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WPVI Action News Weekend 7AM July 27, 2014

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Terrible, ive been here 17 yores, when i say 17 years i literally lived here, never have i seen any accident like this, any kind of of commotion like this until this day. Police pronounced the gunman dead on the scene no word on the condition of the woman and child or what set all this off. Delaware county officials are investigating. The search is still on for two men suspected in the carjacking and deadly hitandrun in tioga. The Community United last night to pray for the victims which include three children killed helping the church, Wendy Saltzman has more. Reporter this tightknit community lit candle to remember the three children. I was out there trying to save them three boys. Karen pertain ran to the site where the children were hit. She taught the two boys. I took pulses they had none. Thomas was pronounced at the scene. Atterrence and 15yearold key kierra died at the hospital. Their mother is hanging on for her life and in a coma. They were very good kids and very closer to. Reporter the pictures show the children working in the Community Garden where they were growing the fruit they were selling at the church fruit stand before the suv hit them leaving a path of bloodshed. These were kids bothering nobody out trying to make a couple of pennies. Reporter williams has two daughters, the realtor who was showing a house about a mile away. She is in critical condition. The family has been through too much. Right now the mother is fighting for her life. Please turn yourself in and let us start healing. Reporter at this hour, police tell us they are working on some leads, but they dont have any suspects in custody. There was 1 10,000 reward for any tips that lead to the arrest an conviction of the two suspects. At police headquarters, Wendy Saltzman channel 6 action news. And as you heard wednesday mention there is a 110,000dollar radio he ward. That amount will be reward. That amount will be reduced by ten thousand dollars for any tips called in by afternoon on monday. Call 215546tips. Two thousand cyclists on on their way to Atlantic City all to benefit a good cause. The action cam was outside the irish pub in center city when the cyclists took off. The money raises money for local Children Charities and families of Fallen Police officers and firefighters. The ride is 65 miles from philadelphia to Atlantic City. Sky6 live hd is looking live at the ben franklin bridge. The Delaware River Port Authority expects the bridge to be closed until 8 00 a. M. This morning. This just in hamas said it has agreed to a 24 hour humanitarian truce in the gaza war ahead of a major muslim holiday. The truce will take effect this afternoon. Meanwhile, were getting a look at the utter devastation in gaza. There is almost nothing left in the northern tip. This conflict has killed more than 1,000 people mostly civilians. U. S. Secretary of state john kerry is in paris pressing for a longer truce. In libya all american personnel were evacuated from the u. S. Embassy as fierce fighting by militia grows closer, marines on osprey aircraft ready to land as a Quick Reaction if the convoy came under attack. This comes less than two years after the deadly attack on the u. S. Embassy in benghazi. Turning to the investigation into the thursday shootout at the hospital in delaware county. Authorities seized two guns and the computer from the gunmans house, he shot and killed his case worker, teresa hunt on the property. Mercy fitzgerald hospital. He grazed the doctor, dr. Lee silverman who pulled out a gun and shot him. A milestone for penn state, they pointed the first female Athletic Director. Barrier was recently the Athletic Director at cal berkeley. She takes over penn state while the Football Team is on probation after the sandusky. Still barber said national chimp will be the main goal. Like any family there are remarkable highs and devastating low, during it all, penn state remained glued together to excel at the highest level. One criticism of barber while at cal, the Football Team had the lowest Graduation Rate of all Football Teams in time ncaa. She will be paid 750,000 for the the next five years. Two brothers and several Police Officers save an elderly couple from a burning home. Eagles quarterback nick foles talks about the big thing helping him improve. Jeff skeverski has the birds first camp. Reporter Storm Tracker 6 live showing thunderstorms this morning, more thunderstorms developing this evening, into the overnight, those have the potential to produce damaging winds. Ill have the details from accuweather when we come right back. Caring for you. Just got a little easier. Right now, buy one pair of eyeglasses or prescription sunglasses, and get another one free. This is genuine eye care, right in your neighborhood. This is pearle vision. 