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another government. >> it's the unofficial opening to the jersey shore we get ready to kick off the memorial day weekend. >> summer is upon us, good morning, 5:30, may 22, karen is off, matt pellman has you with traffic and david murphy has accuweather. >> reporter: good morning, we're looking at rain well off the coast, clouds are beginning to break up. a nice day across the region. a little cool stepping outside 53 degrees currently in philadelphia. a lot of spots in the 40s trenton, lancaster and the poconos, 41 degrees and 54 down the shore. as we head out the door to catch the school bus in case you're heading to school on this getaway day for the holiday. 58 degrees by 8:00 a.m. we see fairly fast improvement there. as we continue into the afternoon. 71 degrees by noon. the high is 76 degrees around 3:00 p.m.
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6:00 p.m., 73, breezy and blustery and comfortable enough. as we head into the holiday weekend, pollen wise we're in the medium high range getting worse by monday, not as bad as a week noof ago -- and a half ago pollen is a little high. >> reporter: holidays could be busy on the roads. i think the roads will be relative quiet. so far it's looking good, i-95 close to penns landing overnight construction is gone that crash that we ended with last evening in the southbound lanes long gone, everything reopened and the road is drying out. no issues on the schuylkill expressway or the boulevard or the vine street expressway. that pothole in yeadon shutting down providence road, stay on
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mcdade boulevard. in run meed there's a crash with a found pole along bowers avenue, everything is open in the neighborhood. construction on 295 northbound through belmawr has cleared out. the crash site i told you about in wilmington, southbound 495 terminal avenue has cleared. in townsend we have that overturned box truck is shut down black bird station road the alternate on this friday morning. >> breaking overnight the frantic search for the suspect in the washington, d.c. murders is oaf. u.s. marshals took darin dylan wint into custody last night. he has been charged with four murders. marshalls followed him to new york city and made their move as someone drove him back to washington, d.c. >> we got to the situation where we could take him down and we did our standard practice vehicle pin manuver and place
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him under arrest. a warrant was issued when authorities matched him with dna found on leftover pizza that was delivered to the victim's house the night before was set on fire. the motive is unclear. investigators know that $40,000 was delivered to the house while the victims were held hostage and wint worked to the homeowners iron manufacturing business. "good morning america" will have more on the breaking developments at 7:00 a.m. a temple university professor is charged with scheming to provide us defense technology to china. the 467-year-old is a chinese native and naturalize u.s. citizen living in penn valley he shared super conductivity tech with china. he made an initial court
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appearance yesterday he is free on bail. if convicted he faces up to 80 years in prison. local activists took to the streets for a civil rights demonstration. protesters stood along streets in north philadelphia and read allow the names. black people who were killed by police. a similar protest ended earlier when officers made several arrests. the activists resumed their event near the 22nd police district. officers set up a perimeter and allowed them to demonstrate peaceful. >> authorities have busted a man who was selling stolen batteries for scrap. the technicians hired by cell phone carriers, stole 4,000 devices across 14 states. they are used to power the networks when the power goes out.
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the green dog scrap paid $22,000. but the other than was the one who -- the other than -- owner of green dog led the police to the thief. some of you may be heading to the shore today, katherine scott is along the pathway to the jersey shore in deptford township. >> reporter: it's expected to be a busy memorial day weekend for travel. if you can take off early now is a good time. take a look at 42, it is free and clear traffic is moving along just fine. smooth sailing at this hour. aaa mid atlantic says 433,000 people from the philadelphia area are expected to travel this holiday weekend. that's up more than 4.5% from last year. most of the travelers will be driving to their destinations, even though gas prices are increasing recently, the
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national average is a dollar cheaper than this time last year. aaa said these are likely the lowest memorial day gas prices in five years time. you should expect to see company on the roads. once you get to where you're going you have the whole weekend ahead and the summer ahead to look forward to. the in atlantic city, the mayor will kick off the unlocking of the ocean today. the mayor and other guests will step into the water and turn the key to unlock the summer season ahead. of course a busy weekend ahead many people are heading out to their destinations, if you take a live look in deptford, the roads are looking good right now, but we are expecting to see more cars on the roads as the day goes on. safe travels everybody. the live in deptford, katherine scott channel 6 "action news." >> a lot of folks will enjoy the weekend. thank you,. if you plan to stick around from it for the summer.
