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as gooarneuyer: po inisumreffiend,inheos da boroamepelionst b: a.celionoe le pole. again, police still say that this accident is under investigation. that includes whether or not alcohol or drugs were involved. they do not believe that any other vehicles were involved, they are getting a assistance from the montgomery county district attorney's office and that also includes help with the accident reconstruction scene. for now reporting live hatfield township annim mccormack for channel six "action news". police are searching for a driver who allegedly hit a pedestrian and then kept on going. it happened last nights as a man walk along sicklerville road near jarvis road across
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from the strawberry square shopping center in gloucester township. twenty-three year-old kevin tran was taken into coupe are university hospital in critical but stable condition, with numerous broken bones. if you have any information, that could help police, you are urged to call them right away. minivan, crashed into a parking lot in burlington county overnight, and then, burst into flames. it happened outside of a prospectors restaurant on route 38 in mount laurel. police say it appears that the driver suffered some sort of a medical problem and lost control of his minivan. the vehicle jumped the curve, ran into the bushes and caught fire. in word yet on the driver's condition. we are going to take you back to that helicopter crash, this morning, happening of course in middletown ship, cape may county courthouse around 10:45 on the 200 block of boyd street. we do know that two people were on board, one person was hurt, and, of course, there
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have been major closures in the area, middletown ship police department telling us today that sykes have avenue, boyd street, schoolhouse all closed to traffic, of course, as they continue to investigate. we are looking live at chopper 6hd over the scene in middletown ship. the mosquito commission helicopter crash there on boyd street field. it was occupied by the pilot and a passenger. both of them were employees of cape may county. both were taken to cape regional medical center. the pilot was not injured, the passenger did though suffer some injuries, so they are said to be non-life threatening. no injuries on the ground. no homes were damaged although do you see from the video you are looking at there that helicopter did come very close to that home there abe the backyards, a fence damaged there. middletown ship police and cape may county prosecutor office and sheriff department all on the scene to assist in the crash scene and continue this investigation as we continue to follow this both here on "action news" and on
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six abc.com. to st. louis, missouri where funeral services are underway this noon for 18 year-old michael brown. the teenager was shot and killed by a police officer more than two weeks ago. his death has sparked unrest and violent protests in the area. abc's dirk hawkins joins us live in st. louis more on the services. >> reporter: a leash, right now funeral services are still very much underway. it is standing room only. there are people crowding not only outside the church but inside the church as well where we are waiting to hear eulogy and a special statement from the family. hundreds of people waited in line for up to three hours to remember the life of michael brown. >> pay my respects to mike brown. i will go to his funeral. >> reporter: the the streets were calm and filled with mourners after days of violence that began when officer darren wilson shot the the 18 year-old on august 9th. >> hands up don't shoot. >> reporter: at a rally, brown's father called for
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protesters to take a break. >> can you please, please take a day of silence, so we can lay our son to rest. please, that is all i ask. >> reporter: in last night's mtv video music awards a moment of silence led by actor and rapper common. >> i want us all to take a moment of silence for mike brown. >> reporter: civil rights figures, local and national politicians, including representatives of the white house and local religious leaders are attending today's services. and now while those mourners are inside of the services as we speak, students are back in class. it is also first day of school that was delayed for more than a week, because of the violence. live from st. louis, missouri, curt hawkins for channel six "action news", a leash, back to you. >> thank you. well, gas leaks are newest concern after that earthquake hit california's wine country yesterday morning. pacific gas and electric says it received hundreds of calls from peak reporting the smell
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of gas. since the 6.0 quake rocked napa. it doesens of homes and buildings were badly damaged and deemed unsafe. one hospital that treated many people who were hurt said most of injuries were in the life threatening. >> we do practice and drill for these procedures. we are in california. we know we are going to have earthquakes. the the team did a beautiful job. >> power outages, and a large concern in the aftermath of the quake but there are now only a few hundred homes left to restore. do stay with "action news" and six abc.com for the latest on that california earthquake. we have posted photos of the extensive damage caused by the quake. kids across the delaware and lehigh valleys began heading back to school for a new year today. "action news" was there as bus's arrived at the brand new marsh creek sixth grade center in downingtown, chester county this morning. the new school's curriculum focuses on the environment and plans to use the nearby park and waterways for educational
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purposes. delaware governor jack markell was on hand to welcome students at brandywine high school in wilmington. education secretary mark murphy joined the governor as ae tor ithed fayof doueirmeinleakorea in fin. t rellooy tosestl t >> thook onladelpedndaideou iniredbyi.>ti tonnenmecaosfree ay.into wte>>finou aroreey h ngd ys, kle ar ande yfe a ateu mightbegh riw pwh w y yeteporteep
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luggage storage. study by a new york university professor predicts hotels will take in $2.25 billion in revenue from fees this year alone. that is a 6 percent increase from last year and nearly double from ten years ago. nearly half is from new surcharges and higher existing fees. burger king is talks to buy canadian coffee and doughnut chain tim horton's, the deal, if it goes through, would move the hamburgers chains headquarters from miami to can made a and shave its u.s. tax bill. such moves by american companies has become hot political issues. if the mergers goes through the companies say they will operate as separate brands but would share corporate services. health check this noon, the key to making the grade for teens, may be a later start time at school. pediatricians are recommending the delay of the start of the school day until at least 8:30:30 a.m. american academy of pediatrics said later start time for teens would help curb their lack of sleep.
