karen: what about this one? bill: this actually is from the reconstruction era, and i believe it shows an african-american legislator. during reconstruction there were i thought that was interesting. karen: of course, after reconstruction, a lot of blacks elected to office, when the jim crow laws -- bill: lynchings. karen: paulette started as a blowback to the cap -- all that started as a blowback to the power attained by african-americans. we have 2 more. bill: the person that did that particular piece is thomas nast. nast is. i challenged michelle obama and barack obama before they became president and first lady. the picture on the right shows the stereotypical image of how the irish were portrayed that. the one on the left shows how blacks were portray defended the exaggerated -- trade then. exaggerated lips and eyes. of political cartoons. he created the images of the republican and democratic party. karen: this one is lady liberty. what is she doing to that african-american? bill: she is basically -- she i

karen tumulty: thank you, great to be here. fernando: thank you. let me ask you a question about both candidates. with such high negatives, what do you think each campaign has to do to win over the middle, to win over the swing voters? i think this election is about revving up your own supporters, revving up your own base. the playbook is, if you have an opponent who has high negatives, you are going to make the election about your opponent and not about yourself. well, here we have two candidates, both of them in that situation. that really does sound like a recipe for a slugfest for the fall. i would not be surprised if turnout is pretty low, because i think a lot of people are likely to get turned off by the whole thing. fernando: i hear from voters all the time that this is picking between the lesser of two evils, which is sad for our electoral system. do you think that's the decision voters will face? not all of them obviously, but that group of people that will karen tumulty: i think these two conventions have been such a contrast. the republ

karen tumulty: that really does sound like a recipe for a slugfest. announcer: making the case for hillary. can the congressional insider help her up her game? plus, first it was a cold war. now it could be a cyber war. will a hack attack put russia in charge of our election? fernando: an international watergate on steroids. fernando: i'm fernando espuelas. welcome to "matter of fact." hillary clinton can now get down to business as the democratic presidential nominee. hillary clinton: join us! fernando: the party has unified be. bernie sande po stand with her. fernando: but she has her work cut out for her. clinton's high negative marks, the 'appearance' of a rigged system with the release of e-mails hacked from d.n.c. servers, and falling poll numbers have many asking the question: can she win against a candidate waging an unconventional campaign? joining me now from philadelphia is congresswoman linda sanchez, she is chair of the congressional hispanic caucus, and a supporter of hillary clinton. madam chair, welcome to the program. linda sanchez: t

karen: definitely, definitely. my first reaction was anger, and of course, sadness, because people died. but i'm not surprised. i'm not surprised by this development, because we have seen structural denying and the structural negotiation of racism in the united states, but not only in the united states. as well as in germany, as i just pointed out. i think as long as this structural problem isn't tackled,d, we will see more e pe die. melinda: erik kirschbaum, a similar question to you. would you say that there are more such incidents now, than in the past? racial violence in the u.s. is of course, by no means of recent origin. but do you think we are seeing more such police shootings, or are we simply seeing more reporting through the ubiquity of cell phones? erik: well, it feels like there is more police shootings of black people taking place right now, but it probably is more of just a coincidence that more people filming these things, that people are all over the place with cell phones. it is still a horrible tr

karen: definitely, definitely. my first reaction was anger, and of course, sadness, because people died. but i'm not surprised. i'm not surprised by this development, because we have seen strtructural denying and te structural negotiation of racism in the united states, but not only in the united states. as well as in germany, as i just pointed out. i think as long as this structural problem isn't tackled,d, we will see more e pe die. melinda: erik kirschbaum, a similar question to you. would you say that there are more such incidents now, than in the past? racial violence in the u.s. is of course, by no means of recent origin. but do you think we are seeing more such police shootings, or are we simply seeing more reporting through the ubiquity of cell phones? erik: well, it feels like there is more police shootings of black people taking place right now, but it probably is more of just a coincidence that more people filming these things, that people are all over the place with cell phones. it is still a horrible t

and with the karen population, they fit in really well within our community. we have a huge family-based orientation. they're family-based, we're family-based. so they fit in well. >> reporter: even though there were some minor culture clashes at first. mark heuston tells a story about a karen family raising a few eyebrows after they started laying fish out to dry-- in their neighbors back yard. sydow says the town is more than willing to do what is needed to make immigrants feel welcome. >> if that means putting up another restaurant or if that means changing the e.s.l. program, or trying to help with community integration, that's what we're going to do. >> reporter: you guys are open for business? >> we're open for business, and that's what sets us apart from other communities. >> this is pbs newshour weekend, saturday. >> sreenivasan: a stretch of florida beaches are shut down due to a massive algae bloom. the thick, smelly green algae started concentrating last week where the st. lucie river meets the atlantic ocean 100 miles north of miami. one resident d

