meteorologist david murphy is at the big board with all the steamy details from accuweather.had an area of high pressure over us that has shifted off the coast and you can see rain off to the north and west. >> still the temperatures are warm. even up in allentown 85. 85 in trenton better along the coastline in places like avalon and, of course, the dewpoints are higher. that were in the 50s over the weekend and now we're seeing them climb to 60 to 65 degrees in some spots higher than that. not oppressively humid but sticky over the weekend. if you're heading to the pool, it's going to be a hot one, 91 by 5:00 p.m., sun and clouds enough sun to warrant sunscreen. later on in the evening hours in particular there's a chance of thunderstorms popping up. anything that curse in the northern suburbs could be strong and gusty. i'll show you that on future tracker 6 coming up you. i meant won't be that much longer before we start to see the temperatures ditch all that is ahead off the seven day. >> frightening moments for festival goers for chicago. high winds blew over a tent and i

sky 6 hd looking at your center city skyline, meteorologist, david murphy has the latest conditions from the "action news" big board. david it's really humid out there. >> really humid again and the humidity has not gone down at all over the last 4 hours, with the cold front closer to us out west we are starting to pop some instability showers, the big one in south jersey but the one that draws your eye is the one in dover and they have a tendency to push to the north and by gettysburg this bun is pushing to the east. one could pop up in this air mass and give you problems on the roads. the wide view on stormtracker 6 live double scan, shows you the frontal boundary is out to the west and slowly advancing to the east today and tonight and in through the first part of tomorrow, in during that long time, we'll be in and out of periods with heavy downpours, 87 in philadelphia, 86 in allentown and 81 in cape may, as you mentioned it is humid and dew points are in the area and some spots in the 70s and it's still on the oppressive side. we'll be back with more on future tracker 6 on how they

with rick williams, sara bloomquist, and meteorologist, david murphy. >>> good afternoon in the news police have questioned a tour bus driver in connection with a hit and run. >>> and we have a preview of the court hearing underway right now. >>> but the big news is the statement expected to attorney general, kathleen kane, they will talk about the charges leveled against her, "action news" reporter john rawlins is live in harrisburg where kane is expected to talk this afternoon. >> reporter: good afternoon, we were told there would be a live statement by the attorney general and that would be followed by questions from reporters to the attorney general. apparently there has been a debate within the attorney general's camp, given the severity of the charges against her, we are told there may not be a question portion this afternoon. we'll have to wait and see. so how will the attorney general break her silence, will she dispute the allegations that she leaked grand jury information and lied to cover it up. prosecutors say it was a motive of attacking state prosecutors. according to t

with rick williams, sara bloomquist, and meteorologist, david murphy. >>> good afternoon, in the news this noon, authorities recover video of the suspect in a deadly bombing in bangkok, and the tribute for a philadelphia police officer killed in the line of duty, how family and friends honored moses walker this morning. >>> but the big story is the shoot that left a child in critical condition, a 10-year-old boy was shot in the head overnight in wilmington. katherine scott is following the story all morning long. >> reporter: sara, what exactly happened here early this morning remains under investigation, we know that that 10-year-old boy remains in the hospital in critical condition, police have cleared away the crime scene tape, you can see the screen they were dusting for fingerprints earlier outside of that home, there are a lot of questions that remain and so far no arrests have been made. a line of police vehicles followed the ambulance early this morning that rush aid 10-year-old boy to the hospital, just before 2:00 a.m., police were called to the 700 block of townsend place a

now, we have comfortable conditions before the humidity returns for the weekend, meteorologist, david murphy, is outside with more. pretty nice so far as we look at satellite, a lack of widespread cloud cover, we see the fair weather cumulous cloud cover pop up, up to the north and west we see more clouds develop up towards williamsport and pittsburgh and hagerstown and maryland and over the next couple of hours we look to our north and western suburbs for a couple of those making their way down in our direction they should be brief and light. 4-in philadelphia and same in washington and 81 in new york city and much cooler in binghamton, new york and even in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. dew points have dropped into the 50s in philadelphia and everywhere from everywhere from the mason dixon line north, have you to be in the 60s to even begin to feel humid and it's not that bad and it continues to drop. 83 degrees by 2:00 and a high of 85 at 3:00 and by 4:00 a similar number and by 8:00 tonight 78 and 10:00 a comfortable 74 degree reading and this afternoon into this evening, a couple of spotty s

