Strike by thousands of verizon workers, many here in our area. A new push to make sure Philadelphia Residents stay safe, in the event of a fire. But the big story on action news tonight is the shooting of the ten yearold boy in a park in Delaware County. It happened this afternoon outside Memorial Park pool, in chester. Action News Reporter jeff chirico is live at crozerchester Medical Center with the full details jeff . Reporter sarah, when that ten yearold was brought here to the hospital we were told he was alert and conscious. Police today also announcing that a they have caught the the gun man a 17 yearold. Obviously this is a tragic situation. Reporter should have been a day of fun at Memorial Park in chester but instead feed from the pool police could be seen counting bullet shells after gunfire erupted around 1 00 p. M. Hitting a ten yearold boy twice in the stomach. Altercations took place outside of the park around ninth street, and they chased, ensued in which the shooter was chasing three young boys, and the shooting occurred down on seventh street. Reporter police say didnt say what motivated the shooting witnesses led the investigators to the shooter and helped them fine the gun nearby. A 17 yearold chasing a ten yearold, whatever motivated him, obviously was the wrong thing because he chose the wrong thing to do and that was to shoot a gun. Reporter chester mayor john linder says shootings like this wont tolerated. He points out the city has taken 500 guns off the street since 2012 and used shooting to call for new laws. These are illegal guns. We want to get them off the street. We want peoples support in getting sensible Gun Legislation here for illegal and stolen guns. Reporter Police Commissioner has not released the name of the 17 yearold suspect, just yet but he vows to prosecute him as an adult. We are live at crozerchester, jeff chirico for channel six action news. Jeff, thank you. Philadelphia police are trying to figure out who murdered a woman found dead in the car in a School Parking lot. Just after 5 00 this morning officers were called to the 2800 block of frankford avenue you in kensington, they found the victim in the drivers seat with gunshot wound to the head and torso. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Police have not released her identity yet. No arrests have been made. A person was struck and killed by an amtrak train from bucks county this morning. It happened just before 11 00 at levittown tulleytown station. The train was on its way from new york to philadelphia, when it struck and killed a man. He is now been identified as 27 yearold George Redner the the third of tulleytown. More than 300 passengers were on board the train at the time none were hurt. Police are still investigating why he was on the track in the first place. From our delaware news room tonight three people were injured when a dart bus and a car collided in new castle. The crash happened around 1 00 this afternoon at intersection of the route 13 and baylor road. Two adults and one juvenile were rushed to christiana hospital, in word tonight on their conditions just yet or who was at fault. Fire fighters in Montgomery County battled heat and flames in a commercial building in collegeville this morning. The fire broke out around 11 00 a. M. At the spiral star company on gp clemens drive. Because of the contents inside of the building, Fire Fighters became concerned it could develop into a hazmat situation. So they have set up specialized tenth and ventilated the building to be safe. Nobody was injured. More than half of the philadelphias firerelated deaths last year happened in homes, without working smoke alarms. That is according to philadelphia Fire Fighters who today spent the morning installing hundreds of new smoke alarms as part of the initiative to prevent firerelated deaths in the city. Action News ReporterTrish Hartman was there. Reporter teams of the Fire Fighters and red cross volunteers went door to door in southwest philadelphia, installing new smoke alarms and in some cases replacing old ones. Im really excited that i have some new ones because i was recently getting ready to put new batteries in mine and i have new smoke alarms that dont need batteries for more than zero years. Reporter the goal, to make sure every home has a ten year lithium powered battery smoke alarm on every floor. They started in high risk neighborhood like this one. Together, working with the citizens and hopefully we can get to zero fire deaths. Reporter Officials Say 30 people died in philadelphia fires last year, 22 of those deaths happened in homes that didnt have working smoke alarms, and a new study of fire fatalities in the city over the past five years shows having working smoke alarms lowers the chance of a fire fatality by 50 percent. The the teams werent justin stalling smoke alarms, they were also talking with people about escape plans what to do in case fire breaks out. They spoke with folks about their and