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a trial period for a new parking app could make your life easier. it's called pango. fill the parking meter through their smart phone. of course it will cost you a little bit but not as much as a ticket. >> all right david getting warmer today. storm tracker 6 live double scan, matt and tam shows you we are dry and the rain is gone. as we look outside plenty of sunshine getting ready to build over the horizon, in the process of eroding overall we expect fair weather cumulus clouds. it will be nice, the temperature is 53 degrees, cool as you head outside. the winds are hold on or about 8 miles per hour. getting breezier later. satellite showing the main dominant cloud cover is eroding and pushing away, we'll have fair weather cumulus later on.
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overall we'll go for a mix of sun and clouds. 58 degrees by 8:00 a.m. cool there. 11 68, high of 76 degrees, blustery with winds gusting to 30 miles per hour. the sun and clouds mix low humidity and no rain and feeling nice. high temperatures north to south, 72 degrees, 73 in reading. 74 in trenton. 74 in millville. dover, 78. counts shore closer to 70 up and down the coast but still a nice day with sun and clouds and that breeze. on saturday, the breezes ease back, high pressure in the neighborhood. we'll get sunshine high of 71 degrees, on the cool side. as the high shifts off the coast we'll tap boo warmer air. up in the poconos you will see it. tomorrow, 61 sunny and cool. 72 on sunday up in the mountains
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pretty nice, monday, scattered thunderstorms possible. only 59 in the water at the shore. that's i i typical of memorial day. 69 on saturday, bring a sweatshirt and you're fine. 74 degrees on sunday afternoon sun and clouds. while it gets warmer inland there's a chance we stay 72, 75 on the beach on monday, because there will be enough of a fetch off the ocean water to cool you down a bit. sunny and chance of a thunderstorm is remote down the shore at least until the day or at night. breezy and mieferld today 6 -- milder today, 76 in philadelphia. 71 on saturday, 80 on sunday, turk warmer. more humid mix of clouds and sun, warm high of 85 degrees and spotty shower or thunderstorm in the after or evening.
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not a washout on monday, keep your eyes to the sky. after that we get into a hot and humid pattern turning to 90 tuesday, wednesday and thursday, if we manage 90 or better that would be the season's first heat wave. anytime we have early season highs at 90, i think there's a day that misses it. >> time to take out the personal misters. next the state department is about to release the first batch of hillary clinton's e-mail including a controversial time that plagued her time in office. >> we go behind the scenes of disneyland's big diamond celebration. >> reporter: coming up construction, graduation ceremony and shore traffic all coming your way when "action news" continues on this friday morning.
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>> 5:43 the action cam is live in atlantic city showing wet roads along the boardwalk. if you're heading to the jersey shore today. getting up to 76 degrees. it's going to be warmer than yesterday. >> you just showed i say an image that said if you're heading to the shore that won't be change as the day goes on.
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>> reporter: i think you might be board as the day goes on. come 1:00 p.m., a lot of people will be joining you on the drive down the shore. we'll do the suburban traffic report we have not escaped yet in upper eucland chester county. no big problems on 76 the turnpike this morning. unlike yesterday when we had the trash truck fire. nice and clear at this point this morning. elsewhere in chester county wrapping up construction today before the holiday weekend. watch out for restrictions in downingtown the eastbound side of the 30 bypass. working on the sinkhole there. that could give you problems later on. it's graduation day for college of new jersey, green lane will close like yesterday starting rat 6:00 p.m. just about 15 minutes or so until 7:00 p.m.
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stick with ewingville road to get around that. princeton, construction closing mount lucas road. pleasantville will haveilah road closed between route 9 and shore road. >> developing now a 70-year-old woman shot a police robot during a california standoff that continues at this hour. it began early yesterday morning near los angeles. police showed up at a mobile home park to check on a woman who said she was having medical problems and then she pulled a gun.
