holiday. sharee williams has the full story tonight from ac. revel was thought by some to be the future of atlantic city. but that turned out to be a bad bet. as fascinating and eye catching as blue glass tower may be it's also bankrupt. >> i'm laid off. that's all right. one door closes and another opens up. mr. hart is working his last shift at the revel hotel and casino closing down only after two years in business. vacationers looked on in disbelief as the name nature was removed from the building. it's hitting home for those from atlantic city and hart is one of the 3,000 revel employees now out of a job. >> i used to run the boardwalk with my grandmother before it was built. >> revel faced a financial cat osfy before the doors opened. while in construction owners needed an additional $1 billion to finish out the massive

project. built to be a luxury resort, it didn't target the over day atlantic city gambler according to experts and there's no buffet, no players club and no transportation to bus gameers in. >> it's kind of huge for city also and like you want people to come to the casino. even the signs it's like hard to get to the casino. >> yes, sir ka rossy is here for the blowout pool party and say good-bye. >> go out with a bang and hopefully someone will buy it to come back here again. >> we have lives here at stake. >> cynthia represents a group of chinese investors who made a bid this weekend for the bankrupt casino. >> the offer was made and rejected. it we keep the boorz open all of the slot games can stay in position. and once the doors close, everything has to be returned. >> so there is hope that this massive property at some point will be sold and be in the hands of a new owner.

in the meantime, the hotel portion already closed and that happened 11 a.m. and the casino floor is set to close at 5 a.m. in atlantic city, sharee william. "channel 6 action news." >> ref sell second casino to close in as many days. showboat resort and casino shut down operations yesterday after 27 years in business. showboat closed doors for good 4:00 yesterday afternoon. employees peeked through the doors for a last look and snapped pictures with friends they made on the job. showboat employed over 2,000 workers. >> a resource center to help laid off casino workers will open wednesday at atlantic city convenience center, local 54 partnered with new jersey department of labor and otherer agencies to form ac units here. workers will be able to learn how to get assistance with food

and utilities and insurance. ac units here opens september 3 at 9:00. >> labor day marks unofficial end of summer of course. but don't tell that to the folks that crowded the jersey shore today. the boardwalk in ocean city was busy with walkers, psych list, and families riding spt uris. anda sea isle city people flocked to the beach. 2014 was filled with memory and other says not over yet. >> riding bikes on promenade and playing in the ocean, playing in the sand, listening to music on the boardwalk and eating italian ice. >> it's always too short. >> it's never long enough. >> we deep going as long as we can. >> this summer we stretch into october. we're lucky. >> well the unofficial end of summer not only bringing heat and humidity our way but wet weather as well. meteorologist cecily tynan

tracking possible storms tonight and tomorrow. she's outside with the latest from accuweather. hey, ces. >> rick, we have isolated storms out there tonight. really the big impact with weather is heat and humidity. the labor day weekend started on cool side. saturday's high in low 80s. 8 1 degrees. low humidity. yesterday we shot up to 93. 17th time temperatures in the 90s. the normal high is 83 degrees. but it felt warmer when you factor in the humidity. currently in philadelphia, 88. wilmington 84. allentown 87. dover 83. cooler along the beachs with that seabreeze kicking up. sea isle city and boardwalk 78 degrees. dew points have not had dew points this high most of the summer. very humid. it's 71 degrees in philadelphia. dew point 76 in dover. that's tropical. you add that with temperature,

the heat index feels like 94 in philadelphia and feels like 9 wilmington and dover and feels like 91 allentown and reading. now stormtracker 6 liver showing one isolated storm. no lightning strikes with this. heavy downpours. just to the south of beach haivrn and moving to the east. it will be moving offshore. within the next half hour looks like things more active late tomorrow night though. so the headlines showing heat will be peaking tomorrow. humidity drops on wednesday. but for the next five days no real cool down but things will change as we head to the weekend. i'll talk about that in the full accuweather 7-day forecast risk. >> ces, we'll see you back inside. we'll stay on top of the changing situation at 6abc.com. visit 6abc.com for radar, hourly and 7 day forecast and latest video from "action news" meteorologists. and we'll find collection of weather-related photos and videos.

