West its a dry day today, a mix of sunshine and clouds. Its a nice one, a high of 68 degrees. Temperatures right around average for this time of year. By 7 00 a. M. Still in the 40s. By 10 00 a. M. Its 53 degrees. By lunchtime 64 with sun and clouds. By 3 oclock, 68. Thats your high for today. And by 5 oclock, coming down from that and 67. No weather worries today. So that should mean a real easy commute, right matt. Oh, no, i still got things for you to worry about like chickens all over the roadway, karen, unfortunately. This sounds like a major mess. In smyrna delaware an accident happened just before 4 oclock this morning involving two tractortrailers, one of which was carrying chickens. That truck flipped over. The chickens went flying out. Theyre all over the roadway. Apparently it smells awful and the southbound lanes of highway one are still closed because of this colossal mess. Come down 13, not highway one as you travel through smyrna this morning. On the big picture a little bit of good news in hunting park. North broad street is reopened now at pike street there by how sam. Fire crews off to the side. No big issues so far this morning on 95 or the schuylkill. No big delays and the vine street expressway has reopened as well but we are watching a disabled vehicle just in in lower moreland. Its byberry road at Huntington Pike there by the United Methodist church. No big issues traveling westbound on the pennsylvania turnpike. Couple work zones eastbound but westbound youre looking good. And we still have some construction going until 6 00 this morning for the next half hour at 422 and Armand Hammer boulevard. Theyre milling and paving that interchange there. So theyll clear out in the next half hour but then return at 9 00 this morning to continue their work. So watch out for the crews out there until 6 oclock. Crews working near the shore as well 322 eastbound in Hamilton Township and 30 absecon boulevard in atlantic city. Matt. Thanks matt. Flames tore through a vacant house in the citys hunting park section forcing neighbors to evacuate. It broke out at broad and west pike streets just before 1 30 this morning. A man living next door with his grandfather said he woke up to firefighters and Police Telling him to get out right away. He didnt even have time to put on his clothes. Turned around and looked up and i looked at the fire and i dont have no clothes on. And i was like i wanted to go back but i aint have nothing on, nothing, but, you know, i came out here anyway. Neighbors helped that fire victim cover up in the cold. No injuries were reported. Were learning more about a frightening Home Invasion robbery in the citys lawncrest section. The attackers held a blind man at gunpoint then got away. Action News ReporterKatherine Scott is live where it happened on the 1300 block of hellerman street. Katherine. Reporter matt and police say the couple is in their 40s. They were inside the home when this happened. Thankfully their children were across the street at the time. Police say the husband has medical issues and is legally blind. This happened last evening here on the 1300 block of hellerman in lawncrest around 7 45. Police say two men entered the house through an unlocked front door. One of the suspects was armed with a handgun. The wife had been on the couch in the living room and ran to her husband who was sitting in the dining room with his own handgun next to him on the table. The suspect put the handgun to the husbands neck and told him not to move or he would be should there and killed. They made off with 275 and the victims gun. In addition to stealing cash these two perpetrators have an additional gun that they stole from the family. The family even showed police the paperwork for the gun that was recently purchased. Reporter and police say the whole thing was caught on Home Security footage so they are reviewing that footage and hopeful that will help in this investigation. Were live in lawncrest, Katherine Scott, channel6 action news. Thanks so much katherine. A vicious attack outside the Glassboro Public Library in Gloucester County has police on high alert. They say a 31yearold man was in the parking lot monday evening when two men walked up and punched him knocking him to the ground. A witness told police the men continued to punch and kick the victim then ran off. The victim suffered cuts bruises and swelling to his head. Police say they are reviewing the librarys surveillance cameras. A community is still coming to grips with a tragic triple shooting in philadelphia. A crowd filled the basketball courts in mayfair last night to remember 17yearold quantico brunson moton. He was killed and two other young men were shot on the 3100 block of sterling street monday night. Police are looking for the men in a white car who pulled up to the victims outside a Grocery Store before the shooter opened fire. A Youth Football Team has been sidelined by vandals. Someone dug up the field of the camden raiders by spinning the wheels of their truck through the grass and dirt. Police say surveillance cameras at the Community Center might have captured the person who did this. The city he is looking into repairs but say it could take a week or longer. