Is becoming more and more clear and so is what may have set him off. Right now investigators continue to look for clues into the suspects past and motive. Reporter in an abc news exclusive, the harrowing moments caught on tape by an eyewitness to the shooting. Sharmaine adams was sitting in her car at a gas station sunday morning when a man dressed in all black armed with a rifle and semi automatic pistol opened fire on police. He ended up going around to the back of the car in the opposite literally on our drivers side of the car shooting over us. Then the gunman moved to a nearby car wash where the rampage continued. Im hit. Reporter Police Killing the gunman in a hail of gunfire. Were looking for a motive. Why did he ambush them and seek out Police Officers. Reporter three Police Officers were left dead, Montrell Jackson and Matthew Gerald and deputy 45yearold brad garafola. Police identified the gunman as gavin unoon long, a eugene long, a military veteran who served five years in the marines. Under the name cosmo he posted the video online the day after the five Police Officers in dallas were shot and killed. When you want peace you got to go to war. Reporter Baton Rouge Police say an officer is fighting for his life right now. The second officer is expected to have two surgeries today and the third officer is expected to be okay. The front page of the local paper saying it best, senseless. Chauncey glover, abc news baton rouge. In the aftermath of the shooting Police Officers in dallas and baton rouge, Philadelphia Police are patrolling in pairs. Police commissioner, richard ross put the policy back in place several weeks ago. Several agencies received threats in the wake of the dallas ambush. Philadelphia police will receive help from other departments during next weeks Democratic National convention. The Republican National convention is minutes away from getting underway in cleveland. The gop is gathering to nominate donald trump for president. He will introduce his wife melinia and talk about her husband and paint a different picture of him for those who remain skeptical. Ohio is an open carry state, so police may come facetoface with protesters who are legally allowed to tote a gun. Several notable republicans from the region are skipping the convention. Pat toomey is not attending he is locked in a tight race with katie ma im not going out there for a coordination, i feel very strongly the incendiary comments that have been made over the many months combined with a lack of policy specificity, im never going to clinton under any circumstances, at the same time i have not crossed the rubicon in endorsing the republican nominee. Do you endorse donald trump as the president of the United States . Im not ready to do that. My guess is that the skill set and turns it into a temper mernt i want to see want to see. Chris christie said he is disappointed about not becoming his running mate but has no disconsent about him choosing someone else. Jim gardner and Sarah Bloomquist bring reports from the rnc starting at 4 00 p. M. On action news they are sending updates through twitter and facebook. This reminder the coverage of the rnc can be seen at 10 00 p. M. Tonight before action news at 11 00 p. M. A week from today, the Democratic Convention begins in philadelphia. The entire Action News Team will bring you every angle of the dnc our live coverage starts on friday. The convention in the wells fargo center, the entire action news will be covering the politics when the protests for you beginning next week on 6abc. Well, its another day of sweating it out, but a break from the heat wave appears not to be too far away. Sky6 live hd keeps an eye on the sky some of you will get storms this afternoon and some of them could be severe. David murphy is tracking them all and the heat and the humidity he is at the big board with the very latest. Better to be inside than outside. Reporter i guess it is, rick, always it turns out. As it turns out. We have hot conditions in philadelphia. 92 degrees, if Misery Loves Company we have a lot of company. 90 in new york city, 92 in washington. 9 dewpoints are higher the farther south you go along the coast. In philadelphia we get into the 60s. There is and area southern half of the area, south jersey and delaware, are the dewpoints are in 70s. Washington, 76. Thats the oppressive air south of philadelphia. Even in the city it will feel uncomfortable. The heat index values 92 in philadelphia. Feels like 95. 96 in wilmington, you see the higher numbers south of the region. 99 in atlantic city, 103 in dover. Again, afternoon indication that the humidity is higher again, an indication that the humidity is higher and south of philadelphia. 