>> sunday night i'm alicia vitareli in for sarah

bloomquist. >> i'm walter perez the people of delran new jersey is getting ready for one of their own carli lloyd and u.s. women's team to take on japan notice cup finals. >> crews hit the streets early to cleanup from party on the parkway. >> big story is a person that stabbed a teenager and left her to die in a parking lot in the city hunting park section. >> tonight the victim's family is urging the person responsible to come forward. "action news" reporter trish hartman has more. >> police say a passerby flagged down a patrol car before 4 a.m. alerting them to 17-year-old girl in the parking lot of this walgreens on north broad in hunting park. the victim's father said she was on her way home from 4th of july activity from her cuz sglin she was coming from the fireworks they had down penns landing and i heard there was a scuffle or fight that took place and somebody stabbed her to death. >> family members identified her as 17-year-old anita cotton. investigators say cotton was

rushed to einstein with a stab wound to her neck where she was pronounced dead. several friends and family members said a fight broke out in the parking lot and they didn't know why. >> this had to be an outside somebody i guess wanted to do some damage to somebody. somebody so young. >> my niece was a nice girl. she was eye -- the fight broke out and end result was she got stabbed. >> those who know cotton said she was a student and dedicated to mother to her 2-year-old daughter. >> she was a good mom. no matter what she was going through, young smart great mom. >> i'm upset about think want to find out who donecy wish they would turn themselves in. >> philadelphia police are still investigating if you heard or saw anything homicide detectives would like to hear from you. hunting park, trish hartman

"channel 6 action news." >> philadelphia police are investigating other homicides overnight. after 1:00 police were called to east gel is street in port richmond where they found a 44-year-old man lying in a fool of bloodshot three times. there's no arrest and no word on a motive. >> and city olney section investigators are piecing together a double shootinger early this morning. around 3:30 a.m., 5100 block of north front smun fired more than 30 shots at a car with two men inside. the driver was hit in the thigh and foot and a passenger in the backseat was killed. no arrests in this case, either. from our new jersey newsroom tonight please are investigating a murder in camden adds well. it happened late last night broadway and vixt ola street. a man in 30s was shot repeatedly there. he was rushed to cooper where pronounced dead and the gunman remains on the loose. >> authorities are lehigh county

vebilitying a double homicide. a man and woman were found shot to death at the intersection of 6th and greenleaf streets. no arrests made in this case as well. recovery crews in wildwood recovered a body that matches description of missing teenagers. witnesses say tuesday they saw someone struggling in the water hereford inlets and last night the body was found. pending autopsy will expect edly provide confirmation of the victim's identity. a memorial service held today for an 85-year-old woman murdered in her east mt. airy home. rej iriana bruner holmes was remembered my friends and family joseph lavine and sons memorial chapel. yesterday police announced arrest of leroy wilson a handyman that did work for the victim. brenner-holmes let him into her home last monday and at some point confronted him after perhaps catching him trying to steal something perhaps. and wilson then beat and slashed her throat. the 4th of july went off

with a bang here in philadelphia. the philly 4th of july jam and fireworks shows with a huge success last night. officials estimate 200,000 people packed the parkway. they also as you can imagine left behind quite a mess. as soon as the crowd cleared out those cleanup crews moved in. some of the crowd moved from the parkway to south street party afterwards. police were out in full force to make sure the crowd did not get too rowdy. >> and the holiday weekend coming to a close. good news is that the weather today was fabulous and bad news many of us spent the day inside a car driving home from holiday destinations. meteorologist melissa magee is outside enjoying sunshine and enni rukanjarvi joining us now for the first accuweather forecast. >> we had a drier and brighter finish to the holiday weekend. we're under a partly cloudy sky and temperatures rend spokeing to the warmth overhead. 84 degrees. 77 poconos. cool are but still comfortable a look of the coast. beach haivrn 78, 76 in sea sil l

sea isle city. check out the dew points it's the level of how much moisture is in the atmosphere. there's a touch of humidity ahead. dew points in the lower 60s you will feel the humid air to come. double scan radar showing you an area of low pressure over eastern kentucky and eastern tennessee and this will work its way to mid-atlantic region as we get to monday afternoon. we'll talk about what is ahead. it's warm and humid with more of a summerlike pattern returning across the delaware and lehigh valley. temperatures back up into the 80s and we're tracking a bit of unsettled pattern for threat of showers and storms this week. we'll take a closer look in the full and exclusive accuweather forecast alicia. >> thank you. in less than an hour the u.s. women's associating team will take the field in vancouver for what promises to be an epic world cup final they will take on japan a team that beat them four years ago. leading charge is delran, new

