Heat index soared up to 100 in philadelphia and 101 in dover and upper 90s in trenton and allentown, it was a tough day, double scan live showing isolated showers and storms popping up and this is just a shower over norristown moving to the north and east, and no lightning strikes detecting but that is creating a brief heavy downpour and we could have a few more in the overheight hours, if you are headed out take it easy i know a lot of people going to the taylor swift concert, drink lots of water the currents heat index feels like 95 degrees but relief is on the way for weekend. Thank you. Lets check in with action News Reporter john rawlins. Tell us about the ongoing struggle today to keep as cool as possible. The best bet is to stay inside the air conditioning at this point pools are not open but people are attracted to the fountain like the one behind me the preferred choice is spray parks that the city has if you had to work you had to tough it out. Worry that the classrooms would become too hot. They ordered a noon time dismissal a good call said this student. No air conditioning in there . No. What is it like . Hot oh my gosh. The heat and humidity is oppressive. Those that had to do hard physical work like these firefighters had to hydrate. And these utility workers know the hot weather drill. You hydrate the night before and keep going. I go to the gym a lot im used to it. The dutch dessert food trailer, the beat the heat cooler is the gelato. Its cold and salty and sweet at the same time. The 400 degree crepe plate heating up the tiny kitchen. 115 inside depending on what we are cooking. Not pleasant . No. Some folks convenient youred out a popular spot the Art Museum Steps many struck their rocky poses despite the heat. Its just like 110 degrees out here, oppressive but this is when you sweat it out and this is good. Ill take his word for that. We spoke to him at 10 00 before the intense heat of the day and he said he was about to wrap up his exercising for the day. All in all a hot miserable day in philadelphia. John rawlins, channel 6 action news. Thank you. Far more comfortable than john rawlins is Annie Mccormick live on the beach in convenientner, hopefully you have a bit of an ocean breeze working there. I feel almost guilty hearing johns description of his day because its near perfect with the ocean breeze earlier today there was humidity and it was warmer than it has been and that did get officials ready to keep an extra eye on Senior Citizens and have the beach patrol keep an extra eye on people. Beach goers are saying tgif, thankful that the heat wave hit in time for the weekend and this he are prepared. Its quicker to spend it here. We have a new uv tent for the beach and we are using that for today. Stating out of the sun and drinking lots of water but the ocean breeze has shore goers saying what heat. I live in new york city, its hotter there and this feels cool. A plus for the rising temperatures, a warmer ocean surfers gave that a high five. I think its perfect right now, its not too cold and not too hot and you feel comfortable in there not shivering or anything. Medics with the Ocean City Beach parole are urging people to use umbrellas and wear sunscreen and drink plenty of water. The heat will get to them. If they are under the shade. The city of margate has a place for the seniors to stay cool. Drawing more people to an event there tonight. We have dancing inside and that will get more crowded because people are looking for something to do inside with the air condition where they can still exercise. And back out here live, take a look at the ocean and people that are enjoying the beach, its significantly cooler than when we got out here earlier today people are enjoying the beach as you can see, but they are getting prepared for warmer temperatures to come. Annie mccormick, channel 6 action news. Thanks. 6abc. Com and the 6 abc mobile apps can help you stay ahead of the changes in the weather throughout the weekend, youll fine street level Storm Tracker radar and our live sky 6 cameras give you a first look at the weather. Other news at this hour, its excite opg the retail front this coming august when the gloucester premium outlets open for business in blackwood new jersey but before then 90 new stores need to find employees and that is what dozens of those stores were doing today. John rawlins is live now at Camden County college. Vernon . Reporter this job fair considered successful today by most people has less than an hour to go now. A big day here for folks south in new jersey as they wait for a major job generator to open up this summer. Construction continues at this site from a new outlet mall from new jersey in two months the new outlet mall opens in gloucester citizenship. Employing 8,000 people if retail jobs, job seekers braved long lines in the sweltering sun to apply for the hundreds of retail jobs that are generated here. I am in school and decided to earn money on the side, well, i have been worked anywhere before so im trying to get job experience too. Maybe like calvin klein or any other shoe store basic retail store that i can get money from. The mayor is of course pleased as punch to see