Thousands of people have taken to the streets upset over Police Killings 2069 black men. Another group marched through philadelphia this morning. Action News Reporter Annie Mccormack was right there. Reporter group is called showing up for Racial Justice, or search and this morning they took their protest from city hall out into the streets in the middle of morning rush hour. At times during the estimated hour long protest traffic came to a stand still, as members of the philly chapter of the surge, showing up, for Racial Justice hit the street. Their message is similar to protest across the country expressing outrage over recent deaths of two have africanamerican men by Law Enforcement and killing of the Six Police Officers killed by an africanamerican man, later set to be targeting white police officers. The leaders of the surge are predominantly white. There have been marches every single night and this has been led by black lives matter and or activist in the city and we wanted a charge to demonstrate that there are white people in the city who are also outraged, and that we think this is a racist system that where police are targeting people of color. Reporter today in between chants the group mark down market and back to city hall, they call on the Kenney Administration for a comprehensive response to police brutality. Protest stayed peaceful but morning traffic on market from 15th through 16th street, and on broad from vine to city hall saw vehicles at a stand still. Protest eventually ended inside city halls courtyard. It has a significant effect on traffic in center city during morning rush but when you weigh that against people having the opportunity to express their First Amendment rights, obviously that trumps traffic. Reporter organizers from surge say they will continue to reach out to mayor kenney and his administration. They plan to have similar protests in the future. Reporting outside city hall, Annie Mccormack for channel six action news. This is week two of the septa Regional Rails modified schedule and to ease congestion they have put borrowed trains into service. Action news is on board this morning where leased vehicles ushered passengers along Paoli Thorndale and trenton lines. Additional cars and three locomotives added 1700 more seats to the commute. However Regional Rail was still short more than 12,000 seats, and commuters were feeling the pinch. I dont know if it is going to be significant. I think it will help, of course, more trains, less crowded. It will be a long hall. We have dealt with this before with strikes but it has always been a week, two weeks, at the most but this is going to be a couple of months. Septa has changed the schedules a recording to each line so you should check your route, before you head out. One fire fighter was sent to the hospital battling an overnight fire in the cities wynfield section. Flames broke out here in the 5300 block of west berk street just after 1 00 this morning. It took 20 minutes for crew toss get things under control. One fire fighter was taken to penn presbyterian in stable condition but at this point it is still unclear why. Meanwhile cause of the fire is still under investigation. Philadelphia police are trying to track down a package thief who was using an indego bike share rental as his getaway vehicle. First incident happened june 30th in the 600 block of addison street just before 12 30 in the afternoon. Thief removes a package from the doorstep and ride off on a bike. Police believe it is same man seen in the 500 block of south 26th street at 3 15 that same afternoon. The suspect removed a package from the storm door there, before riding off. Turning now to the forecast and if you like sunshine and comfortable conditions, well, today is just perfect for you. Looking live, from sky 6hd, showing you a pretty shot of this center city sky line just a few clouds in the sky there. Today is likely the best day of the week so you better get out and enjoy it. Meteorologist david murphy is outside otter ace with the delightful details from accu weather, enjoy it now. I know what a nice day across the region. Too bad it cant stay this way all summer or all week for that matter. Lets start with satellite. There are a few fair weather cumulus clouds popping through but not a big wide mass of cloud cover, really anywhere and even the stuff out to the west in harrisburg that comes swooping in and that evaporates. A few patchy clouds today but a lot of sun overall. Eighty is current temperature in philadelphia, and just 75, up in central park in new york city. Eightyone in washington. Little bit more humid further south you go down the coast. Right now dew points are running in the 50s here and 50s in washington but, of course, you go down to Richmond Virginia and roanoke then you you are well in the 60s where the humid air is sitting right now. Not here this afternoon at the playground not a bad day to go out and enjoy yourself. Dont forget sun screen. Still warm enough for a cool drink. Just not that much humid which makes it nice. By 2 00, 85. 