getting a live look in center city philadelphia summarizing the scene over the course of our sunday especially after about lunchtime. rain pouring down greatly reduced visibility and we have heavier cell currently moving through center city, philadelphia, it's moving east. so next up, gloucester city to haddenfield, cherry hill and running immediate and deptford continues east. also watch for imbedded lightning. we have seen heavy rain primarily across the southern half of delaware valley over the last several hours. strongest weather we have moving through delaware and parts of jersey shore there's a flash flood warning in effect until 9:00 for kent county, delaware. good news is though the heaviest rain is starting to now move out of delaware. you notice some cities included in the flash flood warning in the last couple hours smyrna to dover, river view, farming ton. millford included within the flash flood warning and good time to stay over the roads. this is three hour loop. you can see how long that heavy rainfall persist add cross parts of kent county, delaware and now this heavy cell is

shower, just trying to make its way into center city philadelphia. rainfall, very light, in intensity, could see isolated shower or sprinkle really over the next couple of hours, clouds hanging around into the 9:00 hour. decrease clouds into lunchtime , 93 by the end of the day today under mostly sunny sky, and shore forecast looking pretty good, although today will be the hot day down the shore, so prepare for that. with high temperature justin near 90 degrees, but by sunday, the end of the weekend, beautiful beach weather, with high temperatures in the low 80s. >> yes, that's right, now, how many i at this drops too over the next few days, but still stays pretty warm even over the next several days, talk about that in a little bit. accident stacking up across the region moving into prime time rush hour. to 95, upside, of girard point bridge. we have an accident, taking out the one lane here. bit of gaper delay. just some slow go. and i'm sure that will back up little bit toward the airport. love the penndot trying to twist the camera on you. take y

take a look out at old city philadelphia. this is fifth and market. a busy afternoon wine not. omfortable out there. 92 in the city. 76 in the poconos. 89 in trenton. and down the shore little bit of a mix of everything. ocean city 90. the boardwalk in ac86. you see the cool spot the southern end of lbi beach haven roaring in at 81 degrees. dew points falling with lower humidity in the wake of a cold front. the only thing you'll notice with this cold front is lower humidity. look at it the poconos at 57 quite comfortable little muggy is philadelphia but still oppressive in the 70s in millville and dover. but the humidity will lower during the late night hours. we have two tropical depressions to watch. tropical depression number eight and number 91 right here in the gulf of mexico. both of these will become tropical storms within the next 24 to 48 hours. so one will be her pipe and the other one was will be ian in honor of iain page. >> you can see tropical depression eight coming close to hatteras and moving out to sea. this will create some rough surf down the shore over the n

unfortunately, right over chris' party there in center city philadelphia.his line extends through chester and all the way down claymont, delaware, and it's moving across the river into south jersey. so you may hear a few rumbles of thunder but general just pockets of heavy rain moving into south jersey tonight and it will be did he say is he pating during the early morning hours. update you on tropical storm fiona you may have heard about this storm with maximum wind of 45 miles an hour moving toward the northwest. the good news, it will lose strength become a tropical low and stay far to the east of even bermuda as it takes a northerly turn over the next couple of days. lows to night in the city in the 70's. in the suburbs 68. around of rain moving south and east that was south jersey overnight. tomorrow 90 degrees again. hot and humid. down the shore looking good. a chance of a few spotty showers saturday. late storm sunday but i think you'll get your beach day in and look at that land breeze and very comfortable by monday. ocean water temperatures mainly

