>> good morning, it is 5:00 a.m. on this thursday, september 4.ning, it is here's what's happening. >> a gruesome discovery in a burning car leads to philadelphia's latest murder investigation. >> a delaware man she had tears after the murder of his business partner, but police say this was an act. >> we're hours away from the multimillion dollar transformation of the plaza next to city hall.

>> it would be a day where you could enjoy sitting outside at city hall enjoying some coffee. >> reporter: it will be warm today, but not all that humid, we're out of the traditionally what people feel is summer. but we're still in the summer season. we'll get sunshine later on, most of the cloud cover is down to the south and up north. he wantly we'll -- eventually we'll see clouds popping up, but it will be the puffy cumulus. 62 in trenton. the temperatures are easy to take if you're heading outside early. 6:00 a.m., 67 degrees, 8:00 a.m., 72 mainly clear and fairly comfortable early on. we roll through the day, it gets warm. 75 by 9:00. 83 by noon. 3:00 p.m., 89 degrees that's going to be the high before we dip back down to 84.

a few clouds filtering in, but generally speaking warm and fairly comfortable 89 degrees. tomorrow it gets more humid, matt, we could throw thunderstorms back into play. >> reporter: the summer that wasn't is holding on. >> reporter: yeah, right. >> reporter: good morning, we're looking live at the vine express, all is fine on the vine. the ramp to 76 has reopened, that was closed overnight for construction. we have roadwork on the boulevard. northbound side underneath broad street they are doing more paving work and taking out the left lane in the process. a bit farther north between 9th and whitiker they are blocking the inner drive. all the paving operation should wrap up in around 6:00 a.m. so, in the next hour. i-95 construction on the southbound side heading toward at airport taking out the left

lane. we had a fire in southwest philadelphia blocking funston street. we had a blown transformer joshua drive, watch out for a local power outage, but peco is responding to the scene. firefighters discovered a man's body inside a car in philadelphia burned beyond recognition. annie mccormick is live at police headquarters, she has the latest, good morning, annie mccormicky good morning, at this hour, homicide detectives say they have not been able to make a positive identification on the body discovered. they can not say what is the cause of death is at this time. take a look of this fire video that a witness took with with a cell phone. that's a car on fire, crews discovered a man dead in the car

in the passenger seat. that happened in an alley in olney section. star watson saint the victim inside the car was her brother. northwest detectives were close investigating reports from withses including watson of shots fired in a vehicle matching the description of the one you saw on fire. witnesses say the passenger in the vehicle, a man was shot in the head and the driver took off with the passenger inside. the shooting was reported around 4:00 p.m. detectives called local hospitals and officers were on foot patrol looking for the vehicle described in the shooting, nearby witnesses and the police saw smoke and flames nearby. >> about an hour later we see smoke coming from the air, me and my boyfriend and all of us, we ran enter we got to the burning car before the cops did just by running on foot.

that was the car they were looking for the whole hour they were how the here it was two blocks away. >> reporter: police have not made a positive identification yet or released a name to us. they also can't say when the car was parked there or set on fire. police did say they were looking for a heavy-set man running from the scene and jumping into a red car. >> the family of a 12-year-old girl is suing the philadelphia school district over her death. she died of an asthma attack. her father said if the school had an on duty nurse daughter would be alive. the family has filed a wrongful death suit gains the school

district. the school district said the staff at bryant is not responsible for the child's death. there's a stunning development in a murder of a delaware couple. they were shot to death in wilmington last september. the day of the crime we talked to christopher rivers he appeared to be distraught. now police say it was an act. they arrested rivers in joshua bay charging both men with the couple's murder. >> job seekers are invited to the workshop in delaware. it will be held at the wilmington public library there's the address. attendees can learn interview techniques and how to market themselves to potential employers. the action cam is looking at dillworth plaza at city hall.

it will open as dillworth park. there will be a green space and cafe and all new entrances to connect to the subway. "action news" will be there for the ribbon cutting at 1 1:00 a.m. >> we've seen the construction for so long. it will be great to see it. >> reporter: i found out there will be an ice rink conversion in the wintertime. >> storm tracker 6 live double scan, right now we have dry conditions, as we look outside, we're looking at center city. there's liable to be a fair amount of sunshine early on and fair amount as we go through the afternoon with patchy clouds digging in. 69 degrees in philadelphia. 60 up in allentown, so a little bit cooler up north. 62 in trenton. 62 in reading, 65 in wilmington, low 70s right now at the

boardwalk in atlantic city and down the coast in sea isle city. satellite shows you how you there's not a whole lot of the cloud cover out there right now. there could pop up fair weather cumulus as we go through the day. overall we'll call it partly to mostly sunny skies. generally speaking the big story is how warm it is. sun and clouds up in allentown. pretty warm, 86 degrees, if you're out and about, cool drinks not a bad idea. counts shore, 83 on the beach. 3:00 p.m., failure -- fairly pleasant. in philadelphia, very warm, the winds not all that strong out of the south at 6 to 1 miles per hour. as we roll through the day, 72 degrees by 8:00. by 11:00, city hall ceremony will be taking place, 81 degrees. 2:00 p.m., 87.

the high of 89 around 3:00 p.m. and 86 by 5:00 p.m. so fairly warm this afternoon. entomorrow, future trash 6 shows you how at times there will be clouds digging in. it will be more humid as the warm front gets past us. after the front gets through, there's a chance of pop-up thunderstorms. not a lot of on future tracker, but it's something to keep in mind as you roll through the afternoon and early evening tomorrow. 89 is the high today, not all that humid, but warm. tomorrow, more humid and 89 and chance of pop-up shower or thunderstorm in the afternoon or early evening. saturday, more humid, 89 degrees, saturday is the day a cold front comes through. in the afternoon and evening we're looking at a chance of showers and thunderstorms for a portion of the afternoon and early evening hours. good news on sunday, looks like we have all that rain off the coast and out of here, any morning clouds should give way

to afternoon sun. humidity drops, temperatures drops, looks gorgeous for the eagles home opener, 78 degrees. monday, 78 degrees, and tuesday, sunny. >> half a dozen firefighters are hurt battling a multi-alarm blaze near a college campus. matt. tam, we're live along the blue route 476 at the mid county toll plaza. if year getting on the northeast, i have several construction zones for you. the new one that starts today will affect 37,000 people. we'll tell you about that after the break. >> a family out west rushes a dog to the hospital for emergency surgery wait until you find out what was inside its stomach. that's later on "action news."

