According to a statement she gave to police she admitted to holding a sheet to their faces until they stopped breathing. She was good with the kids, this was the last person i would think would do something to my son and to her daughter. Haines is now booked on two counts of premeditated murder. A philadelphia man in his 90s with not escape a fire in his home. The victim was trapped in the second floor bedroom. Annie mccormick reports on the tragedy in grays ferry. When firefighter as rived. The victim was trapped in the home and neighbors say he was in his 90s and was a veteran of world war ii, fire crews rushed to the 1700 block of Taylor Street to fight a blaze that broke out at 2 00 a. M. Nearly 50 firefighters and medics responded hearing reports that an elderly man was trapped inside. Despite the efforts of our man it was a tragic outcome. I saw the flames and i started to scream and holler and i got the phone and dialed 911. Next door Dorothy Jamison woke up in time and rushed to get four children out of her home. I heard noise knocking on my door. Banging next door and then i lift my window up and all the smoke was coming in and i rushed everybody out of the house. Remember hearing my mom screaming get out of the house because i smelled smoke in the house. Firefighters discovered the victim in a second floor bedroom and later removed a charred wheelchair from the home. According to neighbors the victim was missing a leg and relied on a walker and wheelchair, the elderly victim lives in the home for more than 40 years. The cause is still under investigation. Annie mccormick, channel 6 action news. Turning to the forecast now, we are clear of storms but dealing with the cooler temperatures, looking live outside from sky 6 hd at penns landing, a pretty picture of the ben franklin bridge, blue skies and breezy out there now. Lets find out what accuweather has in store for us. Reporter hi rick, its beautiful out here gorgeous day and blue skies and sunshine and a gusty breeze too. Lets look at the lows this morning. You needed the sweatshirt or sweater, we dipped in mt. Pocono 40 degrees and 51 was the low in allentown and reading and 48 in lancaster and some suburbs mid up toer 40s. Lets look at the winds now a 26 Miles Per Hour wind in philadelphia and 26 in wilmington and 25 in millville and 24 in trenton and even on the beach 28 in atlantic city. And 23 Miles Per Hour wind gust now in cape may. You have to hold on to your hat out here. Satellite 6 along with action radar showing clear skies and clouds trying to sneak in. Temperatures have responded 69 currently if philadelphia. And 66 in allentown and 70 in millville and 71 right now in trenton and 69 in atlantic city. If you are headed out for the day its beautiful and sunny and not sure you want to go off with a gusty breeze. At 2 00, 73 and 6 00 p. M. 74. Our high today is 75 degrees and that is a good 6 degrees below arm, things warm up if you miss some of the summer heat we have a peek of that in the forecast. Well talk about when that comes in a couple of minutes. Its looking pretty good. Back to you sara. Thank you. Keep checking back with 6abc. Com weather for the latest on the accuweather forecast. Youl find stormtracker 6 live double scan and constant updates from our team of meteorologists. Philadelphia police are looking for three men in connection with an Armed Robbery on a kensington street. They were confronted last week at ontario and arbor streets, the victims were forced to lay on the ground, and video shows the suspects car a newer model ford fusion driving away from the scene. If have you information you are asked to call police. A Prayer Service is held now in louisville kentucky for muhammad ali, a final service will be held tomorrow for the boxing great who died last week at the age of 74. Marcy gonzales reports from louisville. As many as 16,000 people joining in prayer today honoring muhammad alis muslim faith in louisville. People coming to the champ home town from around the world to pay their respects. I am honored and grateful to have the opportunities to be in line and celebrate the memorial of the great muhammad ali. Tomorrow the final farewell. Fans lined up for hours for the free tickets all 15,000 given away until 15 minutes. Some ending up on ebay and craigslist, some listing them for hundreds of dollars. Scalping is illegal, do not put the tickets on an online website, we have a team working with the websites to shut that down. The somber day one week after the icons death will start with a procession down muhammad ali boulevard past his childhood home to the cemetery where he will be laid to rest and that followed by the inter faith service. All moved by his messages and awed by him under one roof to say goodbye to the greatest. We have breaking news this noon. Pennsylvania state police say they have a person of interest in custody in connection with a shooting incident on i95 earlier this week. Police were looking for the man depicted in this stretch driving a dark malibu or impala. The suspect fired a bullet into the vehicle and nobody was injured. The person of interest was picked up in south philadelphia shortly before noon. Well have more on 6abc. Com throughout the afternoon. Church leaders from around the country are in philadelphia today in hopes of learning how to better support families battling cancer with their loved ones. Part of the journey of hope program. The two day Training Section started today in the north wood section, it helps Church Members get basic medical and Cancer Knowledge to better understand the disease and support those in their communities. Right now hundreds of job seeker