Good morning. If you like it unbearablely warm and oppressive humidity youre in luck. Weve got another great day for you. Satellite6 and action radar show weve really cleared out. Weve got clearer conditions than we had yesterday at least. Well see lots of sunshine and that means its going the heat up earlier and get hotter. 74 degrees right now in philadelphia, 70 in allentown, 72 in wilmington, 71 degrees right now in millville. And we look at the visibility reports because we are noticing some fog to the north and west, 2. 5mile visibility in lancaster, 9mile in reading, no big deal, six nile allentown but only 4 miles right now in that mount pocono so something that were watching especially near northwestern communities. Its an air quality alert day today so be careful about that. This is the sensitive groups, people who are young, older, anybody with respiratory issues. Be mindful of that and maybe try to limit your outdoor activities. I told one of our producers dont go running today, its okay, you dont have to. Giving you the day off. 93 degrees for your high today, lots of sunshine but its going to feel, matt pelman, like its the upper 90s. Thousand . Ill tell you, you really know thousand sell it. Sounds like its going to be a great day. All right, good morning to you, karen. So far its not so bad out there, trust me. We just have some overnight construction were watching here along 95 southbound side by woodhaven road. Theyre still working in the two right lanes so just the left lane is squeezing by. Theyre also out and about on woodhaven itself blocking lanes in both directions as the milling and paving work continues there. And theyre still working on the vine street expressway here in center city. These are the westbound lanes of broad street taking out the right lane. Should be out of there shortly and then we are scheduled to have one more night of this and then the construction on the vine should be suspended until after the papal visit. So, there you go afew weeks off from the vine construction. Had construction on the schuylkill near passyunk. That just cleared out but theres still some work on the pennsylvania turnpike in Chester County eastbound between route 29 and valley forge. Right lane is out of commission and in Mercer County the calhoun street bridge mostly blocked this morning until 6 oclock. Head for the trenton makes bridge or the trentonmorrisville bridge along route one. Tam. Okay, thank you, matt. Were following a developing story this morning. A car hit a mother and her two Young Children in ocean county. This happened on route nine in lakewood. Lets go on over to action News Reporter katherine scott. Shes live in our satellite center. Shes got the very latest. Good morning, katherine. Reporter good morning, tam. I spoke to police this morning and they tell me a mother and her two young daughters were injured. The mother is listed in stable condition, her daughters are both in serious condition at the hospital. This happened last night around 10 oclock in lakewood. You can see the baby stroller flipped over in the middle of the street. Police say the mother and her two children who are approximately one and four years old were somewhere in the roadway by river avenue when the accident happened. All three were taken to the trauma unit at Jersey Shore University medical center. The driver of the Lincoln Town Car did remain at the scene. At this point police say theres no indication the driver was driving under the influence and theres no word if speed was a factor in this crash. Accident investigators are still speaking to witnesses and piecing together what happened. So far theres no word if any charges will be filed. Were live from the satellite center, katherine scott, channel6 action news. Matt. Thank you katherine. Police say a West Philadelphia funeral parlor was operating without a license and a tip led police to a grisly discovery there. They found three bodies, two of them decomposing. At the hawkins funeral parlor at 53rd and vine streets. One of the bodies was placed on a gurney without being embalmed according to investigators. They say the parlor was in a deplorable condition with a bag of human remains discarded on the ground. At this point no one is charged with any crime. Hear what the owners have to say about the accusations at 5 00 a. M. A 59yearold man is now charged in a hit and run that killed an off Duty Philadelphia Police officer. Officer lamar poole was driving his motorcycle home from work on sunday morning. He was hit by a car in northeast philadelphia. He later died at the hospital. Officials believe that louis having will was driving drunk at the time. According to police, having will got out of his car after the accident, saw officer poole on the ground and then tried to flee. Six High School Football players in north jersey have been sentenced for sexually hazing four teammates. The players from sayreville war memorial must complete 50 hours of Communities Service and probation. They will not have to register as sex offenders. A family judge a Family Court Judge handed down the sentence after the players pleaded guilty to child endangerment and hazing. The hazing happened in the locker room. A seventh player is awaiting trial in family court. And this is new. A now retired Pennsylvania Liquor control board employee is accused of taking bribes from suppliers. Federal Authorities Say james short of harrisburg served as marketing