Nine straight weekends where weve seen a lot of that. Crystal clear skies, a few clouds, temperatures that have been seasonable, i believe it was june, that was the last time we had weekend and rain and miserable weather. The weather cooperated over the past couple of months. This upcoming week is going to be dry, lots of sunshine, no washouts, if you have outdoor plans, its getting to the point where we need rain. Close to 4 inches below average in philadelphia. Nothing in the forecast for the foreseeable future. 52 in quakertown. South jersey, showing 50s and low 60s. Gandys beach, 62. Hammonton, 59. Cinnaminson 59. Well see clouds passing on by from time to time. The day planner looks like, 74 degrees, mostly sunny skies, 1 00 p. M. , 85. 5 00 p. M. , 86. No humidity out there, so its going to be another comfortable warm afternoon. Thats how its been over the last three or four days as weve seen this trough set up over the mid atlantic and the northeast. Cooler refreshing canadian air has been filtering in. We get into next week, we get another ridge area of High Pressure, heat pump high that means another heat wave is on the way. Ill have the details and the latest on erika in just a few minutes. Breaking right now, police in bangkok say they have arrested a man in connection inn with the bomb that killed 20 people nearly two weeks ago. This was video of the bomb as it tore through the crowded area near a shrine earlier this month. Type of Thailand Police raided the apartment of the suspect. They say he is a foreigner a News Conference is expected later today. A suspected drunk driver is under arrest after hitting a bicyclist on the Benjamin Franklin parkway. Police say a man and women were riding bikes on the Benjamin Franklin parkway when the car hit the woman. The crash threw the woman under the front wheels of the car. The woman is in current serious condition. Police are searching for a suspect after a man is pistol whipped and shot in the germantown section on the 300 block of elm wood street. The assail antiapproached the victim and assailant approached the victim and pistol whipped the victim and ran off. Police are searching for the person behind a violent Home Invasion in south philadelphia. They think the attacker who roughed up and tied up the victim is a teenager. Sharrie williams has the story. Reporter she is doing fine, naturally upset. Reporter residents in south philadelphia are rallying behind one of their own as a homeowner came facetoface with burglar. It was tuesday when a man climbed through an open window of a home in the 700 block of south 27th street. Little did the burglar know, the homeowner was home. She walked into the room and startled him. George leon is with the town watch. He wasnt prepared for an actual Home Invasion, he used a phone cord to bind her. Reporter while the homeowner was tied up, the intruder went room to room stealing electronics. He stole her bike and used it to flee the scene. The tied up homeowner ran down the block to the coffee shop for help. They called police. The neighbor said the neighborhood which is known as the Graduate Hospital area is typically a safe one, but this recent theft and Home Invasion is concerning. Reporter its scary. I have family, two little girls and my wife at home, so she breaks in with us, same thing could happen to us. Reporter residents met with Police Officers from the 17th district, the advice that was given even while youre home keep your alarm on if you have one. Police are looking for tips as to what can lead to the intruder including the stolen bike, police want to hear from you. Sharrie williams channel 6 action news. A new jersey mom is demanding answers after her 3yearold son was able to leave his day care without anyone noticing. He walked out of the center in hamilton thursday morning and crossed hamilton avenue to get to the house knocking on the back door in tears. His mother reported the incident to police and the department of children and families. They apologized and said it will never happen again. I said it wont because he is never coming back. Reporter nobody from the day care returned our calls or efforts to reach them for comment. The husband of the woman who survived the shooting of the woman on live tv is sharing details of what happened to his wife. Vicky gardener was being interviewed by Allison Parker and adam ward. The three were caught off guard and shot by a former station reporter. He shot three times at my wife and she was trying to dodge everything, he missed twice and she dove to the ground and curled up in a ball and thats when he shot her in the back. Both parker and ward died at the scene, gardener remains hospitalized after undergoing two surgeries. The shooterrer Vester Flanagan shot and killed himself while on the run from police. Former pro baller and wide rereceiveceiver fryer. I weabt aware that was going on, i had nothing to do with it, neither did my mother. Reporter far from the nfl spotlight he is a minister and spends his time preaching at the jerusalem house of god a church he founded in mount holly. My faith has gotten me thus far. Reporter it started when he was introduced to william barktell in 2008. His mother got involved when she decided to sell her two story home in willingboro. Frier said he moved mcgee into a home that