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WPVI Action News At 1230 PM May 18, 2015

Obamas visit is shining on this long troubled city. The president will shine a spotlight on camden as the city that is turning things around focusing on what the new Camden County Police Department has done in just two years. Driving murder and crime rates down while forging new relationship with the community. I think the cops is more into the people of camden. They sit and talk and chat with the people of the camden. Reporter the president will tour Metro Divisions headquarters including its tactic california Operations Intelligence Center where chief Scott Thompson will brief president on strategies used to cut crime in the city including more boots on the ground, cameras throughout the the town, and a system called shots fired. Chief thompson has carried the message of our success of our policing method that got the attention of the white house and the president is coming as a result. Reporter president will meet with police officers, a concept the white house is encouraging nationwide as a way to cut tensions between police and the public. The president will meet with children and make remarks at ray and joan crock Community Center. There are great things happening in camden. The as you can see the crock center here, housing development, businesses, the educational system. A lot of assistance from all government officials and it starts from the top and work down, i think we have a fighting chance to bring the city back to a good healthy place. With other president s, it is like we have not seen anybody in my generation come out here to try to help out or anything talk about the violence issues and the cops issue. Reporter back here live, we are looking at folks lined up here. That is not to say that the Metro Division and Camden County officers are called dont have problems. They have been experiencing high turn over, and retirement rate. Now, also expect from the president today, an announcement honorary distributions for Police Departments on the type of surplus vehicles and gear they can get from the u. S. Military. That has been very controversial lately, get something really heavy duty gear, it was an issue in ferguson an you will recall. Lots of excitement here. Everybody is waiting for the president to arrive. We will have more on action news. For now live from camden, Nora Muchanic back to you guys. Thanks, nora. Amtraks northeast corridor trains are rolling again a week after the deadly derailment in philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter was a at 30th street station this morning as passengers lined up for train 110 to new york. We were on that train as it slowly went through frankford junction the the site of the derailment. Amtrak says service is in complete compliance with the federal safety order mandated after the derailment. We have talked to passengers before they departed. My family is more nervous then me but i to have get back to new york. There is risk in driving and flying. I dont see any difference with the train. The the fbi is looking into a report that amtrak 188 may have been hit by something before it derail. Meanwhile lets go live outside and check out the forecast sky 6hd is taking a look at ben franklin bridge and part of the penns landing there it may be hot but parts of the area could get precipitation today. Keep your umbrella handy. Meteorologist david murphy is outside with the timing of it all david. Mixing with sun right now. When the sun breaks from behind the cloud as it is doing currently you can feel humidity rise. One of the days in the shade where you are not so bad but in the sun it does feel sticky. Storm tracker double scan we are see showers. No lightening just yet. I wouldnt be surprised to see lightening bolts pop. Little bit in south jersey. Mostly to the north and west of the city. Satellite is also showing you mixture of cloud and unis. That is the story the rest of the day unless you get the a hour popping through. In the midatlantic we are mostly very warm but there is a light breeze coming down out of the north east, but it is making a a difference in points up the coast from frustrates. In new york city, 64 degrees right now. We are still officially holding on to 86 in philadelphia. That cooler air is on the the way here. Only gradually so though. A as we head out to the links this afternoon or anything else during the afternoon hours, real good day to keep that Storm Tracker six app handy on your smart phone. It will be warm and humid. Temperatures in the 70s this afternoon. Is there a chance of the pop up shower or then are storm. They could be drenchers where they pop up. Same stories for barbecues tonight. You will be able to get tonight but 77 by 5 00. Seventytwo by 7 00 and you still to have watch out for that spotty storm. We have a big time change in the accu weather seven day. Rick and sarah i will have details coming up. David, thank you. New details this afternoon about that deadly military aircraft accident in hawaii. Hard landing was caught on video during a Training Exercise. One marine was kill, 21 others were injured. Abcs tj hall has the full story. Reporter heres the aircraft just seconds before crashing, 22 american servicemen on board. You see it the kiss appeared behind a cloud of red dust as it hit the the land. And then. Fire and black smoke. Oh, look at that it is worse. Reporter osprey aircraft going down in what marines call a hard landing during a Training Exercise in hawaii. We saw them lower. Dust storm continue where it was not visible anymore. When it cleared up we awe two came up and they continued to circle but there was just two that came backup. Reporter aircraft break ago part from the force of the the touchdown creating a 60foot