Police officers facing charges, all six in for a bail hearing using force and threats to rob, kidnap and abuse drug dealers. One denied bail, the others requested a new judge because the current one used to be a federal prosecutor. That request was granted. Vernon odom was there and has more on what it means for the case moving forward in a live record tonight at 5 00. Families and friends gathered to remember three children killed after a carjacking and crash. John rawlins is live and it is another tough day for the family and community as well. Yes, it was alicia. When you have a funeral for three children, two brothers and a sister ages 7, 9 and 15, it is going to be an awful day after a string of awful days. Three caskets, three victims. Killed by an out of control s. U. V. Driver by a carjacking. Their mother who was with a them at the time remains hospital li ized. Among those paying respects at the church is the mayor, the d. A. And other elected officials. Some here knew the family well. Many others though strangers, but they were touched by the awful incident. This could have been my children, so i try to be there to support the family, to show love, to show comfort and to let them know that they are not alone. As being a christian it is my duty to pay respects to the family. It was just so sad, so sad because they were so young. The eulogy, the pastor recognized the pain of loss, but are christian there is is hope. While the children are gone, if helped to bring people together today. The ministry they were doing is community work. Getting the kids out to do exercise. They would sell fruit to raise money for a playground they were having, and thats good work. Thats gods work. Following the funeral, which was open to the public the children were interned in a private family ceremony in a sem taerp in cemetery. And before going there they passed the family home in tioga. Thank you. And the police say that Cornelius Crawford and Jonathan Rosa are the men responsible and are both facing a long list of charges, including three counts of murder. The police say rosa was never arrested before, but crawford had a long history. They are held without bail. Read more about todays service at the they 6abc. Com and learn about the crash that took the lives of the children and see a slide show of pictures and tributes in their honor. And in ohio they are breathing a sigh of relief after getting a drink. Announcing the a water is safe to drink. The ban was in effect for three days. A toxic algae bloom on lake erie contaminated the water. And there were long likes for bottled water. They say they cant rule out the same thing happening in the future. I am not going to say absolutely not, we dont know. No other lakefront cities like cleveland and chicago are also watching their own water supplies. The great lakes provides t philadelphia 83. Skio to the south it is warmer. Washington, d. C. 88. We will tap into some of the warmer areas we head through tomorrow. Tonight if you are in bethlehem, musikfest sheryl crow is playing. 76 degrees, moderately humid and the humidity will be increasing as we head through tomorrow and wednesday. Stormtracker live double scan showing we are rainfree here. If you look up across the great lakes you see the thin line of showers and thunderstorms. Thats a cold front. That will be moving closer to us but will not be passing through until wednesday. Ahead of that you get the winds out of the southwest. Thats a warm flow of air and its also a humid flow of air. Temperatures are going to be climbing on tomorrow. As we look ahead tomorrow, temperatures near 90 degrees. As the front moves through it will be unsettled. Tomorrow afternoon could get a few thunderstorms. A much better chance wednesday. The good news, we clear out the humidity, clear out the clouds in time for the end of the week and the weekend. Its monday, already looking forward to next week. It is going to be beautiful. I will talk more about that and have an update on hurricane bertha in the full accuweather forecast. Always working for the weekend, thank you. A West PhiladelphiaChurch Closing its doors after more than a century. The archdiocese announced it is closing our lady of sacrament church. Last year it was merged but the archdiocese says it does not have the funds for the building and the pastor gets to decide what to do with it in the future. Buses load, students, parents, teachers and administrators are headed to the capitol to plead with lawmakers to fund the philadelphia schools. The effort just days after the legislators ended the session without voting on a bill to raise the citys cigarette tax. And that tax would have funded the School District at last years bear bare bones levels. And they are not going to deal with it until after the school year is progress, it is a shame and a sham. And funding could come if governor corbet advances them money until they take action in the fall. A restaurant change says it has been hacked. We tell you some of the locations involved are in our area. Massive mudslides in