snoop. >> >> good morning, it is 5:00 a.m. on this monday june 16 here's what's happening. >> septa's regional rails are running again. we have more on how president obama intervened and why the contract dispute is far from over. >> a house erupts in flames in south jersey and investigators are calling it suspicious. >> labron james and the miami heat no longer tops in the nba. the spurs a made it look easy. >> let's go over to karen rogers, she has accuweather and matt pellman is looking at traffic. good morning to both of you. >> reporter: good monday morning, a good week, at least to start out, we have basically clear skies a few clouds up to the north. we'll see a few clouds mix in in the afternoon hours, starting off with bright sunshine, the

current temperature, 66 degrees, comfortable in philadelphia. we're in the upper 50s in the lehigh valley, as well as trenton and millville, so some of the suburbs just a bit cooler in the city. along the coastline, mild, mid to upper 60s along the coastline, as well. as we look at the day ahead we'll start out with mostly sunny skies, during the daytime we're dry, though, it's very warm high of 87 degrees, coming up in a few minutes we'll the day park forecast and how the temperature will progress through the day and details on that and the rest of the week, it's going to get steamy. >> reporter: the big story on the traffic front, we have what is not happening. septa is not striking, first trains out of the gate are on time. definitely a relief for riders who were anticipating a strike that was going to last into the

week. good news it's just one day. we have no schedules organ the other septa lines, we'll talk about that in just a bit. right now let's talk about a problem in west conshohocken one of my favorites, balligomingo road is closed this morning stay with us on 320 swedeland road to get around that blockage. we expect it to last a little while. in worcester there's a crash involving a vehicle on its side at trooper road at pot shop road camera time on i-95 at allegheny avenue they pushed back the extension of the work zone at girard, they pushed it back to tonight. they will be setting up a longer construction zone through this point a allegheny avenue we'll talk about that, as well, coming up in just a bit. >> tens of thousands of people who depend on septa's regional rails are breathing a huge sigh of relief. commuter trains are operating on

schedule following a one-day strike over the weekend. katherine scott joins us live from the bala station with the details. good morning, katherine. >> reporter: good morning, matt, people were starting to think of constituency plans and what route they would take if there was a walkout, but there was a strike, and the only lasted a day. commuters can expect normal operations. the one-day strike started 12:01 a.m. saturday, but sunday, trains were moving again when engineers and electrical workers were back on the job. 400 contract workerses haven't had a contract in 4 years. governor corbett requested help from president obama who signed an executive order creating a three member emergency board to hear from septa's unions.

commuters were relieved the strike just lasted a day, but they are be lieuing for a more permanent solution here. >> a long term solution would be better possibly this doesn't happen next summer or the summers to come. >> reporter: the hearings are expected to begin next week and by mid july, the bored should bring the recommendation to the president. >> new this morning on "action news," a suspicious fire is under investigation in south jersey. camden county police are questioning a number of people after a fire erupted near the intersection of old white horse pike and collings avenue and waterford works. one house was heavily damaged. fire and smoke bellowed from the home always crews pulled up to the scene. no word on what started the fire or if anyone was hurt. >> police are investigating a double shooting that took place near a father block party in north philadelphia.

two men exchanged gunfire near randolph street. police were in the area when they heard the gun shots. one officer ended up shooting the suspected gunman in the arm. else in the hospital and in stable condition. another suspected gunman is in critical condition, he was shot repeatedly, but investigators do not believe that person was shot by police. it is unclear what sparked the shootout. >> a returner who took part -- a runner who took part in the gary pappa run has spent the night in the hospital after collapsing after the run. gary pappa's kathy ran to the side of the runner who has stage four prostate cancer. they took turns administering

cpr. when they took him to the hospital, they left the scene. >> we would love to thank you personally. >> reporter: his wife said they were overwhelmed by the help they gave to her husband. >> i saw kathy there, so thankful for all the people who turned out. >> reporter: the weather was so quawp -- cooperative for all the people out there. storm tracker 6 live double scan looking around the region. we're dry currently. we have the chance for a shower later on tonight, storm tracker 6 live will be busy tracking that for you. let's head outside and show you what it looks like right now, sky 6 goes live, we're looking at a beautiful start to the day, very few clouds early on, some of the clouds will fill in a little bit this afternoon. the temperature, 66 degrees, the

