the deadly conflict continues continues to escalate and they are agreeing to a cease fire. for tens of thousands of people caught in the battle zone. israel has accepted the plan and hamas leaders have yet to answer. sharrie williams has more. >> the conflict between israel and hamas is fine days and we hear there are four children killed in gaza today. hamas has launched more than 1100 rockets aimed at israel. one israeli dead and more than 200 palestinians have died in gaza. hamas kept up the barrage of rocket attacks firing dozens

into israel today and the navy ships launched their own attacks after a pledge from the prime minister for making hamas pay for not agreeing to a cease fire. they dropped leaflets over the gaza strip warning residents of attacks. many are heading the warning and trying to flee however they comfortable can you see this family here. israeli air strikes killed four palestinian boys while they played along a gaza beach. they are investigating the incident and blames hamas for the deaths because the militant group will not agree to the cease fire. and speaking at the white house, secretary of state, john kerry, renewed the question for peace. >> we need the cease fire and to stein a way to stop the conflict of killing so we can get to the real issues. gaza is a very small place,

looking at this map, this is all it is, the small area here lit up in the yellow, israel to the east and egypt to the west. it's only about 90 square miles, but it's one of the most densely populated areas in the world. that is why there is so much concern for casualties if the conflict continues. now to serious, the pentagon developed plans for a small scale training program for rebels against the regime there, the plan needs more congressional approval, president assad was sworn in again for another term. he said that countries that support the syrian opposition will quote, pay a high price. two moscow subway workers are detained in connection with the subway rerailment that left

22 people dead. the workers are accused of improperly stalling a switch near the crash site. no word if it was faulty. eight of them are in critical condition and 40 others have serious injuries. a woman is sentenced to 18 years in prison for sending letters laced with ricin to president obama and former new york mayor, bloomberg, they say that richardson tried to frame her ex-husband for the mailings, but online sales related back to her. she was an actress with small parts in breaking bad and the blindside. diane sawyer has more on the conflict in the middle east. you can watch that after "action news" at 6:00. investigators are piecing together the final moments before a plane crashed in new

jersey, a single engine plane when down in hillsboro, somerset county. it crashed while trying to land. the 73-year-old pilot, victor homelin, was the only person on board and he is hospitalized in fair condition. exactly what happened is being investigated by the ntsb. three former students charged with a senior prank that trashed the inside of teaneck high school is in a preintervention program for and have to stay out of trouble for six months. in exchange for a clean record. middle town police officers are searching for a brazen thief that targeted a big box store twice in two days, the delaware newsroom is following this story all day long, investigators

released this surveillance picture of the suspect in the hopes that someone would recognize him. he wear a prosthetic leg, the man walked into the lowes home improvement store and stole a chainsaw and nail gun and then he rushed the next day and stole another chainsaw and witnesses saw him drive away in a dodge durango. if you know the man call the police on the number on the screen. also, in delaware tonight, the family of a man whose remains were found in the woods two days ago. has come forward and identified him. family members recognize his tattoos on 3-d facial reconstruction by an artist. his body was discovered by west rustic lane in dover back in november of 2012.

an alleged thief's careless move led police straight to him. this is mark beaver, the clerk says he pulled a knife at the circle store, and the employer chased him away and the suspect dropped his debit card with his name on it. they linked beaver to a robbery caught on camera at the wawa on knights road the same day. >> two people are recovering from a rollover crash, on grant boulevard. authorities say that the driver lost control and hit a utility pole and then flipped the car. the passenger and driver were take and to the hospital in stable condition. >> digging for fossils in new jersey just got a lot easier, lowes volunteers are building a shed for fossil excavation equipment. it will benefit digs by the man

too -- a car carrying lumber jumped part of the track and nothing spilled fortunately. crews are on the scene to get back on track and septa regional rail services are not impacted: >> we are headed for the weekend and ahead on the blue right, montgomery county, northbound side locked up, from the schuylkill to this point at the mid county tolls? problem up ahead, on the northbound northeast extension between mid county and landsdale. both lanes are moving again. the northeast extension delays are having the spill over affect

