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>> serious health concerns for children who were treated at a south jersey clinic. a state review finds that several of them received the wrong vaccines. good morning, everyone, 5:30 on this tuesday. tam is off. erin o'hearn joins us along with dave murphy and matt pelman who is filling in for karen. good morning. >> that very warm and oppressively humid air mass that arrived yesterday is still with us and in that humid air we have a couple of showers that have popped up. a couple of them popping right up the i-95 corridor in through philadelphia, northeast airport just got one and is about to pick up another. some of this still trailing through parts of delaware county and i see another one farther to the south, to the south of chester pennsylvania, coming north. we also have a couple of these out to the west of reading and it looks like reading itself might pick up some of that shortly. some of it could sweep east up toward allentown as well. you can see the mom. otherwise it is a warm and muggy start. 77 degrees in philadelphia, 73 in allentown mid 70's down the shore. the humidity definitely up there with everyone looking at dewpoints over 70 and that is what we call oppressive
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humidity. if you have plans to get out there and do some exercising, get it done early and then maybe take a shower before you head to work. 73 degrees by 6 o'clock, 78 by 8 o'clock. warm and humid, partly cloudy as you head out the door early this morning. and in the afternoon, it is going to be a very warm and humid one with a temperature of 86 as soon as noon and then by 3 o'clock your high of 89 degrees. there's also the chance of another pop-up shower or even a drenching thunderstorm. the best chance this afternoon is probably north but of course right now we've got a little bit of that action moving right through the center of philadelphia. matt pelman, it ends in the accuweather 7-day but we'll have to wait a cull more days. details coming up. >> speaking of center city philadelphia here we are david vine street expressway in center city and yes indeed, things do look a little bit soggy now. still steamy and also soggy but the good news is the traffic is moving once again here along the vine street expressway in both directions. overnight construction has cleared out. crews will return, of course, again tonight at 11 o'clock but for now the vine is ready for you.
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so too is 95, also a little bit damp now and you see some southbound traffic but the overnight construction here in the ongoing work zone has cleared out as has our rash in cheltenham along easton road at royal avenue by the oak summit apartments. they got that towed out of the way. overnight construction and the bridge opening now wrapped up at the burlington bristol bridge so go ahead and use that as well. in gloucester county though there's a crash on the southbound new jersey turnpike between exits three and two. you can get by. and watch out for some downed wires in new castle county closing piles ford road this morning. kennett pike or adams dam road are possible alternates. matt. >> thanks, matt let's begin with a developing story here. detectives are investigating two separate shooting in the city's grays ferry neighborhood. one of the victims is a six-year-old boy. "action news" reporter katherine scott live outside south detectives with more. katherine. >> reporter: matt, that's right, these were two separate incidents and one of them a six-year-old boy is in stable condition after being shot in the foot and in the other, two
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men were shot and one of them died. south detectives were called to both of those scenes last night, though one of them is now being handled by homicide and investigators are looking for tips in both of these cases. two shootings in grays ferry overnight within an hour apart. shortly after 11 o'clock last night, a six-year-old boy was rushed by his parents to children's hospital of philadelphia. he had been shot once in his foot. witnesses told police a group of 10 to 20 adults, teenagers and children had been playing basketball on the rear drive a home on the800. police are interviewing family and friends to figure out what happened. >> we couldn't find any ballistic evidence at this time. we don't have any description of the shooter or shooters. we don't have a motive for the shooting. >> reporter: then around midnight dozens of gun shots rang out on the 1200 block of south 28th street. police found one man lying in
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the road. he had been hit multiple times. officers rushed him to the hospital where he later died. a second man showed up at hahnemann university hospital by private auto. he had been shot in each of his legs. police found more than two dozen shell casings of multiple calibers. >> approximately a block and a half to two blocks long. i believe it may be some type of ambush or shootout at the least. >> reporter: and so far no arrests have been made in either of these cases. we're live at south detectives, katherine scott channel6 "action news." >> okay, katherine thanks so much. businesses in upper darby will be surveying the damage from a four alarm fire today. the blaze broke out at the payless shoe source on 69th street last night. 200 firefighters and emergency workers responded to the scene. two of that many them suffered heat exhaustion. homes along the back of the burning building were evacuated as a precaution. >> a new bill cosby bombshell could breathe new life into
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open civil cases against the comedian. his accusers say newly unsealed court documents back up what they have been saying all along that cosby drugged and raped women. his representative released this statement to abc news. the only reason mr. cosby settled is because it would have been embarrassing in those days to put all those women on the stand and his family had no clue. that would have been very hurtful. the attorneys are referring in part to a lawsuit filed by a former temple professor 10 years ago. the testimony made public yesterday reveals that cosby admitted to obtaining quaaludes to give to women with whom he wanted to have sex. lawyer gloria allred represents some of cosby's accusers. >> this is a very big deal. because he's been trying to hide this truth from the public for many years. and so we're very gratified that the truth is out.
