Chilly and kind of breezy. Not the case right now as we have calm winds in philadelphia and a high winds amount of nine in pocono. As we roll through the day it will get warmly by 8 oclock warm 61. By noon up to 76 and by 3 oclock thats your high today, 83 degrees so a warmup once again. In fact a little warmer this afternoon than it was yesterday. And with less wind it will really feel like summer once again. Looks like it gets warmer in the accuweather 7day forecast before we eventually start to turn things around. Ill talk more about that and let you know when the next chance of rain is in the forecast. Thats all coming up. Karen, youve got some issues there looks like around center city. Lots of closures right in center city, dave. This is because of that multi alarm fire that weve been talking about and the closures keep coming in. So, 13th street is closed between irving and walnut, juniper is closed between walnut and locust. You can use 11th and broad to avoid those. Walnut street itself is blocked between 12th and broad. Weve got locust blocked between broad. Now learning that septa bus routes are detoured around this area, nine, 12, 21, 42, all being detoured because of the fire right in center city on 13th street. And right now were looking live and you can see police on the scene at i95 at cottman. This is a disabled vehicle. Weve got a really closeup view of this. Cant really see the road too much but you can see police and penndot on the scene. This is blocking the right lane. Stay left coming north of bridge street. I95 northbound as you head towards academy road, youve got this problem with this disabled vehicle blocking the right lane. Plymouth meeting weve got another fire location here. This is gravers road and monterey drive. Stick to gallagher road as your alternate n salem county all morning weve had a problem with downed poles and wires from an earlier accident. 40 westbound is blocked at 628. Stick to 48 to avoid the delay there matt and tam. Karen were following thattic whatting news that you mentioned in traffic. A fire at a Center City Building. And firefighters are just getting the upper handson that large fire that spread through a building that was under construction. Action News ReporterKatherine Scott is live at the scene with more of whats going on right now. Katherine. Reporter matt, we just learned that some of the residents from some of the surrounding buildings are allowed back into their homes. They described to me this morning these intense flames that were coming from this construction site. You can see right now chancellor street is just filled with fire equipment, firefighters here. Theyre still working at the scene of the flames here. The fire is under control but still a lot of activity. Chopper is overhead right now and you can see all of the construction in the building. Theres also a lot of roads closed off the surrounding area for the fire activity. You do want to avoid this area. Quite a few residents around the building were evacuated. Lets go in so you can get an idea how fierce the flames w you can see it stretching into the sky. The fire was called in around 4 30 this morning at 13th and chancellor in center city. Firefighters arrived to heavy flames coming through the roof. The building where the fire started is a two story restaurant which was under construction. There are Apartment Buildings on both sides of that fire scene. Theres also one across the street. They were evacuated but again, were hearing that at least residents from one of the buildings have been allowed back inside of their homes. Some residents woke to smoke alarms, others just woke up. They heard some activity and they saw those fierce flames. It wasnt smoke that woke me up. I happened to just wake up and i could see the flames. My window was opened. I could see that the building was on fire. It spread quickly. Because i was actually inside the apartment and i could see that my air conditioner had started to melt. Reporter the bulk of the damage at this point seems to be that construction site but some of the surrounding residents are worried about any sort of damage from that fire, if it extended into their homes, theyre worried about that. Theyre also worried about all of the thick smoke and any sort of smoke damage that could have happened. So far again we havent heard of any injuries but again, were here, were awaiting an update and of course at this point theres no word on the cause of the fire. Were live in center city, Katherine Scott, channel6 action news. Youll keep us posted. Thanks katherine. Also developing a man on a bike shot and killed another man in south philadelphia overnight. Police tell action news the gunfire erupted at south 24th and montrose streets at 11 00 last night. Police found the victim lying in the road suffering from several gun shots. He was pronounced dead at the hospital. Several cars in the area were riddled with bullets. Witnesses saw the shooter take off from the scene on a bike. It is now 6 05 and a hearing to determine if theres enough evidence to put former harrisburg mayor steven reed on trial goes on today. Authorities say reed stole the funds to purchase architect facts like a vampire kit, a suit of armor and a sarcophagus. Reed is facing over 400 criminal accounts including theft of public funds bribery and receiving stolen property. The 65yearold democrat left office in january of 2010. The countdown is really winding down for the arrival of pope francis. Were almost in Single Digits in terms of the days left until he arrives. 