captured behind me, according to authorities they were attempting to burglarize a home what they didn't know they were being tracked by police. >> anthony jones's front door is boarded up and out tens of thousands of dollars in jewelry and other valuables. >> jones was in london for work when authorities say that sean lender shown here on the door bell cam broke into the house on the unit block of gray stone in marple. >> i didn't know if they had an inside tip and knew where my safe was. >> it was behind a door. >> a month earlier a home on the 400 block of newtown street road was also burglarized. they caught linder and james allegedly trying to break into this home in whitpain last night and they are trying to connect them to dozens of break-ins across the tri-state area in the past year, they conducted search

warns including edmonds in drexel hill where linder is living. >> we recovered some items with our search warrant this morning, i haven't got a chance to look at it yet. i know there is some high end pocketbooks and some jewelry and watches and what not. >> detectives across the region saw similarities in the cases, piecing together a puzzle that they say led to linder's crew. >> we were able to within the last two weeks we were able to get court orders to put tracking devices on several vehicles and they were monitored. the total number of crimes allegedly committed by the crew is still not tallied but victims like jones is grateful for the hard work by police. >> my hope is that some of the people get their stuff back. >> reporter: and linder and james are being charged with attempted burglary and other

charges, as this investigation continues and authorities across the region build their cases as for the fourth suspect his name is not released. chad pradelli, channel 6 "action news" a role call is staged to officially nominate donald trump for president is about to get underway at the national convention tonight. jim gardner is anchoring our coverage and we'll check in with jim gardner. >> thank you monica, the role call of states, one of the great american political traditions and it will begin in just about 15 minutes. we expect that they will arrange things so that new york state, trump's home state will put him over the top tonight, allowing him to be the presumptive nominee of the republican party but in fact the gop's official nominee for president and the

fact is, this is not the kind of day that team trump was looking forward to on the second day of the convenience, they have been in damage control all day. across we are referring to melania trump's speech here last night. the speech actually got rave reviews last night but by this morning the buzz was about the remarkable similarities between sections of melania's speech and michelle obama's speech at the democratic national convention in 2008. we showed you a couple of examples at 5:30 tonight, here is another. >> because we want our children and all children in this nation to know that the only limits to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and the willingness to work hard them. >> because we want our in this nation to know that the

only limits to your achievements is the strength of your dreams and your willingness to work for them. >> reporter: now trump campaign chairman is calling some of the accusations of plagiarism going around here absurd and is striking out at the media and the hillary clinton campaign. "action news" reporter sara bloomquist is live outside of the arena, you have been talking to some of our local delegates about this, what have you heard? >> well jim as you know we caught up with our local delegation, we brushed off the accusations of plagiarism, as to why the two speeches shared the exact same language. the pennsylvania and new jersey delegates watched the speeches from the floor last night. they left energized to wake up to the accusations of

plagiarism. for the striking similarity between the two speeches. >> it's hard not to plagiarize because they are words in the english language, it's kind of hard. >> she is not a politician and she has speech writers like everyone else does. it's a spouse supporting the husband's speech. >> they were in support of melania and her overall message. >> to be honest with you, what they are claiming is -- it's seems boiler plate at that point. she did an excellent job and looked great and we are excited to have her as our next first lady. >> there was more to the speech than the words in question. >> there were a lot of words that melania spoke about last night, her passion to helping women and children, and she showed america who she is and why she is supporting her husband. >> rick klein called it an

amateur mistake by the campaign. >> clearly the language is so similar, someone should have caught it, if it wasn't an out right plagiarism it was too close to risk. i believe the campaign staff failed melania trump. >> the allegations of plagiarism dominated the news and the gop is moving on, they are working to rally around donald trump, they are looking forward to officially nominating him tonight and new jersey delegates looking forward to hearing from their governor tonight in prime time this evening. jim, back to you. >> thank you sara, lets go on to something else. you often hear the term bellwether state or bellwether county. we found the bellwether of all bellwethers here. watch this. >> we came to rural ottawa county, ohio, population 41,000,