california. The river well, not that kind of fresh. On the freshness of our chicken. But i can guarantee the freshness of our chicken because we go beyond what the usda requires. With extra inspections in American Family owned farms, refrigerated trucks that deliver daily and everywhere in between. Thats what it takes to bring your family a fresh tasting chicken. Perdue. We believe in a better chicken. Fill their bowl with the meaty tastes theyre looking for, with friskies grillers. Tender meaty pieces and crunchy bites. In delicious chicken, beef, turkey, and garden veggie flavors. Friskies grillers. Former White House Press secretary and fierce antigun advocate brady died today. He served under ronald reagan. He was shot in the head in an assassination attempt. He survived but confined to a whole chair the rest of his life. He was a voice for gun control and founded the Brady Campaign for gun violence, but was in poor health the last several years. James brady was 73. Israel resumed attacks in the gaza strips ending the selfimposed ceasefire in effect most of the day today. Even while the ceasefire was in place, an attack on an israeli bus killed one in jerusalem. Witnesses say a man rammed the front end of the bus with a construction excavator and it led to renewed fighting after israel agreed to break off the attacks to people could get supplies. Almost 2,000 died in the conflict so far, 1900 of them palestinians. People stranded in california today after rains led to a landslide. A river several feet deep in stand bernardino county. One person dead. And sacramento, 3,000 had to leave homes because of a wildfire. And todays forecast calls for gusty winds, it could be another tough day for crews trying to put out the flames. People in new jersey are divided about whether to open casinos outside of Atlantic City according to a new poll showing about half are opposed to it. Lawmakers say it is a raise to money that will go to Atlantic City. A poll showing 42 in favor of it. To business on a monday. Stocks got off on the right foot to start the workweek. The dow up about 76 points today, the nasdaq rising 31, the s p gained amount 14 points on this day. A breach at p. F. Changs affecting restaurants in our area. Affecting 33 locations across the county including restaurants in collegeville and glen mills. And the secret service noticed the problem in june and investigators are trying to figure out if customer information was stolen. The company is providing Identity Protection services for anyone who might have been affected. It turns out some of the brands you buy could be disappearing from store shelves. Proctor and gamble plans to cut about 90 of its brands. They did not say which they are going to lose. It contained such continues as tide and crest. And no word whether it will affect jobs at that hospital. And people trying to get home and the traffic report. And autumn is in at the Traffic Center. A touch way to start out. 95 southbound past academy you see a serious accident going on. A silver car they are trying to move out of the way, it was involved with the other darker vehicle on the righthand shoulder. Fire police, ambulance and police on the scene. Four lanes coming down to one, you can imagine the back up on 95 southbound. And also a back up on 95 northbound from vine to wood haven taking about 40 minutes to do the commute right now. Looking at the big picture, slow going on the schuylkill expressway. That bumped up to 27 Miles Per Hour. We were in the teens moments ago, but still 30 minutes from the blue route to the vine or the vine to the blue route right now. And going to the vine street expressway you can see it is slow going in the eastbound lanes as you break your way up to broad street. And also activities in the westbound lanes as you make your way out to the schuylkill expressway. A few incidents to tell you about. Park avenue is going to be your alternate. And mount laurel, 73 northbound at church road an accident out there, it has been cleared. But we have some delays in the area. Over into delaware, creek road between yorkland and bang road a downed tree. And old wilmington road is your exits around that. And looking at the area bridges, nice and clear out there. Remember, we have construction on the ben franklin parkway. Back to you. Thank you. Felt mediators urged septa and several unions to keep talking. He encouraged both sides back to the negligence table to continue talking. The dispute on pay for train engineered. President barack obama appointed a board last month recommending that they get the wage increases similar to other unions and about 400 septa workers walked off the job. And wgas prices are going down. And Rick Williams with more on the decline. It is good news. The month of august, and yes, it is just august 4, but gas price test lowest levels since the year 2010. It is good news, and timely news, many people are traveling through the summer months. At 5 00, how much the gas prices have dropped and what is behind the decline. In healthcheck, expect to see more glutenfree