Saturday, i think well be tied for number one, looking nice with a mixture of sun and clouds and warm on sun and comfortable tomorrow, saturday though low pressure to the south will pull up some instability, so that mean the sunshine fading behind a lot of clouds and well have some showers on the way as well on saturday the 4th is not the best day but the weekend will not be a washout. Ill have more on the 4th coming up. Can you visit our website at 6abc. Com, there you can view our live radar including Storm Tracker 6 and look at the sevenday forecast. A young boy is expected to recover after falling out of a second story window of a north philadelphia home, it happened this morning and police say it appears to have been an accident. Chad pradelli is looking into the story on West Huntington street. Reporter yes the boy fell out of the window at 11 00 this morning, here is what police tell me happened. The boy was just inside of that second floor window you see there on the far right row home, he was on a chair trying to get a cell phone off the refrigerator, he fell off the chair and out the window. After the boy tumbled on to the concrete pavement below randall heard commotion as he worked at the body shop across the street he was crying maybe for his mother but he was favoring his knees and rubbing the back of his head, like he may have hit the concrete with his head. Investigators say the boy and another girl were being baby sat by the girls grandmother the grandmother said the boy had a tendency to take out the screens of windows. And everybody is looking at the second floor window and there was an older hispanic woman there and they were telling her your kid fell out the window. The boy superred a broken arm and bumps and browses but is expected to be okay. The Police Special victims unit says that the grandmother will not be charged and this appears to simply be an accident. Dhs is advised in this case which is customary. Im chad pradelli channel 6 action news. Thank you. The search continues tonight for a suspect who opened fire on an Unmarked Police vehicle in camden, it happened in park boulevard and haddon after few the car was riddled with bullets and came within inches of an officer. And two hours later a traffic dispute sparked gun fire on south 27th street in camden as well. A woman there was shot in the back and she lost control of her car and crashed into a tree and her boyfriend was one of the alleged gunman and he was arrested and another man was also arrested after he came to the hospital with a gunshot wound. Four people were injured after a crash in delaware including three teenagers that were walking on a Sidewalk Police say that a 2006 Dodge Stratus was struck by a 1993 honda accord the driver was trying to make a left from kirk wood highway yesterday afternoon and that sent the stratus on to the sidewalk where it struck the teens, three teen aim girls suffered minor injuries. 21yearold Christopher Vazquez was cited for care also driving. And the wawa welcome america celebration, the contusion is free today, everybody is welcome to check it out. The free admission continues until 8 00 tonight. And today was also the 23rd annual wawa hoagie day, the event dedicated to the military members and home town heroes provided free lunch for thousands of people on independence mall. Reporter a happy wawa hoagie day one in all a celebrated sandwich in our fair city so this crowd didnt mine a little wait or a long one, some stood for hours to prepare for the deliciousness that follows. Its always the same i love it. I enjoy every hoagie if they got a hoagie im going to eat it. When you build 5 tons worm of hoagies, have you to get a move on, this crew of some wawa aassociates were in the basement Constitution Center before the sun came up they built thousands of hoagies. You build hoagies at 4 00 in the morning and to serve their military and friends and neighbors this is really a lot of excitement and passion, philadelphia is our home town and the associates know tonight they love to give back. 5,000 to area veterans and 1,000 to homeless shelters and 5,000 to philabundance and the rest to the people here. Katherine Scott Channel 6 action news. Looks like fun 6 abc is proud to be the broadcast partner for the wawa welcome america celebration join us saturday 10 00 a. M. Until noon, and matt and tam will host that event for you live. And saturday night get ready for rock, Rick Williams and cecily tynan will host the philadelphia 4th of july jam live. Karen rogers and adam joseph will be there too. Philadelphias own the roots will perform with Jennifer Nettles and miguel. Those are great groups. A big weekend ahead. Time for the weekend traffic report, lets take it to matt pellman in the Traffic Center independent and free it is not, how you will feel on the roads if you go forth on the highways lots of company on 95 northbound side from north of the airport on up to the walt whitman bridge