striking the suspect. >> the officer was saved by his body armor and garshard died in the shootout. he was being hunted down for a shot this killed megan doto, she and her baby died. this is the second time this officer was shot in the line of duty he was tracking down an s&p when the suspect fired through a wall, today the officer was shot in the stomach and was saved by his s.w.a.t. armor. >> residents here are glad nobody else got shot. >> it's scary when it happens where you live but you need a sense of calmness, and the cops reacted quickly and it did not get out of hand. >> the officer is a 17 year veteran of the department and he has a wife and children and they have not released his name to the public before determining if he and his family is safe. >> thank you david. lets switch live to vernon odom at police headquarters you covered the situation in september when devon shot and killed megan doto. >> his mugshot was regularly appearing on i-95 billboards and now that murder case is solved according to police and many of his neighbors tell me they are glad. >> police are looking for devon guisherd for 11 months. megan dota was sitting at her rowhouse when she was hit by a stray bullet and they were unable to save her or her baby. neighbors refused to be on camera because of fear of guisherd's family. >> he was a happy go lucky fun loving guy i never saw him angry or do anything bad. i'm still in disbelief. >> police say that guisherd who lived around the corner was firing wildly at a car that he believed contained enemies that killed his brother weeks earlier and -- >> the judge is from jump street they went there with the intent to assassinate and they did, it's a james bond license, license to kill and that is what they did. >> police say it was guisherd that fired on the officer first police always considered guisherd armed and dakrous, that is why they sent an s.w.a.t. team out to confront him when he learned about his whereabouts. vernon odom, channel 6 "action news." >> our coverage of this story continues at 6abc.com there you will fine the details about the officer and the suspect as well as information about what led to this morning's violence exchange. it's there at 6abc.com. a 61-year-old main line woman is under arrest tonight accused of selling heroin. police arrested lynn wattle at her home in wayne. police say that undercover officers were able to purchase 250 bags of heroin and a search warrant led to the discovery of 80 more bags of the drug and a pistol inside of the home. twadle is in jail on $250,000 bail. police were called into investigate aggregations of abuse at a home on horseshoe court in middletown on monday. investigators say that a 73-year-old victim had not seen a doctor in four years while under their care and the man suffered bed sores and malnutrition and dehydration and both are released on $1000 bail, there is new and individual evidence service video of last night's explosion of an atm. it happened in the hunting park of philadelphia lawmen are trying to hunt down the bandits, live tonight is "action news" reporter chad pradelli. >> reporter: jim the atm that exploded into pieces was behind me and it was taken away about an hour ago and earlier today we obtained video from across the street that show a portion of the blast it shows the suspects running from the atm and debris begins to fall to the ground and the would be bandits retreat and return after their method of operation produced no money. >> thought it was a big firecracker because they had a lot of those here. >> police say it appears that the suspect tried a similar theft at this atm on july 4th just blocks away from this latest crime. they were collecting evidence at sixth and luzerne, detectives believe that an m 100 device like this was used. a bigger fire work than the well known m 80 used during the fire work season. the debris went 50 to 100 feet down the road. >> it was smokey and there was nobody out here and i when back to the house and i saw the cops coming up and down. >> investigators really want to get these goes, these m-100 devices are extremely dangerous and i am told that police have other surveillance video but so far it haents been released. chad pradelli channel 6 "action news." the heavily damaged windshield is evidence of the crash this morning between a car and a man on a bike. the 64-year-old bicyclist is in critical condition the accident happened at lancaster avenue in wilmington at 8:00. the circumstances surrounding the accident remain under investigation. president barack obama has cleared the way for south jersey homeowners and businesses to apply for federal funding after last month's severe storms obama signed the disaster declaration for camdens, burlington and gloucester counties. a macro burst caused an estimated $15 million in damage. the state of new jersey is honoring five service men killed last week in tennessee governor chris christie