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celebration outside of the courthouse here took an ugly turn it's clear that the death of brandon tate brown at the hands of police officers remains an emotional powder keg. >> the defends and their supporters cheered as they emerged from the courthouse, they were just found not guilty, 10 people were charged with disorderly conduct at this iraq us protest, and they held another protest after the trial today and it turns ugly when one of them turned her attention to a group of police officers. >> we are mothers, and we get birth to these people, and you have no right to take our lives. >> brandon tate brown was shot to death by police during a traffic stop last december the city has now released names of officers involved and the grainy
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video proves he was shot down as he ran behind his car the district attorney says that brown was reaching for a gun at the time and the d.a. seth williams announced that he would not file criminal charges and that night he and commissioner ramsey -- it's great to see justice and to also see that they have released the names of two police officers that murdered brandon tate brown. >> d.a. seth williams says the verdict is what it is and the protesters were intent on provoking the police their behavior was beyond accepted exercise of first amendment rights, they went there to get arrest said what they had told people. >> brandon tate brown's mother came to the trial to give support, and she pursues a lawsuit against the city. >> it means the system can work
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if you do it the right way and that means there is a possibility that there is two sides and a reasonable doubt. >> the protesters out here clearly emboldened by the verdict say this issue is not over and they will be heard again. live at the criminal justice center, david henry channel 6 "action news." >> an emotional day thank you david. >> there is new information in the deadly amtrak train derailment surrounding whether the engineer was using his cell phone before the crash and phone records indicate that brandon bostian was not using his cell phone to talk, text or download anything before the train spread off the tracks, while they have ruled out the most obvious uses of the phone but have not ruled out that bostian was using an app, he was not connected to the train's wifi signal but could have been operating in airplane
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mode he told officials he does not remember what happened in the crash that killed 8 people and injured dozens of others. 6abc.com has the late, and there is a slideshow of those that were lost in the amtrak derailment. a chester county boarding school teacher is arrested on charges that he sexually assault aid student, he say teacher, coach and dorm supervisor at the phelps school in malvern investigator say that it happened on the campus of the school where scavitto lived in housing, scavitto is behind bars on $250,000 bail and police are concern that there may be other victims. sean harris of norristown is behind bars on a million dollars bail on bank robbery charges, he
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was seen on surveillance cameras robbing the bank of america on june 3rd and took cash and fired a gun inside of the bank no one was hurt and harris is set to go before a judge in two weeks. turning to the forecast now, the heat and humidity is building and we could get our first heat wave in the coming days and cecily tynan is outside with the details on the stormy steamy forecast. >> hi sharrie, the heat and humidity is building and today we are in the comfort zone, a nice midweek break from the humidity, and temperatures on the warm side, 81 is the average high for this time of year but if we fly out to the plain states, you can see the heat is on in st. louis it's 95 degrees and 97 in wichita and we'll be tapping into that heat as we head through the day tomorrow and the humidity will also be rising with that heat and humidity there is an air quality alert for most of our
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viewing area tomorrow what this means is that the ground level ozone will be high and unhealthy for sensitive groups for the very old and very young newborns and respiratory problems and a good idea to limit your exposure when the ground level ozone is high satellite 6 along with action radar showing high pressure over us now if you look across new york state you can see the band of clouds and showers that is with the cold front dying out and this will bring us winds out of the southwest tomorrow that pulls up the heat or increasing humidity and with that front close enough we could have thunderstorms popping up and the best chance of strong to severe storms would be north of philadelphia this is what to expect for the next three days it gets hot and more humid with record highs especially tomorrow, and the potential for our first heat wave of the year and unsettled weather with afternoon thunderstorms, i'll
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have the details in the full accuweather forecast. >> thank you cecily. hundreds of philadelphia children got a free lesson in swimming this morning, part of the ymca's attempt to cut down on drownings this summer according to the cdc ten people drown every day in the u.s. and lessons could reduce the chance of drowning in young children by 88%. >> we want everybody to be safe around water and be safe for the life long skills it provides 13 children from low income neighborhoods will be offered safety lessons this year including the 350 students that attended classes today in south philadelphia luxury condos in a high rise in atlantic city will be auctioned off this month the bella is offering great views and a pool and spa and much more, vernon odom is live
