First up weather and traffic. Dave murphy and matt pelman. Good morning. Great morning for a launch as we have light winds. Theres a bit of cloud cover around again this morning. Take a look at satellite. Its all because of there area of low pressure continuing to rotate down to our south. Its moving away a little bit but not fast enough to take the clouds with it so were looking at clouds and sun. More clouds to the south today and more sun to the north. We also have visibility an issue for the second straight morning and occasionally youre going to run into some patchy fog. Most of our reporting stations dont have very bad numbers but every now and then you see the model putting in that gray and areas to the east of philadelphia in particular could get some dense fog. 69 degrees in philadelphia currently. 66 in wilmington, 62 in allentown, 63 in reading not far from where karen rogers is setting up that balloon with our team. 64 in trenton and 71 currently in cape may. Your dewpoints are up there still on or about 70 and at points south but we have dipped to 65 in philadelphia and while it might feel a little bit humid this morning we he expect those humidity levels to drop as we go through the day. Temperatures are going up again. 68 degrees by 7 00, 74 by 10 oclock. By noon were in the low 80s and your high today is the 3 oclock is 86 before dipping back to 82 by dinnertime. Cooler air is on the way. Well have to wait until a little after the arrival of autumn matt pelman to see it but it is coming in the sevenday forecast and ill have those details coming up. Sounds good david. Good morning to you. Were live here in Burlington County along 295 at 656 and if you look closely, i know its black and white but you can probably see a little bit of the soup out there this morning. Just a little bit of fog in a couple spots in Burlington County not widespread but when you come upon it you can see that that visibilities are hampered a bit by the foggy weather. Just getting word of a major issue on the pennsylvania turnpike. This is westbound approaching the norristown interchange where a vehicle is in flames right now. That vehicle fire is taking out the two left lanes. Fire crews are on their way to the scene. Were not seeing big delays yet but we he expect them to form on the westbound turnpike so of course well keep you posted. On the northeast extension of the turnpike northbound past Lehigh Valley still have left lane construction. Thats not really causing a big issue. There is a crash to watch out for still in new Hanover Township along deep creek road at schultz road and by the limb monday country club limb monday road remains closed because of an accident. Stick with sandy hill or Germantown Pike as an alternate. Volume on 95 southbound side approaching cottman. Again farther south approaching girard but on 95 in delco the northbound construction is gone so youre looking good. Head up to the airport on this wednesday morning matt. Thank you, matt. Breaking overnight authorities in Charlotte North Carolina have been using tear gas to business percent protestors. Officers have been injured and they shut down a highway. Violence erupted over the Fatal Shooting of a black man by police. Police say he was armed and posed a threat. Action News ReporterAnnie Mccormick is following these developments live from the Satellite Center. Annie. Reporter matt, this all is around that Deadly Policeinvolved shooting that killed 43yearold keith lamont scott. Now, police say he had a gun but now his family is disputing whether or not he had a weapon. This was the scene in charlotte, North Carolina last night. From above you can see as protestors attacked marked police vehicles. You can see that puff of smoke while Police Used Tear Gas to try and get the crowd under control. 12 officers were injured including one hit in the face with a rock. There is something going on across this nation that needs to be addressed. So the throwing of Water Bottles and destroying city vehicles, i dont condone that. By no means. But as far as my child, my nephew, i am concerned, im worried about them. Something has to be done. Reporter that violent scene stemmed from the Deadly Police shooting that happened here at this charlotte apartment complex earlier in the day. Police say it was there as officers went to look for a suspect with an outstanding warrant. Instead, they saw 43yearold keith lamont scott. Police say he had nothing to do with the warrant. According to officers accounts, scott got out of the vehicle with a gun and then got back in. When officers approached he allegedly got out of the car with the gun again. One of the officers felt a lethal threat and fired his weapon because of that. Reporter scott died at the hospital. Police say they recovered a gun at the scene. His family is now disputing that. It wasnt no gun. It was a book. 33 said hands up. He got a gun, he got a gun. Pow, pow, pow, pow. Reporter and these protests happened almost at the same time as protests in oklahoma. It was there that an unarmed plaque man was shot by police. As for the officer that was involved in the Deadly Police shooting in North Carolina, he has been put on administrative leave which they say is protocol. For now reporting live in the Satellite Center, Annie