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let's head outside the studios and get the latest from david murphy. >> reporter: it definitely feels toasty and more humid on the terrace if you're standing in the sun, rick. satellite and radar showing a little bit of cloud cover coming in from the west as we take a look at satellite. most of the thunderstorms that are out to the west are falling off the map. we might see a refiring of that later tonight. but most neighborhoods are dry. we have a delay at the airport at this hour. i checked it is not weather related. it is a 30 minute delay because there's a lot of aircraft trying to get in and out of philadelphia international. traffic management issue has developed. you might want to check with the airline. nothing to do with the weather the weather is warm and for the most part tranquil. 85 degrees in philadelphia. 86 in new york city. a little bit warmer down the pike in washington d.c. 67-degree dewpoint in washington. 61 in philadelphia. a lot of immediate surrounding airports are producing higher dewpoints. definitely more humid today than yesterday. as we roll through the re

meteorologist david murphy is outside on the terrace with the latest on these sizzling digits, one more day. >> reporter: one more and maybe another one tomorrow, rick. we have quite a bit of heat and humidity building across the region. it got more humid over the weekend, but you stand out here and you can feel the difference between yesterday and today. let's look at satellite, you can see a lack of significant cloud cover. i have hazy sunshine with cumulus clouds beginning to pop here and there. if you're heading to the beach or the pool or working outside, plenty of sunshine and certainly enough to get a burn, don't forget the sunscreen. it's late in the season, but important to stick that on. temperature, 89 in philadelphia. 91 in new york city. 87 in washington. as you check out current dewpoints, a lot of areas highlighted in dark green from philadelphia to washington, d.c. are looking at dewpoints over 70. the that's oppressive humidity. some of our northern and western suburbs not as bad, but everybody honestly is feeling it today, and probably tomorrow, as well. 93 degrees by

meteorologist david murphy is joining us live outside otter ace with more, david. >> rick, the issue this afternoon and this evening is mainly just clouds and perhaps a couple of lighter sprinkles and showers. take a look at storm tracker six live double scan, since this morning the western suburbs have been bothered by some of this. it is very little. kind of falling apart. but down by baltimore you see a new one just popping up along the mouth of the chesapeake bay. a little bit of green showing up here and there in chester county, montgomery county and up more by the lehigh valley but that current batch is light and will be clearing north before too much longer a lot of cloud cover around though, along the east, you can see how that wells up there between philadelphia and washington over the last couple of hours. and we are looking at a fairly cloudy afternoon, perhaps some unis breaks and if any showers continue to pop they are mainly to the west of philadelphia 79 degrees in philadelphia, currently. only 75 in washington. up to 81 in new york city. and as we look at the dew poin

view through next february or visit 6abc.com/6abc loves the arts, for 6abc loves the arts i'm david murphy. >> a thank you, david. 6abc loves the arts and 6abc loves this forecast. it's are great, right are you going outside? >> i'm going outside and eat a slice of pizza. >> reporter: sounds good to me. we're dry and tracking storms later on tonight. i think they will be far and few between, but something we're tracking later on this evening. we're looking live in cape may, a beautiful shot you can see the umbrellas up because we have the sunshine. not seeing too much in the breeze a little bit of a sea breeze helping you out. it's a beautiful day down the shore. 84 degrees in philadelphia. feeling warm, the dewpoint, 61. not bad in some of the spots i was showing you earlier. dewpoints in the upper 60s. winds out of south at 7:00 and the barometer is holding stealed. satellite and radar, we have just a few clouds in the region, but we're tracking this front that will come through some cloud cover, it will give us a shot of a shower or thunderstorm in a few spots. as we look at future trac

with rick williams, sara bloomquist, and meteorologist, david murphy. >>> good afternoon, we begin with breaking news police are searching for the driver in a deadly hit and run and it happened outside of philadelphia police headquarters, a vehicle struck a man and kept going at franklin and gray streets, the victim died at the hospital, "action news" reporter walter perez is live at the scene with the latest information. >> reporter: hey guys, the crime scene was just cleared out and reopened to traffic as you can see, but it was here not 30 yards from the round house where the hit and run ended with the death of a man simply crossing the street. it was 9:45 this morning when a man walking the crosswalk at franklin street was hit by a bus. >> not sure if the bus dragged the pedestrian a couple of feet but the pedestrian died. >> his sneakers remain on the roadway at this hour as part of the crime scene, his name is not released but is he described as a 46-year-old african-american man, they have surveillance video of the incident. but they are unsure who the bus belonged. >> we think i

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with rick williams, sara bloomquist, and meteorologist, david murphy. >>> good afternoon in the news this noon a trip to the circus ends in trenl guy, the fair ground accident that kill aid father and daughter. >>> and a shooting outside of a concert in new jersey, the attack that left two people in critical condition. >>> we begin with developing news this noon, a former teacher is sentenced on sexual assault charges. he plead guilty to inappropriately touching school students in glenolden. katherine scott joins us live in media now with the full story. >> reporter: sara, more and more victims have been coming forward as this investigation has been going on. this morning the prosecution referenced 12 potential victims, and it's going on inside of this courthouse in media. they are all teen girls, and this took place over a 14 year period. lets go to the video, today began with two counts of corruption of a minor and then a witness was called by a witness, melanie sharone. who claimed he abused his trust most recently in the a darby township school thark he groomed his victims whispe

with rick williams, sara bloomquist, and meteorologist, david murphy. >>> good afternoon we begin with breaking news, new jersey transit oils just announced their service plan for the pope's visit next month. passengers are warned to plan for restrictions for the entire weekend and the week looding up to it. the river line and express line will require special passes, those go on sale this saturday on the nj transit website, and the express from atlantic city to philadelphia with no interim stops, the river line operates on a limited schedule between trenton and camden. and all philadelphia bus routes will end in camden, those that do not need to travel between september 24 and and sunday september 27th, are urged to stay off new jersey transit. >> i cannot stress enough that the system is pushed to capacity. it will not be the regular commuting experience and rail trips will be impacted by large loegds of people and getting onp off the systems. i echo the sentiments i previously expressed that this will be a very challenging week. >> new jersey transit officials are expected to hold a