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outside of the building on pacific avenue to fill us in on the auction process. vernon? >> good evening the auction of those 40 condo units in fact penthouse units is hyped as one of the biggest bargain basement sales in the history of the jersey shore, the bella condos a block from the atlantic on pacific avenue where swank condo condos once sold for a half million dollars a piece. with the nearby revel and showboat closed down prices have sunk despite the great ocean view. >> we have them from the 24th floor down and most are on the top floors. the ocean and downtown view is gorgeous. >> they will he sell 40 of the
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200 units and some may go for below $200,000, and a 60% discount the owner credit swiss bank wants out of atlantic city fast. >> it's a beautiful building and once the investors are out of here prices will start to go up. >> a heavy weight local realtor is going to gobble up many of the units he is certain that it will make a come back. >> the cost of construction is several times where you can pick tup for you can't get this type of condos available for this price. >> he is no stranger to investing at the bella, to be able to buy in at such luxury condominiums is not often had. >> the bella auction is set now for the morning of june 28th at the borgata, live in atlantic
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city, vernon odom, channel 6 "action news." >> all right thank you. time now for a check of the "action news" traffic report on a wednesday night lets head over to matt pellman in the traffic center. >> getting over the hump on this wednesday evening and we are doing so slowly as you can see on 95 in philadelphia northbound side a slow go from the girard point bridge on up to the walt whitman bridge reason is traffic on the eastbound walt whitman is very slow because off the bridge is push to the side and gave us heavy delays and the schuylkill westbound close to the vine that too is off to the side and speeds in the 20s west of university avenue and the crash of a vehicle that flipped over a tree in horsham, by clayton's hunting and fishing and past the lehigh valley interchange, everything is
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reopen and the delay is easing as well. but half hour delays on septa market frankford line, are you riding the buses eastbound and riding the buses westbound between 40th and 69th. >> thanks matt. >> still ahead tonight, president obama announces he is deploying hundreds of our troops to help in the fight guess isis, details of their mission in iraq next. >> and a man who donated blood every week for the past 60 years and his donations are considering more valuable than any other blood ever given. >> cecily is back with a look at the hot and humid forecast tomorrow and friday.
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that's a hard question. (laughing) we are the fay family from chesapeake, virginia. williamsburg is just beautiful. because we have thrill seekers and not such thrill seekers, i try to find something that everybody likes. this is a very good spot to do that. the most exhilarating part about this vacation was being with the whole family. it was amazing.
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hundreds of u.s. personnel are being sent to iraq, and they will be trained to fight isis, they will train and help iraqi troops and sunni fighters the white house said that president obama made the request at the
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request of the prime minister and there are currently 3100 troops in iraq. there are new cholesterol drugs that could be on the market. ali gorman is live with new action from the fda. >> this happened an hour ago they approved a second medication in a new class of drugs that could dramatically lower cholesterol it approved the first drug of this type yesterday, they are not in the pill form, they are given in an injecter pen that interferes with the body's inability to remove cholesterol from the blood, they dropped the bad cholesterol by 40% to 60% and they recommend approval and they want more information on whether the new drugs want to reduce the risk of heart attacks. the drugs will not be cheap
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they are expected to be much more expensive than what is on the market. and last year major measles outbreak is having ripple affects and they approved a measure to have vaccines mandatory for every child it is expected to pass full assembly and be signed by the governor the only exception will be for medical reasons not personal or religious believes. the outbreak they say grew because of the large numbers of unvaccinated children. >> we know today that everyone that donates blood is a life saver but we want to tell you about one donor that single-handedly saved millions of lives. james harrison of australia he is nicknamed the man with the golden arm they discovered that
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his blood had an anti-body that could stop restice disease, when a woman's blood attacking an unborn baby's blood they estimate it has saved 2 million babies. >> every batch that has ever been made in australia came from james's blood. >> it's my only talent. >> harrison is humble he says that after 1101 donations he is not stopping and urges everyone that is eligible to donate to do so regularly you never know who you might help. >> that is an awesome story. thank you. womens health was the topic of discussion today at a forum in center city the event brought together people and audience members were encouraged to join
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in the discussion as well. organizers said the event was meant to explore health issues in women today. and advancing care for women across the state. >> it was the perfect day for a golf tournament and here in south jersey it was for a perfect cause the virtual memorial golf classic got underway this morning from doctors and donors and various business leaders, they came to tee off for virtue hospital and it will be used for the program for thousands of burlington county families. >> "action news" at 5:00 continues next, a reminder to go to facebook and like the 6 abc "action news" facebook page, that gives you access to the stories and breaking news and best and most current viral videos and can you communicate with members of "action news" team.