Mccormick, channel6 action news. Matt back to you. Thanks for theup date annie. The protests in charlotte came hours after another demonstration in oklahoma. The demonstrators here are calling for an arrest of a Tulsa Police Officer who shot and killed an unarmed black man. It happened when officers responded to a report of a small vehicle back on friday. Investigators said yesterday that they found the drug pcp in the vehicle of 40yearold Terrence Crutcher but attorneys for crutchers family say a discussion of drugs distracts from questions about the use of deadly force. It is 6 06. Lesean mccoy is being sued for a bar fight that happened in february. The incident at the olde city nightclub involved mccoys friends and two off duty philadelphia Police Officers. It apparently started with a dispute over a bottle of champagne. The civil suit claims mccoy kicked and beat an officer while that officer was on the ground and punched another officer in the eye. Philadelphia District Attorney decided to not file charges against mccoy or anyone else. Both top president ial nominees are campaigning in Battle Ground states today. Hillary clinton is set to rally voters in orlando florida. Donald trump heads to toledo ohio and will speak in Chester Township tomorrow night in delaware county. The gop nominees charity is now under new scrutiny. The Washington Post reports that trump used more than 250,000 from his Charitable Foundation to settle personal lawsuits. That could violate tax and charity laws. Hillary clinton may have picked up a surprising endorsement. Ab president ial news reports that former president george h. W. Bush a republican, says he intend the vote for clinton. Trump responded last night saying hes not surprised by this. Trump claims the reason is his tough primary battle with bushs son former Florida Governor jeb bush. Drugmaker mylan is already under fire for hiking up the price of its epipen. Maribel aber is live at the nasdaq in times square. Shes got more on that. Good morning. Reporter good morning, tam. The ceo of mylan will be grilled by lawmakers today. Heather bresch will appear before a House Committee to answer questions about the steep price hike on the epipen. The al lorring treating device shot up to more than 600 but bresch plans to tell the committee mile lance makes only about 50 on the epipen after rebates fees and costs are deducted. Chop mee trading choppy trading session. The fed is expected to issue a statement on Interest Rates this afternoon. Thats the latest in business. Back to you. Dave murphy youll have a little help with your forecast today. Yeah. With something going up in the skies. Karen rogers out in berks county overseeing a team thats putting up our 6abc weather balloon this morning. Were learning a lot of cool things about weather balloons. 1930s technology with updated equipment on board but its still an integral part of the forecast. Storm tracker6 live double scan shows that you we are dry for our launch and for Everything Else that youre doing this morning. Stepping outside, we have sky6 and the airport maybe a little hint of mist in the lights there over the terminals. There is a little fog here and there across the region but in most cases its not thick enough to give in you any problems. Not looking at delays at the airport this morning. 69 degrees in philadelphia, 63 in reading, 62 in allentown, 64 in trenton and 71 in cape may. Satellite shows you how that stubborn area of low pressure still trying to pull away from us down to our south and as a result we do have cloud cover across much of the region and today is going to be a clouds and sun mix with more sun the farther north you go and more clouds the farther south, similar to what we saw yesterday. Up in allentown well go for a mix of clouds and sun. Nice and warm with a high of 85, humidity not really a problem up in the Lehigh Valley. Down the shore its still a bit humid especially the farther south you go down the coast but that will ease up a little bit as the day goes on and well get a high of 78 degrees, fairly light winds down the beach today. And in philadelphia, a high of 86, clouds mixing with sun. Were kind of in the middle of that clouds to the south, sun to the north deal, so like yesterday youll get some sun breaking its way in at times. 86 degrees is the forecast high. It is warm. Humidity levels will tend to drop as we go through the day. And it looks like a pleasant night for the phillies to wrap up that two game set with the Chicago White sox. Low humidity 79 degrees for the first pitch under partly cloudy skies and 73 he in the ninth inning. 