7 12, not the nicest day, but its going to get great this week, right. Reporter unfortunately our winning streak has hit rock bottom. Lets go outside and go to sky of. Down the jersey shore were looking at the back bays of Atlantic City, we can see lowlevel clouds and areas of fog and drenching downpours reported at this point. North of Atlantic City, north of brigantine, actually, pushing through lbi and surf city and beach haven reporting drenching downpours. Were seeing cloudy to ground lightning strikes. Storm tracker 6 live double scan all of this activity is pushed off the coast. We have couple of cells hugging the coastline from belmawr to cape may. As you can see 90 of the activity is out to sea. This will continue to push east. Its moving fairly rapidly at 20 to 25 Miles Per Hour. Notice behind theres not too much activity across the heart of the Delaware Valley. Now, theres still that chance of a popup shower or thunderstorm during the morning hours. Looks like the worst of it is pushing out to sea. Surf city getting hit at this point. Beach haven, heavy drenching downpours, and cape may, heavy downpours pushing out of avalon, stone harbor, sea isle city, everything is east of the garden state parkway. Cape may and wildwood seeing drenching downpours and theres lighter stuff off to the west as we get into western portions of Cape May County and cumberland county. Fortescue reporting light rain same thing with cedarville. Lunchtime, 88 degrees, it will be sticky with dewpoints well into the 70 and that will put feelslike temperatures into the low 90s. Storm Prediction Center once again has the threat of damaging winds and hail and evening thunderstorms as well as heavy downpours, if we can go live on sky 6. I have to load in a different show here, im having problems with the graphics. The flavor of the day will be for a lull in the action, as well see a combination of sun and clouds, that will be late this evening, into the overnight when we see that second round of showers and thunderstorms developing. Thats the view in Atlantic City. You can see how gray and gloomy it looks at this point. In the next halfhour or 45 minutes or so, well see this push out to sea. Its a sticky, mo, kennett square, 70. Gandys beach, 74. Cinnaminson, 71. All locations extremely high in the humidity department. Its an very uncomfortable morning. Notice how the cluster dies off to the south and east, skies are mofutuin scererth erstor the in t eveningderor once again they will produce the gusty winds and drenching downpours. Tonight, theres a risk of gusty winds and moderate risk of hail. Overnight tonight in the poconos, clouds and sun, and thunderstorms. Reporter the jersey shore, sticky 85 degrees on the beach. There could round of thunderstorms developing the evening hours. Philadelphia, warm and humid, 88 degrees, overnight tonight, strong thunderstorms developing muggy, 67 degrees, outlying suburbs, 73 center city. The exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast, 85 degrees for monday, sunshine expected theres a chance of popup thunderstorm, however, these would be just a couple of rumbles of thunder, the Severe Weather will be confined to today and tonight. 80 degrees tuesday, very refreshing out there under a mostly sunny sky. Monday, sunny wednesday, sunny and pleasant, 83. Thursday, sun and nice, 84. And friday, 84 degrees, are saturday, 83 degrees and chance of popup thunderstorm. Were following breaking news coming in from the action cam, four people have been hurt in a fire in northeast philadelphia. That fire started about 5 30 a. M. In the 1300 block of he elbridge street. Those people not suffering any life threatening injuries. At least one person jumped from the second floor to safety, that man was taken to nazareth for minor injuries. A 7yearold and 9yearold girl and 65yearold woman were taken to area hospitals for smoke inhalation. Red cross has responded and will be assisting this family again. A fire hurts four people in the 100 block of elbridge street. Well follow this story and bring you more information as it becomes available. The wonder of summer is that i never know what kind of adventure awaits. The days are longer, and the breeze feels a little sweeter. And, thanks to volvo, ill pay nothing for repairs or maintenance for 5 years, nothing. They even cover my first months payment. So, ill be happy wherever the summer takes me. The wonder of summer event. The 2015 volvo s60 sedan with complimentary first months payment. Starting at 319 a month. New on action news, two brothers along with Philadelphia Police are being credited with rescuing an elderly couple from a fire in north philadelphia. The fire was reported before 2 00 a. M. On the 900 block of West Huntington street. Neighbors heard someone yelling fire. Two brothers jumped into action and convinced the woman to jump from the second floor. I was able to break her fall and the only thing she walked away with was a scraped leg, that was a blessing. Both the the mann the man and the woman are being treated for minor smoke. A mother is looking for closure after her son was beaten to death in his bedroom. We set up a scholarship for michael. We had trees planted. At midnight on friday, june 22, 2012, police were called to the home on the 900 block of 8th street in south philadelphia. They found the body of michael fox beaten to death, police say he had been dead for two days. He may have known his assailants because theres no forced entry. Reporter the Citizens Crime Commission is issuing a 1,000dollar reward and the city is posting 20,000 for anyone with information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible. All you have to do is call 215546tips. All calls will remain anonymous. Diane said its time for her sons killer to be brought to justice. Le. We need to have closure. On he healthcheck, Weight Watchers has been the most effective way to lose pounds. A diet pill took second place. Have you seen tom corbetts negative ad with this actress. Its just not true. And more of the same from corbett. Tom Wolfs Company is headquartered and files taxes right here in pennsylvania. And its tom wolf wholl be the governor we need. Hell make the Gas Companies pay up to fund our schools. Build