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amazon is hiring more than 500 full-time workers in middletown tell wear, the new mes will be paid 12 there's an hour for positions in packing
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and shipping and doing inventory, adding the jobs will bring the total number of workers to 2500 at the delaware facility. some of the hiring went on today and there will be another chance coming up on june 17th. the epa awarded nearly $200,000 to a delaware coalition aimed at getting people back on their feet. most of those people live in areas affected by brown fields or land that is too polluted to redevelop, it promotes careers that stops environmental contamination and more sustainable futures. >> it was a day to celebrate the crisis community garden here in trenton the garden has been a great way to provide low income families with great produce they came out to unveil a plaque for supporting the garden more than 400,000 pounded of
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time now for the accuweather forecast cecily tynan at the "action news" big board a great day and nice day to be at the beach. >> that may explain why people aren't with us. we are spying on the beach in cape may at sky 6, if you look
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closely, adam joseph right there, and monica malpass right there. aren't they suppose to be working busted. only kidding. great day to be on the beach sea isle city 39 degrees and inland is warmer and 89 if philadelphia and reading 82 and wilmington 80 degrees, satellite 6 along with action radar showing we have high pressure just down to the south, that will be moving offshore tonight allowing winds to shift out of the southwest and if you look up to the north a cold front near new york state and that will essentially wash out tomorrow that will provide enough instability to see pop-up thunderstorms in the afternoon tonight is a dry night partly cloudy and a warm night 65 in philadelphia and 66 in cape may, and allentown 64 and wilmington 67 degrees, future tracker showing big changes tomorrow the heat is on by 2:00 in the
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afternoon temperatures in the mid-90s in philadelphia 95 is a record high for tomorrow's date, set back in 1986, a good chance we'll at least tie the record, allentown 90 and wilmington 95 and trenton 92 degrees and the dew points are increasing and it's going to get more humid future tracker showing this time tomorrow evening, we'll see pop-up showers and storms and not widespread most of the activity will be in philadelphia and areas north most of them moving into south jersey and weakening once the sunsets and it's a possible that some of these storms could be severe the best chance is the northern two-thirds of viewing area, this means that any storm could have damaging wind and even some small hail and then the humidity really increases on friday the five-day at 5:00, showing record heat with a high soaring up to 95 degrees spotty afternoon thunderstorms.
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afternoon thunderstorms and the temperature down to 94 degrees and dew points in the 70s and a tropical feeling of the heat index the way it feels into the upper 90s, saturday 90 we hit that and it's officially a heat wave and sunshine is rolling through and temperatures coming down in the mid-80s and i'll have details if the heat returns. >> monica is doing a special report on beach conditions at the shore. >> investigative piece. thanks cecily. more to come in our next half hour of "action news" at 5:00 a wild police chase ends with a grinding crash. and residents in delaware are getting ready for a stormy summer, we'll show you and also explain. >> and a big baby duck is drawing attention in center city philadelphia we'll tell you why. >> can't miss that one.
