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>> compared to
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92. yesterday's high6 90 degrees
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>> 14-year-old daughter to a man in change store a financial help was a in courtroom for bucks county today. a judge lowered her bail, she won't be leaving prison anytime soon. trish hartman tells us why. >> reporter: the judge ordered the bail lowered from 10% to 250,000 authorities after she and her husband was skewed of gifting her teenager to a man
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who lives in this home. her lawyer said it's still too high. >> quarter of a million dollars for a person of no past criminal record is a very high daily. they are accused of gifting their daughter to this man lee kaplan. the lancaster county couple had a falling out with the amish church. the daughter was a gift for saving the family from financial ruin. she said the police allegations are false. police say 51-year-old kaplan fathered two children with girl, 12 children were removed from the home in feasterville last month. prosecutors say they agreed to the morning bail reduction and asked that the original bail conditions stands for bidding her from having any alleged
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contact with the victims in the case. >> it will protect the communities and insure that she will be here for all subsequent hears which is the reason for bail. >> reporter: trish hartman channel 6 "action news." >> after 6 months on the run police have arrested the suspect accused of murdering a man in january. according to police, gregory parker was arrested in new york city he was wanted by new castle county police for allegedly murdering sean smith. was foundn june 28th. parker is being held in new york pending extradition. time for the traffic report friday night. >> matt pellman joining us. >> reporter: happy friday. the schuylkill expressway no big surprise here, eastbound slow going from the blue route to the vine taking about 45 minutes
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right now. showing you a differet the vine, you can see slow in the eastbound lanes heading towardlin bridge. we had an earlier accident in the northbound lanes of i-95 at cottman. another one at girard. that caused a backup all afternoon long. slowbound lanes heading the schuylkill
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expressway toward the airport. speeds across the region dipping into into the teens and single digits low from villanova to media swathmore right now. the pennsylvania turnpike westbound past downingtown a car fire on the side of the road, but a long line of vehicles backing up traffic. pennsylvania northeast extension southbound past lansdale we had an earlier accident still delayed only because one lane is getting by there. new jersey, 295 southbound approaching route # 0 an aeport. if you're heading to the shore let's take a look at the 42 freeway.e drive to the atlantic city. back to you, rick and poke deny --emon --
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pokemon goontinues to lead people into danger.
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in trenton, the president of the new jersey naacp said the measure would be a victory for those who have demanded police accountability. first reresponders are warning
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sphoaks -- folks to pay attention when playing pokemon go. one tumbled 8 feet on to a beach. >> i stood up and took off my glasses and making sure i saw a guy fall off a cliff. >> likely neither of the men were hurt. pokemon go has been downloaded ten million times to apple and android devices since its release last thursday. "healthcheck" tonight the first report of the sexual transmission of the zika virus by a woman. a woman infected her male partner by sex. health officials have known men can spread it through sex as well. this is the first document the female to male transmission.
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zika virus causes a mild illness in most people, but infection turn pregnancy can lead to severe bitter defects. ducks are capable of abstract thought. the study shows newly hatched ducklings can differentiate between objects and match them by color. it allows the baby to find their mom even if they are partially hidden from view. ducklings picked it up hours after hatching. that's pretty exceptional. did you write that? >> no, but the person, they did. >> coming up on "action news," a faster internet what we all want. the government is doing something to ramp up 5g. the events that drew the young woman could be the future of silicon valley when we come right back.
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>> the white house has announced a 400 million-dollar boost to develop faster 5g networks after the federal communications commissions said they would open more spectrums
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of 5g use. funding for the initiative comes from the national science foundation and $35 million investment from wireless companies. middle school girls had a chance to pitch their ideas to local businesses. this is a children's version of shark tank if you will called the dolphin pool. they spent the past week developing their ideas at the tech camp at drexel university to get girls interested in the technology school. rocker mick jagger will became a father again. he is 72, he already is the grandfather of two children as well. hammer is the ballerina who performed with the ballet theater in new york. it is her first. a check of the forecast for
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you, a hot one. >> and taking it outside, sky6 live hd showing you center city from the temple university camera, meteorologist cesily tynan with the exclusive five gay forecast when we come right back.
