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walter perez is live now. >> reporter: that is right, the bucks county d.a. offering little as far as new information about this case as the massive search effort continues here in bucks county. the people that know the four missing men at the center of this case say all they can do is hope for the base. jimmy patrick works there as a beer runner and she says that jimmy is one of the nice guys. >> he was on the shyer side. you could get a smile out of him. >> how the shy soft spoken young man is at the center of most conversations at the bar. >> everyone is talking about it. everybody wants to find all four of the men that are missing. >> believe for the best and hope for the best. >> hope and pray for the best for all of them. >> meanwhile the search continues for the missing men. meanwhile today a bus load of cadets arrived from montgomery county for the massive effort to
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scour this field. there are no suspects in this case and authorities arrested 20-year-old cosmo dinardo on and unrelated weapons offense. >> even though he is not tied to this case. bail is set at $10 million because he is considered a flight risk. he reiterated that he is not a suspect. >> i will say that mr. dinardo is a person of interest if this case. >> and worth noting that the dinardo family owns at least three of the properties being searched including the field. it does not seem like this investigation is going to wrap up any time soon. >> it's 90 some acres and going through it with the equivalent of a fine tooth comb. it's going to take us a long time to get through it. and i'll try to keep you updated as best i can.
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back to you guys. >> thank you. we'll continue to alert you to new developments in this store through the 6 abc app. you can find the details along with raw details and chopper 6 hd. >> now we are in day one of who would did he the fourth heat wave of the summer and an excessive heat warning is issues. lets go to adam joseph did the hot and humid details. >> everyone is feeling the heat and humidity today most of the area is quiet a pop-up near trenton and a couple of thunderstorms heading towards long beach island. some storms were severe as they passed through cumberland county and atlantic county. they are no longer severe but
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packing quite a punch along 72 and the garden state parkway heading toward surf city and long beach island. 39 lightning strikes, a lot of lightning in this area along the shore communities and also gusty winds of 40 miles per hour. also, and area of downpours and thunderstorms near mercer county, trenton, and lawrence and 33 heading towards windsor, not severe a couple of lightning strikes here. those are the two areas we are tracking and the rest of us are quiet. we are feeling the heat index of 93 in philadelphia and 96 in washington as we get into the middle of the week on your wednesday, a lot of clouds fighting sunshine and even with the clouds and pop-ups in the afternoon it will feel like the mid-90s from 1:00 and 5:00 tomorrow afternoon and thursday an excessive heat watch going into effect for the highly urbanized areas, where it feels over 100 thursday afternoon.
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we'll talk about that in the full accuweather forecast. >> this reminder you can get the latest forecast including detailed updates and stormtracker 6 live double scan radar any time on your phone or tablet using the 6 abc app. it's a free download as well for the mobile device. a police detective was on the stand for a third day for a preliminary hearing and 16 members accused in the death of a pledge. the judge in bellefonte will decide if there is enough evidence to send the case to trial. chad pradelli is live with the latest developments from inside. >> reporter: hey brian, at one point the district attorney calling the defense attorneys the peanut gallery. and one accusing the da of putting on a side show. tempers are hot at times as the preliminary hearing is very much on going. >> i don't know if we'll get done today but we'll see won't we. >> the mood was light but soon
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turned tense inside of the courtroom as attorneys for the 16 defendants and district attorney stacey parks miller verbally sparred forcing the judge to call a recess. >> i don't take is personally but it's border line excessive. >> attorneys continue to cross examine, state college detective. the defense attorneys are trying to lay the blame for timothy piazza's death elsewhere and often on himself and question how much alcohol he consumed during the famous gauntlet and the social event afterwards. lawyers continue to emphasize that drinking was voluntary and not forced. and he acknowledged at one point that piazza was the only pledge to ever suffer serious bodily
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injury since having the ritual. the attorneys asked that think separate their cases from the rest. >> i made the motion before and i'll probably make it again and probably make it if the case survives the preliminary hearing. i have one count and in with 17 other lawyers. >> attorneys say it's unlike that this hearing will wrap up today and when it will resume is unclear and the judge will make a determination today and the judges say it will likely be next month because of all the attorneys in the case. >> thank you. this afternoon we learning more about the controversial meeting between donald trump jr. and a russian lawyer ahead of last november's election. the president's son released a chain of emails that he hopes will shed new light on the meeting and why he agreed to
