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gaza. plumes of smoke filmed the sky and meanwhile, secretary of state, john kerry, arrived in tel aviv after the faa banned planes from flying there for the next 24 hours and it continues to impact families from here in the delaware and lehigh valley. john roll . >> reporter: >> reporter: hi rick we should start by saying the normal service from philadelphia to tel aviv here was canceled for the second time and all u.s. carriers and most european carriers are staying out of tel aviv at this time than is impacting local folks here. >> mike richmond shared this voice mail with his 16-year-old daughter elana, who is with a
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group program in israel. >> this is the safe of the i will ever be and i love israel, and i'm happy i'm here and having the time of my life. >> but the ongoing conflict could change plans to fly home on sunday. she is booked with a european carrier out of tel aviv. >> that flight is on hold unless things change. >> yesterday a missile landed a mile from tel aviv airport. today for a second day, flights like u.s. airways 746 canceled even before the faa ex tended their no fly orderer. it's unclear what has to happen before the fa a-lists the ban. >> richmond says the youth group is getting the americans out. elana is bet toward stay put now. >> i believe she is safe if she
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stays where she is. it's best she stays there now until a better time for her to come home. >> a fluid situation for israel, it's a wait and see time. live at the airport, john rawlins, channel 6 "action news." >> john thank you, lets check in with eva pilgram who is covering a rally in love park where protesters from both sides of the debate have gathered. >> reporter: despite the sweltering heat more than 1,000 people gathered into this area of love park to voice their concerns about the conflibt in the middle east. you can see a lot of people here are carrying signs, on this side, it's the pro israel side, they are waiving flags and carrying signs and across the street there is a rally for palestine, in between both groups on the road there are a lot of police keeping both sides
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separate. the pro israel rally wrapped up a few minutes ago and these people are now starting to leave. there were about 1,000 people here rallying for support of israel and many religious leaders from different states, and they referred to the vie license in the region we have seen recently. >> there is a lot of chanting and singing on both sides this afternoon. the pro palestine group is about 100 or so, and both are equally passionate about ending the violence. >> the part i find frustrating, is that israel is not trying to hurt anybody, they send the water and food and medication over to gaza on a daily basis and hamas comes in and destroys all of that. i think a lot of the palestinians feel as if they are trapped, but it's hamas trapping
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them not israel. >> it's indiscriminate war crimes we can see with our own eyes by media is what has cemented for people the reality, the social media allows us to keep in contact a lot more. >> there is heated debate on both sides, keeping both parts on different sides, most of them separated and it's peaceful rally again, you can see behind me it's beginning to wrap up, a lot of people are leaving love park and going about the rest of think of day. the peaceful rally on both sides tonight. eva pilgram, channel 6 "action news." >> we continue to update the new 6abc.com as the story develops, we'll post any new information on the canceled flights and we have a link for to you check the status of every flight out of philadelphia international airport right there at 6abc.com.
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and world news with diane sawyer has more on the continuing situation in israel at 6:30 right after this broadcast. in other news tonight the investigation continues into an mcdonald's employee that is accused of serving up crack cocaine in the parking lot of the rest ran on the main line. tonight he is in custody. vernon odom has the full story and is he live from that mcdonald's rest ran . >> reporter: tonight he remains in the delaware county prison on $120,000 bail, accused of stealing crack cocaine from his workplace, he was busted in the rear parking lot of this radnor
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mcdonald's where he worked on the kitchen crew, police say he is the target of a month long investigation and that police made four separate drug buys for him. >> he would go into the parking lot, there were no incidents in the restaurant with our officers. police confiscated more than $100 in cash and 157 packages of crack, they estimated that trammell was netting $1500 a week after paying off his suppliers. >> if gives new definition to a happy meal. >> the general reaction of customers was mixed. >> crap. from the mcdonald's, oh my lord. what is this world coming to? >> it's surprising but it's a flag that kind of effects every area, there is no rhyme or reason, it's everywhere. >> the owner of this mcdonald's
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franchise issued a statement saying they take these allegations seriously, and won't come furnish into a pending police matter. live in radnor, vernon odom, channel 6. >> a line of severe weather is working its way into the area and there is a thunderstorm warning upright now. adam joseph is live at the big board with double scan live. >> reporter: this particular thunderstorm warning is ongoing for 45 minutes and expires in 5 to 10 minutes for the lee lie sally and north montgomery county and bucks county. the threat is strong winds and hail and lightning. as it approaches allentown it has begun to weaken into 22 and also 476, but a lot of lightning strikes so very vivid lightning with this, as we zoom to the north and west it extends to
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reading at 222 near lincoln and you can expect this particular storm at 5:13, and plowville at 6:21, moving slowly at 6 miles per hour as it plows through the center part. the rain and vivid lightning. as the storm pushes into the i-95 corridor, the main concern is lightning and the heave your downpours and winds between 40 and 50 miles per hour. with also scattered hail. rick, when i come back we'll track the storms plus a cooler trend in the seven-day forecast. >> thank you adam. still to come, a rude awakening for center city hotel guests, the fire that forced them to the streets before dawn and who will receive the prestigious marion ender son award.