products on grocery selves. An f. D. A. Regulation about glut glutenfree today tomorrow. These are some of the stories we are following coming up on action news at 5 00. And cecily will be back with the accuweather forecast. And the american affected with ebola, how they are responding to treat when now back on american soil. And take the abc news app on your tablets or smart phones no matter how large there was cake and there were candles in the white house today. President obama is celebrating a birthday. The commander in chief turns 53 today. He spent the day in closed meetings with his cabinet, probably not the most exciting way to spend the day, but he did get to spend this weekend with a few rounds of golf with a childhood friend. Happy birthday, mr. President. Now time for the forecast, a little sticky but well take it. And cecily tynan out there in the sticky weather. It is a little humid but a little breeze making it comfortable. And over the weekend not seeing much sunshine but it is back. Philadelphia 83 degrees. The many humidity not oppressive. The heat index with the dewpoint adds 1 degree, so it feels like 84 degrees. So it feels like summer again. Its august, temperatures should be in the 80s. Actually they should be in the upper 80s. Philadelphia 83, millville 83, allentown 82. Dover 81. At the shore, a little cooler, Sea Isle City currently 76 degrees. The dewpoints you see they are higher along the coast, closer to the ocean where it is 70 degrees. Thats pretty humid. And allentown dewpoints in the 60s. And the dewpoints will be rising tomorrow as the temperatures rise ahead of a cold front. Satellite 6 and action radar showing we are in between systems. A stationary front helping us with hurricane bertha, kicking it out to sea. And the broken line of showers and thunderstorms across the great lakes, thats a cold front moving through late in the day on wednesday. Ahead of it the surge from the southwest a very warm air. Tomorrow, definitely feeling like summer. Temperatures in the upper 80s. A few areas around 90 degrees. At the shore temperatures in the low 80s. Futuretracker showing as the cold front gets closer wednesday, this is going to be the most active day of the week. Showers and thunderstorms developing around 2 00. At this point, not severe, but back an umbrella wednesday. And then clearing out nicely for the end of the week and the weekend. Here is bertha, a hurricane now about 230 miles north of the bahamas. Maximum sustained wind 80 Miles Per Hour and the cold front i showed up off the eastern seaboard, what it will do is kick bertha really out to sea. Happening between hatteras and bermuda as a category one hurricane. What it means, you do want to be careful if you vacation at the shore the next few days there is rip currents and the waves looking 5 feet tall. Good reason to listen to the life guard and not go into the water without a life guard there. And the call from accuweather, a few clouds, getting more humid in the overnight. Philadelphia 68, millville 64, allentown 61, and cape may 67 degrees. The 4day at four shows tomorrow the heat is on. 89 degrees, humid, lots of sunshine tomorrow. Wednesday, thats when the cold front will slide due bringing us afternoon showers and thunderstorms. 87 degrees. Behind it on thursday, clearing things out. The humidity will be dropping 84 degrees. And friday, gorgeous low humidity, plenty ever sunshine, warm, 83 degrees. After this past weekend a lot of people telling me they want sunshine next weekend. And youve got it. Really nice weekend ahead coming up in the full accuweather sevenday forecast. All right cecily, thank you for delivering that gift. Yes, good news. Thanks a lot. Special athletes in our area, Special Olympics a soccer training camp. Tryouting for the Special Olympics pennsylvania allstar team traveling next month. Made up of ten players who will face the best of the best in the nation. All right, good luck to them. We are buzzing next. We are buzzing about a remake potentially of ghostbusters with an allfemale cast. 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And cape may sunshine back and cooler, 76 degrees. The dewpoint quite a bit higher, 69 degrees. Close to the ocean, that happens and winds out of the southwest 6 miles an hour. And the ocean temperature 73 degrees. Pretty warm in the ocean. Taking a look at the dewpoints, most of our region slightly humid. Higher along the coast. Our dewpoints and temperatures really will be urging tomorrow ahead of a system bringing us wet weather on wednesday. I will talk about that and next weekend in the full accuweather sevenday forecast. Sounds good, thanks. School might be out for the summer but kids in the camden School District took part in the way that the schools communicate with parents. And talking with students at the Creative ArtsMorgan Village academy in camden. Getting their input on how schools can be improved including the schooling information cards citywide. 