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meteorologist cesily tynan. >> reporter: i didn't maket, it will actually taste good. >> how we looking at the shore tonight? >> reporter: the shore is the place to be today. sky6 live hd looking at atlantic city. you can see a lot of folks in the water, the ocean temperature in the low to mid 70s right now. sky6 live hd shaking a little bit with the sea breeze. it is a warm day at the shore, the heat index in philadelphia feels like 92 degrees, our air temperature 91. fortunately the dewpoint is not as high as yesterday. feelsn allentown. if you look at the atlantic city airport feels like 97. in beach haven, feels like 99. the highest heat index is along the shore where we have the highest humidity. satellite and radar showing we have fair weather clouds moving in right now they do not contain any moisture. tonight should be rain free, but it will be a warm night. partly cloudy, moderate
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humidity, 74 in philadelphia. cape may, 75. wilmington, 72 degrees. future tracker showing as we start the day tomorrow we'll see clouds especially south and east of the i-95 corridor. it's pretty warm at 9:00. 84 degrees, as we head into the afternoon ahead of a cold front that will simply stall over us, we will see spotty showers and thunderstorms developing. as you can see not everyone will get them, but those who do could have a brief, heavy downpour and of course, the thunder and lightning, get out of the pool as soon as you hear the rumble of thunder. dewpoints not bad in the low to mid 60s. however, as we head into next week. monday the dewpoints spike to 72 and 70 on tuesday with showers and thunderstorms. so it will get oppressive again early next week. saturday forecast down the shore, mixture of clouds and sunshine, nice beach day, 850 degrees. in philadelphia, it's going to
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be hot. 91. the place to be if you're looking for comfort in the poconos, 81 degrees with pretty low humidity and good amount of sunshine. so the five day at 5:00 p.m. shows the heat continues at 91 degrees making it the third heat wave of the year. sunday, 93 degrees, monday will be the uncomfortable day, i wouldn't be surprised if we have excessive heat warnings posted for monday, the high 95 degrees with dewpoints in the 70s it will feel closer to 100. widespread thunderstorms possible, tuesday, 89. wednesday, 86 degrees, low humidity, but then after that the heat returns, melissa will talk about that in the full seven-day forecast. >> we have breaking news to report at this hour, an attempted military
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underway in turkey. secretary of state john kerry is monitoring the situation. we'll bring you updates on air and online. much more to come on "action news" at 5:00 p.m. >> we'll continue to monitor the day's headlines stay with us. hey how's it going, hotcakes?
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>> last seen driving her white four door chevy cruz and we're asking anyone with information to call 911. at 2 o'clock this afternoon here in the 7500 block of leon street, the car was discovered by family members. her decomposed body in the
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trunk of the car. right now police do not believe foul play was involved. the body was not tied up or anything. but the cause and manner of death will have to be determined by the medical examiner. the victim's mother told police her daughter had been suicidal due to some bad circumstances in her life. neighbors here are horrified. >> horrific. i feel like crying. i have children myself. i can't imagine for the family -- i can't even speak i'm going to start crying. it's devastating. >> it's really sad. i think she had a three-year-old daughter. just really sad. >> i just think it's a terrible thing really, just terrible for that to happen. >> i can't believe it. it's horrible. but it has been a very quiet neighborhood. you know, you don't hear anything going on. this is like the big event and i've been here about almost 25 years. >> reporter: now, police right now are in the process of together the car to the medical examiner's office for a closer inspection and again, the body of 23-year-old tanika
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ballard discovered in the trunk of her car. that's the late of from here, live in the mayfair section, i'm dann cuellar channel6 "action news." back to you rick. >> dan tan thandann thank you n. monica. >> 10 children are among the 84 people killed which that driver plowed through a crowd last night. one was a 11-year-old boy from texas. >> french authorities identified the driver as a french citizen with no known ties to terrorism. they are now trying to determine who, if anyone was helping him. >> you the man's name is mohammed bauhlal born in tunisia. he had a criminal record of petty theft but nothing matching the seriousness of yesterday's rampage. the google map shows the magnitude of what happened. the truck busted through police barriers and drove a 1.3-mile stretch of road pack with people until he was shot
