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WPVI Action News 5PM August 17, 2017

Whatever is necessary to help. Be tough and strong. We love you. Reaction is pouring in around the world and in our area people are wondering if a similar attack can happen here. Jeff is here with that part of the story tonight. Reporter sharrie folks here obviously saddened by the attack and they are disturbed by a growing trend of of terror by vehicle. You are not safe anywhere anymore. Its happening more and more and becoming like a daily thing. In old city people are reacting to the terrorist attack at a popular tourist spot in barcelona, a trend in terror by vehiclement and shows the vulnerability of people in diners on sidewalks. I think about it often. But i still try to live my life though. I try not to be scared. Its not far from Wesley Sawyers mind as he eats with his family on market street. Making noise and speeding and things around you the use of vehicles as weapons increased since the truck attack in nice, france that killed 80 and an attack near London Bridge and last year people were killed and 19 injur injured. During an attack an a white supremacist rally. They point out that for major events like the Democratic National convention the city uses trash trucks to block roadways and concrete barriers were installed during the nfl draft on the parkway and reinforce posts called ballards help to protect the liberty bell and independence hall. Those types of things that are more common in europe quite frankly could be introduced at a greater rate in philadelphia and the u. S. Overall. Philadelphia police are about to hold a News Conference about this very issue and the terror attack in spain. In a statement they released earlier today. They said that the police are working with local, state and federal partners to ensure the safety of every citizen. Channel 6 action news. Thank you. Be sure to visit 6abc. Com for the latest on the terrorist attack and the response in barcelona. Well have the latest on the investigation as well as the International Response to todays attack. Meantime. President trump is dealing with the fallout from his comments on charlottesville, virginia and now take can aim at members of his own party that criticized him. The president was back on twitter to air his displeasure and went after jeff flake saying he is quote, toxic and attacked long time republican senator Lindsay Graham accusing him of being publicity seeking and they are not letting the comments lie many and now trump is receiving praise from the most hate filled groups in america. And history is watching us all. And Newt Gingrich says the support of the party is grim. He has much less support than he thinks he does and much of it is self inflicted and they are calling on democrats to file articles of impeachment because of charlottesville. Showing he is uncapable of protecting americans from enemies both foreign and domestic. And in Bucks County Police are looking for the person that stabbed a driver in his vehicle. It happened in front of the mans young son and investigators say the man was double parked. John rawlins is live for us with the story in reading. Hi sharrie, this happened 24 hours ago. The Police Investigate is ongoing, there was a double parked car, there were several people alongside the car and came a suv behind it, he honked his horn to move forward and instead of doing that one people around that double parked car came back and assaulted the suv driver. The 200 block of mulberry street in reading a narrow readal lane, someone double parked here and there would be no going around and yesterday at 5 30 at least one car was double parked and a 42yearold driver of an suv with his young son beside him honked his horn. And someone associated with the double parked car went to the suv and opened the door and slashed and stabs the 42yearold. And the victim drove around the could have beener where the police found him. And denny diaz did not see the incident but viewed the aftermath. The noise was getting louder and i came out and it was a guy bleeding on his face, he was like slashed on his cheek. Reporter we are told that the 42yearold driver was slashed in his face and apparently stabbed in the abdomen and his injuries not considered lifethreatening and he was treated and released they hope to reinterview the 42yearold driver to get a description of the assailant and the double parked car. Thank you. Philadelphia police are searching for the thief who they say committed a violent robbery in center city all over a few cans of red bull. This is the suspect police say he walked into the 7eleven earlier this month. Grabbed several cans of the energy drink and placed them in a bag and the clerk tried to confront him and he pulled out a razor type knife and threatened the employee and nobody was hurt. Turning now to the forecast, its a bit of a muggy day and its about to get more humid along with that we look at the chance of storms to kick off the weekend. Meteorologist, cecily tynan, here now with a first check of the accuweather forecast. We are going from steamy to stormy as we head through the day tomorrow. Double scan live radar showing we are seeing a few showers breaking out in parts of delaware. Most of the region just mostly sunny and if you look to the west there is a lot of activity. What is going on . There is low pressure across the great lakes and a trailing cold front and that is producing a line of storms and moving through late in the day tomorrow. As the warm front lifts up to the north and the humidity ramps up. The dew point 66 and that is a little bit on the muggy side and to the south dew