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WPVI Action News At 600 AM August 22, 2017

The comedians new attorneys will be in Montgomery County preparing for his retrial on Sexual Assault charges. The summer heat comes back with a vengeance today. A large portion of the area is under an excessive heat advisory and its all coming with the threat of storms. Kind of soupy outside with david. Its kind of sweaty out here. Rain came through overnight and it was a long time ago. The boards and surfaces around me are still wet. Its so humid this stuff cant evaporate. We have a heat advisory in effect. It kicks in officially at 1 oclock this afternoon, expires at 8 oclock tonight and this is in the Central Counties highlighted in orange where in urban centers in particular the heat index values will get up to near 100 and in some cases as hi as 105 this afternoon. So, once again, its cooinks, sc especially if youre among our Senior Citizen population on. Crank there ac today. As we take a look at the satellite image you can see theres going to be a lot of sunshine early and well probably transition to sun and clouds overall today. Slight chance of a popup shower or a thundershower today. The bigger issue there will be later tonight in tanern suburbs. For now, 75 degree humid conditions out there. 68 in allentown. Most of us in the mid to upper 70s, though. And your dewpoints are also in the 70s so again, 7 temperat in philadelphia, coupled with a dewpoint of 73, those two numbers get that close, you know its saturated and you get anything over 70 on this dewpoint map and its oppressive humidity especially after the sun starts to come up. As we go through the afternoon were going to climb into the 90s. Todays high will be 93 degrees. Again, feeling a lot worse than that. And then later tonight in the northern and western suburbs there is the chance of a line of strong thunderstorms coming down. Well show you that on future tracker6 coming up. Karen rogers, much Better Weather coming tomorrow. All right dave we have more on our breaking news. That train accident overnight where dozens of people were injured. It happened at the 69th street terminal. At this point its only affecting the norristown high speedline and you are going to expect some delays with that, though. Trains are running between norristown and 69th street. Septa tells us one track will remain closed so that means the trains are only running every 20 minutes. Theyll see these delays and no express service. All local service meaning all all trains make all stops. If you want to avoid any of the delays you could take the Paoli Thorndale line. Heres the norristown high speedline, 69th street terminal. Heres the Paoli Thorndale so you could take that instead of the nor speedline. Lets go outside on the roads and see what it looks like out there. Fog is a little bit of an issue in some spots. This is a live look at 422 at trooper. Overnight construction is clear. Were seeing some westbound traffic. Watch for that because we can the lanes have kind of shifted with that construction. See how the westbound is kind of running in the middle of the road because theyre doing that work out there so theyve shifted some of the lanes so look for that on 422. How about over on the vine street expressway. No overnight construction this week so staying opened but you see a little bit of fog in this shot as well, matt and tam. Thank you, karen. We continue to follow the breaking news at the 69th Street Transportation Center in upper darby that karen has been talking about. 42 people were injured when a norristown high speed train line collided with a train that was sitting there that was stopped. Action News Reporter Jeanette Reyes is live at the scene where the cause is still under investigation. Good morning, jeanette. Reporter good morning, tam t. I just got off the phone with septa officials and they tell us the conductor has been released from the hospital. Theres still dozens more. They were taken from this scene where there is an investigation under way. At 12 15 this morning Authorities Say a norristown high speedline train was arriving at the 69th street station and crashed into an empty stationary train. Police and ambulance were rushing people out by the dozens, this after victims were initially evaluated at the scene. About 20 ambulances lined the street from 69th to Victory Drive on market ready to rush those patients to several area hospitals. Our Fire Department, Police Department issued a box alarm for various ambulances. Theres been approximately 20 ambulances dispatched to upper darby and theyre out to, like i said, the various hospitals. Everythings pretty much under control right now. Theres still some standing passengers that are going to be taken that are not serious but still we want to have them checked out. Reporter a total of 42 people were injured, four of those were seriously injured. The conductor of the train was also transported. No word on et of their injuries. Weve been through the mass