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and killed by police. >> this video posted on instagram only shows a fraction of what it was like to be in that panicked crowd in nice. this is the white truck they were running from right there. you can see the truck sped up as it moved towards the throngs of people. bill rap an american living in nice was in the middle that of crowd and he says complete chaos as you can imagine. >> then people from behind us started running screaming go, go, go. people grabbing onto our shirt sleeve saying run, run, run and there were cars and scooters. people were running into traffic in front of moving vehicles. >> as we mentioned 84 people died including 10 children. more than 200 others injured. 52 remain in critical condition tonight. france's state of emergency
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has been extended another three months to deal with the tragedy. >> cities around the globe are showing the from this people that they are not alone in their grief. the american flag at the white house is at half-staff tonight and in new york city mounteddial canada london and mexico city the colors of the french flag are lit across government buildings a simple but powerful message for the residents of nice france. we are with you. and world news tonight with david muir will have much more on the terror attack in nice including more on what's being ton to protect americans from similar attacks. and you can watch that following "action news" at 6:00. >> opening your windows to air out your home in these hot temperatures may seem like a harmless thing to do but in one bucks county community, it may lead burglars straight to your doorstep. "action news" reporter nora muchanic is live in falls township tonight with what police are doing to keep you safe. nora. >> reporter: hi there, rick. welling maybe you put the ac on in your bedroom but you leave the windows opened elsewhere in the house open
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overnight. police say that's an open invitation to burglars and they have some tips on how to keep your home from becoming a target. patrolman nick is walking down simon's drive in falls township a neighborhood hit last week by a series of break-ins where burglars entered in the middle of the night through windows left open in the hot weather. while the victims slept crooks got away with wallets cash computers cell phone and even a 55-inch tv. >> you can haveing the day if you're downstair moving around downstairs that's fine. when you upstairs and go to sleep it's time to lock the windows down here and keep
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them closed. >> reporter: he says you don't want to make it easy for crooks to get in your house through unlocked windows and doors on the first floor. >> we're not paranoid or anything. we just careful that's all. we always lock our windows and ors and we haven't had any problems. >> reporter: john m
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he and his wife are religious about keeping windows and doors locked even during the day many police recommend krs phones and other values out of the view of the window and closing your blinds at night. >> i don't expect them to come bac treet even if they come back to the neighborhood.
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>> reporter: because. >> they already hit the street, the ted i think. >> reporter: cops say a motion detec inexpensive and effective way to deter burglars. robert lippincott put one at his home years ago. >> the awning, t see the light automatically triggers and probably squares
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them away. >> they walk back there and all of a sudden a bright light gets back there there they're gone they want everything done in the dark. >> yes, it's hot. >> reporter: police say he erreds in your car and home are a ght. pay attention if your pooch suddenly gets agitateed. >> some people said i heard my dog barking and i yelled at him to shut up. your dog is barking in the middle of the night for a reason. >> reporter: so, locked up leave your porch light on and do not leave the welcome ma t fo. live in falls township, i'm nora muchanic channel6 "action news." >> nora thank you. we want to reminds if you you're having a heat related issue you should call the heat line. the flub on your screen (215)765-9040. members of philadelphia's corporation on age willing i wasn't calling until midnight. >> 12 children went to the hospital when a van smashed into a building in west physical. the crash happened on south 42nd street about 9:00 a.m. chopper6 was overhead as firefighters and medics workelp.