90 miles west of cleveland. we came here because this county has an extraordinary record, it has voted with the winner of every president race since harry truman. this is the cozy corners where the breakfast crowd is coming to eat and gossip for 40 years. >> my birthday is in september -- >> and then there is politics. everybody remembers july 5th 2012 when [ came here for breakfast and there is even the obama chair which he signed on the bottom. like the county, the cozy corner splits with the democrats and republicans. >> i wish bernie was running but i'll vote for hillary because i won't vote for mr. trump. >> you don't buy the crooked

hillary? >> that remains me of a third grader going >> what is it about trump that you like? >> i like it if he does what he says he will do. >> this is politicians doing what they will do what they say they will do. >> what is it that he says he will do that you would look forward to? >> i think strengthen the military is number one. and the other part he has a reputation of cutting the military and that is dangerous. >> when i say the name donald trump what is the first thing that comes into your mind? >> a liar. as his book, what is the name of

that? art of the deal. which i am reading, in which he admits that the way you get ahead is to lie. >> dean likes donald trump will vote for him. no candidate can be successful without the help from others. >> i think he will do a lot of the things he says he is going to do if he gets the backing. you got to have backing. >> from who? >> from congress and to be able to do the things you say you going to do. >> by the way, the eggs and the pancakes and bacon were awfully good at the cozy corners. the headliners here donald trump jury and tiffany trump and chris christie tries to get back on message, making america work

again. that is the story here right now. monica malpass -- >> we look forward to that thank you. you can visit 6abc.com of course during the convention to expand the issues and live shows and streams on facebook and twitter. and look at the live updates on the "action news" team. >> as the rnc is in full swing, final preparations make a pitch for the democratic national convention. 500 union workers are putting the touches on the massive stage on the wells fargo center in philadelphia. a supervisor says they will be completed by saturday. and the dnc officially kicked off on monday. >> employees at the philadelphia international airport are threatening to strike at the convenience here, this morning

hundreds of baggage handlers are rallying outside of the airport. if a strike is called it's unclear how many workers will walk off the job. coming up tonight, philadelphia police want to track down a man that robbed a father and daughter in broad daylight. and the phillies look to get their bats going again, jaime apody has the preview of the match-up with the marlins. a beautiful change in the weather, low humidity and wall-to-wall sunshine and a break in the heat and humidity is very short lived. we'll talk about that in the accuweather fect.

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a south philadelphia deli owner is charged with stabbing his wife to death in their home. police were called to the scene at the 100 block of north broadway street at 5:30 this morning. the couple's three children were home at the time. they own a deli in collingswood. the search is on for this man who police say rob aid father and daughter at gun point. take a look the robbery happened on the morning of july the suspect walked up behind the girl and her dad and pointed a gun at the girl and said give me everything or i'll shoot her in the back. the father gave the suspect money and a cell phone,

fortunately nobody was hurt. a trial date has been set for the man charged with ambushing a state trooper and leading law enforcement on an intense manhunt. erick frein will go on trial next month. the ambush happened out sood of their barracks in september of 2014. in court documents frein says he carried out the attack to quote, carry out a revolution aimed at getting liberties back. fire in a parking garage shut down all business at the delaware county courthouse, crews say the blaze started in a car in the garage in media. police tried to put it out with a fire extinguisher but they had to evacuate the building and call for help. the courthouse will be back open tomorrow. penndot cut the ribbon on this home avenue bridge in north

philadelphia, it takes traffic over roosevelt boulevard the bridge cost nearly $17 million to build. during next week's democratic national convention, city officials will try to promote fitness for children. they will host a day of play event. next wednesday dillworth park is turned into a family friendly zone with

jaime apody is herep the phillies dropped one last night. >> they lost three of their last four. and last night they struck out 18 times. tonight they hope to get the bats going for vince valesquez. he won the last three starts, and .342 era.

what made him so successful. he is putting pitchers away early. and when he gets 0-2 and 1-2, he puts them away and is well rested and hopefully can take us deep into the ball game tonight. >> last night the phils could not do anything at the plate. they blew the safe and then a chance in the 11th, a 3-2 loss, they had only four hits, pete mccann none says they will wipe the slate clean tonight. >> they have a short memory and they come out to do the best they can. we continue to talk to them and coach them and keep them positive and go out and forget about the day before and worry about the day today. >> here is another way, the phils having fun with cheese today. tiger woods will miss all four majors, he announced he is

done for the year. he hasn't played since last august after rehabbing from back surgery and finally the phillies are not succeeding on the field but they were a winner off of it today. they pay aid visit to chop. giving young fans a much needed distraction and andrew bailey playing pin the tail on the baseball player and brought the big green guy with him. look at the smile on that guys face. >> i think it's important to come and spend time with the kids and break up their day a bit. keep their minds off the treatment and what they are going through. we are able to shed light and put smiles on their faces. >> the kids were more excited to see the phanatic than they were him. >> i doubt that. it feels like summer but it was more like christmas for kids in center city.

