they were targeting a 26-year-old father sitting on the porch with his two-year-old son. the child was caught in the crossfire. >> maybor neighbors say it was a beautiful evening when people were out barbequing when shots rang out. >> it sounded like bombs it was so loud. when the smoke cleared, it was clear a two-year-old was shot four time in the back. a 26-year-old was shot in the right knee taken to hospital in stable condition. >> two mountain bikes came down the street, stopped in front of the house and started firing at the adult victim. >> residents say there are shootings here almost daily with stray bullets flying through the

homes. >> it's a baby. it's not something you want to hear from nobody, especially someone's kid, you are out here barbequing, just trying to have fun and your kid gets hurt. >> it's devastating. to think of all of the people it could have been, it was the baby. >> breaks your heart. >> the child is critical after being shot four time in the back. his father is stable. a man has been released as the search continues for two gunmen on bmx bikes. i'm da dann cuellar, channel6 n. >> police are investigating a murder in logan. the 33-year-old was gunned down

on wagner avenue. police are questioning a perp of interesting. >> a firey crash in burke's county. two tractor trailers crashed tonight. the wreckage burst into flames. three people were injured with nonlife threatening injuries. the highway will be closed overnight hours as the cleanup continues. the first heatwave of the year is over. the weekend is bringing a dramatic change in the weather. meteorologist cecily tynan has the latest from accuweather. what's the story? >> jim, temperatures drop more than 20-degree this weekend. after three days in the 9 0s, it's a heat wave. wednesday, 90, thursday, 93. today, 93.

the numbers are 15 to 20-degrees above average, too hot too soon for a lot of people. double scan live shows we have been sparking thunderstorms south of philadelphia. 6:00 tonight, we have had a string of storms out of kent county delaware. no lightning strikes. it's ahead of a front blasting through. philadelphia, 78-degrees. allentown, 69. scranton, 68. a 30-degree drop in 150-miles. we also track rain in the seven-day forecast. >> jim? >> thank you, cecily. >> this man, 31-year-old edward moses is accused of gunning down his girlfriend in darby this morning. the victim was the mother of two

young children. the shooting happened on spring valley road. neighbors were instrumental in leading police to moses. he's been charged with homicide. >> this is a 14-year-old girl struck by a hit and run driveway in her own driveway. >> new castle police announced the arrest of 20-year-old elijah meredith. he fled the scene but there is no proof he intentionally ran over the girl. she is doing amazingly well and is in stable condition. >> the mother of the toddler pennsylvania police say was locked in a cage is defending the enclosure. tiffany george calls the

applywood and lattice structure a playpen and alleges it was approved. >> we did not have the intentions of locking our children inside of a cage. >> the father, cecil cuts remains jailed on child endangerment charges for leaving the boy and two babies home alone. >> president and mrs. trump are in the area on the way to saudi ariearabia. it is trump's first trip as president. it was shortly after takeoff when president trump got socked with another russia revelation. the new york times said trump

told russian officials that he fired the head of the fbi and then called jim comey crazy, a real nut job. he said i felt great pressure because of russia, meaning the investigation, that's taken off. then in a one-two punch the washington post reported a senior trump adviser in the white house is considered a person of interest in campaign conclusion with the russians. >> there is word tonight that former fbi director comey agreed to testify before the senate committee after memorial day in what may be the most watched congressional hearing since the water gate hearings. come

