in philadelphia, nice and warm, 87. we have that shower or thunderstorm chance south of philadelphia partly sunny nice on saturday. 87. the union with 6abc night that should be great. more are humid on sunday, 90 the hot high in philadelphia. there's a better chance of thunderstorms popping up here or there sunday afternoon. monday and tuesday we have a couple of unsettled days with the front making its way toward us. 92 is the hot and humid high. could be a strong thunderstorm or two around. i could see more strong thunderstorms on wednesday as the front pushes through. behind the middle of next week, below-average temperatures really nice. >> 6:10, amazon must address an at payment program that cost parents millions of dollars. >> new at 6:00 a.m., a berks county little league betrayed by one of its own. we'll tell you what a board member is accused of doing. >>> butler avenue at lime kiln pike, the sun is coming up and the volume is light. we have a closure this morning in bucks county. him i'll tell you where not to

the right now in philadelphia 84. nice afternoon. but down the shore much different story. margate 75. sea isle rain cooled 74. cape may 71. rehoboth beach, delaware a lot of rain earlier today and some torrential downpours, late this have afternoon. the temperature 69. it will get better, i promise, friday look for sunshine, return down the shore, get back on the boards. the temperatures 79 degrees. saturday, 77, with a cool breeze, and sunday just a chance of the late day shower or storm but we can get that beach day in and a temperature of 80 degrees, on sunday. so back here live, we are protect by the the little snack shack here at lucy the elephant. look behind me rain continues to come down. pretty heavy now. they usually have a beach here on margate in front of lucy but not tonight as you can imagine, it is canceled. hopefully next thursday, and kate, we will hope that next thursday for orr at the shore we have a little bit of sunshine. last week we had a hurricane this week we have a flash flood watch. we are in the doing so well this summer. >> track record on thur

one of the warmest spots in philadelphia at 71. across the rest of the region, temperatures are still in the 70s. if you are closer to atlantic city or northeast philadelphia, 68 in trenton. low 60s for the poconos. avalon at 70, and dover, 70 degrees, and 68 in lewis and our water temperature this morning at 69 degrees. our temperature trend shows us our average for this time of year is 87 degrees. will be a little below that average today at 84. as we head into tomorrow we will warm up back above average is high pressure in kwroel. the satellite shows we have nothing to worry about and what is leftover from arthur is churning off to the northeast of us, and what we will see is more sunshine continuing. we are under the influence of a dry northwesterly wind that will help to keep the humidity down and make it feel nice and comfortable out as we head into the rest of your holiday weekend. a few passing clouds, and on monday we will see another round of sunshine. if you are headed down to the shore or some of our beaches, the water

but the philadelphia area is in good shape. we'll start with some rain on the fourth, tomorrow morning and clearing out in the afternoon. and improving conditions late day at the shore. temperatures in the 70s. >> 20 minutes after 4:00 now. and let's get a check of the traffic. nbc 10 first alert traffic reporter jillian mele has a look at the roads that have rain on them. >> we have wet roads out there. you can still expect to see a few spots of flooding. bristol, oxford valley road is closed. you can take trenton road if you need to get around that problem. this is what it looks like on 76. this is right near spring garden. traffic is among along just fine in both directions. the entire lengthth of 76 is clear. no accidents on the majors in delaware. let's keep in mind we have that closure on 495 between exits two and three. >>> setting the stage, the home of the phillies is being transformed into something that goes beyond baseball. we'll explain. >>> and a dirty trick. how did this fan work his way on to the field at the wo

we will ask a coach from the philadelphia union. plus -- >> there's a series of vaccines that all children are recommended to have. >> we will discuss the new reason why doctors are pushing parents to comply. >> coming up sunday morning at 11:30 following "meet the press" only on nbc 10. >>> we have a recall to let you know about this morning. this one involves more than 100,000 porter cable routers which are used to cut grooves in medal or wood are being pulled because of the risk of electrical shock. they were sold through 1990 through this past april, so far no reported injuries. >>> the economy got a boost during the past week after stocks soared. josh lipton has a recap. >> it was a short week on wall street with the markets closing thursday. it was a big week for stocks and the u.s. economy. more americans are back on the job. 288,000 new jobs were added in june with the nations jobless rate falling to 6.1%, the lowest in six years. overall wages ticked higher, too. that encouraging news about jobs lifted the markets to new he

one-nothing philadelphia. next inning grady sizemore pleasant surprise hits his first homerun as fighting. solo blast. to make it two to nothing for the phils. here's the big one. bases loaded in the seventh chase utley delivers the back breaker his fifth career grand slam and the phillies lead at six to nothing. cole hamels was fantastic. in the zone, eight shut out innings. eight strike outs, in his last three starts cole has allowed just two earned runs. phillies beat the mets six to nothing. >> had you're able to feel right even before you go out on the mound, for games, you know, that builds confidence and so, you know, that just kind of, you know, puts you right into a zone where you're feeling really comfortable. you'rable to go out there and just let it flow. >> trade deadline is thursday at 4:00 p.m. with the team buried in last place the fan base wants general manager ruben amaro, jr., to do something on the wip morning show ruben says he's in no rush. >> put us in a position to have to dump money, u

