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perez, sarah is off. mourning the loss of another volunteer firefighter killed a year after his own brother and neighbors and friends gather to help a community in southwest philadelphia get on its feet fol a tragic fire. and the big story on "action news" is escalating conflict between israel and ha mass. hamas claimed it captured a israel soldier. no details available. the announcement comes on heels of deadly fighting since the conflict ramped up. eight workers retrieve the dead from what was left of onep gaza's most popular neighborhoods, 100 palestinians and 13 israeli soldiers were killed, two held duel citizenship with the u.s.. secretary of state kerry will go to egypt soon top press for sees fire between israel and hamas. now to latest own downing of malaysia flight 17, they asked putin make sure pro russian rebels allow international teams
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access to the crash site. bodies of 233 of 28 open board were recovered. russian separatetists put them in refrigerated cars and moved them from the site. outrage is growing among the victims' families who say they have no idea if they will get to bury their loved ones. >> i want to take care of of my son and daughter. >> who knows where they are. >> i want to bring them home. >> who notz where the bodies are. >> i can do nothing but wait. >> meantime there's talk that russian separatetists have the plane's black boxes which, of course, are one of the keys to the investigation. backs here at home dozens gathered at the ukraine cathedral to mourn the victims of mill asian flight 217. >> inside the the ukranian catholic church of philadelphia
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they prayed for the victims of those in the plane shot down. >> we pray for all the innocent lives needlessly taken for no reason at all. >> very, very sad. our reaction, it's only sadness. >> the investigation into the tragedy continues. no one has taken responsibility. but all signs point to russian-backed rebels. ukranian blame vladimir putin in which they call russian imperialism. >> ukraine wants to be free. we do not want to be under russian authority anymore. >> nicholas rodnisky is professor of eastern studies at lasalle. the tragedy over the skies of ukraine should wake up the world to putin's actions. >> hopefully the truth comes out and the world community won't stand for it. >> one way is to hit it financially. european leaders are calling for
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tougher economic sanctions the day before the plane was shut down pretz barack obama anoumsed savrmtions against several -- announced sanctions against several russian companies. >> world news with david muir will have more on the investigation into the downing of the mail asia flight 17 and escalating crisis between israel and hamas. watch world news following this newscast. >> turning to weather now the weekend was wrapping up with more sunshine than most of yesterday. taking a live look at the shore cape may sky6hd camera some spots along the shore got rain today. meteorologist melissa magee is live outside on the patio with the latest from accuweather. >> hi, there, walter, when he clouds to start the day and showers around coastal new jersey and delaware as you can see we got clouds and pockets of sunshine outside on this sunday evening. we'll show what you is going on, on stormtracker 6 double scan radar. visible satellite showing we had clouds earlier today. clouds to east and clouds to
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west. but we are finally starting to see breaks in the clouds. and some sunshine returning at least for the second half of the day. you check out the wind speed. it's pretty calm. calm allentown and sustained anywhere from 3 miles an hour and lancaster to 10 miles an hour in philadelphia and winds coming in out of the west and the easterly wind having an impact on temperatures. we're cool for july standards. currently in philadelphia, 81. trenton 75. poconos 71. beach haven 68 and easterly wind and lancaster coming in 78. couple changes to tell you about. it as you look at the week ahead it turns more humid back to work on monday and brief battle with the heat. and with that threat of showers and storms. we'll take a closer look in the full and exclusive accuweather forecast. >> thank you, melissa. keep track of the weather 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. download the free stormtracker 6 app.
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you have access to live radar and hourly forecast and watches and warnings posted for your neighborhood. it's available for apple and android devices. >> friends, neighbors, strangeers are showing support for a community in southwest philadelphia, which lost four children in a devastating fire. one month oiled taja la qui patrick sanyay and sister perished july 5 on the 650 0 block of gesner street. a fundraiser is on way. annie mccormick is outside the recreation center and playground with more, thank you, annie. >> this picked up in the last half hour. basketball pickup games are playing over there and d.j. over there and people lining up for food and also those associating teams are about to hit the field again. 6 of those team will donate 00 each money all fort victims and families and people affected in the fire on gesner street.