>> frosty the snowman ♪ carollers and santa cross handed out 50 bicycles and helmets today. they were given to children with parents in the military and the fire and police department. and a special announcement to i approve this message.

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!"

cecily is off and adam joseph is here. >> we have one more nice day and then we crank up the heat and humidity. stormtracker 6 live doub showing nothing is going on. yesterday we were rocked by severe weather but not the case this evening. in fact, with the break in

humidity, the dew points have dropped from the 70s yesterday back into the 50s today and we are going enjoy being in the comfy zone tonight, throughout the day tomorrow and then we'll start to climb back up the dew point ladder here on thursday. speaking of thursday, it's heat indexes in the midsection of the country and deep south will start to soar well above 100 degrees, feeling like 109 in little rock on thursday, and kentucky 109, and 101 in north platt and all of this heat will expand and push to the east and even here we'll have pretty severe heat indexes by saturday and sunday and especially on monday. 86 right now in philadelphia, topping out at 83 in the lehigh valley. and no sea breeze today in cape may, temperatures at the shore equally as warm. in the mid to upper 80s. we have a few clouds breaking in from the north and west and

clouds are coming from in delaware at the shore in new jersey, and that is because of thunderstorms that blossomed south of washington and the winds pushed the high cloud ours way but overall the h are not disturbing our sunshine this evening. it is the full moon tonight, 58 in allentown and 68 philadelphia and 62 in millville and warmer along the shore matching the ocean temperature. and high pressure will wedge in here on wednesday, our friend for one more day with the comfortable humidity, 86 degrees and then the high slips away into thursday and for tomorrow, unlike today there will be a sea breeze kicking in tomorrow both at the new jersey shore and the delaware beaches, temperatures in the upper 70s to around 80 degrees, that wind 7 to 14 miles per hour and the uv index on the high side with all of that sunshine.

that high again moving off to the east on thursday, return flow with a southwesterly wind and we touch 90 here with slight humidity and then it kind of going off the charts as we get into the end of the week and into the weekend. the exclusive accuweather forecast, 80s for one more day tomorrow. if you have to do yard-work the best day to do it here over the next seven days and replaced by 95 on friday, and the human is spiking up, there is a bowling ball of energy that could spark strong or severe storms friday afternoon and evening, behind that is blazing sunshine and extreme humidity saturday and sunday and upper 90s for highs and could be pop-up thunderstorms, but the heat index near 105 degrees both days and then record heat on monday with the dnc beginning, 99 for the air temperature well above that the heat index and storms developing in the afternoon and not as brutal but the heat wave

continues on tuesday with scattered storms and the heat turning dangerous this weekend and next week. >> thank you. meantime, dozens of children were able to beat the heat today while raising money for a good cause, young swimmers here in medford took part in the swimathon and they swam laps and sent other people to the camp. world news with david muir is next at 6:00. with brian taff, sharrie williams and ducis rogers, and then of course join us for "action news" at 11:00 on channel 6. for jim gardner and jaime apody, ducis rogers and the entire "action news" team. i'm monica malpass have a good night.

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tonight, my one-on-one with donald trump jr. before he takes this stage behind me. and how does he explain that speech from melania trump? tonight, right here, the two speeches, side-by-side. melania trump and michelle obama. the new reaction. we are behind the scenes with donald trump jr. we ask him, will anyone be fired? who wrote the speech? and does michelle obama deserve and apology? what he's saying tonight. also breaking, another major crane collapse in the northeast. coming down with drivers in their cars. and it comes after that crane collapse in manhattan. the deadly bus takedown. the suspect jumping onto a city bus, ordering the driver not to stop. the moment he tries to grab an officer's gun. and breaking news as we come on the air tonight. amid reports fox news anchor megyn kelly has now been asked if she was