ordered state buildings to fly flags at half staff today. four marines and a sailer died in attacks in chattanooga, tennessee. christy called it an american tragedy. and a mural of bill cosby that stood on marian avenue since 2008 is no more. the mural arts program painted over the mural of cosby that pained him alongside civil rights icons. because of the numerous accusations of sexual assault against cosby. the mural arts program decided to speed up the plans. a home town crowd gives home town super star, carly lloyd a reception that rivals one for a rock star. >> and we'll have highlights, jeff skversky with the game story coming up. >> what a difference a day makes the high is 85 degrees and low how many and how long will the comfortable weather stick around. i'll have the answer in the accuweather forecast. that and much more when "action news" continues tonight. leave early go roam sleep in sleep out star gaze dream big wander more care less beat sunrise chase sunset do it all. on us. get your first 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[ applause ] she is a true super star in the world of soccer but for these young campers, she is even bigger than that. carly lloyd got a huge ovation today as she was introduced to the gills and all they want it to be like her. eva pilgram was in marlton, new jersey today. >> the young soccer fans started to line up hours in advance. >> we wanted to get here early so we could be the first ones. >> i wanted to see her. >> i want to see her so bad. >> all of them here at the blue barn in marlton, new jersey where carly lloyd has trained for several years the same place these young players train today. >> it makes me feel if i practice hard here i could be a world cup player too. >> it makes me believe i could go that far. >> want to hear advice and stuff. >> and when lloyd arrived it was not just the screaming fans there were also a few presents. >> they have a key to the blue barn. >> they got their very own key to the blue barn so they can get in whenever they want and welcome to carly lloyd court the court she trained on for years was named after her. >> i am on top of the world and quickly there will be an obstacle i'll have to face, but in my heart i won't doubt i can get through anything. >> she talks about dreaming big and working hard and how to persevere. >> i am the same carly that grew up in delran and grew up in new jersey and playing soccer her visit will no doubt leave a lasting legacy. >> when people are nice like that, it's pretty cool. >> i want to be here. >> and making way for the next generation of soccer super stars. the miss america organization is finally home in the city where it was born 95 years ago miss america 2015, kira, along with city and state officials cut the ribbon today on the organization's new headquarters at the claire ridge hotel. the history of the pageant and its winners, you can watch the panlt here on channel 6 on september 13th. some patients at childrens hospital made new friends today. these patients that underwent cranial procedures met amazing dogs that underwent similar procedures some had cleft pallets and others were born with other types of denorm formties with some friendship anything is possible. it was a great day to take in a ball game that is what 600 kids did today thanks to the salvation army and their donors they took the summer cam programs to the phillies game this afternoon. hopefully they stayed until the end. >> 5-1 since the all start break, who are these guys, they won back to back series for the first time since last september, more than 10 months the phanatic did his best to distract the rays. and ben revere right under the legs and the phils take a 1-0 lead and that does not last long paple bon is in trouble and polanco bails him out and the phils are alive in extra innings, herrera oh my the little bull with the big hit. a walk-off win and papelbon tackles him and punches him. >> i can't speak for anyone but myself, i show up and prepare to win ball games. it's a month since chase utley last took the field sin the ankle injury that may be about to economic, he is amping up his fielding and hitting and aaron nola will not be playing in a minor league game any time soon if he keeps this up. six innings, six strikeouts, allows just one run, the first time in phils history they lost 1-0 thanks to a homer from the other pitcher. >> it's awesome when the fans are in like that and i feel like it brought more out in me. >> papelbon trying to catch in on nola's new fame, first hit baseball, for sale only $2000. two philly boxers are about to step in the ring, including heavy weight steve cunningham trying to bounce back after his first loss in years. preparing to throw down in 3.5 weeks in newark new jersey and danny garcia is getting ready to step into the ring for his welterweight debut. both are ready to throw down. >> he is a veteran in the game and i'm a young