So those without the glasses could see. They always say on tv that one bern can change the world. I may not be changing the world today but i will have certainly helped as many people as possible see this eclipse. Reporter on the beach people who are come to sunbathe prepared to sun watch. Were plaining on being down here for the week and then i saw that it was the eclipse was happening today and so i was like oh, thats so perfect well be in cape may. Reporter the first hint of change came about 1 20 p. M. I see like the moon coming into the front of the sun. Reporter the moon continued to take bites out of the sun though shortly before maximum shadow at 2 46 cloud cover started to obscure the view. Still those who did keep gazing upward felt rewarded. Really cool. We thought about going down to South Carolina for the total eclipse but this is just as cool. This is such a cool thing its amazing. Reporter cool and amazing, too good reviews for a heavenly show. Thats the situation here in cape may, live in cape may, john rawlins channel6 action news. Jim. John thank you. South jersey families watched todays extraordinary event at the bellmawr branch of the Camden County library. Each person received a free pair of special glasses accompanied by an eclipse safety lesson. This particular viewing party was sponsored by nasa. Action News Reporter Sarah Bloomquist is live at the Franklin Institute in center city philadelphia. Sarah, could there be a better place for eclipse watchers to get a real Education Today . Reporter and jim, that is exactly why they came here. Sure, they could have watched this eclipse from their own backyard or from the stoop in front of their row homes. Instead they came here to be part of the Franklin Institute experience alongside a few new friends. Wall to wall people eyes to the sky here outside the Franklin Institute this afternoon. They came from far and wide to watch the eclipse in the company of others interested in the out of this world event. Really cool experience with other people, to see the reactions. Reporter it seemed like everybody was amazed right. Right. Reporter the Franklin Institute offered activities to coincide with the eclipse. Many of the kids on hand said they were already interested in science, now even more so. It just makes it me want to, i dont know, search, find some more and be more interested in it if. I work at an Engineering College so im surrounded by science all the time so to get them involved in it and let them see what its about its a way to motivate them for their futures to maybe pursue science or engineering as they get older. Reporter as we get older well remember the 2017 Solar Eclipse. These folks can say i was at the Franklin Institute. You dont know how many opportunities were going to get for this. Reporter so, these glasses while a nice fashion statement, will likely end up in the back of a drawer somewhere forgotten but the memories made today will last a lifetime. Live at the Franklin Institute, im Sarah Bloomquist channel6 action news. Jim. Thank you sarah. There was a line down the block at Wills Eye Hospital in philadelphia this morning as more than 2,000 people got their hands on a free pair of those approved glasses. The entire batch was gone in an hour. I feel like i just won a million dollars. I finally got the glasses. If youre wondering if you can keep your pair for the next Solar Eclipse in april 2024, check the label. Some of the glasses do have an expiration date. The ones we saw today expire in 2021. Well, they had their eyes glued on the eclipse at various libraries throughout New Castle County including the Garfield Park location on carolyn drive. Some residents had the chance to look through a special telescope that allowed that em to see the sun and to see the eclipse with the color of the sun. Much a similar scene at the Folcroft Public Library in Delaware County. Their eclipse event included messages from a member of the Delaware County astronomers association. You can relive the eclipse at any time on 6abc. Com eclipse. There you can watch video of our Action News Team all across the region and yes, we will have adam joseph in a few minutes live from the totality zone in saint joseph, missouri. You can see all kinds of photographs and prepare for the next eclipse in 2024. Other news at this hour, there is no letup tonight in the debate over the frank rizzo statue across the street from Philadelphia City hall. Action News Reporter bob brooks is live at that location. Bob, more demonstration of statue sentiment this evening. Whats the latest on this . Reporter well, jim, we know that sometimes during things like this, violence can break out. Thats not the case today. Kudos to both sides keeping things peaceful. Behind me there you see whats the outside shell of it so to speak, really just a great job done by the Philadelphia Police department to make sure tempers dont flare up. [cheers and