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and dropped to the ground. >> reporter: and the officer shot back multiple times, the suspect was pronounced dead the gun was found on the scene. while all this was going on, the other suspect fled out the back door, a k-9 yiewpt was called out, they were not able to to find the suspect, they are pulling footage from cameras in the area and they hope they will help. >> police in chester are investigating two shootings, this one was deadly, 18 to 20 shell casings littered west third street. three people were spotted running away. the other shooting happened several hours earlier at 22nd crozer streets, a man was shot in the neck, he is in critical

condition at crozer-chester medical center, no arrests or reported motives in either case. >> for the first time in two months there's a morning commute on the southbound lanes over the christina bridge opened a month ahead of schedule. the bridge was shut down on june june 2 because of tilting support columns, nice weather helped crews make repairs a little bit faster than expected. >> our engineers looked at it, our design engineers looked at it, and experts from the around the country looked at this said this bridge was safe to condition, that was the only condition that would allow us to reopen this bridge. >> 90,000 vehicles travel across the bridge everyday. the northbound lanes are still closed. drivers may encounter a closure or two in the southbound lanes

during weekends and the overnight hours. >> the cash-strapped philadelphia school district experienced another set back. lawmakers cancelled the cigarette tax. without the increase, 100 employees would get layoff notices. the state house was schedule to vote on the measure on monday, it would generate $45 million in the schools' first fiscal year. >> i'm annoyed and disappointed and frustrated we're at a point two weeks before we have to make decisions, operation decision to educate children. >> reporter: they postponed the vote, the house is not scheduled to ravine until september 15. schools are scheduled to open on september 8. mayor nutter says that will not happen without the extra tax revenue. >> this is breaking overnight,

the three day cease-fire in the northeast may have been broken. israeli tank fire has killed five and wounded others. for now, things look quiet. the israeli army said it is looking into the incident. the truce was to go into effect a few hours ago, israel and hamas have agreed to conduct defensive missions. israeli troops on the ground can destroy the tunnels. palestines in gaza are supposed to receive food and medicine and bury their dead. breaking this morning, a plane is on its way to africa 0 to bring home they don't americas struck with ebola. the first patient to arrive will be taken to emory university hospital in georgia which has prepared a special isolation

unit. the center of disease control said americans have no reason to worry. >> i'm confident that well not have widespread ebola in the u.s., whether a we have to do is make sure if someone arrives with the symptoms they isolate them and get the test from the cdc. "good morning america" will have more on the ebola outbreak and the cease-fire in the middle east, "g.m.a." starts at 7:00 a.m., after "action news." >> stocks plunged on argentina's latest debt default and heavy selling over seas. the dow dropped 300 points erasing all the gains for this calendar year. stock futures are in the green indicating we could see gains at the opening bell. investors will get an update on

the employment situation. the jobs report for july is due out this morning. comies added 2 -- economists added 225 jobs last month. work from home without getting out of bed. it holds a laptop precariously above your fails with the help of ties. the lazy and sleepy consumer is important, too. >> i don't think that's a productive worker there, matt. we'll see. cliff lee is back on the disabled list he hurt his elbow again. they called for the trainer lamplet in washington -- last night in washington. he felt as if something was going to stop. else on the 15 day dl. the confess are increasing about lee's help. >> musikfest gets underway in

the lehigh valley, hundreds of musicians perform in bethlehem, keith urban and sheryl crow are among the big stars. dozens of food vendors are set up with children's rides, musikfest ends august 10. we have more at 6abc.com, you can find a link to buy tickets. stop by our 6abc photo booth, we'll give you a picture and sign an autograph. we'll be introducing all american rejects. >> craig thatcher band tonight. still to come, video you did not see last night. a camera captured a massive deadly explosion overseas. medics thought it was a baby trapped in a hot suv, we'll tell you what it turned out to be. the craig thatcher band

concert tonight you can get into the steel stack also. there's a chance of spotty shower, the channels of it hitting the steel stacks is spotty. i will be at the 6abc tent with tam at 3:30 and then we've got the concert which you canning t-shirts out after that, we'll be back with the day-park forecast and the the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast and show you how the weekend is going to roll out next.