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with matt o'donnell, tamala edwards, karen rogers and meteorologist, david murphy. >> ♪ >> good morning're following a developing story here on this wednesday morning. >> a barrage of bullets injures several people and left a trail of damage overnight. >> pennsylvania attorney general kathleen kane faces reporters today answering tough questions after being charged with leaking secret grand jury information. >> thousands of people are petitioning the pope for app special blessing for eagles quarterback sam bradford. >> if he gets this in, he will be beloved in this town forever. good morning, it is 4:30 on this wednesday august 12th. matt o'donnell is off. erin o'hearn is joining us. let's head over to meteorologist, david murphy to give you your accuweather and karen rogers is taking a look at traffic. good morning. >> i wonder if the pope has ever even watched a football game. >> soccer football. >> different sport, tam. okay. so, satellite shows you that we have some cloud cover out there. looks like we'll start out with a decent amount of sunshine. some cloud cover at the shore. tha

bloomquist, and meteorologist, david murphy. >>> good afternoon rick and sara are off and i'm matt o'donnell. the big story is breaking. a local news reporter and photographer were shot and killed while they were doing a live television report, the gunman has killed himself. meanwhile someone posted a video of the killings online from the perspective of the gunman himself, it started as the victims conducted a live interview 25 miles southeast of roanoke, it appears to be a well planned out ambush, allison parker for wbbj and marcy gonzales he is is live with more on the shocking developments. >> good afternoon, we are waiting for more details, law

meteorologist david murphy is outside otter ace with the very latest from storm tracker six live double scan, hi there, david. >> hi there rick, lots of cloud cover right now over philadelphia. as we look at storm tracker six live double scan since predawn hours we have had showers in the western suburbs. most of these falling apart but you can still see speckle of precipitation in parts of the lancaster county, chester county, southern bucks or northern bucks and northern montgomery counties and the big more widespread, area of precipitation is up around lehigh valley. it is very light for the most part and it is beginning break apart and push on out of here. rest of the day probably features a fair amount of cloud cover. you can see how it has welled up over the last couple of hours. some sun breaks not out of the question, a and most of our shower activity the rest of the afternoon and evening will be to the west of philadelphia, and it doesn't look like it will be able to overtake somewhat dryer air right up and down through philadelphia and allentown. 79 degrees in the city. it is

let's head on over to meteorologist, david murphy.e right it felt better by last night and matt pelman is in for karen rogers. good morning. >> there might still be a little bit humid in parts of the region to you tam, but the humidity is on the way down the looks like we'll have a couple high clouds passing through. >>> overall we're expecting sunshine with patchy cloud cover today and that flow is going to turn out of the northwest already has or will shortly in parts of the region. there you can see that northwest flow in the northern suburbs and that has knocked your numbers down into the 60's in places like allentown and reading. 76 in philadelphia. still drawing a little bit out of the southwest over south jersey and delaware. this is the area where it might still be a little on the sticky seemed as we head out the door, dry conditions, you'll need your shades for that mainly sunny sky cover. 73 by 6 o'clock and the same by 8 o'clock. we get warm today but not as hot. 74 by 8 o'clock, 86 by noon, 89 at 3 o'clock and by 6 o'clock

. >> matt pellman and karen rogers, david murphy is off today. >> reporter: as you step outside we have clear skies as you can see on satellite 6 and action radar. it is comfortable with some of the disappoints low in spots. we're watching this front well out to the west. that's the indication we'll see showers in spots. we don't have a lot of the activity with it, but it progresses to the east, that will be an issue later on this evening, and in some spots. 59 in allentown. 60 in millville. 70 in cape may and feeling comfortable. the dewpoints measure how much moisture is in the atmosphere and how sticky it feels. 56 in allentown, 57 in reading, 58 in millville, nice and comfortable. sitting at 60 in philadelphia. anything above 60 is when you start to feel a little sticky. 89 for the high, we're warming up in a big way. the disappoints will rise, 9:00 a.m., 74. noon, 84. 3:00 p.m., 88 sunshine and clouds, 6:00 p.m. that's when we'll be watching for a shower or thunderstorm in a couple of spots and 87 degrees for the temperature then. matt pellman howl do the roads look early on. we ar

