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WPVI Action News Weekend August 30, 2014

The overnight hours, once that slides in, the humidity goes through the roof. Well see documents easily in the 70s. Well go from comfortable and pleasant to down right stifling tomorrow afternoon. Sun and clouds today, slight increase in humidity, i stress the word slight. 83 degrees. The only reason im mentioning this, yesterday it was so refreshing youll notice the slight increase. The julylike pattern arrives tomorrow. It turns more humid and hotter with temperatures in the upper 80s, some areas top out at 90 degrees. Those two combined produce feelslike temperatures in the mid 90s. When i come back well talk about the possibility of drenching downpours for sunday and monday thats coming up in just a bit. Eva . Thanks, chris. Well get to the shore in just a moment, but were starting the Biggest Party on the parkway made in america festival set to begin in just a few hours. Chad perdelli has a preview. Reporter made in america is billed as the biggest Holiday Party in the nation. Weve got rock bands, weve got hip hop bands, weve got edm bands. Its a variety of music from all over the world. Reporter but for those living mere the parkway, this is what people are experiencing, gridlock and its been going on for days. This woman who didnt want to be named is if he would up. Were held prison for july 4th weekend every year. We sort of had to adapt to that, and now the same thing is happening over Labor Day Weekend. Reporter the event is big business. City estimates it pumps 10 million into the philadelphia economy last year and some residents and Business Owners love it. Its a party, i like it. Im going in on sunday, check it out, i was there last year, i had a good time. A lot of people walking around, we get a lot of walk ins, a lot of cheese steaks and slices. Reporter you like it. Of course. Reporter a sister concert is being staged in los angeles and organizers say they will compliment each other. You can watch the la event and there will be a big screen over there, and vice versa,s those people can see how philadelphia does it in los angeles. Reporter if youre coming here, use Public Transportation it will help with the congestion and allow those who live around here to have a parking space. Chad perdelli channel 6 action news. The new 6abc. Com is your source for the made in america festival log onto find a slide show of the performers and list of set times for both days lineups. We have road closures listed as well. Thousands will be partying at the made in america festival. Thousands more are flocking to the shore. The action cam was in ventnor as visits and locals celebrated the end of summer on the beach. Same thing down in ocean city. The perfect weather made it easier for a couple to end summer. Were both educators, were looking for school to start, as well. I had to make it to the beach one more time, it was a must. We tucked about it earlier in the week, and were here. If you cant get to the beach this weekend, stay with action news for the next best thing, our short reports continue throughout the long Holiday Weekend. Theres nothing to celebrate this Labor Day Weekend for 6,000 casino workers they are losing their jobs. Le showboat is closing tomorrow, revel closes on tuesday, the trump shut down september 16. The mayor said the state is considering a one year mortgage payment and he thinks for the laid off workers. New this morning, a man is in surgery after being stabbed repeatedly on the street in the cobbs creek section of philadelphia. The police found the man at 6 30 on south 56th street. The victim in his 30s is in Critical Condition at the hospital of university of pennsylvania. They are looking for motive and suspects. Police are looking for systems who has an suspect who targeted the Dunkin Donuts in olney. Surveillance captured the man robbing the restaurant on north 5th street. The same man held up a the 7eleven on the 6600 block of rising sun avenue in lawndale. The next day the gunman robbed another 7eleven this one on the 1100 block of east luzerne street in juniata park. The crime spree ended when he held up a Dunkin Donuts on west lehigh veaf. If you see the suspect call 911. A 39yearold West Philadelphia man is in critical an after he was shot in the leg. It happened on the unit block of north edge wood street on at 11 00 p. M. Officials have tracked down the man who is responsible for the shooting, he has not been charged. A talking bird helped investigators arrest christiana rugusters. The victim who was five at the time of the abduction had been blindfolded, but told police she heard a talking bird during the ordeal. The trial resumes next week. Radnor police say a man allegedly taking pictures you ua womans skirt may have targeted others. Brian bailey has been charged with invasion of privacy and harassment. He used his camera to take pictures under a customers skirt. Investigators are asking any other potential victims to come forward. A new jersey family says there needs to be better protection for fans at the ballpark after their own scale. Their daughter got a black eye at a blue claws game in lakewood, ocean county. New jersey correspondent Nora Muchanic has more on the new mission. I remember seeing a white blur a foot away from my face and it hit me. Reporter it is 10yearsold is nursing a concussion and broken bones in her nose and skull after a baseball slammed into her heard, her brain was exposed to air. It happened while the family was snacking at this table. I saw her grab her face and go to the ground. The ball hit her face in the ambulance they say to me this happened several times the last couple of weeks here, we are terrified. The nurse at the hospital said when is someone going to do something about this, i see so many children with injuries from that ballpark. Reporter they started a facebook about fan safety calling for increased netting at the park to stop balls. Others injured by stray balls are posting their stories there. There was another child who was hit in the back of the head which we found on facebook. Its becoming a common occurrence. Reporter