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good afternoon sara bloomquist is off. in the news a failed casino is getting ready to reopen in atlantic city. and police are still searching for the man that attacked a woman on the schuylkill river trail. but the big story on "action news" is the final good-bye to the great of the. boxing legend, muhammad ali. right now a hearse is carrying his body through the streets of his home town of louisville. and thousands are expected to attend his funeral including celebrities and dignitaries. >> reporter: good afternoon to you. stand ougt here all morning long we met so many people from all over the world. so many came out here without the tickets they need to get in the arena. but being out here and being able to pay their respects in ali's home town is all that matters. muhammad ali mapping out his own

sendoff. starting with the procession past his childhood home to his final resting place. tens of thousands traveling across the country and from around the world to show the boxing giant the dignity and respect he deserves. >> he is gone but will still live. he will live forever. >> this isn't just a day, this is something that rejuvenates in all of us again. >> capping off the memorial service for 30,000, the tickets were gone in an hour. celebrities among the attendees, including former president, bill clinton and billy crystal. the services started with this traditional muslim service. bringing all religions under one roof. >> he was a fighter in the ring and dealed with social justice out of the ring. >> calling him a champion in and

out of the ring. but his voice seldom heard throughout recent years as he struggled with parkinson's. >> following the private burial ceremony, the family will join the thousands gathered here for the public memorial service. president obama will not be here because we understand his daughter is graduating today. >> thank you. and this reminder later today you can see muhammad ali's funeral live. 6 abc will air a special report after the eulogy begins. we will also be streaming live coverage of the funeral on 6abc.com. in other news this noon, police are searching for the driver who fired bullets at another car on a philadelphia street. this is video of the suspect's video, the person behind the

wheel of the dodge challenger, allegedly fired two shots at another car sunday night following an argument over changing lanes. it happened on front street in lehigh avenue and kensington. the two people inside of the vehicle were not injured . from our delaware news, authorities are working to find out what happened to a man found in wilmington. his body was discovered at 6:00 this morning on lower beach street near an amtrak railroad line. police have not found obvious signs of foul play. word of another attack on the schuylkill trail has runners on edge. philadelphia police are looking for the man that slashed a woman in the face while using the trail yesterday. >> trish hall is live in center city with the latest. >> reporter: rick, police are still looking for the man that slashed the woman in the face,

it happened on this section of the trail as the two women made their way up the stairs here on walnut street. with the weather heating up people are hitting the schuylkill river trail in full force and doing so with caution. >> 3:00 in the afternoon, everyone is out doing stuff, there is no one around and i don't know it seems weird. >> there is always quite a few people around and you feel safe because of the numbers. but i feel like some of these are off their rocker it doesn't matter how many people are around right? >> a 20-year-old woman was attacked while walking on the trail with a friend. the pair noticed a man following them they started climbing the stairs leading to walnut street season the woman says the man kept following them and saying you don't know anything and stabbed her with an unknown object. the woman is listed in stable

condition and police are looking for a suspect in his 20s with a beard wearing a dark hoody. volunteers with the newly formed schuylkill river watch are kicking off patrols earlier than planned in light of the attack. >> we should use the resources we have been get out on the trail and be another layer of help. >> reporter: a local running organization, run 25 -- always run with your phone and never with your head phones in. and always run with a buddy. >> trish thank you. turning to the friday forecast now, it doesn't get much better than this. accuweather is tracking sunshine and pleasant conditions as we look live at sky 6 hd at penn's landing, a picture perfect afternoon. melissa magee is in for david murphy. >> a nice finish to the work

week, bright blue sky overhead and breezy but not as windy today as it was yesterday. right now the numbers are in the lower 70s. 71 in philadelphia and 70 for allentown reading and trenton. at the coast in cape may 69 and beach haven 71 degrees, a level of moisture in the atmosphere the atmosphere right n is bone dry, we have dew point numbers in the 30s. it's quite comfortable overhead and we are tracking changes into our weekend, if you head out later this afternoon or early this evening, it's bright and sunny at 4:00 and 78 degrees. we'll be in the upper 70s at 5:00 p.m. we'll stay there at 6:00 with the temperature of 77, mostly clear and dry for the evening drive home and 7:00 p.m. the number of 75 degrees, here is the change on the way, future tracker 6 showing you 9:00 in the morning on saturday, sunny and a few clouds around and we look to be dry, as we go throughout the afternoon and evening hours, you can see strong showers and storms from

