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>> good morning here's what's happening on this monday, june 15. >> we have breaking news, a pennsylvania state trooper is injured during a high-speed chase with an armed robbery suspect. >> police are looking for a suspect after a double shooting. >> people take cover in a central pennsylvania town because millions of bugs have invaded. they are everywhere. >> good morning not so much for them, it's monday, june 15. let's head over to karen rogers
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in for david murphy. matt pellman has traffic. >> reporter: we have a pair of storm tracker 6 live double scan radar we had strong storms last night. we have rain moving through the city we have heavier cells moving through delaware, we have live lightning strikes associated with this. they are west of dover crossing into new jersey, more of it coming and out to the west, too storm tracker 6 live they are getting soaked in pittsburgh and heading in our direction staying unsettled. a wider look, showing the storm's progression in motion. it's a warm and muggy 75 degrees in philadelphia. 74 in allentown, 73 in mill millville. if you look at forecast, 88 is the high, warm, uncomfortably
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humid, more showers and thunderstorms, the best chance later today and tonight. the winds out of the west southwest. the storms could be drenching and wind gusting. you'll see problems on the roads with the ponding water. >> reporter: good morning, karen, good morning, everybody i hope you had a nice weekend. in chemplet there's a downed -- chester county there's a downed tree blocking westbound lanes apt 340, the thorndale exit. you can't get through, you want to head for business 30, lincoln highway on the pennsylvania turnpike westbound instead of the 30 bypass westbound this morning. in montgomery we're watching a pair of fire locations one in lower salford closing skippack road. and watch out for a fire location at gorsky lane.
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the vine was closed overnight and looks like it's reopened now. tam, welcome back. >> good to be back. a pennsylvania state trooper has been injured in a high-speed chase this started with an armed robbery in reading anden ended in montgomery county. let's go over to katherine scott live at the state police barracks in skippack she's got the latest. good morning catherine. >> reporter: good morning, tam we're hoping to learn more details as it gets later but again, one suspect was taken into custody after an armed robbery. the suspect's car was towed to the pennsylvania state police barracks in skippack. let's go to the video of the suspect's car after it was loaded on to the flat bed truck. it's all smashed up. it started around midnight in
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reading. the state police responded to an armed robbery. the suspect took off it ended at mango road in royersford. police tried to stop the suspect, in the end the suspect was taken into custody one trooper had a minor injury and we're told no state troopers vehicles were damaged in all this. it all remains under the investigation. so far the name of the suspect has not been released, but again, we are told that one suspect has been taken into custody after a high-speed chase, katherine scott channel 6 "action news." >> a natural gas pipeline ruptured in south texas last night sparking this massive fireball. energy transfer partners which owns the pipeline said the pipeline ruptured and isolated that section of the pipeline while reriewght natural gas -- rerouting natural gas.
