The pick of the week. All right we will deal with that. And karen rogers will help us deal with that. Shes got more details. Shes in for dave murphy and matt pelman has traffic. Good morning. Thats part of an angry presentation. Yeah, you know what, its a nice fall morning. Its crisp and cool out here right now. Just happens to be happening in august. Lets look at these numbers. Weve got only 54 degrees in quakertown and pottstown, 58 in coatesville, 57 in kirkwood, 59 warminster, 65 we dropped a degree here in center city and the suburbs in new jersey mostly in the 50s. 58 in ewing and browns mills, vineland 59 in glassboro 60 in smyrna delaware its another cool start to the day but its a beauty. We have clear skies right now. You can see just a few clouds especially near the coastline but were going to have a gorgeous day with wall to wall sunshine. We have earned it and today is the day we get it. Some people were complaining yesterday even though it was nice in the afternoon. It took awhile for the humidity to drop. Currently the dewpoints are below 60 degrees. Low humidity, get out there go for a jog anything you kind of been putting off with the weather weve had lately. Lots of sunshine today. 7 00 a. M. 65 with sunshine. By lunchtime 79. At 3 oclock, 83, thats your high today which is 3 degrees below average. At 5 oclock well be hold be at that high and dropping to 81 at 7 oclock so enjoy the Beautiful Day. It really doesnt last very long so ill detail the changes that were expecting coming up in that seven day in just a minute matt. Karen i have a feeling drivers might be angry like matt now on the schuylkill expressway eastbound side much its not construction anymore, thats gone. Now its a crash here in the eastbound lanes between conshohocken and the conshohocken curve. Its right here where the right lane changes from being freshly paved to being milled. Sometimes people hit the brakes when they realize theyre going over a bump like this over the milled road surface. We have one vehicle off to the side and one vehicle taking out the left lane so youre only squeezing by in that right lane slowly as you come eastbound on the schuylkill away from conshohocken. An area of yellow developing heading in toward gladwyne. Well keep watching it. Weve been watching a sinkhole that resultd from a water main break yesterday in south philadelphia along south broad at geary so thats just south of 76 by the cvs as you head toward the Sports Complex watch out for those restrictions. No more restrictions on the vine street expressway. Everything is reopened and no delays yet. Meanwhile though in the northeast byberry road is closed. Thats demolition of the nabisco plant thats closing and the boulevard southbound had overnight work but that should be out of the way now as is construction on 422. Westbound lanes all reopened and eastbound no big delays yet on this wednesday morning. Matt and tam. All right, thank you, matt. And of course right on to our developing story. Escalating threats between the u. S. And north korea. The standoff started with north korea making general Nuclear Threats and anger over new un sanctions. President trump issued a harsh and ominous warning to the asian country. Leader kim jong un responded pie saying north korea has plans to attack gaum an american territory in the pacific. Action News ReporterKatherine Scott is following all of the story live from our sat center and has the latest. Good morning katherine. Reporter good morning tam and matt. Gaums governor says hes been in touch with the white house and the threat level in gaum has not changed. Still this has rising tensions and they could be felt across the world. Strong words from President Trump on north korea. North korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. Reporter that statement tuesday in bedminster, new jersey, comes in response to kim jong uns threat to make the u. S. Pay dearly following tough new sanctions from the united nations. The exchange followed an assessment from u. S. Intelligence analysts who believe that north korea can now produce a miniaturized Nuclear Warhead that can fit inside its intercontinental missiles. Some have praised the president s remarks but others met his words with criticism. I take exception to the president s comments because you got to be sure that you do what you say youre going to do. What he was basically doing is threatening nuclear war against north korea. This is at a time where any war with north korea would be catastrophic. Reporter now in a statement carried by its state run news Agency North Korea says its military is examining plans for a missile strike on gaum, a u. S. Territory thats home to 163,000 people and a u. S. Military base. Gaums governor eddie calvoa said they were ready. Currently theres no threat to our island or the marianas. Reporter and gaums governor says hes working with Homeland Security to ensure everyones safety. Were live from the Satellite Center, Katherine Scott, channel6 action news. Tam. All right, thank you, katherine. Also developing this morning French Police say a vehicle slammed into soldiers guarding a paris suburb injuring six of them before actually getting away. This happened in a suburb just as a group of soldiers were about to board vehicles for a new shift. A Police