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a very young man. a bullet claimed the life of 15-year-old tyhir barnes late last night, and it appears the death, the shot was fired over the outcome of a basketball game. it is tuesday night and the big story is the aftermath of a shooting and the police are trying to track down the gunman. and dann cuellar live at police headquarters. dann? >> the police say the young man they are looking for apparently did not like how things ended on the basketball court. unlike most sore losers he didn't go home, he had to have the last word and used a gun to talk for him and took out his opponent. >> we thank you for every opportunity we had to play ball with him, to laugh with him, to go to school with him. >> tears everywhere in southwest philadelphia. gathered here about 200 relatives and friends of 15-year-old tyhir barnes. many of his friends also new him
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as jaqueel and among them his mother. >> he was loved, he was loved. and whoever did that, they knew that's why they had to do it because they cowards, punks, bums. >> and the basketball game ended and tyhir and two teammates were headed tomorrow. and little did they know some from the rival team upset with the buzzer beater last week were laying in weight. and shots rang out, and he saw his friend go down. >> i seen the first shot, my man got hit. he died right in front of me. like he just fell and i am like who dat, who dat and i got running and hit on the second one. >> and one hit in the leg and survived and tyhir shot in the face did not make it. >> we know that the shooter is young and 15 to 17 years of age it really doesn't make any sense, like you said, over a basketball game. >> for some residents it is more
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than a teenager shot and killed on the streets of philadelphia. >> at some point we have to look at ourselves and say something is inherently wrong with us that we think this is fine. >> everyone gets upset with this police brutality, and everyone's mad because the white cop kills a black kid. but a black kid killed another black kid, be mad about that. be mad about that. put that in your heart. >> and friends released dozens of balloons in his memory. >> it turns out that tyhir barnes was an aspiring rapper. his producer said that he was due to released his mix tape this december. live at police headquarters, dann cuellar for "action news." and it has happened again late tonight on the streets of philadelphia. a 15-year-old boy game the victim of gunfire. the shooting happened just after 9:00 in the overbrook section of
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the city in the 900 block of north 63rd street. the teen is being treated right now at penn presbyterian hospital. the police are looking for a 2004 or 2005 chevy impala believed to be the gunman's car. in dallas today, an emotional memorial service to honor the five policeman killed last thursday night in dallas. a president and a former president spoke to the families of the dead, but also to a tense and conflicted nation. live in the satellite center, "action news" reporter christie ileto tonight. christie? >> jim, that service really centered around honoring the fallen officers. president obama remembering their bravery while also calling for unity. >> we're here to honor the memory and mourn the loss of five fellow americans. >> heart-felt words from president obama, who stood steps away from five empty seats for the dallas officers murdered in an ambush last week. >> an act of not just demented
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violence but racial hatred. all of that left us wounded and angry and hurt. >> chaos unfolded when micah johnson began firing a high-powered rifle to kill offenser during a black lives matter protest. and following the killings ever alton sterling in baton rouge and philando castile in suburb minneapolis days earlier. >> the shock of this evil still has not faded. at times it seems like the forces pulling us apart are stronger than the forces binding us together. >> together with former president bush, vice-president biden and himself, president obama spoke to defuse tensions around race and policing and called for unity. >> i'm here to insist we are not as divided as we save know how far we have come against impossible odds. >> and no one expressed it more
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than chief david brown. >> i'll be loving you -- >> quoting stevie wonder. >> until the rainbow burns the stars out of the sky, i'll be loving you. >> tomorrow the president is meeting with members of law enforcement and civil rights activists to discuss ways to repair the relationship between police and the community. reporting live, christie ileto channel 6 "action news." jim? >> thank you. a demonstration in the name of peace and unity took place tonight in new town, bucks county at the corner of center avenue and state street. organizers say both police and communities of color are hurting right now. and they know that working to end racism takes more than just holding signs on a street corner. they plan to hold dialogues to find solutions and take concrete action. >> authorities say they interrupted a substantial credible threat, that's what they call it, to harm baton
