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his is what will shift the wins tomorrow out of the northwest bringing down cooler more comfortable air and sparking showers and downpours with the humidity so high it can ring out a lot of moisture from the atmosphere, so it goes from sunny and warm one hint to soaking rain the next. one cell crossing 206 in mount holly and lumberton, no grown strikes with this just an intense downpour and a scattered broken line of downpours moving out of the poconos right now across the northeast extension slatington heading into allentown and no lightning with this, just heavy downpours be all of this will bring us some relief we had some severe weather down the shore a severe thunderstorm warning was posted around atlantic city until 4:30, we have wind damage and south ocean city reporting a 44 miles
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per hour wind gust and west atlantic city, 39 miles per hour wind gust, there are some scattered showers and intense storms this is what to expect early this evening, as the cold front presses in not all of us will get them and those of us that do will have dangerous lightning and locally heavy rain and isolate the strong wind gusts we'll talk bts relief on the way behind this system coming up in the full accuweather forecast. checking back in be sure to follow us on twitter be sure to follow them along with the entire "action news" weather team. >> for more on the heat now, lets switch live to nora muchanic standing by along the delaware river in trenton, a lot of folks are doing what they can to survive the oppressive conditions. >> absolutely, we came down to the river because we thought it would be cooler there was a nice breeze and now the kind of
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winds you get before a storm and this day was the pit my of when you hear cecily talk about hazy hot and humid, this is it. >> it's humid. >> does it get to you? >> yes, it does. >> i rather it be hot than humid. >> it's both, 80-year-old francis herns is under his car hatch, i'm drinking my cold coffee and sitting. >> the hot humid weather can wear you out but these laborers cannot take the day off because the hot and muggy. >> you deal with it i am doing it for 25 years you get used to it. >> trenton schools dismissed earlier today and we talked to a dad that was picking up his son and described it as soupy. >> uncomfortable and sweaty
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keep getting wet. >> since 1931 they are making cool treats and supplying the ice-cream to shops at the jersey shore. >> they are eating more ice-cream and buying more ice anything to keep cool, we can manufacturer three gallons of ice-cream every 60 seconds. you think that eric is the coolest guy in town, he stocks the freezer in arctic. >> i want to gets out it's too cold. >> this 8-month-old job named bear wants in as in back in the air conditioning. >> he is an a he prefers to be in the cold here is the skies over trenton gray clouds and dark clouds and lots of wind happening right now it's really
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looking like we'll get a storm it's a tough couple of days for folks that have a hard time in the humidity the elderly and it's difficult, hopefully it's over and the storms will get it all away and we won't have to worry about it in the coming days nora muchanic a threat sparked a scare at two naval facilities today and officials are not elaborating on what the threat was, the naval support facility in lawndale the shipyard in philadelphia were both evacuated chopper 6 hd sees vehicling streams out of the locations officials will only say that recent intelligence sparked the evacuations and they were deemed not credible. and an alarming site in one area a five foot wide sink hole
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underneath the tower. a 75 foot pennsylvania power and light tower, the utility says it was never in danger of falling and residents near by were told to leave while it was evaluating. the tower will be replaced as part of a planned mainance project later this summer. >> a warning tonight for people that rely on public transportation specifically cabs 11 cabs have been stolen in nine days and some are used to commit crimes this is the man that police believe is behind this bizarre string of car thefts and is pretending to be a cab driver philadelphia police want him off the street before more unsuspecting citizens get hurt. >> philadelphia police say this man is not out for a stroll but out to steal a cab he walks the area and then zeros in on an
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empty taxi cab and then he is in it and taking off the person is likely an insider or someone that knows the cab business very well. >> they are targeting models 2007 to 2009 crown victoria those are known to have ignition problems where various keys can start the engine the thief used a key to start the vehicle. and all the stolen cabs happened in the southwest section of the city with 11 thefts happening in nine days, most of the stolen taxis belong to 215 get a cab. >> i would warn people that do it on purpose, that we will fine them. >> muhammad is a cab driver with the company and says it can be dangerous work. >> are you worried about your car? >> of course. of course. >> the perpetrators immediately cut the wires to the gps