what to do in case of an emergency. We have fire on line. We have plans for your pets. First aid kits. How to incorporate them into the escape plan. Reporter regina pullham and her dog an escape plan is crucial. We never necessity when a fire breaks out. I cannot get around fast. We definitely, need to appreciate you guys checking on us. Reporter city Officials Say if you need a smoke alarm and cannot afford one call 311n southwest philadelphia, Trish Hartman for channel six action news. From our delaware news room it was a bitter sweet ceremony in the new castle a Air National Guard base today. Six air men were welcomed home after deploymentness afghanistan and germany. More than 300 will now be leaving in the coming months. The it is one of the biggest deployments the base has ever had, jackie spears husband is getting ready to head out again. He has been on too many deployments for her to even count. Just know what to do, it doesnt get any easier but we have great support great family and friend and we just do it. Reporter she adds this deployment has become more difficult now that the couples children are old enough to realize that daddies gone. 325 air men and women from the new castle base will leave in, waves, beginning in october. They are all be serving on various missions, in southwest asia. Turning to accu weather now, it is a hot one and we can expect more of the same throughout the weekend as we begin the month of august. Meteorologist Melissa Magee is tracking the heat and shes at the big board to tell us what we can expect, melissa. Yes sarah heat continues. This is day five of the heat wave for philadelphia with the high climbing up to 90 degrees. It wasnt a bad start to the weekend with the humid any check but as you mention that had hot air continues. Currently 88 in philadelphia. Eightythree Allentown Lehigh valley. Seventythree in the poconos a long the coast in cape may coming in at 86 with that westerly win. We will look at dew point level of moisture in the at months fear and it is comfortable across the region. Anytime we have dew point numbers in the 50s or upper 50s and close to the lower 60s, but the air mass is tolerable overhead. Certainly not bad for the first day of august. So if you are stepping out on the town, we have you covered n fact phillies are at home at Citizens Bank park taking on the braves. First pitch around 7 00 another owe five. Mostly clear pleasant. First pitch around 87. Once we get in the the ninth inning we will drop down to 8o we will look at what ace head progressing through the rest of the weekend. The the heat will continue, the humidity, however will stay on the low side, we are tracking a bit of the pattern change next week, with the threat of more showers and storms which is close look at that coming up with the full and exclusive accu Weather Forecast sarah. Melissa, thank you. As hot temperatures continue stick with six abc. Com weather. Get latest outlook in the hourly forecast as you plan your weekend. The ice bucket challenge is back, again this year, members of the Philadelphia City council and the Als Association of greater philadelphia launched 2015 challenge at love park today. Participants dumped cold water and ice on themselves to raise awareness and money to fight als. Last summer, videos of these challenging, as you will remember took social media by storm. Is there much more to come tonight on action news new concern, in zimbabwe tonight over wellbeing of the brother of the cecil the lion. Conservation experts say he too has been killed. We have the latest. Massive show of support for phillies, we will show you new tributes for one of philadelphias favorite teams. Jeff skversky has sports when action news comes right back. The brot over the cecil the lion may have been killed by a poacher. Conservation Officials Say that the lion named chirico was shot and killed today but some media reports quoted researcher who says chiricos gps tracking collar shows he is still alive and well and moving around. It all comes on the heels of the International Outrage over the killing of cecil by american dentist Walter Palmer, both lions lived in the sanctuary inside a national park. Well, world news saturday will have have much more on the possible killing of this new lion as well as latest on efforts to extradite Walter Palmer to zimbabwe, that is coming up at 6 30 right here after action news. Verizon workers in nine state, including pennsylvania, new jersey, could walk off the job as soon as tomorrow. That will happen if negotiators cannot reach an agreement over benefits. The contract covers more than 49,000 workers. It expires at the end of today. The last week, those employee unions the the Communications Workers of america announced that 86 percent of workers voted to strike if the new agreement is not reached. A renoun scholar with ties to the Delaware Valley now has an official place in history. New Historical Marker in lance down Delaware County honors tati theano