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from michelle obama's convention speech in 2008. >> barack and i were raised with so many of the same values, you work hard and your word is your bond. >> my parents impressed on me the values that you work hard for what you want in life that your word is your bond and you do what you say and keep your promise. >> "action news's" sara bloomquist is live in cleveland, sara is the talk of the political world today. what has the reaction been where you are? >> well, we did talk to the pennsylvania-new jersey delegates here at the republican national convention. to a person they were supportive of melania trump and defended her speech last night. >> i don't think it's going to hit us as hard as people would
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want it to. it may tarnish it a little but she was passionate. >> delegates watched melania's speech and most had heard that some of the lines were almost identical to those delivered by michelle obama at the dnc in 2008. you heard an assortment of explanations and blames. >> the media is the media and that is the way it is. >> it's hard not to plagiarize because these are all words in the english language. it's kind of hard at another breakfast across town, there is overwhelming support for the woman they hope will become first lady. >> last night was a tremendous success, youed watched it, ask the people in pennsylvania. i think it went over with an
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overwhelming success. >> party leaders stood behind melania and her speech. >> the speech was a poignant speech well received by the american people. we don't believe there is anything in that speech that doesn't reflect her thinking. >> but abc news director rick klein called it a mistake made by an amateurish campaign. >> you don't want to create a story that is candy when are you trying to serve vegetables, it is something to focus on and takes away from trump's message at the convention. >> republicans we talked to today said repeatedly that they didn't think the exact language of the speech was important, but seeing the trump family take the stage and what they say about the candidate. and now looking ahead to tonight as chris christie takes the
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stage in prime time and are excited to see what he has to say. the theme is make america work again. sara bloomquist, channel 6 "action news." >> varying opinions there sara thank you. be sure to visit 6abc.com often during the convention to expand your understanding of the issues and see live streams and more. and check out our live video updates from the "action news" team and make sureself heard by joining the conversation. and we are less than a week away from the democratic convention right here in philadelphia. hillary clinton spoke to a union conference in the last half hour. she won an endorsement from the labor union that represents 270,000 hotel and food service workers. and leading up to clinton's official nomination, several people born and raised in
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philadelphia will have a chance to address her supporters an attorney at the supervisor nile law center will take the stage next tuesday and the theme is a lifetime of fighting for children of families. because the verdicts worked she explained how clinton has made a difference. >> i am honored to have been chosen and the other speakers that night are absolutely amazing. i'm completely humbled to be part of the experience. >> verdict's address is scheduled for the same night as bill clinton. we'll have more on the convention in philadelphia, look for live reports starting this friday right here on "action news." a salem county man is accused of murdering his wife and that the crime happened with the couple's three chifrn children there in the house.
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>> reporter: sharrie this is domestic violence rearing its ugly head again and this time a mother is of three young children is dead. look behind me, this is a home that involves a family where it happened. we are off north broadway here in pennsvillpennsville. we are told that a husband repeatedly stabbed his wife. take a look they say a husband stabbed his wife in disturbing vegas. he is minton singh. the ems call came in at 5:00 a.m. the cops thought they were walking into someone in cardiac arrest and rather they saw singh covered in blood. >> the husband was in the kitchen also and his comment was we got into a fight. >> he is charged with the murder of his wife sima and his bond $3
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million. his three young kids were in the apartment when it happened. luckily asleep the whole time. that makes sense when you hear from others in the building. >> did you hear screaming or a struggle. >> singh owns this small deli. >> that is the theme here coming to the deli to get groceries but it is closed. when i tell them why, they are in disbelief. >> she worked every day. >> tess works across the street at the barbershop and has known mrs. singh for years. anyone with ties to this family from friends to customers and now friends ask, you keep their kids in mind. >> the saddest thing is to see the reaction of the kids when we told them what actually happened. >> here is another look at the scene of the crime, i am told that the kids are not staying here anymore, rather they are