barktell refurbished and took her to 6 different banks in search of the best loan. She apply and was approved for all the loans. Reporter he contends he and his mother was unaware that he kept all six loans given to her. He maintains he knew nothing about the scheme when he was indicted in october of 2013. I had no idea until the charges were brought against me. Reporter but prosecutors say frier was in on it and received or spent over 200,000 of proceeds from the loans. All that money, every last single dime went into barktell account. Reporter he testified for the prosecution. He is trying to put not just me, but my mother in jail. Reporter the attorney for mrs. Mcgee believes it helped the defense. Mr. Barkstell they got it wrong this time. Sometimes a jury can be misled. Reporter they are claiming prosecutorial misconduct and lack of evidence. The judge could offer the defendants a new trial. Reporter an outcome they pray will happen. Were hoping for a miracle here. Reporter is this the biggest fight youve ever had to deal with . Reporter by far. Barksteml was continuesed to 20 months in prison. Rick williams channel 6 action news. Hurricane hunters take flight to keep an eye on Tropical Storm erika. Sensitive starbucks while the companys ce oavment ceo is asking employees to give customers tlc. Reporter we have another heat wave on the way, ill have the details right after this. An air force Hurricane Hunter is in the air monitoring Tropical Storm erika sending information on the storms strengthen. The storm killed 20 people in dominican republic. Erika is shifting overnight. The Hurricane Hunter helps officials gauge when to order evacuations. We were talking about the fact that three minutes ago on this day ten years ago, katrina made landfall. Reporter like i said, i cant believe its been ten years and erica is a far cry from katrina. I was looking at buoy reports an soundings, i cant even find winds of 35 Miles Per Hour which would suggest this storm weakened into a tropical depression. The next update comes in at 8 00. Is of now its officially a Tropical Storm its on life support. Its weakening quickly at this point. What a comfortable finish to the week. We started out warm and humid high temperatures 8 degrees, monday and tuesday, and then that cold front came in here, look what happened, wednesday, 83. Thursday, 81. Several locations both wednesday and thursday were in the 70s especially north an west. Yesterday, warmer, but comfortable high of 85, which is close to the average. Our average is 84. Reading 58. Millville, a pair of 5s. Delightful morning refreshing with no humidity. Well continue to see that today, as well as High Pressure sits over top of us, the winds below clockwise around the high, as long as the high is to our west well see the refreshing breeze. Once the high gets off the coast, the humidity starts to increase and the temperatures begin to soar, as well, especially next week when we see four or five Straight Days in the 7 day forecast that could top 90 degrees. Its ahead of the front when the winds shift out of the southwest. Heres the water vapor imagery on Tropical Storm erika. It is so funny it is a such a raggedy storm. Theres haiti and the dominican republic. The island of cuba. The center of circulation is right here, all the thunderstorm activity is 25 to 50 Miles Per Hour to the east because of the wind sheer winds southwest to northeast ripping the storm part not allowing the thunderstorms to sit over top of the center, and thats when the storms begin to grow when you get the convection wrapped around the center of circulation. Now the latest track from the National Hurricane center has the riding over cuba sometime monday morning and into the gulf of mexico, could actually bypass the state of florida. Latest forecast models show the outer bands producing 3 to 7 inches of rain from West Palm Beach to miami, but the winds will be off the coast, this would be a good rainstorm for florida should that pan out. Thats the only thing to be concerned of if youre vacationing down there. Lehigh valley sun and clouds, very comfortable. 86 degrees for places like allentown and bethlehem. Atlantic city, sea isle, avalon, nice sea breeze kicking in this afternoon. 82 degrees is the forecasted high on the sand. Philadelphia, 87, mostly sunny and warm winds out of the southwest 5 to 10, overnight tonight, partly cloudy and nice, 65 degrees outlying suburbs, 70 center city. Its tomorrow when the humidity starts to increase and more so each and everyday as we progress along through next week. 87 today, 90 tomorrow, 92 monday, 92 for tuesday, thats our next heat wave here, three Straight Days of 90 degreesplus heat by definition thats a heat wave in the delaware valley. Looks like well hit that by tuesday, wednesday, 90 degrees, wednesday, 89 owe thursday, friday, 88. The good news its happening in the middle of the week. Its not affecting our weekends outside. Reporter it should be more comfortable next weekend. As the temperatures and the humidity rise stick with 6abc. 