I want to express my condolences for their loss this morning, we know this is a very difficult situation to manage both professionally and personally. Meanwhile, the gunman vester flannigan was black and complained of racial bias and said he was angry and difficult to work with, what is why he was eventually fired. Walter perez is live in the action news Satellite Center with more on the story tonight. Reporter rick, as you mentioned the suspect is described as a 41yearold man angry and difficult to work with, they are stribed as tal ened young people with bright futures, murdered for no reason. Allison parker and adam ward are being remembered as hard working and smart, two young people doing what they love to do. Im Allison Parker and adam ward and i are putting the final touches on our special report. Adam was a go to employee way big heart and allison was is the type of person you never forget. She was exub on the morning broadcast. Adam wards fiance is melissa ott who hails from gibbs town. And did an interview in philadelphia before getting the job in roanoke, ott was producing the morning show during the attack and witnessed her boyfriends murder. This was her last day, showing her celebrating plans to move out of state. And Allison Parker was in a relationship with chris hurst who anchors the evening broadcast. Hurst is from philadelphia. The outpouring of love and support is arriving from every corner of society. It breaks your heart and you think about the family and coworkers and friends that are impacted. The shooter not only recorded himself committing the murders but posted on twitter and facebook and other commons painting himself as the victim after being fired a few years ago. Flannigan that when by the name Bryce Williams on the air was spotted by police in his vehicle and was pursued. His vehicle went off the road and crashed, he was found unk. With a selfinflicted gunshot wound. Now before roanoke, its suspect worked as an employee in tallahassee and tried to sue them after being fired down there. And when he was fired from wdbj, he got so belligerent he had to be escorted from the build. Ing we have following this story all day long at 6abc. Com. We have more on the life and careers of victims and more from their loved ones. Monica malpass is on simts and a short time ago she interviewed president obama on a oneonone interview at the white house. It breaks my heart every time you read about and hear about these kinds of incidents, what we know is that the number of people who die from gun related incidents around this country dwarfs any deaths that happen through terrorism. Monica talked about the recent deal with iran to dismantle its nuclear program. Can you see this interview tomorrow on action news. A child is among three people shot in philadelphias park side section and chopper 6 hd was on poplar streets at 12 30 this afternoon and three adulted were shot and taken to the hospital and medics took a 01yearold girl to the Childrens Hospital of philadelphia with a graze wound on her arm, she is in stable condition and police are investigating exactly what happened. In Montgomery County more than 30 people are looking for a new place to live, this is video of a fire that tore through the abrams run apartments overnight. You can see from chopper 6 hd its units were destroyed and investigators say that the fire started accidentally on balcony and spread to gas lines that fueled the flames. A local comedian is using his talent of laughter to help families that are struggling with drug addiction. New jersey correspondent, nora muchanic, has the story of a man on a personal mission to save his execution. Jimmy graham of pitman is used to taking on tough challenges, his mission now is fighting heroin and other drugs that have killed 12 of his former students. You know in is support and other people are going through this just like you are. You can see light at the end of the tunnel. Graham makes his living now as a standup comedian, says there was nothing funny about the addiction that his two sons fought. Like many parents he didnt know zbll you will deny your child to a grave. He got his sons help and they are now clean, he started a club standup to addiction. He is confronting known drug dealers by planting signs on their lawns, that read, not in our town stop or leave. Graham says he has gotten threats and signs are taken down as soon as he puts them up. He is not discouraged but disappointed. I found out that some of them were my wrestlers and Football Players too. That just killed me. He tries to convince dealers to get out of the business but his focus is families that need information and support. If we can gets over the thought of being embarrassed about this and say look my child has a problem and i need help. There is help. Jimmy graham hopes to start meetings at a local church and will have comedy shows to raise money for his organization. Great to see him giving back. Turning to the forecast now, we are having a picture perfect day with lots of sunshine and this good weather is sticking around, meteorologist, adam joseph, joins us from outside with the accuweather details. It is a nice summer day fort end of august and well stretch out a string of sunny days for the rest of the week and even into the upcoming weekend, look at the numbers, they are pleasant, 77 in allentown and we mimic that number in reading and lancaster 76 and the poconos just 67 degrees, elsewhere upper 70s to near 80, philadelphia as well