tv Action News 1130PM ABC August 13, 2016 11:30pm-12:00am EDT
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the 100 meter dash in rio and who won a gold you got it swimming for the final time in the olympics michael phelps wins the 23 and swimming the butterfly in the 400 by meter rely and phelps plans to retire with only 28 total metals can you imagine that trophy room in his home in baltimore. >> thank you, jeff. action news at 11:30 is next with more on the extreme heat. action news spoke with people all across the delaware valley about how they are keeping cool under the brutal conditions and police need your help tracking down the person who shot and killed a man in camden, hear from investigator working the case and the latest from rio as the summer olympics continue, those stories and more when action news comes right back.
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♪ action news continues. ♪ saturday night and i'm walter perez and here is what is happening on action news at 11:30 police in philadelphia trying to piece together what led to a stabbing at a popular cheese steak restaurant and the oldest and biggest rolling competition for people with disabilities took place today on the river and local police officers threw a party for the neighborhood they serve and protect. first tonight we remain under
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excessive heat warning at this hour. even though the sun has set temperatures are hovering 80 degrees even at this hour and tomorrow the heat index will be up in the hundreds and action news reporter trish caught up with folks in the city trying to keep cool. >> reporter: if you are going to be outside in the almost unbearable heat and humidity this splash park in southwest philadelphia is not a bad place to be unless you are this five-year-old. >> try to get him to get wet but he is afraid of the water. >> reporter: oh, no, the rest of the kids had no problem getting soaked at the 48 and wood land playground in the middle oof the heat wave and many are ready to be done with the sweltering heat in the summer. >> crazy. >> reporter: the high temperatures mean big bucks here in west lane. >> i usually bring a book to work but i didn't bring one today and knew i wouldn't be able to read. >> reporter: we found plenty of customers looking for a cold
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sweet tweet. >> he was hot and actually played ball earlier today and we need water ice before we go back in and lay down. >> reporter: at the west oakland senior centers a game of pool and cards and air conditioning was on tap for these senior citizens and the center is usually closed on saturday and sunday but will remain open this weekend because of the dangerous heat. they come in intervals, we do have some crowds like this morning got her at 8:30 and had three or four people came in as soon as i opened the door. >> reporter: seniors like mary williams who is winning? >> not me. [laughter] the cost to run her air conditioning all day is too much, she and her friends are grateful for the extended hours. >> we can get together only a saturday and we can find a place to come where it's cool and enjoy each other. >> reporter: various senior centers in the city have extended hours through the heat wave and set their own hours and check with your before you go and have a map of centers online and posted a link on 6abc and
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reporting in fair montpark trish hartman channel six action news. >> we will keep an eye on the heat wave and metrologist chris sowers will have the latest beginning at 6:00 a.m. a man is recovering after being stabbed outside of a popular cheese steak restaurant in south philadelphia early this morning, police were called to pat steak on the 900 wharton street before 2:00 a.m. and found a 41-year-old man stabd this the upper chest and taken to jefferson hospital in stable condition, police have not yet made any arrests or released a motive in this case. police in philadelphia looking for person who stabbed a 19-year-old outside a frankfort transportation at midnight on the 1500 bridge street and investigators say he was waiting for a bus when someone standed him in the stomach and he was rushed to itemel hospital where he remains in critical condition tonight. it has been four months since a
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man known for selflessly helping his neighborhood was gunned down in camden and police are looking for information to help them crack this case and rick williams profiles this murder mystery in tonight's crime fighter's report. ♪ on april first of 2016 roughly around 8:30 p.m. metro police department responded to 911 call report of a person shot in the intersection. >> reporter: police arrived on 500 trenton street and found 55-year-old soltaro suffering from a gunshot wound and taken to cooper university hospital where he was pronounced dead. >> we learned that the victim's vehicle had been taken, we believe taken from the scene. >> reporter: and he used that vehicle to help out his neighbors. >> we know community wide one of the things he did was he was active giving people rides from the east camden city to other parts of the city. >> reporter: the stolen vehicle
