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WPVI Action News At 600 AM September 20, 2016

The fog looks like its lifting a little bit in wildwood with an increased visibility of 4 miles but below a half mile actually in allentown and around a half mile visibility in reading. A bit of an improvement in lancaster. You can see how that gray color is shooting through most of Chester County and in through a good portion of bucks and Montgomery County so those will be the places where i would slow down. 69 degrees in philadelphia, 67 in allentown, 67 in wilmington and trenton, 70 degrees in cape may this morning and its a bit muggy with dewpoints in the mid 60s which is definitely moderate humidity. And even higher humidity than that down in those 70s areas in south jersey and delaware. As we roll through the day, 69 degrees by 7 oclock. Okay for your run. Wary flect tiff clothing though he if youre in one of those foggy communities. 75 degrees by 10 oclock. By noon 79 degrees and by 3 00, 83 way high of 84 around 4 oclock this afternoon. Thats your next 12 hours. Looks like its going to be clouds mixing with sun. More sun to the north and west. Less sun the closer you go to the ocean. Karen humidity levels drop tomorrow and we get a couple nice days before changes for the weekend. Details coming up. We got changes in your traffic. We had an accident on 95 southbound blocking the left lane here in bucks county as you approach business route one. Now the accident has just cleared. The delays have thinned out. Stale little slow. Northbound on i95 we still have crews out here blocking the left lane and the shoulder. Part of the left lane and the shoulder so thats creating that delay northbound on i95 in this area at business route one but things are improving now. At least the accident has cleared. We have noticed however a big jam on the vine street expressway. Look at this traffic westbound as you try head towards the schuylkill. Everybody jamming up. Eastbound starting to slow down but its really westbound where weve got that heavy volume on the vine street expressway. The construction that was on the northeast extension northbound has cleared near lehigh valley. All lanes opened so traffics looking better there. But still this right lane blocked, this downed pole has been causing a problem. Crews are trying repair it in robbinsville Mercer County. Slow go 130 southbound past chump road one lane blocked. Tam. Thank you karen. Breaking overnight a driver slams into a man and then fled leaving that victim struggling to live. Police didnt find the striking vehicle but the driver was long gone. Action News Reporter Annie Mccormick is live at the scene of the crash in northeast philadelphia with details on exactly what unfolded here. Good morning, annie. Reporter good morning, tamala. No arrests have been announced at this hour and police say that that victim is in Critical Condition. The hitandrun happened in the parking lot of this Wells Fargo Bank in the northeast. Well, take a look at this video. This is video from the scene. Police say it happened shortly before 11 oclock. Police received numerous 911 calls from the parking lot of the Wells Fargo Bank near the intersection of bustleton and bleigh. Now, the victim a 49yearold man suffered severe head injuries after he was struck there. A short time later Police Located what they believe is the striking vehicle with damage consistent with the a hitandrun. Witnesses tell police the vehicle took off but because witnesses were able to provide a description and a plate, police found the address registered to the car and found it here in the 7,000 block of rutland. Now, since this happened in a Parking Lot Police are looking into whether this was an accident or maybe intentional. They also say theyre looking for cameras in the area. Take a listen. In the parking lot we know theres several businesses attached to this parking lot in addition to the bank so it is a heavily traveled parking lot and the victim does live just about a half a block from here so its really nothing unusual for him to be struck by a vehicle in the parking lot close to his home. Its unusual any time someone leaves the scene of an accident. Reporter now, the vehicle that was recovered and was towed away from the 7,000 block of rutland is actually only about a mile from this parking lot near the intersection of bustleton and bleigh. Police are also looking into whether or not speed was a factor. Again theyre going to look for cameras all around this area and also from the Wells Fargo Bank. Reporting live in the northeast, Annie Mccormick, channel6 action news. Back to you. Annie, thanks. Charges have been filed against the man police say is responsible for the bombings in new jersey and new york. Ahmad rahami is charged with five counts of attempted murder in connection with a gun fight with Police Officers yesterday. The 28yearold was discovered sleeping in a bar doorway in linden new jersey near his hometown of elizabeth. Federal prosecutors say they are still weighing charges connected to saturdays blast in new york city that injured 29 people and an explosion at a charity race in seaside park, new jersey. Investigators have not released a motive and they are still working to confirm that rahami acted alone. Our coverage of the bombings in new york and