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tracking system so the cars condition be located and already a shooting and robbery with the taxi cab likely stolen by someone pretending to be a taxi driver. >> it's dangerous a lot of people have gone to cars or uber or cab services to transport themselves around and it's concerning when people have comforts in this and then it's shattered. >> police fear the taxis unaccounted for could be used to commit more crimes and to be sure that your driver is legit there should be two forms of identification in the vehicle if you recognize the guy give police a call. >> all right sharrie thank you. we are three months and counting until pope francis's historic visit to philadelphia
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between 1 million and 2 million people are expected to come to philadelphia during the world meeting of families today leaders advised against regular folks driving that week, they recommend that you use public transit or walk accounting for a lot of waiting time and special brochures will be given out for more details anchor brian taff is reporting live for us and city officials meet for the final time before the pope's visit here, brian's reports begin on monday here on "action news." >> lots to look forward to but maybe not rush hour. >> nobody is going anywhere fast right matt. >> i aam looking forward to the dinner you are bringing back rick. >> people are waiting here as well on the blue route 476 from the schuylkill to mid county i
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mentioned the crash on the pennsylvania turnpike just east of 476 that caused delays that spilled back on 46 and northbound is still heavy heading back to the toll plaza we have seen worst afternoon on the vine street expressway, the schuylkill is not too bad but will close tonight starting at sec. and a crash in northern liberties at front street at girard avenue and normal delays along i-95 and a delay in gloucester township by the cvs and because of storms that swept through south jersey, there say downed tree along high tree and tomlinson station road and mill town road is shut down through mid-august for construction we'll talk more in the next half hour. >> the city of philadelphia make sure that children continue to explore the magic of reading throughout the summer that is
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why mayor nutter is the reader here he helped to kick off the summer reading program, it's called the summer of wonder they will read from the classics alice in wonder land. celebrating its 150th year publication. a 18-month-old hears for the first time after getting hearing implants but ali gorman tell us it's a long road to get this little girl life changing surgery. >> a boy is awarded for his efforts to feed the hungry. and cecily tynan is back with the late of on the break from heat and humidity when "action news" comes right back.
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washington, d.c., menendez has fled not guilty to all the charms against him. a new report raises questions about medical care for foster children in pennsylvania. ali gorman is at the "action news" big bore board with more on that. children in the foster system are being overprescribed psychiatric drugs and we got a look at how prevalent it is in pennsylvania and what is being done about it. the prescriptions for this is dwog down but foster kids are three times more likely than other kids to take mood altering drugs like anti-depressants. and for bipolar disorder. >> 50% of the children are being prescribed the medication for a none approved use. the state will start monitoring their use and provide phone
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consultations for medical providers. >> the obama administration is cracking down on artificial trans fats calling them a threat to public health they gave them three years to phase them out almost entirely they are called partially hide nated fats and a current loophole allows even those labels zero to have a gram. they are found in breakfast bars and cereals a food company would have to get permission to keep them in from the tda. and today was a magical day for a toddler in north carolina. take a look. >> can you hear mommy clapping? >> 18-month-old lincoln west
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brock heard her first sound when implants were turned on and it was a long road. the westbrooks raised money through crowd funding and they will help her to learn and grow. >> the things that happen today are the first steps towards relationships with everyone in her life. >> you talk to her and she stops and looks into your eyes, she has never done that before. it's a tough journey but all the work they put into raising the money is worth it. >> how nice is that. well, this newark delaware,tive and grader is getting more honors for helping to feed the hungry. he went to washington, d.c. to receive the stop hunger scholarship. we caught up with braden at his home today he got a matching grant for the charity of his
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choice. he gave away 3,000 brown bags with healthy snacks inside. >> the real world of 2015 school of the future graduated today and parents and loved ones gathered at the school at the park side school, gradlations to the kids here. and the ceremony for the seniors were held inside of the school's gym and congratulations to all the graduates tonight.
