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WPVI Action News At 4PM July 15, 2016

And so m ldren who are hurt or killed in this sickening attack. Reporter the world responding with silence and reflection french authorities were not watching the suspect for any connection to terrorism prior to the attack but arguably he should have been in prison. He w to six months for assault back in january but received a suspended sentence. Reporting from washington, lana zak, channel6 action news. And here in our area people with ties to france are reeling from yet another attack on a country they love. And that includes one group that holds a bastille Day Celebration each year on fairmount avenue. Jeanette reyes continues our Team Coverage today outside eastern state penitentiary. Jeanette. Brian and sharrie, for the third time in less than 20 months france is hit with another terrorist attack but here at the eastern state penitentiary they tell me their celebrations this weekended this time in memory of these victims. Day nice france wakes uo disturbing new reality. Its famed promenade along the mediterranean now also known for this sce r attack. News of the horror spread quickly throughout the local french community. Someone came to me and said did you hear what happened and i said no and so we heard. Reporter over 100 others were celebrating bastille day in Rittenhouse Square when phones started going off. We had 150 french people here just eating, drinking, having a good time gathering which is what bastille day is all about. Reporter the celebratory mood equipmently turned sommer. We had a minute of silence toe evening. It was, you know, not easy. Reporter one of the students witnessed the horror firsthand. One of our students called us this morning. She left a message on the answering machine and she was crying and she said i just wander to tell you were okay. Were in the middle of it and its one thing to see things on television and another thing to be right there. Reporter but both faced a phone call with hashtags for prayers and the images are becoming an increasingly common occurrence. I know its going to happen again probably because its for them its getting easier and easier. I dont know why theyre hitting france all the time. Reporter the two had plans to visit franks at the end of this month and thats not changing. You know, you cant just stop. Im not going to not go to france because of that. Reporter and there is a vigil set for tomorrow, organized by several Large Organizations in the french communities. People tell me the french here tell me that they are mourning with their country. Reporting live in fairmount, jeanette reyes, channel6 action news. Sharrie. Okay, jeanette, thank you. And our coverage of the attack continues on 6abc. Com with more on the investigation. Reaction from experts here and around the world and a slideshow as the world remembers and honors the victims. The attack in france prompted donald trump to postpone the press conference at which he planned to announce his vp pick. Instead the Presumptive Republican nominee tweeted that he shows an indiana governor mike pence to be his running mate. This is video of pens arriving at trump towers today. Abc news reports that trump was so angered by the leaked reports of pence yesterday that he momentarily considered changing his mind apparently made phone calls until midnight last night asking if he could change his mind. Ultimately he did not. The two will appear at a joint News Conference tomorrow morning. The city of cleveland is getting ready for the candidates and the delegates to flood that city for next weeks Republican National convention. Action newss Sarah Bloomquist is already there and says security is very tight. Reporter were here outside quicken loans arena in the heart of downtown cleveland. They have been working for weeks months getting this place ready for the republicans. You can see as well that there are barricades ready to go here, ready to line the streets. They have more fencing ready to go up as well along the streets here in downtown cleveland. In light of the recent events they are working to make this place as safe as possible. We talked to someone with the convention today. Heres what he said about the security plan thats in place. This area from july 18th to july 201st is really going to be just about the safest place in the entire world. The Security Forces that weve had on the ground here for more than a year are top notch and what people need to realize is that when they see disruptions or process at political rallies, those events are planned maybe three or four days in advance. We have had folks here for a year planning for this event. Reporter much more on the security plan here in cleveland for the Republican National convention coming up on action news at 6 oclock. For now from cleveland, ohio, im Sarah Bloomquist channel6 action news. And we now know who will be speaking here in philadelphia at the democratic National Convention. First Lady Michelle obama and senator Bernie Sanders are the first headliners on monday july 25th. Next up former president bill clinton president obama and Vice President joe biden and it wraps up with the partys presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton and her daughter chelsea on thursday the 28th. More speakers will be announced before the convention begins. And the entire Action News Team will be bringing you complete coverage of the dnc from every angle. Tune into 6abc for special reports beginning friday july 22nd. Well, for the second straight day were dealing with excessive heat warnings out there even though its not quite as hot as it was yesterday. Lets head outside to meteorologist Melissa Magee in for adam on this friday. Hi, melissa. Hi there, sharrie, hi brian and yeah, as you mentioned its certainly not as oppressive in some locations today as it yesterday. Temperatures rightthe upper 80s and 90s. It is 92 in philadelphia. 