Due to the level of dee dcommisn they estimate the body was out here for two years. And they are combing through the bones discovered. Christie aleto channel 6 action news. Thank you. There is a desperate effort underway to capture two female bandits if upper darby. First they struck two cab driverers in one night and several days later they attack the two women and one elderly. Sara bloomquist is live on kent road. Reporter jim, the account is heart breaking and they told us they would not be surprised to be robbed in their home country of ecuador but never thought they would be targeted on their visit to the United States and in broad daylight. One victim 86 years old, Police Believe the two female suspects robbed two cab drivers earlier in the week. Martha and maria never sbebt expected to be robbed here at gun point in the United States. I heard good things about this country and that they never think about this happening in this country. Last friday morning around 10 00 a. M. The women were outside a relatives home in the unit block of kent road in upper darby. Two women pulled up in this car believed to be a newer model dark sedan, they robbed maria and marta at gun point. They let the woman take the bag and the woman take out a gun and look at her and give her a quick bunch. The suspects got away with 700 from maria purse and 200 and a cell phone from marta. A cab was called monday night to coply road and one talked to the cabby and one when into the passenger side and put a gun to his head and took hundred. And then in glendale. A gun was there with a gun to his head with the female comes into the passenger side of the car. Take a look at this car. Police are certain that the public can help end this two woman crime spree. You get an 86yearold woman and pistol whip her to get her handbag, as far as im concerned they are violent predators and scum bag. This was a lot of money for maria and marta, money they saved and brought for this trip. They are leaving next week and they hope to catch the suspect before they depart for ecuador. Thank you. Philadelphia police are on the hunt for a gunman that fired off more than a dozen shots killing a teenager late last night. Police responded to the 2300 block of marshall vote in south philadelphia at 11 30. The 18yearold victim suffer aid gunshot wound to the back and stumbled to his home nearby and the victim was taken to the hospital where he died early this morning. Right now police have no suspects nor a motive. Center city philadelphia is the site of a huge construction boon but not so much today. Kru construction sites across the city are affected by a job action. Vernon odom is live now at the scene of the huge comcast Tower Construction site. What is the problem . Reporter it happened at a lot of suburban construction sites as well today. Because the unions representing highly skilled workers are without a contract for two months and they are turning up the pressure. Work was moving slow at construction sites like the new Comcast Center and Childrens Hospital today. It is that way at more than 20 in philadelphia and the suburbs. The reason a strike by the union that represents crane and elevator operators, contract talks have broken down and the contract expired in may and now the union says they are staying out until they get a deal they can live with. They want to take things out of our agreement. We are there to negotiate wages and they are there to take things away from us that we had for 50 years. I back the union and whatever they decide on. That is what we decide on. Workers and contractors are losing millions a day as the work stoppage continues that is the price of a strike. In the interest of avoiding work stoppage we offered a one year deal and the longterm deal. And it had the monetary package they were looking for. Pay raises. Yes. We have never taken that off the table. At this hour no new contract negotiations or facetoface meetings have been scheduled. Vernon odom, channel 6 action news. Thank you. Mayor jim kenney helped to unveil three new efforts to get minorities and women involved in the philadelphia building boom. The brandywine trust neighborhood engagement penn medicine and penn assist and rebuild phl pipeline will recruit Philadelphia Residents offering training boot camps that end with probable entrepreneurships. It was developed by the building and trades council. Today new Jersey Governor Chris Christie embarked or earmarked more money to continue trentons renaissance, he announced 9 million in funding to subsidize the affordable and market rate rental units in the capital city. We know the available of high quality housing in trenton along with the safety and quality of life initiatives we announced previously is essential to its efforts to attract and retain residents and employers as well as visitors. Christie says that the Downtown Living initiative will increase commerce for local businesses and create jobs. Last month christie announced plans to demolish hundreds of abandoned homes and install dozens of cameras and i prove lighting to create safety in trenton. For months Law Enforcement in Chester County are rounding up drug here is bob brooks. How did this all come down . Reporter jim, its no secret that the use of heroin and opioids is out of control and the da wants to put a stop to it period. That is what he and local Law Enforcement is trying to do. 2016 was a catastrophic year for drug overdoses in southeastern pennsylvania. He says that trend is no different here. 97 deaths in 2016 so to combat that he introduced operation wild fire, his office and local police have made 46 arrests, all alleged drug