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WPVI Action News At 430 AM May 17, 2016

Filling in after yesterdays gorgeous blight blue somewhat windy and cool day and we have some sprinkles and showers over by washington on their way over to us probably by about late morning or mid day. Well start to see some of that. 55 degrees on the bus stop right now. 47 degrees as you head outside in allentown. 51 in reading. 53 in wilmington. Still 49 in millville and 56 degrees in cape may. As we take a look at the bus stop, between 6 oclock and 8 oclock well be in the low 50s. 52 degrees by 6 oclock, 53 by 8 oclock. Some of the suburbs a little cooler. Look for cloudy skies probably staying dry through that morning commute but as we rolled through the day were looking at some sprinkles and light showers popping in. 59 degrees by 11 oclock. Some of you may see some of that as soon as 11 00. By 1 oclock 61. And by 3 oclock, 60. It looks like todays high is going to be 62 and well probably hit that fairly early in the afternoon around 1 30 or 2 oclock before we slowly slide back to the mid50s by 6 oclock and even by 6 00 there will be some light showers. Most of this stuff in the i95 corridor and south if youre up in the Lehigh Valley you probably dont see as much rain today. Things do eventually improve in the accuweather 7day, karen. Ill have those details coming up. Youve got flashing lights. We do. We have construction blocking the right lane on the schuylkill expressway so watch for this eastbound as you head towards the conshohocken curve. We can see the cones set up but it should be clear within the next half hour watching one car move through slowing down a little bit with the cones out there and construction and flashing lights. Schuylkill expressway eastbound near conshohocken. Vine street expressway still closed. Westbound seeing just one car move at this point. Eastbound still shut down. Nine overnight construction scheduled to clear within a half hour and you know that always does usually clear on time so well be watching for that. Crews return again tonight at 11 oclock and shut the vine down in both directions and the ramps leading to it so that always causes problems overnight. Burlington bristol bridge overnight construction is clear. All lanes reroped. Still moving a little slow at 14 miles an hour. Also i95 southbound construction here as well. This one lasts until 7 oclock and blocking the two right lanes so look for it on i95 southbound want to the newark tolls and route 896, tam. Okay, thank you, karen. Happening today, the ntsb will release the probable cause of last years deadly amtrak derailment in Port Richmond and already this morning some details of the findings are starting to emerge. Action News Reporter Katherine Scott is live at 30th street station with more on that. Good morning, katherine. Reporter good morning, tam. And from what were hearing, human error was a factor here. Were also hearing there could have been a problem with some of the trains emergency windows but well hear more about it today when the ntsb meets in washington, d. C. May 12th, 2015, eight people were killed, more than 200 injured after amtrak train 188 derailed in Port Richmond. About 10 minutes after leaving 30th street station. One year and five days later, the National Transportation safety board is meeting in washington, d. C. To vote on the probable cause of the crash. The ntsb wont comment before todays hearing but an official briefed on the investigation said that engineer Brandon Bostian was distracted by radio transmissions from a septa train operator who said a rock shattered their windshield. Bostian was going more than double the speed limit when the train rounded the sharp curve at frankford junction. An official also told the Associated Press that investigators believe there were issues with the trains emergency windows and several people were killed because they were ejected through them. The investigation also found that police transported many of the injured to the hospital and the ntsb is expected to recommend that they steady wait for ambulances at mass casualty incidents. So, today the ntsb will outline the probable cause. Theyll also make recommendations. Of course action news will bring you more updates as we get them. Were live if 30th street station, Katherine Scott, channel6 action news. Tam. Okay, thank you, katherine. And speaking of that action news will be there today as the ntsb officially releases the results of its year long investigation. So, follow reports throughout the day from our reporter john rawlins who will be in washington, d. C. A bucks county couple is behind bars accused of abusing their infant twin girls. Tullytown police say michael and melissa shales caused significant injuries to their two children who are less than four months old. Mrs. Shales reportedly called 911 in march to rat that her child was choking. The baby was rushed to the hospital. Upon further examination police say the baby had multiple broken bones and a spinal injury that was in the process of healing. The babys sibling had similar injuries. Neighbors say they often heard the twins twoyearold brother crying. Court records reveal all three children were malnourished be and the home was deplorable. Im just glad that theyre finally locked up and i hope that they spend a very long time behind bars. The children are now in the care of child protective services. The family of a delaware teenaged girl who died during a fight in a School Bathroom wants a seconds opinion on autopsy results. The first autopsy determined that amy joynerfrancis died of a longstanding heart condition that was triggered by the april 21st assault. The family members say theyve spoken to doctors who dont believe the heart condition should have caused sudden death. Three of Joyner Francis classmates from Howard High School in