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie admits that he is upset by the loudoun trump recording. However, he still supports the gop nominee. Trump unleashed a twitter tirade yesterday against other republicans who are no longer aligned with the campaign. Trump called House Speaker paul ryan weak and ineffective. Ryan responded by saying he is focusing on maintaining a majority in congress and called for all republicans running for office to do the same. Hillary clinton and her is your gates continue swinging through battleground states. President obama was in North Carolina and criticized trump for his comments on women. Former Vice President al gore was in miami and focused on clintons plan to combat climate change. The Democrats Campaign chairman is also speaking out about the hacked emails released by wikileaks. John podesta claims russian intelligence is behind the breach to sway the election in favor of trump. A trump adviser says that claim is categorically false. Another cool morning out there but its going to get better. Not quite as chilly but it is cool. Some of our suburbs dipped to the 30s. Yeah, require right its going get better this afternoon. Lets take a look at storm tracker6 live double scan. Dry around the region. Looking pretty good and not seeing a whole lot of cloud cover right now. Lets go outside and check it out. Looking live on sky6 and looking pretty good right now as you can see. No major issues out there affecting your flight or are travel at least not weatherwise. The temperature currently is 50 degrees. The dewpoint is 47. Little more moisture in the air than yesterday with this dewpoint and were he do expect to see just a bit more cloud cover with it. The pressure is falling. Winds are out of the northnortheast and the ocean temperature is 63. The winds will be switching to the southsoutheast and weve got our always on day planner hour by hour to help you through the day. Satellite6 and action radar showing we have mostly clear skies. You can see a few more batches of clouds here and there that will mix with the sunshine this afternoon but its going to be a good one. Your high today 68 right around average. Well still be in the 40s though at 8 00 a. M. So a bit of a chilly start. By 10 00 a. M. , 58 a mix of sun and clouds through the day. About lunchtime 64. By 3 oclock 68. Thats your high for today and by 5 oclock, coming down from that and 67. So, dry today. No weather related issues. Tomorrow we have an issue with a front that approaches us. It looks like the front comes through mostly dry. Well ahead of that front you get a nice southsouthwesterly flow that pumps the temperature up to 72 degrees. This is a new model run in. We advance this to thursday and we look at 1 30 in the afternoon and you see that front kind of coming through with some showers. This is in the Lehigh Valley at 1 30. We watch the i95 corridor. Now, this model run has a few showers hitting the area and then kind of falling apart were it hits south jersey. The last model run had it falling apart before it hit philadelphia so tomorrow afternoon, chance for a shower. Thats the only weather that weve got concerns with. We continue to watch hurricane nicole. Early this morning the 5 00 a. M. Update it and creased to a category two hurricane. We now have 100 miles an hour sustained winds. Look at the eye. You can really start to clearly see it. Pretty well defined eye as this hurricane gets more compact and actually increases. It increased not only in its strength but in its forward speed. Its going to hit bermuda tomorrow as at least a category two hurricane then move out to sea. Lets look at your sevenday forecast. Today is nice, a mix of clouds and sun after a cool start pretty nice finish with 68 degrees for your high. Tomorrow low clouds could be starting off, its mild a mix of clouds and sun, 72, though feeling pretty good. Chance for a shower. I think especially in the northwest suburbs later in the afternoon. Friday breezy and cooler, 65. Go from the 70s to the mid 60s. But the weekend looks great. Partly sunny and nice. Saturday 66. Sunday we bumped up these temperatures to 70. Lots of sunshine, mild, great for the union game. Monday nothing more than a stray shower as the front comes through, 71 degrees. Tuesday its warm and partly sunny, 74 degrees. Thats a good 8 degrees above average so some nice temperatures on this seven day. But today youre staying in the 60s. Got you. Thanks karen. 5 40 now and coming up on action news a gas explosion and Fire Destroys a home in the midwest. Well have more of this new video. Tim tebow makes a winning play off the baseball field. Well explain. Matt. Erin, more midday construction is coming to city avenue down around overbrook but this morning here on city avenue at conshohocken avenue northbound headlights are moving fine toward the schuylkill expressway. We still have major issues in delaware and well check in with south jersey when action news continues on this wednesday morning. How tall are you . How do we measure greatness in america . The height of our skyscrapers . The size of our Bank Accounts . No. Its measured by what we do for our children. The values we pass on. 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[alright] 5 forty seven good morning. It is wednesday. Got a plane flying through sky there over south jersey. Its 50 degrees here on city avenue a little chillier in some areas but getting up a nice high of 68 degrees today. Matt are we still talking chickens . We are talking chickens unfortunately. Ill tell you it sounds like a huge mess down in smyrna dell its an accident that happened before 4 oclock this morning erin and matt involved two tractortrailers one of which, yes, was carrying chickens and that one flipped over. The chickens flew out of the truck. Theyre all over the roadway, it smells awful and the road is closed. Highway one southbound past route 13 the exit for smyrna all shut down. If youre coming down through that area stay on 13 southbound instead of highway one southbound this morning. We had the action cam out on the scene so eventually well have pictures of whats going on there in smyrna delaware. This is whats going