Transcripts For WPVI Action News At 600 AM 20170621 : compar

Transcripts For WPVI Action News At 600 AM 20170621

New things so yes that should be included tam absolutely. Coma little bit of cloud cover over by the coast. You see that on satellite. Overall were expecting to to py skies. 72 degrees under building sunshine in philadelphia. Allentown has actually slipped to 59 cool and comfortable degrees right now. 60 in reading and upper 60s through much of south jersey. The dewpoints are still a little bit high down south but they are beginning to dip. We have some numbers up above 70 a little while ago. Still a little humid across south jersey and most of delaware but gettiwe go throughs we run through the day it also gets warm again. 72 degrees by 7 oclock, 84 by noon and by 3 oclock 87 degrees, thats your high. Were back down to 78 by 7 oclock, partly sunny skies, a spotty afternoon shower cant be ruled out and it has arrived. Today is the summer solstice. It officially rang in at 12 24 a. M. That was the exact moment that the suns direct rays were over the tropic of cancer. That means today is the longest day and of course we are supporting alzheimers disease on the longest day events across the nation including some locally and karen rogers is involved in that. Make sure youre wearing sunscreen if you havent already cause the sun angle all right karen what you got on the roads . Not much right now. All right dave looking live in wilmington delaware. This is 495 at terminal avenue. Co today it is southbound construction. Its been causing big delays. Today will be your southbound delay that youll see between edgemoor road and terminal avenue. Stick to i95 instead t lets go outside. Its starting to get busy on i95 at allegheny. Thats your southbound traffic headed towards center city now headed from the betsy ross bridge to girard on i95 and you see that beautiful sunshine out there today. Well see it for quite a bit of the day today as well but on the vine street expressway, weve got an accident here and its eastbound on the vine just happened as you past broad street so youll want to watch for delays. Were already seeing that begin with an accident that just happened a minute ago eastbound on the vine as you travel just past broad street. Also this water main break causing some big issues here in cheltenham. They had to shut down mount carmel avenue between houston and tyson so you could stick to jenkintown avenue or glenside avenue instead but one of the issues is also septas regional warminster line can only travel about 10 miles an hour over mount carmel avenue because of this so well see some delays with that as well, tam. Okay, thank you, karen. Rs are still on the scene more than 12 hours later after dangerous chemical explosives were found inside a bucks county home. Overnight the shelterinplace order for nearby residents was lifted. The action cam is still there live on the 8700 block on easton road in ottsville. Bomb teams and hazmathe night to dismantle a. M. Cache of weapons and explosives. Our dann cuellar was filing a report when this happened. Reporter its unclear if the materials whoa. Quite a boom there. It is believed that at that moment officials were performing a controlled detonation. Action News Reporter Katherine Scott has been following all the latest developments and she brings them to us now live in the Satellite Center. Good morning, katherine. Reporter good morning, tam. And this morning the house remains closed off but nearby roads have reopened. So, they have been making progress. Authorities are speaking with the resident and so far its too early to know if any charges will be filed. Lets go to video from that scene in ottsville bucks county. This all started yesterday on the 8700 block of easton road when authorities were serving a Mental Health commitment warrant on a 70yearold man. Thats when officials uncovered chemical explosives and a large number of weapons and ammunition on the property. You could see responding units wearing protect tiff gear. They removed weapons, boxes and boxes of ammunition and what was said to be a explosive liquid chemicals. They also took materials from a back shed. You can hear periodically controlled detonations. Some neighbors say they were told to shelterinplace. My dad called me and hes part of the fire department. He told me that something was going on, to stay inside, no nono not go out. Its a little nerve wracking. I dont know whats going on but we need to get out of here. Reporter and state police remain on the scene this morning. Authorities say theres still work left to do today. Live in the Satellite Center Katherine Scott, channel6 action news. Katherine thank you. New this morning, the certain is on for a Schuylkill County man accused of killing his father. Pennsylvania state Police Issued a warrant for michael marchock. His father was found dead in his ryan township home on monday. Police have not said how marchock was killed but an autopsy is that scheduled for today. It is 6 05 and an executive at a nursing home will be back on the stand today to testify against Philadelphia District attorney seth williams. After Opening Statements kathleen defrees took the stand. She was asked questions about money that williams allegedly spent on himself instead of on his mothers healthcare. Williams is accused of taking more than 20,000 that was actually earmarked for his mother. He faces 29 federal criminal charges including bribery and corruption. The defense argues williams has made mistakes but thathat constitutes criminal activity. We could soon learn the identities of the jurors involved in the bill cosby Sexual Assault trial. This morning the judge will decide whether their names should be released to the Montgomery County d. A. Kevin steele says he fears