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rouge, louisiana police officers. that's the department involved in the shooting death of alton sterling last week that sparked nationwide protests. police arrested three suspects and seeking possibly a fourth. the men allegedly broke into a pawnshop over the weekend to steal guns and ammunition wit n intent to use against police. and temple university, neil theobald apparently on his way out. the board of trustees took a unanimous vote of no confidence. and president theobald was given the opportunity to resign, which he refeud. they could terminate the president at the next meeting on july 21st. and speaking with the board member who says that the vote was due, in part, to the $22 million financial aid deficit. >> the board of trustees believes that someone has to be held accountable for that deficit and the way that it was
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handled. and its view is that the president is accountable for that situation. >> the board also announced the current chancellor could serve as acting president until a permanent successor to theobald is found. accuweather tonight, our soupy, humid atmosphere tomorrow will lead us to unsettled conditions and could create right mix for storms. and cecily tynan at the big board with the chance of rain. the weather pattern is going to change. the past few days, quiet weather and low humidity, thanks to the high pressure providing a slice of nice. that high pressure moving off the eastern seaboard. what this will do is shift the wind out of the southwest, pull out more humid conditions. and also pull up some instability in the form of some showers and thunderstorms. yesterday we had dewpoints in the 50s. now 66 degrees the dewpoint in philadelphia. so that's slightly muggy. but if you look to the south, dewpoints in the 70s, that's the
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air mass that will gradually move our way tomorrow. and futuretracker showing also moving our way some scattered showers and thunderstorms, especially around 2:00 in the afternoon. the afternoon, the atmosphere will kind of force downpours. not everyone will see them but it will open another round for excessive heat. excessive heat watch thursday afternoon into friday evening, along the i-95 corridor. this is where the heat index value up to about 100 degrees and more details on that in the accuweather forecast. >> thank you, cecily. the big story here, previously sealed documents from the jerry sandusky trial was made public today. they reveal that a man who claims sandusky abused him in 1976 says he told penn state football coach joe paterno about the incident the next day. that would conflict with paterno's count he first received a complaint about sandusky in 2001, five years
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later. the man identified as john doe 150 testified in october 2014 that six other boys in a shower heard him yell, that sandusky was abusing him. kathryn knott walked out after serving five months in jail. the woman was convicted in the attack of a gay couple in center city in september 2014. she walked out of the criminal justice center today between her mother and father. her father used to be the police chief in bucks county and serving the second half of her sentence on parole. it finally happened today. bernie sanders endorsed hillary clinton for president. >> hillary clinton will make an outstanding president, and i am proud to stand with her today. thank you all very much. [cheers and applause] >> sanders congratulated clinton
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for winning the democratic nomination and vowed to do everything that he can to help her defeat donald trump. clinton says the last four months of the campaign will be much more enjoyable working on the same side as sanders. sanders won a number of victories in the party platform negotiations going on. the recent polls say 80% of sanders' supporters say they will vote for hillary clinton. in indiana tonight, governor pence told a rally that donald trump hears the voice of the american people. and he is the latest potential runningmate to stop with donald trump. he says the country cannot let hillary clinton become elected president. and trump came out as law and order candidate. and announcing that trump turned down the civil rights' organization to address the group this week at its convention in cincinnati. friends and family are mourning the tragic death of a delaware county native who fell
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to her death in the grand canyon. 35-year-old colleen burns traveled to the national park with two of her close friends last week. they took some of these pictures on thursday, posting them to instagram. the next day they got up early to high the popular south kaibab trail to a scenic ooh aah point. >> and stepping away for another gentlemen to squeeze in and she tripped on her own feed and fell backwards. >> they found her body 400 feet below. the national park service is investigating the death. burns grew up in morton, pennsylvania and most recently was working as a marketing executive at yelp in florida. and bricks came tumbling down at a historic landmark from the farmers and mechanics
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building at 3:30, narrowly missing a pedestrian. the six-story building at high and market streets is on the national regular he is they are of historic places. meanwhile, a germantown grandmother giving thanks nobody was hurt when they home collapsed today. denise wheeler noticed a crack in the wall this weekend, and this morning woke up to some of the ceiling crumbling on her bed. and taking quick action getting her daughter and three grandchildren out of her house and afterwards she said all she wanted was her bible, which the crews were able to dig out from her. and they complained about vibration from heavy equipment used nearby for the water department, but inspectors say it is too early to determine the cause. and concerned residents packed a meeting tonight in fort washington. and water providers from the e.p.a. talked about recent tests with toxins in the water supply.
