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WPVI Action News 5PM August 15, 2017

Why. We are asking the public to look at the clothing worn, and the pants he is wearing and the faded nature down by his calfs and as he leaves the parking garage as he returned and his gate and how he walks, his face cloaked in a white bed sheet, they caught the arsonist in the garage, surrounded by the fire and city streets department. Seconds later he exits coming down the road and then coming back pushing a baby stroller and the white bed sheet a cape around his body. He is seen a total of six times entering the facility and dousing vehicles with flammable liquid and a tshirt and pair of shoes were discovered on site. He leaves his shirt behind and used it to ignite. For some coward to go out there and try to take the lives of our firefighters and Police Officers, we need to get that individual off the street. We need to get that individual off the street now. Reporter now, Police Believe this man lives in the area is known to his neighbors and if you recognize this individual. His clothing or manrisms in that video you are asked to call authorities. Christie aleto, channel 6 action news. Thank you. Police in allentown are looking for multiple suspects after a man was shot and killed in front of his young daughter, according to officials, four armed intruders burst into an apartment on lyndon street. Demanding money from Jermaine Taylor and then gunning him down. He left blood behind at the scene and police are still looking for three others tonight. The city of philadelphia and the union for the citys Police Officers have reach aid three Year Contract agreement. Under that deal the city will get increased pension contributions, Police Operations will be tweaked to control overtime costs and three officers will live in the city for the first five years of employment and get raises for the next three years and keep their defined benefit plan, a plan that the city is angling to change. An Atlantic City motel is shut down after an Early Morning Law Enforcement raid. Officials moved into the bay view inn and suits, forcing out 20 to 40 people. Its unclear why the motel was raided but we know some bizarre things police found a couple of dogs and a 2 to 3 fetal gator found in the pool. That is being sento the Cape May County zoo. Turning now to accuweather. A damp day around the delaware valley. Stepping live now outside. Sky 6 hd giving us the view of the ben franklin bring and the view of the clouds hanging around and also the damp nature. Well get the chance to dry out though with hotter weather come tomorrow. But unsettled skies return to the area before the week is over. Up and down here as meteorologist, cecily tynan, joins us with the details. Reporter we have something for everyone this week. Today cloudy and damp and double scan live radar showing the north and west suburbs are drying out and still heavy downpours in parts of south jersey and delaware, this is the area that sees most of the action and cumberland and cedarville now heading towards millville. Heavier downpours also in bay side, continuing to move across delaware, and moving out as we move through the evening hours, and even where its not raining and step outside you feel the moisture in the air, that water vapor, dew points dont get higher than this. Dew point 73 degrees and millville 76 degrees and that is a tropical air mass, in the poconos not as intense in the 60s and the dew points drop tomorrow and the sunshine will be back. But its going to be very hot. And this is what to expect tonight. Level over showers are ending from the west to southeast and cloudy and damp and humid and where the winds diminish enough we have patchy dense fog and its return of more storms later in the week coming up in the full accuweather forecast. Well check back in later. All eyes are on washington and what President Trump does next in the war of words with north korea. For now it looks like kim jong un is backing up on a threat to send missiles to guam. North koreas leader, kim jong un is signifying he may be interested in pausing the escalation and the war of words. But that does not mean the threat is over. Even after north korea appeared to back down, jim mattis confirmed that the u. S. Military is fully ready to engage. Here at the pentagon we are part of the sentinel for our nation and we stand ready to defend her. Meantime, Rex Tillerson says that the u. S. Is open to diplomatic talks with leader kim jong un. We are interested to get to dialog but that is up to him. The Trump Administration pursued diplomacy, a message of fire and fury and persistent state of military readiness, always warning north koreans that an attack on the u. S. Would be suicide. They showed kim jong un meeting with the troops but one sentence indicating that kim is hitting the Snooze Button of the Nuclear Threat staying the leader will watch u. S. Stupid behavior a bit longer. A change from claiming to strike the waters off of guam in midaugust. The date next is august 21st when south korea and the u. S. Have joint military exercises. Its five years since doca the policy was put in place it provides protection for immigrants that entered the country as minor. Jim kenney called for the continuation of the program and now faces legal road blocks that immigration advocates today could go unchallenged in the Trump Administration. The attorney for the philadelphia day care owner and operator accused of sexually abusing children says his client passed a lie detecter