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target is set to open a smaller store in center city, target express will be in the old boyd theater at 18th and chestnut. it will have beauty items and home decor and more, it will be 20,000 square feet and two tloors and set to open in july of next year. and business got sweeter at a popular bread and pastry factory in vineland, new jersey they cut the ribbon on a new facility, they manufacturer bread, croissants and pastries for bakeries across the country,
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visitors go the a tour of the $32 million factory while savoring the sweet scent of baked goods. billionaire real estate mogul, donald trump entered the 2016 presidential race, he made the announcement at trump tower today. he is one of 12 battling for the gop's nomination. >> i don't need anybody's money i have my own money i don't need the lobbyists or the donors. i'm really rich. >> trump releases a summary of his net worth and it totals nearly $9 billion all candidates for president are
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. cecily tynan is here to tell us when we are getting out of steam bath. >> tomorrow. tomorrow will feel fantastic. >> when you wake up in the morning it will feel better the cooler air is moving in tonight and along with it we are seeing isolated downpours not really widespread and the cold front doesn't have a lot of energy with it and one heavy downpour now near pottstown and it's
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crossing 422, some showers near plowville, and some heavy downpours crossing the garden state parkway northern ocean county east of lakewood no cloud to ground lightning just a heavy downpour and easy to get that with all the moisture in the air and it's oppressive out there, i have photos like this posted on my facebook page, sara postd this from ventnor and we had showers work through the jersey shore an hour ago, this shows how quickly grew from the blue skies to the dark skies and downpours. as soon as you hear the thunder you have to get off the beach. philadelphia hot 91 degrees and same in dover and with the land breeze it's hot on the beaches as well. the heat index make its feel like 95 in philadelphia and 97
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in millville and 98 in discover once the cold front moves through tonight it will bring us a breath of fresh air satellite 6 along with action radar showing the front is moving close to us and again you condition see the big line, a squall line, that we get with cold fronts sometimes, this comes with scattered downpours and the threat of gusty winds and generally that is this evening the skies will begin to clear out and temperatures dropping down to the 60s in our viewing area, 62 in millville and reading 63 and wilmington 68 degrees, the heat index will match the air temperature tomorrow, the dew points will be in the 50s and that is a comfortable air mass, by 4:30, 83 in philadelphia and it will feel like 83 degrees, in the men time, all eyes are on texas where tropical storm bill moved
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ashore corpus christi, this brings flooding rains to texas and the plain states over the next three days, adam will talk more about that. and beautiful and warm and comfortable, 84 degrees thursday morning rain and then mostly cloudy and 79 degrees, friday we bump it up to 85 and saturday scattered thunderstorms and best chance saturday night at 83 and father's day and the first day of summer it's 90 degrees and summer is when we get a lot of severe storms thursday at 7:30, i want to ask you to watch our "action news" special on summer storms we'll talk about hurricane season and what we expect for the summer season and how to escape flooding if you are caught in your car during insurancing hope you watch. >> thank you cecily.