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with friends of a member of their church. bob brooks, channel 6 "action news." >> thanks very much. time now for a check of the accuweather forecast. lets head outside to adam joseph to see how the afternoon and evening is shaping up. >> i may park myself on a chair out here, it's absolutely gorgeous after the five-day heat wave we came off of. 88 in philadelphia and warm and in the shade you can feel the drop in humidity, 88 in washington and now the heat is down in roanoke at 90 degrees and 70s in buffalo and binghamton. the dew points are the major change. 52 in philadelphia. that is a measure of how much moisture is in the air. when it's 50 it's bone dry, you see the oppressive humidity is pushed to washington and richmond where it's upper 60s to 70. the cold front moved to the
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south and that is where the thunderstorms are in virginia and it remains to the south as it sinks into north carolina. we have another day on tap of beautiful temperatures here. and in fact if you head to the bank here this evening, mostly clear and comfortable warm, first pitch for the phillies and 85 and 78 for the ninth inning. a breathtaking day for wednesday before the heat is on again, and the next heat wave is on for this time of year. we'll talk about the numbers in the accuweather forecast. >> i'll pull up a chair too. adam thanks. fire forces a fire out of their home late this afternoon in woodbury, gloucester county. chopper 6 hd was live over the scene at 45 east center street just moments ago, this is the picture from there. at this point we are told there are no reports of injuries. a fire in a parking garage forced a delaware county forecast to shut down for the day. crews say it started on the
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second level of the garage in north media, police tried to put it out with a fire extinguisher. they eventually had to evacuate the building and call for help. they used a hover craft once the flames were out. the courthouse is expected to be open tomorrow for business. >> we are now into week three of septa regional rail train troubles. but the big question is how does the agency plan to deal with the issue long-term. a third of the trains are out of service for weeks because of a defect in the suspension system. septa told us they could be out of commission beyond labor day and into the fall. kevin boyle held a hearing in fox chase to get more answers. we found out that engineers found out that the parts that have to be replaced. they are working on solutions to get the parts in and installed
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as soon as possible. >> a lot of progress is made on analysis and computer modeling of the situation and studies of things and now we have two proposed solutions to replace this commonant that has been a problem. >> a little crack causing big problems, in the meantime septa is borrowing trains from metro systems and better schedules to help to ease the overcrowding going on now. if you wonder how this will work with next week's democratic convention, septa says the main crowding issues during rush hour and most of the people traveling for the convention are doing so off peak. or they hope so. >> speaking of crowding, no dowd some of that going on right now on area highways. >> lets get the picture, lets go live to matt pellman in the traffic center. >> it's not a pretty picture on the septa regional rails, we are
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watching delays over the past three weeks and i see a bunch of them again on a bunch of different lines and most delays are between 10 and 25 minutes, not as long as they were this morning but they will get longer as the afternoon progresses. delays once again this afternoon on the septa regional rails. we are back up here coming eastbound this afternoon it's dry and normal afternoon volume. but still packed on the eastbound side of the vine. we have several suburban accidents, one along white marsh township. and in coatesville a crash brought down wires and black horse road is shut down. and stick with veterans drive to get around that. a patch of yellow in downingtown where it normally slows down this time of the afternoon and
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blue route slowing off 95, also a crash involving a pedestrian in chester near 21st and crozier. lets grab the ipad and do the commuter report, a lot of people talking about the crash in west reading at 422, thanks to scott the ninja for that. we like scott the ninja. we'll check it again in the next half hour. >> thank you matt. president obama writes an open letter to america's police officers, what the commander and chief says in the wake of the shootings in dallas and baton rouge, and they turned it into a major success store. >> and a new movie is about to hit theaters and it was filmed here in
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>> a police force that came under attack is getting help from surrounding communities. about 90 deputies from other departments were sworn in to help the officer s rouge. three officers were killed when six were injured in an ambush. one officer remains in critical condition. the gunman, gavin long was killed by police. they are studying his social media accounts for a possible motive. during this difficult time for the men and women in blue they are getting encouragement from president obama. he tells police quote, we have your backs, the nation can no longer ask police to solve issues we are not addressing with society. nothing justifies an attack on law enforcement and promised the country will move past this tumu
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tumu tumultuous time. some 24,000 teachers and government workers are fired in turkey accused of having ties to the coup. including prosecutors and religious figures, turkey's president claimed today that he narrowly escaped death during the coup before gaining control of the country and they have requested the extradition of the mus lick cleric in self imposed exile in the poconos. gullan says he had no knowledge of the coup. but they accused him of carrying out the coup to increase his grip on power. there are claims that fiat chrysler is falsifying its records. two dealerships have file aid federal lawsuit, they say that fiat chrysler is paying dealers to submit dozens of fake sales