dealers but hogan shes they are not done and the drug ep emdiddic is only getting worse. We have 50 drug overdoses already this year. Hogan would eventually reveal heroin and opioids were found everywhere. They busted the suspects for heroin, oxycontin and morphine and many others. Gary baker sr. Was arrested the man who mocked and punched a man with Cerebral Palsy last month, that is gary baker jr. His son was beating up a man with a disability, harry baker sr. Was selling us morphine. A hell of a family. He fears that overdoses will only go up until they can figure out how to stop the inflow of the deadly drug fentanyl. And many times that is cut into other drugs and the users dont know. Take a little bit of it out into my han. If that was fentanyl that would be enough to kill for our five of us in this room. Pretty scary stuff there. If you continue at the same pace with overdoses they will hit 150 this year. Reporting live in westchester, bob brooks, channel 6 action news. Thank you. Coming up on channel 6 action news tonight. The results are in, tests reveal whether diesel contaminated gas pump at a gas station in bucks coins. And nba summer play gets underway next week. And we are in the comforts zone and we have two days in a row of below normal temperatures, but temperatures start to trend up and i am tracking what could be the next heat wave on the way. Details in the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. Those stories and more when action news continues tonight. Oo, yeah. Are you ready for a rush . Yes, yes i am. Youre in for a treat. Fast play is the new way to play fast and win instantly from the pennsylvania lottery. Pick a game, get your ticket and see if youve won. I won pretty fast, huh . Fast play. Play fast. Win instantly. Tonight an action news update to a report last friday when we told you about problems at the pump. It happened at the shell gas station on new falls road and hood boulevard in levittown, was diesel being mixed with regular gasoline here is walter perez. Dave says his familys suv started sputtering after his wife filled the car at this shell station at hood boulevard. My mechanic says it smells like the injectors are all clogged up. Only action news was there and came out and tested the gasoline sold here and it turned out that shillings friend was right. Approximately 5 contaminated with diesel and that can apparently do a lot of damage to your car. Residents complained their car was broken down completely or not working properly. And shilling will tell you firsthand how much damage is done. Two different dealerships, one guy 12,900. And gmc hit me at 15,000. And the tainted gasoline is removed and replaced with regular and no longer a reason to be concerned about the gasoline being sold here but how did the contamination occur. That part continues. Shell officials indicate they are willing to help the customers cover the cost of repairs. Saying that shell takes product quality seriously. Consumers that purchased fuel at the infected station and believe they are experiencing issues related to their purchase are urged to cant shell. The information for shell and weights and measures office can be found at 6abc. Com. Reporting from levitt town, walter perez, channel 6 action news. Teachers go the their hands dirty in southwest philadelphia today and they are taking part in a three day workshop at til den middle school that involves gardening. Sponsored by the Horticultural Society and the green city Teachers Program is developing a new School Gardening right now, get any small mcdonalds smoothie, frappe or shake for 2. How do you top a deal like that . Hurry in, only at mcdonalds. This summer in a place where flavor runs deep, any dish and every glass might be the best youve ever tasted as long as you dont forget your appetite. New york state. Its all here. Its only here. Plan your trip to the finger lakes at iloveny. Com its not carbonation. Those bubbles are celebrating. Right now, get 1 any size soft drink. Only at mcdonalds. Summer league play continues. Its adding to the excitement of this new look team they start on monday in utah. If you cant wait to see what this team can do, are you not alone. The players feel the same way. You cant help but get excited. Sixers guard nick condition help but get caught up in all the excitement. Markelle fultz. After the sixers drafted Markelle Fultz number one overall. He is highly touted and there is so much room to grow. They cant wait for Training Camp to get to work. Nearly the entire team is prague since early june. That is the goal be in the playoffs. You see this team as a playoff team as well . I dont know why we wouldntment the last few years is tough for fans, we have good ones and bad ones and hopefully this is the year we can put it together and the fans can get behind a team that can compete for the playoffs. The season may be months away but the sixers can feel the buzz and excitement. A record amount of season tickets are sold close to 15,000, every home game is expected to be soldout. And just Walking Around the streets of philadelphia he can see a difference. The amount of people now that are just stopping me and telling me how excited they are for the season. Its a lot different and they wait aid long time and struggled for a few years now and its sense from the fans that they are antsy and want things to come together now. For nick that played the send most minutes on the team he cant wait another minute to suit up. Jeff skversky channel 6 action news. Call it a sixers snub. The team had two of the three rookie of the year finalists, but ended up shoutout. Sarge finished second and