For today. Really . I took my fleas home so i would make sure i bring it back out on the terrace. Well need it this morning. We have that cloud cover from yesterday off the coast and were expecting plenty of sunshine, clear skies winds dropping a little bit today but the temperatures have also dipped. Were now down to 38 degrees in reading, holding 40 in allentown, 44 in philadelphia and these are the coolest numbers weve had so far this season so real good morning for a little extra jacket on. And as we go through the day, it stays cooler. We got sunshine a plenty but 53 degrees by noon and by 3 oclock, 61 and we expect that to be your high. Winds not as strong as yesterday but definitely on the chilly side. More of the same on the bus stop. Some suburbs could dip to 36 degrees by the time the kids are out there waiting for the bus and 41 in philadelphia, so a little heavier gear for them as they head outside. I could see a lot of sweatshirts on the bus stop this morning, maybe even some gloves in some neighborhoods. We have in frost advisory covering the pine barrens as well. The biggest areas those northern and western suburbs and this has now been extended since yesterday morning all the way down through berks county and out to lancaster. Potted plants. In karen we have a warmup as soon as tomorrow afternoon. Details in the seven day. All right, dave, lets hit the roads. Weve got construction that i warned you about yesterday so its a slow go here. This is at the schuylkill expressway under 30th street and thats your westbound traffic headed towards the vine, seeing one of the crews leave the scene. We still see the cones set up out there at this moment though so weve got the right lane blocked its a little slow in the area but it should wrap up by 5 00 a. M. At least it is opened. Last week they were shutting it down overnight for construction there. Looking live on the vine street expressway westbound, eastbound moving just fine, all lanes and ramps remain opened. No overnight closures scheduled for this week so pretty good on the vine. How about the big picture here . Blue route, schuylkill, i95, speeds in pretty good shape. Yes, we have lots of construction crews out there working hard this morning. On the schuylkill eastbound near the curve we have crews out here that are blocking a lane until 5 oclock as well as 95 northbound near the blue route theyre blocking the rye. Matt and jeanette. Thank you, karen. Breaking overnight a multi alarm blaze broke out at a cherry hill apartment complex. People heard police banging on their doors to get them out. Action News Reporter Katherine Scott is live at the colonials apartment complex on Cooper Landing road with more on these dramatic evacuations. Katherine. Reporter matt, there were some terrifying moments earlier. Residents have since been allowed back inside this apartment complex after this overnight fire here in cherry hill. One occupant was taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation. No firefighters were hurt. This fire broke out on the fifth floor of the sixth floor building around 11 45 last night at the colonials apartment West Building on the 800 block of Cooper Landing road in cherry hill. Police and fire crews immediately began knocking on doors telling residents to evacuate. The Cherry Hill Fire Department and Mutual Aid Companies responded. Several apartments were damaged in the fire which was placed under control around 12 30 this morning. Neighbors here saw thick smoke and heavy flames. They grabbed their kids, their pets, maybe a few belongings and got out. This is the first floor. The officer banged on my door and told us to get out so i grabbed my children and ran. So i ran around to see what was going on. It was a huge fire. It was really big. Heard the alarm, fire alarm about 11 oclock. We just left the apartment and it was so bad, too bad. The fire was coming out of the balcony. Reporter and the cause of the fire remains under investigation this morning. Were live in cherry hill, Katherine Scott, channel6 action news. Katherine, thank you. A young mother is in jail this morning suspected but not charged in the suspicious deaths of her two young boys in wilmington. One is said to be five years old the other just a few months. Police were called to check on the well being of those children. Officers found the boys dead but also smelled a strong odor of gas. A group of children and adults from the neighborhood held a vigil outside the home last night. I had this terrible feeling was it the little boy with the dreads, cute tiny little boy was it him because he would come around all the time and he would always ask to play with the dog. Im just broken hearted. The police chief says it appears the boys drowned but they are waiting for the medical Examiners Office to rule on the cause of death. New here on action news, Chester County dentist is charged with indecent assault and harassment. Authorities says he practices under the name of michael afash. Hes accused of having indecent contact with a 21yearold woman