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at the end of the month and then undue them the next day. the maker has reported some of the best sales growth since it emerged from bankruptcy. the company is cooperating with the investigation. it's a film about women on wall street, produced and directed by women. it's called "equity" a look at what is takes women professionally and personally to stay in the game. even though it's set in wall street it was shot here in philadelphia and the stars wam to our studios to dish about it. one of the producers and stars of the film is also local. sara megan thomas is a haverford native and anyone that lives here will spot the landmarks to locales, you'll have to watch the scenes very closely and says that bringing her films home is an honor. >> my heart is in philly and i'm a huge eagles fan and i love to
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shoot here. i bring all of my films here i love it. >> we were so welcomed, they say that philly is the city of brotherly love and i truly felt that, there was a sense of kinship and friendship. >> and they love the restaurants. and she stars in the orange is the new black and is a producer and actor on the film. it was directedly mena renan, and it's all about girl power but guys love this film too. the ladies are in town for a special cast screening, "equity" comes out in wide release on august 12th. go check it out. lots of local flavor there. >> said to sharrie, i recognize her from orange is the new black. awesome thank you. it's time now for a check of the accuweather forecast. >> lets get more on this great day outside.
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>> it's like a breath of fresh air out there, and we'll spill it into your wednesday as well. lets look live at the commodore barry bridge a couple of patchy cumulous clouds and the deep blue color to the sky because the humidity levels have dropped. 88 is the temperature so it's warm, a degree or two above average and the dew point dropped from the 70s back into the 50s, winds from the west northwesterly direction at 15 miles per hour season the heat index is the same as the air temperature because the humidity is so low and if you are at the shore, the ocean temperature is 67 degrees. 82 in the lehigh valley, and 87 for reading and dover, at the shore no sea breeze today with the land breeze, temperature from beach haven to cape may point in the middle 80s. satellite and radar, cold front swept through early this morning and just a few cumulous clouds bubbling up from the north and west and once the sunsets we'll lose the heating and they will
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collapse and we'll have a pretty spectacular overnight hours and a nice sunset as well. 8:25 p.m. is the sunset and as we track this, we quickly lose daylight. this is just ranked off the sunset, in one month we lose about 31 minutes by the middle of august in the afternoon and in two months, the sun setting at 7:02 and 50 minutes from august, we'll start to tumble the times and that daylight as we get into the rest of the summer season. moonlit sky tonight, it's a full moon and comfortable, 50s for reading and allentown and 62 in millville and 65 for trenton and the day planner here for your wednesday, 73 at 8:00, and still in the 70s mid to late morning and a few clouds in the afternoon. a touch cooler for today and low humidity in fact as we look at the dew points, they stay in the 50s tomorrow and they start to climb on thursday and peak on
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friday. one more comfortable day before the muggies return, and stick around through the upcoming weekend. the four day at 4:00 forecast, temperatures very pleasant tomorrow and 86 degrees, jumping to 90 hot with slight humidity on thursday, hot and humid with afternoon thunderstorms rolling in on friday, of 95 degrees, some could be strong on friday afternoon and blazing sun behind it and high humidity on saturday, 97 degrees and it only gets hotter as we go into the latter half of the weekend and next week for the dnc it will turn down right dangerous. we'll talk about that coming up. >> thanks adam. still ahead thieves target a local rec center and police say they were able to get inside they may have planned in heist in advance. and a massive protest at philadelphia international airport hure workers hit
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. police in nor philadelphia are looking for the people that stole from a city rec center, inside of the rec center on ontario street, the suspects used a set of keys that had gone missing the day before, they took a flat screen television and a radio and ran off. police are asking anyone with information to please call them. a landmark in wilmington is reborn, senator tom cople and jack markell cut the ribbon on the landmark, it became the first swedish settlement in america, it is reopening under new management following a 15 year closure. they hope it will attract tourists. the no more fire death
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campaign got a boost. citizens bank donated $25,000 to the important cause. philadelphia ceo accepted the check while volunteers helped to pack 2,000 fire safety bags for the residents. still ahead on "action news" at 4:00, dozens of airport workers are rallying for higher wages, their demonstration is already causing issues for travellers and it could get worse as the democratic national convention gets underway. we'll have the details in a live report. and there is nothing like making money while you are spending it, cash back rewarded cards do just that, but some are a whole lot i approve this message.
