Perez. Sarah is off. In the news crews are searching for a man that juneed into a river in bucks county and yet to resurface and celebrating a lifetime of service through music the Church Organist calling it quits after a more than a quart he of a century on the job. We begin with action news on the oppressive heat gripping our area. One step outside you know its so hot its tough to breathe. Folks trying to find relief any way they could. Humidity will stick around one more day. Action News Reporter jeff chirico is talking to people trying to beat the heat. Melissa . Walter, this is very warm. In fact some could say hot across the delaware and Lehigh Valleys. The big weather story today is not just the heat but oppressive humidity. We have a heat advisory posted and its been extended actually so the orange shaded countriesed in the heat advisories, inside the i95 corridor and down in south jersey theres excessive height warning. This will stay up 8 p. M. Monday and were talking about heat din exes values ranging from 102 to 107 and heres the big problem today. The dew point the level of moisture in the at months fear any time you have dew point temperatures 70 or higher its down right oppressive and in fact pretty unbearable outdoors. Checking out the current heat index values feels like 99 in philadelphia. Triple digits down in dover. Current heat index in reading 97. Feeling like 96 not much relief down the shore and there in sea isle city. Heres stormtracker 6 double scan radar you can see were tracking showers and storms off to the north and west with a severe thunderstorm watch posted for upstate new york and back across western sections of pennsylvania. A cluster that we are tracking out across the Jose Angel Cota valley will work its way east ward and a lot of moisture will fall apart later tonight after sunset. Well talk about what is ahead. Isolated thunderstorm or shower cannot be ruled out with building heat and humidity and temperatures ur into the upper 70s and stiving as we return to work monday walter. A closer look at the 7 day forecast and let you know if theres any relever on the way in a little bit. Thank you melissa. Lets move on to action News Reporter jeff chirico outside city hall with more hey, jeff. If youre not at home in the air canning on the couch watching action news thats the best place to be. Second place may be outside City Hall Center city. You see plenty of kids it may be dinner time thats not stopping them theyre enjoying splashing there. Parents in the shade enjoying the shade here. It feels a lot peter than when in the son. Either way we found plenty of folks today finding ways to beat the heat. Its with a type of day your shirt stuck tou a slight breeze through center city was not enough to ease the sweltering heat. 11yearold henrey of West Philadelphia knew what would do the trick. Actually pretty cool when you go to the watter. Plenty of kids, and tigers waited in the fountain as eakins oval and this beat playing games at home. Its a hot day with the kids and i was bored so we want to get wet and have fun. Team turz hotter than 100 feel we found few biking and jog around kelly drive. The heat cut this bike rental business in half. This is busiest time 1 to 4 and we have not a line its uncommon. Darryl gatewood is is not deterred by heat and humidity though he takes precautions plenty of water and shorter trip good normally we would do 35 miles. Today ill do 16 because its a little humid today. For those sensitive to the heat the Philadelphia Corporation for aging is operateing a heatline. Offering tips to help the elderly stay cool and alive. Go ahead and use your air conditioner. Dont use stands in enclosed rooms and keep as little clothing on as possible and keep hydrated with water and clear tripingz. Two more tips dont forget to check on elderly and pets and the number heatline number 2 157659040 noon to midnight and tomorrow 8 30 to 8 p. M. I came in here to be splashed by fountains and they seem to have turned off. Perfect timing. Saved by the end of the story. Reporting live in city hall. Jeff chirico action news tv. Check out 6abc. Com weather and find the current tem turdz wherever are you and the hourly forecast and connect with our meteorologists with facebook and twitter for updates around the clock. A man from virginia who decided to jump into the delaware in bucks county today went for that sbim this morning slipped under the water and never resurfaced. Annie mccormick is live in bristol with the full story, annie. Walter, that hour the search for missing swimmer has been suspended. His family members identify him at 22yearold marquise Mack Richardson of virginia and has a number of family members in camden. They rushed here to watch the search hoping he will resurface. To give you an idea how far he swam out if you can see the green buoy that is where he was last seen when calling for help. Allout serve on the Delaware River for 2yearold marquise Mack Richardson halted sunday evening. He died because the current got rough out there and was getting rougher. Richardson family stayed close to the waters edge after they received calls and texts he went under. He went swim around 10 a. M. And did not resurface and witnesses described the scene. Male subject went out to the buoy and was calling for help three times. But then he went under and never came back up. By the buoy i heard a guy say help and all ever a sudden he went straight down and he was trying to swim back. Water rescue turned into Water Recovery and dive tem and multiple bucks county Fire Departments joined the search and so did new jersey state police. Richardson family says he was with his girlfriend that stayed with rescue teams and his relatives say they will continue to pray. Even though they stopped the search theyve been out since this morning. I still think theres hope you know, i believe in god. And no word yet from officials. If a search will resume again