southbound side is jammed headed to the walt, headed into new jersey thick across the walt whitman bridge towards 295 once you reach this point at creek road, things are looking a little bit better but have you gotten through the woists of it more to come on the a. C. Expressway and route 40 you start to jam headed towards the garden state parkway. The construction on the off ramp is really jamming us up. Each time this summer seeing heavily trafficked times, speeds of 11 Miles Per Hour on the eastbound expressway passing the parkway, heading towards the parkway, 19 Miles Per Hour on the northeast extension from mid county, at least the crash on the on ramp has thinned out coming from king of prussia to collegeville, the sea of taillights, an earlier accident, a really slow go on westbound 422 plymouth township is closing walton road and jolly road a good alternate for you. A lot of us not feely jolly this afternoon. Matt thank you. A bit of sad news, a loyal fourlegged member of the Montgomery TownshipPolice Department has died. This is duke, the department bought him with donations from the Montgomery County district attorneys hofs, he is credited with arrests and seizures including a 2 million heroin bust back in 2013. Coming up a local family is giving back years after tragically losing one of their twins, the foundation that this couple created to help parents with infants fighting for their lives. Plus, cecily tynan is back with the complete accuweather forecast. All coming up next. A report of an active shooter put the navy yard in washington d. C. On lock down, it happened at 7 30 a. M. , less than three Hours Later Police gave the all clear after a room by room sweep and found no threats todays report came as part of a high alert weekend after an issue was given for terror attacks on or around the 4th of july. Officials in marysville, tennessee say an evacuation is expected to last until at least tomorrow, after a cfx train car derailed and caught on fire, about 5,000 folks in that area were evacuated including several businesses, residents closest to the derailment were not allowed to drink well water and several Police Officers were taken to the hospital because they were breathing in the fumes. On health check a woman in Washington State has died from the measles, Officials Say this is the first death from the virus in the United States in a dozen years, ali gorman is at the big board with details for us. Reporter this is a sad story, the autopsy shows the woman died from pneumonia from the measles she had a weak immune system but her death drives home the message to vaccinate as many people as possible. It provides protection to the kmup and protect our most vulner able people. Also today a local couple is helping parents with babies in the icu, they found themselves in the difficult situation years ago they faced tragedy but were also given a miracle. 4. 5yearold Claire Shockey loves to play board games with her parents and dancing and disney. She might be a doctor she loves doc mcstuffin and we are blessed. Expectations or progressnosis was grim for claire her and her sister were born at early. Claire was 1. 6 ounces. The babies were rush to the nick u. The time there was like a roller coaster. Have you good days and bad days and ups and downs. Pauls medical team worked to save the girls but martha felt helpless and then mary passed away at two weeks but meeting sam a thriving boy who was once a 20yearold preemy gave them hope and then claire went only after 20 weeks in the hospital. Now they are counting their blessings and helping other parents thrust into the nick u journey, today is a good day and they give parent a journal for medical notes and a bracelet with the message one day at a time. We can talk to parents that experienced loss as well as having babies that have really excelled and done well. And just as sams parents brought him to the hospital they bring claire to meet parents and show that miracles can happen. Claire still has hurdles to overcome but she is healthy, right now they work at Abington Memorial Hospital and hope to move to other hospitals. And martha is expected another baby girl and is close to fullterm. We have more information on this at 6abc. Com. Thank you ali. The toms river Police Department officially kicked off Operation Brain Freeze officers will be handing out these vouchers to young people that are practicing good helmet safety, it gives kids free icecream if they see a child riding a bicycle, roller blades skateboard with a helmet they will get a voucher. We are trying to promote reducing traumatic brain injuries and in this day and age of antipolice sentiment, we wab to get out of our cars and meet community and meet children and let them know we are not scary. Toms river police hope to hand out 500 vouchers over the summer it runs through august 31st. The latest jobs report from the Labor Department has good news and bad news, employers added 220,000 jobs, it fell to 5. 