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was found abandon and intact. >> it was found in the park side neighborhood several days later. >> reporter: the citizens crime commission is administering a one thousand reward for the arrest and conviction of the person responsible. >> we don't believe that there was any issues with money, any issues with anything. motive is actually unclear. >> reporter: if you know anything you are urged to call 215-546-tips. all calls will remain anonymous. for crime fighters i'm rick williams channel six action news. prayers will be answered for some struggling families in kensington thanks to good samaritans from bucks county and from festival of life partnered with the group feed the hungry this morning to collect some 2000 boxes of groceries. the assembly line organized right there at the calvary church in fairless hills and tomorrow and tuesday the spirited folks will deliver free food for families in need in kensington, impressive display
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of grit and determination today and this is the ragata the oldest and biggest rowing competition for athletes with disabilities and physical challenges asaid nothing could put a damper on competitive spirits and it was on bolthouse road of course. roads closed on the other side of the river in west fair montpark for the mayor's cup championship run and went through the hilly terrain on bell montplateau and it's different than many races since there is no one individual winner just a winning team after five different events all throughout the day. folks found plenty of ways to beat the heat enjoying the outdoor activities at the community event in wilmington and kids able to play on an inflatable water slide and gulp down big scoops of water rides at the gathering hosted by christian growth ministries and lots of fun and they had shelter from the sun under a tent or umbrella and bucket of water bottles came in handy and food and games and free health
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screenings offered. 20 2016rambler bike race kicks off this morning and a little more than a mile and poured on the speed along butler avenue and they lined the streets to catch the action, this was only the second ever rambler bike race. police in philadelphia held a fun day right there in rocks bureau, the heat could not stop dozens of people stopping by the park to interact with members from the fifth police district and children checked out the police motorcycles and squad cars and also feed along with a few information tables. much more to come on action news tonight and have the latest from the olympic games find out the outcomes of today's track and field competitions and hundreds of kids in chester county tried their hands at fishing today melissa. >> and walter that excessive heat warning stays in the delaware and lehigh values and heat indices on sunday topping
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a fish and rod and real and fish hooks and the fish head fishing club hosted the children's event on front and norris street. time for a check of the accuweather forecast with metrologist melissa magee and dangerous heat the past couple days and more to come. yeah this is a very long heat wave we are tracking here in philadelphia and the numbers will make you feel even hotter when you factor in the humidity. storm tracker six double scan radar and it's dry for the most part and still have heavy rain pressing in the poconos and pressing it off to the north and east and the rest of our region staying dry for the rest of tonight. we will show you the picture outside, sky six live in hd and do you want to beat the heat get some kind of relief head down the shore where a lot of folks are in ac. right along the boardwalk and you can see it's pretty humid there and doesn't look like this heat is going to let up any time soon so heat wave number five here in philadelphia. it started out on wednesday with high of 93, thursday's high 95,
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yesterday we maxed out at 97 and today the high in philadelphia 98 degrees making today the hottest day we have seen so far this year. the excessive heat warning tonight and tomorrow to 9:00 p.m. and it's not just the heat but heat in combination with the humidity and heat indices again above 100 degrees and north and west 74 martins creek in quake tear town and 88 center city and new holland 83, 84 in oxford. down in new jersey it's 83, 87 and at the coast and boardwalk that is where folks getting some relief with the southeast wind in the 70s, 79, 78 surf city and inland and smyrna you are 84. current heat index feels 101 philadelphia and 105 dover and heat index wilmington 96 and the heat index number in atlantic city. stat light six along with action radar and a frontal boundary new
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england and great lakes to ohio valley where we will find pop up showers and storms and same thing true in sunday afternoon and future tracker six showing the big story and heat at 9:00 a.m. 95 in philadelphia and 95 in ac and tomorrow feeling 104 philadelphia, 105 wilmington and heat index in dover at that area 103 take lots of breaks and limit your afternoon sun exposure as well. down the shore tomorrow sunny and humid, isolated shower or storm is likely and 92 and up in the poconos still very warm, very sticky a shower or thunderstorm is likely up in the poconos otherwise a high temperature coming in at 84. here is exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, it is steamy tomorrow. high temperature of 97 degrees. a pop up shower or thunderstorm likely really north and west of philadelphia once again. on monday it's still pretty hot but not as intense with a high of 92.
