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WPVI Action News At 500 AM April 24, 2017

Karen rogers is in for david murphy. Matt pellman has traffic good morning. Reporter good morning, were looking at Storm Tracker 6 live we have showers in cape may, Atlantic City and dover, a few to the west, as well. A look on Storm Tracker 6 live 3d you can see theres a lot of moisture well to the south and west all of this is going to be heading in our direction over the next couple of days. Lets start with the forecast satellite and radar showing the clouds in place and we can showers, as well, beginning to develop. The temperature 50 degrees in philadelphia. It dropped a degree in the last halfhour. Low 40s in allentown. Upper 30s in the poconos. 46 in trenton. 49 in millville. 51 degrees in dover, delaware. Well hit a high of 60 today. It will be better than that to the north and west, cooler than that south of the city. Its damp and cooler than yesterday, looks like the steadiest rain arrives later in the day. Well show you that on future tracker 6 coming up in a few minutes. I think this week will give us headaches challenges traffic wise. Were looking good here, at least along the schuylkill expressway. Tail lights heading eastbound toward center city no issues, its dry for now, the mlk drive looks fine this morning, as you get into the art museum, dont forget, the inner drives of the parkway are blocked as they were last week for the nfl draft. Next closures come tonight when they close the outer drives of the parkway, as well. It will be a complete shut down of the Benjamin Franklin parkway as of 7 00 p. M. Tonight. Weve been keeping you posted on a motorcycle crash in Chester County has the eastbound lanes of the 30 bypass blocked from parksburg to coatsville, stick with business 30 or lincoln highway or 322 or eastbound turnpike. Eastbound bypass is closed at this point. Burlington bristol bridge will be clocked to traffic for a northbound ship passing through, stick with the turnpike connector. New schedules on the septa regional rails, new patco schedules goe into effect on this monday. Were starting with breaking news, a 22yearold shot and killed this morning and Philadelphia Police arrested a suspect who was trying to escape. The shooting happened inside a boarding house inside the germantown section. Katherine scott is live at Police Headquarters with more details. Good morning. Reporter good morning, tam, thats right, police say this was an arguments that turned into a deadly shooting inside a boarding house in germantown overnight. A 28yearold man was taken into custody and taken to Police Headquarters to be interviewed by homicide detectives, the victim was 22 years old. Lets go to the video from the scene in germantown overnight where police were there looking for evidence. This happened in a third floor bedroom on the unit block of east penn street around midnight. The victim was hit in the torso, arms and neck, pro pronounced dead at the scene. When officers got there they saw a man running out of the side door, they saw he had a gun on his holster on his right hip. Police told him to freeze, he did. He was taken into custody. There were a number of witnesses who were taken to Police Headquarters to be interviewed by homicide detectives. That 28yearold man was positively identified by witnesses inside the house who said that he had just shot a 22yearold male in the third floor front bedroom. Reporter police did recover a handgun that they believe was the murder weapon in this case. Live at Police Headquarters, Katherine Scott channel 6 action news. Matt. Thank you katherine. Delaware state police are investigating a crash route ho and route 72 in bear. The man was struck as he tried to cross the highway. He is is at christiana hospital with serious injuries. The driver remained at the scene. Were working to find out if two people will be charged for crashing their vehicle along i76 in belmawr, new jersey. It happened in the southbound lanes approaching 295. There was a child in the vehicle at the time, but police say nobody was injured police took everyone to Cooper University hospital for further observation. Eric freins attorney are trying to save him from the death penalty. They may raise his forgets known belief that police had too much authority and he had an influence on eric frein. He ambushed trooper brian dixon shooting him dead and Alex Douglass with debilitating injuries. An earthquake in millers with a magazine toot of 3. U. S. Core of Army Engineer will begin dunes through the summer. The work will last through the fall. Lets talk about the forecast, yesterday was incredible. Reporter today will not be, tomorrow will not be and the next day then it gets better. Storm tracker 6 live double scan shows us were dry currently in philadelphia. You can see the showers to the south and west. Ive got a closer view in cape may, Atlantic City, youre in and out of them in dover and wilmington to the southwest. It will be damp today. Lets go outside and show you what it looks like as sky6 live hd looks live over the Commodore Barry bridge, lots of clouds out there today. Its not going to rain constantly all day, but at any point well see the rain. The temperature is 49, the pressure is holding stealed. The ocean temperature is 52. Satellite and radar showing the clouds in place, if you look far to the north. Watch how the clouds cut off right now. In the Lehigh Valley youll see a peek of sunshine with a lot of the cloud cover. If youre looking south of the city, youve got clouds and showers here and there. Heres the area of low pressure sitting and spinning slowly turning up the coast and all this rain pouring out ahead of it over the next couple of days. Today is a day with lots of clouds, its damp, but we have steadier rain on the way especially south of the city. 8 00 a. M. , 55. 