a total of seven people were shot. we are live this morning with the latest information. plus crews bail a massive fire at a house in bucks county. all those stories in a moment. first let it caught up on the latest from accu-weather and meteorologist chris sowers. sowers. good morning, it's been another incredibly cool morning across the delaware and lehigh valleys. some dropped into the upper 40's. they first thing this morning, the rideses sun numbers are rebounding, pottstown a pair of fives. st. joe's of same thing for quakertown, chester showing 60. also the number in glassboro. woodbine 64 and 70 showing up down at the jersey shore. from sea aisle up to surf city. you're kind of getting a little ocean influence this morning, satellite 6 along with action radar. some are waking up to completely clear skies, others seeing i

thin clouds, sunshine from time to time and warm and slightly more humid than yesterday, 83. that is your forecast and high we're tracking a frontal system out here to the west. you can see the rain stretching from the great lakes all the way down through the ohio and tennis ten values. this moisture moves in sunday into monday morning in the form of drenching downpours. i'll have much more for you and the timing on future tracker 6 and another warmup in the accu-weather seven-day forecast straight ahead in about ten minutes. >> thank you so much and now, to a breaking news, a chilling attack on the streets of philadelphia. a gunman ambushed a philadelphia police sergeant then tom aim at others before finally being killed in a shoot-out with police. . >> officer down. the officer police by radio, we have an officer shot, 52 and

spruce. >> that's a radio call that were the re went out when that sergeant was it hit late last night. seven in all, including a pennsylvania police officer, a woman sitting in her car killed. bob brooks following the story i'll morning long, jones us in in university city where the officers are being treated. whats is latest. >> reporter: greg, good morning, according to the mayor, these officers in good spirits. they're talking, one he said was even cracking jokes. we do know this was, in fact, an ambush attack, commissioner richard ross telling us finding notes on the suspect. hatred for police officers and parole officers. i want to bring up video and look back on what's transpired. this started at 52nd and samson where sergeant sylvia young was

sitting in her car. she looked up and sees a man approaching her car with a gun. and opens fire, she shot at 18 times. she hit multiple times in the arm. now, the suspect takes offer on foot eastbound down samson. as he's running, he shoots into a bar, hits a security guard, shoes another woman in the leg. the suspect continues down samson fires at a car that has nothing to do with this. two people inside. a woman and a man. they're both shot. sadly the woman pronounced dead. eventually, the suspect runs into an confronted by a police officer and cops. that's where there was a gun fight that shot and killed. fair and impartials are sickened by this happening. it could have turned out worse. let's listen. >> one officer was cracking jokes with his kids, his wife, the other was talk with her

family. we're very happy and blessed that's the way it turned out. i think that we have to keep, our prayers, civilians still hurt in various degrees of being treated. all in all, it was a terrible scary night. >> bottom line is, the mayor said he's guy cracking the jokes, we're happy about that. his family is here. thank god the sergeant is also doing well. >> we're were very blessed because at least with hartnett and now sergeant young, you got an individual walking right up on the police car unprovoked and starts firing multiple round. you said absolutely amazing that she is here. >> reporter: ok, we heard commissioner ross say the name hartnett. we're talking about officer jesse hartnett who was ambushed in his cruiser in a similar style attack earlier. at this point, no words from officers who the shooter is.

who the victim is who was killed that woman who what you in her car. bob brooks, channel 6 action news. >> thank you so much. neighbors there in west philadelphia where the officer was targeted now calling for an end to the violence. one man says he heard the gunshots last night. then saw people running. >> they heard the shots and they didn't want to get shot. they was just trying to get out the way. everybody just trying to protect themselves. >> and the man you just heard from said the violence in his neighborhood needs to stop. the shooting happened blocks away from where another philadelphia police officer was ambushed earlier this year. it was back in january when jesse hartnett was shot inside of his police cruiser at 60th and spruce in west philadelphia. officer hartnett survived that shooting. the suspect will stand trial next month. stay with action news and 6 abc.com for the latest on this police ambush. we'll bring you new information

as it comes into our newsroom. of course we'll have another live report coming up in the next half hour. time is about 9:06. learning more information about the shooting of two police officers, this time near dallas texas. responding to a reported suicide. they found a man shot and killed inside of a home. another person told the officers that a witness to the shooting you what outside in the shed. the officers went to look. when they opened the door, the suspect shot them both, they returned fire and called for help >> our officers are injured, hurting. their families are hurting. please pray for them. >> thoughts and prayers go out to those officers there in texas. the swat team later found the suspect dead inside the shed. he had been shot. at this point, investigators are are not saying if he took his own life. back here in the area, investigators in bucks county working to forget out what caused a two alarm fire. chopper 6 over that scene in