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ground and officials searching for two escaped murderers say it may need to change and we'll explain why. it did not stop hundreds of students and families from celebrating a major milestone. >> now the details, more than a dozen people were standing on balcony at a berkeley apartment complex when something when wrong the concrete and wrought iron balcony suddenly gave way. seven people were killed and several officials have injuries. >> it's a shock. you never expect something like this to happen. >> reporter: a fourth floor balcony in southern california, loaded with young people suddenly snapped. one balcony broke and at least 10 people fell. >> it was a gathering for a 21st birthday party about two blocks
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from the uc berkeley campus, this man and his roommate were asleep on the first floor. >> we heard the bang and the place was covered in rubble. be there were balances and it looked to fall from the fourth floor and strike the bal ony below it but we don't know how it happened. >> police say 13 to 14 people were on the balcony at the time and there were serious injuries and reports from residents say that the party was loud and people on the balcony may have been jumping up and down, all the victims are part of a tight knit group of irish citizens here on a temporary work visa. >> it's shocking talking to the families back home, they are asking anyone with a j one visa to call home. they are ordering the owner of the building to remove the
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failed balcony and perform a structural test on the remaining balconies within the next 24 hours. tropical storm bill is making landfall in texas today 60 miles per hour winds and heavy rains turned up the gulf of mexico parts of texas and oklahoma are expected up to 12 inches of rain from the storm. this after the area saw record flooding already and that is the main concern for officials. >> this is a rain event no storm surge not a hurricane, we don't have those kinds of winds but people need to be aware that places that flooded before are likely to flood again. >> last month was the wettest on record for texas and meteorologist adam joseph is live at the big board for us with the latest on bill's track. >> it made landfall this afternoon in texas just to the north of corpus christi, you can see the spin between houston and
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corpus christi and this conveyer belt of moisture that continues to pivot in and houston is in the path and the northeastern quadrant to the north and east of that eye, that is where we have the strongest wind in the atmosphere and tornado watches here and of course flooding rains in the deep south as we track bill, winds sustained at 50 miles per hour, 20 miles west of port, moving west northwest at 9 miles per hour, and slowly moving across the state of texas into tomorrow afternoon in northern texas and then starts to curve around high pressure that is situate in the southeast and then near springfield illinois, a remnant low with rainfall, and no wind and cincinnati it will be there saturday at 1:00, not moving all that fast as it brings rain houston to dallas 4 to 8 inches of rain and as tracks to
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st. louis 2 to 5 inches of rainfall we could get a couple of downpours with the remnants of bill. well talk about that coming snup now to the latest on the two escaped prisoners in upstate new york the trail has gone cold, and now they are meeting to decide what the next steps might be, the two broke out of a prison 11 days ago allegedly with the help of a supervisor joyce mitchell they say she helped them because she believed they would help kill her you husband. her lawyer says despite the rumors, he is standing by his wife. >> world news has more on the search for the escaped prisoners, as well as tropical storm bill and the deadly balcony collapse in california. that is at 6:30 after "action news" at 6:00. in other news, philadelphia
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firefighters had their hands full with a fast moving blaze in the city's kensington section this afternoon this was the scene along the 600 block crew as rived just before 6:30 and saw heavy flames coming from the back of the two story row home, it took them a half hour to get the upper hand and it's unclear if anyone was home and a firefighter suffered an injury and was taken to temple hospital for treatment. from our new jersey bureau now to people were rushed to the hospital following this crash at shore road and country club droif investigators say that an suv collided with another car that was turning on to shore road and victims were rushed to the hospital and authorities are not commenting on the extent of their injuries. >> two people are rested after a
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prostitution sting. the arrests were made on june 11th and 12th in the areas of delaware route 9 and route 13 the areas were targeted because of numerous complains from citizens about prostitution and other crimes. a former baltimore ravens cheerleader must register as a sex offend after pleading guilt to one count of sexual relations with a 15-year-old boy, her trial was expected to start in a few days but reached a plea agreement with prosecutors she faces up to 15 years in prison when she is sentenced in august. driving at night and camden county got greener, crews installed lights in winslow township part of a county wide effort to use longer lasting bulbs that are better for the vim. they are putting in the led
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bulbs in six towns and it could save a combined $100,000 in one year. time to check in with matt pellman to sew what is going on on the highways and by ways. >> i would not have gotten that one. >> i am working with him a long time. >> the only reason monica sits here. >> good evening, if are you headed north on 95 past woodhaven you'll see the red brake lights because this have crash taking out the right lane approaching street road and they are working on pushing it off to the side, you need to get the emergency crews in here and left lanes are getting by slowly. this is 95 in delco northbound side is sluggish from the state line to the blue route, people headed to the ppl park for the union game and the ramp from 95 to the northbound blue route closes overnight starting at 9:00. they are reconfiguring the
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pattern on that ramp to give you more room. crash on the turnpike past mid county is gone and speeds in the teens though and gloucester township look for a crash along college drive. >> thank you matt. more to come on "action news" tuesday night. the best and brightest young baseball players across our area are going head to head for a big prize in philadelphia three members of the delaware national guard earn a spot at one of the most prestigious institutions in the country. we'll explain. >> another very uncomfortable day, feels like 95 degrees and we are tracking a believe break in the heat and humidity and lowering temperatures coming in wednesday and a few downpours in double scan tracking it in the accuweather forecast. and ducis rogers has sports including a live report on the first day of eagles mini camp. >> football.