who began her career at the penn museum. Before she died in 1985 she became a leader in mayan studies, focusing and making numerous trips to guatemala. It is at fair view and south land down avenues. Young athletes endured the heat to play flag football for a good cause in bensalem township bucks county today. Police Athletic League hosted tornment to mark the end of the summer season. Teams of boys and girls seventh through 12th grade competed on the field of the community park. Former philadelphia sixers were on hand there to encourage, the kid. Still to come tonight on action news it may just be the first of august, but, time to Start Talking football. Jeff skversky has sports coming up. Center city gets a taste of the phillies fever. New mural that celebrates the team and history when action news comes right back. Ava and i needed a little vacay. But we needed to watch our spending. Meaning i needed to watch nikki. Shes the spender. Im the saver. So, mobile banking from td bank helps me keep track. For both of us. She was just browsing. We gotta go. Im ava. Im nikki. And we bank human at td bank. What . 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It noise secret that philadelphia loves its sports teams and today a new mural was unveiled, this is display that devotion as artwork. Mural is center city depicts phillies and players of phillies history and the fanatic. David mcshane, who also happens to be a life long phillies fan, design, and painted the giant work of art. If you want to see this mural for yourself it is there along the walnut street bridge, between 24th street and schuylkill avenue. All right. Jeff is here with sports. Were talking football. Cant wait. Lets go. Eagles have a lot of questions. We will start hopefully getting some answers. Eagles players and chip kelly have some questions to answer with this football team. A hh, finally football is about to get going. Eagles report today at team headquarters. They will kick things off tomorrow, with their first practice. The pressure is on for chip kelly as he enters his third and mess important season. Chip blew up that roster this off season. Will all of the changes work . Were about to find out. Sam bradford, mark sanchez will battle for starting quarterback job but bradford is expect to be the man, under center. The regular season kicks off in a little more than six weeks for Demarco Murray and your new look, philadelphia eagles. Murray has a new friend in the backfield eagles signed kevin menanguy today the roster is now at 90. With cole hamels gone, aaron nola will be the new face of the phillies rotation. Hopefully, the ace. Yes, big shoes to fill for the 22year old. Nola returns tonight against the braves. Mike schmidt, he is not sure what he is looking at right now, phillies have the best record in baseball since the allstar break. Ryan howard and company have won 111 of their last 13. Howard is driving force at the plate, season high four runs batting in last night. He has 31 rbis in his last 33 games. Nobody has more in the league over the span. It is contagious. Dom brown hits his second home run, Justin Defratus making catch in the hat. Hat off to the red hot phillies. So hamels will make baseball history tonight in texas, former phils starter will be the first to ever pitch for a Different Team immediately after throwing a no hitter. This will never look quite right, will it cole in a rangers cap. Hamels will make his debut at 8 00 with the giants. He won world series in philly and now he wants to do the same for dallas. You think we have it bad . Rangers have never won a world series. I am excited to, you know, start the the next chapter of my baseball life. It is something where they have a lot of great players. You know, knowing that there is always a chances specially in that league and knowing that i can be a part of that, you know, i dont think they are too far away especially this year. Jason thompson, sixers career is over, before it even started. That is right, mount laurel native was thrilled when he was traded here last month from sacramento but sixers sent him right back to the west coast yesterday to golden state. Heres Jason Thompson today in burlington, new jersey as camp where former Lenape High School star is still trying to process everything. Thompson was a sixer for three weeks. He never played a game, let alone even get a jersey. I guess wow i guess, the part of the business, you know but for me not used to Something Like that just because being with the organization for seven years and then knowing youre traded and going to a team where you grew up, and then, going to the reigning champs. It is definitely not a bad route. Union hope to rebound tonight at home against new York Red Bulls after blowing a three to nothing lead in the last match. You can see the game right here on six abc at the top of the hour. Does tiger have the eye of the tiger. Quicken loans just outside d. C. Tiger with a ace win a fan 1 million. Tiger tied