points in the mid70s that is the tropical air mass than is moving our way overnight into tomorrow. So tomorrow we are back in the steam bath oppressive humidity with dew points well in the 70s. The showers and thunderstorms developing as we head through the day. The good news though, if you head to the linc tonight for the eagles game and its warm and muggy and likely dry and First Quarter 83 and Fourth Quarter 79 degrees and well have timing on the storms and what it means for your weekend. Rush hour traffic on i 95 came to a stand still this morning when a dog ran into the the southbound lane of the highway this is the scene from allegheny avenue at 8 45 this morning, some Good Samaritans tried to coral the dog and get him out of harms way and they managed to get the dog in the car and he jumped back out and state Police Responded and brought the dog to a safer place. Time for a check of the action news traffic report. Matt pellman is back now in the Traffic Center and the dog days of summer and trying to get home. We cant get by the doggone truck. The northbound side of the new jersey tun pike is where its blocked and in addition to the delays, there is a crash on northbound 295 approaching the black horse pike, luckily that is on the shoulder but single digit speeds on the approach to it. I would stay locate in south jersey like 130 and 45 and even 47 what you dont want to do is use 30 in at co. They are investigating the crash by dentistry. And many mansfield Burlington County a building fire by the pine motel at 130 northbound. And the big delaware delays in both directions along highway 1 at the biddles corners toll plaza. Or use route 9. And downingtown delay, heading westbound on the 30 bypass in Chester County from exton but the crash is long gone. Well check it again in the next half hour. Still ahead tonight, its almost back to school time that means more than just new pencils and folders it means vaccinations, in health check a closer look at which shots school expect this year and when. Plus, the queen of soul finds a new career, Aretha Franklin announced her retire many but now we know what she will be doing when she is not singing. That and more when action news comes right back. Congresswoman lisa blunt rochester stopped by this morning to read to children. Action news was there at west Side Family Health care as the children gathered around to hear the story, afterwards the group headed outside to tour a fire truck, todays event was part of National Health care week. Health check tonight. The maker of epi pen is paying big for milking the government for the antidote. And ali gorman at the big board. Mylana agreed to pay 455 million for allegations it overcharged medicaid for years that they mislabeled epi pen to avoid paying rebates it owed medicaid. They warned the condition many times about the overcharges is that tops a billion dollars over 10 years and mylan came under fire for raising the price of epi pen going up 400 from 2010 to 2016. Also, today a busy time for many pediatricians and Family Health care providers, on ton of regular back to school checkups they are doing some catchup vaccinations, to help families comply with pennsylvanias new School Immunization law. Arent you happy to go to Big Boy School . 5yearold noah is ready to go to school. I got a book bag and lunch box. And is up to date on his vaccinations. Doctors at the Childrens Hospital of philadelphia many every teen in philadelphia has to be up to date by the first day of school. Parents need to show a certificate or letter from their provider, showing their child has all the required vaccines or a letter showing they will receive them. In the past parents had eight months to catch up. If you think about it its the entire school year and that may have allowed more cases of preventible disease fz school. This year there are two other require manies a fourth dose of polio vaccine on or after the child 4th birthday and all 12th graders need a second dose of meningitis vaccine. Just this week one outpatient with the Childrens Hospital did 50 polio shots and more than 100 meningitis shots. At saint christophers hospitals they are calling families to make sure they are up to date and on time. And philadelphia and other county Health Departments are also holding vaccine clinics we have links to the schedules on 6abc. Com health check. Thank you. Still ahead on action news hbo is dealing with yet another hack. What has been hit now. Plus Aretha Franklins second act. The queen of soul announces her retirement plans and she is not slowing down next on action news. Having a baby. Caring for your parents. Learning you have a condition. 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Aspiring cooks can get the training they need to enter the growing industry and they teamed up with Dobbins High School to organize a Training Program for local residents, the action cam is at Strawberry Mansion high school as they prepped several ingredients for a meal 75 of people graduate knowing they have a guaranteed union job and they are growing faster than Health Care Manufacturing or construction. Aretha franklin announced her retirement and now we know what she is doing when they puts the mike down for good. And now asking the city for a little respect. I think that is where she should have been singing. The queen of soul is planning to open a nightclub in the motor city. Not surprisingly she plans to name it arethas and moving to detroit to help run the club. The 75yearold grammy Award Winning singer says she will invite top artists to perform and maybe, just maybe she will take the stage herself from time to time. Time now for the