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no one was seriously hurt but the children and the driver did go to the hospital to be checked out. >> a suspected chief who police say pulled off nearly 90 home burglaries in behind bars tonight. he is larry samuels and detectives say he targeted 89 residences in five counties from august 31st of 2014 to july 3rd of 2015. police add that they got a break in the case when they got their hands on surveillance video and noticed a pattern in many of the break-ins. cash electronics and food was almost always taken from the burglaries. many happened near septa stops and any unwanted items were usually left on the front lawn of the home. samuels is being held on half a million dollars bail tonigh tonight. >> just 10 days from now the eyes of the world will be on philadelphia as we welcome democrats from around the country for the national convention. >> many communities housing the delegates are making sure they feel right at home. >> today teams in montgomery county got ready to welcome the delegates and other guests to the city. members of the hospitality community put together 3,000 goody bags for the visitors. the bags have information about things the visitors can and see while here. montgomery county is hosting 5600 guests including delegates from 21 states and territories. >> the region's hunger relief organizations are teaming up during the democratic flag no convention to make sure food doesn't go to waste.
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they set up a food connect program. if you have food that you would like to donate or if you are in need of food and you would like to help get help with food in the right places all you need do is sign up. we have put a link on our web site for you and to make it easier you can download the app to your smartphone. >> "action news" will have every angle of this year's democratic national convention
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>> two neem ohio have been arrested after they decided to
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play pokemon go in the toledo zoo in search of the cartoon game monsters. they were arrested afternoon they were spotted on the zoo camera and today they pleaded not guilty. >> ducis rogers is here. >> reporter: summer vacation is over, the phillies returned from the all star break against division opponents first up the new york mets tonight. jeff skeverski joins us live from the park with more. >> reporter: talk about a tough stretch. the phillies next seven games against the mets and the marlins, the two keeps they are chasing in the standings. phillies 6 back in the wild card. they believe they can fight for a wild card spot. crazier things have happened. phillies back tonight against the mets.
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franco hitting 400 over the last four weeks, the phillies have been the best hitting team in baseball since june 21st, they believe they can keep it rolling they won ten of their last 1 games. >> everybody is excited to get back to the field today. it was a nice four daybreak, but there was excitement at the end of half the way we played. i think we're looking to carry back on the field tonight. >> the way i look at it, i'm going for the wild card of we have to have a goal we're not here just to play baseball and see what happens we're here to win on a daily basis, the guys have shown so far they don't give up, they don't quit, everybody likes to win. >> reporter: including phillies starter, jeremy, halickson, hopefully he can get another win
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against the mets tonight who are tough to beat in this ballpark. jeff skeverski channel 6 "action news." >> reporter: christmas in july, the sixers new toy is officially there. he signed the contract today. he has been in town 24 hours and found his way to tourists spots. he was at the navy yard to sign the sixers contract it's a four year deal worth a little more than $10 million. he spent the last two years playing overseas in turkey. he will give the sixers another big man of scoring potential. pom brady has -- tom brady has accepted his role in deflate gate. he said he will no longer proceed with the process. the u.s. circuit court of appeals denied his right to 'peel the decision. mickelson is the lead dog
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at the open chip, his lead has narrowed. cloudy skies over royal troon in scotland. long birdie on number 14. ten under one stroke better than henry. two more rounds to play. >> all of your favorite abc shows new and old are available for you to watch whenever you want on your mobile devices. all you have to do is download the new app from the apple iphone store. you'll have access to full seasons from 58 shows, in addition you get access to all the great abc news programming and that's not all, there are 7 new comedy and lifestyle shows produced for abc digital. if you have the abc watch app you don't have to do anything, it will update to the new app anyway. search the apple store for abc,
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download the new app it is available today. fios is not cable. we're wired differently. so we wired the wagner's house with 100 meg internet. which means that in the time it takes mr. wagner to pour a 20 oz. cup of coffee, tommy can download 30 songs, and jan can upload 120 photos. 12 seconds. that's the power of fiber optics. and right now you can get 100 meg internet with equal upload and dowloads speeds, tv and phone for just $69.99 per month online. cable can't offer internet speeds this fast at a price this good. only fios can.
