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WPVI Action News At 530 AM August 23, 2016

Just 51 degrees in lancaster. You are almost in the 40s out there in Lancaster County. 64 degrees in philadelphia which is cooler than this time yesterday. 54 in millville and 63 in cape may. And real quick ill just show you the dewpoints. Theyre all down in the 50. That is below the 60degree threshold for humid air. Over the next 12 hours its going to be pretty nice. 63 degrees great for a run or that Early Morning walk or workout or whatever youre doing on the way to or before work. 72 degrees by 10 00. Still very comfortable there. By noon 78 degrees with lots of sun, another Beautiful Day for lunch on the park bench. The one thing youll notice differently today theyre not going to be as much as a breeze. Todays high 82 degrees low humidity sunshine not a lot of wind. Things do change a bit over the next several days with the return of some higher temperatures and eventually some humidity. Ill have details on that and the very latest from what is a very active atlantic hurricane basin right now. Three different tropical systems to talk about. Wow. And this morning going to need the mittens on the farm out out there in Lancaster County and maybe not quite. It does feel good this mornin morning. Were feeling better about this. Our crash and fuel spill on the schuylkill expressway westbound here in king of prussia is gone. You can see both lanes opened approaching 202 so cross that one off the list. Eastbound a little volume coming away from 202 into gulph mills already on this tuesday morning. Vine street expressway is reopened over. Overnight construction now long gone. Youre good to go on the vine. However it will close again tonight at 11 oclock. And were watching a building fire early this morning in the mantua section of the city at 37th and wallace there by mount olive baptist church. Watch out for the fire crews on the scene but no issues along i95 or the roosevelt boulevard. However, in northampton township bucks county word of a new water main break that is shutting down Bustleton Pike close to lower holland road. I would stay over on holland road or even 532 buck road to get around that. And for the next half hour some overnight construction still wrapping up on the garden state parkway southbound in egg harbor township. Right lane out of commission between white horse pike and the black horse pike again until 6 oclock. Matt. Thank you, matt. Breaking right now, a fast moving fire breaks out in a philadelphia home forcing a woman and a teen to make a daring escape. Flames were shooting from the upper floors of the home along the 7800 block of mitchner avenue in West Oak Lane at 3 30 a. M. When firefighters arrived they found a woman in her 30s with a head injury lying on the ground. A 17yearold girl was also hurt. Crews say they both jumped from a second floor window. Our Annie Mccormick is on the scene. Well have a live update in our next half hour. About a half hour after that fire, a family escaped a blaze that tore through a home in the citys mantua section. Intense flames consumed most of the structure at wallace and north 37th street. No one was hurt here. Fire officials are trying to figure out what sparked that fire. We have new information about a deadly stabbing in collingswood camden county. A husband and wife got into a heated fight and by time it was over she was dead and he was seriously injured. Action News Reporter Katherine Scott is live outside the couples apartment where this all happened while their children were at home. Katherine. Reporter thats right, tam, three children were inside this apartment when this all unfolded. A woman stabbed multiple times and pronounced dead on the scene. Her husband had multiple stab wounds and according to authorities, they appear to have been self inflicted. Police were called here last night around 8 oclock to the building c of the heights of collingswood complex. Its right off white horse pike. The woman who was in her 30s was found in her bedroom stabbed multiple times and she was pronounced dead by arriving authorities. Her husband also in his 30s had multiple stab wounds and authorities think his wounds were self inflicted. He was rushed to Cooper University hospital in Critical Condition and underwent surgery overnight. Again, Authorities Say three children were there in the apartment when this happened. No injuries to them were reported. Were hearing this couple recently moved here to this apartment complex. What exactly led up to last nights incident remains under investigation this morning. Were live in collingswood, Katherine Scott, channel6 action news. Matt. Thank you, katherine. And new this morning gunfire left a young woman wounded who was walking back to her home in the city of chester late last night. The action cam was at tenth and upland streets where police were searching an overgrown lot for clues. The woman who was in who is in her 20s was shot in the leg and suffered a graze wound to the head. She is in stable condition. No arrests have been made. Earlier in the day gunfire injured a child about a mile away. Shell casings were scattered across the tell hundred block of west ninth street in chester. Police say one of the bullets struck a sixyearold boy in the finger. The childs mother says a man started shooting in the direction of her son who was outside his home playing with other children. No one else was hit. A camden man will be in court today accused of a despicable crime beating his girlfriends twoyearold son to death. Hes charged with beating the child inside a home in pennsauken on saturday night. The toddlers mother called 911 and mentioned her boyfriend in that call. My boyfriend is like trying to get him to wake up. Can you see if his chest is rising and falling . Can you feel if hes breathing. Hhe has bruises on his chest. Paramedics could not save that child. The child has siblings. Its not clear if any of them were home at the time or were hurt. 5 36 and happening today, gop Vice President ial nominee mike pence will visit two manufacturing plants in montgomery and bucks counties. Donald trump makes a Campaign Swing through texas today. This visit comes as the republican canceled plans to deliver a major speech on immigration on thursday. Some are questioning whether he is weakening his stance on the subject. Trump met with his Hispanic Advisory Council over the weekend. A Campaign Source says trump is still fine tuning his immigration plan. Trump says he to come up were i was fair but firm policy. Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton pushed back against claims that she is physically unfit for the white house. She appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live on 6abc last night laughing it off as part of her rivals whacky strategy. Make sure im alive. Oh my god theres nothing there. Running mate tim kaine plans to roll out clintons proposed tax cuts for Small Businesses today at an event in colorado. New on action news a quick thinking 12yearold girl an Police Officer saved her family from a house fire. The preteen was in a louse in sayreville. She heard the fire alarm and spotted flames down a level that were blocking the front door so instead on that second level she hustled her cousins and under a to the bathroom window. She jumped from that second floor window landing safely and running to grab Police Officer brian gay who got to the scene before firefighters. The girl brought officer gay to the window where her cousins and aunt were all yelling for help. Looked at the people who were getting the ladder then looked up in there air and she was already jumping. So, as she was on her way down i caught her. He also helped break the fall of another child and caught a baby that was tossed out by the aunt. Neighbors got a ladder to help the aunt finally get out as well. Harrowing evening but everyone is going to be okay. David joins us. Getting a lot of flak from people during that heat wave. No, cause i was on the other side of the country. There you go. Not your fault. Karen im sure was getting some of it anyway but no, Beautiful Day today. Yesterday was gorgeous. Were going to keep it going for about a three day stretch this week. Storm tracker6 live double scan slows wer shows were dry. Plenty of sunshine getting ready to come up over the horizon in a bit. Clear over the airport none travel related issues coming in and out of philadelphia, at least not related to the weather. 64 degrees currently in philadelphia. Your dewpoint down there in the low 50s and winds out of the northwest at 6 miles per hour. Not as strong today with that wind but still coming down out of that source region that tends to keep the air dry and more comfortable. I know you see the lack of cloud cover. Lots of sun on the way. Its going to be warm today again, 64 degrees and comfortable and cool by 8 oclock. Then 72 by 10 oclock. Really nice there. 78 by noon. And then your lie is 82 degrees at 3 oclock, maybe a degree or two cooler than yesterday but not as breezy and still very comfortable with low humidity. High temperatures across the region 82 in allentown, 83 in reading and pretty much the same story from trenton down through wilmington and millville and down the shore were going to get close to 80 in many spots. Well go 79 in surf city, 80 in atlantic city, a weak sea breeze kicking in later on. Ocean temperature in the 70s. Shades, sunscreen, swim near the lifeguards and you should be in good shape. Theres a low risk of rip currents today as well. Even down in rehoboth not much difference with the temperature on the beach there. Really gorgeous beach day. In terms of humidity, well, nice and low with that dewpoint today. Remember any of these numbers below 60 indicate nonhumid air. By the time we get to thursday afternoon a little bit humid. Friday stickier a thunderstorm possible there and then a dip for saturday and climbing up back into the oppressive range for monday. Monday appears to be the next oppressively humid day. Onto the tropics we go. It is busy as it often is around this time of year. Tropical depression fiona missing bermuda. A tropical wave there has a 60 percent chance of developing into hermione, i had that pronunciation wrong earlier, if it gets a name its probably hermione because weve got gas tone over by the coaster of africa. In terms of tropical depression fiona looks like its going to degenerate into a straight low Pressure Center and miss bermuda. Well see if any moisture makes it to the eastern united states. If hermione forms it looks like this could be a tropical system that goes near the turks, maybe the bahamas and maybe miami next week. Thats something to look out for. The keys might also be affected. Tropical storm gaston does look like it will become a category one hurricane. The indications are to bring it up to the east of bermuda and to just cut up into the central atlantic which is a flies way for hurricanes to behave. Hopefully thats the way that works out. Sunny and beautiful a today, low 82. Thursday just a tad humid with a high of 89 and then hot and more humid on friday, a high of 94 with a cold front bringing a thunderstorm here and there in the afternoon or evening. Saturday and sunday look dry, 93 saturday, 89 sunday. And then monday very warm and humid, 89 degrees is the high there. Okay, thank you, david. Its now 5 41. Still ahead on action news were learning more about that alligator that killed that nebraska toddler at Walt Disney World. An unexpected visitor sends a woman running from her backyard. Matt. Matt, traffic running smoothly through the intersection of north broad at spring garden. South of here more midday restriction today at callowhill street. North of here watch out for the students returning to their Temple University campus to start