Spokesman says the vehicle appeared to clearly target the soldiers but the motive is unclear. Authorities are now out there looking for the driver in the dark bmw. A Death Investigation is now under way in Atlantic City where a body was discovered at the tropicana hotel. Investigators say hotel staff called 911 last night saying they found a person dead inside a room. The Atlantic CountyProsecutors Office did not say if drugs were involved or if there is any sign of trauma but they to believe this is an isolated incident. Happening today, the fate of the controversial dunes project in the jersey shore town of margate could be decided. The army corps of engineers has filed a petition with the court asking to resume work. A federal judge ordered one week injunction a oneweek injunction last week. Heavy rain on monday caused another huge moat to form between beach front homes and the ocean. The standing water is blocking access to some beaches. It is 6 07 and the chance to win two big lottery jackpots continues this morning. Overnight the Mega Millions jackpot jumped once again. Its now 382 million, the sixth largest prize in the games history. Tonights powerball drawing not too far behind with 307 million. Here are the Mega Millions numbers if you missed last nights drawing 11, 17, 50, 52, 74. The mega ball was 14. The most watched stock index has broken and troubles across the pacific may have wall street opening in the red this morning. Maribel aber is live at the nasdaq in times square with our market watch report. Good morning, maribel. Reporter good morning, matt. Nine Straight Record closes for the dow the industrial average ended yesterday stocks pulled back after President Trump responded to reports to a miniaturized Nuclear Weapon in north korea. The president said additional threats will be met with positive and fury. A positive session would have pushed the streak of record closes to 10, something which has happened only four times in history. Right now futures pointing to a lower opened. Reports on productivity and labor cots owe cost due out today. Cheetos restaurant is the collaboration between cheetos and celebrity chef anne burrell. The menu will feature dishes between eight and 10. Reservations for the spotted cheeto will begin tuesday. Can you add it to anything . Tam, is this something your hubby would do. Actually he might. [laughter] he goes high, he goes low. Hes very creative so he could come up with anything. Thanks marple. Always takes good when rocco makes it, thats the thing. Yeah. Lets take a look at storm tracker6 live double scan. We are dry through the area. We are looking good right now and no problems as you head out the door so lets do just that and go on outside because what a shot we have waiting for you. Can i just do the entire Weather Forecast while you look at this sunrise . It is a beautiful start to the day. We have waited for sunshine early in the morning and we are finally getting it as we watch it rise right now. Its really gorgeous out there. Weve got mostly clear skies to go ahead and enjoy that sunshine. So, hopefully youll be making plans to do just that. Temperatures are on the cool side but at least its a beautiful start to the day. 65 degrees the current temperature. The dewpoint is 58. The winds are calm. The pressures steady and the ocean temperature 72. Satellite and radar showing the clouds off the coastline pushing on out of there. Weve got High Pressure nestled up above and thats going to give us a Beautiful Day so get out there and enjoy the sunshine today. By 8 00 a. M. Youll still be in the 60s. 67 by 10 00 a. M. Were in the low 70s. Lunchtime 79 with sunshine. By 3 oclock, 83. Thats your high today, one or two cirrus clouds floating around but mostly sunny skies today. At 6 oclock 82 degrees. A great day to head down the shore but highs will only be in the upper 70s and youre going to get lots of sunshine but a little bit of a sea breeze developing. 80 for your high in bethany beach. Ocean water temperature there is about 74. High pressure moves from up above us today to further to the east tomorrow and that changes things just slightly is. Its still a really nice day. Weve got two nice days for you. Tomorrow is a touch warmer but well see a few more clouds. You can see that low pressure to the west. We get an area of low pressure, an upper level trough that kind of moves through and makes it unsettled after thursday so enjoy two days before that. The total Solar Eclipse is now less than two weeks away. Weve been counting it down and so excited for this monday august 21st and the path is going to take 90 minutes for the United States to see sit. Thats a very short amount of time and the pass of totality is only 70 miles wide. In our area well see about 80 percent of the moon blocked by the sun so well get to see a little bit of it. You want to prepare for that on monday august 21st the total Solar Eclipse. Its exciting to get a peek of that if youre prepared. Nice and bright 83 degrees for your high. On thursday, mostly sunny skies 85 degrees, a few more clouds mixing in with it. Friday its unstable, 82 degrees. Thats when things start to change for us a little bit. Turns a bit more humid, a bit more cloud cover and that stays through the weekend. No day is a washout but chance for a couple showers probably second half of the day on friday. Saturday humid, chance for a thunderstorm. Sunday humid, maybe a lesser chance but a thunderstorm possible. On monday, mostly cloudy skies. We could see a period of rain on monday as that trough kicks out. Things change on tuesday. We start with clouds and then well see some sunshine by days end, a high of 82 degrees. Turning less humid on tuesday. So you got a couple of really nice days but today is by far the pick of the week. Tomorrows not too shabby. After that starts to go downhill a little bit. Well enjoy today. Thanks karen. 