philadelphia where police are on the scene waiting to survey warrant. they believe he may be connect to that heinous crime involving the young woman was found bound, and beaten. for the mother of laura araujo, there were in words, only pain as reporters asked about her 23 year-old daughter whose body was found early monday in the duffle bag in north philadelphia. >> the medical examiner's office conduct an autopsy and has ruled this a homicide, manner of death strangulation and blunt force trauma. >> reporter: police may be one step closer to solving that crime, araujo's parents arrived at homicide headquarters tuesday afternoon, the same day a person of interest was taken in custody and questioned by police. authorities believe that the 23 year-old man who lived in the victim's west philadelphia apartment complex may be connect to the grizzly crime which left the 23 year-old art institute grad strangled and beaten, her hand tied, car torched. police grew suspicious after that man was treated for burns at crozer-chester medical center. >> all of her bel

we're up 5 in philadelphia, 6 degrees warmer in northeast philadelphia. millville, so degrees warmer compared to yesterday morning at this time in south jersey. the temperatures will be climbing, southerly winds, we'll get scattered clouds moving through. likely dry, just a slight chance we'll see an afternoon shower. a pretty good chance we'll be in the lower 90s this afternoon. 92, possibly 93 degrees in the area. that's 3:00 this afternoon. there will be scattered clouds but showers will be hard to find today. tomorrow that changes. we're watching a line of shower. that's making movement. that's coming our way. at the same time, we're keeping an eye on what may become tropical storm arthur. we'll take a closer look at this and the impact it may have on the fourth of july when i come back with the seven-day forecast. >> 4:41 right now. let's get a check of the roads. >> or maybe getting an early start on your long fourth of july weekend if you're that lucky. >> if you're that lucky, i'm jealous. happening right now, police activity on i-95 near the phil

ey in south philadelphia. "action news" has learned the 23-year-old person of interest has burns all over his body. he was picked up at crozer chester medical center. araujo's father says there have been no indication the last time he spoke to his daughter that anything had been wrong. >> she never talked about anything going on in her life. she never gave any signs of distress. >> reporter: and the name of that person of interest has not been released. we are hearing that charges could be filed as early as today. we're live in mantua, katherine scott, channel 6 "action news." >> katherine thank you for that. >>> a man was rescued after falling into an uncovered hole in west philadelphia overnight. this happened around 1:30 in the morning on the 6100 block of vine street. the hole was part of a street construction there near the sidewalk. the man was rushed to the hospital with a back injury. he's in stable condition. >>> a school police officer is being treater for injuries stemming from a hazmat incident at

admission fees to strip clubs in philadelphia are already taxed at 5 percent. the city wanted to extend the amusement tax to semi private dances but three clubs appealed. they would have owed more than a million-dollar in back taxes, interest and penalties. philadelphia's tax review board sided with the clubs and that decision has been just upheld in common pleas court. >>> and some institutes cherry hill location is now warning students it may have to close by september 15th because of financial challenging. campus provides education, and training for careers in health care and technology. it is trying to find other institution that is would allow the 256 students to transfer. >>> well, tonight the story behind the story, of the wedding proposal last friday that has been seen by thousands of people on the internet. well, it business to get a far greater audience as told by "action news" reporter sharrie williams. >> i was like totally shocked. >> reporter: mary is a bride to be after two and a half years of dating her fiance, chris, popped the question. >> i p

ninety-four in philadelphia. ninety-three in wilmington. with the humidity in the state of delaware we had a heat advisory throughout afternoon, continuing for next hour or so for those feels like readings to be close to 100 degrees because of that intense humidity. culprit thinks cold front moving across the region showers and storms tonight, another chance during the day tomorrow and when that clears, it is really nice, thursday low humidity northerly wind partly sunny skies and temperatures in the 80's. it will stay pleasant as high pressure dominates our weather for friday with sun and clouds, temperatures staying in the 80's, really more comfortable and more seasonal for this time of the year. tonight some showers, some thunderstorms, some of which could be severe, it stays very humid out there, temperatures 75 overnight, with our wind westerly at ten to 5 miles an hour. during the day on wednesday partly sun which scattered showers and storms, again, keeping an eye out for potential for severe weather. high temperature for wednesday 9

this is in southwest philadelphia. fire spread through each of the row homes and claimed the lives of four children. our matt delucia is live on the scene and as soon as we have another update we will bring it to you. >> announcer: now, your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist, brittney shipp. >>> we are going to see a nice weekend, especially after yesterday's rain and all the wind speeds yesterday, it was gusty, and as we head through the rest of today and tomorrow, beautiful conditions for you. a great weekend. the streak continues with our sunny weekends for saturday and sunday, and we are tracking a possible heat wave and the threat of storms. barely a cloud in the sky and that's going to continue as we head into the rest of today for philadelphia. 65 degrees and our humidity at 48%, and wind speeds 12 miles per hour so that's cooler air coming in, and 57 in reading, and temperatures in the poconos at 55 degrees, and 59 in allentown, and 59 in atlantic city, and 63 in dover and 60 degrees in wilmington.