86 degrees by 4 00 going for a high of 87 degrees at 3 00 this afternoon. Heres where numbers will go after that. Is there that 86 at 4 00. By 6 00 oclock still pretty warm, 84 degrees. Then by 8 00 we are in the mid to upper 70s and then by ten, back down to the lower 07s with an overnight low of with 69 degrees. So, rick, a beautiful summer afternoon. Unfortunately things start to get more humid tomorrow and a lot more humid after that, details, coming up in the seven day, if you have something to get done outside today maybe some yard work or something this is day to do it. Thanks, david. Be sure to check back at six abc. Com weather for the latest forecast information, real time views from Storm Tracker six live radar and rely on our expert team of meteorologists to keep you up to date by following each of them on facebook and on twitter. Delaware governor jack markell celebrated a boom in locally grown produce today. The action cam was at the shop rite in cristina crossing in wilmington to kick off local produce week. 240 family owned farms in the first state grow fruits and vegetables. Today governor markell used his time in wilmington to emphasize the importance of buying local and positive impacts local agriculture has on the state. Well, not every day you get to make breakfast for a u. S. Senator and an Award Winning chef. But that is how nine yearold a va, of lower merion spent her morning after getting a few cooking tips from chef mark vetri, she cook up her Award Winning sonnys omelette for senator bob casey. She said opportunity to cook in vetris kitchen was quite an experience. It is pretty cool. My daddies almost as excited as i am. Almost as excited a i am a va was chosen as National Winner of Michelle Obamas healthy lifetime challenge. Her spinach omelette was name for sonny, one of the obama family dogs. Solar impulse two is beginning a new leg of the historic flight. Plane left spain this morning on its way to egypt, crew is trying to complete first around the world voyage relying on just solar power. Flight to egypt will last 50 hours and 30 minutes, this is the next to last flight on a journey that end in the united arab emirates. And there is much more still to come on action news at the 2 30 a pancake mix sold across the country could make you ill, what is wrong witt, we will tell you what you can do about it coming up next. Spider man was seen hanging around town this morning all to put smiles on the faces of children in the hospital. We will have that story and much more coming up next. Crust tease. One person killed and another injured during a boat crash in Barnegat Inlet ocean county. Coastguard said they crashed yesterday afternoon off the coast of the long beach island. Impact tossed three people over board, coastguard, quickly arrived, pulling them out of the water. Police say 35 yearold chan tang of hainesport died at the scene. Second victim was treated for minor injuries. Still no word what caused the crash. Volunteers at a Bethlehem Cemetery are working to clean up some new vandalism there. Al baron says recent graffiti at Saint Michaels cemetery isnt suppliesing but it is always disappointing. Baron filed a Police Report and working hard to clean up the area. In the meantime he is working to install more surveillance cameras to assure these acts of vandalism do not happen in the future. Now to the race for the white house, and the Police Shootings in louisiana and minute so the air front and center just one week before the Republican National convention. Abcs tom lawless has details now from the campaign trail. Reporter it is the country still reeling after ambush in dallas and protest across the nation, donald trump is accusing the president of ignoring reality. Trump tweeting president other bam a thinks the nation is not as divided as people think. He is living in the world of the make belief. Race now at forefront of the campaign, one of the trumps biggest supporters, former new york city mayor rudy julian which this advise to black children. If i were a black father and i was concerned about the safety of my child i would say be very respectful of the police. I would also say, be very careful of those kid in the neighborhood and dont get involved with them, because son, there is a 99 percent chance that they are going to kill you, not the police. Reporter and this view of black lives matter. Black lives matter, white lives matter, asian lives matter, hispanic lives matter, anti american and it is racist. Reporter much different tone from hillary clinton. Im going to be talking to white people, and i think were the ones who have to start listening to the legitimate cries, that are coming from our africanamerican fellow citizens. Reporter retired Army Sergeant Michael Flynn who is being vetted to be trumps running mate strongly disagree with clintons statements. She talks about white people being to blame. I mean that is so irresponsible. Reporter but flynn may have his own troubles gelling with trump. Women have to be able to choose. Reporter he is a registered democrat who unlike trump supports abortion rights. That was tom yanis reporting for abc. In other news star bucks employees are