sarah bloomquist went sneaker shopping to see what all the hype was about. >> reporter: there are big changes in the sneaker game, this big baller, is a leading player. before the ucla standout have been drafted next month they have begun making sneakers and taking preorders $495 and up. >> reporter: joseph hand cock is a branding experts from drexel university, men between 18 and 34 are the big e buyers. they generate 7 billion divorce in sales last year -- $7 billion in sales last year. >> we sold them out at $350. the hype is real, they will sell out in seconds him it will be in the secondary market with us. >> reporter: nike is king with most of the sneakers retailing between 100 to $200. under armor is emerging as a major player. there are more sneaker makers and designers and athlete and celebrity endorsement. the hottest selling sneakers are kanye west easy line made by addis. selling for over one thousand dollars. >> if you asked us about kanye west with addis we would laugh. >> reporter: limiting the number of sneakers made is a key strategy that drives up the price. we saw a

sarah bloomquist is live at headquarters. can we say an arson investigation is now under way? >> reporter: jim, not yet. we're still waiting for the fire marshal to issue a report on the cause of this fire. we're also waiting for the medical examiner to issue a report and determination on the cause of death. we have learned more about the owner of the property. where the fire happened. and a pending court case in delaware county that seemed to indicate the property owner and the victim of the fire had a violent past. police remain on the scene of the fire on west susquehanna today. sources on social media identified the woman found dead here as tavonia love. >> i think it's sad because someone last their daughter, their sister. >> reporter: authorities called the fire suspicious leading neighbors to wonder if she may have been the victim of foul play. >> it is kind of weird to realize that a fire happened here and a somebody possibly set it. >> the row home is hold by anthony eubanks who has a medical license in pennsylvania. he put up this go fund me post soliciting money to

now for melissa magee, jeff scaversky and walter perez and the entire "action news" team, i'm sarah bloomquist. have a good night and a great week ahead. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tonight on sports sunday, with the third pick in the nba draft, should the sixers make a trade? >> we'll leave our options open. >> plus, what should the phillies do with their cliewls pitcher and do the eagles find the piece to the puzzle? >> you have the feeling that they have something special. i want to be part of that. >> sports sunday starts now. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> this is "action news" sports sunday sponsored by audi. ♪ >> what's up? we tip off sports sunday talking sixers and the n

live at police headquarters, i'm sarah bloomquist, channel6 "action news." right, sarah, thank you. >>> to would be burglars gave it everything they had but they just couldn't get into a commercial building in the city's lawndale section. but their persistence and their faces were caught on camera. this happened last month and you can see them casually checking out the building here on the 6600 block of hasbrouck avenue. one turns around and tries to use a crowbar to open the door. that doesn't work so they try another door. the second suspect even tries to pound his way in women bat. but they seem to hear something from inside and stop what they're doing and quickly run away. >>> still to come on "action news" tonight, tragedy at a zoo in the lehigh valley. a giraffe has died after a bizarre burst of aggression. details coming up. >>> and later a fitting place to remember the hard fought beginnings of the united states. how many people revisited the early days of our nation to understand the sacrifice of the past. cecily. >> well, it was a cloudy and cool m

. >> now for walte and the entire "action news" team, i'm sarah bloomquist.e a great night. >> goodnight. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tonight on sports sunday, the phillies suffer their ninth straight series loss. >> it is gone. >> what more can manager pete >> welcome to sports sunday, alongside mike missanelli, i'm jeff skversky. are you counting theda

news", delaware valley's leading news program, with meteorologist melissa magee, jeff skversky, sarah bloomquist and walter perez. >>> two warnings fired in philadelphia with deadly, results and the first of a beloved couple and their sonnies killed inside of their home in wynfield. just a few hours later a fire claims the life of a pregnant woman inside of her north philadelphia home. >>> sunday night and the big story on "action news" is investigation into two separate fatal fires that took a tragic toll. >> in fact fire marshall tells "action news" one of the fires deemed suspicious claimed life of a pregnant woman. "action news" reporter annie mccormack is live at the scene in north philadelphia with the details, annie. >> reporter: walter and sarah an hour ago the fire marshall did return to the scene, along with the crime scene unit, and detectives from central detectives. at this point the fire marshall, according to police, is calling this fire suspicious. at this point it has not been ruled an arson. a 911 call came in around 7:30 this morning here in the 2100 block of west susquehanna

news", delaware valley's leading news program, with meteorologist melissa magee, jeff skversky, sarah bloomquist and walter perez. >>> sunday night, eight people are killed in a shooting spree in mississippi. >>> communities across the air use and across the country pay tribute to the men and women who gave their lives in defense of our country. >>> but the big story on "action news" is a fire in north philadelphia, that claimed the life of a grandmother and her two small grandchildren in fact, fire broke out just after 6:30 this morning and quickly spread trapping several people inside "action news" reporter bob brooks has more from the scene >> reporter: you can see flames engulfed whole building this morning, two row homes on fire, in the 1700 block of north sixth street. there were people, trapped inside. >> i run outside by the time i run outside mom and step dad out and mom screaming that her kid are in the house. >> reporter: but, the flames could be tamed and end result three people are now dead. two children, and one woman. >> i'm going to miss her report report paul guillory is childre

