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 u.s. marshals.

the 89-year-old that uses a cane and had a stroke appeared in federal court. germany is trying to extradite him to stand trial for crimes. >> there were arm guards known as death head guards. of which mr. briar was one. >> briar has been under investigation since the 1990s but claims he was merely a guard outside of the concentration camp who never killed anyone. the government's case claims that all the guards in his s.s. unit served inside and outside of the camp, and participated in forcing victims into the gas chambers where over 160,000 people were killed. >> the guards in that circumstance in that death head battalion that he belonged to, made it possible for those killings to happen. >> briar was allowed to come to

the u.s. after world war ii because his mother was a u.s. citizen, his 32-year-old grandson gregory seen leaving court with his wife shirley, testified that he should be grabbed bail because of his ill health. >> he had a few strokes which he responded somewhat well to. he had issues with his heart and exhibited signs of dementia. >> in the ends the judge denied bail and set the hearing for august. >> thank you amy. now to the crisis in iraq tonight. president obama talked to congressional leaders about what to do in iraq after leaders asked for u.s. help. top democrats and republicans, the iraqi government asked for u.s. air strikes, they were in a fierce battle to keep a major oil refinery from falling into the wrong hands, they assured

soldier and civilians that they will beat the insurgent antds. diane sawyer will have the latest on iraq. can you watch that tonight at 6:30 following "action news" at 6:00. and now a developing story closer to home. a teenager is safe tonight after a frightening ordeal. the boy was walking to his home on the 10,000 block of ferndale after 2:00 when he was abducted and was later found on fairmont avenue and police are looking for two suspects, the teen's home was invated by the suspects and the family may have been targeted. dann cuellar is gathering details and will have a live report on "action news" at 6:00. a fight between two roommates off a woman led to a barricade situation in buck county, chopper 6 hd was over the 500 block of summers avenue

this morning. 64-year-old edward nomwitz pulled a gun on his roommate at 4:00 a.m. that man contacted police and when authorities showed up and asked the suspect to come out, he refused and through several hours of negotiation, he eventually surrendered. he is facing charges including assault. philadelphia police say they believe they have a man in custody that may be responsible for a dozen commercial robberies, 48-year-old richard lawrence was arrested following the robbery of a cvs on sten ton avenue. >> close to $80,000 this gentlemen was able to get through these robberies, we are fortunately that no one was injured throughout this entire time. >> they say laurence targeted cvs stores in the northwest and southwest sections and often carry aid gun. a serial shop lifter with an

obsession with whitening strips kit again in exton. he stole over $1,000 worth of whooit strips into trash bags and walked out on sunday. if you recognize him call west white land township. call the police. police believe he hit stores in philadelphia, montgomery and lancaster county as well. a man accused of vandalizing his neighbor's home with tomatoes and eggs and other objects will seek help for alcohol abuse. he faced 44 counts of criminal mischief and had been targeting his neighbor's house since 2008. now they are seeking a stay while he seeks treatment for 60 days, the charges will be reviewed after that and possibly

dropped. the firefighters made quick work of this fire, this is the 6700 block of musgrave street as crew as tacked the flames, the fire started insides of a first floor apartment and nobody was hurt. the cause is still under investigation. >> a beloved mercer county diner destined for the dump is getting a second chance to shine. it will be serving up food for the brain. nora muchanic has the story tonight from hamilton township. >> it's pure emotion. save the six stools that are left in there. >> reporter: marcia choked up seeing the old diner her grant parents owned for 40 years being moved to a new resting place in hamilton township. >> i want to see it in a new light, i saw it 6 and 7- up and lived most of my childhood in that. it was moved from route 1 to

hamilton where it will be part of mill one, a project to restore and develop an old factory building. >> we get it lined up and put jacks under it and high enough to get the wheels under it, and this is an extendible trailer. >> there were bits and pieces of the formed aluminum work but we want to preserve the whole thing in tabt. >> they hope to turn it into a vocational training site. it was offered for free, the estimated cost to move it was $30,000. if these groups had not moved to save and restore the diner it most likely would have ended up demolished or in a landfill and that would have been a sin. >> someone put a lot of thought into designing it and building it and it's in bad shape and need a lot of work but it would be a crime to destroy that. >> they are trying to raise the

