"action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with rick williams, sara bloomquist, and meteorologist, david murphy. good afternoon if the news this noon. police are searching for a

killer after a deadly shooting this morning in north philadelphia. >> and a new jersey police department is mourning the death of an officer killed during an off duty crash. >> but the big story on "action news" is philadelphia's district attorney on trial. attorneys for both sides of the seth williams case is giving their opening statements today. katherine scott is live now in center city with the lightest developments. >> reporter: var, that is right, opening statements are underway right now, the prosecution painted the picture of a man who never missed an opportunity to steal money or sell his office but the defense is adamant that no crimes were committed. this is all underway inside of a 14th floor courtroom here in federal court. here is video of seth williams arrives here this morning. his attorney is presenting his case this morning.

they outlined five schemes to the jury and one thing they had in common is whenever the district attorney had a chance to line his pockets with money he took it. the first schemes involved two local business owners with cash and checks and jaguar convertible and vacations and more in return for political favors. and that he spent $25,000 meant for his mother's medical care and used the money for massages and facials and defrauded an anti-crime program by using vehicles detonated for law enforcement for his personal use. and the defense says that while he exercised poor judgment and kept poor records there were no crimes committed. they could not stand alone and not a single case during

williams seven years is office was compromised or corrupted by him. they will break for lunch and the prosecution will call the first witness this afternoon. channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. police are on the scene a deadly shooting in north philadelphia. a 32 man was found inside of a vehicle with multiple gunshot wounds of cecil b. moore avenue, the victim was rushed to the hospital and pronounced dead. in norristown the courtroom showdown continues of whether the bill cosby jury should be identified after the panel members deadlocked several media outlets want their names made public but prosecutors are trying to keep them a secret. the judge will hear arguments this afternoon. and now the national weather service is looking into whether

tornadoes touched down in delaware season pennsylvania. a team arrived to assess the damage and high winds reduced some build cans to rubble and tore off roofs. they are expected to berks county after funnel clouds were caught on video. now we are enjoying calmer and comfortable conditions today. going live outside with sky 6 hd showing us center city it is mostly sunny and less humid. really a great day out there. meteorologist david murphy is here with a first check of your accuweather forecast. >> yes, things are getting better, we started out muggy this morning and a couple of clouds and most of them have cleared the coast and southern delaware is dealing with a little bit of it. good news considering it's strong storms late yesterday. we'll maintain mostly sunny skies and the dry air from the west is beginning to munch at that humidity and starting to

lower it in most of the region. 83 degrees warm enough to for a cool glass of water. 80 in trenton and dover and 81 in cape may and almost at your high temperature already in cape may. and dew points in the southern half of the region this morning are well down into the 50s. any time you have dew points in the 50s it's not what we consider humid and the holdout numbers like the 70 in cape may and dove continuing to drop and things are getting better than yesterday. 85 by 2:00, accuweather says 86 by 4:00 in the afternoon. by 6:00, 84 degrees and 9:00, 10:00, 77 by 10:00 and sunshine the rest of the way. tomorrow is not a bad day but in the afternoon spotty showers late in the day and summer officially arrives late tonight. we'll talk about that and the

exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast looking forward to the weekend a bit. how about that? >> yes always looking toward the weekend. the philadelphia school district teachers and staff members approved a tentative contract after going several years without one. it will cost the district $395 million. the contract is over budget and may require additional funds from the city and possible layoffs down the road. and they are mourning the death of an officer, he was off duty when he was killed in a car accident yesterday on nottingham way. his name has not been released and authorities are investigating the cause. today the world is reacting to the death of an american college student held captive in north korea. otto warmbier returned to the u.s. and president trump is

weighing in. and kenneth moton has the latest from washington. >> reporter: lawmakers are reacting to the tragic news of otto warmbier. they called it murder by north korea. the increasingly deteriorating situation between the u.s. and north korea even worse after the death of otto warmbier. the american college student detained 17 months ago. returned home last week in a coma suffering from extensive brain damage. >> it's a total disgrace what happened to otto. >> fow promoting a travel ban for american tourists to north korea. tough words from john mccain. anyone stupid enough to visit the country, calling his death murder by hostile powers that should not be tolerated and more american lives, three still