tomorrow. Objection, his family members are hoping that it will. For now reporting live in bristol, Annie Mccormick channel 6 action news. Walter. Thank you andy. The fire marshall is working to determine the cause of suspicious fire in south philadelphia and the fire since forced more than a dozen people to find a new place to stay. Action News Reporter Trish Hartman reports. Firefighters spent the day spraying down the smoldering building so the fire marshall can go inside and start the investigation into the suspicious fire. 17 people displaced early this morning. Many grateful more damage was not done to the home and some nervous about the investigation. The call came in 3 a. M. At a building under trux on 2000 block of juniper street in south philadelphia when firefighters arrived flames were shooting from the roof. 17 people were forced out of their homes. When we came out it was so hot. And the flames you could see the flames shooting over. It was bad. Officials say no power was connectsed to the building that was being durnd into eight condos. Several properties next to the burndz building two homes and a business were deemed unsafe. A witness saw two men in the building before the fire started and heard one man break a window and enter the building and the other was on the roof. I seen the one guy leave the scene and as he left the scene ran east towards snyder avenue the whole building exploded police would like to question the two men wearing black hooded sweat shirts and they reviewed sure vailsence from neighborhood cameras. Theyre nervous about the possibility of arsonist on the loose. Thats crazy how close it is and purposely setting fires in our neighborhood. Its too scary. No injuries were reported and no word on a cause. If you have information that may be helpful to detectives. Philadelphia police would like to hear from you. In south philadelphia, Trish Hartman, channel 6abc us in. Much more to come on aks in two septa buses collide sending people to the hospital well show you what happened. Every day is a big day. You get up and breathe. Plus a be loved Church Organist from new jersey puts away sheet music for a final time after three quarters of a century behind the keys and cole hamels gets roughed up with his final report on the phillies. Jeff skversky has more sports when we come back. Nine people were injured when two step buses collided in oxford circle. One bus rear ended the other. Several passenger where type local hospitals and all the injuries are being described as relatively minor. And the citys wissanoming Section Police say alcohol was a factor in a crash that ended with i aman in Critical Condition before 1 30 this morning investigators say the two vehicles collided at the intersection of tacony street and van kirk wum of the drivers was evicted from the vehicle and rushed to the hospital in Critical Condition. The other driver was arrested on dui charges. He blood drive was held today in langhorne in honor of little baby whose short life left hand a lasting legacy. Thousands of bicyclists left from the irish pub in center city bound for the jersey shore. 8th annual tour deshore a 65 mile bike tried raise money for children in need. They hope top raise 8,000 this year. The action cam was in ocean city, new jersey this morning for end of extraordinary era at zion lutheran church. After being the Church Organist at zion for the past 75 years that was eleanor cranes last song. She retired today which also happens to be her 92 birthday. Crane started playing at the church in Barnegat Light when a teenagers in the 190s. Its been her honor to serve the churchal these years. Its a big day. You know i guess every day is a big day if you can get up and breathe. It will be sad to see her go. She has made her mark on this community. And miss crane wants to take time now to focus on her health shes been waiting to have hip replacement surgery and now is the time. Eleanor is not done yet. At urging of friends she agreed to come back at least and do a few more encore performances in the future im Sigourney Weaver and new york is my home. Theres no place like it in the world. Like our state parks. The adirondacks are my favorite. For hiking, fishing, camping, you name it. Niagara falls is the oldest state park, but visiting it never gets old. The readers of a National Newspaper voted letchworth the 1 state park in america. Watkins glen, 3. New york state parks are a gift. Plan your vacation at iloveny. Com summer theres something for everyone. Jeff skversky has a check on sports and if nothing else todays phillies game was fun to watch. Entire weekend has been fun to watch. Phillies go figure worst team in baseball is one of the best in second half. It has been night and day at least so far in the second half. Just like the weather. The phillies are heating up and all they need is a w over miami. Christmas in july as phils wrap ut series with the marlins, ryan howard gets a gift. Right down the middle. He crushes it. Second deck. Solo shot, phils within one. Freddie says hey i can do that. Galvas a tworun homer phils put up a five spot on haren in the second. And the trade deadline is friday. Rocked depend in the third givers up three more. Cole gillespie in the center and hamels done. Earned 14 runs in last four starts and cole pick up your head in the ninth, down run jeff rancore are you kidding me, deep to left, out of herech the walkoff to run hospitaler phils come back to win 87 fist sweep in months what a win afterwards hamels is asked if he thought about this the final time hell get to celebrate with his teammates . Truly no. You know just being able to try to boups back from a start thats not the best and i think that will be the next thought you know trying to get back to what i know and am capable of doing. Well, wild day out at the on and for once were not talking about the rain or the wind but if you forecasted Dustin Johnson winning on, that title shot may now be