that looks nice right there we are looking nice in center city philadelphia even if you are stuck in the city or just a few puffy cumulus cloud, high clouds in there and good bit of sunshine your temperature right now 81 degrees feeling like 82. not too humid. southwest wind at 8 miles an hour but that southerly component to the wind flow will increase moisture as we head into tonight and for the day tomorrow. temperatures right now we are cool in the poconos 73 degrees. hanging on to 07's in berks count which cloud cover, 80 degrees in millville as we take a closer look down the shore. we have a nice sea breeze kick nothing ocean temperature 77 degrees. holding us up to 77 degrees and a 76 degrees right now at barnegat light house. how it will feel today is not bad but as we head in the day tomorrow that oppressive humidity, returns, but it is only brief as we head into sunday humidity levels drop back off fan and stay on the lower side by august standard as we head into monday not feeling too bad to end the weekend. for second half of the day becoming more humid mostly sun toy partl

family tells me it they have decided or even discusses to file a civil lawsuit against the city of philadelphia. in center city, i'm vernon odom, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. >>> a big job fair had the ballroom at bally's in atlantic city bustling. caesars entertainment was trying to fill 500 open spots at the atlantic city, philadelphia and baltimore casinos, over 200 jobs are at the baltimore horseshoe casino location. some were being hired on the spot. >> there was move-in day for the class of 2020 at philadelphia's largest universities, thousands of freshman moved into to temple and the university of pennsylvania. they came with everything from clothes and microwave ovens and lots of electronics, at penn teams of volunteers helped to do the heavy lifting and they helped to do the new phase of life but they will miss their families. >>> coming up tonight a barbecue in camden today aimed to help the homeless in more ways than one. and a new player to the red skins roster had a response to the eagles. >> a beautiful end to another spectacular day, looking live from ocean city from th

affect your commute if you are relying on the regional rail system and departing from center city, philadelphia. riders will have to buy tickets before boarding at any station in philadelphia between 3:00 and 6:30 this afternoon and evening. septa made the move because it's scheduling issues after the loss of more than 100 structurally deficient rail cars. >>> all right, time now for a check on the roads with nbc 10 first alert traffic reporter jessica boyington. the camera behind you is moving and probably looking for an incident that you're going to tell us about. >> yes. what's happening here on 95, it's one of the only things we've seen so far today that made any real delays and that's their slow-moving maintenance vehicles. construction vehicles making their way down the southbound side of 95. it started around the street road and headed southbound. now they're headed toward center city, so that's why we see a little bit of a slowdown with lane restrictions, because they just have this point up ahead. 29 minutes right now southbound. but that's not anything too serious. we're also seeing s

philadelphia fire department. a funeral service will be held at the same church today at 11:00 a.m. >>> the city of philadelphia iseduce accidental shootings involving children by giving away gun locks. this is in response to a new law in the city that requires guns to be locked when not in use. the giveaway will be at rhodes play ground at 75th and lansdowne avenue today from 6:00 to 8:30 and tomorrow at 32nd and cumberland. >>> tonight is national night out. >> that's right. in montgomery county, officials got an early start for it. members of several police departments from across the county spent time hanging out with neighbors, kids, enjoying live entertainment and carnival rides. >>> attorney general loretta lynch will help kick off the 33rd national night out in detroit. she's expected to discuss the need for strong positive relationships between communities and police. millions of people in all 50 states are expected to take part in tonight's festivities featuring block parties, cookouts and parades. >>> happening today, north wildwood city council will decide if voters will get a chance to say if they wan

he came to philadelphia from new york city where he was second in command.ved on to head up the miami police department. >>> a judge is done hearing witness testimony after day three of jerry sandusky's bid for a new trial. the last person to take the stand, the man who prosecuted the case he told the judge does he not believe the man who settled with penn state over a molestation claim is the same person that someone saw sandusky molesting in a shower. his testimony heard sandusky tries to get his charges dropped or new trial. the defense team tour the former assistant football coach is hoping that this person who settled with penn state described as a victim in court records is not actually a victim. the judge did not say when he would rule. >>> first impression which is be crucial especially on a first date. >> but one pennsylvania man may have been trying a little too hard to impress and it landed him in the hospital. police say the university of pittsburgh student took his date to the rooftop of a pittsburgh building, then decided to try to impress her

