here with the latest with accuweather and possible storms. >> i am starting here in the shade, that is the place to be, yesterday was the hottest day and today even hotter. yesterday 90 and today 94, 10 degrees above normal. the record high for philadelphia for this date is 86, so not a record yet for philadelphia however we did set a record in atlantic city. the atlantic city airport temperature 94 degrees, that breaks the old record of 93 set back in the 1960s, millville currently 93 and wilmington 92 and trenton 91 and 90 on the beaches, are you not getting a sea breeze to cool you off are you getting a land breeze and have you to go into the ocean to cool off there. the heat index is high south of philadelphia, sea isle city, it

feels like 102 degrees, and 100 in dover and 97 in wilmington and millville. philadelphia the humidity is not that bad, it feels like 94 degrees and the humidity just makes it feel a little higher in reading. we have the heat advisory in affect until 7:00 and the heat indexes in some regions will be in the upper 90s. you need to take it easy, we are going from steamy to stormy in the next 24 hours, for details lets head inside to the air conditioned studio and adam joseph. >> i'll allow you in now cecily. >> thank you. >> it's going to turn stormy and they hold off to the predawn hours and mainly thursday, double scan live shows across much of the state of pennsylvania and the mid atlanticic, any storms that are trying to develop west of washington, they pop up and quickly show up. there is nothing close to home to continue the trends. as we look at the west, the

impressive line from detroit to minneapolis, 2000 lightning strikes in this complex in the last 15 minutes and this pushes off to the east this, is 450 miles away and moving at 40 to 50 miles per hours and they will not get here until the early morning hours. if a stray storm pops, it would be west of philadelphia and some of the winds could be in excess he 58 miles per hour and some hail and torrential downpours. but future tracker shows at 11:30 tonight pop-ups north and west of philadelphia and we'll wait for the morning rush hour to see some of that rain including the front pass through the region and throughout the day tomorrow it remains on the wet side with downpours and showers and thunderstorms. what to expect is widespread storms and anywhere from a half inch to inch of rain is likely to break the heat and humidity. when cecily tynan comes back

she'll talk about the first day of summer not feeling summer like. >> thank you adam. a fan drive for seniors keeping wilmington residents cool in this heat. wilmington mayor dennis williams delivered a box fan to a resident. she could not get to the store to buy a fan. as always you can stay on top of the hot weather with our 6 abc storm tracker app, get warnings for heat and live radar for storms heading our way. it's available for your apple or android device. the heat is to blame for a buzzing problem on the pennsylvania turnpike today. a swarm of bees took over a toll lane this afternoon. this was the scene at the valley forge interchange and the king of prussia, a bee keeper arrived

to try to move the bees out. this is where we find "action news" reporter kenneth moton. >> reporter: sharrie here at this toll plaza, those bees were all the buzz, that is my first and last joke of this report. drivers saw the swarm of bees traveling eastbound this morning on the turnpike and they landed on the toll plaza making it an interesting day for workers and drivers, surrounding or more like swarming the traffic lights at this pennsylvania toll plaza, it was quite a sight. tens of thousands of honey bees made themselves at home. >> this is one of more interesting ones we have done, this is definitely the first one on a toll plaza, drivers at the valley forge exit, noticed the insects this morning. toll workers opted not to work near the lane and many kept their windows closed and they turned it into an easy pass to

keep it movie. and then phil from the bee company arrived to the delight of workers. >> honey bees is the only stinging insect that swarms. >> this is 30,000 to 40,000 honey bees following their queen. and they believe the heat is one reason they were on the move. >> the goal is to get the queen from the swarm into a hive. once we get it into a hive, and most of the bees will fly into the box. >> that is exactly what happened. that bee keeper was able to get the majority of the honey bees out of here, by the way lane number nine, i can tell you is busy, i mean open again. that is last one. live in king of prussia, kenneth moton, channel 6 "action news."