10 00, 56. Much. Day spent in the 50s. Lunch time lots of clouds, 58. At 3 00 p. M. We hit our high of 60. 6 00 p. M. Coming down from that at 56 degrees. I think the steadier rain will be with us then. Look at highs all over the region. Well be in the low 760s in parts of the Lehigh Valley. 60 in philadelphia. South of the city and west youll be in the 50s, cooler air and the better chance of the steadier rain. 5 30 p. M. We see the rain picking up especially south of the city. So in and out of it through the afternoon and evening hours. Tomorrow morning you may have scattered showers, but it still looks like the heavier rain comes later tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow night, tuesday at 9 00 p. M. Showing heavier rain in spots. So, today and tomorrow, kind of dreary, youve got an easterly wind, round of rain on and off, looks like the heavier rain may be in the afternoon even the mornings are not entirely dry, so just kind of damp and cool with rounds of rain over the next couple of days. Heres the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast, its damp, its cooler today with steadier rain at times especially in the afternoon and especially south of the city. 60 degrees for the high. Tomorrow, rainy and breezy at times. 58 degrees for the high, very cool. Wednesday, clouds and sunshine. Wednesday is the day of transition. I think we have showers moving through the first half of wednesday with cloud cover. By days end crowley see sunshine and 7 youll see sunshine and 70 for the high. Thursday, the low is out of here, we change the pattern for the nfl draft and penn relay, 82. Friday, partly sunny, 84. Saturday feeling like summer, 20 chance of shower or thunderstorm popping up. 86 degrees, how about that High Temperature . If youre outside for the nfl draft or the penn relay youll be hot thats for sure. Sunday staying warm and 82 degrees. Lots of clouds the first half of the week, sunshine the second. Im half happy with it. Reporter thats the best i can hope for. Some is better than none. Its like a scene from Mission Impossible without the skill. Find out how a thief escaped after several failed temperatures of leave running through the stores ceiling. A tennessee girl kidnapped for a month by her former teacher, her father gives us an update on how she is doing. Reporter route 1, super highway in bucks county, the northbound lanes are reopened. They will come back tonight. Well check on the motorcycle crash on the 30 bypass is cleared. And check out 42 on this monday morning. Welcome back your taking a live look across Philadelphia International airport, 5 13 a. M. , 50 degrees, getting up to 62 later today. Matt pellman rain approaching the area right now. Reporter yes, you know how that goes on the roads, not so well. If you could get out now, it would be a great time to get out and about now. Close to oaks, the dump is off to the left side of the screen. Westbound lanes youll have midday construction from 9 00 a. M. To 3 00 p. M. From trooper to collegeville, route 29. Eastbound side of 422 near arman amer boulevard. They just reopened the eastbound lanes of the route 30 bypass between parksburg and clarksville. Late last week this project started in San Francisco cone i cant township. In San Francisco midday construction going on from 9 00 a. M. To 3 00 p. M. , working on the trench from 32 river road. Tailors road will get you around that. One of our friends is talking about a vehicle stopped on the road i95 northbound close to the cottman avenue interchange in northeast philadelphia. You can get by it heading northbound toward academy. Police in new orleans are looking for a criminal who broke into a clothing store. He got into the store by climbing through the ceiling plunging downward. Once it was time to leave, he couldnt get back up, Surveillance Video shows him exiting the store again and again. He manages to get into the sealing and crashes down to the floor a few minutes later. He ransacked the store and escaped by leave running through a door. Happening right now, new orleans is taking down four confederate monuments at 2 30 a. M. , our time hoping to avoid disruption. They are working to remove. Liberty monument put up in 1891. Opponents to the confederate memorial say they are slave artifacts related to the past. The city has gotten Death Threats over the changes. Days after being fired by fox news, bill oreilly is going on on the air with a pod cast. He was fired over numerous complaints of sexual and racial harassment. No word when the pod cast will be posted to his website. Phillies had a good sweep of the braves. Phillies win 52. They host the my am myanmar lynnes tomorrow night. Nfl draft is three days away, well broke down the prospects with our special draft Preview Party and we have local prospects. A popular breakfast item is being recalled because there could pieces of golf balls in there. The