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Its another perfect beach morning, winds are out of the west at 5 Miles Per Hour. They feel shift out of the southeast thats the sea breeze later this afternoon. Beautiful shot of the sun rising over atlantic city. Well continue to see just delightful conditions down the jersey shore this weekend. This should be nine weekends in a row where we steer clear of any wet weather around the delaware valley. Sunny skies up and down the eastern seaboard. Beach haven, 80 degrees, atlantic city, 82. Ocean city, 81. Rehoboth beach 84. Ocean temperatures in the mid 70s. The only issue down there this afternoon is going to be this, the rip current risk is on the moderate side as the seas begin to build a little bit. Waves 3 to 4 feet. Winds out of the southeast at 5 to 15 Miles Per Hour. If youre laying out, working on your tan apply the sunscreen, the burn time is less than 20 minutes. In sports, sam broad ford is expected to bradford is expected to play when the eagles take on the packer later tonight. Reporter they make their way to green bay, the eagles getting set to play the packers. Remember sam bradford tore his acl during a third preseason game the last time he played in one. We expect broad bradford to play. All starts expect to gain a lot regardless of how much or how little you play. Anytime you can be out there with your group youll have improvement because youll learn from each other. Every opportunity we can get out there to play against good competition, different competition with our group, its going to benefit us. An interesting twist, the packers may not play quarterback aaron rodgers. The theres a new movement of sitting the star for fear of preinjuries. Rogers said he is ready and doesnt need any more time. Brandon graham and ducis rogers and me to breakdown the game and the entire weekend sports tomorrow night at 11 35. Pete mccannen said he woke up in a good mood friday morning because the mets left town. He watched these young kids play last night. Fly ball to right. Watch great catch there. Kid is starting to look like a future star. 7th inning pitch, struck out 6th. His 5th win of his career. Check out this rbi triple. Seven hits in 8 games. That hadnt happened in the majors since 2008. Three off the bat, three run home run in his 6th start. Phils win 71. Thats one way to snap a losing streak. Thats a lot better than what weve been seeing. Nolan was outstanding once again, ill take five pitchers just like him. Five starters, he knows whats doing. From the big lesion to the little leagues, today pennsylvania will take on texas in the u. S. Championship game, they beat them earlier in the week to punch their tickets. Root on the local pa kids watch the game at 3 30 p. M. On channel 6 today. Thats sports, have a great saturday. We have more come up on action news saturday morning, stay with us, well be right back. Did ya know . Fresh step extreme lightweight litter isnt just light. Its also the best lightweight for eliminating odors. Amazing, right . For superior odor elimination try fresh step extreme. Lighweight. Happening now, breaking news, one person is rushed to the hospital, and dozens of others are driven from a home after a fire in philadelphias bustleton section. Developing a sheriffs deputy in houston is shot and killed while pumping gas. Authorities are calling it a coldblooded killing. All eyes are on erika the storm appears to be weakening after pounding the dominican republic. Chris sowers is here with our forecast, a beautiful weekend shaping up for us. Reporter a beautiful one around the delaware valley. Its going to be a pictureperfect weekend with low humidity leaves, warm, but comfortable temperatures and a decent amount of sunshine. Maybe more in the way of clouds tomorrow, but youll get the sunshine in. Theres the view as we look live at cape may. A beautiful saturday morning. Sitting in the 40s in the poconos. Look at this temperature, 48 degrees. Allentown, 54. The reading, 57. Trenton, 58. Most areas in the 50s, urban areas are milder but not too bad. 66 in philadelphia. Wilmington, 61 and dover checking in at 64. Satellite and radar, High Pressure sitting right over top of the delaware valley, that means Clear Conditions once again out there this afternoon, just a couple of clouds later on thats about it. Otherwise its mostly sunny skies, lunchtime, 84. 3 00 p. M. , 87. 6 00 p. M. , were down to 86 degrees, no humidity so the temperature and the heat index will be close to each other or the feels like temperature may be a degree or two cooler than the actual air temperature. That will change in the sevenday forecast. Next chance of rain, we dont have any in the sevenday forecast which is unfortunate, because we do need the rain. Ill talk about the next heat wave thats on the way when we come back. We begin with breaking news this morning, a fastmoving fire forced dozens of people out of their homes in the citys bustleton section. A fire broke out on the 9800 block of halderman avenue. The action cam was there as firefighters battled smoke and flames to get the fire under control. A young man was taken to the hospital for smoke. No word on what spark the fire. Rescue crews pulled a woman out of the Delaware River near penns landing. The woman fell into the river near market street. Police have not released the circumstances how the woman fell into the river. Well bring you more information once it comes into the newsroom. Developing this morning, a massive manhunt is underway in houston, texas after a sheriffs deputy was shot and killed