in old city philadelphia you can see some traffic a lot of people out and about.ause it is so pleasant. we're looking at very dry weather at least through this weekenend into the weekend. fox future cast tracking clouds but nothing of any consequence. by thursday, we'll see some cloudiness to the north and west of the city with some showers ahead of a front, but pretty much evaporate as they move toward and through the city of philadelphia. friday the same thing. some clouds moving through with an actual front. but not much. maybe a widely scattered shower or thunderstorm with that particular front. just can't seem to get any consistent rain back into the region. it just stays high and dry. tomorrow the high 87 degrees which is 2 degrees above the normal of 85. it's still will be comfortable. the humidity pumps um on thursday and so does the heat near 90 we make it back to 99 degrees on friday the heat index near 100. saturday hot and humid the same for sunday. that would make it another heat wave. the heat rolls on for monday with a high of 91. tuesday 87. and sh

on track amid signs of kay cross in the g.o.p. >>> a live look from our roof camera in center city philadelphiar beautiful day. don't get used to it. heat and humidity will be back before you know it. today is august 4th good morning i'm jim donovan. >>> it is august, relax. >> i don't mind heat but not humidity. >> i'm brooke thomas. lauren casey and meisha johnson are keeping an eye on things this morning good morning. >> it is summer and i know we will be just complaining in january, we know what is coming. >> of course. >> every day, right. well, good morning, roadways are looking good but we have a car fire out there. an accident is clearing. we will updates in a

for some strong even isolated severe storms much of the day delaware valley including center city philadelphian a marginal risk of severe weather for our sunday. talk about the timing of these storms for our last day of the weekend and then some much more beautiful weather to look forward to next week all that coming up in your full forecast in just a few. >> lauren, thank you very much. >>> the investigation continues tonight into the bizarre death of a penn state communications professor ronald bet figure. police say the 56-year-old were you was murdered in attempt to profit from his death much his body was found at the bottom of the hanson quarry in center county on wednesday. police say had he push off an 80-foot cliff by george. he lived with bet figure and his girl friend. his sitter said she had nothing to do with the murder. >> not at all. not even 1% do you believe my sister would have done that. >> she admitted to luring bet figure to the area with the idea they would harvest marijuana plants. in western pennsylvania three men died. another was injured when a boat overturned on the a

beach is packed on this saturday and that is the place to be but pleasant conditions in center city philadelphiat pretty warm but right where we should be at around this time of year, it is august. 88 degrees, south wind up around 12 miles per hour so at least we have a bit of a breeze but that southerly component in the wind flow is driving in the conditions. temperatures generally in the mid to upper 80's, still hanging on to some 70's in mount pocono and we have that sea breeze kicking in so bring something cooler air, some relief down the shore, 82 degrees right now in ocean city and we're sitting at 83 degrees right now in stone harbor but dewpoints, they tell us about that humid factor, the humidity it really has returned to center city philadelphia surrounding counties especially to the south down the shore and parts of delaware not feeling too bad up towards the lehigh valley and poconos but that will change as we head into the day tomorrow. it will be a humid day but then by tuesday conversely, the humidity just drops out of the atmosphere. our comfort index awesome, with dewpoints not

oh, you know what else there isn't a single one of in inner city philadelphia, a-- solo album. something sting solo album but i don't think sting is worried about album fraud. i will say this, if there is one brother out there kicking it to fields of gold, props to that guy. in a jealous sky. ♪ when you walk in fields of gold. >> trevor: so where were we. donald trump said the u.s. elections are going to be rigged. and you know what, i know like most things donald says that sounds crazy, but still the man is a presidential candidate. the same way this is a news show. so as a news show, we have to investigate the same. and it turns out they are true. donald trump is right. we've uncovered evidence of election rigging throughout the system. for instance, there is something i discovered, it's called gerrymandering. and i can tell from your silence that you are shocked. and you should be. >> the practice of redrawing maps to find friendly voters has been known as gerrymandering. >> in both parties there are congressional districts that are set up by the states to keep the parties p