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katherine scott has the story. >> reporter: as the weather heats up so does roxborough high school students here and across philadelphia public scols were dismissed at noon today these with the last days of school and they are not missing much any way. >> they put our grades in two weeks ago. >> i'm ready to get started. >> some students with finishing their year graduation for overbrook seniors like tina, how hard have you worked for this day? >> long nights of studying, very hard. >> many worry that the extreme heat will affect the commencement. >> i hope we get through this before the rain comes. >> the heat and rain i'm nervous, we are proud he is third in his class. >> the heat and humidity were hard to ignore.
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proud families bask the glow of their new graduates and the sun many came prepared with umbrellas and bottles of water and snuck into the shade when they could but mostly enjoyed the come plirkmentes of these young men and women. >> we would have been here if it was 102, because this is a great day. a great day but hot one as well. >> tomorrow is not suppose to be as bad but we have relief in sight. katherine scott, channel 6 "action news." >> some of our areas top baseball prospects hit the field in the hopes of winning the philadelphia carpenter's cup the urban showcase field the field is maintained by the phillies and supports the team's mission to provide free instruction to low income children, it's known as one of the best in the country and many end up playing for top universes. very cool. >> turning to sports eagles mini camp is underway and ducis
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rogers is live with more on that. >> hi ducis. >> mini camp is open for business and is open until thursday and everyone is accounted for and the talk continues to focus on a guy that is no longer on the team, jaime apody is live at the camp with more. >> reporter: it's the start of the final few workouts until training camp opens in early august and chip kelly made shower that all the 90 guys here were the guys that bought into the culture that he is trying to create and that is why evan mathis is not here. last week a bitter divorce, despite the fact that mathis would have shown up for the mandatory mini camp, they have lost both of their starting guards to most that makes them weaker on paper but the coach feels like they are just as athletic at guard when they had mathis and todd herriman. and stood by his decision.
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>> he wanted a new contract and we weren't going to give it and they asked for the release and we gave it. >> evan is a great guy and i have respect for him and was doing the best thing for his tamly and two daughters i don't think this is something that anybody had a problem with. >> evan was evan we want guys that want to be here. >> the guy that everyone was talking about sam bradford who does want to be here. he was held out of 11 on 11 and when asked if he was ready to participate at training camp, he said god i hope so. >> thank you jaime. >> the phillies in baltimore trying to snap a seven game losing streak. a new nba champion could be crowned tonight, lebron james may be the best player in the
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world but his team is down 3-2 against steph curry and the warriors, they are so close they can taste it but the cavs come to play in their building tonight. >> i expect them to make shots and play well and aggressive. but we have to weather anything that comes our way and stay consistent. >> this game is just as important as the last game and the last four before that, i don't put too much added pressure on it. >> can you see game six from cleveland a potential game here on 6 abc. the flyers traded him it's the first of his career, he has been chasing the cup since he broke into the nhl back in 1988.
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>> it's a long journey and i'm happy and happy it's over and i'm leaving at the stanley cup champion a lot of good guys in hockey and he is at the top of the list. thank you ducis. >> three delaware national guards men are heading to colorado for a us honor. now they can get a head start on a military career. >> when i started it was mainly for school i just wanted school and that was my biggest goal and i left for training and i fell in love with the military. >> webber and mcfadden will major in chemical engineering. they are excited for the competition because the training is so intense.