first female of the International Space station is getting ready to mark a milestone. Were out ink,nk not ink. Printing doesnt have to be painful. Now, during hp savings month at staples, get up to 180 off hp printers. Firefighters in louisiana responded to this unusual call, they helped wild fife agents handcuff an alligator. It wandered into a garage over the weekend. They cuffed his back legs to take him back into the wild. Reporter you have a gator in the garage not that guy. Were looking good if youre heading to the airport with a an Early Morning flight on the platt bridge. Westbound toward i95 those are the headlights. You wont be flying at the burlington bristol bridge thats up for a northbound bridge. If youre heading out right now head for the turnpike connector. Patco trains heading over the ben franklin bridge, no schedules are in effect today and new schedules went into effect on the septa regional rails yesterday. Pick up the new paper timetables to keep you on time or the new app. Reporter satellite and radar showing clouds in place and showers south and west of the city. We can see the cloud deck in philadelphia and harrisburg. In williams sport youll be looking for Early Morning sunshine before the clouds fill in. It will be a couple of days were dealing with the dreary weather a lot of places in the 50s, 60 for the high in philadelphia. Low 0s in the Lehigh Valley which is below the average high of 67, damp today, its cooler and you have some periods of rain especially later this afternoon and tomorrow. Looking at the travel Weather Forecast even though were dealing with clouds in place and rain in atlanta in the south weve got the green traffic flow here, so major problems flying out, tam. Before you reach into the freezer this morning theres a recall you need to know about. Hash browns are being recalled because they contain pieces of golf balls. The producer said golf ball materials may have harvested with the potatoes. So far theres no reports of injury. Maybe the farmer was hitting golf balls i dont know. Reporter one of the astronauts on the International Space station will be getting a call from President Trump today peggy whiten spent the most days in space. Her tally will be 666 days in space by the time she returns in september. They say doing her third Long Duration stint on the iss and the only woman to serve as Space Commander twice. A College Student gets his revenge after being told as a child he would never graduate. Motorists are surprised on the vine street expressway when dozens of people take their bikes for a spin. Anthony thomas relieved to have his daughter back 16yearold elizabeth missing for over a month. Her former teacher in fbi custody facing federal charges for kidnapping the teen. Now new details about how she spent the final days with him at the remote cabin. Getting her back is the first step in a long journey ahead. Shell need trauma therapy. Reporter to see her struggling with this. Its hurtful, well find out more and more things that have done to her, its very heartbreaking. Reporter well have a live report from tennessee coming up at 7 00 a. M. With the g. M. A. First look, im eva pilgrim abc news nashville. And let roomba help with your everyday messes. A full suite of sensors automatically guides roomba throughout your home. Cleaning under furniture, along edges, and in corners. 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He said theres no point of going to orientation because youre not going to graduate. It was kind of ironic. Were two black male statistics, he is not the best statistic on the negative, im a positive, im a black male who graduated college. This week he posted the picture in his cap and gown it was a way to remind himself how far he has come. His stepfather is the bad side of the statistic because he is in jail. His mother helped him stay on track, he graduated with a degree in criminal justice and created a program that helps mentor children. Maybe his dad said that to motivate him. I doubt that. 5 27 a. M. Were helping you get ready for the nfl draft, more road closures coming. Flames rip through a building in point breeze section. Police break up a massive pot party say warehouse they say it was a potential death trap. Well be right back. Now on action news, center city drivers are on the clock, the next round of road closures go into effect today. New this morning, an suv slams into a man walking along a road in bucks county. Its one of two serious pedestrian crashes we have to tell you about. Storm tracker 6 live shows wet weather making its way here. Accuweather is timing out when you have to reach for the umbrella. Good morning, 5 30 a. M. , april 24. Lets find out about the rain, karen rogers is in for david murphy and matt pellman has the commute. Reporter good morning, everybody, starting off the week cloudy, cool and wet at times, lovely, right . Storm tracker 6 live showing showers south and west of the city. Look at Storm Tracker 6 live, all the moisture we have look at the heavy rain hitting the carolinas. All this will cycle through the area over the next couple of days. This is just the beginning of it. It will take a while to kick it out. Lets show you when it looks like on satellite and radar. We see the cloud deck in philadelphia, not so much in allentown and reading you will

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