>> since all star break fully have been the stars of basebal baseball. that's right. best record in the majors and phil in position today for a four game sweep at home over atlanta for the first time in 66 years. the phils and the phanatic trike to take down the braves in the finale. cody ashe rbi single ryan howard scores, 1-30 phils l phils and braves take the fifth literally. jais peterson tomahawks the chop from morgan. phils lose 6-2 just third loss in last 15 games. >> chase utley playing in rehab aaa today. utley gets two singles and walk as dh. phils second baseman has been out since june for ankle injury plays again tuesday in trenton and utley reportedly on chicago cubs radar. here's ut today on trade

rumors. >> i try not pay too much attention and my whole goal is to get healthy and get back to the big league. >> in the poconos, watch out. taking out the pit crew. kyle bush looking for a win and run out of gas. winner winner chicken dinner bush finishes 21. so that's how you lose you run out of gas. >> you run out of gas. >> sounds like something i would do. >> thank you. >> don't give me a ride any time soon. >> we want to wish a happy birthday to ethel nrach. moorestown field club in burlington county new jersey. ethel has three children, seven grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren her secret to all the years of happiness is positive attitude and seeing the good in people. we've got more ahead in the next half hour of "action news" tonight. it's been a tough season for

phillies' fans first a lon long-losing streak and now loss of fan favorite but there's something cole hamels did before he left to make the fans feel good again and how joe biden's plate son role may have played a role in the decision for his dad to run for white house. those story. asen more when "action news" those story. asen more when "action news" comes right back hey! i had a really good time last night. yeah, me too. the only thing is that... the only thing is what? what's the only thing? oh my gosh he's married. he's a kleptomaniac. he's a pyromaniac. he's a total maniac. hey! hey! go back to your wife you sociopath! leave slow internet behind. the 100% fiber optics network is here. get out of the past. get fios. now $79.99 a month. go online or call now. call the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 800.974.6006 tty/v

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>> surprised niingtd here's what's happening "action news" 11:30. rumor mill was heating up over word vice-president joe biden is not ruling out a run for the press densey. his decision will be made by one of his late son's final requests. >> roaches and neighbors say they can't get help even though ne they know the source. >> cole hamels ends his time in philadelphia in a classy way. and first chaotic scene today when a car drove directly to eight a petco store in bucks county. one person was hurt and there was a frantic effort to get animals and people out of the way. annie mccormick was in ben sale is emand has the damage. >> hours after that crash

happened the front window of the bensalem petco you can see scattered class and pieces of sirnd block column left behind on sidewalk. luckily police say there were no major injuries here today. cellphone video captured a car that crashed into this petco sunday afternoon. a female driver was not injured and a customer hit by flying glass suffered minor injuries. at the time a local rescue organization was hold ago doption events inside store and they would not comment to "action news." police say though no pets were injured. petco closed for the rest of the day putting signs in window and a manager at the store would not comment. caution tape surrounded front window hit by vehicle. >> one witness says there were actually crickets loose in the store following the collision. we reached out to a petco manager here. they did not respond back.

annie mccormick, "channel 6 action news." >> police have identified a 30-year-old homicide victim that died after being shot multiplele times in south philadelphia and jamiah died from his injuries after doing an was lying on the sidewalk in the 1900 block of mountain street. there's a 20,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction. >> and police are still working to solve a murder that happened early saturday morning in the city's kensington section. and officers say 32-year-old peralto was found shot inside a parked car in a school parking lot in the 2800 block of frankford avenue. nobody has been arrested and police don't have a motive for this crime. >> and frustrated neighbors in philadelphia's bridesburg section tell "action news" that cockroaches are taking over the street. it's become search a problem that some people packed up and left. residents along the 4300 block of salman street say the problem started in elderly man's house which is infested

with thousands of roaches. neighbors tell "action news" they spent three months trying to get help from various city agencies. >> this is going all the way down the block, 14, 15 houses on the block and everyone got them. >> i spray every day and try to deep under control. but it's getting worse. >> residents say officials remove the man from home earlier this week and took him to the a hospital. they expect exterminators to be on the wlok tomorrow to help them get rid of the approach of roaches. >> school place and state fire marshall ainvestigating a for at northeast high school in philadelphia's rhawnhurst section. firefighters responded early this morning and found a car fully engulfed in flames on the football field. they quickly extinguished the flames and not before the fire caused some damage to the field. 16 now it's a first republican