good morning to you karen. you mentioned those showers and storms this morning close to the coast left us with wet conditions here in tuckahoe as we look live this is 50 right at 49. if you kept going northbound here you'd be at the tuckahoe river bridge where of course the ongoing construction that gives us headaches continues. this morning the traffic's fine but do watch out for the wet conditions, the puddles out here close to the coast. also have a crash on the garden state parkway. still out here in the left lane southbound past northfield and margate. at this point speeds aren't impacted a whole lot. it's nice and dry in center city but we have some building westbound volume now on the vine street expressway approaching the schuylkill. overnight construction on the vine was canceled last night and apparently the crews aren't going to return until after the democratic national convention. so you're good to go for the next about week and a half on the vine street expressway during the overnights. several ne

karen we have an uptick in humidity even here in the city tomorrow. we'll have details on that and the next rounds of thunderstorms coming up in the seven day. >> all right day.let's start yow with a life look at the vine street expressway here near eighth street traffic moving very nicely at this early hour. want to expect the vine to be shut down at times as motorcades come through with delegates. they've been doing this the past couple days and we'll see that again today so you'll want to watch for that right now and also the police check point up ahead on the vine street expressway eastbound because they're not allowing vehicles over 5 tons to continue onto i-95 and so you wander to watch for restrictions there and that's been causing lots of delays on i-95 as you're heading northbound near the platt bridge at that check point and southbound on i-95 the near the vine street expressway. so, we'll see how bad the delays get a little later on today t i want to go outside live right here, this is chester county the tramp 401 to 202. we've got a disabl

karen. >> we're looking good on i-95. the overnight construction has cleared so no problems just yet here at cottman. we'll check that construction at 422 coming up. >> and what it took to win the home run derby when "action news" comes back. >> ♪ >> welcome back. this is always such a pretty shot, isn't it? sky6 hd taking a live look at the commodore barry bridge. it is 5:13, 68 degrees. if you're trying to plan your week, beware starting thursday it's going to be pretty oppressive around here. >> all right, let's go over to karen rogers. you know the septa stuff has had a lot of people going through changes. what does the commute look like this morning. >> such issues with septa. don't forget the new schedules went into effect with the regional rails yesterday but we expect big problems like yesterday with overcrowding. let's look at the roads and talk about there suburbs right now as we go on outside live i promised you a look at 422 and here it is. looking pretty good here at 23 as you head towards king of prussia y

over to david murphy and talk about a hot one from accuweather and speaking of relief on the rails, karen will have more about that. >> reporter: good morning, everybody, it's a warm and humid start we are heading to an uncomfortable after. satellite shows you cloud cover working its way in. we'll have sunshine early not that you will enjoy it, because it will be hazy and hot. there's a chance of thunderstorms coming in the from the west and the northern and western suburbs we have the chance of strong storms. 77 degrees on the way out the door. dry and muggy. 67 in allentown. 75 in wilmington. 72 in trenton, mid 70s from millville to the shore. dewpoints this morning are worse, the farther south you go, oppressive humidity from philadelphia to the shore. not so bad in allentown and reading. as you go out for the morning run, hydrate before and after. 78 degrees by 7:00 a.m. mucky as you saw in the southern half of region. 87 by 10:00 a.m. in philadelphia by noon we'll be shooting into the low 90s. 95 is the high at 3:00 p.m. it will probably briefly feel like close to 100 in urban center