we'll see winds of 1 mile 8 mil hour in philadelphia. in the pocono mountains, winds could be gusty with passing thunderstorms this afternoon. for now, we're watching the clouds thin out a bit to the north. the thinning of the clouds leads to a hot afternoon. pocono mountains, could see storms later today. 84 degrees this afterngrees. 9st elilen town itl cl for cayit inland, it's july weather.teerar hotter torr we'll sh you w tures will breake seven-day forecast when i come bnews.od jimo'mian yfot te ce0 sce of this erturned tractor- bn thisboun soft ute 40 tha ishu down at schoolell adprod inclung yogurt. ths a lot of cleanup that needs to be done. the westbound side of 40 is completely b off.astboundblofisa e f d t morning of delaware. you can take route 273 if you need to get around this. that's where the accident happened between route 1 and route 13, again, on route 40. nortex nsdalecid right er n here, right at the exit. then tre's wt's hain righnow. it's not causing a big day out there for drivers because on the northbound side, d

at the same time, philadelphia needs money. the answer -- the real answer is a severance tax on shell and all the people who control the natural gas that's being taken out of the ground in pennsylvania. >> the words of a former pennsylvania governor himself turned nbc news political analyst. we appreciate your time. >> my pleasure. >> many continuing to watch the budget battle this week and the weather as well. the 4th of july almost here. >>> if you have party plans, we have you covered. whether it's fireworks or a family cookout, we are breaking down the forecast for your july 4th. >>> they can be real life savers. does spending more money on new mammogram technology really help? we will have the results of a study just ahead. >>> missing at sea. search crews still haven't found a teen swept away by a rip current. ahead, how his family is keeping his memory alive tonight. >>> sky force 10 is live over breaking news. you are looking at pictures from sky force 10. the location of this is third street and wyoming avenue. an auto

>>> live from philadelphia. this is fox 29 morning news. >>> police have a person of interest in custody in connection with the murder of a recent art institute grad student. the latest on the investigation coming up. chris? >> jennifer, neighbors usually look out for one another. one guy went way too far. he is accused of putting cameras inside his neighbor's home. we spoke exclusively with that victim. caitlin, creepy. good morning. >> yes, very creepy. and that would be this skies last night, bringing showers and thunderstorms, another night of heavy rain, flashflooding big concern, we are seeing the last of it move out. we'll go over any additional storm reports, rain totals, coming up on your weather on the one's. >> the kkk pursuing new members with treats. the bizarre way they're trying to recruit people. good wednesday morning, it is 4:00, july 16th, 2014. good to have you back. >> i'm chris murphy, it is 4:01, weather on the one's, it is good to go bad, it is wednesday, july 16th, a wet summer. >> yes,

>>> it is a philadelphia favorite. later today you'll be able to sink your teeth into a hoagy that's somewhat different than any other sand witch you've wrapped your lips around. the mammoth mill, straight ahead. >>> and a look at the latest creation from burger condition. we'll have that. ♪this is home box!!! come to hhgregg's 4th of july sale and save up to 30% storewide plus, up to an extra $500 more when you buy multiple major appliances. get this samsung french door refrigerator for only $999. or a samsung 51" hdtv for just $398. get savings storewide on amazing deals and the boxes they come in. come to hhgregg. and fill your home with happy. >>> welcome america festivities continue in philadelphia with the wawa hoagyfest. everyone's excited about this. starting at 5:00 this morning, wawa associates at the national constitution center will be building a five-ton hoagy made up of thousands of shorties. they'll have other ingredients and at noon they'll be serving up portions of their big sandwich for free. other

you're dry in philadelphia. by 2:00 p.m., 83. throws showers starting to exit the coastline at that point but feeling less humid everywhere else. and by 5:00 p.m., 84 degrees and feeling pretty good. so, if you're headed to the shore you're socked in the clouds, you've got rain at this point a thunderstorm. wait until the very end of the day to go outside. by 11:00 a.m., 78. by 3:00 p.m., it's starting to get better and 81 degrees. let's check your exclusive accuweather 7-day forecast. we've got an improving forecast over the next few days. today we start with lots of clouds. then we get sunshine. the humidity lowers this afternoon, 85. tomorrow's refreshing, partly sunny, dry, low humidity. friday is still nice. no longer talking about the threat of a shower. it looks pretty good, 85. saturday at this point looks dry, partly sunny and 85 degrees. not bad. sunday clouds and sunshine with a few showers around and 86. monday warm and muggy. look at that temperature up to 87 with the chance for a thunderstorm. tuesday partly sunny 8