>> welcome back you're taking a live look out across philadelphia international airport. 5:13, 69 degrees, david said we'll lose the humidity, but it will be hot out there, getting up to 89 degrees. >> all right, matt what did you find in the suburbs that we should avoid. we're finding all the school buses, that's why karen isn't here this morning, the rogers kids go back to school. this is the scene along the ramp 202 to 422 eastbound side of the schuylkill expressway. overnight construction is gone. all lanes are open, the roads

are nice and dry, we don't have a whole a lot of complaints on this ramp. we'll start complaining later on and we will complete complaining for 8 months. it's a new construction project in chester county. it will affect 37,000, because you use this stretch at route 30. they are improving the intersection and working on the road and the sidewalks and the traffic lights. along with this, come restrictions. during the midday from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., and during the overnight. if you're out and about on 30, stick with 202 during those areas. had some restrictions on the northeast extension for construction. the work between lansdale and quakertown is gone, they are blocking the left lane both ways, that could slow you down. pennsauken, 130 southbound between 73 and 70 they are

blocking a couple of lanes there. time for the commuter report brought to you by the waze app. in richland township, watch out for a minor crash west end boulevard, 309 in the southbound direction. >> heavy smoke and flames damaged several vacant homes in west philadelphia. this happened on the 5100 block of funston a little while ago at 4:00 a.m. nobody was hurt. two hospitals in illinois have been flooded with children who have a mysterious virus. the hospital in quincy dealt with 72 children over the weekend. children with the symptoms should be seen by a doctor. he said the illness looks like hev68 a serious respiratory

virus. the people who make their living betting on sports have picked the eagles to win their season opener. the birds host the jaguars at 1:00 p.m. the odds makers say it's a good bet that the eagles will repeat as nfc champs. beginning sunday, eagles game day kickoff gets you set for the game. stay tuned for eagles game day final sunday night after "action news" at 1 #ment. -- 11:00. gone salz gave us up -- gonzalez gave up two hits to the braves. >> the down side for winning an emmy for a popular drama. >> a multi-alarm braise erupts at an apartment building leaving

half a dozen firefighters hurt. >> reporter: it's going to be another warm one putting shorts an ts on the kids. we'll take you through the

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scheduleses they debuted on the septa buses and trollies. 10, 11, 13 and 15 are back to normal. don't forget about the new special schedule on the manayunk norristown line five minutes earlier than usual. >> reporter: it's going to be a decent morning, 9:00 a.m., 75. 83 by noon. in the afternoon, very warm, 89 degrees is the high at 3:00 p.m. not a lot of wind and a few patchy clouds digging in as the day goes on. not all that humid it will be more humid tomorrow. as we head to the airport, we're hoping for the green planes on the big board. we've got them this morning, no weather-related issues in our most frequently traveled test nations, so no delays. >> you've seen also for testosterone aimed at orderly men with -- older men with low

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money. >> reporter: purdue said it stopped using human antiby on thetics -- antibiotics but they will use animal biotics which are just as danger. chrylser's sales were up, ford was flat. game of throwns is still the most pirated show and it didn't win any emmys. the highest paid tv actress is sophia vegara are a. >> 5:22. still ahead, the family of murdered american journalist

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>> police in new mexico are searching for the driver in a road rage incident that left a man critically injured. surveillance shows the drivers pulling into a parking lot. the black truck makes a u-turn and the white truck rams into it. the driver climbed into the pick up, and ended up being run over. else in critical condition, but he is expected to survive. you lose socks? >> yeah. >> reporter: this portland family loses socks left and right, they did them investigating and they found them in their dog's stomach. so the great dane started vomiting one day. they got concerned and rushed the dog to the animal hospital and had surgery. the doctor found 43 1/2 socks inside the stomach pulled them

all out, the dog made it through surgery fine, went home healthy, one day later, possibly still smelling like socks. i don't know how the half happens. >> i think he gets to the point he couldn't finish the socks, better not leave any socks around that dog. 35:27 a science experiment goes horribly wrong out west leaving a dozen people hurt most children. >> police are looking for the gunman kohl's has brand news!

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>> happening now on "action news," a burned out car reveals a deadly clue that philadelphia police leads to a killer. >> the united states raises the stakes against isis. the president reveals a new strategy to stop the terror group's advances. >> a mishelp sends children screaming for help. find out what happens when the science experiment went awry.

>> good morning, karen rogers is off, matt pellman has you. covered with traffic and david murphy has what's happening in accuweather, good morning. >> reporter: looks like we have a lack of significant cloud cover close by, we'll see clouds fill in, it will be warm out. cool 0 start out, my twitter follower kristin in harrisburg said it's 65. 62 in trenton, low 70s down the shore. as we head outside to catch the school bus. we're back into that season for most of us. pleasant to start out the day. as we roll in the afternoon, 75 by 9:00 a.m., 83 by noon, 89 b