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continuing to clean up after strong storms ripped through oklahoma and arkansas. a person was able to capture a
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moment a roof was ripped off a building in eastern oklahoma. thunderstorms tore through the area new york be out power to 100,000 people. >> meteorologist melissa magee here with the all important accuweather word for the weekend and more. >> reporter: it's going to be a hot one. no major breaks from the heat. things will start to heat up once again even early next week. we'll talk about the detail and the changes coming. storm tracker 6 live double scan radar it's dry across the delaware and lehigh valleys. no issues with precipitation, but as sweating into saturday afternoon as a ripple of energy moves through. there could be a spotty shower or thunderstorm creeping into the region. no break from the heat or humidity. you check out the dewpoint a level of moisture in the air. north we have dewpoints in the 59 and 57. 63 in philadelphia. but 76 in cape may and 73-degree dewpoint in dover. when you look at the heat and humidity feels hotter.
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especially for locations at the coast where you have the higher dewpoint temperatures. feels like 99 in beach haven. 91 in reading.a heat index of pa n wilmington. here's satellite and radar, it's dry across the region, but theme s will creep northward as we go throughout the start of theeken.
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the call from accuweather a few patchy clouds around, moderately humid. 6 in the suburbs and 74 in philadelphia with the southwesterly wind. get into the day saturday, the day planner looks like, 8:00 a.m., a warm start, a mostly sunny sky. high temperature of 78. middle 80s 11:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m., 91. 84 degrees at 8:00 p.m. on saturday. if we hit 91 it will be heat wave number three for philadelphia. here's the set up for us sunday. the front ther to the east. it stays hot and
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humid, high temperature on sunday, 93 degrees. so the humidity will be noble as we get -- noticeable as we get into the weekend and more so next week. down the shore, sunshine and clouds on saturday, 85. mostly sunny, sunday, 85. the owing temperature coming in at 73 degrees. up in the poconos tomorrow looms you'll find a lower humidity there, so it's a nice one coming in at 81. 80 on sunday, snierch and clouds moving -- sunshine and clouds moving across the region. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, heat wave number 3 on on the way hot and, sunday, sauna an monday, 95. you will notice the difference because you have the humidity levels that will rise as well
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for the start of the workweek. muggy tuesday, showers andms. 89. 86 on wednesday, that's a nice day. thursday, high temperature of 90. hazy, hot and humid. next friday, high temperature coming in at 92. the nice day in the forecast looks to be next wednesday. >> thank you so muc completed n vet working dog center part of the narcotics decks team and
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quest is the two-year-old explosive sniffer whole patrol the septa transit line during the four day event thanks to both dogs and their handlers.
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>> right now jim gardner and the "action news" team are standing by with these stories next at 6:00 p.m. a student calls her teacher in philadelphia after witnessing the terror attack unfolding in nice, france. >> sarah bloomquist live in cleveland for a look at the preparations for the republican national convention. for adam joseph, cesily tynan, melissa magee, jeff skeverski, ducis rogers, monica malpass i'm rick williams. good night.
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>> friday night the big story on "action news" tonight is new information coming in from france on the attack last night in nice. as police spent this day attending to the scene of death and devastation, authorities put the final death toll at 84. there were 250 people hurt, dozens of whom are still in the hospital tonight. and they finally towed the white truck alay from the promenade, cote d'azur, where the driver took it ton a death drive,
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smashing into pedestrians who were leaving a fireworks show. he was killed by police gunfire. the french prime minister said he is a terrorist linked to radical islam. other reports say he was not known to french or american intelligence. president obama president obama attempted the american resolve during the american diplomatic corps at the white house. >> well not deter and well not relentful we'll keep taking out isil leaders and pushing let thm back in syria and iraq and destroy this vial terrorist organization. two americans were killed in the attack, sean copeland and his son brody. a student from california is

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