65 is the overnight low in the city. Some suburbs get down to about 60. Again humidity dropping later today and tonight so it will feel fairly comfortable. Then tomorrow autumn arrives at 10 21 in the morning butter a high of 86 degrees in the afternoon. Its going to be another warm one. Tropical storm karl out in the atlantic away from the Leeward Islands and cutting a path north over the next several days. Still looks like its going to be in the vicinity of bermuda on the weekend but it is pulling a little bit farther to the east of that islander and so maybe they catch a bit of a break. Your exclusive accuweather 7day, 86 today, sunny, warm. 86 tomorrow for the arrival of autumn. Still feeling like summer, low humidity. And then more humid on friday with a high of 88. That next front looks like its coming in a little faster so a shower is possible now friday night but not so much saturday morning. And that paves the way for temples homecoming on saturday and anything else you want to do. Looks like its going to be a nice breezy day with a high of 76. The eagles playing in autumnal conditions. Sunny and breezy on sunday. An afternoon high of 72. Thats a late game so well be in the 60s for most of that game. Thank you david. It is 6 11. Fitness tracker fail. A warning about the popular devices. They might actually derail your diet. Matt karen. Karen. And the team has weighed the pay load here. Were getting ready to fill the weather balloon. Im turn it right now getting ready to start the helium process. There you can kind of hear the his and see it happening. Were going to continue to blow this weather balloon up and launch it into the sky. All that is coming up. Blast off on your morning commute. So far so good along 476 the blue route by the midcounty toll plaza. Matt, they cant hear you. Okay. Action news is sponsored by temple university. Remarkable change isnt easy but for those who take charge it comes naturally. Explore temples impact. Visit temple. Edu impact. Playing the new million in an instant gamethan with top prizes of a million bucks . Winning. On the spot. cheers play million in an instant from the Pennsylvania Lottery. And you could win. On the spot keep on scratchin blinds to gquiet. W motorized blinds and shades. Convenient. And surprisingly affordable. Right now, take 25 off all motorised blinds and shades. Lifes just gotten a little bit easier. Blinds to go. Blinds for life. Action news is about to give you a fascinating look inside the forecast. Well be launching a weather balloon live during this show he. Its scheduled to launch a little bit later this morning from Farming Ridge park in exeter township berks county. Meteorologist karen rogers has been prepping all the equipment maybe even blowing up the balloon on her own, well see. Here she is live with whats going on. Hi, karen. Yeah, started the helium. I was admit pedly a little nervous about that. Joseph is taking over. He knows a little bit more. Hes an Aerospace Engineer and joseph you already had to make the calculations, right and weigh out everything. You weighed the pay load. How much helium are we putting in. 85 cubic feet. Look up. If you can take a slot of this. It looks cool as its starting to rise, its paul our 6abc meteorologist helping with it right now and the thing about it is that the helium is less dense than the air so as this rises, and its going rise a thousand feet a minute up into the stratosphere, as it does that, its going to expand very rapidly because of the difference in pressure so what youre going to see is amazing this is going to be about 5 feet in diameter when its fully formed on the surface of the earth but up in the atmosphere its going to be the size of a two car garage. Its going to dismanned quickly. When it does its going to burst. Thats why we have the parachute out here already and theyre continuing to monitor it. This is science. Everything needs to be exact. As you look at this weather balloon it kind of seems like an antiquated idea but this is the backbone of forecasting. This is how all the information is gathered. You get the temperature, you get the pressure and all of this is going to be a link on our Facebook Page on 6abc. Com so you can follow it all as its happening live. We are continuing to fill it now and were launching it at about 6 40 and then im getting in the news van and tracking. All this on social media. As the team couldnt well be right back and well watch it get ready to launch. Live in Exeter Karen Rogers channel6 action news. Very exciting. Thank you karen. Time head over to matt pelman who is keeping his eye on the road. Good morning. T minus 24 minutes until lastoff. Very exciting. Were expecting delays to balloon along the pennsylvania turnpike matt and tam because of a vehicle fire out there in the westbound lanes approaching the norristown interchange. Left lane blocked. We havent seen big delays form yet but were expecting them heads up. Allow extra time if you normally travel westbound on the turnpike. A vehicle fire approaching norristown. Not too far off in plymouth township a blockage of limb monday road by belvoir road. That an overnight accident scene there. Sandy hill or Germantown Pike would be some alternates. New Hanover Township a crash just east of 663 along deep creek road at schultz road. If you drive through pottstown hanover street is blocked for Railroad Crossing work by the Sherwin Williams at south street. Stick with charlotte or washington streets as some alternates around that. This is 95 by the betsy ross bridge interchange. Some building southbound volume. Delays arent terrible just yet but here is the bigger news along 95. Starting later this evening, tonight, wednesday night, theyre going to close the 95 southbound ramp to aramingo avenue and its going to be blocked for nine months so big closure starts tonight. The good news is traveling south on 95 you can still get to the betsy ross pretty much. You just bridge. You just wont be able to get to aramingo avenue until next june. 