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WTXF FOX 29 News At 6PM June 28, 2016

Thats certainly right, iain. Watching ultimate doppler right now. Parts of the area under that severe thunderstorm watch until 10 00 oclock. Away from the immediate shore. But look north and west. Showers and thunderstorms right now thankfully no longer severe thunderstorm warnings for our area. But well take a tour of the timing. The Lehigh Valley now under until about 7 00 oclock. Scattered downpours, some gusty winds, maybe some small hail. The philadelphia area, scatter the activity as well between 7 00 oclock and 10 00 oclock and then down the shore, leftover isolated activity from 10 00 until midnight. Moving toward the pocono mountains right now, watching some moderate to heavy rain also moving north of allentown and northampton county. Off to the west right now. Berks county, Lancaster County and Chester County looking at some showers and thunderstorms moving in. Most of the area its still dry along the i95 corridor. South jersey, parts of delaware. But as we go hour by hour, you can see slowly moving toward the i95 corridor. Once again after about seven, 8 00 oclock trenton, philadelphia, wilmington, most of south jersey still dry and quiet until after 10 00 oclock with isolated leftover showers moving down the shore. Well talk about more with this humidity and also the upcoming Holiday Weekend forecast with the seven day coming up. All right, scott, thank you. Tonight eagles fans and players are honoring the life of legendary coach bud dough ryan. Ryan died today at the age of 82 but no cause of death has been given yet. Ryan was a head coach for the Philadelphia Eagles from 1986 through 1990. Hes remember as a great defensive mastermind. He was also loved for his outspoken character and admired by the players who played for him. Loved the guy. You know, i loved his approach. I loved his honesty. I thought that he was, um. He was real guy, you know, he was guy that i didnt worry if buddy is saying something to me and then if he hes saying Something Different about that same conversation to someone else. I never had that concern. Buddy was a real guy. Howard isocline have much more on buddy ryans legacy coming up in sports. Police identified a suspect wanted in connection to the murder of a man who was shot dead in the middle of afternoon while sitting in his car. Philadelphia Police Issued a warrant for kalif, 20,000 reward being offered for information leading to his arrest. Police say on june 16th, 21yearold coo are was shot in the head while sitting in his car on arbor street in the citys olney section. Police say theyre not aware of the two men new each other. Tonight, we are getting a look at the man police say killed his wife using a cross bow. This happened in northeast philadelphia. Paul cuz zen san is charged with murder and possessing an instrument of crime. He confessed to killing his new wife 42yearold pamela night linger after the two had a fight sunday night. It happened in their home along the 3100 block of willits road. Police say night linger was hit in the chest. In paulsboro, new jersey, police say a man has surrendered in connection to deadly shooting from last week. Darnell samuels turned himself in at the Gloucester County Prosecutors Office today. On june 20, 24yearold john gardner was shot multiple times along the 1300 block of pine street. Gardners funeral was today and developing news tonight that may affect your home. Ikea is recalling millions of its chests and drawers because they can topple over and trap children. The pieces of furniture are already being blamed for six deaths including one right here in our area. Our Bill Anderson talk to the attorney representing the family of that young local boy who died so tragically. Reporter the recall of 29 million ikea products because of the possibility of tipping over a special local connection. Twoyearold occur ren, of west chester was one of three children killed in the last two years by dresser that is fell on them. Today his attorney told me a recall is just the first step. It isnt about making furniture that needs to be attached to a wall. Its about building safety in. Furniture can be made stable. Furniture can be madre assistant to tip overs. Reporter the recall comes after ikea previously launched an Education Program and offered free brackets to secure dressers to the wall. But a local baby proofing company said more needs to be done because the risk of injury from ikea and other products is just too high. 25,000 people a year most of them underage eight are injured by tipping accidents and about a dozen or two dozen of those are fatalities. Reporter she pushed back again against some of the certainly media critics who criticize parents saying you cant blame the product for unsupervised children. It goes way beyond supervision because the most of the kids that get hurt furniture tip overs are actually between three and five years old. So you think about your average kid. Hes five years old. Hes going to be kindergarten. Hell be in his room playing without parental supervision. Karens was a first of lawsuit against ikea. He described the recall as better late than never. Build the safety in. Make the furniture safe out of the box. Thats the way to do it. Reporter now all safety and recall information is available at ikea. Com. We put a link on our fox29. Com website that will take you right to it. Both the attorney and ikea website caution parents to immediately remove any dressers covered by the recall. They say processing refunds could take time but, dawn, securing or removing the dressers should not. Do that immediately. All right, thank you, bill. Happening right now addressing one communitys contaminated water. Montgomery county residents are at a meeting right now with