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have it in it's first place. donald jr. took to twitter to release what he claims is the entire correspondence, in one email dated 2016. donald jr. was offered quote, information that would discriminate hillary and be useful to his father. and states quote, this is high level and sensitive information but part of the government support for mr. trump and the white house issued a response from president trump in an audio only briefing. >> my son is a high quality person and i applaud his transparency and beyond that i'm going to have to refer everything on this matter to don jr.'s council. >> he said the emails are totally transparent and willing to work with the intelligence quhunt and his lawyer maintains that he did nothing wrong and senators on both side of the
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aisle calling for everyone in this meeting to be interviewed and that includes donald jr. and his brother-in-law jared kushner and former chairman, paul manafort. the lawyer provided no information about hillary clinton and instead wanted to talk about russian adoption. >> thank you. meanwhile, the fbi is part of the investigation into a military plane crash that killed 15 marines and a navy coreman the military members died yesterday when a tanker plunged into a soy bean field in mississippi. the marines have not revealed details on what caused but do not suspect foul play. it was headed from cherry point north carolina, when it crashed. a man was shot with a pellet gun and robbed while in a wendy's drive-thru in fern rock. it happened at broad street and
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the suspect walked up to the victim who was waiting for his food and then demanded money. that is when the man was shot in the hand. he did not ask for treatment at the scene and the robber got away with $7. the home theater technician is arrested in delaware for stealing $10,000 worth of jewelry from someone's home. dan was working in the home in november and police have found evidence that holmes may have stolen from other customers as well. anyone that hired him is zod contact police if they are missing any of our valuables. >> it is official. michelle obama will be if philadelphia to take part in a long running expo aimed to help women. to appear at the annual pennsylvania conference for women. the appearance is described as a convation with the former first lady. during her time as part of the first family, mr. obama launched
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initiatives on childhood obesity and higher education and veterans. she is expected to appear at the convention certain october 3rd. and you can get more information at 6abc.com. lets go live to gina gannon in for matt pellman in the traffic center. >> reporter: you know what? not how we like to start a tuesday. if are you traveling on the roosevelt boulevard southbound at the fox street southbound we see a tractor trailer and it's partially blocking the ramp there and not sending you back, the delays are always on the northbound side and something to watch out for. heads up in this area. approaching 76 you are fine but the delay from 76 to broad street. slow go there. but the tractor trailer is not setting you back too badly and on the big picture a report of
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an accident on the southbound side of 95 at the betsy ross bridge. and you see that northbound 95 we are jammed as well typical from the walt whitman bridge all the way out to allegheny. the vine street expressway is crowded along with the schuylkill expressway, and the blue route, we have growing congestion there. i want to take you to york road and street road. and traveling out now into willingboro on route 130 southbound approaching ridgeboro road the right lane is blocked because of an accident. but the 42 freeway crystal clear. i'll have father-in-law update in the next half hour. >> all right gina thank you. still to come on "action news" at 4:00, a human chain reaches from the shore all the way out to the ocean to save the lives of a family who got caught in a dangerous rip current.
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strangers came together in the surf off panama city beach to save a family be creating a human chain which roberta says that some of her family members including her sons got caught in a rip current and others she was with ran in to help and they got into trouble themselves and people on the beach jumped into action and joined hands to make the rescues. >> we got caught in the currents and our mom had to go in after me and my brother. and the people made a human
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chain and pulled us out. >> well mom, roberta will be forever grateful for the people that saved her family's lives. there is a push to bring the summer olympics to the united states. the goal is to bring the games to los angeles in 2024. city leaders presented their bids to the committee today in switzerland. l.a. is competing against paris. and the committee may award two future olympics at the same time allowing both cities to host consecutive games in 2024 and 2028. the big question is which city gets which date? >> we are likely entering the fourth heat wave of the year and aaa is warning of the extreme dangers of hot cars. we got our firsthand real time look in wilmington, delaware, as to how hot it can get in a car on a 90 plus degree day today.