>> in huntington, they are upset because the state is planning to take away a traffic light although two children were killed at the intersection. jeff chirico is live on the scene. what happened there tonight? >> for two hours, as you said, they are upset about plans to remove the traffic lights. pen dot intends to install flashing warning signs. >> protesters took to the street at 4:00 p.m. and blocked the intersection at west allegheny. it didn't take long for tempers to flair as drivers and passengers found themselves stuck. you can see traffic backing up as residents protested plans to remove traffic light. >> we have children. we pay taxes. >> we don't want the light

removed. two kids got killed here. >> in 1978 the death of two children led to the light, but now an improvement plan is calling for lights to be replaced with flashing lights. we have children in this neighborhood. >> officials say the decision was based on money. the intersections don't have the necessary traffic volume to fund the traffic lights otherwise. >> we have 60 plus kids leaving at this hour of the day. >> david cass vich head of the nearby school says penndot hasn't considered their safety. >> they are going to run over our kids because they remove the

light. >> protesters left. no one was arrested. penndot officials say if all goes well, the changes should be complete by summer's end. jeff chirico, channel6 "action news." >> police announced the takedown of a drug trafficking ring in trenton. authorities seized guns, cash and $300,000 worth of drugs. not only did the drug ring fuel the opium crisis but contributed to the gun violence plaguing trenton. at&t workers walked off the job launching a strike at stores across the country for wireless and direct service. this is the scene in center city philadelphia. they are demanding that the company stop sending call center

jobs ove overseas. >> a man rushes the cockpit on an american airline flight. what passengers saw online. >> plus back to his roots. crest love flips the script saying he will make it to a local prom tomorrow. >> we could have a few showers tomorrow morning. a rundown for the weekend and beyond. >> chad per deli joins us with a special report on where soda tax dollars are going. >> some of the education alpha silties have been failing the test. we have found some places repeatedly employing people before background checks are completed. the findings are coming up >> plus the phillies take on the pirates when "action

>> fighter jets escorted an americaamerican airlines frighto hawaii today. cellphone video shows the fbi taking the suspect off the plane when it landed in honolulu. he never made it to the cockpit door because a stewardess blocked the aisle. no one was hurt. the fbi will not speculate about motivation. >> the driver of a car that mowed down pedestrians in time square yesterday said he wanted to kill them all. rojas injured 22 people.

an 18-year-old girl was killed. he seemed to target one pedestrian. rojas was arraigned today, charged with 20 counts of attempted murder and one count of murder. >> disgraced new york congressman anthony weiner admitted today that he sent sexual images to a high school student he knew was just 15 years old. he could spend years behind bars and must register as a sex offender. his wife, a top aide to clinton filed for divorce. >> 90 facilities are receiving subsidies from the sugary drink tax. you have uncovered some troubling findings. >> when you talk about soda tax money, they get $8,500 for each

seat added. one in four, the newly approved facilities have missing or incomplete fbi or state police clearances in recent years and our findings don't end there. >> we reviewed dozens of human service also inspection reports and found facilities with mandatory background checks for employment, check references and require fire safety training including the western learning center in south philadelphia. our investigation found there are 81 violations since 2012. this past december, an inspected cited the facility 35 times for missing background checks or training. >> half of the violations were based upon the files not being onsite.

>> the director says files were kept at a different location. this report states one staffer had not yet requested fbi clearance. >> if any center had 35 violations they would be shut down. >> western received its annual certification. >> the approval process was daunting. otis is the chief education facilitator. he said he didn't have facts but called our findings concerning. >> if there are ongoing issue, we'll address that or they'll be removed from the program. they have instance of alleged violence. staff at this ymca were accused of putting children in a closet in 2013 and again in 2016. another child accused a staffer

of dragging him down the hall. sean elliot says the y fired staff and reported to dhs. >> we are never perfect and can do better, but i think we can reassure parents by bringing attention to it. >> another child had hair pulled making him scream out in pain. >> prodigy daycare in east falls has been the subject of four injury cases since 2010 including one where are a child was dragged by the neck after she wet her pants. all of the cases were settled out of court. western, the ymca and prodigy are considered four star facilities, supposedly the best of the best for pre-k. >> this is an ambitious roll out

by the mayor. do you think the vetting process should have lasted longer? >> hindsight is 20/20. >> the ymca corrected violations and added prodigy took responsibility for their infractions. >> i want to get it right. it was a tight window to get everything up and running. we are excited about it. >> the deputy secretary thanked us and said her department will investigate the facilities and acknowledged there needed to be changes in the rating system and they are in the works. >> did the city jump in too quickly? >> it depends on who you ask. the city said all of their pre-k facilities at this point today are in compliance. >> thank you, chad. >> students at penceburgy high school are getting ready for what they say is the best prom