this development in his town is there this is tremendous for our community and the future is bright here. This is just the first parts of tremendous Economic Development here in gloucester township. By midday the crowd count had reached 3,000 all hoping for a quick call back. I am a proud navy veteran. Yea navy. And you are looking for a job today . Yes. What kind of job . Any kind. Any kind will do. I am glad they are bringing it to the commune, a lot of jobs for the people that need it. Jim the latest estimate is that some 5,000 people have come through here today seeking out applications and getting brief interviews as they vie for the 800 jobs, live in blackwood, vernon odom channel 6 action news. Thank you. Coming up on action news tonight, firefighters in berks county had double duty today fighting flames and getting their fire engine out of a rough spot. And eagles players react to the row lease of their teammate evan mathis. Those stories and more when action news continues tonight. If you want a paint with no harsh fumes. If you want a paint without harmful chemicals. If you want a paint thats safer for your family, and the environment. Only this can. Natura from benjamin moore. Paint like no other. Certified asthma and allergy friendly by the asthma and Allergy Foundation of america. Fire claimed the life of a woman in the somer ton section of philadelphia, the blaze broke out at 7 30 at the 600 block of avon vote. Firefighters found the mother by the front door and the daughter was found dead upstairs. The father was able to get out alive. It was double trouble for firefighters first fire at a house at willow brook road and one person escaped without injury and then firefighters had to deal with their fire engine it sank into the soft ground at the scene and eventually they got it out without any damage to the vehicle. Keeping kids in school was the goal of a Conference Today in Center City Philadelphia local business and education leaders gathered at the Grad Nation Community Summit participants discussed ways to increase graduation rate, right now its over 81 and the goal of grad nation it to raise the number to 90 . In delaware a bill to aallow chirp to take in Oil Containing medical marijuana is heading to the governors desk, its specifically designed to help children suffering from epileptic seizures and it would aallow cannibis oils for children that suffer from a kind of epilepsy that does not respond to traditional drugs jack markell intends to sign the bill. And a fair in newark children and adults gathered for a free lunch as well as activities and a cooking demonstration, the event was made possible by a 20,000 grant from conagra foods. The taney dragons added another award to their trophy case today. They received the 2015, John Wanamaker award today. The ceremony was held at the crystal tea room. The action News Facebook page has all the news, information and weather that you need. If you like the page youll be able to get it all online in your timeline that includes todays tips from ali gorman on staying safe in the heat. Go to facebook. Com abcactionnews. So the buzz is still about the release of evan mathis. He was asked whether or not chip run a tight ship and he said yes, twice. Who knows what he will do next nearly half the starting offense is gone after chip kelly cut pro guard evan mathis they are moving forward without mathis who was pushing for a new contract, you are not the only ones surprised he cut mathis his teammate Connor Barwin was caught off guard too while he was helping to install solar panels, after lifting it up the ladder, he gives his take on the mathis move. I dont know if its buying it or not buying it. In the football part of it evan was brought in its a whole different animal you dont get into it and you dont have your own and that is it. Once are you in the locker room, that shouldnt matter, only inside of the locker room, whatever happened i know none of the details, it didnt work out really for either side. But will the bold offseason moves pay off. He parted ways with nine former starting players, we asked thomas to weigh in. Right now he is making it his team, as a head coach at the end of the day are you responsible for how the season pans out and what you want to do is have your guys in there, the guys you brought in and the decisions you made to be the end result of what is happening if they win big you can look back and say look what i did. If they lose you have to be the person to take it on the chin. He is andre the giant. Iguodala is golden states best player in the finals this according to the head coach even better than mvp steph curry. Going back with the series tied at 22 scored a season high 22 on the cleveland cavalier helping to build a lead in game four and held lebron to a series low 20 points to even the serieses. He tried to take him out of his comfort zone, sounds easier said than done, we all have a lot of talent on the court and when we go out there we want to make our stamp on the game. Now they go back to oakland sunday night here on 6 abc. The phillies have not been this bad on the road in 74 years, winning on the road doesnt get easier tonight, phils are in point where they have the worst winning percentage of any city they go to. If they want to avoid their worse they have to do it without chase utley he is hitting a league worst. 