. >> yeah, for more on that let's get rider to meteorologist, david murphy and karen rogers. good morning, guys. >> well, we won't have people sweating quite as much today nor running around dodging storms but it's still going to be a hot one. we're looking at the departure of those storms overnight. looks like we'll get sunshine early and maybe high clouds filtering in as the day goes on. temperatures are still warm this morning. 75 in philadelphia, 75 down in cape may, 73 in wilmington, 72 in trenton and in the upper 60's in allentown and out toward reading. the dewpoints this morning are still rather high across about half the region. 71 is the current dewpoint reading in philadelphia. anything over 70 is considered oppressive humidity but notice how it's getting a lot better up in allentown. mid 60's here and that's because the winds are coming down out of the northwest today gradually drawing that drier air in all the way down to philadelphia and beyond and we do expect that humidity to drop as we go through the morning and into the afternoon. taking a look at where temp

looking all right. >> all right karen. we've got some less than all right views on storm tracker6 live double scan this morning as some drenching showers are pushing out of the delaware bay and now pushing into south jersey. this is northern cumberland county, salem county also picking up some of this and some of you who are in the bowling alley if you were for heavy rain is shiloh cohansey deerfield and there you see the arrival times on your screen. takes about a half hour for to go the length of this. they'll only last about 10 minutes but they'll get you a downpour in the humid air that's in place today. 71 degrees and muggy this morning by 7 o'clock. 75 by 10 o'clock. this afternoon will be another warm one. we'll see a high of 87 degrees at about 3 o'clock and after we get finished that morning shower doesn't look like we're getting a lot more until about lunchtime. then you'll look out for spotty drenching showers and thunderstorms perhaps later on. nydia. >> tased thank you. >>> newly released documents in the penn

karen. >> we can see we've got a tow truck on the scene with this accident. it's on the ramp from 422 westbound. the on-ramp from the schuylkill expressway so they're trying to get ready to tow away this vehicle. meanwhile just the shoulder gets by and i've also got an update coming up on that accident that's been shutting down the boulevard. all that coming up. >> plus, what retirement? word on who is returning to the ring for at least one more fight. we'll be right back. >> ♪ man: life gets so busy with work, and it's really hard to just kind of put that all aside and sort of focus on having fun or playing, even. hey, playing is a lot of fun. ♪ hey, playing is a lot of fun. >> ♪ >> welcome back. wake up. it's hump day. 5:43, 71 degrees. sky6 hd taking a live look at the ben franklin bridge. you can see the sun is rising. it's pretty out there. >> let's head over to karen rogers see what the commute looks like. good morning. >> good morning. let's check the suburbs for you. got to wake up early head into the city. we're looking outside life. this is fo

thank you karen. >>> it is now 5:42. and still ahead on "action news," police at the jersey shore looking into a fatal hit and run. we'll give you those developing details. >> a judge hands down a new legal setback for comedian bill cosby. it is related to his sex assault case in montgomery county. matt. >> matt, we were waiting for penndot to go away. thgo a -- so away the vehicle on the southbound side of broad street. there's a broken down vehicle elsewhere on route one. we'll talk about problems on 422 after the break. >> and the please honor a local police officer shot in the line of duty. that's coming up on "action news." >> ♪ >> ♪ >> welcome back. taking a live look there, the gorgeous view out across the delaware over the ben franklin bridge. right now it is 5:45, 73 degrees. feeling a little bit better after the thunderstorms. >> lower humidity. getting into the 80's still. matt pelman what you got in traffic. >> are you ready to get suburban with me. >> sure. >> let's get suburban. with the suburban traffi

let's head over to dave murphy and karen rogers. good morning. >> i'll start you with storm tracker6 live double scan this morning as we have a couple of storms showing up. one of them getting very close to route 55 south of glassboro. that one is producing a little bit of heavy rain. it won't last all that long. other one down to the west of dover appears to be falling apart not doing too much. so farall it's sun and clouds today. as we get into the afternoon a cold front coming in from the west is going to give us the chance of a spotty shower or thunderstorm. it's warm this morning. a lot of us in the 70's some in the 60's down south. and more importantly perhaps the dewpoints. they are up higher than yesterday. 68 right now in philadelphia. and that is an indication of close to oppressive humidity and we are on our way in that direction today. 71 by 7 o'clock. 79 by 10 o'clock. mainly dry through the morning. in the afternoon, we're spending most of the time in the 80's and there will be some spotty thunderstorms that could prod

good morning karen. police are preparing for next week the democratic national convention overnight last night. they had ramp in 95 northbound to broad street this ramp right here shut down. as you can see it's no longer closed. it has reopened and is available for you this morning. of course it closes at 10 o'clock friday night and it will be closed pretty much all next week. what was not closed overnight was the vine street expressway. construction here was canceled and we're hearing the crews won't return until after the convention so the beginning of august. enjoy your little break along the vine street expressway which is looking good this morning. had some overnight work in christiana closing the ramp from route seven to high was one southbound. that should be reopening right about now but there was also an overnight crash on the delaware memorial bridge headed into new jersey at the mid span and as you can see speeds right now are just in the low 20's. you might want to use the commodore barry if

karen rogers outside in for dave murphy.

