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WPVI Action News At Noon May 22, 2016

Flames destroy a south jest home while the people who live there were away for the weekend. Cloudy damp weather could not stop runners gathered upon an annual event in delaware this morning. Those stories, but first the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. Cloudy and damp chris. Reporter maybe youll see a little bit of sunshine, but its only a peek. Theres the view overlooking the ben franklin bridge, as you look closely you can see the clouds trying to thin out a little bit. Youll see brightening, but it will be a tough go of it here. The clouds will win the battle today. Every now and then well see a popup shower and maybe a thundershower well west of philadelphia. The upper level low hanging out across western pennsylvania and harrisburg and york and gettysburg and stretches southward through baltimore and washington, d. C. You can see how the cloud deck is trying to thin out, looks like bucks county and lower Montgomery County seeing sunshine trying to peek through same thing with interior sections of south jersey. Maybe one or two of you see breaks. Phillies taking on the braves, game three, trying to avoid a sweep this time. 1 35 p. M. Start time, first pitch temperature 65 by the 9th inning, 68 degrees. Unsettled through monday and all of a sudden were turning up the heat in the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast and summerlike humidity, as well. Ill have that why see you in just a few minutes. Peco is working to reis for power in center city after an underground explosion overnight. Trish hartman is on the the scene on the 500 block of pine street in the Washington Square section. Folks must be happy to get back inside. Reporter they are, pine street is open to traffic thats about 30 minutes ago. Officials hope to have power restored to customers later this afternoon, we spoke to a couple of people who said it was a long night. We had four Manhole Covers fly up in the air and damaged the brick on the front of the house, all the windows shattered and the whole house listed up. Peco said it was a burning cable that caused a explosion and fire. We came out, balls there was a lot of because there was a lot of activity, they wanted to check the basement for carbon monoxide. Reporter as folks wait for the power to come back, organizers with the Society Hill Civic Association Home and garden tour are hoping for the best. The tour is today and some of the ten Historic Homes dont have power. Hundreds of tickets have been sold, so they are having it anyway. Hopefully the sun will come out a little bit and brighten out the houses. Normally people have their lights on in the house to show the house off to its best advantage. Thats not going to happen. The tour starts at 1 00 p. M. , homeowners hope the power might come back on, peco expects that to take all day. Nobody was hurt in the explosion. Thank you. A quickthinking neighbor called for help when a town home in new jersey went up in flames. The town home went up in flames. Police evacuated homes while firefighters went to work. A dog died. The people were away for the weekend. No word on what sparked the fire. Police are investigating a deadly pedestrian crash a driver struck someone on east Federal Street around midnight. Police have not released the name of the victim nor that of the driver involved. We know that the driver is cooperating with the investigation. Utility crews remained on the scene for repairs. Right now the search continues for a shooter in chester after a 14yearold boy was shot and killed in front of a corner store. Police say they found more than 30 shell casing on the 1100 block of pine lane. A 16yearold boy and 32yearold woman were also shot. The surviving teenager is in critical condition. The woman was released from the hospital. A neighbor sailed his wife heard said his wife heard the barrage of bullets, but did not realize what was happening. That many . And you said two kids, too . Thats bad. Reporter police are reviewing sure vacancy surveillance for clues that could lead to the shooter. A Prayer Service will be held at nativity prep in wilmington to remember Brandon Wingo gunned down while walking home from Howard High School of technology on thursday. No arrests have been made. Police say they know who they are looking for. A manhunt is underway for the gunman who shot and killed a Police Officer overnight in massachusetts. It happened during a traffic stop around 12 30 a. M. About 50 miles west of boston. The officer was shot in the chest and pronounced at the hospital. There are new questions about what really happened to egypt air flight 804. Leaked data has investigators probing if mechanical failure, not terrorism brought the plane down. The Transmission System sent out seven warnings one had to do with smoke in the lavatory and one indicated smoke below the cockpit where equipment operates the aircraft and one warned of trouble with the Flight Control system. Experts raise the question that mechanical failure was possible. Could a fire overtake the crew in a matter of moments . The smoke could, the smoke brings airplanes down when theres a fire in the cockpit. 