jersey's own carly lord. jeff chirico is in delran where the party is just getting started. hey, jeff. >> hey alicia. delran goon take notice of carly while she attended delran high school and played soccer here and graduated in 2000 and then went on to win two olympic gold medals she hopes to add to that hardware with coveted world cup. >> as kids cool off at the swim club in delran swim club excitement is heating up for tonight's world cup match and local legend corely lloyd. >> i think united states has a real opportunity win this tournament and possibly bring awareness to soccer and have more kids get involved in it. >> lloyd shoots, scores. >> lloyd has porch herself star of the u.s. team scoreing a goal in each victory on the way to tonight's final with the world cup in sight you can be sure

delran willsh watching. where she spent her summers they are watching under the pavilion. her family will be at nearby ott's tavern. >> and do you knowy pub and restaurant more fans will be cheering her on and lloyd told "action news" last week she doesn't plan top disappoint. we have so much momentum and had this momentum prior to china game and i think we're peaking at the right moment and i feel really confident in our team to go twhin thing. >> that's right you can feel the excitement out here and speaking with the folks arounds town all of them cheering for car livrment the game starts at 7:00 and we'll bring you reaction tonight at 11. live in delran township, jeff cherico. >> it was a celebration in hatboro today . >> people lined the streets as you can see for today's big

parade. 106-year-old hatboro residents and world war ii veteran will request yum moore served as the grand marshall. it featured marching units and youngsters who decorated bikes and scotters and joined in on the fun. >> 106 years old that is amazing. >> there's much more to come tonight. pope francis landing in south america for historic visit. but what's making big headlines so far is pretty unusual and extremely windy arrival. >> princess charlotte makes her first public appearance. we'll show you the adorable pictures. >> jeff skversky has sports when "action news" comes right

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talk about the ref republican duming. it's on whether the government should accept terms of international bailout. right now with three-quarters of the vote counted a no vote it likely. impact of that is still not nope. but it could mean that greece, which is heavily i in debt. will need to avenue leave the euro zone. banks were closed all week and it's uncertain whether they're ol and when. >> prison escape he sweat is behind bars again one week after captured near the canadian border this morning 34506d from a hospital to five points correctional facility in new york. sweat was captured last sunday 22 days after he and fellow inmate richard matt broke out of prison in upstate new york. matt was killed during a shootout with police two days before sweat captured. >> police in maryland questioning a mother of infant found abandoned on the side of the road in her car seat. police in anne arrundel county posted this picture of a little girl found shortly before

midnightch the scuff marks on car seat leaf them to believe it may have fallen from a moving car. it was enough to pressure the child's mother to come forward. the child remains in protective custty tonight>> prince. >> as the pope stepped off the plane the winds picked up his cap and blew it away. off with his hat. left hims with a bare head for the beginning of his visit. francis is the first set foot in ecuador since john paul ii visited in 1985. >> in britain royal family gathered for christening of princess charlotte. she what dressed in traditional gown lace and sat in. she was baptized in a church on queen elizabeth estate it's marley special because princess

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>> jamie apody has a check on sports and phillies the big news today they won. >> this is huge news i know. it doesn't happen very often. last time cole hamels had a win we had not hit memorial day yet and past 4th of july he's looking for another. part of that runs in the last six starts his teammates gave him grand total of 6 runs and today gave him zero. check out the double play in third. amlees pitched great today allowed six kids and struck out 6 or 7 and left with nothing to show for it. this game was still 0-0 in the ninth and runners at the corners and louis garcia struck out.

and in the tenth ryan howard came through with a sack fly. that's first run of the game for either team. it was all phillies would need. but, carlos ruse would eventually add insurance with two-run double. hernandez was 3 for 4 tonight. his batting average .299 chase utley who, that's horrible. the losing street is over, 4-0. how about that? >> now we turn to reunion with jimmy roltings as they start a series in la tomorrow. reserves will be named tomorrow. who on earth should be phils representative. it has to be jonathan papelbon that's what interim manager pete mccannon says. he got final three out today. 1.7 era this season and 14 save opportunities and has not blown any of them. every team needs one player on the roster. only one. the game is jewel 14 in

cincinnati. >> last night was america's birth day. the nation tonight will cheer on usa in finale of women's cup. u.s. and japan rematch four years ago u.s. lost in penalty shots. last time the women won notice world's biggest stage 1999 carli lloyd was still plague for delran high school in new jersey. now it's so close she can taste it. no regrets. no holding back. full throttle. we will be hopefully on that top podium. >> now we have an opportunity and it's not about revenge or avenging that loss because this team is dining room i feel the best team will be left standing sunday night and of course, we hope it's us. >> tomorrow we shall see what all the hype is about and jal he'll okafor takes the court as a sixer for the first time. 6' 11" center will start and so will expectations weighing heavily on his broad shoulders. third overall pick is not

worried about that one bit. >> i believe a lot in myself and i do any position extremely hard and i try to do well and get better. >> think about the nba if you watch the commercials since he put diapers on. to think you temper that enthusiasm go out there and play as hard as you can and i expect john to go out and he'll learn every possession he's intel yent r generality and wants to learn the came. >> another guy to get excited about this kid villanova star recruit led under 19 team against croatia. team eye 14 point and 7 assists and won 79-71. his dad started temple and played nine seasons in nba. jaylen is a year under jahlil oak for.