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within a few minutes, the temperature inside of the car was 134 degrees. some items placed in just for a show and tell, the chocolate nearly a liquid within a matter of moments and crayons were melting and sliding. it takes just 15 minutes for a child left inside of a hot vehicle to suffer life-threatening brain, liver and kidney injuries, never leave a child alone in a car for a minute and never in any weather conditions and always look before you lock. if you think there is a chance you might forget. do something to remind yourself. like setting an alarm or posting post-it notes. >> and leave a bag in the backseat that forces you to go to the back and you'll see the child there. >> so far this year we have seen 19 deaths across the country due
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to children being left if hot cars. >> and of those 19 deaths 10 of them have happened since memorial day weekend. aaa says call 911 immediately if you happen to notice a child noticed unattended in a car. and make sure you get your vehicle checked and serviced and running up to speed and standing this summer heat. >> all right alicia, thank you. clothing maker abercrombie and fitch has taken themselves off the market. more people choosing to shop at lower cost stores like h&m and forever 21. abercrombie says that sales remain strong at the hollister bran but sales slummed at abercrombie and fitch. and chick-fil-a is
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celebrating cow appreciation day and giving away free food with people in a cow costume. kids receive a free kids meal if they dress up. 7-eleven is giving away free slurpee drinks today to celebrate the chain's 90th birthday. the 16th straight year that the company did this on july 11th, they expect to hand out 9 million free small slurpees. >> i love a slurpee. >> i have never had one. >> we'll change that tonight. >> remember slush puppies. >> it could give me brain freeze in four seconds. >> it's a perfect night for a slush out there. to cool you off. looking at stormtracker 6 live double scan as you see from the
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ohio valley and pittsburgh, scattered storms passing through the philadelphia area and most of these moving towards pittsburgh as they work to the east and for us we are dealing locally with a couple of pop-ups as we push these up here. a closer view, storms near trenton, and lawrence. out of mercer county, monmouth county and long beach island and north of surf city getting rocked by a nasty thunderstorm, and how many lightning strikes are currently in that strong in the last 15 minutes, old barney getting the worst of it at barnegat light. the lightning strikes are following it's storm and some steady heavy rain if surf city. and the rest of the evening looks quiet across the area. temperatures where we had the rain in millville. 85. and allentown no storms but 84 and 89 in philadelphia and 90 in
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wilmington but that doesn't tell the whole story. when you factor in the humidity it feels like 93 in philadelphia and not the 89 air temperature. dover 91, but you factor in the humidity it feels like 105 degrees. and 80 in allentown and break in cape may, 85 degrees. satellite 6 along with action radar a lot of clouds, the atmosphere is not clear whatsoever. we look to the west for the boundary and on and off clouds and stray storms and that continues into the early evening showers tonight and most of us stay dry and warm and on the sticky side. 76 for a low in philadelphia and 70 in allentown and 73 in millville. future tracker 6 as we go through the evening showers, 7:00 once it's off the coast it stays quiet in the area. as we get into wednesday morning a lot of clouds and a dry start to wednesday, going into tomorrow afternoon, much like today. it's quiet across 90% of the
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area and some stray storms 5:30 popping up in a few locations. so what to expect the next two days, the heat and humidity continues to build it peaks on thursday and heat index topping 100 and higher than that. a stray storm possible both days. your four day at 4:00 forecast. low in the mid-90s, heat index, both wednesday and thursday, and as we get into friday. very humid and very active at 81, we clear out saturday the humidity drops at 84. >> we'll work on that slurpee as well. >> appreciate it. still to come on "action news" at 4:00, we'll show you a huge catch made by a shocked fisherman in hawaii. and the best travel destinations here in the u.s. and abroad broken down in what's the deal.