on the blue route, and back on to the schuylkill expressway, kinds of a domino affect there in montgomery county. the big picture pretty much normal stuff. even past broad street, also watch out for a crash in north philadelphia near openal. and the earlier accident on 202 in chester county approaching 209, from chester brook to 401 and in delaware along 202, a crash cleared in the especially heavy northbound travel time on 95. rick and monica, back to you. >> thanks again. >> still to come, a pennsylvania senator is leading the charge, trying to hold big corporations accountable. rick all of that heat, and humidity is pushing into southern new england, we are drying out and dropping the temperatures and talking about

cool air for july. coming up in the accuweather forecast. >> jaime apody is back from mat earn itself

a pennsylvania senator is one of seven lawmakers trying to hold executives criminal accountable tonight. the bill make it's a crime for officers to conceal an accident that could pose a risk of injury or death. this after gm's admission for failure to recall cars that led to injury or death in connect with the ignition switches. >> we need the hide no harm act, saying society will not tolerate this kind of corporate conce concealment and corporate violence. >> if the bill passes, executives could face fines and five years in prison for failure to comply. and now california is

talking about splitting their state into smaller states, they have enough signatures to put it on the november 2014 ballot. it would be sectioned off into six sections. the venture capitalists that came up with this thinks it's areas would be better -- here is what not to do, when you see a spider in your house, don't use a homemade blow torch to kill it. a seattle, washington, man did, setting the house on fire. presumably he killed the spider too, but the red cross is providing temporary shelter for him and another man that is homeless. we have news tonight, jaime apody is back from maternity leave.

you look great. >> baby shay and big brother tanner. share the details. >> lets see pictures. >> welcome back. >> my two boys, and turner turned 2 and chase is new. we love being a family of four and i am a bit out numbered. we took a trip to san diego, chase is a wonderful baby, he is sweet and precious and we love having him as a part of our lives. lets go to the white house and listen to president obama, is he discussing foreign policy now. >> both of whom i spoke to last week, candidates agreed to abide by a comprehensive and national supervised audit that will review all the ballots and form a unit government. if they keep their commitments, afghanistan will witness a

transfer of power. candidates that put the interest of a united afghanistan first, the millions of afghans that denied threats to vote and our military that sacrificed so much. even though our combat mission in afghanistan ends this year our commitment to a sovereign and democratic afghanistan will endure and make sure they are never threatened by terrorists insides of afghanistan and second iran and its nuclear program. over the last 6 months, iran has met their commitments on the interim deal from last year, halting the program and rolling back its most dangerous stockpile of nuclear material. meanwhile we are working with our partners and iran for a

comprehensive agreement that the program will be peaceful and they won't obtain a nuclear weapon. and based on consultations with secretary kerry and our team, it's clear we made progress in areas and we have a credible way forward but as we approach the july deadline on the interim deal, there are gaps between the international community and iran and we have more work to do. we'll continue consulting with congress and our team will continue discussions with iran and our partners as we determine if there is additional time. >> third we continue to support diplomatic relations to stop the violence between israel and hamas. as i said repeatedly israel has a right to defend themselveses from rocket attacks, there is no country on earth that can be

expected to live in a daily barrage of rockets. i am proud of american dome system that the u.s. helped to build and fund, has saved many lives, but off the past two weeks, we are heart broken by the violence except the death of so many civilians in gas, men, women and children caught in the crossfire, that is why we are working with our partners in the region to pursue a cease fire to protect civilians on both sides. yesterday israel agreed to a cease fire and unfortunately hamas continued to send rockets to civilians but the israeli people and palestinians do not want to live like this.

