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Describes him as someone that loves his family and country. He is the last person that will ever tell you to lower your sight or give up your dream. Trump broke precedent once again and spoke at the rn clxt. This is a movement but we have to go all the way. Tonight the theme is make America First again. Well hear from Vice President ial candidate, mike pence and also hearing from Donald Trumps formal rival, senator ted cruz, sources tell us he will stop short of endorsing trump for president. Back to you. Thank you diane. This reminder our own jim gardner and sara bloomquist are in cleveland for the entire republican convention, be sure to tune in for their live reports this afternoon on action news beginning at 4 00. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton is heading to florida for a few Campaign Events on friday and saturday, and its where she could announce her choice for Vice President. Insiders say that senator tim kaine from virginia and tom vilsack are leading contenders, and aides say she has not made her final decision and could give a surprise. President obama is one that advised her on her vp pick. The convention is being held here in philadelphia next week and the Wells Fargo Center is where Hillary Clinton makes history as the first woman to make the ticket of a u. S. Party. Action News Reporter Annie Mccormick shows you how restaurants and retailers are getting ready. Reporter this restaurant, open house is ready for the convenience for more than a month. And now the convenience is only days away. Democrats get ready to shop, retailers are selling soap of donkeys kicking elephants and this 13 street art gallery devoted a whole collection. The donkey smiling and looking silly. The election collection. And restaurants and businesses inside of the Terminal Market have the dnc on their minds and make ago adjustments. We are psyching ourselves up and stocking up as much as possible. The next week we bring in more staff. The terminal is opening up an hour earlier so we open at 7 00 instead of 8 00. We anticipate the breakfast crowd. The opener is optimistic he wont be disappointed like in businesses were during the papal visit. These conventions happen every four years and we know what to expect and they are well oiled machines. He adds this convention is on a much smaller scale than the papal visit. And the subsequent conveniences have trained the city and there are rooms Still Available for a reasonable rate. I suspect that center city will sell out. When they know there are rooms available. They want to be close to the convenience is. Reporting in center city, Annie Mccormick, channel 6 action news. And the Democratic National Convention Begins in philadelphia on monday. The entire Action News Team will bring you every angle, our live coverage from the Wells Fargo Center starts this friday with previews of the big events. No other news, masked men shot and killed a man at his home in the park side section. Witnesses told police that the victim parked his car and went inside and came back out a few minutes later, that is when Police Say Two men wearing ski masks came from a vacant lot and opened fire. The victim was hit in the head and chest. Today is the best day of the week, we have warm temperatures but it is without the sticky conditions from the humidity, as we look live from sky 6 hd showing you a pretty picture from penns landing, and bright sun is everywhere you look and the humidity is low. Karen rogers joins us on the terrace with details from accuweather. Reporter rick and i arm wrestled to see who could go outside and naturally i won. Bright sunshine and a few clouds up above. I want to show you the dew points, any time you get below 60 its comfortable and we are in the 40s. But look at dover and cape may, we have humidity there, the front is lingering there and if you are in the extreme part of the viewing area, you say what are you talking about . Satellite 6 along with action radar showing one rain storm popping up in maryland. And we could see a shower in our extreme southern viewing areas. But the rest of the area is dry. 82 in Martins Creek and 78 in pottstown and 83 in coatesville and chester and 84 in saint davids and center city and levittown 82, and 82 in browns mills and 82 in surf city and 81 in surf cities, and 83 in glassboro and 84 in smyrna, delaware. Lets look at the day ahead. A good day to head to the playground, a good day to be outside because the next several days will begin to feel uncomfortable. Lots of sun and comfortable today. At 2 00 p. M. 84 and 4 00 p. M. 86 that is right around average for this time of year. And if you head to the phils what a great night to do that. First pitch 83 degrees and by the ninth inning 76 degrees and feeling nice with low humidity. The heat is coming back and the humidity is coming back. Ill describe when you see the worst conditions coming up in just a few mines. Karen, thank you again. Keep 6abc. Com weather on all of your devices and rely on Storm Tracker 6 to city weather heading your way. And follow our meteorologists on twitter and