but in the city, philadelphia, it is pretty warm.t's 85 in penns port, 84 in society hill even at this hour. but 73 in andorra, a little cooler air starting to come in, and it might actually feel a little bit more comfortable tomorrow. still going to be relatively hot the next couple days, then weaver' gwe've got a triple of 92s, looks like another heat wave. if we get to 90 on sunday, it could be an extended heat wave, but it's not going to last to monday. it's going to be cool at night, comfortable during the labor day weekend. especially the first part. but, as we end august, the warmest august in the recorded history of philadelphia looks like a pretty sure bet. and for tomorrow, pretty sure bet that the humidity's not going to be as big a deal. look at this. summerton for example, high temperature 90, going to feel like 90. upper may field, 90, going to field like 89, easton, feeling like 89. the humidity's going to be down many but at the beaches and parts of delaware, rehoboth beach, feeling like 88. now the weekend forecast i

getting a live look at center city philadelphia, all is quiet. winds out of the south, though, driving in some of the moisture. temperatures are mild all across the region, 71 degrees, to wake up to right now in mount pocono, at 73 millville. starting off 75 degrees in dover. so we have the warmth, humidity, dew point give us good picture how stick at this feels when you step outside. when the dew point is around the 07 degrees mark, it feels very uncomfortable. unfortunately, that humidity will stick with us through the day today. we do though have cold front working through the delaware valley. really as we speak, slow moving front generating few showers, sprinkles, up toward the lehigh valley, also this more for middle south working into berks county, heads up reading down into new morgan, see little light rain, possibly moderate rainfall as we head into about the neck hour. future weather showing us projection of the next couple of hours. this particular model might be little aggressive. could see few light showers, sprinkles work into the i9

center city philadelphia still at 64 degrees but a lot of those areas up to the north and west in thelot more of that down to the south and east in central south jersey, 54 in hammonton and vineland, 56 in woodbine, 56 in cinnaminson and looks like more like the upper 50's from hockessin down to smyrna delaware. if you're planning the next 12 hours trying to get things together its a great day to get things done. 64 degrees by 8 o'clock, 72 by 10 o'clock. you got shopping or something to do this morning, fantastic morning for that. great for lunch on a park bench again, 78 degrees under the sun there and your high is going to be 82 degrees with low humidity. less of a breeze than yesterday but still a very nice one out there, tam. >> okay, thank you, david. >>> you can find the seven-day forecast and a live look at storm tracker6 double scan radar any time of day that you need to on our web site. just go over to 6abc.com/weather. new here on "action news," a steamy rendezvous mixed with marijuana got a real estate agent in big trouble with police in texas. acting on a tip police say t

has been arrested by police. >>> philadelphia police need your help finding these two men wanted for the armed break-ins at a dozen asian-owned businesses around the city. campbell and bowen are accused of threatening people who live inside the homes attached to the businesses at gunpoint in some cases tieing them up. anyone with information call the police. >>> joe biden is in philadelphia to show support forehillary clinton. biden and clinton are attending a rally in biden's hometown of scranton. the vice president is expected to promote clinton's plan for the economy and education. >>> later today, republican candidate donald trump will make a foreign policy speech in ohio. else expected to layouted plan to combat isis and prevent terror attacks in the u.s. the plan is expected to include banning individuals from country with heavy terrorist ties. some argues that the u.s. government cannot adequately vet sees are -- visa documents. >>> tensions remain high in milwaukee after several nights of violent protest, the national guard has been called in to restore order. >>> a 4-year-old girl was saved after being grabbed by a mountain lion. hear how her