new jersey continue on the 6abc news app. Download it for your mobile device to get any developments in the Ongoing Investigation and you can watch live updates as they happen. It is 6 05. Eagles fans are celebrating a big win over the chicago bears. Eagles quarterback carson wentz followed up an impressive nfl debut with another solid performance last night. Throwing for 190 yards and a touchdown. Wentz completed 21 of 34 passes without interception despite several big hits. The eagles scored a pair of touchdowns late in the Third Quarter to break open a twopoint game and the birds won 29 to 14. We were getting worried, you know. Bunch of field goals but, you know, they came through in the second half. They looked good, you know, moving the ball well but, you know, it was a good win. Doug pederson hes making all the right moves right now so, you know, carson wentz and him theyre looking good together. The two and o eagles face the Pittsburgh Steelers at home on sunday. The head of a big bank once lauded for its main street sensibilities will testify before Congress Today and will face accusations that his bank really is a dirty financial predator. Maribel aber is live at the nasdaq in times square with our market watch report. Good morning, maribel. Reporter good morning, matt. Really in the hot seat. Wells fargo ceo will face Elizabeth Warren and other members of the Senate Banking committee. Critics have called for him to be fired. The executive has been blasted for early reaction in which he appeared to place blame on low level employees rather than the banks managers. Lets talk stocks. Stocks were flat yesterday in a quiet trading session as investors wait for word from the Federal Reserve on interrates. Futures pointing to a higher open. The its expected to leave Interest Rates unchanged with an official announcement due out tomorrow. Kellogs is recalling about 10,000 cases of eggo nutri grain whole wheat waffles. Theres concern the product could be contaminated with listeria. The waffles are in 10 counter packs and have a use by date of fox5 21st, 2017 and november 22nd, 2017. Time let go of those particular eggos. Absolutely. Thank you maribel. Time to talk about accuweather want to expect today. A little fog in some neighborhoods, maybe a spotty shower over in south jersey later today. Storm tracker6 live double scan right now shows that we are basically dry. Sometimes its possible to get a little mist on your windshield if youre driving through those low lying cloud cover and that fog. As we take a look outside and we dont see any fog at the airport again, its mainly centered up in the northern suburbs maybe a bit down by the shore. Temperature currently in philadelphia is 69 degrees. It is a warm start. 67 degrees in allentown, 67 in trenton, 67 in wilmington and on or about 70 in millville all the way down through dover and toward cape may. Future tracker6 picking up the rain story and its not like theres going to be a lot of it. It does look like well value little better chance of sunshine up north, more clouds the farther south you go, philadelphia, kind of in there middle and as we get through the afternoon every now and then you see a little popup shower. By 6 oclock most of this is over and again if you do see something its more than likely going to be south of i95. 86 degrees clouds and sun a bit humid up in the lehigh valley. But more sun up there. Down the shore probably fairly cloudy, some showers respect possible at times, mainly dry, though. 78 degrees and hopefully we can peek a little bit of sunshine out at the shore at some point, too. Less of a chance there than up north. In philadelphia, clouds mixing with occasional sun, 84 is your high. A spotty shower cant be ruled out but again the best chance is south of i95. Winds southeast not all that strong today. Phillies and the white socks starting a quick two game series ending the phillies current home stand tonight. It will be a bit humid, partly cloudy. 78 degrees for the first pitch and 75 in the ninth inning probably dry. 68 is the overnight low and again, overnight there could be a little bit of fog developing just like weve seen this morning. Not horrific fogwise but a possibility. And then tomorrow High Pressure comes in closer, knocks the wind down a little bit not like its real strong today anyway and 86 degrees is the high tomorrow. So, we inch that number up and there will be a lot more sun tomorrow than today. In fact that 86 is going to feel particularly warm for this time of year as its 10 degrees above average. Tropical storm karl we he have been tracking since last week and it still looks like this is going to grow he into a hurricane. The change and in track of late has been to bring it to the east of bermuda just a little bit. Close enough to cause problems this weekend in bermuda. Possibly as a category one or category two hurricane but that trend is pulling the strongest portion of the storm a little farther away from the center of bermuda. Your exclusive accuweather 7day 84 is todays high, clouds and sun, a spotty shower over in south jersey cant be ruled out. Tomorrow not as humid 86 still warm. Autumn arrives thursday morning, 86 is the high in the afternoon and it will feel like summer. And then 88 on friday and it might start feeling a bit more humid on friday. On saturday clouds and sun, a high of 82. At this possible it looks like if theres a shower its probably in the morning. Temple football hopefully dry in that case. And then breezy and cooler on sunday, really feeling a bit more like autumn on sunday for the eagles with a high of 72 and a breeze. And football weather. Yeah. Thanks, david. 