releasing their names could have a negative impact on future jurors needed for cosbys retrial. Cosbys attorneys also oppose the release of the names. Lawyers for several Media Outlets argue the jurors names should be public to ensure transparency in the judicial process. Breaking news in the world of business. Uber hit another major roadblock overnight t its ceo weve learned has abruptly resigned. Maribel aber is live at the nasdaq in times square with the full story. Good morning, maribel. Reporter hey, good morning jeanette. Putting the brakes there Travis Kalanick is out as ceo of uber. The cofounder of the Ride Hailing Company has resigned after month of scandal. The group sent him a letter expressing doubts about his ability to implement change at the company. Uber has been rocked by charges of sexism and sexual harassment. Lets talk stocks. Stocks closed lower as a selloff in oil dragged Energy Shares lower. Right now looks like futures are pointing to a lower open. Report on existing home sales due out later today. Burger king is now serving a lucky charms milkshake. Its a mix of vanilla soft serve ice cream syrup lucky charms and marshmallows. It adds up to 740 calories 107 grams of sugar and 17 grams of fat. It it is 2. 99 and is available for a limited time. 740 if the kids get this theyll split it. If the kids get this im sending them to your house maribel. They cannot stay at mine. Next week theyre come out with a vat of sugar. Eat it with a spoon. Open it up and its like a funnel. Storm tracker6 live double scan right now and we are looking at little bit of rain down south in cape may and southern delaware, just some light showers poking through. You might be dealing with that for a little bit this morning. As we take a look outside, though, most of us are looking at sunshine and that would include those over, excuse me, over the bridges down by the Schuylkill River heading into south philadelphia. So, we are looking at girard point bridge and everybody else under the sun outside of the shore. 72 degrees currently in philadelphia. 68 in wilmng trenton. Just 59 cool degrees in allentown. Cooler up north but down south a little bit milder an bit more humid the farther we go down through south jersey and delaware although that situation is improving. Cloud cover across the Southern Tier clears out fairly quickly this morning. As we head into the afternoon you see on future tracker6 where theres a chance of popup showers and thunderstorms by 2, 3, 4 oclock in the northern and western suburbs. Late in the day and early evening some of that may survive down into the i95 corridor and then it looks like most of its off theocloc. So, not a lot of rain out there later today and tonight but some spotty stuff. Lehigh valleys forecast then partly sunny overall with a possible passing spottydershowes the high. Not all that humid during the afternoon certainly. Even now. 82 at the shore alittle sticky in the morning, probably less so as were he go through the day. Ble andsunny and pleasant with partly sunny, not very humid in philadelphia, a high of 87 degrees and again late in the afternoon or early evening a couple possible. For the phillies tonight, mainly dry. I think theyll get the ball game in. But we have to allow for a spotty thundershower rumbling through at times. First pitch temperature 78 though and in the ninth inning 73. Not all that humid. Nice night fories are going to win one. 68 degrees is the overnight low partly cloudy and early thundershower possible but then we dry out in the overnight hours. Not going to dry out then on the gulf coast though. We got Tropical Storm cindy that has the other one brett i showed you yesterday is no longer a problem but this one is looking to push up toward the gulf coast probably by wednesday night into thursday or thursday into friday, somewhere around there. Its looking on this late projection like it would be probably late in the day thursday and early friday. It does look like it comes ashore as a tropical stowhich md not as much wind. Your seven day, every degrees partly sunny not all that humid for the first day of summer. Summer did officially arrive a little after midnight. Hotter tomorrow, not very humid though so tomorrow is a really nice hot summer day if thats what you like. 90 on friday hot and more humidity building in on the day on friday and there could be late thunderstorm. A nice change for the weekend. An early shower or thunderstorm is possible on saturday. After that clouds to sun a high of 86 and guess what the humidity starts to drop off on saturday afternoon. Nice. And then sunday lower humidity clouds and sun. Weary moving the chance of a thunderstorm so improvement for the weekend and monday and tuesday look great, highs in the upper 70s around 80. Humidity makes all the difference. Yeah, it does. That is the big difference maker. Thank you david. Yeah. 6 11 and next and new this morning, a new york rolls backwards with nobody behind the wheel. New photo wont be the only thing different in your next drivers license in pennsylvania. Penndot shows us the changes. Karen. Weve got a camera shot of this new accident on the vine street expressway. You can see an ambulance here. Its already causing delays. Were talk about that. Another new accident and a disabled vehicle all coming up. Breaking news right now out of london. Youre taking a live look here. This is buckingham palace. They say Prince Philip is in the hospital. Officials say he has an infection but is said to be in good spirits. Just last month the 96yearold said he was giving up his public duties. However Prince Philip was supposed to accompany the queen to the state opening of parliament which takes place in about 30 minutes. Instead, Prince Charles will attend. We wish him well. Hope hes out of the