"action news" with meteorologist melissa magee, sarah bloomquist, jeff skversky and walter perez. >> sunday night and we begin with breaking news from the huntington park section. one crash left one person dead and others injured. >> christie ileto is at the scene. >> officers and tow truck drivers are trying to clean up what's left of the scene on i street. earlier this evening was a larger scene, four cars involved in the accident, five people taken to local hospitals and one man is dead. that man was driving this white honda accord. witnesses say around 8:15 he was barreling down huntington park avenue when he crashed. he hit a utility pole. that driver veered into oncoming traffic and crashed. his exact speed and whether he was under the influence is unclear. his body us with taken to the local autopsy. >> christie ileto "action news." >> now to two fires that took a tragic toll. >> we begin in philadelphia where a woman five months preg was found dead. annie mccormick is live at the scene with details. the fire marshall is calling this suspicious. >> firefighters responded to a

"action news"'s sarah bloomquist covering this story for us tonight from police headquarters. rah. >> reporter: sharrie, homicide detectives are looking for surveillance video and tracking down leads as they try to figure out who murdered a woman and her brother in port richmond over the weekend. >> she was really loved. it's a shame that this had to happen to her. >> reporter: neighbors are mourning the death of a woman they will always remember as kind and generous. 49-year-old florence pompey known to many as miss tina was a fixture on her front step. the same spot where a small memorial now stands in the 1900 block of east clearfield in port richmond. >> i spoke to her every day every time i came down and up the block she was always either at the door or the steps and she was a loving person. like, it's still like hard to believe that someone would do something like that to another human being. >> reporter: pompey shared the home with her 54-year-old brother. their bodies were discovered sunday morning. both had suffered gunshot wounds to the head. he also sustained bullet

news," delaware valley's leading news program with meteorologist melissa magee, jeff scaversky, sarah bloomquist walter perez. ♪ >> a rainy night. can't stop the holiday weekend festivities, fireworks at penn's landing to an evening on the boardwalk, memorial day weekend 2017 is under way. the big story is a weather rollercoaster on the memorial day weekend. >> peak peeks of sunshine, thenn dampened the festivities, but the long weekend is not over yet. mesmelissa? >> if walter and sarah, we are tracking the weather tonight and first half of the day tomorrow. here's storm tracker 6 radar 3d. we have a frontal boundary draped across pennsylvania northward through the overnight hours. you see the pockets of heavy rain across the delaware valley. tighter on storm tracker 6 with showers in philadelphia and wilmington, moving south and east to atlantic city and cape may, pockets of heavy moisture. dover getting in on the pockets of wet weather. something else to keep in mind, we have a coastal flood advisory until 3:00 in the morning. minor flood sg a concern from seaside heights to cape may. the nex

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i'm sarah bloomquist, channel 6 eyewitness news. >> thank you. a chester county man has been arrested for what prosecutors are calling an appalling assault on a disabled man. this is surveillance video shows barry baker mocking a man with verb ral palsy. once the man left the store baker can be seen mocking him again and approaching him and punching him in the face. the 22-year-old victim was able to contact police shortly after this assault. there will be a full report on this tonight at 5:00. >> the boyfriend sholt by an off-tutdy delaware state trooper has died. 43-year-old maurice eiffel was attracting the officer. he was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. police say she was badly beaten and is being treated for serious injuries. >> it is time now for a first check of the accuweather forecast as the rain starts to move out of here. >> that wasn't the story earlier today. people outside needed to grab an umbrella and dodge those puddles. it's still gloomy at the moment. >> let's go to meteorologist adam joseph. >> kind of a m

. >> i'm sarah bloomquist in for shawn. squen here to breakdown the holiday forecast, hey, gwen. >> thank goodness with the two of you running muck. >> i can practice my back stroke a little maybe however we have clouds rolling in here a bixt the big story is storms we're not a weekend washout. i want to start by saying t that. we have a chance of storms and wet weather each day saturday, sunday, right flew through until monday. here's the activity going on mid section of the kupty. this is all headed towards east. we have a frontal boundary stalling out and low pressure system riding along that and a couple other things happening. it all comes together to produce very unsetsled weekend. if you head to ocean city, here's a look at the forecast there. temperatures into the 70s. we are talking evening storms saturday and chance of scattered storms surprised and monday and passing shower. water temperature about 60. and as far as elsewhere is concerned when we talk about the forecast for the weekend, all three days, here's wha

sarah bloomquist is live at headquarters. can we say an arson investigation is now under way?m, not yet. we're still waiting for the fire marshal to issue a report on the cause of this fire. we're also waiting for the medical examiner to issue a report and determination on the cause of death. we have learned more about the owner of the property. where the fire happened. and a pending court case in delaware county that seemed to indicate the property owner and the victim of the fire had a violent past. police remain on the scene of the fire on west susquehanna