applause] reporter the frank rizzo statue is back in the spotlight yet again today. A peaceful but passionate crowd has gathered with the hopes theyll convince city leaders to remove it. Today we got a chance to speak with mayor jim kenney on any updates. He says no decision whether to remove keep or relocate it has been made yet. This moment was the right thing is to do for everybody and it wont be the right thing for everybody in the end. Reporter one thing kenny did done firm is a meeting with though he is who want the statue to stay in order to keep things peaceful at least for today. The reason i agreed to do it is because they agreed to call off a rally that could have fourthly been a dangerous situation for lots of people. Reporter he says by not having the two groups rally at the same time police have a better chance at doing their jobs. I got to hand it to our police department. Theyre in the middle of these things all the time and they have to keep the peace and keep people separated. Reporter today mayor kenney also said the decision on the statue is going to come soon. He says the longer one is not made the greater chances there is for violence breaking out here. I dont want to see people angry and hurt physically hurt potentially over a piece of metal. Reporter the statue is surrounded by those who want it gone earlier we spoke with a woman who wants rizzo rise through the ranks and wants the statue to be entrepreneur of kept. Hes a part of the history of philadelphia. Reporter he says the city has bigger problems that the people should be focused on. Do you think the statue should i think the statue should stay where it is. Reporter certainly nice to see things remain peaceful here and again just a wonderful job by everyone involved including the Philadelphia Police. For now reporting live in center city, bob brooks channel6 action news. Jim. Bob, trang thank you. Bill cosby hires a new high Profile Defense attorney and miami comes top south philadelphia. The dolphins are here for a joint preseason practice with the eagles. Cecily. Summer heat returns tomorrow. In fact, we have excessive heat advisories posted from 1 00 p. M. To 8 00 p. M. Along i95. This is where it will feel about 100 degrees but this heat and humidity wont last long. Ill explain in the accuweather 7day forecast. Those stories and much more when action news continues tonight. Chopper6 was over a deadly crash today in winslow township, new jersey. Police say one person was killed when a motorcycle collided with a car along the white horse pike near mc mcdougle road. The victim identified as 20yearold augustine aceve from hammonton was operating the motorcycle. The driver of the other vehicle was not hurt. The white horse pike remains closed in both directions as Police Continue their investigation. Bill cosby has new legal representation for his retrial in november. Attorney tom mesereau who won an acquittal for Michael Jackson in his child molestation case will lead cosbys revamped defense team. Cosbys first Sexual Assault trial ended in a hung jury. His original lawyers wanted off the case. Well, the Powerball Jackpot has jumped to 650 million ahead of a drawing on wednesday. Pennsylvania lottery officials are waiting for the winner of the 1 million prize to come forward whitpain beverage on the 1600 block of dekalb pike in blue bell sold a ticket matching all five white balls on saturday. Those numbers 17, 19, 39, 43, 68, oh, but for a correct powerball, not that time. Whitpain beverage does get a 5,000 bonus. All right, more on the eclipse. Lets go live to adam joseph who is in Saint Josephs missouri, a zone of totality and adam i know you were fighting cloud cover all day but what happened at the moment of truth . Reporter i tell you, jim, it was a complete outer body experience. I had images and thoughts in my head of what it would be like if i was to see and experience totality but let me tell you, this afternoon it was magnet i was magnified by tens of thousands and i wasnt the only one that had their heart pounding all day long. This field that im standing in was really the field of dreams for so many in this country as well as around the world. This Massive Watch Party in a field on the airport brought people together from all over the world. Everyone hoping to see the same thing, totality. As many tried to get a glimpse of the moon blocking the sun rain started to fall and all folks started hope started to wash away a so many packed um and left before totality arrived. But then a 32nd window opened up in the sky for all to see at 1 06 p. M. Darkness had taken over and it paid off for all those who planted their feet including derek pitts from the Franklin Institute. Twain it was incredibly dark here much darker than expected. Even with the cloud cover it was just fantastic and you could see the light appear now as being unusual and different. [cheers and applause] reporter in those brief moments emotions