wilmington have been charged in connection with her death. Joyner francis family thinks those charges should be more serious. And we also have new information about a story weve been following since august. A West Philadelphia funeral director charged with abuse of a corpse has now had his license revoked. Blare hawkins faces three counts of abuse of a corporation. Police found 3d composing bodies at Hawkins Funeral Services on the 5300 block of vine street last august. They also found a bag full of human organs. Hawkins had been operating with an expired license. He now faces a 100,000 fine. Breaking this morning, Philadelphia Police officer was injured when a truck tboned her cruiser. Officials say it happened while the officer was responding to an assault call. Action News Reporter Annie Mccormick is live at the scene along south street where it happened. Annie. Reporter and, matt nfact you can still see that Police Cruiser that was involved in that accident early this morning. You can see the debris right next to it, a 45yearold female Police Officer was at the wheel. She was alone in the cruiser. We are told that she is now at Jefferson Hospital and is expected to be okay. She was in her cruiser with lights and sirens activated when she was responding to a call. Well, take a look at this video. This all unfolded around 2 00 a. M. That officer was responding to a call in the 300 block of south street near randolph where two people reported that they were assaulted. Then there was a foot purchase after a man suspected of the assault fled, he was later arrested nearby. Now, when that call came out the female officer reporting from the Third District did head over to that assault call in her cruiser with lights and sirens activated, responding to that foot pursuit at third and south. That is when she collide we had a bread truck. Two civilians that were assaulted by another person and when Police Responded to that scene, they saw someone fit the description then got into a foot pursuit and when they were chasing this suspect on foot, thats when this officer who got involved in the auto accident at 11th and south. Reporter now, back out here live the Accident Investigation Division is going to be investigating this right here. We actually just saw that bread truck that was involved in this towed away. Theres also realtime cameras all over this area and also area near the assault, so theyre hoping to rely on that. Now, the officer we are told did have a bloody mouth but she is expected to be okay. Shes also walking and talking to fellow officers. For now reporting live from south street, Annie Mccormick channel6 action news. Back to you. Good to hear about that. Thank you annie. Happening today, the School District of philadelphia will present its 201617 budget to city council. Superintendent william hite mentioned the possibility of closing up to three schools at a meeting last month. The public will have a chance to weigh in on the School Budget plan and on mayor can kennys proposed tax on sugary drinks tomorrow. Kenny is calling for a threecent per ounce tax to help Fund Programs including universal prek. And going on to we have an important reminder for voters in the garden state. Today is the last day to get registered to vote in new jerseys primary. A republican and democratic primary will be on june 7th, that is the the last day of the primary season. Its a closed primary. That means you can only vote for candidates representing the Political Party that you are registered for. Kentucky and oregon are holding their primaries today. Presumptive republican nominee donald trump is still trying to fend off attacks over his treatment of women as reported by the new york times. The billionaire unleashed a barrage of tweets against the paper while an exgirlfriend mentioned in the article has come to trumps defense. John kasich gave his first major interview since leaving the gop contest. He says he hasnt decided whether or not hes going to bactrim but he has ruled out running as a third party candidate. On the democratic side Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are still battling for every last vote. Clinton focused her last minute campaigning on kentucky mocking donald trump in a hypothetical debate and clashing with a member of the crowd over the current republican governors record on healthcare reform. Polls show clinton looking good in kentucky but sanders has a better shot in oregon. 4 40 and up next on action news, a texas pastor who claimed whole foods wrote a gay slur on his cake now says the story was made up. David. All right, guys, we have jackets on the kids this morning. It is cool out there and this afternoon they might want to arm themselves with an umbrella as we do have some light rain on the way. Well have details on that, the rest of your work week. Things do eventually get better. Its coming up. New on action news a classic way to kill time at the beach turned into a close call for a group of surfers in san diego. High tide started filling in the hole with water and that locked lopez in place. Lifeguards raced against time shoveling lopez out against a wall of surf boards put there to keep the ocean at bay. Lopez was finally able to pull himself free. The surfers say they have learned their lesson. Ive never heard about anything like this but it reminds you something everybody does maybe you shouldnt to it isnt they warn kids at the beach to o not do it. You can cave in, get stuck in there. The pressure from the tide and stuff its crazy. I used to like build a castle. You dont put yourself in the castle. No, i dont generally not. Plus theres little sand crabs crawling around in there. Who wants that. Storm tracker6 live double scan, we have no rain just yet. A lot of clouds out there, though. Lets take look as we head outside this morning, we have penns landing and trust me, it is cloudy