hill town township. the flames and heavy smoke shooting from a home on the one hand block. took crews about two hours to get this fire under chrome. we're told that no one was hurt. temple takes on penn state later today and there is outrage over a plan to honor former headcoach joe paterno. the planned event will celebrate the 50th anniversary of paterno's first win but the school came under fire. he was fired in the wake of the sandusky sexual abuse scandal. one account he was told about the put abuse. many supporters say he was wronged by the university. we'll have much more a little later in the them football play book. now to the race for 2016. hillary clinton will be in the nation's capitol a bit literary today to address the congressional black caucus foundation while her rival republican donald trump

campaigned in texas and also colorado. the stop comes one day after trump backtracked and now acknowledges that president obama was indeed born here in the u.s. abc's chuck stevenson has more >> maryland personnel. >> reporter: from donald trump a full retreat from a longstanding allegation. >> president barack obama was born in the yes, it does, period. >> reporter: if truck was expecting credit, hillary clinton's campaign called his statement a sickening display. >> he has led the birther movement to delegitimize our first black president. there is no erasing it in history. >> reporter: from blacks on capitol, the backlash was brutal >> donald trump is a disgusting fraud. >> this man cannot be elected. he's a hater. he's a bigot and he's a racist >> president obama himself was

philosophical >> i was pretty confident about where i was born. >> the first lady michelle obama warned against electing trump >> the minute that individual takes that oath, they're under the hottest hashest light there is. there is no way to hide who they really are. at that point, it's too late. >> reporter: large miami rally friday night, a few supporters held up signs saying blacks for trump. accused dramatics of exploiting race >> when they're in trouble, they pull out the racist word >> thank you so much. >> reporter: in new york city, hillary clinton followed donald trump's path to the tonight show for host jimmy fallon had some fun with her recent diagnosis of pneumonia. chuck stevenson abc new york. time now 9:09. much more to come for this saturday morning. you have what it takes to visit this terror behind the walls. we good behind the scenes of the

hit haunted attraction. i'm monica mall pass, our shelter winner this week, if you'd like to meet them or any animals check it out on action. the future track is putting up big numbers. first thing monday morning. the rainfall totals. i'll have the details coming up on the accu-weather seven-day forecast. ♪

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last couple of days have you don't have the been picture perfect. high temperatures both thursday and friday. struggle just to reach 80 degrees in philadelphia. the surrounding suburbs never even got out of the 70's. delightful stuff. looks good out there this morning, radars are accu weather. we're sitting at 65 right now in philadelphia after bottoming out at 59. due point 57. some of the surrounding suburbs down to 49. 30.24 inches holding study. east southeast at 60 miles per hour, 50 in the poconos, 60 in allentown, is 65 philadelphia, millville 67 and cape may checking in at 72. satellite 6 along with action radar, we're tracking this little band of moisture stretching from the great lakes states all the way down through the ohio and tennessee valleys a cold front that will produce showers and thunderstorms tomorrow. then again monday morning, some drenching downpours. this is high thin cloud activity off on the southwest. and that's what we're going to

see from start to finish. a decent amount of sunshine mixed with high thin clouds from time to time. that will help to keep the temperatures down into the low 80's. as we head into tomorrow, here we go, starting with limited sunshine across the coastal planes, clouds lowering and thickening to the midwest, that giver ways to showers and storms. probably after 3:00, mainly north and west of the city. for tomorrow. that band progresses east sunday into monday and look out. here we go, heavy drenching downpours, a good bit. riding that i95 corridor from baltimore and dc all the way up through new york city and some of this appears as if it's going to come down as a at a good clip. rainfall totals are anywhere from one to two to perhaps three, maybe more inches of rain, really, just depends where the drenching downpours set up. i don't want you to look at this and take the as gospel. do understand the point that some locations could see drenching downpours and two, three inches is certainly possible if you get underneath one of those tropical downpours. it depends where the heaviest

sets up and really that is sunday into monday morning, it is much needed rain. we don't need 3.86 inches of rain at one shot but we do need the rain, the you are as drought monitor now put parts for drought conditions here. we've seen basically north of the atlantic city expressway getting into central and northern new jersey. everybody else is in what's considered abnormally dry conditions. believe me, i can tell you my front lawn is completely brown. we doely need rain. here's how it plays out through the afternoon. 1:0078, 3:00, 82. same number five, and in between we hit the temperature of 83. overnight tonight, a lot milder what we saw. 64 out lying suburbs. same areas that got to 40 last night. 70 center city. mostly cloudy and we'll call it