3 and that rate drops because most people gave up on their job searches and they are no longer counted at unemployed. The average hourly pay for workers was flat last month. The ceo of whole foods admitted to overcharging customers in new york city. They said that employees made mistakes when weighing the products and will improve training nationwide to make sure it doesnt happen again. The owners of a popular ocean city pizza restaurant chain admitted they evaded taxes and lied to the irs. They plead guilty in federal court to evading taxes on his 20 so tax return and his wife mary plead guilty to knowingly making false statements. They are facing five years in prison come october. And action news was there and so was Michael Nutter and other airport officials unveiled the newest exhibit here at the airport its called philadelphia a city of first and has philadelphias contributions to the nation. Hey, honey. Day dreaming . [laughing] sorry. About being at the beach . Uh. Yeah. In the caribbean . Thats odd. At our very own beach house . How do you know . Youve got the new instant game from the pennsylvania lottery. Oh, yeah 1,000,000 big money with top prizes of a million dollars. [male announcer] want to see your dreams come to life . You could scratch your way to instant winning. The pennsylvania lottery. Bring your dreams to life. Time for the accuweather forecast meteorologist cecily tynan is back, we are looking forward to the weekend weather fest the weather should be deseptember but pretty good, stormtracker 6 live double scan showing we are dealing with a few light showers and one line right near the border of chester, lancaster, berks and Montgomery County and a scattering of showers down the shore and they got some pretty heavy rain earlier today a half inch no inch and a half of rain the heaviest in cape may where an inch and a half fell, and Atlantic City a half inch and mays landing an inch of rain and most of that came in in the half noon and an inch of rain in ken county delaware the problem is when you get the rain quickly it causes flooding quickly. Sam tweeted me from wildwood the road looks like a river this is interesting, if you can see the name of that store its turn around. I always say turn around dont drown, dont drive into it, the floodwaters have receded at the shore and we are drying out tonight. School with the cloud cover and 5in philadelphia and allentown was 80 and now the clouds filled in there at 77 and wilmington 69 and Sea Isle City 70 degrees, satellite 6 along with action radar showing there is going to be a battle over the weekend, we have a stalled frontal boundary to our south waves of low pressure developing along that, that is low pressure and High Pressure is trying to built in from the great lakes it looks like that High Pressure will be winning for tomorrow. Low pressure will be winning out on saturday. Tonight an early shower possible and then partly cloudy and somewhat warm and humid and 69 in the suburbs, 69 in center city. Future tracker showing tomorrow a nice day at 7 30, and a mixture of clouds and sunshine to the north and clouds to the south and partly sunny skies and more clouds south of of philadelphia with that frontal boundary and tomorrow should be a dry day, saturday is when well be dealing with showers, the holiday kickoff tore tomorrow philadelphia sun and clouds and 83 degrees, if you are heading to the store, sun and clouds as well and the poconos cooler and mostly sunny skies and a temperature of 74 the fiveday at 5 00 83 degrees is the high on saturday not a washout, and a lot of clouds with showers mainly during the daytime, the fireworks will be fine and 81 degrees, sunday partly sunny and 86 and bump it up to 88 on monday and tuesday we are getting a lot of phone calls to the action news newsroom, a lot of people in convenientner complaining about melissa and adam breaking into line to get free food. We are waiting all of this time. Im hungry, we invited everyone here to grill on the beach and get some food and we have plates and where are we . We are in the back of the line but you know there are a lot of seagulls look at the size of that guy. Oh, my gosh well have more. Yes yes . More guys on the hot happenings plus. The accuweather forecast coming up. What . You didnt see it. That is how you do it monica and sharrie. Got to get your food. They dont mess around. More to come in our next half hour of action news at 5 00, if you hit the highways this 4th of july well show you what to put in your car. And heading out for the holiday, well tell you which beach is tops in the garden state according to the residents. Action news continues with meteorologist, Adam Joseph Jaime apody Rick Williams and monica malpass. Rick is off tonight and Sharrie Williams joins us and here is request what is happening on action news, after years of legal battles Wheelchair Accessible taxis are available in philadelphia. And a drug sweep in a south