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>> breaking now on "action news," a bar security guard is wounded in a shootout, police are liven the scene and so are we. >> republicans recess as the democratic sit-in continues tore a second day. >> developing overnight, crews monitor a brushfire on a new jersey army base, at least for now, weather conditions are helping their cause. >> good morning, everyone, june 23. matt pellman is looking at traffic and karen rogers is in for david and she is watching the storm. >> reporter: that's right, we're dry in the i-95 corridor, the rain is move be in from the west. it's hitting getties ginsburg and ballot -- gettysburg and baltimore. you can see the storms stretching out through cincinnati and richmond. we can see how they are moving
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mostly south and east of the city. looks like philadelphia gets clipped with rain, but the primary storms will be far south and east. that's why the storm prediction center in norman, oklahoma have us under a slight risk for capee may county, cumberland county, parts of atlantic and salem county and south of with him in delaware. you're dealing with the slight risk for severe weather. otherwise it's a warm and humid day. it's 71 degrees in the city. you're in the mid 60s in the lehigh valley. 68 degrees in atlantic city. 69 in dover, delaware. here's how the did is going to look. 7:00 a.m. we'll see the rain showers moving through the area. by anytime 8 or 9:00 a.m., by 9:00 a.m., it's rain running through parts of the region with strong storms south and east. this is a primarily early morning situation until late morning hours. by lunchtime most of the storms are exiting. you'll see clouds and brief shower here or there. 3:00 p.m., you're dry with
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clouds and sunshine. 35:00 p.m., mostly cloudy skies high of 81 degrees, i'm going to show you area by area what to expect coming up in just just a moment. >> reporter: the morning showers hit in time for the rush. thank you karen. good morning, everybody, we're live ilong the schuylkill expressway which is -- along the schuylkill expressway which is looking good. traffic is moving well. we see the cars passing on the west river drive. it's open and available to you now. the vine street expressway was closed eastbound overnight, it's open in both directions, we expect it to close tonight at 11:00 p.m. on the big picture we have police activity at allegheny and tulip by the branch of temple hospital. near overbrook at 63rd and haverford there's a bad accident with emergency crews on the scene. two problems along route 63 one
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a crash edge hill road at correspond corinthian avenue. turnpike construction at norristown has cleared out of the way. >> thank you matt. we're following breaking news, a security guard took a bullet in the leg an a shootout with a man at a philadelphia bar. the two left behind quite a scene. let's go over to annie mccormick live at the feltonville section. good morning, annie. >> reporter: good morning, tam, we have been told that the win the hour, the security -- within the hour, the security guard was released from the hospital. we saw him back on the scene, he appears to be okay. the bullet still lodged in his leg. take a look at the scene behind me, police are holding this, this is a vehicle where police say they are still looking for the shooter that was in the
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vehicle. they say the shooter was fire shots from the vehicle. right now they are waiting for the crime scene to come out here. this is the scene, part of the scene, irbled say where the shooting you will ended. take a look at the video, numerous 911 call it is brought police out here at 1:00 a.m. a 22-year-old armed security guard working at the bar. walked outside and heard shots fired. he began firing his weapon and exchanged gunfire. there were more than 25 shots, you can see the shell casings around the roadway. the man he got in the shootout with jumped into the chevy malibu and continued to shoot and rounded the corner on ridessen sun and wyoming and ditched the car. police are trying to figure out what started the shooting. they say the armed uniform guard was defending himself and has a permit to carry.
