However, what this will do is finally bring us an end to the heat wave as we head towards the second half of the week. Tonight, though, the evening planner showing it is certainly going to be a warm night, becoming more humid. At 7 oclock 89 degrees. By 8 oclock 86. 84 at 9 oclock and at 10 oclock, temperatures Still Holding in the low 80s, 83 degrees. So, whats ahead. Looks like we have one more hot day tomorrow likely hitting around 90 degrees. That would be the eighth day in our heat wave. The middle of the week im tracking some showers and thunderstorms thursday into friday especially. A good chance of some heavy rain on friday and then get ready for a dramatic pattern change. Believe it or not you might want to think about finding the sweaters. Ill talk about that in the full accuweather 7day forecast. Back to you rick. Sweaters . Yeah, cool. Temperatures not even getting out of the 70s. Wow. All right cecily. Thank you very much. Of course stay with 6abc. Com weather as our heat
Im joyce evans. The hitandrun accident happened on rom bert street no north philadelphia. Fox 29s dave kinchen joins us live now from Temple University hospital where that child was rushed right after the accident. Dave . Reporter thats right, joyce, weve just learned from investigators that that victim a fiveyearold girl was transferred here from this hospital to Saint Christophers Hospital for children. Shes in Good Condition both the family and police want that driver found. Devastate. Five years old. Um, not responding. Something i never seen before. Something i dont even want to witness again in life. Reporter fiveyearold girl describes ceasing her niece on the ground after an suv struck her 2200 block of north lambert in north philly and kept on going. They were all out here playing in the swimming pool, taking in barbecue and all of that, and he just came speeding up the block. Reporter investigators say just before 5 00 p. M. A light colored jeep with pa tag struck the girl and
Reporter police say the suspects took her apron. She kept her cash inside it instead of the register. Friends and neighbors say she is a kind soul who gives people Second Chances and always thinks of those in need. Shes a wonderful lady. Ive bought cup cakes from her for my childrens birthday parties. Shes donated ive seen her feed Homeless People around here. Been here for years. Wonderful lady its a shame. Reporter and police right now have no suspects. They have been working to get some Surveillance Video but so far have had no luck. Im live in overbrook, chad pradelli, channel6 action news. Jim. Thank you, chad. The new jersey turnpike has reopened in cherry hill after a brief shutdown this afternoon. Authorities say just before noon, a contractor struck a pse g gas line at a nearby demolition site on woodcrest road. Officials closed the turnpike between interchanges three and four as crews capped the line and secured the scene. The turnpike reopened about an hour later. High level
There and a little bit of unsettled. Storm tracker6 live double scan shows you that there are a couple of showers, even a thunderstorm up by new york. Thats where your one Lightning Strike is and a slightly heavier quick downpour from a shower thats moving through northern Chester County. A little bit more of that in New Castle County and down through parts of south jersey. So, just a little bit on the wet side out there in a couple of spots this morning. Overall, though, we are expecting some sunshine to start out and then well mix sun and clouds later in the day. Theres a slight chance of a popup isolated shower or a thunderstorm later this afternoon and this evening butter most of this action that you see out to the west of us is going to have a tendency to miss us to the west. 74 degrees right now in philadelphia, 72 and muggy up in allentown. 72 in trenton. 72 in wilmington and 73 in sea isle city. Those dewpoints are up there. A lot of spots in the upper 60s and weve got some 70s
News at 11 00. Tonight at 11 00 Philadelphia Police are on the hunt for a gunman after a little boy is shot. Good evening and thanks for joining us, im dawn timoney. The innocent sixyearold outside with his family on fall night shot in the shoulder in north philadelphia. Brad sattin has the latest. Reporter police are in the process of clearing up the scene. A few hours ago a sixyearold shoulder. Hot in the left hes expected to survive, rushed to the hospital and tonight the search goes on for the gunman. They obviously want to get him off the streets. This all playing out just before 8 oclock at 24th and norris here in north philadelphia. The sixyearold boy outside with his father and brother. That were just a few feet from their home when police say four shots rang out. The boy was hit. He ran inside the house. And the family then realized he was bleeding badly. Police got to the scene pretty quickly, took him to Temple University hospital. Initially the boy was in Critical Condition