jersey home nabs several arrests, what surprising item was recovered in the search. And exciting news for commuters that use the bridges to go back and forth from the city to new jersey. And the first of dozens of philadelphia taxis are ready to transport wheelchair depend an passengers they introduced the especially designed wheelchair taxis today. The initial rollout is the start of a much bigger plan. Action News Reporter job rawlins is live at the taxi stan with the details. John . Hi sharrie, we start with questions first how many cabs are there in physical medallion cabs like this one here about 1600, how many are Wheelchair Accessible . As of this morning seven and now up to eight its a beginning. This new shiny vehicle is number eight today matt clark an activist that is fighting for years to get more accessible cabs got medallion. We expect to get 61 bran new wave taxi cabs on the streets of philadelphia by the end of this year. Wave is short for Wheelchair Accessible vehicle, tony tried this one rolled up the back and strapped in and once secured. I feel like im sitting in a chair in the vehicle. You dont feel vulnerable . No i feel safe. Accessiblity advocated went to court in 2007 to force it here. My daughter has a heart condition and they had put her in an ambulance and told me they couldnt take me in my power chair that was the most terrifying experience as i mom. This new dodge van modified by american mobility transportation cost 29,000, they had to submit its cab to crash testing before getting permission to operate as a philadelphia taxi. Under the rules and regulations expect to see more waves on the industries, 150 by 2021, that is about 8 of the fleet we are told, and there is a possible game changer, and there is a rule that is being looked at and if approved would mean all 1600 cabs in philadelphia would eventually have to become waves as the older units aged out they would have to be phased out. And they say its way too costly and could ruin some taxi operations here in town. Well stay tuned for that one. Live at 30th street john rawlins, back to you all. Thank you. In other news a suspected bank robber is now behind bars after allegedly targeting a fulton bank in wilmington, on harrison street the suspect 21yearold Michael White got away with an unknown amount of cash and officers were hot on his trail and took him into custody shortly after. They also recovered four bags of heroin from the site where we was arrested. Believe it or not marijuana laced gummy bears were found in a raid in Mercer County this week seven people were taken into custody after the search of a home in west windsor township. Officials say they found 15 pounds of marijuana long with the five pounds of marijuana gummy bears and drug paraphernalia, a harley david motorcycle and a 2016 subaru suv. And a trash truck operators mistake led to a big mess, the hideydraulic arm was sticking up and snapped a utility pole and that knocked out power including at adeles house she knew something bad would happen. I saw it had the high drawlic arm up and i knew the wires that two along the house cross over the road and they are relatively low and i figured he did not make it through them. Luckily none of the residents or trash truck driver was hurt. The list of new jerseys top beaches is out. An old favorite took the top spot, ocean city is number one. Its sponsored by stockton college, the goal is to make residents feel more connected to their coastline ocean city won back in 2009 wildwood wildwood crest, and Long Beach Township were runners up. And down the shore for the july 4th weekend. Adam joseph is live in ventnor having fun. Hi sharrie and monica, its a good weekend and be are on the gray side and dealing with sprinkles, but when are you in ventnor its not just for the holidays, any time, seven days a week you can barbecue on the beach as long as you have a permit. And speaking of barbecuing, i have the man, the mayor. And adam is here showing his skills on the grill remember not to touch the meat just let it do its thing and lets find out what is going on down at the shore this weekend. Salute the start of National Icecream month with a sweet sore yea in tuckerton new jersey, can you make your own icecream and learn how to milk a cow and there is live music and Live Entertainment from this saturday from 3 00 until 8 00 p. M. At the tuckerton, sea port. Its a Holiday Weekend so how about a little snap, crackle and pop, head to wildwood for a fireworks extravaganza you can see the cool colors lighting up the night sky. And its visible almost anywhere on the island. Keep the fun going in stone harbor family night takes off this monday with magic shows and its free to the public head to the firehouse at 6 00 p. M. , family night is now every monday through august. Enjoy the 4th of july and hope to see you this weekend down at the shore. I want to know we are cooking up something good on the grill and these goes are still