In folcroft. Twentyfive yearold Christopher Dorman was shot seven times yesterday morning and tonight he is giving us an up kate himself on how he is doing in the video from his hospital bed. Jeff chirico is live at boro hall where a vigil business to get underway offering prayers and well wishes to officer dorman and his family, jeff . Reporter hi walter, the community is really coming together to show support for officer dorman and many are a maced at how well he appears to be doing. As you said, he spoke for the first time, to the public today. I would like to thank the police are paramedics and doctors. Reporter just a day after taking seven bullets Folcroft Police officer Christopher Dorman released this video to action news to thank those who saved his life. In the photo released last night you can see the wound where a bullet pierced the 25 yearolds cheek. Im shot, im shot, im shot. Reporter dorman was looking into suspect drug activity in a apartment complex where he walk in the barrage of bullets. After a Manhunt Police arrested daunte Brooks Island and charged him with trying to kill dorman and another cop. We want to ask you to keep this officer in your prayers, as well as his family. Reporter fighting for his life dorman was flown to penn presbyterian where he underwent two surgeries to gunshot wound to the the face, chest, groin and leg. Doctorate says anyone of those round on his vest could have been fatal. Reporter dorman became a volunteer fire fighter in folcroft at 16 and joined the boros police force last year. On social media is hailed a hero and delco legend has taken off in part because of that tattoo on his chest which reads delco, while he is recovering at the hospital, dormans clearly disappointed he is missing the kenney chessany tonight in south philadelphia. Hey kenney, dont forget me. Reporter well, go fund me account has been set up to help dorman who is a parttime officer, so far, 13,000 has been raised for him. Now as for his condition we checked with the hospital, who referred us to police, the Police Department has not yet giving us an update on his condition at this point but from you can see from that video he appears to be doing well. A vigil is planned here at folcroft boro hall at 8 00 p. M. Live from folcroft Delaware County jeff chirico for channel six a action news. That video was a nation, thanks jeff. Police are investigating a stabbing late last night that ended with one person critically injured. Authorities were called to the 1700 block of terminal square on reports of an assault. That is where they have found the victim suffering from a stab wound. So far no arrests have been made. Two, 18 years old were hit by gunfire early this morning in the cities tioga a nicetown section. One is listed in critical condition. The just before 1 00 a. M. When attending a Graduation Party on rowan avenue heard gunfire. One was struck twice in the upper torso. A short time later the other teen was outside the party when he heard more gunfire. That is when he was struck in the hand no word on the motive and no arrests in this case either. Dozens of people hit the Schuylkill River trail in center sit the toy day but not for a morning run they were volunteering for a watch group intended to cut down on the crime that has hit will trail for the past several months. Action News ReporterTrish Hartman ace long the trail with details about the mission, trish. Reporter well, walter this is one of the high traffic area volunteers will focus on between boat house road and south street bridge. Organizers and police hope this new trail watch will help cut crime and to help people feel safe. Unaudible. Reporter after months of training, volunteers started patrolling the Schuylkill River trail and in an effort to keep its users safe. Once we began to advertise that we were creating a trail watch, people just stepped up to the plate and said how can i get involved. Reporter starting this week 80 volunteers in plainclothes will patrol the trail. Next week organizers say they will be in uniform. People will be here, bikers, walkers, runners will be pared up together, in two hour shifts throughout the day. Reporter at the kick off badges were handed tout people who completed the training which volunteers say was surprisingly thorough. We have learned about picking out fee he tours and if you see someone quickly trying to remember what they looked like. Reporter Police Office hours work the trail said the extra eyes and ears will be a huge help, about two weeks ago a woman had her face slashed in broad daylight while walking on the trail. The last month two incidents of indecent exposure were reported n february, several teens were arrested and charged with assault and robbery. Each section we can go to if we get this response it makes it easier for us. I cannot explain to you how important it is for us to be able to have help from the neighborhood. Reporter trail users we spoke with said patrols are a welcomed addition. I think things like that will make others maybe feel more comfortable and make the Community Still the base anus a a family atmosphere. Reporter councilman Kenyatta Johnson says he is in talks with the department of parks and rec about surveillance cameras, for the trail, organizers hope to train even more volunteers, as the summer goes on. If you are interesting we have posted a link to the trail watch web site at six abc. Com. Reporting live along the Schuylkill River trail, Trish Hartman for channel six action news. Walter. Thanks, trish. The africanamerican historical and Cultural Society of bucks county celebrated tenth anniversary of unveiling of the Harriet Tubman monument. Dozens gathered near the monument at lions park the at the wharf in bristol today. Organizers say ceremony was a way to acknowledge the community for helping to get that statue built ten years ago. Tubman of course was a leader of the underground railroad and abolitionist. Star spangled banner for the first time in 50 years, an American Flag is flying outside of the Tredyffrin Public Library because the flagpole was just installed and today, there was a ceremony to dedicate that pole to american veterans. Local will boy scout and girl scout troops with local veterans helped raise the