city. fox 29's dawn timmeney live outside philadelphia's city ha hall.n, well apparently cockroaches are smart they're trying to get out of the heat, too. >> reporter: yeah, absolutely. it's kind of a gross problem it turns out these steamy conditions are the perfect recipe for cockroaches to multiply and it's causing a big headache for some area restaurants. >> no, i never happen to me. it just this is the first time. >> reporter: raul castro is beside himself the city health department shut down his south philadelphia restaurant on friday. an inspection found roaches on the walls and lurking behind pipes. castro is owned plaza garibaldi on 900 block of washington avenue for 14 years. the notice and $300 fine now right smack on his front door. >> i don't know if it's the weather but they came out. it's really really hot. it's been extremely hot for last couple weeks. >> reporter: experts say the heat is contributing to the rise in roaches. exterminator matt kelly of prodigy pest solutions says when the temperature soars above 80 degrees the roaches actu

♪ >> live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 11. >>> we begin with breaking newsonight out of camden. this is video just into fox 29 from the bb and t pavilion some sort of fence collapsed you can see the crowd watch as someone is brought out on stretcher wiz khalifa and snoop dog are performing to night. the show stopped. we have not confirmed exactly how many people were hurt. authorities are not yet saying how serious the injuries are. of course we'll stay on top of this story and bring you an update as soon as we have one. >>> federal and state investigators fanning out across the region today to search properties connected to well-known union leader john dougherty. good evening i'm dawn timmeney. investigators could be seen swooping in and out of dougherty's properties all day with boxes full of evidence, but it's still not clear tonight exactly what they were looking for. fox 29's dave kinchen joining us live now in center city. dave? >> reporter: dawn, we do know that john dougherty and his attorney looked over the search warrant while investigators went in

sky force 10 is live over philadelphia city hall, where fbi is also raiding the offices of city council -- -- northeast philadelphia district office. we have a lot to cover and we have a lot of reporters working on this. nbc 10 live team coverage of these raids. we begin with nbc 10's rosemary connors. she is live outside dougherty's home in south philadelphia. rosemary, what are you seeing there? >> reporter: tracy, all morning long, investigators have been inside two homes here on the 1900 block east moinminhsa evidence. the brown brick home belongs to john dougherty. and the home next door, that belongs to a family member of john dougherty. investigators also inside there. oftentimes in these kind of fbi raids, you will see investigators bringing bags of evidence outside. that has yet to happen in this case. in fact, very little movement in and out of the homes, at least so far as we've seen this morning. state troopers have been positioned outside. right here on the side block, throughout the morning. in the meantime, johnny dougherty is positioned a little bit further up the block.

curfew in the city of philadelphia for 16 and 17-year-olds. he city designed the curfew to protect children from danger, in this case, gunfire. >> based on ballistic evidence we know there were at least 12 shots fired from a semiautomatic weapon. based on the grouping of the ballistic evidence we believe this was a shootout between two groups of people or two people. >> yet police did not find weapons at the scene but this morning, the owners of at least three cars are waking up and will find bullet holes in their vehicles. police have no clear description of the gunmen. they're currently reviewing private surveillance and the city's realtime crime cameras in the area. now, the teens shot as well as their parents could all be cited. because for teenagers and parents, the fines for breaking curfew is up to $300. live now in university city, monique braxton, nbc 10 news. >> thanks for the update. >>> 6:05. this is a story jessica has been following all morning. water is gushing on to roosevelt boulevard at henry avenue causing traffic issues. cre

and secondly, poverty is growing in the suburbs faster than it's growing in the city of philadelphia,munities represented by republicans, not represented by democrats. these issues -- >> not chester county. >> poverty is growing faster in the suburbs than it's growing in the city of philadelphia, and part of that's in chester county. and so, unfortunately, you know, having been in government, i've been in the crosshairs of these investigations, and the unfortunate part about it is that the smart thing for all of them to do, and these people who do more litigation than i do, is to get yourself a good lawyer and be quiet. i mean, there is nothing -- you can't -- >> and they've all, of course, said they're not guilty. >> right. >> dougherty says it's because they've had three supreme court justices elected and a mayor, and he feels like, you know, the focus is now on this success rate. >> monica, above and beyond, you know, you're both -- you both have good points, but above and beyond the politics of it, why should -- you know, george, you might have an answer to this. why should city c