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one of our talented photographers here at "action news." time to get out of the sticky situation if we can. downpours ss storms are possible tonight as we look at double scan live radar nothing severe no watches or warning, but one or two downpours we are tracking on double scan, the area cluster near milford, moving now south of regalesville and bethlehem where they saw all the rain yesterday, as it heads towards northern bucks and montgomery county you'll get a little wet and a couple of flair-ups here and there no lightning with this, zero lightning strikes, one near mount holly and a shower near norristown and could ride near 422 and eventually the schuylkill expressway as it spreads south and east. but not much, a pretty quiet evening, it feels like 95 in philadelphia the bigger story
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is the 97 in millville and 95 in philadelphia and not better at the shore despite the heavy thunderstorms that passed through atlantic city, down towards sea isle city, the sun is back out and it's like a steam back out there. there is a cold front it's hard to distinguish where it is because we don't have a line of storms, it's broken in nature but behind the front we drop the heat and humidity but it's only for one day here on wednesday, that is your weekday winner with the high in control, the refreshing day, and high temperature of 84 degrees, the high fades and a warm front starts to approach from the south and west on thursday morning, with the return of the warm front and winds off the atlantic and the trailing cold front, will also hold the
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remnants of tropical storm bill. that eventually will push to the north and east, and it could fizzle out before it reaches the mid-atlantic if it does somewhat hold together maybe we get a couple of downpours late saturday and sunday but really no big deal, the shore forecast will be pretty good, high clouds and sunshine and look at the temperatures only in the mid-70s at the shore tomorrow from wildwood and ocean city from long beach island the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, 84 and a comfortable day on wednesday it turns more humid thursday morning round of rain and clouds in the afternoon and friday is looking good and sun and clouds and 85 degrees and late saturday into recally sun morning, could be the round of thunderstorms passing through and temperatures in the 80s saturday and the first day of summer for father's day up to 90 degrees and a pop-up storm possible monwith the heat and kind of like today 91 degrees and a lot of sun on tuesday with
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the temperature of 86 degrees, you have the pop-up storms and hurricanes during this time of year we put together the whole accuweather team put together a weather special summer storms keeping you safe, airs thursday at 7:30, here on 6 abc, and i looked into the social media aspect of forecasting and how you at home tie in with us and give us first hand reports be it's helpful and we'll talk about that. >> i like to think i help you guys a lot with social media good really? you are on there. i should follow you. >> just tweet me. before you head out the door check the mobile 6 app to fine the weather for your location.
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well, sir. after some serious consideration i'd like to put in my 15-year notice. you're quitting!? technically retiring, sir. with a little help from my state farm agent i plan to retire in 15 years. wow! you're totally blindsiding me here. who's gonna manage your accounts? this is a devastating blow i was not prepared for. well, i'm gonna finish packing my things. 15 years will really sneak up on you. jennifer with do your exit interview and adam made you a cake. red velvet. oh, thank you. i made this. take charge of your retirement. talk to a state farm agent today. moo it was graduation day for some talented women this
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afternoon. the ac cam was at the commencement for girls ceremony they wore white dresses and carried red flowers and sang along to songs and had speeches before getting their diplomas. employees at two naval facilities in philadelphia were evacuated today after investigations into unspecified threats and more than a million visitors are expected in philadelphia for the pope's visit, the initial plan on how folks can get around town when is he in town. that and much more coming up at 6:00. now for jaime apody adam joseph cecily tynan monica malpass i'm rick williams have a nice evening.
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"action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with ducis rogers meteorologist cecily tynan, and jim gardner. tuesday night and two brothers are arraigned for a home invasion in broomall and philadelphia police are looking for the thief that stole 12 count them 12 taxi cabs. but the big story on "action news" tonight is the likelihood of improving conditions in the tri-state area but the big story is pop-up storms still exists. this is the time lapse this afternoon in atlantic city, the storm moved in quickly and doused the shore with torrential rain and then the humidity are real feel soaring into the upperer 90s again today but there is better news from double scan aid ar and accuweather.
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lets get the latest from cecily tynan. >> the cold front moving in will sweep the heat and humidity out for a couple of days and the front itself has limited moisture with it so we are just seeing isolated showers popping upright now but with a high humidity, they can bring down heavy downpours the most concentrated band is moving out of lehigh county and bucks and harrow harrow, a good one across 611 and showers into quakertown, no grown to cloud lightning strikes, just a band of heavy rain and scattered thunderstorms moving into norristown and another one south of jenkintown, and this is the activity we'll see over the next couple of hours before that dry air moves in. we did have some severe weather though at the shore estelle manor in
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