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Just starting to get a little bit busy here in the northbound lanes by creek road as you head up towards 295 but at this point no major issues. Over on the garden state parkway dont forget about the ongoing construction around ocean city blocking the left lane in both directions right by the new egg harbor bridge. That construction is causing delays during the rush hours but no delays yet. A couple delays so far this morning on the septa regional rails both on the Paoli Thorndale line trains just about 10 minutes behind so far david. Not too bad matt. On the big board were dressing the kids in shorts and ts. A little cool isnt in some spots. In philadelphia 68 degrees by 7 oclock. By 10 oclock 70. On the bus stop at noon 81 degrees. Three clock 86 degrees. Thats your high this afternoon. Humidity will drop during the day. We see he a mix of clouds and sun, more sun to the north, more clouds to the south but everybody is looking pretty warm. 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Eagles right tackle lane johnson has started the appeals process for his 10 game suspension. The nfl says lane violated Substance Abuse policy for a second time. An appeal hearing is set for october 4th which means johnson is still eligible to play on sunday against the steelers. If johnson loses his appeal his suspension will start on october 9th. A group of prominent africanamerican men came together hoping to motivate young men to stay in school. Students at the what it takes Forum Last Night questioned the path of business professionals and pro athletes like Malcolm Jenkins about obtaining their life goals. The eagles safety talked about joining two other teammates as parts of a different kind of conversation, the conversation around race and social and criminal injustice by raising their fists in protest during the national anthem. Minorities especially africanamericans in this country, you talk about social justice and the criminal justice system. Although weve come a long way theres some things that still need to be changed and still need to be addressed. Since 2009, urban youth has reached about 3,000 students with this annual event. 6 27. Today is the last full day of summer. Dave murphy tells us when it will actually feel like fall. And you couldnt ask for a better day for a balloon launch. Chopper six with a look live over Farming Ridge. Thats the weather balloon. Our weather stool about to take flight. Well take you there next. Breaking right now violent protests on the heels of another Deadly Police shooting. Several officers are injured trying to calm down the crowd. Only on action news, a local Police Station is under lock and key he amid reports that officers hired a prostitute to pay them a visit karen. Our 6abc weather balloon is filled with helium. Weve got a string right here, parachute and the pay load and were getting ready to launch it. You can watch it live coming up. So exciting. Good morning it is 6 30 now on this wednesday september 21st. Well go to karen shortly but first up lets head over to dave murphy and matt pelman for accuweather and traffic. Good morning. Great morning for that launch. No rain, light winds for the most part. If you have a chance to glance over to the east as you step outside, gorgeous pinks in the clouds as the sun is getting ready to come up but we have some cloud cover in place and it does look like one of those days where because of that circulating area of low pressure down to the south, it will be a clouds and sun mix. Probably more sun to the north, maybe a little more cloud cover the closer you are to the coast. Theres also a bit of patchy fog around but not as widespread as yesterday and it almost looks like its breaking up a little bit to the east of philadelphia. Nonetheless if you happen to run into some of that you slow down and temperature 69 degrees currently in philadelphia, 66 in wilmington, 64 in trenton. Just 61 degrees in allentown and 63 out in reading. Not too far from exeter township where were getting ready to launch our balloon. 71 in cape may and dewpoints are still up there but we expect the humidity levels to drop a bit as we go through the day. Temperatures are climbing though. 68 by 7 oclock. 74 by 10 oclock. Lunchtime will be in the low 80s and your high today at 3 oclock is 86 before we fall back to 82 by 6 oclock. Cooler air is on the way later in the accuweather forecast. Details coming up. Weve got speeds in our sites here on the schuylkill expressway westbound. Start to jam approaching passyunk out to south street a new accident taking out one of the two lanes on the schuylkill westbound so rapidly were starting to see those hefty westbound delays on 76. Of course well keep you posted. Our crash in new Hanover Township has cleared out from deep creek road at schultz road. Everything is reopened there which is good news but in limb monday township were still without plymouth road close to Plymouth Country club. Thats because of an overnight accident. Sandy hill road or Germantown Pike some alternates. Good news bad news on the pennsylvania turnpike. Good news is the westbound vehicle fire approaching norristown is now gone. All lanes reopened. The