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WPVI Action News 5PM June 21, 2017

Medford and mount holly, these winds 50 to 60 Miles Per Hour. You see the stronger winds are starting to fall apart as with you go to southern parts of Burlington County. You could have small hail as well. Wind 60 Miles Per Hour and most areas stay on the dry side. Rick and monica when i come back well talk about the end of the week active as well because of Tropical Storm cindy. Thank you so much. Now to breaking news bill cosby sex assault case, lets than 90 minutes ago the judge decided that the names of the jurors that were deadlocked will be released but those jurors are banned from saying anything about the deliberations in the case. Before deadlocking on all three counts against cosby resulting in a mistrial. Kevin steele has vowed to retry the case. A murder mystery in south jersey. A 47yearold woman was found dead in a Swimming Pool behind her home. And now we are learning more about how she died. Action News Reporter sara bloomquist live athe police station. They are assuring residents there is no immediate safety concern. Investigators say they are making progress as they work to solve what is now being called a homicide case. 47yearold michelle long was found dead in a Swimming Pool behind her home in swedesboro on saturday. Today the Gloucester County prosecutor announced that the autopsy determined she died of blunt force trauma, a young woman coming and going from the homemade it clear that the family did not want to comment. The online listing shows the home is on the market for 650,000. That michelle long lived here with her husband norman who owns Long Construction out of ben sail ex. And prosecutor sean dalton says the homicide is progressing and rell rant details cannot be released at the time. However, all relevant information says there is no safety concern for residents. Authorities are releasing no Additional Details at this time and anyone where information about the case is asked to call detectives with the gloucester prosecutors office. Im sara bloomquist, channel 6 action news. In the past hour, the Burlington County prosecutor identified the victim in this mornings deadly shooting in maple shade. 26yearold devon young of willingboro was found shot by the iron hill brewery. The immediate area was put on lock down and so far the suspect has not been arrested. Police say that young was targeted and this shooting was not random. Prosecutors focus on how Philadelphia District attorney Seth Williams, allegedly spent money earmarked for his Mothers Health care. Action News Reporter vernon odom was at federal court in center city and filed this report. A key witness Sylvia Randolph a long time friend of Seth Williams mother. She testified that in 2012 her husband wrote a check for 10,000 to go directly to the nursing home for Seth Williamss mother care. It was said to be diverted for items like mortgage payments and presents for his two daughters. The balance was never paid according to the archdiocese saying she spent 10 months calling Seth Williams trying to collect the balance for his ailing mothers care. An auditor testified about the path the money in question took and so far no indications as to whether williams will take the stand. Tomorrow the prosecution plans to call bucks county businessman muhammad ali who the government says will testify that he gave thousands of dollars of of lavish gifts to Seth Williams. And the government calls them bribes and ali has cut a deal with the government to testify against Seth Williams hoping for leniency when his sentencing day comes. Vernon odom, channel 6 action news. Right now alabama and louisiana are under states of emergency as Tropical Storm cindy continues to more through the gulf. The storm has killed at least one person. Take a look. This is the storm it spawned a waterspout off the mississippi coast lasting for nearly a minute and from team all the way to florida cindy is causing damaging effects with more wind and rain on the way. Elizabeth herr is tracking cindy all day. Good evening elizabeth. Monica, the storm is miles and hours away from making landfall but its blamed for killing a 10yearold boy and also the drenching rain in the area we are told it has forced the closure of beaches and the flooding of hundreds of streets. Tropical storm cindy may soon be heading toward land. But already it is hammering some coastal areas with rain and wind and even waterspouts. Leaving the florida beaches empty and prompting officials in louisiana and alabama to take action. This will be a Severe Weather event and primarily consist of threats of rain and flooding but also a potential for wind damage as well. The two states in the state of emergency where millions from texas to florida watching the storms every move. I look at the weather map and what it looks like its not good. Getting ready for the wind, right now wind and tidal surge. Business owners and residents are racing to protect their belongings and no new orleans crews are keeping busy building a levee. With the mayor warning the public stay alert. We have learned many lessons from many other storms and paid the ultimate price in some instances for not staying vigilant. Right now forecasters say the biggest threat is flooding with parts of louisiana all the way to florida now also under a tornado watch. Reporting live in new york. Im elizabeth herr. In the southwest the concern was extreme heat on this First Official day of summer. Temperatures in the phoenix area reached well into the triple digits close to record highs this afternoon there. Many