Transcripts For WPVI Action News Weekend 6AM 20240622 : vima

Transcripts For WPVI Action News Weekend 6AM 20240622

Thats changing. Reporter you can be honest it does. The slightest bit of humidity makes it feel terrible to me. Lets get you outside and show you whats going on. Were looking live at the Philadelphia International. Its going to feel awful later this weekend. Later this afternoon the humidity leaves start to increase, they are getting up there now, as they start to increase, the temperatures get closer and closer to 90. It will feel awful. Some areas are in the mid 70s pottstown, 73. Fleetwood, 74. Saint Davids Chester 71. Glassboro, 73. Gandys beach 75. Buena, 74 degrees this morning. Double scan live were tracking showers and thunderstorms off to the northwest. Heres the Lehigh Valley up here the far western suburbs looks like its going to hold together long enough to provide for wet weather in the viewing area. Everybody else were looking at mainly cloudy skies this morning, skies should brighten up around midday. Its a combination of sun and clouds this afternoon. Isolated showers and thunderstorms north and west lunchtime, 85. 3 00 p. M. , 8. Theres the high of 90. 6 00 p. M. , afternoon thunderstorms are possible with the heating of the day. One or two of those could contribute to drenching downpours. Heat add advisory in Effect Tomorrow with heat indices above 100 degrees. Before you head out check out 6abc. Com weather you can get the current temperatures and whats to come in the hourly forecast you can connect with the meteorologists on facebook and twitter anticipate follow them with status updates. In california, people had to run for their lives after a wildfire scorched two dozen cars on the the main artery between los angeles and las vegas. Reporter the fire sparking an inferno on the highway. I can feel the heat. Reporter trucks bursting into flames and a dozen cars torched. The fire jumped the highway 75 miles east of los angeles. Authorities were bracing for injuries. We have two to three structures involved reports of people trapped. Reporter that fire consuming 3500 acres, the column of smoke miles high so thick it cast a massive shadow. Dozens of cars abandoned. This showing motorists running to safety past burning vehicles. Were trying to get out all the people that left their cars. I grabbed my kids and ran up the hill. Everybody was screaming. Cars were on fire. There it is, drop water on the cars. Reporter helicopters dropping water on the cars and firefighters spraying from the ground hoping to block the fires progress. Authorities issuing an Evacuation Order where people were threatened. Firefighters blaming a drone for slowing their response time, the third time its happened in the past four weeks matt gutman, abc news los angeles. A woman was shot in the head and police are looking for who pulled the trigger. The 26yearold was shot on 27th street in north philadelphia. She is in stable condition the motive has not been revealed. Philadelphia police are working leads and tips in the murder of jasmine wright, the 27yearold drexel graduate was found beaten and strangled in her apartment in west philadelphia. There were no signs of a breakin or robbery. She let the killer in leading detectives to believe she knew the attacker. A phone call is a clue. One of the parents was on the phone with the daughter at the time of the assault or right before the assault. It will be critical to find out what she knows. Reporter police are gathering information on who had access to the apartment. The property manage discovered the body after getting a call from her father who hadnt heard from her in days. Police charged a man with a murder in a romantic rivalry. He used a sawed off shotgun to go after the girlfriends boyfriend. The person died a day later at the hospital. Unemployment rate held steady at 5. 4 a fractions of fraction of the unemployment rate. University board of governors raised tuition and fees at 3 to cover the 26,000 for a new jersey resident. It called the increase modest and necessary a Student Group said the hikes are unjustified in light of the increased revenue. There will be no tuition increte for undergraduate students. Tuition will rise 2. 8 for out of state students penn state president said the tuition will cost the university 17 million but he hadnt figure out what to cut in the budget yet. Septa has released its plans for the popes visit on the 26th and 27th of september. If youre thinking of using mass transit to come to see pope francis its time to pay attention. Reporter septa has a message if youre thinking of taking one of its trains to see the pope, the time for action is now. Monday special one day rail passes will go on sale at the septa website. First time ever we went to a reservation system on the regional rails. Normally the rails provide 500,000 rides per day. When the pope is here, it could soar to 1. 