United States including in hostile territories where he says hackers may have gained access. Fbis recommendation not to charge clinton could mean the end of the case and thats because attorney general loretta 11 says he would accept the findings of fbi investigators. At that Charlotte North Carolina Campaign Rally it was the first joint appearance by clinton its president since his endorsement much the Presumptive Democratic nominee praised the president s eight years in office and the president said clinton is the best choice to lead the country for the next four years. Hillary doesnt get the credit she deserves. applause . But the fact is hillary is steady and hillary is truth. The world hangs on every word our president says, and donald trump is simply unqualified and temperamentally unfit to be our president and commander in chi chief. Tomorrow Hillary Clinton will make a stop in Atlantic City to rally supporters. Presumptive republican nominee donald trump responded to clinton and president obamas visit to North Carolina during his own visit to that state tonight. He rallied supporters in raleigh and criticized obama for campaigning with clinton. Trump argued clinton would be a worse chant in chief than president obama. Today is the best evidence weve ever seen that our system is totally rig. Hillary clinton put the entire country in danger. We have a president who is out campaigning for crooked Hillary Clinton and he should be homeworking on isis where the threat is getting worse and worse. He should be working on trade. He should be working on the borders. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich campaigns with trauma until cincinnati tomorrow. The campaign is vet him as possible running mate. With just 13 days until the Republican National Convention Begins crews are working around the clock inside clevelands quicken loans rona. Officials say that venue is a little more than halfway ready. Workers only had about four weeks to prepare the arena because the inform ba finals and here in philadelphia, were now just 20 days away from the start of the Democratic National convention. Tomorrow marks the official opening of the philadelphia 2016 Host Committee merchandise pop up shop in center city. A fire at a brewery town warehouse last month dealt a devastating blow to philadelphias growing food truck industry. Warehouse was a city sanctioned com my tears vendors were required to store and prepare food. Without it theyre out of work. New tonight trang do went to find out whats holding up repairs. This too is most definitely a total loss as well. Reporter gary com pelman stands in the rubble of food trucks destroyed by fire. The place is immaculate the fire hit it was destroyed. Reporter the night of june 6th a fire starred in one of the trucks stored in usa commisary. Damage to the building a home base for more than 30 city food truck was extensive. Smear and bagels trucks was one of a half dozen declared a total loss. These are 30 small businesses, um, many of which were in their first couple of months, maybe first year. Its a devastating blow again overnight. Reporter other vendors trucks were spared they cant operate without a certified working commisary. We basically are at a stand till right now. This was our our first week here. When the fire happened. So we basically lost everything. This entire kitchen was covered in black soot. Tripped the whole thing down, power washed everything. Reporter his employees have cleaned up much of the mess but his landlords are delaying making necessary repairs to the electrical system and exhaust fans on the roof in the month long wait so far one truck has gone out of business. Abdul haleem me who owns happen labrose is trying his best to avoid a similar end. You own a food truck. Take your attention. You know, so you dont have timed to anything else. On top of that they dont know how long its going to be before its up and running. Lost people are bearing with it trying to stay patience. The landlord did not return several requests a comment these two sides are set to appear in court on july 11th. The fate of all of these food trucks hang in the balance. In brewery town, im trang do, cbs3 oy were the news. We are getting our first look at at a man wanted for trying to abduct two women in newark, delaware. This is Surveillance Video of the suspect. Police say he tried to grab a woman outside the colleen yann Garden Apartments late sun date into the a few hours later another Woman Told Police she was attacked at an Apartment Building next door. Both women managed to fight back and that attacker ran away. A vicious attack Near Temple University was caught on Surveillance Video. A group of males knocked a man down on the 1600 block of cecil b. Moore last month then proceeded to punch and kick him in the head. The Man Told Police the suspects took his wallets and cell phones. All of the suspects are teenagers. Authorities in camden, new jersey, are concerned they may have an arsonist on their hands. There were 14 fires in the city over the weekend involving a ban donned or vacant properties. Investigators say they were all started in broad daylight and theyre asking residents to keep an eye out for anyone scene hanging around vacant properti properties. Thinking back maybe you saw someone in an alley behind a vacant that didnt belong there and you have even a vague description would be more than what we have at this point. One resident and seven firefighters were hurt as a result of those fires. They all suffered minor injuries from smoke inhalation and heat exhaustion. Union workers at a Atlantic Citys trauma much at a mal walked off the job five days ago and there are no signs the strike will come to an end any time soon. They want their Health Insurance and Pension Plans terminated by the previous owners in 2015 restored. Current owner offered Union Workers health plan terms they can agree to last week. Its unclear when both sides will return to the bargaining table. Well it certainly sounds mega tonight someone could end up 454 million rich err. Yeah, the Mega Millions drawing just took place. Wouldnt have your winning numbers still ahead. Plus the local store that sold a 2 million Mega Millions ticket this past weekend. People crying foul over firework. Pbs is lasted for using taped firework during its live fourth