Action news that this purchase is part of a much bigger 500 million plan to reinvigorate Atlantic City as a resort town. We are amateur sports we are not looking for the best hockey team in the country or the nba, we are going to create jobs we are building everything from water parks to major marinas to universities to medical clinics. Straub says he will be unveiling the master plans as early as saturday and that he has bought several properties in edition to that casino as part of his major plans there if he does reopen that as a casino it will be a much smaller gaming project there. He hopes to return Atlantic City in part to more of the beach town and resort town as he knew as a child. Im Wendy Saltzman channel 6 action news. Thank you. Stockton university students, casino workers and Atlantic City residents staged a rally, they are protesting carl icahns attempt to open a campus next to the taj mahal. They believe students will sneak in to drink. U. S. Senators Robert Menendez wa
To make the journey inside, no child should have to endure. You cant describe it. Just to see the look on their face and the grief and the pain and the officers that are involved and the officers that worked with him every day. I spent a lot of time with the family. Hes leaving two young boys behind. One 10yearold that has not had enough time with his dad but a oneyearold who will never have any memories of him. Reporter fellow officers say officer wilson was always quick with a smile and a quip. His life was cut short by the barrage of gunfire allegedly at the hands of brothers Ramon Williams and carleton hipps attempting to rob this game stop in north philadelphia. Officer wilson was there to buy his son a gift for good grades and his birthday. He shielded customers and returned fire. For those customers his fellow officers and others here he is a hero. Its not just what he did and the actions he took at the time he was murdered, but the way in which he committed himself to serving t
Looking quite good. Beltway everything is green and moving along and a lot of that earlier construction of course is now getting pushed out of the way because it is 5 00 a. M. Its moving out of the way for us here. Beltway at branch avenue everything looking quite good for us here now. 95 in virginia into town and out of town you are not having any problems. That earlier road work northbound as you are passing 234 is out of the way since were in the 5 00 hour. Seminary road southbound near kenmore avenue do some road work there where traffic is only getting by the shoulder now. And 20270 270 no problems now. 5 02. Today the future arrives on metras blue line the first brand new 7,000 series train will leave today shortly after 57 a. M. Heres what the new train will look like. Take a look. They have new Digital Displays that tell you where you are, a more open layout and no carpet. We are making a great leap forward in terms of safety and comfort for our riders. News 4 adam tuss is up e
High today at 3 oclock is 78 degrees. Its going to feel very much like summer for at least a time this afternoon. By 6 oclock, still in the mid 70s. As we take a look at tomorrow, karen, we are looking at another warm one with higher humidity and then maybe some thunderstorms chugging in. Ill have details on future tracker 6 coming up in a couple minutes. All right, dave, chopper 6 live on the scene in northeast philadelphia of a multi vehicle accident. Three vehicles involved. You see one of them right here kind of off to the side but police and ambulance blocking part of the roadway. This is cottman avenue right near the roosevelt boulevard and even though we have an ambulance on the scene, not hearing of any serious injuries butter nonetheless a multi vehicle accident right here, cottman avenue near the boulevard. Chopper 6 live on the scene. Stick to tyson avenue to avoid any delay right here but we can see traffic getting by as we look live with chopper 6. Going to the maps right
Right there. It is feeling like summer. It is kind of humid out there. Highs in the the mid 80s, sue says later today. Mid 80s. No, around 80. Oh, okay. Mid 80s, that is wish full thinking. Were in the in orlando. You dont have to be so militant about it. Were reaching the 80s, sue. Hi, sue. This number is a nine, today for weather by the numbers. It is early, summer but summer mid 80s would be normal so temperatures approaching 80 degrees. Do you see how smooth that was over there patchy fog with bus stop buddy, flyers jersey, lets get that first win tonight. Ducks are coming to town at the wells fargo center. Sixtys our temperature to get started. We have a strong cold front. We have enough sunshine to take us close to 80 degrees. Pretty mild right now, satellite radar not showing a whole bunch of clouds, it is that cloud on the ground with the fog. Mostly a problem in the mountains at the moment but we will keep an eye on it. Look at the this 66 degrees, that is our High Temperature