bad news is just 34 Miles Per Hour coming west of Fort Washington. So there is a delay in the wake of that earlier vehicle fire. And if youre hopping off the westbound turnpike onto the blue route southbound watch out an accident here southbound approaching the schuylkill mostly off to the side but a little bit of slowing coming south of rip pike on this wednesday morning. Tam. Okay, thank you, matt. Breaking right now the city of Charlotte North Carolina is an uproar. Officers have been hurt and a rioting crowd has been tear gassed. Things have gotten so bad roads have been closed in the aftermath of a policeinvolved shooting of a black man. Meals say this man had a weapon. His family is arguing he did not. Lets go to Annie Mccormick. Shes following the story for us live in the Satellite Center. Good morning, annie. Reporter good morning tamala. Things got so bad they had to shut down a busy highway as well as the protestors grew increasingly violent overnight. That centers around a man that was killed in a policeinvolved shooting. 43yearold keith lamont scott. Police say at the time of the shooting he he had a gun but his family is disputing that. This was the scene in Charlotte North Carolina last night. From above you can see as protestors attacked marked police vehicles. You can see that puff of smoke. Police used tear gas to try and get the crowd under control. 12 officers were injured including one hit in the face with a rock. That violent scene stemmed from the Deadly Police shooting that happened here at the charlotte apartment complex earlier in the day. Police say it was there as officers went to look for a suspect with an outstanding warrant. Instead, they saw 43yearold keith lamont scott. Police say he had nothing to do with the warrant. According to officers accounts, scott got out of a vehicle with a gun, then got back in. When officers approached he allegedly got out of the car with gun again. One of the officers felt a this evening and lethal threat and fired his weapon because of that. Reporter scott died at the hospital. Meals say they recovered a gun at the scene. His family is now disputing that. It wasnt no gun. It was a book. They said hands up. He got a gun, he got a gun. Pow, pow, pow, pow. Reporter now during the protests some of the protestors were shouting black lives matter hands up dont shoot. The officer is now on administrative leave which they say is protocol. Reporting live from the Satellite CenterAnnie Mccormick channel6 action news. Tam, back to you. Annie thank you. The suspect in the new york and new jersey bombings now faces federal charges. The Court Complaints filed late yesterday give a chilling glimpse into what Authorities Say motivated ahmad khan rahami. The afghan born u. S. Citizen bought bomb ingredients on ebay. He talked of being a marter and remains in the hospital after a shootout with police on monday. Fbi investigated him two years ago but they dropped the case due to a lack of evidence. 6 35 and new this morning gunfire in wilmington, delaware seriously injured a young man. The action cam found a heavy Police Presence on the 200 block of east 14th street late last night. They say someone shot a man in his 20s several times. Police are still working on finding the shooter and the reasons why. Reporter trenton Police Officers are under investigation over claims they hired a prostitute while on duty. Sources tell action news that they brought the call girl to the k9 unit headquarters on the 1200 block of east state street and say an officer concealed the womans identity from cameras mounted outside. However she was caught on surveillance inside. The fact of the matter is i will not tolerate any activities conducted in my office that my officers are involved in that is going reflect poorly on this city or on this police department. The trenton k9 headquarters is now closed and authorities would not confirm whether the officers under investigation remain on active duty right now. A delaware family out for a bike ride saved a dog trapped on a railroad bridge. Now officials need publics help to get that puppy back home. The blond beagle was rescued sunday. When rescuers got to her she was shaking and stuck between a concrete support brace. Look at her. The dog will be held for at least three days for her owner to try to claim her before she will then be made available for adoption. Cant really pick these days according to weather when you throw up a weather balloon in the sky but this is a pretty good one. Thats a good one. Weve gotten fairly light winds, cool and fairly comfortable out of berks county where were going to launch the 6abc weather balloon in just a few minutes. Storm tracker6 live double scan right now shows you we are dry as we take a look outside, weve got some sun starting to breakthroughs the clouds. Going to be a clouds and sun mix today and warm as we go into the afternoon. Temperature currently is 69 in philadelphia. Your dewpoint is continuing to drop down to 65 now moderate humidity this morning and we expect that humidity level to continue to dive as the day goes on partially because the winds are coming out of the dry north at 7 Miles Per Hour currently. We have some clouds out there because of that circulatorring area of High Pressure low pressure i should say down to the south it is moving a little bit farther away from us and we he do expect that clouds and sun mix with more sun up north, more clouds down south but im fairly optimistic that everybody is going to see at least some sun today. 