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tv   Action News  ABC  June 13, 2014 4:30am-5:01am EDT

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>> we are following a number of developing stories on this friday june 13. >> philadelphia police are looking for the suspects who robdz a gun range -- robbed a gun range. >> more than a dozen bucks county residents are out of their apartment. >> bowe bergdahl is back in the u.s. after years of taliban captivity. >> good morning, everyone it is 4:30, it is friday. i'll tell you what, david murphy if it does not clear out by the weekend, i don't know what i'm going to do with you.
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>> reporter: i don't know what you're going to do with me, i'll have to hide. we have rain clearing through the northern suburbs. philadelphia a little damp. and there is a cluster of rain coming up close to the coast and that may pop into cape may and atlantic city before too much longer. we're looking at morning rain over the next couple of hours and less in some neighborhoods. we'll get into a lull this afternoon when stuff out to the west fires through. we're looking at the potential of showers and gusty thunderstorms later today. 71 degrees as you head out. some of you want the umbrella because it is damp in a lot of neighborhoods, 70 in allentown, 68 in sea isle city and 70 in dover. 69 degrees by 6:00 a.m., 70 by 8:00 a.m. showers and drizzle during the day. 78 by 9:00 and this afternoon we
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hit a high of 83 by 3:00 p.m. there's an increased chance later this afternoon and evening of more showers and perhaps drenching thunderstorms buildings in. tam, we'll have the latest on that on future tracker 6 and that all important-weekend call coming up from accuweather. >> this is breaking right now, a fast-moving fire ripped through through a home in pleasantville atlantic county. one person was killed and firefighter was injured. the action cam is live on the scene the 400 block of doughty road. we are working to confirm the firefighter's condition stay with us with "action news" we'll have updates as soon as they come in. >> police are looking for two people who held up a gun range in northeast philadelphia stealing seven weapons. one of the holdup victims was
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shot in the process. katherine scott joins us live at police headquarters with what is going on with this. >> the 67-year-old victim remains in the hospital in critical condition. police continue to search for the two people behind this. this all happened around 8:30 in northeast philadelphia on the 100 block of geiger street. police say two men ages 67, and 68 were walking outside the gun shop and range they were approached by a man and woman those people were armed and they demanded cash, cell phones and guns. the pair stole 7 weapons. before they took off they shot the 67-year-old man in the groin. the pair is driving a newer model car with tinted windows. >> these people are not only armed and dangerous, they are
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heavily armed after stealing seven additional guns. this is a heinous crime and we have individuals who are willing to shoot. >> reporter: police are investigating if they are behind a robbery from wednesday evening an north percy street in spring garden. a man and a woman robbed a customer outside as he walked to his car. the vehicle had tinted windows. they are be looking to see if these two cases are connected. they want to hear from you if you have any tips. katherine scott channel 6 "action news." >> a fire in bucks county displaced dozens of people ands being investigated as an arson. flames broke out at the bensalem court apartments in bensalem. the fire was located down in a boiler room area. the red cross was called to
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assist 30 residents displaced by the fire. no injuries were reported. and this breaking overnight. sergeant bowe bergdahl arrived in texas he comes back a mid a political firestorm over the trade that freed him and how he left his army post in 2009. >> reporter: army sergeant beg beg was on a -- bowe bergdahl was on a flight from europe thursday. according to a senior official he sulphurs from psychologic trauma. the focus is when bergdahl will be well enough to answer questions about his controversial disappearance in 2009. the army says he left his post deliberately but not labeled as a deserter. officials have no way of know why his left.
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thursday the daily beast published two letters he reportedly wrote to his family from 2012 and 2013. he writes about his life in captivity and criticizes u.s. army leadership in afghanistan. in one letter bergdahl refers the investigation perhaps the one into his own disappearance. he writes if this letter makes it to the u.s. tell those involved in the investigation there are more sides to the situation. please tell washington, d.c. to wait for all evidence to come in. now that's home the key piece of evidence may come from bergdahl himself. ed pertain channel 6 "action news." >> septa's regionals rail system could come to a halt in several hours if the mediators county divert a strike. the union representing engineers and electricians will walk out
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at midnight tonight. the strike would shut down the regionals rail system affecting 126,000 riders each weekday. however, city and suburban services including buses, trolleys and you subways would operate. an ton fox will join -- anthony fox will join delaware officials for a briefing on the status of the bridge's repairs. the bridge is not expected to reopen until labor day at the earliest. >> time to take a first look at. as the violence in iraq is escalating look out for rising gas prices. industry experts say gas prices rise a nickel. ment violence in iraq pushed stocks closer on wednesday.
