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the republican party for the united states and spoke to the delegates tonight from remote from the trump tower in new york. >> what weid getting the party's nomination i will never forget it, i will never forget it. >> 89 votes, donald trump.
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>> this is the way it looked as his home state of new york cashed their ballots and put their man over the trump so donald trump becomes the first private citizen since iez -- izemhowser and candidacy in june of 2015, an effort marked by controversy and regardless of what happens in november the trump candidacy has already earned an unique place in american history. action news reporter sarah bloomquist was on the convention floor at the climactic moment. >> reporter: on the convention floor and donald trump has just secured the republican nomination and i'm with the pennsylvania delegatind me what is this moment like. >> it's a great moment for donald trump and should be a very interesting election season and think he will do very well. >> donald trump earned it and we re concerned in the beginning even though he would win majority of the votes he would not get the delegate race and why lauren and i ran and ran as
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trump delegates and proud to be here to cast our vote. >> i got the chills because it's something we have been waiting for for a very long time and we have been working tirelessly for mr. trump in the southeast. >> what does it feel like? >> it's really great and the party it's a great move and the fact pennsylvania was able to be right there and let new york put them over the top is fantastic. >> exciting and nobody predicte this and it's a movement and not just a campaign. >> a big night on the convention floor as they seal the convention for donald trump and the wk to generate more excitement in the coming days the final to days of convention leading up to thursday night when donald trump takes the stand to accept the nomination, i'm sarah bloomquist 6abc news. >> want to show you three states announcing the roll call. >> pennsylvania the home of republican senator pat toomey
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the home of 13 republican congressmen. >>ewy, 51 delegates with the following bound delegates 51 trump and delaware 16 delegates with the following bound delegates 16 trump. >> later in the night new jersey chris christie welcomed the chance to play one of his favorite rolls, that being as attack dog and his target hillary clinton. > now in the past few weeks we have seen the justice department refuse to prosecute her. over the last eight years we've seen this administration refuse to hold her accountable for her dismal record as secretary of state. so let's do something fun tonight, tonight as a former federal prosecutor i welcome the opportunity to hold hillary clinton accountable for her performance and her character. >> chris christie w hoped to be on this podium tonight as
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candidate, not lieutenant going after hillary clinton, merslessly for her job of secretary of state for libya, for benghazi and of course for the e-mail scandal. but at the end of the second day of the convention unquestionably the big story the nomination of donald trump for president of the united states. a remarkable day, a remarkable night here in the cleveland. monica? >> thank you, jim and of course we invite you all to visit 6abc often during the convention to expand your understanding of the issues and to see slideshows, live streams and much more on facebook and twitter, check out our live video updates from the action news team and of course make yourself heard by joining that conversation. and we are less than a week until the democratic national convention begins here in philadelphia where hillary clinton is set to accept her party's nomination and the city is rolling out the red carpet or a multi colored mural and began
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to install this on the median tonight called 14 movements with a symphony of color and words and designed by artist matt and the pal lot of colors runs from city hall to washington avenue. democratic presidential hopeful hillary clinton spent her day today wooing the labor vote in las vegas and criticizing the rnc and compared donald trump to the wizard of oz movie. >> there were similarities that appeared to me. you know, lots of sound and fury and even a fog machine but when you pulled back the curtain it was just donald trump with nothing to offer to the american people. [applause] clinton then addressed 6,000 members of asme and later rallied unite here and have people from the hotel food and gaming services and utah is a top battleground states and part of the voter mobilization act to register 3 million voters and
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live dnc coverage from the wells fargo center starts this friday and the entire action team is poisoned to bring you every angle and hope you join us as our city is in the national spotlight. community took part in a town hall with issues impacting latino voters this year and sponsored by ldea news at the city center tonight and discussed what motivates female voters and what it means to have the first female presidential presumptive nominee. ♪ we have breaking news right now of a dangerous discovery during a traffic stop by philadelphia police. officers say they found a stick of dynamite in a vehicle and the bomb squad has now been called in. the scene 20th and the german town section where action news christie is live with breaking details for us, christie what do you have? >> well monica moments ago the bomb squad left with homemade explosives that were apparently discovered in that white mini
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van just down the street and apparently this started as a traffic stop when they spotted the van which was double parked just before 10:00 and when the officers walked up they could spell a very strong odor of marijuana coming from the vehicle and spotted the 31-year-old driver and two three-year-olds, a boy and a girl in the back seat, an explosives in plain sight. >> they did determine that there was some improvised devices this the vehicle and two, two quarter sticks of dynamite and believe these are homemade. they had no manufacturing markings on them so they believe these were improvised devices. >> reporter: now fortunately none of those explosives dead nated and the bomb squad removed them but standing here you can hear a lot of children live in this area, and that 31-year-old facing a reckless endangerment of children with narcotics and
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explosive charges, channel six action news monica. thank you christie tolls are going up on the pennsylvania turnpike for both cash and easy pass customers and 6% hike goes in january 8 this coming year and the turnpike commission says the toll increase is needed to fund a recently approved ten-year spending plan which does call for reconstruction and widening of the turnpike. by the way this hike will not be the last, in fight the turnpike commission expects more toll hikes every year for the next 27 years. meanwhile the roosevelt boulevard could get speed cameras, a proposed state law would ticket speeders 150 if they drive 11 miles per hour over the limit and fines sent to the car owner in the
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investigation underway into what caused a construction accident at one of the country's largest infrastructure projects.
