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are some of the european countries as well. no one was hurt on this flight but out of an abundance of caution, no american airlines are flying into israel. walter perez is live now with more. >> reporter: well, just moments ago, we heard that israeli prime minister asked the faa to lift the ban to flights to tel aviv. but that decision was specifically to flights to tel aviv and th came from the faa out of an abundance of caution, we spoke to a man from israel. >> the hostilities in the middle east gav emily another reason toworry, her son noah is in israel on a six week excursion and is set to come home. >> we are coming to the last
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five or six dy ez is over there, and i hope it will go into a different direction towards peace but we haven't experienced that yet. >> today u.s. airways canceled both flights from tel aviv to philadelphia. one departing and one arriving. similar decisions were made from delta and united that canceled flights because of safety concerns. a flight on its way today was diverted to parisfter reports coming in of a rocket landing near tel aviv. a man that recently returned from a trip to israel is the affect that it will have on israel's tourism industry. >> it's important for them to enjoy it and experien all that it has for them. and understand that as long as are you not cle to the fighting you'll be okay. >> it's important to know that the flight prohibition is only
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for 24 hours and then the situation will be resatisfiesed. that is why emily is cautiously optimistic that she will see her son on sunday. >> my heart is over there and i can't get to it in any way. it puts it into a whole new perspective. >> just to be clear, the israeli prime minister we heard appealed to secretary of state, john kerry, to lift the ban from the faa. but this will remain in affect until noon tomorrow. walter perez, channel 6 "action news." >> thank y walter. there is much more on the flight cancellations tonight. on world news with diane sawer. that is it directly after "action news" at 6:00. a seventh wrongful death lawsuit is filed after the deadly collapse of the salvation
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army store in center city last year. he spent an hour trapped in the rubble and suffered a heart attack and died of heart disease three weeks later, his family is linking his death to the catastrophe, three people were killed and 11 others injured when a store being demolished next door came down ton the salvation army store. now police are looking for the robbers that targeted a casino at the jersey shore, they robbed caesars casino and it's pour books possible that the thieves got away with more than $100,000 in cash. david ry is live with the latest. >> reporter: more than $180,000, and the police and casino is keeping a tight lid on this one revealing little information but it appears to be a caper right
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out of a movie script. >> they were shocked to hear about the robbery, they confirmed it happened at 6:20 monday morning. the press of atlantic city is quoting a police information bulletin saying the gunman got away with a little more than $180,000. >> a lot of money. >> it was indeed a good payday. but to put it in perspective, that is chump change for caesars that halls in close to $9 billion a your. the one armed bandits shelled out prizes to what comes close to what the two armed bandits took. there was a jackpot of $160,000 and two jackpots of $144,000. they made a risky gamble and tough odds that they won't get caught. >> i think they should have better security. >> i don't know how two people
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could walk in and steal $100,000. i'm worried about us, how secure can it be. >> how secure do you feel going in if those things with happen. then anybody can be robbed in there. >> most feel safe and many didn't hesitate to give a little back to cease arizona. >> i'm going to give back and help them out. >> you dropping 180,000. >> maybe a few bucks from me. they are lucky if they get $10. >> the police have not said if they have any suspects, they haven't put out surveillance video and they are not asking the public for help which usually indicates they have a pretty good idea who did it. david henry, channel 6 "action news." >> heart david thank you. a wanted fugitive is behind bars tonight, this is herman cave, police say he shot a man in a norristown holdup last week.
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officials tracked him down and arrested him at his girlfriend's home in berks county. cave is charged aggravated murder and assault and other charges. turning now to the forecast another warm, humid day, seniors in north philadelphia got help beating it. comcast and senior services distributed free fans on broad street. they will definitely come in handy tonight. sky 6 hd overlooking penn's landing. looking warm tomorrow, it will be more humid. cecily tynan is out seed of our studios with the details. >> tomorrow will be warmer and more humid. today on the sticky side, philadelphia currently checking in with a temperature of 86 degrees, we were 87 degrees earlier and a little bit of cloud cover is forming, allentown 87 and trenton 86 and wilmington 83, look along the shore, sea isle city and the boardwalk and beach haven 77.
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the ocean temperature is warm, currently 74 degrees, if you look at temperatures across the eastern half of the country though, you can see 90s are beginning to invade. 91 in cincinnati and st. louis and that is moving our way. tomorrow is a steamy day and tonight if are you heading to citizens bank park, looking good for the phillies game, the warm and muggy, a dry, rain free night, the first pitch is 83 degrees by the ninth inning dropping down to 83 degrees. low front and low pressure up near the great lakes, not a lot of moisture but that is advantaging tomorrow and that will bring us stormy weather late in the day and tomorrow night. this is what is ahead tomorrow, more humid and temperatures in the 90s but add the humidity and the heat indix, the way it feels up around 100, so it's
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oppressive. we'll talk about the timing and what to expect behind the system in the full accuweather forecast. >> thank you cecily. stay on top of the weather situation with the new 6abc.com, you'll find the expanded collection of storm tracker 6 maps and a detailed folk for your area and the later accuweather forecast for "action news." two years ago today, a water main break ravished a south philadelphia neighborhood and the nightmare is still going on and damage remains at 21st and bainbridge, a state law caps the money they can pay out. and legal proceedings have delayed aid and now the department is looking at a new concern at 21st and bainbridge and a possible unrelated steam issue causing people to get very hot water. time to get a check of the "action news" traffic report now on a tuesday. matt pellman is in the traffic
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center with the latest on the commute home. >> if there is one not cooperating it's 95, northbound side by the girard point bridge, we still have this accident going on two hours later now, the dump truck remains on the scene. we are still at a crawl coming north approaching the airport through this point at the girard point bridge. it costs you extra time on the northbound side of 95, coming off of southbound 95 on the vine westbound, it's all off to the side, and this is a big issue, in mercer county, 95, they still have two lanes blocked because of an earlier crash, are you looking at a 20 to 25 minute delay. and in delaware an earlier broken down vehicle by mlk that, is gone but the travel times are
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doubled. we'll check it again in the next half hour. >> 95 is 95. >> that is the problem. more to come on "action news" tuesday night. several local retailers are pulling several summer fruits from shelves, details of recall coming up. and health check proves there is a gentler way to treat eczema. we'll check in with cecily tynan on the update on the steamy forecast from accuweather when "action news" at 5:00 continues in just a moment.
