Calling for increased netting at the park to stop balls. Others injured by stray balls are posting their stories there. It was actually another child hit the same day in the back of the head, which we found out on facebook. We did not know. Obviously it is becoming a common occurrence. And they need to increase the netting, as simple as that. The blueclaws will not release the numbers hit by balls but say that fan safety is the utmost importance. And there are signs posted at the park and on the back of every ticket. In a statement the ball team says we are deeply sad ed by the injuries suffered and wish alexius the best in her recovery. And for expanding the netting a Spokesman Says it is going to be looked at. They need to put it up or someone will be killed. It was to be the start of a weeks vacation for the family and instead she is recovering and her parents are trying to prevent it from happening to another child. In lakewood, Nora Muchanic for channel 6 action news. A 17yearold drawn in Chester County trying to return a ball to children. An of the teenager going into this pond in Kennett Square about 8 00 last night. A soccer ball was reportedly tossed into the water and the unidentified teen slipped under while trying to retrieve it. The fire crews pulled the boy out but he was pronounced dead at the hospital. Witness whose up into the victim say he was just learning how to swim. Philadelphia police say a bank robber did not get away with much. He took off with an undetermined amount of crash from the bank on south 18th street. Recovering most of the money up until the robber apparently dropped. A black man 6 feet tall in mid 20s. Wearing a ski mask, black baseball camp and white cargo pants during the heist. And crime scene tape. A 20yearold man shot in the hip and groin on north 8th street. Taken to einstein hospital in stable condition. Police made no arrest yet. The Philadelphia Police have a clear picture dont of picture of a man wanted for a robbery. And they say this man robbed a man last week. The suspect got away with cash and a credit card. They say the footage was taken when the thieves tried to tuesday to withdraw money at an a. T. M. He was last seen jumping into a maroon chevy a latch. The police want to hear from you if you recognize the suspect. The exit from the city avenue south to the schuylkill expressway closed five hours this morning after a tractortrailer flip. The truck crashed just before 1 00 a. M. Blocking one of the westbound lanes. It is not clear what caused the driver to lose control. But the state police say the man was out of the cab by the time the firefighters arrived. He was taken to Temple University hospital to be checked out. September marks one year since the inferno that put ladder 2 in old city out of commission. Fortunately the firefighters and neighbors dont have to wait for the oneyear anniversary for them to return home. And vernon odom checking out the upgrades at the landmark. It is a landmark until old city. The firehouse after the renovation and makeover, back in operation after a 12monthly break. And we are happy to be back. The members of the community are happy we are back. And the firehouse was the scene of a major fire. There was extensive damage, fortunately no injuries. After major improvements made at a cost of nearly a half million, the commissioner showed off the upgreats including the state of the art exhaust system. Up and open after business after a nearly oneyear shutdown. The fire commissioner says during that period there was never a significant higher risk left for the old school community. Where we located to is just a little over a mile away. So it was a mile further for them to be fine, but there were Companies Closer than that. The day we were looking at the unit the firehouse was on fire and we watched it from the unit that we ended up buying. We are very glad to see it reopened. We watched the reconstruction and are glad they are back. The neighborhood with big builds, a hotel, and residential housing, apartments and condos. Know they are afternoon the co corner if something bad were to happen. And under the iconic bust of ben franklin ready to spring into action if needed. Vernon odom channel 6 action news. The ground zero Memorial Plaza in new york city opening on this commemoration day to the public. The plaza closed during the 9 11 remembrance ceremony, but will welcome visitors from 6 00 p. M. To midnight. It is the first time the memorial offered this availability since knowing 2011. The memorials president says the opportunity will present a meaningful Vantage Point for viewing the twin beams, the trick utah in lig an American Airline flight from