. >>> good morning everybody, we have david murphy along with karen rogers. >> reporter: good to see you. >> reporter: nice to see you. >> reporter: on the big board we have cloud cover to the south and west, some of it approaches, this will get thicker as the day goes on. we'll see rain down south we'll talk about that in a moment. 71 degrees. the humidity on the low side. 62 in allentown. 61 in reading. 64 in trenton and 71 for the early stroll on the boardwalks. 68 degrees by 6:00. 71 by 8:00. comfortable, partly cloudy skies. 71 by 8:00. 81 by noon. we broke the heat wave yesterday 87 degrees. today 85, clouds on the increase, as we get later into the day there's a chance of shower activity down at the shore. overnight tonight we'll see rain from this area of low pressure center that is scooting across the toward the east coast. philadelphia probably light to moderate rain down the shore you could get periods of heavier rain tonight and in through tomorrow. karen, i'm have more on future tracker 6, we'll start looking ahead all the weekend. >> reporter: i may just be back, but i

. >> let's go over to david murphy and karen rogers has traffic. >> reporter: satellite and radar showing we have clouds west and farther south and west we have rain. there's a fair amount of cloud cover starting to dig through. in allentown we're down to 59. 62 in trenton. 60 in reading. 64 in wilmington, some suburbs kind of cool and we dip into the upper 60s on the boardwalks. heading out we're looking at 68 by 6:00. 71 by 8:00. partly cloudy and comfortable conditioners, as we roll through the day it's going to be a warm one. noon, 81. by 3:00, that's the high of 85 with clouds increasing as the day goes on, perhaps late this afternoon or evening. the poabt -- possibility of rain. the rain that's arriving is because of the area of low pressure west of us. it will track south tonight and into tomorrow. looks like most of the rain we get from that will be south of philadelphia. when i come back i will show you a couple of models there's not total agreement with the placement of this rain. we're looking forward to the weekend whether -- where we bounce back. karen, what do the roads look

. >> let's turn to arrive -- david murphy. >> reporter: storm tracker 6 live double scan shows we're dry, we'll see sunshine before the clouds overtake us. sky 6 shows us sunshine over coming up over the ben franklin bridge. many of the suburbs in the 60s. 70 in the city. dewpoint, 55. winds not all that strong at 5 miles per hour. clouds increase as the day goes on. by dinnertime we'll be cloudy across the region and sprinkles coming in toward south jersey and delaware. later tonight we see the rain pushing closer to philadelphia. if anythingr develops we'll see light stuff in south jersey and delaware. 84 by 2:00 p.m. 85 is the high today. we did stay in the # 0s yesterday, so -- 80s yesterday, so we broke the heat wave and not starting a new one today. high temperature in allentown, 81 degrees, clouds thickening a bit. 82 in reading. # 3 the high in trenton. 85 in wilmington and 84 in cape may, new jersey. down the shore no threat of rip currents, clouds increasing less than ideal beach day. better chance you have of light rain arriving. 75 degrees in the ocean water around the mo

. >>> first up, let's get a look at accuweather and traffic, let's go over to david murphy and matt pellman is in for karen rogers good morning. >> reporter: another muggy start, as you look at live double scan, we have showers in lancaster and falling apart and pronounced precipitation in maryland pinwheeling to the west. in the late morning and afternoon hours that will shift east. the wider view shows a lack of widespread cloud cover. it's hazy out there, we'll see the clouds grow and we'll be on the look out for drenching showers and thunderstorms. mug in, 75 in allentown. 75 in cape may. the dewpoint is up over 70 which means the humidity once again today is on the oppressive side. warm and humid, clouds possible, 75 by 6:00. 75 by 8:00. moving through the afternoon we're up in the 80s, high of 87 around 2:00 p.m. and holding by 3:00 p.m. and the spotty showers and thunderstorms on the way. i'll have more on future tracker 6, matt, looks like you have a dry and nicely moving road behind you. >> reporter: thank you for the dry conditions, we always like that. traffic on the schuylkill e

with rick williams, sara bloomquist, and meteorologist, david murphy. >>> a new poll shows declining support for kathleen kane as she faces criminal charges and more on last week's deadly plane crash in long island, the runway that the pilot tried to land on was close ford decades. >>> and bodies found in a garage in the city's strawberry mansion section. chad pradelli is on the scene with the very latest. >> reporter: rick, you need to bear with me the smell out here is terrible but the police tell me they have an abuse of corpse situation on the 2100 block of haggard. earlier this this morning, a read here smelled something terrible and went to the garage and opened the door and when inside and found a box, inside was a decomposed body, he called police and they and medics arrived on scene. they went in the garage and they found two boxes with decomposed bodies, one body in each box and a coffin with another decomposed body, we are told there is a funeral home around the corner and that funeral home owns this building, obviously police tell me this is not the way you store bodies w