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donald trump: i could stand in the middle of 5th avenue and shoot somebody and i wouldn't lose any voters, okay? and you can tell them to go f--- themselves! you know, you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever... you gotta see this guy. ahh, i don't know what i said, ahh. "i don't remember." he's going like "i don't remember!"
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"action news" continues with meteorologi meteorologist, adajose, sharrie williams and bri t it's 4:30 and "action news" continues with a new push to keep people safer along one of philadelphia's most deadly roads. and threatening to take a young girl's life, the search is on for an armed thief that robbed a father holding his daughter, it happened at gun point. >> and the power of social media at work, a man that lost his wedding ring at the jersey shore, assumed he would never see it again. until a complete stranger put up this facebook post.
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coming up in big talkers. first hundreds protested for higher pay and union workers are threatening to strike during next week's democratic convention. john rawlins is live inside of philadelphia international airpo to expla how this is already impacting passengers. >> reporter: hi sharrie, it was a big intense well organized and on message march no doubt about it, but there is no idea how it will translate. it's unclear how many were in the march that were union members or from other locations that came to support them. behind a banner, declaring respect black workers, members of the employee international union, protesting at times
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sitting down and at times marching. traffic was slow as a result leaving passengers to scramble. >> it took a million years and the interstate is even backed up. >> what do you make of all of this? >> people that work hard deserve money. >> though no dead line has been given, the union says the workers are prepared to strike as the dnc is due to arrive. and the non-union workers are paid by sub-contractors hired by the airlines. >> we want our union and 15 there's an hour. the starting rate is a city mandated $12 an hour. >> we need vacation time and sick time. we are willing to shut down the dnc. >> if a strike is called, it's not clear what% able of workers will walk off the job, some left today to join the protest and others remained on the job, both the mayor and american airlines
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say they don't anticipate the job action to interfere with airport operations. >> this weekend will be the critical travel time for those coming to the dnc, it would be the time to maximize any job action or walkout but still no deadline set for any sort of job action. john rawlins, channel 6 "action news." >> we'll be watching this closely john thank you. an elderly man became the victim of a home invasion when three men broke down his door early this morning. the 83-year-old victim lives in the somerton section of philadelphia. when the men were and side of the house they stormed in his bedroom. >> they came into the room and said stay where are you don't move. two guys one with a gun and one with a pipe. it was so fast it wasn't that scary because it was fast. >> the robbers took hundreds of dollars in cash and a ring and medications, the victim 83 years
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old, thinks the men may have followed him home from parks casino after a recent win there. a man is recovering after being robbed and attacked in broad daylight in fern rock park. he says two men approached him on hutchinson street. the 67-year-old took off running and suspects chased after and caught up with him down the street, they repeatedly purged and kicked the man and left with his phone and wallet. >> take a look at this video released from philadelphia police, they released the video in hopes of finding the man that robbed a father and daughter earlier this month. detectives say the victims wither walking along the 2100 block of stinton avenue, the suspect walked up behind them and held the 13-year-old girl at gun point, he threatened to shoot her if he did not give up
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everything in his pockets. he did and nobody was injured. if you know anything you are asking to call police. it is known as one of the deadliest roads in philadelphia and one of the most dangerous in america. now the roosevelt boulevard could get speed cameras to slow drivers down. drivers going at least 11 miles per hour over the limit would automatically get a $150 ticket in the mail. the design invites bad behavior with 61 traffic deaths in the last five years. >> nobody deserves to dry on this highway because of reckless drivers that blatantly ignore speed limits. >> the proposal now before the pennsylvania legislature calls for the cameras along the boulevard at 9th street and the bucks county line, it was introduced by state rep, john taylor.
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>> i had a great day outside this morning. >> you did? >> yes, it was nice and pleasant as you promised. >> you got out and enjoy tropical disturbance because we have one more day of it and then it's gone as another heat wave sets in. as we look live the center city skyline, a few clouds and temperature 88 degrees and the dew point is the biggest difference. 70s yesterday and 50s today. the heat index is at the air temperature and ocean city fol enjoying a warm day there, with the wind light out of the south and not strong enough to kick in the sea breeze, it's 88 degree as long the shore and the heat index 91 there and the dew points are in the 70s at the shore when the wind just tries to kick off the shore just a bit. and it brings the moist throw off the atlantic ocean. to our north in princeton, 84 degrees, just a few clouds there, the dew point low at 54 and winds from the north at 14 miles per hour.