wide debris field. One marine dead this morning. The other 21 on board injured. There are a lot of factors that played into this and until we necessity for certain we cannot comment on it. Reporter investigators are not sure why it went down but this has already been a tough few days for marine aircraft. Six u. S. Marines died when their hughy Helicopter Crash in the fall as they helped victims of the earthquake there. Now, another deadly crash much closer to home. It is tragic and i spoke to the families, and to the rick tim. Reporter and that was tj hall reporting. Back here we are working to fine you the more about the the death of Adrian Robinson a former temple defensive lineman. He died over the weekend. He was only 25. No details about his death have been released. He last played for the Washington Redskins in 2013. Temples head coach released a statement saying the Football Program has lost a friend, and a wonderful young man. While president obama is in new jersey today, new Jersey Governor Chris Christie is in New Hampshire right now, where he is calling for a larger u. S. Military and increased defense spending. Looking live now at governor christie delivering his remarks. Likely 2016 republican president ial contender is also expected to criticize president Barack Obamas handling of the rise of the Islamic State group. Excerpts of his speech were released earlier today. Previous speeches focused on overhauling Social Security and lowering taxes on individual and corporations. Tomorrow voters in pennsylvania will head to the polls. There are several big races on the primary ballot. Including the democratic primary for philadelphias mayor, democratic and republican primaries for state Supreme Court justice and democratic primaries for superior court and Commonwealth Court justices. We invite to you stay with action news and six a abc. Com for complete coverage of the pennsylvania primary tomorrow. We will have up to the minute returns and all of the major races, tomorrow night, and the the league of women voters will be staffing a special hot line here, between 7 00 a. M. And 8 00 p. M. Tomorrow. And the number is 8779406222. And an eagles player took a fan to the prom, their date was shown on this morning ins up owed of rachel ray right here on six abc. That is Hanna Dell Monte accepting linebacker Emmanuel Ocho prom invite to virginia, hanna direct messaged him to ask him to the prom. When she got 10,000 people to retweet, he agreed to go and he can sing, too. I loved every single moment of it. Is surprising. He sang the song to make his date to feel pegs. That sound like me just a little bit there. Much more still come, much more still ahead on action news at 12 30, dozens of the cars in the funeral procession pulled over on the freeway. We will tell you why. Warning for parents about how your kid can broadcast their lives on the internet, app that could be putting you and your childs safety at risk. Questions remain this noon after cell phone video captured an emotional dispute on a side of the highway in california. It was between members of the funeral procession and a california Highway Patrol officer, who pulled them over. The officer said a procession was moving too slowly on the freeway but several of the cars were clearly labeled with funeral stickers. A lot of the family members can not make it to the grave site. We sat on the side of the freeway for long. I saw them drive past. Officers say traffic stop was just against the vehicle in front and even indicated that the other members of the procession could continue on, but some chose to pull over as well. The family is now demanding an apology from the california Highway Patrol. A warning for parents this afternoon, your children may be broadcasting their lives on the internet, essentially bringing strangers into your home. Not only are they vulnerable but you too may be caught on camera without knowing it. A abcs morris has the full, story. Reporter merecat periscope, Live Streaming app was millions of users especially teens like 16 yearold katie. It is a modern day chat room. Reporter katie has 22,000 followers, using the app to talk to people all over the world, real time. People have made inappropriate comments before. Reporter essentially every time katie using it now that means thousands of strangers can see her and what shes doing. It is a little nerve racking. Reporter katies mommies cautious and shes taking that extra step. I basically am her own personal moderator. Reporter take a look, in minutes we are able to find not only teens but adults doing things that are not exactly pg13. Sign are security expert Teresa Payton shows how Live Streaming app perriescope work. You see people watching us. Reporter in second im broadcasting live and people immediately start commenting. Good evening you are up higher. Reporter experts say apps like these can expose kid to inappropriate videos, subject them to real time bullying and even put your childs safety at risk. To show how quickly someone can find your location. While using these live streams, we used our producers periscope account. You saw the video. Yes. Reporter we are able to see her user name, handle which is link to her twitter account. She is in new york city. You plug this information in this free web site and anytime she post something on social media. Is that your picture. That is my picture. Reporter it will pop up with her exact location. Owe it is like leaving a trail of bread crumbs. Yes. You can tell how stale or fresh the bread crumbs are because they are all time stamped. Reporter merecat says were val waiting the best privacy, trust and Safety Systems to serve our community. Periscope points to the guidelines that urge users not to show graphic materials and you now say broadcasters are monitored 24 7 