director of the plcb and played a major role in deciding what showed up on store shelves. Short has agreed to plead guilty to mail fraud for accepting 13,000 in gifts from vendors. The fbi says the gifts included sports tickets, golf trips, meals and alcohol and that he took a private jet to one of the golf trips. Authorities say short filed false ethics reports to try and hide it all. Secretary of state john kerry will visit philadelphia tomorrow. Hell give a speech at the National Constitution center. In it he will lay out the president s case for supporting the Iranian Nuclear deal. Action news will be at this event. A vote on approving or rejecting the deal is expected next month. Now to the latest on the race for the white house. A surprise for the republicans. Donald trump is still trucking in the lead but now hes got a bit of company. And theres also news for the democrats as more of Hillary Clintons emails go public. Abcs bazi kanani has all the latest. Reporter Donald Trumps frontrunner status threatened this morning. For the first time in months in a credible poll another candidate dr. Benn carson is keeping up tied at 23 percent in the critical first voting state of iowa. Carsons only public reaction, retweeting of the new headlines an simple thank you. Trump noticeably silent commenting only on other polls that still show him ahead. I love nashville. I do love nashville. Reporter while trump continues to draw large crowds and is gathering some big endorsements. Everything about Donald Trumps campaign is avant garde and he is crushing it in the polls. Reporter he is also attracting an increasing number of protesters at his event. On the democratic side, the email controversy is still swirling around hillary clinton. The state department releasing another batch of her personal emails monday night, 7,000 pages, 125 of them sensord because of information that was classified but was not at the time the emails were sent. At least one analyst at the state departments computer help desk didnt know about clintons personal email account. He unknowingly emailed her in 2010 to ask about error messages from her account. Now, there was no smoking gun in the email release but clintons critics say it only further proves that she should never have been using a personal account for government business. Bazi kanani, abc news, washington. A family from pope francis hometown of Buenos Aires Argentina is already on their way to philadelphia in advance of the papal visit this month. The road trip has taint Walker Family across 13 latin american countries so far. And there four children are traveling the 13,000mile trip in a volkswagen bus. The family crossed into the u. S. For the first time on sunday at port isabelle in texas. They raised some money for the journey but are also relying on strangers to open their homes. The family has been keeping a blog about the trip. After they attend the world meeting of families in philadelphia, the family plans to visit new york and then fly back home to argentina. Boy, will they be tired. What a trip. My goodness, thats wonderful. 4 39. Coming up on action news this morning, an International Pop star was spotted, yeah, that guy, eating pizza in villanova. A new jersey man completes the ultimate ice bucket challenge. It took a year to complete. Karen. 74 degrees right now in philadelphia. It is warm, it is humid and we are baking this afternoon. Details in sevenday forecast coming up. This fall at dunkin donuts, get lost in pumpkin. Pick up your favorite pumpkinflavored beverages and baked treats, like the new pumpkin cheesecake square, while theyre still here. America runs on dunkin. A medium hot coffee, cream and two sugars, please . Medium hot coffee, cream, two sugars sounds good. At dunkin, we make your coffee just the way you like it. If not, well make it again on the spot. See you tomorrow. Thats the dd commitment. America runs on dunkin. See you tomorrow. Thats the dd commitment. A new jersey man has accomplished his mission to take a dip in the Atlantic Ocean every single day for a year. Island heights car dealer doug mcday took a nice easy dip yesterday way more refreshing than the winter days when the water was bitter cold. His daily swim started out as a lark a year ago but turned into the ultimate ice bucket challenge. Hes raised 6,000 for a foundation that helps families struggling with als or lou gehrigs disease. That is amazing, right ayear. I dont think ive stuck to anything in my life for a year. [laughter] waking up every morning would be one. Oh, that ive done, yeah, youre right. All right, lets take a look right now another Storm Tracker6 live double scan around the region. Were starting our day off right. Were looking pretty good out there. Were sure not feeling so great, though. Lets head outside. Its warm, its muggy. The action cam is up and awake out there on the ben franklin parkway. Im looking, yeah, nobody is out there, nobody running, nobody doing anything because you know why. Its 4 43 in the morning. Lets check the Current Conditions for you right now as we look at the numbers. As you can see, were dry on Storm Tracker and its 74 degrees right now in philadelphia. Its already feeling warm. Its already feeling muggy. Maybe not quite as warm as it was yesterday morning. We started at about 78. The dewpoints 69 degrees. It is way up there. Any time you hit 70 it feels oppressive with the humidity and it certainly is going to feel quite