being held captain by the kim jong un regime. >> i condemn cruel actions by north korea even today. there are many korean nationals and citizens detained in north korea and i also urge north korea to return these people to their families. >> the family of the university of virginia student the awful to torturous treatment was the outcome that we experienced. >> what they have gone through is incredible. but he should have been brought home a long time ago. >> warmbier's family says they could tell he was at peace once he was home and not clear what impact his death will have on the relationship between the u.s. and north korea. >> well, the fight over health care is heating up in washington. democrats staged a late night talkathon holding the senate floor past midnight and

demanding the republicans go public with their plan for repealing and replacing obama care. they are drafting their bill behind closed doors and gaining criticism. and mitch mcconnell dismissed the the complaints and saying that they will have plenty of time to debate the proposal. nearly 200 million american voters may have been exposed in a newly uncovered data breach. >> and officials identified the man accused of driving into a crowd near a london mosque. and david murphy has your seven-day forecast when "action news" comes right back. it's time that we bring addiction out of the darkness

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the remains of seven american sailors killed overseas will arrive at dover air force base today. sometime this afternoon actually. the men died when a navy destroyer, the uss fitzgerald collided with the destroyer off the coast of japan. they are being flown back from tokyo to the u.s. we are learning more about the man that drove a van into a crowd of worshipers outside of a mosque in london. police say that was 47-year-old darren osbourne, according to british media he is unemployed and living in a tent. one person died after the attack

and nearly a dozen others were sent to the hospital three people still in critical condition. his family says they are quote, massively shocked osbourne was behind the wheel at the time expressing their condolences for the attack. and police in france say that all four people detainedover night were family members of at taerk. he died after lighting hi car on fire before ramming it into a police convoy. the man had been flagged for his ties to radicalism. we are learning about a massive data breach exposing the information of 2 million american voters, a data firm hired by the republican national committee stored the files on an unsecured amazon server, the data bases were left open to the public for access without a password and they have

discovered it last week and cut ties with the company responsibility. a new cell phone video is drawing attention to new york city's rat problem. lee connor reported this rat dragging the trash bag across the street. he couldn't go any further and grabbed what appears to be a personal size pizza and ran into a hole in the ground. rats are an issue in this area. i hate rats. >> that is a big pizza. dominoes delivers. mailing out your holiday gifts to your loved ones may cost you more this year we'll explain why. and barbie's boyfriend gets a makeover what they are saying about the new version of the ken doll. ♪

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sending holiday gifts to your out of town loved ones may cost you extra this season. for the first time ever ups is adding a holiday season fee on packages sent on certain weeks in no and december. ranging from 97 cents per package. from black friday leading up to christmas. in less than an hour we learn who gets the first permits to grow medical marijuana in pennsylvania. dozens of companies applied but only 12 where chosen and the department of health will announce the recipients this

afternoon. the approved patients should be able to begin using medical marijuana next year under the state's new program. there is strong evidence that young americans are slacking that the average teeth is no more active than the average 60-year-old. and researchers at john hopkins followed 1200 young people and found their activity lefts were alarmingly low. they should get 60 minutes of moderate activity every day and more than half of those failed to meet the world health organizations guidelines. >> a popular childrens toy is getting a modern makeover. mattel unveiled a more diverse new crop of ken dolls, seven skin tones and six hair styles including corn rows and a man bun. and barbie's boyfriend comes in three different body types. >> that is not me it's gray hall. >> the original plus the slim

version and broad version with a slightly thicker middle. the new ken dolls are hitting store shelves after the company releases a slew of new barbies. >> that was gray? the one with the big muscles. definitely not you -- >> the "action news" team is out working on news stories for tonight at 4:00. alicia vitarelli in the newsroom with a preview. >> you know what? the peanut gallery is laughing out here. it's pretty funny. lets take that show on the road. a texas mom drops her daughter off at college and ends up picking up some pretty hot coeds, and we'll show you the pictures that twitter is having a field day with. and on average americans spend on average hundred each month on their cable bill but nydia han has a way to spend a little less

