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>> breaking now on "action news" two boaters go over board and one makes it to land. >> gunfire interrupts a charity basketball game. reaction from the crowd in delaware. >> a monster reptile from the rain forest slips into our area and efforts to capture the king size neighboring. >> 5:30, monday, july 21. matt o'donnell is off and erin o'hearn is joining us and matt pellman is in for karen. first off david will look at weather. good morning. >> good morning, guys, now we have clear skies overhead. maybe a couple clouds trying to filter in from the south during the morning rush hour. generally speaking is it will be fairly bright start out there and over all partly sunny skies today. 68 in philadelphia. 66 wilmington and 65 allentown and 60 trenton and 65 sea isle city. comfortable with 60s everywhere. once again it is summertime in
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philadelphia and will feel like this this afternoon. 81 by noon. high today 3:00 will be the 86 degrees. might feel humid as the day goes on and over the weekend. generally speaking not bad out there humiditywise of high of 6 through the afternoon. more humid air beginning tomorrow and eventually thunderstorms details in the 7-day. matt what about traffic. >> so far looking good on most of the roadways and highways included david like the schuylkill expressway sign open the westbound side though a little penndot activity partiallytic sticking out in right lane as approached exit for girard avenue and zoo. looks like broken down vehicle. you can see traffic getting by and people are slowing as they swerve a bit to miss the penndot vehicle sticking out into the lane westbound 76. crash in norristown basin street green valley road and overnight construction going on westbound pennsylvania turn mike near
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norristown. in delaware there's a crash 95 northbound near 141 and ooh to the side. you can seat travel times right on time and glass cogetting word of new crash route 40, at 896. camera time again south jersey 42. southbound side near 544 clemens bridge road accident on side and northbound watching for shore traffic and so far we're not delayed on this monday morning tam. >> thank you for that, matt. and we are starting with breaking news coming to us from the jersey shore. that's where the coastguard has been called out to search for a missing boater. so let's go right over to "action news" reporter katherine scott. she's live near the scene and longport atlantic county. good morning, kaming written. >> good morning, tam, that hic wnrough the darkl nights waters it's not in sight at this
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moment. it happened around nr anue jetty in longport two men were on a pontoon boat when it struck a marked buoy and ended up on rocks on south ends of jetty. both were thrown from the boat. one man managed to call 911. a helicopter is in the air and it will be lighter concentrating their search to the mar grate bridge and still no sign of 45-year-old map. the coastguard is handling the report. we'll keep you updated as the search continue for the 45-year-old-year-old boater. >> thank you for that. new this morning police are looking for suspects that opened fire on a charity event at a park in wilmington, delaware. the action cam was at the scene haines park 32 and franklin
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residents were in the park for charity basketball game to raise money for a woman that lost belongings in a house fire and woman's sister said in middle of event 6:00 last night a group of young men approached them and started firing. >> it was shooting. >> shooting at everybody in the park. >> shooting at everybody in the park. this makes no sense. there's kids out here. we have older senior citizens out here. everybody out here helping support. this just don't make no sense. >> fortunately the bullets did not hit anyone. so far police do not know why the begunmen fired at the crowd. >> happening today un security council plans to vote on resolution calling for independent investigation into the downed plane in ukraine. foreign leaders condemned rebels for reportedly tampering with the crash site. rescueers found 21 more bodies on the scene. so far at least 270 of 298 people on board have been piled into refrigerated box cars and
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cranes have moved big chuncks of the wreckage. the u.s. maintains that it has powerful evidence that rebels shot down malaysia airlines flight 17 with help from russia. >> it's clear that this is a system transferred from russia in the hands of separatetists. we know with confidence that the ukranians did not have such a system anywhere near the vicinity at that point in time. >> there's been to response from the kremlin on u.s. allegations however overnight russian president vladimir putin did say he supports international probe into the crash and demand for tighter cure security at the site. secretary of state john kerry is headed to egypt to help with cease-fire in the middle east. >>ies rail's right to experience himself and concern of rising death toll. last night sell brats said hamas
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militants captured israeli soldiers. more than 5,000 pal stipulateians were killed during the life of fighting. 70,000 palestinians have now fled their homes. >> 5:36 now happening today fans notice an extra line of defense at citizens bank park. philadelphia phillies installed a metal detector at right field gate. fan security screening is part of pilot program major league baseball ordered increased safety measure at all stadium entrances next year. >> if you were going to a game later this week you hope they installed some spray mess. >> it will be muggy down the ballpark for the rest of the week or good portion of it any way and everywhere else. double can hows us we're try this morning. as we look outside we have five, six and there's the bep franklin
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bridge. we expect sunshine to break through. checking highlights on the forecasts. not bad. maybe humid as we good through the afternoon. decent day. it gets more humid starting tomorrow though and stays that way several days we'll also be introducing thunderstorms into the forecast as well as you see momentarily. temperature now 68. dewpoint 60. borderline humid and not bad and winds calm and satellite and radar shows you we're mainly clear and there's high, thin clouds that managed to pop in overhead and some of those may evaporate as sun goes over the hor eye sdoon. generally speaking partly sunny. temperatures warm again. back to the 70s by and upper 70s by 11. high of 862:30, 3:00 before settling back to 8:00. and we have slightly more humid dnz across the regionment partly sunny with light wins that's the story across the region.