attorneys and consumer advocates about toxic chemicals in their water. Attorneys from whites and lucks segment Burg Law Firm used by consumer advocate erin brocco viv via skype to talk about residents concerns. Half of all public Drinking Water wells in warminster and horsham have been shut down because of contamination over the year coming from decades of airport Fire Fighting chemical foam used at the former Willow Grove Air station and Naval Air Warfare Center in want warminster a class act lawsuit may result from tonights meeting. Now to you decide 2016. Protesters policy and police all on the table tonight demonstrators vow to shut the city down with a Democratic Convention comes to philadelphia july 25th. Our bruce gordon will be covering the convention from cleveland and in philly and hes live at city hall tonight with what kind of disruptions we might expect. Bruce . Reporter well, not really clear, iain at this point it it depends whether you take at face value some of the harsh threats coming from protest groups bitterly angry at the democrats are their nominee Hillary Clinton. Philadelphia Police Needed power saws to break up the devices linking anti deportation protester whos block as exit ramp to the vine street expressway midday tuesday. In the end traffic was disrupted for more than an hour. Four people were cited but no one was injured. Were here to support the rights of protesters, not to take them away. Again, it was quite obvious today. Reporter but these testers vow larger and more aggressive demonstrations when the Democratic National convention hits town. This entire charade needs to be shut down. Theres no future of the Democratic Party or the republican party. Reporter it would be easy to assume democrats partying in an overwhelmingly democratic city would face fewer protests. Easy but wrong. Hillary clinton you are not welcome in philadelphia. Right. You are not welcome here and we will make sure that you are living in chaos when you come to philadelphia. Now this is not a there. Its a promise. Reporter preparations at the Wells Fargo Center now well underway the Kenny Administration says it will designate protest areas across broad street at fdr park. And will require permits for those wishing to march. Some groups say they will not comply. With or without permit we march. Why . Because we have nothing to lose but our chains. Reporter back in 2000 sand when the republicans came to town, there were sporadic outbreaks of violence. Philly police were aggressive in rounding up protesters the result lots of civil rights lawsuits that cost the city of philadelphia millions of dollars. Lawyers for these protesters say they are ready for another fig fight. Theres another 20 lawyers standing behind me, everyone of them a seasoned capable professional attorney who has defended people in criminal court for years. Many of them have defended protesters and free speakers. Reporter mayor kenney was unavailable for on air comment today but quoted as saying, protesters will not be arrested simply for failing to obtain permit. Of course with some of the threats were hearing from the protesters today, the idea of shutting down major thoroughfares, for example, the mayor and his police force will need real patience to keep the piece. Dawn . All right, bruce. Meantime donald trump made a stop in western pennsylvania today where he spoke about u. S. Free trade deals. Trump visited an aluminum factory. The presumptive gop nominee says the policies of the Current Administration ruined local economies and he aims claims four years of Hillary Clinton would only maintain the status quo. Trump says the first step he would take to bring back jobs would be to withdrawal u. S. Support for the transpacific partnership. And coming up a special tool for parents of sick newborns. What is being placed in. Nicu of a local hospital who to help parents and their babies bond while theyre a part. Accused peeping tom under arrest tonight. How police finally caught the suspect after a multi monthly investigation. Brand new video into our newsroom tonight. A car in flames in delaware. This video coming to us from viewer on route 273 in newark. This is near red mill road its in the westbound lanes. New castle fire officials telling us the first call came in about 5 40. No word on any injuries. Now to north philadelphia tioga neighbor. At least five people are homeless after flooding caused the ceiling and the roof to collapse in a building. It happened on the 2300 block of west atlantic street. It was late last night. L and i says residents cannot go back into their homes. No one was hurt. The red cross is assisting those families who are displaced. If you node to head to penndots Driver License Center along island avenue in southwest philadelphia, pump the brakes. Penndot says because of some cooling issues the center is closed until further notice. Drivers can head to the Whitman Plaza center on oregon avenue. The one at 801 arch street or the center in media Delaware County in the meantime police in new castle delaware caught a peeping tom. Authorities say exposed himself to several different victims. 37yearold Nathaniel Barksdale of wilmington facing a list of charges to night. Investigators say barksdale exposed himself and tried to look through someones window at the chateau orleans apartment complex back in october of 2015. Since then police say hes exposed himself several other times at that complex. Police arrested him today after detectives saw him looking through someones sliding door. He is in jail tonight. A big change for local families with babies in the ni nicu. Sane marys hospital in langhorne got a check for 5,000 to bring special cam trees their neonatal intensive care union. The check came from the super hero project and it will allow families to watch that are newborns on the angel eye cameras when theyre away from the hospital. The check presenter Kelly Gallagher had her own twins stay in the nicu. Please accept this amazing gift from the hundreds of people who given to my nonprofit. Small piece of the puzzle will allow saint marys continue in the Health Care Field and put its tiny yesterday patients to the forecast. It will help cover the Installation Cost of cameras in the nick youll ice so lets. South jersey athlete about to head to rio competing in the olympic. 