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residents will be allowed to return after safety inspection are completed. no injuries were reported. two men are hospitalized after a double shooting in philadelphia's logan section. this happened on the 4700 block of north carlisle street. 4 men got into an argument when shots rang out two men were hit. two men took off one is in custody, the other on the loose. s.w.a.t teams raided a home in somerton related to well fair fraud in new jersey. swat teams were heading into the home assisting the new jersey attorney general who was serving a warrant on the occupant of the rental house. a witness who did not want to be identified spoke to "action news." >> all of a sudden i seen a couple of advance maybe 20 or 15 s.w.a.t team came out and they
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ran up the driveway, off to the side and all of a sudden they said open the door, and there was nothing, all of a sudden i heard ba boom, they hit it with a battering ram. one person was arrested. police in bensalem are questioning a deadly stabbing. the victim was found at salem crossing apartments around 8:00 p.m. the man in his 30s was rushed to the hospital. that's where he died. police have taken several people in for questioning. there's no word on whether any arrests have been made in this case. >> the prison worker in upstate new york charged with helping two convicted killers escape is back in court today. joyce mitchell admitted helping the men for months. >> reporter: this was not the plan, joys mitchell a new york prison employee in hustles -- in
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handcuffs in police custody. we are learning what the 51-year-old told the detectives the days before her arrest the plan to break out richard matt and david sweat why she didn't live up to her role in the escape. >> there's a line, when the line is stepped over, action has to be taken. >> it started months ago with mitchell bringing things to sweat and matt. it was eye glasses with headlights and batteries. and tools and agreed fob the getaway driver. she was supposed to meet the escapees at the power house in prison and drive seven hours away. she didn't show up that night. instead the 51-year-old checked into a hospital the day of the
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escape. since then she has been cooperating with officials. >> law ene enforcement was getting as much information as possible from her before charges her because once she is charged she'll higher a lawyer and won't speak any further. >> reporter: abc news, new york. >> millions of bugs are taking over a town in central pennsylvania. take are a look at this. the may flies brought traffic to a hat and they may have might have caused an accident. things got so bad they had to shut down a bridge yesterday. there's a pile of dead bugs several inches deep near the bridge. >> may flies in june. >> 4:38 "action news" will be right back. details about the man behind the weekend attack on dallas police headquarters including his violent past. how would you like to get your directions from the
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>> floods in texas covered a few weeks ago a low pressure system could dump 4 to 6 inches of rain on texas and louisiana. >> this morning we're dealing with a rainy morning. it could be a sticky day. >> reporter: it's so humid, as well. when you get the thunderstorms you get drenching downpours that's tricky to drive in. storm tracker 6 live double scan as we look around the region. we have storms in the area, in philadelphia we have light rain. you can see to the south. i want to go in closer to this right now. we can look in double scan and show you what's happening. you can see the flashes that are in delaware, those are all live lightning strikes that are happening right now. you need to be careful as you're traveling through the area. it's starting to i don't say in new jersey and salem and route 49. in elmer it's not as wet on
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route 40. glassboro just some showers, you can see where it is heading right now. you need to be careful about that as you step outside. you can see the progression of this. looks like the heaviest rain will be in salem and millville. fortescue you're getting this right now and sea isle city, sphun anyone vacationing -- if you know anyone vacationing down there, you need to be careful about that now. even though we can't see what's going on we're looking at yellows and reds, that's a good downpour in the area. through frankford and palmyra as well. i saw something near trenton just moved through trenton if you're driving through there you have heavy rainfall and ponding on the roadway, this is moving out towards the coast it will be heading through trenton into belmawr right now. we have more on the way certainly out near reading you're dealing with the, as
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well. you need to be careful it's starting to fire up right now. we can see showers and thunderstorms along the pennsylvania turnpike. that will hit reading in the next few minutes. aifl that happening -- a lot of that happening as you're traveling around. sky6 live hd live even where you don't have storms we have reduced visibility. looking at atlantic city right now, so fog is an issue, as well. it's very warm, the dewpoint, almost completely saturated. very humid and moisture in the at we have storms coming through. and because of the moisture in the atmosphere we have quick downpours. winds out of the west, southwest, barometer 29.98. a look at future tracker # showing at 6 -- 6 showing at 6:30, a storm and 11:00 a.m., a storm or two and populated
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later on, and we see that tonight, as well. even a look tomorrow tuesday at 3:30, we can see the storms moving through the area. let's look at the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast humid today with thunderstorms high of 88. still the chance for storms and in fact strong storms tomorrow with high of 89. wednesday, kind of nice not as warm and 86 degrees, it's not much of a break thursday we have more showers and thunderstorms coming through the area. friday partly sunny skies chance of thunderstorm late, 87. saturday chance of thunderstorms and showers sunday, hot and humid showers and thunderstorms around. >> we have information on the man linked to the violent attack on the dallas police headquarters james boulware was
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charged with choking his mother a few years ago. he planted pipe bombs outside police headquarters. 14 officers who engained with the gunman have been placed on investigative lead. attorney general fore bob menendez due back in court this week accused of accepting gifts and donation from a florida opthalmologist in return for political favorites. his attorney said it will be an disruption to his work in the senate to have the trial in new jersey and most of the criminal activity are supposed to to have taken in washington. airline association wants
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carriers to reduce the acceptable size of baggages 20%. which you can schumer said he is going to shame the airlines into not doing that, if it doesn't work he'll take the fight to the faa. interesting report who can be giving you directions. the waze app has struck a deal with arnold schwarzenegger whole lend his voice from the character as the terminator when you get to where you're going you may hear -- i've been using elvis on my waze. >> update on a quadruple murder in ohio, the suspect is a
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teenager. >> a little boy is hit by a tree limb on a football field and killed. those stories when "action news" comes right back.