the north pressing to the south and east some of which would be on the strong to severe side, which is why the storm prediction center placed our region in the possible severe weather. it could be damaging wind gusts and possibility of hail and heavy rain as well. the tornado threat looks to be north of the delaware and lehigh valleys and upstate new york and portions of upstate new england. coming up a look at our friday and the system on the way for friday. coming up in the full accuweather forecast. >> thank you. a failed casino is getting ready for new beginnings in atlanta city. revel will open next week under new ownership. glen -- bought it last year. gambling is not expected to resume at revel until later this

summer. right now local inventors and entrepreneurs are lining up to take a dip in the shark tank. they are hosting a casting call in center city philadelphia today. gray hall is joining us live with more. >> reporter: hi rick, well if you have that next big idea, this is the place to be, the casting team they are already here and ready to hear the great pitches. dozens of people have showed up here to south philadelphia to present their big ideas and if those ideas are really good, they can find themselves inside of the shark tank. >> small business owners and budding entrepreneurs this is your chance of a lifetime. the hit show is holding a casting call here in philadelphia. >> we are here to find philadelphia's best and brightest new entrepreneurs. many people showed up to impress the judges. >> mine is brain drain, how many

times you have done your laundry and you go down and you have water all over your floor. >> contestants have one minute to pitch their business or ideas to the casting team. the competition is fierce and only the first 500 applicants that signed up online are guaranteed to be seen. >> it's hats with human hair that we created for kids with hair loss, she has alopecia, she has no hair. everybody thinks their idea is the next big thing, and they hope it appear on the show and pitch their ideas to the sharks in the tank. and business leaders have turned their ideas to multimillion-dollar businesses. once they make it on to the tv show, they work hard to convince the sharks to invest in their idea. >> video submissions, longer applications and big contracts, we want to make sure we are picking the best and brightest

entrepreneurs to put in front of the sharks. >> so back out live, everyone is excited here in south philadelphia. the casting team says they will be here throughout the day and many people signed up online and if you showed up they will listen to your idea. gray hall, channel 6 "action news." >> all right thank you. there is much more to come on "action news" at noon. a dream come true for a mother in california. she was reunited with her son who was kidnapped 23 years ago. how investigators cracked this cold case. and more wreckage from the missing malaysian airlines plane. and much more.

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new surveillance video shows the shaking that woke many people up overnight in southern california. a magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck at 1:00 p.m. pacific time just outside of los angeles and san diego. people in both cities reported feeling the quake. more than 900 homes are threatened by a wild fire in

central oregon. authorities say the blaze was sparked by lightning. and firefighters are getting help from mother nature, cooler and damp conditions allow them to gain some ground. the fire is 45% contained . investigators are checking to see if a piece of debris discovered on the beach is a piece from the missing malaysian airlines plane. he found it in southern australia. he discovered it while walking on the kangaroo island. officials are still searching for the underwater wreckage. two girls are safe this noon after the car they were sleeping in was stolen by a thief. the entire incident was captured on surveillance video in long island. the car got into the running car and drove off. he doesn't know two girls ages 6 and 17 years old were in the backseat. the mother went into the deli.

>> the mother was frantic and scared. she wasn't worried about the car but her children. >> they realized her mother was not driving they jumped out. he is still at large. a reunion between mother and son 23 years in the making. they embraced for the first time since hernandez was kidnapped by his father 21 years ago. hernandez was taken to mexico where his father later disappeared. a tip earlier this year led them to hernandez now studying law in new mexico. hernandez says he was grateful to find his mother again and planning to move back to the u.s. to continue his studies closer to home and his mom. more to come on "action news" at noon, septa is beginning to replace out dated tokens and

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a major drug maker is the target of a new investigation, the attorney general in new hampshire is looking into the company that makes the drug, oxycontin, they want to know if they underplay the risk of addiction. they want to change the sales and marketing of the pain pills in new hampshire. prescription pain pills are considered the leading cause of

addiction people that live in areas of the zika virus are advised to avoid pregnancy. it's the only way to avoid the devastating birth defected caused by the virus. it could affect millions of couples living in south america and the caribbean. american travelers are warned to wait two months before trying to conceive. a new study finds a health benefit to tying the knot. married people are more likely to survive a heart attack. researchers examined 25,000 preponderates and married people were 14% less likely to die than their unmarried counterparts. and they got out of the hospital more quickly. highlighting physical and emotional support following a heart attack. coming up on "action news" at 4:00, we made it to the end of the weeks that means it's

time for the freebie friday segment. from a free jazz concert to free dinner we have you covered. also -- >> have to stand up in front of all of these people. >> a texas valedictorian uses her speech to make an announcement. it has the crowd on its feet. find out what it is coming up at 4:00 today. and a live look at the jersey shore, nice day to be at the shore. melissa magee has your forecast. if you have medicare

