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WPVI Action News Weekend April 18, 2015

Bridge in montgomery and chester counties, what you need to know about monday mornings commute. David murphy is in for chris he has the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. This is a good one. Reporter it couldnt be better really. Storm tracker 6 live double scan is showing us were dry as a bone. As we take a look outside were looking at plenty of sunshine to build over the horizon. Theres the Atlantic City shore view. Clue cloud cover off the coast thats moving away from us. Were looking at High Pressure bringing us plenty of sunshine today. Were starting out fairly comfortable too, the number is 57 in philadelphia. 40 os in in allentown. 6 in Atlantic City along the coast in sea isle city. A comfortable enough morning with winds on the light side. 58 degrees by 8 00 a. M. 72 as soon as noon and p. M. , 78 degrees, i actually think well get a high of 79 this afternoon that will be at 3 30, 4 00 p. M. 6 00 p. M. , were back to 77 degrees, a couple of issues we have afternoon enhanced fire danger out there until 8 00 p. M. Because of low humidity. There will be a light breeze at times, of course we havent had a lot of rain recently, so be careful about flicking the cigarettes out the car window and avoid parking your vehicle over dry grass. The pollen count is high today and tomorrow. We get a break on monday, the trade jo of is rain. Ill have details the rest of the weekend getting cooler on sunday, of course that monday morning rain its all ahead in the seven day. A father, son and firefighter were injured in a blaze in northeast philadelphia. Action news was at the green Terrace Apartments on tremont street. Father and son were rescued from the balcony being treated for smoke. The firefighter was hospitalized with minor burns to his legs. The action cam on the scene when one victim was stabbed in the chest, he is in Critical Condition at einstein. The other victim was stabbed in the face, he is out of the hospital. Both men are in their 40s investigators took a third man into custody so far no word what set all this off. Two dozen people were arrested in a child pornography crackdown that expand the fivecounty area. Agents with the Pennsylvania Attorney generals carried out a day long raid against child predators. Action news was there as the police moved in. Reporter agents with the Pennsylvania Attorney generals child preld tore unit raided this home before noon. Their target predator unit raided this home. He had 25 files of child porn greafer depicting a little girl. Only action news was there as attorney general was briefed. The raid culminates a two week operation netting 23 arrests. Ryan garner was captured outside a restaurant. He shout he was meeting a mother to have sex with her 8yearold daughter. Thats the nice part of the job when they arrive instead of meeting the child they meet us. Reporter in the past year, the Attorney Generals Office has been using mobile units like this they increase efficiency and allow agents an officers to make arrests and file charges and get the sexual predators behind bars much more quickly. It is processed on scene. Reporter ment attorney general says she has a message for anyone intending to harm a child or view child pornography. We are watching well finds you and well arrest you and you will go to jail exactly where they should be. Reporter chad perdelli channel 6 action news. We have more on our story at our website. The online coverage includes a gallery of mug shots of the suspects arrested. You can find it at 6abc. Com. Cell phone video captured a fight that broke out in the middle of a center City Clothing store. It happened inside the 1700 block of walnut street. Police got multiple calls about a fight involving a number of women inside the store. Officers foot there but were not able to catch up with anybody involved in the brawl. Fbi agents on the hunt for serial bank bandits have found their man. A tip led to rashawn mitchell. He is the suspect in four robberies. Three of them in the past week. For now, he is charged with only one, a holdup at a center city Republic Bank on february 28. Philadelphia police made another arrest in the vicious gas station beating. Surveillance video show people pile out seven people pile out of a minivan and pummel a man with a fists wood and hammer. Two women were arrested and another is facing charges and attempted murder and conspiracy and numerous other counts. Allentown mayor he had pulaski announced he is running for u. S. Senate he will compete with joe sestak of Delaware County to face pat toomey in the fall. Using the construction backdrop in his city he said his experience as mayor is needed in the senate. I think what people are most upset with whats happening in washington today is this obstruction iist attitude that has stopped recall progress from stopping on all fights. We need a mayor to get things done and change the culture thats going on in washington d. C. State Democratic Leaders are trying to recruit the chairman of the Montgomery County commissioners josh shapiro to run. New hampshire and the race for the white house potential nominees are addressing the gop conference. Marko rubio told the crowd that learning english is essential for any american. Chris christie will push back the age for Social Security or medicare for future retirees. Hillary clinton will complain in New Hampshire monday and tuesday shell hold round Table Discussions with Small Business employees students and educators. Shell meet with elected officials. Mrs. Clinton won the New Hampshire primary in her first president ial bid in 2008. The power struggle at the revel has taken another turn. Last week the utility plant cut off service when strawbl straub brought in backup generators. He is prohibited from attaching that to the equipment. Atlantic city is fining him five thousand dollars every day he remains in the dark because of fire violations. Unemployment rose 5. 