pennsylvania flag and then the red, white and blue. Moving on to the accu Weather Forecast, it was a picture perfect day, sunny skies, light breeze, made it a perfect day to spend time outdoors. Meteorologist Melissa Magee is at the action knew big board with the first check of the accu Weather Forecast. Really nice start to the first weekend of summer with comfortable conditions and low humidity across the delaware and lehigh valleys. Eightyfive at this hour in philadelphia. Eightysix in allentown. Much cooler at the coast. We have an easterly component, with temperatures from beach haven down to cape may are only hot 70s. But dew point is the key. Level of moisture in the a atmosphere. Right now we have depoints below 60 degrees. They are in the mid 508s to the lower 50s across the region. Nice and comfortable n fact we are looking good if you are stepping out later on tonight outside on the town we have got you covered with the evening planner. Eightyfour at 7 00 p. M. Still sunny and dry at 8 00. It is 78. We have a mostly clear sky later on with temperatures in the middle to lower 70s right through nine and 11 00 oclock underneath mostly clear skies. It is clear, quiet for rest of tonight. Humidity stays low for the rest of our weekend as well but we are tracking a risk for rip currents at the coast, we will take a closer look and let you know how long this dry stretch will stick around with the full and exclusive accu Weather Forecast, walter. Thanks, melissa. Hundreds of artists showed off their abilities this weekend along the sidewalks of manayunk for 20th annual manayunk Arts Festival that kick off today. Nearly 200,000 collectors, buyers, designers are expect to visit main street before the event wraps up tomorrow. The those who showed up got a chance to meet some of the action news crew including Sharrie Williams and gray hall. Do i me have meteorologist Melissa Magee was there as well. It continues until tomorrow at 6 00 p. M. Much more to come tonight, flooding and fire, death toll rise necessary West Virginia as severe flooding in overall communities while dozens of homes are destroyed in california by fast moving wild fires. We have the latest. Later, it is like looking in the mirror for dozens of dogs in coatsville, why this dog festival isnt just fun to watch but it serves a great cause. Plus hear from the person who knew or knows best, ben simmons better than anybody. Jeff skversky has sports when action news comes right back. President obama has declared a major disaster in the state of West Virginia as ordered in federal aid to help in the recovery efforts. Twentythree people are dead, as crews desperately searched for the missing. Road have buckled. Vehicles have have been carried away and some homes smashed. Tonight approximately 32,000 poems and businesses remain without power tonight. Meanwhile, in california, strong wind, and dry conditions, are making things difficult for Fire Fighters battling a wild fire north of los angeles. At least 150 homes are gone, and this fire remains entirely uncontained at this hour. So far it has scorched up to 36,000 acres. It is just one of the 17 large wild fires, burning across the west tonight. World news saturday will have much more from the ground in both West Virginia and california, coming up at 6 30 right after action news. Shriners hospital for children in north philadelphia celebrated a milestone today. The hospital held a special open house event to celebrate its 90th birthday. Visitors got the chance to tour normally restrict areas of the hospital including the operating room. Patients and physicians also gather for some special philadelphia sports, games ape even face painting. It was a bat of beers today in camden. Hundreds of people attended the 20th annual garden state Craft Beer Guild festival. It was held on board bolt ship new jersey. People were able to tour the countrys largest battleship, listen to music and sample beers from 28 local breweries. Families enjoyed a day of fun activities in the fun today. They gathered for lets move olympic day. Event served as kick off to camdens commitment to first Lady Michelle obamas lets move campaign dedicated to fighting childhood obesity. Today family took part in a variety of activities including swimming, football and dancing. Hey i cant wait to play against you in the nba. Lebrons response he turned around his iphone and showed him his championship trophy. Hopefully simmons will hold a trophy of his own one day too. Simmons wearing number 25 sixers jersey for the first time looking sharp now. This reunion is, quite remarkable. He will play for brett brown just like his father did, like father like son, simmons will play for brett brown like his dad dave did in the late 1980s and 90s in australia brown has known ben since he was born. What are the odds, all three guys just cant believe it. Yes, it is weird. It is really weirdment i think bit. But im looking forward to it. I remember brett with the spurs. I said is that brett brown, and then he got job with philadelphia. I said look at brett brown. He was always that very energetic, coach, very passionate and im not surprised he ended up in the nba but for ben to be, you know, drafting my son and to be having the opportunity to coach him as well, it is just amazing. What i realized most as i say this, you know, it is how old you are and how old you get when you get to coach the guys father, the sons of the father thaw have coached. You cannot make it up. Great story. Im thrilled to have this situation. Come on, brett you do not look old. For phillies San Francisco has been a giant pain in the you know where. Phillies are back at it again tonight, Jeremy Hellickson gets the start looking for his first win, since the phillies were tied for first place five and a half weeks ago. Downward spiral including another bad night in San Francisco last night. Phillies lead vanish right before their eyes in the seventh inning. Brandon bell, belts this bases clearing double, off of elvis, and phillies falling behind and they never catch up. They have lost 13 of the last 16 against the giants. Phillies when they had a shot to come back, bases loaded in the ninth, Tyler Goodell the grounderment he is out by a hair. Phillies lost fivefour. Their