custody flanked by her father and mother and declined to say anything about the incidents that landed her in jail. >> katherine is very, very please to be here out in the sunshine having completed her minimum, she served her sentence with dignity. >> september 11th, 2014 knot was part of a larger assault of a gay couple at chancellor street. the others plead guilty and received probation, knot stood trial and was sentenced to five to ten months, in jail knot completed an anger management court and had no behavioral issues. they didn't reject to her release after the minimum sentence. >> in this particular case, a complete understanding and looking forward themselves and in this case they did not object either. >> knot apologized at sentencing

and asked the victims for forgiveness. >> pending litigation it would be foolish to do that. the victims brought a lawsuit and it would be foolish to comment. >> the civil lawsuit was filed in may against all individuals charged in this case. it detail a vicious physical assault that landed one victim in the hospital for five days with a broken jaw that was wired shut for five weeks and speaks of psychological injury and emotional distress. >> thank you john. we are also following brand new developments in a playground shoot that left a 15-year-old dead and two other teens injured in south philadelphia. "action news" spoke with one of the survivors, janet reyes is live at the scene. >> reporter: well brian, it's chilling to hear the latest details of the shooting, police now calling this an ambush, a

15-year-old boy dead over a buzzer beater basketball game that took place last week. this is where it all started. this took place in the baltimore recreation area park. here is what we know so far. barnes and his two friends ables 14 and 16 were walking home from a game of basketball at 10:00 when shots rang out a brock from here at 51st and baltimore. one was hit in the arm and the other in the leg. barnes was shot in the face. today new details are surfacing. captain james clark says the shooter was lying in wait and exchanged words and fired at least ten times, listen to what the 14-year-old victim told us. >> i started running, i seen the first shot. he got hit and died right in front of me and just fell, and i said who is that?

and i got hit on the second one. >> reporter: and police say that the victim is likely a teen on the opposing team, they are getting a lot of help from the community and they appreciate that but they are looking for more information where this suspect is exactly and arrest him. a vigil will take place in about an hour. reporting live in southwest, janet reyes, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. dallas i'm here to say, we must reject such despair. i'm here to insist we are not as dividing as we think. and i know that because i know america. >> president obama called for unity, during an emotional tribute to five officers in dallas. the president was one of many speakers to honor the fallen for their sacrifice and offer words in comfort to try to help the

community and the nation to begin to heal. it was a moving ceremony that included speeches by police chief, david brown and former president, george bush. >> reporter: good afternoon. the president and first playedy flying in on air force one along with representatives and senators from around texas including ted cruz later meeting with the victim's families. president obama joined dignitaries and law enforcement in an inter faith service to honor the five officers gunned down in dallas. >> we are here to honor the memory and mourn the loss of five fellow americans, to grieve with their loved ones and to support this community. >> the president along with vice president biden, and george w. bush paying their respects. >> we are lost so much. we are grief stricken and heart broken and forever grateful. >> the city of dallas rocked to the core after the assassination

of police officers working to protect and serve during peaceful black lives matters protest. abc news learning the gunman, micah johnson used this high power rifle in a one man mission to kill officers. they contractorized the crime as a hate crime. >> it's not just violence but racial hatred. that has left us wounded and angry and hurt. >> the site why the dallas shooting took place remain a crime scene. police believe that johnson an army veteran legally purchased the weapons he had. they played a song to express the grief. >> i will be loving you until the ocean covers every mountain high. >> tonight the president meets at the white house with government officials and leaders

and asked the public to weigh in on facebook to find a solution to end the violence. >> and be sure to stay with "action news" and 6abc.com for the latest from dallas, and join the on twoing conversation about this tragedy on our facebook and twitter pages where you can find continuous updates. >> another beautiful summer day across the region, and accuweather says we are about to dial up the heat a bit. >> lets head outside to meteorologist, cecily tynan. >> temperatures about where they were yesterday, but the humidity levels are beginning to creep up and that trend will continue, right now in philadelphia, 86 degrees, that was our high yesterday, that is one degree below normal. washington, d.c. 85 and new york city 81 degrees, yesterday we had dew points in the 50s. a dry air mass and now they are edging up into the 60s, humidity is increasing and tomorrow will be very muggy. double scan live radar showing