casualty Incident Response scenario here on prior occasions. This one went just like we would have expected with the plans that we put in place and the scenarios that we practiced. Reporter septa Officials Say none of the injuries are lifethreatening but back at the scene investigators with flashlights sifted through whatever evithey could find that would point to the captain johnson was to it, fve been here for drills and previous incidents thersh back here in but werent nearly as many victims. They said that their respons re today among the agencies was seamless. An investigation as i mentioned is under way. You can expect some minor delays as we move forward this morning. Reporting live in upper darby, Jeanette Reyes, channel6 actionew the action cam wassidelare c in. Thlsnpricby c live repor the 3 k tatuetinues to stiup emotions of the issue. Mayor jim k says that the decision on what anything, wl be made soon on that statu night in center citain protesting the statue. Mayor kenney met with rizzo supporters yesterday afterthey y for keeping the statue. A theayor mad kpthe oppos that y said could have potentially become dangerous. Since last week the rizzo statue across from city hall os will have twoveral new lawyers. At t meseru will team. Kathleen blitz and sam silr who represented the now imprisoned excongressman chaka fattah and former penn state president Graham Spanier are also part of the t cosbys first Sexual Assault trial ended in a hung jury. Cosby is due in aristown courtroom today for a Pretrial Hearing ahead of his november Police Officer in folcroft Delaware County is being hailed a hero for rescuing a toddler and her father. Officials say the officer rushed into a house on fire on the 600 block of grant road last night. The officer pulled the oneyearold and thean out of the smoky conditions. No one was hurt. Fighters say the fire started in the kitchen. A big automaker merger could be in the works. Maribel aber is live in new york with our market watch report. Good morning. Reporter hey, good morning tam. A chinese automaker is interested in buying jeep. Great wall motor plans to make a bid to buy the jeep brand from fiatchrysler. The move could face political opposion u. S. One of the brands once held by chrysler when it was bailed out by u. Ers. Mixed ss the dow and s p 500 managed modest gains. Futures point to ahigher open. The fog seems to be some aespecially out in the noh an theres a lit over philadelphia but its kind of high up aboveh above us its not really a problem. Storm tracker6 live double scan right now and weve got no precipitation out there. As we take a look outside maybe a little o y lying cloud cover. W thats what im talking aboutite airport, its just a little cloudy and, you know, a little misty. Down at the surface everybodys moving around just fine. Everybody at the probably has their ac 5 degrees in philadelphia, 75 in wilmington, 68 in allentown. These numbers might not look too bad to you but when you factor ith dewpoints mr. Also in the 70s, itseally humid out there and on the way in this morning, a lo times predawm coming into work i dont bother with the ac. This morning i had it on just because of the humidity. As we take a look at your 6 00 a. M. All the way up to 4 00 p. M. Profile on future tracker6, looks like we may develop a little more sunshine the chance of apwer or thunder here or there. Model not really showing a lot of that. Nilang ghclo well have our eyes on the hern and western suburbs because later this evening there is a chance of a line of thunderstorms coming down andd d gusty in some cases. This is 11 oclock at night and theyre still coming into allentown. Do they make it to philadelphia . For the most part no. It looks like most of that activity falls apart as we head up toward midnight. There is a chance, though, of some isolated strong storms from philadelphia up to allentown and even better chance of scattered stuff up in the poconos and just outside of allentown and even a worst chance farther north of that and theres also the chance of and tornado probably north of allentown up toward the poconos so thats the storm system for tonight. Ahead of that Lehigh Valley looks hot and humid, 92. A late storm possible but probably not until ts evening. And down the shore, oppressive on the beach, highs in the mid 80s and the water i to look tempting but keep in mi moderate risk of rip currents down along the shore so you may not be able to go in all that deep. And 93 is your hn philadelphia today t hot and humid with an excessive heat advisory in effect. Our heat index values could go up over 100 in philadelphia and other areas of especially cities and urban centers in that i95 corridor. 