. >> it is 5:30 on this thursday, let's say hello to david murphy and matt pellman. >> reporter: we have a lot of humidity out there, and we have showers, no lightning just yet, but fortunately for our neck of the woods they say are tracking toward gettysburg and lancaster, but not over year just yet. satellite and radar shows you there's cloud cover out at the west, we'll see that slide closer to philadelphia could be by lunchtime and during the afternoon and tonight there will be periods of heavy rain and drenching thunderstorms. 77 in millville. 76 in cape may. 75 in wilmington. 75 in allentown. the dpaints making it feel -- dewpoints making it feel muggy for the second morning. the dewpoints are over 70. 75 degrees by 6:00. 75 degrees by 8:00. warm and humid for your early out the door forecast. as we roll through the day, noon, 85. 3:00 p.m., 87 that's our projected forecast high today. again, through the afternoon and evening, the chance of drenching downpours from showers and thunderstorms at least at times. i'll look at those on future tracker 6 coming up, matt. we have improveme

. >>> let's go over to david murphy talking about rain and matt pellman has traffic. >> reporter: we look to the west, we have showers and thunderstorms forming to the west of baltimore, but you will notice they are passing to the north, so lancaster and harrisburg have a better chance of this than we do in philadelphia. the wider view shows cloud cover and showers south and west, particularly this afternoon and later tonight well pop spotty and widespread showers and thunderstorms. temperatures, 77 degrees in philadelphia. 75 in allentown. 75 in cape may. once again it is very humid out there, with dewpoints over 70 in most neighborhoods and that means oppressive humidity once again this morning. as we head out the door, 75 by 6:00. 795 a few clouds around, sun, warm and humid, as we roll through the day, 79 by 8:00, 85 by noon, 3:00 p.m., we're expecting a high of 87 before dropping to 82. spotty showers and thunderstorms. by tonight we'll see heavy downpours that that could lead to street flooding. no such problems like that now, matt what have you got on the camera. >> reporter:

with rick williams, sara bloomquist, and meteorologist, david murphy. >>> good afternoon rick and sara are off and i'm matt o'donnell. the big story is breaking. a local news reporter and photographer were shot and killed while they were doing a live television report, the gunman has killed himself. meanwhile someone posted a video of the killings online from the perspective of the gunman himself, it started as the victims conducted a live interview 25 miles southeast of roanoke, it appears to be a well planned out ambush, allison parker for wbbj and marcy gonzales he is is live with more on the shocking developments. >> good afternoon, we are waiting for more details, law enforcement tells abc news that the manhunt is over for the killer of two young journalists and there was no warning, a smiling reporter on the air doing her last live report of the morning. gunned down along with her camera man, colleagues and viewers and other local news team in heart broken horror police rushing to the scene finding allison parker and adam ward dead. police looking for the killer believed to be a

. >>> let's go over to karen rogers in for david murphy and matt pellman has traffic. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, as we look at the temperatures, once again you're starting off starting to feel cool, 53 in allentown. 59 in wilmington, 64 in philadelphia. a few degrees cooler than yesterday morning in the city. 59 in trenton. but only 55 degrees in millville, new jersey. off to a bit of a cool start in some spots, we'll have a bright, warm finish. satellite and radar showing nothing happening. humidity continues to be way down there. feels nice and comfortable leading into your weekend. 85 degrees for your high, nice and sunny, low humidity, once again tonight the temperatures drop into the 50s in the suburbs and in the city, 65. we just mentioned tropical storm airplane -- erika, i'll have an update in just a few minutes. >> reporter: we're counting the zones near woodhaven. construction crews are not gone yet. you can go south on i-95, but the good news if you're watching us right now by the time you get to this point, everything should be reopened. they

. >> good morning, everybody, david murphy has weather and matt pellman in for karen. >> reporter: if you are trapped in a car and the wires are around you, you never try to get out of the car unless firefighters help you out. these are storms pushing through burlington county and ocean county. if you're down in cape may and atlantic city, a lot of thunderstorms clearing the coast right now you're no doubt hearing the thunder, but it is moving away from you. over the the next half-hour or so, you should be out of lightning's danger. 322 lightning strikes in the southern areas not so much in burlington county. the rest of the area is drying out. but we have a residual problem with foogd from the heavy down -- flooding from the heavy downpours. in southern bucks county, and mercer county, the water is receding. down in cape may it could last another hour or so, because of the proximity of the rain that's just clearing the coast. 70 in allentown. # 4 in millville. as you step out it's going to be humid with dewpoints in the 70s. dry air is starting to come in from the northwest. you can

. >>> meteorologist, karen rogers is back now in for david murphy, august is going out on a pleasant note. >> are we loving this? one of the best augusts, it's time to end like this. september -- >> not nice? >> it will be terrible -- no. double scan live radar around the region we are dry and looking good, if you want a last hoorah down the shore. looking at the conditions, we have clouds mixing with sunshine and still pretty and beautiful and feels good out there. lets take a look at the numbers, 77 degrees in philadelphia and the dew point only 53, nice and low and comfortable with the wind out of the northwest at 6 miles per hour. pressure is rising as high pressure is building in, satellite 6 along with action radar we can see how the clouds have filled in a bit but still a beautiful day with sunshine and clouds and looking pretty nice, because of the cooler air aloft, not because a front is effecting us. a wider look, to see rain we go well to the west. we are looking pretty good. by 3:00 p.m. 83 degrees sunshine and clouds, 5:00 p.m. 82 and clouds and mixing with clouds and 9:

matt o'donnell is off, david murphy is outside and wants to stay there all day. karen rogers has traffic. >> reporter: it's a cool day, we have sunshine. take a look at satellite there's not a big overlay of cloud cover, it's patchy stuff. comfortable, 70 in philadelphia. although with the clouds and sun not that bright, it feels cool. 60 degrees in allentown and reading speaking of cool. 64 in trenton. 67 in wilmington in the upper 60 along the boardwalks. noon, 79. the high 83 degrees at 3:00 p.m. low humidity and fair amount of sunshine. it will be delightful. warmer tomorrow, more humid on the weekend. karen rogers i'll have the latest on all that coming up in the seven-day forecast. >> reporter: all right, dave we have problems on the schuylkill expressway. child porn 6 is overhead right now we can see the traffic this is the chopper 6 is overhead, right now. we have traffic blocking two lanes. sheetrock is all over the roadway. chopper if you can pan back we can see a delay on the schuylkill expressway westbound we're seeing heavy delays. the schuylkill exp

. >> 5:30, let's start off the workweek with david murphy and matt pellman filling in for karen. >> reporter: we are starting out on the warm side, heat wave day number 7. it hasn't been too bad with humidity lower but it will be stickier today. it's because of a cold front to the west that will plow closer to us during the day we'll have a flow out of the southwest that will increase the humidity. 7 # in philadelphia. 63 in allentown. 67 in reading, 68 this trenton. 69 in wilmington, mid 70s along the boardwalks in case you're getting up early to take an early boardwalk stroll. why not, i would if i was down there right now. the dewpoint is up above 60 in most spots and that means noticeable humidity. 73 by 6:00 a.m. 76 by 8:00. as we take a look at the bay it looks like another hot one. we'll aim for another high of 90 degrees, 77 degrees by 9:00. 85 by noon, 891 by 3:00 p.m. the high today will be 92 reading probably not until 3:30 or 4:00. 89 by 6:00 p.m. there could strong thunderstorms around parts of the area this evening. i'll have that on future tracker and eventually the heat and h

. >> let's go outside to david murphy and karen rogers. >> reporter: we have an issue to talk about, code orange ozone-action day, more cars on the streets because it's a work day and because it's going to be hot and humid it will make ozone issues pretty bad. if you have heart and lung issues limit your afternoon activities special during the afternoon up to dinnertime when the ground pollution is at its worse. we have fair weather cumulus developing during the day. 74 degrees in philadelphia. 68 in allentown, 70 on the nose in wilmington and trenton, 71 in sea isle city. as we check out the afternoon, boy it gets hot, noon, 78. 3:00 p.m., 90, at 4:00 p.m., 95 one degree off the record high in philadelphia of 96 on this daylight. doesn't look like the heat wave, it will be a heat wave officially this afternoon, doesn't last forever, we'll have lowering temperatures later in the week. karen, what about roads? >> reporter: i-95 look at this disabled tractor-trailer, southbound at cottman around the curve. first there were no police here and people were swerving at the last minute, now

. >> first up, let's head out to david murphy with accuweather. matt pellman is in for karen, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, everybody, we have hours heading toward lancaster, they are heavy, but not a problem for the morning commute. satellite and radar shows clouds get thicker to the west of us, and eventually move in. 77 degrees in philadelphia. 75 in in allentown. we have dewpoints up over # 0 -- 70 in most neighborhoods, you know what means, oppressive humidity is in place. noon, mid 80s, looks like a high around 2:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. of 87 that's where we wind up today, and through the afternoon and evening drenching showers and thunderstorms. i'll show this you to on future tracker 6, we'll look ahead toward the weekend. improvement there, matt pellman. >> reporter: it's almost here, we're getting excited. good morning to you, david, as we get excited for this thursday morning commute, not so bad along the schuylkill expressway. since last we spoke a dump truck broke down in the lanes near the blue route. they got it out of the

with rick williams, sara bloomquist, and meteorologist, david murphy. >>> good afternoon senior ra is off and the big story is the developing story in virginia where a news crew was shot and killed during a live broadcast. there is calls for increase sd gun control after allison park and adam ward were ambushed. both were dating employees at the same station with ties to our area, and for the very latest on all of this, lets go to virginia for more. >> reporter: good afternoon take a look at this, the front page of the local paper says it all, this is a community in the state of shock, both of the victims grew up in this area and crew members throughout the morning are stopping by the station to let them know they are not grieving alone. >> please join us now in a moment of silence. >> a moment of silence on the morning news at the exact time the team lost two of their best on air yesterday. >> allison and adam this is for you. >> they were doing a feature story on local tourism when bullets came flying killing the two and injuring the woman being interviewed, vicky gardner. >> what h