there is shower and thunderstorm activity to the west and some of that will move in during the day especially in the afternoon. what that will do it open the door for extreme heat and humidity. we'll do this again. an excessive heat watch for all the areas around the i-95 corridor. this is when the heat index will climb near 100 degrees, looks like we are heading into heat wave number three. we'll have more coming up in the full accuweather forecast. >> thank you. now, to politics and today in the race for the white house hillary clinton getting a long awaited endorsement from her rival, bernie sanders. they stood together at an event in new hampshire say state will sanders actually beat clinton in the primary. but today sanders declared an end to the political rivalry, he assured voters that their campaigns are working together

and throwing his weight behind clinton to make sure she wins in november. >> she will be the democratic nominee for president -- [ applause ] and i intend to do everything i can to make certain she will be the next president of the united states. >> donald trump reacting on twitter today, saying i am somewhat surprised that bernie sanders was not true to himself and his supporters, they are not happy they are selling out. speaking of the pretumtive nominee, he is hitting is the trail with indiana governor, mike pence, he originally endorsed ted cruz and is now backing trump and is a top contender for the vice presidential spot on the trump ticket. >> all right alicia, conventions are just days and weeks away. time now for the "action news"

traffic report. >> matt pellman is standing by live in the traffic center with a first check of gridlock. >> reporter: yes, we are feeling the burn on 95. a vehicle fire in south philadelphia right where the democratic national convention will take place in a couple of weeks, wells fargo center is off to the center. and southbound side approaching the broad street exit we have emergency crews on the scene and traffic is barely squeezing by there in the left lane. it's indeed gridlock from the walt whitman bridge from this scene approaching broad street. and northbound have is a gaper delay. if you use this stretch of 95 s. i wouldn't, i would stay on the schuylkill and platt bridge. if are you headed to the girard point bridge cross that off your list. and a pair of accident on 422,

one approaching limerick and then a motorcycle crash on the ramp from 422 westbound to 100 southbound in pottstown. in cherry hill a vehicle is broken down along 70 approaching 295, and the center lane is out of commission there, i probably don't have to tell you but we are delayed on the septa rails and the paoli thorndale lines. lets grab the ipad and do the commuter report this tuesday afternoon in winslow, d.c. moose says watch for a major crash on cross keys road. and we'll check the vehicle fire on 95 again coming up in the next half hour. >> okay matt thank you. and still ahead a 96-year-old woman is targeted in a home invasion by a man posing as a public worker. now police need your help to find the person responsible. and a warning about more than a dozen of some of the most popular vehicles on the road, the test that shows their

headlights may not be good enough. they walked outside of their home to watch it collapse before their eyes. hear one local family's incredible story coming up.

a 96-year-old woman was the target a home invasion in east mown irish, and now police want your help to find the man responsible. they have surveillance video of the crime. take a look at the video, a man knocks on the door and pretended to be a philadelphia gas works employee, and when the woman refuses to let her in the man forces his way inside. he when to the bathroom and took a diamond ring from her jewelry box and ran off. police want anyone that recognizes the suspect to give them a call. and now police say that an

inmate that shot and killed two bailiffs was handcuffed. he wrestled away the weapon and shot and killed two officers. his family believe he was trying to escape. at least 20 people are dead after two trains hit head-on. they hit head-on in an olive grove on a line that has one track. rescue workers pulled several survivors from the wreckage including a small child. crews are now working to untangle the wreckage to see if anyone else is trapped. if you drive a small suv, there is a new warning out about your headlights. you'll want to hear this. the insurance institute for highway safety tested 21 suvs and not one of them rated good.

two-thirds were rated poor and only four got the acceptable rating including the mazda x 23. the headlines are doing a decent job but the other suv there on the bottom half of the screen that is the honda suv. and they vary from the same manufacturing the honda crv made the acceptable list. >> they are all made by honda, but they give drastically different visibility. here are the four earning acceptable. besides the mazda cx 3, and hon dark the ford escape and the hyundai tucson making the list,

these are just ranked acceptable. not one of the suvs tested ranked good, there is a long list that got marginal and even poor ratings, to find out where yours lands on the list go to 6abc.com we have the list there. amazon is hoping for a boost in sales on the second annual crime day, they invented that holiday to up the typically slow months. amazon sold 34.4 million items and other retailers like wal-mart and target are offering deals to stay competitive. we have tips to find the best bargains coming up at 4:30 in what is the deal. the dow closed at an all-time high today beating the mark set last year, up 121 points to