4 million. This is septas familiar 274 station network. When the pope is here, only 35 stations will be open. Septa learned the hard way in 2008 moving the enormous crowd heading to the world series parade fans flooded stations and unable to get on overcrowded trains. The thinking using if your station and express trains only the crowds could be moved faster. The station in lansdale will be a departure point. They are expecting ten thousand passengers a day. The borough manager wants would be travelers to know there will be no walk ups that weekend. If you dont have a ticket in advance you wont be able to walk you mean and take a hop on the train. Reporter the popes visit is september 26th and 27. If you are going to take a septa train, you need a special ticket purchased in advance thats july 20th go to the website at 9 00 a. M. John rawlins channel 6 action news. It is just 69 days until the pope arrival. For the updates on the visit and the world meeting of family follow our twitter account 6abc pope. Well tell you about a new store from j. Crew. A large tornado is caught on tape as it races across the midwest. Reporter eva, the muggies are back this weekend and the drenching downpours are in the forecast, as well. Ill have the details right after this. Come to sesame place before little kids become, big kids. Before dress up, turns to makeup. And tag becomes, hashtag. Its time to celebrate our 35th birthday, with our new Neighborhood Birthday Party parade. Come to the only place that makes Little Hearts race. Get unlimited visits with a season pass for 6 payments as low as 18. 50. Sesame place go before they grow. female announcer you could win 1,000 a day for life. husband hon its Grover Cleveland female announcer . 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The soup is back, well stick around all weekend long. As a matter of fact it will get worse, well see dewpoints in the 70s. Double scan live we are for the most part clear off to the northwest out of the viewing area from harrisburg from pottstown to the poconos they are reporting showers, some of that could hold together long enough to graze parts of the viewing area. Later this afternoon we get the sun and the heating that will change and popup thunderstorms are possible. From now until then, most of us should be okay. Millville, 74. Allen torn, 73. The allentown 73. The poconos cooler 65. Its sticky up there so youre not feeling too much of a difference. We have showers and thunderstorms pushing toward us, again, this is going to fizzle out. Lots of cloud to ground lightning strikes. Nothing on the strong side, just a thunderstorm pushing through. Winds 30, 40 Miles Per Hour to himself. This is 11 00 a. M. Sun and clouds from that point on. This afternoon, same thing sun and clouds, called a trough or convergence zone it could sweep through and well have thunderstorms developing. Overnight we lose the heating of the sun and then sunday, its the same thing sun and clouds, thunderstorms. The bigger store will be the heat indices. Well set this in motion, later this afternoon it will feel like the mid 90s up and down the i95 corridor. Watch what happens sunday, it will feel like 101 for philadelphia. Upper 90s for everybody else. Heat advisory in effect for the i95 corridor from noon to 6 00 p. M. For those dangerous heat indices. For the poconos. Comfortable temperatures, but the humidity will be up there it will not feel as refreshing as the number suggests. Warm and mucky 86 degrees is the forecasted high up there for them. 74 is the ocean temperature off the coast of atlantic city. Expect a combination of sun and clouds, 80 degrees forecasted high. Breezy and humid sunday, sunshine along with a few passing clouds, 84 degrees, just the slightest chance of a popup shower or thunderstorm both days. On the delaware bay if you do boating or fishing, 11 50 thats the high tide time. Water temperature getting nice warm 77 degrees. Philadelphia 90 degrees thats the forecasted high. 80 hot and humid, lateday thunderstorm is possible which could linger through the evening hours, lunchtime, 85 were okay. 3 00 p. M. , 89. Dry. 6 00 p. M. , 8 thats when we see the storms flaring up. The exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast the heat is on for tomorrow. Heat indices over 100 degrees. 95 is the forecasted high. Monday a little bit cooler but not by much. 92. Hazy, hot and humid numerous showers and thunderstorms developing in the afternoon with the passage of a cold front. Tuesday hot 89, but the humidity lowers a bit. Wednesday is okay, 89. Thursday and friday, kind of soupy again high temperatures in the upper 80s. Its that time of year, just take it easy out there take frequent breaks and stay hydrated. I like how you call it the muggies like some loveable character. [laughter]. Many packed into the Wells Fargo Center to hear about a message of hope. Joel olstien was in philadelphia for a night of hope. Scroal is the pastor of americas Largest Church and has ten million fans on facebook. Since 1961, Pearle Vision has provided the neighborhood with expert eye care. That was dr. Stanley pearles vision and we still proudly carry on his legacy. Today, doctors like Lisa Hamilton perform eye exams that can help detect diabetes. Because we care for you. And your eyes. This is genuine eye care in your neighborhood. This is Pearle Vision. Oh my gosh, its the guy from last night. What . can i jump on your wifi . Yeah, you can try it. Hey i had a really good time last night. Yeah, me too. The only thing is that. The only thing is what . Whats the only thing . Oh my gosh hes married. Hes a kleptomaniac. Hes a pyromaniac. Hes a total maniac. Hey hey go back to your wife you sociopath leave slow internet behind. The 100 Fiber Optics Network is here. Get out of the past. Get fios. Now 79. 99 a month. Go online or call now. Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v good saturday morning to you, sky6 live hd taking a live look for us now over old city, you can see the top of Independence Hall right there for us, it is 74 degrees, 6 19 its going to be heating up, so bring water with you as you travel today. J. Crew is opening a new chain of lowpriced stores, the new j. Crew mercantile chain will feature collection of original styles that were only found at j. Crew factor stores, the first store opens in dallas. Netflix is rieghtd high after riding high after they added 3 million sub subscribers. Its boasts 65 million subscribers. The good news, netflix has no immediate plans to raise prices. Comcast has an offer for those who want to unplug. The Largest Cable Company is offering its own online video alternative. The new Service Called stream will be offered to comcast customers for 15 bucks a month. It will include hbo but not cable channels. Comcast is offering the Fastest Internet in the nation, but you have to pay for the the gigit pro. It is limited to a single outlet. Reporter welcome back everyone, heres your day planner, there could isolated showers in the next hour or two in the Lehigh Valley and the poconos. Otherwise its clouds and sun 9 00 a. M. , 77. 