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yesterday. here is stormtracker 6 live double scan you can see it's dry, no issues with precipitation, so outside we go, sky 6 hd on this friday. maybe it's a get away friday and are you down the shore in cape may. you can see a lot of folks on the beach enjoying the sand and the surf here at this noon hour. really comfortable conditions and it stays that way for the rest of the day. right now numbers are in the lower 70s. upper 60s in cape may. as you head inland, 73 in millville and 71 in philadelphia and trenton, allentown and reading, even down to lancaster at this hour. satellite 6 along with action radar mostly clear and sunshine and quiet across much of the mid-atlantic region, no issues if you are out and about today. but changes are coming as we get into the start of our weekend here. here is a the setup for our friday. we have the dome of high pressure essentially setting up shop across our region and we max out in the upper 70s today with the northwesterly wind,

it's picture perfect. the northwest wind 7 to 14 miles per hour. it's breezy at this hour. winds sustained at 20 miles per hour. and certainly won't be as blustery as a day across the region, we get into the weekend and tracking the warm front, as we go through the day. a partly sunny start and highs are in the upper 80s. it will be warm and turning more humid and as it comes on through, the front that is. showers and storms could be united. that is why the storm center placed our region in the place to find severe weather. 9:00 in the morning, mostly sunny and a few cloud to our north and west and we are tracking the showers and storms north and west at that hour. as we get into 2:30 nast noon, you see the showers and storms starting to approach from a northwest to southeast direction, notice the temperature, it's near 90 in philadelphia. the warmth and the humid air

adds to the instability. we'll get strong showers and storms. 6:00 in the evening, strong showers and storms across the i-95 corridor. the biggest threat tomorrow afternoon into the evening is damaging winds and the possibility of hail and localized heavy rain. and down at the shore today it's a beautiful one. 80 tomorrow and possibility of storms. sunday 85 degrees and warm be turning less humid. up to the poconos tomorrow. today no issues, mostly sunny and 70, and saturday 75 and partly sunny and sunday sunny and bright and 73. 89 on saturday here with the strong afternoon evening showers and storms and warm and windy into sunday and 89 and 80 on

monday and 80s on tuesday and wednesday rick. cops helping kids. that is the mission of the police athletic league and today the building managers association of philadelphia are helping to raise awareness dollars for that foundation. they are raising money until 2:00 this afternoon. pal serves thousands of kids in philadelphia's highest crime and lowest income neighborhoods. they sponsor numerous activities. >> they run everything from basketball to t-ball to girls softball camps and mentor and everything in between. >>undraising effortses are keep to the program. all pal programs are free for kids aging 6 to 18. more ahead on "action news" at 12:30, the hockey world is

mourning the death of the great gordie howe. and a big day for president obama's first born malia. stay with us. forming a clot that can break free, and travel upstream to the brain where it can block blood flow and cause a stroke. but if you have afib that's not caused by a heart valve problem, pradaxa can help stop clots from forming. pradaxa was better than warfarin at reducing the risk of stroke, in a clinical trial - without the need for regular blood tests. and, in the rare event of an emergency, pradaxa is the only oral blood thinner other than warfarin with a specific reversal treatment to help your body clot normally again. pradaxa is not for people who have had a heart valve replacement. don't stop taking pradaxa without talking to your doctor. stopping increases your risk of stroke or blood clots. ask your doctor if you need to stop pradaxa before any planned medical or dental procedure.

pradaxa can cause serious, and sometimes, fatal bleeding. don't take pradaxa if you have abnormal bleeding. and seek immediate medical care for unexpected signs of bleeding, like unusual bruising. pradaxa may increase your bleeding risk if you're 75 or older, have kidney problems, stomach ulcers, a bleeding condition, or take certain medicines. side effects with pradaxa can include indigestion, stomach pain, upset or burning. go with pradaxa, the only blood thinner that lowers your stroke risk better than warfarin and has a specific reversal treatment. eligible patients could pay as little as zero dollars on co-pay. ask your doctor about pradaxa today. "action news" at 12:30 continues. >> hello again, sara is off and here are the stories we are following for you now on "action news" at 12:30. louisville pays tribute to an

icon, muhammad ali, thousands are celebrating the life of the legend. and police are searching for the man that slash aid woman on the schuylkill river trail. and septa riders will say good-bye to tokens and tickets. there is a new way to pay. but first a look at the accuweather forecast. there say chance for storms on one of the two days. a look at center city. here is melissa magee. >> reporter: nice this afternoon and plenty of sunshine and comfortable as well. here are the numbers at this hour. 71 in philadelphia and 70 for reading and lancaster. down in dover, 72 degrees at the coast and cape may cooler with the northwesterly wind at 69, and 72 in beach haven, look at the winds it's not as windy as it was yesterday. the sustained