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contests to benefit the mcc early head start program. >> if it has to do with golf matt is there. >> nice afternoon why not? >> today is a great day to go golfing. stormtracker 6 live double scan and we are looking at dry conditions, had that heavy rain come in along with gusty thunderstorms, it's all gone. as we look outside. we are starting to feel more comfortable. there is the airport sunshine across the region and patchy clouds at times. your temperature up to 82 degrees and best of all the dew point is down to 54. when you get dew points up to 70 it's oppressive and a real indication of the dry air and comfortable pattern developing as the dew points have sunk. winds from the west at 15 breezy this afternoon. temperatures in lancaster and reading and 80 in trenton and philadelphia and millville and dover. even numbers across the region and atlantic city airport up to 83 and cape may dipped to 80

with the sea breeze beginning to kick in. 55 in allentown and 54 in philadelphia and the 50s equal comfortable numbers a couple of spots still with the more oppressive humidity and the dry air is working on the southern areas. satellite shows you the clear skies out to the west are only developing a couple of cumulous clouds at this points and maintain mostly sunny skies the rest of the way. up in the lehigh valley a nice break and 83 is the forecast high and down the shore improvement as well. highs of 80 degrees and clouds in the morning giving way to sun and the only place we have clouds down in delaware and beaches there are overcast, that will change too. over the next couple of hours. mostly sunny and less humid in philadelphia. more comfortable air coming in over the next several hours. the plans to get out there and do work outside and maybe jogging or something you'll want

the cool drinks and breezy too. winds averaging 10 to 20 miles per hour. tickets to the phillies and cardinals great night for baseball and a couple of patchy clouds. overall nice 83 for the first pitch and 77 in the ninth inning, not too shabby, we dip to 68 and patchy clouds here and there and clouds showing through and more comfortable conditions and winds dying back a bit and future tracker 6 tomorrow there are breaks in the clouds and partly sunny skies and later in the afternoon the chance of a pop-up shower and a thundershower in the northern suburbs, i would not be surprised if that got down to the i-95 corridor and by 9:00 or so they should be off the board. the exclusive accuweather forecast today's high is 86 and less humid the last couple of days. partly sunny tomorrow and summer arrives at 12:24 in the morning, it will arrive officially if you

were asleep. high of 85 with the spotty shower activity and for those of you that like summer, great summer day and hotter and not that humid. that is my kind of 90. this changes friday, 90 is the high there and more humid. and thunderstorming popping up in the day. and 85 on sunday and afternoon thunderstorms around both days but not a washout. just spotty stuff you look out for and a little unsettled with a thunderstorm on monday. a tropical system one is a tropical storm and in the next half hour we'll look at those and where they might go. we are featuring the next story in the digital series, hidden philadelphia at 6abc.com. you'll find the stories about the secrets within our city. this week we go into the landmark laurel hill cemetery overlooking the schuylkill river and the true story on one of the

saddest monuments on the ground. get the entire series by going to 6abc.com/hidden philadelphia. there is more ahead on our next half hour at "action news" at 12:30, michael phelps is coming out of retirement to swim in a race against a competitor like no other. a great white shark. and artists will converge in manayunk to offer up an array of craftsman ship.

opening statements in the federal bribery case in philadelphia's top prosecutor began today. we are live in center city with the start of seth williams trial. and a home suffered damage when a lightning strike sparked a fire here. 11 months after carrie fisher's death we learned that the actress had drugs in her system when she died. >> opening statements are underway in the corruption trial of describe attorney essential williams. williams is accused of taking bribes of tens of thousands of dollars in exchange for legal favors. vernon odom is live now outside of the federal courthouse with more on what was said today.

>> reporter: good afternoon sara, before a hushed courtroom this morning opening statements from both sides presented opposite pictures and profiles of seth williams. the defense says he is an honest public servant with rich friends that lavished him with gifts with no strings attached. >> and the prosecution says he was on the take for the accept years as district attorney. never missing an opportunity to line his pockets. the embattles district attorney arrived today knowing the prosecutor would spend an hour outlining five scheme as ledgely used by essential williams to commit bribery and fraud. the jury was told that he was bribed by a businessman muhammad ali, who paid for expensive dinners and airline tickets and a couch for press