and impact it's having in our area. >> the worst in the history of the world and experts say it's only going to get worse. now as doctors are working to contain the virus people in our area with roots in at infected countries are struggling with the terrible news. >> more than 700 people have now died from the outbreak. centers for disease control announced it's it's sending 50 specialists to lie beer yarks guniea and see ear alion. they ask americans to not travel to the region in hopes of keeping the virus contained. >> i would not be surprised if you see isolated cases arrive here. you can have no symptoms three weeks after infected. those case was not spread it around. we have good hospitals and good infection control. >> both workers are in grave condition. the world health organization is

providing 100 million to try to control the outbreak. >> the news is particularly tough for people in our area who do have roots in west africa. eva pilgrim is live in university city with that part of the story. eva. >> reporter: shirleen, we are not seeing ebola popping up in our area hospitals but the outbreak is hitting families hard right here in our area. >> in the heart of the liberian community here in philadelphia, most have their mind on home right now. >> everybody is calling family members to come back home here because you know the situation is serious and nobody wants to lose their loved ones. >> reporter: a lot of friends and family went back to liberia to celebrate independence day july 26. >> everybody afraid they don't know what to do. >> all you can do is trust sgod. >> a group prayer service is planned and that service is sunday 3 p.m. khurp of the living god 61 and woodland.

1,000 people are expected. >> how they feel. i feel for them. but what i can do is pray and trust god for their lives. >> reporter: for now those with families in west africa just wait. >> we sit on the phone and hope and pray every day, call shs find out what is going on. what the government is doing. how are they doing and are they taking those people away from people and drinking a lot of water, whatever, that touch your heart, call your familiar lane tell them to be safe. that's. it. >> reporter: coming up at 6:00 we talk with infectious disease doctor here at penn about the virus and also the precautions already in place that make an outbreak here in the u.s. highly unlikely. live here in university city. eva pilgrim, "channel 6 action news."" >> eave arch thank you. a woman in camden is fighting for her life after shot outside of her home this morning. it happened before 2 a.m. in the

700 block of teal court in front of her house while her children are sleeping inside. she is in the hospital in critical condition. police have not told us her name yet or who shot her or why. new jersey senate just passed a plan pushed by chris christie to keep dangerous suspects behind bars. at a special session today the governor pressed lawmakers to overhaul the state bail system. he wants to give judges more discretion to keep high level suspects in jail while awaiting trial. and at the same time, suspects facing lesser charges could be releaseded without paying. the current lawen fairly punishes low income residents while allowing violent criminals to go free. >> we have a system supposed to be rooted in fairness. and as it is evolves over time it's no longer server those people or our aspirations to have a fair and just criminal justice system.

>> again the state senate voted to approve the plan just minutes ago. new jersey correspondent nora muchanic will have a live report during "action news" at 5:30. >> and it is now time for a check of the accuweather forecast open the thursday afternoon. >> another nice day out there. little more humid. not bad. let's go outside to meteorologist adam joseph. we're liking it. >> yes. >> we're edge ago little more closer to normal more typical this time of year this afternoon with sun and clouds and a little uptic in that humidity as we take a look at numbers across the board, we bounce back into the 80s all places inland, allentown 81, 38 trenton, 83 wilmington and 82 millville. mainly low 80s but no surprise. philadelphia running way warmer than every other location. that's the way it's been all summer long and right along the shore with the seabreeze temperatures only in the upper 7 0s. satellite and radar an abundant amount of sunshine this afternoon and high clouds trying to creep up from the south along the delaware beaches and cape may county and also to the north

and west of philadelphia a couple of showers have erupted in western parts of berks county. you can see along i 78, bethlehem, hamburg, working towards the lehigh valley. that's 8 only shower we're tracking at the current time on double scan live. as we look ahead it will turn more humid as we get into the latter part of the week and upcoming weekend and it will be certainly unsettled weekend with many downpours and thunderstorms and shirleen, no 90s we're tracking in that 7-day forecast as we go to august. we'll have the details about the wet weekend in the full accuweather forecast. >> adam, breaking news update for you right now we learned from deldot that i-495 southbound lanes will be opening today at 5:00. this comes after the highway had been closed since june because of structural problems. >> as we mentioned, at the top of the hour, officials in delaware are planning a news conference to discuss these major developments at about 4:30 in 2 5 minute from now and