91 in wilmington, 88 at the coast in cape may but 91 in beach haven. You factor in the heat and humidity it feels hotter at the coast because thats where were finding higher dewpoint temperatures at this hour. Weve got a feelslike number in beach haven of 102 compared to 92 in philadelphia, feeling like 101 in dover and 94 out to the north and west in reading. Satellite6 along with action radar showing you sunshine and a few clouds across the delaware and lehigh valleys. The clouds will continue to move on in as we go throughout the rest of tonight so we are calling for a partly cloudy sky. If you are stepping out here on this friday weve got you covered with the evening planner. Ly humid across the resatchel 7 00 p. M. And 8 oclock still in the 90s. Well drop down into the 80s as we go throughout the rest of tonight. Well let you kheater can comesr it breaks any time soon with that accuweather forecast. Alicia. Melissa thank you. Neighbors and Business Owners in one part of manayunk have been dealing with an absolute mess all day. A water main broke this morning leaving some people with too much water, others without any service at all. And a usually busy street kicked in mud. Action News Reporter vernon odom live on main street with more on the problems and the repairs and just a big old mess there, vernon. Reporter it was alicia, good afternoon. Two blocks of main street here in manayunk remain pretty much shut down at this hour. Merchants here however are hailing the city workers for doing Major Repairs under the sidewalk here to get businesses up and running once again. Water department repairmen attack the 8inch main break that broke at 4 30 this morning triggering havoc in the 43 and 4400 blocks of main street. Knocking out service on the east side. Big trouble for the owner of a popular restaurant and adjoining wine bar. Flooding his entire inventory which was being refrigerated in a basement and it appears he now has structural damage to his building as well. The Restaurant Business has got a lot of moving parts. Its usually always on friday. Reporter which is a busy day. Busy dayism kicking off the weekend. Yeah. Reporter this upstairs tenant woke up this morning to see the mess outside with police knocking on her door to tell her she had to evacuate right away. The owners basement flooded. Theyre saying we have to go up there and get our stuff at some point so not ideal but happy friday. Reporter ater was still running on the west side but there was some flooding to some of manayunks most enduring restaurants like the legendary cafe zesty that has its own water pumps but he got damage and was shut down for the day as well no wayck off the weekend. Im not going to be able to open today. I have some water damage. Hopefully by tomorrow i will be ready for business. We took a hit today and but, you know, were in recovery mode now. And were trying to get out there that main street is open. Were were shut down, a two block portion of the district. Reporter brian and sharrie, again, the 43 and 4400 blocks of main street still shut down at this hour but the rest of main street here in manayunk is open and functioning for the night. Live in manayunk, im vernon odom, channel6 action news. Okay, vern, thank you. Weve got some breaking news to get to here at the 4 oclock hour. Philadelphia police making a disturbing discovery. Were being told that the body of a person has been found inside of the trunk of a car. This is happening in the mayfair section of philadelphia. Police have been on the scene since about 2 oclock this afternoon. This is happening at the intersection of oak and leostre. You can see the activity there from chopper 6hd flying above the scene there but again a body has been found inside of a trunk of a car at oak and leon streets in the mayfair section. Of course well keep our eye on this and update you as we get infor all right, it is time now in the meantime for a first check of the action news traffic report. Lets go live to autumn marisa in for matt pelman on this friday in the action news traffic center. Hi, brian and shar Regional Rail its friday, everybody is wanting to get home and start their weekend. We have an accident to report on 95. This is northbound. U can see ite behind me just past girard avenue. We just saw the fire trucks and the ambulance pull away so hopefully that will be clearing out of the area because only one lane is getting by creating quite the backup behind it. Moving along showing you the big picture speeds across the region dipping down into the teens onchuylkill expressway, on the blue route nice and slow going from about villanova all the way through media swarthmore. We had two accidents just clear, one, 95 southbound at cottman and one at the schuylkill expressway by 26th street so once those get out of the way we hope to see the traffic moving along. Another accident pennsylvania turnpike extension southbound at lansdale. You can see a long line of red there. We have an accident that was taking out both lanes. One lane