of july forecast. How the network is responding to night. Katie. We started with clouds and eventually the zahn came out and the heat started to rise as the humidity the heat is on. Weve got a heat advisory tomorrow. Ill tell you how long this eat wave will last coming up when we come back. And nasa makes history. Its union know spacecraft to s poised to unlock the secrets of jupiter. Why sign tests say the mission is so whether or not wheis so is news continues. This is cbs3 Eyewitness News with ukee washington, jessica dean, kate billow and don bell. Get the lottery tickets out right now. We have the winning numbers for tonights 454 million Mega Millions jackpot. Eyewitness news found dreamers buying tickets across the region today. Many of you have pig plans for the money if you win. Lottery Officials Say ticket sales were strong pretty much all day. In fact the jackpot was increased this afternoon. And now here are tonights winning numbers for Mega Millions. 29, 46, 53, 64, 73 and the mega ball is 10. You can see the numbers again at cbsphilly. Com. Good luck. Well today we learned uri deli is northeast philadelphia is a lucky place to play Mega Millions. The deli sold a Million Dollars ticket for fridays drawing. The winner is a regular custom customer. Theres always a new multi millionaire is south jersey thanks to last nights pick six game. Winning ticket worth 8. 3 million was sold at the buck road mini mart in monro monroeville, gloucester counsel too. And the excited store manager notice the winner. I dont want to say his name. Hes local. Hes been coming here for years. Im very excited and happy for him. I already saw him and he claimed the tick. The manager says business has picked up since people figure out his store sold the winning tick. Pbs is apologizing for airing taped video of firework during their life fireworks special. Just like in parts of our area last night, the weather in d. C. Was less than ideal for firewo firework. Overcast and misty skies made it difficult to see the display fully so producers of the capitol fourth decid decided ton archive video of fireworks from a clear night. Viewers figure it out and were quick to call them out. Now at first show producers tweeted we showed combination of the best fireworks from this year and previous years. It was the patriotic thing to do. A few hours later they apologized for any confusion it caused. Nasas juno spacecraft is now jupiters orbit poised to begin transmitting close up views of the planet. Geo traveled near juno traveled five years to reach the fifth planet over the next i wasnt eight months the spacecraft will draw junos gravity and magnetic fields. Nasas desire to study jupiter will help us understand more about how Solar Systems form, how gas giant places like jupiter form and well also help us to understand better how planets form orbiting other stars. Scientists say this mission will unlock many of jupiters secrets. Juno will stay in orbit until february of 2018 at that point nasa will crash the spacecraft in jupiter. Young mans of the social media platform snap chat may not like to hear this. But the app is getting more popular with adults. Sorry. A new survey finds 38 of mobile users between the ages of 25 and 34 use snap chat at least once during the month of may. Now thats double the percentage from less than two years ago. Theres also a 5 increase in users over the age of 35. Now experts say the increase in adult users has not made the app less popular with its core user base. Give it time. Theyll move on to something he is good right. That were not on. Weve been infiltrated i still dont know how to work snap chat. I dont either. My kids like the filters. Thats bout extent of it. How is the weather looking for the rest of the work week now that were all back at work . You can use that dog face filter for the dog days of summer. Yes. If you want to try snap chat there you go. It is going to be hot. Were talking 90s for the next four days at least and its going to be a hot stretch looking at upper 80 ifs not 90s for the entire seven day forecast. But the next three or four days thats going to be the worse of it with heat index values approaching one especially thursday and friday. Lets take look outside right now. Take you out to skycam3 looking live at center too its a clear night we finally got the clouds out of here that plagued much of the area over the weekend much a front that just did not want to clear off to the south. Kept temperatures slightly below average especially saturday and sunday. This Holiday Weekend but today once the clouds broke the sun came out. Nice night in center city but it is still warm. Temperatures still in the 80s. Storm scan3 shows clear conditions. A few clouds over portions of delaware and as we widen out not much more to talk about until this approaches and that wont be until the weekend looking at a nice warm stretch but the humidity going to make it feel pretty unbearable at the heist of the afternoon tomorrow, thursday and friday. Temperatures right now still in the 80s. 82 right now in philadelphia. 80 in wilmington. 75 degrees in allentown but dew points are near 70. And thats where theyll be tomorrow as well so the hottest part of the day 11am to 6 00 p. M. Heat advisory has been issued for philadelphia and 94 by suburbs including new castle county, delaware, for heat index values around 100 degrees so were talking about temperatures in the low to mid 90s but this time of the year you have to factor in the dew point with dew points in the 70s the heat index will be near 100 for the next several days. Drink plenty of water. When you have to work outside try to make plenty of precautions, find some shade, find a way to cool off and take frequent breaks if you have to work outdoors. Heat index values tomorrow morning we wake up it will feel like the 80s. By 6 00 oclock tomorrow evening, it feels like the upper 90s in many spots and again on thursday, take look at that. 2 00 p. M. Thursday feeling like the triple digits. He is specially from the city on south and excessive heat wage watch issued for thursday into friday. That could turn noon an excess tiff heat warning or advisory as we get closer to those days. Thursday does bring our next chance for thunderstorms as well. Just a few scattered showers mainly to the west tomorrow but thursday a few