sticky. you'll notice the increase. the exclusive accu-weather seven-day forecast. 86 for tomorrow, 82 for monday, monday is held back because of the cloud cover, the drenching downpours in the morning and the threat of a left over shower during the non. but once we get past monday, we start warming up again. tuesday, 88. wednesday is not bad. thursday and friday, 87 and 89. right now, friday, there is the potential -- i don't even want to say this. some models have 90's >> no more 90's. >> it's not me. it's mother nature >> thank you. like to resumed you you can get the seven-day forecast and check storm tracker 6 any time of the day on 6 abc.com/weather.

. a former recall presents new options for owners of the sam sun gleet note 7 phone. the consumer product safety commission announced the recall and it comes on the hills of fires igniting in some galaxy note 7 phones, 800,000 of them have not yet been turned in. here's what you need to know if you own one. >> first option, you can get a replacement phone. the second option, and equal option, you can get a refund. >> samsung promises to have new phones in stores by wednesday along with replacements gift cards and credits will be offered. here's a look about what's happening in or around the delaware and lehigh valleys this weekend. first up, the annual scare crow festival at peddler's village this weekend. you can check this one out today

and tomorrow from 10:00 until 6:00. you can also head down to the shore for the fourth annual craft beer fest. that sound good. resorts casino in atlantic city. more than 75 different craft beers and regional and local breweries. $30 a ticket from 4gs:00 until 8:00. the game of thrones tonight. 23 nominations. viola davis is nominated again after winning last year for abc's how to get away with murder and tracy ellis ross is making history as the best african-american comedy actress in 30 years. you can watch the emmies tomorrow right here on 6 abc.

> 9:24. in sports, the phillies and marlins resume tonight. they made me tired after last night's 13 inning game. getting the phillies on the score board at citizens bank park. but it took another seven innings to put the game away. rbi, single, one after the philly the score 4-3. eagles are making their final preparations for monday night's battle against the bears in chicago. quarterback carson wentz won rookie of the week in his opener. talked with our ducis rogers >> what do you think it will be like monday on the road in chicago? >> it will be an awesome amateur, that's what we're expecting. it's prime time game. as a kid, i grew up watching

monday night football. you're excited to turn it on. i am going to be playing in it. it's cool. but at the end of the day it's a ball game and we got to win it >> special countdown to kickoff begins at 8:00 monday on phl 17 followed by kickoff at 8:30. we meet two dogs rescued from mainline animal rescue not only bring joy in owners' lives but to others as as well, here's monica malpas with the story >> it's may bis, and play bell. they're certified therapy dogs or smile makers. >> we go from big institutional type hospitals to nursing homes, schools, assisted lifting facilities >> they're making a difference in people's lives >> it not only means something to us but to them and their families. >> reporter: their lives are

also impacted positively >> bonding with us and giving them enrichment. >> reporter: they were adopted from mainline animal center that cares for 1200 a year. >> we take in so many and we want the best for them and to see someone who not only is giving wonderful home to animals but out in the community spreading the word. >> reporter: this is boon >> he's connected to people, fun loving, gets along great with dogs. >> reporter: those are a re span yell mill pups. ina is a three-year-old put it mix and she would prefer to be an only dog. >> she loves to be with you, she's quiet dog. >> these are the delightful wilson brothers little punch puppies, ten years old. this is luke and owen and ready

for their forever home, they would love to come home. they've been through training classes so they know how tosi if usual interested in owen and luke or any of the animals visit the mainline animal rescue website. if out like us to share your shelter success stories, post a picture using #6 abc she would me and tell us how you adopted your pet. i'm monica m a lp a s. another half hour with action news and we will have the latest on it's ambush shooting of a philadelphia police sergeant. a live report coming your way after the break. mall

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>> we have an officer shooting.