tenth lost in the last 11 games. The flyers are the worst scoring team in the playoffs last season. So general manager ron hextall is trying to fix the problem. For the future. Of the ten draft picks this weekend seven are goal scoring forwards. The flyers darted german rubatsov and today they pick up patrick le bird, 36 overall, he led his junior team in point and assists. Later in the second flyers take goalie of the year in the western hockey league, carter hart who is known for his work outs. You know, im old day. You have to be in good shape and stay flexible, and, you know, im very honored and excited to go to such a Great Organization like that. We wanted speed, size, and skill. And we have all three elements we have enough picks and a lot easier to kind of zero in on it. Well, no team in Major League Soccer has more goals in the union coming out of play out of vancouver. Big reason why opposing teams have been unable to score wins in, Chester Union have not lost at home since last september. Jaylen strong, hosting his annual football camp at drexel to day. Texans wide receiver is join by his nfl teammates helping roughly 300 kid, learn how to play the game, right way, and perhaps a future eagles player, is in the crowd today. Which means football is right around the corner. Training camp one month. Beautiful. Thanks, jeff. Up next on action news meteorologist Melissa Magee has the exclusive accu weather seven day forecast but first a look what is coming up on world news saturday. Coming up tonight historic flood in the east and monster wild fires in the west, also, donald trump is defending his visit to his golf course is in scotland. This story about the millions of music fans in the Class Action Lawsuit who won tickets to show that they say no one wanted to see, that is after action news. Conditions were perfect for New Castle County ice cream festival right there in delawarement hundreds of people showed up at brookewood park to try ice cream from ten different vendors. For those who like their meals after dessert is there chicken and sandwiches. The festival continues tomorrow. Umhmm. Time for a check of the accu Weather Forecast with meteorologist Melissa Magee. Melissa and i had fun saying hi to the folks at manayunk festival. Thank you for coming out. Yes, carp he will tunnel. Yes. We had fun though. Yes, it was nice weather to be outside, meeting our fans and meeting six abc viewers. Anything you wanted to do outside you can do it again tomorrow. Good weather for your sunday too. Heres Storm Tracker six live double scan radar, it is dry, quiet, no issues with precipitation. It is all about dry weather across the region. We will show you outside action cam was outside earlier today in Fairmount Park on kelly drive, close to boat house row. You can see folks, stralling along a really nice saturday afternoon with low humidity across the region as well. We were warm today but comfortable. High in philadelphia of 88 degrees. Normal this time of the year is 85. Record 98 setback in 1952. One issue with our weather is that it had been, incredibly dry across much of the region. We have had trout monitor across the northeast, we have got moderately dry conditions across coastal sections of maine, also into new england and northern sections of new jersey, and into long island. Philadelphia, we are dry, but were running just over a third of normal for the month so far and just a few more days until this month closes so we can definitely use precipitation across the region. We will get a chance as we get into next week. Outside it is 85 in the city. Eightysix in allentown. Eightytwo in the poconos. It is 73 in beach haven. Same thing in cape may, down to 72 at this hour. Seventysix in atlantic city. We are dealing with the easterly wind off the atlantic. It is a touch cooler by our coastal communities in comparison to inland locations. Heres Satellite Six with action radar. It is dry, quiet with High Pressure dominating much of the region. We have got mostly clear, mostly sunny skies underway for the rest of the evening. In fact call from accu weather for tonight is mostly clear, seasonably warm. Dropping down to 59 in the suburbs and 64 in philadelphia for the overnight low. Here is that weekend warmth, it does continue tomorrow. High pressure in control. Sunny and dry. High temperature tomorrow in philadelphia near 90 degrees. Bright, sunny and once again no wet weather coming our way anytime soon. If you are traveling down the shore, for sunday, plenty of sunshine, breezy, cooler in inland locations. Seventyeight for the high. Is there a moderate risk for rip current. Good idea to swim where a life guard is present and on duty. Up in the poconos bright and sunny, warmer day in at 81 for the High Temperature, north of philadelphia. Heres the exclusive accu weather seven day forecast, no complaints tomorrow. Low humidity will continue. High temperature coming in at 89. On monday, turning humid by the afternoon with a high of 86. Shower or thunderstorm is likely by days end on monday, we are tracking a front that moves through so on tuesday it is warm high of 85. Showers and storms likely by then, on wednesday, thunder shower is likely early in the day otherwise a high of 84. Partly sunny. Then turning less humid behind that on thursday, warm and nice with a high up to 86. On friday cloud and sunshine in at 88 and then next saturday, we have got mostly sunny sky and a High Temperature coming in at 87. Weekend so far, walter not looking too bad. Very cool. You can find the seven day forecast and live look at Storm Tracker six double scan radar anytime of the day right there on our web site the at six abc. Com weather. Owners of dogs from pennsylvania, delaware and new jersey converged with their dogs at hibernia park in coatsville. Philadelphia area picnic, included plenty of food, games for the dogs. Annual picnic serves as a fundraiser for corgie aid which these them in need of medical care at rescue facilities. World news saturday is up next on channel six. Dont miss action news at ten on phl17 tonight. Then were back here on six abc at 11 00. Now for Melissa Magee, Jeff Skversky and the entire action news team, im walter perez. 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