close at 18,347. and the s&p is up 15 points on the day. a group of high school students in buck county has turned a desolate area into a green oasis. the bristol club is building this garden in the school's courtyard. they turned it into a thriving garden that produced thousands of peppers, eggplants and tomatoes, it's a work in progress for three years and started with a grant secured by teachers right there at the school. >> you can see in the beautiful pictures another beautiful day. lets check in with cecily tynan in for adam. >> this is the place to be, sky 6 hd taking a look at the beaches in atlantic city, we are looking south and you can see all the dots those are people enjoying this weather. sky 6 hd doing a dance shaking with the sea breeze and even a sailboat or wind surfer in the ocean. loads of sunshine today and

temperatures are seasonably warm not that oppressive. 86 in philadelphia and 87 is the normal high for this time of year. allentown and reading 87 and wilmington 83 and notice the winds off the ocean along the beach, you get the sea breeze, cape may point 79 and beach haven 78 degrees, dew points inland are higher than yesterday. yesterday we had dew points in the upper 50s and mid-50s. and generally low to mid-60s, along the coast they are higher with the ocean and bay influence, dew points in the 60s and low 70s but those dew points increase tonight especially once the sunsets and the muggy air mass is moving in. satellite 6 along with action radar showing nothing more than a few fair weather clouds, if you look across west virginia and virginia, you can see showers and thunderstorms bubbling up and they are moving into parts of our region tomorrow. tonight partly cloudy skies and it's going to get very sticky.

67 in allentown and wilmington 69 and trenton 67 degrees, and tomorrow we'll see more clouds than sunshine, future tracker 6 showing 8:00 in the morning some sunshine east of philadelphia, more clouds to the west and the possibility of a spotty light shower and that activity will get a little more widespread as we head into the afternoon at lunch time, a few spotty showers and thunderstorms west of philadelphia and they will continue into the evening hours, not everyone is getting them but those that do can get some heavy downpours. this is what to expect tomorrow. it will be humid again with scattered thunderstorms not all that widespread, and with the cloud cover, temperatures should be held into the upper 80s even with the high dew points, it won't get all that hot, the main concern with the thunderstorms is the potential for localized flooding and downpours and any areas that get hit could get 1 to 2 inches of rain. the four day at 4:00, tomorrow it's unsettled and more clouds

than sunshine and muggy with a high of 87 degrees, thursday we have high humidity but also the heat. 94 degrees and a heat index of around 100. and the peak of the heat 95 on friday, the heat indexes close to the triple digits and saturday 91 with late day thunderstorms officially making this the third heat wave of the summer, i'll talk about when the heat moves out though coming up in the full accuweather forecast. >> it's going to get pretty uncomfortable out there. >> thanks for the warning cecily. still ahead a pair of houses collapse right in front of the owners, and incredibly this happened minutes after they walked out of the houses, and fire ripped through a popular restaurant and not the first time the business has been burned. coming up how the loss is effecting more than just the owners. >> and do you share your netflix password with family or friends, worried you may be breaking the law, we'll let you know whether

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from our delaware newsroom, one man is dead after being hit by a car on kirkwood highway. police say that the pan was hit on the intersection of that highway and limestone road. medics rushed him to the hospital where he die aid short time later. they say that the driver that hit him stayed on the scene and so far there are no charges in this case. two families were able to get out of their homes in german town minutes before the buildings collapsed. they were noticing problems for months with the twin homes, on the 4600 block of german town avenue, this morning they called in firefighters, at they talked to crews the homes collapsed right before their eyes. fortunately nobody was hurt and walter perez talked to the homeowners and he'll have a live report at 5:00. today police officers took extra steps to spend time with

the community they served. the police rolled up their sleeves to serve frozen treats for the public at rita's water ice. they served drinks at a local coffee shop. classical ballet was at the mann center for performing arts. performers from the rock school for dance education put on a great show for dozens of families and children all free of charge, it was the latest on the man center's ongoing concert series, designed to engage young people in the arts. local artists are creating a giant new mural at eakins oval. it's called rhythm and hues

because of the bright colors. it's across the ground at the oval beer garden that officially opens this friday. >> impressive. still to come this afternoon the search is on for the vandals that sprayed graffiti all over a local cemetery. >> and the deli that was destroyed by fire for the second time. hear from the owner. i have tips and tricks to maximize savings on this amazon prime day. what you need to know.