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the contamination believed to have come from the firefighting foam used at the willow grove air station. a group of nurses at hahnemann hospital made sure a cancer patient got to spend a special night with his daughter. and jen bought a ticket for the paul mccartney concert but couldn't afford one for herself. and his health took a turn and he didn't feel he would be feeling good enough. the nurses stepped in. >> the director called the cancer center at hanneman and they gave them money to buy the ticket and it was free of cost and we wanted to make it a special night for the two of them. >> it is shocking and everything, but at the same time -- this is how they are every day.
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>> culpepper says the entire experience was a dream-come-true. a serial shooter now blamed for at least seven homicides in phoenix, and that's not all. we have details on his pattern and why investigators are still confused. plus, call them no-go zones. major destinations ask players not to play pokemon on the premises. after today's action on wall street if you have not checked your retirement account lately it may be time to do that. seasonably warm, high of 89 degrees. mid-90-degree weather lurking to the west that is moving in along with higher humidity and the threat of storms. the details on what to expect in the accuweather seven-day forecast. and ducis rodgers with some ring bling for the villanova wildcats when "action news" continues tonight.
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the phoenix area is on edge tonight as police confirm that a seventh murder and three other shootings are the work of a serial shooter or shooters. the attacker, or attackers, are targeting people at night who are outside of their homes or in their cars, but there is nothing in common in terms of the victims' age, race or gender. >> the incident, the motive is not apparent at all. >> the latest police sketch of a suspect, described as a lengthy young man. and the latest were clustered in a close area, but the authorities linked incidents outside of the neighborhood and tonight are warning everybody to be on guard. 22 people killed when two commuter trains slammed head-on on a single track in southern italy today. at least 43 people were injured. officials say that one of the
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trains shouldn't have been on the track. pope francis sent condolences to the families of the victims. [bell ringing] the celebration continued on the new york stock exchange as both the dow and s&p hit new record highs. dow closing 18,347. the s&p hit its record milestone yesterday, and added another 15 points today to 2152. the nasdaq is lagging behind but finally today went into positive territory, erasing its losses for the year. one day after announcing that all starbucks employees are getting a raise, the coffee chain confirmed it is raising the price of many of its drinks. brewed coffee is going up 10 to 20 cents, and expressive and tea-based lattes 10% to 30%. and a starbucks spokesperson
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says the pay rise and increases are separate issues. and surging across pennsylvania, a 23% jump in deaths nationwide -- make it state wide from 2014 to 2015. 3,383 people overdozed last year. more than half of them had heroin in their system. cocaine deaths were also up, but they were the same or fewer overdoses involving meth, pcp, marijuana and escacy. and pokemon go sweeping the country but landmarks are asking to show respect. arlington national cemetery and the holocaust museum, they asked
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them not to play on these grounds. and they visit locations to acquire items in the virtual world. and the holocaust museum called it extremely inappropriate and asking the video game developer to have it removed as a checkpoint. the latest from accuweather and cecily tynan. >> three pretty comfortable weather days in a row, low humidity, it can't last much longer this is july. and it is rain-free out there and the action cam, and the conditions out there tonight, temperatures are dropping into the 70s. humidity is creeping up. allentown 78. cape may 73. wilmington 76. and trenton 73 degrees. and satellite 6, along with action radar, showing that we have this bubble of high pressure over us providing the sinking air, the low humidity.