embiid third. Embiid only played in 31 games likely did him in. To the phillies now they try their luck in seattle. They start a serieses with the mariners and the phil lost 16 of 19. Scott kingman promoted to Lehigh Valley and the second base man made a tremendous play in the field in his aaa debut. He had a hit and stolen base and the phillies hope he is their second base man of the future. And check this out in new britain. Outfielder Michael Krauss climbed the wall to rob a home run and how about a triple play from tball. The shortstop tagged for the first out and over to first for the third out. Anything involving a dog we take you to a ft. Wayne try caps game. Jake the diamond dog delivered water to the umpires between innings, he travels across the United States according to his website. Jake is the best darn dog in professional baseball. I would have to agree. Can he be a relief pitcher that is what i want to know. Just a question. Cecily tynan has the accuweather fore for years, fios has been promising fast internet to small businesses. But for many businesses, its out of reach. Why promise something you cant deliver . Comcast business is different. We deliver superfast internet with speeds of 250 megabits per second across our entire network, to more companies, in more locations, than fios. We do business where you do business. Everybody is talking about your virtual dog at 5 00. Dogmented reality. Do we have pooperscooper reality too . The augmented reality at 10 00. Lets go to the Weather Center now, we are live on sky 6 hd taking a look at Philadelphia International airport another beautiful afternoon, blue skies and some fair weather cumulous clouds and one more really nice day before things begin to change. So the accuweather forecast showing a Beautiful Day tomorrow and low humidity and sunshine. And the heat and humidity returning later this week and also unfortunately for the Holiday Weekend we are looking at the threat of storms over the weekend. But tonight temperatures are comfortable, and down from the high of 80. Dover 79 and cape may currently 75 degrees. Lets go over to satellite 6 along with action radar and youll see that we did have scattered downpours earlier today. Kind of wetting the ground and washing my car. I am looking at this one little cell near Sussex County delaware bringing showers and tonight is dry for most of us and comfortable, isolate the shower is possible and otherwise partly cloudy and temperatures drop well down into the 50s in most of the viewing area, philadelphia 59 and allentown 51 and the poconos in the 40s and wilmington 56 degree, tomorrow pick of the week High Pressure is just to the south means loads of sunshine and on the breezy side and a westerly wind at 15 Miles Per Hour and low humidity and temperatures run 5 to 10 degrees below normal and then the High Pressure moves offshore on thursday. We get the return flow out of the southwest and heats up to 88 degrees and a touch more humid and then it really gets hot through the Holiday Weekend. Down the shore beautiful and sun splashes put on the sunscreen and low risk of rip currents and same in surf city. Ocean city 76 and the ocean temperature is comfortable, 65 degrees and Rehoboth Beach 79. Should be a Beautiful Day down the shore. Tomorrow the pick of the week, loads of sunshine and low humidity and get outside and enjoy it. A high of 81 degrees, temperatures still relatively cool and thursday though youll feel the difference in the air mass. A lot warmer 88 degrees with the southwesterly wind and a had more humid and the heat and humidity returns 92 degrees and a popup shower is possible late on saturday ahead of a front, 92 and sunday if we hit 90 that is our third heat wave of the year and the potential for thunderstorms showing the best chance is the morning. If you have a four day weekend, monday is looking to be the nicest of the four days, 88 degrees and loads of sunshine and low humidity and then just in time for the 4th of july we heat things back up again to a high of 90 degrees and partly sunny calling for a chance of late day showers or thunderstorms. At this point i do not think it will be that widespread and tomorrow a comfortable day before things begin to heat up. Ill bring back the pup at 11 00. Youll like him. Abc world news tonight is next on channel 6. And action news continues at 10 00 on phl 17. Then please join us for action news at 11 00 here on channel 6 for cecily tynan, ducis rogers, and the entire action news team. Im jim gardner, we hope youll join us for action news at 11 00. Perfect dasure is. Game huh . I dont know about you gus, but i think a foul balls coming our way. Im ready crack of the bat, crowd cheers whoa almost had it maybe next time. What about this time . Pay me the new scratchoff from the pennsylvania lottery. With top prizes of 100 grand thats some catch giggles crowd cheers keep on scratchin tonight, several breaking stories as we come on the air. Health care collapse in the senate. Republicans delay voting on their own health care bill. What the president just told senators at the white house. Plus, President Trump threatening to attack syria. Accusing them of a new plot to use chemical weapons on civilians. Subway meltdown. A train derailing the nations businessest subway system. Hundreds of passengers forced to escape through dangerous tunnels. Also breaking tonight, the global cyberattack. First sweeping europe. Now hitting the u. S. Power plants, banks and hospital Computer Systems infected. Brian ross standing by. And the fiery crash shutting down an american highway. The semitruck slamming into a bridge, exploding into smoke and