>> you got one more? no? all right. okay thanks. meantime a district judge dismissed rape charges against a former gop county chairman. robert kerns was accused of raping a former member of his law firm. is he charged with several counts of assault, and faces time behind bars if convicted . a funeral director is charged with stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from an elderly woman. any mccormick is outside with more. >> reporter: the 84-year-old vick continual's niece and never you contacted the department of for aging a year ago and they

launched the investigation, it took them that long to comb through all the accounts that the suspect allegedly stole from and that suspect antoine turay turned himself into police. >> they say that he stole more than 3$300,000 from an 89-year-old neighbor that suffered memory loss after a fall. >> he took advantage and took money back and forth and paid off his credit cards. >> the victim lives nature the funeral chapel on the 2400 block of north 22nd street. >> i heard he was doing something he wasn't suppose to be doing. neighbors saw him dropping off food to the victim and police say that he gained her trust and called her grandmom. >> he was taking her to doctors appointments and trying to gain her trust, but he was stealing everything she worked hard for. >> it was the victim's niece and nephew that noticed missing money in the multiple accounts she had.

besides pilfering her accounts, he sold her home adjacent to his business, she had no idea it was sold and didn't see a dime. >> she was a school teacher all her life and did nothing but save. >> we reached out to turay, and went to his businesses, but nobody was there today. he faces a list of charges including forgery and theft. we reached out to the victim's family but they didn't want to speak to us tonight. >> annie thank you. it's time now for the "action news" traffic report. lets go live to matt pellman in the "action news" traffic center. good evening matt, we reached hump day. >> we are officially over the hump now. heading home heading towards thursday rick and sharrie, we are watching the burlington bristol bridge, we had an accident here earlier this afternoon all cleared out and

it's a ways in the distance, if you look and get out the magnifying glass and see it moving along the burlington bristol bridge, not something to worry about. but a crash on 95, northbound side at cotman in the work zone off to the side but look at the long line of red traffic the whole way from the vine street to cotman. and southbound at the vine still have the overheated truck off to the side, traffic can get by that without much of a problem. watching a downed tree in cheltenham at johns road, and we told you about mass transit delays on the septa regional rail line the airport line and that has sub dieded and back to normal now. in dover we'll see an awful lot of people heading down to the fire fly music festival, campers

started to arrived to. expect extra traffic on 1, 15 and scarborough road. >> thank you matt. more ahead on "action news" at 5:00 tonight. more tough questions for the head of general motors, testifying before congress about the auto maker's handling of a deadly issue. there needs to be a balance to get the most out of hitting the pavement. those stories and more, plus cecily tynan returns with the accuweather forecast including when we can expect a break from this heat.

the ceo of general motors was back in front of a congressional committee on capital hill, mary barra testified about the ignition switch problems that led to crashes and deaths and the recall of millions of vehicles. this is her third time in six months in the hot seat. lawmakers want to know why it took some many years to do the recall. >> i'm not afraid of the truth

and i'm not going to accept business as usual at gm. >> since january, gm issued more than 40 recalls covering some 20 million vehicles. health check tonight, if you ever trained for a long distance run and found that instead of losing weight you were gaining, are you not alone. there is a quick solution, ali gorman shows us how to run for weight loss. >> i joined core fitness for hills and drills. trainer cindy brown says its the secret to breaking out of a plateau and getting a better body. laurie explain its best. she started running long distance hoping to tighten her body. >> i felt healthy and i was less winded but i wasn't seeing a change in my body at all. >> cindy says one reason this happens is because you get used to the same routine, you don't

want to do the same thing daily, change it up with weights and sprints and hills. >> that is the training plan for womens running, called running for weight loss. >> like core fitness it changes up your routine, you'll do a fat burning run but also hills and sprints. >> press up through your heels and strength training. >> laurie says this yields quick results. >> you'll feel thinner and your pants will fit looser. >> i give people the analogy of a car. >> if you go on cruise control it burns less gas but if you floor it it burns more gas. in doing that, you'll find more satisfaction out of your workout because it keep its interesting. >> it definitely kept it