♪ >> live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 11:00. >>> giant flame has been shootingut of the ground in south jersey after a gas main caught fire. that flame burned for hours just feet from the garden state parkway. it is finally out tonight. good evening to you i'm lucy noland. >>> fox 29's is a bean if kuriakose live in egg harbor township. sabina? >> reporter: lucy, we just got update from south jersey gas. they confirm this fire is now out and the gas main is secure. but still no word from ac electric or south jersey gas on how exactly a live power line came down on a guardrail right next to a busy roadway. 20-foot high flames burning for more than eight hours. well into the night. gas crews working to install new valve to starve out the fire. south jersey gas tells us a live electrical wire crashed down on to guardrail along ocean heights avenue in egg harbor township just before 2:00 thursday afternoon. officials say electric current from that line zapped through the metal guardrail and ignited an 8-inch gas main. no one was hurt but hundreds lot of power for se

. >>> this is just one of more than 200,000 ash trees in the city of philadelphia. they could be at risk of extinction. i'm anita oh with what is harming these trees and what the city is doing about it. >> and we're enjoying a sunny start to the weekend but we do need some rainfall. i'll let you know when to expect our next chance of storms and also how tropical storm gaston could have an indirect impact on the delaware valley as we head into next week. all that's coming up in your full forecast in just a couple of minutes. >> and big talkers today ahead in sports why one nfl quarterback is now refusing to stand during the national anthem before games and how the league is responding to his protest. >> ♪ amazing sleep stays with you all day and all night. sleep number beds with sleepiq technology give you the knowledge to adjust for the best sleep ever. the time is now for the biggest sale of the year, where all beds are on sale! save 50% on the labor day limited edition bed. know better sleep. only at a sleep number store. ithere's a race going on right approve tnow

this is the view from center city, from philadelphia, cape may marina. skies are breaking.o see some sunshine. sunshine will be enough to warm us into the low 80s this afternoon. right now, 69 degrees in the suburbs. low 70s for the lehigh valley, delaware, philadelphia and south jersey, 71 degrees right now. uniform temperatures, no real cool spots. piney hollow is 69 degrees and 72 in cinnaminson, 68 in princeton this morning. a cool start, a muggy start, too. no sign of any showers just yet. that's a possibility. some isolated showers are possible during the day today. possibly even a thunderstorm but most of the day it is going to be dry. as the day goes on, we'll get sunshine, 80 degrees in philadelphia. this afternoon, the suburbs will see breaks of sunshine, a slight chance of a shower in the suburbs or even in the lehigh valley. but most of the day will be dry. clouds lingering in the lehigh valley into the noontime hour for delaware, upper 70s to near 80 degrees this afternoon. a late-day shower is possible in delaware, new jersey the clouds will be thinning out. s

♪ >> live from center city in philadelphia, this is fox 29 news at 11:00. >>> we're following breakingews tonight. two children shot in south philadelphia. good evening i'm iain page. lucy is off tonight. >>> police say it all started when 13 year old boy was playing with a gun. fox 29's chris o'connell is live at children's hospital of philadelphia. chris? >> reporter: iain, right now 12-year-old girl is in stable condition here at children's hospital and just next door a 13-year-old boy is also in stable condition. both accidently shot. police responded to the 2100 block of south edding terrace in southwest philadelphia just -- after 8:40 tonight. they learn the 13-year-old boy somehow was playing with the gun and shot himself in the hand. that same bullet went through the boy's hand, striking the 12-year-old girl in the knee. police say someone took the boy to the hospital but so far they have not found the gun they believe was you've in the shoo shooting. >> we believe the theen-year-old was handling or playing with a gun when that gun discharg disc. we believe accidentally it went

