Have become so common pilot daily occurrence nationwide. New information in the trial. The jury you will consider the Death Penalty as it moves james holmes. It clears the way for another round of arguments before jurors decide between Capital Punishment and life in prison. The same jury rejected his insanity claim last month and found him guilty of murder. And the colorado shooting and the recent shooting inside a louisiana Movie Theater has prompted a new push for gun legislation. It brought together two schumers. Dick brennan has more on the proposal and the reaction. Reporter when i heard about this news, i was completely devastated and i just wanted to go down to louisiana and then i was angry. Reporter Movie Actress and comedian amy schumer speaking out on gun violence. You are approachable. Reporter it was her movie train wreck playing on a screen in a lafayette Movie Theater when a mentally ill man john houser killed Jillian Johnson and mayci breaux. Today she fought back tears
The popular locala palooza festival shutting down. Organizers ended the final day of the festival 30 minutes early when another storm hit the area. Here in grays lake, illinois, a day of cleanup. Parts of this building across the street. You can see that truck turned over. Carson, savannah, back to you. What a night. Jong yang in grays lake, illinois, thank you. Meanwhile, in california, thousands of homes are being threatened by a wildfire that nearly tripled in size over the weekend. Emergency officials stepped up evacuation orders. Joe fryer has the latest. Good morning. Reporter good morning, carson. This fire now at 54,000 acres, growing at a rate thats unprecedented. The flames have moved into a more remote area, which is good news. But in these conditions, they know things can change in an instant. The rocky fire is an unpredictable monster still growing this morning, even veteran firefighters say they have never seen anything like it. At one point, the flames tore through 20,00
The driver is described as a black male with a heavy build and a thick beard. We know that it was a accident. All we want you to do is just come forward right now just you know, i know that sometimes we panic when things ham. Just come forward right now. Shes fine. They just want to talk to you and get some information. Reporter al leash sharks brian the word from police tonight is if you can help them find his hit and run driver please call the Police Department right away. Live in north philadelphia, im vernon odom, channel6 action news. All right vernon, thank you. It is time now for a check of the accuweather forecast. Just about as perfect as it gets out there today. Meteorologist cecily tynan in for adam joseph this afternoon. You have the details cecily. It is a little hot. I think brian likes it hot. I do. Its 92 degrees so far today. So, this is its seventh day in heat wave number three. Its now lasted a full week. So far philadelphias high up to 92 degrees. Perfect for brian
This is our cold front that is not scheduled to hit until tonight, and i think that it will touch off a couple showers and thunderstorms, in the overnight hours anytime after dark, 73 degrees right now with 73 percent relative humidity not often that matches, 7 miles an hour wind. Maybe that is lucky number today, seven. A lot 607s here. Should have made number a seven. It is in the 60s to the north of us. Seventythree as we said in philadelphia we have wind that are still coming out of the southwest, for most of us and that is where the humidity comes from as well. So even though it was hot over the weekend it it wasnt excessively humid. We will get more humid to day before, those thunderstorms hit tonight so, sun and cloud upper 80s by lunchtime a bit more humid with a high of 93. This will make the seventh day of our current heat wave, 8 13 is your sunset time so you still have a nice long day to enjoy for the first monday in august. We will have the seven day forecast coming up in
It. Yes. I still have a lot i want to do this summer. Yes. Lets get to the number of the day, because it will be a great eight, for the day. Little more humid then it was over the weekend. Over the weekend we had heat but not really the humidity. Hopefully you enjoyed it. Is there bus stop buddy with muggy the dog. We have the water bottle there too make sure you you stay hydrated. Temperatures are in the 60s and 07s. We have 73 degrees in philadelphia 76 percent relative humidity. Bit of the breeze at 8 miles an hour. So yesterday was day number six, of the heat wave. Sunday as high 90. We think today will be 93, and plenty of sunshine. It is another hot one today and then tonight we will get widely scattered showers and thunderstorms, mostly north and west of the city, and that is what we have for for your monday. Some changes coming this week. I think we will break that heat wave before too long. We will let you know in the seven day forecast, hi there bob kelly. Good morning, every