3 thats up a. 1 since february. The number of jobs was down always the number of job seekers went up. The most jobs were lost in education and health sectors. Montgomery and chester counties are in store for traffic changes this monday. The valley forge road bridge in phoenixville is being torn down. Video video takes a look at the changes youll see come monday. Reporter its going to be a mess. Its going to be a mess. Reporter thats the kind of pessimism we found an busy friday afternoon on route 23 at the landmark valley forge road bridge over pickerring creek. The bridge is 48 years old an in bad shape. It has to be torn down and replaced. Monday morning penndot will tear it down. Well post detours for Passenger Vehicles and trucks, there are two separate detour routes. This will have a major impact on traffic. There are detour routes to congests highways. Route 432 to oaks. Those who use and live off this section of route 23 know congestion and slow downs are coming. I know its a lot of friends of mine work in king of prussia, philly, its going to have problems. Youre going to have a lot of angry people in the morning and rush hour. It will be a little inconvenient. But you have to live with it, they have to do the bridge. Reporter valley forge road will be closed down until the end of year. Extra Police Monitoring by penndot will be deployed because motorists are expected to go through neighborhoods. My grandson rides up and down the street on the bike. Reporter its going to be here for a year. My nice quiet neighborhood isnt going to be nice and quite anywhere. Reporter vernon odem channel 6 action news. Firing back, dr. Oz defends himself after a group of doctors urge Columbia University to remove him from the fault. Under water parts of the lonestar state has been inundated with flooding. Reporter if youre travel to the midwest we have severe on tap in the central line and along the gulf coast high damaging wind gusts and large hail where you see the orange and slight risk for tornados. Our most commonly traveled destinations we have fog in in orlando and rain in atlanta no major delays. Ill be back with a cool down and rain on monday all ahead. Sometimes, caring for your neighbors means going the extra mile. When our patient, susan, mentioned her dad couldnt make it in to Pearle Vision to get his eyes checked. We went to him. And we realized, if he had trouble getting new glasses. He probably wasnt the only one. To us, eye care is about living dr. Pearles legacy. Building a trusting relationship with the person behind the eyes. This is genuine eye care right in your neighborhood. This is Pearle Vision. Ha, you better have a jet pack under there turtle. Tortoise, actually. On your marks, get set. Go later road kill. Huh, huh. On your left, coming thru hmm. Plot twist. Woo hoo whos your turtle . huh . introducing the hairraising power and performance of the mercedesamg gt. Its no fairytale. Flash flooding inundated cars and trucks in houston. Some people got caught and had to walk through flooding to get someplace safe. Strong windy gusts in parts of the state. A tornado watch was posted and flash flooding is expected in eastern texas. Nothing like that here. Were looking at sunshine. Reporter well have a hard time finding significant cloud cover, let alone storms. Well get rain on monday, but theres nothing going on Storm Tracker 6 live. As we look outside were looking at a nice morning. In cape mayment farther south you go along the coast the better chance you have of Early Morning fog. That will burn off before too much longer. It will be cooler at the shore today than inland. 567 degrees in philadelphia. Clear as a bell in the city. 43 degrees if allentown. 51 in trenton. 53 in millville. In the milder air youve got the fog the farther down the coast you go in sea isle and cape may at this hour. Temperatures in time upper 50s right now. Not a lot of wind all these zeros represent calm winds. Partly of the reason you have the fog laying in along the southern tip of cape may county. Theres no wind to mix it up. These breezes will pick up a little bit after we get later into the day. Not a lot of cloud cover overall you can see it receding to the south, were looking at bright conditions if youre traveling around today youll need the sunglasses for sure. In allentown a nice day warm, 79 degrees, lots of sun in the lehigh valley. Allentown looking very warm. Down the shore as i mentioned it will be cooler because youre next to the cool ocean water. 65 degrees, but thats seasonable and nice for this time of the year i wonder the under the sun. In philadelphia, 79, lots of sun, warm, i could see urban centers hitting 80 this afternoon. And winds out of the west at 6 to 12 miles per hour. A little bit breezy, but not too bad. We roll through the day its cool, after all it is april. 58 degrees by 8 00 a. M. Up close to 70 at 11 00 a. M. 77 by 2 00 p. M. , high of 79 around 3 30 or 4 00 before we dip back to 78. Got tee time today you picked a great day for it. 11 00 a. M. 69 degrees, 2 00 p. M. , 77 and moving up from there. The if youre heading outside its a great day to get into using the sunscreen. High near 80, lots of sun, a lot of you drawn outside for extended periods of time, dont forget the sun block its important. Tomorrow well start out with sunshine on sunday, there will be clouds mixing in as the day goes on, because the winds turn out of the east and that tends to inject moisture into the atmosphere. Another thing that happens when we get the winds out of the east its cooler and that change in the seven day. 79 degrees, feeling like summer this afternoon. Nice and warm. But its april we get the shift in winds off the ocean and things get more seasonable cool tomorrow, high of 64. Still nice day, it will be a good weather for the union at 5 00 p. M. At ppl park. You want to put on a jacket. Monday rain arrives and it looks like its steady at times during the morning commute. After that its showery we could get a steady round in the evening. Cloudy and damp, high of 6. Tuesday, breezy and warm, 67 degrees is the high there. We have a chance of a popup