the little league world series. how fabulous would that be? >> it is a big day for them. >> yes, it is. >> it is a big day for them. big day for all of us. it's 5:30 on this wednesday august 20th. matt o'donnell is off. sharrie williams is joining us. let's go right over to meteorologist, david murphy. he says there could be some rain tonight and karen rogers has your traffic. good morning. >> right now the only rain we see on satellite and radar in that wide view is out by pittsburgh and ohio. here we're looking at a mix of clouds and sun building as we go through the morning and it is going to be rather humid. this rain out here will be pushing toward central pennsylvania including williamsport which is about where i drew the x and it could be that we get a shower or a thunderstorm in the vicinity of the taney dragons baseball game tonight at williamsport. we'll see whether or not it's enough to hinder the play. 72 degrees in philadelphia, 72 in wilmington, 66 in allentown right now. 72 in sea isle city. you'll note that all these numbers are a little bit milder than we were the last couple of mornings at this time. we were in the 50's in a lot of northern suburbs over the last couple mornings but not

today. and as we step outside looks like it will be fairly comfortable, a little warmer between six and 8 o'clock. low 70's is what we're expecting under partly cloudy skies and as we go through the day a mix of clouds and sun all the way. a little bit on the humid side, the way it was yesterday and 75 by 9 o'clock, 81 by noon and a high of 85 at 3 o'clock. any rain we see today probably holds off until tonight and is mainly in the northern and western suburbs. karen i'll have more on future tracker 6 plotting that rain tonight and another round tomorrow coming up. >> all right, dave, tracking the construction now. we expect it to be clearing out. looking live in southwest philadelphia, this is i-95 by enterprise avenue. if you're headed towards the airport you're seeing this drugs blocking the right lane -- construction blocking the right lane. looking at the big picture no big accidents around the area but we have an issue with the traffic lights so watch for them. thirty-fourth street and grays ferry avenue they're not working at this point but police are on hand directorring you around the scene so hopefully helping out with that one. new issue in montgomeryville.

a disabled vehicle on hartman road and regency drive. burlington bristol bridge the overnight construction has cleared. the traffic pattern back to normal now so that's good news. looking live on the ben franklin bridge, good here as well, no delays, no construction from 10:00 to 3:00 only two lanes will be opened in each direction and when they've been doing this it has been causing big delays oh watch for that if you're headed for the ben or anywhere near it. tam. >> last night clouds clashed again with police for the tenth straight night over the shooting of 18-year-old michael bran. abc news reporter tahman bradley is live with the latest. good morning, tahman. >> reporter: good morning, tam. the demonstrations were peaceful until around midnight when according to police, violent people threw bottles. >> come on. >> reporter: overnight authorities in ferguson again changed tactics trying to keep a lower profile hiding

tactical units but peaceful demonstrations got out of hand. >> all media you need to return. >> reporter: officers drew their guns and made arrests. >> the agitators, the criminals embedded themselves and hid behind media. they began throwing bottles. they threw urine on officers and that's what caused officers to take action and begin to make arrests. >> reporter: an outside -- and outside ferguson yesterday afternoon there was this angry demonstration after another police shoot,. >> no justice, no peace. >> reporter: officers in saint louis shot and killed a 23-year-old black man they say was coming at them waveing a knife. >> officer's safety is the number one issue. if you're the family of a police officer and somebody approaches you within 3 feet with a knife i think you have a right to defend yourself. >> reporter: today attorney general eric holder travels to ferguson to meet with community leaders and check into the investigation into the police shooting of 18-year-old michael brown.

local authorities interviewed the officer who shot and killed brown, darren wilson and a grand jury will likely start hearing evidence today. officer wilson's good friend who asked that we conceal his identity is now speaking out. >> darren's a good person and people have just immediately jumped to label him as a cold-blooded murderernd that's just not the type of person that he is. >> reporter: it's not clear how long it will take to determine whether wilson will be chargeed: the funeral for michael brown will be held on monday. live in ferguson, missouri, tahman bradley, channel 6 "action news." >> tahman thank you for that live report from ferguson. president obama is expected the make a statement today on the execution of militants. isis released a video that reportedly shows the beheading of captive james foley. the 40-year-old new hampshire native was captured nearly two years ago while on assignment

in northern syria. isis said they killed him because of president obama's airstrikes in iraq. isis warns another american journalist, steven sutloff could also be killed if the airstrikes don't stop. "good morning america" will be updating the situation in both the middle east and in ferguson, missouri. that's coming up at 7:00 a.m. right after "action news." >> ♪ >> it is now 5:35 and new this morning, a driver lost control, crashed through a fence then slammed up against so fage no oth ha we"action newng. un a.m. phil hosp. rire on the suspect killing 29-year-old david ellis of frankford. the police calls from the scene of the shootout have now p >> i'm hit. , shots fired.