are looking for their next job opportunity in king of prussia. Choice careers is holding an event until 2 00 this afternoon. Employers are looking to fill spots in Customer Service and hospitality and sales and admission to the career fair is free. There is more ahead on action news at 12 30, a woman accused of crashing a car to kill her twin sister in maui is to longer behind bars. And the singer ed sheeran is being sued by people that say he stole their song. A 12yearold wisconsin boy is fightsing charges in an armed carjacking, police have arrested the boy eight times, seven of the charges are felonies. He is currently in a juvenile detention facility. It caught the attention of the police chief that blasted them for known child offenders. And a woman accused in the death of her twin sister. Witnesses say that they were fighting before their suv crashed into a wall in maui and plunged 200 feet off a cliff last month. They said that alexandra was driving and accelerated and made to attempt to break. We showed you the dramatic video of the attempted video at a dollar store yesterday. Police say he tried to drag a 13yearold girl out of the dollar store on tuesday and an offduty Police Officer was able to block his exit and arrest him. His public defender says he is a war veteran with a long history of Mental Health issues. He has not entered a plea. Now to the race for the white house, Bernie Sanders is holding a special sit down with president obama today. Lauren lister is live in washington with the latest. Reporter hey rick, we just saw Bernie Sanders coming out of the meeting with the president moments ago speaking to the race saying he will compete in the d. C. Primary next week but also saying he looks forward to working with Hillary Clinton and railing against donald trump. Bernie sanders getting a warm welcome back home in vermont. After the polls this week. Hillary clinton coming out the Presumptive Democratic nominee and sitting down with president obama questions about how long sanders can remain in the race. Is he ever going to drop out . Or stay in. My hope is over the next couple of weeks we are able to pull things together and what happens during primaries you get a little ouchy. And clinton looking to pull together, i am looking for today working with him to unify the Democratic Party against the threat that donald trump poses to our country. According to the white house sanders will not be pressured to succeed. I think that Bernie Sanders taking the meeting is an indication that he will come on board. Donald trump facing a backlash about the comments of the mexican ancestry of a judge. Want to make sure he renounces what he says. And he is promong a speech next week. We want to discuss all the things that have taken place with the clintons. Today he is bringing together a large number of donors for a meeting at trump tower and he has hired a new pollster to try to win new york who has not voted for a republican president since 1984. Still ahead another look at your forecast. And sky 6 hd showing you the Philadelphia International airport. Meteorologist, karen rogers, has your update from accuweather and more when we come right back. If you have medicare parts a and b and want more coverage, guess what . You could apply for a Medicare Supplement Insurance Plan whenever you want. No enrollment window. No waiting to apply. That means now may be a great time to shop for an aarp Medicare Supplement Insurance Plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. Medicare doesnt cover everything. And like all standardized Medicare Supplement Insurance Plans, these help cover some of what medicare doesnt pay. So dont wait. Call now to request your free decision guide. It could help you find the aarp Medicare Supplement plan that works for you. These types of plans have no networks, so you get to choose any doctor who accepts medicare patients. Rates are competitive, and theyre the only plans of their kind endorsed by aarp. Remember these plans let you apply all year round. So call today. Because nows the perfect time to learn more. Go long. We are breaking news from delaware county. Chopper 6 hd is over tinicum township where there is some type of hazmat incident. This was reported just before noon time. 8012 issington avenue. We see emergency vehicles on the scene and crews again on the scene no word of evacuations or injuries but a possible hazmat incident at this Office Building in tinicum township. Well monitor the situation and bring you more information as it becomes available to us. Another check of the accuweather forecast, another nice one. Yes, if you want to celebrate a birthday or honor sara. Lets look at stormtracker 6 live double scan around the area, we are dry and we have no weather worries, gusty winds as you step out. Sky 6 hd is taking beautiful shots, we see a few high, thin cirrus clouds, a piece of artwork, joshlgous. Lots of sunshine and blue skies. Here is what to look ahead to, below average temperatures today and tomorrow as well. We are talking about a weekend warmup. New information in so if you are missing the warm weather you have a shot of it over the weekend but the possibility of strong storms on saturday. A few things to follow. Lets start off looking at the temperatures. 69 in philadelphia and 66 in allento allentown. 