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>> the security guard was working at the corner bar at front and wyoming when he exited the bar, he observed someone firing shots from the unit block of west wyoming street. this individual was firing multiple shots, to the security guard returned fire and fired several shots at this male and that's when the security guard was shot in his leg. >> reporter: again, this chevy malibu was is only a few hundred feet from where the initial shooting took place. it is not clear if anyone picked up the three people or thread on foot. for some reason they stopped here. police are looking at who the vehicle is registered to. they are at an address right now working to find out who the person is. they have brought several
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witnesses to east detectives. another thing if anybody in the vehicle was injured, that's something they are trying to figure out out, at this point they don't see any blood and checking area hospitals. and channel 6 "action news." >> a rollover crash injured a driver in south philadelphia. the victim lost control and hit a tree on the 1400 block of south carlisle before 1:00 a.m. that person is in the hospital in stable condition. police believe high speed was a factor in the wreck. >> are 35:36 -- 5:36 a.m., chopper 6 hd was over scorched forest land in burling to the county. the fire started yesterday afternoon at a training range on the grounds of the joint base mcguire-dix-lakehurst, it is unclear if any military activity was underway at the time. "action news" spoke to residents from a nearby mobile home park
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who are under a voluntary evacuation order. >> keeping on aon everything, it's smoky. >> like several hundreder yards off the back. >> reporter: what do you do? >> pack and get ready to go. >> reporter: now, firefighters are actually using a helicopter if you can go back to the big board they are using the helicopter to scoop water from nearby lake and taking it wildfire and dumping it on it. the weather conditions are favorable, low winds and high humidity we'll see if we get rain from the storms. >> developing now, the u.s. house officially adjourned a few hours ago, but democrats are on the house floor waging a sit-in. house speaker paul ryan said it's a no go, a measure that was defeated in the senate. he calls the sit-in political
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grand standing. c-span cut the cameras when both parties are not on the floor, so they are using social media. >> we are on the house floor in the hour ten of our sit-in saying no bill no break. time to end the surge of gun violence. you see them there doing a facebook live posting. republicans plan to recess until july 5. democrats say they will stay on the floor and come back next week. senate colleagues are sending in snacks and some lawmakers came prepared bringing in sleep bags. overseas, british citizens are voting on whether to stay in the european union. the prime minister david cameron is leading the argument that britain is safer and richer
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inside the eu. the results could affect u.s. access to other nations in the union. >> sixers stake center stage as they make the first overall pick in the 2016 draft. they will select forward ben simmons, some said the 19-year-old could be the next labron james. sixers have lost 17 games in the last two seasons that led to the resignation of the gm who called all that losing the process. could be a new era for the sixers beginning tonight. >> that would be nice. >> depending on where you are, hopefully it will be nice to get rain. >> reporter: you said its all about location. northwest suburbs showers along the coast and strong storms. let's take a look at storm tracker 6 live double scan, we've been watching this rain get a little bit closer here to
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our region, certainly we see it through gettysburg and baltimore, spreading up the i-95 corridor, not in wilmington just yet moving in from the west. let's go outside and see what it looks like. we're dry, it's pretty with peeks of sunshine and lots of clouds. mothly cloudy skies starting off the day today. i think the clouds will fill in any gaps as the storm system approaches. storm tracker 6 live radar, you can see it in motion, you get the idea how it will hit south and east of the city. philadelphia will get clipped with rain. it's more of a problem for the shore and southern delaware. we brought in our day planner. the i want to show you the concern. the storm prediction center echoing this, cape may,
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cumberland, atlantic, and new castle and kent county in delaware. we're watching for that south of wilmington and vineland, the areas of concern for the strongest storms not to say the rest of the us won't get a little bit of rain. future tracker 6, we'll see the severity at 8:00 a.m., we'll have rain, in parts of the region. the storms are concentrated south and east. we advance this to 11:00, it will be off the coastline. the main area of concern is the first half of the day, especially south and east of the city. staking you hour by hour, 8:00 a.m., rain, 72 degrees, if you're farther to the south and east, you could have storms. 10:00 a.m., it could be stormy along the coast and delaware and showers or periods of rain for the rest of the of us. by lunch time, we're drying out
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and we'll be moving off the coastline with the cluster of storms. 3:00 p.m., a spotty shower, but mostly dry, 81 degrees, sticky today. 5:00 p.m., dry and sunshine, clouds, 81 degrees. in the northwest suburbs a few showers, i-95 shower or thunderstorm around. it's central delaware and southern new jersey along the coast where we have the main concern today. here's a look at the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast. it's humid and strong storms high of 81. tomorrow, mostly sunny, 58. 85. one model shows pop-up shower or thunderstorms. saturday, 87. on sunday, 90. monday, 88 degrees, tuesday, showers or thunderstorms late in the day, 86. wednesday, few showers and thunderstorms, high of 86. we have one once again a chance
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for areas south and east for strong damaging winds are we have to be careful. >> 35:43. coming up on "action news," a louisiana state police officer was shot and killed during a traffic stop. wildwood life officials believe they found the alligator that statued and killed the little boy at the disney resort. >> reporter: we have a vehicle that broke down quickly and cleared quickly i-95 southbound side past allegheny, all lanes reopened you can see the people tapping their breaks in the wake of the earlier dv. we'll tell you where the crews will be working later today after the break. >> a woman who went into surgery with an marriage accent came out later sounding like a queen. that's later on "action news."