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call the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 800.974.6006 tty/v the dutch government decl e declares tomorrow a day of national mourning as the netherlands prepared for the arrival of the victims to arrive. the king and queen will be at an air base to meet two military planes carrying the remains. they were brought in through refrigerated railroad cars, two-thirds of people on the plane were from the nenl land sflooz a southern california company is recalling plums and
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peaches and other fruit, because of concerns of listeria contamination. they are recalling fresh peaches, plums and some itd manies are sold in packages you see on your screen there. all the fruit was packaged and shipped through june 1st and july 12th, costco and trader joe's and bj's werall affected by the recall. you can find out more at 6abc.com. there is concern that the deadly mers virus could spread through the air. they found samples in a barn housing an infected camel. they matched the dna, and the camel's owner that later died of
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mers. mixing energy drinks with alcohol may encourage binge drinking. cocktails that had red bullet in them had a bigger urge to keep drinking, it makes them feel less drunk and they don't know to stop. the beverage industry says it only studied the urge to drink and not the drinking itself. one if five children have eczema, an itchy painful skin rash and the number is going up. many kids wind up on medications to control it and a safer way works well too. it's called wet wrapping, after soaking in a tub, medications are put on an inflamed child's skin while still damp and covered with a wet layer of clothing followed by a dry layer. over roughly four days or so.
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you see the dramatic improvement. >> in a study at national jewish health symptoms, it dropped an average of 70%, kids stayed healthy and had fewer infections. the sore bleeding patches on her daughter's skin are gone. >> you can't do it once, doing it a few times depending on how bad the skin is. i'm a believer. >> wet wrap therapy is around for two decades, but this is the large of the study on it yet. >> still it come on "action news," concerns about a credit card breach at one of biggest nonpro
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mcdonald's announced a dip in profits, the biggest hamburger chain says that sales slipped 1% in the fourth quarter, as consumers continue to change their eating habits and coca cola missed their sales. and diet coke declined. executives blamed concerns over artificial sweeteners over the drop in sales. a man in delaware is following his military roots but brian base became the first enlistee to take the oath, the delaware recruiting office in newark, the mayor was by his sides. and base's mom and dad witnessed the milestone. >> more to come on "action news" for you. looking outside at sky 6 hd at the jersey shore, looking gorgeous in cape may and cecily
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a one-day spike in heat and humidity, it's warm and muggy, philadelphia 86 and allentown 86 and millville 81 and trenton 87, cooler along the beaches, temperatures in the 70s, add the humidity, dew points in the mid-60s, it adds a few degrees sfeshlly across the north and west suburbs, reading it feels like 91 and 90 in allentown and 87 in philadelphia. dew points will be rising tomorrow and thursday. tomorrow and thursday dew points up into the upper 60s, that is pretty humid and that is a strong cold front moving through and friday 51 degrees, that is very dry, comfortable air, saturday not that bad, humid and 63 degrees, then on sunday, dew points in the 70s, that is that real soupy air. we get a break on friday from the high humidity and it gradually increases through the weekend. satellite 6 showing a good
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amount of sunshine here. there is a cold front along the midwest, this will bring us a drop in the humidity, that low pressure across the upper great lakes and this is the trailing cold front not a lot of moisture associated with it now but as it moves to the east afternoon and and evening, we'll see scattered showers and thunderstorms. not in the morning though, 8:00 in the morning, a mixture of clouds and sunshine, as we head of the activity in the fa northt and west suburbs, the lehigh valley and berks county, and then it's widespread at 9:30, 10:00 in the i-95 corridor, doesn't look to be a solid band of severe storms. tonight warm and sticky and clouds are around and 73 in philadelphia and 67 in millville, and 78 in allentown and trenton. future tracker showing the heat index tomorrow is very high.
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wilmington 102, philadelphia 97, trenton and allentown 87. try to find air conditioning and stay cool tomorrow it will feel better on thursday. the five-day at 5:00, afternoon heat and humidity and thunderstorms. on thursday this cold front will be slow to clear from the north to the south and thunderstorms especially along the shore, late sunshine, rainy along the shore, into the afternoon, friday best day of the week, 84 low humidity and saturday up to 88 and sunday it gets muggy and storms and 87 degrees, more storms next week in the full accuweather forecast. friday is the day to call in sick. >> thanks. >> now we can't. make a note of that. >> thanks cecily. >> more to come on the next half hour of "action news." an admitted nazi guard is
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what he wanted and went to extra lengths to cover his track buzz still left a clue behind. nora muchanic is live with more. >> reporter: the clue is pretty good finger prints that the police are working on now, they want to catch this thief after he entered the home while the parents and children slept. >> it's very violating and unsettlings. >> linda kelly and their three kids were sleeping in the hamilton heights section early saturday morning when unbeknownst to them a burglar broke in and was lurking through the house. >> they cut a hole in each corner and put their fingers in and lifted the screen like that, and climbed right in. once inside the thieves headed to the electronics, taking an xbox and
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