6 11 just about. On the road to recovery. The fraternal order of Police Honors an injured officer who was shot in the line of duty. If you can never steam stay under the twitter character limit theres a new loophole you might want to know about. Karen. We were watching penndot just left hand a guy that had a flat tire. The guy drove a way. Penndot here in the left lane on i95 northbound at the girard point bridge. Well check the delay on i95 in bucks county see if its still there when action news comes right back. When pat toomey went to washington, he didnt stop. Working for wall street. Toomeys plan would risk Social Security on the stock market, lining bankers pockets with fees from our benefits that. Could total billions, even if the market crashes, and seniors lose everything. Katie mcginty is working for us. A mother of three, and ninth of ten kids, mcginty knows what matters. Shell fight for equal pay, affordable college, and. Shell always protect Social Security. Dscc is responsible for the content of this advertising. Thats gorgeous. Take a look at the sky as we starter to head towards the dawn time of it is 6 14, 69 degrees out there. Lovely start to your day on the delaware valley. Lets check the traffic with karen rogers. Good morning. Good morning. Things are looking better in bucks county. We had an accident on i95 southbound near business route one right here. It is cleared. We had a delay. Thats cleared. Northbound we have Police Activity blocking a lane and theyve just left the scene as well so northbound, southbound i95 here in bucks county youre looking better. Lets talk about the bristol road, though. This is going to close east of york road in warminster township bristol township, bristol road will close and were watching for that construction. It starts today and lasts through late october so youre going to be dealing with just a little when i. Stick to jamison street as your alternate. Doylestown from 8 00 a. M. To 3 30 today were going to be dealing with some tree work and pine run road will shut down near ferry road so watch for that one as well and stick to ferry road as your alternate. Weve got this downed pole and its been out here awhile. Still blocking the right lane. Were hearing crews are on the scene. Theyre trying to clear it up. This is in robbinsville Mercer County 130 southbound one lane blocked past church road. Unlike yesterday we had such a nightmare of a ride with the wet roads and the rain coming down. Roads are pretty dry today but we have some fog thats creating a bit of an issue especially north and west of the city. 8mile visibility at Philadelphia International airport. Own a half mile visibility in allentown reading a little better in lancaster at 3mile visibility. We had some earlier problems with fog in Atlantic City but looking better now at 7mile visibility so at least the weather better than yesterday, tam. Okay, thank you, karen. Happening today, the civil trial in the deadly Center City Building collapse will continue. The trial will determine who is negligent and what compensation should be paid to the families and their victim. The lawsuits were filed on behalf of the six People Killed and 13 injured when a four story brick wall collapsed down on the Salvation Army thrift store at 22nd and market streets in 2013. We have updates now on the officers who were wounded during a shooting rampage in West Philadelphia last week. Philadelphia Police Sergeant sill via sylvia young was slot six times and expected to be released soon. Eddie miller is recovering from two gun shot wounds. Miller who retired from the philadelphia force was the guest of honor at the fraternal order of polices eagles monday Night Football Party last night. Miller was in good spirits as he spoke to reporters. This is something you dont really expect to run into but you hope to prepare for it so i hope i lived up to the standards of both philadelphia and penn. Organizers of last nights fundraiser plan to donate proceeds to both officer miller and sergeant young. A tweet by republican president ial candidate candidate Donald Trumps son is causing a bit of a stir this morning. Donald trump jr. Post add message that read if i had a bowl of skittles and i told you just three would kill you would you take a handful . 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Muddle no moreĀ®. Action news is giving you a fascinating look inside weather forecasting. Karen rogers will help launch a weather balloon during action news tomorrow morning. Weather balloons are the foundation of all forecasts. More than 800 are rehe leased worldwide every day. Data from these balloons forms the backbone of the models we use to he create the forecast. Join us on action news beginning at 4 30 a. M. Tomorrow as we launch a weather balloon live during the broadcast. And well slow you how you can a track it and its data live on 6abc. Com. Very neat. So excited about it. We all get to watch togeth

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