bring you the latest and we suspect they will announce southbound lanes of 495 will open 5:00 tonight and northbound lanes will stay closed and will open in two weeks from now. of course, the highway has been closed since june because of structural problems as shirleen mentioned and we have an action news crew headed to the news conference we'll bring you the latest when we get it 4:30. big things happening i-495, 5 five minutes from now. >> other news, the major league baseball trade deadline has come and gone and looks like the phillys are standing pat. no new news of any moves despite the record of national place east. ducis rogers is live in the sports center and ducis it's been a quiet date for the phils. >> it has been rick, trade deadline was 6.five minutes ago 4:00 eastern time and trade could have be made and papers set to the main office. we have no indication that the philly have done anything thus

far. a short time ago our friend at espn weighed in why the phillies may have been unable to move players. >> this say combination of contracts, complicated incentives and back end clauses in the back of those contracts. performance, age, everything that could conspire against a team making moves happened to the families and we have to acknowledge who gave players those contracts? >> that would be this front office. >> i would rather see them be young and lose then old and lose. when you're old and lose it's ugly. young and lose you can live with it because you're seeing what the future might be. what's the future now? >> it certainly has been ugly and phillies sit 14 games below 500 tonight they take on the washington nationals in d.c. and jeff skversky is there we'll talk to him 5:30 whatever moves the phillies did not make. rick, shirleen, back to you. >> thank you, ducis. still ahead a climber's

terrifying fall is caught on video and wait until you see what she was able to do at the last minute to save her life. >> a world record attempt in our area. the group that joined with others to do something never about done and help families in need at the same time. >> melissa magee is live down at the shore. and today she is having some fun on the boardwalk in wildwood, melissa. >> horsing around looks like, melissa. >> yeah. literally horsing around, shirleen and rick, that's right. we're at wildwood at mauri's pier and popular car sell. we will have all of the hot happenings this weekend down at the shore and plus the all important accuweather forecast coming to you on a beautiful

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reservists today as violence continues to escalate in gaza despite international calls for cease-fire. benjamin netanyahu says israel will destroy the hamas tunnel network even if cease-fire is in place and un accused israel and hamas of committing war crimes. un says hamas is firing rock fret heavily populated areas and storing them in schools and hospitals. but the organization also accused israel defining fint national law attacking neighborhoods with schools and shelters. >> a hikener california almost fell to her death and managed to hang on at the last minute. take a look. this is video just incredible to watch. the woman was climbing down the hill yesterday when she lost her footing and started to slide. when she grabbed on to a tree and hung there about 50 feet above bottom of the canyon. crews finally pulled her to saferty.

she was not hurt. five hike verz died in the same spot over the years. wow some video. the trail remains closed tonig t tonight. >> big news in business now an absolutely miserable day on wall street. the dow dropped 317 points wiping out all of the gains for the move july. nasdaq and s&p both dropped 2% and the nasdaq was down 93 points and s&p lost 40 points. >> all right. see if we lost any in the traffic department as they get a check of "action news" traffic. >> we're always whipping with matt pellman in the "action news" traffic center. >> let's see what he has to say first. >> shirleen, thank you very much. we are always losing time on these roadways in the afternoons. that's for sure. how about that great news that you guys just gave us about 495 in delaware southbound lanes scheduled to reopen reason the next hour and been down for a couple months. northbound closed a couple

weeks. that's welcomed news. once again this afternoon jammed 95, detour around the 495 closure. in fact the southbound side, from naamans road to 495 it's a 27 minute ride right now. that ride ideally should be 12 minutes. looking at 15 minutes away on the southbound side of 95. here on 95 in south philadelphia, we're not moving so well. northbound side locked up from this point tasker to girard avenue and earlier crash there that gave us big early afternoon delays. the delays spilled back here on to the eastbound side of the vine street expressway remaining bumper to bumper across town to the skull till to 95 and those delays are spilling on to 76, schuylkill itself. speeds in the teens either way as you head to the vine. also watch for a crash whitemarsh this afternoon ridge pike spring mill road and collegeville by cvs park avenue carmen drive. let's grab the ipad and do commuter report this thursday. you know what that means almost friday afternoon one of our friend out and about 295

