Guiding us with your powerful providence and showering us with undeserved mercies. You hear our prayers and speedily supply our needs. Bless today the work of our lawmakers, empowering them with unceasing awareness and openness of heart. Give them wisdom and courage to glorify you through their work. May their thoughts, words and actions be acceptable to you, for you are our rock and our redeemer. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The president pro tempore the democratic leader. Mr. Reid i move to proceed to calendar number 297. The president pro tempore the clerk will report. The clerk motion to proceed to calendar number 297, s. 1950, a bill to improve the provision of medical services and benefits to veterans, and for other purposes. Mr. Reid mr. Pr
Brutal. Heat advisories not in east affect yet. They will take effect when heat index is sky rocketing in the upper 90s and flirt with that heat index value but right new not too bad. It is mild, definitely muggy outside, we can handle it. We can have a couple showers or thunderstorms back through central pennsylvania but storm scan three clearly shows they have cleared out of here. We are left with hazy sunshine and you cane that perfectly clear out over center city sky line facing south, 79 degrees. Wind coming at this camera southwest at 10 miles an hour. Humidity at 62 percent at the moment. It feels warmer then thermometer reads in any given location. We are expecting a high of 59 in philadelphia record is 96. We will see how we do. Eventually later on today especially by this evening some showers and locally gusty thunderstorms crop up, bob, over to you. Good morning. 6 01. We are off to a good start, already hot and 81, steaming degrees here. Lets go outside and make sure you ha
Higher tomorrow and it will be more oppressive. Stormtracker 6 live double scan showing there are thunderstorms up to the north, a few of these could sneak in tonight and most of the activity will be waiting until late tomorrow night, tomorrow its still here and the dew points are higher, the heat advisory is posting from noon until 7 00, this is where the heat index will be rising into the upper 90s, we are not used to kind of heat, do not leave them in cars. More details in the storms on the full accuweather forecast. Lets switch live to logan square and action News Reporter, sara bloomquist, how are people handling this first 90 degree plus day . Reporter there is a light breeze for the children and its all good. At sisters city park, kidded are having fun in this splash garden tonight the warm temperatures are here and everybody is getting the hang of the hot weather. The heat is coming off the pavement below and nearby at sisters city park, the kids were splishing and splashing an
In cash and valuables and they took their son with him later dropping him off at 23rd and fairmont. We dont worry about material things, money and jewelry, we worry about my son. He says the two bandits got into a silver subaru suv being driven by another man, they got away with roughly 30,000 in cash and jewelry and other val ubs and took the dvr to the homes Video Surveillance system. They are gathering all the particulars and have no suspects at this time. Dann cuellar, channel 6 action news. Thank you dann. Other big story is 94 degrees, that is what we hit today 2 degrees short of the record in philadelphia and with the heat advisory in affect until 7 00 tonight, folks were looking for any way to stay cool, this was the scene in love park as folks were dipping their feet in the fountain and in fact more than their feet and catching a little spray any way they could to stay cool. Lets check in with meteorologist, cecily tynan for the facts and figures from accuweather. A lot of peo
What it actually feels like. The heat index it feels like 100 degrees right now in dover. It feels like 97 in wildwood as well as millville. It feels like the upper 90s right now in wilmington. So thats why we have that heat advisory still in effect until 7 00 oclock tonight for feels like temperatures in the upper 90s. But there will be a change in the offing. Take look at that line showers and thunderstorms off to the west. We have a slight risk for some of that activity to mommy into our area later on tonight. When i come back inside, ill have the exact timing of those showers and storms plus some cooler temperatures on the way. Back to you. All right. Thank you, scott. Breaking news right now in northeast philadelphia. Thats where police say armed men stormed a home stole cash and abduction add 15 year old boy. That teen is safe tonight. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson is live in northeast philadelphia with the very latest for us. Shawnette . Reporter dawn, police tell us that that 1584 o