on in cherry hill by the whole foods not a whole lot which we like. Traffic is moving fine so far this morning but a couple suburban issues. We have a broken down vehicle in lower moreland on byberry road. A new crash in Norristown Montgomery county along airy industry at clay alley but grace news in Valley Forge National park yesterday afternoon they reopened 252 which had been closed for that sewer main work since early april. It is back in business for you this morning. Now Yellow Springs road adjacent to 252 is still blocked through sometime next month. Overnight construction nearby on the pennsylvania turnpike eastbound in Chester County is gone so youre good to go there. But there is still some work in bucks county on the ramps connecting the turnpike eastbound with bensalem. Most of that work though is off to the side. Time for the commuter report brought to you by the waze app. One of our friends talking about a vehicle stopped on the road close to the airport along enterprise avenue in philadelphia. Watch out for that as well. Matt. Okay matt. Thanks. A natural gas leak set off an explosion and fire outside of chicago. Firefighters say crews were repairing the gas leak at a townhome complex in romeoville last night when it happened. No one was in the building but two gas Company Workers were injured. One of the workers is in critical condition. Two homes were flattened. Tim tebow stepped up to the plate to comfort a sick baseball fan in arizona. Tebow was signing autographs yesterday when a man had a seizure. The one time eagles hopeful prayed and talked College Football with the man. The fan soon opened his eyes and chatted with tebow for a bit until paramedics took him to the hospital. Tebow reacted in a similar way back in the summer when a plan was having a medical emergency on a plane. New on action news a small pharmacy in new york city created a stir for advertising, one price for men and one price for women. Thompson chemists post add sign stating for one day female customers could shop tax free while male customers had to pay a 7 percent man tax. The owner says she wanted to bring awareness to how on average womens products cost more than similar items for men. She says the store was bombarded with angry emails and phone calls but she also received a tremendous amount of positive feedback. Cover girl now has a cover boy. James charles is the cosmetic giants first male ambassador. The 17yearold is a popular Beauty Blogger with nearly half a million followers on instagram and more than 70,000 subscribers on youtube. Cover girl pledges charles will be the first of what they call boundary breaking representatives. Fyi philly this weekend features its annual halloween special filled with tricks and treats around the region. Melissa magee has a spooky sneak peek as she tours a haunted factory. Reporter at south philadelphias fright factory be prepared to scream before you even enter. We hand pick all of our actors. Do you want to see what your unsides look like. We expect them to just be over the top be in our customers faces. Reporter the Haunted House is set in a 25,000 square foot abandoned warehouse. Help me. Im the old caretaker of this factory and i absolutely love scaring people. Reporter the haunt is divided into two parts. My heart is like pounding. Reporter theres the dingy old factory. Sure you done wander to catch them. Reporter and the asylum. Its very dark. Can you spell. Reporter thats gross. And we also have some special scents. Reporter the 105yearold building is said to be genuinely haunted by two ghosts. One of the rumors is ive heard is that it used to be a morgue in world war ii. Its very loud, very intense and you might just be running for the exit. 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They did this yesterday and it caused big delays stretching across town, river to river so watch out for eastbound delays other vine once again during the midday but no delays so far this morning on the septa regional rails. Everything is on time. Route 10 trolley continues its shuttle busing. Thats because of that water main break at 60th and lansdowne. Karen. A cool start to the day. Temperatures in the low 40s in some of the suburbs. 41 in allentown, 42 in reading, 50 degrees in center city. 46 in millville, 44 in atlantic city. 55, though, in cape may. The forecast is looking pretty good this afternoon. Were dry today. Were going to see clouds mixing with sun but a nice high of 68 so it will feel pretty good. By seven though still stuck in the 40s. 48 degrees. Good amount of sunshine early and then the clouds start to build here or there with the sun. By 10 00 a. M. , 62. By lunchtime 64. Your high is 68. Well be sitting on it at about 3 oclock at 6 00 p. M. , 65 degrees with clouds and sun. Good looking day. Chance for a shower tomorrow, matt. Okay and if you want to worry about that shower tomorrow, you want to check the radar any time you want just go to 6abc. Com weather. We have a link to storm tracker6 live. A dentist shot a man who police say was exposing himself to patients at a houston dental office. Police say the man walked any other Office Yesterday exposed himself and then chased the dentist around the office. The two men ended up outside where the dentist pointed a gun at the man. Police say the man then charged at the dentist so the dentist shot him. Man was wounded in stomach and underwent surgery at the hospital. No word on his condition. Officials in oklahoma say the unarmed man who was shot and killed by a Tulsa Police Officer last month was hallucinating on pcp. They also say 40yearold Terrence Crutcher had his hands up before he was shot. 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