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>> more than two dozen women have accused cosby of sexual misconduct dating back more than 40 years. he has never been charged with a crime and the statute of limitations has expired on most of the reported cases. >> an audit revealed that a salem county clinic gave at least five children the wrong vaccination. the program in question is shot for tots at memorial hospital. in one case, flu mister was administered to a one-year-old child. the minimum age a child can receive the mist is two years old. in another case health officials could not determine what the patient received because the chart was too difficult to read. then there is a two-year-old boy who received a shot of gardasil a vaccine for hpv. that boy is now at risk of potentially harmful side effects. >> last week i got a letter out indicating we're going to be paying medical monitoring costs for all five cases. and we're hopeful and certainly the child is going to be in our prayers and i hope your viewers put the
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child in their prayers. >> operations at that clinic have been suspended. >> new this morning, the mayor of allentown is suspending his senate run because of an fbi investigation of his government at city hall. democrat ed pawlowski released a statement last night saying he has decided to focus on centerassisting federal agents. pawlowski said will he re-evaluate his political aspirations once the circumstances of the fbi probe become clear. >> soupy. >> no kidding. storm tracker6 live double scan shows you we have a little bit of precipitation welling up in that soup too. most of the area dry but as we go in fighter philadelphia, center city and delaware county just saying goodbye to a little shower that popped through. some of you in the northeastern section of the city still seeing a brief heavy downpour highlighted in yellow. you can see it popping north of where it says philadelphia. that's really going to come
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down like cats and dogs for about five minutes and then it will be done. by reading there's another one that looks like it might be diminishing a little bit but also getting close to reading berks county and some of that if it survives might push up towards allentown later on. we have cloudy skies across the region with some brightening over the ben franklin bridge and overall we're looking at a mix of sun and clouds today but very soupy conditions as erin said. 76 degrees currently in philadelphia. your dewpoint up at 72. anything over 70 is oppressive humidity. we felt it across most of the region yesterday. you'll feel it again today and winds very light not adding much relief this morning. here are the dewpoints. even up in allentown, 72 and mount pocono has now bumped up over 70 so from the poconos all the way down to the shore again be these aren't temperatures these are dewpoints, an indication of how saturated the air is and obviously we are dealing with very oppressive humidity today. there's also the chance in that humid air mass despite the fact that we don't really have any frontal boundaries close by of a pop-up shower.
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now, through the morning we don't expect a whole lot more than was see right now but as we go into the afternoon you just saw a little blip around 2 o'clock go through areas close to philadelphia, a couple more off to the north and by 6 o'clock a few more. notice how most of these are up north but also notice where they to pop there is chance with all that humid fuel in place of these things producing drenching downpours and we did see a bit of that last evening across the region. in terms of temperatures, it's going to be warm and sticky, 78 degrees by 8 o'clock by 11 o'clock 85 degrees and then we spend the rest of the afternoon in the upper 80's with a high of 89 around 3 o'clock this afternoon. high temperatures from north to south, 87 in allentown. down the shore mid 80's. a shower or a thunderstorm possible especially up north and 77 degrees in the ocean water. i'll tell you, if you can get to the shore, this is really the place to get a break. temperature on the beach a little muggy mid 80's but nice as you dip your toes in the water. tomorrow we've got a frontal boundary that's going to trigger a better chance of
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showers and thunderstorms and some of these could also be drenchers tomorrow, hot and humid with a high around 90. your exclusive seven days, today's high is 89 degrees, very warm, very sticky. a you believe of drenching downpours here or there and then humid with a better chance of thunderstorms on wednesday that will also be drenchers and perhaps gusty and 90 is the high there. on thursday it's probably still a bit humid. there will be a couple residual showers but at least the temperature dips down to 82 so not quite as oppressive and then on friday lower humidity. saturday also looking pretty good. on sunday a thunderstorm popping up. >> okay, thanks so much david. 5:40 now. all new and coming up on "action news" the los angeles police department is retraining all its officers. we'll tell you why. >> witnesses rush to a fiery crash scene down south and manage to pull a man out with minutes to spare. matt. >> person working the bridge is busy this morning matt. we're scheduled for another opening now at the tacony palmyra bridge going up within about the next 20 minutes. start heading for that betsy ross bridge instead. we have a new crash in