. >> good morning, david murphy has weather and matt pellman is in for karen. >> reporter: we are starting out with sunshine and there's a frontal boundary that will come closer to us today and ahead of it we'll see an increase in clouds and southwesterly flow that will make it more humid. it will not be oppressive, but with the southerly flow it will be more muggy. 63 in allentown. not too bad in the lehigh valley. 67 in reading, 68 in trenton. somewhere down the shore somewhere in the # 0s for the early morning stroll on the boardwalk. the dewpoints are up over 60. it's humid not oppressive, but stickier. heading out the door this morning, it's dry morning. 70 by 6:00. 73 degrees by 8:00 a.m. as we roll into the afternoon the heat wave goes on. 77 degrees by 9:00. 85 by noon. 91 by 3:00 p.m. high of 92 around 4:00 p.m. slipping back to 90 at 6:00 p.m. the higher heat and humidity don't last forever. we have a change in the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast. matt i'll run that down not. >> reporter: sounds like a plan, david. we had a fender bender at aramingo and lehigh avenue. on

with rick williams, sara bloomquist, and meteorologist, david murphy. >>> good afternoon sara bloomquist is off and we are following breaking news at this hour. chopper 6 hd is live over a plane crash in allentown. officials say that the single engine plane went down in the little lehigh river, are you looking live at the wreckage just west of the i-78 overpass, the pilot was rescued from the water and taken to the hospital, no word on what caused this crash, the ntsb will take over the investigation and this is live in allentown from chopper 6 hd, stay with the breaking news on this story on 6 abc and online at 6abc.com. >>> our other big story is another potential heat wave in the forecast, we are enjoying a beautiful, sunny friday as we look live at the sky 6 hd skyline in center city. karen rogers is here with more. >> reporter: it's beautiful out there, we have nothing but clear skies, some clouds and showers up to the northwest, and that is not our problem. taking a look at the temperatures, 81 in martins creek season 80 in kroetsville, and the dew points are not bad today, 83 in s

with rick williams, sara bloomquist, and meteorologist, david murphy. >>> good afternoon, rick is off and we begin with breaking news. pennsylvania attorney general, kathleen kane, is facing criminal charges. montgomery county's top prosecutor just made the announcement in norristown and john rawlins is there with more details on the case against kane. >> reporter: well, crime and a coverup, that is the alligation it is alleged that the attorney general is at the center of a conspiracy and the attorney general was behind it. the case was announced by the da in the last hour. >> this team determined that attorney general, kathleen kane deviced a scheme to leak confidential information and secret grand jury materials direct books directly to political operatives in the hopes of embarrassing whom she believed made her look bad. >> she says it's a revenge plot because of bad press that embarrassed kane. >> these facts exposed by the evidence we gathered and in the attorney general's own word this is war. this was her war based on the evidence conducted without regard to the rules and with

with rick williams, sara bloomquist, and meteorologist, david murphy. >>> good afternoon in the news a man is arraigned orncharges for the shooting of a 10-year-old boy in wilmington and a popular restaurant remains closed after a bug infestation forces it to close down. >>> now a crash that injured four children. they were walking with a red wagon when they were suddenly hit by the car, they have identified the victims but are sorting out what happened here. john rawlins is live from the scene in south hampton with more. >> one child is dead and three others remain in critical condition, they were part of a party of five, a teen and three small children, they had a red wagon and they were walking in the road behind me from a local park and they were struck by a driver, a local man also coming from that park we are told, neighbors here on bud town road heard the impact and came running. >> children everywhere laying in the street, i assumed it would be two cars, i never saw it would be a car that hit a bunch of pedestrians. >> cheryl o'neil and her husband and daughter ran out to the

david murphy is joining us out there with more details. >> sunshine on the terrace right now but lets look at the area of low pressure out to the south and west tracking to the east coast meaning the center of this system misses us to the south and inundating rainfall in the carolinas and perhaps virginia around here it's light in philadelphia and probably arriving later this evening and late this afternoon and into the evening areas to our south and southern delaware could pick up the activity. there doesn't look to be heavy rain here but there are models backing off on how much we are going to get. from you in the northern sub ubs you probably don't have to worry about the rain. temperatures ahead of all of that 80 in philadelphia and down the pike in washington a little more humid down the coast and not too bad in philadelphia as we roll through the afternoon, 84 by 2:00, and 85 is your high at 3:00, and we are sitting on it at 4:00, the low 80s by k and 74 by 10:00 and in that 6:00 to 10:00 period you see sprinkles and showers building in to delaware and south jersey. severe weath

with rick williams, sara bloomquist, and meteorologist, david murphy. >>> good friday afternoon i'm alicia vitarelli rick and sara are off. details about the sounder of attorney general, kathleen kane. and an investigation into sun roofs shattering without warning, why it's happening to hundreds of drivers. >>> but the big story is a violent robbery that ended with a woman shot in a bakery. the attack left the 56-year-old victim in critical condition. "action news" reporter is live at the scene in haverford avenue where police released new details in the last half hour. >> we do know that the victim remains in critical condition and the bullet passed through her windpipe and spine and she was able to call 911. the owner pays her employees on fridays and it is likely the robbers knew she would have money on her. >> shocked. >> shocked that a nearby business owner was shot at her shop. she was smoking a cigarette outside of the best cakes bakery just before 6:00 a.m., when she was robbed and shot, they took her apron where she keeps her money. >> if it was a setup robbery, people could case