accuweather forecast thursday night. Meteorologist, cecily tynan standing by in the Weather Center with the latest. With what was a nice day today. Warm and a little bit on the muggy side and we start to talk about what is happening currently, ill go ahead. Because a lot of people really excited about the Solar Eclipse. Lets talk about this. A lot of people are doing this monday afternoon wearing the nasa approved Solar Eclipse glasses to take a look at the eclipse. If you dont have them dont look at the sun. It could cause damage. This happened everyone to two years someplace on the earth and the earth, moon and sun are incomplete align many. It looks the same side and the moon casts two different shadow. This is the totality that blocks out all the sun its very small. The path is only 70 miles wide and goes coasttocoast on monday afternoon. We dont see that, we see the shadow, this means it blocks off some of the sun for a partial Solar Eclipse. We get close to 80 monday afternoon at 2 44 and the skies darken a little bit but even 20 of the sun is as bright as 60 thousand full moons but if you have the glasses it will will he interesting to see the shape of the sun change. If you dont have them dont worry, well have full coverage monafternoon. Locally starting at 2 00. Back to squha is happening now its warm and humid and 86 in philadelphia and the same in allentown and dover 79 and the reason why they have clouds and we do have some scattered showers, working overthe delaware bay right now beginning to move to fortescue, not thunder or lightning just some showers and it will get more active as we head into tomorrow. Sat lie and radar showing what we have first warm front and the increasing humidity and the cold front working out of ohio and that brings us an end to the work week. With the warm front passioning through we see scattered showers and a break in the action before a line of thunderstorms develop in the heating of the day and this model shows some pretty heavy downpours working through the i95 corridor by 6 00 causing problems for the evening commute and we have the threat of some storms could become severe and that means damaging winds and that depends on the sun we see. Warm and humid and 88 degrees and saturday hot and 90 degrees and less humid sun and 89 and great weather for the eclipse on monday and mostly sunny and 89 and hot and steamy on tuesday and high of 92 and a great afternoon to join Melissa Magee hanging around in Atlantic City at the steel pier. Reporter hey there cecily, its all about having fun and swinging high up in the sky. So of course we are at Atlantic Citys steel pier but if you dont want to ride on the swings check out over my shoulder you can fly as high as 220 feet high at the sky with the new observation wheel and more on that and the accuweather forecast as we head into the weekend. We are swinging high. She gets paid for that. She does, and she is a lucky gal. More to come including the breaking news out of barcelona. Action news continues. In barcelona its known as loss ram ramblas, today attackers inspired by isis drove straight down the middle of it trying to kill as many as they could. We get the latest now from abc news correspondent Elizabeth Herr in new york with more on barcelona. Reporter good evening. Isis is taking responsibility this as just minutes ago we learn from authorities the number of people injured is more than 100. Terror in spain sending police and paramedics to a major tourist attraction in barcelona, stunned eyewitnesss running for cover, confused and terrified. Someone started screaming and starting to run and everybody ran forward and old people they trampled them. And 80 to 100 kilometers per hour. Traveling at high speed knocking people right into the air. Is happened in the las ramblas district on a boulevard restricted to pedestrian traffic only. But a driver ram aid van into the crowd running people over before apparently fleeing into a nearby restaurant. With police swarming the area and warning tourists and locals to shelter in place or stay away all together. I would like to start by acknowledging the incident in barcelona that has the hallmarks it appears of another terrorist attack and teams in in place ready to assist americans in spain. And the u. S. Will do anything necessary to help and be tough and strong. We love you. We learn the man that rented the van is identified as a man named driss oukabir. Abc news back to you. Thank you. Be sure to visit 6abc. Com for the latest on the terrorist attack and the response in barcelona, there you can view video of First Responders on the scene as well as read more on the investigation from spain. World news tonight with david muir is here with more on the barcelona terror attack, watch it at 6 30 following action news at 6 00. Closer to home a motorcycle was killed in Camden County this afternoon. Chopper 6 hd was over the scene of the 300 block of white horse pike in atco. Its still not clear how baddy the driver of the car was injured. A father and son are facing child pornography and child sexual abuse charges. Authorities arrested harry enis and his 29yearold son patrick. Investigators say that patrick uploaded 27 child pornography images to the internet from a computer in his bathroomment it was traced to his home in glen side and police recovered more than 600 disturbing images from harry eniss home office. Both are scheduled for preliminary hearing on august 24 and. And police are looking for a killer that shot a man in his car. Homicide detectives say that a man was found shot above the eye at 2 00 in the afternoon. The victims

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