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WPVI Action News At 4PM August 9, 2017

Crisis but real tough sanctions are on north korea and they are reacting rather violently. And james mattis weighing in with the statement making clear that north koreas actions will be grossly overmatched by ours. Calling on the country to cease action that would leave to the end of the regime. A subtle different from the president that promises to take action. They will be met with fire, frankly and power to the likes of which this world has never seen before. And the secretary of state in guam also holding firm on the president s tough talk. What the president is doing is sending a strong message in language that kim jong un would understand he doesnt seem to understand diplomatic language. White house Officials Say that the president s tough language is all part of his strategy and sources tell us that the exact wording was not preapproved by the National Security team. Channel 6 action news. Thank you. Gets latest on the rising tensions with north korea on the 6 abc app. Right now we have reaction from u. S. Lawmakers on escalating threats and on how the Trump Administration is responding. All new an arson mystery that someone tried to set vehicles on fire, trying to set fire to Police Departments trucks. And their plan backfired. Walter perez is live with the story here. Reporter as unusual as this may sound there are no security cameras inside of the garage at this Public Safety facility in philadelphia. So investigators have to start from scratch to figure out who did this and why did this do it and how did they enter the basement garage undetected. It was early this morning when the 12th Fire District and police, started to detect an odor of gasoline and they determine that several vehicles on the underground garage was doused with fuel and a tshirt drenched with gas. The question is why . We dont know if they were scared off before they set anything afire. Or trying to set incendiary conditions and have someone start it by starting a car. For some reason the vandals only seemed to have tar getted survey trucks from the philadelphia streets department. But they say that if those trucks erupted in flames many other vehicles would have gone with them. You figure every car has some amount of gas in it, if an explosion or fire happens in a garage, everything closely contained it could have gotten out of control quickly. Hampering the investigation is that there are no cameras inside of this garage, a circumstance that may change sometime soon. Something like this has not happened before and lets see what to do to make sure it doesnt happen again. Well take the measures necessary to make sure it doesnt happen again. The garage has since been cleaned and authorities are hope to find Surveillance Video from local homes and businesses but so far that has not happened. Anyone with information is asked to call police. Walter perez, channel 6 action news. Thank you. Prosecutors in Burlington County are asking for help solving a murder that is unsolved for 5 months. A here and son were stabbed to death inside of their maple shade apartment in march. Investigators say the case is very active but now working with the Indian Cultural center, hoping to generate new leads, prosecutors say the smallest tip could prove useful in solving this crime. A 64yearold philadelphia man remains hospitalized after he was shot in the stomach on his own front porch. The gunman was on the run on the 1200 block of west tioga. Investigators are not sure of a motive and that the suspects fled in a crown victoria. Heading east on tioga toward 11th street. The victim was rushed to temple hospital where he was immediately taken to emergency surgery. The Atlantic City Prosecutors Office released new information about a death inside of the tropicana resort and casino. The man found dead in that hotel room committed suicide. The second person a woman was injured in a suicide attempt. And that all of this was an is lated incident and no reason for the public to be concerned about safety. Meanwhile another discovery in Atlantic City had Police Investigating when someone saw a mans body on the boardwalk near starbucks, they investigated and determined that the mans death was not suspicious and the medical examiner is performing an autopsy. Evesham police are looking for a man that put skimming devices on atms. They put out the photo and saying he put a skimmer on an atm. The crimes happened last week and police are urging people to doublecheck atms before swiping a card and entering a pin number. Time for a first check of the accuweather forecast. Adam joseph is outside for us in the best spot today. Yes, its rare august day here you can be outdoors in a suit and tie, and not complain at all when you are standing in the sunshine, its still feeling nice out here. This morning we started off on the cool side. 47 in mt. Pocono and 59 in trenton and wilmington 60 degrees and philadelphia this morning we started at 64. And we have climbed to 85 so far in philadelphia. 