$100,000 cost of restoring the old diner. >> so happy that you are going to bring it back to life. >> i'm nora muchanic, channel 6 "action news." >> delaware lawmakers are considering a bill that would decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana. the bill would make possession of up to one ounce of pot punishable with a fine. and a person could be sentenced up to 6 months in prison currently. the legislation was postponed earlier this month after lawmakers felt it was too lenient. a falling tree caused afternoon delays on the pennsylvania turnpike, the tree toppled on to the eastbound lane near the delaware valley exit shortly before 1:30 this afternoon. you can see the long traffic backup on chopper 6 but thanks to work by the crews, the

highway was open at 2:30. lets go to matt pellman with an update on the ride home. >> it's from the early accident, there say collapsed grate over the sewage great, the left lane is blocked and the right lane is squeezing by over the bridge, can you expect delays over the bridge from buck county, on the southbound side of 1 this afternoon and delays on 476 because of a new crash past the quakertown inchange taking out the left lane. and an accident at cheltenham, what we don't have any more is the crash on 95 but in the wake of it, there is a long delay spilling back to penn's landing and there is still that broken down truck, one of many we have today another in moores town, the eastbound side of church street with slow speeds of

course on southbound 295. rick and sharrie back over to you. >> much more to come on "action news" this evening, their creativity anded them an invite to the white house, we'll hear from president obama on how these west philadelphia students impressed him. another day with temperatures above 90 degrees and the heat advisory continues but is canceled at 7:00 tonight. plus ducis rogers has sports including the phillies bringing out the brooms in atlanta. we'll vtd highlights.

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ducis rogers here with sports, the phillies getting in early action. >> we did not see the series coming. taking two out of three would be nice, asking for a sweep is greedsy. wall street greed for lack of a better word is good. 90 in atlantic but the gentlemen on the left is wearing a jacket. there goes that lead, and he

unloaded on alberto hernandez. the phils fall behind and then put up a five spot ryan howard gets six rbis and drives in two here's. a few batters later, john mayberry jr., he brings in two and it's a 6-4 phillies leave and the fifth inning, the bird flexing his muscles, his 11th home run of the season. they win 10-5 to sweep atlantic, they win 7 of 9 and everyone is contributing. >> that is what we are lacking this year and having it all come together is especially in a game like this, a divisional team, it's big, you want to continue that into the next series in st. louis and go from there. day two of eagles mini camp

no pads, but chip kelly feels he can do plenty of evaluating. must feel like the insides of a pizza oven. coach kelly is not just happy today but through the entire offseason. >> what i have seen from these 90 guys is a real dedication of what we want to accomplish. we have everybody here from phase one, phase two and phase three, guys here every day challenge themselveses to get better and it's a constant improvement from april 21st to where we stand right now. >> now the u.s. takes on portugal on sunday in their second world cup match, as for altador. it's still in the upper air. and portugal is coming off a humiliating loss. >> the worlds best player and

the top team, we have a lot to worry about but hopefully we'll give them some problems and something to think about. >> the 47th minute chile up 1-0 but he can't stop this one, they win 2-0, spain the reigning world cup champion is eliminated from world cup contention. a group of students were singled out by none other than president obama. the white house lawn turned into an interesting sight, featuring what the students were learning in engineering and design and their schools. the project work shop in west philadelphia caught the president's eye. >> they built a diesel sports car that gets 100 miles per

