Good afternoon in the news President Trumps pick to lead the fbi face a confirmation hearing in washington. And a complicated rescue, crews help a man to safety after being 80 feet above the ground. And the big story is the ongoing search for four missing men in bucks county. They will still combing a large property on york road. In the last half hour they said they recovered evidence in that site and another location. Katherine scott is live now with the latest. Reporter rick, the district would not elaborate on what that important evidence is but that the investigation remains wide open and Cosmo Dinardo remains a person of interest in this case. And the search remains on his familys property down the street from here. As it stretches into another day, federal state and local Law Enforcement are scouring this field and examining other locations looking for evidence that could shed light on what happened. Had is really, really rough on everything involved. The heat, the magnitude, the scope, and the stakes are incredibly high, life and death. Heavy equipment has been hauled on to the 90 plus acre property and investigators are sifting through dirt by hand. We have not yet recovered any human remains that i can report. But we have recovered several important pieces of evidence at this site we are working hard on with the majority of our manpower and at other locations. Dean finocchiaro and Jimmy Patrick of newtown and mark sturgis and tom meo have been missing since last week. Sources tell abc news that a ping from a missing mans cell phone led them to the property owned by the family of Cosmo Dinardo. He was arrested earlier this week on an unrelated gun charge from february. There were standard conditions to his bail including attending all court dates and reporting his current address which he has in bensalem. He has to give notice if he changes his address and he is not allowed to intimidate witnesses. The d. A. Added he is not wearing any sort of ankle bracelet or tracker and there is another press conference this afternoon. Katherine scott, channel 6 action news. Thank you. Well alert you to new developments in this story through 6 abc and our app. Right now you can find all the latest details about this case and raw video from the action cam and chopper 6 hd, the 6 abc app is a Free Download for your mobile device. Now to a murder mystery in philadelphias crest entville section and a woman if her 50s was stabbed in the neck and stabbed with a hammer and her killer fled the scene. Janet reyes is live now with the victim was found dead this morning. Reporter well sara, the search continues for this womans killer, you see the scene is active as detectives comb through the scene. A very bloody one, i talked to a heart broken neighbor including the account when he came facetoface with the womans killer. I heard the daughter come outcrying and screaming you are trying to kill my mom. The morning was disrupted by the screams of her daughter. She pleaded with him to go into the home and stop the deadly attack and he came facetoface with the killer. I when to the door and the guy slams my face. She said a. J. Police, he is trying to kill my mom now. It happened on north hill creek drive, a 57yearold grandmother to be was found dead after being hit over the head with a hammer and stabbed in the neck multiple times. The daughter said he hit her in the face with a vacuum cleaner and it was terrifying. He knocked on the door repeatedly as he heard the violent attack on the other side and heard a vase shatter and everything was silent. He jumped out of the window and across the grass to his familys house i guess over here. When he got inside of the house he locked both the doors and jumped out another window. Dozens of neighbors were in tears and consoled each other. Many described the victim as a well known face and member of the commune and excited about becoming a grandmother in july. I get sick a lot. She comes and said want me to help you home. Hope he turns himself in because this is not right. She doesnt do nothing to nobody. Coming back out live, police have really roped off a large area here. This is the home that witnesses tell me the suspect ran into, its believed to be his uncles home. He is on the run this afternoon. Police dont have much but we are expecting an update later on this afternoon. As for the womans daughter, we have told she is far along and due next month. She was taken to the hospital but is expected to be okay. Reporting live in crescentville. A man had to be rescued from a work site 80 feet above the ground. Crews secured the man on a stretcher after he suffered a back injury at the chemical company. He was lowered to the ground on a rope system and taken to the hospital for treatment. Its unclear how he was injured in the first place. Time now to talk temperatures, its a hotp very humid day across the region, tomorrow is expected to be even worse. As we look live outside sky 6 hd showing you the beach in cape may, one of best places to stay cool on a muggy afternoon. Meteorologist, david murphy, is at the Weather Center with a first check of that forecast. Reporter you saw clouds down the shore on sky 6 hd, we have more sunshine squeezing out in philadelphia right now and satellite shows you cloud cover a little thicker out to the west and a couple of showers trying to make their way into the eastern half of pennsylvania, move of them falling apart before they get here for now. Than could change this afternoon and this evening. Its warming up and 85 degrees currently if philadelphia, at the midday hour and 87 in trenton and wilmington and 88 in dover and down the shore 84 in cape may and the humidity is high. Here is where the temperatures are going, 2 00, 91, and 4 00 that is your high 92 and holding 90 by 6 00 and down to the low 80s by 10 00 tonight. I am posting the chance of a popup shower and thunderstorm by 6 00 and 8 00 and could start before and end after that. Not everybody sees that its spotty and you could see drenching downpours here and there out of those that manage to form. In terms of how humid it is. These numbers tell the story. Everything in the 70s is what we consider oppressive, very humid. 