gop with the wind. Its raining once again during the third round of on. Jim furyk get the man umbrella eddie pepro he needs a now ball. Had he was briefly tied for the lead with johnson and hits the hotel. He double bogeys the hole. Johnson will not be sleeping well tonight and bogeys 16, 17, 18 and only one in the entire field had worst third round than jan son he falls from first tied to 18. Maybe needs more practice. Jordan smeej getting extra work in. Speenl with 7 birdies today. One off the lead and in contention for third major of of the year. One shot behind a crowded leaderboard a three way tie atop the leaderboard leading bawl dunn amateur dunn has lowest score hole in the on history. They are tied at 12 under headed to tomorrows final round. A day of after returning to very field in medford, carli lloyd grew up playing ton host a soccer camp the world cup hero gez a welcome in voorhees. Honored at the mansion on main street in voorhees. Nearly two weeks after that incredible hat trick in the womens World Cup Final as much as shes enjoying the spotlight lloyd says today she just want to be out on the soccer field. Ive been getting all glammed up and im sick of makeup and heels and dresses and my comfort zone is being on the field. And in all those few weeks of doing all that, i was really, really looking forward being here because this this is my life. You know medford. Universal. Family friends. Um this to me is home. Welcome home. All right. With this heat who does not want to be at the beach. If you happen to be in wildwood today perhaps you saw chaos. Harlem globetrotters star showing off tricks at the flash on water park, splash, how about on the beach from the lifeguard stand nails it hes not showing off hes not each looking theyll be down at the Wildwood Convention center ten days for a few shows. Those were only three shots too. That was it. Thank you, jeff. Up next on action news we continue to keep an eye on dangerous temperatures. Meteorologist Melissa Magee has the exclusive accuweather 7day forecast when action news comes right and why stop what youre doing to find a bathroom . 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Com if youre looking for a great way to cool off the wood side farm cream didnt in hockessin delaware is the place to be for fresh, home style ice cream. Oh boy, folks can try flavors take a behind the scenes tour and see the cows known for creamy milk. It doubled as a fundraiser for bank of delaware. Time tore a check of the accuweather forecast. It was hot today. Really hot. Oh, it was hot. One of those days you try to get your breath and its hard to catch it. It hit you in the face. Unfortunately its stick around for the start of the workweek own monday. Well talk about what is going on. Double scan radar showing you its dry and quiet and the big weather story ort second half of the weekend and heat even stifling humidity. Sky6 live in hd they have penns landing at the harbor park and folks are doing what they can trying to stay cool on this und evening. Its very warm and sticky and we have heat tips on the way as well. Were checking out some highlights today. It was scorcher for us sunday and still steamy back to work on monday. Checking out some of the highest heat index values we saw today high in philadelphia, 95. The problem however, was the humidity. So the highest heat index reported today 105 in is they as high as 107 in dover and 102le and town and Lehigh Valley not much relief at the shore today. Surf city having heat index value of 1 0. Steamy monday and in fact when you check out the dew point scale its a level of moisture in the atmosphere and is it oppressive and 0s and same hold true as we get to middle half of the workweek and beyond. Right now in the city 94. 91 allentown and Lehigh Valley and lancaster coming in 89. Youre finding some relief at the shore currently with that afternoon seabreeze kicking on in. 82 sea isle and 84 beach haven. You factor in the humidity feels hotter 99 in philadelphia and triple digits in dover. And pretty warm up in the poconos at this hour in at 8 of. Heres satellite 6 and action radar partly cloudy sky overhead and all unsettled weather off north and west with severe thunderstorm watch box posted for upstate new york and also western sections of pennsylvania. Were tracking cluster that is currently moving across the ohio valley and this will continue to work the way east ward and as it travels and passes east of the appalachians a lot of that moisture starts to fizzle and die out. There could be an isolated shower or thunderstorm. I think most of us will stay dry. Warmth will continue however. The call from accuweather the rest of tonight brief and heavy thunderstorm likely in spots. Not everyone will see. It very warm and very muggy dropping down to 72. Anden in the suburbs and overnight low in philadelphia, 79. Average for us this time of year is 86 for daytime high. So pretty warm still come tonight. Future tracker 6 showing you as you wake up tomorrow morning numbers along the 95 corridor lower 80s and feels hotter as we get to the afternoon hours which is why in fact that excessive heat warnings and heat advisory has been extended until 8 p. M. On monday as we are calling for those heat index values ranging anywhere from 100 to 105 heat tips seek out ac and fwraekz shade and lots of water and check on pets kid and elderly. Accuweather forecast showing you a hot one tomorrow. High temperature 9 5. Thunderstorm likely. Tuesday. Still warm, high of 89. Lower humidity as you get to wednesday and relief is coming by then, walter. Thank you melissa. Abc worls news surprised next on channel 6 and dont miss action news at 10 on phl17 tonight and back here again on 6abc at 11. For Melissa Magee, jeff skversky, sarah bloomquist, the entire Action News Team im walter perez well see you back here at 11 00. Geoff geoff heres to the explorers. 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