above. Love all those lights they have in the park there next to the Columbus Memorial these days. And cloudy skies but eventually it will be damp around the region. As we take a look at the current number profile, were at 55 degrees in philadelphia. Some suburbs are in the upper 40s so its another cool start this morning. Winds out of the southwest at 8 miles per hour. As we take a look at future tracker6, we start out fairly cloudy. The clouds get thicker and by late morning or lunchtime, we start to see some very light showers begin to build in from the west. And as we go through the afternoon some of this light rain maybe gets a little bit more pronounced. You see darker shades of green showing up here and there. Notice how allentown and reading arent going to pick up as much of this today and later by 6 oclock it looks like its centered mainly over south jersey and delaware and after that continuing to push away by 10 00 or 11 oclock tonight. Sealings and adam may have something to still show you on radar late tonight but it does look like its going to be getting better. Also cloudy and cool today. 53 degrees by 8 oclock. By 10 oclock, 58. By noon, 60 and by 3 oclock, 60 degrees. Your high today is going to be 62. Well probably hit that rather early in the day around one or 2 oclock and then well continue to slide back into the 50s by 5 oclock. Again, that light rain moving in late in the morning or around lunchtime and then kind of staying with us in the southern half of the region for most of the day. Definitely a day for jackets once again. High temperatures not much difference. Little bit milder up north where were not going to see as much rain. 64 in allentown, 65 in reading and there you see 62 in philadelphia. 60 in wilmington. 62 in millville and on or about 60 down by that cool ocean water at our shore points. If youre headed to the phillies tonight were hoping those showers will be gone by the time the game starts but it will be cloudy and cool. First pitch temperature probably around 56 and then 52 in the ninth inning so jackets and sweatshirts and all that good stuff again tonight at the ballpark. Tomorrow were going to have some showers potentially early in the morning but we are expecting some drying and we might even see some sun returning in the afternoon. Tomorrows high is a little bit better, too, 66 degrees. After that toward the end of the week we are going to reintroduce High Pressure into the area and thats going to help us raise those temperatures and bring back a lot of sunshine for thursday and friday. Your exclusive accuweather 7day forecast, mainly cloudy with showers today, a high of 62. Clouds with some sun on wednesday, 66 degrees. That sun later in the day. And then sunny and milder on thursday. There it is. 72 degrees. And on friday mostly sunny and nice, 74. It should be a really nights evening for both union soccer and phillies baseball. On saturday cloudy with rain likely the way things are looking now. A storm system cutting coming at us from the southwest, 65 degrees. Then well have another one of those cutoff lows kind of hanging around. Im expecting clouds and sun on sunday and monday. Highs in the upper 60s to about 70 but there could be a spotty shower both days. Remember when were not on the air you can always get the latest Weather Information by logging onto 6abc. Com weather. If you want to top that in on the top line right away and that will get you all the latest. Does look like better times are coming towards the end of the week. Thank you david. Yes. New round of Evacuations Ordered in the canadian town devastate bide that massive wildfire. 4,000 workers from royal camp north of Fort Mcmurray are being asked to leave as a precaution. The wildfire ignited two weeks ago forcing 80,000 residents out of their homes and destroying more than 2400 structures. This is now. A coast guard crew from new jersey saved a french sailor from his sinking sailboat. Officials say oliviers sailboat hit a submerged object. The sailor deployed his emergency raft and radioed for help. A coast guard chopper crew pulled him to safety. Officials say the sailor was not hurt. Gel had been attempting to travel solo he from new york to the united kingdom. New on action news a gay pastor who had accused a whole foods in texas of writing a gay slur on his cake now admits he was lying about the whole thing. Jordan browns picture and story went viral last month. Officials at the whole foods in austin fought back and say there they can prove that their employees did not tamper with the cake. They released Surveillance Footage can which they say shows that the cake had been tampered with after brown purchased it. Whole foods has dropped a counter suit against brown since he has apologized. Visitors to a new jersey shore town may soon be able to drink booze on the boardwalk. Firefighters go above and beyond rescue four legged residents from an apartment blaze in texas. More on that when action news comes right back. Welcome back. Were looking live at Philadelphia International airport. Looking pretty good out there. Currently dry through the area. Expect some showers through your end of your Morning Hours into the afternoon. Lets take a look at the vine street expressway. We can see westbound traffic is reopened and it looks like eastbound in the process of reopening as well. Seeing some cars moving through in both directions but the crews are going to return again tonight at 11 oclock. Theyre going to shut the vine down in both directions and you know what kind of headaches that will cause n bella vista 11th street blocked at south street. We have this Police Activity out here that Annie Mccormick has been talking about. Use ninth streets or 13th street as your alternate. I want to take you to Bristol Township bucks county. Durham road closed

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