89 forecast for this afternoon, hot and humid, 94 degrees by 2 00 p. M. 94 by 5 00 p. M. High of 95 in the middle around 3 00 p. M. , 4 00 p. M. Theres a possibility of Severe Weather this afternoon. If youre at the pool or the beach later today or this evening, you want to keep your ears out for thunder and react to that, because obviously were looking at the potential of Severe Weather, and theres the high numbers up in the northern and western suburbs. As we take a look at radar, so far theres only thunderstorms out to the west of harrisburg and off to the north and west of the poconos. Another little guy starting to pop around harrisburg, itself. We dont expect the stuff to roll in until 3 or 3 30 p. M. Or close to the rush hour in the i95 corridor. Should anything pop take cover indoors on the lower floors because any storms that hit could produce strong damaging wind gusts. As we said ten minutes ago, the Storm Prediction Center had a had the the risk zone has pulled it down all the way to the shore. Thank you, theres much more still ahead on action news at 12 30. September taps depleted Regional Rail fleet gets help out state. T dozens of military leaders have been across turkey since the coup. The former air force commander is considered the ring leader. 232 people were killed during of during the unrest including civilians and Police Officers. Back here septa has new help as i want tries to get through the loss of 120 Regional Rail cars. Annie mccormick tells you what changed. Septa said they are borrowing more trains from other agencies, but this morning many commuters had more to deal with when they had major delays on the Paoli Thorndale cars. Five cars joined new Jersey Transit and amtrak to help septa. July 1 after discovering a defect they pulled 120 silver liner fives out of service. By midweek they expect to have the leased cars but they do not expect to have defect fixed until the fall. With the altered schedule many commuters were waiting and watched the full train pass. It reminds me when they went on strike. This morning delays on the thorndale line occurred when a crew i should a delay into center city. The doylestown line experienced delays up to 40 minutes because of technical issues. Station managers kept riders informed. I left rain and progressing toward our station, we have to wait to see if this symptoms. I thought they were getting it under control last week. Reporter july tends to be a thinner crowd of riders. Officials are recommending riders who can use buses and alternative routes. Im expecting delays trying to camp an earlier train in and earlier trains home. This is a tough dilemma. Im not expecting miracles, everything should be perfect. Reporter septa is saying go by the july 18 schedule that is subject to change, check the website before heading out. Reporting in merion, abbey Annie Mccormick channel 6 action news. The United StatesPosal Service is offering classic pickup trucks for new stamps for helping to mold americas landscape and revolutioning how goods are transported. Ahead on action news at 12 30, another check of the forecast as we look outside sky6 live hd showing you penns landing. Meteorologist david murphy has an update from accuweather including precipitation and lots of it anne relief when we come right back. Be the you who doesnt cover your moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. Be the you who shows up in that dress. Who hugs a friend. Who is done with treatments that dont give you clearer skin. Be the you who controls your psoriasis with stelara® just 4 doses a year after 2 starter doses. Stelara® may lower your ability to fight infections and may increase your risk of infections and cancer. 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Surveillance video captured the suspect inside the state house at 1 00 a. M. He broke in and vandalized alter work. The extent of the damage is unclear, it seems none of the items inside are missing. Some say the kanye west taylor swift feud has gone nuclear. Kim kardashian believes swift is not being truthful about her true feelings over west song famous which names swift in an unfavorable light. Kardashian posted a series of videos on snap chat where it shows west reciting the lyrics over the phone. Swift tweeted he never told her about the provocative language. And said the release of the snap chat video was a character assassination. It has gone nuclear. Reporter boom. Meteorologist, david murphy talking about things heating up. Reporter hopefully our weather does not go nuclear this afternoon. We have a threat of Severe Weather, a wider portion of the area is covered with slight risk. Well talk about that coming up. Storm tracker 6 live double scan shows us were dry across the region. If you want to get stuff done over the next couple of hours you can do it. Pottstown burger and harrisburg you can pots harrisburg you can see storms lining. It will be around the i95 door correspond around dinnertime. Theres a chance something pops up ahead of that schedule. As we look outside we have the action cam and ahead of any storminess we have a fair amount of hazy sunshine out there. Its warm and humid and in some cases down right hot even at the noon hour. Philadelphia will be one of those lace places. We reached into the low 90s. The dewpoint is in the 60s. That 67 in noticeable humid. The farther south you go, the better chance you oppressive heat and humidity. Winds west, southwest 13 miles per hour. In terms of of any rain, future tracker 6 is trying to get a handle on this, by 3 00 p. M. It is beginning to pop showers and thunderstorms no matter of allentown. It could be down there by 3 00 p. M. In allentown. Well see how this develops as we go through the afternoon. 