we will continue our effortses to bring this peace about and we'll stay in close can't with our friends and parties in the region and use all of our diplomatic resources to support efforts of closing a deal on a cease fire. in the meantime, we'll continue to stress the need to protectsiprotect civilians and israel and stop escalation. >> given problems in ukraine, i approved a new set of sanctions on some of russia's institutions and companies. i have repeatedly made it clear that russia must halt the flow of weapons and fighters into the border into ukraine and release their hostages and support a cease fire and pursue national talks and meaningful monitors on

the boder, i made this clear to mr. putin and many european partners made it clear to mr. putin and we have resolved this diplomatically. >> you can hear more about the violence in the middle east on our website, as well as irafgha. we showed people a survey that stacked fios up against comcast. what's it like paying for internet that's rated 6th out of 7 in customer satisfaction? not gogood. it's not the best. no, that's not fun. look at it this way, you're kind of on top. if i was like this, all day. switch from the bottom to the top and see why millions of satisfied customers have made fios #1. last chance! get a verizon fios triple play with a 2-year agreement and get $300 back. plus, a free lg tablet or up to $200 off

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the insurance institute for safety released a list of used vehicle for teens. the institutes new recommendations urge new drivers to stay away from high horse power and bigger heavier vehicles protect better in a crash, also another recommendation. >> we mention electronic stability control, this is a life saving technology that helps drivers maintain control when they go around a curve or slippery roads and reduces fatal crash risks by half. our website 6abc.com has the list of recommended use vehicles for teenagers.

now this is not usual for july. >> you can have not one cloud in the sky and no humidity and it's just eh. >> it's nice. >> compared to the last couple of days, not tracking any of those violence storms, in fact temperatures are on the coolish side, only 78 in allentown and 75 in lancaster, philadelphia the high today so far 83 degrees, millville 80, and catching a bit of sea breeze at the shore, 69 in beach haven, and this week and for the next three weeks, typically it's the hot of the weeks of year in philadelphia. not for next seven days, we are watching a break in the peak of the season. we have all the violence storms pushing east of boston with the cold front and tropical train of moisture open the open waters of atlantic and there are clouds to the west and those clouds are

due to the cooler air above our heads and interacting with the july sunshine and we start with sun and cumulous clouds are bubbling up with the unseasonably cool air invading from the north and west and the high only 83 degrees and we continue with that fresh air on friday and high pressure is on top of us and a decent amount of sunshine and 85 degrees and that high stays in charge again for the beginning of the weekend on saturday. the shore today, not the best of beach days, not until 2:00 or 3:00 and lingering downpours and sun and clouds and pleasant and not much of a sea breeze, at 3:00 in the afternoon, and a water temperature of 61. overnight tonight, one of those nights you can open up the window, can't say that much around here in the month of july, 68 for the suburbs and center city. and clear sky above.

the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, nice with low humidity continuing on thursday with 83 and a beauty friday of 85 and we stay there for saturday and high cloud cover and cumulous clouds in the afternoon, the humidity comes up a little bit at 86 and a stray thunderstorm in the afternoon, next week the humidity starts to return, but normal temperatures in the upper 80s, nothing out of ordinary for wednesday. we feel sticky with pop-up thunderstorms, take in what we are getting in the next few days, it doesn't come in all that often in july. >> we appreciate it, thank you

right now jim gardner and the "action news" team standing by with these stories at 6:00.

>> police charge a man in the duffle bag murder case, what is new in the investigation. and a father faces charges after his gun is found in his daughter's bag at a camden day care center. for cecily tynan, rick williams and jaime apody, i'm m

"action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with ducis rogers, meteorologist, cecily tynan, and jim gardner. it is wednesday night, and the big story on wednesday tonight is breaking news in the west oak

lanes section of philadelphia, 11 shots were fired in the playground at the simons rec reaction center. two teens were hit and one is in critical condition. dann cuellar is live at the scene. what is the latest there? >> reporter: philadelphia police are gathering evidence here on the scene and what parents describe as a crazy scene at the simons rec center. around 4:45 this afternoon, the 14th district police received reports of gunshots at the rec center playground and they found two men had been shot, an 18 shot in the groin and he is in critical at einstein and a 19-year-old was also shot in the thigh, is he in stable condition at einstein. two gunme