we have not seen any cases of it here in philadelphia or the u.s. for that matter. but families in our area are upset because they have family and friends overseas. >> family living in liberia i spoke with them this morning. >> everybody is afraid they don't know what to do. >> here at the water site market and southwest philadelphia everyone this it store is in the heart of liberian community here me philadelphia. >> most people like have whole family back home and it's really scary. >> no one wants to know who has the sickness. everybody is not taking precaution. >> and precaution is key. dr. neil fishmanen fek ious disease doctor at the university of pennsylvania said ebola is difficult to spread. >> you won't get this disease by sitting next to somebody on the bus. or on the subway or walking past them open the street. >> dr. fisherman says hospitals here in the u.s. have built in protocols for things like ebola because of that an outbreak here is highly unlikely. >> you need to have contact with blood or body fluids in order to spread the disease. >> the c. it

similar numbers in philadelphia, 72 in philadelphia. 70 in wilmington. 70 in trenton. 70 in allentown, 71 in millville. cape may, and elsewhere up and down the beaches we're still in the upper 60s, so a little cooler an comfortable early. as we look at satellite, overall we'll go for a mixture of clouds and sun. we have that little bit of precipitation poppings through. the main body of the precip is well north and west. the best chance of seeing that is later this evening, and north and west of philadelphia. in allentown that will be a northern and western area where a thunderstorm can't be ruled out. sun and clouds otherwise high of 89. it will feel a bit more humid to you than it was yesterday. same thing in the poconos, 79 is the high, an afternoon or evening thunderstorm possible. down the shore we can't rule out a shower popping through or thunderstorm. 79 on the beach at noon, high around 83 it will hold on or about through much of the afternoon hours it will be more humid and even though it's a mix of sun and clouds we'll call it a high uv index when the sun is breaking out. i

this is a time lapse from sky six in center city philadelphia. it went from utterly stormy to utterly spectacular. the rain made driving a tad dicey on route 202 in chesterbrook tonight, and flash floods made driving down right difficult, in reading. tonight's storms knocked out power to thousands across the area, more than 5700 peco customers are still in the dark, mostly in philadelphia a. while atlantic city electric is dealing with over 11,000 outages. del marva has more than 3,000 outages, and new castle county. pse and g says power is out for more than 28,000 customers, across the the entire state of new jersey. meteorologist cecily tynan and adam joseph have been following the storm as it ran rampant through the tri-state area tonight. let's begin with double scan radar and cecily tynan at the "action news" big board. >> jim, as expect it was a very busy night for storm tracker six live double scan it shows that pennsylvania is getting a break in the action but we still have some strong storms, over south jersey, one cell, really blew up a

north philadelphia. the action cam was on the scene at north 7th and west shiller street. police responded to the scene when several 911 calls came in. the victim's name has not been released. >>> a football standout from delaware is under arrest for witness intimidation trying to get a witness to change his testimony about a homicide. small wood is about to enter his second year at west virginia. he is being held in a jail at that state awaiting an extra digs hearing. >> the search is on for a man who opened fire on a crowd you had playground in west oak lane. two teenagers are shot, one in critical condition. this happened before 5:00 p.m. on the 1600 block of east walnut lane. two men fired 11 shots from semi automatic handguns. an 18-year-old and 19-year-old were hit. it's fortunate that nobody else was injured, as well. investigators are taking a look at surveillance cameras in the area to see if they could get a look at the suspects. >> israel and hamas are in the midst of a 5 hour humanitarian cea

they'll be moving into the philadelphia area. this is when we could see the threat of severe weather in the area once again. so a flash flood watch in effect because of the potential for storms late today and into tonight. heavy rainfall, isolated amounts of one to three inches possible for our area. during the day, going to be sticky. temperatures into the lower 90s today. not as hot as yesterday. definitely muggier. the mugginess stays around into tomorrow with rain that will be here. to start with, at least. then clearing skies north and west. you'll see the clearing first and then through philadelphia and eventually it's a chore for fireworks will be in good shape. and then a nice weekend ahead with lots of sunshine and less humid conditions. saturday and sunday we'll see temperatures in the 80s. then it's back into the 90s starting monday. >> let's take you back to this breaking news we're following out of camden county. firefighters at the scene of this house fire. this just started within the last 15 minutes. look at this

philadelphia leaders including mayor michael nutter were involved. the votes came through for the bill 119-80. >> this was one of the most critical votes in the history of the philadelphia school district. >> we needed to make sure we delivered the support to the school district of philadelphia so that, again, kids wouldn't -- we wouldn't have 41 children in a classroom in september. 1300 jobs wouldn't be at risk. and we would be sending a strong message that education is our number one priority. >> now again even with that, 45 million generated for the upcoming school year because of that tax. the main teachers union came out with a statement last night saying that while that is good, it's not enough. the school district, they say, needs about 40 million more than that to sustain the current level of service that's are provided to students. the teachers say are also inadequate. now here's what has to happen for this cigarette tax to become final. the bill, the amendment will go to the senate. the state senate for a vote next week. if the senate appr