1 00 p. M. , 86. High of 89 degrees, feelslike temperatures in the mid 90ss theres a chance of popup showers or thunderstorms later on. Heat advisory goes into effect sunday afternoon heat indices ranging from 100 to 105 in the i95 corridor including glassboro, lindenwald and lansdale and downingtown. A few tips over the next 24, 48 hours, make sure youre seeking out the airconditioning. Take breaks if youre outdoors, in the shade or find the air can understand room. Lots of water stay hydrated. Check on your pets they are susceptible to the heat, as well, of course the kids and the elderly. Overnight strong winds suspended round two of the british open of the scotland. Danny willet topped the leaderboard at the time. Jeff skeverski has more including the phillies returning to action. Reporter lets face it nobody is is expecting much out of the phillies in the second half especially since they finishedded with the most losses in team history before the the all star break. Phillie fanatic with a friend. Franco to center. Gillespie drops it. The its leads to this. Later in the 8th. Nearly one handed. 3run homer his first career pinch at home run. Phils snapped their losing streak. Whats the key to pinch hit. I think im stupid enough to do it. You have a chance to drive guys interchangeable in the game. I enjoyed that role and the opportunity. Reporter got to love the honesty. 22yearold is the first phils pitcher in 30 years to make his debut only a year after getting drafted. Nola was selected by the phils in 2014. Everybody is be looking forward to seeing him. He could be a boost to our rotation. Im expecting him to pitch well. Its going to be exciting. He was 7th overall for reason. Hes been very successful in the minor lesion. Were excited to have him. Reporter you thought you had a hard time win in vegas look at the sixers they have not been able to win in Summer League play until yesterday. Sam son leads the way with 24. He looks like he is sleeping. Sixers wake up they are win by 4. Their first w in vegas and their fan sleeps through it. Wake up everyone, thats sports, im jeff skeverski have a great day. Woor r are are are weve got more come up on saturday morning, stay with us, well be right back. A center city book store is targeted by a gunman well have all the details. A man is hospitalized after he pulled out a gun and shot by police, well have that story. Plus the heat is on, get ready for the sweat factor to crank up this weekend. I like the heat, but i dont like this kind of heat. Reporter its going to get dangerous for sunday with heat indices well over 100 degrees. Well get you outside and show you whats going on. More importantly theres not any relief anytime soon unless you go to the jersey shore. Thats the only way to beat the heat. Fortunately we dont live in a landlocked area and we have the benefit of the jersey shore. Were all in the mid 70s at this hour. And the numbers will soar throughout the afternoon. Should hit 90 degrees when all is said and done. Sea isle city on the boards in atlantic city, 74, 72 in trenton. Double scan live showing a line of showers and thunderstorms approaching the poconos and the northwestern portions of the Lehigh Valley it appears to be 25 miles or so north and west of allentown. Well zoom into here first, this is racing off to the east at 20 to 25 Miles Per Hour. It should be in and out of here within the next hour. Once that crosses the skies will brighten up later this afternoon. It should be a nice looking day with shades of blue and puffy cumulus clouds. Lehigh valley poconos quickhitting shower in the next hour or hour and a half. If you have a golf tee time, 10 00 a. M. 80 degrees, 2 00 p. M. , 88. Forecasting a high of 90 feelslike temperatures in the mid 90s. If youre heading out this weekend check out 6abc. Com weather you can get the current temperatures and whats to come in the hourly forecast. Connect with our Meteorologist Team on facebook and twitter and follow them with status updates. Police are looking for a gunman who allegedly shot an employ at a book store. Surveillance video shows the gunman casing the store hours before he opened fire inside. Two employees were in the dannys confession when the gunman returned. One worker was shot in the back and is in Critical Condition. The gunman made no demands before running off. A man who was shot called 911 for help. When a Police Arrived on the scene, a standoff began. It all happened at 1 40 on the 1200 block of north 26th street in camden. Police say a woman answered the door and screamed at police and officers called for backup and entered the home. 41yearold man was founds shot in the neck, he is hospitalized in a Critical Condition. A woman and teenage girl were taken into custody for questioning. A Police Officer was taken to the hospital for a shoulder injury. Philadelphia police are trying to identify a man shot by officers after he pulled a gun from his waistband. The suspect is hospitalized in Critical Condition and had no i. D. On him. Action

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