>> good morning we're following a developing story on this friday august 29. crews are working to clean the mangled wreckage of this tractor-trailer crash on the schuylkill expressway. >> cleanup crews used masks and cruised a backhoe to remove trash from a northeast philadelphia home.to remove let's get more on the developing story, the big traffic story arc

tractor-trailer overturned near the schuylkill expressway early this morning and that has led to overnight road closures. it happened between the where roosevelt boulevard and the schuylkill expressway westbound crews have spent more than three hours trying to get the truck out of there and clean up the mess. they hope to remove the truck in about an hour, at 5:30 a.m., the truck driver was taken to temple university hospital for an valuation. it's not clear what caused the wreck. we do know that the schuylkill expressway leading to city avenue that ramp remains closed and the ramp from the boulevard to the schuylkill expressway and to city avenue, those ramps are closed right now, but once again they are hoping to get this cleaned up in an hour, matt pellman will be following that in traffic this morning. >> reporter: good morning, it is 4:30, let's go over to david murphy, a lot of people wondering about the big holiday and what to anticipate.

>> reporter: good morning, we have more day of low humidity and tomorrow it gets stickier, lots of sunshine on the away, we have a prong of weak cloud cover that's trying to angle into the region. we talked about how we would see a drop in temperatures, and we have. trenton, 56. reading, 56. wilmington, 58. and low 60s down the shore at this early hour. as we head outside it will be cool during the morning commute. 6:00 a.m., 60 degrees, 65 by 8:00. some suburbs by 8:00 holding on to the 50s. as we roll through the day, 67 by 9:00. 74 by noon, 80 by 3:00 p.m., high of 81 probably around 4:00 p.m. before we dip back to 77 degrees by 6:00 p.m. lots of sun on the way. there's the humidity change as a warm front down south will come through the region and start to wraiz the humidity over the -- raise the humidity.

i'll have more in the seven day. >> two brazen robbers, robbed and were going to shoot a man who was carrying loads and loads of cash. it happened in broad daylight in northeast philadelphia. katherine scott has the latest on the investigation. >> reporter: the 37-year-old victim is recovering. he owns several local businesses and was on his way when he was ambushed. his gun was laying on the ground in the park parking lot. broken glass was everywhere. it happened at 6:00 p.m. in northeast philadelphia. the businessman pulled up to make a deposit inside the path mark on the 2100 block of bly, when two suspects blocked him in his spot and came up on either side of him, he was shot and a bag of money stolen containing

$70,000 in cash, police say the suspects had been waiting for that victim. >> i seen a bunch of people in the store i knew something was going on. when i came out, looked like a dodge caravan taking off. i saw a guy get out of his car and a lot of blood all over the clothing. here's an image of the van, police believe it's a white dodge caravan, it was later seen on the 7000 block of kendrid. it appears they were trying to change the license plate. if you have any information on the van police want to hear from you. >> police are looking to for the drug ring leader who stabbed and thrown into the schuylkill river. a third man who was not weighted down survived.

investigators say two of the men gambled away drug money. a tbrenld -- friend brought money to try to save them, but it was less than they owed. neighbors say they have been dealing with the stench for years, crews found trash on the 26 block of north 1th street. a backhoe was used to grab the trash and pull it out of the windows, the owner was taken to the hospital for a mental health valuation. the white house is doing damage control because president obama seemed to admit he does not have a strategy to defeat isis. his advisers stepped in to clarify. an then there's the whole thing about the tan suit. a surprising dismission by president obama who ordered

flights over syria to identify isis targets. >> the suggestion seems to have been been we're about to go full scale on a elaborate strategy for defeating isil. i want to put the cart before the horse, we don't have a strategy yet. military action is not evident. >> i want to make sure everybody is clear on what we're doing now, because it's limited. >> reporter: mr. obama's comments drew fire from republican critics. >> my son stephen is in your hands. >> reporter: isis stunned stunned the world last week releasing this gruesome execution video of james foley. isis is sophisticated and well