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the verdict was delivered today against six former judges accused of conspiracy and fraud, a federal judge cleared them in charges that was a mixed decision, "action news" reporter david henry was live in center city. with all the details rick it was judgment day, for the judges and in a way for the prosecutors for trial. all six judges were found not guilty of the serious charges again them. four of them were convicted for lying. >> i'm feeling very happy. justice has prevailed.
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former district justice mark bruno was one justice found not guilty on all charges and the other was michael sullivan. >> i am vindicated, of all charges, i'm ecstatic. the government claimed that judges engaged in a practice of fixing tickets, a practice known as consideration. all six judges on trial here were acquitted on court charges of conspiracy and fraud. their lawyers say they may have engaged in unethical behavior but the government overreached by charging them with crimes. >> they will look at thimg things in the future that is wrongdoing but not a crime. willy singletary and michael
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tins and michael mulgrew. >> how can i give a special favor if we didn't fix anything. >> singletary was kicked off even before the traffic court scandal erupted and he will face sentencing now on the charge of lying. and she is being investigated for allegedly taking bribes in another case. but her lawyer says she shouldn't have been here in this case. she was brought into this building on the theory that she -- the system and fixing tickets. 12 of our peers rejected that theory. the federal prosecutor released a statement saying that he respected the jury's decision. but that four judges didn't entirely get off.
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a nazi war crime suspect from philadelphia has died while awaiting extradition to germany. the lawyer for johan breyer died last night in the hospital. this after the judge issued an extradition for breyer to germany. authorities say that as a nazi guard he assisted with deaths at the contration camp. guests at a center city hotel got a wake-up call this and mog after fire broke out. the sheridan hotel on north 47th street. causing everyone to evacuate at 4:17, it's hotel says an electrical panel was to blame. the hotel provided food and drinks and f
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jeff skversky with sports. no ryan howard in the lineup. >> no, .222 average, for a guy making $125 million.
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he opened up about that today. he is in a join slump and manager sandberg benched him and he says the easiest thing to do is to quit but he is not ready to give up on himself or this disappointing season. could howard be on his way out of town? he has not thought if a change of scenery would help. the phils opened up that he was carrying the weight of that enormous $125 million contract but no longer carrying that burden. >> there is frustration, there is frustration in the fans and frustration period. i have my own frustration as well. you really try to stay positive man and you know for me, i know people will put a lot on either how much money i make or what i'm doing on the field or this or that or whatever.