hospital soon. Lets go to karen rogers taking a look at your traffic. Good morning. Thats right. Good morning. You see the flashing lights behind me. We have Ambulance Police even fire crews on the scene with this accident. Just happened on the vine street expressway a little bit ago. This is east of broad street so watch for this blocking the right lane and if you have the right lane blocked on the vine, you know its going to cause problem. Eastbound slowing past broad street where you see that ambulance fire crews police a number of emergency officials blockient on the vine street expressway. On the big picture schuylkill westbound between city avenue and 202 construction will block one lane today from 9 00 until 3 00. Yesterday it was eastbound. Today and tomorrow its westbound with that construction. Also we have a concert at 7 05. The phils play and a concert at 8 oclock at bb t pavilion. Lots of reasons for some congestion a little later on this evening. Lets take a look right now in king of prussia. Weve got a disabled vehicle here on vandenburg road at bridesburg road. Watch for a disabled vehicle t else workers on the scene in souderton Montgomery County on frets word so that just happened a few minutes in wilmington we see the cones set up once again i495 southbound, two left lanes are blocked and its scheduled to go on until the evening hours so stick to i95 southbound instead on 495 southbound at terminal youll have delays. Lets go to the commuter traffic report right now and we have report of an accident here we just talked about on wambold road in lower salford. The temperatures right now showing its conly 59 in allent. Feels a lot better there, doesnt it . Its going to be warm today but not so humid with a high of 87. Nobody in there. And there it goes. New this morning an empty bus rolled down a new york city block hitting several parked cars before crashing in front of a church. This happened just before 1 00 a. M. This morning in brooklyn. The driver had just gotten out of the bus. I think they forgot to put it in park when it began to roll. One man suffered minor injuries when he jumped out of the way. Changes are coming to pennsylvania drivers licenses. Penndot released details about the changes that will take place this year. The agency says the new design has more to do with security enhancements. Theyll feature is larger primary portrait and smaller ghost portrait. There will be a 2d bar code laminated with a special pattern with the states motto virtue liberty and independence. However these i. D. s not real i. D. Compliant. The state will not be releasing those until 2019. Ubers founder is out as ceo. Travis kalanick resigned. His departure follows a series of scandals including allega harassment. The 40yearold started uber eight years ago. Uber is reversing a longstanding policy and is starting to allow passengers to tip their drivers. After you arrive you can use a new teach in ubers a to leave a tip. This tipping function is only available in houston minneapolis and seattle. It will however be nationwide by the end of next month. Amazon is making it much easier to shop by letting you try before you buy. Amazon prime wardrobe will let customers order up to 15 items of clothing or shoes with no up front costs. You can try them for seven days. Then return whatever you dont want free of charge. 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Whats your body of proof . So today im here at whole wonderfulet philly with your local blueberries from new jersey. Not only are b all time favorits but theyre extremely nutritionally dense and queating. Youre talking about a few things but mainly very low in calories and very high in nutritional density which is why we call them a super food. Head over to 6abc. Com. Ive got aore detail about the antioxidants found in these wonderful little berries. I think thats healthier than the lucky charm shake. I think it is. I got to say blueberries are great. Theyre a great snack. Put them on the couch while watching tv and its better than a lot of other stuff. Absolutely and the kids will eat them too. Lets take you outside to bucks county and show you i95 past the scudder falls bridge. All lanes opened now on the bridge so expect midday restrictions and you might want to stick to route one or the turnpike connector instead. In Delaware County here we have a new acciden popped up here in essington so watch for that one. Route 15 trolley now shuttle busing until september here and also we can see that train 10 minutes late for the airport line so watch for that one as you are headed out dave. All right, karen, its warm to start out in somehia by 7 oclock. Youll be catching up a little bit in the Lehigh Valley in berks county where were starting out cooler. Little muggy down sou expect the humidity to be okay today and by 3 oclock youre at a high of 87 degrees, partly sunny skies. It is the summer solstice. The sun angle is high and ive been talking a little bit about this over the last few rey important. If you are traveling out of town today, all green aircraft on the big board and so far so good in all of our big travel destinations. No sign of rain. Tam. Okay, thank you, david. Going on to health check researchers at Kings College london found that older fathers are more likely to have geekier sons. But thats not a bad thing. Were smarter more focused and less bothered about fitting in with their peers but the study looked at the link between autism and the age of the father. Scientists say some of the genes related to geekiness and autism overlap and these genes may be more prevalent in older fathers. A day off did little to help the phillies. The losing continued. Both bullpens pitched well until the phillies imp

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