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the state department is expected to release e-mails regarding the benghazi attack. they were distributed yesterday. it hose her correspond responding with sydney blumenthal. >> big day for disneyland getting ready to celebrate the 60th anniversary for with a 24 hour party. >> pleasant has changed since the opening in 1955. brandy higgins with more on it is celebration. >> reporter: good morning, matt and tam, i'm so lucky right now i'm inside disneyland before the park opens. there are thousands of families waiting hours outside getting in here for the 60th anniversary. it's key word is sparkle. they have added thousands of
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kiss tals to the castle behind me. for a party that's 60 years in the making. 1955 disney lands opening day. >> disneyland is your land. >> reporter: walt disney transformed this farmland into a theme park and magical world of imagination. >> it all started from a dad with two daughters wandering where he could take them and have fun too. >> reporter: a lot has changed since disney expanded globally. in 1982, the first all inclusive ride admission was $12. 33 years later adult entry to one park is $99 and park hopper, 1555. disney land is promising a lot
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of sparkle with new floats and new world of color show and engineers are adding projections throughout disney lands for the fireworks show. >> i think it will make it four dimensional. >> reporter: a celebration of 60 years with one 24 hour party. i am so giddy you do not understand what i am holding these are very special prizes, this is cinderella's glass slipper made with crystal with a topaz and three karats worths of diamonds. it's worth $27,000. i'm only reporter allowed to hold it, both hands please with the gloves. you can win this by going online 3 hours from now, if you go to
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disneyland.com/diamond days. it's a size 6 1/2 happens to be my size shoe matt and tam if i win i'm wearing this around the house with one foot. look at this, gorgeous. >> i think security might wants to keep ran eye on you. >> reporter: they have security around right now, i could not put this on. >> does it come with a prince? >> reporter: that's a prince standings by about five feet from here, i think it might. >> okay, that just you brandy. 5:49. new images show bird's eye view of an oil spill off the coast of california. >> parents protest outside a dentist's practice claiming their children were unwanted victims of procedures and abuse.
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>> new images reveal the scope of the massive oil spill in southern california. you can see the blackened sea. from the ground a shot of a pelican covered in oil. plains all american which operates the ruptured pipeline has 175 safety violation violations since 2006. cleanup could take months. traffic is moving fine this morning, speaking of penndot they are closing the driver license photo centers, if you need to get a drivers license photo do it today because they will be closed tomorrow and monday because of the holiday. patco is running it's friday track work schedule. >> reporter: we got rain yesterday, but it didn't hit the
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normal areas we're in a moderate drought condition. you might want to think limiting your water use until we get things turned around up there. jackets on the kids, this afternoon, shorts and ts. right now we're looking at cool conditions in the 45 to 50-degree range in the northern and western suburbs. south jersey, same thing. same thing in delaware. if you're running errands, it will be blustery and warmer and 76 degrees. >> reality tv star josh dugar has resign from the research counsel conservative christian lobbing group because of sexual abuse that occurred in his teen years. he is now 27 and i should an apology -- issued an apology. his wife said he told her
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>> a florida dentist is accused of collecting millions in medicaid payments for procedures his patients didn't want or need. 78-year-old howard snyder is still licensed in jacksonville. the protests have been taking place outside his office. it started in december when a mother took her 6-year-old daughter to dr. snyder to have
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one tooth pulled. the doctor pulled 7 teeth. families filed a potential class action lawsuit gains dr. snyder. the florida's office has launched a criminal medicaid fraud investigation. the doctor said the allegations are not correct and that's it. >> two years of blurnldz -- blunders made a school in indiana upset. another page of the editors include a picture of the alum, who was killed by islamic militants last year, students expected a tribute to the local hero than a cursory blurb in the off campus section. the school had no comment. the decision to rent or by
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hey everyone, it is 6:00 a.m., friday, may 22 here's what's happening. >> sunny mild weather returns to the accuweather forecast just in time for the holiday weekend. of. >> thieves target a montgomery county gun shop and weapons are in the wrong hand. >> we'll get you ready for at busy holiday weekend on the roads. of. >> let's start with david and matt. good morning. >> reporter: we have sun buildings over the horizon and early
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