>> once again center city philadelphia was literally enveloped by storm clouds tonight and then torrential

rain. in lawncrest trees came crashing down on top houses on shellborn street, newtown avenue and cottman avenue. this was a violent storm that swept through the region tonight knocking out power to about 150,000 homes. >> and this is wrightsville beach, north carolina where arthur was stirring it up all day. that deposit keep folks off the beach prior to the storm making plan land fall. a tale of two storms. tonight's quick moving but violent storm is largely out of here. but the delaware valley mostly the jersey shore and delaware will feel some of the impact of hurricane arthur tomorrow. and tonight's thunderstorm will be forcing some homeowners to make calls to the insurance company and a tree at 49 and pine in west philadelphia fell across the road right on to a car. traffic was partially blocked along cobbs creek parkway, southwest philadelphia, too, by

a fallen tree and fortunately no serious property damage was done by this broken branch on spring avenue in ardmore. but one such snapped branch sent a woman to the hospital tonight. the falling tree limb struck her car while driving on millcreek in delaware at 6:40 on the 2800 block of millcreek road. the victim was shaken up but will be okay. the storm left 118,000 peco customers in the darkp tonight. mostly in philadelphia and chester county. delmarva had nearly 8,000 outages and new castle county more than 2,000 customers of both atlantic city electric and pse&g were knocked off-line tonight. let's get the latest information from accuweather and meteorologist cecily tynan and adam joseph. cecily has double scan radar tonight. stormtracker 6 double scan not nearly as active as two hours ago. pretty much clearing out one

loan cell over kent county, delaware. we had a lot of lightning strikes earlier. plenties of photos sent to my facebook and twit area act. this was sent by a 12-year-old in her hotel room center city looked out and you can see the twin lightning bolts captured that at the very moment they struck than lightning also kicked upwind. a lot of wind damage reports. chester county getting hit hard. numerous trees and wires down, montgomery county as well. northeast philadelphia reporting wind gusts of 66 miles an hour. camden county trees down and trenton reporting wind gusts of 60 miles an hour. all these storms in advance of cold front that sweeps through tomorrow and what the cold front will do as it moves east will kick hurricane arthur out to sea not before we tap into the moisture and that storm is making land fall as we speak.

for the latest, let's toss over to my colleague and friend adam joseph. adam. cecily the eye of arthur is about to make landfall near cape lookout north caroline as category two hurricane. there you can see the spin and eye of the storm here the edge and border of north carolina and heads towards cape hatteras before heading out to sea. winds 1 0 0 miles an hour northeast at 18 miles an hour and it's 110 smiles southwest of cape hatteras. as you look at wind field with this storm it's large right now. tropical storm force winds are well over 100 miles on eye and it will scrape the outer banks border of virginia and north carolina in wee hours of tomorrow morning 3 a.m. and you can see the tropical storm force wind in yellow do not make it up to ocean city and as it pulls

out to sea whipped expands a little mainly east of storm. you can see we don't get brushed by the tropical storm force winds. the only thing we'll see is impact with the front and arnl you're off the coast. it's some downpours and showers early tomorrow morning especially in new jersey and delaware along all of the beaches and anywhere from delaware to shore points and long beach island and 2:00 this afternoon clouds lag behind that. at the shore electric starts wet. clouds will exit by 7:00 along the entire delaware valley as well as lehigh valley. so, big improvement from morning to evening tomorrow. jim, when meteorologist cecily tynan comes back she'll talk about that fourth of july forecast and also give you you a better report for upcoming weekend. >> thank you, adam. >> let's switch live to "action news" reporter annie mccormick in accuweather. annie the huge crowds arrived. what's the attitude you about the potential buzz kill tomorrow morning because of arthur? >> reporter: well, jim, right

now we can feel the winds picking up a little bit and that cold front cecily was talking about is definitely coming in here and not dampening anybody's spirit. take a look at lights and boardwalk behind me aunt fog that's beginning to settle. even though arthur may not become unwelcomed guest at holiday festivities he's still affecting their plans. >> crowds to the boards and across the way ocean city's boardwalk was packed too it was family time fort nran began. >> go to the beach. eat, headed to the rides. >> weather almost kept them away. >> mid afternoon after i called my mother-in-law and she said the weather looked good. so we decided to drive down. >> on the beach 4-year-old makayla only had time for sand cassills. >> i like the beach. i love playing with sand. >> and next to the beach patrol guards only had the eyes on water waiting for effects of hurricane arthur.