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and a thunderstorm is likely. sizzling sunshine continues on 92 and day eight of our heat wave on wednesday and at 92 then we will try to knock those numbers back down in the upper 80s, thursday not as humid and not as hot, high temperature of 89, 89 on friday and as we get into next saturday walter warm and stick which and high temperature coming in at 89 degrees. >> the summer games continued in rio today with track and field's biggest stars in action and abc jim ryan has the latest from the olympics. >> reporter: racing to history and u.s. track and field having a good day in reo and men qualified for the semi finals of 100 meter race and three americans had times good enough to move on 2004 gold medallist jason won and marvin gracy and travon advanced but the crowd favorite bolt and won his heat and headed to the semi finals and felix began the rio olympics
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in the woman's 400 meters and time was good enough to move on along with two other teammates and phyllis francis and hastings heading in too and williams made a push to the metal podium standing in fourth place now and 8th in the long jump with two more events to go and heather miller is in 12 and barbar is back in 22. three american women qualified for the final in the steeplechase and colburg for the hunt for a metal and women's eight defended the olympic title and ladies rose to the gold and third consecutive win for the u.s. in the event and team not beaten in a world or competition in 11 years. in women's singles skulls american stone took the silver metal, water polo u.s. women beat hungry to go to quarter finals and diving pool the u.s. has two women in action on the three meter string board semi
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final and john'ston has a shot at another metal and scored a silver in london and teammate cassidy cook is also trying to move on, jim ryan rio. we are celebrating the life of captain noah and invite you to join us and join us 10:00 of action news to a special trip to captain noah for children's television and pictures and interviews and more and the incredible legacy that will live on for many, many years to come. much more to come on action news tonight including jessica with sports. p?p?o?gv
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rookie quarterback carson wentz has a hear line practice and don't know when he will be back after taking a hit thursday night in the rib. eagles lineman lane johnson expects to be suspended ten games for a performance enhancing violation but blaming the nfl players association for it, johnson says he took amino acid a supplement that was approved by an app given to him by the nfl-pa and johnson says he didn't find out until after the fact the nfl-pa doesn't test the supplements that the app approves. >> starts out in the long run they don't have your back and don't test the supplements and is that useful. waiting for the b sample to come in and that will probably be two-three weeks from now, that is all i got. everything i taken is approved and that is what the nfl-pa gives us for products. >> reporter: johnson calls it a
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nightmare situation. phillies starter zach eflin will likely miss the rest of season because of a broken right foot. the rookie also has tendonitis in both knees and adam morgan will take his spot tomorrow phillies and rockies how about the hot dogs and baseballs flying in the stands and first inning best impression of the three run shot and three-zip and broncos next at bat and by tyler anderson who proceeds to yell at the field bench, he is ejected, benches clear, everyone calms down and phillies win 6-3. before the game how about randy wolf hugging the phanatic signing a one day contract to retire as a philly and drafted him in 1997. wolf pack is here as wolf throws out the first pitch to his brother the major league umpire and randy is caught off guard and had no idea his brother jim was here and behind the plate. >> i make the first pitch and i
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was a little worried if i would make it all the way to home plate so that part of me was distracted with my brother behind the plate but had a mace mask on and i was surprised when he took it out. >> reporter: the greatest phillies of all time on hand or alumni weekend. >> cool stuff thank you jeff and finally tonight what do you get when you combine two powerful forces of nature? check this out. you are looking at a fire tornado also known as a fire nado. firefighters captured the rare sight in cornelius oregon and thank you are uncommon but have the ability to conduct that wind and flaming vortex like you see there, after documenting the flaming twister the crews doused it. castle is next here on channel six action news continues at 6:00 tomorrow morning with gray hall and hand and chris sowers
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