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WPVI Action News At 4PM June 22, 2024

The driver is described as a black male with a heavy build and a thick beard. We know that it was a accident. All we want you to do is just come forward right now just you know, i know that sometimes we panic when things ham. Just come forward right now. Shes fine. They just want to talk to you and get some information. Reporter al leash sharks brian the word from police tonight is if you can help them find his hit and run driver please call the Police Department right away. Live in north philadelphia, im vernon odom, channel6 action news. All right vernon, thank you. It is time now for a check of the accuweather forecast. Just about as perfect as it gets out there today. Meteorologist cecily tynan in for adam joseph this afternoon. You have the details cecily. It is a little hot. I think brian likes it hot. I do. Its 92 degrees so far today. So, this is its seventh day in heat wave number three. Its now lasted a full week. So far philadelphias high up to 92 degrees. Perfect for brian but a little hot for some people. The hottest two days so far the heat wave were the last tuesday and wednesday when we hit 93 degrees. The average High Temperature for this time of year is 87 degrees. In philadelphia with that temperature of 92 degrees, Trenton Millville pretty close by 90 degrees. Dover 91. Youll notice right along the beaches, though, that sea breeze is cooling things down. Avalon 81 degrees. Atlantic city airport in pomona it is warmer with a current temperature of 88. Dewpoints tell the story. Over the weekend dewpoints were generally in the 40s and 50s. We had a very dry air mass. Now a lot of the region showing dewpoints in the low 60s. Philadelphia its slipped down to 58 degrees. Above 60 degrees is when you do feel that moisture in the air, somewhat humid. Closer to the coast you have dewpoints in the 70s and thats when that ocean influence. Satellite6 along with action radar showing theres a weak feature trying to move in. Its falling apart but we have a couple popup sprinkles over northern berks county right now. So, there is a possibility of an isolated thunderstorm generally tonight though well be partly cloudy and warm, 89 degrees by 7 oclock. By 10 oclock, temperatures still in the 80s. But finally i am tracking an end to the heat wave. Looks like tomorrow will be one more hot day. Then im tracking some showers and thunderstorms and a big pattern change. I think some people will actually be complaining about the cool air pretty soon. Ill talk more about that coming up in the full accuweather forecast. Alicia. Not me on that one. Brian likes it hot. I like it a little cooler. Thanks cecily. When you find yourself in the middle of Severe Weather or breaking news, go ahead and join the action. Email your photos and videos to join the action at 6abc. Com or use the 6abcaction on social media. Well, in this heat firefighters had to battle a two alarm fire in olde city today. Chopper 6hd was over the scene in the unit block of north third street after 1 30 this afternoon. The blaze broke out in a five story building. You can see firefighters working on the roof today. At this point its not clear just what started this fire. Well heres one reason a lot of people were looking forward to monday this week. The eagles took to the field today for the second day of training camp. Action news Sports Reporter Jeff Skversky is among those there. Hes live at the novacare complex with more on a new running back. What are we learning about Demarco Murray . Reporter well, brian theres an entire new roster of course, chip kelly completely blew up the roster this off season. It is nine, 10 and six was not good enough. Chip kelly did not feel like they could win and make a playoff run. There are nine new starters including one of the best running backs in all of football. Lets take a look at eagles pro running back Demarco Murray brought in here this off season as a free agent to replace the eagles leading all time rusher, lesean mccoy. Murray who led the nfl rushing last year should have learned this new offense and this new city. His first four years in the league was on the other side of this heated rivalry playing for the dallas cowboys. Now hes an eagle trying to get this team back in the playoff. On day two do you feel like a philadelphia eagle. I do. I definitely do. Ive been here for a couple months and become part of the team and great team, great group of guys, great group of coaches and great organization. I definitely feel like a eagle and working with these guys has been amazing so im happy. Reporter demarco will really feel like an eagle tomorrow when they put on the pads for the first time and theyre over across the street at lincoln financial field for their first practice in front of those fans. Im sure hell get a huge ovation. The new eagles running back and the star in the back field for your philadelphia eagles. More of murray coming up on action news at 5 00, 6 00 and tonight at 11 00. Live at the novacare complex Jeff Skversky channel6 action news. Alicia back to you in the studio. Thank you. Today it is take two for septa as it once again attempts to sell rail passes for pope francis visit to philadelphia next month. The one day lottery opened today. Last month a huge demand for them crashed the ticket site. Heres what you need to know if you want one today. You have until 11 59 tonight to sign up. You must enter to have a chance at getting Regional Rail passes for september 26th and 27th. Septa is selling a total of 350,000 for both days. They are 10 a piece. The winners will be selected at random through an online database and notified by email on thursday. Right now septa says your chances look pretty good since they say demand is lower than expected. Start letting people know on thursday. Right now its going very well but we may not sell out. There may be a possibility that everybody who enters actually gets a pass. Trains will be stopping at just 18 select stations and dropping passengers off at only three locations. Jefferson station, 30th street station and University City station depending