>> definitely rougher with weather we're having and whipped. definitely get a ground flow which we're watching today making the water a little more violent. >> reporter: although we may not feel the brunt of storm the threat of it did put a damper on festive 'tis officials postponed fire work displays in several shore towns. >> it's my grandson's second birthday he wanted to see fireworks on his birthday. so we are a little dispointed because now we have to leave saturday morning. >> reporter: in sandy hit area everybody hears hurricane and gets nervous. emergency officials say they'll see a heavy undertow and make sure you listen to the lifeguards and watch the warnings. reporting live, accuweather, annie mccormick, "channel 6 action news." [ wind ] this is what it looks like from stormtracker 6 live as hurricane arthur you is

in the process of making lands fall. reporter joel brown from sister station wtb d is braving elements on outer banks and shows us what it's like from kill devil hills. >> can i till we are starting to feel the first few drops of rain and outer bands of hurricane arthur and primarily this is overnight storm and worst of hurricane arthur and expected on outer banks in wee hours of morning and folks sheltered in place in kill devil hills are in for a late night. ocean behind me and surf rough. high tide comes midnight and if the storm makes land fall then it dramatically increases storm surge. we can see 3 to 5 feet of storm surge which puts highway twelve main road up and down the outer banks under a big layer of water and sand. emergency management officials are watching for that very closely. if there is some good news it is that this is a very fast moving storm. it should be in and out by

sometime tomorrow afternoon. an can i tell you there are a lot of folks up and down this very delicate chain of barrier islands hoping to survive this storm and salvage some of their july 4 vacation. in kill devil hills north carolina, i'm joel brown, "channel 6 action news."" >> the "action news" morning team is following all the overnight developments as hurricane arthur is making land fall. meteorologist david murphy will be tracking the storm's path and we'll have live reports on conditions at the shore. it all begins tomorrow at 4:30 a.m. and the risk of rip current will arrive as it gets closer to the tri-state. lifeguards are on the lookout for swimmers in distress and red flags are warning of dangers near jetties. the under toe can pull somebody out hundreds of feet and if you're caught the key to remember swim parallel to shore not straight back towards the

beach. >> a body found off the shore of accuweather is believed to be 14-year-old corinne thee ahammond. a boater found the body south of ocean city this afternoon. a boat fire in egg harbor township was intense tonight and melted sighting on neighboring homes. flames erupted 5:00 and fortunately nobody was hurt. wawa welcome america celebration is now in high gear and tonight, it hit lots of high notes. "action news" reporter john rawlinss is live at independence hall where the weather prompted changes tonight, john. >> reporter: that's right this is independent hall normally where outdoor concert of philly pops is held the night before the fourth. not this year. because of weather forecast the decision to move the show to

kimle center and inside. stirring american salute was supposed to be played in garageer twilight at independence hall. and it was changed to the kimle le. >> better to have the concert than not. i dressed for outside weather today and we're in here and it shows one thing it doesn't rain on the pops or wawa welcome america. you think this time inside the picnic atmosphere of the mall, no blank et cetera or byob wine and cheese still given the forecast it is a wise decision. >> i think so we have to worry of thunder and lightning and being hot. >> help with patriotic atmosphere inside with a visit of the five and drum corps and red, white and blue hats making it move from the mall some

subtle some not so. pop member richard pagano had no qualms wearing these pants. >> i'm 6' 4", 2 40 i think i can wear whatever i want nobody will mess with me. the decision to move the concert inside made earlier today and philly pops didn't miss a beat. ♪ >> well focus now shifts back to independence hall for tomorrow morning's ceremony. vice-president biden will be here and there will be stepped up security airport-type security you cannot bring in large bags or coolers other sharp objects or umbrellas. the advice we've been told the less you bring the better off you'll be. live at independence mall, john rawlinss, "channel 6 action news," jim. >> thank you, john, please join us for all the july 4th festivities here on channel 6. the ceremony of freedom at 10

and independence parade 11 and rick williams and cecily tynan and adam joseph and karen rogers bring you 4th of july jam capped off of course by fireworks over the philadelphia museum of art. still to come on "action news" tonight economic news worthy of fireworks going into the holiday. plus shocking ref layings in court today about the dad charged with leaving toddler to die in a hot car. what he was doing that day plus conviction in a case involving a son of philadelphia's former mob boss. cecily. >> category two hurricane arthur is making land fall as we speak. north carolina. and impacking our 4th of july. more details on how in the accuweather forecast. >> jeff skversky with the phillies trying to prevent from being swept by the marlins. that and much more when "action being swept by the marlins. that and much more when "action news" continues tonight