test. Katherine scott has the story from center city. Duncan round left court intenter city. His south philadelphia day care remains closed after being charged with sexually assaulting two 5yearold children and his attorney maintains his innocence. I cant disclose as far as our investigation, that is confidentiality and privilege but he passed a polygraph last wednesday. Round owned sprout day care for about a decade many one boy and one girl were assaulted multiple times inside of the day care, officers say the incidents were reported on july 25th by a third party. Round is out on bail and a british citizen and surrendered his passport. Right now he is trying to be there for his family, that is who he is worried about now, and his family is extremely supportive along with the community. The next court date is august 30th. All right tuesday night lets get a check of the action news traffic report now. Lets go live to gina gannon. I have great news the earlier accident on the northbound side of 95 on Bridge Street cleared out about two minutes ago. But we still have a delay in that area, about 42 minutes from the vine to woodhaven, that is four times more than what we are used to seeing. A normal travel time is 13 minutes, between woodhaven and the vine. Are still seeing delays to washington avenue. Southbound side is looking good but the accident did clear we could see clearing in the next few minutes. A look at the big picture, on the vine 9 Miles Per Hour and Single Digits on the schuylkill expressway i want to show you that. Here is a live look at the roosevelt boulevard the westbound delay and are you jammed a half hour there. Rick and sharrie back to you. Thanks gina. There is more ahead on action news at 5 00, the new science putting weight behind the saying dont go to bed angry. Ahead in health check what a fight before bedtime could do to your health. And a warning for drivers that could be on the road during the Solar Eclipse. How you make sure you are not distracted behind the wheel. Having a baby. Caring for your parents. Learning you have a condition. These are moments when people realize that where you get your medicine matters. And they look to us. Cvs pharmacy. For advice. And ways to save money. Plus, get up to fifty extrabucks each year just for filling prescriptions. Switching is easy. Were here for you. Join us. At cvs pharmacy. Investigators in nebraska are trying to figure out what sparked an explosion that destroyed a home. Two people were seriously hurt and 40 homes were damaged. Debris was blown as far as 200 feet from the blast site. Firefighters believe that even more people could have been hurt but thankfully nobody was outside or walking by at that time. A new jersey congressman has introduced legislation to help korean war veterans suffering from agent orange. Tom mcarthur stopped by and veterans that served between april 1, 1968 and august 3rd, 1971 are eligible for commonsation and health care that could change including anyone that served there from september 1st, 1967. This legislation started like a lot of pieces of legislation started. It started with a story. A person. Members of the American Legion and the vfw were on hand to show support for the legislation. Health check tonight. Rough days for seasonal allergy sufferers but not because of ragweed that would be the dominant problem in august but the levels pushed outdoor mold from pollens and grasses and trees up. Many people may feel like they have hey fever, if you need medication for ragweed take it now so make sure its in your system. New study gives creedance to the age old notion that couples should not go to bet angry. They brought couples into the lab and had them argue, and they were checked for signs of inflammation and surprises for couples that argues on lost sleep. Both of those factors came into play we saw a 10 increase in inflammation. We worry about in a study like this, is having relatively modest changes in inflammation but persistent over time. And chronic inflammation is tied to heart disease, arthritis and type two diabetes. Couples that resolve their conflicts calmly and effectively did not show increase in inflammation, your Health Depends on finding a way to resolve disputes. Aaa is warning drivers to be extra cautious on monday august 21st during the Solar Eclipse we are waiting for. Drivers may be distracted and aaa advises staying off the roads if at all possible. But if you want to see the eclipse make a plan. Get to the location and make sure you have plenty of time to watch it. Make sure you have a safe place to watch. If this is not a priority for you. Then you need to make sure that you are aware other people that are on the road and pedestrians that may be at a place Like Center City or on a main street. They may be out watching you need to keep an eye out for them. Aaa suggests keeping your lights on during the rare event and lower your sun visor to block the potential distraction and keep your phones away and dont take pictures or video while driving. They celebrated the connection between the sea and life today at the jersey shore. The action cam was there for Atlantic Citys wedding of the sea festival. Civic and religious leaders came together to perform a wedding between the city and the ocean. It was all to celebrate the importance of the sea for the areas economic success. More to come on action news at 5 00 tonight. The familiar faces that are in Atlantic City next month to help crown a brand new miss america. And the new service from amazon making Items Available from click to pickup in just the matter of minutes. Those stories and more when action news at 5 00 returns. Walter . Hmm . Is that the rest of our food . What . No. How come you have cheese in your beard . 