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85 the high in philadelphia similar to philadelphia, 83 millville and down the shore shaving degrees off the high tim tour because of the cool ocean water. phillies looks lining decent night for became. partly cloudy, mild, muggy. 7 for first pitch and 73 ninth inning good night for cool drink at the ballpark. tomorrow we have more humid companies m coming in there will be a front of north and west of us increasing southerly flow and increasing humidity and during the day there's a chance of popup shower or thunderstorm and best chance appears to be well north and west of philadelphia. your exclusive accuweather 7-day. 86, perhaps sunny and more humid than over the weekend. tomorrow notably more humid, 89. again that shower or thunderstorm chance mainly norm and west of city and on wednesday, hot and humid. high of of 3 front will be norm and west and there's another chance to stray.
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thursday is the day the fronts arrives and tries to push through. it will be a humid day high of 7 and better chance of thunderstorms thursday than tuesday and wednesday and some storms thursday could be strong and gusty. thursday is time period. to watch this week especially in the afternoon and evening in terms of strong storms. that front gets out of here and we really see improvement in the weather for friday, saturday and sunday. it will be warm highs in the 0s and lower humidity and lots of sunshine and nice weather for that international friendly that the union plays on friday night and of course the phillies still home this weekend, too. >> great, thanks, david. >> time now 5:39 two traiingt trains collide. >> trips to the consider can add up saving with six answer is one way to cut costs but we're. >> this is i-95 by 322.
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good monday morning you to. looking at a beautiful shot of wilmington delaware. low tut a and coolerul shot of temperatures. temperatures return this week. unfortunately matt pellman you have things that could be a holdup to let people know about this morning. >> yes unfortunately all good things must come to an end. like the nice weather and like the weekend. it's over now, people, so here we go. let's head back to work. sorry. here's 202 west chester area looking good. at least you ride back into the office is pleasant this morning. boot road southbound go taillights down towards west chester and chadds ford. speaking of boot road it was closed most of the weekend in east goshen for construction and has reopened now for monday morning commute. you're back in business boot road on this monday morning and we're watching a crash in norristown basin street green sally road and still doing over nights roadwork westbound on
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pennsylvania turn pike near norristown interchange knocking out right lane with construction. however the work we had on northeast extension northbound past quakertown cleared out. both lanes back in business there. but in bucks county expect new backups starting today because of big new closure. 213 maple avenue bridge over neshimany shuts down today and they're building new round about at the intersection 213 and bridge town pike. big new projects startling today going through october 2016. this is long term. posted detour will tail you over old lincoln highway. bristol and bridge town pike. no issue around 1 or 95. but be have a crash in dell dem glasgow route 40 polaski highway. time for commuter report. waiz after. one of the friends using the app says watch for a minor crash new castle county northbound side
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lucky tam that is all off to the side. no big deal. >> thank you, matt, developing overnight a train derailment injured two people and evacuated more than 100 homes. authorities near milwaukee two freight cars collided. it sent ten cars off the track and 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel leaked out of. four workers are desk duty pending investigation into a man's death in the custody of new york police. officers cop fronted eric garner for selling loose cigarettes on a sidewalk when one policeman period. to put him in choke hold. other police pulled him to the ground. ems arrives and each though garper was not breathing no one performed cpr. garner died one hour later. one involved in the incident is also on desk duty.
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6:00 itbe perhapshur e we'll ha in e mingghp.rs came ti killed iphiladelphia and they ao raised money to help their families. hundreds gathered at the mc ceesh rec center yesterday and ams raised baseball teams played money for food. in the gesner streetfuneral fire. the event offered this dad a little bit of comfort. >> i'm around people to comfort me and console me and i feel you know a little better but sometimes when i'm by myself it hits me like wow my son is gone.
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>> many people ataepding the event did not know victims or fa felt compelled to come outnd h>> sompoin summer fun at new jersey lake. details on search for a super sized serpent. >> we continue to follow breaking story of the search going on now for a missing boater at the jerseyerine scott. >> that is the top story on 6abc news app. snd
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>> authorities are still trying to identify a body that's been found in pennypack creek in philadelphia's mayfair section. crews made that discovery yesterday afternoon braun street exits. theirtys belonged off the air as they investigated the scene looking for clu. philadelphia police could release more information as early as today in e foun deain 2500rm spthursdayorllactionit appears e spotted g anaconda lateconfirmse streak epd ortemissing nffsoton
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>> good morning it's 6 a.m. this monday, july 21. matt o'donnell is off and erin o'hearn is joining us and we're following breaking news. >> it's a race against time at the jersey shore where crewer e searching for a missing boater. >> outrage over the crash site in east ukraine where malaysia airlines flight 17 was shot out
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