facebook. Smoke and flames damaged a home in Chester County overnight and today crews are still searching for the cause. Flames were shooting through the roof when firefighters arrived on the 2300 block of Yellow Springs road. The flames broke out at 1 00 this morning and we are told that the property is vacant and in the process of changing hands. A firefighter suffered heat exhaustion in the may fair section. Flames were seen shooting from the home here, and the fire started in the basement before 4 00 this morning and spread to the upper floors. It took crews about an hour to get it under control and one firefighter was taken to the hospital for heat exhaustion, there is no word yet on what sparked the fire. Tolls are going up on the pennsylvania turnpike for cash and easy pass customers, the 6 hike goes in effect january 28th they say its needed for a 10 Year Spending plan for widening and reconstruction of the toll road. And this hike is not the last, they expect annual increases for the next 27 years. More ahead ott 12 30, than 50 wrestlers are suing the wwe saying the organization is responsible for repeated head trauma. And a dancer dances his way into the hearts of police and other people. More when we come right back. Im only in my 60s. Ive got a nice long life ahead. Big plans. 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Police say the shots were not fired their directions but they happen to be there. No arrests were made. Jimmy super fly snucka are among 50 wrestlers suing the wwe and vince mcmahon. Its complaint says that the wwe even hid medical information about the dangers of wrestling from its employees, wwe calls the claims ridiculous. Snucka is facing murder charges in allentown for the death of his mistress. There is a feel to oust the chief of fox news, they claim that lawyers for roger ales and the news network is negotiating an exit after allegations of sexual haresment from a former anchor. Reporter he is known as the media jugger knot, the most powerful man in cable news and now robert ales departure is growing. In alligatiegations about sexua harassment by megan kelly, appears to be speeding up the exit. This on the heels of alligations from former anchor, gretchen carlson, that ales made unwanted sexual advances towards her about 10 years ago when she was a correspondent for the network. This is devastating for ales. Attorneys are emfatcly denouncing the allegations and saying that the 76yearold never sexually harassed megan kelly. And tweeted that roger is still at work and the review is ongoing. The controversy at the cable news giant was filed against ales by gretchen carlson, and saying he jeopardized her career for refusing his sexual advancements. Now questions are swirling as to whether some of the networks biggest starts will leave in ales does. He orchestrated a pr campaign and talent on his team to defend him than is another thing that rube earth murdochs lawyers are looking it. And this shakeup could not come at a worse time as the network is trying to remain focused on the republican National Convention and next weeks Democratic Convention and now they find themselves in the spotlight. There is a video going viral showing police and those involved in the black lives matter movement, finding Common Ground or maybe a common dance space. Take a look. Wichita, kansas, officer danced at a cookout and did the cha cha slide. It has been seen by more than 3 Million People on facebook. Still ahead on action news another check of the forecast for you as we look live outside from sky 6 hd showing you the platt bridge. Karen rogers has the update from accuweather on a very nice wednesday when we come right back. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. So we wired the wagners house with 100 meg internet. Which means that in the time it takes mr. Wagner to pour a 20 oz. Cup of coffee, tommy can download 30 songs, and jan can upload 120 photos. 12 seconds. Thats the power of fiber optics. And right now you can get 100 meg internet with equal upload and dowloads speeds, tv and phone for just 69. 99 per month online. Cable cant offer internet speeds this fast at a price this good. Only fios can. I am totally blind. I lost my sight in afghanistan. If youre totally blind, you may also be struggling with non24. Calling 8448442424. Or visit my24info. Com. College students from across the country gathered at Temple University to talk politics and there to lead them was our own anchor, matt odonnell. They talked about several topics including how social media is playing a big role in the race for president. Meteorologist, karen rogers, is back now. But before we talk about the forecast, can we talk about your new piece of jewelry. Its beautiful isnt it . A ring made of clay that my son made for me and asked me to marry him. Its weird but going well at our house. Lets look at stormtracker 6 live double scan live double scan right now, looking out around the region and looking good right now, lets go outside and see what is looks like. We are looking live at a beautiful shot at penns landing. Looking live down at the shore, everybody is out there and getting ready to enjoy it. Lets check the current numbers for you, here is what 20 expect. You got to get outside down at the shore penns landing or whatever you want to go. The weekend is sizzling and we are tracking heat wave number two and it looks to be an extended way. 8 25 is the sunset and one month 7 49 and two months 7 00, we are losing our daylight. 