Matt pelman joins us lag with karen karen rogers who is presenting the pick of the week. Yes, i am and its matt pelman. No, not really. Todays weather is gorgeous. Lets take a look at satellite and radar showing that the clouds are out of here. No rain in sight for our region and were off to a good start to the day but you know what, feels kind of cool out there. Lets look at these numbers early this morning and check the conditions for you. And we have temperatures even cooler than they were yesterday morning in spots. 61 in reading. 67, though, in philadelphia and 63 at Atlantic City airport. And as we look at the day ahead, were seeing lots of sunshine today. Its a beauty. And we have low humidity. So, sunshine, low humidity, temperatures you can see a high of 83 here as we look at the day planner so thats just a couple degrees below average. By 7 00 a. M. , 64 degrees. Still in the 60s. By lunchtime were up to 80. Nice and sunny. 3 oclock, 5 oclock sitting at your high of 83. At 7 oclock, coming down from that from that and 81 degrees. Expect a gorgeous day leading into a gorgeous night. If youre headed to my musikfest, nothing but clear skies. At 7 oclock 76 degrees in bethlehem, at 9 oclock 70, at 10 oclock 68 degrees. A great day, a great night and it changes just in time for the weekend. I know. Details on that in the sevenday in a minute matt. Theres something about hearing you talk about god smack that kind of cracks me up. Good morning, everybody. Were live along the schuylkill expressway. Im making some picks this morning as well, picks from spots where well find construction and therefore possible slowdowns. Right now not too slow but the right lane is blocked on the eastbound side of 76 as you head away from gulph mills in toward belmont again this morning its a long stretch where theyre doing their milling and paving work but they should be out of here in the next half hour. Crews also still working along the vine street expressway. They did close it again overnight last night between the schuylkill and broad. No traffic getting by in either direction but that should not be the case come a half hour from now. On the big picture we had overnight work work along 95 southbound by allegheny and southbound by the blue route. Both of those zones have cleared but a live look at 422 westbound lanes at projecting trooper road, right lane is out of commission for overnight work. Traffic is getting by in that left lane headed towards oaks with no delays on this wednesday morning. Matt. Thank you, matt. Now to the growing tensions with north korea. The rogue nation says it is carefully examining plans to atacama u. S. Territory in the pacific with medium to long range ballistic missiles. The remarks came in response to an ominous warning from President Trump. Erielle reshef is in that park with the latest. Reporter President Trump lashing out at north korea. North korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. Reporter an unprecedented war of words with the rogue nation. Fury and frankly power. Reporter as the north promises fierce retaliation for crippling Un Security Council sanctions. The north korean strong men threatening an enveloping fire on the u. S. Territory home to several key military installations. The governor of gaum issuing this urgent video message overnight attempting to reassure constituents. Im working with homeland security, the rear admiral and the United States to assure our safety. Reporter World Leaders reacting swiftly. The japanese and south korean government standing with the u. S. Saying all options remain on the table. The escalating tensions made all the more alarming amid new revelations about north Koreas Nuclear capability. Abc news confirming u. S. Intelligence analysts believe the north can produce a miniaturized nuclear what are head coming days after they test fired a long range missile capable of hitting the u. S. Mainland. Officials believe north korea has as many as 60 Nuclear Weapons far more than once thought. Erielle reshef abc news, washington. New this morning, a young man was killed by gunfire in north philadelphia. The 22yearold victim was shot three times on the 2400 block of north garnett street just before midnight. Witnesses saw the man standing on the curb when the shooter opened fire. The victim ran for help and was taken to the hospital where he later died. Stray bullets also struck two vehicles in the area. Philadelphia police are trying to track down a serial burglar. Detectives released surveillance pictures of a person of interest. They say the burglar has targeted nine businesses in northeast philadelphia in the last five weeks and each time he tries to get in through rooftop vents. The manager the benny the bums on the 9900 block of bustleton avenue say he filed get into the restaurant but did cause 15,000 in damage. The guy that tried to burglarize our place removed three of of our air conditioning units actually just took them apart and moved our exhaust thats in the middle of the kitchen. Call Philadelphia Police if you have any information on this person of interest. A suspected drug dealer who challenged police got what he asked for o Shaheen