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some stormy weather if you're heading out west today but around here looks pretty decent for the morning, a high of 89. right now it is 76 degrees. >> matt, what do you have to present to us? >> if you fly to florida it's going to feel pretty much exactly like it feels here. so just stay here. i've got problems, though, for you on the roadways. that is my present to you on this tuesday morning. as you come out of the suburbs, nothing here luckily along the schuylkill expressway where it meets up with the blue route. this busy interchange everything is open and clear and dry here this morning. we will have midday construction on this ramp from the eastbound schuylkill to the southbound blue route but for the morning ride nothing to worry about. it's all open and ready. but problems in the malvern area. yesterday a vehicle struck the knox covered bridge along yellow springs road, damaged it. they were forced to close that bridge indefinitely. now, this is especially problematic because i know some of you have been using yellow springs road as a cut through to get around all the closures along 23 because of construction so yellow springs
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now also out of commission. i think i'd stay south on maybe chesterbrook boulevard or 202 as alternates. watching a new crash in they will ham along township line road at fairview road. that new construction project started yesterday in cheltenham closing church road during the mid days from 9:00 until 3:00. that's lasting through mid august. 73 gets you around that. 73 is the alternate around this new closure that began yesterday in evesham township, tomlinson mill road now out of commission through october. but better news in gloucester county. our crash on the southbound new jersey turnpike between exits three and two now out of the way so everything reopened reopened and looking better there. getting word from the waze app of a truck fire on the northeast extension northbound side in worcester township montgomery county so that would be headed up towards lansdale. i'm going to keep tabs on that be become in just a few minutes. matt. >> see you then. thanks matt. developing overnight an undisclosed security threat
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forces an american airlines flight to turn around just 10 minutes after takeoff. the airbus carrying 178 passengers from charlotte to minneapolis made the emergency landing at 9 p.m. passengers are getting help with new travel plans. this is new video of a car fire emergency in tennessee. by the time firefighters responded to the scene two witnesses had already pulled the trapped driver from the flames. the victim is a father of three young children and was not seriously hurt. officials blame yesterday's fire on a mechanical failure. >> new on "action news," los angeles police department has announced that all 10,000 of its officers will attend a retraining course. the move comes after months of protests over the deadly shooting of a man by lapd officers. the man's family has previously said that the 25-year-old was mentally ill. the one day retraining course will focus on topics such as use of force and engaging with those who are mentally ill. south carolina's house of representatives could vote
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today on a measure to immediately remove the confederate flag from the statehouse. the senate yesterday overwhelmingly approved the bill. there's been a push to take down the flag since last month's deadly bible study shooting in charleston. >> happening today, pope francis will hold another big public mass in ecuador this time in the capitol of keto. the crowd at the pope's first public mass of his south american tour gave him a hero's welcome yesterday. firefighters sprayed water from hoses to provide relief from the sun and heat. the pontiff's schedule today includes meetings with bishops indigenous groups students an visit to a jesuit church. philadelphia preparing for pope francis' visit in the fall. stay up to date on all the planning with our special twitter account. follow at 6abc pope for the latest on the world meeting of families this september. >> time now is 5:47. there's still much more coming up on "action news." >> including the businessman whose phone is ringing off the hook thanks to his high flying stunt with balloons and a lawn
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chair. david. >> couple of showers popping through the region on storm tracker, one of them exiting philadelphia and pushing into southern montgomery and bucks county and there's another little guy over by reading. we'll be back with your day planner forecast. boy, it's muggy out there. temperatures coming up.