which line you come in on. Now you should know from there you are on your own and city Officials Say you must understand this is a walking event. If you would like to sign up for this lottery today again you have until 11 55 tonight 11 59 tonight. Go to 6abc. Com well give you the link. Get those walking shoes ready. Oh, yeah. An elderly Chester County man is recovering after a violent Home Invasion last week. This is the sketch of the man police say beat, tide and threatened to shoot the victim on burt tell school road in westminster township. It happened a week ago yesterday. The elderly resident said the attacktory first identified himself as a Water Department worker. He got away with cash and jewelry. Anyone with any information about this suspect is asked to call west vincent township police. Police quickly arrested a man accused of slashing tires on a south philadelphia street overnight. Officers were called totten hundred block of ellsworth street about 1 15 this morning. A responding officer saw a man fitting the description of the suspect at broad and carpenter streets. They say he had a knife and took him into custody. Some of the victims tell action news it was a bit disheartening to see this landsy vandalism. Got in the car to go to work and saw that my one tire was slashed along with a lot of tires on the street. Well, intact a total of nine cars were vandalized in all. Police have not yet released the suspects identity. Philadelphia police are asking for your help to track down a man they say has been installing skimming devices in center city atms. This is a surveillance photo from july 17th showing the man placing a device on an atm inside the 7eleven store on eighth and walnut street. The device can copy cardholders personal debit or credit card information. They believe this is his latest offense in a string of similar crimes both in the city and also in montgomery county. The creators of hitchbot the tweeting and talking hitchhiking robot that was destroyed here in philadelphia are thinking of rebuilding it. The robot from canada was on a mission to explore the kindness of people across the nation when it met its untimely end in olde city. The goal was for someone to pick it up and take it to washington, d. C. Instead, as you can see someone dismantled it. The creatorsed in a Statement Today in thats right sometimes bad things happen to good robots. [laughter] they also said they have no interest in filing charges against the vandals but what a shame it was out there to capture the good in people. Yeah, it is a shame but at least it had a good sense of humor about the whole thing. Yeah, you got it. Time for a check of the action news traffic report. Lets goreport. We need to work on how to treat our robots, show them a little philadelphia love. Not feeling love on 95. Northbound side locked up just like it was this morning because of a crash here approaching kerlin street that just cleared out within the last couple minutes. It was occupying the left lane. Now its gone. The bad news is the delay is not nearly gone yet. Northbound side still a solid line from the delaware state line on up to that scene approaching kerlin street. Then once you get farther north things look a little different this afternoon. We have a new traffic pattern that was set up in the weekend in the ongoing work zone at girard. What this means is things are extra bunched up north of tasker up to girard. Once you get through that new pattern in the work zone youre sitting in the mid 50s passing the betsy ross bridge. We never see speeds like that on the northbound side in the afternoon so really backed up back around center city and society hill but once you get beyond that, youre looking better. Meanwhile weve got a crash were watching along bishop avenue and springfield road in springfield township delco and this is the schuylkill with normal afternoon delays. Here the update on our Spring Garden ramp. They o oh reopened the one from Spring Garden to the westbound lanes of 76 and they did not close the eastbound off ramp as scheduled. That should be coming in the comes hours or days. Lets do the commuter report on this monday afternoon. Hope you had a good weekend. Were clocking those really slow speeds like 6 Miles Per Hour on northbound 95 in delco. Well check them again and all the other issues brian and alicia, in the next half hour. All right, thank you matt. There is still much more to come on action news its a 4 00. Explosions rock two churches in new mexico and now the feds are looking for who is to blame. Also ahead the comedian amy schumer is making a plea to end gun violence. The actress teaming up with a top democratic in the wake of last months Movie Theater shooting. The off outdoor refresher course. Air. Look familiar . Its called your backyard. A world youve sealed yourself off from, for fear. Of these guys. buzz its time to trade this. vent blowing air for some of this. birds chirping step 1 take a stroll step 2 use off step 3 flair nostrils inhale oxygen get back out there. With off deeps woods americas best selling insect repellent. Keep bugs off. buzz. Thwack sc johnson, a Family Company standup comedian and actress amy schumer is sounding the call to stop gun violence. She teamed up with her cousin new york senator chuck schumer. Last month a man opened fire in a louisiana Movie Theater killing two people before killing himself. The moviegoers were watching a screening of schumers new film train wreck. Today she talked about how she felt when she first heard about the tragedy. Anyone who knows me knows that i love louisiana. Its my favorite state. Whenever i have a couple days offer i go down there cause i love the people there. Theyre the coolest strongest people ive ever met. And the thought of this community being turned around upside down by this just sickens me. Senator schumers proposed measure would reward states that submit information to the federal background check system. States that dont comply would face penalties. The jury in the colorado theater shooting case declined to rule out the death penalty. Jurors are deciding the fate of james holmes who killed 12 people and injured 70 others in the july 2012 attack in suburban denver. Todays action came during the second phase of the sentencing. Both the defense and prosecution will get one more chance to plead their cases. Holmes was convicted last month. It is now up to the jury to decide between lethal injection and life in prison. Cleanup continues this afternoon after a deadly tent collapse at a suburban chicago festival. It happened yesterday on the last day of the annual prairie fest. A strong storm rolled in and organizers rushed to shut down rides and get everyone out of the main tent but heavy winds lifted that tent into the air and sent debris flying. A 35yearold father of two was killed. 