we have road work in center city philadelphia. that road work has the 5th street tunnel closed until wednesday afternoon. just wanted to give you an early heads up, you could see a delay on the walt whitman bridge as a result of construction. this is the activity year the airport. it's real not thatch but it's still out there. it's been out there for 15 minutes at this point. for drivers in chester conte, route 30 bypass is looking great. this is the westbound side. this is where it gets busier later in the morning. as you can see, we have no delays. >>> 5:10 right now. big changes take effect in the federal student loan program. that means a college education will become even more expensive. >>> also, keeping you safe at the ballpark. your next phillies game may feel more like a visit to the airport. we'll explain. uncle craig, what's the deal? oh...you can't record that many shows at once. why? you can't save every single cartoon. why? you know you can't pause the tv here and play it in another room. why? it's time for fios quan

philadelphia where police are on the scene waiting to survey warrant. they believe he may be connect to that heinous crime involving the young woman was found bound, and beaten. for the mother of laura araujo, there were in words, only pain as reporters asked about her 23 year-old daughter whose body was found early monday in the duffle bag in north philadelphia. >> the medical examiner's of

overcast skies for parts of philadelphia. if you're closer to the suburbs with, even the in lehigh valley, the rain is coming down. the rain hasn't started for philadelphia yet. but here's a look at the radar shot. it's pushing through parts of allentown, stretching into parts of the poconos. there's hurricane arthur, category 2. it is going to shift off to the northeast. as we head into the rest of today, we are going to continue to see rainfall throughout your morning hours. clearing by the time we head into the afternoon and by the time the fireworks starts, we'll see clearing and breezy conditions. rain and windy conditions by 1:00 p.m., clearing as we head into the afternoon, by 5:00 p.m., the sun will come out and by 9:00 p.m., 71 degrees. i'll go over all of your fireworks forecast for the rest of the region. for now, we'll check in with jillian for a closer look at traffic. >> good morning to you at home as well. we have downed wires causing problems in newark right now. upper pike creek road is closed between new lin

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#mydunkin >> philadelphia police working bank robber. these are new images of the suspect at the american heritage federal credit union in frankford yesterday. investigators say the bandit handed the tell area threatening note and then got away with cash. anyone who spots the suspect should not approach him but instead call 911 immediately. >> police in bucks county are looking for a masked man who held up a walgreens pharmacy. these surveillance pictures show the man walking to the store at 10 york road in warminster on monday. the robber walked up to the counter with a gun and demanded prescription drugs. the clerk handed them over and the man drove from the scene in a gold colored sedan. if you somehow recognize him or the way he walks contact warminster police. >> affirmative action in college admissions won a major victory. a federal appeals court ruled the university of texas can continue to consider racial preferences as a factor to achieve diversity. the case went to the supreme court last year which bumped it back to the lower c

a philadelphia food trucklys fl io p pe.'sesse g t explain. >> reporter: three city agencies thatre peoplthisg. llnupit fe bus thi holiday weekend and in one shoretown, that beach patrol has a ayel >>> this is nbc 10 news. >>> have you seen this? this explosion and inferno has injured 12 people. >> tropical storm arthur is turning well to our south. it's hundreds of miles away but is expected to have an impact on our area as early as tomorrow. >> today will be all about heat and humidity and storms. we will soar into the mid-90s. it will feel more like 100 degrees outside. good morning and welcome to nbc 10 news today. i'm tracy davidson. >> i'm vai sikahema. it will be hot and humid. let's start with meteorologist bill henley and his first alert forecast. bill? >> it is noticeably higher this morning. the temperatures are warmer with read innings the 70s. 74 here at nbc 10. the wind is blowing. that's a southerly wind which yesterday sent us into the low 90s. today, middle 90s. it is a first alert weather day here at nbc 10.

>> reporter: philadelphia police are gathering evidence here on the scene and what parents describe as a crazy scene at the simons rec center. around 4:45 this afternoon, the 14th district police received reports of gunshots at the rec center playground and they found two men had been shot, an 18 shot in the groin and he is in critical at einstein and a 19-year-old was also shot in the thigh, is he in stable condition at einstein. two gunmen are being sought and they found at least 11 bullet cases from two semi automatic weapons on the scene. concerned parents rushed to get their kids. >> we know at the teem of the shooting at 4:45 in the afternoon, the simons playground had 30 people on the playground. and there were adults playing basketball and young, tender age children with young parents on the playground. >> i got a phone call saying come pick your kid up, they are shooting at the rec center. it's a shame that the kids can't play safely. >> become here live at the scene, investigators are gathering evidence on the playground and fortunately no children were injured but an 18-year

