19th and spruce and then raped repeatedly. police say her attacker was milton garcia a honduran national. vernon odom is live with the full story. >> good evening, police say this suspect charged now with rape, robbery and kidnapping has made a full statement confessing to this crime on spruce street. >> this man milton garcia, age 28 an illegal immigrant from honduras is the center city rapist that struck saturday morning on spruce. >> the resident of rittenhouse square, we have this off the street. they say it was this who strong armed the woman, and forced her upstairs and repeatedly raped

and beater and took her house keys and cell phone. >> he was employed at this restaurant as a food deliveryman and food preparer, he may have been finishing up deliveries when he spotted his victim a doctor from the university of pennsylvania, walking home from a tavern at 15th. >> this individual saw a young woman on the highway alone. >> police questioned garcia and several of his roommates, all illegal immigrants over the weekend and the ping of the stolen cell phone led them to the area were they all lived at a boarding house. >> he had several jobs. all related to restaurants in and around center city and south philly. >> reporter: jim, tonight immigration authorities confirm

that he was deported in june of 2013, a year ago last summer, obviously he quickly made his way back to the usa. vernon odom, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you, garcia's arrest is welcome news to people living in center city. they say that the attack made them re-evaluate their own safety. >> i do walk home a lot and now i bought pepper spray and i'm cautious now where i go. >> it's a remind under general, that even though we have done a good job of creating a safer city, the world is still a dangerous place. we told you about garcia's arrest on the 6 abc news app. >> as well as surveillance videos released by police, the 6 abc news app is free for your apple or android device.

a major drug bust operating in berks county, that ring is now out of business, they announced the arrest of 48 people during the investigation known as operation tourniquet, and that is sold cocaine and marijuana heroin and prescription medication throughout the county and they seized assault rifles and guns and other weapons, we set up a slideshow of the suspect's mugshots at 6abc.com. this is philadelphia police officer tamika gross of the 16th district, tonight she is facing criminal charges for allegedly encouraging her teenage girl to fight other youngsters as she watched. they say it happened several times since january of 2012, gross identified herself as an off duty police officer and promised that nobody would be arrested. she turned herself in this

morning. dietz and watson is a name almost synonymous with philadelphia. and a plan to expand the footprint, a family owned -- adding 158 jobs. lets go live to the current facility and david henry. >> the expansion has been rumored and they are true confirmed today by dietz and watson officials, they are rebuilding their burned out distribution center here in philadelphia instead of new jersey. >> we are happy to be in philadelphia. >> it's a family rye soonon of sorts, this is where the company began 75 years ago and 10 years ago they moved their nationwide distribution center to new jersey and last december it burned to the ground and officials in pennsylvania and new jersey went to work trying

to get the company to rebuild the center or rebuild. pennsylvania offers 7 million dollars in state grant and $7 million in low interest loans, the company says in the end it made more sense to consolidate everything near its headquarterers. governor corbett issued a video taped statement. >> it was a team efforts from start to finish, as a result dietz and watson will be a stable in this community for years to come. >> new jersey was terribly disappointed and understand the business decision they made and made sense with the other side in philadelphia. >> another 150 jobs will be add, most of those jobs will be filled by employees that worked at the site before the fire and

many of them already live in pennsylvania. the company says it was a tough decision and they owe a debt to d delanco. >> we'll work hard to put jobs in that community. >> they have a plant in baltimore and another one in upstate new york and soon here the national distribution center will reopen when they break ground in september. the 20 acres back there adjacent to the property. david henry, channel 6 "action news." construction work along busy city avenue is causing traffic headaches around the clock. chopper 6 hd was over the road earlier today where traffic was backed up between the schuylkill expressway and belmont avenue. crews need daylight, to pave at night and drill holes.

56th and woodland in swoest philadelphia is the epicenter of a big problem for pgw and at least 700 customers tonight. the gas works has turned off service in a 15 block radius because water got into a gas main and that is not a good thing. "action news" reporter john rawlins is live at the scene. what is the threat and how do they fix it? >> as for a safety concern, or a threat, water in a natural gas line could produce incomplete combust shouldn't. >> i am about to make french toast and over there will be lunch and dinner. ribs and chick and on that grill. >> washington had two grills going today, he and his wife

among the customers coping without gas service. >> no hot water. >> you can't cook? >> no. >> saturday night a freak occurrence between woodland, this water pipe, a water main burst and the pressure forced 40,000 gallons of water into the now repaired upper pipe and 8 inch gas main, natural gas and water a bad mix, forcing the shut off of gas in a four block radius and businesses had to close. >> we are closed. >> no chicken? >> no gas, no fries and no chicken, nothing. >> they used vacuums like this one to remove the water from the mains and then they went door-to-door and some customers got a green light and others got a tag, a red tag, that means the water surge passed the meter and into insidelines, this deli

owner was tagged and may have to pay an outside cracker to certify the grill was safe. his question is will the see pay for that. >> i was calling the water compa company. zbln you are not getting a straight answer? >> no, no. >> we have a straight answer now, the water department is taking responsibility we are told and will start reaching outs to the red tags customers like that gentlemen there and offer them the use of their own private contractors to fix their systems if they were damaged by the water. john rawlins, channel 6 "action news." >> coming up on "action news" tonight, a pastor stripped of his orders for officiating at his gay son's wedding is reinstated and we'll hear from him.