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improved their gamed thanks to expert instructors. temple university held a one day sports camp. they boosted their skills with soccer, gymnastics and crew. the sports complex was open for students grades 4 through 8. fresh produce off the farm was available to buy. this farm stand at glassboro high school. open every tuesday, wednesday and thursday now through august 10th, the hours are 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 in the afternoon. this efforts benefits local farmers by selling their products and the kids learn valuable skills. the man vacationing in hawaii has quite the fish tale to tell. no exaggeration necessary. >> it jumped out of the water. >> this is what they saw yesterday. 600 pounds of of marlin.
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he pulled the imagine authority fish abort their boat after a 50 minute fight to reel it in. 600 pounds was an estimate. it was too big to put on the scale. love it. more to come on "action news" at 4:00, including a look at philadelphia crime. what is up and what is down, ahead. and if you look to travel for less stay tuned we help you plan the next vacation with a month to month guide for the cheapest destinations in the u.s. and abroad. grill. and they're done. you think he cares if i smoke ribs for six hours? what? what? summer made easy at amazing prices. only at giant.
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hello again 4:30 now and "action news" continues with video that police would like you to see today. what a group of kids were caught doing inside of a south philadelphia school. plus missing men mystery. what authorities said when asked if they have reason to believe four young men missing since last week were still alive? >> and when it comes to gratuity who do you think the best tippers are. a survey is out and the results may surprise you. what could be called one step forward and several large steps back when it comes to
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crime in philadelphia. police say though the number of violent incidents dropped slightly this year the number of murders keeps climbing and vernon odom is covering the story for us and live in juniata with a look at what may be causing the spike. >> sharrie they are the same old staples of big city crime, poverty, hopelessness and drugs. that is it in a nutshell. overnight along german town avenue, in the 5,000 and 5200 blocks, two shootings in the space of a half hour inside of chinese takeout businesses two wounded. and if the heart of summertime police statistics show that violence at property crimes are happening at virtually the same rate as last year actually down
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1%. >> we are down property crimes 1% and down in violent crimes, in regards to shootings up is% from last year. >> but last there was 134 homicides but for 2017, 163 so far. but the number of shootings is up only by 1%. >> about the same number of people were shot this year but more people were shot unfortunately die compared to last year. >> the 24th and 25th police districts is once again where the homicides are more concentrated than any where else in town. with all of that said and the numbers to ponder how safe to people file in their neighborhoods. >> there is a lot of things going on around here people getting shot and killed and murders. i don't see too much because i am inside of the house all the time. >> i keep my distance from it, i
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try to drive everywhere i can. >> do you ever go out at night? >> no, not at all. >> brian, i'm be back at 5:30 with a look at the city's crime rate mid summer when the violence and mayhem seem to always peak. vernon odom, channel 6 "action news." now, to the latest on the breaking news we are following closely for days now. chopper 6 hd live over lower york road in salisbury township. where the state and local and federal law enforcement is searching for more than a day looking for any sign of four missing men and now big that back hole loader, digging section bisection on this huge swath of land to see if anything exists underground. we continue to search. 19-year-old jimmy patrick
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disappeared last wednesday. and 22-year-old mark sturges and 22-year-old mark and 21 -- went missing last friday. it may be related to the case but found nothing so far. bucks county da mike weintraub believes they are victims of foul play but is not giving up hope. >> do you have reason to believe the four boys are still alive? >> yes, anything is possible. i have hope. i think it's important to hang on to hope until there is no room left for it. >> authorities are rested this man, 20-year-old cosmo dinardo on an unrelated weapons offense, his family owns the farmland and another property that was searched. dinardo is a person of interest in this case. and the da says that bail is set at 10% of of a million dollars because he is considered a flight risk.