15 others were taken to the hospital. Now to the latest on the mystery of a missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370. Investigators from france and malaysia have met with a judge in paris now after part of the plane wing arrived in that country. Experts are trying to determine whether the part comes from that missing plane which disappeared in march of 20 be 14. It was found on the French Island of reunion in the indian ocean. Investigators say it is from a boeing 777. Flight 370 is the only one of that kind of plane that is known to be missing. The manhunt continues today for the man who police say gunned down a Memphis Police officer after he interrupted a drug deal. Authorities are searching for 29yearold tremaine wilbourn. Hes charged and with first degree murder in the death of officer sean bolten. Officials say will burn was taking part in a drug deal involving less than 2 grams of marijuana when he got into a struggle with bolton and shot him multiple times. Will burn was on supervised release after serving a federal sentence for robbery. Authorities in new mexico are looking for those responsible for planting explosives at two church this weekend. The blasts went off 20 minutes and a few miles apart in las cruces. The explosions have put parishioners on edge there. The governor of new mexico is encouraging residents to keep attending houses of worship. If your intention was to bring fear to those who worship, you have failed. There were no injuries from the blasts. The fbi is looking for lings between those two explosions. You can chalk this up top a early christmas gift. According to aaa the National Average 2. 65 a gallon, 12 cents less than last month nearly a dollar less than last year. If that trend continues prices could slip to 1. 98 by christmas. Amazing. Now a look at todays closing numbers today. We gave you good news first. Heres the bad. Red arrows acrosstheboard, the dow down 92 points, the nasdaq off about 13, zap ha s p six points. Greece stock marked opened today after stocks plunged more than 22 percent. Bank stocks were hit the hardest. Banks have since reopened but they do maintain some strict withdrawal limits and so that situation in greece very much still ongoing today. It is time now for the accuweather forecast, and you know if you took today off you spent it on the beach, smart move. You picked another perfect one. Cecily tynan standing by live with details on whats to come next. Thats exactly right. Were using sky6 to spy on those people who called in sick. I think i saw adam joseph right there. Loads of sunshine. The winds are really kicking up. Weve got a sea breeze at the store and thats cooling things down. Over the weekend the land breeze caused a big problem with those green head flies but that sea breeze is a welcome change. Right now philadelphia 92 degrees. The seventh day in heat wave number three a full week now. In Millville Trenton and wilmington 90 degrees. Allentown not quite that warm, 86. And notice in cape may with that sea breeze off the ocean its cooling things down dramatically currently currently 81 degrees. Dewpoints in the low to mid 60s so its slightly humid not oppressive with the humidity but its another hot day. Looks like well have one more before things begin to cool down and it gets really cool by the end of the week. Satellite6 along with action radar showing is we have a weak disturbance bringing clouds. A cold front moving through tomorrow afternoon. Not with a lot of thunderstorms. Could get a spotty thunderstorm and not ruling out the possibility of an isolated thunderstorm this evening as well. Otherwise just a partly cloudy and warm night. Overnight low 75 degrees in philadelphia, 66 allentown. Trenton 71. Millville 72. Wilmington 71. And cape may 74 degrees. Tomorrow could be the eighth day in our heat wave. Future tracker showing as we make up tomorrow morning at 9 oclock, if youre heading to work already 80 degrees in philadelphia, 79 in wilmington, 75 in allentown. As we head into the afternoon temperatures up near 90 degrees. Before that cold front moves through and then temperatures will be dropping as we head through the end of the week. So the four day at 4 00 showing that tomorrow likely will be another hot day with a high of 90 degrees. If we hit that thats the eighth day in our heat wave. Wednesday still a warm day but not quite as hot with a high of 88 degrees. On thursday, this is when we really get the changes. It clouds up with some rain developing, a high 80 degrees and it looks like the rain, the showers and storms will be lasting into friday and look at that temperature. May want a sweater on friday. The high only 79 degrees. What a change. Ill talk about if temperatures stay cool through the weekend coming up in the full accuweather 7day forecast. Sorry about that brian. I know you like it hot. In the meantime hes still really enjoying this heat wave. Another day tomorrow. Thank you. From our delaware news room this afternoon the first of two job fares for veterans was held in delaware today. Delaware senator tom carper and chris coons along with representative john kearny hosted the event in wilmington. More than 30 employees were on hand looking for new employees. There will be a second fare on september 3rd at wilmington universitys dover campus. All military veterans who are looking for a job are encouraged to attend. By the way im getting a lot of backup on

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