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i lived there for five or six years in my early life. my family moved around a lot. my father was working in factories. calls very what americans a blue-collar guy. he moved to the mountain area for maybe 10 years. i grow up there. i learned to farm. i learned everything i know there. i come here, relocating to maryland. this very nice area. i get some opportunity to work a real job, make a little bit money. i want to send my family from yemen here. i have friend, i ve family from these countries that he make a on. they cannot come now. they re just like me, good, honest, hard-working people. i don t think it is trump so much that institutes these bans. i think the government he is not the only one. levelsto go through many that say yes to this and enforce his policy. many not just him, it is people in the congress, in the government, that agree with him. we are pointing the finger at him because he is the figurehead. host: you don t blame the president for this? call ....
a state police helicopter was brought in as on eye in the sky and as it flew overhead a large flash bang was fired. s.w.a.t. officers then moved quickly. several women and a man were taken into custody. the man was described as the suspect in the shooting. he was put into this police car. as the officer stood down and departed residents who had been watching applauded the police. explaining. we are applauding because they got somebody bad off the streets. if he s going to shoot at a cop he s definitely going to shoot at innocent bystanders and i live right there. that was a widely held sentiment here today in the borough, someone who is willing to shoot a police officer is someone you den need in your neighborhood in other words good riddance. wife in folcroft jong rawlins channel6 action news. john, thank you. in the moments after the attack, a wounded and frantic officer dorman was able to make a radio call for help. here s part of his recording. i m shot in ....
today gradually drawing that drier air in all the way down to philadelphia and beyond and we do expect that humidity to drop as we go through the morning and into the afternoon. taking a look at where temperatures are going it s still going to be a hot one. 80 degrees by 8 o clock, 85 by 10 o clock, noon 90. your shy 95 but unlike yesterday we re not going to have to warn you about sire high heat index values because the humidity is going to be a lot better. karen it looks like another improved day tomorrow and then the humidity creeps back in on thursday. more storms are possible. details coming up in the seven day. all right, day. i had friends in delaware telling me it took two hours to get to work yesterday and you know why? exhibit a. this is the police checkpoint right here in southwest philadelphia. i-95 by the platt bridge, the exit for the platt bridge and the schuylkill so what can you see from this shot? we ve got police blocking the left lane on i-95 but t ....
region and dewpoints are still running kind of high, about 71 in philadelphia but we expect that number to drop as we go through the day as drier air comes in from the north and west. guys today s high is going to be 95 degrees but it s not going to feel as humid as we go into the afternoon so that s good and the exclusive accuweather 7-day karen in a couple of minutes we ll talk more about tomorrow also being a little more manageable and then a rise in humidity heading later into the week. all of that coming up from accuweather. all right, dave, we re starting to see a little more volume as you travel through these police checks pointsly i want to show you live right here, this is i-95 at exit for the platt bridge and the schuylkill so here are police, you see the checkpoint blocking the left lane and the shoulder on i-95. also restricting traffic right here as they re kind of forcing any vehicles that are over 5 tons, they re not allowing them to continue on i-95 no ....
ag, other people, caseworkers. they won t listen to them. how does it make you feel? hopeless. reporter: i called cleveland public power that informed me that unlike private companies, they don t have their own long- term assistance program. it will help some people on low income for a few months or extend payment times for people with health problems. but all money owed still piles up. meanwhile mary told me that her teenage daughter just got back to work and might be able to help with the bill. it s hard. it s hard. you know, and they don t understand that people who are working and earn one check a week from being in the streets. reporter: just this afternoon they called me to say that they are now willing to work with mary to help her out a bit. and also they say that it will accept the federal program known as heat the home energy assistance program. but mary said she has called and called and called and has make an appointment. we ll stay on top of it ....