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that high pressure will become a classic bermuda, shifting the air. and futuretracker showing 8:00 in the morning lots of clouds and even a few spotty showers, especially areas west and south of philadelphia. and this will kind of continue through the day. around lunchtime again, showers and downpours, and even into the afternoon. anyone who gets a shower or thunderstorm could have a heavy, intense brief downpour. so good idea to download the 6abc news app to track the storms. temperature-wise we are seasonable. 8:00, 74. 5:00, 84. 8:00, 81 degrees. the temperatures about where they should be this time of year. but you will notice an up-tick in the humidity. a good place to be to avoid the humidity and the storms, down the shore you have the sea breeze, that will stabilize the
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atmosphere. atlantic city 80 degrees, beach haven 80. and partly sunny, but a moderate risk of rip currents north. ocean city and ocean county, and rehoboth beach. and looking nice with temperature and sky conditions. the problem is thursday and friday when the excessive heat watch becomes a warning. air temperatures in hid 90s, and almost a repeat of last week. the heat index 101 and close to 100 on saturday. and temperatures in the 90s making this the third heat wave of the year. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, tomorrow more clouds and sunshine. very humid with scattered showers and thunderstorms. high of 87. thursday is when we really get in the steam path. 94 degrees, feeling more like 100, 101 with late-day
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thunderstorms. steamy friday, 95. and saturday not as oppressive but 91. still a heat wave. and then the temperatures ease back a bit. and monday 89 degrees and tuesday warm and muggy side with again, a chance of a thunderstorm and a high of 88. of course, if we do have showers developing early in the morning, david murphy will be tracking them on "action news" beginning at 4:30. >> thank you, cecily. coming up, ducis rodgers with an all-star game update from san diego when we continue in a moment.
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all-star game is over in san diego, and -- >> and we have got a result. you have to wait a couple of seconds to see it early on it looked like it would be a slug feflt -- slugfest. >> and odubel herrera proudly represents the phillies, the 24-year-old's first all-star game. tied at 1-1.
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and perez the 2-run shot and 3-1 american league. and getting into the game, and the harmless fly ball. unfortunately for him his only at-bat of the night. the game went final and the a.l. wins and have home-field advantage in the world series. the sixers back in action facing the warriors. and jahlil okafor on hand coming off knee surgery. he has been cleared to play. and ben simmons, the sweet dish to holmes. and that's passing, what about his rebounding? check this out on the offensive glass. and the sixers lose 85-77. still ahead, the villanova basketball team in los angeles for the espys.
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villanova is the crown jewel of college basketball. the team now has a jewel of the literal kind. jay wright showed off the goods for us this afternoon. the ncaa recently sent the championship rings to the school. coach wright gave them out to his players after this morning's practice. he said it was a very special moment. >> what does that mean when you put that on? what does it mean to you? >> it's still surreal, it really is. it's still something that you can't believe that it really represents going through an entire season and winning that tournament. >> the ring, what was the moment
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like when you guys got that this morning? >> it was breath-taking to receive our ring and to look at it and know how much hard work and dedication was put into it. >> how much will you cherish it? >>i will cherish it forever because my brothers and i put a lot of hard work into it. we sacrificed a lot, including the coaches. >> and catching up with coach before he, the family and basketball team left for los angeles. they will be at the espy awards tomorrow night. up for four words including best team and play of the year. and chris jenkins buzzer-beater still paying dividends. >> it's going to be a lot of fun. it is nice to do it in a relax time of year in july, and i think the guys are really looking forward to it. they may be more excited about that than the white house. >> and again they are up for
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four awards and may go 4-4. >> there you go. "jimmy kimmel live" next on channel 6 followed by night line. "action news" continues at 4:30. for cecily tynan, ducis rodgers and the entire "action news" team, i'm jim gardner, good night. ♪ trading-in or selling your car, truck or suv? webuyanycar.com takes the hassle out of selling in just 3 easy steps. one, get your free online valuation. two, drive to your local car buying center. and three, walk out with your check in as little as 30 minutes ! so don't wait...get your free online valuation now at webuyanycar.com.

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