Closer. It is thursday night and the big story on action news tonight is a possible break in this philadelphia murder mystery. Lawmen say they have found the victims laptop computer. Action News Reporter Sharee Williams is live at police headquarters, sharee what are the details here. Reporter jim its day four in this investigation and detectives are hot on the trail with this one. Not only did they recover her stolen laptop built right now as we speak were being told here at headquarters three people are being questioned. Its an on investigation and were still continuing to work it very, very hard. Philadelphia police are pushing hard to find out who killed 85yearold regina prunner holmes. Action news learned three people are being questioned by the homicide unit. Holmes was found monday inside east mt. Airy home beaten stabbed and with her throat slit. Police believe robbery was the motive. Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey says the investigation is moving strongly in t
Lets go over to david murphy good morning. Reporter a lack of of significant cloud cover a few clouds may transition in, generally speaking were looking for a mostly to partly sunny day. Feeling good this morning 69 degrees isnt bad in philadelphia. 61 in allentown. 62 in wilmington. 66 degrees down the shore. Cool a little bit sticky for your morning boardwalk stroll. 66 by 6 00. 70 in philadelphia. Mainly clear and comfortable as you head out to the car and backup. As we head through the day it will be warm. 70 by 8 00. Noon, 81. 3 00 p. M. , 83. I expect it to be the high today. Late tonight we have a shower arena thunderstorm, unfortunately matt pellman there are changes for the 4th of july forecast. Ill run those down for you. Reporter but a morning boardwalk stroll that sounds nice yeah, i could go for one of them. Reporter if youre out and about for a nice lease drive. Crews are off to for the holidays, vine street expressway by i76. The schuylkill expressway is open this mornin
Sunny skies, high of 83 at 3 00 p. M. Thats going to be the high. Humidity not all that bad today. Unfortunately theres a bit of a change for the Holiday Weekend. Were looking at clouds and perhaps showers particularly in part of the region. Reporter i hope its not the coastal part. Good morning david, good morning everyone, just a touch of fog in a few spots this morning. What were not seeing is construction crews off for the Holiday Weekend. That means the vine street expressway is open and ready for you right now and light volume which will be the case throughout the day. Were looking at Police Activity at 17th and sky cuyahoga. Kelly drive will be closed for a regatta. Benjamin franklin parkway chestnut 67th and independence hall. We have water main break at park avenue at west third avenue in collegeville. Mercers county, the overturned truck from the overnight hours cleared everything we opened from the ramp 195 eastbound to Hamilton Square road. In absecon theres a downed traffi
Numbers are going its going to be warm, high of 83 at 3 00 p. M. Maybe a little bit humid but not too bad no worse than partly sunny skies for the most of the day. Fourth of july will be cloudy and showers around, hopefully clearing out or drying out in time for the fireworks. Ill have the latest on the future tracker 6 and the latest call for the entire weekend coming up from accuweather. Matt what are roads and rails looking like early on. Reporter lots of stuff going on, roads are looking good, because a lot of people have off work. Rails on a Holiday Schedule which means a saturday schedule. Route one close to highland avenue we have Police Activity and now theres a ambulance on the scene as well. This is northbound route 1 coming away from the pennsylvania turnpike. Stay to your left. Blocking the right lane, but not causing a huge delay because volume is light on this holiday friday morning. Well talk about the closures because of holiday festivities and issue down the shore, as
Those garages from friday through sunday. Bill yonch is an Emergency Room Physician at jefferson. I am going to be able to get to work because i only have a block to walk but im not sure if what else is going o to happen that weekend. Reporter the city says this will be a walking event and thats true for Center City Residents even if theyre not attending the papal events. Many are getting out of town. Were actually going out of the country. We were supposed to leaf on sunday but we cant because of the pope association well be leaving going to new york on thursday. Reporter the city is not making any arrangements for people who have to move their cars out of the vehicle security zones. They say they will be posting plenty of notices, signs on the on utility poles and elsewhere advising residents of when theyve got to move their cars or be towed. Live in washington square, david henry, channel6 action news. Sharrie. Okay, david, thank you. Meantime new Jersey Transit will make its papal