Cleveland on day two of the Republican National convention. Well walk you through the fireworks so far, including that speech by Melania Trump last night and what some say are striking similarities with a speech delivered by Michelle Obama in 2008. Well play them both and you decide. A lot to cover this morning. Katie . Tracy, well see you shortly. Thanks so much. Lets get a check of our forecast for today and the rest of the week with meteorologist bill henley. Hes going to talk about the neighborhood forecast, a close look at communities and delaware. Here they are. Live views from around our area. Philadelphia 74 degrees. Thin clouds in the area. Low 70s in new jersey. The temperatures are going to start off lower, 68 degrees and not get as hot this afternoon. Warming into the upper 80s. Delaware, Lehigh Valley and new jersey to 89 degrees in afternoon for philadelphia. All the suburbs are in the same territory. Sunshine, a warm day. The humidity will be falling as the day goes on.
And on the boardwalk, the wind took command of anything that wasnt nailed down. It is tuesday night and the the big story on action news is the aftermath the first big coastal storm of the summer. And even later tonight, we still saw almost constant lightning strikes off the cape may coast. But it was earlier when 70 and 80mileanhour winds caused this kind of damage. They sheared the roof right off the public works building at susquehanna and garfield in wildwood. In rio grande, a small plane was flipped onto its back, and a helicopter onto its side at the Cape May County airport. And a house skeened significant damage in stone harbor just feet from the spot where a tree came toppling down. At this late hour, Atlantic City electric reports more than 22,000 customers are still without power at the jersey shore. Meteorologist cecily tynan has the latest from accuweather. But first, were going to North Wildwood and action News Reporter christie ileto. Christie, a Tornado Warning late this
Robbed another man moments before their encounter with police. The nonshooting suspect fled towards the el station at 60th and market. He actually ran past the first individual that he had robbed and his friends who caught up with him physically subdued him until the police came and arrested him. Reporter mccullough shown here on his Facebook Page is a two year veteran of the force a father of young child expected to be married soon and commissioner richard ross says a testament to the brave men and women in blue. Thankfully hes going to be okay and just to echo something that captain clark great coordination on behalf of all the men and women out there in West Philadelphia last night. And police tell me griffin has 14 prior arrests. Hes now facing at tell meed murder, robbery and other related charges. Im live outside of police headquarters, chad pradelli channel6 action news. Chad, thank you. This is the second Philadelphia Police officer shot in the line of duty this year from the 1
Week. We are starting to see scattered showers moving into Lancaster County. One area that we will be concerned about is the poconos, which is under a Winter Weather advisory because our temperatures are just below freezing as all the moisture continues to push our way. Here is how is will break down. As we head into your friday, we will see a chance of rain as we head into tonight, closer to 9 00 p. M. For the i95 corridor. It will linger into the Early Morning hours saturday. Clearing up as we get into the late Morning Hours on saturday. Make sure you doer ra eer youre before 2 00. It will last throughout the evening, even 11 00 p. M. , we are dealing with rain. We will see more clearing as we head into the Early Morning hours on sunday. Then windy conditions settle in for us. Our temperatures will drop down as well. Its going to feel colder than the actual temperature with our wind speeds picking up. We have a Winter Weather advisory in effect from 4 00 p. M. Until 1 00 a. M. And th
Today. Officer Robert Wilson iii here at this store in north philadelphia buying a game for his son when he was gunned down. Police say shots while trying to stop two people bursting into the store with the intent of robbing the place. The scene remains under investigation this morning. Meantime, police have execute add warrant and recovered evidence from this house on the 1200 block of hollywood street. Were told this activity is related to the case. Police also recovered an ak47 from the property. Now, officer wilson was 30 years old and eight year veteran of the police force. He went into the game stop, at 22nd and lehigh, just after 4 30, thursday afternoon. He was in line and buying a game for his son who did well in school. Two people came in, announced it was a robbery the operation err end gained, gunfire from both side. The officer shot nine times kept firing, until one bullet hit him in the head. Now wilsons partner was actually outside, in the car and responded upon hearing