"action news" continues. with meteorologist, adam joseph, alicia vitarelli, sharrie williams and brian taff. >> hello again 4:30 now and "action news" continues. with an incident in center city philadelphia that required a response. >> and loved ones of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty come together today for some fun in the sun. >> but first here at 4:30, a popular restaurant in cherry hill is destroyed by fire for the second time. the flames broke out inside of the short hills deli, just before 2:00 this morning. in 2008 the same business was destroyed in a three-alarm fire. nora muchanic is live outside of the restaurant with the details. >> hi there, we are at the town

center strip mall where the popular restaurant and other businesses are closed today after being damaged by the fire. they describe this deli as i landmark, one of only two jewish delis in the area known for giant sandwiches and friendly service. they spend the day cleaning up the shore hills deli. a popular restaurant damaged in a fire. it took fire crews 45 minutes to control the blaze and no injuries were reported but the fire damaged the deli along with two adjoining businesses and an insurance company on the sec floor. debbie and her daughter run the clothing store love on a hangar that suffered smoke and water damage. >> it came down into all of our clothes and floor and our furniture is all wet and drop ceiling all over the place, and the floors are starting to buckle up. >> the dry-cleaner next door

also suffered damage. >> i dropped off clothes to the dry-cleaners and here we go. the place burned down. >> in 2008 the business was destroyed after a carelessly thrown cigarette ignited a wind driven fire that ripped through the building. today michael kaplan could not find the words. >> i have no comment now i'm sorry. >> nothing? >> i'm sorry. >> we come here all the time, my granddaughter doesn't feel well she asked me to pick up chicken noodle soup. >> the equipment was still visibility and some regulars that arrived for lunch were shocked to see the popular restaurant closed. and hope it reopens soon. >> great food and the people are really nice and great to sit around and talk to people and have a nice lunge. >> back live now looking at the broken out windows, cherry hill

fire officials have not released the cause of the fire and it's still under investigation. coming up at 6:00 we'll meet three holocaust survivors that would come to this restaurant ever week to have lunch. several people were rushed to the hospital today after a driver crash nood a wall this morning in philadelphia. chopper 6 hd was over the scene at 10:00 this morning in old city at 4th and callow hill, the van was smashed in and had to be towed away from the crash. before that chopper 6 hd flew over this massive backup over the pennsylvania turnpike in landsdale. the southbound lanes were backed up for miles because a tractor trailer broke down blocking the road and it happened at 6:30 this morning and it took several hours for the traffic to move again. suspicious activity on the rooftop of a center city hotel

prompted a swift response from counter terrorism officials last night. this was the scene outside of the bellevue hotel at broad and walnut after authorities received several 911 calls of people being on the roof, when police got there they found the couple with camera equipment and a smoke bomb and some liquid. >> it appears that this individual may be a blogger that likes to do things with photography that is bizarre. we haven't ruled out anything you never do. but it appears that is what this individual does. we are not condoning it. >> police believe the incident is not terror related but at least one will be charged with criminal trespassing and mischief. >> meteorologist, cecily tynan, joining us this afternoon another beautiful day and we are getting ready for the humidity to make a brief come back, the humidity and then the heat along

with the humidity. lets go live with sky 6 hd, a tour of the region this is looking over penn's landing where we have a good amount of sunshine and fair weather cumulous clouds popping up and 86 degrees, the dew point is 61 and the meat index is the air temperature. 86 degrees. it feels like the air temperature, so a little more muggy than yesterday but all in all pretty nice and this is a great looking shot of chester energy center. and the commodore barry bridge behind it. winds out of the south at 18 miles per hour. speaking of the union if you head to the stadium tomorrow night for the union game against crystal palace, it's going to be warm and humid with a few thunderstorms around at the start of the game. and 84 degrees at the end of the game, and we climb out the 80s and into the 90s for a while and i'll talk about the heat wave on the way and much needed rain and

thunderstorms. >> thank you cecily. the democratic national convention less than two weeks away now and medical officials say they are ready. anchor rick williams is live with more on this. >> hospital officials have plenty of experience under their belt thanks to the papal visit. but it's business as usual for the dnc, we'll tell you how that is affecting plans for the convention. and coming up tonight. activists used donkeys in place for the dnc to take a stand of their own. the issue they are call ago tension to and what they added to the statues to make their point. some of the stories we are covering for you tonight at 5:00. local families all of them know the same heart breaking loss join together to make positive new memories today.