southbound side riding through ramble wood says watch for an object on the parkway. >> a local family contacted the "action news" troubleshooters after a piece of furniture turned out to be a dangerous household item. "action news" anchor monica malpass is in the newsroom with their story hi there, mop ka. >> they feared the worst when they heard a terrifying sound coming from the bedroom of their 4-year-old son. he happened to be all alone in that room when a dresser fell on topive him. thankfully the boy is okay tonight. now his family wants to warn parents everywhere. consumer reporter nydia han has their story on "action news" at 5:00. and plus three of the most dangerous intersections in montgomery county now have red light cameras and we'll tell you where they are and how much running them and getting a fine will cost you. we'll have those stories and more coming your way on "action news" at 5, rick, you'll be joining me then. >> thank you, monica.

>> a local group joined with people across the country today trying to set a world record trying to help families in need at the same time. "action news" anchor tamala edwards explains. >> let's get your feet off the ground ♪ >> it was more that the radio disney philadelphia tunes that had these kids bouncing at the bear boys and girls club. they'll be getting a brand new backpack stuffed with school supplies by team volunteers with assist from 6abc. >> we like to help you know? we like to help see the kids smile. a lot of us love being with the kids. >> they'll be packed to zippers with good stuff all donated by 6abc parent company disney as part of an effort to set a world record for most back packs stuffed in a single day. >> usually we piecemeal, having 1,000 bags ep shurz all kids will have supplies they need to go back to school and be able to

achieve throughout the school year. >> you know it's been an honor for us to be here and part this last day of 6abc disney summer of service and reminder, if you know somebody 5 to 18 active in the community make sure you go to 6abc.com and nominate them for an award. today is the last day they could win $1,000. i bet you know somebody who deserves. it come on mr, we have a world record to break. >> the disney efforts extends across the country and our friends at gma who started the event on times square stuffing back packs and kindness has special impact here in philadelphia. >> philadelphia has been continually -- has had education resources continually cut and to have corporate sponsors step in and fill in the gaps meant a lot. >> it meant a lot to us too. tamala edwards, "channel 6 action news." well we should mention once again disney, which sponsored today's event is the parent company of 6abc. and up next, we'll get another check on the accuweather

forecast and check of what is going on down at the shore snv time for a check of the accu

warm forecast final day in july. >> adam is back inside and over at the big board. >> final day, not bad. finding a little more normal this time of year and temperatures back into the 80s across much of the area, washington 87. richmond 84. we have september chill lurking to the north. buffer low, binghamton, around 73 right now. new york city at 76. but that september feeling is now gone. as we look at satellite and radar we have a couple showers popping up in parts of berks county heading to the lehigh valley. if you're in and around allentown on poconos you could get a quick shower as it passes north and west and overall most of russ dry. we're awaiting a front to the south in an area of low pressure. this right here will be pushing in for the beginning of the weekend. you can see this kind of

explosion so to speak of some of the tropical downpours new south carolina will march up the eastern sea board late friday night to saturday morning. it's been fairly dry. chance of rain increases especially as we get into the week, upcoming weekend. 50% chance tomorrow you'll be hit by a downpour or thunderstorm. 100% chance area wide saturday for the first part of the day and 60% chance sunday. >> as we look at future tracker early tomorrow morning mainly cloudy tomorrow. clouds increase south and east and there you could see downpours. they'll be scattered that continues until 5:00. truly tropical downpours arrive 7 a.m. friday. we could voo very inches of rain first thing day. and hopefully that area of tropical downpours pushes to the north by saturday afternoon and saturday night when it turns a little drier.

as we look at the forecast tonight stars and clouds and your "4day at 4:00" 82 tomorrow a lot of clouds and more humid and scattered downpours and thunderstorms around and heavy rain early saturday morning lighter showers in the afternoon of 79 degrees and stays humid, surprised, still a chance of scattered storms got a washout and monday warm and muggy thunderstorm likely 86 degrees. meteorologist melissa magee is live on the wildwood boardwalk and you are on merry go round first and not only friend arounds you does you win them or sweet talk guy. i got something for you if you're nice to me. i have a dog and we have ice cream with sprinkles on top. are you sag a good time. >> yeah. >> we rein wildwood adam because we're down at the shore. thursday, beautiful day. there's so much to do at mauri