debate just days away. word tonight that another democrat may be jumping in the race. vice-president joe biden. there's some reports it's someone very close to his heart that urged him to do. it abc marry bruce has the story few from the white house. >> tonight the question facing joe biden, to run or not to ru run. his vad advisors saying the political team is ramping up clear signs he's considering juneing into the race for the whitehouse. chief of staff quietly talking to biden supporters and democratic donors. in the past biden has been clear. he's interested. >> yes there's a chance. i have not made my mind up about that. >> one thing weighing on hi decision, any father my hero joe biden. >> his son. the "new york times" reporting on death bed bo had a mission to try to make his dad promise to run. >> this would be his third run

at white house. from touchy feeley side blunt straight talk. bide sent also a matter of the faw paw. biden run could complicate things for president obama forcing him to choose between number two and former secretary of state. so far the president is not taking sides. >> not only i have run my last election but i am not in the business of prognosticating future elections. >> no decision has been made yesterday. biden plans to make up his mind by end of summer. "abc news" the whitehouse. >> florida governor jeb bush and other gop candidates spent the day at luxury southern california resort speaking to billionaire coke brothers and other conservative owners. charles and david coke convened hundreds of business leaders to listen to bush. florida senator marco rubio and scott walker and texas senator

ted cruz and former technology executive carly firina donors have the ability to write million dollar checks to boost a candidates chances. >> still to come on "action news" tonight we have video of dogs catching waves. you have to see this. >> plus things looking up for the fill liz and the team is on hot streak since all star break and cole hamels shows love for fans, melissa. >> sarah it's partly cloudy pretty warm and humidity levels you will notice tonight will start to increase. that's going to be the case for start of our workweek on monday. this heat wave looks like it will roll on and we have the details in the accuweather will roll on and we have the details in the accuweather forecast

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>> the halocaust awareness museum held their festival in elkins park, montgomery county today♪ >> museum which is non profit focuses on educating people about the halocaust. they have programs and students each ear. organizers expect the numbers to grow this year because of new stated occasions laws. all right. melissa back with a check of the accuweather forecast. we're wrapping up another hot and streamy weekend. >> her we go again. monday humidity increases and threat of showers and storms returns too. stormtracker 6 double scan radar shows you dry and queue eight cross the reelingon. high pressure dominating big weather story relentless heat wave that doesn't want to end. we'll show you picture outside.

sky live in hd from temple university camera looking at center city sky line down broad towards city hall. partly cloudy sky and humidity not bad this is day 6 of heat wave number 3 in philadelphia with high of 90. this started back on tuesday and continues to roll on. neighbors numbers north and west of town. 70 in slatington and 7 aseptember rt city and chester out to the west in lancaster and 72 new holland in lower 70 70s. down across new jersey 71 at the boardwalk and same for ewing and browns mills. glassboro 72. you check out the dew points legal of moisture in the air and now you notice a bit of change with the southerly winds coming on in. it's happened with more

moisture. dew point letting you know humidity season the rise. quiet across the region. high pressure continues to dominate. tomorrow, this ridge of high pressure moves east. we tap into return flow to have the southwesterly warm and humid winds overhead. showers and storms really firing up with severe weather across the eastern great lakes. this moisture moves east ward and moves taken to land locations across northeast. a lot of this moisture we'll miss out on. here's future tracker 6. 2:00 in the afternoon. sunshine, clouds, sharing the sky throughout the day and popup shower or thunderstorm as we get to afternoon hours. 6:30 tomorrow evening you notice showers and storms but again risk for severe weather the storm prediction septemberer placed interior sections of northeast in a low probability of finding severe weather all that stays well away from the region. the call from accuweather as we break down the day for you pbg

in the morning mostly season any, warm start. in at 76 degrees. 8 6 at 11 a.m. and:00 in the afternoon partly sunny and temperature of 90. 91 is number at 5:00 tomorrow. we'll more than likely climb into lower 9 0s and that would be day 7 ever our heats wave. here's the forecast. tomorrow humid high 9. afternoon showers or thunderstorm possible. heat continues on tuesday in at 90 and finally by wednesday we will break this heat wave and in at 88. a pattern shifts on the way thursday with showers and storms. high of 80 and cool for august stabdz ardz on friday. thunderstorms are possible and high 79. chance of rain on saturday. mostly cloudy in at 80. not as warm on sunday with high texture in at 81. so it's hot and stky tomorrow sarah and relief is coming midweek. >> mel is arch thank you. time to talk phillies despite a