68 degrees by 8 oclock, 74 by 10 00 and by noon were up into the low 80s and yes, its going to feel like summer on the last full dave summer with a well above average high of 86 degrees at 3 oclock. By 5 oclock still in the low 80s. High temperatures across the region, mid 80s in allentown, wilmington, trenton, low 80s in millville and dover. Down the shore 76 in cape may, about 78 up the coast in atlantic city. At the ball game tonight phillies trying to sweep that short two game set with the Chicago White socks. 79 for the first pitch. 73 in the ninth inning. Theyll be sweating a little bit i suppose but its partly cloudy and pleasant in the stands with low humidity. And then tomorrow fall arrives at 10 21 but as is often the case its still going to feel like summer in the afternoon, a high of 86 degrees again well above average. Lots of sunshine tomorrow especially away from the coast. Out in the tropics two systems Tropical Storm karl and lisa, lisa looks like its just going to stay a Tropical Storm and then fall apart in the north atlantic. Karl in the meantime still looks like its going to make a run at bermuda but the trend continues to take that storm farther to the east of bermuda so that as it passes by as a strong category one or two hurricane, hopefully the strongest side of the storm over to the east misses bermuda and maybe bermuda just gets clipped. Still this weekend not a great time to be in bermuda. 86 degrees clouds and sun, warm today. 86 tomorrow, warm with sunshine and then up to 88 with rising humidity on friday. Next system looks like its coming through a little faster so that our next shower chance will be friday night. And its just a small chance. But that means were dry saturday morning, thats great for temples homecoming ceremonies down at lincoln financial field before their noon game. 76 degrees, breezy on saturday. Sun and clouds and then sunday for the eagles sunny and breezy, 72 degrees. Its a late game. Were probably in the 60s for most of the game feeling like fall. All right, thank you david. It is now 6 39. Under siege. A suspect doesnt just try to outrun the police, he tries to run them over. Karen rogers is about to send weather forecasting into the stratosphere. Karen. Thats right, were just balancing the pay load right now getting everything ready making sure that its level, everything is working because we are getting ready to launch this balloon right now into the edge of space. Taking you inside weather forecasting like youve never seen before, all coming up live, the up. Wow, launching the morning commute things are looking better on the blue route karen. We had a southbound accident approaching the schuylkill. Its gone now but theres a crash on the schuylkill itself and a big new closure coming to 95 when action news continues on this wednesday morning. Does pat toomey speak for you . I also want to thank the nra for its, uh, strong support for my campaign. Pat toomey he opposes an assault weapons ban and got an a rating from the nra. I have had a perfect record with the nra. And on Womens Health . I would support legislation in pennsylvania that would ban abortion, and i would suggest that we have penalties for doctors who perform them. Pat toomey does he really speak for you . Senate majority pac is responsible for the content of this advertising. 6 43. Time has arrived to launch the 6abc weather balloon. So exciting. Karen rogers has been with us every step of the way and joins us lie from the launch site in berks county. Good morning, karen. Reporter good morning. So, heres our weather balloon. You watched live as we filled it with helium. What were doing right now is starting the process. You can see it kind of going up into the air as we let it go right now. So, not launching it just yet but starting the process. There you can see the weather balloon. It has got a good force on it. This is parachute. About few feet in diameter. When it goes up into the atmosphere it will be the size of a two car garage at this point cause its going to expand rapidly. It goes up and im going to let you do that as i let go. It expands about a thousand feet a minute as you watch it go up and this is the basis of all weather forecasting. It looks like a simple balloon right but 800 of these are launched twice a day around the world and all that information is put right into computer models so that we can get accurate forecasting. Without something as simple as that balloon you see up there we wouldnt have any accurate forecasting. Reporter it give the temperature, the from essure. What you can see right now is what they call a pay load. Its got a satellite tracker a sensor over here. This is the antenna. All of the information is transmitted every minute the temperature, the pressure and that tells all the meteorologists goes into the computer models around the world to help the forecasting 6789 its going to go into the edge of space. We have a go pro camera. Right here youll be able to see on the etch of it we have the news van going up into the edge of