Malik is charged with selling acid marijuana and ecstasy in bensalem township. He goes by the name hash and uses social media to taunt police thinking they would never find him but they d police are crediting the public for helping to make the arrest. They say they relieved multiple tips regarding maliks whereabouts. A 10yearold with special needs from south jersey is in protective custody. Police say his mother abandoned him. Debra wisler of millville is accused of leaving her son near joint base Maguire Dix Lakehurst 70 miles away from home. Someone driving by spotted the boy and called for help. Police are looking for a thief wholl stole the donation jar from a diner in gloucester county. It happened early Tuesday Morning at the Harrison House diner on main street in mullica hill. The thief obviously didnt notice the surveillance camera pointed right there at the cash register. The funds were supposed to go to a local food bank. A feud between neighbors turned deadly in west Goshen Chester county. It happened yesterday on the 300 block of box elder drive. 51yearold Clayton Carter shot and killed 51yearold brooks jennings. Neighbors say the two argued about politics but that carter had a grudge that only he understood. Experts say just about anything can create tension between neighbors but the differences dont have to escalate. Often we try to get our point across versus hearing whats going on and when were trying to get our point across we negate the entire situation for positive outcomes. Dr. Scott also suggested that if you realize that emotions are running high sometimes the best thing to do is just take a step back. The Mega Millions jackpot jumped again overnight. The lack of any winners in the drawing last night moves the prize money to the sixth largest in game history a whopping 382 million. But you dont have to wait until friday night to win big because tonights Powerball Jackpot that one is a giant, too. Action News ReporterJeanette Reyes is live in center city with more on the countrys lotto ticket. Reporter jeanette are you buying tickets for all the people in the office. Reporter guys, im sure anywhere you go to play the lottery youll see long lines. 7eleven will likely have long lines as well and this is because for the First Time Ever players will have the option to play in any of the games and the winnings will be over 300 million each. The Mega Millions is now one of the largest prizes in the games 15 year history, the sixth largest sitting at 382 million thats after rolling for 14 weeks. The last winners were a warded back in april. A new winner could be announced on friday night. The powerball has 307 million. Thats nowhere near the largest powerball ever. It was at a whopping 1. 6 billion that was back in january of 2016. That was split three ways. Now you could find out if youre a winner tonight but now lets talk about your odds. From thats another number thats also in the millions. Youre looking at for each game about one in well over 250 million. One thing we can do for you is you can also watch the drawing tonight at 11 00, but if not, if you win, i will be your long lost cousin and i can help you spend that money because its a lot to spend and you might need some help. Jeanette heres the problem. I never play the lottery. Im against it. Im sorry, im a spoilsport s mr. No fun. I on the other hand. Reporter thats a deal breaker. But i would be happy if you won. Thanks jeanette. The first family has decided on a new school for the president s youngest son. Baron trump has introld start the sixth grade at saint andrewspiscopal school. People across the nation are gearing up to get a glimpse of a rare celestial event. Why officials in one state are concerned about more wildfires being sparked because of people coming to watch it. Also ahead why federal Officials Say they will not be testing train engineers or Truck Drivers for sleep apnea. Karen. So many people have been asking when are the rains going to end today is the perfect day. We have the clouds out, rain is out but sunshine moving in t how long does it last. Details coming up. [vo] your summer moment awaits you now that the summer of audi sales event is here. Audi will cover your first months lease payment on select models during the summer of audi sales event. A wildfire continues to burn in oregons Mount Jefferson area. Campers are getting as close as they can because theyre trying to stake out spots to see the total Solar Eclipse on august 21st. They are allowed nearby but no camp fires are allowed. Authorities say they are concerned that a campers mistake could mean another fire in an area already extremely dry this season. Important. Well, you say today is the day to really get outside. Today is the day. So its good were working early. Thats one of the advantages. Loving it. Lets take a look at storm tracker6 double scan. Nothing happening at the moment. That touch of green is just a little ground clutter near the radar site. No rain for us today. Lets go outside and see what this Beautiful Day looks like. Looking live at the center city skyline and weve got mostly clear skies. Well see a good amount of sunshine spilling through the area