74 in millville and dover and 75 in cape may and philadelphia upper 60s to allentown and that is close to what we consider oppressive humidity. And that is not where it ends. Tomorrow its even worse, we have the excessive heat watch bumped up to a warning by the National Weather service that is where it is across the region, during the day the heat combined with the humidity its bad enough and feeling like 100 to 105 degrees. That means that all the heat tips will be in place well talk more about that in the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast coming up. Thank you. In new jersey a key figure in the bridge gate scandal will not be going to prison. David wildstein was sentenced to probation and admitted his role in plotting the lane closures and plead guilty in 2015. Government prosecutors asked the judge for leniency as a reward for the cooperation. It helped to convict two former allies of Chris Christie but the governor himself was never charged. Two women shot and killed sit first degree a pickup truck in north philadelphia. Medics found them dead inside of the vehicle on the 3900 block of North Lawrence street. The vick testimonies 35 and 19 both shot in the head. Police are looking for their killer and trying to figure out a possible motive. First responders tending to a shooting victim got quite a scare in Atlantic City last night. Crews were helping the victim here at indiana and lincoln avenues just after 9 00 when more shots rang out in the area. Rescuers rushed the victim into the ambulance and the victim later died. None the First Responders were hurt. In washington today President Trumps pick to lead the fbi is facing tough questions at this hour. Christopher rey is testifying before the judiciary committee. Is he set to i herity the top Law Enforcement agency after President Trump abruptly fired hi predecessor, jim comey. President trump is once again coming to his sons defense, this time after donald trump jr. Appeared on fox news. This morning the president tweeted his son was quote, open, transparent and innocent. He called the probe into the meeting between donald trump jr. And a russian lawyer, the greatest witch hunt in political history. The lawyer that met with the president s son claims she is not a government official. The kremlin has denied reaching out to the lawyer and denying all alligations. Meantime the Senate Majority leader, Mitch Mcconnell is ready to unwrap the latest bill repealing much of president obamas Health Care Law tomorrow. It will likely keep tax hikes on wealthy americans to help finance the expanded coverage and adds that he will begin trying to muscle the bill through the senate next week. Still to come here on action news at noon, one of the marines killed in the plane crash was from knowledge. The new details emerging. And new doubts now about the photo that claims that Amelia Earhardt survived. People are stuck in very old habits of using toothpaste to clean a denture. But dentures are very different to real teeth. Theyre about 10x softer and may have surface pores where bacteria can grow and multiply. Polident is specifically designed to clean dentures daily. Its unique microclean formula kills 99. 99 of odor causing bacteria and helps dissolve stains. Cleaning in a better way than brushing with toothpaste. Thats why dentists recommend polident. Polident. Cleaner, fresher, brighter every day. A u. S. Marine from north jersey is among the 16 military members killed in mississippi. 28yearold from colts neck Monmouth County was aboard the tanker that plunged into a soy bean field killing 15 other marines and a navy sailor. Ocs are combing the field for clues as to what brought the plane down. The debris is scattered for miles and to warn residents not to remove id emafter id ems were taken. The u. S. Military successfully tested their 40 billion Missile Defense system. The Defense System or fad, shot down a target over alaska, the system uses radar to shoot down Ballistic Missiles some analysts say its like shooting down a bullet with another bullet. It was tested for months before north koreas launch of a ballistic missile. A man kept his cell phone trained on a tornado yesterday. It shows the twister tearing through fields near conroy, iowa. The tornado reached a cluster of trees and sent them flying into the air. No injuries were reported. Some relief is arriving after an outbreak of wild fires out west. Firefighters are slowly making progress against dozens of blazes and allowing evacuees to come home and some are finding their homes gone at least 40 homes were destroyed near orville and northern california. There are new doubts about a photo that tries to prove that Amelia Earhardt survived her crash in the pacific. It shows her and her navigator in the Marshall Islands after they vanished. However two bloggers say they found the same picture in a travel book established in 1935, two years before earhardt disappears. Coming up several local Childrens Clothing stores are among those closing after the g gymboree bankruptcy filing. An impending strike at Philadelphia International airport is put on hold the Union Workers are planning to go on