interesting. nutrition is also important, if you run five miles and then reward yourself with nachos and beer, are you wiping out all of your hard work, we have more information on core fitness and the training plan at 6abc.com. and we are asking you to join us for a 6 abc get if it. the challenge is on my facebook page, take the pledge to move more. this is running, walking, swimming and chasing after your kids, take the pledge and share it with your friends and send us pictures and video of your healthy habits using #~ 6 abc get fit. ricky want to see your pictures too. >> i don't get facebook. >> meantime the red cross of pennsylvania presented its citizen of the year award. this year dan hillfordy the ceo of blue cross was named citizen

of the year. he was selected because of his corporate philanthrop

amazon unveiled their smart phone today. the much rumored device is officially called fire. the ceo show off the device and it has 3-d features that are visible without special glasses and sensors that track your head and it allows you to open menus by tiltling the phone. the odds of a third company breaking through with a smart phone are slim with apple and samsung already dominating so much of the market. a new facility to help those with addiction started today. it was for day time new jersey's outpatient building in salem county, substance abuse treatment for adolescents and adult women. >> a partnership for a new jersey high school and college

became official today. row when college and depford high school agreed to partner their science and engineering for math programs, also known as stem, there are currently more than 100 students enrolled in

time for the accuweather forecast and cecily tynan talking about this draining type of heat. >> was just complaining about how it makes you tired when it is this hot. this is a live picture from the lake, we see plenty of sunshine but the mountains definitely a lot cooler than inland or at the shore today. >> currently in tannersville, quakertown 89 and coatesville 91 and saint davids 90 and like i was saying yesterday, at the shore today it was a land breeze not a sea breeze, temperatures in the 90s on the beaches, surf city, 90 and glassboro 90 in hockessin, delaware, 92 degrees, we are in record territory, the high so far 94 degrees, the record high is set in 1962, actually set in 1957, allentown,

not really close to the record, trenton and wilmington and the atlantic city airport the old record of 92 set at 62, and a record high in our region, and the official numbers coming in in the next ten minutes. the temperatures are not much higher, south of philadelphia, is where we have the higher dew points, washington, d.c., feels like 101 in dover and it feels like temperatures in the triple digits, if you look up to the north, buffalo and binghamton, the heat index in the 70s, there is a battle zone between dry air trying to move in from the north and stickier air from the southwest. this is causing a pretty intense line of storms working its way through detroit and nearly 2,000 lightning strikes and this whole zone shifts to the south and

east, it's pretty far away. not looking to see any real activity. showing at 9:00 a few spotty showers in the poconos, about 1:30 and showers and thunderstorms in the delaware valley and the poconos, and things fire up at wee hours of morning especially south and east of the philadelphia, a break in the action at 8:30, and the system reloads, we'll have thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon, we really do need to keep the umbrella on hand. uncomfortable and warm and muggy and the low in philadelphia 70 and 68 in allentown and predawn thunderstorms, the five day at 5:00 shows very unsettled with showers and thunderstorms especially in the afternoon, it takes the edge off the heat, on friday the drier air moves in and 84 degrees, low humidity and a beautiful day, this whole front returns on saturday, that brings us an easterly flow for the first day of summer. it feels more like spring.

75 degrees and showers and then we get back to the sun and 80 and monday seasonable with a high of 84 degrees, more details on the saturday showers in the full accuweather forecast guys. >> this cecily. >> there is much more to come in the next half hour at 5:00. a group of west philadelphia students made quite a splash at the white house today. we'll explain. >> delaware lawmakers are considering a new law concerning marijuana possession and

hello again, monica is off and sharrie williams is joining us tonight. a nazi guard accused of contributing to the holocaust during world war ii goes before a philadelphia judge. >> this trenton diner is salvaged and moved and will be restored. i'm nora muchanic we'll take you along on the journey. that story is coming up. and a group of students from

west philadelphia get an invite to the white house. and a suspected nazi war criminal that lived freely in north philadelphia, for years u.s. officials have tried and failed to expedite, johan briar. today a break through, a judge ordered he be held on a new warrant issued by the government. leer is amy buckman with more. >> reporter: good afternoon, for nearly 40 years johan briar lived in philadelphia, he will spent the night in federal prison because officials in germany say he was a guard at ashwitz that aided and abetted in the executions there. johan briar was taken into custody by