hanging out here in the gray conditions. You having a good time . Yes. How many cans of soda did you drink, are you pretty hyper. And she is running the marathon tomorrow. And its a great Holiday Weekend and well see you there. She is a winner. Thank you guys. Remember you can keep an eye to the sky and do that, keep up with the ever changing skies by visiting our website at 6abc. Com view our live radar including Storm Tracker 6 and look at the sevenday forecast speaking of how the roads are doing over the weekend, lets go see what is happening. Okay matt pellman what have you got. That girl may be running faster than the traffic, lots of people getting out of dodge tore the Holiday Weekend. We see plenty of traffic on the schuylkill expressway, eastbound heavy through the boulevard through this point through Spring Garden the whole way into the walt whitman bridge, if you want to use the walt whitman bridge its looking good, that is a better option than the walt whitman. And delaware memorial is looking okay towards salem county and speeds in the 50s and contending with speeds in the teen on 95 near christiana. Trying to make it to the poconos its a long slow go on the northeast extension speeds of 19 Miles Per Hour, and speeds blocking walton road and jolly zets you around that. And quakertown watch for a motorcycle crash along john frys highway near the northeast extension. And its been a rough afternoon on 422 westbound jam packed to 422 College Villa approaching 29 there is a crash in the left lane, for those of you that make it hope have a great Holiday Weekend. You too matt. Thanks. Summer can bring unexpected weather, if you are hitting the road or any time this summer experts say its good to be prepared. Aaa says a summer vehicle emergency kit is just as important as a winter one especially if you have car troubles on a hot day. If you are on the side of the road for an extended period of the day, sunglasses sunscreen and a hat. Aaa showed us some things to keep in your car in case, water nonperishable food or sune sore or blanket. Vie sore happen commuters that use the ben franklin, betty ross and commodore 18 time a month see their tolls drop from 5 to 4 in that proposal. It goes before the board of commissioners and if it passes it goes into effect later this year. Still to come on action news tonight, Jeff Skversky has good news in sports. And a very special celebration today, at the philadelphia zoo, this group of siblings reached a mild stone and adam is back with the all important 4th of july forecast. We have breaking news chopper 6 hd is live over the scene of an accident at buck county at route 63 near the northeast exchange of the turnpike. A little bit ago maybe 40 minutes ago a truck hit a motorcycle and the motorcyclist has died. Again a very fatal sad scene in bucks county where police are investigating and obviously traffic is stopped and slow moving on the entrance ramp as they investigate a fatal accident truck versus motorcycle in buck county sixers making changes to its roster, Jeff Skversky is live in the Sports Center with the details. The sixers did not land a shooter in the draft last week but fast forward to a week later, the sixers have orchestrated a complicated trade, and it gives sixers coach brett brown a little more to work with but the deal has yet to be announce including karl landry and Jason Thompson and a future first round pick, the sixers give up the rights to a few of their european players. The eighth overall pick from last year from michigan he is the shooting guard that they desperately need. He is a great player i didnt realize he was a part of the philadelphia organization, and a great player. He is a great talent, im excited to be playing with him. For now first round pick Jahlil Okafor is getting ready to play with his team, looking to pick up as much as possible from brett brown. Its great. The short time very been here we have a Good Relationship and we will get closer and closer. Im excited to be coached by him and he has a hell of a resume. Carly lloyd and the u. S. Soccer team was kicking themselves when they lost to japan in 2011 at the last World Cup Final and now they have a shot at redemption come sun lloyd and team is in vancouver getting ready for the match. They are trying to become the first country to win three world cup titles they get japan after england scores on themselves in this final mistake. There has been a shift in womens soccer and people love us and are suping us and its unbelievable. And there is no greater feeling that we can have besides stabbing up on the top podium with a gold medal. The lone brought spot for the worst team in baseball, franco was named National League rookie of the month he led all major leaguers in nearly every offensive category. Phillies starter, aaron harangue is on the disabled list and ready to make his start for the first time in a month and a half. And the phils are looking to not get swept by