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>> pool repair projects in california are looking more like scuba diving adventures. in the past crews would drain an entire pool for repairs and then refill it. with the ongoing drought people are trying to conserve and cut back on water usage so repairmen are putting on goggles and doing their work under water. repairs take longer this way but it doesn't waste thousands of gallons of pool water and many times they can be cheaper. >> looks like more fun too.
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>> oh, yeah. >> well, fun is not what we're having on a lot of the roads already this morning. got a handful of issues and the clouds swirling over center city as we look live at 95 here by allegheny avenue, at least we don't have a southbound delay yet. traffic still moving okay. we will soon have another opening here at the tacony palmyra bridge scheduled to go up in the next 10 minutes. head for that betsy ross bridge instead. on the mass transit front septa bus routes 68, 108, 113 still running with some detours because of fire activity in upper darby and don't forget, how could you, if you ride patco we are on new construction schedules as of this weekend. some lapses in service have been giving people headaches for sure but no issues on new jersey transit or dart so far this morning. david. >> all right, matt a-couple corners of the neighborhood getting shower as we just showed you on storm tracker a couple minutes ago. 73 degrees in pottstown, 71 in be saint davids and as you survey these numbers keep in mind that we also have dealing with oppressive humidity, the same that moved in yesterday it is still with us. a lot of 70's over south jersey.
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mid 70's in fact in hammonton buena, woodbine and along the boardwalks and low to mid 70's up and down delaware. if you're unking running errands the sooner the better. 81 by 9 o'clock. mid 80's by noon and then 89 is your high this afternoon. there's also the chance of a pop-up shower or thunderstorm. i know we've got a little bit of a shower here or there in a couple of spots this morning. maybe a little better chance particularly in the northern suburbs this afternoon. and it's really going to be oppressively humid. so air conditioning and erin a lot of cool drinks if you're going to be exerting yourself outdoors. >> good advice. thanks, david. new on "action news," it looked like a scene from the movie "up." one man in canada took off with hundreds of balloons strapped to a lawn chair. daniel borea went airborne to promote his business but eventually he had to bail. medics and police were waiting for him as he parachuted to safety. he faces a charge of mischief but says the stunt was worth
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it. his phone has been ringing off the hook. >> legendary film and tv producer jerry weintraub has died. he produced the original karate kid movie and the oceans 11 franchise. weintraub also worked with show business elite from elvis presley to brad pitt. he passed away from heart failure yesterday at the age of 77. >> 5:53 now. up next the fireworks botch. some local sports fans will be getting free tickets to a new game. >> the punch caught on camera that has a college football player benched. >> ♪♪
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>> happening today, jury selection is scheduled to begin in a deadly drag racing trial. khusen akhmedov is charged with third degree murder vehicular homicide and other counts. authorities say he struck and killed a woman and three of her sons on the roosevelt boulevard. the man khusen akhmedov was reportedly racing entered a guilty plea yesterday. ahmen holloman will spend five to 10 years in state prison. happening today delaware governor jack markell is scheduled to sign a new law banning the indoor use of electronic cigarettes. the limitations will be a lot like tobacco use which is already banned in restaurants bars, stores and movie theaters. >> this is new. the july 4th fireworks for the lehigh valley iron pigs were so bad the team is offering up a freebie to smooth things over with fans. starting today anyone with
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stubs from saturday's game in allentown can trade them in for a seat at an upcoming home game. the team released a statement acknowledging the fireworks display had disappointed the crowd. they promised next year's show will exceed expectations. >> live up to that promise. developing overnight one person is dead an six-year-old boy is wounded during separate shootings in the same section of the city. >> later starbucks is passing the buck to you. why beverage prices are going up there when "action news" comes back.
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joins us and we're following developing news this morning. >> a six-year-old is recovering after being shot while playing basketball. we're live with the details. >> two former employees of the philadelphia soul were killed in two separate accidents within days of each other. >> we're learning more new information about embattled bill cosby's confession that he gave drugs to women with the intent of having sex with them. >> talk about that soupiness out there with dave murphy and matt pelman until for karen. >> it's wet out here on the terrace because of a quick moving earlier shower that popped through. that shame shower is now pushing through southern bucks county a little off shoot of it just went through trenton and it's drying things out pretty quickly but you have a brief opportunity for a shower there. another pushing through reading but that appears to be falling apart. 76 degrees in philadelphia, 75 in allentown, 73 in wilmington. down the shore 75-degree readings and ver
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