outside we go to karen rogers in for chris sowers this morning, karen we hope the weather is as beautiful as you look this morning. >> reporter: gray i'm going to come every saturday morning if i get compliments like this. beautiful out here today. i'm soaking up the sun not a cloud in the sky. a little bit breezy. 14 miles per hour, the wind direction the northwest what a difference from yesterday when we had the south/southwesterly direction that was pumping up the oppressive humidity. today is a big change not just today, b tomorrow. no humidity to worry about today or tomorrow. salt -- satellite and radar showing how nice and clear we are. mostly sunny skies, and we're keeping the sunshine today. 70 in the city. 65 in allentown and reading. 68 in millville. warmer in cape may, where it is 73 degrees. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, mostly sunny skies, less humid today 84 degrees for the high. nice and warm, the wind out of the west/northwest 10 to 20 miles per hour. we'll get a breeze, i think the breeze will feel great. we have changes for tomorrow. even more for monday

karen rogers it looks muggy over the weekend with thunderstorms possible at times, details ahead. >> reporter: the rain is coming down and the crews have been working through the night trying to deal with the cleanup. we're looking live at pattison avenue. crews are removing the barriers, all the closures are in place until midday today. as they clean up they will be reopening. so it could happen earlier. broad is shut down at pattison avenue. of course you have pattison, 11th street, darian and fdr park shut down until midday today. as the closures and cleanups continue they will lift the closures point. the ramps to broad street are shut down on i-95 northbound and southbound. that will affect you for the morning commute. the the the checkpoint closures there are no restricters on i-95 -- restrictions on i-95. if you're driving through a lot of water that's created a problem on 76 eastbound people think of that as 42 southbound the exit for market street two right lanes blocked. issues with closures and a couple of accidents so a lot of happening with traffic, matt. >> thank you, k

thanks karen. >>> 6:11. developing overseas a teen with an ax goes on attack aboard a train and world's most notorious terror group is claiming responsibility. >> school bus travelers. about to head home and something goes wrong. matt. >> we're expecting sun glare and expecting delays here in downingtown on the 30 bypass but not seeing them yet. we'll check the schuylkill and i've got some new construction zones for you when "action news" continues on this tuesday morning. >> ♪ >> that's a pretty picture. you're taking a live look here the view of center city. gorgeous out there right now. 6:15, 74 degrees, feeling a lot better today than it did yesterday now that the rain has come and cleaned out the air. >> matt pelman traffic transit, what's going on? >> it's national the journal of american medical association internal medicine says patients are almost four times more likely to have asthma attacks if they're living near larger fracking wells. fracking is the process of extracting oil and gas from the g

not as bad as yesterdayly let's turn to david and karen. >> still a day for cool drinks. not going to be as oppressive or as humid through the afternoon. this morning we've got the clearing skies that you see he there with the lack of cloud cover, the storms from last night in those watch boxes are all gone at this point and we're looking to start out bright with just high clouds filtering in as we go later into the morning and afternoon. 75 degrees currently in philadelphia, 68 up in allentown, not bad there. 69 degrees in reading. 72 in millville. and 76 down in cape may. as you take a look at dewpoints we're still looking at fairly humid air from philadelphia down to the shore but notice how we're back into the mid 60's in allentown and reading and that's because the wind today while not real strong is going to be out of the northwest. that is a source of dry air for us rather than that southerly flow that we had scooping the humidity in and these numbers should continue to fall just as they already have up in allentown and reading later in the morning and afternoon. s

hey, matt. >> hello karen. taking a live look now at the convention floor where "good morning america" willegin their broadcast from the dnc. stay tuned. that's coming up at 7:00 a.m. >>> former philadelphia police commissioner charles ramsey will step into the political spotlight. he's let set to speak on police issues on behalf of the then and women in blue. yesterday mothers of the movement took turns speaking about their anguish to losing their children to violence. katherine scott is live on the convention floor with details on that. katherine. >> reporter: matt these mothers stood together on that stage last night hoping that their stories, their words would help promote change tolerance and peace. >> the mothers of the movement took center stage at the democratic national convention last night. here they say to give their children voices who can no longer speak for themselves. >> hillary clinton isn't afraid to say that black lives matter. >> reporter: these women came together grieving for the deaths of

