You turn it around. Excuse me. Dewpoints are in the 60s. Yesterday we were in the 50s across the region with those dewpoints which meant it wasnt really that humid. Anything over 60 is the other way around and obviously a lot of us are seeing that right now. Its going to be warm this afternoon. 86 degrees. Your high today will be 88 degrees. Excuse me. I got something in my throat there. And thats going to be at about 4 oclock this afternoon and a little more humid than it was yesterday. Gets even stickier tomorrow and then oppressive heat and humidity returns for thursday. Karen rogers ill have details on that coming up. All right david, sounds good. Lets talk about septa right now and the problems we expect. Were looking at the regional rails. New schedules took effect yesterday. They have about still 11,000 seats that theyre short. Youre going expect crowded trains, youre going to expect situations where some trains are just passing you by but we do want to warn you about that. The new schedules took effect so go ahead and grab a new schedule. For some theyve added some extra trolley and subway service. I know thats not an option for everybody but if that works for you you you might want to try that. Expect big delays especially after about 7 oclock in the morning. Lets hit the roads right now and talk a problem here. This is the schuylkill westbound at university. We had an accident involving an overturned truck. It was blocking all lanes. The truck has cleared. The westbound lanes have reopened at this point. Both lanes and ramps there. But we do still see some emergency worker on the scene so watch for that schuylkill westbound at university. Also here in hamilton township, weve got 33 eastbound blocked between olden avenue and nottingham way. This is paving work that will happen until about 6 oclock this morning. So, dealing with this for another hour. Stick to hamilton avenue as your alternate. Tam and nydia. Okay, thank you, karen. This is breaking this morning. Police are investigating a substance at a southwest philadelphia home. Police and hazmat crews were called out around 1 30 in the morning to the 1700 block of wheeler street. Residents said they received a suspicious package way white substance in the mail. As a formality Philadelphia Police brought in officers from their Counter Terrorism unit to investigate. So far though theres been no injuries and no evacuations. And there are breaking new details in a triple shooting in southwest philadelphia. Police say a 15yearold boy died overnight. He was one of three teenagers shot after they left a basketball tournament last evening. Police say the teens were ambushed on the 6800 block of baltimore avenue. Coming up in our next half hour, action News Reporter Katherine Scott will have a live report with more on what may have sparked that deadly shooting. Happening today, president obama is expected to attend a Memorial Service in dallas for the five officers who were killed by a sniper last thursday. The ambush came on the heels of recent Police Involved shootings that have now become a Tipping Point in the National Debate about race and justice. Protestors marched through wilmington last night to rally against the killing of black men by Police Officers. Karen mcdole walked for her bother jeremy who was killed by Police Officers. In may the Justice Department ruled no charges would be filed. A rally was in reaction to all the antipolice hate and violence against officers. A handful of preachers and reverends also prayed for a divided nations healing and for an end to all the turmoil. Meantime Homeland Security officials and the fbi are investigating a threat against Philadelphia Police on facebook. The threat says someone would blow up the second, sixth and thriveth district with a bomb disguised as a baby. Philadelphia police said they are taking this threat seriously. Police have been on alert since the deadly shooting of those five Police Officers in dallas. It is now 5 04a volunteer firefighter was killed in southern delaware where he fell from a helicopter. This happened during a Training Exercise put on by the delaware heiress cue in georgetown yesterday evening. Officials say the firefighter stepped off a ledge of the chopper and fell. The 46yearold was rushed to Bb Healthcare where he was pronounced dead. New Castle County Police are looking for the killer who gunned down a delaware state university. Student. Malcolm evans was found shot to death in rutledge on saturday morning. Detectives say the 19yearold was headed to work when a single gun shot was fired into his car. He crashed his car and later died at the hospital. A witness saw several males in immediate area but they fled. If you have any information, please contact new Castle County Police. Former Philadelphia Elementary School principal Evelyn Cortez has been sentenced to 10 years probation for her role in a cheating scandal. Cortez was arrested in may of 2014 following allegations that she and teachers at cayuga Elementary School changed students answers on the state psa exams. She pled guilty to charges of perjury and tampering with public records. Time to turn to dave murphy. Sounds like today is the day to get outside if you have something to to. Yell really yesterday was the day. Today a little more humid. Stickier on wednesday and oppressive by thursday. Your exclusive look at Storm Tracker six live double scan and you can see that there is a lack of precipitation out there. As we take a look outside we have sky6 and theres the sun getting ready to come up over the horizon. Down the shore you can see the sky getting pink and does look like well have a fair amount of sunshine today, perhaps mixing with a few more clouds than what we saw yesterday but still fairly bright. 