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sit sdep is it injured when a train hits . >> a night of celebration in west philadelphia turns violent
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leaving ten people injured. tonight the search is on to find the two men responsible. >> sunday night and the big story on "action news" is the search for gunman that opened fire at west philadelphia block party injuring tenen including children. >> the gunfire rang out during the party last night 41 and ogdon and tonight some victims are in the hospital rehaveing from gun shot wounds. annie mccormick has the latest. >> an 18-month-old girl was youngest one injured. police say she was hit by bell net her they can neck. we spoke to her family that tells us she is resting comfortably. however two adults remain here at penn presbyterian. >> saturday night just as a block party wrapped newspaper this neighborhood they thought of nothing. >> we heard the shots.
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we saw everybody -- we heard the shoingts and saw everybody running out. >> it was just before 10 when police believe one man armed with shotgun and accomplice waited until it was dark to walk up to the party and retaliation for fight earlier in the week. >> they fire first shot from intersection and then come east and for a second shot. >> pellets sprayed the crowd of 50 injuring ten including 11, 12 and 1-year-old. the between men involved fled on foot and shot gun pet et cetera are meant for hunters. >> bird shot has 9 to 11 pellets inside the chart range and dangerous thing is it spreads. >> marked patrol cars sat on either end of block and police served area for surveillance video and urged witnesses to come forth and many even injured are too scared. >> no one should accept this type of behavior. you have a good thing going on in the community. you have a block party. seemingly went well the entire
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day. neighbors with out there with family members family and friends all the way from new york. >> it's not clear if intended target of shooting was among injured it's still an ongoing investigation and they're also looking into if recent shootings in and around that block are related. for now reporting outside pen presbyterian hospital app an "channel 6 action news." >> breaks news from pensauken new jersey where a 65-year-old man was struck and killed by a car. it happened just about an hour ago in the northbound lanes of route 130. the vehicle did spot at the scene. no word yet on any charges. a shooting in kensington tonight ended with man in critical condition and juvenile injured from fragments by a nearby window that shattered is happened at h and ontario. they arrived at the scene to find a 25-year-old shot in the back. he was rushed to temple in critical condition.
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a stray bullet thatrd a nearby window and glass cut a young person standing nearby. no arrests were made. >> a 90-year-old man was seriously injured when his car was hit by a train in delaware county it happened after 2:30 turner flowed nether providence and the man became trapped in car and rescuers had to cut him free from the wreckage. service on septa media elwyn line was suspended for a time and passengers were bussed to destination. >> and police in collings wood, new jersey made a life saving rescue this morning after a driver lost control of the car and careened into the cooper river. witnesses say it appears the man was having a seizure. around 8:00 this morning the man you saw there angela lominger was at the window of his citizens bank park drive home when he saw the vehicle plunge into the water and he quickly called police who were able to rescue the man and rush him to a local hospital. no word yet on his condition. >> a teen aimner ocean county was killed yesterday after a
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stolen slab fell on him berkley township at a business that make counter tops the 17-year-old had apparently about trying to walk between large samples of gravel and granite when had tapped and he was trapped between two slabs. his body was found yesterday morning and it's unclear how he got pinned and how long his body was there. >> a apartment complex remains under evacuation orders after a possible gas leak. rare trueman ice green lane for nearly 200 people displaced. peco crews detected a gas odor coming from chesterfield apartments on veterans highway. no word when those folks will be loued back home. >> firefighters had to wait to put out this nair in mount laurel, new jersey. >> that's because the source of the flames was downed power
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lines. you can see the fire burn the fence here at the home on the 00 block of tamshanter road. they had to turn offer the power before firefighters could go near the flames. >> moving on to weather and first day of summer felt like summer. let's humid tomorrow and still travrpinging up the heat. meteorologist melissa magee has her first check of the forecast. >> hi, walter we had a hot and steamy to our weekend on father's day and warm out now. philadelphia d philadelphia tion 85. dover 7 up inle allentown along the coast in sea isle city 81. winds are out of westerly direction so we still have humidity to factor in feet like 88 when you put up heat index in philadelphia and 8 as well in dover. a couple things to focused in on. stormtracker it's try for most locations however up sear orsections of south jersey where