eighty-six in philadelphia 85 in trenton. zero seven's down the shore with that ocean water temperature warming in the 70's as well. we will cool down to about 79, not so cool, at 9:00 p.m., a few clouds at 11:00 with a temperature of seven 56789 then all eyes on the frontal boundary over great lakes. it will be approaching during the the day tomorrow increase ago this heat and humidity and setting off some showers and thunderstorms, coming up, we will be tracking those storms to show what you to expect and after that, a better start to the weekend, that is all coming up with the seven day when i join you inside now back up to in the studio. >>> thanks, kathy. >>> police are looking into this crash on interest stat i-95 245 sent a woman to the hospital today. officials tell thaws a tow truck carrying a backhoe hit the princeton pike over pass, the backhoe fell off the tow truck as a result of the collision and then hit the car behind it. several lanes of traffic had to be shut down, drivers should still expect delays in the a

and 94 is your high in philadelphia. clouds and sun, humid, a late day thunderstorm can't be ruled out, maybe a little bit of a shower mixed in as well. there you see how the numbers are going to go. 77 by 8 o'clock, 83 by 11 o'clock, 89 by 2 o'clock and 91 degrees by 5:00 coming down from that high of 94. we'll probably lit that around 3:30. that's when the high hit thursday. future tracker 6 on wednesday shows we're unsettled but an occasional sprinkle or shower pong through at times and we can't totally rule out a thunderstorm popping there as well. your exclusive accuweather 7-day 94 is today's high, hot and humid conditions out there with a late day shower or thunderstorm possible but a better chance later on tonight. and then warm and humid on wednesday, a high of 89 and a thunderstorm can't be ruled out at times on wednesday. on thursday, clouds and sun, 86 degrees. we'll leave the mention of a pop-up afternoon thunderstorm in there but generally speaking i think this is a transition to better weather on thursday

fireworks just wrapping up right now in philadelphia. we're going to show you the finale, straight ahead. >>> plus, we'll take you to the nation's capital for a look at their fireworks display. >>> and i'm also watching your weekend forecast. we do still have some lingering threats at the shore because of hurricane arthur, but i'll show you when we'll see temperatures back in the 90s. that's coming up. ♪ >>> just beautiful. hurricane arthur, though, did force a last-minute change for the big macy's fireworks display tonight in new york city. the barge where the fireworks are set off had to move to a new location on the east river because of a strong rip current. after that, boy, the show really went on, didn't it, without any other problems. ♪ >>> to washington, d.c., where fireworks lit up the night sky over our nation's capital tonight. thousands packing the national mall there as fireworks were launched from the lincoln memorial reflecting pool. also tonight, a holiday concert featuring frankie valle, michael bc0 in philadelphia's

mostly in philadelphia and chester county. delmarva had nearly 8,000 outages and new castle county more than 2,000 customers of both atlantic city electric and pse&g were knocked off-line tonight. >>> let's get the latest information from accuweather and meteorologist cecily tynan and adam joseph. cecily has double scan radar tonight. >>> stormtracker 6 double scan not nearly as active as two hours ago. pretty much clearing out one loan cell over kent county, delaware. we had a lot of lightning strikes earlier. plenties of photos sent to my facebook and twit area act. this was sent by a 12-year-old in her hotel room center city looked out and you can see the twin lightning bolts captured that at the very moment they struck than lightning also kicked upwind. a lot of wind damage reports. chester county getting hit hard. numerous trees and wires down, montgomery county as well. northeast philadelphia reporting wind gusts of 66 miles an hour. camden county trees down and trenton reporting wind gusts of 60 miles an hour. all these

>>> from the cbs broadcast center in philadelphia. this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> a community devastated this weekend after four children are killed in a house fire in southwest philadelphia. we're live with the latest on that investigation coming up. >>> also, this morning, a scare for swimmers after a shark attack off the coast of southern california shuts down a popular beach. >>> and, this could be the first video of one of the worlds' most wanted men. the leader after group of militants, battling the iraqi government. we'll explain. >>> today is sunday, july 6, good morning to you, thanks so much for joining us, i'm nicole brewer. now 6:00. let's get a check on the forecast, carol standing by yesterday with the perfect day, i'm not sure we can improve on that. >> you know, i don't think we k we will try, though, we will add an agree or two to the tote that is we saw, but nicole, look how nice it looks out here right now. center city philadelphia from our cbs-3 studios, just the highest and thin he is of clouds, but still an

strong to severe storms well to the north and west, and philadelphia and surrounding counties between ten and midnight. and we will have more later in the broadcast, chris. >> okay, kathy, thanks. >>> we have storm damage that will be of interest to you right now. just into "eyewitness news", chopper three, live over east main street in moorestown, new jersey. we're seeing a tree fell, knocking out some wires, and right now east main street, from marter avenue, to stan wick road is closed in both directions in moorestown. this noise the weather related, not weather related after all, and only a few people have been left without power. >>> breaking news, fire fighters are responding to allegations that they did not respond fast enough to the gesner street fire. excerpt of the 911 calls are giving us new details about the response time line. "eyewitness news", reporter walt hunter is live in spring garden with new information tonight, walt. >> reporter: jessica, the fire department press conference here comes about 24 hours, after a community demonstration, claiming that fire fighters w