pier by the way. not only do have have raids but games to play ason a georgous thursday afternoon. we have the forecast covered for you. if you come down friday, things take a bit of unsettled turn. mostly cloudy. temperature of 79 tomorrow. on saturday it looks to be morning washout high temperature 76. first part of the day looks to be quite unsettled. afternoon hours, however, on saturday, there could be still a few hours around. definitely first half not looking good. clouds and popup thunderstorm and it's better looking during the day sunday high temperature of 77 ocean temperature 71. we're live at maury's piers and we'll have more to tell you about the second half our open "action news" at 4 there's a lot to do and see this weekend at the shore all of those details coming up. i might brin the puppy home to

you adam. send it back you to. you guys did great, how are you doing.t back you to. >> give the puppy to adam. bring me food, thank you, melissa. >> summer cam surprise not about just having fun for kids in burlington county today they were also trying to make a difference. here jcc camsps medford campers brought in perishable foot items and all sorted out by young kol veers. everythinging from mack an cheese -- donate doe donated food will be turned over to the jewish -- >> and a media native is competing tonight in a brand new show on 6abc where fant say meets reality all about the show on 6abc where fant say meets reality all about the quest coming

>> time for "the buzz". a lot of buzz in chopper6hd. check out the crowds there. more than 60,000 fans have tickets for a free blake shelton concert on the beach near the pier at saysersch the show strarts at 6 and people have been lining up since early this morning to get a good spot there part of do ac campaign. lady an ta bell up is there on sunday and tonight at 8 at that pointcy and reality meet in fantastic mid evil way called "the quest" and the show pits contestants against the clock in battle of good versus evil in dwoingt save king comes to from darkness." kyle is one of five come pet towards and they participate in live action roll playing game on new series which again is on 80 and kyle is a mom, she's a wife

that said she met her knight and shipping armour at a renaissance fair and she's obsessed with talking so this is right up her alley. >> as a fap of game of thrown to you feel like you're in a movie. >> shirleen, take pictures when you do please. >> still ahead. the latest open breaking news out of delaware. we'll take you live to wilmington as officials discuss the reopening of part of 495 ridge tonight. >> he mothery interpretation what do the

northbound lanes expected to open within a month 495. the highway has been closed since june for structural problem. deldot officials are expected to hold a conference on the bridge opening any time. we'll take that live as soon as it begins. >> and now to the latest on two mane caused of bilking pennsylvania taxpayers and penndot out of millions of dollars. "action news" was there as 6-year-old contractor from king of prussia and 54-year-old consultant from berks county turned themselves n both are facing a number charges for

allegedly using their positions to steal more than 3.5 million dollars. "action news" reporter vernon odom is live along the schuylkill expressway with details on the scam. hi, vernon. >> hello, two arrests today on penndot scandle being alleged here in district 6 here in southeastern pennsylvania and all signs are it will spread further from where it stands tonight. >> penndot contractor thon nuin is free on 50,000 bail tonight. state attorney general is accusing owner of v tevrment c sevss of bribe money and loaning penndot inspector and claiming to to herbicide spraying litter cleanup and other highway maintenance and never performing the work or purchasing proper equipment. also inflating work hours and number of people working at various jobs. >> i'm telling you emphatically

it's an ongoing investigation and a lot of times we say there may be there additional arrests in this case i guarantee there will be additional requests. >> my client is hard working respect the businessman spent the last couple decades performing admirable work. we're stunned for the accusations. i can tell you he maintains his notice. >> he had no comment as he left court today. if convicted he could face a long jail term and huge fine. also arraigned in bridgeport and released on 50,000 bail penndot inspector raymond of shillington. he was charged with taking 5,000 bribe to analysis few penndot records and aid nuin in this came. if convicted they could face 0 years in prison and fine of $150,000.