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stay founed for the latest developments out of bucks county and we'll bring you the latest on the search for the missing. a former lehigh valley teacher is charged with connection of sending explicit snap chat message to a student. this is 29-year-old, the northampton man is accused of sending lewd messages to three girls at whitehall high school where he taught until february. he will be formerly arraigned on a number of charges including felony, unlawful contact with a minor next week. police launched an investigation where a man was hurt in an arrest in philadelphia. this shows officers trying to take the suspect into custody early yesterday morning. at one point you see the officers appear to slam the man into the pavement, as others try to keep the growing crowd away. seconds later the suspect is seen falling to the ground as an officer tries to load him in eye
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police car. another officer is seen swinging the man around and hitting his head on what appears to be a pool there in the middle of the street and the man received medical attention and vest gafrts have not released his name and what if anything he will be charged with people scene in this video allegedly caused damage to the saint monica's school. first on friday and then on saturday. at some point they vandalized and robbed the school's bowling alley in the basement. they opened all the vending machines to steal the coins inside. sara bloomquist has the full story at 6:00. turning to the forecast and ways to keep cool as we get into the 90s. that is more difficult as the heat heads this way. >> it's not until saturday
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morning or so when we drop the heat and humidity and nowhere at nighttime dealing with the pop-ups that have occurred in southeastern parts of new jersey. as we look now at stormtracker 6 live double scan the storm in long beach island a couple of showers and storms off the coast and it's quiet at this point across the area on stormtracker 6 live double scan. but as we look there at satellite and radar, there is still stuff to the west and that falls apart in pittsburgh and state college as it works to the west and east breaking out after a decent amount of clouds in spots this afternoon. as we go into the day thunderstorms that pop are isolated and mainly philadelphia you see to the north and the poconos and they could contain heavy rain tomorrow afternoon and gusty winds. and the big story is excessive heat and a watch for thursday not tomorrow for the highly
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urbanized area downingtown and trenton and mount holly to glassboro where the feels like temperature will hit 100 or higher here during the day on thursday. >> we'll talk about when the excessive heat and humidity breaks. how low do the temperatures go, we'll have it coming up in just a little bit. the jersey shore is getting ready for one of the biggest moussusic events for the summer. the beach concert series. we got a behind the scenes tour of the venue on the beach and boardwalk, pink tomorrow and brantly gilbert on thursday and closes out with rough riders and friends concert on august 3rd. a new study shows medication errors could be on the rise in the united states and may not be your doctor's fault. rick williams is live in the newsroom with more on this one. >> not the doctors fault at all,
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according to this study it points to consumers making the mistake of what they are putting in their own bodies and the number of mistakes has only gotten worse in recent years, coming up tonight in health check, ali gorman breaks down the numbers and common mistakes you should avoid. >> coming up tonight at 5:00 a new push to give kids in philadelphia a running start on their health and the program lunched by mayor kenney for some of the smallest residents. just some stories we are following for you on "action news" at 5:00. >> thank you rick. first responders in south jersey are asking residents to roll up their sleeves and help them save lives. the fire department in ocean city is teaming up with the red cross for the battle blood drive.
