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WPVI Action News September 2, 2014

And as we head out the door to catch the school bus this morning for some of you for the first time, expect to it stay on the muggy side. Mainly clear and muggy early, 75 by 6 oclock and 78 degrees by 8 00 a. M. This morning. As we roll through the day its going to be another hot one. 81 by 9 oclock. By noon up close to 90 and were in the 90s for several hours this afternoon including that high of 94 and well hit that at about 3 oclock. 88 by 6 oclock. There is the chance of a late day and especially evening shower or thunderstorm. Some of those could produce drenching downpours. Karen ill have more on that coming up in that future tracker 6 view. All right, dave, were live on the schuylkill expressway early on a Tuesday Morning approaching Spring Garden street. No delays coming from conshohocken or gladwyne, looking good. Martin luther king drive reopened after the closure over the weekend for the made in america festivities. Lets go to the action cam. One of the big closures has been the ben franklin parkway at eakins oval as we look live not seeing any traffic. Were seeing lights on flash but police are telling us they have reopened the ben franklin parkway and lifted the restrictions so better news as youre headed out the door right now. Looking on the big picture here were seeing speeds on the blue route, schuylkill, i95 all in pretty good shape. Construction blocks the two right lanes on the ben franklin bridge westbound so you got to watch for that as youre coming into the city and we do have this accident early this hour, amity township in berks county on 422 near 662 so watch for that accident and i told you a little bit ago about Police Activity that was here in pottstown on high street and beech street but they just cleared that so things are looking a little better. Dont forget the ramp connecting 422 eastbound with Armand Hammer boulevard they will close and thats going to last for a little while, tam. Thank you karen. Grief counselors will be on hand at Council Rock High school south today as freshmen arrive for student orientation. The Bucks County School opened its doors on labor day to offer assistance to students and staff coping with the loss of three High School Sophomores over the weekend. Ryan lesher Cullen Keffer and Shamus Digney were killed in a rollover crash on saturday in the poconos. The School Community is remembering all three as bright young men who were involved in a number of sports and activities. Its just three bright lights, three tremendous individuals who shared their gifts and talents with Council Rock High school south and those bright lights were extinguished way too soon. Counselors remain on campus tomorrow as the entire student body returns for the first day of class. Students in south jersey will gather today in support of several classmates who were also involved in a weekend car crash. The special assembly happens today at mainland regional high school. Five soccer players were injured when a pickup truck crossed into their lane on route 40 in Hamilton Township Atlantic County on saturday. 14yearold Aisling Cooke is on life support. Her four teammates are out of the hospital. Mainlands School Year Starts on thursday. The fbi is now getting involved in the apparent i cloud hack that exposed private celebrity photos. Action News Reporter erin ohearn is at the big board with more on the investigation. This is a lot of private material, some famous people didnt want out there. It sure is. The fbi is now investigating this massive hacking scandal which includes big a list names including oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence and ariana grande. A user on the popular photo sharing site four chan posted the risque photos on sunday after hackers allegedly gained access to i cloud accounts. Apples i Cloud Service an internet Storage Program supposed to keep users information and media private. Apple said it has fixed the bug that allowed hackers to access the program but the damage seems to be done the stars are angry. Lawrences rep has said that the photographs of her are real and that this is a flagrant violation of privacy. Super model kate upton who was also a victim in the scandal, a nude photograph of the bombshell blond and her boyfriend surfaced and her attorney said she intended to sue anyone disseminating or duplicating these images to the fullest extender possible. Celebritys are more vulnerable because their photos are more valuable. If you have deleted photos from your phone, oftentimes theyve already been uploaded into the cloud and when you delete them from the phone, they continues to exist. And one Industry Expert is actually calling this photo leak a sex crime, not a scandal because it involves the theft of personal property and the exploitation of the female body. Tam, a lot of attention being brought to this story. Absolutely. Thank you erin. Good morning america will continue to give some attention to it as they cover the celebrity photo leak thats coming up at 7 oclock right after action news. 5 35 now. The enormous process of closing an enormous casino and hotel in Atlantic City is almost complete. Gamblers at the revel have less than a half hour to finish pulling the slots as the casino shutdown begins at 6 00 a. M. Action News Reporter david henry is live in Atlantic City where the 2 billion plus project is about to sit moth ball. David. Reporter yeah, the process has begun, matt, just a few minutes ago, the chains across the steps going from the boardwalk up to the casino went up. So, this casino is in its final death throws. The cards were stacked against this place from the beginning. Built during the Great Recession with a heavy debt load. Take a look up here. You can see that the lights are still on on the gaming floor but they will go dark about a half hour from now. This is a 2. 