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a baseball fan. see the video on media. >> and a controversial dune project too blame next on "action news." ♪ ♪ ♪ >> "action news," delaware valley's leading news program, with meteorologist melissa magee, jeff skversky, sarah bloomquist and walter perez. ♪ >> philadelphia police are now
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involved in the manhunt for a suspected murderer in delaware county. police believe he fired in overbrook park an hour earlier. sunday niect, i'm sarah bloomquist. >> and i'm walter perez. a dangerous suspect is still on the run after yesterday's shooting. annie mccormick is near the murder scene in haverford township. >> the police need the public's help locating the man schwee man surveillance video. they believe he's driving a charcoal gray four door volvo. >> the man is seen on surveillance video moments after the deadly shooting at the apartment complex. john lee was murdered as he tried to enter his friend's apartment on haverford road.
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he left the pizza shop half a block away. other surveillance video shows this man in the red hoodie walking ahead of lee before he was shot. when police released the photo last night, residents in the overbrook park neighborhood took notice and told police they recognize the man. witnesses say a gunman in a red hoodie fired at two men in a vehicle. these neighbors heard the shot. >> i heard 15 shots at least. i got my shoes on to see if anyone was laying out hoar. >here.>> scared my wife to deat. >> philadelphia police say according to witnesses, 17 shots were fired at the man after they followed him to get their
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license plate numbers. investigators are looking to see if shell casings from the philadelphia scene match the shell casings at the haverford scrien. we spoke to family member os of 29-year-old jonathan lee. they describe him as gentle, kind, hard working and the temple university graduate recently landed a job as an accountant. annie mccormick, "action news." back to you, walter. crime tape across 23 and pine street in wilmington delaware. a man was shot tonight. he was rushed to christiana hospital. no arrests have been made. >> new jersey governor chris christie got into a co confrontation with a fan at a baseball game in milwaukee. the governor was walking to his
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seat and had words with a heckler. the exchange was caught on video. >> he was going up the stairs. i yelled his name. he was past me, 30 feet away. i called him a hypocrite. i thought it needed to be said. he turned around and walked all the way back toward me and got up in my face for what seemed like a long time, probably 30 seconds or a minute. >> there has been no comment from christie's office. the governor's son andrew work in the brewer's front office. >> a house fire in delaware county inded with one person injured. firefighters were called to the block at 3:30. most of the damage was restrict today the third floor. to word on how the fire start td. >> the coast guard called off
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the sphernl search for a missin. the woman from slovakia was reported missing this morning. she had been swimming with a 23-year-old friend. the man made it to shore but the woman disappeared. the national weather service issued a warning about dangerous rip currents along the jersey shore this weekend. >> homeowners in margate are angry over a controversial dunes project. they say the heavy rain this weekend prove why the dunes do more harm than good. christie ileto to explain. >> homeowners were concerned this would cause severe drainage problems. their fears became reality. >> the snapshots are proof of
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the anger brewing. >> weekend floods left standing water where the army core of engineers are digging the dunes project. >> the water is dirty, brown, bacteria in it. >> life guards sunday put no swimming signs up to alert the public of the water's depth in some areas high as your knees. they said the water would percolate through the sand and not be a problem. it clearly is a problem. >> plaintiffs failed to prove it would cause a public nuisance and at worst would cause drainage problems factually unfounded. elaine says their concerns fell on deaf ears. wuryou were part of the suit to stop this. >> everyone was. we voted for it twice. >> does this prove what you were
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saying all along? >> of course. it's changed the coast of new jersey for ever. >> something that to be done and quick. >> for now, residents wonder how long part of their beach will be what they are now calling, lake margate. >> the dunes project won't be finished until labor day. that's one of the reasons they'll take their concerns to the board of commissioner's meeting this thursday. >> sarah? >> christie, thank you. >> time for a check of the accuweather forecast as a picture perfect day comes to an end. this is a look at what we can exprecexpect from the morning. >> coming out of a cooler week than normal, 78-degrees. 79 in philadelphia. early morning rain and flooding rain in new jersey.
