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WPVI Action News At 4PM June 26, 2017

Someone come into the u. S. Which the court said wouldnt be allowed and they have set up some difficult line drawing problems. Reporter we speak with imam salaam who says his concern is even the perception that the Supreme Court would allow heel people from a specific faith to be kept from entering the u. S. This is my country. And i hate to hear the Supreme Court make the decision that they made because they should have said theres no and so many apart from the exceptions anyone from iran libya somalia syria sudan and all refugees are subject to the ban. The Supreme Court will hear the case in october after it reconvenes. Reporting live from north philadelphia, walter perez channel6 action news. Sharrie. Oh, walter, thank you. Our coverage after speaks decision continues on 6abc. Com. There you will find more details on the ruling and video of President Trump discussing the travel ban. Philadelphia Police Officers were nearly mowed down by a hitandrun driver. The officers were working a crime scene in juniata park when a black car came barreling toward them. They jumped out of the way just in time the car hit a number of Police Bicycles which then laid damaged on the ground and then took off from the scene of erie avenue and i street. This happened about 2 30 in the morning. The driver is still on the run this afternoon and youre asked to Contact Police if you know anything about this crime. Philadelphia Deputy Police commissioner joe sullivan was on the stand today as a witness in the corruption trial against seth williams. Sullivan testified that williams asked him to help get a friend through Airport Security quicker. The Deputy Commissioner said williams and his friend made the request again during a lunch at the union league which sullivan says left him feeling uncomfortable. Sullivan says he then stayed away from the situation at the advice of the fbi and told williams to do the same. Action News Reporter vernon odom has been in court all day and will have the very latest coming up on action news at 6 00. Investigators are looking for the person who brutally murdered a woman in north philadelphia. She was found stabbed to death in a park near Dobbins High School this weekend. Right now its not known if she was targeted or the victim of a random attack. John rawlins live at the scene. John youve just got an update from police on this. Reporter thats right, we heard from the head of the homicide unit here. He said the victim had been with friends in kensington and somerset about an hour before the attack. Then she and another friend took a bus here. They parted ways. Then on video they can see the victim actually entering the park area behind me here. They say that is a normal way she would have gone home to a boarding house where she was staying. This time she encountered an individual or individuals who knocked her to the ground brutally beat her and stabbed her multiple times. Were asking for the publics help. If anyone has any information. Reporter it was about 2 30 a. M. Saturday. Police say the victim 31yearold debra gull liver got off a bus at 21st and lehigh and can be seen on video entering this park adjacent to Dobbins High School. Balloons have been placed near where someone stabbed her 15 times with such force the knife blade broke from its handle. Police cant say yet if she was sexually assaulted. We dont know. Her pants were partially pulled down. Were still waiting for the medical examiners report. We should be getting that sometime today or early tomorrow and then i can answer that question. Reporter three people called 911 saturday morning. Two left before talking to police. We need to talk to them so if they see this, we need them to reach out to us and come in. They were in the park during the time probably of the murder or shortly thereafter. Reporter this photo posted today part of an effort to reportedly raise money for gull livers funeral. A caption from a kevin gull level indicates his sister loved eatingd into being at the beach and rescuing strahle cats. The ferocious attack has some neighbors who live near the park on edge. My main concern is catch this guy, you know, so he dont do it to somebody elses child. You dont know if this guy sitting next to you or hes in church sitting next to you. This was a crazy killing. Reporter again police saying its too earl to tell if this was a targeted or a random attack. They are not certain if there was one assailant or multiple assailants at this point in time and there is a 20,000 reward connected to the solving of this crime. Live in north philadelphia john rawlins channel6 action news. Back to you. John thank you. And now to the accuweather forecast as we get the work week under way with beautiful blue skies and pretty much perfect temperatures. Yeah, its great outdoors. Lets go outside to meteorologist adam joseph with more on the forecast today. Hey, adam. We all like summer and sometimes that heat and humidity but a break is nice every now and then and thats what were getting here to start the new work week as we look at the numbers. In philadelphia youre sitting at 80 degrees, 84 in washington, 81 in richmond. So, no 90s, no high humidity. Pittsburgh syracuse right now only sitting at 70 degrees t satellite and radar weve got the sunshine right now but you can see the clouds bubbling up to our west and to our north and even some showers. Theres a little spin in the atmosphere over the great lakes. Thats going to be rotating through here tomorrow to bring us some scattered downpours and some thunderstorms. But until then, enjoy this evening. It is a beauty here for the end of june. 77 at 7 oclock. 