and the temperatures on the cool side. Right now its 67 degrees in philadelphia. But in pottstown and quakertown its only 55. So, its even cooler than yesterday morning. The dewpoints 60 degrees. Some people were complaining yesterday was muggy. Youll feel a little different about it today. Winds out of the westnorthwest at five. Pressure is rising with High Pressure building in and the ocean temperature 72. Satellite and radar showing the clouds pushing off the coastline. Weve got High Pressure moving in setting us up for a nice couple days. You can see the high as it edges towards the east and well be seeing the difference with the pressurizing. At the shore lots of sunshine pleasant low risk of rip currents and high 78, 79 degrees. You got a little bit of a sea breeze, about 80 degrees at Bethany Beach so enjoy the beach today t a lot of people have been saying cant get in the pool, cant go to the beach. Temperatures today are still just a notch below average but its nice. Its more of a summer like day tnice and bright, low humidity, 83 degrees for your high today so enjoy it. Them to high shifts to the east. Its still a nice day. I think well see at least mostly sunny skies, maybe a few more clouds in the picture but that temperature edges up to 85. So looking pretty good. Turns a bit unsettled for the weekend. Lets walk you through the sevenday forecast. Today no problem. Its nice, its bright, low humidity, 83 degrees for your high today. Tomorrow mostly sunny skies, so a similar day, just a few more clouds thrown into the picture. Still pretty low humidity and 85. On friday, thats when it starts to turn unstable. We get 82 degrees for your high. More clouds into the picture on friday and chance for a couple of showers. I dont think its a lot of rain but it holds off until the second half of the day t looks like the first half of the day is likely dry and well get a shower or two in the second half of the day. And then through the weekend, friday, saturday, and sunday but through saturday and sunday youre turning more humid chance for a thunderstorm. At this point it doesnt look like any day is a washout, temperatures in the low 80s but were whacking to see as an upper trough moves through. We may get a period of rain at some point over that time period of friday, saturday and sunday. Be prepared for at least a shower or a thunderstorm. Monday mostly cloudy skies, 80 degrees. Its still unsettled with a better chance for some rain at some point on monday. But that clears away for tuesday. Tuesday were kind of breaking the system here. Starts off with clouds. We get brighter sunshine by days end and 82 degrees. So, it turns a little unstable for the weekend but at this point it doesnt look like any day is a washout. People have been asking about their plans. Make your plans but just keep that accuweather app handy. Thank you, karen. Federal officials are abandoning plans to require sleep apnea screenings. Current safety programs are said to be sufficient and companies can choose on their own if they want to screen their employees. The changes are part of the Trump Administration effort to seriously slash federal regulations but some Safety Experts are raising the alarm noting the dangerous potential of sleep apnea. It has been blamed for deadly rail crashes in new york city and new jersey and several highway crashes. And weve previously reported on the trend of fewer babies being born in the u. S. New numbers are showing yet another drop this time below an already all time low. The cdc says the fertility rate has continued to decline down 2 percent in the first three months of the year. The biggest decrease is among women in their 20s. A farm in south jersey opens their doors to 6abc and shows you how it is now growing its crops. Action news will be right back. You never told your dad and i about any. Wait, whats going on now . Move the flag. Wait, whats going on now . Fios is not cable. Were a 100 fiber optic network. And with the new fios gigabit connection. You get our fastest. Internet ever. With download speeds up to 940 megs 20 times faster than most people have. Switch to fios gigabit connection with tv and phone for 79. 99 a month online for the first year. Plus hbo for one year and multiroom dvr service for two years, all with a twoyear agreement. And switching has never been easier. Get out of your contract with up to a 500 credit to help cover your early termination fee. Go to fiosgigabit. Com at ikea, we believe your perfect student deserves the perfect room for the perfect price. And. Whos there . Hey. A boy . Oh, on the bed . You never told your dad and i about any. Wait, whats going on now . Move the flag. Wait, whats going on now . Welcome to wednesday, august 9th, 2017. We like the ninth because its really just an upside down six so around here of course were into that. Live look at the Commodore Barry bridge from that chester delaware county. Traffic on the commodore is moving fine. A couple other bridge issues for you in just a second but first a live look at the schuylkill expressway eastbound lanes here between gulph mills and were the blue route and you just missed them, crews just packed up, picked