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lingering cloud in the afternoon. today, with all of the sunshine, 83. that's how the new workweek will start as well. temperatures now, 71 refreshing degrees in philadelphia, 72 new york city, 60s syracuse and roanoke, charleston, richmond. no late july heat sticking in the mid atlantic, it's wiped off the coast. all compliments of high pressure, high to the west. making its journey to the south over the next couple of days avoiding humidity and cloud cover. as we take a look at the day planner tomorrow, 60s in the morning. temperatures climb in the 80s mid to late morning, toiching 8. official, 88. it's a degree heat to start the workweek. another heat wave a couple of days from now. during the heatwave, the humidity stays below oppressive.
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it comes up but not unbearable. widespread storms wait for the weekend. we talk about that next weekend. never too early to talk about a weekend. >> especially after last week. as adam mentioned, it was a perfect day for football. the eagles had their first open practice at the lynch. "action news" was there along with thousands of fans. >> it's a day thousands have been waiting for, 23,000 to be exact. it's the first open practice for fans and something the white family was not going to miss t. >> wonderful. we are bringing our group out of the here. out here. you can meet the players. rock climbing for kids, autographs and military
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appreciation day. >> military men and women were given jerseys and after practice took pictures. michael elias and his daughter mia. >> i think it's great. it's something i want today do. now that i'm home for a bit, i get to do it. >> for one family, this is more than a chance to see their favorite team practice. >> go eagles, right? >> rich and his stepson brayden are here for much needed distractions. it's an emotional time for them. spending this time means the world, the little guy got to meet carson wentz after practice. >> he's my hero. >> you can donate to the family by following a link posted on the website. bob brooks, "action news." >> atlantic city rail service is
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suspended two weeks between philadelphia and cherry hills. new jersey transit says that's how long it will take to repair a bridge on pennsauken. a garbage truck ran into the bridge damaging the tracks. three local j.c. penny stores are closing their doors tomorrow end of monday, king of prussia, willow groves and the mills stores will close forever. j.c. penny has been trying to liquidate merchandise. 5,005,000 jobs are affected. >> the birth place of america is the setting for another country's struggle. >> radio silence, the live show about the iraqi experience was held on independence mall. it featured iraqi veterans to
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illustrate iraq's journey from the 1960s to the war with isis. >> an american tourist is shot in paradise. president trump gets ready to start the week with a new chief of staff as he faces retaliation from russia for new sanctions passed by congress. >> and jeff skversky has sports when "action news" comes back. ♪ ♪
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>> it was a chaotic scene in los angeles as a car careened into a crowd. at least nine people were hurt, eight hospitalized. the driver was arrested for hit and run. witnesses caught up with him a block away and held him until authorities arrived. police have not said why the
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driver lost control but it appears to be an accident not a an act of terrorism. >> police in minnesota are pursuing new leads for a man convicted of killing a financial adviser. he is also accused of forcing employees at a senior center into a clos el before he escaped. police do not believe they know the adviser. >> president trump and his staff move forward from a cabinet shakeup there are growing concerns overseas with russia and north korea. brian clark has the latest. >> another changing of the guard as retired general john kelly officially replaces reince priebus as chief of staff.