as millville and beach havens the warmer spots at 81. It feels nice because the atmosphere is dry, the dew points dropped off into the lower 50s, means it feels comfortable out, it keeps the dew point in the 50s, until at least friday. Satellite and radar with a few puffy clouds west and east of philly, but overall the sunshine is in control and will remain in the control during its evening hours. Upper 70s at 7 00 and once the sunsets the clouds fall apart if you do have some in your particular community, by 10 00 a clear sky and 73 degrees and for the remainder of the overnight it gives chilly by tomorrow morning, turn on the air conditions and 56 in lancaster and 57 in millville and 60s forever i95 as well as the shore communities. Rick and sharrie within when i come back we talk about the jump in humidity and the hot weekend. Thank you. Time for the action news traffic report. Matt pellman is in the Traffic Center with the low down on the slow down. Picture perfect it is not. A big cloud hanging over us on the traffic front, especially along 95 where we have this northbound crash and penndot and police remain on the scene taking out the left lane, we are at a stand still coming north from the vine street expressway and frankford avenue and the northbound boulevard would probably be better bets. A crash earlier this afternoon west of Fort Washington and off to the side now but a solid jam from willow grove to that scene, and the eastbound delay is causing delays to the northbound blue route and a nasty crash in montgomeriville that injured six people in upper state road and horsham road. In cherry hill watch for the crash approaching long wood avenue at the mcdonalds and a bad one in northern delaware at grub road and andys lane. Well check them again in the next half hour. A busy night. Thanks matt. Still to come on action news, from a popup pope to special papal chocolates, one local hospitals dishing up a dose of fun. Ali gorman explains coming up in health check. And live again to cecily tynan at the philadelphia zoo. Reporter hi rick and sharrie, i am here with charlie, he is the western burrowing owl found in florida and the caribbean, looking like a baby owl but its fully grown, unlike the vast majority of owls, they are active during the day and call its burrowing animals with holes in the ground and to get lazy, they are dug by prairie dogs. And first time on the air we are feeding the miniature horses and talking about the weather here at the philadelphia zoo. That and much more. 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. Tea . Now 79. 99 a month. Go online or call now. Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v National Experts are in philadelphia Training Police officers on fair and unbiased policing, the ac cam was there as 25 Police Supervisors started a 2. 5 day course, the Department Leaders train the rest of the force, fair policing was an issue for police commissioner, charles ramsey, he is on the task force after last years protests and riots in ferguson, missouri. We have heard about the hassles that come with the upcoming papal visit but one hospital is focusing on the positive. Ali gorman joins us to explain. Our lady of lords Medical Center sits outside of the traffic zone for the papal visit in camden, new jersey, but they could get overflow and have traffic problems so they are working on logistics and finding fun ways to celebrate the visit. A popup pope is making the rounds, staff posing for pictures as the countdown to the papal visit continues. Being a Catholic Organization we wants to celebrate this, the popes visit coincides with the hospitals 56th anniversary. They are working on plans to make sure the hospital is fully staffed and they are working on other plans. He contacted me they reached out to jacques to create a celebratory treat. Its directly on the chocolate. Making all edible ingredients he is putting puffed rice and the hospital logo on one side and the pope on the other. Mm. And the treatments dont stop there decarlo is mixing up treats he got to work on a visit, is he serving pope inspired milk shakes during the world meeting of families. Enjoy. Very good. Very good. They are also having a pope party and on the logistics end they have reached out to local hotels to help out for people that need emergency medical care. I practiced moderation with the treats, i did not eat the entire chocolate bar, i saved some for later. Where in heavens name is our samples. Out of luck. All right ali. You can get updates on the popes visit by following our special twitter account on 6abc. Com pope. Vo todays the day. More and more people with type 2 diabetes are learning about longacting levemir®. As my diabetes changed, it got harder to control my blood sugar. Today, im asking about levemir®. Vo levemir® is an injectable insulin that can give you blood sugar control for up to 24 hours. And levemir® helps lower your a1c. Levemir® lasts 42 days without refrigeration. Thats 50 longer than lantus®, which lasts 28 days. Levemir® comes in flextouch, the latest in insulin Pen Technology from novo nordisk. Levemir® is a longacting insulin used to control high blood sugar in adults and children with diabetes and is not recommended to treat diabetic ketoacidosis. Do not use levemir® if you are allergic to any of its ingredients. The most common side effect is low blood sugar, which may cause symptoms such as sweating, shakiness, confusion, and headache. 