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>> a crash inside of one of new york's biggest arteries ends with injuries and a posted sign for a drunk driving victim holds a special place in the heart of a bucks county police officer. now the details, several popular south philadelphia businesses were forced to close their doors today because they had no running water this stems from a water main break from the 1600 block of south 10th street that happened several months ago and crews were repairing it today and something went wrong. walter perez is live in south philadelphia with the details. walter? >> reporter: hey sharrie we'll take you to the source of the problem, you see here beneath the medal place is where south first and tenth street is suppose to be even those this
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issue first bubbled to the surface three months ago. homes and businesses near south 10th street are without water service today including the renowned brothers bakery forced to close for the duration but the folks at the bakery says that is oath the beginning crews have been working on the main here for weeks that means this stretch of 10th street for sometime. >> it's blocked so far they have to go out of their range two to three blocks to get here, and to get around the corner it's a one way street. >> here is the simplest way to describe the problem, the main first ruptured back in march and water department crews discovered the valves for the mains were some old they no longer functioned. officials say that the plan now it to have rolling outages as they work to fix the main
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valves, a process expected it last three to four months they have already repaired this an emergency repair job to make sure it's all finished as quickly as possible. >> emergency repair jobs means they are worked on as quickly as possible to restore the water main and get everything back on in a timely manner. >> back out live, the good news is that businesses and holes nearby should have their water restored by the end of the day but the bad news is this may not be the last time they lose water because of the outages and 10th street will remain closed to traffic until the end of summer at the earliest. >> thank you. a major drug trafficking ring running out of berks and schuylkill countys now out of business tonight, berks county district attorney is announcing
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the operation iceout today, 24 of the suspected drug dealers are in custody, during the investigation they say they seize the $34,000 worth of meth and cocaine and heroin and automatic weapons and cars with hidden compartments and $75,000 in cash. authorities are offer a reward for information to their arrest. and a crash into a concrete pillar at virginia avenue in reading, authorities attempted to stop driver, crystal stone for speeding but she took off officers followed her through several communities and at one time allegedly tried to hit a pursuing police car and they recovered meth and synthetic marijuana and she was booked on dui and aggravate the assault.
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police have identified the man that was hit and killed crossing the street overnight. he is adolfo lopez of newark he was trying to walk across kirkwood highway when he was hit by a car he was not in the crosswalk at the time and was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. the driver did stop at the scene and will not likely face charges. philadelphia police are continuing to investigate a shooting in kensington this morning, a 33-year-old man was working in the basement of a friend's house on east first street when two armed masked men broke in and demanded money the man was shot three times in the leg but is expected to be okay. so far there are no suspects in the case. a graduation trip to new york city came to an abrupt halt for dozens of canadian students when their tour bus was rear ended while trafficking in the
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lincoln tunnel. reporter from our sister station w abc has the details. >> none of the studentses were injured and all the injured passengers were on board the new jersey transit bus bus 166 from crestville in bergan county, new jersey. several victims were rushed from the lincoln tunnel on stretchers most staggered into the daylight bruise the and shell shocked. >> the collision happened beneath the hudson river less than 100 feet from the tunnel on the west side of manhattan investigators say that a new jersey transit bus loaded with rush hour commuters struck the back of a charter bus loaded with teenage students on a trip from toronto when the collision
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took place at 5:45 this morning, fdny teams converged from the east and made their way down in the event that any passengers were trapped. a total of 31 people were hospitalized. all suffered minor injuries with no broken bones police say their most urgent concern was for two pregnant women on board of another bus stranded in the tunnel behind the collision one of whom went into labor. lincoln tunnel commanding officer port authority police -- >> the police went into the tunnel and rend terred aid and stayed with her until ems personnel arrive. >> reporter: emergency management praise the rescue teams for keeping the victims calm and getting them out of tunnel safely. >> you have a tunnel full of commuters and pregnant
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individuals and language barriers, a total of 31 people injured but no broken bones and the tunnel is open. a former delaware county volunteer firefighter accused of sexually saltsing a child was in front of a judge he used to work with the sharon hill fire department but was removed after being charged with sexual account charges by a victim between 8 and 11 years old. a woman is recovering from a scary accident in center city, a jeep was stopped at city hall this morning when a tractor trailer tried to make a turn and hit the jeep and cents it on to the sidewalk police said she was transported to jefferson hospital in stable condition the accidents remains under investigation, philadelphia
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police are search fogger a 12-year-old girl missing since yesterday afternoon her name is jacqueline brown she was last seen outside of the feltonville school and is 5 feet tall and 1100 100 pounds. if you see jacqueline brown contact detectives. >> how about all that apple juice on i-295 matt? that was the pits. >> yes the pits and the core of the problem on 42 two crashes so far one is northbound just behind the sign approaching creek road where 55 comes in and you can see it is causing the southbound gaper delay and traffic is extra heavy and busy as you come off the walt whitman
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bridge, and delays in both directions on 42 and the same of course could be said of the schuylkill expressway where we have had two westbound accidents this afternoon all the lanes are open but the traffic is moving slowly in them. dining under the stars tonight in media means that state street is shut down and baltimore avenue gets you around that and we have the downed tree and pole in swarthmore partially blocking swarthmore avenue. and south coventry watch for a wreck along 100 at 23. >> thanks matt. more to come wednesday night a veteran buck county police officer is honoring a young victim. >> and residents intel wear are getting ready for a stormy summer season and they are getting lots of help.