>> good morning, everyone, it is 4:43, we're talking about the accuweather forecast here today. we have chains in store looks like we're going to have rain possibly heavy at times. >> i had plans to take the kids outside i'm switching that to an indoor plan, if you're going up to musikfest this afternoon it's going to look a lot better, things will clear out. for the second straight morning i forget to put the right side of the computer organ the air. >> you mean people at home. >> do not touch your dial, there's a technical thing we changed, it's a little complicated and we're still getting used to it here.

in any event we're looking at a muggy morning and through the day there will be scattered showers around, once we get finished with with all that, we'll get improvement through the weekend. radar is showing we're basically dry this morning. as we take a look outside, we have sky 6 looking outside at center city. you can see it's a little bit cloudier today than yesterday, through the region, as we take a look at temperatures across the region right now, we can start out with that temperature profile in philadelphia, where it says 72 degrees and we have the dewpoint of 67. that's a high dewpoint, are winds south/southwest at 7 miles per hour. it feels muggier than it did over the last couple of days. now, future tracker 6 today shows cloud cover and we're seeing the clouds build on future tracker, after 12:00 or so there will be scattered

showers or thunderstorms. this is the 5:00 p.m. imagery, we move on up to 10:30. there's not a lot of, but we have to allow for spotty stuff at sometimes. 780 degrees by 8:00 a.m. 79 degrees by 11:00 a.m., 81 by 2, -- 82 is the high. 78 in cape may, new jersey, 82 in millville. and saturday another system comes out of the south. the latest movement on the model seems to want to keep this heavy rain down to the southern portion of the region before it filters away around midday. we can't be certain, however, it's going to stop as far south

of that. in the afternoon, cloudy and spotty showers, but better in the afternoon than in the morning. if you're heading to the poconos, well this weekend is going to be a decent one in terms of temperatures, 74 saturday, 74 sunday. same story at the shore. the weekend 76 degrees on saturday, 76 on sunday, humid with rain in the morning especially on saturday and possible thunderstorm in the afternoon. a quick look at the 7 day forecast, high of 82, warm and humid, spotty thunderstorm channels, 79 and warm and humid rain on saturday, and thunderstorm only sunday, 81. looks like we're unsettled on monday and we are settle down and we get dry weather again. a man will be rained in te killing -- arraigned in the killing of a camden woman.

crews was taken into custody in jacksonville, florida in july. witnesses pointed to cruz as the suspect. take a look at this incredible video showing the moment a cat traffic series of deadly explosion also ripped through a city in taiwan. four firefighters went out to investigate the gas leak are among the victims. the blast through people in cars 3 to 4 stories in the air. authorities say the under ground explosion may have resulted from leaking gas building up in city source. philadelphia police fire weapons leaving burglary suspect also dead inside a home. next up a veteran medic breaks window, but doesn't find what he expected in an suv. >> take the news and 6abc.com wherever you go, the new smart design fits any device no matter what size of the screen you have

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>> let's take a look at traffic, that looks pretty good, i-95 at the delaware state line, many signs are gone, giving you

the indication that the southbound lanes of 495 have reopened. traffic travel through wilmington on i-95 and 495 southbound looks like it's moving well. let's go to schuylkill expressway and passyunk all the lanes are open at schuylkill expressway and passyunk and 26th street. le if you're heading to the airport, looks like you won't have a problem. >> let's talk about your travel forecast on this friday. friday is the busiest day of the week for flights. you can see the rain and thundershowers moving up the coastline that will impact us and other important areas that people use to travel, so let's put up the many cities and locales that could see delays, up and down the east coast we're expecting thundershowers from new york city philadelphia, washington, d.c., atlanta, hartsville jackson and the airports down in miami, boston is not included we're thinking

logan international should be okay. detroit and chicago should see thundershowers, houston seeing thundershowers right now. so you could see delays right there. thundershowers expected in the las vegas and sky harbor in phoenix and denver. >> medics in north jersey smashed the window of an suv they thought a baby was trapped in the hot car that was not the case. reporter anthony johnson of our sister station wabc complains. >> reporter: take a close look because todd is a life-size doll. but at a quick glance todd appears to be an infant in distress in a hot car. >> when he came out, there was a todd and the ambulance and they broke the window thinking there was a baby in there. it wasn't a baby it was a doll. >> kitty said her 2-year-old

granddaughter left the doll in the car seat. when the ambulance corps arrived they had to make a split-second decision so they broke the drivers side window to save the doll. >> i saw the doll, it looked real. >> reporter: kitty flits can todd is life like, but since she has a busted window, she wishes business the emergency responders would have taken a closer look. >> the doll is there. >> rescue going kids from hot cars is a major concern. so much so police in philadelphia put out this harsh warning in twitter about handling cases where kids are hit in hot cars, they won't hesitate to bust the window. >> seconds are paramount, this is between the baby breathing not breathing. >> you can replace a window, you can't replace a life.

>> reporter: in hoboken, anthony johnson, channel 6 "action news." >> a tentative calm in gaza this morning after a cease-fire took effect overnight. we'll have more on that story coming up. >> an nfl star addresses the media after he was cutting on tape assaulting his wife in atlantic city, what he

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