Order in effect for nine hours occasionally punk waited by gunfire. Late word within the past 20 minutes, the scene is secured and residents are told they can go home. It is friday night. The big story on action news is the end of a confrontation between police and a gunman. Trish hartman is there. What can you tell us . Well, jim, we just learned from state police that the suspect is deceased. The shelter in place has been lifted and the scene is secure. We are here at third and wilson street. You see emergency vehicles and personnel down there. According to state police, when the Emergency Response team went into the home, the suspect was found dead. The new information was found 15 minutes ago. The last update was an hour ago saying this was an active shooter investigation. This is new information. We heard shots from the neighborhood earlier this evening. Take a listen. Multiple agencies respond today this active shooter investigation in bethlehem township on dennis street. Police
Shots were fired. One neighbor shows a Police Armored vehicle with what appear to be bullet holes across the windshield. It started about 1 30 this afternoon. We saw officers focused on a suburban home in the neighborhood. The suspect fired shots at officers. No word on injuries. We are waiting for information from state police, expecting an update soon. The standoff is over. Police say the suspect has been found dead inside the home and the shelter in place has been lifted. If we have more information well bring you the developing details. Trish hartman, channel6 action news. Thank you, trish. Harrisburg police came under fire late this afternoon. A man shot at officers at three locations. The suspect is now dead. The first shooting happened near the state capital building. The suspect shot up a police vehicle. The officer was not injured. A state trooper was hurt at another location. The injuries are said to be nonlife threatening. Sky 6 on two major transportation hubs. At this time
Temperatures in the 90s, heat wave number three so far we have 21 days of temperatures in the 90s, right now 91 in philadelphia 90 in wilmington and millville. 84 in allentown, you have to go to the mountains for relief 78 degrees, down the shore are you getting a land breeze, temperatures are in the upper 80s and really down the shore this is where we have the highest humidity philadelphia and areas north its pretty dry air with dew points in the 50s, it doesnt add any to the feels like temperature it feels like the air temperature however dover the dew point is 71 degrees and a humid air mass and along the shore dew points in the 60s, more humid there and drier air is moving in in the overnight hours behind a cold front, stormtracker 6 live double scan showing we are dry across our region if you look down to washington d. C. , we are seeing storms popping up and moving to the east that could clip southern delaware and the southern tip of new jersey later on this evening. This is what
Beat if 24 end we were to end up with a. M. Couple of a couple of records. So, heres that excessive heat warning as well as the heat advisory. Look where youre located and where you fall. Regardless everybody except the poconos is included in this. Its still hot up that way too just not quite this oppressive. It may feel as hot as 103 those at the core where the core of that heat is located and theres no centralized. Urban corridor, you go into delaware and even parts of southern new jersey that already feels like the triple digit, in philadelphia at the Philadelphia International airport like its flirting with a hundred already and we still have many hours left of the afternoon to go here. So, as the day does progress, obviously the extreme heat and humidity are the primary story. You have to factor in that humid. An isolated thundershower will help cool off a couple communities but dont bank on that everywhere. Most of us stay dry and coming up well let you know exactly how long this
Meisha, tgif. Jan, great to see you, or we can say frinally. Oh, keep them rolling. Looking outside it is nice and dry, no accident to report, really nothing to report other than it is dry. I know, where is the one . At least it is dry, drying out nicely here, rain that came in last night basically all gone. Feeling speckles on storm scan, i dont want you to worry about it. Going to the maps, show you really just left over, actually more lake enhancement than anything. The system that brought in pocket of pretty soaking rain, as i was falling asleep last night, it was nice. Pretty heavy rain on my rooftop, now all out of here. The thing we have to deal with today, the winds picks up, typical, the winds will pick up. Looking at skycam 3, still lit up beautifully in pink here at liberty place, most notably with pink, few more days of the initiative here, 52 degrees though, it is actually a lot warmer than it was this same time yesterday in many locations, even in the poconos, still in th