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it has been linked to poor health, bad grades, car crashes and depression and suicide. the cdc recommend nine to ten hours of sleep for teenagers. the american heart association released its first policy statement on e cigarettes. the group backs them as a last resort to help smokers quit and stresses that proven methods such as nicotine patches, gum and medications should always be tried first. the group also expressed great concern about e cigarettes and urges more regulation especially to keep them away from young people. [ male announcer ] eligible for medicare?
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topping our people scene one of the all time grates in cinema is mourned from hollywood ape across the pond in great britain. director and anchor and humanitarian richard attenboro has died at the age of 90. many will remember him from jurassic park or 1994 remake of miracle on 34th street but pinnacle of his 60 year career is likely winning a best director and best picture oscar for gandie. >> ♪ >> well, big night for music industry and queen b beyonce at last night's vma. she took home prestigious vanguard award and performed songs from her latest albums. of course, her daughter too. berks county native taylor swift performed her new single shake it off, grande kicked off the show with the performance of her hit break free and took home the best pop video for her smash single problems. the rapper common called for a moment of silence following the shooting death of michael
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brown in missouri, and there was a tribute actor robin williams. meteorologist david murphy joining us now with a check of the accu weather forecast. gorgeous looking monday. >> beautiful. >> i can't believe some kids had to go back to school. >> isn't that something? they will have a nice walk home after school. storm tracker six, shows you that we have in precipitation in sight. as we take a look outside, the action cam, out along the schuylkill river, 30th street station, and everything is looking pretty good out there across the region today. it is a bit on the warm side 82 degrees in philadelphia. your dew point is down there at 59 just below that 60-degree threshold for when we start to consider the air humid. we will not get there today. wind east north east at 7 miles an hour. on the light side. eighty-two in the city. seventy-nine, in allentown and reading and wilmington. seventy-eight in millville, i should say. and 78 at the the airport in atlantic city. we have satellite showing you a i lack of cloud cover, sunglasses all around if you
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are up and down i-95 or out path turnpike. and up in allentown today we are looking at a nice 184. mainly sunny. pleasant conditions up there. as we look at, the shore it looks like good the in the the water. 74 degrees in atlantic city. a as we go on the beach not too bad. eight your high. sunny and nice conditions. humidity on the low side, for those of you at the shore. in philadelphia, we're going for a high of 84. mostly sunny and pleasant. wind light today out of the south at six to 12 miles an hour. not too shabby. overnight tonight we will dip to 64, mainly clear and cool overnight with light wind. heading to the ballpark tonight, looks good out there. as we've got low humidity. mainly clear conditions. the pleasant conditions too as the washington nationals, one of the hottest teams in baseball right now. they come to town to play our phils. seventy-nine for first pitch, and 71 in the ninth inning and again, pretty nice night for baseball with a lot of stars upstairs maybe just a couple of clouds around. mostly sunny then on tuesday as high pressure that is already in the process of building in gets even closer
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to us. we will be on the look out for a frontal boundary coming in by wednesday and increasing our humidity, raise those temperatures, perhaps up to 90 degrees for a high on wednesday but tomorrow still real nice one ahead of all of that action. tropical storm, christoballies up to 60 miles an hour winds and kind of meandering and in the doing a whole lot. turks islands are still getting some rain out of that. it is still 715 miles southwest of bermuda but as this storm system push es towards the the north we expect two things. first of all it will strengthen in the category one hurricane perhaps by early wednesday morning, and maybe even tuesday night, and then it will also look like it will stay far enough off of our coast where we won't worry about any cloud cover or rain from that, bermuda will be close to the track, but it will be close enough to us, and that we do have a concern this week of rip currents. i would think that would be an issue tomorrow, wednesday, maybe even thursday as well but that strong on shore flow, the water has got to get off the coast somehow and it does tonight rip current fashion. of course you just swim
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parallel to the beach to get out of that. eighty-four is the the day's high in your exclusive seven day forecast. the mostly sunny. pretty pleasant out there then tomorrow, more sunshine on the way, little warmer with a high of 86 but still a pretty nice day. on wednesday that is when heat and humidity will combine to make things more sweaty around here. 90 degrees is the the high. late in the day and more likely at night is there a chance of a shower or thunderstorm popping up, again that is wednesday. and as of right now it looks like that system sweeps out of here quickly enough where on thursday we have dry conditions, partly to mostly sunny skies. warm high of 86. the nice weather for the eagles and lincoln financial field at night for final preseason tune up and that is here on six abc. partly sunny then on friday, 81. nice day there. and heading in the the weekend it looks like it is going to be a little bit more humid, alycia, by sunday we could see showers and thunderstorms building back in. >> oh, boy not for our labor day weekend. >> unfortunately yes. the "action news" team is out working on news stories for tonight beginning at
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4:00 including best and worst picks when it comes to store credit cards. plus, inside a parenting experiment, what happened when a mother of two, stopped criticizing her children's bad behavior. and, would you risk looking ridiculous for 60 seconds a day if it meant fewer wrinkles. one super star athlete says yes, we will tell you who is endorsing this contraption and how it allegedly works. that is something different. that is it for "action news" at noon don't forget for "action news" at four, five and 6:00. for david murphy, czar bloomquist, rick williams and the entire "action news" team, i'm alycia vitarelli. have yourself a great afternoon. we will see you at 4:
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