up their cones, backed up out of the shot so both eastbound lanes are reopened along 76. The westbound construction cleared a little while ago but theres work going on in the great northeast. Byberry road shut down for the demolition of the old nabisco plant. On the boulevard itself southbound had some overnight milling and paving work to watch out for between ryan avenue and harbison avenue. Live look at the vine street expressway. I see one westbound car moving but otherwise its still blocked off in both directions. Should only be blocked though for another 10 minutes and of course well let you know when it reopens. On the big picture 95 southbound by allegheny construction is gone. Same with the work southbound by the blue route and a live look at our good buddy ben, the ben franklin bridge, little bit of eastbound construction headed into camden but it looks like the westbound lanes are ready for you on this wednesday morning. Tam. Okay, thank you, matt. Action news got a look behind the scenes at a large indoor shrimp farm in south jersey. This warehouse in pennsauken is home to the big shrimp company. A half million shrimp are in various stages of development. They started the company in january when they needed to find a use for these water tanks left over from a family business. We googled a lot youtubed a lot and just a lot of time and effort into learning everything about shrimp. The Company Trucks in salt water from the barnegat bay to fill the tanks and the shrimp come from florida when they are just 11 days old. The Company Sells to several area farmers markets and plans to expand into restaurants and you can go take a look and visit the farm and pick shrimp on site when they are harvested on fridays. Arent they cute. They are. Two philadelphia hospitals can count themselves among the 20 best if the country. The u. S. News world report honor roll has the hospital of the university of pennsylvania and penn presbyterian which are both one Hospital System at number 10. Thomas Jefferson University hospital ranks second best in our area and 16th nationwide. Disney is pulling its movies off netflix and will launch its own competing streaming service by 2019. The Parent Company of 6abc announced today that the new service will be the exclusive source of pixar and disney movies starting with toy story four and the frozen sequel. The major stock indices were down slightly yesterday and futures point to a lower open this morning. 4 53. Up next a bride and groom sweat it out at the altar not last minute jitters. They were getting married at the gym. The rodents that are running rampant at a playground a posh section of new york city. My sweethearts gone sayonara. This scarf all thats left to rememb. What. She washed this like a month ago the long lasting scent of gain. Now available in matching scents across your entire laundry routine. Shatters the competition. Hydrating skin better than prestige creams costing over 100, 200, and even 400. For skin that looks younger than it should. Fact check this ad in good housekeeping. Olay regenerist. Ageless. Instead of a venue with wedding bells a New Hampshire couple chose one with kettle bells. They tied the knot at a cross fit gym in lebanon on monday. Candles, kettle bells and barbells lined the aisle. And the couple its friend and trainer led the ceremony. The groom says working out together made them a stronger couple. After a lot of hard work 30 men and women are firefighters, they graduated from the program at Bucks County Community college last night. The ceremony was held at the performing arts center. Family and friends were on hand to watch them receive their diplomas and we say congratulations to them all. Indeed. 4 57 now. Those security chips on your credit or debit cards are supposed to make transactions more secure. Now there is concern that they can physically fall out of the card. New video shows rescuers carrying victims from the are you able rubble of an earthquake in china. We have Surveillance Video of that quake coming up. Action news. Delaware valleys leading news program. With matt odonnell, tamala edwards, karen rogers and meteorologist, david murphy. Good morning, its 5 00 a. M. On this wednesday august 9th. Were following developing news. Tensions between the u. S. And north korea are rising dangerously high as both Leaders Exchange threats. New details this morning. Police say teenagers accidentally shot a man while handling a gun. And taking a live look from sky6 on this wednesday, the Commodore Barry bridge, the sun is on the way. This is the day youve been waiting for to go outside. Lets find out more about that. Karen rogers is in for dave murphy, matt pelman has your traffic. Good morning. Like a fine wine this weather just keeps Getting Better. I like that example. And i know that. Youre right, it is Getting Better and better cause yesterday afternoon took awhile but we got that sun back and were keeping it today. Lets take a look at satellite and radar showing us right now that no clouds for the most part over the area. We may see one or two early this morning but well see bright sunshine through most of the day and we stay dry. Weve got a coupl