karen. >> we're checking on delays already matt. this is southwest philadelphia i-95 northbound approaching the exit for the platt bridge and the schuylkill where they have the police check point and not allowing those vehicles more than 5 tons to drive through philadelphia on 95 so we're jammed from 420 to the platt and you're also jammed southbound on i-95 ahead that of checkpoint dave. >> first gentleman. >> i like it. >> pull that off. i was always wondering actually. 80 degrees by 8 o'clock still kind of muggy this morning. humidity is going to drop today. even though we're going for a hot high of 95 yeah cool drinks important but it's knot going to be nearly as oppressive as yesterday. >> dnc coverage continues on "good morning america." that is next. stay tuned to us through 6abc.com facebook and twitter. for karen rogers dave murphy nydia han and tamala edwards there at the wells fargo center i'm matt o'donnell. "gma" is next. >> ♪ one fifth of all the fresh water in the world flows into one incredible experience you can't

let's get you over to karen rogers in for chris sowers with the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast. we're looking good. >> reporter: i was look at the shot, the people on the boardwalk. they are enjoying it already. let's look at penns landing, a lot of folks will be out and about today for all the festivities that are going on for the birthday bash for america. temperatures in the low 70s and feeling good. you can look at the wind speeds 15 miles per hour. the wind out of the northwest, so yes it is breezy, what a change for the wind. yesterday it was a southwesterly flow that brought in oppressive humidity. it was a switch, refreshing breeze. current temperature in the # city, 71. 70 in trenton. 73 in millville. 74 currently in cape may. let's take a look at the dewpoints. they went from the upper 70s when it was so oppressively humid plummeted to down to below 60. not only today, tomorrow, as well a winning factor for the weekend. we have clear conditions, we're watching clouds fill into the west. we'll see mostly sunny skies, 11:00 a.m., 76. 1:00 p.m., it's 8 a. 3:00 p.m., 84.

karen what have you got on the roads? >> reporter: we continue to follow the problems on main street in manayunk. breaking news. we have a water main break closing main street. look at the debris all over the roadway you're dealing with. earlier we saw the water gushing out on main street. now you get a better sense of debris. we've got mud and rocks. this is near levering you have to use crescent street. you can see the problem for all the businesses main street in manayunk you'll see no traffic that's getting by for quite sometime. they have the fire department crews you see them on the scene, probably getting ready to soak it to clear out the problem with the debris. they have shut down the water. main street and manayunk the action cam live on the scene of the breaking news. let's go back to the traffic maps and talk about other issues looking live on i-95 no problems southbound traffic at cottman moving just fine. regional rails the other big story we're following, we expect delays with the regional rails. septa is d

i'm meteorologist karen thomas. we have hazy conditions out there this morning, low cloud cover, heat and humidity will continue today. we're looking for sun and clouds and the possibility of some storms rolling through the area. tomorrow a different day, feeling a bit more comfortable as the humidity gives us a little bit of a break. temperatures on the warm side right now, waking up, philadelphia, 73 degrees, 74 in wilmington, it's up to 76 degrees right now in dover. and temperatures all around the region mainly in the 70s with the exception of the outer lying suburbs about 67 degrees, but we'll take you up to the lehigh valley and bushings county 68 degrees right now in bath, 68 in easton. we're mainly in the lower 70s to the upper 60s and we are expecting the temperature to be jumping up here in the lehigh valley. i will be back with a cut on humidity and those storms. >> we'll see you then. >>> happening today it's time for the and his panic fiesta at penn's landing in philadelphia. this is the 35th year for t

let's go over to karen. >> reporter: stay home. let's run through the accidents, look at this standstill traffic, you're seeing people waiting in line trying to move an inch or two. this is the blue route southbound approaching broomall we've got a new accident. traffic is backed up on the blue route southbound you're crawling along right now. blue route southbound approaching broomall the latest of many accidents coming induce here. i-95 -- into us here. i-95 southbound at highland avenue moving along 11, 12 miles per hour. that's creating problems, as well. here's a look at the map of some of the other accidents, we have the one on the blue route that's causing a crawl right there. we have one on i-95 northbound that i showed you as well. we'll talk about that in a second. we have one on the schuylkill expressway westbound near gladwyn that cleared. accidents popping up and they all seem to be on the major highways. this is a different shot. penndot has zoomed around i-95 northbound we had an accident on the the convene street ex