5 billion gamble that went bust. They did put so much money into it and now its closing and it did so little for the city anyway, its just it just seems to be a big waste. Reporter no potential buyers have come to the table so far so this glittering 47 story hotel and casino is now an almost empty shell. A prominent boardwalk landmark symbolic of the fading allure of casino gambling in Atlantic City. The revel was supposed to purge new life into this town targeting an upmarket crowd. The crowds never came and the casino went through two bankruptcies before finally calling it quits. It has become another domino as one casino after another falls. The Atlantic Club closed in january. The showboat closed this past sunday and the trump plaza will close in two weeks. The closings are a body blow to the local economy putting 6200 people out of work. The mood was grim at the revel last night as many of the 3200 employees clocked out for the last time. Very serious. Usually have fun, goof off and everything but we took it very serious, did our jobs, in and out. Reporter the gaming floor all but deserted throughout the night soon to go dark as this place closes its doors for the final time at 6 oclock this morning. The revel will be no more. So, whats next for Atlantic City now that four of its 12 casinos are closing . Well, that will be the challenge for a bipartisan summit meeting that meets next week. Live in Atlantic City, david henry, channel 6 action news. Matt. Thanks, david. Atlantic city has seen the total revenue of its Casino Industry nearly cut in half since 2006. It fell from 5. 2 billion to under 2. 9 billion in the last year. Pennsylvania launched gambling in 2006 and has grown from a 450 million industry to a 3 billion industry in the last fiscal year. Eclipsing Atlantic City and clearly stealing business. This morning for a lot of families its going to be about the kids heading back to school wondering how to dress them, what to anticipate. Dont wonder. Okay. Just shorts and ts, thats about all you can do today or maybe those golf shirts. Storm tracker 6 live double scan, tam, shows us were dry. Its one of those days where it would be horrific to get a little bit of rain. Probably would have to wait until this evening for that. As we look outside we have dry condition, tranquil conditions as well but as you take your first steps outside the door youll probably feel it kind of muggy out there. Similar to the last couple of days. And it looks like were in for hot and humid one. Temperature right now is 77 degrees. Your dewpoint is 72 right now. Thats over that threshold for what we call oppressive air. 70 and up oppressive humidity. Winds out of the southwest at just 3 miles per hour, too, so not much relief there. Dewpoints across the region, we have slipped to 68 in allentown but most of us are at 70 or better so again very humid conditions as you step outside its staying that way today. Future tracker 6 shows that you well be in and out of the clouds as we go through the morning and into the afternoon. Looks like in most cases we stay dry. We cant totally rule out a little popup shower or thunderstorm during the Late Afternoon hours but the better chance appear to be in the evening between 6 oclock and 8 oclock or 9 oclock tonight. There are drenching downpours in a couple neighborhoods, maybe a little bit of gusty wind ahead of that. Then we get up to 11 oclock and were beginning to ease back into drier conditions. As we take a look at temperatures today, 78 degrees by 8 oclock but by 11 00 were already in the mid 80s and then we spend a good portion of the afternoon in the 90s. 94 degrees is your high at about 3 oclock and by 5 oclock well still be just barely holding onto 90 and again a popup shower or thunderstorm in the afternoon but a better chance this evening. High temperatures across the area, everybody in the 90s outside of lancaster and the shore. At the shore still mid to upper 80s and still humid with that late thunderstorm chance. As we take a look at tomorrow, any early showers get out of here quickly and then you can see how we clear out and dry out and that humidity starts to go down tomorrow. Should it feel a lot more comfortable. Your exclusive accuweather 7day forecast, hot and humid today, though. 94 the high. Heat index is up around 100. Lots of cool drinks if youll be out there working or exerting yourself at all and that late thunderstorm is something you want to keep your eyes on. Tom glavine well less humid, 88, still warm. Great for the union game at ppl park at night and then thursday sunny and warm, 88 but not bad in terms of humidity. Sunny and hot on friday, a high of nineties. It may abtad more humid. Saturday warmer and more humid with a high of 88. Theres a chance of a and afternoon shower or thunderstorm and sunday 80, partly sunny for the eagles game. Another chance of a shower or a thunderstorm around but hopeful that stuff misses the stadium. Well keep our eyes on it there thank you, david. Its 5 41 and the manhunt intensifies for the bandit wanted for five Bank Robberies in four states and police consider him heavily armed and dangerous. The grounds gives way at a cemetery out west taking with it someones final resting place. Karen. Were looking live in bensalem route 1 approaching the pennsylvania turnpike. No problems right here but not far off weve got a new accident involving an