68 in reading and 68 in wilmington and 66 in trenton and the coastline around 69 degrees. We had beautiful pictures on the facebook page. Corey sent this from Seaside Heights when i was doing a facebook live, we saw the sun start to rise at 6 52, really gorgeous. Satellite 6 along with action radar showing High Pressure is moving in and kind of quiet the next couple of days. We could use quiet after those storms. We are tracking storms for the weekend. We have lots of sunshine and a Beautiful Day just a couple of high, thin clouds. Our high is 75 and 6 degrees below average, not feeling like june for this time of year. At 6 00, 64 degrees and getting cool once again, we are dipping in the suburbs and 7 00, 61 degrees and by 10 00, 60 degrees, and down the shore, a great place to be a westerly breeze so not quite as chilly. Temperatures 74 forever your high today. Sunny skies and looking good down the shore. But we are tracking trouble for the weekend. This is saturday 4 30 in the evening, watch the line of storms that begin to form in the west, we watch it go furnish into the city, its a long ways out but it looks like 7 30 in the evening we can watch this Late Afternoon into the evening hours and the Storm Prediction Center has us at a slight risk for Severe Weather s. Parts of pennsylvania and newcastle and kent and interior areas of south jersey, gloucester and salem and doesnt include the coastline there, we are at a slight risk of Severe Weather, the National Weather service is saying over 60 Miles Per Hour and one inch hail is possible. Saturday afternoon into saturday evening. Here is a look at your exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast, until ten they with dry and weather free and no problems here sunny and a gusty breeze season 78 on friday warming up a little bit better and 84 on the weekend and saturday is warm and humid and you are dry. And 84 is your high. Sunday partly sunny and breezy and maybe a shower but a warm high of 87, look at the drop from the upper 80s monday behind the front 79 not as warm and windy. Tuesday and wednesday we have partly sunny skies and temperatures in the low 80s staying pretty nice for the rest of that seven day period. Cool now and really warming up for the weekend. Thanks karen. The newest edition to the Dining Options at the university of pennsylvania is upping the culinary gain. Alicia vitarelli is joining us at the big board to explain. We are talking about a world renew chef opening his first restaurant in philadelphia. For years foodies have been awaiting jose andres. And he is finally here, celebrating the grand opening of beef steak at 34th and spruce on the campus of the unvefrt of pennsylvania. He calls the concept fast good, like fast food but whole, healthy grab and go options. The veggies are crazy and cool and sexy. What does that mean . He calls the recipes a taste of his own childhood. Its a beef steak tomato. My mother made me a sandwich with mayo and a beautiful beef steak tomato. Here in america we had the blt, but we take away the bacon, but put the mayo and juicy tomato. Im sorry for the beef, im a burger guy too, nothing like a true beef steak tomato sandwich. We got your attention there. That is think of signature sandwich. America is an amazing farmland, and he is excited to showcase all of our beautiful bounty. Andres opened the first beef steak at George Washington university. And excited to bring it here to philadelphia. And penn students can use their dining plans at beef steak. I dont know where you can use your dining plan to eat at a James Beard Award winning chef. I found the tomato sexy, i dont know. Happy birthday. Yeah. Topping the people scene, ed sheeran song, photograph, was a massive hit but now the subject of a lawsuit. They are suing him for 20 million, that is note for note quote for quote a song they wrote years ago. Its the same attorney that represented marvin gays family for the song blurred line, that won the family nor than 5 million in a judgment. Final check of the cool but comfortable temperatures. We see wind gusts of 26 Miles Per Hour. That is disgusting. He is in a weird mood today. Take a look now. By 2 00 lots of sunshine, 73. And 4 00, 75, no humidity out there. A refreshing breeze. By 6 00, 74 coming down from the high of 75. And in the evening mainly clear skies and overnight in the low 50s in philadelphia and once again the suburbs are getting to the 40s. So a cool start tomorrow as well. Thank you karen. Finally this noon, a story with a happy ending. A dog missing for four years. Gloria could not believe when she got the call that her dog was found. Thehihuahua disappeared in 2012. They wish dogs could talk to find out where he has been all of this time. Like a trip or something. He has a family somewhere. A look at stories coming up on action news at 4 00, its time for another down at the shore. Today Melissa Magee is in avalon and she is highlighting some of the best restaurants on the island. Plus its going to be the biggest fedex hub in our area, where its going and how many jobs are coming with it. Now for meteorologist, karen rogers, david murphy, sara bloomquist, happy birthday. Thank you. Im rick williams, have a nice afternoon well see you tonight. Summer is here, so were pulling out all the stops and having the most fabulous backyard brunch youve ever seen. Clintons getting the Party Started with a boozy summer treat that doubles as a host gift. Then, marios in the kitchen with the fantastic michael strahan, and theyve got a devilishly delicious dish thats absolutely eggcellent. Plus, get ready to laugh, because the hilarious Patricia Heaton is here, and shes teaming up with michael to put a new spin on a brunch classic you wont wanna miss. Its about to be brunchtastic up in here, right now on the chew. [ cheers and applause ] good afternoon and welcome to the chew. Hey, ive got a question for you guys. How many of you like pancakes . [ cheers ] yeah
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