Lovely on this august 16. Good morning. Im rob nelson. And im michelle charlesworth. We just learned an indonesian airliner has lost contract with air Traffic Control. There are 49 passengers and five crew members on board the twin turbo prop plane. It last contact a little more than half an hour after taking off from the capital. It was over land and within the same province. Getting erie, these missing planes. We dont know the full story yet. Well monitor that throughout the morning. Another bizarre situation that we will have an eye on for you. With that a quick look at weather with miss freeze. The hot stuff continues. We were steamy yesterday and the sunshine. You had to seek out the shade to stay cool. Hot temperatures again today. Accuweather bumping up the high temperatures to close out the weekend. And starting with a real steam bath on monday. Temperatures in the middle to upper 90s. It really means were actually flirting with records here with the record being in the upper 9
Im francine lacqua. It is all about the fed and what heard from the minutes yesterday. The europe 600 started and they are unchanged. The minute showing the policymakers wont rush to raise rates. This is a picture for gold. 1,229. We wanted to show you japanese yen, advancing to a 17 months high. Brent crude 39. 8. We had some stockpiles in the u. S. Yesterday. Oil. A note on the goldilocks number for oil is 35. Dutch voters have rejected a treaty between the European Union and ukraine by a margin of 221. The result of the referendum has exposed the extent of anti e. U. Sentiments. Britain decides to leave the European Union the outcomes are potentially unknown according to jamie dimon. He says even in the best case scenario, there would be years of uncertainty. A brazilian congressional report has recommended that impeachment proceedings against president rousseff move forward. The report found evidence she used illegal financing. Seff says the charges are baseless and her supporters
Sunday night the big story on action news is breaking news out of sid nirks australia. A hostage situation inside a chocolates end up in sidz any. It all may be politicalty motivated. Its happening lindt cafe martin place up scale section of sidney armed Police Dreams surrounding cafe and evacuated area including u. S. Embassy. Police are called it armed incidents at this point. They wont confirm hostages. Television footage shows several people inside with their hands in the air. Workers following the developments in sidneyry shocked someone came and said evacuate them. Shaken. Imamounts from the scene show a black flag with white arabic lettering and it is yet confirmed its linked to terrorism. A large part of downtown sidney remains locked down. Well bring you updates as they become available j stay with action news on air and online as events unfolded in sit any. Well have the latest on this developing story starting 4 30 a. M. Find the latest at 6abc. Com. In other news tonight ou
Among the charges, genocide. Good evening. We begin with the latest on what has been day 23 of bloodshed. Israeli air strikes and shelling have killed at least 108 palestinians during the course of this wednesday, ringing to 1,347 the number of palestinians known to have lost their lives since july 8. An israeli shell hit a shopping center. That attack came hours after israeli tank shells slammed into a u. N. School sheltering displaced palestinians killing another 50 people. Thick black smoke bellows from the neighborhood near gaza city. An israeli strike hits that packed market with devastating and deadly consequences. The attack came as much of gaza was under a fourhour israeli ceasefire after weeks of fighting. Hamas called the truce mengless. What is the value of this ceasefire even if it was only four hours. Even the areas have been exposed to tank shelling. The Israeli Military says it warned the ceasefire would only apply to areas where its soldiers were not operating. Resident
Live double scan and radar giving us a real good live image that of light spotty stuff. Cape may county picking up some of this. Looks like that one in Chester County is getting ready to push into parts of Montgomery County. Youre starting to see that there. Bucks county a little damp. Everybody else beginning to dry out but there might be a bit of moisture still left over on the roads particularly where some leaves have blown onto the asphalt so be careful of that. The wide view on satellite shows you that the cloud cover is breaking up a bit off to our west and there is a chance that we brighten up a bit during parts of today, particularly during the morning but then later today some more sprinkles and showers redevelop. 53 degrees right now in philadelphia, not much wind after all so thats not a problem. 51 in allentown, 52 in wilmington, 60 in sea isle city. Not as bad as yesterdayly as we head out the door to catch that school bus over the next couple hours looks like we are proba