funded with an army fighting for territory inside iraq. secretary hagel describes them as immanent. the u.s. is building a coalition of middle east partners to battle isis. >> the nfl is strengthening its domestic violence policy. players face a 6 week suspension for a first offense. tailgaters gave their approval of the policy. >> people look up to them, children look up to them, they have to set the right example. >> the tougher penalties come after the recent two week suspension of ray rice who was arrested in february on charges

he struck his then fiance at the atlantic city casino. the and he thinks -- suspension was acknowledged as too light. codey parky put his best foot forward over the jets at lincoln financial field. he had a 54-yarder in the first hard and 53-yarder in the second half. he is trying to take alex hener y's job. the made in america concert, there will be good times and good food and music, but look at all this red. these are -- in fact this will happen these are traffic closures that's going to be a lot of traffic headaches starting this morning, a number of streets are closed it will

stay that way. crews completed the lighting and the speaker system on the parkway. now the city has added a new wrinkle. fans are not allowed to enter the festival, if they have filled containers. >> if you bring the container in, the container will have to be empty. i understand there's a new thing called camelbacks, they can come in, but they have to be empty. if they are not emptied, they will not get in. now the inner lanes of the parkway will be closed to traffic starting with the morning rush, go to the outer lanes. the other road closures will start at 10:00. matt pellman will give us the traffic details coming up in the next half-hour. you can visit the 6abc news appear for a list of all the road closures and view the slide

show and get info on what time the act you want to see is taking the stage. coming up more stories that you didn't see last night, including a overall student book -- the controversy over the book at a place of higher learning. >> reporter: you know how we say when it gets over the 60 in the dewpoint it's humid, 65, 70 and 68 will make the air feel soupy. we'll have that and let you know where the temperatures are going coming up next. .

>> i guess we're ordering a little soup especially by monday. >> reporter: yes, it will be soupy. we're dry across the region, very similar to yesterday. take a look outside, we have stars across the region, that's above the ben franklin bridge. right now in philadelphia, 62 degrees. the dewpoint all the way down to 48. that's real low, so dry air in place, winds out of the north at

7, not as breezy as yesterday. satellite and radar showing no rain around in our vicinity. there's a little bit of cloud cover trying to sweep in, with dry air in place, we expect sunny skies today. 65 degrees by 8. 72 by 11. 78 degrees by 2:00 p.m., and 81 is the high around 3:30 or 4. high temperatures across the region, 79 in allentown, 80 in reading anticipate trenton. 81 in wilmington. 76 on the beach. a little cooler on the water than what we had the last couple of days and then we get into the weekend, a warm front passes through on saturday and stays to the north of us on sunday and monday. that's going to allow a majorly humid air mass to start streaking in from the north. as the front gets closer we'll mix thunderstorms in on sunday

and especially monday, and maybe tuesday, as well. let's take a look at the poconos and unfortunately i think i load the wrong one of these, this will be slow. the poconos will be a little bit humid on saturday, as we roll through the weekend it gets more and more humid, particularly sunday and monday. 81 is the high if philadelphia today. it's a very nice one out there. tomorrow more humid, high of 82. looks like saturday is dry. down the shore in the upper 70s. sunday hot and humid, high of 90. late in the afternoon or night there's the chance of a couple of stray thunderstorms kicking in. hot and humid on monday with another high of 90. even if the dewpoint eases back a little bit it will be sticky air. monday afternoon and evening there's a better chance of showers and thunderstorms popping in. at the shore you can shave four or five degrees off these high

temperatures, sunday or monday you'll be up in the mid 80s at the shore. chance of an afternoon or evening thunderstorm. a little rocky as we go through the weekend and sticky. dry most of the time, as long as you keep the coofl -- cool drinks flowing you'll be okay. >> a store owner was ready to fight off two robbers, he showed a handgun, this is the second time in recent months that these bandits have targeted this business. new on "action news," a bus driver in australia was caught on camera and in no state to be behind the wheel. he was smoking synthetic marijuana. the 57-year-old joyride came to an end as he passed out. he wiped out two fences before