philadelphia. the move comes as new city law requires guns be stored safely out of the reach of minors. >> authorities if you've got gun get a lock. fox 29's dave schratwieser was there as gun owners snapped them at philadelphia police headquarters, dave. >> reporter: lucy, thousands of people showed up at national night out events across philadelphia tonight. they enjoyed some free food and entertainment and some of them got a free gun lock. ♪ >> reporter: residents flock the national night out at the rose playground monday night along with law enforcement and city officials. all concerned about a recent string of shootings involving children playing with guns. >> too many innocent children are getting their hands on their parent's guns, mom's boyfriend gun, a gun they found in a purse or drawer. >> reporter: as they arrived they got free food arc bagful of hand outs an free gun lock. >> while this won't fix all of the problems at least we want to make sure children are safe. >> reporter: four times in the past month teenager or child has been shot or killed after they got their hands on gun. just su

as authorities now say a fourth person has died in philadelphia from heat related issues in the midst of excessive heat warning people around the city are doing anything they can to cool off. let's get out to sabina kuriakose live in dilworth park outside philadelphia city hall tonight. sabina? >> reporter: iain this is has got to be the happiest place right now in the city. these kids frolicking in the water fountains here just enjoying a good time. wow they're escaping the heat as we have been through the out the city all day today it's exactly what people are trying to do. beat the heat. but especially hard for people who work outside at strenuous jobs. isaia price heard the warnings about the heat. but he's got work to do. >> i deliver food downtown. >> oh. >> yeah. >> that's hard job to have in this heat. >> it definitely is. >> reporter: he packs as much water as he can lug on his bike. >> water bottles here, another in the back here. >> reporter: and stops in the slate shade on kelly drive telling others to heed this warnings. >> just drink. drink, drink, drink keep yourself hydrated if you don't have to be out in the heat do

show the city was already making plans to renovate the elevators inside the cjc as early as march of this year. and they did pass inspection three months later in june. however, the philadelphiaepartment of labor and industry refused to release those documents saying they're now part of the investigation into today's incident. at least 19 elevators need renovation. that will cost the city about 6 million bucks according to documents. a spokesperson for the mayor' office says that number could climb the 7.5 million. cjc opened in 1995. >>> developing to night, police are on the hunt for the man behind a sorry reece of violent crimes in juniata. investigators think this man might have also sexually assau assaulted four women killing one of them on july 12th. now cops say he snuck up behind a 24-year-old woman as she was walking along the 3800 block of jasper street and choked her until she fell unconscious. investigators say he then sexually assaulted her. they say he matches the description of the person behind three other attacks in the area. >> he's not afraid to physically assault somebody. like i said the women were beaten very very severely. they were assaulted very sever

take look at center city philadelphia. this is old city. fifth and market. a busy afternoon with temperatures once again getting into the 90s. 93 degrees. the normal high is 84. so nearly 10 degrees above normal. winds out of the north as a cold front moved through and drier air will be moving in. the high today of 93. makes it the 15th 90-degree or greater day this month it could be one of the theft augusts of all time. 93 in the city. 88 in pottstown and allentown 77 in the poconos. none in trenton and wrightstown even at the airport in atlantic city it is 93. this evening temperatures will fall through the 80s. it will be muggy into the evening. but then mild and comfortable late night at 11:00 p.m. 78 degrees. so coming up we'll talk more about that heat, when it will break, it will be a stormy end to the heat and humidity looking toward the holiday weekend and watching the tropics and howed that they could partially impact the shore this holiday week and. i'll be back with the seven day later in the broadcast. >> kathy thanks. >>> car crash in camden co