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>> he brought kelly in for the same reason he brings in successful bim businessman. the new chief trying to calm the waters inside the white house as tensions grow overseas. the kremlin retaliating. vladimir announcing the compulsion of diplomats the largest number since the russian revolution. >> meantime mounting tensions with north korea, kim jung unsaying his arsenal has the power to strike the united states main land. in response, a show of force from u.s. warplanes as they through over north korea in a ten hour mission. >> they are barking while the wolf is at the door. this is a threat to united
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states. >> president trump pointing at china. we'll no longer allow this to continue. the president wants china which has more direct influence to apply diplomatic pressure. brian clark, abc news, new york. >> for the second time in weeks an american tourist has been shot in the turks and caicos. michael jones is now in a florida hospital after being air lifted from the islands. two men forced their way into the luxury villa jones was staying. >> when police arrived they found a security guard outside bound with his own shoelaces. only a laptop was stolen. recently a man from alabama was shot on vacation. the country's police commissioner said visitors
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should not think something should happen to then because there are criminals there. >> a team of young hath leets look at the road to victory and the championship at reach. >> and adam joseph has the seven-day forecast when we come bam. ♪ back. ♪ ♪ [ indistinct chatter ]
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>> adam back with another check of the accuweather forecast. this may go down as one of the best days of summer. >> full sunshine, low humidity, comfortable temperatures. tomorrow won't be bad either. take a look. action cam out in central city, city hall and dilworth park, everything aglow. a tranquil night, a quiet night. that's how the week will start. double scan started the week on the wet side. things have cleared up. as you can see, it's crystal
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clear everywhere. not one drop of rain in this vant age point. give it a couple of days, we see isolated storms here and there. right now, 64 at the airport. 68 cape may. a chill down the shore if you are out there this evening. may have to put on a light sweatshirt. 60 in millville. 71 comfortable, philadelphia. allentown and reading falling into the mid and upper 60s. here's your day planner as you get to monday. lots of sunshine, start to finish. low humidity, 83 for the high today. normal tomorrow, upper 80s to round out the last day of july. as we take a look at how it's going to feel, monday, 54-degrees the dewpoint. if you look at the scale, that's on the comfy side, below the 60-degree threshold. right at the threshold tuesday,
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wednesday, thursday, hitting the humid level. not going near oppressive this week at all, but you feel the difference as we get to the middle of the week compared to today, tomorrow and tuesday. high pressure, our friend now. that will continue to work south and east, high clouds thee north they dry up as they try to drop in here late tonight. as we start the morning rush tomorrow, heading eastbound, once the sunshine breaks over the horizon, sun glare but comfy. don't use if air conditioning, keep the windows down. 64 at morning, 68 at 8:00. jumping to 88 tomorrow afternoon. sunshine ruling the s but comfy. the high continues to drift south and as the atmosphere warms with the high nearby, we crack 90 tuesday.
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not too humid. down the shore tomorrow, a light breeze, not much of a sea breeze, temperatures in the 80s. the ocean like bath water, 74-degrees. cape may, 82. much of the time, the beaches in delaware are warmer than jersey. not the case tomorrow because of light winds out of the east, temperatures there in the 08s. the seven-day forecast, dry heat tomorrow, 88-degrees. tuesday, sunny, 91-degrees. wednesday, sunshine and high clouds, 92 turning humid with the humidity coming up, 1:00 wednesday. there could be scattered showers here and there trying to develop. most areas stay dry. same thursday, friday. the humidity coming up, still around 90. another heat wave on the way
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this week. a cold front saturday, numerous downpours and next week, temperatures in the mid 80s. >> much pr to come in "action news." it's time to talk football. >> hear how the players went in front of thousands of cheering fans. ♪ ♪
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and switching has never been easier. get out of your contract with up to a $500 credit to help cover your early termination fee. go to fiosgigabit.com >> jeff skversky has a check on sports. can we talk about football? can we start talking about football? >> please. after right tackle johnson made, if we win the superbowl, he wilx weeks. fans are yelling superbowl, chanting nvp at carson wentz. even nelson agholor getting a big ovation. >> eagle fans fire up for the first open practice at training
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camp, 23,000 on hand including the military. the eagles can feel the excitement and high expectations from the fans. fan kelsey calls it superbowl or bust. >> it's the only thing acceptable in this city. we have known that for a long time. >> i think we have a few big years, make the playoffs. if you win the superbowl, i'm giving out beer to everybody. >> did lane say he was giving out beer to everyone? blunt knows how to celebrate like a superbowl champ. he's won two. he had more that th than the eas combined. >> the body in the backfield, for a defender presents a problem. >> he's like a pound slasher. he has the

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