during a Job Interview and dental examination. Southern Chester County Regional Police say it happened last month at the new garden family dentistry in new garden township. Police in the city of chester are looking for the man who robbed and sexually assaulted a woman on her wray to the bus stop near the 300 block of east 23rd street at 4 00 a. M. On friday of last week. Investigators say the attacker as you saw from the video and here it is again was seen on Surveillance Video carrying a shotgun. President trump touched a nerve with former white house officials after saying that president obama and other president s did not contact the families of american troops killed in duty. Many boldly calling it an outright lie. Abcs Serena Marshall is in washington with the fallout. Reporter it was a bold faced comment about his predecessors and fallen troops. If you look at president obama and other president s, most of them didnt make calls. Reporter President Trump responding to a question about why he had yet to say anything publically on the four special operator members killed in niger. Ive written them personal letters. Theyve been sent or theyre going out tonight. Reporter but then he turned his response on soldiers who paid the ultimate sacrifice to former president s. He was even asked to clarify. How can you make that claim. I was told that he didnt often and a lot of president s dont, they write letters. Reporter former Obama Administration fishes firing back calling President Trump a liar. The Democratic National Committee Said the jaw dropping eye says he has no problem using the troops as a political tool. Its something the president has been accused of doing before and it comes the same day the man he said during the campaign was not a war hero was being honored. John mccain slamming is the president s nationalist agenda. Our duty to remain the last best hope of earth for the sake of some half baked curious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems. Reporter president george w. Bush and president clinton told us that statement by President Trump is simply untrue. They not only made phone calls and wrote letters but often met with families of fallen soldiers. President gorge hw bush and president carters office have yet to comment. The city of philadelphia honored senator john mccain with the 2017 Liberty Medal. Former Vice President joe biden presented the award at the National Constitution center last night. Mccain received the honor for his life tie of sacrifice and service to the country. The senator says hes humbled to join the ranks of past honorees. You can watch the entire Liberty Medal presentation honoring senator mccain with our special broadcast on sunday at 1 00 p. M. Right after action news at noon. Eagles player is expected at an nfl owners meeting today discussing the National Anthem protest. Students at a new Jersey High School walk out of class in response to a teacher who told Spanish Speaking students to speak american. David. We have clear skies across the region and you can see on satellite how the cloud cover from yesterday pushing well off the coast, lots of sun coming but we are starting out very chilly. Ill have details on that and that warmup coming up in the accuweather 7day. And a survey breaks down the top halloween candy by whats new from light and fit . Greek nonfat yogurt with zero artificial sweeteners. Real fruit and 90 calories. Youll be wowed try new light fit with zero artificial sweeteners. Halloween is just two weeks away and people are looking forward to all their favorite candy. A bulk Sales Company called the candy store has spent 10 years compiling data and coming up with each states favorite treat. Pennsylvanians go for m ms consuming a whopping 290,000 pounds of the candy coated chocolate. In delaware, its life savers. And new jerseys tasting the rainbow with skittles coming in at number one. Hm. I find it odd that in nevada hersheys kisses are the favorite. Theyre made long way from pennsylvania. And those never match up with my favorites so. I want candy corn. Yeah, thats right. Hershey with almond. Im a pennsylvania kid. I love that stuff. Storm tracker6 live double scan shows us that we have a lot of ground clutter out there on this radar. Im going to see if i cant clean that up for you in the next half hour because there is no rain. As we take a look outside we have clear skies over the Commodore Barry bridge and we are looking at a very nice start across the region. Sky coverwise were looking at plenty of sunshine but you want to grab your jacket because it is chilly out there and in fact, chillier than its been so far this season. In philadelphia were at 44 degrees, some suburbs are down to about 40 in places like allentown and down in millville youre starting to cool down. And a couple of spots even into the upper 30s and remember weve still got about an hour and a half or so to keep those temperatures descending before they start to turn around. Winds out of the northnorthwest at 9 miles per hour, not as strong in general as it was yesterday. As we take a look weve got a very clear night that were just ending and real chilly conditions. Sun far lying suburbs could get down to 35 degrees, 43 in philadelphia and that would be the coldest overnight since may eighth. Its been awhile since youve woken up to temperatures like that. Satellite clearing the clouds out so get ready to get those shades on as youre taking your walk or getting behind the wheel. 