concern. >> lets get the latest from accuweather and cecily tynan, she is live at the big board with the details. >> stormtracker 6 live double scan show that not everyone is seeing the rain, we have pockets of rain with heavy rain in southern lancaster county, there is one pocket of heavier downpours moving out of wilmington and moving over delaware and up to the north and it should be east of chadds ford within the next 10 minutes, you notice lightning strikes there aren't any, we are not talking thunderstorms but heavy downpours and more are on the way, a wider view on stormtracker 6 live double scan showing that it's all ahead of a cold front, that is currently across western pennsylvania, can you see how they are all moving up from the south pulling up the moisture from the gulf of mexico, and the humidity is high and when you have the moisture in the atmosphere, the downpour can pull down a lot of rain in a short period of time.

the national weather service posted flash flood watches for the bulk of the area. all the areas in green until 2:00 in the morning, that means there is potential for localized flooding and it happens in a flash, currently visibility is not that bad, 6 miles visibt and atlantic city airport 7 miles and the poconos 7 miles, but that fog is increasing, so the morning commute we dealing with rain and some fog. this is what to expect this evening, the numerous scattered downpours with all the moisture wrerk looking at the potential for the rain to fall 1 to 2 inches per hour than is teeming torrential rain and ponding and flooding possible and more on the way tomorrow before things change for the better over the weekend. >> cecily we'll check back in later. remember you can get updates on

the forecast wherever you go with the 6 abc storm tracker app, it features live audio alerts and the live look at radar and the app is free to download for the apple and android devices, turning to breaking news in chester county, where a music teacher faces sexual abuse charges. he was taken into custody within the last hour. david henry is live now in westchester, with the details. david? >> reporter: just moments ago, 44-year-old anton foeman was taken into custody and arraigned for charges against three children. foeman was a piano teacher for four years and just six days ago one of his students when to her mother and said he touched her inappropriately. an investigation started and

three more victims came forward. he has been in the country for five years working the last four years in malvern and he and his wife ran a music school. they believe there are more victims than the ones that came forward so far. he had extensive access to the children in a music room to the children alone. and that is where the molestation took place, he was arrested at his home in phoenixville this afternoon after the charges were filed against him. he was brought here to district court and has been arraigned on those charges, serious felonies that could send him to jail a long time. they are reading a statement as follows. this is from the owner of the

school, he says i was informed of this last week and he was informed he could not be the premises. he had other music school and now district attorney and police are asking parents that sent children to either of those schools to talk to their children and find out if anything similar happened. he was at the one school for four years and they suspect there could be other victims. david ry, channel 6 "action news." in delaware terrifying moments for a mother and teenage son when an armed intruder threatened their lives shooting them both. the gunman entered both mother

and son but it could have been much worse if not for the heroic actions of teen degree. eva pilgram is live now in wilmington with the full story. >> reporter: an armed gunman forces his way into a newark home with just seconds to think, a teen thought of his mom. tonight he is credited with saving her life. >> someone is trying to break into the apartment. >> who is it ma'am? >> scary moments for patricia buckworth and her son roderick. they say that their neighbor forced his way into their apartment and kept firing shots. >> my son ran down the hallway and hid in my bedroom. >> "action news" spoke with patricia from christiana hospital earlier today and her son's first thought was to protect her. >> he was very remarkable.

he is amazing. >> brunson made the way into the room shooting roderick again and hitting patricia in the upper body. >> he was standing over me and shot himself and landed on top of me. >> she said she didn't even know brunson and her first interaction was last friday. >> he was a veteran. >> he thought i was being loud and talking about him. >> tonight family and friends still don't understand how this happened. >> they are not surprised by how roderick responded. >> it speakers not just to his character but to the love and relationship he has with his mother. he told me we came into this world -- >> now patricia was released from the hospital earlier today and roderick is still at christiana and his mom says he is expected to make a full

recovery and that is great news because he is a member of the wesley college track team and an ambassador for american teen idol and a volunteer in his commune and he can adhere oh to his list of accolades. >> a remarkable young man thank you. two former philadelphia police officers are found guilty of stealing utilities were found guilty today. eyesha was given five years pro base and 18 months in prison swa ez was sentenced to five months and probation. he has paid restitution already. the thefts involved properties, perry and suarez opened here in philadelphia. philadelphia firemen raised

awareness today. they went door-to-door in north philadelphia, and handed out home fire checklists and installed smoke alarms for p.m. that needed them. this is in response to the fire on the block, one prn suffered burns on half of their body and are in serious condition tonight. mat pellman is back in the traffic center with the very latest. >> welcome back. >> thank you. i am back with a big, big backup for you guys rick and shirleen. here on the schuylkill expressway westbound side look at the parking lot coming away from south philadelphia and the phils game, we are jammed solid from passyunk to belmont avenue, stop and go to 202 into the curve from montgomery to this point the whole way into the walt whitman bridge, if you want to take our good buddy, the ben franklin bridge, those three lanes getting through the work zone and stacking through eighth

and vine, if you are headed towards the westbound side of the bend, look for a downed pole in the lane of the admiral wilson boulevard, and it's quite heavy headed in that direction. >> 95 headed both ways here in delaware, because of 495 delaware, 30 half hour either way and should be 12. we'll check it again in the next half hour. >> okay. thank you matt, more to come on "action news" thursday night. local lawmakers are cracking down on electronic cigarettes. and a former president celebrated his 90th birthday with a thrilling adventure. more of this dramatic video coming up next. we'll check back in with meteorologist, cecily tynan.