classes on monday. Coming up well check construction returning to the schuylkill when action news continues on this tuesday morning. Whats that . a bird . No, its gus, the second most famous groundhog in pennsylvania have no fear, wonder gus is here wonder bucks whaaa. Wonder bucks, the new instant game from the pennsylvania lottery, with top prizes of 300 grand one can dream. You can say that again. giggles keep on scratchin amazing sleep stays with you all day and all night. Sleep number beds with Sleepiq Technology give you the knowledge to adjust for the best sleep ever. The time is now for the biggest sale of the year, where all beds are on sale save 50 on the labor Day Limited Edition bed. Know better sleep. Only at a sleep number store. Im looking forward to that show designated survivor. It looks good. Keifer sutherland is great too. Check out the great view we have of Center City Philadelphia from our airport camera. 64 degrees aBeautiful Day ahead. 82 the high temperature. Going feel great. Matt pelman will we have a good commute. Oh heres hoping. Your survivor every day when you drive the schuylkill expressway hopefully ill tell you its a rough one sometimes. This morning we already had a crash in the westbound lanes leaded toward king of prussia. That crash now out of the way so headed westbound now youre looking good here as you pass the blue route. Headed eastbound well have more midday construction just like yesterday and yesterday it did cause delays as they cleaned out the drains. Eastbound between gulph mills and city avenue they rove about starting at 9 oclock so watch out for the delays again during the midday on the schuylkill. Might want to use ridge pike or route 30 lancaster avenue seven. On the pennsylvania turnpike there was whole bunch of overnight construction. One zone there was left was westbound between malvern and downingtown. Now it sounds like that, too, is in the process of clearing out. Youre good to go on the turnpike ooh to west. Northbound on the northeast extension still a zone in the left lane approaching the lehigh valley. There were seeing a bit of slowing as you head towards allentown because of that left lane work zone. Crews are now on the scene of a water main break working on there in northampton township bucks county and in the process, theyre closing down Bustleton Pike between lower holland road and anthony drive. I think i would just stay over on holland road or buck road 532 to get around that. And nearby in upper southampton once again bristol road closes starting at 9 00 this morning until 6 00 this evening thats again today and tomorrow. Stay down on street road to get around that. Time for the commuter report bought to you by the waze app. In upper oxford Chester County getting word of just a minor crash along limestone road close to troop road. Something to watch out for if youre headed out in Chester County this morning. Tam. Okay, thank you, matt. A group of auto thieves worked like a well oiled machine to steal a quarter of a Million Dollars worth of wheels and tires from 48 vehicles. Surveillance from the chevy deal slip caught the bandits in the act over the weekend. Meals say evidence indicates this may be a professional ring of thieves that strike car lots all over the state. Flowers now lie over the spot in North Carolina where Daniel Harris was shot and killed during a traffic stop. The deaf mans Community Came together for a candlelight vigil last night. The 29yearold who was both hearing and speech impaired was speeding but didnt stop until he was in his own drive way in charlotte about 7 miles away. Investigators say there was a brief encounter before harris was shot. Neighbors claim the husband and father was just trying to use sign language and gestures to communicate. The state trooper who shot harris is on administrative leave. The father whose son was killed in an alligator attack at Walt Disney World actually reached into the animals mouth in a desperate attempt to free his son. That detail was in a final report now released on the tragic death of twoyearold lane graves in june. The Orange County Sheriffs Office also says several tourists saw the gator swimming in the lagoon at the grand floridian resort before the attack and one of them even alerted an employee. Disney which owns 6abc has since made changes to limit potential visitor contact with gators on the property. A momma bear and three cubs crashed a backyard in new hampshire. The homeowner was enjoying a cup of coffee outside when the baby bears decided to check out the familys rope swing. On the hunt for food the momma bear ripped down a bird feeder then carried away a bag of trash in her teeth while the cubs followed behind. 5 48. Several wildfires throughout the west continue to destroy homes and force people to have to evacuate. A long time florida couple is keeping their 61yearold bond consistent with a tradition involving fruitcake and lots of brandy. A florida couple has kept an anniversary tradition going for 61 years. You see each year the fredericks take a nibble from the original fruitcake from their wedding day. They keep the cake wrapped up in a tightly sealed coffee tin that stays in a cupboard above the refrigerator. They unwrap it and look they need like a saw. Slice a tiny piece and enjoy the cake with some champagne. The secret the fredericks say is to pour a little brandy on it to preserve it. See. The secret is to drink all that champagne before you even try to eat it so you dont remember. I dont know if they have original teeth still but. [laughter] how about a circular saw. Lets head out this morning. Peels of cake on most of the roads as you drive into work. This is 95 in the ongoing work zone at girard avenue but extra restrictions tonight through thursday nights starting at 9 oclock were going down to just one lane northbound between girard an

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