83 allentown and reading and 83 in wilmington and 80 in millville and a sea breeze at the shore with temperatures if the upper 70s and sunshine soaking the whole region. In fact all the cloud cover is way off to the south and east and High Pressure from the west than High Pressure is squashing the clouds and remaining the weather maker here tonight going into the day tomorrow. So for the evening planner, looking good here. 80 at 7 00, 77 at 8 00 and dropping into the lower 70s as you go between 10 00 and 11 00. Clear and comfortable just past that full moon from two nights ago and dropping down to a low in the city of 65 degrees. Well talk about one more winter forecast for tomorrow and changes coming if towards the end of the week. Details in the full accuweather forecast. Winner of a forecast. Winner. What did you think i said winter . An awful moment for me. Drilling will likely begin again on a pipeline through pennsylvania. State officials and environmental groups and sunoco came to the agreement today. Sunoco says they will reevaluate high risk sites. Along the pipeline and submit drilling plans and offer to test homeowners water, the settlement is under recrew waiting for approval. Time now for the action news traffic report. Matt pellman is standing by in the traffic center. We are reviewing the traffic already a vehicle flipped over on the schuylkill expressway eastbound where there was an accident this morning. They are doing the milling and paving and i dont know if this contributed or not. This vehicle was on its side until minutes ago. Looks like a pickup truck and upright the but the left lane is getting by and another ambulance is responding to the scene as we watch live. Already a parking lot on the eastbound side of the schuylkill from 202 into that scene again near the conshohocken curve, you really want to think alternates like ridge pike and conshohocken state road and lancaster avenue and farther east on the schuylkill by the vine another accident that is partially taking out the right lane but causing slowly towards center city. And an overturned vehicle in christiana delaware, the southbound side of highway 1 near 273, delays from that spill on to 95 and back to 495 in wilmington and Burlington County a crash on 295, northbound near mount holly, off to the side and speeds in the 30s there, check your waze home and commuter report on this hump day afternoon. Chester county the crawl is on on the westbound side of the 30 bypass, a crash near coatesville. You are jams solid west of the reeceville road kings highway or the pennsylvania turnpike are alternates around that. All right matt thank you. Still ahead on action news at 4 00, another possible terror investigation in paris. We have the latest on the attack that again used a car as a weapon ramming into a group of soldiers. And a Good Samaritan is rushing in to help victims in texas. Here about his act of kindness next. How would you like to earn four times gas reward points . Thatd be awesome. You can do that . Just buy participating grocery items during the anniversary sale and youll earn 4 times the gas reward points. Groceries for gas rewards, i wish right now, get pepsi, diet pepsi or mtn dew 2 liter bottles 88 cents, and lays potato chips, buy one get one free. Can i get one more wish . the acme anniversary sale. Its just better. So being cool comes naturally. Hmm. I cant decide if this place is swag or bling. Its pretzels. Word. Ladies, you know when you switch, you get my bombdiggity discounts automatically. No duh, right . [ chuckles ] sir, you forgot keep it. Youre gonna need it when i make it precipitate. What, what . What . We are breaking news a standoff situation that blocked off roads to a delaware neighborhood that forced residents to stay in their homes now under control. The ordeal began at 2 00 today at the 100 block of stanton road. The roaded surrounding the road are back hope and residents are clear to go. Police have not said what led to the standoff. The ongoing russia investigation led fbi agents to the home of President Trumps former cam main manager. Agents took records from Paul Manaforts house in Northern Virginia as part of the investigation led by special counsel robert mueller. He cooperated with Law Enforcement and did so on this occasion as well. The warrant was served in the last two weeks and the special Counsel Office declined to comment on the search. Police in france say they have the suspect in custody. After a car was used against as a weapon to ram into a group of soldiers. French police shot at the suspect after a high speed highway shootout. In a paris suburb, police say that a bmw ram nood a group of french soldiers. The car was seen near an Army Barracks and then speeded up and plowed down the soldiers. Six of them injured, three of them seriously. He was later apprehended by plane Clothes Police officers. It was part of a security effort put in place following the Charlie Hebdo attack in 2015, two years later france is still under a state of emergency. The sixth alack this year alone and one of many recent attacks across the globe with cars plowing into crowds. And that suburb is west of paris believed to be linked to the suspect in this car attack. All this have as we await details in this active investigation. All right thank you. After a two day manhunt, a suspected cop killer is captured. An alert driver called them last night after spotting ian mccarthy walking along a Missouri State highway. He allegedly killed gary michael during a traffic stop. He may have shot him because he was desperate to avoid charges outstanding in new hampshire. And now being charged with first degree murder. Tiger woods is pleading guilty to reckless driving following a dui arrest in florida. Woods will enter a Diversion Program later this year. Prosecutors also agreed to drop the dui charge and wipe his record clean once the program is completed. Such a deal is offered to many first time dui offenders in palm beach county. No alcohol was found in his system he says he was under the influence of a prescription pain killer and sleep aid when officers discovered him asleep at the wheel. You may notice oprahs products popping up on shelves on grocery stores. The refrigerated soups and side dishes are comfort foods with a twist. She snuck cauley flower into the mashed potatoes. The new line is rolling out this week. Mega millions is 382 million and the power ball 307 million. The two jackpots failed to yield winners and the next drawing for Mega Millions is next friday and your chance at the power ball is tonight. The winning numbers will be announced at 10 59 late this evening. I read