6 12. Is search for survivors who are buried in the rubble of an earthquake. Well tell you how to make sure you dont get burned by a scam. Matt. Getting burned by a crash here meaning youre investing extra time along the schuylkill expressway tam. Eastbound side now jammed solid from the blue route into approaching the conshohocken curve. Well show you the accident scene and talk alternates when action news continues on this wednesday morning. Its blinds to gos anniversary summer bogo sale. Buy any blinds or shades and take half off your next item. All blinds all shades the entire store buy one get one half off. Its our biggest sale of the year Come Celebrate and save. Blinds to go. Blinds for life. Welcome back. What a beauty watching the sunrise here on this wednesday morning. 6 15, 65 degrees. It just looks warm out there. Well get up to 83 today. You would think its like a heat wave picture but its not. Going to be great today. Matt pelman whats going on on the roads. That looks better than this one does. Schuylkill expressway a crash involving a fluid spill. Bunch of vehicles involved. These are the eastbound lanes between conshohocken and the conshohocken curve. Penndot crew out here doing cleanup it appears in the left lane and there are several vehicles up ahead off to the right shoulder. So youre kind of squeezing by in between in the right lane and already this morning its causing some major delays. Lets pull in the waze app. You can see those delays now start back around gulph mills and go into that accident scene. But if youre thinking alternates, which you might want to at this point, we dont have any problems reported along ridge pike, route 23, conshohocken state road looks okay as does route 30 lancaster avenue through villanova and along the main line. The schuylkill is the one to avoid at this point. Ill think about using one of those secondary routes. On 76, 19 Miles Per Hour eastbound because of that construction. Construction warnings in bala cynwyd theyre closing belmont avenue during mid days from 9 00 until 3 00. Thats lasting through next friday at least. 23 or 76 the schuylkill would be alternates, although like i said dont head for 76 right now. In the northeast byberry road is shut down, thats for demolition of the old nabisco building. In Pennypack Park holme avenue theyre working on that bridge. That work going through mid october. I think grant avenue would be a better bet in that case k milford township bucks county work these days along kumry road. That closes at 7 00 in the morning until 5 00 in the evening through next friday. 663 or trumbauersville road would be alternates there. Tam. Okay, thanks matt. We have new video showing the moment of a powerful earthquake hitting southwestern china. The quake killed at least 13 people and injured nearly two hundred others. It knocked out power and phone networks complicating efforts to reach survivors. Rescuers are working to clear the rubble and there are reports of people buried under that debris. 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Look for something with a lot of different bright vibrant colors. Blemishes are okay. Yellow is moo you my favorite. A little bit of pressure and then slice it up and enjoy. I like the ones that are dark like almost plaque on the bottom. They come in all different colors but those seem to be really sweet. Little bit of tart. Im hungry now. An enhanced tip thanks to tam. A crash that producing some big delays along the schuylkill expressway eastbound side. Its now. Ooh. Thank you. You like that one . Its now off to the side approaching the conshohocken curve. Had a little spill in the left lane but they got enough that of cleaned up. Both lanes are opened but still that travel time is already delayed by more than 20 minutes so jammed solid on the eastbound side of the schuylkill. At least there are no delays so far this morning on the trains and buses. Septa patco njt all on time. Karen. Ive been talking to a lot of people on social media saying they cant get in their pool, they cant go to the beach, its just too cool so today if youre going to the pool its really cool this morning. Probably you should wait until the afternoon. By 3 oclock, 83 degrees. Thats not bad for this time of year. At 6 oclock 82 so youll need the sunscreen. Youll need the sunglasses if youre headed out down the pool so go ahead and enjoy that. Where has august been . Look at these numbers. Saturday our high was only 79. Sunday 78. Monday 72. And tuesday 80 degrees. The normal high 86 degrees. Today well be at 83 so still a touch below average but at least working in the right direction, tam. Thank you, karen. In health check doctors are reporting a concerning trend when it comes