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people who knew the victims and people who never met them came out to mc ceesh rec center sunday afternoon and members of the community donated their time to d.j., cook food to sell and play sports. before the games began everyone stopped for a moment of silence. proceeds raised here today will go to the families of brothers 1 1-month-old taj ka de and maria and maria boawah. >> stephen belongs to one of the six soccer teams playing today originally from lie beeria. funds will help the families to survive and they lost everything in the blaze that wiped up an entire southwest philadelphia block. >> we understand what they're going through and want to help whatever way we can. not just the latino community but all communities affected by the fire. >> he is from ghana and know
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some of those affected through soccer playing with the children on his chest and families on his mind. >> we decided to come out with these tee shirts and represent the family as well and also to our community to show them how much we love them. >> reporter: and the organizer of all this tells me she's hoping the victims' family members come out here today. many of the people out here are from the tight nit community from lie beeria. they're all coming out to show support. reporting live in southwest philadelphia, annie mccormick, "channel 6 action news." walter. >> thank you, annie. people attempting to walk and bike on the penny back were met with police and firefighters. a body was discovered in pennypack creek. crews responded to the rhawn street entrance. few other details released as this investigation continues. and we'll have an update tonight. >> a man is dead after police say his paraplegic brother shot
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him to save his sister. 40-year-old john map was found lying on the stwreet a gun shot wound to the chest on the 5800 block of filbert over nights. his 34-year-old brother told police he shot map who was attacking their sister. so far no arrestsch the investigation continues. a family from chester county along with fire fighting community endured another tragic loss tonight. west bradford volunteer firefighter ryan miller was killed 234 a motorcycle crash overnight happened along the 1100 block of hourton road and west chester and ryan's older brother robe also a volunteer firefighters was killed in it a motorcycle crash as well this past may. more to come on "action news" tonight, several wrong moves send a work van into the side of a building. what police think is behind this. >> he was one of the most be loved, leading men in hollywood. we're mourning the death of james garner. jeff skversky is here with
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>> if building had to be evacuated after a driver drove through the wall on east browning road in bellmar. the building house as i gym and several apartments. five people that lived in the apartments now need to find another place to live. nobody was injured and the driver was arrested. firefighters in philadelphia's wynnefield section had a blaze inside a fire this morning. it broke out before 4:30, green brir apartments here on conshohocken avenue. crews battled the blaze 20 minutes before getting it under control. no word how the whole thing started. sunday mass at our lady perpetual help in camden had special meaning today.
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♪ the congregation offered a cardinal, the favorite haitian in the catholic church. he was appointed in february. the cardinal is well known in the homeland. he helped direct relief efforts aft terrible earth quake in 2010 which devastated haiti. >> speeltd is going up on parts of the pennsylvania turnpike this week. starting wednesday signs for the new 70 mile an hour speed limit will goup on 100 mile strep of turnpike fruing morgantown blue houn tan interchanges most is flat and straight however there will be lower speed postings in spots where the road turns. more speed limit changes will be announced this week. >> and safety on the water was the topic of this class at the hotel ml in mount laurel today. several dozen boaters spent sunday learning about the rules for new jersey waterways. this class is required for
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anybody who plans to take the helm of a boat. generations of fans are mourning death of actor james garner tonight. police in los angeles say the vet reign star ever tv and film died of natural causes at his home. he is best known for wise cracking deteblingttive on "the rockford files" and first shot abc western "maverick". he was introduced as duke in the 2004 film "the noteb
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was free and open to all ying men between the ages of 10 and 19. . our jeff skversky has a check on sports. phillies video. we don't call them highlights anymore more, video. >> brutal. down is atlanta. kyle kendrick has been the worst pitcher in baseball in the first inning but in series finale kendrick goes to the first, one, two, three, good, sign, but it all goes downhill from there fort phillies starter. phils give kendrick a rare early leave. in the second, john mayberry jr. looking for first hit in more than two weeks goes deep left. solo shot. playing for ryan howard. has six homers and vuingt as many as d om brown and fewer at bats. it's 1-0 phils lead doesn't last long. bottom two, chris johnson. no doubt about it. deep to center, two-run shot off kendrick and just like that phils down 14eu6 in the third kendrick with all sorts of issues. back-to-back baters e freedy
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freeman and justin upton walks in a run and ryne sandberg can't believe what he's watching and here's the big blow. tommy lastella. braves score three runs in the third and this is first in the evening, phils done 6-1. kendrick and company can't watch any more. phils lose 8-2 they're 11 games out of first. we are just 11 days away from the trade deadline and just about every name on the roster has come up in trade talks including name chase utley. boston globe reports san fran and toronto expressed interest the most interest in utt that does not mean they'll deal the fan favorite away for the right price. even if they were to strike a deal to trade chase utley six time all star has no trade clause and stated days ago he does not want to play anywhere but philadelphia. this time last year, eagles