7 39 oclock tonight. By 11 oclock, with partly cloudy skies our temperatures already at 70 and were dropping to 62 degrees in philadelphia and 50s for the suburbs and sharrie, when i come back with that four day at 4 00 forecast well take a look at those temperatures that will be on the rise once again once we get past tuesday. 90s on the board and pretty close to a heat wave. Well have all those numbers coming up in that full accuweather forecast. Cool and then a warmup. Yes. Adam well see you in a bit. Three homes are destroyed or damaged from yesterdays massive fire at the jersey shore. The Cape May County Fire Marshals Office is still working to determine if the cause of the fire in wildwood crest. Fortunately no one was hurt but the video here tells the story. Two of the homes on park boulevard will have to be knocked down. New jersey correspondent Nora Muchanic talked with some of the neighbors today. Shell have full report coming up at 5 00. Well, a fire also tour through multiple homes in chester overnight. It broke out around 1 30 this morning along the 1000 block of harrison street. The action cam was on scene as firefighters worked put out any hot spots. The fire started in one unit but spread to the homes on each side of it. No one was injured. The red cross is now helping a number of people who have been displaced. Time for a first check of the action news traffic report on a monday afternoon. Lets go live to matt pelman in the action News Traffic Center today. Hey, matt. Getting ourselves set up for a pretty normal weekday rush brian and sharrie. Looking live here in West Conshohocken this afternoon. This is the schuylkill expressway close to conshohocken eastbound come the headlights and its starting to get a little bit sluggish as you head in towards the conshohocken curve. We had midday construction on the westbound side of the schuylkill and youll find more of those weekday closures during the midday against this week as they get ready for the big resurfacing project that really is starting to get under way. On the big picture, yeah, more slow speeds on 76, just 7 Miles Per Hour on the westbound lanes by south street, 95 northbound has slowing as well. Just eight there as you head northbound past penns landing. Were watch something other issues like a broken down car along 422 eastbound near limerick linfield. A little slow patch there as you head towards royersford because one of the two lanes is blocked on 422 eastbound. Over in that gloucester township Camden County its a vehicle fire thats blocking the westbound lanes of blackwoodclementon road. You cant get through there this afternoon n delaware a crash along route four Ogletown Stanton road. Also watching a crash along highway one. Its the ramp from the northbound side of 299, the odessa exit. Lets grab the ipad do the commuter report on this monday. Crash north of the Police Precinct the seventh district. You see some slowing as a result. Well check it again, brian and sharrie, coming up in the next half hour. All right, matt, thank you. Next on action news at 4 00 healthcare changes. We have the very latest from washington as republicans revise their bill to repeal and replace obamacare. Plus. It was all he saidshe said and the real what it really comes down to who are you going to believe more. Tense deliberations for the bill cosby trial. Exclusive on fios is not cable. Were a 100 fiber optic network. Now with our new fios gigabit connection, you get amazing download speeds up to 940 megs, 20 times faster than most people have. And the price is amazing too for 79. 99 a month online for the first year youll get our fastest triple play with hbo included for 2 years. Leave cables slower internet speeds behind. So hurry up and switch to fios gigabit connection for 79. 99 with tv, hbo and multiroom dvr service for two years all with a two year agreement. Healthcare show down continues today Senate Republicans issued modest revisions to the current bill. In this new package there would be a penalty for people who let their insurance lapse. Gop lawmakers say this is to get Healthy People who might not otherwise buy insurance to do so. In turn, they say, it helps Insurance Companies pay for less healthy customers who are more expensive to cover. President donald trump is still optimistic he says but hes blaming democrats for blocking the process. The president tweeted that its not easy and perhaps he should just let obamacare crash and burn. Democrats, though, have been united against this new bill. Were doing everything we can to fight this bill cause its so devastating for the middle class. Now, it is projected to slash spending on medicaid by 800 billion. The white house though still insisting this bill keeps the president s promise. These are not cuts to medicaid. This slows the rate for the future and allows governors more flexibility with medicaid dollars because theyre closest to the people in needly. So again insisting there are not cuts to medicaid republicans can only lose two votes from their parties. Five have said they are not on board five others have serious concerns. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell is hoping to push the measure through the senate by the end of this week but even some republicans have said it is too soon. Were also awaiting that score from the Congressional Budget Office which will put a price tag on all this and show us just how Many Americans stand to lose coverage. Sharrie. All right, a lot more still ahead. Alicia, thank you. Well, Philando Castiles family has reached a 3 milliondollar settlement for his death. A Minnesota Police officer shot and killed castile during a traffic stop last year. The settlement avoids the long process of a wrongful death lawsuit. A jury acquitted Police Officer Jeronimo Yanez a manslaughter and other charges earlier this month. Yanez is leaving the Saint Anthony police force. Strong winds are hindering fighting efforts out west. Crews are trying to get the upper hand on a fire burning in southern utah. It has already forced more than 1500 people from their homes and cabins. Now weather had worked in their favor over the weekend but thats not the case today. The fire started almost three weeks ago when someone used a torch tool to burn weeds. It has become the largest wildfire in the country and so far has cost over 7 million. A juror from the bill cosby trial is revealing new details about tense deliberations that ended in amiss trial. He sat down with abc news. Hes the first juror to do an on camera interview. The 21yearold said there was one point where four jury members were crying, many struss frustrated with the deliberations which will stretched out over days. He still agonizes over the fact that the group could not deliver a verdict. I i had like regret i guess when we came to the final deadlock decision and it kind of has been in my mind like this could all be said and done. Do you think theres something that could have happened differently to change the outcome . Evidence. If we all said it a million times in the room, if there is other evidence, more substantial evidence we would have had a better verdict than deadlocked. Now dugan says he personally thought cosby was guilty. He said other jurors arguments suede his opinion. District attorney kevin steele has vowed to retry cosby. Affordable Housing Development coming. Leaders kicked off the 17 million project this afternoon. The old outdated property will be completely redeveloped. Crews will demolish the existing brick row homes to build new units an Community Center along at 300 block of linden avenue. Well, you might have noticed by this point that things look a little different around here today and youre absolutely right. Today we are debuting our new set and graphic look right here at 6abc. Were really excited about it. We took the bow off this project during our noon newscast today and were so glad to finally share all of this with you. Good afternoon. Its big, its bold and its brand spanking new. Got it. This is the new home for our action news broadcasts. A stunning and state of the art backdrop to 51 hours of newscasts each and every week. You like it . I love it. Our new set is the culmination of two years of planning and execution. First, mapping out the infrastructure to his the Newest Technology in news gathering and weather forecasting, then translating whats on paper into production. And, yes, its a huge job. We have Amazing Group of people here from our studio crew that help in the construction to our brilliant engineering staff that figure out how to make all the Technology Work and to our really talented Art Department that created this fresh new stunning graphic look. The set is shot by nine High Definition cameras and lit by hundreds of Energy Efficient led lights. It includes 52 monitors, all fed by miles of wiring and spread out over three enormous video walls. Each area is that specially designed to allow us new ways to bring the days news home to you in the most effective Way Technology now allows. But our goal was never to be simply fancy. First and foremost, it is to be function. For us its all about the viewers, to be able to have all these video walls will help us use individual glow a better and more complete way and to be able to communicate better with the viewers exactly what the story is. For the last several days our news teams have been rehearsing newscasts here exploring every corner of this cutting edge set. As always, our goal is just to get it right and now were ready. Yes, we are ready but you know, heres the truth. We hope you like our new home as much as we do. But action news its never about one Single Person or for that matter any high tech set its always about the story and your trust in us to tell it correctly. So, consider all of this just one more tool in maintaining that trust. But we are having a good time today. So much work has gone into this and weve seen the process behind the scenes so to see this today and debut it for all of our viewers its wonderful. Its like bringing along another family member. It certainly is. Adam joseph has a whole lot of fancy new tools over there. Things just pop out of nowhere. Youll see it here but it helps to tell the story because we can use two different elements to explain things a lot better so its pretty cool and im excited. Show us. You want to see it. Yes, we do. Live on sky6 its a Beautiful Day to debut this as well. Outdoors you can see on sky6 live here lots of blue skies, just a few puffy cumulus clouds here and there dotting the sky and low humidity as well. So, take a look at the temperatures right now. 72, we do have a sea breeze at the shore. 80 degrees in philadelphia. Thats one of the only spots in the 80s. You look to the north and west temperatures there in the 70s but as we take a look over the next eight hours or so, you can see we start in the low 80s this evening here at 5 oclock. Then as we go into time here, as we get into the midnight hour temperatures will be sliding from the 70s into the 60s so pretty nice that we have this kind of atmosphere especially after all of the Severe Weather we had last week. Dewpoints, thats the biggest difference. They are dropping big time. Below that 60degree threshold. Any time theyre in the mid 60s bust 70 degrees that is when you start to feel that oppressive humidity. So, satellite and radar here, there you can see off to the west there is a spin over chicago. That is whats going to bring some unsettled weather at times through tomorrow as that kind of drops through the region here. Tonight it is quiet, just a few clouds, very comfortable,

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