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we're tracking a spotty shower and even thunderstorm moving on it in. activity pressing to southern burlington county. route 55. keep that in mind. storm is moving east 40 miles an hour and this will start to move offshore as we go through the rest of the overnight hours. this moisture is not associated in association rather with cold front coming on tloor in the wake of that front it gets louis humid monday it gets hot we'll let you know how it is. >> thank you melissa. of course our weather team will track the forecast throughout the night. make sure to tune into "action news" starting 4:30 for latest conditions as you begin the workweek. >> we're counting down the days now until pope francis arrives in city of philadelphia in september. tonight a delegation of city and
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church leaders are on the way to vatican and finalized plans for the pope's visit. "action news" reportser david henry was at the airport when they left forever the trip. >> mayor nutter led the trip to to rome. two fold mission public top safety personnel meeting with police and security forces. business leaders and archdioceses personnel will be meeting with cat can counterparts upon five call of families. >> i never wished anybody at all. >> this will be the eighth in the u.s. world sear i whys and i never raced in anything -- >> we have a great team and there's just tremendous interest and enthusiasm and excitement of world meeting for the pope's visit. a lot of people want to be involved and be of help. that's been a wonderful part of it too. >> security for pope is already
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taken place. hundreds of details still need attention. >> this is uj he fents for ate jury of philadelphia. we. >> app estimated 15,000 rick williams attend world congress of families at the congressional center two million could -- it's unprecedented kheping for a city that prides itself in pulling off good events. >> all the different animals events logistics, trping kev security we do very very swelling. >> a sea of humanity will see the pope celebrating mass. thecyy is hoping you leave with nothing more than fine memories. david henry, "channel 6 action news". >> as the delegates from archdioceses those city of philadelphia and world meeting
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of families travel to rome for final meeting before the papal visit. our own brian taff is going along on the trip as well. look for his reports live from rome starting on "action news." and you can also follow brian's trip and get all the latest updates before the pope's upcoming visit and then following at 6abc. pope on twitser. >> emmanuel ame church in charleston south car align aheld a service there. >> church bells rang. visitors held hand cried and prayed together. acting pastor said the nine that died gave their blood in the interest of justice for all. >> some of this have been down right angry. but through it all god has
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sustained us. there's a time and place for everything and now it's a time for us to focus on the nine families. >> pastor gob also thanked the nation and world for flowers and emails and there was stand owing vacation when he thanked lawlen for the officers who quickly found and arrested the suspect. >> worshipers in philadelphia kept parishioners mother emmanuel in their prayers today. mount he nonbaptist the congregation joined happened and said we shallow come. and members of philadelphia's mother bethel ame church in society hill. the sanctuary was filled with members and visitors tat came to pay support. >> more than 5,000 people took
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part in a ruin all for a cause close to our heart at "action news." they woke up bright and early to take part in the gary papa run that kicked off from eakins oval this morning. 6abc sports director gary papa lost his battle between father's day in 009. many that cook part in today's event were cancer survivors and their families. >> more to come on "action news" tonight. search for escaped killers is sendering third week. new information will develop in the break they need. >> later sir pal makes his first stop in philadelphia in five years. >> phillies try toy avoid being swept by cardinals. jeff skversky has more when "action news" goes right back.
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>> now to the hunt for two escaped inmate. someone in friendship told them two men were looking for dreks and investigators described new information they're receiving is unconfirmed and credible. the search for matt and sweat
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ebterd its third week. >> investigators say travis boys was being transferred yesterday when he somehow got his hands on gun shot an officer driving the squad car and ran away. tributes were coming in all day for officer darrell holloway 22 year veteran of new orleans police department and father of three. >> today first lady michelle obama took to instagram to wish her husband a happy father's day and did it with a throw back photo. president at the beach with sasha and mall he a. turns out this was long distance dedication president obama spent the weekend on west coast and first lady is traveling back from italy with daughter and mother. >> in addition to father's day today was international yoga day. from afghanistan to malaysia and paris and new york city millions of people took part. even india prime minister hit the map and it's international yoga day for his idea he lobbied
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united nitions to approve even visit till new york last year. >> packed houdz at the wells fargo center as sir paul mccartney hit the stage. >> sdi sky6hd checking out spruce harbor park. mullingy an a pretty site. meteorologist melissa magee has your exclusive accuweather 7-day forecast when "action news" comes back.