185. Carly lloyd and the u. S. Soccer team are looking to score their second w in the world cup when they face sweden. How about newman goretti playing their First High School state title game, they run out of luck losing 90 against the team from western pa they finish the season as runners up just the second team from district 12 to get to the final. A great run. A two day torch run through delaware came to an end today the Special Olympics flame of hope made a stop at wilmington headquarters before moving on to the university of delaware and 500 officials escorted the flame 160 miles across the first state. The olympic summer games are officially underway at the university. One again record tying temperatures today. Too hot to handle for a lot of people and its working over the weekend that is a big difference stormtracker 6 live double scan showing most of our region is rain free, i have been tracking downpours popping up especially west of philadelphia this one cell right now is north of manayunk its crossing 611 heading towards jenkins town and there is no lightning with this, moving to the northeast with a heavy downpour and more of this as we head through the overheight hours the big story the temperatures yesterdays high 92 today tying the record high of 95 set in 1947, 13 degrees above normal. Tomorrow if we hit 90 its going to be close it will be the first heat wave of the year and still really hot out there. Philadelphia 93 degrees and allentown had showers move through and it dropped down to 79 and with the wind off the ocean Annie Mccormick had the best job of any reporter on the beach. Factor in the humidity and the heat index makes it feel like 95 in wilmington and dover the heat index earlier was 101 and still feels like 99 degrees the heat advisory in effect until 9 00, drink lots of water satellite 6 along with action radar showing a few isolated storm there is a cold front out to the west and this will bring us relief from the heat for the second half of the weekend, even tomorrow wont be as bad as today. Warm and muggy some thunderstorms late today 74 in philadelphia the low and very warm, cape may 68 and allentown 61 and double scan live showing the line ahead of the front does have Severe Weather associated with it and it looks to weaken by the time it gets here late in the morning tomorrow. We could have a few thunderstorms, most of you region could be rain free. Its still going to be hot a high near 90 degrees, youll notice the dew points dropping in the afternoon its muggy but not nearly as humid as today. Tomorrow feels as good as today and the front drops down to the south and that means the temperatures back into the 80s and still on the humid side and that front returns on monday and that will bring us some showers and thunderstorms and a lot of clouds, if you are headed to the poconos, great weather in the poconos tomorrow, we could have a morning thunderstorm with the front and less humid and 78 degrees and sunday looking nice in the mountains with a high of 74 degrees, down the shore the ocean temperature 67 degrees and tomorrow winds out of the northwest and that is the land broez and warm and humid on the beach and sun and clouds and 76. Sunday looks really nice down the shore. The exclusive accuweather forecast, hot and humid but not as oppressive as today with a high near 90 degrees tomorrow and could see thunderstorms midday and then on sunday, some sunshine warm, but not quite as bad, 86 degrees, on monday the front returns with clouds and showers and thunderstorms, 84 degrees, tuesday is warm and humid 89 degrees before the cold front sweeped through and that brings us a breath of fresh air mostly sunny and comfortable and 84 degrees, and friday the showers and thunderstorms return with a high of 85 degrees, still warm tonight, still warm tomorrow and temperatures really trending down over the weekend getting better. Finally tonight students at Pennridge High School in perkasie had fun celebrating the end of the school year by playing tv game shows during the wheel of fortune game, the students unveiled letters that spelled a message to one of the School Employees to his girlfriend. It spelled out the words lindsay will you marry me and he then got down you on one knee and proposed to lindsay and lindsay said yes and they win the game. Abc world news is next on channel 6. And action news continues at 10 00 with brian taff and adam joseph and ducis rogers, and then please join us for action news at 11 00 here on channel 6. For cecily tynan Jeff Skversky and ducis rogers and the entire action news team, im jim gardner, we hope youll join us at 11 00. Major breaking news as the manhunt for two escape killers instens intensifyies intensifies. 800 officers now out in force. And severe storms and flash floods. Hail cracking windshields. The tornado watch issued in new york. And the naacp leader in the spotlight after her parents say shes white. And five of a kind. Americas first set
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