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you go out and try to do what you can? this is baseball. i know a lot of people may misconstrue the comment but this is a game. >> darren ruf in the game for howard playing first and ruiz is returning from his concussion and a.j. burnett is on the mound. a late night last night, the phils and joins played until nearly 1:00 in the morning, jonathan papelbon gave up his first home run in the year, his first blown save the month and then san francisco blows it wide open. the joins win it 9-6. and could papelbon be the next guy out the door? the trade deadline is just eight days away and the phils closer
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is discussed in trade talks, doug lanville says he would move papelbon before anyone else. >> i think papelbon is an interesting option, he is having a great year, there are teams like detroit out there that need closers, that is the first piece i would consider. because it fits, if fits the team's needs out there. and you probably still can retain your talented players. to the eagles now, lane johnson is officially suspended by the nfl for the first four games of season for violating the league's enhancing drug policy. he admits to taking prescribed medication banned by the nfl. he did not check with the eagles training staff for using the illegal substance. he says i would like to sincerely apologize to coach
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kelly and his staff and my teammates and the amazing philadelphia eagles fans, he will be better than ever after he comes back at the end of september. finally there is commotion outside of lebron james's house after announcing he was going to cleveland. and lebron was upset. he sends a box of cupcakes to his next door neighbors and an apology for all the traffic and chaos that it causes on the street. i wish i had neighbors like that, sending over cupcakes. >> game tickets would be better. >> thank you jeff. rocker, john bn bon jovi is picked for this year's recipient of this year's marion award. he is a tireless activist to find solutions to homelessness and organized the concert that
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raised $50 million to help the victims of super storm sandy.
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adam is here now, a steamy day for most of us. some folks will see precipitation. there is a line of storms in the area, and double scan live is snaking through lehigh county and for the rest of us it's hot and steamy and within this line there is a severe thunderstorm warning until 7:15 including the
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lehigh valley season the north western part of buck county and berks county and the northern part of choester county. the reason why these storms have a warning prompting in this area is because of strong winds and vivid lightning and strong hail. if you look at double scan live, the line of these storms fall ago part in bethlehem and northampton county. we see rain but the vivid rain is in parts of red lion and bally and it's slowly pushing to the east at 20 miles per hour. and that line as you can see is bright south and east of reading down to honey brook now and as it pushes to the east in birdsboro, you can expect it at 6:28 and earlville at 6:33 and winds in excessive 6 miles per hour. and over 100 lightning strikes in the last 15 minutes and in this line that extends to
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lancaster, we are dealing with hail the size of quarters, especially south and east of reading, one to one and a half inch hail a half inch in diameter. and north and west of honey brook, these are slowly movelinging to the east at 20 miles per hour. the low this morning a balmy 72 degrees and the record low was 58, what is fueling the storms is the oppressive humidity, it feels like is the mid to upper 90s and dover is feeling like 98 in the last hour. the eruption of these storms have fired up in the last hour and most of the severe weather is to the north with a severe thunderstorm watch, some of these storms are turning too severe level here, as they push in from the north and west. and by 8:00 tonight. you can expect that line in
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trenton and philadelphia and wilmington, it's trying to refire again in parts of the lehigh valley, as it pushes into new jersey, future tracker is trying to break it apart as it hits the marine layer, the strong sea breeze is stabilizing the atmosphere in southern new jersey and by 11:00 all the is quiet with lingering clouds. now we start with clouds in the morning on thursday and high pressure will wedge in sending in a northerly wind and the humidity drops as the sun returns tomorrow with temperatures of 84 degrees. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast. tomorrow gradual clear and and a beautiful afternoon of 84, speaking of beautiful, friday the pick of the week, wall-to-wall sunshine and warmer and more humid over the weekend and 88 on saturday and 91 hot degrees on sunday and that could spark a thunderstorm in spots in the afternoon and an unsettled day on monday at 88 degrees
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before it turns gorgeous again with low humidity and temperatures below average only in the low 80s for highs. these storms have powerful windses and small hail. >> thank you adam. >> finally tonight, more reasons to enjoy the belmont plateau. they planneded a new grove of trees on the landscape. >> abc world news is next on channel 6 and "action news" continues tonight on phl 17 with brian taff, shirleen allicot, adam joseph and ducis rogers. now, for jim gardner, cecily tynan, adam joseph and ducis rogers, jeff skversky, and the entire "action news" team i'm rick williams have a nice evening.
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welcome to "world news." tonight, surviving the crash, as another passenger plane goes down. this one during a dangerous storm. tonight, you will hear amazing stories from people who escaped the wreckage. a somber procession, as some victims of malaysia flight 17 return home. and, also tonight on "world news," finding your dream house. >> never shy away from the house that looks terrible. >> the secret to finding a hidden treasure for your family in a neighborhood you thought you couldn't afford. good evening to you on this wednesday night. we begin with a developing story in this week of jarring news. yet another passenger plane has gone down, this time, in taiwan,

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