police are searching a downtown neighborhood for clues after one priest was shot and killed and another was saultded inside of their church. kenneth walker was fatally shot and joseph tera was physically

assaulted. tera was able to call 911 and he is in critical condition and also ministered walker his last rites. they are unsure how many atta attackers were involved. governor jack markell in delaware signed legislation making it illegal to sell cigarettes to anyone under the able of 18, he expressed his concern over younger people using electronic cigarettes. >> turning now to the event that has the world's attention tonight. the 2014 world cup is officially underway in brazil and the festivities got off to a start when a demonstrator was hurt during the protests in san paulo this morning.

for many city streets, they cleared out as brazil started their match-up with croatia. >> and sara bloomquist is live with a large brazilian population here. >> we are here at the bar and grill in the rhawnhurst section, this section of philadelphia is home to many -- and many of ion, them -- watching the game here but it's nerve-racking for the home nation, they are tied with croatia 1-1, it's the world cup and it means so much to the people of brazil that live here in philadelphia, they couldn't be more excited. wearing the colors of brazil though are cheering on their nation here in the rhawnhurst section, and they waited for years and the world cup is

underway. >> it's a great party, it's about everybody getting together and being happy. >> many immigrants from brazil now call northeast philadelphia home. ralph owned s a store with all things brazilian but it's all going fast. >> most of it is gone. >> you sold a lot? >> a lot yes. >> viewers were setting up for a viewing party this afternoon. >> everyone is excited, i just called my parents and everyone is getting ready, the streets are painted and people are cheering and having parties and barbecues, we can't wait. it's in the just brazilians, the world cup captures the attention of the world, including this argenti argenti

argentinan fan that took the day off from work to watch. >> i want to see mexico play too. >> it's not just a sporting event. >> it means everything. absolutely everything. >> this is just the start, the matches go into july, an exciting time for all nations involved including the united states who takes on ghana. live in rhawnhurst, i'm sara bloomquist, channel 6 "action news" the world cup match will be on espn or abc. can you download the watch abc app and the watch espn app for live streaming coverage, both apps are free for your mobile device. >> he may be the oldest living president but it didn't seem like it. look how former president, george h.w. bush jumped out of

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the grocery store chain wegmans warning customers about the ice sold in its stores, they are recalling 17 and 18 pound bags of ice sold in the stores between january 1st and february 10th, it could contain metal pieces from the machine that ary makes the ice, it was sold in new jersey, pennsylvania and maryland. you can find more information at 6abc.com. it's a landmark day for paul olson, he settled on to a couch in spring garden for the red cross donation. he started when he was on 18 years old and last year he

develop aid heart rhythm problem and he resolved that and returned to donating platelets. >> also believe donating blood and work keeps him young and donations normally drop off.

meteorologist cecily tynan standing by and i guess it will be the weekend before we see sun. >> yes, and that is great timing, the weekend looks beautiful. until then a lot of clouds and the action cam is live and morey's pier is overcast. a few light spotty showers at the shore and mainly dry and there are some heavy showers in lancaster coin now, zoom in to stormtracker 6 live double scan, it's moving to the north at 20 miles per hour. no lightning strikes with this, this is not severe weather, but there are heavy downpours, new holland is all in the path of these heavy downpours, and more is on the way, the system

triggering this rain is still out to the west, it won't be moving through until tomorrow night. ahead of it today work get the easterly flow off the ocean than kept us cool again, 75 in philadelphia, currently in millville, 74 and allentown a chilly 69 and trenton 74 degrees and wilmington 73, the average time for this time of your is 82 degrees, satellite 6 along with action radar showing again plenty of cloud cover, we could have generally light showers south of philadelphia, if you look down across baltimore. most of these stay west of philadelphia, 7:00 tonight, east of the philadelphia across lehigh valley, heavy downpours as we head into the evening hours, later on tonight we can see heavy cells developing and tomorrow morning lots of clouds and scattered light showers,

what will happen tomorrow we get into the warm sector of the system. temperatures in the 80s and a little bit of sunshine, that could fire up some convection. that cold front finally sweeps through tomorrow nitd and cleans out all of this muck. tonight downpours and areas of fog developing, 66 in philadelphia and 66 in allentown and 67 in millville. the get away forecast shows that tomorrow it's humid and a lot warmer, 83 degrees and showers and again the chance of strong thunderstorms by the afternoon, down the shore, showers and thunderstorms and 75 degrees, the poconos gusty thunderstorms possible and 74 and the five-day at 5:00, spectacular weekend, fifth great weekend in a row. 78 on saturday and 82 on sunday, and monpartly sunny and 76 and

we could have our first 90 degree day this year next week. melissa will talk about when that will be in the full exclusive accuweather forecast. >> father's day is looking wonderful. >> have you to do better than

hello again, monica is off and shirleen allicot is joining us. crisis in iraq, the u.s. is weighing its options in response to a terrorist uprising that threatens to send the country back into chaos. several people are injured when a car slam nood a popular rest ran. >> and a philadelphia police officer has seconds to spare when he saved a man in his burning car. we'll show you the video and rescue on tape. in iraq, three plane loads are being evacuated from a major

iraqi air base north of baghdad, this from a chaos uprising. the home town of former leader, saddam hussein. they are threatening to head to baghdad next. president obama says that iraq will need help to push back. we are live in washington, d.c. with more. >> reporter: that is right shirleen, an increasingly desperate situation in iraq consumed washington's attention today. an escalating emergency in iraq, as islamic extremists continue their march towards baghdad, the al qaeda linked fighters wreaking havoc city to city. they have asked for more military aid including air