karen. >> it's still very warm today with bright sunshine this afternoon. we'll reach a high of 89 but the low 68, much lower than it was yesterday so today is a lot more >> a teenaged pilot from compton california returned home a hero after flying around the country. 16-year-old isaiah cooper is the youngest african-american to pilot a plane around the continental u.s. it took him about two weeks to travel more than 8,000 miles. he says the skies weren't always friendly but quitting was never an option for him. cooper hopes to fly around the world solo when he turns 18. >> what a big dream. congratulations. >> good for him, yeah. that's awesome. we're flying on the schuylkill expressway this morning as we head westbound here by city avenue. just don't fly too fast. more construction coming during the midday today on the city avenue bridge. right under this between the schuylkill and kelly drive watch out for the crews out there from 9:00 until 3:00. still have the overnight crews in folsom atlantic county blocking the black horse pike until 6:00 you want t

with matt o'donnell, tamala edwards, karen rogers and meteorologist, david murphy. >> ♪ >> good morning. it's wednesday july 27th. gray hall is joining us here in the studio and matt o'donnell is live at the democratic national convention in south philadelphia. >> good morning. never before has a woman officially headed the top of a major party ticket in the united states. hillary clinton and the democratic party changed that in philadelphia. >> ♪ >> and i can't believe we just put the biggest crack in that glass ceiling yet. >> hear how her husband promoted her candidacyd bruised her opponent and get details on political stars on the stage tonight. >> new information from the secret service overnight. four people are under arrest for jump agate at the dnc. >> first up let's go right over to meteorologist, david murphy to talk about this continuing heat and karen rogers has your commute. good morning. >> well, it's not going to be quite as hot today but once again a day for cool drinks. we have a little shower that's popped up south of philadelphia cutting through southern lancaster c

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meteorologist karen thomas is here with more on this excessive heat and, karen, is there any chance we could see more of these storms popping up? >> yes, denise. we have to take the storm seriously for sure. we just dropped our severe thunderstorm warning for philadelphia county, but heavy rain cells are still moving through the city of philadelphia. meanwhile, severe storm warnings are up for parts of burlington county, camden county, parts of atlantic county as well as gloucester county. we can see radar right now, we also have a severe thunderstorm warning box here in delaware for parts of kent county as well as parts of southern newcastle county. some of the storms are severe, and by that we mean could create some lightning, hail, even 60-mile-per-hour winds and some heavy rains. we're seeing here in new jersey there are plenty of lightning strikes just passing over heading to the southeast, just passing over 206 headed for the shore area of atlantic county and parts of southern ship bottom, so if you are at the shore in parts of atlantic county headed down to cape may county, you

as you mentioned, karen, those thunderstorms for later in the afternoon hours. back to you in the studio. >> thank you. we have certainly paid the price, right, with the heat wave that has been for the last couple of days. we will go ahead and take a look at our ten-day forecast. do we get relief? well, 91 in the city for today, we have some scattered isolated thunderstorms, potentially sun and clouds. tomorrow the humidity will drop and dew point will drop, it will feel a lot better. look at our temperatures as we get closer to tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday. we go back into the super heat with temperatures well above our average. our average high temperature this time of year, 87 degrees and so you can see come tuesday we're going to be jumping back up into the 90s. so enjoy when we get that cut in humidity tomorrow. kate. >> all right. karen, thanks. >>> a popular concert is back at the jersey shore this weekend after a controversy about bad beach behavior threatened to shut it undo. we'll take you there next and tell you what the decision has been. it

with matt o'donnell, tamala edwards, karen rogers and meteorologist, david murphy. >> ♪ >> good morni it's 4:30 on this tuesday july 19. >> we're following two breaking news stories to your. a driver in atlantic city struck and killed a pedestrian and kept on going. >> masked men break into an elderly man's philadelphia home overnight forcing him to land over cash and more. >> airport workers plan to rally today leading the fierce that a strike could disrupt travel during the democratic national convention here next week. >> dave murphy is off. let's give you accuweather from karen rogers. matt pelman has traffic. good mor >> good morning. we're starting to take a look at the storm reports because i know for a lot of people it's still time to clean up after strong storms yesterday in allentown, tree limbs down haverford township one of the hardest hit areas, trees down, upper darby several trees down, wilmington same situation as so some serious storms that came through and caused a lot of damage. satellite6 and action radar slowing that's out of here many we still have just a fair am