loved ones of law enforcement officers were brought together at jenkinsons break water beach as part of the law enforcement survivors day, it was a great comfort to spend time with people who know what they have been through. >> today is paramount really, usually we meet each other at funerals and memorials, you go there with a heavy heart. today like you said it's all about fun and sun, and being near the beach and the water. you couldn't ask for a better day. >> the garden state concerns of police survivor chapter organized today's outing. 1,000 thoughtfully wrapped care packages are on their way to soldiers overseas. they shipped them out following a christmas in july sendoff

party that was held at sugarhouse casino. it's meant to bring comfort and entertainment for national guard members from pennsylvania and new jersey. still to come here at 4:00, find out how to score the best deals on this amazon prime day. plus, police need your help tracking down the man who stole a puppy from a pet store. find out how he got away with the dog unnoticed. >> and don't worry, a recent court ruling says you can't go to jail for giving someone your netflix password but there are consequences coming up.

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walked out. the pubby is valued at 15$1500. big talkers now. people that share their passwords on netflix. users fear they go could end up in cuffs. chill netflix lovers you are not going to jail. the u.s. court of appeals ruled that unauthorized password sharing is illegal under the computer fraud and abuse act but this case had to deal with the former employee using the currents employee's login to help a competitor, relax this had nothing to do with streaming services like netflix. the judge said that making every day password sharing a federal crime would be very extreme but just saying, having your own account and keeping it to yourself is just the right thing to do any way.

you won't go to jail if you share. have you noticed the website ashley madison ditched the slogan, life is short have an affair. now it's find your moment. they are rebranding to become more of a dating site just a place where married people go to meet other attached people on the sneak and break can up with the loco of a wedding ring of a picture of a woman holding it up to her lips. half of their users are truly single. so they are just going to single on that contingency. >> if you are keeping score, for this viral story, it's one kids daddy zip. these kids earn the win after they told dad that it was fancy dress day at school. that is what they call costumes across the pond in wales, he lets them go to school as a

transformer and woody from a transformer, dad got duped and the kids got a day out of wearing their uniform. poor dad they told them dressup day was to celebrate the queen's birthday, dad should have googled that. here is the devious duo holding up a newspaper with their now viral story on the front page. dad saying mission accomplished what are they going to do next. and dad will call the school before dropping them off in anything other than the uniform. >> they are cute. >> i see a look on their face, they are up to something else. a glimpse into that dad edwards future. alicia thank you. matt has the update on the roads. >> the look on the i-95 drivers, anger and frustration because of

a vehicle fire in the southbound lanes approaching broad street, the sports complex, the good news is, unlike the last half hour all the lanes are open and fire is out and everything is back to normal. well kind of. it's still a parking lot from southbound penn's landing on down to the point approaching broad street if you head to the paul mccartney concert, it's a slow go. the vine westbound to the schuylkill eastbound to get down there. if you continue south on 95 stick with the platt bridge, and the tacony palmyra bridge is going up head for the betsy ross instead. and on girard a broken down vehicle in a causes delays back here on the vine street expressway so that is from the schuylkill to 95. and don't head for ford road by 413, there is an accident. and one in white marsh at manor

road and one at 6th near green. and the crash by limerick is gone and one involving the westbound side in spots town. and middletown in delco, look for one by wolf's apple house and one in newark at harmony road. we'll see if we can make things more harmonious in the 5:00 hour. thank you matt, it is amazon prime day and we have tips on how to save the most money. >> and lets take a live look outside, sky 6 hd over penn's landing, cecily tynan with the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast. we'll be right back.

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all right cecily tynan astutely told us yesterday it's july in philadelphia. so no complaints about what is coming. >> it's going to get hot. another heat wave is on the way. today is nice, the action cam is on the banks of the schuylkill river, taking a look at the rower, john kelly. that is how kelly drive got its name. i was actually water skiing on the river a little bit upriver and the river was perfect. stormtracker 6 live double scan showing dry conditions out there. i should say rain free conditions, because it's getting muggier. sneaking into the 60s, muggier than yesterday. temperatures are where they should be for this time of year. 73 in philadelphia and philadelphia 86 and millville 82 and the wind off the ocean, the ocean temperature is 76 degrees. and cape may currently 79. satellite 6 along with action