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the view of the platt bridge, a lot of people heading to the airport or coming into the city. the clouds off in the distance, karen rogers telling us it will be 81 degrees and muggy in spots and rainy in others. >> dry on the roads, mr. pellman. >> reporter: we're thankfully for -- thankful for that.
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we have construction on the roads, today it will be the patching crews out and about in the delco burr -- burbs flie nye. i-95 watch out for restrictions in delco. the traffic is moving nicely so far. elsewhere, in abington township we have a crash edge hill road lane an accident there with lane restrictions. no issues on the pennsylvania turnpike with speeds in the offs, fire crews on the vehicle fire in church road near the francis kauffman house working on the vehicle fire. northeast extension coming northbound or southbound looking good. construction is closing walt
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whitman avenue paving work in mount laurel, closing walt whitman avenue westbound. eastbound will have access, stay on 38 to get around that. heading toward the jersey burbs on the admiral wilson boulevard expect slowing because of the emergency construction going until tomorrow night. port richmond, we have police activity. sounds like an accident. police on the scene there, as well. >> new this morning, a louisiana sheriff's deputy was shot and killed while trying to search a man. detective david michael pulled over yesterday after noticing knew vo flipped around as --nevd
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turned around and shot him in the back. he was arrested and charged with first degree murder. a plane was heading from san antonio to los angeles yesterday. federal authorities escorted a man off the plane. all passengers had to be rescreened before continuing to their final destination. fbi is investigating and said there was no threat to public service. a woman went into surgery to get rid of an overby the and came out -- overbite and came out with a british accent. >> she said she is trying to get used to it, but hopes to get her accent back, but right now is take i thought in stride. a bucks county man and his
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>> reporter: so we'll get a little bit soggy, but thank you for the dry ride this morning. as we look outside, it is nice and dry, but there's police and fire department activity in center city along the local vine street eastbound by broad street by hanheman they are taking out a lane or two. traffic is getting around as they merge to the left and traveling eastbound on the local vine. mass transit, new schedules in effect on septa that involves shuttle busing on the median elwin line and all trains between elwin and swathmore
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through early september. >> reporter: storm tracker 6 live 3d showing a complex of storms moving through the area. it depends on where you live. lehigh valley just a morning shower or two. clouds and sunshine, a high of 80 degrees in the afternoon, you'll see some of that sun. at the shore, this is one of the areas we expect to see damaging winds once again, we're under a slight risk for severe weather. rain and thunderstorms, they haven't hit just yet, we expect them in the next few hours at the shore. 77 is the high. here in philadelphia what to expect is a morning period of rain, maybe a thunderstorm, but not expecting any severe weather. the afternoon clouds and sunshine, a muggy high of 81 degrees matt. >> thank you, karen. you can watch the storms come in by going to storm tracker 6 live/weather in viewing storm tracker 6 live. florida wildlife officials believe they have caught the alligator that killed a 2-year-old boy at disney world.
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>> good morning, it is 6:00 a.m., thursday, june 23, we're following breaking news. >> a shootout has a security guard in the hospital and leaves cars riddled with bullets. >> a clash is going on on the house floor in the nation's capitol. >> accuweather is tracking severe weather, the potential of which is moving in from the west. >> let's go
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