he careened into a home. nobody was on board the bus at the time of the crash. the driver tested positive for morphine and other drugs. >> now your first look at business, google research lap is flying into others and bumbling into competitors. they will have drones that will deliver packages. amazon has the same program going on. credit card satisfaction. both companies received scores of 819 out of the 1,000. the key to success for both companies, extremely effective and accessible customer service. it matters folks. fears returned to wall street. the s&p 500 dipped below 2,000. stock features are slightly

higher this morning. gas prices are at the lowest level since 2010. in philadelphia, 3.46. experts predict the prices should drop through early november. getting out of the summer driving season. >> i filled up yesterday it was a nice surprise when it was all over. still ahead on "action news" a group of people caught up in an rest in ferguson, missouri are suing the police department. we have new information on the condition of comedian joan rivers

>> good morning, let's take a look at your traffic issues, boy, do we have a big one, listen up, if you take the boulevard to the schuylkill expressway westbound. there was an overturned tractor-trailer before 1:00 a.m. it's still out there blocking that ramp from the schuylkill expressway westbound to city avenue. the ramp from the roosevelt boulevard southbound to the schuylkill expressway westbound into city avenue those are also closed. we do expect the accident to clear out in the next hour, if you leave around this time through 6:00 a.m., keep it right here, we'll have detours and alternates with matt pellman coming up in ten minutes. southwest philadelphia, i-95 and enterprise overnight construction issues out thereof, no problems if you're getting from there to center city. travel forecast time, the surface summer across the

country, the pilots use to see where it's going to beesy -- be easy to fly and where it's going to be difficult. it's labor day weekend, maybe people are taking one last vacation before the kids back to school. we have 1200 flights over the lower 48 that's kind of a lot for this time of the morning. here's 9 airports you could see travel related delays, up and down the east coast we're looking good except for miami, typical thundershower activity. minneapolis, chicago and detroit could all thee thundershowers today and chicago, obviously that's a big one with o'hare, could cause delays, could spill over to other airports. down in, texas, typical thundershower activity, you can see that in dallas and houston. on the west coast everything looking good in the rocky mountain states, lax could see

cloud cover this morning. i'm thinking san francisco should be good with the low cloud cover, i'm posting it there, just in case, better to be safe than sorry, tam. >> new on "action news," a bus carrying asian tourists rolled over on a highway in british columbia. the tour bus was heading to vancouver when it hit a median and flipped over. the passengers received some sort of injury. nascar driver tony stewart will return to the track this weekend after hitting and killing a fell driver. stewart had been out since killing kevin ward junior. the video of the incident shows ward gesturing toward stewart's vehicle. the crash has been ruled anen track incident. nascar will be in georgia with a sunday race at the atlanta

speedway. >> a state run university in pennsylvania is being criticized for allowing student coupons for legal counsel to be offered on campus. a lawyering is offering ten% off for defense costs for drug and alcohol related offenses. the attorney paid to have them in the discount book that is available on campus. the officials say coupon clippers are independently published,

>> police response to protests in ferguson, missouri has led to a 40 million-dollar lawsuit. five people have filed the federal lawsuit and it accuses ferguson and saint louis county police of making false arrests. a 23-year-old man said he was walking through the protest zone to get to his mom's house when he was shot with rubber bullets. another man was arrested for recording protests. joan rivers condition is reportedly improving at a new york hospital. the comedian was rushed to mount sigh -- sinai hospital in cardiac arrest. her daughter melissa said her

mother is resting comfortable and coming up with jokes about this, as we speak. >> researchers test an unusual approach to test a common injury in older adults. they are tripping seniors on purpose. >> a big rig makes a big mess when it barrels into the side of a philadelphia home. we'll tell you

>> good morning everyone, it is 5:00 a.m., it is friday, august 29. here's what's happening. >> ambushed, robbed and shot, an attack in a supermarket parking lot leaves a man injured and tens of thousands of dollars gone. >> a crash sends a tractor-trailer careening into a north philadelphia house. >> accuweather says it's going to be a fantastic finish to your workweek, but you should get ready to sizzle this weekend. >> karen rogers is off, david murphy has the forecast, and matt pellman has