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today a giant crane crashed down on the tappan bridge in new york and created a traffic night more and more than 100,000 vehicles use that bridge evidence and no cars was hit and no one seriously injured. video just released and shows the life and death struggle of a bus hijacker and a police officer last month on june 24 when a 42-year-old suspect rushed an oklahoma officer going for her gun as you can see and wrestling her to the or of that bus. another officer came on board and killed the hijacker, all the passengers had been ordered off the bus beforehand, that suspect was reportedly fleeing a carjacking. the police captain in kansas kansas was killed in the line of duty today. he is the fourth officer murdered nationwide since sunday. officials say 46-year-old captain robert melton was searching for a suspect after responding to a report of shots fired and opened fire before
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melton could even get out of his vehicle, three suspects were later arrested, melton had been with the force 17 years. in baton rouge, louisiana dozens of officers sworn in as temporary deputies to help assist the force today, three officers re killed sunday as you know and a fourth remains in critical condition. today president barack obama wrote an open letter to law enforcement across the country praising their valor and also called on congress to increase funding to police departments for additional active shooter training and even more bulletproof vests. montgomery county putting support for police up in lights and county courthouse is in blue tonight in memory of baton rouge, dallas and all other fallen officers and county commissioners pray that respect and tolerance will overcome violence. the head of fox news could soon be out amid a sexual harassment controversy and roger ailes
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accused of harassing carlson and meghn kelly and sued him for sexual harassment earlier this month and murdoch and 21st century fox are investigating and his spokeswoman says he is negotiating a departure from fox. >> not inside his patrol car. >> the baltimore police department released this video today showing the dangers of the reality game called pokemon go, a police officer's body camera was rolling when a car crashed into their cruiser, police said the driver admitted he was playing the game. they hope the video reminds drivers everywhere to please pay attention. an area toddler fighting leukemia has two police officers to thank for making her days brighter, the little girl plays on an ipad to help her through rigorous medical treatments but when it got taken her parents were at their witts end and
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action reporter dan has more. >> reporter: this is 21st month old stricken with a rare form of leukemia she is at children's hospital under going rigorous treatments to ke her alive. >> hard to look at her everyday and see her struggling, knowing there is nothing we can do. >> reporter: her parents matthew and katrina say the real sense of joy their little girl gets is from her ipad. >> face timing our family and face timing our dog to remember and meant a lot to her. >> reporter: being moved from one room to another it went missing and cooper and james tried to track the ipad through the internal tracking device but it was to no avail. >> heartbreaking to see what the child was going through and we have to do something better and i agreed and we got together and made it better for her. >> reporter: jamega little girl his own personal
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ipad and gave it to her on one condition. >> you have to come return that to me when you turn 20. she got a kick out of that so hopefully i'll see her when she is 20 and bring it back to me. >> reporter: at this moment in time when the nation seems split? fragment ms over policing and law enforcement policies this family was moved by the officer's generosity and kindness. >> wantbrdcast another side of the police, not everything bad going on do you know what i mean? and we hardly have time to watch t.v. because she is literally fighting for her life. >> i couldn't stop crying and didn't know their names. i made him go chase them so we could get their names and they get the recognition they deserve because they went above and beyond. >> thank you from the bottom of our hearts and she thanks you. >> wants you to know how much you meant to them and their little girl. >> happy we touched their hearts and they touched ours. dan with action news 6,
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let's check the accuweather forecast and can we get two in a row on sunshine? >> we can sunshine, low humidity but we will change on thursday. take a look at the tracker six live it's quiet and we have cluster storms developing by baltimore, washington and a little blip that blossomed there on state landing on new castle and kent county heading over the delaware river toward the bay side and parts of new jersey, no lightning with it but kind of one little area that decided to kind of just bubble up here this evening. most of us it's crystal clear and comfortable and many have gone out to check out that full buck moon. this is from sky six in atlantic city, a pretty beautiful shot there and again get out and enjoy the next let's just say 18-24 hours. as we look at the numbers philadelphia 77 degrees right now, 72 for allen town as well as trenton, 75 reddening and
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warm in wilmington and the shore and long beach island of 74 to atlantic city airport and 69 cape may, 71 degrees. looking at satellite to the north and west earlier this evening we had cumulus clouds that developed and quickly fell apart and a little cluster to our south and west that blossomed near baltimore washington and lightning most of it missing us to the south and scrape southern sussix county and high and dry tgh the re of the overnight hours, 86 the high tomorrow. one more very comfortable day with high pressure in control. wall to wall sunshine. looking at the day planner here and in the middle of the week, 8:00 tomorrow morning 72 degrees and stay ing this the 70s through much of the morning hours. it's not really until lunchtime we break into the 80s here and top off only in the middle 80s in the middle part ofda a you can see that full
