advanced on the city. ment u.s. has a consulate there and military advisors. and the u.s. dropping humanitarian supplies for refugees, and many of them running from their homes and fleeing certain death and trapped in a mountain range. reports say isis executed dozens of the refugee men and kept the wives for unmarried isis fighters. and they captured the dam with catastrophic sequences for the civilian population. and reporter john rawlins getting local reaction of this in the 6700 block of bustle fon -- bustleton where refugees live. >> talking to experts and a recent refugee.

it is a gathering place for many from iraq of the pair had similar fears as to what could happen when they target those refugees. >> you think they want to wipe them out? >> if you are not with them, you are the enemy. >> it is very conceivable that a total bloodbath could wipe out this group of people. >> michael from the research institute in center city, and iraqi refugee talking about the small iraqi sect, thousands who are trapped on mount sinjar target eed by islamic extremist. >> they have a different customs. genocide is a legit hit concern. >> the u.s. started air drops of water and food for those on the

mountain. a good first step. >> it is just one step. they need more. >> there needs to be more? >> yeah. more. >> and she applauded the area talks on isis. she has family who moved from baghdad, but the once safe city now under threat. and an army officer in northern iraq, he says it is hard to tell if the attacks can ten the kurdish fighters turn the tide. >> it is a fluent situation and right now the things will probably get worse before they get better. >> that grim prognosis, she says her aunts and uncle the left, and now that could be following them into that once-stable region. >> thank you, john. alerting you to updates about the situation in iraq on

our website at 6abc.com. and we ask to you stay with it both on the air and online as developments continue to unfold. and "world news with diane sawyer" will have the latest from iraq next on channel 6. city officials are trying to find out what caused three children to receive a shock while they were swimming at the o'connor pool at 26th and lumbard. and the children were transported to children's hospital in stable condition. there were a total of 12 children in the pool. witnesses say there was a workman fixing a moth ing ing a area. the reward to find the killer went up. near the christian recreation center where connie murray was found dead on tuesday. the crews used heavy equipment to hope to find something.

an additional $15,000 added to the reward for information leading to murray's killer, and that reward stands at $51,000. sad news, the mother of the three children killed in the carjacked s.u.v. crash two weeks ago also died. vernon odom live in germantown and allegeny in the tioga section of philadelphia where they are about to hold a vigil for keisha williams. vernon? >> jim, we expect that vigil for this time in the memory of keisha williams to begin sometime within the next few minutes. her death, in fact, was not a surprise. her friends and family told me on the day that she was hit at this corner that her chances to survive were slim at best. she was in a medical coma for weeks. this shrine at allegeny is bigger and grander than ever two

weeks after the catastrophe living a fourth dead. keisha williams age 34, the mother of the three children who died the day of the crime, passed away late last night. sources say she was never told of her children's fate. >> her children were her life. she would tell me that all the time. the children are the first concern, no one else. >> thelma brown still nursing a broken leg hoped that her friend and neighbor would survive, but it was not to be. july 25th they were setting up to sell fruit at the corner to finance a community garden in the vacant lot when an s.u.v. slammed into the group of innocents. and she lives that horror over and over and always will. >> i thank god that i am living. if i had moved an inch i would be dead and i know that. >> and williams death is a fourth murder charge for

jonathan rosa and cornelius crawford now sitting in jail as the wheels of justice grind on. no funeral plans set yet or announced for keisha williams. live in tioga, vernon odom, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you, vernon. a man accused of robbing and beating a philadelphia, center city set center behind bars. they charged kenneth todd for the attack on july 25th. police say the victim was taking care after dog inside of a pine street home when todd burst in and knocked her on conscious. and he allegedly ran sacked her home stealing the computer and he did held on bail tonight. i do and sentencing a man to 4 1/2 to 17 years in prison for a deadly hit-and-run crash in

upper darby. marx pled guilty last month. he struck and killed 69 year old richard patterton and his pet poodle on january 5. and he drove off allegedly but captured a short time later. he has been convicted. investigators looking why cars derailed. fortunately no one hurt, but the derailment is not impacting rail or vehicular traffic. and counting down in chicago, less than two hours away from the start of the eagles's first preseason game. they are amp'd up to get it started. >> a long off season. i am excited to see what they do. >> the moves they made in the off season, especially last year, exciting. >> i like our coach. chip kelly will do a great job. the second season.