milwaukee. Its a grind and its fun going out be competing and playing baseball games we would like to get six innings out of them and let him go as long as he can and well be talking to him inning by inning. Tennis star rafael nadal has time to watch baseball or whatever he wants the two time wimbledon champ goes down to dustin brown who saw this coming watch out brown ranked 102nd in the world and now 20 in think career against nadal. How about the emotion at center court. For the first time in the last two years he is out in the second round. Thank you. Coming up on action news at 6 00 sara bloomquist chats oneonone with soccer star, carly lloyd and we have posted some of that skype interview on the facebook page, check it out now, and like the page and get all of our exclusive action news content in your Facebook News feed. 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Pocono 70 and 75 in philadelphia. Satellite and radar shows High Pressure over the great lakes and that High Pressure will sink to the soung and east and supply a decent end of the week as it slips off the coast forever the 4th of july, High Pressure off lake ontario, low pressure develops down there and for us the high is in control and temperature is 83 degrees and humidity will be low tomorrow, really a beautiful breathtaking day for july and saturday the high goes off newfoundland and low pressure off the jersey coast and upper level energy that will ent interact with that low and bring clouds and scattered showers on the 4th going farther north than it shows yesterday. Beautiful tomorrow 74 and saturday cloudy and 74 with a few showers around and 73. And saturday a mixture of sun and clouds and 78 and head to the shore 71 is the ocean temperature and kds dont mine it on a cloudy day and 75 and the clouds roll back in 75 degrees and much brighter here on sunday with a temperature coming in in the upper 7 00, a sea breeze coming in for the weekend, the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast, clouds, south of philadelphia and 83 and for the 4th showers and some peeks of sun especially the farther north of the city are you and 81 but we gain the sunshine back and 86, and even warmer on monday and 88 and the same for tuesday and humid here for wednesday 87 with a few popups in the afternoon with 87 degrees and on thursday, warm and humid with a temperature coming in in the upper 80s. The place to be is in the water of course. The kids are down there having fun, a great fishing pier you can venture out on and have a great view of the Atlantic City, families are coming out after being indoors with all of that rain, and the mayor is still at work grilling away. How many burgers . About 200 do you think . 200 burgers for folks that come by if there is any left they are free. Get a burger and dog get them while they are hot. The coolest mayor around here folks are having a good time. Getting your burker . Im waiting in line and melissa is riding my bike. Look at her riding the bike, she took someones bike is has a helmet on. Look at her she is on the beach, that is not easy, there she goes, thanks guys. There is a special Birthday Party at the zoo, the 1yearold african lion cubs celebrated with special treats, they got watermelon and that was a hit be the birthday cake made out of grown meet meat, they preferred that. Soccer. Top chef. Soccer. Top chef. [whi stles] soccer top chef [shouting] disco [singing] say it and see it. The x1 voice remote, only from xfinity. Action News Delaware valleys leading news program. With ducis rogers meteorologist, cecily tynan and jim gardner. Thursday night the philadelphia Police Department reverses course on naming officers involved in shootings and pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf vetoes a plan to privatize liquor sales but the big story on action news is the the big holiday forecast on accuweather as hundreds of thousands of people head to the jersey shore and the forecast includes much more good than bad. Lets get right to meteorologist, cecily tynan with a definite look ahead to the Holiday Weekend, the weekend is a bit a battle with High Pressure to the north and low pressure to the south, stormtracker 6 live double scan showing we had heavy rain move through yesterday as much as an inch and a half of rain if parts of Cape May County that rolled along a stalled frontal boundary that moves into kentucky on saturday and also High Pressure up along the great lakes and that High Pressure is winning out two out of three days this weekend, the fourth though is the one day, that brings us a lot of clouds and showers, right now definitely on the cool side, philadelphia with the cloud cover never made it out of the 70s, unusual for july and millville 70 and millville 73 and temperature its are rebouncing into the 80s for the weekend. And ranking the days i really think tomorrow and sunday tie for first it will be dry tomorrow and mix your of clouds and sunshine and more