we don't have any idea >> chaos in the first minutes when police officers realized they had multiple shootings on their hands and it started when a man ambushed a sergeant sitting in her marked vehicle. there was only one suspect but he had lots of ammunition and a deadly plan. much more on that breaking news in just a moment. first, we'd like to get you caught up on the forecast with chris sowers. what's the latest >> it feels comfortably cool out here once again this morning, i know we had to close some of the windows first thing this morning because it was a little too chilly in some locations. north and west of the city, pine barrens and southern new jersey dropped all the way down into the upper 40's first thing this morning. we're rebounding nicely but what a chilly start. 60 degrees on the dot in allentown. 58 in the poconos, 65 for philadelphia. millville 67. dover 67. cape may you're lieding the pack, showing 72. one thing we've enjoyed is the lack of humidity.

here's a look at our due points. the scale is towards the top of your screen. you can see where the numbers actually rank. 55 is considered nice. actually anything in the 50's is very, very comfortable. most of the oh viewing area in the 50's at this hour, we're seeing low 60, low to mid 60's across the delaware bay region and that is slightly humid to humid. the southern portions picking up more moisture, a little more sticky. satellite 6 along with action radar, the out to the west is a cold front. that will get in here late into monday. 80 is today, accu-weather will go about 83 for the forecasted high. nice start to the weekend. notice turns noticeably more humid and warmer. 86 degree for the high with the humidity, maybe it will feel like 87 or 88. but for the most part it will mirror the air temperature but it will be more sticky.

monday, high temperatures will struggling through the upper 70, low 80's because of this right here. lots of clouds and the increase threat for showers and thunderstorms and some of these storms will produce those drenching downpours 4:30 monday. look at the reds and yellows sitting over top of the i95 corridor as well as interior sections of south jersey. some of the modelling has us at two, three inches of rain. that's a lot of rain in a short time. >> the call 83 today, sun and clouds and warm, 86 tomorrow. turning a little more humid, and there's the outside shot of an afternoon thunderstorm. 78 today, 79 tomorrow. more sun than clouds today. more clouds than sun for tomorrow afternoon. the weekend looks good. when we come back in about 15 minutes or so, we'll talk more about the drenching downpours and then another warmup in the

accu-weather seven-day forecast. 9:32. back to the breaks news, philadelphia police sergeant ambushed in the line of duty. the gunman ended up shooting september of people. bob brooks is live for us at penn presbyterian in university city where both officers are being treated. bob? >> greg, good morning, being told they're in good spirits for what has happened to them. hear during police, this no doubt was an ambush on officers. let's bring up the video here. again, this went down at 52nd and samson street. sylvia young was sitting in her car, she saw a gunman opened fire on her body, shot multi-times in the arm. as he's running, he shoots at a bar, hits the security guard working the door, shoots another woman in the leg. as he continues down sansom he fires at a car, two people inside. a woman and a man.

they're shot in the chest sadly. the woman has been pronounced dead. eventually, the suspect runs in an alley, cops following, he's gunned down. here's more from commissioner richard ross on the note they found on the suspect. >> investigators at the scene found an envelope that when the on the outside was marked doomed or something like that. they since opened it in an effort to obviously try to identify him and any additional information that would help us with the investigation. that letter that he has is a bunch of rambling, which indicates his hatred for police officers and probation officers. >> reporter: back out live here. no word yet on who the young man is. you can be sure as soon as we get updates we'll bring them to you. reporting live bob brooks, channel 6 action news. >> thank you for the adapt. sergeant sylvia young is a 19 year veteran of the philadelphia police department. we know she works in the 22'nd

district but was on assignment in west philadelphia. sergeant young is 46. she is the mother of who grown daughters and amazingly, she survived having being shot eight times. she's in stable condition. the shooting bears a disturbing and shocking similarity to the ambush of another philadelphia police officer, just blocks away, officer jesse hartnett was shot inside his police cruiser at 60th and spruce. he survived earlier. the suspect will stand trial next month. . stay with action news and 6abc.com for the latest on this police ambush. we'll bring you new information the second it comes into our newsroom. not long after the rage page. there was yet another shooting also in west philadelphia. a man was shot in the back. officers rushed to the scene at holy and ogden is street. he was admitted in critical condition. the search continues this

morning for the shooter and clues. also a motive. a second child died dates after this crash in north hampton county. 2-year-oldbry yell robinson died at lehigh valley hospital. 5-year-old ravonrobinson was also killed on i 78. four others were hurt. police say the driver of the car lost control, hit a guardrail and was then hit by two oncoming vehicles. police say they found open containers of alcohol in the car. it is not clear whether alcohol played a role in the crash. time now 9:36. from our new jersey room, an autopsy planned for today on this him. back whale that washed up on the beach in sea aisle city. experts from the marine center there in brigantine say he appears to have been dead several days. the you don't know male is more than 30 feet long and weighs