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>> >> reporter: all right, who is ready for fun, brand new workweek with traffic troubles to boot even at 4:50.
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chester county westbound side of the bypass is blocked the exit near thorndale because of a downed tree just up ahead. the you can see the westbound lanes are completely closed. eastbound which is the way most of you go is getting by. if you're heading westbound stay local on lincoln highway. looking better now although looking damp a little bit wet along the vine street expressway in center city. the eastbound side is reopened overnight construction is underway. do not fear, crews return overnight and close the vine in both directions. fire location in germantown along sherman street at washington lane, they are closing up that huge water main break blocking 52nd street in the process, new today changes for those of you who ride septa
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trolley 15, 101 and 202 you're riding the buses instead. we'll talk about that as the morning progression. a 22-year-old man who jumped into a quarry has died. he jumped in the water from a ledge and never reassure faced. fire crews pulled him out of the water and rushed him to easton hospital. they are calling the death an accident. a tree limb fell down in northern mississippi killing a ten-year-old boy. others suffered minor injuries, but the tree limb hit rogers in the back of the head. the family is planning the boy's funeral. the father of one of the boy's teammates will officiate at the service. >> i had to celebrate the life
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of a 90-year-old on tuesday but i have to help bury a boy who also the same age as my son. police arrested a suspect for a quad droople homicide and the killer was 16 years old. the four people were found shot to death inside a home on saturday. a teenage girl was injured and has since been released from the hospital. so far police have not commented on a motive for the killings. still to come on 4:53, jeb bush is making it official he is launching his campaign for 2016 later today we'll have a preview. >> they don't teenagers in north carolina are attacked by sharks hours apart and suffer severe injuries.
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chicken. perdue. we believe in a better chicken. glg welcome back you're taking a live look out across a hazy scene in center city. it's 4:56, you'll be dealing with rain as the day goes on. a man in maine is holding a drawing muhammad contest as a way to stand up for freedom. driving images of the prophet muhammad are offensive to
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muslims. two gunmen opened fire at a similar event last month. two teenagers were injured by shark attacks on oak island in north carolina. hours later and a few hours away a shark attacked a 16-year-old boy. >> went in the water coming over over with the white wash still coherent, i saw what was left of his bloody hand. >> both teens were flown to the hospital. the hospital spokesperson said each had an arm ample at a timed and the girl may lose part of her leg. people will be allowed in the water today officials are recommending it may be a better idea to spend your time on the beach. 4:57 all new in the next half-hour of "action news," a search for two brazen bandits
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who ransacked a store and set it on fire. add a name to an already crowded field of republican candidates, details on whose getting ready for his official run for the white house. when we go to the store i find my box of honey bunches of oats, and i'm checking to see if i packaged it. he says "it has a certain code that's my line, this is the date." if the last 3 letters were p22, that's me.
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>> good morning, it is 5:00 a.m., monday, june 15. >> we're following several breaks stories including a high-speed chase a race through two counties and ended with a pennsylvania state trooper being struck. >> a presidential announcement is being made today jeb bush is working hard to separate himself from his father twhz brother. >> as massive cleanup is underway from the huge water main break in west philadelphia. >> let's go over to karen rogers in for david with accuweather and matt pellman has a lot of going on on the roads good morning. >> reporter: good morning, let's get to live double scan we can see the flashing lights, we

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