overturned tractortrailer. Details coming right up. The coast guard comes to the rescue of boaters stranded hear their story a little later on action news. [prof. Burke]why is it smart to talk to farmers for your Auto Insurance . Because we believe that doing things right is more important than just doing them fast. And. Because we dont want you to miss out on things like accident forgiveness. Where we forgive an accident every three years without raising your rates. Talk to farmers and get the coverage you want, not just the coverage thats fast. We are farmers bum pa dum, bum bum bum bum [announcer] call us today at 1800farmers. To prove a point about internet speeds, we slowed down an up escalator this is crazy like i dont get it, this one is working ladies, shouldnt up be as fast as down . Yeah. Shouldnt internet speeds match as well . Yes. Do your socks match . My socks match. Do your eyeballs match . Yes. Cable does not match the speeds. Makes you want to go mad. Erggggh. Only verizon fios comes with speed match. Upload speeds as fast as your download speeds. Join now at fiosspeedmatch. Com. Verizon. Welcome back. Youre taking a live look here on sky 6 looking out over Philadelphia International airport. Philadelphia international there and its going to be hot and sticky. Right now its 5 44 and 77 degrees. Pretty soon the pancakes will be on the griddle, bacon sizzling getting the kids ready for school today karen. Now im hungry. More kids going back each day this week. A lost schools in new jersey dont go back until thursday but a bunch coming today. In suburban traffic report i want to take you to an accident just coming in. Its in bucks county involving an overturned tractortrailer. It is on the ramp from the pennsylvania turnpike westbound to bensalem. Thats exit 351. This just happened a few minutes ago were hearing at this point traffic has been getting by but you got to watch that with an overturned tractortrailer on a ramp when they try to clear that up right now. We connect that could certainly cause some problems. Were looking live right now and you can see this accident scene in the camera view so you need to be careful as youre headed out. Weve got Police Emergency workers on the scene right now and that overturned tractortrailer is dark but you can kind of make it out right here and it looks like its flipped over at least on its side. A problem on the ramp from the pennsylvania turnpike westbound to bensalem. Watch for this accident involving an overturned tractortrailer now looking like theyre blocking the ramp right here so certainly an issue for this morning. Just happened a few minutes ago and now were looking live right here at the scene. Lets go to the maps and talk about another accident here. And this is in berks county and its on 422 right near 662. Its been out there a little bit but still causing a problem this morning so youve got to watch for that. Back to our camera scene this is a shot at route 100 at sunrise boulevard. No problems now. Northbound we expect construction not today but tomorrow through friday from 9 00 until 3 00 and certainly were going to be looking out on the roads expecting more school buses on the road today and our summer time light volume, well, thats something of a history. Lets take a look right now at visibility reports. At least we have no big weather problems affecting the roads as you come back to work and school, 10mile visibility in philadelphia, 3mile visibility in trenton and. 3 in lancaster so just one or two areas where youre getting just a little bit of fog but as david has been telling us, its a really hot and humid day today, a high of 94. Late today watch for a couple thunderstorms late today and tonight. They could be drenchers. The manhunt continues for the ak47 bandit. Hes wanted for Bank Robberies in four different states across the country. Authorities believe he could be a former Law Enforcement officer or exmilitary. Authorities believe his robbery spree began two years ago in california and most recently they think he maids off with a duffle bag of cash from a bank in nebraska. A distracted driver in colorado speaking out about a near death experience. Christina jans said she looked down after her phone for a split second when a piece of guardrail plunged into her suv through the headlights. The pole shot through jans hip and came out at the top of her rear end just missing many vital organs. Jans is now out of the hospital and is expected to make a full recovery. The trial of Christina Regusters is expected to resume this morning. Shes accused of kidnapping a child from a school in west philadelphia. Prosecutors say regusters blindfolded a little girl and escorted her out of bryant elementary and later prosecutors say regusters sexually assaulted the child in regusters home and later abandoned the girl half naked at a park. The girl testified that she heard a bird talking in the home and when a tip led police to regusters home they found a bird inside cursing out police. Regusters met the girl two years earlier while working at a daycare center. 5 48 now and a viral Charity Stunt goes horribly wrong. How the ice bucket challenge ended with a man critically hurt. A finalisting place becomes part of a landslide out west. David. Hot and humid day, late thunderstorm possible, a high of 94 so obviously if youre dressing the shorts and tshirts today. Back with Area Temperatures male announcer the magic of the bay is waiting. Explore marylands coastal villages, scenic waterways and the land of our National Anthem along the starspangled Banner National historic trail. 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