22 of the 26 schools in the camden School District have been labeled as failing. Still ahead, one mans mistake. Another mans saving. Why other peoples typos could mean deals for you. Plus, standing up for her stretch marks. What made a mother of five defend other bikini body to thousands of strangers. And proud parents. Dont miss how one childless couple turns the newborn photo shoot, a lot of them are taking and brian just had them taken of his, look at that cutie pie. And back with the full the Thai Government stepped into an ugly surrogacy battle. Claiming that an australian couple abandoned him they learned he had down syndrome taking his twin sister instead. And they say she were unaware of his existence. And they said she met the couple numberries times before he was born and told them much his situation. And they demanded that she abort the boy. And an Australian Campaign to raise money for the health care raised more than 200,000. In southern california, city on edge because of what is roaming the streets there. The only evidence is this grainy s surveillance video. It doesnt appear to be a mountain lion. The tail doesnt seem to match up, it is a mystery. We have small dogs. And we were just making sure that everybody kept their pets inside. The local zoo says all of their big cats are accounted for. So the mystery continues. The big talkers. Many says grace before a meal and moved by yours at her diner giving you a discount. They are offering a 15 discount for praying no matter your religion. Check out the receipt right there proves it. Not an official policy, but mary says that every plate of food is a gift and she is touched by people honoring their gratefulness at her table. A lot of recent buzz about this and she responded on her Facebook Page saying that gratitude can turn a meal too a feast. And there is a mother of five out there fighting back on facebook after she says she was bullied at the beach for wearing a bikini. She posted this picture of herself, postbaby stretch marks in view and photo and poignant words viral. And saying the stretch marks are there for a reason, the reason her five kids. The stretch marks come with the territory, she says she will take it. I am sorry that my some is not flat and tight. I am sorry my belly is covered in stretch marks. I am not sorry my body has housed, grown, protected, birthed and nurtured five familiar will you say human beings. That picture more than a million likes and counting and thousands of shares. Finally, many people think of their pets as their kids. These proud parents showed off their little furry fourlegged baby in a professional photo session. The little guys, snuggles, posing as little ones would in a basket. And they say the shots are meant to be funny. How we humanize our pets. The jack russell is bundled up. Even a floral head bed on his k9 head. And even calls asleep by the newboorn. The cutest, the familiar i shot of all six feet sticking out from the bottom of the bed. Beyond cute. And brian, we miss you the last few weeks as you spent time with your two little guys, brady and sawyer. And we just took their pictures, too. For some people their pets are their kids. And another check on the roads right now. Autumn is in the Traffic Center and you have an update for us. Looking at 95 southbound past academy. The earlier accident pushed off to the shoulder. And you see the travel times clear there. The northbound a little delay but not bad from the vine up to woodhaven. And speaks on the schuylkill in the teens, that is the slowest point. Take 3035 minutes to go from the vine to the blue route or blue route to the vine. Another slow down, in the boulevard northbound lane from the schuylkill expressway, it is a slow going. The southbound lanes across the bridges have you no problem making it up to the schuylkill now. An incident 95 northbound this was a barbecue grill in the middle of the road northbound in the Commodore Barry bridge. It is moved off to the side of a road, but a free one if you are looking for one. And route 168 an accident off to the shoulder but slowdowns in that neighborhoods. And hammington route 30 closed and the alternate park avenue. And delaware closed between yorkland road and bens road because of a downed tree and mass transit looking good, all services on time right now. If your heading to the katy perry concert two local trains leaving at 6 08 and 6 18. And the area bridges, clear with the exception of the construction on the ben. Thank you. The question, how far could you go for charity . The answer for one british man was up a mountain. Thats not all. He also pushed a brussel sprout you said mountain up his nose for charity. The 49 year old father had to use a face mask and extra large sprout that wouldnt fall into a crack. Taking him three days to race the vegetable to the top raising money for a cancer hospital. Where does that idea even come from . Right. That is brussel sprouts, what a journey made. Some brussel sprout, true words never spoken. And meteorologist cecily tynan with the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast and its a good one up next. Im jane and i have copd. Im dave and i have copd. Im kate and i have copd, but i dont want my breathing problems to get in the way my volunteering. Thats why i asked my doctor about breo. Oncedaily breo ellipta helps increase airflow from the lungs for a full 24 hours. And breo helps reduce symptom flareups that last several days and require oral steroids, antibiotics, or hospital stay. Breo is not for asthma. Breo contains a type of medicine that increases risk of death in people with asthma. It is not known if this risk is increased in copd. Breo wont replace rescue inhalers for sudden copd symptoms and should not be used more than once a day. Breo may increase your risk of pneumonia, thrush, osteoporosis, and some eye problems. 