in philadelphia we're going for a high of 90. sun and clouds, more humid than yesterday with some of you walking outside and saying wow it's sticky. definitely stickier than yesterday. a little breezy out there, tonight we have thunderstorms for a while and some of them could be drenchers, 76 is the overnight low, drying out in time for the morning. i think it's very likely that the phillies play in dry weather. clouds and sun, it will be humid, first pitch 87. the 9th inning 90. it will be sweaty at the ballpark. can't rule out a passing shower or thunderstorm. but the chances are small. tomorrow, cold front will be out to the west of us, during the afternoon we'll see showers and occasionally you could get a strong, gusty thunderstorm and there could be a row pete on tuesday, because it -- a repeat on tuesday, because it may take that long for the front to sweep through the region. tomorrow, the weather service has the entire region at risk for severe weather. anything that does pop could produce damaging wind, hail and potenti

we'll take you to malvern. >> american classic hits the streets of philadelphia. fyi philly checks out the burger buzz building around a food truck when "action news" continues. >> ♪ >> welcome back. it is 5:44 and take a look at this. it is wawa hoagie day on independence mall. you can see folks busy at work there, all in honor of the fourth of july and the wawa welcome america festival. wawa is celebrating making 4.5 tons of hoagies. you can enjoy one of these freebies outside the independence visitor's center today but get ready to wait in line. our katherine scott is live there by the way and we'll check back in with her in just a little bit later. >> karen, all roads lead to the national constitution center right now. >> thank you am i guess we'll want one of those hoagie hats. how can we make this happen. >> it would look great on you. >> i think i could rock that. let's go outside in exton, this is chester county, malvern chester county right now, 202 at 29. hardly anybody out there. roads are clear and dry. no overnight construction. so looking good this

southwest philadelphia i-95 by the airport, traffic moving well on that part of i-95. if you're trying to get to the airport, via the regional altrain you might have problems, we'll have updates on the mass transit issues. matt. >> reporter: happy birthday it's the 4th of july. not a lot of people expected at the airport, even though it's the busiest day of the week for flights. we have hurricane arthur right here on the flight explore program. these are live images of where flights are right now. pilots are making beelines outside of the outer rims of hurricane arthur. it's kind of neat just to see how pilots take a different flight path, especially when you have a hurricane off the coast. that will calls trouble for some airports on the east coast, particularly washington, d.c., philadelphia and new york city could see delays and boston, could see delays, as well, as the hurricane moves out to sea. florida looking for thundershowers today particularly in miami. houston and dallas, fort worth could see thundershowers. phoenix, sky harbor international airport could se

same story for philadelphia. low to moderate for the shore, too, if it stays on its current forecast track. for today, humidity and temperatures into the 90s. at least two days in the 90s, possibly three. the first showers appear today, we could see severe weather develop tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow night and then heavy rain on thursday. 90 at the warmest and possibly if the rain is heavy enough we'll stay in the 80s thursday afternoon. then after a rainy start on the fourth, friday, we'll be clearing for fireworks and clearing for the weekend, too. nice and sunny saturday and sunday with temperatures in the 80s. >> everybody is focused on the weekend. first we have to get to work right now, this morning. >> jillian mele is manning the first alert center with the details. >>> this accident is blocking all lanes on the garden state parkway, the southbound side as you approach the atlantic city service plaza. take pitney road or route 9 if you want to avoid the garden state parkway. since all lanes are blocked

delmara has fewer. 1800 in philadelphia. sharrie williams has the stories from two people that had their brust witbrush with life last n. >>> no severe weather, no high winds, or hail. south jersey was getting harder this evening. we have a solid batch of rain u, to route 2200. there is one cell of intense rainfall in lancaster county. between 283 and 322. no lightning strikes associated with this. we have a heavy rain. the national weather service posted a flash-flood warning forgot north-central lancaster county for 2:00 in the morning. we have seen a lot of pockets of heavy rain also in parts of chester county. the east branch of the brandywine is reporting minor flooding. cresting a foot above floodstage at midnight. it continues until 6:00 in the morning. we have more heavy downpours on the way. it's ahead of at cold front that sweeps through. it brings a big change in our air mass. i think you will be happy about it. >> one bucks county homeowner knows that lightning can strike in the same place twice. for the second t