68 degrees to start out in philadelphia this morning, 69 in wilmington, 63 in allentown, 64 in reading, 65 in trenton and 71 in cape may, new jersey. Satellite and radar in the meantime shows you that we do have some clouds sweeping down from the north but looks like theyre high and thin enough where well still see some sun and once they pass through again a sun and clouds mix today but fairly bright. Up in the lehigh valley, sun and clouds, more humid than yesterday with a high of 88. Also a little bit warmer. So definitely a cool drinks day. Not that yesterday wasnt but even more so today. Down the shore u. V. Index will be running high. Other than that a little bit more comfortable with high temperatures in the upper 70s up to about 80 or so. Upper 70s down in cape may and Sea Isle City and down in Rehoboth Beach and Bethany Beach it looks like low 80s today. 70s in the water again. Pretty nice week at the shore. Today sun mixing with clouds in philadelphia, a bit more humid, a high around 88 degrees. Winds out of the south at five to 10 Miles Per Hour drawing up that humidity out of those humid southern reaches. And then overnight tonight partly cloudy, a bit on the humid side. Well drop to 70 for an overnight low again with a light south wind in play. Tomorrow it looks like High Pressure is continuing to pull away from us and that clockwise flow around the high will continue to circulate a southerly flow in off the ocean. Thats going the make us even more and more muggy tomorrow. It will still be warm with a high of 87. And in the afternoon in particular there is the possibility of some thunderstorms, although when you look at future tracker6 it does look like the best chance of this is probably first of all in the afternoon. You see very little going on in the morning and mainly north and west of philadelphia. Places like allentown reading lancaster probably have the best chance of this. Chester county may pick up a little bit of it at times as well. And you can see that its kind of out of the picture as we get later into the evening hours. 88 degrees is todays high, and your exclusive accuweather 7day abit more humid but not too bad today. Very warm and more sticky tomorrow with that high of 87 and those northern and western thunderstorms. Thursday a high of 92, its going to feel like 100 degrees at times in the afternoon especially urban centers and there could be some strong thunderstorms around, at least in some neighborhoods later in the day and evening. Friday still very hot and humid, a high of 95. Very likely still feeling like its about 100. And then for the weekend on saturday, its hot, probably on the humid side, a high of 91 and it does look like theres a spotty shower or thunderstorm around during the day on saturday. The late of the model projections for sunday is that we could start out with some showers and maybe a thunderstorm in the morning. However, theres the channel of some drying and sunshine in the afternoon and a high of 89 degrees on sunday. Okay, thank you david. Uhhuh. Thanks. We want to turn to a suspicious incidents in center city. Police were called to the rooftop of the hyatt at the bellevue. They found people with smoke bombs suspicious equipment and camera equipment. Good morning, annie. Good morning, nydia and tam. Looks like the two people that were on top that of roof are here now at central detectives being interviewed by investigators from Homeland Security. Theyre trying to figure out exactly why they were on the roof and if they were doing anything criminal. We are told that they were detained by investigators because they had unauthorized access to the roof. Well, take a look at this video. This is video from chopper6 hd over the bellevue in center city last night. Thats where Philadelphia Police began their investigation at the bellevue. Around 7 00 last night police were called to the building for reports of people running on the rooftop. When they arrived they found at least two people with smoke bombs, a suspicious liquid and camera equipment. Now, what appears to look like smoke bombs i should say. A man and woman were then taken into custody by police. Now, back out here live sources are telling us that both of those people, a man and a woman, were then taken here to central detectives to be interviewed by investigators from Homeland Security and like we said, there have been no charges filed. Theyre still trying to figure out whether or not what they were doing was criminal but they were taken off of the roof and detained because they had unauthorized access to that roof. For now reporting live outside of central detectives, Annie Mccormick channel6 action news. Back to you. Annie, still so many questions here. It is 5 10. New this morning parents rally together to get a billboard about addiction prevention taken down. Well explain why they did that coming up on action news. If you dont plan on getting into the Democratic National convention in south philadelphia, dont worry, organizers are planning exhibits for you around the city. Well explain. Karen. Were looking good on i95. The overnight construction has cleared so no problems just yet here at cottman. Well check that construction at 422 coming up. And what it took to win the home run derby when action news comes back. Welcome back. This is always such a pretty shot, isnt it . Sky6 hd taking a live look at the Commodore Barry bridge. It is 5 13, 68 degrees. If