dewpoint, 53. the winds are calm. we have a few clouds up to the north trying to stream in, as well as toward the west. later this afternoon we'll see sunshine mixing with a few of the clouds. we're off to a good looking start high pressure in control, high of 87 very warm. it's cooler at the coast with a spotty shower around on later on this evening. looks like the daytime today stays dry and much of the area stays dry tonight. just a chance for a spotty shower. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, it is nice and warm today we start off with mostly sunny skies in the afternoon, a few clouds filter in the in the afternoon, not a bad day. 87 degrees for the high. after the day's end during the evening hours we get a chance for a pop-up shower or thunderstorm, in one or two

spots it will be spotty. tomorrow, we get the heat. it will be hot, 90 degrees, partly sunny skies great for the young, just sticky. wednesday, hot and humid, high of 92. chance of a shower or thunderstorm. thursday clouds and sun, 87. staying warm and sticky on thursday, a fair amount of clouds and shower around. friday partly sunny skies we knock the temperature down just a little bit to 84 degrees, chance for a shower or thunderstorm. summer arrivals on saturday, it's a beautiful day we drop the temperature to a 83 degrees, humidity is pretty nice, as well. on sunday, we'll mix more clouds with the sunshine, 83 degrees only a slight chance for a shower looks like it will pop up by the end of the day. looking ahead we're looking at another good weekend which will be the 5th good weekend in a row. >> crazy. >> reporter: yeah. >> we'll take i meant. >> a wall of fire is moving into central california.

hundreds of firefighters are working overtime to hold it back. >> the san antonio spurs are back on top of the nba. >> reporter: looking good on the super highway in bucks county. route 1 southbound direction heading toward 213 where overnight construction is cleared. both lanes are open both ways. if you're out and about in montgomery, i've got two accidents and downed tree and work zone for you after the break. >> a south jersey woman gets the wedding of her dreams. we'll explain why this bride didn't need a groom to have the party of a lifetime. >> don't need

>> hello, everyone, sun coming up in about 15 minutes or so, taking a live look at the peco building getting up to 87 degrees today. should be clear most of the day, right now on city avenue, 65. you know, matt, usually this is the quiet time of the morning, but that does not sound like the case this monday. >> reporter: i usually have something to offer you, even if you don't want what i have to offer. let's start in chester county where there's not a lot going on. the sun is about to rise over 202 in malvern. it's a mundane morning along 29 and weeds ford road. they reopened the ramp from swedesford road to the southbound lanes of 202 to 401. you can use that ramp it's been

closed since the end of april. now to the montgomery issues a tree came down overnight in west conshohocken it continues to block balligomingo road 420 is going to be the way to get around it this morning. expect extra traffic on 3020. in worcester township a vehicle on its side at trooper road. there's a crash along sumneytown pike at beaver street. in souderton area there's work blocking the intersection at could youpath road and god shall road and west broad street. it's a spot to avoid. stay on allentown road. 476 you see it there. let's look at the commuter waze

app. a work zone one north of lansdale and one north of quakertown and one southbound by lansdale, as well, those should be clearing out shortly. resident in central california in a community have been told it's time to evacuate as a wildfire comes howling in their discretion. about 3 square miles in and around the sequoia national forest has burned so far and five hundred homes are at risk. officials say westerly winds and you drought-like conditions are fueling the flames. the fire is ten% contained. vice president joe biden is heading to central america. while there he will focus on stopping the sad and dangerous pipeline of undocumented children coming to the u.s. through mexico. the veep will meet with the presidents of guatemala and el

salvador. during may, border agents have apprehended 48,000 children. he will attend the u.s. ghana world cup match in brazil. is san antonio is celebrag the spurs 5th nba championship. they finished off the heat easily. that ended the reign as two year's champs. tony parker said this championship was the sweetest of the four he won in the san antonio. >> that's why i saved the sweetest one it's unbelievable to win seven years ago and be so close last year, it was very cruel. that's the beauty of sport. sometimes it tough sometime it can be beautiful like today. >> the heat, labron james is the biggest of all players to head to free agency in the off