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we'll talk about heat wave number 4, that could be pretty long and also record breaking heat along with it. we could see temperatures flirting close to numbers, we have not seen in four years here, i'll chat about it the seven day in the next half hour. >> thank you. take a look at this, it may look like a real crime scene with footprintses and a gun, it was all set up by falls township police. the home was transformed as part of the department's youth police academy, high schoolers involved put their newly learned investigative skills to the test and it's geared towards teens interested in a law enforcement career. >> hundreds of kids spent their day doing laps in the pool and their hard work will pay off. today the campers joined a third annual swimathon at medford, friends and family sponsored the children, and the money raise already help other families
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afford to send their kids to camp as well. >> the republican national convention is in the second day, but with so many people in close quarters, health officials are out with a warning tonight. rick williams is live in the newsroom with the details. >> hi sharrie, there is some type of stomach virus going around in cleveland, ohio. they are looking into whether it's the norovirus or not. it's highly contagious and we have details on how many have gotten sick and what is being done to keep it from spreading. >> we sent chopper 6 hd out to survey the storm damage, we'll have an update on that and much more coming up on "action news" tonight at 5:00. back to the studio. we'll see you later. >> hopefully that virus did not come here. people across philadelphia are pitching in to help children in the foster system and the department of human services is
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collecting school supplies as part of their yearly backpack challenge. during the event at dillworth park everything collected goes to students in need doing to high school and college. a group of middle schoolers are spending the week learning about bridges, bottle rockets and robotics. faculty at rowan university are using a hands on approach to teach the students about complicated subjects. still ahead here, cash back credit carded promise to make the most of your spepding but chances are you could be making more money, find out which cards are the best coming up in what's the deal? >> and a cleveland ice-cream shop taking a scoop from the political realm with their creative new flavors. coming up in big talkers. and adam joseph standing by with the potentially record
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and russia's minister denies wrongdoing. dozens of college students had a memorable day at the white house at the invitation of first lady, michelle obama, the first lady met with 130 college bound students that have overcome great odds to make it into college, they celebrate their accomplishmentses and gives them tips and resources to prepare for them for the next four years. our 6 abc is out in cleveland, scooped up a hot talker today. politics aside, the republican national convention is bringing big business to cleave and ice-cream tends to bring everybody together. the folks at mitchell's ice-cream there in cleveland whipped up some new concoctions including the primary, the
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elephant tracks and the your fired. and a jalapeno kick in the end for the last words on the apprentice, they say no matter how you vote you cannot argue with ice-cream. and finally if you believe in fate and are a hopeless romantic you'll love this story. two families one lost wedding ring and social media saving the day. these two posts went up almost simultaneously. to the left a wife admitting that maybe this is a shot in the dark but her husband lost his wedding ring in wildwood crest, can everybody please share this post. >> this went up almost the exact same time. the facebook post from the people that found the ring asking people to share it so they can find the owner. tracy tells us that her son and
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cousin found it in the ocean and said please post the picture believing they would find the real owner, guess what four hours and 400 facebook shares later and would you believe jason devito the man getting the ring back pro opposeded to his wife katie on that very spot where the ring was both lost and found this weekend in wildwood crest and the power of miracles and social media and the honesty of these two little kids playing in the sand worked together to save the day and the ring is being delivered this week. >> we love that story. >> isn't it great? >> absolutely. thrilled to have his ring back to doubt. >> matt is standing by with the updates for us. >> it's no day at the beach in chester county, these words ring true every morning, 202 southbound is jammed. once again this afternoon
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approaching 29 to the work zone at 401, here is the good news for you, relief is coming here. by early august we are suppose to have the third lane open along 202 between 401 and the 30 bypass. i hope the delays are numbered we'll see come early august. and by the veterinary hospital, a crash brought down the pole on black horse hill road. everything is reopen there. but we have the accident involving the pedestrian in chester, avoid 21st street at crozier by the cemetery. and watching a new crash in lower gwinnett along plymouth road and coopersburg, a tree and tinicum township in buck county a wreck to avoid at dover hallow road. and skunk hollow road is now shut down in hill town township