5 00 p. M. Or 35 30 p. M. A broken line of this is starting to come out of allentown into the immediate western suburbs. Notice how there are bulls eyes of heavy producing rain. The model has a break in Montgomery County north of philadelphia. Thats not necessarily how it will pan out. What you can tell from the model, a line is possible. At times the line could fill in and hit someplaces that were not seeing here. By 7 00 p. M. Looks like a series of good downpour producing thunderstorms are coming through. Finally by 9 00 p. M. , the last of these should be by the coast and getting ready to get on out of here. This is the change that occurred within the hour while we were on the air. The Storm Prediction Center which pushed the slight risk of Severe Weather down to philadelphia afternoon. They have pushed it down to the shore. That means any thunderstorm that develops will have the possibility of producing winds gusts and hail and theres a chance of an isolated tornado in the Lehigh Valley and berks county and northern bucks and lehigh county. All of this tells us we have to take cover on the lower floors. High risk of lightning downpours and strong damaging winds and large hail is not out of the question. While i have tornados as low its on the table its part of the package. 9512 high in philadelphia. 94 in wilmington, 93 in trenton. Less humid the farther no matter you go, more humid the farther south you go . Some cases we could see heat index values getting up to 100. In dover youre over 100. 85 in surf city and 86 in ac and oc. Down the pike in Rehoboth Beach 86. Uv index running high. 87 degrees by 6 00 p. M. 84 by 8 00 p. M. Down to 81 by 10 00 p. M. You have the threat of thunderstorm coming through early in the phillies game. Dewpoints are high today in the 60s and 70s. Tomorrow afternoon down into the 50s that means that the humidity is over tomorrow. The exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast, 95 degrees hot and humid with the potentially strong thunderstorms in spots today. Tomorrow, warm, but less humid as we move through the day, 89. Wednesday and thursday looks great. Particularly wednesday, 84 under the sun thats good. Humidity should remain low on thursday, as well. Looks like it gets hotter and more humid friday saturday and sunday with more storms being introduced saturday high of 96 thats a hot one, and heat indices over 100. The Dell Music CenterSummer Season gets into full swing and david murphy has more on 6abc loves the arts. For the past now 42 years theres been an opportunity for Community Members to come here and enjoy cultural festivities, cultural events. Reporter tickets are selling fast for the dells animal annual essence of entertainment festival. Award winning artists are set to perform this month. Its a party in here, people are dancing throughout this venue. Its not just a concert. It is an experience. Reporter august 18 should bring a special treat for the ladies. Were looking forward to having avant thats our ladies night with the men up on the stage. August are 25 account, sheila e and morris day and the times take to the stage with a tribute to prince. The dell hosts free movies nights, as well. All you have toed is come. No charge. Reporter july 26 disney pixar inside out and after that creed. Come out and earn joy the summer underneath the stars. The Dell Music CenterSummer Season runs through august go to my dell east. Com or visit 6abc. C water and gatorade thank god, thank you. Henry bailey of newport news, virginia is getting help staying cool this summer. 8yearold Carmine Mcdaniel wrote a note saying mailman water and gatorade in cooler have a good day. He said it was a great gesture and it made his day. We had a mailman who retired and we threw him a party. Storm tracker 6 live double scan showing we are dry, be on the look out for thunderstorms in the northern and western suburbs. Hot and humid in the i95 corridor look out for thunderstorms late this afternoon and early this evening. 95 is the high in philadelphia. Feeling like 98, 99. Down the shore if you see thunderstorms there, they could be strong in a couple of spots everybody take cover if you hear thunder. How about the phillies they are not real hot yesterday. They open a four game serials against the marlins. Phillies fell victim to a stall similar pitching job. They lost 50. They lost 8 of their 9 series. David murphy. Reporter i was there. Still fun. Coming up on action news at security is tight in clevelands the Republican Convention kicks off. Well have the live report from Sarah Bloomquist with the latest on the politics and the protest. Police are looking to crack cold cases and get justice for families. 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