75 is the overnight low. An evening thunderstorm as we just showed you. Then tomorrow the front is out of the way. We cool down to 86 degrees. Still warm but getting less and less humid as the day and nighttime goes on. And for the rest of the week, heading into the weekend, it might even feel like autumn just a little bit especially in the mornings and the evenings with cooler air coming in. 93 hot and humid today. Ive got accuweather alert bar in place because of the heat advisory and that chance of strong storms tonight north and west. Then tomorrow, clouds, some sun, 86, humidity dropping and after that, thursday, friday, saturday and beyond beautiful weather. Lots of sunshine, low humidity and high temperatures a lot of these days topping out in the upper 70s. Its been awhile since weve had a stretch like this and i really do think most of you are going to enjoy it especially sports fans as that nice weather arrives in time for the Eagles Phillies and union. Back to the spring really last time its been that cool. Yeah really. Thanks, david. 6 11 now and tempers charlottesville. City council comer firin the protests. The Solar Eclipse has come and gone but if you damaged your eyes you would just now be s well run down the warning signs in health check. Karen. I think a lot of people have to check that. We have our second accident of the morning on the schuylkill westbound. We can see an ambulance here on the scene. This is the schuylkill westbound past the conshohocken curve. Well talk about this accident and more trouble on the roads when we come back. Welcome back. Taking a live look there, the fog shrouding the Commodore Barry bridge. It is a foggy and humid sweaty the moment you step out the door kind of day. It is 75 degrees. Check the visibility here with karen rogers. Good morning. A day we describe at sweaty the moment you step outside. First we srt with the fog. 1 mile visibility at Philadelphia International airport. So, these are new numbers coming in. Only. 3 of a mile in lancaster. 3miles in trenton, 2. 5 now at Philadelphia International airport. Not as bad there obviously but you want to check before you fly out and 1 m wilmington. So, a couple of areas really creating problems because of the fog out there. We want to go right now and show you some of the problems that we have through the area. And maybe we can go ahead and punch up some of our things over there on the router if we can because theyve been switched back to weather. Currently the train accident that we have been following there in norristown and there you can see the big picture that we have through the area showing some slowing through the region right now as youre traveling. So be careful about that currently through the area. I want to go back live to the big board here. This is a better shot of the accident i was trying to show you. You can kind of see on that map on the schuylkill but here you go on the schuylkill because this is a new accident westbound right here and we see that weve got an ambulance on the scene, penndot on the scene. It looks to be another single vehicle accident, our second single vehicle accident on the schuylkill expressway westbound in the general same area. This is past the conshohocken curve but we see now how low we are in this area because of that. Watch for that on the schuylkill expressway westbound problems created because of that accident scene causing big issues. With mass transit again here you can see the trains that are involved in this accident. So, septa had an accident overnight at the 69th street terminal involving norristown high speedline trains, dozens of people were injured. Weve been talking to reporters on the scene but we want to mention if youre using the norristown high speedline trains are only running every 20 minutes so thats going to cause delays and also were seeing no express service through the region. So, all trains making all stops. Lets look at the temperatures through the area. Thats another big part of the story right now. 75 trees in degrees in philadelphia. 76 in beach haven. Today were headed up to 93. It is hot and oppressively humid matt and tam. All right,. Anger boiled over at the City Council Meeting in Charlottesville Virginia last night. 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You have to do it every day. Youll get shoshanas shoulders. We have problems on the roads right now. This is coming into mantua township in gloucester county. Someone was tweeting me slow speeds on route 55 northbound near glassboro road. It was a single vehicle spinout accident. Police say its in the process of clearing right now. The right lane was blocked. We had state police on the scene and were seeing something residual delays but its in the process of clearing right now. Hartford road at maple avenue. Stick to church road to get around that. We expect a decent amount of sunshine through a good portion of the day. Unfortunately we have issues with heat and humidity. Right now were at 75 in philadelphia. Just 68 in allentown. But everywhere across the region dewpoints climbing well into the 70s and it definitely feels humid out there. As we go through the afternoon its going to be hot, too. 87 degrees by noon. By 3 oclock your high of knee 93 degrees. It will feel closer to 100. 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