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WPVI Action News At 500 AM August 25, 2017

Up next we have wonderful weather and traffic to match with matt pellman in for karen rogers and david murphy. Reporter we have construction. Reporter we have an issue in the weather, too, we have cloud cover overhead a little disturbance has popped up. We were looking for a sprinkle that extended into the morning with showers. Storm tracker 6 live double scan showing this to you, every now and then theres a steadier batch of rainier reading and something along the line coming into the Eastern Shore of maryland. Generally speaking it is pushing toward the east and it should not be around much longer. Im hoping during the morning rush hour it dries out. 61 in allentown. 61 in reading. 67 in philadelphia. 65 in wilmington, 65 in cape may. As we roll through the day, overall it looks like a nice one partly sunny skies, 75 degrees by noon. 3 00 p. M. , 79 degrees thats the high. 7 00 p. M. , 76 degrees pretty comfortable looking good heading into the weekend. Not so good in texas where Hurricane Harvey has become a category two storm probably heading toward category three by the time it makes landfall. Its highlighted from the wide distance on the globe easy to spot the big massive cloud cover and an eye beginning to form, as well. Its up to 110 miles per hour, that makes it a category 2. The gusts 125. We could have an effect from that in the way of gas prices, fill up today and dont wait for the weekend. Reporter im not glad were here and not in texas. Glad to be here on the schuylkill expressway because the overnight construction cleared from the eastbound lanes by the blue route. Everything is reopened. No westbound work overnight. Work on approaching broomal is in the process of clearing and the zone on the boulevard between cottman and bustleton in the outer drive packing up as we speak. Opening at the taconypalmyra has wrapped you mean. Things are clearing out looking up around the region. We lost a crash in west norton, everything is clear Chestnut Avenue at potts street. They are working on the one in bam ambler at forest and main street. Everything good to go at fox ford valley road Oxford Valley road. Work in delaware, northbound in the next half, as you head toward christian, speeds in the 30s, because three lanes are blocked. Two men broke into a womans home in north philadelphia this morning and one of them shot her in the back as she tried to flee the scene. It happened on the 3000 block of north 23rd street at 1 30 a. M. The woman is in critical an. Police have two persons of interest in custody. Find out what another person inside the home did to get neighbors attention and make it less bad coming up in a life report in the next halfhour. A wild and violent shooting had Philadelphia Police chasing down the bad guys and the wounded in the germantown section. The suspect smashed his car into a garage as other victims found their way to einstein hospital. Katherine scott has more. Reporter matt this is one thing after another overnight police are holding multiple scenes connected to the case. Two people were shot taken to Einstein Medical Center one in critical condition, one in stable condition. Shortly before 1 00 a. M. , officers on patrol heard multiple gunshots coming from the 1300 block of east rittenhouse in germantown. You can see the shell casings on the ground there. When Police Arrived they found an acura speeding from the scene. The driver and passenger got out and started running, Police Caught the driver who was one of the suspected shooter. He had two handguns in his car and arrested. The passenger got away. Meanwhile, back on the shooting scene, two people were shot and taken to Einstein Medical Center by separate private vehicles. A 22yearold man shot in the back in critical condition. 32yearold man shot in the leg, is stable. The pickup truck that drove the 32yearold to the hospital was parked on east rittenhouse when the shooting took place. A neighbor had the Engine Running and loading up the car after the shooting someone jumped in the pickup to drive the victim to the hospital. The owner of that vehicle, of course is upset the vehicle was taken, we explained to him the vehicle who took the vehicle used it to transport a shooting victim to einstein hospital. And they are still locking for the passenger who fled the scene at 20th and stenton after the car crashed into the garage. At this point theres no known motive for the shooting. Live in olney, Katherine Scott channel 6 action news. Tam. Thank you for that katherine. Developing overnight, texans in towns along the gulf of mexico are fully braced. Hurricane harvey is looking like a monster expecting to come ashore as a category 3 storm. Many of you know i grew up in houston, this is my version of the shore. Right now were seeing wind and rain, it is empty, as people are behind closed doors inhouses with boarded up windows trying to get ready. Thousands of people batten down the hatches and bought up staples, they find out after all the effort they have to leave it behind and be on the move. Harvey is a category 2, but expected to be a category 3 when it crashes ashore. It will the potential storm surge of 12 feet. 67 members of the National Guard have been called up at this point by the governor of texas. Congressman bob brady is calling for an spe dieded into a crash of a train at the 69th street transportation center. The ntsb was on the scene hours after the crash Tuesday Morning of 33 people were injured when the norristown high speed line train smashed into a parked empty train. Another train crashed at the station 6 months ago, ntsb has not determined what caused that crash. 