he will bring us the championship this year. >> live at soldier field is the sports director, ducis rodgers. the fans are charged up, one would assume the players are, too. >> they are excited to get the preseason started and the regular season in about 30 days. and the new season brings new hope. this year it carries more wait than last season. and expect them to play 10 to 15 place. and williams and the defendant arrivals with a chip on their shoulder it stopping the pass a problem last season, and the birds added a safety in jenkins and tweaked a few things. >> i think everybody is looking at the potential for this year and really trying to gel and mold the defense. but you have a lot of plays,

guys with chips on their shoulder with something to prove. >> we are not the same team from last year. we have something to prove. we have to have a chip on our shoulder and have to go out and prove it. >> they will start doing that tonight against the bears. a special starting at 7:30 on 6abc. "great expectations" and with one-on-one with mccoy and nick foles and that takes us straight up to the kickoff at 8:00 on 6abc. it is thes bears and eagles. coming up a little later on in sports, hearing from nick foles about what he has done this off season. reporting live in chicago, i'm ducis rodgers, channel 6 "action news." jim, to you. >> i can hear your amped up too, thank you. coming you on "action news" tonight, campers in montgomery county enjoy friendly competition. and royal halladay back on the mound at citizens bank park tonight. the past three days temperatures have been below normal, but i am tracking warmer, more humid air and our

next chance of rain in the accuweather seven-day forecast. those stories and much more when "action news" continues tonight.

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drexel university college of medical welcome the class of 2018 with the traditional white coat ceremony. proud family and friends looked on as the in-coming class doned white coats the first time and they recited the hippocratic oath, their passage into the medical community. it happened today in pennsylvania, the youngsters of the variety club camp saying part in what they will long remember and probably are already looking for to next summer. and katherine scott was there. >> everyone is having fun around here. >> that could be the case any given day at this camp where kids with physical and developmental disabilities. today is special, it is the sunshine games held in memory after counseloring dying in a car accident in 1999. >> annie was a fun-loving person and always had a good time while she was here and i think her parents wanted to bring that out

in the day. and they certainly have succeeded. ♪ >> today started with the national anthem at the opening ceremony, and soon it was time for the games to begin. slip and slide, a spaghetti search, and even some mummys in the making. drapes the favorite, a dunk tank. >> and they could dunk the counselors. >> indeed that's where we found "action news" anchor, matt o'donnell, lending his pitching prowess to the campers as they took the plunk over and over and over again. and many kids say it is one of the favorite days in an already-fun summer. a little healthy competition and big smiles. >> it helps everybody around the vowied inined ining -- surroun kids feel at home. a

>> 1:44:20-some odd seconds, not that we are looking forward to this.

>> not at all. can't wait for football. a lot of question marks going into the preseason. how will the offense look with nick foles? can the rest of the nfl catch up with chip kelly? we are did to find out and getting at least a glimpse of what the team will look like. live to ducis rodgers in check. and finally some football. >> yes, jeff, it's a long time coming. you mention it will just be a glimpse. expect starters playing 10 to 15 place. plays. no sense getting big stars hurt, especially nick foles. and coming off a big year, many want to see if he can do it. 21 touchdowns against two interceptions. no longer fighting for a starting job, he has job security. but foles tells our jamie apody he refuses to take anything for granted. >> there is so much to work none this game, that you can never

get there. it is something you strive for, but there is always going to be something you can get better at. >>the third highest pass rating and you can get better. >> i can get a lot better. a lot of times i made mistakes, whether it is taking a sack or doing different things, maybe taking the ball down faster, things i am working down and i am studying what i did last year and what my tendencies were. teams will study those tenden tendencies and try to exploit them this year. and come p 2014 philadelphia eagles, great expectations. and the bears taking on the eagles. and with the eagles in chicago, back to you. >> all right. and a look at jeremy maclin in the offense.