the blue claws will not release the number of people hit by balls, but say fan safety is important. There are warnings posted at the park and on the back of every ticket. They said we are deeply saddened by the injuries suffered and wish her the best for her recovery. They need to put extra netting up, or someone will be killed. Reporter the blue claw game with as to be the start of a week long vacation, instead alexis is recovering and trying to prevent this from happening to other children. Jifer joan rivers remains unconscious in a new york hospital. The 81yearold entertainer is sedated until doctors are more comfortable about her condition. The law firm hired to defend Governor Chris Christies Administration billed another 784,000. The investigation is related to the bridge lane closures. The firm representing christys office in the state and federal investigation on the stam. So far the firm has investigation on the so far the firm has charged 7 million. The story behind the super luxury car crash ahead. It protects your skin from the sun, does it protect your pride, inside the strangest summer accessory. Reporter maybe it can help us out with this. These are feel like numbers for tomorrow. Ill tell you how long it will stick day dreaming again . Oh yeah. About your dream car . Yeah. Red convertible with racing stripes. Cool [curiously] howd you know . Youve been staring at that new instant game from the pennsylvania lottery. Yep. Muscle car money. I could win up to 100,000, or a ford mustang gt. announcer wanna see your dreams come to life . You could scratch your way to instant winning today. Fuzzy dice. Nice. [announcer] the pennsylvania lottery. Bring your dreams to life. If youre hitting the beach this Holiday Weekend youll want to slather on sunscreen before hitting the sand, but if you want to protect yourself from the sun, full coverage, consider this, the face kini. I meant comes from china where apparently it is huge. The sun statement piece which promises to block out the uv rays will set you back 18 bucks. Looks like youre going to rob the fudgywudyy guy. Reporter what happened sitting underneath a beach umbrella if you didnt want the sun. Always worked for me. Im just saying. Lets go live on sky 6. Its going to be a beach day today. The humidity levels increase slightly, but highs are below average for this time of year. Thats the view t center city e center city skyline. 69 degrees in philadelphia. Wind out of the north, northeast 5 miles per hour. The pressure is starting to fall. This morning, quakertown was down to 49 degrees, now 59. Members of the jury creek 62. Warrington, 64. Chester, 70. Cinnaminson, 66. Buena and gandys beach 67. Satellite and radar all the activity is actually pushing on by to the north, because the jet stream is all the way up into the great lake states. High pressure is sitting over top of us. As long as the high is there, well have quiet whether in our neck of the woods. Unfortunately, however, the high is pushing off the coast rapidly it will alowp the warm front to pull through. It will feel like new orleans as the front crosses the region. It will do so overnight tonight. Tomorrow it will feel down right awful out there with dewpoints in the 70s and temperatures close to 90 degrees, combine the 2 it will make it feel like 95 or 96. Well get into labor day itself, combination of sun and clouds, could be hit or miss thunderstorms another hot one, feelslike temperatures, 95, 969. This afternoon, 83 thats the forecasted high, so were not looking at too much of a difference from the air temperature versus what the heat index will do. Tomorrow, the forecast is 90 degrees, it will feel like 97. Labor day were forecasting a high of 89 it will like 95. A tremendous amount of humidity is on the way over the next 48 hours or so. Ful with that increase in humidity comes the threat of showers and thunderstorms. Not today, today is nice and quiet. Tonight is nice and quite. Tomorrow morning is quiet, as well. In the afternoon hours here comes the showers and thunderstorms mainly we also. City. That will shift east during the overnight hours. Forecast models indicating 1 to 2 1 2 inches of rain. Same thing for labor day. Its not going to be a wash, a lot of dry stretches in between. If youre in the area for downpours, you could pick up 2 inches of rape. Jersey shore inches of rain. Jersey shore, 78 degrees, sunday, humid, 84 degrees, labor day, thunderstorms possible, 84 degrees. Philadelphia, slightly humid, winds are light sowft south. Overnight out of the south. Overnight tonight, 68 degrees, north and west, 72 in center city. The exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast, we have the threat for showers and thunderstorms from sunday right through tuesday, but neither one of these days is going to be a wash. Dont expect to have to bring the Outdoor Activity inside its not going to be like that. 90 tomorrow, 89 labor day. 92 tuesday, 90 for wednesday, from sunday through wednesday, the feelslike temperatures will hovedder around 95 or 96 degrees. It turns oppressive. 88 thursday and friday. Even though the cold front pushes through, humidity drops off, temperatures are warm for this time of year. Its a julylike pattern as we move into september. Holding on to summertime. A florida neighborhood is trying to stand behind a young boy who is making money with his own lemonade stand. A neighbor called it a nuisance and complained. Other neighbors rallied behind him who believe he is doing something good for his family. Im showing that i work hard for my money and i am not just taking it from my parents. I think a lot of parents can appreciate that. A local Radio Station heard about the neighbors complaint and encouraged people to support his people. People showed up in droves, including the town mayor. Were getting new view of the massive earthquake that rumbled through northern californias wine company. The video was taken from cameras at the comer sear buildings commissary buildings at the train line. It injured 200 people and caused damage to buildings and roads and knocked out power to 70,000 homes and businesses. We know now the rest of the story behind a 5yearold viral video. This is a cellular phone video of a guy crashing into a marsh in galveston texas. He accidentally crashed, after trying to avoid a low flying pelican. About the fact that a video of the incident exists there if there was a Mount Rushmore of bad luck, andy houses face would be on it. House was trying to collect on 2. 