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cecily tynan is in for adam. >> i am tracking the potential for storms but the bigger issue is the heat heading our way. i'll have details in the accuweather forecast. >> and jeff skversky has phillies-reds highlights and game three of the nba finals.
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a memorial to a teen dwer killed by a drufrk driver nearly 20 years ago now looks as good as new a broken heart sign-in memory of shannon lar is fading in bristol township for officer steve responded to the case that killed lar in 1995, towering his first year on the job he told "action news" that he had seen the signage and wanted to give it new life, he went to mothers against drunk driving and tracked down the mother to replace the sign. >> it's heard warming that someone remembers my daughter after 20 years you think your children are forgotten and she
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wasn't it makes me happy. >> not forgotten at all. thanks to highway crews a band new sign stands at the site of that crash. >> turning to sports tonight the phillies took on the reds for afternoon action in cincinnati today. lets turn to the "action news" sport center with jeff skversky. >> the phillies woke up this morning as the worst team in baseball the phillies are on pace to lose over 100 games they are trying to avoid getting swept once again and the phils condition catch a break. out the gate, reds put up a four spot in the first inning all with two outs, pena with the rbi sing and jesus would you three-run homer 4-0 after one maybe the only phils fan excited because he caught the ball here in the fourth a rbi double and
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phils get within two but pena causing all sorts of problems four hits for the red they lost 23 road games and had this is the first time this time of year in 74 years. phils added players in the draft including ruben amaro jr.'s nephew and also penn catcher austin. and eagles gave up draft picks and nick foles to get this man sam bradford his teammates are not throwing the season away if he is not starting week one. >> do you think the season is riding on him. first and foremost we condition control the quarterback position we can only be the best we can be and the linemen have to be
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the same and we do not put all the faith in sam and we have faith in mark and we are never going to put all the faith in one guy. >> now we are keeping a close eye on the womens team because his girlfriend is a defender on team usa. game four of the stanley cup final guess who is back? kimmo timonen will suit up for the first time. cleveland and lebron james are in control after winning game three, lebron scored 123 points so far in three games steph curry and the warriors nearly forced another overtime game but the cavs closed it out in the final minutes and car dove applied his heart out and went to the hospital for dehydration
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and they are drinking it's lebron kool aid again. >> i am happy to be back and the fans are excited about me being back and putting this team back in the position where they can compete and have something to talk about from our side, the basketball side it's pretty cool so far. >> lebron game four tomorrow night on 6 abc and cavs two wins away from their first nba title. all eyeballs should be glued to game three of the finals on abc. when it comes to hurricane season we prepare for the worst and hope for the best. the hospital in wilmington hosted a hurricane fair, a one stop shop to get their questions answered from dozens of vendors including the red cross and even
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home doe depot. >> we are passionate to get the word out, don't go to home depot two days before a hurricane get the smoke detectors and batteries know how to prepare food that isn't peshishable. >> and a cooking demonstration. mcdonald's asked me to remind you that their new sirloin third pound burger won't be around long. if you miss out, you'll never know how delicious 100% sirloin tastes. and that'd be a gosh darn shame. try any one for just $4.99. the sirloin third pound burgers at mcdonald's ♪
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cecily is back with us. >> today low humidity and on the warm side and tomorrow near record heat and it gets really humid. tomorrow you need to find someone with a pool right cecily? >> you can call come to my pool. i'll see if i can get approval on that. stormtracker 6 live double scan showing we have rain free conditions out there and storms are popping up north of philadelphia and a great day for the action cam to go to fairmount park and the man sitting next to monica malpass, we are tracking her through the day, beautiful day getting outside and enjoying the sunshine and 84 currently and that is three degrees above normal. temperatures just a bit on the warm side. wilmington 80 and millville 79 and down the shore with winds