20's tons. coming up after the break, temple faces a tough test against penn state. we break down the match-up in this morning's temple football playbook. (f♪ot steps) (crickets chirping) ♪ (jet engine)

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8:39 9:39. ducis rogers and coach matt rhule have a preview in this morning's temple football playbook. ♪ ♪ welcome into another

edition of temple playbook with matt rhule. i'm ducis rogers. you guys have a huge game going to happy valley. both team coming in at one and one. how big of a game is this? >> it's a huge game for us. any time you have a chance to play a team of the caliber of penn state, any time you have a chance to, you know, go on the road, it's the first time going on the road. for us, we believe that every game we play and should be a huge opportunity. we only get a chance to play 12 a year. we work 365 days. this for us is everything that we work for and look forward to. >> last year you guys beat them 27-10. a great win at the linc. what impact does last year's game have on this week's. >> none. at the end of the day, we were able to win the game last year. it was great, great moment for our program, our fans and team, but none of those plays will carry over into this game. if anything, last year's game taught us was that you just have to keep playing.

you can't control the other team. you fight, scratch claw to get to the fourth quarter. our team did that last year. >> we caught up with some of the players in the football team to ask them about the importance >> it's a great rivalry but we don't look at it that way. take it one day at a time, one day at a time, one preparation, one play at a time. there's no us looking forward tore ahead. we take it day by day >> we look at everybody, we focus on ourselves never look at the opponent >> it's great to hear they're taking this one game at a time. some of your players may not have played at beaver stadium. what do you expect the atmosphere to be like >> i think the first thing is the crowd noise deafening at times. and we played in loud environments. we were there two years ago, last year in the championship in houston, it was unbelievably loud. so you have to talk about we've had noise at practice all week, making sure we're as efficient as we can be when you really can't hear the guy that's a foot away from you. >> reporter: the players know it's going to be rocking up

there. >> the crowd noise is one of the loudest i've ever been in. notre dame was loud and penn state is louder. like the guys just need to stay in the moment and don't let end environment scare them. because it's very intimidating. >> when offense, when they on offense, when our office it's going to be difficult for that may. defense we're having a pretty fun time, going to be able to talk to each other and hit each other but the offense will having a difficult time hearing each other. >> you know all about the crowd noise up there. we'll talk more in just a little bit. you guys coming off the victory over stonybrook, a 38-0. win. it was 48 to see the way they reacted >> there's going to be adversity. you find out the character of your team when you bounce back after a lossly we had tremendous emergency energy and emotion. to be out there and have fun. >> a 38-0 victory.

were you more impressed with your offense or the way your defense was able to shut them down. >> i, our defense was fantastic. you know, that even brought over the special teams, able to knock the ball out on special teams. sometimes when you play a gram game on defense it's hard to get into a rhythm on offense because every time you get the ball you have it on the 15th yard line. you run two place. i don't know that we ever got into the rhythm i would have liked to have seen on offense but there were got things. it was about a great dominating defense 18 phillip walker about thissed back. apody catches up with him one-on-one. >> how big is this >> we're going to play our game, been doing for past two years. go out and play our team and play temple football. >> reporter: last year leaves a bit of taste in their mouth you guys want to win two in a row. talk about the confidence last year gives in this match-up

>> a lot of confidence because we know what we're capable of, in the previous years, it was all can we play with them or anything like that but we know now that you got a good team and a lot of players that doing a lot of big things. >> reporter: what it's going to be like going up there. >> great. my sophomore year was a great atmosphere, it was fun, a lot of -- we're preparing for that practice this week, we got the thing going on. >> reporter: the offense get back on track. stonybrook helped with that >> it was a game offensively, you know, their numbers were aspect tack collar, we put up with a lot of rushing yards or passing but we played consistent football. we got, won the field position. it was a great opportunity to put points on the board and we did. offense brought the ball. >> reporter: have you noticed a difference in phillip walker of theed a he had that good game last week. >> absolutely. i think it started after monday after.

he got backing had a chance to re group as did the whole team, that's the character he has and why he's such a leader. i think after hi game, throwing three touchdowns, you can see this confidence growing day by day. >> we got much more coming up on temple football playbook. the team gets a motivational speaker. plus we'll show you the softer side of one of the biggest guys on the team. ja ♪