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we are thoroughly enjoying this tuesday afternoon, it's comfortable and the humidity is low and temperatures are just right. >> we'll roll it into wednesday and kind of lose it into thursday and the upcoming weekend, just like that. dangerous by the end. weekend and the beginning of next week as we take a look right now folks enjoying though
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the outdo with the break in the humidity especially at the shore. in cape may, a beautiful shot here and hot on the sand with the wind coming in from the west northwesterly direction, and you hit the ocean at 67 and it feels good, stormtracker 6 live double scan no storms like yesterday at this time. a clean radar sweep. we'll have another day of that tomorrow and storms will be firing back up by the end of the week. 88 in philadelphia and 85 in millville, and 88 in long beach island, and 70s in the poconos and 74, and a pair of 77 for the state of delaware. the majority of the area dew points are in the comfy zone below 60 degrees in the 50s. only extreme parts of south jersey and delaware, the dry air could not push all the way to the south, dover and cape may still feeling humid. 68 to 70 degrees, cold front is stalled to the south and severe
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weather is breaking out in parts of virginia and a few puffy clouds coming in from the north and west and the clouds fall apart and the moon lit sky and we have the full buck moon it's comfortable as well. 58 in the suburbs and 68 in center city and one more day for tomorrow. another comfortable day, with a high temperature of 86 degrees and if you are at the shore tomorrow. different than today, sea breeze will move in and temperatures will only be in the upper 70s here winds 7 to 14 miles per hour. and uv index on the high side. 78 in cape may and the beaches down in delaware, sea breeze in the afternoon and coming in off a warmer ocean down there, that is why temperatures are around 80 to 81 degrees, then that same high pressure that brought in this little break from the humidity slides off the coast and we get a return flow around the high and not only heats up but the humidity comes back up on thursday as well. with your temperature of 90
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degrees. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast 86, sunny and pleasant and slightly humid and turning hot on thursday at 90 degrees and hot and humid with strong and a couple of severe stormed late friday of 95 degrees and then blazing sun on saturday, 97, record heat here on sunday with the heat index of 105 degrees with the possibility of a pop-up in the afternoon, and for the beginning of the d dnc, record setting. over 100 at times monday afternoon with the heat season humidity and then it drops down a bit and still pretty hot on tuesday and 92 with scattered storms in the afternoon. another heat wave setting in and this will be the hottest of the year so far and if we hit 100 on monday it will be the first time since 2012 we have seen three digits for air temperatures
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around this area. >> so many people heading this way. >> definitely going to have to hydrate. >> good idea. next on "action news" a look at popular credit cards all offering cash back rewards, we read through the fine print to help you find the best option next in what's the deal. and this reminder that "action news" is about interaction with you. follow us on social media, accuweather and breaking news and to communicate with us, facebook.com/6abcacti
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rogers tonight and every night for a full hour of "action news" at 10:00 on phl 17. in the meantime here is rick williams with a look at what is coming up next. >> brian, thank you. coming up n on "action news" at 5:00 we'll have another live report from cleveland and the republican national convention and police in new jersey are investigating an arson after someone lit bird houses on fire when the birds were still inside. also, watch who you share your food with down at the shore, you could end up in jail if you share with seagulls in one jersey town and smoothies may not be as healthy as you think
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"action news" delaware valley's leading news progra with jaime apody, meteorologist, cecily tynan, rick williams and monica malpass. good afternoon the big story on "action news" of course is the republican national convention in cleveland, ohio. in just over an hour from now they begin the role call vote that will clinch the nomination for donald trump. monica malpass will be along at
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6:00 and sharrie williams is joining us. >> it's only day two but there is plenty of controversy including last night's speech from melania was plagiarized. sara bloomquist has more on that. >> reporter: this day when the gop wants to be talking about jobs, they were asked repeatedly about melania trump's speech. accusations of plagiarism is dominating the news and members of the gop brushed it off focusing on her message. >> you work hard for what you want in life. >> you work hard for what you want in life. >> there were plenty of words said but a few said before 10:30 that had everyone talking. >> your word is your bond is your bond and you d
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