apartment building. the victim talks to "action news" about that terrifying encounter. a driver faces animal cruelty charges for leaving two dozen ducks in disturbing condition. >> win, lose or tie, what team u.s.a. has to do in order to keep world cup dreams alive. >> good morning, 5:30, june 26. matt o'donnell is off. >> let's go over to karen rogers in for david murphy and matt pellman with traffic. >> reporter: the storms had wake enemy up in the overnight hours as they slowly progressed through the area and dumped a significant amount of rain. storm tracker 6 live double scan showing them off the coastline, so we're starting off dry right now. let's start off with satellite and radar, the storms were in motion, we'll start out early with cloud cover and 9:00 a.m. we'll see more and more sunshine filtering in. it's not a bad day, but it's a warm one, 73 in philadelphia.

07 in allentown, 69 int it's a millville. as you're heading out the door early this morning we'll see mostly cloudy skies 6:00 a.m., 73. 8:00 a.m., 77 degrees it still feels muggy early on, but conditions improve a bit as the day wears on. overall today a day of clouds and sunshine, warm high of 88 degrees, we're tracking the chance of a spotty thunderstorm, i don't think anybody will see that, details in the seven day in just a minute. >> reporter: storms are rude waking you up in the middle of the night. >> reporter: they were. >> reporter: that's not nice for sure, don't they know we need some sleep. good morning, everybody, if you're waking up own heading out on the roads, the good news the storms for the most part will not be affecting you. the vine street expressway is drying out and traffic is moving well in both directions. i-95 no overnight construction to worry about. the work near kings grant has cleared. they are out and about on city

avenue between bala avenue and the schuylkill restricting traffic and causing delays like the last few days. we have restrictions in delaware county you can't get on baltimore pike eastbound coming away from the granite run mall stay on the media bypass because of a downed pole. they are working on an overnight crash germantown pike at ridge. there's a julius town road at 206 stay with us on petroleum about pemberton road. >> reporter: there's an i don't every turned vehicle on the garden state parkway near toms river off to the side. >> we're following a developing story of what was a violent home invasion, two men stormed the home on the 2700 block of west berk street at 4:30. the intruders hit a man in the head with a gun and tied him up and stole flat screen tv and

cell phone and took off in his mercedes. no arrests have been made. new this morning, an armed thief held up a 7-eleven in the shell fish town neighborhood along girard avenue shortly before 1:30. the clerk told police the suspect walked in with a gun and demanded money and ran off with an an unknown amount of cash. nobody was physically hurt. philadelphia police released surveillance video of a woman's is great struggle with an attacker. police hope to get the man off the street. katherine scott has the story. >> reporter: while it was going on, the attacker was trying to conceal his identity. you see from time to time flashes of his face. police hope somebody recognizes him by the way he walks or his build. the violent attack was caught on

surveillance video. let's go to the video. it's from june are 15th at 10:00 p.m. you can seem the victim walk from her car into the apartment building. he lunges at her in the lobby he has a t-shirt wrapped around his head to hide his identity there's a struggle. she told "action news" how he threatened to kill her. we are not identifying the victim, but here's what she said to say. he said give me the money, i'll blow your head, i got family, i got problems, i need the money. >> he then drags her out to her car threatening to shoot her demanding more money than she had. he makes her call somebody for more money in her car he took the cash and the friend and kicked the victim out of the car and ditched the victim a few blocks away.

anyone with information call northeast detectives, they are investigating this one. >> members. center city community came together last night in light of the recent rape at 19th and spruce streets. philadelphia city council johnson organize the the public safety meeting. the meeting was full of information on how 0 organize a neighborhood watch and tips on how to protect yourself. it was said the town hall meeting was helpful. >> it makes you recognize you need to aware special awoman in the city. >> suspect charged with the weekend rape and home invasion of the dr. remains behind bars this morning. a delaware county teen accused of punching a man in the face during the knockout game.

