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WPVI Action News At 4PM July 31, 2017

Delaware County District Attorneys Office in conjunction with the Haverford Township Police offering a 5,000 reward for the arrest arent conviction of the shooter of john le. Reporter john le was at this pizza shop picking up an order. He was expected to walk to a friends haverford apartment but along the way he crossed paths with the man in red who had a gun. We dont know what transpired but its very short and the sidewalk leading up to the apartment is not very long. There was some sort of confrontation. Was eight robbery . We dont know that yet. Reporter detectives later learned prior to the deadly haverford shooting someone matching the description of the shooter had been confronted by neighbors in the overbrook section of philadelphia. They had questioned him about loitering around the house. He responded with gunfire. The shooter then takes out a gun and starts shooting multiple times at them. Reporter 17 times. 17 times is what im told yes. Reporter remarkably no one was injured in that earlier incident. John leighs family says the 29yearold temple grad had recently landed a job as an accountant. Afterward le could be found at sedgley disk golf course. Those who know him says he loved the fresh hair and the competition. John was just one of the people that you were always happy to get to play with. Just so friendly, so full of life. Just easy to talk to. Reporter well, so two shooting incidents on saturday, one deadly here in haverford township, one not in philadelphia. Authorities are still waiting on ballistics tests to see if all the shots were fired by the same weapon. Theyre also hoping though this reward will prompt people to take a closer look at that video or excuse me those still frames of the video that weve seen. If you have an anonymous tip about this case, youre urged to call the citizens crime commission. You can call them at 215546tips, thats 215546tips. Live in haverford township, john rawlins channel6 action news. Rick. All right, john, thank you. Bensalem police are looking for a mother who left her baby in a hotel room. Employees found the seven month old in the Knights Inn Hotel yesterday afternoon. A cleaning crew found the baby after the mom, 34yearold Erica Avila Lopez did not check out of the room. Investigators say she left around 4 oclock saturday afternoon and never came back. They found narcotics and Drug Paraphernalia inside the hotel room. Philadelphia dhs is now caring for the child. A judge has just found a man guilty of a cold case murder in bucks county. 56yearold george shaw has been convicted of third degree murder and other charges. He now faces a maximum of 27 years behind bars for killing 14yearold Barbara Rowan back in 1984. A sentencing date has not yet been set. Philadelphia officials and conrail have started the massive project of cleaning up a notorious open air heroin market. Drone6 flew over the area in kensington as work got under way. Action news first told you about this haven for drug addicts back in april Investigative Reporter Wendy Saltzman has details on the cleanup. Wendy. Reporter sharrie, right here is where that work began at 7 30 this morning cleaning up trees and debris along this stretch that has been dunned dunned dubbed ground zero for philadelphias heroin epidemic. The work will span about a mile and a half until they get to the worst part of the track. Aings news first got a behind the scenes look at the tracks in april. The ground covered in an estimated 500,000 used syringes. Addicts come here in some cases they call it home where they buy and sell drugs and shooter up in areas like the lounge. A mirror over here where they cut their drugs. Reporter its impossible to know how many users have died here. Officers say its hard to respond among the brush and debris. When youre down in the tracks we dont find them. Afterwards the. Reporter the city and conrail began moving full stream ahead bringing in equipment to clean up this blighted area. We arent going to solve every challenge overnight but were here for the long haul and were committed to this neighborhood. Reporter whose responsibility it was to clean up the dangerous waste. Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars. Reporter conrail will foot the bill for most of the cleanup as seen from drone6. The city will provide Police Support help with rate waste re. Waste removal and build more fences. The efforts also include bringing in services to help with homelessness and much needed Recovery Services for addicts who call the tracks their home. This is about the folks who come here who think it is okay to come to kensington to buy drugs. Reporter this comes on the heels of findings by the dea that drug related deaths in pennsylvania hit record highs with more than 4600 lethal overdoses in 2016 up 47 percent from just one year before. People under the bridge, they need our help. Theyre fighting a disease and an illness. Theyre just somebodys child, somebodys Family Member and we have to treat them with the dignity and respect they deserve. Reporter conrail says theyve been involved in numerous cleanups most recently in 2013 and 2015 but they say those fixes never stuck. The message today is that this area is not hopeless and the hope is with this comprehensive and Strategic Plan that there will be a long term solution. Im Wendy Saltzman channel6 action news. All right, wendy thank you. And right now on our 6abc app you can learn more about the plan to clean up the notorious drug camp. You can also watch our previous reports