>> and again pennsylvania attorney general staff warns tonight that more arrests are to come on this corruption case involving penndot district 6 here in southeastern pennsylvania. live on the schuylkill expressway, vernon odom "channel 6 action news."" >> vernon, thank you. a man accused of choking two west philadelphia women in broad daylight is behind bars. andre ill takeler was arrested after he allegedly snuck up behind a woman and wrapped rope and wire from her neck escaped and ran for help. they captured taylor a few blocks away. he was linked to another incident on sunday. police say in that case he used a woman's eyre phones to choke her and steal 7,000. he's pacing a number of charges including attempted murder. ful police are looking for

who -- surveillance video shows a red jeep stopped 3,000 block of north 23 street and moments later green taurus pulls up behind him and a young man gets out shooting at the jeep hitting it three times. neither the passenger nor driver was hurt. if you have any information on the shooting though eyre asked to call philadelphia police. >> police in central jersey are looking for predator who bear hugged a little girl this week. it happened gyo avenue and walnut lane princeton tuesday night 11-year-old told police she is walking her dog when a man swept up from behind and wrapped his arms around here. even though she was knocked to the ground the girl was able to push him off. officers-er ised the area, if you have any information call the police. >> a north eastern teacher is -- vincent patneli secretly

reported body parts about an ipod camera. the alleged video was made inside phillipsburg middle school. he's charged with up vacation of privatety and placed on administrative leave paipd leave. >> a firey crash happened outside a target and costco store last night in san diegoch the plane hit one of the buildings before stalled on the pavement and burst into flames. 78-year-old woman in the passenger seat was killed. >> i said we have to get you out of here. she said my legal is broken. we have to get you out of here. the seat behind you is on fire i have to spray the fire skivrping wish her take a deep breath and hold your breath. >> pilot was seriously hurt and

she is expected to survive. she told the control tower she lost power after takeoff. witnesses believe she brought the plane down in specific got to avoid hitting anyone on the ground. >> new laws you to protect animals are taking effect in delaware. four-legged friend joined jack markle one givers department of human health and services more over shelters. and those fighting have a better chance at adops and animal cruelty will be required to go through and approve training programs. >> the first lady of pennsylvania brought news to the philadelphia museum of art. susan corbett announced 5 million grants for the museum today and it will pay to upgrades to the iconic building which is now only a century old. renovations will make it easier for special needs visitors to enjoy the gallery. going to our news conference to discuss reopening of i-95 in

wilmington. >> we'll see traffic come over the bridge we have a plan laid out before i get to my remarks thanking people who made this happen and governor was tracking this on a choice basis on multiple times a day. and you know i made a commitment to him the day i called and said we had to close it we would work as quickly as we good and safely as responsible. i thought i would turn it to jack markle for crisp rocks. >> thank youism. >> there's a lot of hard work to do to fully reopen this bridge. we reached important milestone in the efforts to safely complete repairs as quickly as possible. so i wanted to come out today and really take this opportunity to express my appreciation for everybody that's been involved with the project fort work they've done so far.

so i want to thank the secretary and entire team from dell got just an coordinate fairy difficult group of people out here countless hours and i'm grateful to the entire team from deldot. to the contractors that have been here around the clock and continue to be here until the bridge is safe i want to thank our coming gretional delegation senator koonz, congressman car carlly and we appreciate you being here and all the work congressman carney and the game did to secure vit at funding for the bridge and it's really. >> really important. i want to thank the obama administration for help and support and i want to thank federal highways here today as they have been here throughout. very grateful to all of you. >> and finally, i want to thank all of the drivers for your

patience. you know to all the wilmington residents for your patience as well. >> we know that -- well our first priority for bridge is all about safety. we know this closure concerned significant -- we really appreciate you bearing with us and you can be assured everyone will continue to work just as hard through the project's sxleetion. we know the process is not finished. we know there are many schools that remain but we have a lot of confidence in the team that we have in us blah. and i look forward to their continuing progress and i look forward to seeing the northbound lanes reopened as well. so, again, thanks to all who have made this possible. with that i turn it over to secretary bat. >> thank you, sir, representative johnson, so the governor has been calling me

several time a day. representative johnson has been equally persistent in his efforts to make sure we were mitigating traffic and talking about impact on traffic on his district and sergeant henry i spoke to earlier today who has her granddaughter she couldn't be here today. i want to thank the governor he's been supportive throughout this. senator carper, coons and representative garny went to bat for us to d.c., i can remember speaking to each of them within hours of this event. senator kuhns saying i can insert language want and that level of involvement and assistance is just unlining any other state i've ever worked in. and so just really, really pleased. and not only their side on the federal side, buttaox, taabct the reso latee he p t

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