humid today. Winds out of the westsouthwest at 7 miles an hour. Its 74 degrees right now in philadelphia, 70 in allentown, even in the poconos its in the low 60s. Low 70s in trenton along the boardwalk and 73 degrees right now in dover, delaware. Satellite6 and action radar showing, yes, we had the clouds from yesterday, a couple of scattered showers here or there. Thats all cleared out of here and were going to sea bright sunshine but that only means were going to be a little bit faster in our heating up process today and youre going to feel that heat even more so. We look at the dewpoints and we stay on the high side through friday until we get a big change for the weekend. So, a change this weekend. Look at that dramatic drop that this models forecasts from feeling oppressive humidity friday to much better on saturday. Youll see that in the sevenday forecast. Today we mark heat wave number five once we hit above 90s degrees and we expect to go 93 for your high today with lots of sunshine all the way through. Tomorrow 11 degrees above average. 94 degrees. So here we are september so many kids going back to school and maybe not a lot of the classrooms having air conditioners and youre really sweating it out. Thursday even hotter, 95 with a chance for a thunderstorm. Then what we get is relief on friday. So, in the overnight hours you are going to feel really muggy out there but the actual afternoon high is 88 degrees, feeling pretty good with a chance for a thunderstorm in spots still left over. On saturday its beautiful and sunny. What a change. 86 degrees. Temperatures only a couple degrees above average. Well take that with lots of sunshine. No problems for the temple game. It is a Holiday Weekend on sunday, its very warm, 89 degrees. On monday for labor day lots of sunshine, 88 degrees, no big weather related problems looking at your Holiday Weekend for a lot of people if youre headed out, you should have no issues, not even looking at the chance for thunderstorms at this point. So, for today were kind of bake out there. Okay. Okay. Time for some 1d. Oh, yes. All right. Happening tonight, one direction performs at lincoln financial field. Band member harry styles was spotted last night at campus corner, a pizza shop near villanova university. He stopped for a bite to eat and take some photos with some lucky fans. He ordered seven cheesesteaks, fries, a few sodas and they posted another picture of his cleaned plate. Harry styles finishes his dinner. The ben franklin parkway is getting ready for this weekends made in america music festival. Crews are assembling the stage and lighting towers in front of the Philadelphia Museum of art. Beyonce will headline this years festival which is run by her husband, jayz. 40 other acts will perform over the labor day weekend. You can view the full schedule on 6abc. Com. And now were at the big board to take our first look at business. You know its been a year since the showboat casino closed down in ac. Stockton university bought the property. The idea is that they wanted to turn night a satellite campus but its all been held up by legal claims and its to the point now that stockton says you know what weve lost interest. Theyre saying they want to try to celt property soon. Lets take a look at the major indices on wall street and they all seem to be down yesterday and theyre all looking down again this morning. Looking like at least a 2 percent drop or more for the start of business today. Now google has a new app. It lets some android watches work with the iphone but it wont let the android watches interact with other apps on the iphone. Android watches start at 100. And what about happy hour at target . The retailer is opening up Smaller Stores in big cities across the country and right here in center city in philadelphia but Something Special for the store theyre about to open in chicago. Target has applied for two liquor licenses there. One would be to stock the store and sell liquor on the shelves. The other one would be to actually open a bar. Oh. Reporter theres no word if target plans to do something similar in our area, get the necessities and there is one across the street from us. Yeah . A long day at work, you know. 4 47. Still to come on action news, what saved a work interWashington State when a tree fell on top of him . And later a south jersey couple finds a live cannon ball in their backyard. Action news will be back in just a moment. Well, welcome to september. Were just a couple hours in but so far its been pretty good on the roadways as we look live in center city, just some overnight construction. Did you catch them . There they go pulling away from the westbound right lane here along the vine street expressway by broad street. All three lanes back in business as of about 10 seconds ago. So, youre good to go now in both directions on the vine street expressway and we expect one more night of construction and then no more construction for the rest of the month as the pope comes to town later on this month. Here in the great northeast this is woodhaven road, overnight construction has cleared here as well but on 95 southbound by woodhaven, theyre still blocking the two right lanes. Those crews should be cleared out any time. On the northeast extension, you guessed it, some construction southbound side approaching quakertown right lane is out of commission. In Chester County on the eastbound turnpike between route 29 and valley