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forget about myes. >> i think it says a lotut theoa the parenting of the nice to hear kids take tha storm tracker 6 live double scan and we have no rain thte ay is taking outside we in camroadventure aquarium in society hill and everything looking tranquil out there as winds are not all that strong this morning and we're ait mild. 72 degrees is your current temperature in philadelphia. that dewpoint is creeping up to 65 at this point so that is somewhat humid u'll tend to feel that a little more after theoutheast ry hour. future tracker 6 shows you that we're going to b it of the. at times we'll be fairly sunny. at other times the clouds will here's the afternoon. later on in the evening we'll be on the lookout for a shower or a thunderstorm building into ts.

the dragons are going to be out there in williamsport trying to get that gamethere ist inssing sher o and i can't say whether or not it's going to be enough to cancel or delay the game but that's something that the weather watchers will be keeping the oirn out in williamsport tonight. 72 degrees by 8 o'clock, 79 degrees by 11:00. 85 is your high. we're probably going to hit that about 3 o'clock this afternoon and again a back and forth mix of clouds and sun today, a little bit on the humid side. high temperatures up in the lehigh valley not that much different from the i-95 corridor. 83 in allentown, 84 in reading and trenton. 79 in cape ay, new jersey, out on the peninsula of cape may. phillies play day baseball noon wrapping up that series against the mariners. clouds and sun, warm and humid, 82 for the first pitch. 84 in the ninth inning. tonight out in williamsport, the the taney dragons of philadelphia play under mostly cloudy skies. there is the chance of some scattered thunderstorms in the area so we'll see whether or not that's a problem. look tag game time temperature

of about 74 degrees. tomorrow, well, we've got a system coming in from the west that's going to drag some of those showers and thunderstorms in closer to philadelphia. 82 is the high tomorrow but it will still be on the humid side. future tracker shows you in the morning there could be something on the radar. most of the activity is probably holding off until the afternoon. most of our models haveorthern patternern t r tomorrow, notsoa holds tth 7-day coup o aroy's gorms non tomrow, possiy western suburbs may see more. mo82 cudy onand therco or on weekend still looks great. 78 on saturday and sday and a nice weather pattern continues monday, tuesday and probably wednesday as well to tell you the truth, okay? >> okay. it is now 5:41 and we've got more news coming up you didn't see last night.

negotiators work through the night trying to convince two men to end their standoff with police and release their hostages. >> then rescuers rush to save people trapped in cars and homes when flash floods sweep across the southwest. karen. >> the blue route is looking pretty good right now at macdade boulevard. if you're coming down from saint davids or upper darby you're not going to hit a nville and see what construction will affect that you when we come back. >> and we have newly released video showing a polmig end out west. we'll show it to you when "action news" continues. >> ♪

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>> ♪ >> and developing overnight, police are searching for a robber who held up a limo driver at gun point. this is new video coming into "action news" just in from the scene on the 2700 block of wharton street in the grays ferryection of philadelphia. the thief stole cash and then ed on foot. the limo driver was not hurt. >> let's head on over to karen rogers get the very latest on where things are with traffic. good morning. >> good morning. we're going start with your suburbs right now and look in and around the area. we'll start live in lionville. at route 113.era at route 100 a good shot of the road conditions. you can see kind of close up we're dry and no weather issues will affect your morning commute. no problems right now on route 100 but northbod from w theyl lo aan

100 but northbod from w construction 9:00 until 3:00 today lasting through next thursday in upper merion doing water main installation. watch for it on south gulph road at arden road and that will be out there for a little while. we have construction blocking the right lane on the northeast extension northbound between lansdale and quakertown. this disabled vehicle we tacked about earlier is cleared -- talked about earlier is car on hartman road at regency drive. i've got the waze app on the ipad. this is a look in gloucest unty. leer ware in deptford not far from the mall waking up there no problems.ooboadlsea dr, maybe gettingnto 55 to 42 to come into the city, we're findin no reports ofny problems that entire commute so that's some good news for you. how about the weather? no weather related problems is 66 degrees in quakertown and warrington. about 69 in center city. it's going to feel a little humid today with a high of 85.