and it seems years since roy halladay through the no-hitter. halladay says he still gets goose bumps walking back into citizens bank park. he has no regrets walking away from baseball this off-season because of back issues. what does he now think of the phillies now that they are going through so many issues? >> there comes a point where somehow you have to start turning things over. and you know, you are kind of in a no-win situation. >> phillies-mets tonight. a.j. burnett on the mound. rumors for work that days with the sixers coming to an end for thad young. and he will trade him to minnesota for the former number one pick, bennett, once they get him from cleveland. the deem -- deal cannot be

official until august 23. and catching up with young at his basketball camp in king of prussia. and he heard the rumors but doesn't know much more than that. >> i am prepared and not worried about it at all. wherever i go, if i stay here, i go somewhere else, i will just stay professional and continue to play basketball. >> and he has not really been happy. playing here seven years. lots of losing, wants to play for a winner. we will see what happens. and philadelphia's little league baseball team one step closer. the pennsylvania state champion held on to win 6-5 today over new york in the mid-atlantic regional semifinals. and davis with the final pitch. and they will square off again with the delaware state champions. the newark nationaling took

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>> we are in the middle of a beautiful summer streak. here is cecily tynan and accuweather. >> and it continues right through the weekend. stormtracker live double scan showing no rain out there. we have seen a few clouds. the action cam in atlantic city. you notice we don't have bright blue skies, a milk way white sky. that is actually due to smoke from the fires over northwest canada. very high in the atmosphere and that's what is creating the cloud cover.

still, a pretty nice day out there. the highlights we begin close to 5,000 miles away in hawaii where a cell made landfall this morning about 30 miles south of hilo. and some parts of the big island as much as 14 inches of rain. the cell north of honolulu and hoc moving away. and julio, category two hurricane, the tracks keep it north of the hawaiian island so the conditions in hawaii improving over the next 24 hours. they had some problems with flooding. back at home, going to be getting a little more humid. dewpoints in the low 50s. tomorrow pretty low, 56 degrees, the dewpoint. and you notice sunday through next week dewpoints low to mid 60s. not oppressively humid but you

will notice the increase. comfortable, philadelphia 81 down from 82. allentown 80, millville 80, the poconos 73 degrees. satellite 6 along with actions radar showing the upper-level low over northern new england. another system to the south. we have high pressure right over toronto. and what this high pressure is doing, it will suppress all of the moisture down to the south. it looks like it is coming our way. if you look closely you see it is like a brick wall. all of this will be sliding to the east. we will not see the rain from the system. however, we can get a few clouds, especially south of philadelphia as we head through the weekend. still, looking pretty nice. futuretracker showing temperatures tomorrow, warmer than today. and heading into sunday, again temperatures will be generally mid 80s. seasonably warm. sunday more humid than saturday. if you are down the shore this weekend it is a beautiful beach

weekend. ocean temperature 75 degrees. air temperature 79. loads of sunshine and sunday a few clouds here and there, high of 78 degrees. heading to the poconos, temperatures generally in the 70s this weekend. 76 degre sunday. sunday more sunshine, 77. overnight lows in the low 50s in the poconos. you may want a sweatshirt for the evening. the exclusive forecast for tonight, moon-lit sky comfortable. 57 to 65 degrees. the seven-day forecast showing tomorrow beautiful day. sun with clouds and 85 degrees. sunday, humidity you have a moch. monday is warm and muggy. and tuesday it clouds up and 82 degrees. some thunderstorms developing late in the day. and a cold front passes through on wednesday. and much like the past wednesday the rain will occur in the morning. clears out by the afternoon, 84 degrees. and temperatures drop to the low 80s on thursday. and friday, low humidity and lots of sunshine.

it's august and we don't have one day of temperatures anywhere 90s, enjoy it. >> we'll take it. the "action news" baby boom turning into a full blown baby explosion. we would introduce you to jolie, the brand new daughter of our video editor, gary z and his wife, shannon. coming into this world this morning. beautiful. 21 inches, weighs 8 pounds 6 ounces and brings much brother to big brother zach who we are told is simply elated to have a little sister. at least he is now. [laughter] abc's "world news with diane sawyer" next on channel 6. "action news" continues tonight at 10:00 on phl 17 with brian taff, shirleen allicot, adam joseph and ducis rodgers. and please join us for "action news at 11:00" on channel 6.

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