smiling big they are noon and it is not just because of the caffeine n a memo sent to all 157,000 employees in the u. S. , ceo Harold Schultz announced that all store employees and managers will get a raise, beginning october 3rd. Star bucks will also double the companys stock award for employees hoff been there two or more years. These changes will boost total compensation between five and 15 percent for all workers. Now to a consumer alert we have a food recall to tell you about, Continental Mills is recalling krusteaz blueberry pancake mix, the recall effects products manufactured between april and june of this year. Kotsay blueberry nugget in the mix is made with a small percentage of the flour recalled by General Mills over possible e co icon tam nation. So far no illnesses have been reported. If you have the mix you are asked to cat company for a refund and to throw the rod you can, away. And still a head on action news at 12 30 another check of that very nice accu Weather Forecast outside as we look live from sky 6hd, the perfect beach day, or to walk the boardwalk in atlantic city, either one, meteorologist david murphy has your update from accu weather when we come right back. Patients and their families got quite the surprise in montgomery county. Window washers from Jenkintown Building Services dressed up as spider man and captain america, outside of the chop Specialty Care and Surgery Center in king of prussia. The cot has been surprising patients and chop in University City for five years now. Today was first time that they dressed up, as one anxious fan, they dressed up at a chop care, that is so nice. Pretty cool. If you are hanging out on buildings. I would be very happy to be out and about. Storm tracker six live double scan right now shows us that we are dry and chopper six, outside over philadelphia earlier. There is six abc zoo balloon flying high in this nice weather. Boy what a nice day to be taking a ride the zoo balloon or anything outdoors. It is a little on the warm side but humidity is, well, it is low. Your forecast highlights, well to day is great. Tomorrow will be more humid. By wednesday we will be all out sticky. By thursday is there even a chance of oppressive heat and humidity to come back in the fixture. For now 80 degrees. Dew point in the 50s where we want it to be. Wind north northeast at 7 miles an hour. Not that humid. Pretty comfortable out there. Satellite shows us lack of cloud cover. All this stuff off to the north and west will have a hard time getting down to us today. We will see fair weather cumulus cloud around but generally speaking it is going to be a bright day for you. Eightyseven is the high in philadelphia same thing in wilmington. Eightyfive in allentown. Eightyfive is your high in trenton. And 85 degrees in millville. Down the shore closer to 80 degrees up and down the coast. Closer look shows us that we will stay in the 70s in surf city and beach haven but honor about 80 in atlantic city, ocean city. Ocean temperature 73. Eightys in Sea Isle City and cape may. Low to mid 80s down the coast in delaware. Uv index running high so take precaution in that regard. 85 degrees by 2 00. Eightysix by four, coming down from the high of 87 in there. By 6 00 oclock still pretty warm were you not all that humid. 84 degrees the temperature at 6 00. By 8 00, 77. Seventytwo by ten. Too bad phillies have allstar break off, it would be a nice night for baseball. 87 degrees, again for tomorrow but tomorrow there is a bit of the change. High pressure off the coast we will get more southerly component off the ocean, and i dont think we will cloud up, all that much, we will have some sun, a few more cloud tomorrow then today but the big change will be that slight rise in humidity. It will not be too bad. Looking at dew point this afternoon at 4 00, youre looking at numbers in the 50s, again, when we get in the lower 60s that is when it begins to feel humid but as we advance this 24 hours, we can see how things change. When we get up to 61, in philadelphia, 66 in wilmington. Seventy where we Start Talking about oppressive humidity in dover. Wildwood also pretty soupy too. In allentown borderline humid. Not oppress any of most areas tomorrow but a little bit more humid tomorrow and then wednesday, that continues to be southerly flow will continue to raise, those dew points and make it more sticky. Eightyseven is the high. Nice summer day. Low humidity. Lots of sunshine. Get out there and get stuff done today if you can. You can still get it done tomorrow because it is a bit more humid but today is most comfortable day of the week and these two right in here monday and tuesday are definitely 29 most comfortable. Because after that on wednesday, it is very warm, stick which a high close to 90. Could be a late day thunderstorm out west of philadelphia on wednesday the way things are looking, and that will be more humid. Then on thursday, a high of 92 but heat index will likely make it feel like between 95, maybe as high as 100 in some urban centers. So soupy air coming back into play. Much like what we had last week. Friday could be pretty