trent eps surrendered to police last week. police are looking for three other people believed to be involved in the beating. the battle of same-sex marriage may head back to the supreme court. a federal appeals court in denver ruled that states must allow gay couples to mary. utah attorney general plans to challenge the decision with the full appeals court or supreme court. thunderstorms produced flash floods in western pennsylvania. roads in state college were more like rushing rivers. officials say three quarters of an inch of rain fell in ten minutes. >> a philadelphia man is accused of leaving two dozen ducks inside a hot van with no food or water. witnesses called spca after hearing the birds inside the van

at 10th an hamilton street in spring garden. they found 25 ducks inside the crates. the van's driver who works for a local poultry market faces animal cruelty charges. the duck will likely be placed on a farm. >> we have the rain coming in overnight, but as i walked out, i could see the sidewalk starting to dry. >> reporter: yeah, right, and we had a significant amount of rain, because they were moving slowly through the area. thing are improving, looking at storm tracker 6 live doubling scan we're dry right now and the storms are off the coastline. let's take you outside, why not head to cape may, seagull flying by since we popped up that camera. it's a bit more humid down the shore than it is in the city. let's look at the current conditions for you as you head out the door. 73 in philadelphia. 70 in allentown. 72 even along the coastline and

no sea breeze today. that's going to get you as you head down the shore. satellite and radar showing the storms moving through the area pretty slowly exiting the coastline. in their wake we can see cloudy cover in the region. we'll start out with clouds and sunshine, but a bit more sunshine as the day wears on. future tracker 6 shows a chance of spotty shower or thunderstorm popping up. i don't think there will be a big deal, 4:00 p.m., looks like we've got a little something through most of the region. advance this a couple of hours 7:30 and you're mostly dry. i think it's a chance for brief shower or thunderstorm coming through the area not enough to cancel plans, but something to be mindful of. here's how the temperatures will go through the day, 77 mostly cloudy skies, 11:00 a.m., good amount of sunshine, 82 degrees, 2:00 p.m., 87 warming up, our high will be 88. we'll be coming down from that at 5:00 p.m., 87. that's when we have a chance of

spotty shower popping through. between 3:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. you'll get a spotty shower or thunderstorm. if you're heading to the shore, at least the ocean temperature is warming up for you, it will be in the low 70s. uv index is high, clouds give way to sunshine, no sea breeze, 11:00 p.m., 80. 3:00 p.m., 84 degrees. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, clouds and sunshine today more sunshine this afternoon. it's a warm one and still feeling humid not as oppressive as yesterday, but sticky for sure. later today a shower popping up here or there. tomorrow is less humid, tonight and tomorrow, the humidity drops down it starts to feel a lot better, partly sunny, 84. if you're heading out friday night, shower or thunderstorm. saturday, nice, 85, low humidity on saturday. is a touch more humid sunday, still a good day, 86 degrees for your high. monday, clouds and sun, 88 chance for a storm. look what happens on tuesday and wednesday we turn up the heat,

we turn up the humidity temperatures in time 90s once again as we head closer toward 4th of july. >> it is summertime. >> thank you, karen. 5:40 still to come on "action news," developing right now dozens of people in gons -- boston are recovering after being taken away by ambulance. >> anybody heading on i-95 right at ash burner street we're looking good. a number of area bridge are shut down because of structural deficiencies, we'll tell you which ones after the break. >> we'll take a look at the u.s.' big world cup game today, when "action news" continues.

>> sky6 live hd taking a live look over the ben franklin bridge. the sun is peerking out in the -- peeking out in the clouds right there. 5:43, 71 degrees outside. >> let's go over to matt pellman he has the latest if you're trying to make the commute in from the suburbs, good morning. >> reporter: we know lots of people do that, let's help them out, because we're all about being helpful, tam and eva. time for the suburb traffic report if you're coming in from

the burbs at pottstown or limerick. this is what the ride looks like if you're past trooper road. we're okay heading into valley forge national park. this is trooper road where we expect midday restrictions 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. right by 422. right now everything is open and ready for the morning ride. however in lower providence not too far away. watch out for an overnight crash at germantown and ridge. the grader ford bridge is -- graterford bridge is closed in perkiomen township. another bridge that's shut down is in chester county east brandywine township the door lynn mill road creek. camden county, the white horse

bridge shut down between station avenue and front the cooper river county railroad the patco tracks, stick with somerdale road. one of our biggest bridge blockages is down in delaware, the continued closure of 495. everybody is heading to 95 which in wilmington no delays just yet. >> new from the overnight the search from the missing malaysia fight is shifting further south into the southern indian ocean. australian officials said the underwater search will focus on south of the most recent crash site. the plane vanished back in march with 239 people on board. we learned that officials believe the plane was flying on autopilot. dozens of people fell ill