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with rick williams, sara bloomquist, and meteorologist, david murphy. >>> good afternoon rick is off and in the news this noon, paramedics rush a 4-year-old to the hospital after pulling the child from a backyard pool and one company is hiring dozens of new security guards for the pope's visit to philadelphia, but we begin this news with developing news, the search resumes this morning for a missing boy in delaware county. 11-year-old lakwan lattimore has been missing since monand now the police and fbi are working to track him down. chad pradelli spoke to the family and he joins us live with an update on the search. >> reporter: sara the search for lakwan lattimore was called off overnight and resumed at 8:00 this morning, you can see the command post set up behind me. the boy' family lives in this immediate area and i spoke to them a short time ago, and as each hour passes and his whereabouts are unknown fear and worry builds. >> please help us please come home. >> cousin and guardian thompson is making a plea. he was last seen dropping off potato chips to his little sister. >> i d

matt o'donnell is off, erin o'hern is joining us, let's head over to david murphy, boy yesterday was great. karen rogers has traffic. >> reporter: i was going to his i want for a walk yesterday afternoon, man was it nice. we're going to have a repeat today, but it's warmer than yesterday. as we take a look satellite once again similar to yesterday, clouds here and there, but they should melt away, but high pressure in control. the winds are bouncing around around the region, but not all not that strong him we're not pulling a southwesterly flow pronounced and the humidity will stay low. millville, 58. 6 # in philadelphia. 61 in trenton. 68 in sea isle city. some of these numbers may go down before they start to pop back up. 65 by 6:00. cool and comfortable in philadelphia. 68 by 8:00. mainly clear skies, this afternoon, 68 -- 83 i should say by noon. 86 degrees by 3:00 p.m. we'll get a high of 87 degrees we'll probably pop that in around 4:00 p.m. looks like it is dry and we'll have fair weather cumulus popping up like yesterday. karen rogers we have a hot and humid change for the we

let's head over to david murphy and matt pellman who is in for karen rogers. >> reporter: good morning, storm tracker 6 live double scan trying to dump the showers and thunderstorms off the coast of the south jersey, looks like we're doing a good job between atlantic city and cape may. a few lingering showers around ac and brigantine. these thunderstorms firing up new lightning, but pushing off the coast of ocean county. the rest of the area is dry at this point. we are looking at improvement. the only issue we have with lingering flooding would be down in cape may county. that's getting better in a hurry. 77 in philadelphia. 69 in allentown. 72 in wilmington. 72 in cape may. very humid out there. we have dewpoints in the 70s across the region. notice how the winds in the northwest are turning out of the northwesterly that's lowering the humidity that will continue to be the pattern throughout the rest of the region today with humidity dropping. 74 by 6:00. 76 by 8:00. humid to start out. as we look at the rest of the day we'll winds up with partly sunny skies, noon, 84. 3:00 p.m., 88

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. >> we have david murphy with weather and karen rogers has traffic. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, we have early sunshine filtering in off to the east, out to the west thicker clouds and we'll see it thicken up, some areas south of philadelphia could pick up a shower. 70 degrees and dry in philadelphia. allentown sitting on 59 cool and comfortable degrees right now. low 60s in reading and trenton. 69 on the boardwalks down by the shore. 71 by 8:00. noon, 81 the high will be 85 degrees reading at 3:00 p.m. the clouds are getting thicker and late day or evening shower possible down by the shore. looks like the showers will past to the south tonight that means most of the rain later tonight and tomorrow morning should be in south jersey and delaware, although philadelphia could catch a little bit of that. i'll show you that on future tracker 6 coming up next and we'll look at the models suggesting that. what about the roads karen. >> reporter: the roads are not as bad as they normally be, it's summertime. live i-95 southbound traffic starting t

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meteorologist karen rogers is in for david murphy she is outside with more from accuweather. >> reporter: hey, sarah, i think we could take the heat better if there was lower humidity. we have clouds up above. the 85 degrees in martins creek. 80 in quakertown. 838 in pottstown. 82 in coatsville. 86 in ken net square. 92 degrees in center city. bumped that temperature up in the last half-hour. 85 in browns mills. 86 in cinnaminson and glass borough nero an university. and 84 dover, delaware. the dewpoint 69 degrees feeling humid throughout the region right now as you step outside, we're keeping it that way for the coming days. satellite and radar showing we're socked in with the clouds. we'll see sunshine breaks in and out of the clouds. we saw spotty showers earlier this morning. we can't rule out the chance of a spotty shower to the northwest. i think most of of us stay dry from here on out. head to the play ground if i wouldn't you're not at school. sunshine and clouds, humid, 90 degrees coming down from a high of 91. 7:00 p.m., 87 degrees, quite warm. when does it end? they will ratch