5 07 a. M. , a Philadelphia Police sergeant is facing federal charges. Brian smith accepted 20,000 in bribes in exchange for confidential information on accident locations to towing companies. Aside from being illegal its violation of the Philadelphia Police department rotation pennsylvania is cracking down on drunk drivers who are stopped for the first time. Those with a blood alcohol content of. 10 or higher will be required to use an ignition interlock. Pennsylvania ranked the 7th most dangerous state for drunk driving. Time to turn to david murphy were talking about a hurricane in texas, but its beautiful here. Reporter were looking at another nice day, a fly in the ointment early, showers moving west to east early they wont be around through the length of the entire rush hour. Things breaking up in dover and steadier cells in berks county they they will be pushing toward the Lehigh Valley, allentown and bethlehem might get clipped by that in the next halfhour. The stuff down south, spotty. As we look outside, we have cloudy skies, with breaks here and there over the ben franklin bridge and elsewhere across the region. Were looking at a quick transition with partly sunny skies. 61 degrees in in allentown. Cool and comfortable in reading and lancaster, as well. 62 in trenton. 67 in philadelphia. 65 in wilmington, 66 in cape may. Dewpoints low, humidity not a problem today. In the Lehigh Valley look for partly sunny skies later on. Comfortable conditions, 77 degrees. Down the shore mid 70s in the ocean, low risk of rip currents. If youre down the beach next week, somewhere around tuesday, wednesday, thursday, looks like the rip currents may wind up rising again with the area of low pressure scooting by the coast. 78 in the ocean water of a delaware no issues there. In philadelphia, partly sunny, pleasant, 79. Low humidity, wind on the light side running 6 to 12 miles per hour. Phils at it against the cubs, 705 as we welcome chicago to town defending world champions, 77 degrees for the first pitch. 69 to 70 around the 9th inning. 61 is the overnight low, clearing, nrvel comfortable conditions, suburbs getting into the mid 50s. Now we go to texas, the big story is Hurricane Harvey category 2 storm strengthening when a hurry with 100mile wind. It will circulate for a while in texas dump a lot of rain and be a Tropical Storm by wednesday and spreading toward new orleans possibly. For the weekend in the poconos, sun and clouds, 68 degrees, 68 on saturday, 70 sunday. Down the shore, 73 in the water. Probably staying in the 70s with a low risk of rip currents, 77 today, a pair ever 76degree highs on saturday and sunday. In philadelphia, nice today, 79 partly sunny, 78 degrees on saturday and sunday, pleasant, sunny, low humidity. Monday looks good, partly sunny, dry. Tuesday is dry, pretty nice, wednesday and thursday are the two days were expecting clouds and sun and perhaps a shower or thunderstorm around. All right, dave, thanks. 5 11 a. M. The offense preseason matchup against the dolphins, here what what hear what carson wentz said the team has to do to keep winning. Teenagers forced to do a split hear what police say might be child abuse. Reporter if youre heading to work this morning, good news, the vine street expressway was not closed overnight. Were knot waiting for the ramps to open, because they were never closed. Well see if everything is open on i95 in bucks county when action news continues on this friday morning. Fios is not cable. Were a 100 fiber optic network. And with the new fios gigabit connection. You get our fastest. Internet ever. With download speeds up to 940 megs 20 times faster than most people have. Switch to fios gigabit connection with tv and phone for 79. 99 a month online for the first year. Plus hbo for one year and multiroom dvr service for two years, all with a twoyear agreement. And switching has never been easier. Get out of your contract with up to a 500 credit to help cover your early termination fee. Go to fiosgigabit. Com welcome back the act cam is on the scene of breaking news coming from Chester Township delaware county. You see officers there in the road this is where everything came to a crashing end a short while ago. This came after a car crashed at Williams Circle at 12th street. One person was injured. This was an on going issue overnight. A police chase started at 2 00 a. M. We dont know why they were after somebody. It is 5 15 a. M. , this means it was going on for three hours, the chase has come to an end at williams and 12th with the car crashing. Matt pellman has a look at the rest of the traffic for us. Reporter you know you dont want to be at williams and 12th. Were in bucks county i95 traffic moving in both northbound lanes, which is good news, southbound was never closed overnight. What was closed was the southbound side of route 1, the super highway in bucks county at Oxford Valley road. They are gone now, everything is open there, as well. They usually work friday nights. I would expect them to come back around 9 00 tonight. Watching a couple of accidents, one in ambler at forest and main brewing company. One in west norton along Chestnut Avenue cleared out. In norristown dont forget the nights they are closing 202 dekalb street that lasts until 6 00 a. M. Stay on the danhour bridge at markley street. Montgomery county along swamp pike at shaver road you can squeeze by, but construction crews are