shower all days, the phillies get there game in. A woman marked a milestone surrounded by family and friends. Helen parilli celebrated her 102 birthday. From all of us at action news, happy birthday and three, pick up a check at your nearest buying center. Find out how much your car is worth at webuyanycar. Com [leaves rustling] are you day dreaming . Hmm . Yeah. About a luxury tree house . Mmm hmm. With lookout decks for star gazing . Yeah. Cool wait. How. . Youve got the new instant game from the pennsylvania lottery. Oh yeah the wizard of oz with top prizes of 300,000. Theres a full moon tonight [male announcer] want to see your dreams come to life . You could scratch your way to instant winning. The pennsylvania lottery. Bring your dreams to life. Dr. Oz is defending himself against several doctors who say he promotes walk treatments on his tv show. He said his show includes multiple points of view including his own. Ten doctors send a letter to columbia urging the school to remove him to the faculty. Spokesman said the school is committed to academic freedom. Kareme abdul jabar is recovering from quadruple bypass surgery. Elsement nba all time leading scorer, 38,327 points during a career with the l. A. Lakers and the bucks. Oprahs faimpt things inside a favorite things inside her chicago apartment could be yours forthright price. That includes clothing, and french art chairs and etchings and painting. The most pricey item is Richard Miller painting expected to go for 80,000. Reporter good morning, again, david murphy at the big board. We have sunshine coming up over the horizon. The exception is down the Southern Coast where theres fog by cape may. That will be burning off before too much longer. 48 in quakertown. 53 in chester and center city. Across river in delaware a lot of low 50s glassboro 49. The state of delaware low to mid 50s. If youre out running errands or doing anything else across the region on this saturday. Get the sunscreen on enjoy yourself. 62 by 9 00 a. M. 72 by noon and 78 by p. M. Flyers are looking for a new coach and the phillies got crushed again. Heres jamie apody. Reporter ten coaches in 20 years, that would be the flyers fate now that gm ron hextall fired the coach. He took over where peter left off last year. Hextall made the decision on thursday night. Now what are we going to look for in the next head coach. The right coach gets the best out of everybody. We have Young Players coming. Youve got to get the veterans, as well. Hiring a coach is a tough call. Well do a lot of research and come up with the right guy. Doesnt matter if ryan howard hits 4 or 7th, they are not scoring runs. Four guys in last nights starting lineup batting under 200. 3 run home run in the first getting it started off on the wrong foot. Phils fall 72, 6 straight losses, they fail to score two runs in 6 of their 11 games this season. Were 12 days away from the nfl draft. The eagles need football players. Charity game brandon boinken helping local kids. Jordon matthews, check this out. Even if they have trouble scoring on the field maybe a couple of these could play for the sixers. Roman catholicc dunkin putting on a show. Next hell dunk over 7 current current kindergarteners. No he didnt, thats sports, have a great day. Breaking news, police think they have found the vehicle used in a horrific crash that claimed a womans leg all over a love triangle gone wrong. Three people are hurt including a firefighter after a northeast philadelphia apartment complex goes up in flames. Plus, big warmup, break out the sandal and the sunscreen today were anticipating 80 degrees. David murphy in for chris sowers hell be sad he missed this day. Reporter he deserves a day off, hell be enjoying himself. We have sunshine coming up over the horizon. Theres center city its catching the center city sky scrapers. We have cloud cover thats shifting to the south. You might be looking at fog down the shore were expecting it to burn off quickly now that the sun is getting up over the horizon. 57 degrees in philadelphia. 51 in trenton. 54 in millville. 55 in wilmington, a little better along the oceanfront. 57 degrees in Atlantic City and sea isle city. As we roll through the day its going to be warm with a capital w. 78 by 3 00 p. M. 79 by 3 30 or 4 00 and holding on to the upper 70s by 6 00 p. M. A day to make plans. We have a redflag warning in the northern suburbs. We have not had much rain and today well see the low humidity and breeze kicking in and the dry forest floor that means if a brushfire could start it will spread. Be careful if youre doing camping or cooking out extinguish the flames and get rid of the ash. The pollen is running high, extremely so today and tomorrow. One negative for the weekend despite nis weather youll be sneezing a little bit. When i come back well detail changes in the weekend forecast. It will be cooler tomorrow and theres rain on monday, ill have the details on all that. We have breaking news this hour, the action cam was on the scene of the 6000 block of marsign street in the fern rock section. Police believe they found the durango that was used in a hitandrun. Police received an an anonymous tip about the vehicle overnight. Beatrice spence lost her leg after a romantic active. Reporter friends of Beatrice Spence say they cannot believe she ended up in the hospital with critical injuries. The friends and family said they they know who did it, dee and a woman known as precious were employed in a fight over a man they both dated. The woman with a lotted for deedee and neighbors heard it unfold. The suspect allegedly drove up on the sidewalk and ran her over leaving her unconscious and badly injured. The Surveillance Video showed the durango with front end damage leaving the scene and come back and drive away. In a cruel twist of fate as de deedees mother stayed by her side in the ambulance she left food on the stove and the house burned down. She left the pot on the whole house burnt down because of that. Now she has nothing. Now she has nothin

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