80 in allentown and reading and 78 in lancaster, 83 in millville, and 80 currently in cape may so feeling good. Satellite 6 along with action radar showing we are nice and clear and we have a few couplelous clouds popping out to the north and west and the cluster of showers and thunderstorms trying to form in the overnight hours and a few down to the south and not in our region, but that is an area a little bit unstable. Here is future tracker 6 showing you 3 30 in the afternoon and this wants to show something in the extreme parts of our viewing area to the south, perhaps millville, this is a look at 5 30, i think its a possibility to get an enhanced thunderstorm popping up but i think are you fine here in surf city, and beach haven and Atlantic City mostly sunny and 85. And 81 in bethany beach. Its a good day out there. Comfortable humidity by 2 00 p. M. 84 and 6 00 p. M. 86 degrees and by 10 00 p. M. A beautiful night and 75. And the overnight hours we dip to 67 in the city but the low 60s in some of the suburbs so you should enjoy it. Tomorrow High Pressure moves east, 90 is your high and really heating up but look at what is happening to the west. Building heat to the west. Heat indexes over 100, this core of the heat is headed in our direction. The height of it, is in the weekend into early next week with a lot of people coming into the city, lets check your exclusive accuweather forecast none of that happens today and today is nice, we have 86 degrees for your high and beautiful sunshine and low humidity, tomorrow its turns warmer with a high of 90 degrees, not terribly humid but just a notch different tomorrow. Friday hot and humid and a thunderstorm is possible and the storm could be strong and probably holding off late into the overnight hours, and tomorrow hot and less humid 97 degrees and sunday 98 degrees and the heat index over 100 and monday record heat, the record is 96 and we are forecasting a high of 99 with the chance of a thunderstorm. That is as everyone come for the Democratic National convention. And heating up on tuesday with a high of 92 degrees. Topping our people scene, ghostbusters and saturday night live star leslie jones has quit twitter. Because of the bullying. The experience put her in a personal hell and urged the social Networking Service to do more to eradicate the abuse. The film and Television World is honoring the lengthry director, Gary Marshall, he pass add way overnight at the age of 81. Chris connelly looked back at his amazing career and his ability to make america laugh. As a writer and director and producer in tv and the movies for over half a century, Gary Marshall made actors funnier and made audiences laugh. Hey observe. Whoa. The hardest person i had to talk with most was my sister penny on laverne and shirley. Penny would come to my house at night and say i have to fix this would you have to hide from your own sister . Yes for years. There is only one fair way to settle this. Fine by me. Hey help me im melting. By the 80s and 90s marshall was flourishing as a film director. Dont get sided this is only on loan oh ha, ha, ha i love you and ill never leave you again. Ill never let you go. Man overboard is kissing woman overboard. We are gathered here today where is she going . His ability to assemble the star filled cast was an example of the respect and affection so many felt for him. Gary marshall died on tuesday at the age of 81. Chris connelly, abc news new york. Meteorologist, karen rogers has one final check of a very nice wednesday afternoon. Its so nice we like talking about it. Its beautiful. Look at the day ahead. Low humidity and 4 00 p. M. 85 and 5 00 p. M. 86 and 8 00 we drop down to 80. And low humidity and things are looking good for us and tomorrow we start to crank up the heat and back in the soup. Thank you karen. Finally at 12 30, the pokemon go craze made its way to Citizens Bank park and the philly phanatic had his iphone in hand and ran around the park trying to catch pokemons. This was entertaining to the crowd the fans left unhappy with the phillies loss. A look at the stories coming up on action news beginning at 4 00. Sara bloomquist has a live report from cleveland with the latest on the republican National Convention and an action news viewer sends us video of tires slashed. And now police are looking for those responsible. That does it for action news at noon, dont forget to join us for action news at 4 00, 5 00 and 6 00. Im Rick Williams have a nice afternoon. Well see you later on action news beginning at 4 00. If you have medicare parts a and b and want more coverage, guess what . You could apply for a Medicare Supplement Insurance Plan whenever you want. No enrollment window. No waiting to apply. 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