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Stormtracker 6 live double scan, we did get rid of the showers we were dealing with over the weekend. Temperatures really not that warm interesting 87 degrees the normal high this time of year. Philadelphia currently 83. Trenton 84. Millville 83. Allentown 82. At the shore a little cooler, winds out of the southwest off the ocean, so temperatures in the mid 70s. Satellite 6 along with axe radar, we in between systems, a front is stationary off the coast, has the cloud cover with it. And the great lakes you see a narrow band, that is what will move through her thursday afternoon. Ahead of it wednesday out of the southwest, it is warming up tomorrow. 89 degrees. A lot of sunshine, a few clouds here and there. More humid than today as well. Wednesday is when the front moves through. What this will do is bring out warm and muggy conditions early in the day, and then showers and thunderstorms developing in the afternoon. 87 degrees. Behind the system High Pressure takes over for the end of the workweek and for the weekend. And that will bring us real reply gorgeous weather with lots of sunshine and low humidity and comfortable temperatures. We can deal with that. In the meantime, bertha became a hurricane this morning. Really not a very healthylooking hurricane. It is very disorganized and actually weekend. Maximum sustained winds down. It is moving north at 18 Miles Per Hour. The good news, it is no threat to landfall. It is fasting through between bermuda and Cape Hatteras away. However, if you are at the beach this week be careful. Next two days a moderate risk of rip currents. At 11 00, 78 degrees. By 3 00, 82 degrees. The call from accuweather tonight, a few clouds. It will be getting noticeably more humid in the overnight. 68 in the suburbs, 68 for center city. And the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast, the heat on tomorrow. 89 degrees. More humid and lots of sunshine. Wednesday, 87, humid with showers and storms developing of the behind that thursday is a transition day. The humidity dropping through the day, clouds clearing out. 84 degrees. Friday we get the spectacular weather, gorgeous. 83 degrees. Ment good news, High Pressure sticks around for the weekend. Saturday loads of sunshine. Sunday beautiful, 85 degrees. And monday a little warmer with a high of 87 degrees. Finally back into the weather pattern we had most of the summer, and clearing it out in time for the weekend. Thank you. We are saving next. We dont love grammatical mi longhorn knows what happens when you cross state lines. Things get interesting. Introducing new steaks across america, like the new kansas city bbq sirloin for 12. 99 or the texas 3 chili pepper ribeye, drizzled with onion straws. Longhorn steakhouse. You cant fake steak. Time to save with 6abc. You can get great deals on ebay but a way to weed out the best prices on there. 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And when asked why she put it on, she said she works for disney and her boss, megatron, told her to. She didnt miss any spots. No. That will do it for action news at 4 00. For shirleen allicot, alicia vitarelli, adam joseph and cecily tynan im brian taff. Join me with shirleen, adam and Ducis Rodgers tonight on phl 17 at 10 00. And Rick Williams and Monica Malpass with a look ahead at 5 00. Coming up, rescue teams are searching for survivors after misdemeanor slides in california. I do and the eagles are preparing for the first preseason game. And that practice in south the corruption investigation into six philadelphia narcotics officers continues tonight. The officers went before a judge to try to get out of prison. It is monday night and the big story is the Court Hearing for officers charged with robbing drug suspects. Vernon odom live in center city for us tonight with new details on that hearing. Good evening, vernon. The hearing just broke off. Here are the essential facts. A major emotional day in court for the six exnarcotics officers. All six appeared in the courtroom trying to get bail. 19 year old veteran mike spicer was denied. Aft he refused himself. And moments okay the same magistrate refused bail for the ringleader allegedly, thomas liciardello. And now the sixth one will have the bail hearing tomorrow. The three who got bail had to put up hundreds of thousands of