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Mcdonalds kicked off their Summer Library tour, children were greeted by ronald mcdonald, and he read one of his favorite books and the tour made stops across pennsylvania and delaware encouraging children to read even during their summer break and mcdonalds made a 1,000 donation to the librarys children section. Students returned to camden this morning, three schools opened their doors thanks to the mastery network, at east camden, mcgraw and melina elementary. They are now managed by mastery, and today was the first day for grades one through eight. Time for accuweather at the action news big board, what a nice day to be in atlantic city, adam im surprised you are not done there. You have to call up Melissa Magee she is heading down there tomorrow. Southbound towards ventnor and margate, lots of sunshine there and lower on the horizon this time of year and you get the shadows off the casinos and the high rise hotels, the temperatures are in the upper 70s to the north and west and 81 in philadelphia and a pleasant late august day, 81 in millville and a westerly wind right now, trying to fight a sea breeze, upper 70s from beach haven to cape may. Its pleasant because that humidity there is not much moisture in the atmosphere, that remains the case on thursday and friday. In the 50s again which is pleasant, once we start to get towards the weekend, we pull the numbers back up so it turns more humid here, especially late sunday into the day on monday. As we look at satellite and radar not much going on in the lower third of the country. Lots of High Pressure near chicago and low pressure into Eastern Canada right now, that low continues to fall apart and the high takes control and the high moves right overhead the end of the week and we continue to supply the sunshine and beautiful weather conditions, upper 70s tomorrow and a mimic of todays forecast, no matter where you are, just a few clouds at the shore and 80 degrees and we are tracking Tropical Storm erica, winds 45 Miles Per Hour and the massive thunderstorms here and very strong winds heading towards guadeloupe and the Leeward Islands, and if we track this, these are all different models where erica could or could not go, there is good agreement where it pushes over the british islands and north of the dominican republican, you can see this is where the track was, now it splits over the late weekend and monday, and very, very far distances to the north and south, and the variable into next week. As you look at the fiveday at 5 00 forecast, temperatures on the Pleasant Side the next couple of days with the low humidity and warmer on saturday at 88 degrees and then the heat and humidity combine and come back sunday and monday with temperatures right around 90 degrees and a scattered afternoon thunderstorm. Meteorologist, cecily tynan, at the philadelphia zoo, she is at the kids do you, all the animals cute and cuddly, none of these things called snakes right . I know you dont like snakes we have stewart, he is a lop eared bunny and i am brushing him and people think of rabbits as great starter pets, they are pretty labor intensive, they need fresh fruits and vegetables every day and they are very social and like to be active. They can chew wires in your house, think about the cat insaid. Ill feed the miniature horses, and maybe brushing them as well. When action news returns. plays throughout sometimes, at last doesnt happen at first. Your dad just kissed my mom. Turning two worlds into one takes love. Helping protect that world takes state farm. Action news continues with meteorologist, adam joseph, jaime apody, Rick Williams and monica malpass. Hello again Sharrie Williams is joining us tonight. Two young journalists just doing their job are murdered on Live Television in virginia and the gunman was a former colleague. Indecent emails and pornographic images, Wendy Saltzman has more on documents tied to the investigation of attorney general, Kathleen Kane. And the search is on for a bb gun wielding vandal in delaware. Now to the details, we are following murders of adam ward and Allison Parker. The suspect, 41yearold vester flannigan sent a manifest to abc news, saying that the Charleston Shooting sent him over the top. This after parker and ward were doing a live interview on local tourism. Flannigan approached the tv crew and pointed the gun at parker and started firing the reporter screamed and ran away and eventually collapsed. Ward fell to the ground as he was shot but managed to capture the image of the suspected shooter, later identified as flannigan and the woman interviewed was also shot but expected to survive. Something transpired in his life and it appears that things were spiraling out of control. Flannigan, the accused shooter that used to work with the victim under the name Bryce Williams, was fired and reportedly filmed the shooting and posted on social media, a license plate reader helped to track down flannigan who then shot himself as Virginia StatePolice Caught up with him. He died a short time later. We are following this tragedy online at 6abc. Com, we have a closer look at the life and career of those victims and reactions from their colleagues and their loved ones. Other news, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has unsealed more than 1,000 pages of documents today part of a grand jury investigation into attorney general, Kathleen Kane, these documents according to kane will prove these charges are nothing more than a political