star in the game and i'm getting in there and showing the boxing world who is the new star in boxing. >> it's more of a challenge because the guys are bigger and stronger, i love that. >> they are ready to go. >> thank you. cecily tynan with the accuweather forecast when we continue in just a moment. i don't know with what the dew point was but this felt like one with of best days in the summer. >> dew points in the 50s, and we had dew points in the 70s earlier in the week and tomorrow an friday almost as nice. pick up that penny have a good forecast coming up. stormtracker 6 live double scan showing we have dry conditions out there tonight and told, loads of sunshine and we are live on sky 6, a gorgeous shot taking a look at the center city skyline and lots of blue skies and a few more hours to enjoy it. the sun will be setting at 8:24 this evening, the accuweather highlights show that the heat wave is over and this beautiful weather should be lasting the span of four days, get used to it. heat wave number two began on sunday 95 degrees and that was the day we had the heat index up to 105 and the heat index 100 making it the second heat wave of the year and the high is only 85 degrees, 2 degrees below normal and with dew points in the 50s, it felt really nice and fortunately this comfortable air mass, will be sticking around rights through saturday. if you didn't get a chance to enjoy the weather today you have extra time. right now if you are on the beach it's looking nice. avalon 83 and surf city 84 and cape may 81 are you getting the land breeze and not a sea breeze and temperatures are uniform. 84 in philadelphia and trenton and millville and wilmington 82 allentown is dropping down to 79 degrees and reading 81 degrees, tonight a great night to give the air conditioners a break turn them off and open up the windows and clear and very comfortable and 67 degrees, the low in philadelphia, 62 in millville and 64 in wilmington and reading and allentown and lancaster temperatures dropping down into the 50s, a great nice for sleeping we are sitting pretty for saturday all the oppressive heat and humidity is pushed down to the south and we are looking at sinking air that squeezes out the moisture dew points are low generally in the 50s and plenty of sunshine and comfortableably warm with afternoon highs in the upper 80s, so enjoy it. down at the shore mostly sunny and pleasant and atlantic stow and ocean city and surf city 81 degrees, kicking up in the afternoon and the ocean temperature dropping down to 69 degrees it's tropical storm season but looking at the gulf of mexico you see no organized development and we'll stay quiet, some thunderstorms in the atlantic but no real circulation so no real possibility of tropical development over the next few days next week we'll see if something develops with a stalled front but it's another nice one tomorrow low humidity and sunshine and 86 degrees, friday warmer and temperatures back up to the normal high of 87 degrees and plenty of sunshine and humidity is in check and warm and beautiful and 88 degrees on sunday our luck begins to run out and it's hotter with an afternoon high of 90, more humid with the possibility of thunderstorms with a front moving through and the thunderstorms could linger into monday, 88 degrees and tuesday and wednesday it gets a little more steamy and 90 on tuesday and wednesday 91 degrees, but today's beautiful weather lasts through saturday enjoy it. >> thank you cecily. finally the perfect temperatures and sunny skies made for perfect conditions to put in a hard days work and that is what volunteers did in camden employees of the philadelphia 76ers pitched in with paining and sweeping and landscaping in cooper plaza and landing square the sixers are about to open up a new practice fas it's in camden and today was a great opportunity to get to meet and greet their new neighbors. world news is next on channel 6, and "action news" continues at 10:00 on phl 17 with brian taff, adam joseph and ducis rogers and please join us for "action news" at 11:00 here on channel 6. for jeff skversky ducis rogers and the entire "action news" team i'm jim gardner. we hope you'll join us at sec. 11:00. breaking news tonight, the family in front of the cameras just a short time ago. new video tonight of their loved one. for the first time, you will now hear the back and forth. what the officer says, what she says back. and right here tonight, the woman's phone call from jail before she was found dead. also tonight, we fly you right over the massive fire outside new york city along a very busy corridor. more than 100 neighbors evacuated at this hour. the extreme weather tonight, the lightning strike igniting a fire. >> oh, my god! >> just now word of another strike at a popular beach. three victims. the emergency at a popular cruise ship tonight, passengers rushing to emergency exits in their life jackets. and watch the trolley out