Supremacists as criminals and thugs. The president is addressing the race fueled violence ass the judge orders the alleged attacker live without bail. Elizabeth hur live. The suspect only answered yes or no questions from the judge. Still no motive in this case but we now know local on federal investigations are under way to get to the bottom of this. 20yearold james alex fields jr. Appearing before a judge via video is ordered to remain in jail and his bond denied charged with the murder of heather hi and a hitandrun in charlottesville could face additional federal charges. Racism is evil. Reporter President Donald Trump responding to critics who blasted him for not initially denouncing the white nationalists and today announced a civil rights investigation is under way. Abc learning the fbi is now reviewing the suspects background to determine if the attack was a hate crime or domestic terrorism. His mother is in disbelief after learning of his involvement over the weekend. I didnt k
Nazis, White Supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as americans. Meanwhile the ceo of Merck Kenneth Frazier who was born in north philadelphia, resigned from President Trumps Manufacturing Council today citing a responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism. World news tonight with david muir will have much more on the violence in virginia including more on President Trumps statement and the continuing fallout. You can watch that following our broadcast at 6 30 tonight. Philadelphia police are trying to find the bandit who staged a Home Invasion in Queen Village this afternoon and tied up an 84yearold woman. Action News Reporter Annie Mccormick is live in the 700 block of south front street and annie, whats the full story there . Reporter well, jim, police and also friends of the 84yearold victim say that she is in good spirits tonight. She was even able to walk around with detectives through the crime scene that is her home
Concerns today at the jersey shore. Onealong those lines lets turn to karen rogers and dave murphy. Roads a little damp. Gert too far out to sea but were getting some cloud cover in off the ocean today and there is going to be that issue down the shore with the rip currents as we just said. You can see on satellite and radar a little bit of spotty precipitation here and there and as we take a look at storm tracker6 live double scan, its not raining everywhere as karen mentioned but we are seeing some occasional showers popping through. Most of this popping in from the southwest and pushing off toward the northeast it looks like the current heavy band now out of the area. However, just to the north of philadelphia in and around trenton down by wilmington and another batch coming up from baltimore a little bit of precipitation down in dover delaware. You can see that some of you are dealing with some of that light precipitation right now. 73 in philadelphia, 73 wilmington, 68 in allentow
74 degrees in millville. It looks like 75 in cape may. 68 in allentown. 66 in reading and philadelphia at 72. Wilmington 73. As we take a look at where numbers are going today its going to be on the warm side. 79 degrees by noon. 83 around 3 oclock. Now this temperature profile they may fluctuate up and down a little bit these numbers. It depends on whether or not its raining whenever that happens the numbers are going to drop temporarily but we expect to be in the low 80s for a time today and then by 7 oclock, 79 degrees. Just about any time a popup shower or thunderstorm is possible. Dewpoints are up today. 68 in philadelphia. Thats pretty muggy. Anything over 60 is humid. And when you start to get into these 70s thats where we start to call it oppressive humidity and a lot of you are feeling that this morning in the southern half of the region. Better day tomorrow in terms of humidity but its hotter, karen. Details coming up in the seven day. All right dave. We still have constructi
Theres the threat of rain around. A couple sprinkles and showers to the southeast of allentown beginning to push over into south jersey. Burlington county appears to be the focus of light sprinkles right now in south jersey itself and then theres more shower activity coming up the i95 corridor getting ready to pop into southern Chester County and i can see delaware also catching some of that before too much longer. The wide view on satellite shows you lots of clouds. We might get a couple sunny breaks today but generally speaking mostly cloudy skies and more rain back by richmond and West Virginia and rich respond in pond is in virginia of course but West Virginia also showing showers. All of that is heading our way. It will be a day where well have to keep a lookout for some off and on showers and a thunderstorm. Wow theyre picking up the trash behind me. 73 in philadelphia, 73 in wilmington. 68 currently in allentown. 75 in cape may and the dewpoints are up this morning. Were in the