43 degrees by 8 oclock and it stays chilly today. By 10 oclock, 48. By noon 53 and were going for a high of 61 at about 3 oclock this afternoon before zipping right back down to the upper 60 by 6 oclock. High temperatures across the region how about 61 in allentown and trenton and philadelphia and wilmington. Maybe 62 in reading. These are very even numbers. Millville winds up at 63 and about 62 down the shore. Tomorrow well eventually turn warmer. Were going to start out chilly in the morning but with High Pressure shifting to the south and we get more of a southerly flow through the day well wind up with a high of 72 later and we keep climbing from there the rest of the week. Your exclusive accuweather 7day, 61 today sunny but still cool not as windy as yesterday. And then tomorrow mostly sunny chilly to start out but 72 in the afternoon. Thursday then 73 and friday 74. Notice how we continue to sunny pattern through the rest of the work week. And then for the weekend mostly sunny and warm on saturday, 74. And were going to ease those numbers down a little bit from where we had them yesterday but it still looks like a very nice pleasantly warm weekend. By sunday afternoon we are at 77 for that union game and of course the eagles are home on monday night and were going for a high of 75 in the afternoon and were taking out the chance of a shower for the game. We were talking i think a week ago saying is it going to feel like fall when the eagles return and it kind of well, its a night game so meh. Thank you david. Authorities have suspended the search for an Oil Rig Worker who disappeared after an explosion on a platform near new orleans. The 44yearold texas man was a subcontractor on the structure. Seven people were injured in sunday nights blast. Investigators still have not said what caused the explosion. New on action news, students at a north Jersey High School walked out of class in protest yesterday. They are protesting a teacher who told Spanish Speaking students to speak american. A teacher made the remarks to students at Cliffside Park high school on thursday during a math class. Students say the teacher had asked them to stop whispering in spanish before the incident. Dozens of students participated in the walkout yesterday. They are calling for the teach teacher to apologize. I think she was trying to get across stop speaking spanish but she said it in the worst way possible. There should be freedom of speech. The School District has been silent despite repeated media requests for comment. Happening today nfl owners players and Union Leaders are expected to discuss the National Anthem protests during a meeting in new york city. The league has not released a list of players. However, Seahawks Michael Bennett says he will be there along with eagles safety malcolm jenkins. Nfl commissioner Roger Goodell released a memo last week saying the league was working on a plan together with players. Just yesterday quarterback Colin Kaepernick among the first to take a knee during the anthem filed a legal action. He claims the league and owners worked together to keep him unemployed because of his refusal to stand. Albright college says all three Football Players who were kicked off the team for kneeling during the National Anthem earlier this month have been offered reinstatement. The president of the school in reading says in addition to a strong reaction from students, she received greater clarity about what happened. She added larger issues of social and Racial Injustice must be addressed. A prominent republican will join Vice President joe biden in delaware for a discussion on bipartisanship. Business owners discuss the sweetened beverage tax. When youre a doubledipping pensionpadder like steve sweeney, its important to maintain a certain. Lifestyle. Thats why sweeney spent over a hundred grand of his Campaign Funds on highpriced meals and other gifts. Were talking fine cigars, fancy watches, pricey restaurants, and expensive wines all to charm the type of folks who helped him raise your taxes 145 times. Too many in south jersey are struggling. But steve sweeneys looking out for himself, not for us. Good morning, everybody, how you doing today . Were looking live here at sky6 at temple university. We have clear skies and you know what, its chilly out there. Lets go ahead and check the schuylkill for you as we look live right now. You see penndot with the arrow board set up. This is the schuylkill eastbound near conshohocken curve. We have the right lane blocked with construction. Should be clear soon but theyre still out there on the schuylkill expressway so that