city. mid 70s philadelphia. a pair o sevens right now in allentown. temperatures for tonight we're looking at 60s and 70s. patchy fog could level but look at tomorrow. future feels like temperatures in the afternoon, 98 philadelphia. 100 in dover. coming up we'll talk much more about the timing of those saturday showers and thunderstorms plus another potential heat wave chris brewing next week. >> all right, scott, thanks. >>> local and federal authorities have arrest add man from syracuse, new york, after they say he drove down to gloucester city, new jersey, to have sex with a 14-year-old girl. 37-year-old steven epaulette tee is in jail tonight. cops say he started chatting online with an undercover officer posing as a young teen. he is charged with attempting to lure a minor. >>> prosecutors in montgomery county have charged a former gymnastics instructor with sexually assault assaulting young girl. 33-year-old daniel herb of hatboro sexually assaulted the girl from the age of eight years until 11 years old he's in jail tonight on half million dol

mayor kenney declared today philadelphia soul championship day. >> you win a big game for a big city and big time fans. all the hard work pays off we are going to enjoy it. >> the successful season put philadelphia sports in the spotlight and many hope it will spread to the other teams. >> when the soul won in 2008 the phillies won the world serieses. >> we brought the soul organization to philadelphia in 2004 and we were committed to winning and we won 70% of our games since then and two world championships. >> the team will soak in the victory and after the celebration looking forward to the next season. >> very cool. congratulations. >>> time now for a check of "action news" traffic report midweek. autumn marisa is in for matt pellman. >> we have troubles in doylestown, downed polls and wires at state street at burpee road. take state street and take a right here or avoid this lieuing lower state road. moving along at the big picture, speeds on the schuylkill expressway nice and slow on the eastbound lanes if you head down to the city, we have an earlier tractor trailer that was st

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>> live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 11. >>> barrage of bullets fired down a street full of children playing. a little boy is now in the hospital caught in the crossfi crossfire. the story developing to night as police in delaware county search for the gunman. good evening, i'm lucy noland. >>> that little boy's family heard him screaming for help. our dave schratwieser has been speaking with family members live now at chop where that six-year-old is tonight. all too familiar, dave. >> reporter: no doubt about it lucy it happened many times this summer. six-year-old was transferred here to children's hospital around 6:00 o'clock tonight from another hospital in chester. he has a gunshot wound to his hand. tonight, police are trying to identify the gunman and figure out why he opened fire on a street filled with children. >> all the kids out here freaking out. they're scared. >> reporter: neighbors say six-year-old james wright was sitting outside with his friends monday afternoon when several shots rang out in this apartment complex off eighth street in ches

philadelphia march than. money was supposed to be used for grants to improve the city. ns of thousands of dollars were used during the nutter administration to pay for a trip to rome, hotel rooms in philadelphia and some other credit card purchases. the controller says the spending was approved only by the chairwoman of the fund city representative did he say sierra peter kin-bell. >> in addition to the questionable credit card charges it appear the former chairperson also you've the marathon reserves account to fund celebration events instead of making grant awards. one example included $45,000 paid to various vendors for the mayor's 2015 tree lighting ceremony. >> controller says more in depth audit of that fund will happen soon. former mayor michael nutter released this statement earlier today it reads in part "the controller is a liar, a snake and a hypocrite. there's no truth in what he says, every expenditure was proper and for an approved purpose and he never talked to either desiree peter kin-bell or myself about any concerns ". >> questions still linger about th

the city of philadelphia has a map of cooling center and spray parks on its web site and you can find the link at six abc.com. reporting from fairmount park trish hartman, channel six "action news". >> coming in handy, thanks, chris. >>> with that said with the dangerous heat settling in the city of philadelphia is taking steps to make sure that everyone stays safe. the corporation for aging is taking calls until midnight on a heat line workers will be answering the phones throughout the weekend to connect people to resources to help them stay cool. the heat line also has a nurse, on the staff, to answer any medical questions, a mobile team is also ready for dispatch, if necessary. >> very easy, just to fall into the pattern of your body is hot, environment is hot, if you don't leave that heated environment and go to air conditioning you could run into some serious medical problems. >> heat line number to call is right there 217-65-9040. once again operators are available until midnight tonight and from 8:30 a.m. until 9:00 p.m. tomorrow. >>> stay with six abc.com/weather throughout t