philadelphia's park on the parkway returns for second summer season. lets give you a live look at the oval along the parkway ahead of tonight's kick off celebration. food truck, a newly designed beer garden and creation of the one of a kind 3-d art installation, that got bob turned around. >> i think it was the last one. >> what about that art exhibit. >> nice try. >> oval opens up to the public on wednesday to friday, through august 17th. i'm sure people are hoping, how is the weather looking, katie. >> if you have outdoor plans at all here today with time it gets better and bet ter and better. this morning we have a couple of hiccups, we have lingering showers and steady rain out there and it has been just enough for national weather service to since we were on the air with your last weather report to issue a new flood advisory until 8:15. it is only for a handfull of sections of the counties for minor flooding with this round of heavy rain. that is rumbling on through, cumberland county at the moment. not a thunderstorm but just heavy rain. we are s

but some locations it felt like 100 degrees. 91 still in philadelphia. rain cooled. 76 in reading. 89 right now in dover. how it actually feels, look at the numbers. it feels like 96 degrees in philadelphia. it feels like 98 right now in dover. so overnight we're watching out for those showers and storms diminishing. a low of 73 degrees. 84 for the high temperature tomorrow. so cooler and then beautiful for friday as well as saturday. humidity is back on sunday. as well as the threat for some showers and some thunderstorms but cooler conditions by tuesday and wednesday of next week. >> no 90s. >> okay. >> for warned. thank you very much, scott. >> all right. >> eagles open -- they hope it's not 90 either. they open training camp this forty three dame what is the biggest competition? we'll discuss and ryan howard is just one of the problems on this phillies team. this afternoon he talked about the expectations that are put on this afternoon he talked about the [ shelly ] as a graduatet on of devry university and keller graduate school of management, a bus

. >> "eyewitness news" reporter nicole brewer joins us from philadelphia police headquarters with more, nicole. >> reporter: ukee and erika, police may be one step close tore solving this heinous crime, two days after laura arujo's body was found in the duffle bag in north philadelphia let's role video and show you her parents arriving to homicide headquarters tuesday afternoon, the same day a person of interest, was taken into custody and questioned by police. now authorities believe that the 23 year-old man that person of interest, lived in the victim's west philadelphia apartment complex. he may be connect to the grizzly crime which left a 23 year-old art institute grad strangled and beaten, her hands tied. police say he raised suspicions after being treated for burns at crozer-chester medical center days after her car was found torched, a gas can lying nearby. >> all of her belongings were thrown out of the vehicle and we believe whoever did this took her vehicle to the philadelphia area ape set it on fire. >> according to investigators araujo was in traps situation having obtained

philadelphia, 64. sea isle, 63. trenton, 61. these are sustained wind speeds or constant out of the west/northwest in this direction 10 to 15 miles per hour. every now and then we get gusts as high as 25 miles per hour. here's the latest on arthur, it continues to pull away, well-defined eye, it continues to pull away to the north away from the delaware valley. there's the back edge that left us with nothing but clear skies from this point on. this frontal system will kick arthur well out to sea. it's pleasant with high pressure in control today. as we move into sunday, that high is in control, but it driferlts to -- drifts to the southeast. that means the return flow will starting point to warm us up. once we get into monday that warm front lifts through we're in the soup again. heatz hot and humid, high -- hazy, hot and humid, high temperatures in the mid 90s. we'll have feels-like temperatures or heat indices close to 100. strong rip currents at the shore, be careful of that if you're heading into the water. breezy on the san

in philadelphia 91. eighty-nine in millville. eighty-eight at the the airport in atlantic city. down the shore temperatures still in the 80's even though that ocean water temperature is quite cool in the wake of arthur only sitting at 65 degrees. we are watching as a severe threat to the north and to our west through state college, scranton, upstate new york, some scattered showers and thunderstorms some of which are severe and that threat will move closer to us during the day tomorrow. tuesday afternoon, some thunderstorms especially north and west with downpours, gusty wind and frequent lightening and that could come closer to philadelphia during the mid week. coming up we will talk about the possibility of heat wave number two in just one week and severe weather threat that will continue at least through wednesday, across the delaware valley. we will show you who has best chance of seeing those types of storms. in the meantime i'll see you later in the broadcast with next weekend's forecast, but for now back to you. >>> i just hear gunshots and i got down, i didn't pay attent

are close to philadelphia along that i-95 corridor. you can see it extending through trenton, philadelphia and crossing over river towards deptford. after that storms break up over south jersey, we will dry it out, we will have clouds for thursday morning. by after the noon we will see sunshine and perhaps a few shore showers. oppressive as far as humidity goes, by tomorrow in that pleasant range. during the the evening showers and storms, some severe with heavy downpours and frequent lightening and damaging win. during the day tomorrow clearing skies, a high of 84. on the exclusive eyewitness seven day forecast and shore cast friday looks good, warming saturday, getting heat and humidity back in the weather picks tires sunday. it sticks around monday. then look at what happens, temperatures cooling down below average as we end the month of july. i want to remind new that i clear weather tomorrow orr at the shore will be live from stone harbor on the bay, something we have never done before, and we are going to show you something you h

humidity not so bad here, but from philadelphia south it feels rather muggy. that will change a little bit during the day. as we roll through the day, warm, 77 b