construction ongoing right there. The schuylkill westbound at 30th street, construction there scheduled to wrap up pretty shortly. At this point theyre blocking one lane. Theyre not exactly closing it down like they had been before so thats some better news. I95 near the blue route construction here near the blue route has cleared and other areas were still seeing construction on 95 as well as on 295 southbound between the black horse pike and 42. And on route 30 near warwick road so the crews are out there and the one on warwick is going to last until 9 oclock. New jersey turnpike southbound approaching exit one the crews are here blocking the left lane. That will be until 6 oclock. A lot of Construction Projects going on as well as here the burlington bristol bridge. However they just cleared it so traffic here on the bridge moving a little bit better right now, matt. Okay, thank you, karen. [inaudible] happening today, a group is fighting the philadelphia sweetened beverage tax heading to harrisburg. The Business Owners and employees plan to testify at a state Senate Hearing about their economic pain from the tax. It comes after a day after reports from philadelphias city controller Alan Butkovitz says the tax has affected the bottom line of at least 60 percent of the businesses he surveyed. The city could have received the revenues by sustaining the wage tax at its current rate instead of a bait and switch that took place with the beverage tax. Mayor jim kenneys office shot back saying Philadelphia Residents and the entire Business Community supports a reduction of the wage tax because, unlike the soda tax, its a tax that everyone has to it suppresses job growth and business attraction to philadelphia. He also said the beverage tax pays for preschool for children. Topping the Business Report netflix says it is boosting the amount it is spending for new original content going from 6 billion this year to 8 billion next year. Company Officials Say they want to stay ahead of the competition as more Companies Like apple amazon and facebook expand their streaming services. The good times are rolling on wall street. Stocks extended a record setting run into a sixth week yesterday most because of Energy Financial and technology stocks. Futures are mixed. This laptop bag can charge your devices when theyre in it. Layer is a bluetooth neighborhood smart bag that can charge a laptop tablet and phone. Its creator has surpassed its fundraising goal. They expect delivery in march of next year. Face Recognition Technology is now moving to the animal kingdom. Google Just Announced thats Photo Service can recognize pets and you can even search for them by name. Google users can see pictures of their dog, cats, bunnies, hamsters, whatever you have grouped alongside photos of humans. The important things in life, matt. Its getting crazy, though, isnt it, identifying pets. [laughter] your time now 4 53. New on action news, philadelphia works to convince amazon to build its Second Headquarters here. The citys social media push coming up at 5 00. Authorities say they finally caught up with the two women who dressed at nuns and robbed banks in new jersey and pennsylvania. Thats next. The fbi says they arrested the two women who tried to rob a bank in the poconos while dressed at nuns. This is surveillance photos or or these are surveillance photos of the attempted robbery near tannersville in Monroe County back in august. The pair ended up leaving the bank empty handed. They appeared before a judge in newark yesterday and are also accused of robbing two banks in north jersey last month wearing head scarves. Happening today tohio governor and former president ial candidate john kasich will join former Vice President joe biden for a discussion at the university of delaware. The republican and democrat will discuss how to bridge the political and partisan divides in washington. The event is presented in partnership with the newly established biden institute. And today is the deadline to register to vote in new jerseys general election. One of the biggest races in the garden state is for governor. Voters head to the polls on november 7th. Good to know. Time right now 4 57. We are following breaking news. An apartment in south jersey catches fire forcing residents out of their homes. Plus, a followup to a mold outbreak at several local schools. Some students are finally heading back to class. We also have the story behind todays special Google Doodle honoring a late singing sensation. Action news. Delaware valleys leading news program with matt odonnell, tamala edwards, karen rogers and meteorologist, david murphy. Good morning everyone, its 5 oclock on this tuesday october 17th. Tam is off. Jeanette reyes joins us. Were following breaking news this morning. A fire forces people from their Apartment Building as firefighters rush to rescue at least one person. Tough talk. Senator john mccain uses the Liberty Medal spotlight in philadelphia to warn americans of what
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