for fourth second. He is nine shots back. Nascar back the the in the truck series, tricky triangle gets to whendell in the roy black junior, nope, wont be needing those gloves anymore. Get rid of them. Kyle bush wins the the race, is what new, bush won four of his last five races, and, of course, he is on a pole on sundays, race up in the poconos, kyle bush, winning race after race after race. Thanks, jeff. Up next here on action news meteorologist Melissa Magee has your exclusive accu weather seven day forecast, it the is august, it is hot, you want to be on the beach. We will be right back. I dont want to live with the uncertainties of hep c. Or wonder. Whether i should seek treatment. I am ready. Because today theres harvoni. A revolutionary treatment for the most common type of chronic hepatitis c. Harvoni is proven to cure up to 99 of patients. Whove had no prior treatment. Its the one and only cure thats. One pill, once a day for 12 weeks. Certain patients. 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Melissa is here now with your accu Weather Forecast as the heat wave rolls on. It does it is day five, we will more than likely climb close to 90 into sunday, sarah we will talk about the details. Storm tracker six live double scan radar showing dry and quiet here across the region there is a spot shower to the south and east of dover delaware. Were going to stay dry for good chunk of tonight but best bet to find a shower or thunderstorm will be well north of the poconos and we will talk about the reason why. In the near term we will show you picture outside action cam outside earlier today at belmont plateau gorgeous shot of the center city sky line on this saturday afternoon. We have bright blue skies puffy cumulus clouds and high clouds as well. Day five and counting of our heat wave that started out on tuesday with highs in the lower 90s. Thursdays high 91. Yesterday we maxed out at 90. In philadelphia, today climbing up to 90 degrees. Normal for this time of the year is 87. We are more than likely going to be above that for second half of the weekend on sunday. Outside this evening with the westerly wind, it is 88 in the city. Seventyone in the poconos. Eightythree Allentown Lehigh valley, along the the coast in beach haven not much afternoon sea breeze. More of a land breeze with that westerly component. Eightyseven beach haven. Eighty in Atlantic City and airport. Satellite six with action radar, High Pressure is dominating our region but notice a little weak disturbance that is riding over eastern great lakes. This will more than likely effect areas in upstate new york and new england and some of these showers will move north of the poconos very late tonight. Something to keep in mind, ppl park heading there later this evening, our Philadelphia Union are at home. You can watch the game right here on six abc. It is partly cloudy and comfortable. For the start of the game temperature 86 degrees. Once we get in the 90th minute we will drop down to 79. Heres the call from accu weather for rest of tonight partly cloudy, warm, not bad 61 in the suburbs for overnight low, we will drop down to 07 in the city with that north westerly wind and that northwest wind will keep our humidity, in check. So heres the setup on our sunday High Pressure for the most part dominates our region. We are tapping into those westerly wind and these westerly wind down slope east of the appalachians and they compress. It will be a hot one once again tomorrow with highs in the 90s but stays sunny and dry. This ridge of the High Pressure were to move to the east we will tap into a return flow on the western periphery of that high and that will lead to the hot and stickies. That is staying away from our region for a good chunk of our weekend. Mostly sunny and nice many tomorrow. Up in the poconos we have a big nascar week end that continues. Today that temperature is 75. Eighty once we get into 1 00 p m tomorrow. Down the shore, we have no complaints. Sunny, warm with high coming in at 87 degrees. And heres the exclusive accu weather seven day forecast as we go through the day on sunday it stays hot with the high near 90 degrees. The on monday, the humidity will return with a high up to 92. Afternoon shower and thunderstorm is likely. On tuesday, not as humid in at 90 and then finally this heat wave will come to an end, as we get into wednesday at 87. Threat of the shower or storm lower 80s as we get into thursday friday, and saturday sarah but it stays hot tomorrow. It does, thanks, melissa. World news saturday is next here on channel six. Dont miss action news at ten on phl17 tonight. Then were right back here on six abc at 11 00. For Melissa MageeJeff Skversky walter perez and the entire Action News Team im Sarah Bloomquist we will see you right back here at 11 00. Leave early go roam sleep in sleep out star gaze dream big wander more care less beat sunrise chase sunset do it all. On us. 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