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the friendly competition encourages people to join their local police and fire departments to donate blood and the winning department earns a plaque and bragging rights. we feature a new episode of our online series, hidden philadelphia. we go deep below a landmark you have seen. it's it's fairmount water work as long the schuylkill river. it was once one of the country's most visited tourist attractions and has another secret well below the surface. go to 6abc.com/hidden philadelphia to find out what makes this place so special and check out the rest of our hidden philadelphia videos while you are there at the site. >> learn something about the city we think we foe so well. >> pretty cool. if you plan a vacation, stick around we'll help you pick a destination and the time to travel based on the best deals. >> and how you vote to how you live when it comes to leaving a tip. which segment of the population do you think is the most
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figure out who is responsible. a thief in london was unaware of his crime was being watched until his decision left him on the ground. surveillance video of affluent street in west london. you see the thief rum able through the suv that is not his. the officer chases the guy down, knocking him over with his car door. no cuffs needed. police are watching this guy through the close circuit camera, and ready to pounce. and the man is sentenced to six months in prison. big talkers now and we start with a cruise ship tragedy begging a big question when someone dies if international waters who is responsible? larry and christie hammer from nebraska died after smoke filled their cabin on a river boat cruise through south america. now their family is fighting to change a nearly 100-year-old law
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that would prevent them from holding anyone accountable. it's called the death on the high seas act to provide relief for widows of sailors killed at sea. it could be used today to protect the company running this cruise ship. international expeditions and make them liable for nothing except for the funeral expenses of this family. >> there is no place else in the world that you can kill somebody and really have no consequence. other than international waters. >> the cruise line is defending its safety record and now members of congress is looking at the nearly century old law. when it comes to tipping it turns out that some of us are more generous than others and one survey fines that it can actually be broken down by your gender, zip code and your political party. credit cards.com examined the gratuity habits and found the
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most generous are men and republicans and people that live in the northeast. with the average tip around 20% coming from members of those groups. at the other end they found that women, and democrats and southerners leave less. they say the most disturbing find is this, no matter who you are or live one in six doesn't leave any gratuity at all. >> finally a burning fashion debate brought to you by pit bull. here is mr. worldwide performing at the home run derby he wore his marlins national jersey tucked in with the belt and pants and twitter users had a field day with this, wondering why is the jersey tucked in when he is not a player. they are not part of a uniform.
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just white pants. a true baseball fan never tucks the jersey into the pants. >> he says jerseys are suppose to be tucked in. i thought the players did the tuck and then the fans didn't do the tuck? >> he is mr. miami he does all kinds of wow fashion like the white pants. i'm sure matching shoes. >> all right alicia. thank you. lets get a check of the roads right now. gina is here now with the update. >> i'm a fan of the untucked shirt personally. if you travel out now an accident on the pa turnpike northeast extension. the mid county tolls are here to get on the blue route. a big delay and we have the two right lanes blocked and the two left lanes are seeing by and the northbound gaper delay. southbound look out for a crash
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it's involving multiple vehicles as well. we have a lot of tractor trailers on the scene and give yourself time if that is where you are traveling. we have a lot of slow speeds on the roosevelt boulevard boulevard and see how crowded it is on 95 and ed sheeran is at the wells fargo center. that will be crowded and an accident. it is on the southbound side right here you can see the flashing lights. if you are traveling out again, 95 southbound just after the betsy ross bridge. that left lane is blocked and if you try to make your way through it's a backup there. it's just that northbound side we have the backup. >> thank you. meteorologist, adam joseph, standing by with the exclusive accuweather forecast. next.
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if you think it's hot today -- >> stick around. >> not just the heat it's oppressive. the human slows you down. you want to take breaks like these folks that were in franklin square earlier today in center city. the fountain looks nice and fresh wonder if they are having a milk shake or hamburger. really refreshing from that vantage point. another refreshing vantage point sky 6 hd live as we spy on folk there's enjoying the sand in cape may getting a nice breeze off the ocean you see white caps as well. we have a sea breeze kicking in bringing down the temperatures there. it's still human at the shore as well. the heat index in cape may.