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welcome back to temple football playbook. you guys have the penn state nittany lions coming up later on today. they just came off a tough loss against pittsburgh. what do you see on tape so far from penn state. >> they're really talented team and well coached. they're offense is dynamic in that lost to pit. they came back and scored 39 points. barkley is as good as there is in the country. they have tremendous receivers, a great quarterback with a lot of. just this is really confident in fights. and defensively they have a veteran line backing core and safety core will real butch and get after. >> reporter: james franklin talked about facing the owls >> the game has become more and more competitive. obviously temple program has approved dramatically. there's a physical outfit that wants to run the ball and use the run to set up play action pass. impressed with their quarterback

flip walker. he's a play maker for them >> you had a motivational speaker. why did you feel it was so important for him to address the team >> he's philadelphia and the definition of a competitor. a guy that grew up 21 it's and lehigh and ended up running the 76ers. it sends a great message to our kids not just about the football but life and he talks about embracing every moment. >> reporter: jamie apody caught up with him. >> when i brought him back into the 76ers locker room my first day as the rookie president. if i can go from row home in north philly to be standing in your locker room as a president, then we can win a world championship, that the impossible is possible. alan iverson proved in. the impossible is possible and these temple people. all of them, coaching staff,

alumni, fan, players. they believe now in their program because of coach ruhle got something special. our future is limitless. >> reporter: thank you we're going to switch gears. morgan siegrrieric. >> reporter: at 6'6", 320 bounds, dejanuary dawk ins is a big guy. his five pound york ky mix not so much. together, they form an unlikely combination of man and man's best friend. she's my love. it don't matter to me. i finally got a dog my freshman year of high school.

ever since it's been like man, animals are such cool encourages. they just want somebody to love them and i feel like myself as a big caring person, dogs and animals is a part of life. god blessed us. >> reporter: dian's love of animals spreads to his team mates who will sometimes accompany him on a local animal she would on day off. >> he lots of animals. when we were at the shelter, he just, you know, you could see him playing with the dogs, they allowed us to play with them. you can see excitement >> this dog is like no, you can't have all of the dogs, nobody can take care of them all. i feel like, if people really see like how, how loving dogs are and really like get to know them and find out their different personalities, they would understand that every dog needs a home just like how you would want somebody that needs to be adopted like as a regular human, needs like a home too.

it's a regular day. >> reporter: little is taking the trip to penn state, if she wanted to, we think she'd fit. back to you guys >> how nice is it to see a guy like dian with a softer side. >> it's great. i didn't realized all of that about him. but i knew he's a great, great young man with a tremendous heart. >> reporter: you played at penn state. what's it going to mean for you to coach a game up there? . >> i think obviously it's fun for me to be around the guys, you know, to come after the game, people i went to school with. family and friends. once game starts, it's about the players, it's a great atmosphere i want them to enjoy it and play as well as we can. >> there's a photo floating around of you as a linebacker up there playing for joe paterno. any of the players give you the business about your playing days >> i have it hanging in my office.

you know, i think, players, you know, always make fun for me in every way they can. we try to keep it light. making sure that they have a picture of what i once looked like is important as we enter older age. >> reporter: good luck. that will do it, matt rhule, i'm ducis rogers. penn state and temple coming up later on today. action news continues after this.

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a rampage in west philadelphia. unloaded 18 bullets on a police car. injuring sylvia young at 52nd. killing a woman and four other people including a university of pennsylvania officer. the suspect died in a shoot-out with police. investigators suspect -- say the suspect left a note talking about his hatred for officers. and a final check now on the forecast with chris. the nice weather will continue this afternoon, comfortable out there. temperatures in low 80's. mixed with high clouds, we're at 71 in philadelphia. wilmington 70. milligram 72. cape may 74. and there's still in the 60's, north and west, poconos checking in at 59 degrees at this hour. here's your day planner, 78 by 1:00 with the mixture of sun and clouds. 3:00 temperature 82. 5:0082. we will stay dry, there's no threat for precipitation today. that may change. tomorrow in the form of a spotty thunderstorm. one or two areas especially

north and west. could pick up that thunderstorm that transitions over to drenching downpours, potentially monday morning. especially for the i95 corridor. monday's high 82. then we warm up once the downpours pull out, look at tuesday, wednesday, thursday and friday. temperatures are in the mid to upper 80's with a lot of sunshine. a nice weekend overall, much needed rain for monday and more heat next week. >> more heat. >> chris, thank you. >> countdown coming up next on channel 6. action news continues. for chris sowers and the entire action news team, i'm greg hall. make it a great day. action news team, i'm greg hall. make it a great day. ♪

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