getting by right now. Northbound lanes getting up to the poconos not looking too bad. Y expressway all those individuals heading down to the shore about a 15 minute delay from 295 down to the Atlantic City expressway. Youll really see a slow down from the Atlantic City airport up to the garden state parkway. And past the new jersey 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. This woman right here stands accused of gifting her teenaged daughter to a feasterville man in for financial help. And while she wont be getting out of jail any time soon a bucks county judge did agree today to reduce her bail. Its now been lowered from a Million Dollars to 10 percent of 250,000. Stoltzfus and her husband daniel are charged with endangering the welfare of a child their own child. Meals say the bucks county couple gifted their then 14yearold daughter to that man right there, 51yearold lee kaplan in exchange for helping their family out of financial ruin after a falling out with the amish church but her attorney denies that calling the Police Allegations against her false. Her lawyer alsos they plan to push for even lower bail saying its still too high. A quarter of a Million Dollars for a person with no past criminal record is is a very high bail. But were respectful of the facts of the case and the fact that we have to pay deference to the seriousness of the offense. The stoltzfusghter by the way is now 18 years old. She has two children by kaplan. 12 girls in total were removed from his feasterville home last month. Kaplan and her husband Daniel Stoltzfus are also still behind bars. Liminary hearing for all three has been set for august 2nd in District Court in feasterville. Brian. All right, alicia, thank you. A truck driver was crushed and killed by the cargo he was carrying today in Montgomery County. Chopper six was over light cap road where all this happened just before 8 oclock this morning. Police say the 62yearold driver from texas arrived before Business Hours opened to delivery pvc pipes. He tried to unload the truck himself but those pipes apparently fell on top of him. He died at the scene and workers found him when they showed up for work that day. Police have not told us his tuition is going up at pennsylvanias 14 state run universities. The states Higher Education board of governors approved a two and a half percent increase. That will bring tuition for most fulltime pennsylvania residents to about 7,200 each year. The board says its the smallest tuition increase in a decade. 92 in the corner of our screen as we turn once again to accuweathor some relief from this heat and humidity. Its just hot, right. Yes. Lets head over to meteorologist Melissa Magee. Hi, melissa. Hi, sharrie and brian. Were stillh of the delaware and lehigh valleys. One pla o, at least try to go, down the shore. Sky6 live in hd theremay, you ch umbrellas on the sand. A lot of folks trying to get some relief there but something int happening at the coast well show you with that south facing wind. Its hotter when you look at the heat indices across the region in comparison to inland location. Heat index in be 103, feels like 99 in cape may in comparison to right along that 95 corridor, its 92 the feelslike number in philadelphia and 94 degrees in wilmington. The reason why that is occurring weve got higher dewpoint temperatures at the coast in comparison to areas north and west and thats why it feels hotter at the shore today. Heres satellite6 along with action radar. You can see weve got sunshine and clouds across much of the were tracking a frontal boundary that will move in as ughout the rest of our weekend at least for the first half of the weekend on saturday. The call from accuweather for the rest of to and night, though, a few patchy clouds, moderately humid. Well drop down to 68 in lancaster for the overnight low, 74 in philadelphia dropping down to 75 in cape may. The overnight low in allentown falling down to 66. Future tracker6 showing you as you wake up tomorrow morning 9 oclock in the morning its a very warm start to the day feeling like 82 in philadelphia, a number of 76 in reading. As we go throughout the afternoon with that front pushing eastward a spotty shower or thunderstorm is likely. You could see that at 3 o ty shower in philadelphia, also for areas south and east so as we go throughout the day and the temperature by then coming in at 91 degrees. So, something to keep in mind as we go throughout our weekend. The dewpoints over the next four days, its not so bad on saturday, on the lower scale, 63 degrees dewpoints, 66 on sunday so we get a brief break over the weekend but then that oppressive humidity comes back once again as we get into saturday and sunday so were stuck in the soup and a bit of an unsettled pattern across our region as far as the heat and the humidity is concerned. So, weve got you covered. The weekend kickoff looks like this. Amorrow a high of 85, sunshine and clouds, certainly a little better in comparison to the city. High of 91. Hot and partly sunny and warm and rather comfortable up in the poconos, a High Temperature in at 81. Heres your four day at 4 00. It looks like this the heat wave number three likely tomorrow. If we max out at 91, hot and still humid on sunday and at 93. Summer sauna on the way on monday, high of 95 degrees. Muggy with showers and storms still on tuesday, high of 89 degrees so it doesnt look like that break is coming any time soon. Nope. 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