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Ups is turning to new technology to help with training new employees, driver candidates will have to pass a Virtual Reality test before getting behind the wheel of an ups truck and it aims to make drivers safer and smarter. Starting next month trainers move around virtual obstacles. The high Tech Training gets added next month. The countdown to the crown is on. The Miss America Competition is less than a month away. And they announced four of the celebrity judges making four of the decisions in Atlantic City. Including thomas rhett and model molly simms, and jordan sparks and editor of People Magazine jess cagle. They will host the 2017 Miss America Competition sunday september 10th, here live on 6 abc. All right there is more ahead on action news at 5 00 tonight. A check of the forecast for you. As you take a live look outside at the center city sigh line, a gray day today. Cecily tynan has the exclusive accuweather forecast. And some changes when action news at 5 00 continues. Time for the accuweather forecast. Cecily tynan is here with all the details and hopefully sunshine soon cecily. The sun will come out tomorrow. Bet your bottom dollar. Im not singing it. Lets head over to the Action News Weather Center and show you we are live sky 6 hd taking a live look at city hall and you notice haze out there and moisture in the air and you can pretty much see it and the flags barely moving at all. The winds stay light tonight, patchy dense fog developing due to the facts that we have so much moisture and rain today. Double scan live radar showing nothing more than a few scattered showers around philadelphia and wilmington but heavy downpours near cumberland county. We can zoom in millville you are getting in on the action. Riding along route 49 right now. No thunder or lightning but heavy downpours are continuing to push to the east and its now leaving delaware and working over the delaware bay. And we are drying out quickly in the overnight hours, temperatures today thanks to the clouds and rain, definitely on the cool side and the humidity was up. Not the heat but humidity. Philadelphia 77 now and allentown and reading 75 and cape may 76 and wilmington also 76. Satellite and radar showing this plume of moisture today. Again the heaviest is still pushing to the east and if you look to the west of pennsylvania you notice the clearing line that moves in the, in the overnight hour. Overnight it could cause problems in areas for the morning commute. 64 in the suburbs and 74 for center city. Future tracker 6 showing at 8 00 lingering shower activity along the coast and tomorrow morning you wake up and clouds south and east of philadelphia and temperatures in the 70s by the afternoon. Lots of sunshine, could get an isolate the shower along the coast and most areas are dry and its going be hot with a high near 90. Speaking of the coast we have hurricane gert she was formed last night maxtum sustained wins at 75 Miles Per Hour. And it has already made the turn to the northeast. Out to sea. But the problem is rip current risk be careful on the beaches. Could be dangerous conditions in the water. The fiveday at 5 00, the sunshine is back and its a hot day with a high of 90, dew points in the 60s so not as humid. Thursday 86 degrees and spotty thunderstorm possible and a better chance of showers and thunderstorms. And friday evening 87 degrees and saturday warm and 88 and the possibility of a popup thunderstorm and sunday also 88. How about mondays weather for the eclipse. Adam will talk about that in the sevenday forecast. Well take a quick break. Action news continues with adam joseph, and Rick Williams and monica malpass. Here is what is happening on action news tonight. There is blame on both sides and i have no doubt about it and you dont have doubt about it either. And if you reported it accurately. You would say it. A defiant President Trump clashes are the media at trump tower in charlottesville, virginia, asserting that both sides are to blame for what happened over the weekend. And reads residents were forced out of their homes overnight. We begin with more on President Trumps fiery News Conference at trump tower, the president was initially speaking about a new infrastructure plan. And then questions turned to his handling of the violence in charlottesville over the weekend. He said he waited to issue a statement to make sure he had all the facts but the press concerns took a turn when he believed that the altright and those confronting them were both to blame for the violence. You had a group on one side that was bad and a group on the other side that was also very violent, but nobody wants to say that. You had a group on the other side that came charging in without a permit and they were very, very violent. President trump was asked about steve bannon and maintains that he was not a quote, racist and was a good person. Hundreds of protesters expected gather again along 5th avenue tonight. Thousands gathered outside of his residence last evening and shouted at his motorcade. Following executives from merck and walmart, and scott paul stepped down today many he tweeted quote, i am resigning from the Manufacturing Jobs Initiative because its the right thing for me to do. When asked what he though

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