>> in other news medics rushed a 56-year-old woman to the hospital today after a serious accident in north philadelphia. the crash happened 2:30 this afternoon intersection of allegheny and glenwood avenue. authorities say the victim's car over turned after colliding with another car and struck a utility pole. the victim is said to be in stable condition at temple university hospital. >> traditional labor day parade kicked off along columbus this morning and celebration of festivecys was a celebration. that story tonight. >> reporter: ang and file union members and families on the march on this annual day of union pride. conceived to celebrate all that has been accomplished in battle for higher wages, better work conditions and benefits for working men and women. a constant ongoing struggle labor leader emphasize to avoid marching backwards. >> i worry about the future to

kids and young folks in the union and stability of the unions. >> this country had a big gap in the last few years between very wealthy and middle class. i would like to see that gap decrease and bring the standards of the poorer people up. >> among labor day marchers today fast food workers across the nation are continuing their struggle to unionize while demanding wage increase to 15 dollars an hour. after parade a relaxing day at pens land heing and politicians promising if elected they'll be friends of labor. on this day of relaxation laborers say they can not afford a take a day off. >> there are organizations like alex and coke brother who's are anti-union who are working against things important to families. >> this labor day 2014 range and file continue to believe

they're under full scale assault and attack by the private sector as well as government. the road to salvation they say to keep on voting in bid numbers for politicians who promised them a better deal. at penns landing, vernon odom, "channel 6 action news." >> fire forced residents from their apartment at a complex in montgomery county this morning. firefighters with called to coventry house apartments shell tan ham 10:15. initial reports a drier caught fire in third floor unit and investigators have not officially released cause of the blaze. no one was hurt. a labor day fire in roxboro gutted a 45-year-old business and put employees out of a job. flames erupted at award custom dry cleaners ridge avenue 5 a.m. crews kept an eye out for hot spots more than 9 hours over fear a flare-up could ignite chemicals inside. customers and workers are devastated by the loss tonight. >> fellow that ran the place was

great. he hired a lot of people from the area. pressers and cleaning people. and they did a fantastic job. >> i mean i love this place, man, it was family. that place was family. so a piece of me is burst out. >> flames caused minor damage to the auto body shop next door. the owner hopes to reopen tomorrow. fire investigateers say it could be days before they pin point a cause. >> school starts tomorrow at council rock south high school in bucks county and students and teachers will report with heavy heart following a weekend car crash that killed three teenagers and they're all about to start their sophomore year council rock and grief counselors were at the school today and "action news" reporter walter perez is there tonight with more on the story. walter. >> rick counselors were joined by faculty and other caring adults from the community here at council rock south high school to listen to the classmates that lieu knew and loved the three young victims all as we were given the opportunity to listen to one of the victim's family members tell

us what a great kid he was. >> mike lesher says to put it simply there was something special about his nephew ryan. >> when he smile the room got brighter. we're going to miss him terribly we were blessed we had him 15 years. >> ryan lesher's life was cut tramingicily short this the past saturday in the poconos when the suv he was riding was involved in rollover crash. two other council rock sophomores identified as shamus digney and cullen keffer were killed. as a result grief counselors were brought into the high school to help students that knew and loved these three vicks tim. the superintendent add miss there's not much they can do. >> we'll do our best to make sure kids are well taken care of. >> al function new all three of the teenagers killed and he remembers them abright, charming and athletic young men that involved themselves in a number

of cool related activities. >> tremendous individuals that shared gifts and talents with council rock high school south and you know those bright lights were skivrping wished way too sglon leshers say they will remember ryan as a loveable boy with big smile and strong spirit. >> trying to come to terms with the senseless accident. we're strong enough to move on. and keep him in our memories. >> reporter: back out live there were three other teenagers inside that chefry suburban injured but survived. one of the injured we have confirmed was also a council rock student and his identity is not released at this time. meantime the investigation into what led to the crash is still underway. reporting live from holland, bucks county, walter perez "channel 6 action news," rick. >> walter, thank you. still to come on "action news" tonight, a first for phillies. history-making win thanks to combined efforts of four philadelphia pitchers on the mound in atlanta today and

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>> and william rodriguez of tom's river is charged with making ter risetic threats in ongoing dispute tonight. they arrested him this morning. he vandalized a home on brenton harbor drive after midnight and then returned with a knife, short time later to fight the homeowner. officers say they ordered rodriguez to drop the knife three times before he finally complied and he also paces criminal mischief and weapons charges and he's held on bail 30,000 bail. crews spent the day cleaning the area around the philadelphia museum bar after another successful music festival. streets department got work along the ben franklin parkway the minute the last note was completed. this was the third year jay-z two day labor day weekend concert and this year featured simultaneous performances in loss ankle less. it was a big success des spits a one hour rain delay last night.