including wendys eye opening look at what life was like along those tracks. Rescue teams have recovered the body of a swimmer who went swimming in ocean county. Off duty lifeguards found the body of susan is a oravcova. She disappeared while swimming with a friend off Point Pleasant beach. Both were visiting from slovakia and they were both struggling in the rough surf. At the time there was a warning in place about dangerous rip currents. All right, time now for a check of the accuweather forecast. Meteorologist adam joseph is back. Yes, he is and hes outside. Hi, adam how is the forecast. Really nice. The sunshine is back and we have low humidity so its a winwin situation. As we take a look at the numbers theyre climbing as well. It was cool weekend. Saturday with the clouds, 79 degrees, 83 yesterday with that sunshine below the normal of 87 but today were cracking back above normal so far today hitting 88 degrees. As we look at dewpoints, it is dry out there. Any time its 60 or below you can say it is very comfortable out. You see a littleup tick towards dover and cape may into the mid and upper 60s down there slightly humid but with a little bit of a breeze off the water it still feels pretty good. Satellite and radar High Pressure in control just a few cumulus clouds, some cirrus clouds at times here this afternoon but that that sunshine really ruling the sky today and for this evening temperatures going to remain very pleasant. 85 degrees at 7 oclock, 83 at 8 oclock and then finally dropping into the upper 70s between 10 oclock and 11 oclock with a low going down to around 70 under a clear sky tonight. In that accuweather forecast we talk about several days going back into the 90s. The humidity does stay below oppressive despite it turns a little humid and then a cooler change comes in in time for the weekend. Well have a all of those numbers and ill let you know if rain follows those cooler temperatures for the weekend coming up in just a little bit in the full accuweather forecast. All right adam well check back in later. A former Reality Store is getting involved in a bail reform fight in new jersey. The lawsuit claims the states new bail rules allow a criminal to go free and commit murder. Nora muchanic is live in the new jersey news room to explain this legal battle. Nora. Reporter hi there, rick. You may remember dog the Bounty Hunter hes the guy with the long blond hair and the tough talk. Well, hes joining a bail bond industrys fight against reform here. Hes backing a south jersey familys lawsuit they feel like their sons murderer should never have been out on the streets. Wayne chapman known as tvs dog the Bounty Hunter arrived at the federal courthouse in trenton to support the wrongful death lawsuit. The aspiring rapper was shot 22 times in vineland on april 9th. The alleged shoot is 30yearold jewels black. That guy would have never made bail in the bail system without his mother signing his aunt his uncle, you know what i mean, we would have kept tabs on himmism the lawsuit names the state governor christie and the creator of a Risk Assessment system now being used to determine if a suspect should be released until their case goes to court. Weve got a construct when that when you run people through it will tell you whether or not they are dangerous. This product failed. Reporter a company that rents ankle monitors is paying for the lawsuit. You cant have program that is based on Risk Assessment assessing people at no risk that everyone knows is violent. Reporter Christian Rogers parents believe their son might be alive under the old cash bail system and say the release of criminals like jules black is terrifying to communities. Theres bullets flying everywhere. Why . And who thinks that this is right . Fix it please before any other new jersey family has to go through anything that weve been going through. Reporter supporters of bail reform say theres no guarantee the same thing wouldnt have happened under the old cash bail system. If the monster who killed june rogers son had been out on money bail the result would have been the same because youre not theyre not trailing him around 24 hours a day. Reporter now the rules on release have been tightened since rogers murder. The reforms were enacted so those people accused of minor crimes wouldnt be stuck behind bars for months or 18 years because they couldnt afford bail. The Attorney Generals Office says it has no comment on the lawsuit. Live in our new jersey news room, im Nora Muchanic channel6 action news. Rick. Nora, thank you. Thousands of new jersey state workers will be compensated for the days they were furloughed during the recent government shutdown. Lawmakers approved the measure today and it now heads to governor christies desk. The assembly also passed two bills in response to christies use of a state park that was closed during the budget crisis. One measure would prevent the Governors Beach house from being used during a shutdown. The other would keep state parks opened during a shutdown. Those bills still need to be debated in the senate. Next on action news at 4 00 a renewed battle over airline seats. Why a judge is ordering the faa to take a look at the dimensions and the leg room and its not just to keep fliers more comfortable. An incredible rescue caught on camera. With their lad area stretched over rushing flood waters firefighters grab a diver and his dog just before their suv system completely submerged. And a live look now here to the white house where the Daily Press Briefing is under way. Were waiting for Saran Sanders to come to the podium and take questions on a day theres been another shakeup. 