>> chip off the old block. >> jamie thank you. you're back to real taken back to work forecast is next on "action news" unless of course, you're still at the beach. >> you're in the bonus round in that case. meteorologist melissa magee has the exclusive accuweather day forecast when we come back. first a preview of what is ahead >> coming up world news tonight out of control 4th of july celebration spark home and wildfires and one family holiday vacation ends in hospital with with when a deck collapses at the beach house and america takes on japan in the women's world cup final.

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afters with we wrap uple hot day weekend, it was sticky and muggy and not bad. >> we'll return heat and humidity and popup thunderstorms. details on stormtracker 6 double scan showing you dry quiet. no issues with precipitation today after wrapping up the holiday weekend. we show you the picture outside. action cam was outside earlier this afternoon down the street there in map yunk watching a couple have a little conversation. wonder what they're talking about. their could have even book in hand it was a good day and definitely improvement from where we were same time yesterday with dhil overhead. yesterday's high 77 degrees. today a nice finish and today up to 84 for a high temperature that's 7 degrees warmer than yesterday. normal for us this time of year is 87. numbers outside this evening 77 in poconos. 84 city at this hour.

79 lancaster and along the coast south facing land kicking on in and 75a l sea isle silly and along the coach in beach haivrn 77 degrees. satellite 6 and action radar radar we were able to squeeze out high pressure today across new england and mitt mid-atlantic region. you look south and west we're tracking upper level low in eastern sections of kentucky and also eastern tennessee and with that we can find showers and storms sparring up across the ohio valley in south east. we'll track this moisture as it continues to work its way into our region for the start of our workweek. here's setup tomorrow. warm turning a touch more humid. high pressure scoots offshore. what's happened to southwesterly wind. high tomorrow in philadelphia coming in at 87. 87 average for us this time year. more clouds than sunshine however with the area of low pressure coming up southwest to northeast direction and tracking afternoon showers and storms. future tracker 6 has you

covered. , 6:00 mostly cloudy start to the day. sunshine. moisture and showers stay off south and west at that point. 00 in the afternoon you notice showers starting to approach. and while i think you you have best bet of showers especially with heating of day and instability overhead the best will be west of philadelphia. 6:30 in the evening still tracking showers and storms and at this point nothing looks to turn severe across our region but still some heavy downpours on the way tomorrow. here's the call from accuweather for the rest of tonight. clear early under partly cloudy sigh and tracking participatey fog as we go throughout the overnight hours and 64 in the suburbs forethe overnight low and 70 in philadelphia. here's the exclusive accuweather 7-day forecast. monday mostly cloud jury day. high temperature 87. we're tracking afternoon showers and storms. humidity building throughout the day. keep in mind as humid air presses on and those showers and

storms moving on through the best bet will be mainly west of philadelphia. and on tuesday sunshine, still unsettled with a thunderstorm overhead. high temperature coming in at 89. by wednesday, we'll be tracking a cold front moving on through. so still unsettled with showers and storms overhead. high temperature up to 90. on thursday, clouds and sun tracking that front that makes very little progress south. high temperature of 6 degrees and just isolated shot of a thunderstorm. partly sunny on friday it's warm one in at 8 and saturday sunshine and clouds and sunday, we will hold in the upper 80s. have the umbrella with you as you return to work tomorrow. >> yes. >> and it will be hot one of those portable fans. >> good idea. >> thank you. >> a lot of hair spray. >> always. >> that's right. >> "abc worls news" sunday is next on channel 6. >> and don't miss "action news" 10 phl17 tonight and back here again on 6abc at 11. >> for walter perez, jamie apody, melissa magee, jeff

skversky, sarah bloomquist, and the entire "action news" team, i'm alicia vitareli, we will see

welcome to "world news tonight." burning up, fireworks misfire leads to blazes like this even wildfires in california. out-of-control celebrations fanning the flames in the drought-ravaged state. holiday horror. a family's fourth of july vacation ends in the hospital when a deck collapses at their beach house in the middle of a group photo. nearly two dozen injured. tonight, what investigators are saying about that floor now in pieces. crash landing. the plane that made a sudden nosedive onto a san diego beach. >> look out! >> tonight, the new crash video. an update on the boy injured and those terrifying final moments from an eyewitness nearly hit in the crash. running on empty. with banks closed and the country nearly out of money, the greek vote that could now push the cash-strapped country to the