took over for everyone. Seeing the almost sunset and rise on two sidesf the horizon same time. You cant explain it. Its just awesome and the goose bumps and tears, it was just fantastic. We just couldnt believe the ring around the moon. Goose bumps. Goosebumps. Reporter i tell you, goose bumps, tears it all happened. Everyone came together in that moment and we had that window of two minutes and 38 seconds we could see totality. We had three seconds of it in those three seconds we didnt think we were going to get but let me tell you it was out of this world and jim, its something that i will always remember, nerf, ever forget even though its on tape its on video, its on the web its always going to be up here that it will be ever lasting in my memory and im southpaw southpaw so happy i was able to experience it and bring it back to you in the delaware valley. Thanks for the description. Reporter yeah. Adam joseph in saint joseph missouri. Philadelphia mayor jim kenney visited the Feltonville Rec Center in philadelphia, met with members of the Mural Arts Guild program. It is a paid Apprenticeship Program for formerly incarcerated individuals and young adults on probation. The program is designed to help reconnect them with the community and develop job skills. The mayor has included funding for the Mural Arts Guild program in the 2018 city budget. Reporter golfers hit the links today. They took part in the eighth annual wade wilson golf tournament. Over the years this has provided Cheney University student athletes with more than 250,000 in scholarships. The goal this year to raise 30,000 for members of the schools 10 varsity sports teams and the cheerleaders and the band. Players wearing different uniforms. Yes in a practice setting. Things did not get too chippy out there. The first of two. Eagles and dolphins held a joint practice today. Theyll do so again in the morning. This will take us up to thursdays preseason game between the two teams. As jaime apody explains it was an eventful practice today and not just because of football. Come on. Reporter howling at the moon. If anything to eclipse the excitement at Training Camp it was this. Action news caught a couple guys breaking out of team might eggs to catch the eclipse. I heard you can go blind trying to watch it so i guess im not. Reporter earlier today guys welcomed the dolphins to the complex. This for us is just as important as it is in preseason game. You have an opportunity to run your scheme against dirt different opponents. Reporter safety nate allen. When i got here it was like i was still living down the street. So many memories. Reporter not so much nostalgia from cornerback Byron Maxwell who still harbors some resentment after the trade so the birds could move up to take carson wentz. I dont want to do better than the eagles do. I do. I want to win more games than them. I want to prove them wrong so yeah. Reporter usually in these joint practices things can get a little chippy, some fights sometimes break out but not today. And thats for good reason because Doug Pederson let it be known there would be consequences. When they tell you you going get fined i have kids i object to lose that money. Thats more than enough for me. Im not fighting out there. Reporter oh, but theres always tomorrow. With the eagles jaime apody channel6 action news. The eagles made a trade with seattle today tackle matt tobin and a 2018 that is third round pick headed to the seahawks. Phillies set to entertain a team from south florida. The marlins. Could jp crawford be on the move to a new position. Crawford played third base for the iron pigs. Hell do so again tonight. Until yesterday he had never played another position other than short stop. With Freddy Galvis blocking his path to the Major League Level this would be away around it. The Ap College Football poll is out. Nittany lions ranked six. Ally a is the Number One Team in the nation. Check out who was checking out the eagles this morning. Charles barkley at practice. He always supports the local teams. The former sixers star says the jury is still out on the birds for this year. But hes rather bullish on the sixers. Theyre going to make the playoffs. I will be totally shocked if theyre healthy, i mean, if theyre healthy i dont think its any way they cant make the playoffs. I love embiid. Ben simmons i think hes got a bright future. Obviously they got markelle fultz. I tell you what i would be totally shocked if the sixers did not make the playoffs. You heard it from charles himself. They are making the playoffs. All right. Bank it. Meteorologist cecily tynan with the accuweather forecast when we continue in just a moment. Okay, 2024, here we come. Yes, and it will be better. It will be 90 percent here. Really. Yes. In 2079, better than that. Were waiting for that. We did have some clouds out there today. Lets go live on sky6, take a look over the ben franklin bridge and today intermittent clouds and they did sometimes partially obscure the view of the eclipse so if you didnt get to see it ive been sharing a lot of viewer photos and i love this one. Al from abington he didnt just take one picture. He took 19 so he put it as a time lapse. That was at 1 21. Right here is at 2 44. Thats when we had the maximum of 80 percent. 