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off the ocean and ocean temperatures warmed up to 68 degrees and temperatures in the mid-70s, and this shows we are in the comfort zone and temperatures in the low 60s and upper 50s but the dew points are not staying there they will rise with the temperatures the next couple of days, we have a good amounts of sunshine and a cold front is moving across new york state and that stalls north of us tomorrow tonight is a quiet night partly cloudy and a warm night 69 in philadelphia and 67 in wilmington and 66 in cape may. tomorrow the heat is on with win out of the south-southwest ahead of this front it gets hot and the hottest day 95 degrees and if we hit that, it tie a record high, set back in 1986, we see a few pop-up thunderstorms, the best chance of strong storms north of
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philadelphia, on friday the front washes out and that means it's almost as hot 94 degrees and noticeably more humid on friday and i think friday is the more oppressive of the two days, future tracker is showing it's dew points tomorrow at this time, 65 in philadelphia approaching the low 70s and by friday dew points across the board will be in the 70s, 76 in philadelphia and put it in perspective and the dew point in new orleans right now is 69 degrees, it's a tropical air mass on friday, it will really be a steamy day the exclusive accuweather forecast near record heat and 95 degrees and pop-up storms likely in the afternoon and friday hot and more humid and 94 and friday is close if we hit 90 degrees, that will make the first heat wave of the year, and a cold front behind the front it takes the edge off the heat, 85 degrees and a
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chance of a pop-up shower and monday clouds and sun and 84 and tuesday a few clouds and thunderstorms and 84 degrees and sun and clouds mixing with a high of 86 we are not used to 95 degree weather and take it it easy tomorrow and remember the pets. they need some air conditioning they need lots of water as well. >> and cecily's swimming pool. >> there is a new face joining the daytime lineup on 6 abc. >> we are happy to announce that raven simone is now permanently part of "the view" come on raven. >> that was the announcement this morning raven simone is part of the view and whoopi goldberg making the announcement. she appeared as a guest host and now joins wallace and rosy perez as a host of the view. here on 6 abc.
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helping protect that world takes state farm. it's not something you see every day in center city, a giant duck was in the shops at liberty place rocky the baby duck is on an ongoing search to fine his mom the mom is the largest duck, standing at 61 feet tall, she will make an appearance later this month at the tall ship celebration in camden, that is when the two will be reunited more to come on that. >> you are part of our coverage on the tall ships. >> lookingford to that. >> right now jim gardner and the team is standing by with these stories next at 6:00. investigators released new information about what the engineer may or may not have been doing at the time of the amtrak derail many. and a teacher at a private school accused of abusing studentses over two years.
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>> and a senior that overcame obstacles to make it to graduation day. now for rick williams, monica malpass and cecily tynan i'm sharrie williams "action news" is up next at 6:00.
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the ntsb issue a report today and we now know what engineer, brandon bostian was not doing before his train accelerated into the junction curve and left the tracks at the cost of eight lives john rawlins is at the scene in port richmond, we are talking about his cell phone. >> reporter: that is right. you remember last week there was concern that the ntsb could not say if the engineer was on his phone or not at the time of the crash, they can say that no he was not, not talking on the phone, not texting and no way connected to an outside network that said, however, they condition tell yet if the phone was switched off or on in the airplane mode. that is something they are

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