space and youll be able to track that on 6abc. Com and here you can see our weather team weve got the madells here paul trumble low and joseph an Aerospace Engineer we have been talking about worked on the International Space station. Now were getting ready to launch it. We have a crew of people lined up that want to watch it in person. Lets say we counter it down from advertisement im going to help hold on. Here we go. You guys ready. Five, four, three, two, one. The 6abc weather balloon launching into the sky. Look how rapidly its going up there. Beautiful sight. And so its going to go 90 to 100,000 feet up into the stratosphere and when it does that, the difference in Pressure Gradient its going to get so large its going to burst after its the size of a two car garage. Its going burst into the at fire. Its biodegradable played out of tree sap its got a par absolute on it. Its going to come down. We have a gps tracker so in a couple minutes well low pressure in the news van, were going to track this 6abc weather balloon to its location so that we can so you the entire process and bring you inside forecasting like youve never seen before. It takes about two hours to go up and about 45 minutes in the process of coming down so youre going to see this all throughout our newscast as we continue to track it. You can track it online and watch all of this happen as you go inside weather forecasting. There you can see our 6abc weather balloon rising rapidly. The wind in the upper levels of the jet stream very light today. You can sometimes go as far as 100 it can go quite far from a distance but at this point were going to be tracking it as it travels through the atmosphere and reporting all of this live as youre watching it happen and we see chopper6 up there as well. Its a beautiful sight as we watched the helium fill up. We watched the weather balloon go up foot stratosphere and now were about to get into a van and were going to be tracking it and you can track it right now on 6abc. Com. We have a weather tracker so you can go on 6abc. Com as we are, were going to go low pressure into the hop into the van and track this. Karen rogers channel6 action news. Science is fascinating. If it lands in your backyard let us know. Well come and get it for you. All right. Matt pelman is here. And everybody let go so no balloon boy situations here. Good morning to you matt and tam. As the balloon expands so, too, do our delays on the schuylkill expressway. Westbound side look at this parking lot from approaching this point at passyunk on out to approaching south street. Thats where we still have an accident taking out one of the two lanes so big delays on the westbound schuylkill. If i were you and i normally use westbound 76, i would come up 95 to the westbound vine. Westbound vine is slow here approaching 76 but its not nearly as slow as the westbound schuylkill so the 95 expressway and the vine better bets than the schuylkill westbound this morning. This is 95 in the great northeast southbound, oh, yes, starting to slow of course from academy through this point at cottman. Then farther south lets check out the scene by the betsy ross bridge. I want to mention to you that tonight theyre going to be closing the southbound off ramp from 95 to aramingo avenue. You will still be able to get to the betsy ross bridge but as of tonight you wont be able to get to aramingo avenue for nine months as they start the reconstruction of that ramp. Meanwhile slowing on the westbound turnpike coming away from Fort Washington out to norristown luckily our vehicle fire there is gone but the crash is closing plymouth road. Thats still not gone. Stick with sandy hill or Germantown Pike. Disabled partially block the ramp from royersford to 422 eastbound with normal delays forming there. Matt. A wild chase played out on Highway Patrol dashcam in utah the trooper thought he had his man but the driver you see here backs up his pickup into the patrol car threatens the trooper with a knife and then speeds away again. Trooper keeps his cool calls for backup and starts trailing the driver once again. The pursuit ended in a parking lot where the driver rammed the troopers car once more stepped out of the pickup and police then took him into custody. 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Were tracking a spot where were not flying this morning. Its the schuylkill expressway westbound. Look behind the tree. Theres an accident here by University Avenue taking out the right lane causing big jams coming away from passyunk. New crash in horsham township along county line road at maple avenue. South of pottstown watch out for one on the ramp from 100 to 724. David. Shorts and ts on the kids as its going to get warm even though its a lull cool start out. 68 by 8 oclock, 81 by noon and your high today is going to be 86 degrees with humidity dropping, a mix of clouds and sun today, matt and tam. Thank you david. Brand new this morning, police have recovered an 8foot long snake in delaware county. Springfield Police Tweeted out this picture of the south american false water cobra which is not deadly. Residents spotted the make last night. Officers are asking anyone who knows who owns the 8foot snake to contact them. 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