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this is graduation day for stoops at the kensington

graduation academy, a sea of yellow and black and students in their caps and gowns, here at penn's landing, parents and friends took pictures and celebrated their special moment, it's one of more innovative schools, growing scholars in the field of mathematics and science. >> adam joseph is here and we are talking about how hot it is today. >> end of the spring and we get rid of the 90s tomorrow and bring the thunderstorms and downpours back into the forecast. as we look at double scan live, not tracking storms this evening, just the heat and slight humidity especially south of philadelphia. chopper 6 was high above center city above logan square earlier. as tempting as it is, trying to dip their feet into the fountain and the water not color nated.

sharrie said bring a shark inflatable there, save it for a neighbor's pool or your bathtub. in philadelphia 94 degrees, the summer sizzle, 10 degrees above the normal. the record high in philly was 93 set in 1967 and we were shy of that by 2 degrees. it's fairly oppressive and dover feels like the century point and 95 in millville and drier air off to the north and east. 84 in mt. pocono and trenton 91 degrees is your heat index. we are looking for storms but have you to look all the way west, not even in pittsburgh, have you to get to cleveland and south of chicago with this complex of storms, sliding along the front and atmospheric energy that won't push in here until early tomorrow morning.

future tracker at 8:00 it remains quiet, 1:00, in the morning closer to the front we could spark a downpour or thunderstorm for the wee hours and then the rush tomorrow morning at 5:30, more in the way of downpours popping up as the energy arrives from the west and by noon still downpours and thunderstorms around and that continues into the afternoon and evening hours, so tomorrow, definitely a wet day on tap. in fact, future tracker showing an inch in philadelphia, if you get hit by a downpour you could get over an inch of rain as we try to erase the heat and humidity to the south. not as hot and nice as today. showers downpours and thunderstorms throughout the day and lots of clouds and back to 77 in the middle of the afternoon.

it's comfortable and predawn thunderstorms start to arrive 68 in the suburbs and 72 for center city. and the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, 84 tomorrow and again bring the umbrella, you'll have to hit the windshield wiper multiple times tomorrow and friday nice, and low humidity, high pressure comes in from the north and 84 degrees, and then it's first day of summer, not so bright, damp and dreary, just 75 degrees, the sends half of the weekend, brighter and low humidity and seasonable. and monand tuesday in the middle 80s and we back off here with 82 and possible downpours and thunderstorms, at least the weekend isn't a complete washout, we salvage the weekend. >> we are anxious to try out your new pool. >> you want to come over? have you to bring hot dogs and

hamburgers. >> you don't have to be there. >> we'll see what the alarm system says about that. >> you can get the 6 abc storm tracker app, audio alerts for heat warnings and watches and live radar for storms heading your way. the storm tracker 6

>> one of the nation's oldest high schools sent another class

forth. senral high's class of 2014 gathered at the kimmel center for graduation and shared laughs of their time together and they are heading to colleges across the nation. it was founded in 1938 and held more than 280 commencement ceremonies. jim gardner is standing by with these stories and more at 6:00. >> the delaware and lehigh valley is scrambling for ways to beat the heat. >> hundreds of new jersey national guard soldiers get a sendoff ceremony at the joint base, heading to the mid east for a year deemployment. i'll have that story coming up. now for jaime apody,

"action news" delaware valleys leading news program, with ducis rogers, meteorologist, cecily tynan and jim gardner. it is wednesday night and the big story on "action news" tonight is developing news from the summerton section of philadelphia, police are trying to find two men who kidnapped a teenager and raided his home getting away with $30,000. the home is on the 10,100 block of ferndale in somerton and live is dann cuellar. what are the details here? >> reporter: crime scene

investigators are still here on the scene voest gating this home invasion. they believe this family is targeted because they own businesses and rental properties. they held their son hostage demanding they give up the money. >> they put us down and asked us for the money. >> chris describes a harrowing ordeal after two men invaded their home at 2:00 this afternoon and they received a message from their son who was walking home from school. >> they had my son kidnapped and they called from the phone and said give them everything, i gave them everything, the money, the jewelry, my son was scared and he gave them everything we had and they took everything. >> he tied up his wife before the bandit took off with 30,000