we're starting off just at 63 in hammonton and 63 right now in dover, delaware. tam and sharrie. >> all right, thank you, karen. summer time monsoons settled over arizona take a look this stm system in phoenix. as many as 8-inches of rain fell. the rushing waters carried away trailers. people had to be rescued from their homes and their vehicles but so far no deaths have been reported. >> developing right now, a tense police standoff continues in a suburb of chicago where two children are among the hostages. swat teams in harvey illinois have had two men surrounded since yesterday afternoon following an exchange of gunfire with suspects. two officers were wounded but will be okay. at one time, six children and two adults were held hostage. so far, though, four of the young victims have been released and are said to be in good condition. >> pope francis made comment this morning on the tragic deaths of three of his relatives during today's general audience in vatican

city. the audience is taking place just one day after the deadly car accident in argentina. vatican officials say pope francis is profoundly saddened by the deaths of his nephew's wife and their two children. the pope's nephew was driving the car. he's right now in critical condition. >> time this wednesday morning 5:47:00 a.m. a.m. a queen village restaurant needs a new roof. >> also when we come back a jet ski explodes sending a woman on it flying across a wisconsin river. david. >> twitter follower joanne posts this interesting picture. sun out, temperatures nice, everybody is happy including groundhogs which have been in the backyard destroying her sunflowers. it's going to be more of that. it's a nice day. little humid, temperature in the 80's. if you're headed to the pool, index is on the high side so remember the sunscreen. we'll be back with your dayp

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headed out. on the map especiallinll 60's ft davids. looking around for some 70's. not quite 69 in center city. that's close. in south jersey 69 in cinnaminson, 67 in glassboro, 64 in woodbine. there are your 70's along the shore and we've got mid to upper 60's up and down the state of delaware this morning. if you're running errands today keep the aironditioner on. it's going to be warm an tad humid like it was yesterday. 75 by 9 o'clock, 81 by noon and your high today is 85 degrees at 3 o'clock. sharrie and tam. >> okay, david, thank you. >> a young woman survived quite a scare on a jet ski. the water craft exploded on the river in wisconsin on sunday. the blast sent her airborne. she's now on bedrest with broken back but she hopes to one day be back on the water and hopes that it's some day soon. it's believed a leak in the jet ski's gas line ignited that engine. >> new on "action news," a

mother is speaking out -- >> new on "action news" a mother is speaking out about a videotaped attack on her son who has autism. aaron hill can be heard crying as someone pulls the teen's hair and punches him. andrew wheeler is now behind bars accused of the beating. his family says he's receiving death threats. aaron's mother is encouraging her son's supporters to remain positive. >> ignorance does not deserve ignorance. bullying does not deserve bullying. >> the justice for aaron facebook page has received almost 80,000 likes. >> 5:52 -- now 5:53 this morning. up next pennsylvania steps up efforts to catch people who prey on children. >> also when we come back more some landslides have left dozens dead overseas. we'll update the search for survivors ahead at 6:00 a.m. >> of course don't forget you can take the new 6abc.com with you wherever you go. the new smart design changes the layout to fit any device

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village. the roof of the building at front and christian caved in yesterday afternoon. the ground floor is home to for pete's sake bar. thank goodness nobody got hurt. it's unclear when the bar may be able to reopen. and happening today pennsylvania attorney general kathleen kane will discuss the state's latest efforts to nab child predators. shield hold a round table discussion this morning in upper providence community hall in phoenixville. state senator john rafferty and other lawmakers will be on hand along with agents of the attorney general's child predator division and other law enforcement officials. cain will unveil the state's new state of the art forensics truck. >> it's move in day for the class of 2018 at villanova and temple universities. this will be temple's largest incoming freshman class. many will be moving into morgan residence hall which opened last year in response to student demand for more on

campus housing. both temple and villanova start classes monday. >> 5:57 and we continue o follow overnight developments out of ferguson, missouri. more on the efforts the calm tensions between protesters and police when "action

>> ♪ >> "action news." delaware valley's leading news program. with matt o'donnell, tamala edwards, karen rogers and with matt o'donnell, tamala >> ♪ >> good morning. it's 6:00 a.m. on this wednesday august 20. matt is off, sharrie williams is joining us. developing this morning. >> peaceful demonstrations end in more arrests in ferguson, missouri overnight.

we have the latest. >> a peeping tom on the prowl puts residents in one delaware community on edge. >> the taney dragons take a step closer to the little league world series title coming up later today. >> there is nobody more beloved than the kids on that team in this town right now. let's head out to david murphy. he's outside giving you a sense of what to expect of accuweather and karen rogers as your traffic. good morning. >> tam it's a little bit warmer on the terrace than it