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stock are pointing to having a mixed open. internet gambling fell for the second straight month in new jersey. it took in 10 million in may that's down a million from the take in april. the car maker ford it has cut the fuel economy ratings on 6 of its vehicles. these are cars that were touted as the most fuel efficient. aforesaid it will competent people who own or lease 200,000 carl's. matt back to you. >> mayor nutter has announced the creation of a task force to look at how philadelphia businesses deal with paid sick time. they will conduct abdomin complete review of paid sick leave policies and their likely impact on employers and employees. the task force will submit its
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recommend recommendations to the mayor and city council by december 1. >> 4:39. still to come on "action news," yet another black bear sighting, this latest bear is likely a different one. >> tennis-ball sized hail comes crashing down in texas. david is tracking stormy weather. >> reporter: we could have showers this morning and more stuff on the way this afternoon. we'll have
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>> this is new video this morning a storm packed with heavy rain and tennis-ball sized hail fell on the city of abilene, texas leaving quite a mess. people reported busted car windows. cars parked on the streets didn't stand a chance against the giant buys balls. >> around here it's a stormy week and things are setting up good for the weekend. >> reporter: they are, this is the last day of unsettled weather before we get into the weekend. storm tracker 6 live double scan shows we have a couple of spots of rain north of philadelphia and moving through the city and starting to taper off although there's that other batch off the coast of atlantic city and cape
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may. as we go in tighter you can see philadelphia and many traveled roadways are starting to dry out. as we take the wide view heading toward reading, montgomery and bucks county, doylestown and pottstown still looking at a lot of this trying to push north into allentown. another hour or an hour and a half you're still wet there. we have another batch of precipitation coming through cape may. looks like it will catch sea isle city, atlantic city, cape may might just be on the edge of this and you might miss out. looks like another decent batch of rain coming up through south jersey. we're looking at philadelphia international airport. it's warm and muggy out there. the forecast we'll give you in general, the first is that we have one more wet one today, okay. there will be a lull later on
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sil show you in a -- as i will show you in a minute. 71 degrees, muggy. wind out of the south/southeast at 3 miles per hour. as far as the rain today, we got it this morning we get into the later morning hours midday and we get into that low, it's fairly cloudy and sunny breaks and scattered sprinkles and showers. later in the day, 3:00, 4:00, you'll be looking at the redevelopment of showers and thunderstorms not everywhere all once, but they will come into the evening hours, they will be somewhat spotty but in some cases drenching enough to create poor drainage area flooding in a hurry okay. we get into the evening it will be generally dry. 11:00 a.m., 75. 81 at 2:00 p.m., high of 83 at
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3:30. 81 by 5:00 p.m. anticipate the spotty showers reform in the afternoon. today as phillies games, may be showery and damp. may be they get it in, we'll see. in the poconos, well, friday we're looking at gusty thunderstorms possible later in the day. 74 degrees is the high. for the weekend, though, it looks great, 70 on saturday, 76 on sunday, you'll feel the humidity lowering during the day on saturday. the neck few days at the shore, the today is the bumpy day, high of 75. clouds giving way to sun on saturday, high of 79 on the beach and 77 degrees on sunday with mostly sunny skies, a great looking weekend ahead. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, 83 today with showers and storms in philadelphia. breezy and nicer on saturday, high of 80. the humidity dropping, father's day sunny and nice high of 84.