and any user who is reported in the to have met our standard is quickly discipline. All three apps encourage you to report inappropriate report. Morris abc news, new york. For the first time in american a decade were hearing from ill yan gonzales the cuban boy at the center of the bitter custody battle will between his american relatives and father that riff ted the country. Says he wants to come back and visit. I want the the time to give my love to america too. He is seen as an icon in cuba the boy whose father stood up to the united states. The 21 yearold also talked about his memory of his mother and his relation hip with fidel castro. You can see more of the interview tonight with world news tonight with david muir. We are live at Philadelphia International airport where air force one just arrived. The is there the delegation of the the president to emerge. The as we told you just a little bit in the newscast that the president is here today and will visit camden, new jersey this afternoon to discuss how police are working to build trust in that community, and promote his socalled Promise Zone Program during his visit to camden he will meet with residents and some of the kid there. The president is, going to also focus on Community Policing, because camden has seen some positivity as far as Crime Prevention in that city. We are looking at air force one where the president is expected to emerge any moment now. Just a quick visit to camden. He will leave there at 4 00 oclock and head back to washington. We will have complete coverage throughout the afternoon on six abc and six abc. Com good we saw that wet tarmac at the airport. Storm tracker six live double scan shows us in some parts we are looking at spotty shower activity. One of those showers does happen to be near the a airport. That is why you saw moisture on the ground. You can see right now one of those cells pushing a across the southern portion of the the airfield. I believe air force one usually land in the north end so maybe, hopefully no heavy active rain right now. There is another cell coming down through blue route. These are all dropping down toward south and east. Go out wider we are up to 15 lightening strikes. Remember 20 minutes ago i thought these would start to pop. Most of these strikes are in the cell over by baltimore but we are starting to see a couple of them to the north and that is a cell from pottsville. This is pushing more or less toward reading. I will go ahead and move this for you and you can see them slowly pushing down. That one might be heading more toward kutztown and need wool allentown. The it is beginning to pop. As we head outside, we have earlier, fair amount of unshine with cloud down the shore. And, as we look at the rest of the afternoon ahead it is probably going to look like that with cloud some sun breaks and then every now and again that shower activity. Still 86 in philadelphia a wind east at seven. Well that number dip gradually throughout the afternoon. We will be back in the 70s by 3 00 oclock. Future tracker six showing us between now and 3 00 is there more of the same, spotty drenching showers and thunderstorms. Mostly from philadelphia over to the east. The latest run of the model has most of this further west by 6 00 oclock as that cool air from the ocean continues to settle things down. And maritime influence. By 10 00 oclock tonight adam joseph on channel 17 and cecily here at six abc at 11 00 might still have a couple bits and pieces of precipitation to show you. High temperatures, we have hit 86. Still hold ago this in philadelphia much cooler to the east as that cool air just continues to glide in from the east. Those numbers will settle gradually as we go through the rest of the afternoon. By 3 00 oclock we could be as low as 80, 77 by five, low 70s by 7 00. By 9 00, 69 degrees, spotty shower or thunderstorm possible just about anytime and by philadelphia to the west. And then tomorrow in the morning by the time were on the air at 6 30 up until noon there could be a couple more shower and thunderstorms around. Maybe more popping up in the afternoon. The good news front will come through sweep that warmth, humidity off the coast. Starting tuesday evening things will feel more comfortable. The we are looking at pollen counts in the medium high range today. If we get enough rain they will be back down in the low range on tuesday and wednesday before sipping backup on thursday again. Your exclusive accu weather seven day forecast todays high a warm 86 degrees with temperatures gradually sliding in the afternoon. Pop up showers and thunderstorms with drenching downpours here and there possible from philadelphia west for the rest of the afternoon and evening. Then 86 again tomorrow. Warm humid. Cant rule out more of. That wednesday and thursday dryer more comfortable air gets n highs in the the low 70s low humidity. Worlds of change for those two days. Backup to 78 our getaway day for the Holiday Weekend on friday. Seventys on saturday. Eightyone. Low humidity on sunday. First todays of the Holiday Weekend looks great. Memorial day may be humid with a then are storm. We will talk about that tomorrow. Lets go back live to Philadelphia International airport. Is there president obama emerging from air force one being greeted by delegation, mayor nutter, and other city officials there to say hello to president obama who will visit camden this afternoon. The purposes of that meeting, that visit to camden highlight, the Camden County Police Department and their efforts to implement a new Community Policing poly. He will be meeting with young people, and speaking at a Community Center there in camden, at 3 00 oclock this afternoon. He is first sitting president to visit camden since

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