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>> on this hot and steamy
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father's day was a well needed and much deserved treat in camden mr. softee spent three hours driving through city streets happeneding out free ice cream for children. the children were able to give dads something special on father's day the sweet treat all made possible by camden county police department. >> time for a check of the accuweather forecast. it's official. summer is here. it sure felt that way. >> we had heat and humidity this father's day and looks like heat is stick around as we get to monday too. let's show you what is going on stormtracker 6 double scan radar. it's dry and queue eight cross the region. this exception this one loan sale currently across areas of south jersey. we'll press in tighter stormtracker 6 double scan street-level and we have showers for camden and dmrosster country and moving along route 55 south of glass fwo row and pressing east of the region as well and also south of berlin this cluster is moving east 0 miles
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an hour. and it will move offshore as we go throughout the overnight hours. this is the cold front we've been talking about all day today and moves south. tonight, and then we have lower humidity on the way tomorrow. sky6 live in hd from temple university camera looking at center city sky line and right down broad street as well at city hall. muggy. currently in philadelphia, coming in at 8. when you factor in the humidity it feels like 88 currently in city and 80 trenton and 6 8 poconos along the coast and sea isle city 81 and lower 80s in dover. here's satellite 6 and action radar we're tracking a really broken line of activity with that one long cluster of activity currently moving across the area in south jersey and it pushes down to the south and east as we go throughout the rest of the overnight hours and high pressure moves into the region for monday. start of workweek team, still
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hot, lower humidity on the way. high temperature in philadelphia coming in at 91 degrees. well above the average of 84 for this time of year and we tap into that drier air from the north that will continue to nose southward as we go throughout the rests of monday and future tracker showing you the dew points. that's the legal of how much moisture is in the atmosphere and by my night tonight we won't. as the front dips south by noon tomorrow dew point temperatures will number lower 60s and middle 50/50s across locations. definitely not as oppressive as it was today across the area. the call from accuweather looking at the morning rush, monday, sunshine and clouds, humidity will drop as the day moves on. 63 75 at a.m. and once we get to it's even 70. high temperature 91.
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that summer sizzle is on tuesday you have heat us is and humidity returns as well. high of 94. late-day shower hor thunderstorm by the afternoon and into the evening tuesday. on wednesday not as hot and 87. thursday sunshine to cloud practicing stay front that moves through. majority of day thursday stays west of philadelphia. so high of 84. we'll have parade of sail and tall ship parade at the delaware river. rain possible. high of 78. sunny too at 78 showers possible as we get into next sunday at 83. summer is here and it's definitely going to feel like that tomorrow guys. >> sounds good. >> for the second time this weekend local music lovers were treated to the sounds of sir paul mccartney >> that guy does not age. >> legendary member of the beatles rocked the wells fargo center tonight on out there
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tour. he performed stocks from new album and classics from 50 year career. mccartney already performed friday night at fire fly festival in music: etta james "at last" (plays throughout) ♪♪ sometimes, at last doesn't happen at first. ♪♪
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♪♪ your dad just kissed my mom. ♪♪ turning two worlds into one takes love. ♪♪ helping protect that world takes state farm.
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>> time time for a check on sports. jeff skversky is here and we thought we had lots to talk about with the u.s. on and then came the finale. >> watching closely in bethlehem tonight too. u.s. on was wide on there for the taking by just about anyone today four guys coming to final round tied jordan spieth tied to the lehigh valley and dustin johnson and jason day and brend an grace. lots of drama as they fight for victory at the u.s. on tonight in the end it comes down to two guys jordan spieth 16 get in the hole. spieth takes a three shot lead. double bogeys 17 giving dustin johnson a shot to win on 18. with father in law wayne grestsky can johnson become the great one. eagle wins it.
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just misses left. so johnson can force a playoff tomorrow. all he needs to do is birdie the shot. tap it in. no misses. so spieth, 21, youngest ever to win u.s. on animators here he is hugging his father he's from the lehigh valley. both fraernts from bethlehem what a win on father's day. >> to win this tournament on father's day i just hope my dad is proud of me and he's the one who got me started playing the game and he's the reason i'm here right now. my entire family. dunkin' donuts dad this one was for you today. this trophy is for you and this will be a day we will never forget. >> what a year for jordan spieth. between memorial day and father's day phillies starters had zero wins. it's the worst stretch in team history. go figure a kid who has never pitched in makers before who has not won a minor league start this year ends the drought.
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it's a happy father's day tin finale against the cardinals and lots of hugs and high fives and second inning hernandez playing for struggling chase utley. two out two run single three-no leads and former cushion for former first round pick. cardinals six strikeouts allows only one run makes papa proud. phils score all day long we get two more in the fifth and franco three today and rbi single can blow it wide on. pinch hitting. three-run homerer. phils score surprise high 9 runs. everything going their way. even the fanatic gets a souvenir. phils win 9-2. morgan whipping major league debut first w by a starter in nearly a month. >> i can't put it into words right now. you know you just are trying to soak it all in right now.
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and hope that i get another opportunity but a lot of people don't get this opportunity. i'm very very grateful. >> he was given the opportunity and really stepped up. really showed maturity out there and just under control and that was the most impressive part of it. >> phils now headed to new york to face yankees and expect cole hamlees to take the mound wednesday. bullpen session today goes a-okay. hamels missed friday with an hamstring

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