radar showing you that we see a good amounts of sunshine, some fair weather clouds now and then, if you look to the south and west in virginia and west virginia, clouds and thunderstorms are beginning to bubble up and some sneak in during the day tomorrow especially if the afternoon and evening hours. tonight patchy clouds once the sunsets, the humidity will be increasing, you'll feel the difference in the air mass, turning sticky tonight and 67 degrees in the suburbs and 70 in center city. and future tracker showing more clouds than sunshine tomorrow, this is the latest run of future tracker where showers developing in the morning and more widespread in the afternoon. most of activity is west of philadelphia after 1:00 p.m. and some of this will continue into the evening hours, one of the situations where not everyone will see a shower or thunderstorm, but anyone that

does could get dangerous lightning and heavy downpours. those are really the main threats, fortunately only a low threat of strong winds or hail. and i don't see tornadoes developing, this brings much needed rain and heavy enough to bring localized flooding. it opens the door for excessive heat and humidity to come back again like last week, thursday afternoon into friday evening along the i-95 corridor, this is where the heat index makes it feel 100 degrees, you'll want to take it slow for the end of the week, thursday at 5:00 a lot of areas reaching the triple digits and we could see scattered thunderstorms developing. so the exclusive accuweather forecast tomorrow more clouds and sunshine and it will be warm and humid with scattered showers and thunderstorms, 87 degrees, keeping the chance of thunderstorms on thursday, adding the heat, so 94 will feel more like 100 and we get the

same steamy air mass on friday. and saturday hitting a high of 91 degrees, making this the third heat wave of the year, the cold front brings us the risk of showers thunderstorms. and still a risk on sunday and temperatures back off a couple of degrees, 89 degrees and monday 89 and warm and muggy on tuesday with 88 degrees, people don't like when i say heat and humidity, but we are not looking at a prolonged heat wave likely three days. >> thank you cecily. still to come on "action news," a good day for online shopping we'll give you tips and tricks on how to score the best deals during amazon's prime day that is underway as we speak. remember "action news" is about interaction with you, follow us on social media for the latest headlines and ac weather and breaking news and to communicate with us. on facebook we are facebook.

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that way it will be in your cart for 15 minutes. do a quick internet search and other retailers and etailers are offering deals today matching the prime deals, and remember that some prime day deals are better than black friday deals others are not. you need to be a smart shopper and do your homework. and finally for those of you signing up for the free amazon prime trial. just to get the savings today, if you don't want to be on the hook set an alert for yourself to cancel the trial before the month is up, some of you may keep it it costs $99 a year, the prime membership has a value of more than $500 considering the free shipping and streaming media, it just depends on how much you use it. finally at 5:00.

scientists found a galaxy 450 light years away. they call it the frankenstein galaxy because they believe it's made of parts of other galaxy, it appeared green. because they used a hydrogen gas to determine its size, it's seven times wider than the milky way. more beautiful images from the sky. that does it for "action news" at 4:00, for brian taff, alicia vitarelli and brian taff, i'm sharrie williams. join me tonight and every night for a full hour of "action news" at 10:00 on phl 17. >> in the meantime, here are rick williams and monica malpass with a look ahead. >> hi there, coming up next at 5:00, it was a somber day in dallas as friends and family and dignitaries, honor the lives of five police officers killed in the line of duty last week. and a woman convicted for her role in the beating of a gay

couple is now out of jail. >> the problems that two people noticed about their home before it collapsed before their very eyes. those stories and more coming your way next.

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monica malpass. philadelphia police are on high alert tonight after threats to some of the city's finest and a tense situation already surrounding police nationwide, police are taking every precaution necessary. tuesday night and the big story is the steps that philadelphia police are taking to keep everyone in uniform safe. >> vernon odom has the details from police headquarters tonight. >> reporter: good evening monica and rick, make no mistake about it, it's a tough and intense environment these days for obvious reasons that make philadelphia police riders on the storm and even their own facilities have been threatened. three police districts were made targets for districts.

the 2nd district in north philadelphia. and the 6th district on the edge of chinatown and 35th at broad and olney. someone flagged the officer down on the street but no credible threat is uncovered. >> we take all the threats seriously and we investigate them right now and we haven't found anything substantive yet but we'll take each and everyone of them seriously like threats against the public. these kinds of threats that are frequent have increased since last week's deadly attack on dallas police. with the democratic national convention coming to the wells fargo center later this month, police are gearing up for protest situations and terrorist strikes. this is the busier than normal headquarters of the delaware valley intelligence center, they