or visit my24info.com. >>> one last check of the the forecast with karen rogers. we are trying to figure out whose pool we can go into. lets take a look at this. that looks good, lots of sunshine, we decided it's cecily's house. 88 degrees at 2:00 p.m. and by 4:00 we hit our high of 90. today is just the beginning of the heat and just a transition day. if you head to the phils it's warm and a bit humid. first pitch is 86 degrees and ninth inning 79. >> your pool looks inviting too from what i understand. i have never seen it. a look at stories coming up on "action news" at 4:00. we stay on top of developing news at temple university. where a settlement is reached to allow the school's president to resign. >>> and turning over to solar power is never easier and more affordable but we have everything you need to know coming up in what's the deal? now for meteorologist, karen rogers, david murphy, sara bloomquist i'm rick williams have a nice afternoon. we'll see you a little bit later. ♪ i had an injury to my neck. it wasn't as serious injury it was a herniated di

karen rogers is back. she's got traffic. >> i missed you guys. >> we missed you too, karen. in a moment we'll hear you talking about wopped full traffic issues which have been going on while you were away. sunshine early but there are some high clouds -- there is some high cloud cover pushing down from the north and today is going to be a fairly sunny day with occasional patchy clouds coming through. the temperatures are on the cool side in most neighborhood right now. 64 in allentown, 65 in trenton, 67 degrees in philadelphia. 65 in millville. couple of spots like wilmington and cape may are in the low 70's probably dipping into the 60's over the next half hour or hour. dewpoints though are higher today. remember we had them in the 50's yesterday morning. today 64 on your dewpoint reading in philadelphia and anything over 60 is considered humid and today overall is going to be a bit more humid than yesterday. as we roll through the afternoon it's another warm one, too. 70 degrees by 7 o'clock. a little sweaty on the running trail but not bad. 76 degrees by 10 o'clock and th

isn't that nice, karen? we'll detail all of it in the seven day. >> all right dave let's talk about regional rails. this has been the big headache. we expect that to continue. i was checking the latest. most of the delays at this point are under 10 minutes bullet we expect after about 7 o'clock or so we'll see major delays once again. new schedules with the regional rails took effect yesterday when they leased a few more trains but we're still about 11,000 seats shy of what we would normally be at so it's been causing big problems and we expect that to continue today so watch for. that let's go outside and check i-95 right now. this is your southbound traffic at cottman starting to slow down a little bit past academy to cottman and from the betsy ross bridge to girard currently a 20 minute ride. not a terrible delay but that delay just kind of starting to kick in with some of your highways. vine street expressway looking live westbound traffic looking a little slow as you head towards the schuylkill. slow fr

karen: sandys repeating his call for wasserman schultz to resign. senator sanders: i think we need a new chair who is going to lead us in a very different direction. karen: security is tied at the convention site. issued to protesters. marches and demonstrations are scheduled all week throughout the city. >> we will take the appropriate measures to make sure we keep everyone safe. karen: hillary clinton thanked debbie wasserman schultz but made no mention of the e-mail controversy. bernie sanders his own statement said wasserman schultz made the right decision for the party. therely: we will be tomorrow when the democratic national convention kicks off. chief political correspondent scott thuman and brad bell will bring you live coverage . their reports all start tomorrow. donald trump is standing by his boss -- fox news boss roger ailes: what happened very sad. he was forced from his job amid allegations he sexually harassed female employees. withdraw the u.s. from the wto and refused to rule out handing immigration from france and germany saying b

let's head over to david and karen rogers to take a look at traffic. >> reporter: good morning, everybody, surrounded by beautiful ladies on "action news," don't miss matt that much. i probably want a favor later, who knows. we have sunshine early, it is more humid as we step outside. we had thunderstorms that rolled through south jersey a little while ago, they are long gone. later today especially in the afternoon we're looking for spotty pop-up showers and thunderstorms that could produce isolated downpours and gusty winds. 68 in allentown. 68 in trenton. 70 in wilmington. down the shore in cape may, 71. the dewpoints are up. remember if you get up over 60 it indicates humid air. remember how we talked about how it would be comfortable yesterday, but soupier today. it's humid in places like dover and cape may. these dewpoints will hit 70 in philadelphia eventually later this afternoon own this afternoon. 72 degrees on the thermometer a little humid for the morning workout, you can get it in without threat of rain, 77 degrees, noon, 81. we get into the afternoon, it's going to be warm,