local state and National Parks were advising people against Outdoor Activity after okay a. M. Time now for a check of the action news traffic report midweek. Thanks in large part to the storms rolling in, the rain is coming in in bucks county along route 1 super highway and speeds are way down on the southbound side. The little bit of good news up ahead by route 13 in langhorne the bad crash is finally gone. The lanes are open again and the traffic heading into them on 1 is very slow. We got rid of the broken down tractor trailer on the vine eastbound to 95 northbound. Doesnt matter, still jammed solid across town on the eastbound side of the vine, you get a sense of what we are dealing with right now. Heavy storms around the city. Broken down vehicle on the girard point bridge and fire activity on the mlk drive that is blocked at the falls bridge and stay on kelly to get around it. And county line road close to drexel is giving us problems. Where the storms have gone through, we have downed trees like 724 close to pottstown and 22 westbound causing an eastbound gaper delay. A handful of issues and well check it again in the next half hour. Thank you matt. There is more ahead on action news at 5 00 tonight. More congressional testimony in the russia investigation. Coming up at 5 30, what Homeland Security secretary, former secretary jay johnson had to say about russias role in the president ial election. And one california hospital reaching out to an untapped resource to help close the countrys doctor gap. In the state that invented the american vacation. A legendary adventure awaits. Heroes will rise. Bonds will be forged. And memories will be made to last a lifetime. New york state. Its all here. Its only here. Plan your summer trip at iloveny. Com new at 5 00 new jersey governor chris christie, says its largest insurer failed the states poorest people. Christie lashed out at Blue Cross Blue Shield saying it failed its customer when it was fined 16 million. We need the Greater Transparency and additional management that our proposed legislation provides to the public. 16 million in fines in nine months could just be the tip of the iceberg. The Insurance Company says that the governors comments amounts to retaliation, because they oppose the governors tapping into the surplus to treat drug addiction. He is leading a mission to combat the epidemic. And tonight in health check more fish could make a dinner for sufferers of rheumatoid arthritis. Doctors found that those eating fish more than twice a week had less joint pain than those eating it less frequently. Rheumatoid arthritis attacks the joints and overtime causes perpnant damage. The fish had a big effect. A third of the antiinflammatory power of an ra drug. And vitamin d is a key nutrient for bone health but americans are getting too much of it. Some adults taking 4,000 units of vitamin d every day way above the 400 units. Experts are not certain of the longterm affects of vitamin d but could cause excess of calcium in the blood. And a hospital has a plan to alleviate the growing doctor shortage. Ucla picks the best immigrant doctors and puts them through rigorous training and puts them to work in places where they are needed the most and many stay longer than that. Of the individuals graduated and went to work wherever they wanted to, 75 remained in the underserved community. To have someone that understands the culture makes a huge difference. And in california 35 of the population is hispanic only 5 of the doctors are and now the program train s doctors from cua and other latin american countries. And now a run to benefit the Special Olympics of delaware. It will only be open to emergency person ail. Ems and police and fire and military personnel. It should be noted that aside from our daily operational needs no one has traveled over this bridge by foot since its construction in 1951. Organizers hope to make the run a safe event with minimal impact on traffic and plan to keep one lane open for vehicles during the event. Still ahead a big milestone that Prince William celebrated today. And Climate Change could affect your morning cup of coffee. And follow us on social media for the latest headlines and breaking news and to communicate with us. Facebo facebo facebook, its facebook. Com 6abcactionnews. Its time that we bring addiction out of the darkness and into the light. To everyone struggling in silence addicts, family, friends you are not alone. Its time we lift each other up, reach out, say something. Addiction is a disease. Dont suffer. Dont wait. Help is within reach. Call 844 reach nj or go to reachnj. Gov the road to recovery starts now. Could say it was a happy meal for mcdonalds as far as wall street was concerned. They saw a spike in sales after new digital ordering kiosks they will replace cashiers in 2500 restaurants in the united states. They are up 27 this year and making them the second best performer trailing only behind boeing. Global warming could be messing with your cup of joe. A new study finds that ethiopia could lose farming land because of Climate Change. Ethiopia is the fifth largest producer of coffee in the world and low rainfall and rising temperatures could have substantial effects on the coffee growing areas in the country. The festival kicks off in rodney square. The clifford dew point jazz fest runs through saturday and kicks off tonight at 6 00 by starting tonight by the Clifford Brown band and get the schedule right now on 6abc. Com. The duke of cambridge in england is celebrating a milestone. Prince williams 35th birthday. Its its gib beginning of a transition