79. 9 percent, pretty close and that last one was at 4 01 when the Solar Eclipse was ending so pretty nice. Keep sending the photos i love sharing them. The accuweather highlights will show you tomorrow the summer heat and humidity it is back but just for one day. By the middle of the week some big changes. By the end of the week and the weekend its going to feel like fall and, yes, in seven years, we have our next eclipse. I want to show you, this is the path of the eclipse and this will be 2024 april 8th and you can see that the path of totality will actually be heading through the northwest corner of pennsylvania. If you want to go and see the total eclipse you dont have to go all that far and for our younger viewers may first 2079 the path of totality basically starts in philadelphia. So, something to look forward to. Right now double scan live showing that we do have some showers and thunderstorms popping up in lancaster and berks county and this one just to the west of reading has been sitting there. Theyre dealing with some localized flooding right now, also gusty winds and even hail with this and its barely moving at all. Weve got another cell north of lancaster. This is from a short wave piece of energy thats roll through and as it continues pulling to the east, it will help enhance the humidity. Right now the heat index makes it feel like 88 degrees in philadelphia. Lancaster rain cooled 73. Tomorrow add about 10 degrees to the numbers you see. Its going to be oppressive. Visible satellite across the nation, its visible because it actually depends on the sun to reflect off the clouds, you can see the path of totality working across the nation. I just love that. The clouds, they looked like they actually disappeared and yes, we did have mixture of sun and clouds today. Tomorrow kind of the same with winds out of the south, 93 degrees, though. You add the humidity, it will feel like 100. That cold front moves through tomorrow night and that will bring us some evening thunderstorms. If youre down the shore it wont be as hot but it will be very humid, 84 degrees in atlantic city. Beach haven 85. The ocean temperature 86. But theres a high risk of rip currents so do be very careful. Listen to the lifeguard. Bethany beach a high of 90. So the exclusive accuweather 7day forecast, its hot the humid tomorrow an accuweather alert day 93 degrees feeling like 100. Some late day thunderstorms into the evening. Then behind this system wednesday it starts to feel better. Morning clouds, afternoon sunshine, 86 degrees. Great weather for the eagles preseason game on thursday. 82 degrees. Low humidity. And look at what happens as we head toward the weekend. We can be stuck in the 70s. 79 degrees on friday. Saturday 78. Sunday 79. And monday we keep that relatively cool weather, partly sunny, low humidity, again with a high of 79 degrees. So, we have one hot humid day tomorrow, some storms tomorrow night and then the rest of the week looking really nice. Will the eagles have won a super bowl by bye the time of the next total eclipse. I hope so. I dont know 2024. I mean 2079. Abc news next with david muir. Action news continues at 10 00 on were. Had. L17 with brian taff Sharrie Williams adam joseph and Ducis Rodgers. Please join us for action news at 11 00 here on channel6. For cecily tynan Ducis Rodgers the entire Action News Team, im jim gardner. We hope youll join us for action news at 11 00. Every year south jersey sends more and more tax money to trenton, but gets less and less back thanks to Steve Sweeney and chris christie. Heres the sweeneychristie record eight years of underfunded schools. Huge tax breaks for themselves and their rich friends while we pay more. And homestead rebate funding for seniors cut in half next year. Dont believe the fake news from his wealthy donors. Steve sweeney stands with chris christie, not with south jersey. Tonight, millions of americans in the path of the eclipse. 99 years since the last total Solar Eclipse to cross the entire country. From the west coast to the east. [ cheers ] from oregon to idaho, wyoming to nebraska. Missouri to illinois. Kentucky to tennessee, to South Carolina. Our teams in all of the states, in small towns, on farms in national parks. Americans looking to the sky. And tonight, the massive traffic jams across multiple states. We are in the middle of it. Also tonight, the major news. The disaster at sea. Another violent collision involving a u. S. Naysy ship. Ten sailors missing tonight. Breaking news. President trump set to address the nation on
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