>> good morning, 6 am on this monday, august 18. matt o'donnell is off, sharrie williams is joining us, we're following developing news. >> national guard troops arrive in ferguson, missouri when peaceful protests take a violent turn. >> skate boarders, spit, stomp and beat a philadelphia park ranger. there's encouraging news for shows thousands of atlantic city employees facing layoffs. >> first up, let's find out what to expect in weather and traffic and go over to david and karen. >> reporter: welcome aboard, sharrie, it's good to have you here. we have clouds in

delaware and parts of south jersey, looks like philadelphia may avoid that until later on tonight. my twitter follower, bobby in trenton, new jersey, tweets in 59 degrees, says hey, murph. is it still summer? it is, but it's cool for now. 58 in trenton, 51 in allentown, wow that's cool. upper 60s down the shore. 69 by 9 al. noon, 77. the high today is 84. which is off the average high for this date. we'll hit that around 3:30. 6:00 p.m., 81 degrees, cloudier to the south, the sunnier to the farther north as you go through the region. same thing tomorrow and eventually we'll see showers, may see that overnight tonight, we'll have the latest on future tracker 6. >> reporter: all right, dave we have our second vehicle fire route 1 southbound past new road

blocking two lanes, watch for that on route 1 southbound. let's head into new jersey, 42. this is northbound traffic looking good right now, you'll see the extra volume with people coming back from the shore in just a little bit. southbound we have the new construction pattern it debuted on friday, that's slowing you down, as well. a couple of issues on route 42. walt whitman bridge, right now until 35:00 p.m. you have three lanes open in each direction. westbound you have four lanes in the morning commute. you might want to held to the ben franklin bridge, instead. in south philadelphia, looking live at the schuylkill expressway, we have no construction restrictions and the road is mostly all paved. looking good it's a smooth ride this morning on the schuylkill expressway, tam. >> thank you, karen. developing this morning, peaceful protests gave way to another night of violent clashes in ferguson, missouri, this as the justice department announces it wants to conduct it's own autopsy on michael brown.

erin o'hern is live at the big board with the latest developments. >> reporter: major developments overnight as the in intensify. governor jay nixon has asked the national guard to restore peace to the community. before the order was signed there was amotrut -auncras.ntlin a ordadayee n s lendedri hde tunedga suday, b ag rge igh lmeep hly 1eted,p. tryinatel takypa.in ck

from pilots confessed he is the man. the ranger said he didn't fight back on purpose, because he was afraid he would lose his job. several bystanders tried to verbally intervene, but the three ran off. >> i lost my cool, he should not do what he did, we were waking away, i don't know they probably did get all that, we were wakingwa he tried to grab my friend, i stepped in and said listen he didn't do anything. >>so far no arrests have been made. >> reporter: curtis did not say an other skate boarders you see in the video. katherine scott channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. new at 6:00 a.m., charges could be filed in a freak crash that killed an elderly woman in the lehigh valley.

a driver flew back words pinning the victim between the car and the restaurant. workers say she was a long time customer. >> we were all crying it shook us really, really bad, because like i said it could have been any one of us, because sometimes we go outside to clean. >> a second woman in the parking lot suffered minor injuries along with the driver and the passengers inside the car. >> it's 6:07. a brand new study said a lot of people are totally unprogrammed financially for life after work. maribel aber is live at the time square with the latest on that. >> reporter: good morning, tam. a third of the people have nothing saved for retirement. 65 and orderly, 14% were -- older 14% were operating without any bank savings. investors will be looking to see wumradi

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d.c. they are inching closer to us. south jersey and delaware will cloudy up a bit, but looks like philadelphia and the northern suburbs will be mostly sunny today. i had a tweet from one of moi twitter followers saying it's cool in the city. 63 in philadelphia, 54 in millville and 57 in reading. noon, 77. feels like august this afternoon, 3:00 p.m., 83. we'll see a high of 84, probably around 3:30. 81 by 6:00 p.m., humidity low and fair amount of sunshine especially to the north today. we have high humidity building in and eventually rain, i'll have that in the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast. >> reporter: all right, birthday boy come inside, looking live on the schuylkill expressway, at belmont that's web traffic heading toward gladwyn, i know the camera is shake a little

bit, web heavy past the boulevard, but eastbound no major delays, looking good on the schuylkill expressway. lower pots grove township we have a apartment fire.oa whitman bridge. southbound we have a traffic athe ac expressway to the walt pattern that's going to cause extra congestion. >> a storylsthis first autopsy. major developments in ferguson as the vial owns continues to intensify. governor nixon send the national guard to the suburbs with the hopes of restoring peace to the community. >> reporter: there was a

peaceful demonstration, but it deteriorated as marchers pushed to one end of the street and police in riot gear attempted to push them back. officers launched tear gas and smoke canisters. police maintain that officer darren wilson was involved in an altercation with michael brown who was unarmed. however, a preliminary autopsy ordered by brown's family may contradict that claim. it revealed the teen was shot 6 times, including twice in the head and the shots were not fired at close range. police say protesters became violent and many of their actions were premeditated. some claim the polic were the initial aggressors. >> i saw the pros -- protest protesters go down the street peaceful and i saw tear gas disbursessed and more of the

crowds started coming back, as the crowd came back, more tear gas was shot, thrown. >> eric holder has ordered a federal medical examiner to perform another autopsy. area schls were scheduled to reopen today, but will remain osed because of the viontdevelo. 'sco bster their heads. the attackers took off toward the art museum. the investigation into the assault continues this morning. now to an "action news" exclusive. a 19-year-old skate boarder has confessed to his role in the attack on a philadelphia park ranger. the violent encounter was caught on camera. katherine scott has been following the story this morning who was live at the scene in love park with the candid interview only you'll see here on channel 6. >> reporter: no arrests have

been made in the case, but as you said "action news" did track down one of the men you're about to see in the video who said that was him, he was sorry he did it, but he could face serious charge. let's go to the cell phone video taken friday afternoon in love park. in that video you see the philadelphia park ranger being beaten up, he is spit on and stomped and kicked. this happened when the ranger tried to enforce the no skate boarding rule in the park. the pilots town man claimed -- the pottstown town man claimed the ranger grabbed the men. witnesses said they they tried to verbally intervene, but the three ran off. >> i lost my cool. listen i know i was talking to people who are not from philly, i know i messed up, i know what

i did was wrong, i can't take it back, if i could i would. >> we are told that the park ranger is doing okay, he had injuries to his head, but nothing is serious. >> we're live in love park, channel 6 "action news." >> happening today, jury selection is underway in the trial for a bucks county teen charged with the rapes of ten girls. 19-year-old josh benson is accused of forcing himself on girls ages 14 to 17 beginning in 2009. he moved to bensalem from utah when the rapes started. he met his victims through online dating sites or at the ma. the taney dragons brought home a nail-biting victory in williams sport. in the first, mo'ne davis hit a soft blooper in the right field making it 2-0. texas fought back makingtrip lec

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