a 21st century infrastructure. And restore manufacturing for the jobs we need today. Take a look at his plan for yourself. Tom wolf. A fresh start for pennsylvania. Reporter welcome back everyone, 7 25 sunday morning, time for the travel forecast well start out with satellite and radar. You can see the action east of the Mississippi River seeing a lot of cloud cover and showers and thunderstorms. Heres an area of low pressure here, this is what i am calling the game changer, once this swings through theres an unbelievably cool shot of air behind this. Le youll feel this tuesday, it will feel lovely with highs most sections staying in the 70s, in philadelphia well top out at 80 degrees, no reported delays in the major hubs across the mid atlantic and the northeast. Same thing with the southeast, same thing everywhere east of the mississippi. Its quiet out there. Sports now, the phils and d backs finish their series at Citizens Bank park. The phils let a game getaway last night. Jeff skeverski has your sunday morning sports. Reporter guess whose back . Thats right, ryan howard is back in the lineup after sitting on the berchl in bench in the last three games. The big piece gets a big shot, but he leaves four on base, he strikes out twice the fans getting on him early. Howard finishes 2 for 5. Codey ashy, the 2run shot. Phils go up 41. They are not done in the third. Marlin byrd, byebye birdie, his 20th. Only four place in the National League have more. Phils take 62 lead they have 17 hits. Its not enough, the diamondbacks come back in the 6th. Tworun double. Pratto drives in five. Diamondbacks tie it at 6. And in the 10th, out goes nick evans with a 3run pinch hit homer, phils looks like, slam the door closed on this one. Chip which i am took the eagles from chip kelly took the eagles from worst to first, last season he thought it was okay, if you want to be great you have to be work at it. Eagles Training Camp is off and running, nick foles said he feels more confident and comfortable after leading them to the playoffs after throwing 27 touchdowns and two interceptions. He would one of the best seasons in nfl history, but thats history. Numbers do nothing for me this year. Next year you start over clean. Great thing about nick, he inside that too, he is still young. He had an outstanding season last year, everybody was excited about, he knows as an individual he can get better. I feel comfortable out there, i know how to run the offense i want to get better as a player and wipt to make the guys around me and i want to make the guys around me reporter yet it feels awful, documents have hot into the 0s. Its very, very sticky and very new orleanslike out here this morning. That will be the trigger for the severe thunderstorms late this evening, into the overnight. Speaking of thunderstorms i have a couple of across the Delaware Valley as i speak. Most of them are confined to the jersey shore. Storm tracker 6 live double scan i have the lightsenning tracker on lightening tracker on. These are taken in 15 minute increments. Over the weve had over 1,000 lightning strikes. Surf city, west of Harvey Cedars you can see the reds thats the heavier downpours, were seeing winds in excess of 35 Miles Per Hour with the individual storms. So youll see gusty winds with this as it pushes through. Youll see drenching downpours, as well. The next cell pushing out of absecon and moving toward brigantine, that will be pushing out to sea in 20 minutes or so. Once we get rid of the morning activity, the afternoon wont be that bad, well have a lull, and sun and clouds, and muggy and warm high of 88 degrees, with the humidity it will feel like 90 in the city. Big storms are possible tonight. The main event arrives probably after 8 00 p. M. This evening. Those storms could produce large hail and drenching downpours, very sticky, thats the big story through monday morning. A nice cool down as we get into tuesday, the payoff will be tuesday, high struggle to get out of 70. It will be active over the next 24 to 36 hours, but nice and quiet during the workweek. The hunt continues for the two men accused of a carjacking that left three children dead. Meantime the community where the three kids lost their lives gathered to pray for the surviving victims and plea for the suspects to turn themselves in. This tightknit community lit candle to remember the children killed. Tenyearold thomas reid was pronounced at the scene and the other two died at the hospital. Their mother is hanging on for her life. She also in a coma and remains in critical condition. It will be devastating to her. Its not going to be something that she will be able to bounce back. The children went on to be with the lord. Very beautiful kids, very good kids. They were always closer to. These pictures show the children working in the Community Garden. This is where they grew the food they were selling when police say an white suv plowed across the street. Community members say they want justice. We have all the information about the reward. The number to call with the tip is 215546tips. The reward will go to the person who helps catch and conviction the suspects. Mean helps catch and quicks the suspects. A woman who knows the pain and tragedy has reached out to the family. Her loved ones were killed back in 2009. We share their pain. Reporter janice pertain knows what payne knows what the victims are feeling. In june 2009 her family members died under similar circumstances. They stole a motorcycle and there was a chase and the g

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