forge, theres also right lane construction and coming into new jersey from pennsylvania on the turnpike connector, its actually one of the access roads, wednesday a crash overnight but thats been cleared out of the way and speeds in that neck of the woods on the jersey turnpike and as well as 295 and 95 in bucks county theyre all looking good so far on this tuesday morning. Matt. Thanks, matt. Thousands of heads of cabbage caused traffic issues in rochester, new york. A tractortrailer rolled over during morning rush yesterday spilling its load of rough patch alageall over the interst. Police are not sure what caused the truck driver to loss control. A wind storm brought a tree down on a worker tap Washington State thrift store. Surveillance video shows the worker moving things on the forklift when the tree came crashing down on him. The man says the bars on the forklift saved his life. He said he wasnt scared when the tree came down. Instead, he was more concerned with cleaning up the mess. Happening today, Funeral Services are planned for the cameraman killed last week in virginia. A memorial for adam ward was held last night at his high school in salem. Visitors wore the colors of wards Favorite Sports Team from his alma mater Virginia Tech university. Thats where he graduated in 2011. Ward and reporter allison park we are shot and killed on tv live wednesday morning. The gunman Vester Flanagan later died from a self inflicted gunshot wound. It has been a violent summer in the city of camden. In the span of 10 days this month there were four murders but theres also a new push in the community to stop the violence. Camdens one love held an event last night across from Camden High School in farnum park. The organizations goal is to bring together local Nonprofits Church groups and local lead stories try to create positive change. 4 53 is the time. Coming up later pope francis makes history at the Vatican Holding the churchs first ever virtual audience. But next up the Supreme Court rules against a kentucky clerk refusing to give out marriage licenses to samesex couples. Well tell you more on what everyone expecting today when action news comes back. Welcome back. Youre taking a live look here, the action cam is live on logan square. It is 4 56, 75 degrees out there. Were in for another scorching day. It will be in the 90s, hot, humid. Do whatever you can in the morning and be inside this afternoon. Well, a county clerk gets to work in kentucky today, she should expect a crowd. Gay couples say they plan to be there at the door to demand marriage licenses. Yesterday the u. S. Supreme court ruled against kim davis. She argued that issuing marriage licenses to samesex couples went against her religion. A line of couples turned away by her office say they plan to be there at the courthouse door. Its unclear if rowan will issue those licenses now or instead be fined or even jailed in defines. A dormitory at Bryn Mawr College is now dedicated to the schools first africanamerican alumna. Officials presented the opening of the enid cook 31 center. Cook was a class of 1931 but back then the school denied her on campus housing. The Residence Hall named in her honor will also serve as the black cultural center. From our new jersey news room a couple doing landscaping at their home in Cape May County made a frightening discovery, a live cannonball in their backyard. They found it along the 200 block of west bates avenue in lower township on saturday. The couple called police and soon enough the Atlantic City bomb squad was there. Authorities xrayed the cannonball and determined it was actively explosive. They took it away and detonated it in an unpopulated area. Officials say it is not uncommon to find military ordnance in that area and ask people to never touch or move suspicious items. Geez. It is 4 57. And still ahead in the next half hour of action news, Philadelphia Police are hoping this sketch will lead them to the man who police say is assaulting men and women in fishtown. And a woman from central a pennsylvania believes her cat deflected a bullet saving her life. I am never getting married. Never. Psssssh. Guaranteed. You picked a beautiful ring. Thank you. Were never having kids. Mmmmmm. Breathe. I love it here. We are never moving to the suburbs. We are never getting one of those minivan . We are never having another kid. Im pregnant. I am never letting go. For all the nevers in life, state farm is there. Action news. Delaware valleys leading news program. With matt odonnell, tamala edwards, karen rogers and meteorologist, david murphy. Good morning everyone, its 5 oclock on this tuesday, first day in the month of september. And were following a developing story. A car slams into a mother pushing a stroller down a new jersey road. Well give you the very latest. A well known West Philadelphia funeral so many under investigation. What police found inside was quite disturbing. Keeping your child safe. New jerseys new car seat law goes into effect today with some of the most restrictive rules in the nation. Well break them down for you. Could see an official heat wave today. Lets go to karen in for david and matt pelman with traffic. 90 plus degree temperatures so far. Today will be the third day in a row later on this afternoon. Satellite6 and action radar showing we have clear skies this morning. Were going see lots of sunshine out there. Hazy sunshine but bright nonetheless through the day and th