in america. roots, drummer and philadelphia native quest love agreed to perform tomorrow. it also didn't happen the school received a letter saying he needed to cancel, but he reconsidered saying he will do the show free of charge. >> among those receiving a degree is irvin medicalway. the 93-year-old has been taking classes at villanova for 23 years. and new york city mayor michael bloomberg gave the keynote address, commencement address to the class of 2017. >> you see a lot of people doing this in the audience. >> hot and muggy, but not that way tomorrow. >> 40% in the poll said loving the sunshine. 60% too soon. >> it's cooling off

dramatically. we are live sky 6 looking at the center city skyline. we have over cast skies and we continue to see showers working south of the region over the mouth of delaware bay. no lightning with this. this is heavy downpour pushing east, moving through bringing us cooler weather for the airport. right now, 78 in philadelphia. the poconos, 56-degrees. the dewpoint shows dryer air to the north. philadelphia still muggy. you can see the north dewpoints dropping to the 50s. that indicates the air is much dryer an cooler. the cold front is slicing through. if you look to the north and west, you can see showers across western pennsylvania. we are going to be stuck in the

clouds most of the weekend. the day planner, 63 at 8:00. sprinkles in the morning. by 5:00, could hit 70 briefly. clouds generally the rule. sunday, clouds with an easterly flow, the high 69. temperatures rebound to the 70s with a warm front moving through but that also brings a rainy start to the workweek. the exclusive seven-day forecast, you may need a sweatshirt tomorrow. 70-degrees the high, most of the day in the 60s. cloud jy skies and sprinkles possible. sunday, 69-degrees and monday, looking at a round of rain, especially early in the day with late sunshine, i wanted to show you future tracker showing that. that doesn't show anymore. late sunshine by monday with a high of 74-degrees.

here we go. hot button it to the seven day. there we go. where am i? tuesday, a beautiful day. 78-degrees. wednesday, it gets unsettled with periods of rain, thunderstorms, 74. thursday, unsettled, 74. great timing as we begin the holiday weekend, pleasant, sunny and 75 on friday. temperatures not in the 90s for a while. it's one of those things. it's friday. >> that's how we fix most things around here. >> don't say that. >> just kidding. >> they are hitting the track to fight cancer. it's a 24 hour cancer fundraiser at upper dublin high school. there's food. there's games. there's arts and crafts until 4:00 p.m. tomorrow. the event is organized by ree

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>> philly's pirates, first time they played this year. >> beginning of the three game series.

>> made for an upset clubhouse. they called the play unacceptable. they enter tonight 12 of 14. an easy ground ball to galvis. he throws it to the dirt. a run score, galvis fourth error of the season. moving to the seventh, jeremy hellickson at the plate. that brings in mykel frankco. hellickson hurt his back. he said he thinks he will make the next start. >> cameron with a three run shot. phillies win, 7-2. >> sixers have a 67% chance to have one of their players named nba rooky of the year. embid played in 31 games but averaged better than 20 point

and eight rebounds per game. >> cavs destroy boston. lebron james is on a mission. celtics are barely in the way, up 14 after one. j.r. smith beats the buzzer. cavs lead 41 at the break. cleveland wins 130-86 to take

>> always dreaming is the favorite for tomorrow's preakness. there is a local man with a lot riding on the race. always dreaming is partly owned by terry finally who grew up in loft town. he told our jeff scaversky he likes his hor' horse's chances. >> i know one thing we are the only one with a shot to win the crown. >> "jimmy kimmel live" next followed by "nightline." "action news" continues at 5:30. for cecily tynan, ducis rogers and the entire "action news" team, i'm jim gardner. have a great night and a great weekend.

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