youre trying to plan your week, beware starting thursday its going to be pretty oppressive around here. All right, lets go over to karen rogers. You know the septa stuff has had a lot of people going through changes. What does the commute look like this morning. Such issues with septa. Dont forget the new schedules went into effect with the regional rails yesterday but we expect big problems like yesterday with overcrowding. Lets look at the roads and talk about there suburbs right now as we go on outside live i promised you a look at 422 and here it is. Looking pretty good here at 23 as you head towards king of prussia youre going to see no problems or delay. The overnight construction on 422 is clear so thats some good news heading out. Over here on the maps we have an issue here in folsom Atlantic County blocked at route 54 and thats because of bridge construction. Its going to last until about 6 oclock. So with the black horse pike blocked youve got to stick to 73 or jackson road and it will take i was little bit longer as youre heading out. In Burlington County right on the new jersey turnpike southbound between exits five and four the construction cleared early. Last time we talked it was blocking two lanes. Expected to be out there for a little bit but it cleared so thats some better news right there on the new jersey turnpike. Lets go to the commuter traffic report. We had daily tv, trvlr talking about an object on the road in river road in tinicum township so watch for that and thanks for being up and reporting that on the waze app. Lets look at the temperatures right now. Its 59 in martins creek, 64 in warrington and chester. 68 degrees right now in center city. Not a bad start to the day. Its a warm one today, 62 in hammonton 64 in dover delaware going to feel a bit more humid under partly sunny skies with highs in the upper 80s, tam. Thank you karen. Great britain about to get its second female prime minister. Margaret thatcher of course being the first. Home secretary theresa may will take over by tomorrow evening. She said there will be no redo on the brexit referendum and even though she was against it she says theyre going to make a success of it. May will take over for David Cameron who announced yesterday morning he will be leaving 10 downing street by tomorrow. The Democratic National Convention Kicks off at the Wells Fargo Center in south philadelphia in less than two weeks and organizers hope one of the attractions will be just as popular as its been at past conventions. Political fest will display nonpartisan exhibits around the city designed to engage convention goers and residents. The concept debuted during the Republican Convention here back in 2000. We are end can couraging everyone to start here, head to the white house exhibit followed by our main stage theater where were going to be having live interviews, political speeches and our games, political trivia and political feud so it should be a lot of excitement. Get started here and then move out to the other venues. Sounds like a lot of fun. And we will have more from the campaign trail including a expected endorsement from Bernie Sanders coming up in the next half our. Odubel herrera will represent the phillies in the allstar game and mike trout will represent the angels for the american league. Trout is a two time allstar game m. V. P. Marlins slugger won last night. Two of his blasts were estimated to go as far out as 497 feet. Stanton hit 61 homers in all. And happening today, Philadelphia Flyers top prospects take to the jersey shore for the trial on the aisle. Fans are invited to be part of the prospects final day of development camp. Events are planned from 9 00 to 5 00 in stone harbor. They include team exercises a free clinic for youngsters and an autograph session. Trial on the aisle wraps up with a Beach Volleyball session. Retailers joining amazon for a day of deals. A phenomenon lights up new york streets. Well be in the mid 70s by 10 oclock. Ill be back with your day planner forecast and well get you to the airport for those of you traveling. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. So we wired the wagners house with 100 meg internet. Which means that in the time it takes mr. Wagner to pour a 20 oz. Cup of coffee, tommy can download 30 songs, and jan can upload 120 photos. 12 seconds. Thats the power of fiber optics. And right now you can get 100 meg internet with equal upload and dowloads speeds, tv and phone for just 69. 99 per month online. Cable cant offer internet speeds this fast at a price this good. Only fios can. I survived breast cancer. If the doctors hadnt caught it early i might not be sitting here. So im outraged that pat toomey voted to defund planned parenthood. Which thousands of pennsylvania women depend on for cancer screenings. Pat toomey was even willing to shut down the federal government to eliminate funding for planned parenthood. Shut down the government over planned parenthood . I think we ought to shut down pat toomey. Women vote is responsible for the content of this advertising. New on action news this video from last night shows the phenomenon. Man hasnt hench creates a brilliant ray of light between the buildings gorgeous. Wow. That is pretty. Beautiful shot of the schuylkill now. [laughter] its not beautiful but lets take a look anyway. Here we are. This is the schuylkill expressway at university. We had that accident involving an overturned truck westbound. Now, both lanes have reopened but the ramp from the schuylkill westbound to University Avenue is blocked again. They had opened it and then blocked it. Were looking live. Doesnt that look like theyre kind of sweeping up some of the debris there as you watch that truck kind of move backwards very close to that guy sweeping. Watch for that. The ramp is still blocked at this point from the schuylkill westbound to university, even though that overturned truck has cleared, dave. All right karen. A lot of action going on there on the schuylkill. 