miami to paris diverted to boston wednesday, a french passenger complained the reclined seat in front of him was a problem because of his diabetes. The flight attendance allegedly tried to calm him, but he couldnt be subdued until two air marshals broke their cover. He was arraigned yesterday in his hospital room. His Attorney Says her client shouldnt be charged. He did assault anybody. This was a situation where he had a right to complain. He had a right to say this is hurting me. On sunday a united flight was forced to land in chicago when two passengers started a fight over leg room. Drivers with something to celebrate this weekend, price test gas pump appear to be taking a block. The average in philadelphia 3. 47 down 15 cents from the Holiday Weekend last year. Delaware the same gallon costs you 3. 34. South jersey the lowest at 3. 19. That is 24 cents lower than this time last year there. Aaa says it is estimating 34. 7 million folks will hit the road for some fun this Holiday Weekend. Thats good news. And matt pellman, hopefully he doesnt have good news. I am not sure the ride will be fun, at least it is Getting Better. It has been labor heading out on this Labor Day Weekend and busy on the vine street expressway. Westbound from 9th street through the point at the schuylkill expressway, i would not bail out for the ben franklin parkway, it is still shutdown likely until Tuesday Morning until after they finish the cleanup from the made in america festivities. The surrounding streets also closed. If you are coming out of the city this afternoon, think out of the box, sticking with ridge or lancaster avenue. If you want to take the westbound of the schuylkill it is Getting Better with speeds in the upper in 30s. And north heading for the poconos in the 40s. Earlier vehicle fire northbound past Lehigh Valley gone. And a crash in Mercer County is blocking all lanes on westbound 195 past Hamilton Square road. Just the shoulder getting by. The wreck out of Gloucester County headed into Camden County near 42 taking out a lane giving us speeds in the teens. There on the southbound of 42 itself, speeds in the low 40s coming off the walt whitman bridge. Yes, some improvement, but still a bit of a slow ride. Enjoy the Holiday Weekend. You, too. Thank you. Much more to come on hakz tonight. On action news tonight. Incredible video, two volcanos erupt keeping those on opposite ends of the world on edge. And returning to racing, tony stewart speaks out after a wreck that killed a racer. And heading to the shore, a great start to the hole dae weekend. Tracking the warm account and humidity and the details in the accuweather forecast. And here to talk final cuts as the birds head into the regular season. As the birds head into the regular season. Thats sports, st your windows dont need a facelift. Just a new wardrobe. Take them shopping during blinds to gos 60th anniversary sale going on now. Buy one get second at half price. Blinds to go is 60. Boy, time goes fast. And so will this sale. Blinds to go blinds for life. Celebrate blinds to gos 60th anniversary sale. Buy one get 50 off one. Because you know what they say 60 is the new 50. They also say yourre only as young as you feel. We feel great. How about those blinds of yours . Blinds to go blinds for life. A bus crash at chicago ohare travel stress. And a shuttle bus hit a concrete barrier. People were taken to hospitals including the bus driver who had to be pulled, listed in serious condition. It caused such a heavy back up travellers desperate to catch flights left their cars and walked to the terminal. Nascar driver, tony stewart making his first Public Comments today since his car hit and killed a fellow driver. Kevin ward, jr. Killed three weeks ago when his car collided with stewart. And he got out of the car midrace walking on the track pointing with stewart, and thats when his car hit and killed him. And stewart stays he hasnt raced since out of respect forwards family. This is one of the toughest tragedies i have had to deal with, both professionally and personally. It will definitely affect my life forever. And he says it is time to get on the track and practicing for the competition in atlanta. And jamie apody live with more on last nights eagles game and what it means today for the players hoping for a job. Yes, now we wait as the eagles held the final job auditions last night. Waiting for chip kelly to make the roster cuts getting it down to 53 by 4 00 tomorrow. Last night an interesting one. All eyes are going to be on who he will keep at kicker. Last night the kid, cody connected. And the other missed two this season and it was awkward to see them last night, especially since parky was brought in to take his job and appeared to do so. I was in ind there a week ago. It is one of the things that i dont think i am done if they dont want me here. I am confident in myself and thats how i have always been. It will be interesting to see who they keep. The phillies look to extend the winning streak to five games, starting a ninegame road trip in new york. And buchanan on the hill gets the mets. And the owls delayed an hour and a half by lightning, they were electric. And a couple of fourth down pass conversions helped them jumped out to a lead and seven turnovers helped them keep it. And they crushed them last night. 