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monday, humidity starts to build back in, high of 86. we're back into unsettled weather tuesday, wednesday and thursday. >> a reminder meteorologist adam joseph getting ready for his decked -- second day of weather duties on "good morning america." you can tweet your best wishes to adam using hash tag on "g.m.a." mcfar land pleaded guilty to the killing of moses walker. it mcmar land agreed to testify against aarp second suspect raphael jones who was the trigger man. he is expected to avoid a life sentence. jones faces the potential for the death penalty. authorities in cumberland
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county are looking for two men who allegedly kidnapped and sexually assaultedle a millville woman. the 21-year-old woman was pulled into a car near the 100 block of pine street may 20th. a second suspect drove her to the area of hance bridge road. the suspect is driving an older model white four door honda. crime stops are offering a reward for an arrest an conviction. a woman shot this video of a black bear outside her house in atco it ran into the forest. authorities believe these are two different bears, because yesterday's bear had a distinct lighter markings. the. >> the special competition set to begin in the garden state.
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later new jersey chris christie dances on a talk show and answers whether he can take on hillary county. >> male announcer: explore maryland's authentic stories
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and download our new civil war mobile app. maryland. land of history. >> welcome back let's take a live look at your traffic cameras. this is susquehanna road. the roads are wet this morning there's a downed tree blocking the right lane.et this morning you should stay to the left as you can north of the turnpike.
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let's go to plymouth meeting the blue route, the blue route wet traffic moving along between media and conshohocken. on the northeast extension part of 476 look out for an accident southbound approaching the lehigh valley exit that's got the left lane blocked. >> reporter: we will. hey, everyone it is friday, remember friday is the busiest day of the week for flights. you could see lots of people at the airports going where they need to go. taking a look at the surface summer look at all the problems we have on the east coast. it could be a difficult situation if you're using any of these airports along the east coast. 214 flights over the lower 48. we're putting the entire east coast in the yellow box. you could see any one of these airports to logan international. hartsville jackson, philadelphia, washington, d.c.
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area airports. low cloud cover, had some storms moving in. david is tracking those, but it could be an issue if you're using any of these airports. in texas in the morning we're seeing thundershowers develop in dallas and houston, that's going to clear out in the afternoon, so that's good. seattle is seeing thundershowers for the first time, the midwest looks like it's going to be good weather wise if you're traveling to the midwest you shouldn't see any weather delays. >> from our new jersey newsroom this week is the tart of the special olympics in mercer county. the special olympics games have been four years in the making and thanks to individual and corporate donors athletes are attending for free. events are being held at various schools including ryder university which will thousand the delegation from across the country. organizers are expecting 70,000
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spectators and 3500 athletes. >> i feel happy and proud i want to do a good job and go for the gold. >> reporter: the athletes arrive tomorrow with opening ceremony set for sunday. >> 5:00. the chester county music teacher facing child molestation charges. is the.
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>> tracy morgan's doctors say his recovering is progressing. the 45-year-old comedian issay listed in critical, but stable condition in north jersey. a spokesperson called yesterday a better day. morgan was injured in the crash early saturday morning. the crash killed james mcnair and injured two other people in morgan's limo bus. new this morning, what was supposed to be a routine reignment in -- arrangement -- reignment in court was anything about. christopher clone was facing charges of violating restraining orders and felony battery charge after multiple outbursts the judge gave him a chance to apologize. he did not. so the judge sentenced him to
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364 days in jail for contempt of court. happening today, hillary clinton will be in philadelphia to sign copies of her new book. the event is sold out. she also visiting philadelphia as partly of a book tour promoting her new book hard choices. >> chris christie. >> reporter: the new jersey governor appeared on the tonight show staring jimmy fallon. he asked whether he could beat hillary clinton hypothetically. >> today christie will visit facebook headquarters for a live chat and you can ask christie there on his official facebook page speaking of facebook if you want to see the whole funny
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video, head to my facebook page. i thought michelle obama killed it, but he did it quite well. >> police charge a chester
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>> good morning, 5:00 a.m. on this friday, june 13. >> accuweather is tracking rain moving across the area this morning and the chance of heavy downpours later today. >> there's a manhunt underway for suspects after a violent robbery outside a gun range. >> federal mediators will step in to prevent septa workers from walking off the job tonight. >> let's go over to david

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