labor day of course is unofficial end of summer sadly and one of the best times to snag those great deals to access back to school war drobz. family flocked to the cherry hill malled to take advantage of deep discounts. back to school time is busiest shopping season behind the holidays. >> and there was no shortage of summer fun in north philadelphia this afternoon they fired up the grills and made the street their dance floor at the annual back to school fair and party. the effort times provide children from low income families with new back packs and

jamie apody here with sports and how about the phillies made history today. >> i know isn't that neat. it's ironic. >> quite ironic. >> from the year we've been having. >> in this season we had little almost nothing to celebrate phillies made holiday history

today. not your typical no-no performance. twelve batters and marlin bird catching third. and unlike usual hamels got a lot of support at the plate. in the sixth phils up 1-0. jimmy rollings tiplees home and phillies have a-0 lead. cole pulled after that upping despite not allowing a hit. control was off. threw 108 pitches struck out 5 and hit a batter. other hero of the game ben revere hit a triple in the 7th. only 15 rbis coming into the game. phils 5-0 lead to the bullpen we go. jake deakman and then ken giles for eighth and he struck out the five and so it would be up to jonathan papelbon who asked to be out there to close this thing

out and first combined no hitter in 132 year history of the phillies. sunny to watch them celebrate. it was not a solo no-no, no one knew who to hug. >> i was able to get away with six innings and i didn't have as much control as i would have liked but to have these guys come in and shut the door in the fashion we did i would say it's probably pretty impressive sort of day just to kind of see that. it took a whole team to do it. >> i think it's really special. it's a little awkward. overall it's a great experience. >> i have no idea what to do now. >> i knew what was at stake and i wanted to be a part of this and they called down there and asked me if i wanted to go back out after they scored runs and i said for sure. and i was walking out of the bullpen i think i told a fan i'll try not to blow it. >> he didn't blow it. tomorrow same time for september

call-ups. top prospect mickle franco named lehigh valley player of the year, it's opening week and eagles will hit the practice field tomorrow to get ready to jacksonville. now it all counts. they're light years ahead of where they were last year at this point. >> why is that. >> it was a new system last year people playing new poings and we have a year under our belt now and it's more familiar, some familiarity of it. going out and executing each and every play and each and every down. >> eagles added one more to complete the practice squad today signing gj kinney. he was on the quads last year and gives them extra toorm run drills. he looked good on the preseason. he's on the practice squad. >> bring on jacksonville.

>> quick break and meteorologist cecily tynan is back with the forecast when we come back. cecily tynan is back with the forecast when we come back. stay with us

>> cecily is back with a closer look at temperatures. we were almost in heat wave territory. >> 90s today and 89 tomorrow and then back into the 90s. >> it will be hotter tomorrow. stormtracker 6 double scan showing most of the region is storm free. there's one little downpour just on the southern tip of lbi and is that the moving away. no lightning strikes with this just heavy rain.

let's go live sky6 taking a look at the scene boardwalk in atlantic city, it's cloudy. sky6 shaking with the seabreeze. a lot of folks on the boardwalk enjoying the last night of the summer season. but it's still summer and it will feel like it most of the week. currently in philadelphia, 88 degrees. wilmington 84. allentown 87. seabreeze temperatures on the beaches in upper 70s. you factor in the dew point, dew points are tropical. we have dewpoint of 71 degrees in philadelphia. wilmington and dover, due minutes mid 70s. we have not felt this kind of humidity for most of the summer. so it's pretty oppressive up there and tomorrow it's going to be even hotter and more humid. satellite 6 along with action radar showing downpours and storms. >> and look out to the west. and future tracker showing

clouds and sunshine as we head into the evening hours. we'll see showers and thunderstorms developing primarily in our far north and west suburbs in the evening and then moving offshore. by around midnight. the heaviest storms will be north of philadelphia. it's going to be a steam bath. high of 9. you factor in dew points. it will feel closer to 96. 97 degrees tomorrow. a lot of kids heating back to school for the first day. definitely want to dress for summer. drink lots of water and try to stay cool. on wednesday behind the system we get winds out of the northwest. as drier flow of air it's warm, 88. the humidity drops as we head through the day. it's going to be a lot more comfortable. tonight a stray evening thunderstorm. most of the region rain free. very muggy. very warm. 69 degrees in cooler suburbs. 73 center city and day planner tomorrow showing a lot of sunshine and especially early. but already, 76 degrees by 8

pbg. by 11, 86. 00, 91 and by 5:00, 92 so a hot and humid day. the exclusive accuweather 7-day forecast heat and humidity here tomorrow, evening thunderstorms, 9 degrees on wednesday. still warm, lowering humidity, 8 degrees. thursday warm, low humidity, 88. friday, though, back to 90. heading into the weekend looking somewhat unsettled and front flips through saturday bringing us rounds of thunderstorms, 88 degrees. big question sin the front continues on or stalls on sunday. if it stalls could have showers for eagles home-opener and monday partly sunny. finally cooler high of 78. don't put summer clothes away yet. >> not yet. all right. thank you, ces. "abc worls news" tonight is next on channel 6. join us for "action news" at 11 here on channel 6. for jim gardner, meteorologist cecily tynan, jamie apody, ducis rogers, the entire "action n

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