377. And beating an sec the first time in years and it is nice to get it started on the right foot. The ride is more fun after that win. Ment kids were exstatat that e. And tomorrow the James Franklin era at penn state glyn begins. And they face dublin. And he want wait to see what his guys bring to the table this year. It is an opportunity to go out and play with these guys. And watch them play and fly around and have fun. I know how hard they work. And also, football is different. Baseball, basketball, you get 60 to 120 games or whatever it maybe a year. And in football you get 12 to 14 opportunities you better make every single one them special. Dont look now, High School Football is it here. Opening day, wissahickon hosting central this one all wissahickon. On the outside and in for 6, and the trojans 416. And the first huddle of the year the game of the week, central buck south against central buck west. And join Jeff Skversky for the details after action news at 11 00. It is football friday night. I hope cecily tynan gets her arm ready. She is on vacation who will throw the ball to you . We will have to get melissa to do it. The final day of the third annual isiah thomas basketball camp in philadelphia. Not named after the hall of famer but a local coach and mentor of same name. The weeklong camp for families provide not just basketball fun but mentoring and life lessons. And the College Students and local coaches volunteered time to prevent Community Spirit and nonviolence. I do and much more ahead on action news tonight. A look at one labors way to get time to pass more quickly while at work. Thats fun. And stepping outside looking at penns landing. Melissa magee warming up her arm Melissa Magee warming up her arm and the forecast is it already to prove a point about internet speeds, we slowed down an up escalator this is crazy like i dont get it, this one is working ladies, shouldnt up be as fast as down . Yeah. Shouldnt internet speeds match as well . Yes. Do your socks match . My socks match. Do your eyeballs match . Yes. Cable does not match the speeds. Makes you want to go mad. Erggggh. Only verizon fios comes with speed match. Upload speeds as fast as your download speeds. Join now at fiosspeedmatch. Com. Verizon. A volcano in paupa new guinea. And the volcano erupted numberries times recently. In 1994 it did destroy one town when it erupt said at the same time of another nearby volcano. The authorities in iceland raised an ice alert due to a volcano threat. The small erection of one near a glacier. And back in 2010, one sparked a week of aviation chaos with thousands of flights canceled. Meteorologist Melissa Magee back now. Who you say tomorrow is the nicest day of the Holiday Weekend . Thats right if we had to rank the days 1, 2, 3, tomorrow will be a winner because it will be warm and probably the driest over the next three. Talk about what the changes will be as the weekend wears on. And showing you pretty quiet right now, no issues with precipitation. It has been a gorgeous friday. In fact we show you the picture outside. The action cam outside earlier this afternoon. In new castle, delaware. And you can see a lot of people enjoying a really nice stroll on this friday afternoon. Blue sky, plenty of sunshine and low humidity for late august. As we look at the numbers outside this afternoon, in philadelphia 79. In trenton 75. Up in the poconos, 71. Along the coast from Sea Isle City up to beach haven temperatures only in the lower 70s. A pair of 7s in dover. Satellite 6 and action radar, quiet from new england across the midatlantic region. No active weather to speak of across our area. Off to the west we are tracking a cold front that is making some progress into the eastern half of the United States as we get into the second half of our Holiday Weekend. Heres the setup as we get into the start of Labor Day Weekend. Saturday, sunshine and few high clouds. Slightly humid. I think the humidity is more noticeable home coming off a really nice friday. Otherwise the High Temperature