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After leaving the army in 1970 he became a High School Teacher in michigan. Jurors are deliberating charges against Martin Shkreli the socalled farmer bro. The former biotech ceo caused outrage when he hiked up the price of a life saving drug and insisted he did nothing wrong. Shkreli is facing unrelated fraud charges. His victims say the 34yearold lied to them once he lost millions of dollars they invested into one of his startups. Shkreli maintains he did not con them into anything and that many made profits once stock prices took off. Much of florida is that under a state of emergency as Tropical Storm emily moves ashore. So far the west coast has seen the most flooding and that some damage. The storm which only just formed this morning is coming in off the gulf. A number of communities are setting up areas where residents can pick up sand bags. Right now there are no evacuation orders in effect. The Florida National guard is on stand by ready to help as needed. All right, we want to go now to the white house where the briefing is under way. The breaking news because its another shakeup happening today. Anthony scaramucci is out. Lets listen in to sara sanders. He does not have a role at this time in the Trump Administration and we put out a statement earlier announcing that and i dont have much else to add. Reporter [inaudible] not at this time. Can you say was he asked to leave, did the president ask him to leave, did he volunteer his resignation. Im not going to get into the process tick tock. As weve said several times before what matters month evident to us who is not employed in the white house but whos employed in the rest of the country and were focused on the president s agenda of growing the economy creating jobs and thats were were going to do and thats what were going to be focused on. John. Was it the chain of command issue because scaramucci said that he had a direct line of communication the president. Theres been some speculation that general kelly may try to tighten up the number of inputs that the president has so was it something about the chain of command or did it have anything to do with that interview scaramucci did. Look, the president certainly felt that anthonys comments were inappropriate for a person in that position. And he didnt want to burden general kelly also with that line of succession as i think weve made clear a few times over the course of the last couple days to several individually but general kelly has the full authority to operate within the white house and all staff will report to him. When you say didnt want to burden him. We have been listening in to sara sanders the the white house on the Daily White House press briefing. She is now she has now been taking questions with regard to Anthony Scaramucci who offered his resignation is no longer with the white house after only 11 days on the job. Shes skirting around the questions not explaining how it came about saying shes going to move on beyond whats in the future of the white house. If you want to hear more of this press house briefing go to our web site at 6abc. Com. Its streaming live now. In the meantime meteorologist adam joseph who is back from vacation has a check of the accuweather forecast. Last day of july and not a bad way to end the month. Thats good news. Weve got sunshine through this week, humidity goes up a little bit and if you like the 90s, theyre coming back as well. All right. Take a look right now live on sky6 over the Benjamin Frank bridge at dry heat. Its not a humid heat but that is going to change as we go into the middle of the week. So far today 88 degrees in philadelphia, 87 in trenton. On the verge of 90 degrees up in the Lehigh Valley. 79 beautiful degrees in beach haven and not much of a sea breeze in cape may, 83 and just to the west there in dover, 85 degrees. Your day planner as we go into your tuesday, pretty similar to today. Lots of sunshine. A few high clouds as well as cumulus clouds. Tad more humid tomorrow. Temperatures heading into the upper 80s to low 90s for some of us tomorrow afternoon. Satellite and radar High Pressure is in control right now and you can see it avoids the area of any really thick cloud cover or clouds overtaking the sky and this is the image youre growing to see day after day youre going to say day after day for the rest of the week. Tonight clear and pleasant 65 to 70 degrees for an overnight low. Not as cool as the last couple nights but pretty typical for this time of year. Temperatures tomorrow heading into the 90s for philadelphia, 91 degrees, 90 in trenton, 88 degrees for millville as you head into reading and lancaster, 89 degrees there. Again, slightly humid with that sunshine in control. We talked about Tropical Storm emily in the newscast and here it is. You can see the thunderstorms blossoming near tampa. Did make landfall early this morning. Really not that well organized at this point and as we look at emily winds sustained 40 miles an hour moving to the east at 10 miles an hour, it is about 30 miles southeast of tampa. It will merge off the east coast of florida and then continue to strengthen again as it heads over the gulf stream waters tuesday, wednesday into thursday. By thursday it is moving out to sea, well off of our coast so no direct effect. The only thing it will bring wednesday, that yours if youre down the shore this week is a moderate risk maybe a high risk for rip currents. Well have to watch that in the middle

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