for the prince set to take on royal duties fulltime upon the retirement of his granddad prince phillip. Happy birthday. A check of that tricky forecast out there. Actually looking live right now you see what we are talking about cloudy skies above and sky 6 hd showing you the ben franklin bridge. Adam joseph has its fiveday when we come right back. Oo, yeah. Are you ready for a rush . Yes, yes i am. Youre in for a treat. Fast play is the new way to play fast and win instantly from the pennsylvania lottery. Pick a game, get your ticket and see if youve won. I won pretty fast, huh . Fast play. Play fast. Win instantly. An Insurance Group in south jersey invited a weather expert to take part today meteorologist, chris sowers talked about the currents Hurricane Season and how it affected the companys clients and talked about past hurricanes and the damage they caused and the outlook for this season. We have a lot in store besides sunshine and humidity. Thunder boomers are out there here is adam joseph. One area really intense thunderstorms that turned severe in Montgomery County pulled wires and trees down and through Philadelphia County and that is in the clear and camden and Burlington County and ocean county in a Severe Thunderstorm Warning in effect until 6 00 win as head of it rushing to near 50 to 60 Miles Per Hour. You can see it goes from georgetown to wrightstown and browns mills and arcs towards berlin and Medford Lakes moving southeast at 35 Miles Per Hour. There are the towns and times, crossing 536 that is when youll see the most intense part of the rain and the lightning and thunder in chads worth and see the bow nature to it here. That is basically the arc of a bow as you pull it out and the arrow shoots out that shoots out the strongest wind from Medford Lakes to chads worth and speed well. You see the rainfall rates in addition to the intense lightning anywhere from 2 to 4 inches of rain per hour. It doesnt rain for an hour it shows it as blinding rain as it passes through. We slice it vertical and towering and the 1,000 foot level than is the core of the heavy rain that is tapping pretty high in the sky. As we look at pictures, speaking of the sky getting into the facebook and twitter pages this from michelle, here is center city swallowing up the city heading east towards the ben franklin bridge, ominous looking as that storm passing through. 70s where it is rain cools and 80s ahead of it. A weak boundary passing through and that continues to sink to the south during the early evening hours and most of the overnight stays on the quiet side. Temperatures 59 in allentown and 56 millville and 66 philadelphia and the stray storm early and otherwise partly cloudy and quiet. As we look at temperatures into your thursday, sun and clouds and more humid tomorrow and a high of near 90 degrees in the afternoon. But tomorrow it will be quiet compared to today. The fiveday at 5 00 forecast, we look at temperatures in the 90s tomorrow and hot and more humid and oppressive on friday with scattered storms in the morning and afternoon as pieces of what eventually will be the remnants of Tropical Storm cindy start to roll through and same thing on saturday morning starting with downpours and 86 degrees and clears in the afternoon and low humidity the second half the the weekend well have the forecast coming up in the next half hour for you. Ahead in the next half hour of action news at 5 00 countless attempts at middle east peace trumps soninlaw tries to stop the log jam. And also well tell you about an amazing chain of amazing acts of kindness that connected 167 cars. That and much more on action news. Action news continues with meteorologist, adam joseph, jaime apody, Rick Williams and monica malpass. Hello again here is what is happening on action news tonight. A former Homeland Security chief says he has no doubt that russia tried to hack the president ial election and explains why it almost happened. The fbi says that the stabbing of an Airport Police officer may be a lone wolf terrorist act and nurses and other hospital workers make the call after an attack in side the hospital walls. And now this is what rush hour drivers along the schuylkill expressway saw a while ago. Torrential downpours and lightning made for a slow drive but the storms fortunately are moving fast. Lets check in with adam joseph. They are releasing a tremendous am of rain and wind and stormtracker 6 live double scan showing its past philadelphia and trenton but all the lightning strikes are white lines you see here close to 100 or more in the last 15 minutes, within the last 10 minutes it weakened a little bit but still powerful as it is pushing through Burlington County and ocean county and southern parts of Camden County and northern atlantic county. The severe warning in this area until 6 00 and winds near 60 Miles Per Hour. A closer look at stormtracker 6 live double scan show a lot of lightning here especially from wrightstown and georgetown in towards jackson mills, and goes down to Medford Lakes less lightning down there but dangerous as it heads to crest road village at 5 43, that is near the split of 70 and 72. And we take off the radar and stormtracker 6 live double scan shows the velocity this is showing the wind in the storm as it pushes through and you see the brighter greens here on the border of ocean and Burlington County. This is where we have winds of 50 to 60 Miles Per Hour. Moving from wrightstown and browns mill and heading toward crest wood village that is where we see the most destructive wind as the storm pas

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