out there. Scrus construction crews eastbound out of the of berks county and morgantown the right lane is out of commission. Lets check the ways to work with the waze app commuter report a crash came in a minute ago along lime stone road at stenning drive. Watch out for emergency crews there. Dozen thieves pulled off a smash an grab at a high end eye glasses shop in laguna beach, california. They rushed into the store after smashing into the front window. They went after the glasses because of their street value. Five High School Officials in denver are on administrative lead after a video has gone viral. It shows teenagers in agony in tears as they are forced to perform splits. The video can be hard to watch. She seems to be begging them please shop. The shocking tape shows teenagers from East High School screaming out in severe pain as they are forced into split positions while their arms are held in place. The video was recorded in june, thats when the girls mother went to the school. They ignored her concerns it wasnt until the video went viral and they started to investigate. Quarterback carson wentz looks like he is ready for the regular season. Eagles took an early lead during the First Quarter on the miami fumble. Wentz went 6 for 10, 19 yards and one pick in the game securing a victory. We need to be disciplined, we had a couple of penalties. Now, to the four legged fan, a squirrel. The commentators had fun. The birds are 21 in the preseason and continue the Early Campaign on the road against the jets on thursday. Phillies are happy that the marlins are out of town. The fish won three game in a four game series they had another home run from that guy. The phillies managed to blow 83 lead and ended up losing 98. They begin a three game series tonight with the cubs at home. If youd have told me three years ago. That wed be downloading in seconds, what used to take. Minutes. That guests would compliment our wifi. That we could video conference. And do it like that. snaps if youd have told me that i could afford. A gigspeed. A gigspeed network. Its like 20 times faster than what most people have. Id of said. Id of said youre dreaming. Dreaming definitely dreaming. Then again, dreaming is how i got this far. Now more businesses in more places can afford to dream gig. Comcast, building americas largest gigspeed network. Were up to our eyeballs in overnight construction, its here there and everywhere. Were not seeing it here along 70 in cherry hill. We were supposed to have some, but all lanes are open. Watch out for roving crews 206 and the four mile circle. High speed line back to normal after the accident this week. Local and express service is running as of yesterday morning. The ten trolley is not running youre on the buses instead until monday morning. Bus routes 52 and g running with detours early this morning. Reporter on the big board we have Storm Tracker 6 live double scan a couple of nuisance showers. This stuff by dover crossing the delaware bay into cumberland county. A couple of heavy cells in bucks county, bucks county northern Montgomery County and berks county and push into the allentown and the Lehigh Valley. Showers end up getting out of here pretty quick. We end up with a nice partly sunny afternoon. 78 by 5 00 p. M. , low humidity today. At the airport were hoping for all green aircraft which would signify no major delays, i dont see any rain in our big travel destinations tam. If you have kids this is a tricky time of year transitioning kids from the late nights of summer stay up as late as you want back to a regular sleep schedule. Begin putting your kids to bed earlier and getting them up 15 minutes early and turn off the screens an hour ahead of bedtime that will help them sleep better. Its your teenagers more than your little guys have a harder time adjusting because their bodies are hard wired to sleeping late and getting up late. Pop super start taylor swift released her first new song in years and it is personal. 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Ive tweeted out a link to the song, ive got mixed feelings about it. Let me know. Good morning will have an exclusive clip for the video for it, if you want to see the video watch g. M. A. A man has taken his love for his pitbulls to a whole new level. He built them a doghouse, its not typical its more like a castle. It has inground pool and Running Water and electricity to light it up at night. In his facebook post, he said his dogs are part of the family. The personal pictures have beend hundreds of thousands of times on facebook already. This is a great story, glad to end on this note, a philadelphia native is spreading cheer across the country. His name is dave sylvester. He is going around america doing that, giving high fives and hugs to everyone he meets. This is video of dave in chicago yesterday. He said he knew the reason to smile when his first friend kevin bowser died 20 september 11, 2001. He high five 200,000 people in 48 states across 36 countries. I have one for you, when you get back to the set. Okay. 5 28 a. M. , a teenager was caught trying to smug a bengal tiring into the united states. Hear how u. S. Customs and Border Agents sniff out the big cat contraband. Were back. Lilly. She pretty much lives in her favorite princess dress. But once a week i let her play sheriff so i can wash it. I use tide to get out those week old stains and downy to get it fresh and soft. You are free to go. Tide and downy together. News a woman has been hurt as

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