11 days, three hours and some change. Now, notices have already started to go out to residents who live in the papal no Parking Zones. The Philadelphia Parking Authority says those who live and park on the street inside the secure vehicle perimeter will need a special placard which will secure a space in 6ppa garages around center city. It costs 20 do. However, the fee is weighed for those with a current residential parking permit. The ppa plans to start together cars in the no Parking Zones as early as this weekends. Together is going to begin in many of these areas on sunday, the 20th of september. So, its really important for people to get here and get their permits before that time so they can have them on the car so they wont be towed. Vehicles can start to park in garages a week from this thursday. Once the vehicle is parked you will not be able to exit the garage until the following monday when the pope is gone. We have more information about the parking and travel restrictions in the city of philadelphia at 6abc. Com pope. Plus items prohibited in the francis Festival Grounds and more on how you can see the pope during his two scheduled parades. A report on retail sales is due out today and its already had an effect on the markets. Lets go over to maribel aber live at the nasdaq if times square. Good morning, maribel. Reporter good morning, tam. Worries over a possible hike in Interest Rates also weighing on the markets yesterday. Right now futures pointing to a lower open. As you mentioned a report on retail sales due out later today. Well be watching for that. All right mcdonalds has given the quarter pounder a makeover. The patties are bigger and mcdonalds has changed how the burgers are seared. The change will lock in more flavor according to mcdonalds and the ones for the quarter poppedder are being toasted longer as part of the changes. Engineering dominates the list of the highest paying college degrees. Nine of the top 10 degrees ranked by salary potential are for engineering. Petroleum engineering was number one with the potential salary of 168,000 in mid career. Now, the only one of the top 10 that wasnt engineering actuarial mathematics according to pay scale. Communication studies and journalism came at 168, mid career pay is 69,000. Im not complaining. Thanks maribel. [laughter] im not. Storm tracker6 live double scan shows you that we are dry. Take a look outside. Stars out and the skies starting to get a little bit brighter in the east. Also you dont see Much Movement on the camera because winds currently in philadelphia are calm. 59 degrees the number has slipped into the 50s right now in the city. 56 in trenton, 54 in wilmington, 53 he in allentown. And we have 52 on the thermometer in millville. Still 69 in cape may. Running a little bit milder way down south. As we take a look at satellite and radar its definitely safe if youre taking to highways and by ways as very little significant cloud cover of any sort is setting up over the region. Yesterdays storm system that brought those winds down through the region also pushing away from us so up in allentown, lots of sun, less wind than yesterday and a little milder, getting up to 82 after we stopped in the 70s in most neighborhoods yesterday. Down the shore, 78 there, mostly sunny, a light wind though, so it should be a pretty nice afternoon to go strolling on the boardwalk and in philadelphia well go for a warmer high today of 83, lots of sunshine, less wind than yesterday with winds generally only running about four to 8 Miles Per Hour. As we roll through the day, 61 degrees and still cool by 8 oclock. By 11 oclock, 72. Feeling pretty comfortable if you want to get out there and get errands done or maybe do an exercise walk this morning. Youre in good shape there. Then 2 oclock 81 degrees, 5 00 81 and your high of 83 degrees is going to be about 3 oclock this afternoon. If youre headed to the phillies Washington Nationals in town again and 76 degrees at the start of the game with less wind. It will feel pretty comfortable at the start but do bring along a jacket or a sweatshirt or maybe both because we are going to be cooling down during the game getting down to 66 at the end. And then tomorrow the beat goes on. High pressure still in control, still lots of sunshine and in fact, well raise the temperature a few more degrees tomorrow. Your exclusive accuweather 7day forecast, 83 degrees, sunny and warmer today. 87 on wednesday and thursday. So, very summerlike conditions in the afternoon. And 86 with partly sunny skies on friday. For the weekend, still warm and pretty nice on saturday with a high of 87. And then a front approaches kicking in more clouds on sunday. Our high will only get up to about 81 degrees and in the afternoon in particular there is the chance of a showers or maybe a thunderstorm. Well see whether or not that hunters the eagles in the afternoon. Hinders the eagles in the afternoon and its eagles at night. The lesion play in the rain, hopeful no lightning, though. Well be watching. Thanks, david. 6 10. Breaking overnight new information on the shooting of a College Professor an woman on a College Campus in mississippi. The birds Season Opener may have been a bust but the team is already focused on the future. Karen. Little volume on four want to eastbound at 29. Certainly not a major delay just yet but big problems in center city with that fire location. A number of closures. Bus detours. Weve got all the latest coming up when action news comes right back. Action news at 6 00 a. M. Is sponsored by temple university. 40,000 students and 300,000 alumni strong. Ours is an uncommon drive. Temple. Edu take charge. Lets head over to karen rogers. Weve been watching this fire in center city and boy, is it going to snarl some traffic this morning. Yeah, lots of problems right in center city with this fire location and look at the closures weve got. Thirteenth street is closed between irving and walnut. Juniper is closed between walnut and locust. You can use 11th and broad as your alternate. Walnut and locust itself are closed between 12th and broad. So avoid that area and use market or spruce instead and this is affecting some septa bus routes. Weve guilty nine, 12, 21, 42, all being detoured through that area because of that fire right in center city. Multialarm fire on 13th street. Lots of closures, bus detours so thats really impacting your morning commute. The fire location i have been telling you about in Plymouth Meeting has just cleared. Gravers road as reopened. Lets go outside live and see wait looks like. This is i95 at cottman. That northbound traffic moving a little bit better. We understand that that disabled vehicle is