your chances are one in like 260 million. Its so slim. You have a better chance of being struck by lightning but it does not deter you. Its a dollars. I think 2. Its free outside, low humidity and sunshine and comfy temperatures. Live on sky 6 hd over the Commodore Barry bridge just a few puffy cumulous clouds dotting the sky here and there. And even in the sunshine it feels nice and not breaking too much of a sweat out there and in the shade extremely comfortable. As we head towards the weekend its only wednesday and i want to give you a preview. Saturday and sunday it does change however, both days are humid and there is a chance of downpours and thunderstorms both days as well. Its not a washout but Early Saturday Morning the opportunity for thunderstorms and again come sunday afternoon. In the scattered variety with temperatures going back and staying around the 84 to 86 degrees. 85 in philadelphia, 84 in trenton and 83 in allentown and 83 in wilmington and a sea breeze at the shore temperatures in the upper 70s. High pressure is our friend here today and you can see basically looking good from boston to new york city down to philadelphia and baltimore. This entire area seeing a lot of sun a clear sky and that is the way it stays overnight tonight. Under the moon lit sky its comfy and back into the 50s and millville 58 and wilmington and dover coming in at 62 degrees, as we look at the day planner as we get into thursday, sunshine ruling once again and high clouds develop in the afternoon and temperatures to 80 at 11 00 in the morning and staying in the mid80s in the aof noon. We chatted about the total Solar Eclipse. Well have a partial eclipse here on monday august 21st. The entire country following this, for us here locally it begins 1 21 if the afternoon and maxi clips at 2 45 and ends near 4 00 in the afternoon as the moon passes through the sun and earth eclipsing 80 of the sunshine at 2 44 in the afternoon. Key points here you cant look directly at the sun you need special glasses, get those ahead of time and if you have time to take off take the afternoon off as well. Of course its all weather dependant. The four day at 4 00 forecast, 85 on thursday and sunshine and clouds and 82 on friday mostly cloudy with a scattered shower and unsettled into the upcoming weekend and if you want to learn more about the eclipse guys, go to 6abc. Com Solar Eclipse and check it out. Very good thanks. Well, when flooding left several cars stranded in houston, texas, it was no match for a regular tow truck. That is when Richard Reynolds stepped in he got that thing, a monster truck and brought them out free of charge and dragged a delivery truck back on dry land after being stuck for hours. A buddy of mine called and said there were cars stuck under here, i came to help get them out of the stuck water. At least four people were rescued thanks to reynoldss willingness no lend a helping hand and that beast of a truck. Everything they say in texas is a little bigger. Look at the tires. A fun filled summer experience comes to an end for more than 1,000 city kids, they had a blast climbing through an Obstacle Course but its more than fun and games and the bigger purpose behind this coming up. The big question is insurance worth it. Well tell you where in one case for many couples and brides to be the answer is yes. Today was all about play for roughly 1300 kids in pennypack park. The play camp about happiness and also help. The annual philly summer challenge event that brings together campers from the Recreational Centers across the city. They launched play philly to address the high rates of childhood oh d. C. Ity in philadelphia. Get moving from optional mud runs and dancing this is a day full of play where kids got active and social and got off their phones. We want them to grow up and be happy and healthy and live Productive Lives and Childhood Obesity is 40 in the city of philadelphia. We educate them on how to eat healthy and how to play 60 minutes a day and how to play without conflict resolution with each other as young productive adults. The philly summer challenge was done in partnership with the philadelphia union, cool stuff for the kid theres. The culmination of simweeks of summer camp. An hour a day outside simply playing is what kids need to be healthy. You wouldnt think its such a tough sell but put them up against the technology. Thanks. More ahead in the next 30 minutes of action news at 4 00, including a break down of the retail insurance policy not worth the money, and what experts say you should always buy. Flight restrictions imposed by President Trumps immigration ban in new jersey caused problems for the area. Im Nora Muchanic with the story coming up. Action news continues. Hello again, 4 30 now and action news continues with a warning that many consider the ultimate summer cocktail. Why experts say some moscow mules may be poisonous. Plus, it was more of a shout than a serenade. Whoa. Believe it or not that rendition of the National Anthem only got more interesting from there. How the singer explained. And an accused drunk driver taki taking himself off the street by turning himself in. What he was looking for when he parked in their lot. We begin with vacation frustration for businesses in the tristate area, as of last friday, private planes were banned from taking flight in a 10 mile area surrounding President Trumps golf club in bed minister, new jersey, there are tight restrictions at airports as far as 30 miles away from there. Although the restrictions may be temporary they make their living by flying the Economic Impact may be felt for sometime. Nora muchanic talked to a few people and she is live now from the new jersey newsroom with the story. Sharrie, small airport owners are being clobbered by the restrictions looking for th

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