rough season the team is showing promise with best league record since the all star break. as of yesterday they're doing it without a long time fan favorite. cole hamels made first start with rangers yesterday and not without a pretty classy good-bye to fandz. "action news" reporter trish hartman as hor. >> sunday's phillies game against braves fans flocked to citizens bank park including one fan not ready to let go of comb hall ms phillies jersey yet. >> i'll wear as long as he's in baseball i'll wear if and support sglim the three time all star pitcher wants philadelphia yaps to know he also supports them. one day after making pitching debut for texas rainingers he and wife heidi took out a full page add in sunday's philadelphia up inquirer thav thavring what they call home since 2006. >> has a glassy guy took us to championship mvp. great player. tough to see him go. >> part of the ad is

philadelphia is where we made our first home and started our family and it will always hold a special place in our heart. while they're stood see him go the move quasz necessary. >> he's someone you want on your team but unfortunately we had a deal to rebuild the farm sim. >> hamels left his mark on philly not only in sports but also in education with foundation he started with his wife in 2008 the non profit also took out a full page ad in sunday inyearer prolsing while hamels is no longer a philly the foundation is committed to philadelphia schools. fans say it's end of era. >> i'm sad when a lot of phill phillys i've watched the last three years have left with j-roll it's sad it's one of the things you watch the flares for so long and they're part of philly. >> in south philadelphia, trish hartman, "channel 6 action news." >> there's much more ahead on "action news" tonight. including more sports. jeff skversky has the latest on the controversial comments by former eagle brandon boykin. wheel hear what chip kelly has

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>> 5' 9" corner brandon boykin the big story on day one even though no longer with the team boykin going into last year of contract says he was promised a shot on the outside and instead takes a shot on his way out. chip kelly coming under fire once again for the way he treats players. defensive back brandon boykin traded to pittsburgh last night text aid local reporter that chip was "up comfortable around grown men of our culture" money imply he means he treats black players differently lesean mccoy and others say that as

well and boykin clarifies toda today. >> i said he was uncomfortable with men of of our culture. i'm not saying he's a racist at all. i'm saying it was taken out of context. in a state of you know when i -- when you were a player you want to be able to relate to your coach. and no matter what. >> when he left here last night shook my hand and gave me a hug. didn't say anything. i like brandon. i don't know. >> not quite laughing matter at eagles camp. at least there's not quarterback controversy. sam bradford is on pace to start. he left knee is 100% healthy and he takes all the team's first reps. the former number one overall pick says this is the most important training camp of his career. >> in the past six weeks from the time we broke ota until we started i put in a lot of work and i think the process and

work during that time you know i trust it now. the things that i did during that period. are the things that are required on the football field. and you know i'm sure once we get into preseason games you you know and it's real you know i'm sure that will be another step. right now, i feel good with everything. when you talk to him he feels confy accidents i think he's on track where he wanted to be. >> jmy rollings is about to roll back into town. that's right, j-roll returns to park pack for the first time since being traded to dodgers on tuesday when the phils resume play. phils have been the best team in baseball season the break and best in baseball. today they lose their bats and they lose the game to the braves. phils go down 6-. adam allowed four of five runs in the fifth and it's third loss in lasts three games. >> soul stay undefeated at home after beating new orleans 61-2 61-28, 14-3. three rushing touchdowns and

soul with one final regular season game next saturday. how about a record crowd at mama's park over 60,000 on hand new jersey to watch american pharoah first triple crown winner since '70s running first race since running two months ago. american pharoah continues dominant run winning haskell invitational 8th straight win. american pharoah a rock star in new jersey today. sarah, back to you. >> jeff, thank you. >> there were just enough waves this weekend for annual dog surfing contest. and the pets in the contest show human fans just how easy surfing can be. although they have four legs, you know, which helps with balance. still one road the wave sitting down. another one very impressive here. riding waves backwards. >> "million dollar movie" is next here on channel 6 and "action news" continues

tomorrow morning at 4:30 a.m. with matt o'donnell, david murphy, tamala edwards, and karen rogers, for melissa mage magee, jeff skversky and the entire "action news" team i'm sarah bloomquist, have a great entire "action news" team i'm sarah bloomquist, have a great night and good week ahead

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