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sunshine here and 8:00 tomorrow night sitting at 81 degrees. if you are at the shore there is no sea breeze but tomorrow you will catch iterwi tha easterly wind. upper 70s for highs, the ocean 67 degrees watch the uv index high and not long to burn, 78 cape may and with the ocean waters warmer off the beaches in delaware better there and 80 at the beach, 81 bethenny booet and uv index high there. heat wednesday and tomorrow afternoon from kansas city and little rock to baton 100 and expands and intensifies and des moines 116 and we have to watch this because the core of the heat heads eastbound in the weekend and early next week. exclusive accuweather seven day forecast it's pleasant here of 86, slightly humid and hot and humid on thursday, hot humid
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with afternoon storms popping here, some could be strong on friday, 95 degrees then the sun will blaze and cook us here this weekend. 97 on saturday, 98 with the heat index of 105 on sunday with pop-ups and with the dnc in town a lot f people will be around, hydrate and stay in doors on 99 on monday and record breaking with heat well above that and storms in the afternoon on monday too. thank you so much adam and it was a pint sized centennial celebration and children were there for the 100th year in a row to 44th of the boardwalk and came in costumes like lobsters in a pot and alice in wonder land and hermits in a cage and a rock star and an eagle and music bag pipers to top it all off. a red carpet opening at the center for a special movie
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screening equity, a movie about women on wall street and produced by women and shot in philadelphia and one of the stars thomas is a native and equity will be released next month. and jimmy preview of the show. >> hello philadelphia look what we made just for you, let's begin the flopping here we go, three, two, one. [laughter] wow. >> 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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breaking news out of hollywood and famed actorro dueser gary marshal has died and also known for creating the 1970 sitcom happy days and directing pretty woman and died from complications of pneumonia and survived by his wife since 1963, marshal was 81 years old and marlins drop two in a row here. >> four of the last five and someone fix the bats and philly had four hits and extra innings and five hits in the same. the poke go phenomenon has hit the park and fanatec is obsessed and distracted, watch out that is the umpire and what is happening and looking for the fourth straight win and no distraction and galvez and
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hernandez with a double play and kristin in the fourth and gave the marlins a 1-0 lead. but he was pretty good other than that. bottom of the fourth tommy joseph look at this deck 13th of the year and homered two nights in a row. move to the 10th and daniel on the hill. yelich with another rbi and he accounts for both marlin runs and all the fish would need ap reel it back 2-1 in 10 and fellys dropped four the last five. we are if in that hitting funk again and just not swinging the bats, too many bat at bats and not grinding out the bats and we need to do that. too many call it third strikes with men in score position is a pet peeve of mine and we will address that. >> moment earlier today as they
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visited st. christopher's hospital and playing pin the tail on the baseball player and brought the big green guy with him and not playing pokemon go, just offering up some smiles. look at that little guy's face. i think it's important to come and spend some time with the kids and break up tir day a little bit, keep their minds off the treatments and while they are here we are able to shed light that is the most important thing. >> in spor when is the next time we will see tiger woods
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for the first time in his career tightel woods will miss all four majors and tiger pulled out of the pga championships 95 miles from here in spreing field missouri and he has not played since back surgery and baseball has superstition and home plate a certain number of times and don't change your hat and they are playing really well they claim it's because of a pregame ritual where carlos santana kisses his bald head and he smoochs his back in return. and santana passed the home run over the past year and cleveland has a 5 1/2 lead in the division and working and they both have very chapped lips but other than that. >> whatever works. >> right. >> i tap the desk. >> good ritual and american red cross has more than 25,000
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tonight additionally to help save lives and there was a check with no more fire deaths and provides fire safety education for folks in and around philadelphia and smoke alarms and packed 2000 fire safety bags to hand out in neighbors and jimmy kimmel is next followed by night line and action news continues at 4:30 with palm and o'donnell and murphy and karen rogers on traffic and now for jim gardner and cecily tynan and ducis rodgers, make it a good night tonight.
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>> dicky: from hollywood, it's "jimmy kimmel live!" tonight -- kristen bell -- dave franco -- the tenth annual belly flop competition -- and music from domo genesis featuring anderson .paak. with cleto and the cletones. now, look out below, here's jimmy kimmel! ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: we'll be right back. ♪ >> hey, everybody. welcome. i'm jimmy. i'm the host of the show. thank you for watching. thanks for coming. i'm glad you're here. it was a

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