strike beginning today but earlier this morning they announced entered in last minute discussions, the strike would include wheel theyre attendants and cabin cleaners and others employed by contractors for American Airlines they are ready to go on strike if the negotiations fall apart. Childrens clothing retailer, gymboree announced which stores are closing and several are in our area including exton, langhorne, and hamilton and mays landing in new jersey. Gym boree is trying to restructure and trim the stores amid growing competition from online retailer zbrz health check this noon a discovery that could lead to curing some genetic disease, researchers say they found how to safely shut off genes without harming the surrounding cells and that could help doctors turn off the genes making patients sick and explore individual genes and their specific function in the body. The Action News Team is out working on news stories beginning at 4 00. Alicia vitarelli live in the newsroom with a preview. In some ports of the country making 38,000 a year would mean the family is middle class where make that income could actually make you eligible for Affordable Housing well explain where coming up in big talkers and its safer to swim way lifeguard but certainly not fool proof the risk that may be hiding at your local pool. And need better picks of your food for instagram. You may want to take a trip overseas, the photo kit that one restaurant is providing the customers to get that o so perfect instagram shot. Well tell you about it coming up at 4 00. Accuweather is coming up when we come right back. Eligible for medicare . Thats a good thing, but it doesnt cover everything. Only about 80 of your part b medical expenses. The rest is up to you. So consider an aarp Medicare Supplement Insurance Plan, insured by Unitedhealthcare Insurance Company. 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Stormtracker 6 live double scan right now shows us that we are essentially dry as i take a slightly closer look on stormtracker 6 live double scan you see out to the west there is a light shower and fairly widespread but not dumping a lot of rain. Out by gettysburg and pushing into our area and keeps fall ago part. I think the better chance of precipitation is later this afternoon and this evening around here. As we take a look outside we are at Temple University looking south to center city and not all that hazy but it is hot and humid again today. 85 is your current temperature in philadelphia. Dew point at 68 and a lot of areas have dew points in the low to mid70s and that is especially points south of us in wilmington and south jersey and delaware. Winds southsouthwest at 13 and the ocean temperature dip a bit and down to 61, here are your numbers across the region and people in the 80s outside of Atlantic City, you touched 90 degrees and the humidity high it feels like its hotter than these temperatures would otherwise indicate and heat index values in the 90s in wilmington and millville and dover and even in cape may if feels like 91 and the temperature is less because is of the high humidity added to the temperature of philadelphias current value. Up in the Lehigh Valley warm and humid, 89 degrees, and cant rule out a spotty thunderstorm. It looks like that is spotty so you might see one. Probably dry and a low risk of rip currents and the temperatures are not quite as warm. We have the high humidity and keep the cool drinks flowing, in philadelphia a high of 92 and heat index values feeling like the mid to upper 90s and a late day or evening thunderstorm cannot be rule out in philadelphia but the chances are small. Warm and humid with evening thunderstorms and muggy overnight. An overnight low getting down to 78 degrees that is warm, and then tomorrow an alert. Excessive heat and humidity and values will be between 100 and 105 in the afternoon a risk to workers that need shady breaks and those that need fluids and remember all pets. You have to take extra care. In terms of precipitation this afternoon a chance of a passing shower or thunderstorm and in the humid air mass its a drencher and we go overnight and we are dry and tomorrow night dry and tomorrow afternoon more showers and thunderstorms and tomorrow we have a shot at gusty strong thunderstorms as well as the drenching thunderstorms you see here. This goes up until 9 00 it tapers off a little bit after 9 00. Today hot and humid a high of 92 and spotty storm possible and tomorrow the red bar up, a high of 97 with heat index values over 100 and a chance of strong storms, and friday warm and a high of 89 and still muggy and friday downpours around and a concern for flash flooding where the the showers develop and then repeat. That is something to keep in mind for friday. It all gets better for the weekend and saturday and sunday are looking pretty nice. That looks good. Thank you david. Action news at noon continues now as we follow breaking news and new developments in the search for four missing men. Come to sesame place before little kids become, big kids. Before furry hugs, become first loves. Save 10 on admission and get a free 2nd visit, only at sesameplace. Com. Sesame place go before they grow. Following breaking news and new developments in the search for four missing men. Chopper 6 hd is live off a large property in solebury in bucks county. The investigators seemed to have stepped up their activity over this white tent. You see more than a dozen people from various Law Enforcement agencies have gathered here and we are following this closely as this unfolds. This coming an hour after oc asnounced that they have new evidence
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