Not the way you want to wake up if youre in for a convention. I asked for a wakeup call but not that. Glad everybody is okay. Lets go over to david and matt pelman in for karen taking a look at weather and traffic. All right a, everybody, on the big board we have satellite showing you a lack of real significant cloud thver this morning so i think ere will be a lot of sunshine early. We have our eyes on this area precipitation. This is a line of showers and eventual thunderstorms being triggered by an approaching front. That front igoing to slowly push this rain in our direction and late this afternoon the northern and western suburbs probably start picking up some showers and thunderstorms. In philadelphia we may have to wait until the evening before we see that and over by the shore perhaps after midnight. So it will be a slow mover as it drops through. 72 right now in philadelphia, dry. 71 in wilmington, 70 in allentown. The problem of course is that it is very muggy. You start d to
Heres the latest Downtown Center city. The cher tan hotel has been evacuated after the smell of smoke forced officials to take emergency action. The action cam is live on the scene there right now. You see all of those people who were evacuated out of their rooms just having to sit there and wait. Investigators say smoke started coming out of the basement. They believe it was caused by a malfunctioning electrical breaker. Were hearing that the breaker tripped. There are no reports of injuries and crews are setting up fans to try to clear that air out right now. Stay with action news and 6abc. Com for the latest updates. But for right now lets take you over to matt and david. Karen is off to find out about your weather and track and it just sounds like a really hot day coming our way, david. Its going to be a cooker later on. Actually feels fairly comfortable on the terrace right now given that the sun is still trying to work its way through that some clouds. Satellite and radar shows y
That does not mean there was no drama out here. It was just before noon when the parting wall between 6017 and 6015 spruce street gave way take the roof and second floors of both homes with it. We found dan chapman right outside 6017. What goes through your mind as you look at that. My childhood. I grew up there. Reporter at least you werent inside. Right. Reporter two champion show dogs scottish deer hounds belonging to his mother were april side. And Chris Chapman was frantic. One dog was out. The cops got him. The other one still in the house i think. Reporter l andism Officials Say neither address had a any complaints or violations on record. Chris chapman tells us she had noticed some shifting of her front door frame recently. But said that was common when the weather turned humid. Witnesses said the collapse was as quick as it was surprising. Less than a minute to collapse. Less than a minute. Whats going through your mind as youre much whatting this . Crazy. Reporter suddenly we
Southwest philadelphia fire station. They claim firefighters didnt respond fast enough to the fire that killed four children over the weekend and theyre outlooking for answers tonight. And this is the scene you are looking at right now. Skyfox is live over the scene in southwest philadelphia. Over the fire station at 65th and woodland about 200 people have showed up here to protest. This all started about 7 00 oclock. So its been going on for several hours. At least two people have been arrested. You can see the scene is still very active right there now. Its after 10 00 oclock this evening. In fact, this all started because of a row house fire on saturday. Four children died. Absolutely heartbreaking to all the people their emotions running very very high. And the neighborhood is still in turmoil asking a lot of questions. A lot of the neighbors wondering why did it take so long for firefighters to show up at the house because you know when drama unfolds you know that it seems like et
And a shuttle, spotted at an airport in germany is this real . It is coming up in the trend. And good day, everybody it is tuesday, july 8th, 2014. Thanks for waking up with us. Big welcome back to kerry barrett. Thank you. Nice to be here. Im excited to be back on good day. I started on good day years ago. Im back in my old stumping ground. It has been a while since i have seen five or 4 00 oclock or 12 30 when i woke up this morning but very nice to be here. You picked a good hot day to come back. That is true, im out of the heat by the time im done. That is true, air conditioning, yes. We said it yesterday because we were talking about you behind your back, no, im kidding. We were saying that a lot of new parents are up at this hour and for an unusual, usual thing for them so welcome to good day if you are feeding a baby this morning and welcome back miss kerry. Let look at our number for the day. We pick a number of day. I knew would i get around to it eventually. Eight out of ten.