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tight end brept celek said chip kelly would change the nfl. he was not kiingd. after one season the nfl is trying to catch up to kelly and those high-flying eagles in preparation at training camp next week in 2014 season the nfl demanding referees are in better physical condition. to keep one kelly and eagles. eagles average a play every 24 seconds last year. the fastest pace since 13 seasons and if that's not fast enough kelly said this off season his offense is light years ahead of last year. >> roy mcllroy's dad is rooting for his son to win the british open for more years than one. ten years ago he bet he would win the major he is about to cash in on 3 40,000 dollars. the final round of british open, maybe not everyone, on 16, they are heckling mcelroy says sergio
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is going to catch you. the fan kicked out. not letting surge joy kaech the six shot lead. finishes with par puts and mcelroy wins the british open over sergio. how about the reaction. takes the ball, throws it into the stands and dad, gets a handshake and $3 40u,000. mcelroy gets the jug he's emotional afterwards his parents are there to see him win his third major! >> i don't know it's a big moment. i feel like i've come a long way in the lasts 18 months a lot happened to me and on and off the golf course and i think just my determination and hard work has really paid off. tiger woods finishes 69th his worst finish ever in a
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>> meteorologist melissa magee has the accuweather forecast. depending where you were today was not bad. >> it was not bad. breaks in the clouds and pockets of sun returning for some this afternoon and tomorrow more sunshine will actually warm up a touch for july standards. we'll show what you is going on. double scan radar it's quiet. earlier today really this morning we had light showers and sprinkles down across coastal new jersey. you can see some activity exiting today from surf city to atlantic city. all in all it's quiet across much of the delaware and lehigh valleys and pockets of sunshine returning late on this sunday evening. we'll show you the picture outside and the action cam was outside earlier today and a beautiful shot there along kelly drive as we have pockets of sunshine still some fillederd sun and nice greenery to show you as well on the sunday. we'll check out highlights ais
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cot area and what we'll be looking forward to or not depending how you like things for your summer season. humid for you on monday. we're also tracking threat of spotty thunder shower north and west of down. we start out with humidity tomorrow. dew points that's level of how much moisture is in the atmosphere. dew points tomorrow anywhere from 60 to 65 and a touch on humid side and nothing unbearable for mid to late july. we're also tracking potential of spotty thunder shower. future tracker 6 showing you 6:30 tomorrow evening spotty thunderstorm is likely north and west of town. it's really when you get that heating of the day and instability in higher terrain most locations however tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow evening will stay mostly dry. the high today in philadelphia, only climbed up to 82 degrees. you have stiff early wind throughout the day. five degrees shy where we normally should be. average 87. the record 99 setback in 1930 as you look at the numbers in wilmington 78.
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philadelphia 81. up in the poconos 71. look at what those early wind is doing with the temperatures beach thichb sea isle city only in the upper 60s. as you head inland in dover currently temperature of 75. here's satellite 6 and action radar queue eight cross the region. earlier today light showers across the coast in new jersey and through delaware. clouds breaking for late-day sunshine and looks like we'll stay quiet and partly to mostly cloudy for the rest of tonight. and so we'll fast forward here and show what you you can expect as you wake up tomorrow morning. future tracker 6 showing you 6:00 in the morning most locations in upper to hid middle 60s not a bad start for monday and keep in mind typical morning low is 7. we're close to that tomorrow. 3:00 in the afternoon most locations still comfortable despite increase in humidity along the 95 corridor and temperatures will be in the middle and lower 0s. here's a call from accuweather the rest of tonight. cloudy, humid side ix 67 in the
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city and 63 in the suburbs north and west of town. here's your exclusive accuweather 7-day forecast. humid tomorrow. 86. 86 not a bad temperature for july. average for us 87. as you get into tuesday humid with evening thunderstorm likely. high temperature of 89 degrees. still not a bad day. hottest day of the week so far looks to be wednesday, high of 93. late-day thunderstorm is likely midweek and showers and storms possible as we get to thursday. we'll lower the humidity as we get to friday. all in all temperatures not bad for late july standards walter. >> thank you, melissa. >> you got it. >> there were at least three good reasons to run a 5 k today in yardley. chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, hog and jog. they ran a mile and a half and stopped to eat a mind or quart of ice cream and then ran another mile and a half. the timing was premeditates it is national ice cream day. "abc worls news" sunday
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welcome to "world news." tonight, outrage, pro-russian rebels have seized the bodies of the dead from mh 17 as victims' families and world leaders react with anger and anguish. in an abc news exclusive, this rebel leader explains what he wants before he gives those bodies back. fiery alliance, four western wildfires merge to create an out of control inferno. tonight the exhausted fire crews and the stunning new view of the destruction. explosion, what happened when a hot air balloon hit a power line in suburban boston? why do these balloon disasters keep happening? and remembering james garner, the tv and movie star whose career spanned generations, from loveable gambler to cranky detective, to
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