oppressive, each of these days a thunderstorm is possible. Ninetyone is fridays high. Then we will get into saturday partly sunny skies and hot one with a high of 93. I dont think humidity levels will be as high, it will be somewhat humid but probably not as oppressive on saturday. Stick with us on that. There is a couple long range front waffling around and that could change the story. Saturday thunderstorm cant be ruled out. Sunday partly sin, hot, 92. Phillies back on friday. They will be coming home to a hot summer like conditions. That is why you have to enjoy today. Thanks, david. Topping our people scene at 12 30 chaka can has entered rehab for addiction. Representatives posted a message to fans on her web site that says, chaka has long struggled with a dependens on pain medication and entered voluntarily to get healthy. She has put her july concerts on hold, and she is expected to return to performing, sometime, in august. To the Weekend Box Office, and the secret life of pets, that is an estimated 103 milliondollar, making the fury friend the Weekend Box Office champs. Legend of the tarzan was second with 20 million. Disneys finding dory floated down to third. While it lost its standing as we can end winner dory surpassed fellow Disney Release captain America Civil War as top earner of 2016 come particularly. It stand at 422 million, and that is nearly 20 million more than civil war, has made, so far. Well, summertime is in fully affect, of course and staying in shape is on many mind. If you are work out routine is getting stale, well, there is ways to switch things up including while you are down at the shore. Action News Reporter erin ohearn shows us how. I did it. I did it. Reporter laughing at end of the work out, yes, paddling is that much fun. When stand up paddling you are used to it is on narrow board and propel with your hand. Reporter water sport popular out west and australia, the Ocean City Swim Club is now bringing it to the new jersey shore. You really control board and balance through your abdominals and your core. It is always engaged. Even the most subtle will of swell or wave and you are constantly correcting and balances. Reporter hey you get to be in the opened water. Speaking of which. Lots of you have heard of stuffed yoga but finding your ballot bay is hard. Previously stand up yoga everybody drifting about, you have to anchor everybody out. Reporter harbor outfitters in fish alley has the imagine paddle surf to club where eight can be anchored on a Center Platform making this yoga more accessible for novice paddle borders. This allows us to keep everybody happy. Bring your hand back out. Reporter boxing lessons at surf side fitness in avalon will get your heart rate up and frustration out but this isnt your typical private fitness lesson not when instructor is wealther wait champion ray robinson. It is a full body work out. When you are, bobbing and weaving and working your legs, coordination. Reporter robinson says his boxing classes are not just for elite athletes. And the club says their group isnt just for the seasoned try the athlete. We have members that are going to be doing their first triathlon. We have members doing it for years. We have some people that just want to get out and exercise. Reporter this group puts safety first for those hesitant of open water swims, members have access to coaches on site and, of course, access to the fun. Make sure you have six abc. Com where we have links of the groups feature. Im erin ohearn for channel six, action news. 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. Through the pain and heartache at this Police Memorial in dallas over the week end there was this surprising site. A man who rode up to the memorial with the grand piano on his bike, played john lenons imagine. His name is David Martello and he travels the world hoping to heel hearts with his music. He calls it his mission to promote peace. How nice. Guy did that in paris too. Yes. Same guy. Same guy from paris. I was than the paying attention i guess. Yeah. So nice day out there. Dont stay out in the sun too long, 86 degrees in redding this afternoon. Eightyfive in allentown. Eightysix in pottstown. Humidity, low lots of sun and through see light wind Center Portion of the region it looks like 87 in philadelphia lucky enough to be down the shore gorgeous weather down there highs around 80 in those spots what a day to be at the shore. Thanks, david. Heres some of the stories coming up on action news at 4 00 oclock. It is one of the hottest games and it has been for a week. Pokemon go but players on the hunt for monsters in the video games are feeling really world pain. Warning police are putting out today about the game. Very possible that the best burgers at summer barbecue may not have have a shred of meat in them. We will put more than a dozen veggie burgers to the test, coming up today at 4 00. That will do it for action news at noon. Join us for later today. For david murphy, sarah bloomquist, and the entire action news team, im rick williams. Have a good afternoon. 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