2 million insurance policy he took on the car. He has been convicted a fraud. She may weigh 87 pounds, but thats not stopping one teen girl from making football history in iowa. She is the first girl to ever play varsity football. The kicker who is the lead trumpet player for the marching band. She is treated like the family. Im not doing football because im a girl, im doing it because its fun. She may be a trendsetter, a girl was added to the f penn states football season got underway this morning, the nittany lion also kicked off against Central Florida less than an hour ago in ireland. They are leading 73. Villanova lost a heartbreaker at syracuse. The kicker missed what she would have what should have been a chip shot field goal. It didnt happen. It was a 2726 win. Ducis rogers has sports. Reporter the phillies had off thursday, but the bats took a day off last night. Marlin byrd diving grab in right. Phils down 1zip. Codey, over the short stop glove. Tied 11. This pop up fielded threat, drops it. 2 runs score. The phils did not record a single extra base hit. Cut down day is here, the eagles must get down to 53 players by 4 00 p. M. Nj. Com is reporting codey parky made the team. If the report is accurate, alex henery is likely done. We have difficult decisions thats a positive for us as an organization, that there are so many battles that we have to hash out tomorrow and saturday. But its still tough because you have to tell some people they didnt make the team. Thats a look at sports, im ducis rogers you have yourself a wonderful and safe Holiday Weekend. Aatlantic an alarm and equally alarming message blader over the loud speaker created a deafening sound, but it did not prevent the tv analyst from making his point. By the time he gets there, he is a missing the tackle on the outside. Fans were told to leave the stadium, they were told to walk out, the ref told them that the message was a false alarm. Western kentucky went on to beat Bowling Green at31. Theres much more to come on action news, including shelter me rescue of the week. Coming up on shelter me rescue of the week, you know that old saying, he likes it, hey mikey. This is mikey and youll meet him and a bunch of of his friends coming up on shelter me rescue of the week on action news. Plus a check of the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast, meteorologist chris sowers when action news satu that low, nohaggle prices. High quality cars. And it all starts here, at carmax. Log on to carmax. Com and start your search today. And choose from over 35 thousand carmax quality certified used vehicles. From cars and trucks to suvs and minivans. Browse the store nearest you. Or shop from our nationwide inventory and have the car of your dreams, transferred to your local carmax store. Finding the perfect car is easy when you start your search at carmax. Carmax. Start here. Happening now on action news saturday at 9 00. Weather whether the Holiday Weekend means days of sun and sand or days of rock and rap we have you covered. Students, teachers and parents will spend their long weekend on the picket line. Its a classic with a distinct philly twist. Well trace the origin of the cheese steak donut burger ahead. First up, chris sowers and the the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. Its the perfect combination of breakfast and lunch. Reporter thats a way to look at it, i look at it like a stomach ache. Speaking of a different twist, what a cool morning around the Delaware Valley, thats the way its been all month so far. Quakertown was down to 49 degrees, now they are up to 62. Several locations north and west continue to see the cooler than normal air. We had several locations in the 50s, trenton, 68. Philadelphia, 69. Dover, 72 and sea isle 73. We have a few clouds building to the west, but accuweather expects a lot of sunshine today with just a few clouds from time to time. It promises to be a nice day, at least a nice start to the Holiday Weekend. Well see highs around 82, 83 degrees depending on your location, the jersey shore will stay cooler thanks to a sea breeze, but where precipitation free, that will change tomorrow evening and labor day itself. If we rank the holiday, today is the best by far. Well see sunshine, clouds, comfortable temperatures, tomorrow, the muggies return, feelslike temperatures soar into the mid 90s. That holding on through labor day itself. Both days theres a chance of popup showers and thunderstorms late in the day. Both days the thunderstorms could feature drenching downpours. Were not talking about a sunday or monday, theres a chance of showers and thunderstorms. If you have Outdoor Activity planned today would be the best day to do and sunday and monday. Well talk about that in the sevenday forecast when i step back inside in just a bit. Now the summers last harrah with the unofficial end of the summer on the horizon, people are squeezing in those final vacations down the shore, Annie Mccormick joined in on the labor day tradition. Reporter kids are flying high in ocean city on the first night of Labor Day Weekend on rides. Im bringing my son who is 6 down here for one last harrah on the beach. Reporter and kites. The sun set on Beautiful Day from ocean city to ventnor. Fabulous, beautiful weather we came down to sit on the beach and talk. Reporter friday night, the ocean city boardwalk was the hot spot for food, fun and family time. Im just excited to be here with my little sister, she loves the rides she is a little scared, but i help her on the way. Reporter like so many other shore lovers they are taking it all in as we say goodbye to summer. Were not looking forward to the end of it, but theres next year, too. Reporter we all have our favorite thing we wa

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