clearing out so weve got the lanes backed open there. Southbound though youre seeing your morning jam so thats your southbound traffic right there. Pretty heavy at this point from past academy to cottman and allegheny to girard. We also have this problem in new jersey on 40 westbound and thats blocked at 628 because of the downed poles, downed wires from an earlier accident so people have been using 48. Thats your best alternate to avoid the problems in salem county. Temperaturewise its kind of cool out there. If youre dressing the kids this morning or yourself you might want a sweater or light jacket. Its only about 50 degrees in quakertown, 51 in saint davids and Kennett Square but its 63 in center city, a little bit better there. And in the suburbs in new jersey, 53 in browns mills, 61 on the boardwalk in ac and 52 in dover, telling wear, headed up to a nice sunny and warmer 83, matt. All right, thanks, karen. Two fast moving wildfires continue to engulf northern california. Authorities found an elderly disabled woman dead in the ruins of her home. Hundreds of houses have burnt to the ground displacing thousands of residents. Years of drought in california have left nothing but dry timber behind making these the most destructive fires of the summer. And we have breaking news this morning. Delta state campus in mississippi who Authorities Say killed his livein girlfriend an fellow professor at the school, committed suicide after authorities conducted a day long manhunt and put the campus on lockdown for hours. 45yearold shannon lamb was a College Instructor who police say shot and killed his colleague Ethan Schmidt on campus. During the first hours of the Police Search for lamb frightened students and teachers hinckered down in classrooms for hours as armed officers went through buildings checked in closets and behind doors and under tables and desks. The lockdown was lifted hours later but security remained tight. Now, investigators say lamb is also a suspect in the slaying of a 41yearold amy prentiss who was found dead in the home she shared with lamb. He died from a self inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Its unfortunate that this had to happen. We didnt want it to happen this way. But it wasnt our intentions for it to happen this way but unfortunately he he was the one that made that decision. And officers say they have not uncovered a motive for either of the murders. Tam, back to you. Okay, erin, thank you. Police in kansas city just released this video of a wooden shipping crate. Police on the case avenue stolen car part ring found it inside an underground cave with two boys ages four and six inside. The cave was at the back of a repair shop. Inside the crate were old car bench seats other random car parts blankets and dirt. Workers say after eating breakfast the two would go back to that cave to take a nap. Police say they found the boys covered in dirt and filth eating dry rahman noodles with their lands and not wearing shoes. Their 24yearold mother is now in custody. Now to the big board. So much for the eagles roaring out of the gates to start the season and to be undefeated. You didnt think they were going to do that, though. They watched as the falcons put up 20 points in atlanta in just the first half. Roll the highlights for me here. It was 20 to three going in the third quarter. And later the eagles finally got the offense going late pulling within three and in desperation time in the fourth, they managed to actually lead the game by a point but a tipped sam bradford pass turned into an interception and that sealed the eagles fate. The eagles lose their first opener in five years 26 to 24. Bradford had this to say after the game. Tough. I think every loss is tough. Its one game. We still got 15 ahead of us. We got a short week so we can get this one out of our minds quicker. The eagles face the cowboys on sunday at lincoln financial field. The home opener kicks off at 4 25. Really scary to me, and i was like well can you fix it, can you paint it back on, and he explained that it was not something that grows back, its kind of a onetime shot and you have to care for it. He told me to use pronamel. Its gonna help protect the enamel in your teeth. It allows me to continue to drink my coffee and to eat healthier, and it was a real easy switch to make. So you dont have to stop. , tylenol® 8hr arthritis pain has two layers of pain relief. The first is fast. The second lasts all day. We give you your day back. What you do with it is up to you. Tylenol®. Weve got a new accident just in and its a big one involving an overturned vehicle on 95. I want to take you live here. This is Delaware County, i95 northbound approaching kerlin street. You can see how traffic is really jammed and you see the flashing lights up ahead. A serious accident. Were hearing people injured on the scene. The vehicle just flipped over. Its blocking the two left lanes northbound on i95 approaching kerlin street. So, youre now jammed from 452 to approaching kerlin street and look at that traffic just hardly moving right there with those two lanes blocked. This is route 42 in new jersey northbound traffic at creek road. Just a little building volume. And maybe a hint of a low cloud or two but dave and i have been checking visibility reports and not seeing too many problems with that, dave. No, overall karen it does look like its going to be bright and sunny. If you see any fog just slow it down. Shouldnt last long. The big story this morning is that its any other only getting bright but its starting out chilly. If youre dressing the kids you might want a light jacket on them on the way to school. On the way home its shorts and ts even more so than yesterday. On the bus stop on the el station today, 65 degrees by 9 oclock. Moving from a current temperature of 59. 76 by noon. Your high today is 83, low humidity, lots of sun and not as breezy as yesterday. A quick look at the airport, all green aircraft on the big board and no hint of rain in any of our most commonly traveled destinations. Tam. All right, thank you, david. A hot ticket at the Box Office Comes at a