21yearold kelci worrell from westampton township won the 100meter butterfly at the us swimming trials last night. The second fastest time in the world this year. She won the ncaa championships in the 100 and 200meter butterfly this year. This will be her first time competing in the olympics. Congrats. Absolutely. Back to your fox 29 Weather Authority now. Pretty nice out here now. I know, scott, were under the threat of Severe Weather out there later. Thats certainly right. Parts of the area under that thunderstorm watch until 10 00 oclock. Counties highlighted in yellow away from the immediate shore communities. Not everyone is going to see it but if do you they could be a little gusty. Were talking winds up to 50, 60 miles an hour and also some small hail. Well take tour across the area right now and zoom in to Lancaster County Chester County right now moving toward coatesville, downington, south coventry, looking at some moderate showers moving in also up toward the pottstown area. Nothing right here is severe. As we move toward the pocono mountains, the Lehigh Valley, also watching some moderate downpours once again nonsevere at the moment. So thats some good news. Expanding the view, its still dry in philadelphia. Also, as we move into much of the bucks county, delaware looking good. South jersey, dry for now. But this is the scattered activity that will continue to move from west to east. If it holds together were talking a time frame of between 7 00 to 10 00 around the philadelphia area and then whats left after that moving into south jersey and down the shore from about 10 00 oclock to midnight. So if you do get wet, were looking at those tropical downpours because theres a lot of moisture juice in the atmosphere. It felt like a sauna stepping outside today. So the Storm Prediction Center has areas north and west once again in that slight risk so this is the greatest threat. Lehigh valley, the pocono mountains for the damaging winds and also for that small hail. We have some cumulus clouds kind of bubbling up once again tropical when you step outdoors. You certainly can feel it. The high made it up to 84. Current temperature 82 but look at that dew point in the low 7 70s. That is oppressive once you move well into that scale. Now as far as temperatures, we have 77 Atlantic City and wildwood. 80 in wilmington. Low 80s right now in allentown. But look at the measure of moisture. The dew points 72 in wilmington. 71 right now in philadelphia. And low 70s in dover. So remember earlier in the week it was pretty pleasant and comfortable. But right now take look at that scale oppressive tropical humidity. Cloudy skies muggy scattered downpours for tonight. Tomorrow clearing much improved, 85 degrees. That humidity will start to drop as well. And take a look at the latter part of the week. 86 on thursday. 87 on friday. Maybe a popup storm the upcoming Holiday Weekend were heating up. Most of the area dry. Maybe a popup storm on sunday and the fourth of july looks warm. Temperatures top out around 88 degrees and also looks dry. All right. Perfect. Yeah. Fireworks, barbeques. Exactly. All right, scott, thank you. Ill have the chicken, please. Okay. laughter . All right. Sad day with former eagles head coach buddy ryan passing away, but was it what was it about buddy that helped his players love him . Now hear from some of his players and a video rap song in tribute to buddy while he was still coach of the eagles much that will be coming up in sports. If you want to soar along the highest, longest and fastest zipline in north america, theres only one place to do it. And thats not the only thing you can only find in new york state. Its all in the catskills. Only in new york. New york. Its all here. Its only here. Plan your Summer Vacation at iloveny. Com because all those guys in there are stupid. Maddux is the fullback looks like a reject card in the u. S. Fl. Hes so dam fat. laughter . He would say whatever. Buddy ryan passed a way today at the age of 82 but we laugh at all the things did he. Buddy would always make always want to rip somebody. He didnt like kickers and said kickers are like taxi cabs. You can always go out and higher another one. I was asked the question today if buddy ryan the most legendary coach in town . Well, hes 1a behind dick vermeil thats pretty good company. Its a mazing how much the fans of this town loved buddy and thats even without a play off win in five years with the eagles. Buddy rain came to the eagles after many of his bears players in the city of chicago loved him. Buddy won the super bowl. Was on that team the defensive coordinator in 1986. Then he came to philadelphia and one of the first things he said to the fans and the people of the area, you got a winner in town. He was loved because he was a character and because he was always outspoken. Even when it came to ripping the owner of the Eagles Norman bray man buddy ryan was loved because he was not filter the also loved by his players said wanted smart guys who were tough. He said stupid guys and cowards will only help you lose. But his players bought into what he had to say. Buddy had way of getting guys on assignments that you just cant do any more. You cant do these types of things in the league any more because the

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