season. it's unclear if miami can keep it in tact. sixers labron, nice wouldn't it. jimmy rollins was the all time hit leader for the phillies. he the phillies lost 3-0 dropping 0 two of three to the locally cubs. >> still -- lowly cubs. >> more problems for a local retail store. >> more children are drinking caffeine and there's a warning going out for little girls. >> reporter: we're heading up today to 87 degrees which is a good four degrees above average. even the overnight hours dropping down to 70. above average. wait until you see the numbers for tomorrow and wednesday. details next. >> don't forget you can get

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the restaurant. the company donated $30,000 to help with her medical bills. >> it is that very exiting time of the morning when they change the zipper wall around on the ben franklin bridge. i know we wait for it every morning and now you have four westbound lanes coming into the city just two eastbound lanes heading into camden because of the on going construction in the right lane. speaking of bridges tacony-palmyra will have construction going on all this week may not be your best bridge selection. cough up the extra $3 an held to the betsy ross bridge instead. trolleys are running, and new schedules on them. we have restrictions on the 11 and the 13. new schedules on the septa buses and the subway. >> reporter: i can't compete with the whole zipper wall changing. 53 in quakertown, 5 in oxford.

59 in warrington. 60 in center city. as you look at the suburbs in new jersey. 56 in browns mills. 56 in gandys beach and 60 degrees in dover, delaware. we've got a good day today. it's nice and warm, high of 87. not horribly uncomfortable, the humidity maybe up a notch this afternoon. we start with sunny skies, by nighttime we'll be cloudy. we'll see increasing clouds through the afternoon and maybe a spotty shower or thunderstorm tonight. and then we turn up the heat. look at the numbers on tuesday and wednesday, 92 degrees, the first time we've been that hot so far this year. even thursday, temperatures in the upper 80s at this point. we stay rather humid, wednesday, thursday, and friday each day a slight chance of a shower or thunderstorm. look summer officially arrives on saturday we're comfortable, 83 degrees, sunday 38 degrees, a

good looking week and weekend ahead as long as you like it steamy. >> research shows the affects of a feen on kids. the -- caffeine on kids. researchers had 96 children drink caffeinated beverages and check their heart rate. it had more effect on the girls than on the boys. "g.m.a." will have more on this next after "action news." >> >> reporter: good morning, topping america's money, target back in the cross hairs. a checkout system caused delays and long lines around the stores across the county. target said this problem was not related to the security breach. starbucks will give free

college education to thousands of its workers. it will pick up costs for courses at arizona university. ecigarette sales are booming. 22 jump street came out on top earning 60 millions dollars. how to train your dragon ii came in second. "maleficent" finished in third place. that's america's money, i'm rinin ninen. >> regional rails rolling this morning. we have details on how president obama made that happen

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>> happening right now on "action news," it is heating up in the delaware and lehigh valleys. accuweather is tracking temperatures that could hit the 90s. >> new overnight bullets fly inside a philadelphia bar, one man is hit another injured. >> septa riders are breathing a sigh of relief. the regional rail strike ends, but the work to finalize the deal is far from over. >> good morning, everyone, 5:30 on this monday, david murphy is off, we have karen in and matt

pellman good morning. >> reporter: good morning, we have a good start to the workweek as we look at satellite and radar. we have clear skies maybe one or two clouds pulling in from the north in the afternoon hours. 66 degrees in center city it's warm. mild in the suburbs, in the mid to upper 50s. 58 in reading an trenton. 56 in millville. along the coastline you're in the mid 60s at this point. as you're heading out early on we'll see lots of sunshine and pleasant. 6:00 a.m., 66. by 8:00 a.m., 72 degrees, warming up nicely as we look at the full day ahead we'll see the sunshine start to fade behind clouds later on in the afternoon hours, but a warm high of 87. you think that's warm wait until you see the numbers tomorrow and wednesday. >> reporter: oh, boy getting toasty. good morning to you, karen rogers. for our friends in delaware i'm here to let you know if you thought things got better over the