let's get to the excessive heat with david murphy and karen rogers has traffic. >> reporter: right now on storm tracker 6 live double scan we see showers fading a little bit and moving through northeast philadelphia and whatever is left over in gloucester and camden county is not much. that's all we have on the radar for you. as we look out west there's a cold front coming in, we'll be on the look out for additional showers and thunderstorms that will pop through probably in a line later this afternoon and this evening, from west to east, some of them could be gusty briefly and of course a brief downpour is possible just like we hadn spots yesterday. excessive heat warning kicks in at noon and doesn't expire until 8:00 p.m., friday night. the warning area is this area and will get up to 102 and 103. we have a heat advisory in the lehigh valley and close to the shore. takes it easy. shady breaks and cool drinks. 76 degrees in philadelphia. 75 in wilmington, 75 in trenton. 76 in allentown. actually even numbers across the region. we're looking at high heat and humidity. dewpoints right n

karen chaka fattah storm karen, if a storm comes toward philadelphia you want to take cover. >> reporter: all right, dave, let's talk about the regional rails. we have five new trains septa is leasing, warminster line media/elwyn line we have several no schedules today. we have two thorndale lines one running 26 minute late, one 44 minutes late. i've been tweeting them out. annie mccormick is live on the scene talking about the septa regional rails and all the new schedules that we have. we'll be talking about that as the morning progresses. let's go outside live we have a close up view penndot of the penndot truck, schuylkill expressway eastbound at montgomery drive disabled vehicle on the shoulder, penndot on the scene helping you out with that one. looking better as you head out the door right now. this is route 42 looking good right now. we expect volume coming back from the shore after a great shore weekend. northbound traffic not bad just yet an easy nine minute ride from the ac expressway to 295, tam. >> we are learning more about the gunman who shot three police officers to death

. >> but first up let's get you accuweather and traffic with dave murphy and karen rogers. good morning. >> good morning, everybody. and we've got a couple of light showers that are coming through areas south of philadelphia. we're focusing mainly on wilmington delaware down through dover real spotty stuff in kent county. some of this is crossing the bay and lower delaware river into salem and cumberland counties. i'm also picking up just a quick sprinkle down in cape may. there's additional stuff out to the westly it's possible that philadelphia gets clipped by some of this later this morning but most of it looks to be down south and then later this afternoon there could be an additional shower or a thunderstorm especially in those southern areas. you can kind of see some additional stuff out to the west riding along the frontal boundary stalled to our south. fair amount of cloud cover out there this morning. it looks like through the day we'll see more sun to the north, more clouds to the south and most of our precip down south as well. 78 in philadelphia currently, 80 in

how about it, erika. >> i love t karen, i love that you're calling it now casting. that's what it is. it's a little misty, you mentioned the patchy concern, that's another concern for the early morning hours. the sun will peek on through, so let's take a look at visibility right now. it's improving, allentown 4 mile visibility, hazleton 5, pottstown five and pottsville poor visibility at 2 visibility. some seeing less than half a mile visibility. don't turn on the high beams, take your time driving. it's misty so that's not helping much right now, but again improving by certainly tomorrow. that's something to look forward to. karen talking about that cold front, the wind is picking up, it's a little breezy right now but again everything is improving. back to you in the studio. >> thank you so much. >>> yes, as erika mentioned, we are looking for a better day tomorrow in terms of the humidity, the dew point will be coming down. as we go ahead and take a look at our ten-day forecast you can see it really is sort of a 50/50 split with our weekend today hot, steamy, we

karen -- on the 4th of july. karen, i don't see anyone, yes i do there's a car on the road. >> reporter: this is the garden state parkway approaching route 47. if you're heading to the wildwood beaches now is a good time to do so. obviously it's quiet down there. probably some of you heading toward the city instead. 42 northbound traffic light volume we expect it to be an easy ride coming in today with many people having off, so far so good coming up from dep ford or turnersville. no delay on 42. baltimore pike we have an accident, a couple of problems this morning, this one in chester county darlington road and wawa road. we have an accident with police and ems crews on the scene. one more accident on the northeast extension southbound near 202. we are blocking a lane with this. there are injuries on the scene with this, as well. we have emergency workers coming there right now, tam. >> this is breaking right now, some casino workers are supposed to hitting the picket lines, we just took a live look they are out

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