70 degrees by 7 oclock. By noon well be at 82. Sun mixing with occasional clouds. Your high today is going to be 88 degrees but we probably wont see that until about 4 oclock this afternoon, Still Holding onto 86 by 5 oclock. A warm one and the other thing about today it will be a bit more humid than yesterday. At the airport were hoping for all green aircraft on the big board which would indicate no major delays in our big travel destinations. Thats what we have and im also not seeing any sign of precipitation from here to chicago down to atlanta or orlando at this hour. Nydia. All right david thank you. The Affordable Care act is often called obamacare and the president himself has penned an article on it. It was published yesterday in the journal of the american medical association. Eight page article mostly touts what president obama sees as a lot of its accomplishments but also addresses the need for more progress with Americans Still lacking coverage or struggling to afford doctors visits deductibles and prescription costs. Obamas article lays out a blueprint for the next administration and urges lawmakers to reconsider a government run public option. Action news will be right back but first heres americas money. Black friday deals about five months early. Today is amazons prime day with lower prices on thousands of products for prime members but lots of other retailers are also getting on board with sales of their own. Among them target best buy and macys walmart is offering Free Shipping on all orders. Toys r us offering 50 percent off regular priced items. Taylor swift has scored another number one but this time were not talking about a hit. She has earned the top spot among the worlds highest paid celebrities. Swift raked in 170 million. One direction was actually on this list, number two with 110 million. Dennys rolling out its new pancake recipe. The they will be made with fresh buttermilk eggs and vanilla. They replace an old mix that was made from a powdered mix and water. And thats americas money. Good morning. Clean food. Words you dont often hear. Words we at panera live by. Because clean food is food as it should be. With no artificial flavors, preservatives, sweeteners, and no colors from artificial sources. 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The local Health Officials said they never meant any harm . You have the to highlight the power of observant parenting. A russian balloo balloonist launched his balloon from a town in the australian outback. He hopes to complete the journey which he will be spending in a cramped gondola. The team has been preparing for this challenge though for nearly a year. Here she comes. A familiar face will return to the boardwalk hall for this years miss america competition. Chris harrison the host of the bachelor will be back to host this years pageant and joining hum for the first time will be espns sage steel. 52 women will compete for the crown in Atlantic City on sunday september 11th and you can watch that action right here on 6abc. Nydia. All right, tam. It is now 5 26 and we are following breaking news overnight. Flames engulf a popular south jersey restaurant that was the scene of a devastating fire a few years ago. Plus the state of pennsylvania has a new budget this morning but theres a catch. Those stories and more when action news continues. Developing now on action news, two people are facing questions after they were reportedly caught with what may be smoke bombs on the roof of a center city hotel. New overnight, bullets fly near a philadelphia basketball court. One of the Young Players is dead. Happening today, president obama meets with the families of the fallen dallas officers as the city comes together to pay tribute at a public memorial. Good morning, 5 30 now on this tuesday july 12th. Matt odonnell is off. Nydia han is joining us. Lets head over to meteorologist, david murphy and to karen rogers for accuweather and traffic. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. We are starting outer in pretty good shape this morning. Satellite imagery shows a little bit of cloud cover beginning to sweep down out of the north but its high and thin enough where i think well get sunshine through and overall were going for a mix of sun with and occasional clouds. This morning is cool. 68 degrees in philadelphia but just 63 in allentown. 65 in trenton, 64 in millville. Still at 71 in cape may. Maybe we wont get down into the 60s down there. Its close. 69 in wilmington and 64 in dover. The dewpoints, however, are higher today. Remember yesterday it was just so comfortable, really the last three days, saturday, sunday, monday but we talked about how today was going to get a little more humid. When you get dewpoints over 60 thats an indication of it. So a little stickier especially if youre moving around doing your run this morning. Be a little bit sweatier this morning than yesterday. Not a bad day overall. 70 degrees by 7 oclock, 76 by 10 oclock. A bit more humid and still warm this afternoon, 87 by 3 oclock and your high of 88 probably slots right in there around 4 oclock before we settle back to 84 by 6 00
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