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78 in beach haven lower there because of the thunderstorm in a passed through and 95 at the atlantic city airport and 93 in wilmington and feeling like 93 in lancaster. as we look at the heat index through the day tomorrow on wednesday. 90 at 10:00 in the morning and feels like the low 90s at lunch time and then upper 90s going into tomorrow afternoon. and these numbers will climb even more as we get into the day on thursday. as we take a look at stormtracker 6 live double scan showers and downpours and storms in parts of long beach island and cumberland county and mercer county, everything at this point is off the coast and you see to the west we are not tracking anything and should stay quiet now as we go through the evening hours. stuff firing up to the west and all of this will fall apart as it works to the east and seeing sunshine mixing with cloud cover now and as we look to the west. it's unstable and a stalled front brings ripples of energy at times through the rest of the
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week. warm and humid with a stray thunderstorm that could pop-up and most of us stay dry. low temperatures in the 70s with the west wind. and front is to the north tomorrow and hot and humid, air temperature and a spotty storm and most of those storms if they pop in philadelphia to the north tomorrow and southern areas today, and on thursday it's front closes in and hot and tropical 96 degrees, evening and overnight thunderstorms with a wave of energy. that is when the heat index will peak, 99 or so trenton and philadelphia. 101, 4:00 in the afternoon and dangerous uncomfortable on thursday and to beat the heat and humidity the shore tomorrow mid to upper 80s sun and clouds and muggy with the ocean at 69 and low risk for rip currents and even touching 90 degrees down at the beaches of delaware tomorrow with the ocean 76 down
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there. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast most of the day is quiet with clouds and hazy sunshine ain stray storm 92, and oppressive and quiet most of thursday 95 degrees and the storms could hold off until the evening or overnight hours of thursday. friday is the active day with numerous downpours and storms, 81 as we try to wipe everything out of here setting up for a less humid weekend sunny and nice and 80s for highs and monday and tuesday not bad with temperatures climbing a bit into the upper 70s. so really the pick, the weekend here with the lower humidity and comfy temperatures. >> thanks adam. >> you pick a month and we'll tell you the cheapest place to travel coming up. adam as his month. we'll give you the details in what's the deal. award winning engine. the volvo xc90.
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the most awarded luxury suv of the century. visit your volvo dealer today and get up to $4,500 in allowances. with some big news about type 2 diabetes. you have type 2 diabetes, right? yes. so let me ask you this... how does diabetes affect your heart? it doesn't, does it? actually, it does. type 2 diabetes can make you twice as likely to die from a cardiovascular event, like a heart attack or stroke. and with heart disease, your risk is even higher. you didn't know that. no. yeah. but, wait, there's good news for adults who have type 2 diabetes and heart disease. jardiance is the only type 2 diabetes pill with a lifesaving cardiovascular benefit. jardiance is proven to both significantly reduce the chance of dying from a cardiovascular event in adults who have type 2 diabetes and heart disease and lower your a1c. jardiance can cause serious side effects including dehydration. this may cause you to feel dizzy, faint, or lightheaded, or weak upon standing.
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vakes are top of mind if you time it right grab a great deal. booking.com shows us the destination for the right time of year for the right price. looking for a last minute trip this month. for domestic travel boston is the best bet. the lowest you'll see all year and internationally your best deals come in sydney australia because it's winter there but it's their winter not ours, only in the 60s there this week. so it's kind of balmy, not too bad but you could save 44% off. and next month consider a quick drive right up to new york city, the final week in august is the cheapest with many travels heading to beaches and shores. but international travel. next month consider berlin germany. an average room goes for $100 a
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night. and 40% off in orlando where disney prices are slashed because kids head back to school and they drop the prices there. and abroad it's slow season in roam, and many europeans take off the month of august. you don't have as much competition in september and in case you were wonder the best time to visit hawaii, booking.com says hotels 40% off the first week of february. something to think about. >> definitely. never been to hawaii. maybe february it is. thank you. that will do it for "action news" at 4:00. for brian taff and alicia vitarelli, i'm sharrie williams. join me and brian tonight and every night for a full hour of "action news" at 10:00.
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tonight officials say they are still short of answers but there is a person of interest in the case. and police are searching acres of property owned by his family in hopes of cracking the case. it's tuesday night and the big story is the unsolved mystery in salisbury township. chopper 6 hd is over the search scene along route 202, they are searching 90 acres of land today. bob brooks live now with the latest on this investigation. >> reporter: rick and monica, what i want to point out is that in his latest press conference, the da wants to solve this crime. that means something illegal has happened here. it's just a matter of what has happened here. >> he says the biggest investigation ever in bucks county. >> that i have been involved with and i have been here 25 years or so. that comment to make the severity of the
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