during a concert in boston. it happened last night inside the td garden arena. ambulances lined up to take concert goers to the hospital. most of the people had a problem with dehydration and drugs and alcohol. a vermont man took a cover off in attempting to kill his girlfriend saying the two were attacked by a bear. he faces first degree attempted murder charges he attacked his girlfriend after she told him she was breaking up with him. he set fire to the cabin she was in and pushed her off a 70-foot cliff. he said he set the fire to scare off the bear and that the woman jumped off the cliff to avoid the bear. she is in the hospital with injuries. >> the united states faces off

against germany a match filled with facts and conflicting cross stories. >> they are very dangerous, they have talent and abundance. >> reporter: they were it becomes more complicated and depends on the outcome of the portugal ghana game. this is a game many on team u.s.a. have circled on their calendars. five have german mothers and dual citizens. the coach, the third place finish in 2006. he said he counts many on the german side good friends. >> i will give them big hugs before the game and leave it aside. >> reporter: given the close ties between the u.s. and german

team there's been a lot of speculation maybe they will getting together and come up with a secret conspiracy plan and play not to rule. >> i think every athlete wants to win this game. >> we're not made to go for a tie it's not in our dna. >> reporter: this is team u.s.a. third game in 11 days and had to crisscross 8900 miles to get to them. germany traveled 3700 milestone. >> we don't seep the short rest a problem at all. >> coming up on "action news," the environmental grades are out on the beaches of delaware and new jersey. >> a california man is

nominated for the dumbest criminal. >> reporter: it's 73 degrees we have a touch of fog in some spots. we have two miles in trenton and four miles in allentown. if you're heading out of the town i'll give you the trave

>> new jersey and delaware beaches get high marks for clean water in a yearly environmental report card. delaware was ranked number one, new jersey third. beach pollution can cause illnesses like pink eye or stomach flu. we love all the local beaches it's great to see those high marks. >> let's go there.

>> reporter: it's good to know when we go there we can get in and take a big gulp, [laughter]. we've been talking about the bridges on troubled waters, what about when the bridges are troubled. we'll have restrictions from 9 to 3 on the platt bridge. they changed the zipper wall on the ben franklin bridge they are ready for the center city westbound travelers. overnight work at the tacony-palmyra is gone, watch out for the midday work on the commodor barry bridge into pennsylvania one lane getting by. warm and muggy already, 73 degrees, 9:00 a.m., 78. we'll start with early clouds and sunshine. noon, 83. good amount of sunshine. 3:00 p.m., 87 degrees with the chance for a shower i would say between 3 and 7:00 p.m. you will see a spotty shower or thunderstorm around. 86 degrees by 6:00 p.m. coming down from a high of

88 degrees. it's a warm one today. how about the travel cities for now we're looking good in philadelphia. we talked about the ten mile visibility. no delays, 72, 73 degrees. in boston, the rain is pushing off the coastline in new england, but the afternoon will be dry in boston. no delays if you're heading out of the town along the eastern seabed. >> a not so smart move could lands a suspect behind bars. he said his credit card was hacked and new iphone showed up at his front door. engs the -- he thinks the smart phone was sent to the wrong address. the order form had another home listed where the purchase was made. not such a brilliant move there, mr. criminal. up next, the latest on a

delaware state trooper who was shot in the line of duty. >> why general motors has suspended the sale of the most kerri: kerri the sparkle® fairy here.

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domestic violence suspect. the shooting unfolded yesterday morning in magnolia, delaware. after a brief chase, the suspect dennis hicks got out of his car and fired on corporal mccann who was hit twice and returned fire. mccann is in serious, but stable condition, hicks died from his injuries. a former philadelphia police officer is heading to prison for interfering with a federal drug investigation. the one time veteran officer was convicted last december. prosecutors say he tipped off his maf brother about a -- half brother about a surveillance camera monitoring a drug trafficking organization of which police say his brother was a member. >> what's driving up the costs of fruits and veggies. >> an intruder is

>> good morning, 6:00 a.m. on this thursday, june 26. matt o'donnell is off, eva pilgrim is joining us, here's what's happening. >> new details are emerging this morning regarding the man shot by philadelphia police. investigator are hoping this surveillance video helps to catch a criminal who attacked a woman in her participate building. >> generally motors have ordered deals to stop selling chevy cruise distance over a potential defect. >> let's go outside to karen rogers to find out when we get