>> and we are two for two with low humidity and sunshine this week but it all changes overnight tonight. we'll talk about a muggy midweek before we relax the humidity at the end of the week. >> plus, phillies and marlins and a big night for captain claude giroux.

a robbery suspect tried to make a score on a bus, the robbery was reported on the wells fargo bank at just after

4:30 and police say there was no struggle on the bus and nobody was hurt. a local minister was reinstated after he married stood at his gay son's marriage. he addressed reporters and the media, he was defrocked after he was told never to preside over another gay ceremony. >> i am happy to celebrate with people and god and perform weddings one again and to be able to speak with a stronger voice than what i could have spoken with as a defrocked minister. schafer vowed to remain an advocate in the lbg community. and the costume collection is being celebrated in a whole new way tonight. one of the oldest collections in

the country, has a new name thanks to the generosity of a couple. lisa thomas-laury has the story. they feature garments and accessories at west fall college at media arts and design. >> this was worn by greta gar. >> -- this is a custom shoe and it has a matching purse because that is what you did in the early 50s and this custom shoe was worn by mary casat. she wore an extra narrow size 4, we have one of the most distinguished collection of costumes in the united states. >> drexel does not have the endowed funds to showcase until now, after a gift from robert and penny fox.

so the colleagues is officially named the robert and penny fox collection. >> it's an advantage for the students to use it and resource it. >> you think your money is well spent? >> i'm sure it was well spent. >> these were worn by judy garland. and these shoes were worn by women to keep them tiny and dainty and a parasol that would be -- it's set with crystals and diamonds. they will digitize this colleagues making it available online over the next few years, accessible to

the phillies winning streak. they are shut out ten times this season and all of them have come at home. the phillies play the marlins, they followed up their win streak with three losses in a row and ryan sandberg says the bats need to get going earlier rather than later. >> the offense was the big thing on the road, putting up some roads early on in the game an lowing our pitchers to attack the hitters and play defense and address on as the game went on. that is the recipe that we need. the phil sign grady size more to a deal, he was released by boston last week. the nhl will give out the awards and one flyer could come

up big, claude giroux is up for mvp and going against sydney crosby. >> he is feeling humble. >> i still don't believe it, it's obviously a great award to be only nominated and win or loosely think it's something to be proud of and hopefully it can help me for the future. >> the nhl is coming to town and the draft will be at the wells fargo center, a day when that could change young men's life. young nhler's battled the with flyers. >> i was working in a garage and changing oil and stuff like that. and my mother called and said you got a call from philadelphia, and they drafted you and i was like oh boy, not the flyers, i hate them.

about 20 minutes later, somehow i fell in love with the flyers. >> any network execs have an hour to spare, lebron james has another decision to make. his agent informed the team that he will exercise an option to opt out of the contract. this does not preclude him from resigning with the team. uruguay and italy. not happy when the officials give a red card that puts lital a man. and they get into it and he goes down and he tells it's official, this guy just bit me, look at the bite marks and the only goal of the match.

uruguay advances. and suarez got himself some dessert. >> thank you ducis. over an hour ago a historic inn opened doors to people in new jersey, staffers set tables and served food at the merion inn one of the most beloved restaurants closed in 2010 and features regular

the seven day accuweather forecast, adam joseph. >> good the last couple of days

with the sunshine and low humidity. we'll crank it up and it keeps going. double scan is out there this evening and the humidity is starting to increase to the south and west, as we take a look at the highlights the next couple of days. the miserable muggies are back for midweek as we look at that, the dew points are in the 50s, they go to 70 degrees tomorrow area wide and that means it feels oppressive when you step out first thing tomorrow morning. that brings on soakers tomorrow evening into tomorrow night. as a cold front approaches. they are widespread but they are soakers, where it pops up it could be heavy with a quick 1 or 2 inches of rain and some downpours could bring localized flooding and again it's more

scattered than widespread. 85 in allentown and 85 in philadelphia and 83 in trenton, and with the southwesterly wind, we have a little bit of breeze coming in off the bay, wilmington has dropped to 79 and with the wind off the water with the sea breeze at the shore, temperatures are much cooler there in the mid-70s, weak high pressure over our region squashing the clouds, you can see the action in cleveland, not much left when it pushes into our direction tomorrow, it will be severe in northern new england and it's humid and feeling like the low 90s around here tomorrow. and much of the day is dry but scattered downpour in spots and we have to wait for that to give a trigger to the atmosphere. 7:30 tomorrow morning, a spotty shower in locations and 4:00 in

the afternoon, the majority of the area is dry, a hit or miss shower is around and north of the poconos and it remains to the north tomorrow evening into tomorrow night. as the front pushes through by midnight tomorrow, you could have heavy downpours pushing through the region as well. the shore forecast tomorrow, on shore winds, the temperatures are in the 70s with the water temperature sitting at 74, the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, heavy tomorrow with late downpours and thunderstorms around at 88 degrees, thursday we start with clouds and end with sunshine at 87 and less humid and we crank it the other way here on friday, 86 degrees and we begin with the low humidity and partly sunny saturday and 85 and the humidity coming up and 86 and more muggy and 88, the first day of july hot and humid as we approach the

fourth at 90 degrees. >> thank you. finally tonight a giant game of tetrus at the face of the sear sirus center, it's the large of the video game display. the center was transformed into the tile matching puzzle this last april, it covered more than 119,000 square feet. "action news" continues at 10:00 on phl 17 with brian taff, shirleen allicot, adam joseph and ducis rogers. and please join us for "action news" at 11:00 here on channel 6. for adam joseph, cecily tynan, ducis rogers and the entire "action news" team i'm jim gardner, we hope you'll join us at 11:00.

tonight, moment of impact. cameras roll as skies darken and a twister hits. roofs ripped away and we're tracking the threat into the night. >> terror warning, al qaeda trying to make bombs decemb s d as everyday items to be undetected on planes. >>. >> big bite. a shocker as a player seems to bite a rival. are these pictures proof? stressed out. where are you most stressed? at home, or at work? spriegs test results and what you can do about it right now. a good evening to you on this tuesday night. we come on the air with threatening skies and rising