66 people were on board. Officials caution that it is still too early to tell exactly what happened. Crews continue to search the Mediterranean Sea for the planes black boxes. In other news over seas a senior taliban commander confirms the groups leader was killed in a drone strike. He died near the afghanistan stan pakistan border. Top Officials Say the strike did target him, but said he was likely killed. He was chosen to lead the taliban last summer after the its founder was announced. He was actively involved with planning attacks across afghanistan. It was only a test, but an impressive one that brought dozens of police and emergency workers to Philadelphia College of osteopathic medicine. Our neighbors hosted an active Shooter Training exercise on the campus this morning. The drill simulated real life. The clouds did not get in the way for an annual event that brought out hundreds of runners for the mounted patrol for New Castle County patrol. That walk run is in its 5th year. The rain did not stop them. An alaska man shares his harrowing story after being attacked by a bear while on the family camping trip. Plus a warning to some new england parents about teens and flower seeds, well tell you how they are cruising them to get high using them to get high. When we come back, chris sowers will have the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. If youre heading to the jersey shore for memorial day you might notice beaches are narrower this year the combination of Hurricane Joaquin and the january blizzard caused erosion which was worse than superstorm sandy. Our shore towns came out winter relatively unchanged. Those hardest hit are trucking in sand to complete the restoration for the unofficial start of summer. Youre bumping the temperature. Reporter i am from tuesday on, im bumping the temperature. The weekend storm is checking out more quickly than anticipated at least based on on the on the new forecast information thats coming in. Things are looking better. Center city skyline shot shows a lot of clouds this afternoon, but were seeing before it brightening taking place north of philadelphia. The temperature have climbed into the 70s. Double scan live is clear, a couple of areas are picking up a spritz or sprinkle. Most of the showers are west of the viewing area. Dewpoint, 51. Pleasure is holding steady. The wind are light out of the north at 8 miles per miles per. Note how its warmer to the north than the south. Usually its the opposite because the clouds are thicker down here and its picked up rain earlier and to the north its dry, skies are brightening up. Oxford, 57. Saint david, 61. Chester, 61. Center city, 64. Across interior sections of south jersey where skies are brightening up its warmer. 59 in hockessin, 63 in glassboro, ewing, 61 on the boards in atlantic city, 64. Heres satellite and radar, there it is, you can see the skies brightening up to the north, lower montgomery and bucks county you can see brightening and across the Lehigh Valley. Huge mass of showers and steadier rains to the west. This should hold off and stay out there throughout the day. But it could get close enough to the western suburbs that they can pick up spotty showers. Theres the counter clockwise swirl. Once this gets out of here, note its clear, west of the upper leveling low we think that will get in here tuesday afternoon, this high will knock the two lows farther out to sea and the weather will turn nicer in the short term. Today and tomorrow, a little unsettled more clouds than sun, youll see a popup shower or thunderstorm tomorrow. Future tracker 6 you get the idea a popup shower, its not enough to cancel plans, but briefly you you could be forcedo go indoors. Thats a heavier shower. 6 30, peeks of sun, showers. Overnight tonight, partly cloudy and first thing tomorrow morning combination of and and clouds by afternoon clouds increase and the showers fill up the area. In one or two areas you pick up a quickhitting thunderstorm. Today, cloudy, 68 degrees, popup showers possible. Overnight tonight, partly cloudy, seasonable, but it should stay dry, 49 degrees outlying suburbs, 53 for center city. Maybe an evening shower. The overnight is dry. 72 sun expected tomorrow, spotty showers or thunderstorms by afternoon, were up to 72. Sun and clouds for tuesday, maybe a shower east of the city, very late, now we bump tuesday up to 78. Look at wednesday, 85 degrees, mostly sunny and warmer. Thursday, 88 degrees, more sun than clouds, but it becomes a little more humid, it will feel like the low 90s. Friday, humid, sun and clouds, 87. Saturday sun and clouds, afternoon thunderstorm, muggy. 84 degrees. We finally broke the pattern. We hope so. Thanks chris. The survivor of a bear attack is speaking out about his brush with death, he and his wife and friends were camping out in alaska. He was getting water when the full grown grizzly attacked. His wife heard the attack and went running. I remember thinking this thing is going to kill me. He instinctively put his leg between himself and the predator, the wife a registered nurse played a key role in his sure survival attack. A little kitten who was left behind in iraq. He started caring for the cat after his mother abandoned. Spca and Operation International baghdad helped reunite them. Zero tolerance policy on bullying do not work. Well teal you what it recommends to top bullies. Pat toomey started his career as an investment banker. Then, a wall street wheelerdealer overseeing stock trades in new york, london and tokyo. Next, toomey moved to hong kong to work with wealthy chinese investors. In the senate, its no surprise toomeys been siding with wall street. Voting to allow banks to continue making the risky investments that wrecked our economy. Afscme people is responsible for the content of this ad. Sunday, 12 19, 64 degrees, sky6 live hd taking a live look at cape may, new jersey. Nobody out there today, but next weekend is memorial day weekend it will be packed and well have summerlike temperatures. A group is pushing back on a fierl common fairly Common School policy, a report says both bullies and their victims suffer many reper repurr police are warning parents in a massachusetts town about teens eating seeds to get high. The superintendent has posted a memo on the Police Department Facebook Page saying teens got sick from eating flower seeds. They look to ingest seeds of sleepy grass and blue Morning Glory seeds their hallucinogenic effects. Those with celiac disease, the food can cost triple or double the normal items. Food has been donated to a food Parent Parent pantry. We daisy days, for childs hospital fundraiser will be taking donations tuesday afternoon. So glad you stayed with us, the phillies hope to avoid a sweep this afternoon after losing two straight at home against the braves. Heres jeff