coming in at 83 degrees. But then the heat kicks in in our region getting into sunday, hot and humid as well. And the warm front lifts to the north. Sunday calling for a High Temperature of 90 degrees. It will feel like, with the oppressive humidity overhead, temperatures in the middle 90s. Tracking a cold front moving through getting into late in the day on sunday. Traveling down the shore, come tomorrow the ocean temperature coming in at 75 degrees. As you head inland on the beach and sand, saturday a goodlooking day. Partly sunny and a high of 78. Sunday, the humidity cranks up and high of 84. And some sunshine around i am think at the shore sunday mostly dry day as a lot of the activity is north and west of the 95 corridor. Monday humid with a thunderstorm around. Any point during the day there would be a popup thundershower or storm. And then afternoon storms sunday and 79 muggy monday and a high of 80 and the thunderstorm threats sticks afternoon. The call from accuweather tonight patchy clouds and comfortable. 63 in philadelphia to 55 in the suburbs north and west of town. The exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast, it is bright and turning more humid saturday, high of 83. It is hot and sticky with oppressive humidity. A thunderstorm likely getting into the afternoon hours, but mainly north and west of the corridor futuretracker 6 showing you sunday at 5 30, a lot ofle that poconos and southwest ward, outing and east staying dry. And monday soup yiep with a thunderstorm around for the whom day and 89. 92, feeling like upper 90s on tuesday. Getting into wednesday we stay in the 90s, at least the start of the weekend looks good, watch out for the popup storms and humidity, guys. Thank you. Topping our people scene the homeless man accompanying miley cyrus to an awards show turned himself into place. 22 year old jesse helt surrepresentsur represent surrenders at a jail from a trespassing conviction in 2011. Gaining worldwide condition on sunday when cyrus allowed him to accept her award ten video music awards, the v. M. S. s. Wy oh, yeah, if you have to work this Labor Day Weekend, like this guy try to have some fun. Andrew wilcox couldnt help but shake his groove thing. And he kept his balance but did not impress coworkers. Check out this video and other distractions at 6abc. Com. He is living large. He doesnt get any work done though. He doesnt seem to care. [laughter] and right now the Action News Team with these stories and more next at 6 00. It is the last hurrah for summer. Whether your heading to the shore or rocking out on the ben franklin parkway we have you covered. And collapsing on a trail. Those who saved his life. Those stories coming up. Im monica malpass. Day dreaming again . Oh yeah. About your dream car . Yeah. Silver convertible with dual stripes. Cool [curiously] howd you know . Youve been staring at that new instant game from the pennsylvania lottery. Yep. Muscle car money. I could win up to 100,000, or a Chevrolet Camaro 1ss. announcer wanna see your dreams come to life . You could scratch your way to instant winning today. Fuzzy dice. Nice. [announcer] the pennsylvania lottery. Bring your dreams to life. Action news. Delaware valleys leading news program with ducis rodgers, meteorologist cecily tynan and jim gardner. Friday night. Jim is off, im monica malpass. The employees brace for the closing of the atlantic showboat casino this weekend. And Surveillance Video those the moment a philadelphia businessman was shot and robbed of 70,000. The big story on action news tonight is the start of the Labor Day Weekend. Whether you are headed to the shore, the poconos, or waking your way to center city, philadelphia for the made in america Music Festival there is plenty to do to enjoy the Holiday Weekend. The Action News Team covering it all and david henry live along the ben franklin parkway for the big concert. And Annie Mccormick in ventnor, new jersey. And starting with adam joseph outside as we say goodbye to summer. We may unofficially say goodbye, but here to stay, especially the second half of the weekend. Looking at the numbers now, extremely pleasant to begin your Holiday Weekend. 78 in allentown, low humidity same for philadelphia. 74 millville. A little sea breeze at the shore, the temperature in the lower 70s. The heat will be arriving. 91 in hotlanta. And jackson, mississippi 93 degrees. As we progress through the weekend the dewpoints, how it feels when you step out, will are jumping how the as well. Fairly comfortable tomorrow. A little more humid, but sunday and monday the humidity will hit the tropical oppressive levels
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