skeverski. Reporter the phillies will try to avoid get swept by the Atlanta Braves the last and only time the phils were swept this season their opening series . Cincinnati. How about the phillies yesterday. Phillies fans falling asleep watch this thing against atlanta. If you blinked you missed the highlight. David low getting low. Bottom 3, phils trying to start is a rally. There goes that. Braves get two in the inning off adam morgan, the phils only get two hits, nothing going right for franco. Phillies shaking their head after losing 2zip. They drop 4 of 6. It gets to you after a while. I dont know if we can sustain the pace scoring two or three runs in the night as something something good as our pitching has been at is some point, its going to affect our guys, it hearcht affected our affected our guys yet, we have to come back tomorrow and get it going. Jordon matthews sounds lie a guy who is there for super bowl. At the end of the day, if you want to be that caliber of a team that goes deep in the playoffs that wins super bowls, you got to win super bowls everyday, you dont got to be perfect. You have to have a good idea. Carson wentz has a good attitude he is celebrating in pasadena for his football cards and flapping his wings. I want you to know that youre getting a tough son of a gun. I hate to lose and i know you do, too. Philadelphia soul, kick i dont have against orlando, its a rugby scrum touchdown. Soul move into first place tie they are the best Football Team in south philly at least for now, well see what the eagles do come september. Thats sports, im jeff skeverski have a good day. A live league of their own, playing out in the seattle. The girls are getting attention for beating the boys. I want to beat the boys. Reporter these are the peaches of west seattle they are an all girls Baseball Team going up against all boys team they do not hold back. They take on the boys and approve they can outfield and out bat the boys. The boys let their actions speak for them. All the boys think they are better at baseball. It proves them wrong, finally. This is little league, so theres no score keeping and no standing. The coach who has a daughter on the team, admits that was not case because these girl are unstoppable. Looking good. Some tough peaches. Another halfhour of action news is just ahead. Heres some of the stories we have for you, some center city families were forced out of their homes from an underground explosion overnight. Students caused more than 25,000 worth of damage. Those stories, plus the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. A live look here the commodor barry bridge. Meteorologist chris sowers will let you know when the sun will make a return. Happening right now on action news, big boom and shattered windows and underground explosion rattled nerves and knocked out power in center city. Theres a probe involving a crash of a Police Cruiser that sent several people to the hospital. Bernie sanders hit the tv circuit to tell his rivals he is not going anywhere no matter the delegate count. Those stories, but first the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast with chris sowers. Reporter the clouds are going nowhere, either. Its cloudy on city avenue and its dry. The sun is trying to peek through over my shoulder off to the west. One thing is for certain we have rain off to the west 50 Miles Per Hour out of the viewing area central pennsylvania harrisburg, york, gettysburg, williamsport reporting moderate rain with the upper level low that continues to spin out across the mid atlantic states. Hope hopefully it stays to the west and were talking about cloudy skies and hit or miss shower or two. We put the satellite on with the radar and weve combined the two, we have clouds up and down the mid atlantic to the virginia capes all the way to new england. Today is unsettle. Tomorrow is unsettled, as well. The upper level low may clear out quicker than anticipated. That could save tuesday. 66 in allentown. 63 in trenton. Millville, 62. Wilmington, 63. Reading, 63. Mid to upper 50s for the jersey shore. For the purpose of the remainder. Afternoon look for more clouds than sun and one or two popup showers are possible. 68 degrees by 4 00 p. M. 6 00 p. M. , 67. By 8 00 p. M. Were back down to 63 degrees. For the next 48 hours this looks to be the last of the miserable weather. Nicer weather heading this way wednesday. Well see 80s pop up everyday from that day on. Well talk more about that when i see you again in a little bit. Not the kind of morning neighborhoods in the section of Washington Square were expected they heard a boom until the lights went out. The homeowners have damage to their properties. Trish hartman is live near 6th and pine with the latest on this one, trish we hope those folks are not still in the dark. Reporter actually they are still waiting for the power to come on. Pee so he says all this was caused by a burning cable that caused the explosion overnight. Traffic is open on pine street. Peco crews are working on getting the power back on and that is expected to take most of the day. Lets look at the video. Many neighbors say they woke up to a boom around 1 30 a. M. Windows were shattered and many felt their houses shaking. Firefighters went door to door to check homes for carbon monoxide. Two families were told to evacuate for a two hours, the red cross did respond. No injuries were reported. Society Civic Association home and garden tour is today. Its the 38th year for the event. Even though several homes are without power, the tour is happening anyway. Neighbors hope the lights come on soon after an interesting night. It was like an explosion, the house shook i was obviously upset. I hear a bang at the door, it was the firemen there had been an explosion they wanted to check the house. Unfortunately without power the tour in my house would have tore abbreviated theres steps involved i think its hazardous for people to go down steps that are not lilt. Repor

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