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tonight after a judge refused to grant fwhail marietta, georgia today harris charged with murdering 22-month-old son by leaving him inside an suv. he forgot drop off his son before leaving for work. harris and his life had two life insurance pollys on their son and he looked at web sites that argued against having children. harris was engaging and exchanging nude photographs with several women including at least one teenager. sexting on the day his son died. unexpectedly strong june jobs report cut the unemployment rate to 6.1% today and its lowest level since financial crisis struck 5 1/2 years ago

and employers added 38 jobs last month the fifth straight gain of 200,000 making it best hiring street since 1990s. and growth is accelerator and jobs were widespread across many industries and wages not going up. >> wall street shared the sizzling job report sending dow to a record above 17,000 nor the first time ever and s&p also rose to 1985 and that nears its own milestone traiters left early for the short concession going to long weekend with holiday cheer. and the son of philadelphia's former mob boss stands convicted tonight of variety of financial fraud charges federal jury found scarfo junior and associates guilty of using intimidation to takeover a public company from

the inside and lude for minimum yonz of dollarsch the 108 page indictment alleged that scarfos extreme forced outboard members of texas based mortgage company first plus financial group and scarfo lawnderd the money through a exotic lifestyleen a yacht called priceless. he'll appeal the conviction saying prosecutors unfairly leveled accusations as mob related and younger scarfo infamously survived assassination attempt at an italian restaurant decades ago his father "little nicky" ruthlessly ruled the mafia scene 1980s and is serving a life sentence. >> school reform commission is getting a member after adrupt resignation today. masterman principal margie nev was named tore frs pitchet stepped down today. >> they painted down red, white

and blue in haddonfield, new jersey tonightch the first thursday celebration doubled as independence day party tlaep were ardz and crafts for kids, music filled the air and because of tonight's weather. fireworks were postponed until sunday. >> and weather for several other communities to cancel or postpone fireworks but we're updating all the information on abc.com and the list is broken down by state and county to help you find fireworks close to where you are. the good news is that tomorrow night will be okay and so fireworks should go on as scheduled. >> exactly in philadelphia at the shore they postponed a lot of them. the seas will be too rough for the barges to be out there. mother nature having fireworks of her own. we have one cluster of storms expanded moving across the mouth of delaware bay across kent

county and it's approaching salem county, new jersey. we had 15 lightning strikes associated with this. it's not severe. there are heavy downpours, thunder and lightning with this cell. temperaturewise, warm, humid, today's high 90. this is officially the first heat wave of the year. 76 in philadelphia. allentown 71. millville and boardwalk 75 and wilmington 73 degrees. satellite 6 and action radar showing all of these thunderstorms in advance of cold front. the actual cold front is right through central pennsylvania and clearing skies through west of the system and you can already see outer bands of arthur beginning to push up from the carolinas the latest on hurricane arthur is making land fall cape lookout north carolina. category 2. sustained winds 100 miles an hour accelerating northeast 18 miles an hour it will continue trajectory and so by tomorrow morning still maximum sustained

winds 100 miles an hour and category 2 hurricane and 200 miles offshore and problem at the jersey shore rip current, high surech. not only tomorrow but into saturday and we'll tap moisture in new jersey tomorrow morning. future tracker showing you wake up in the morning, lots of clouds. little on the damp side. few peaks of sunshine as we head through mid-morning early in the afternoon we see bands from arthur approaching the jersey shore. then as that storm system pulls away we'll clear care west to east through the afternoon by 7:00, philadelphia it will be clear it will be a little on the cool side. usually i'm out with rick and we sweat all night. tomorrow they want to bring a sweater. partly cloudy. normally breeze. 77, 77 for fireworks and breath of fresh air. if you head to the jersey shore pack suncreen and patience tomorrow it's not going to be nice beach day. a lot of rain early in the day.

late breaks of sunshine. 78 degrees by saturday breezy and sunny, 80. be careful for rip current sunday. quieting down and plenty of sunshine 81. the exclusive accuweather 7-day forecast. transition rain. late sunshine for philadelphia. high of 81. low humidity tomorrow. it will feel nice. saturday, spectacular. plenty of sunshine. breezy, 84. sunday humidity low warms up to 87. monday heat and humidity returned. 94 degrees tuesday hot and humid thunderstorms and we trim temperature back a little on wednesday, 88 degrees. muggy, possibility of thunderstorms and thursday partly sunny. again mahmoud abbas a thunderstorm high of 88 degrees. david murphy will have the latest own arthur and some of that lingering rain tomorrow morning on "action news". >> thank you, cecily. >> well it's a boy. and another boy.

brian and maura taff are parents of twin boys. brady and sawyer were born yesterday afternoon and actually during the 4:00 news and now you know why brian was not. there he was at the hospital for what he called the best little pieces of news he has ever helped deliver. and this description of the boys comes directly from brian they are healthy, they are strong and they're ridiculously cute. our love to brian and maur

>> phillies trying to salvage a game with marlin. >> they need a win. about time. been a while right philly have not won a game since last thursday and lost six straight coming into play in miami and phils draw a line in the sand in south beach and enough is enough. it's been a while since the phils had a taste of victory and yes i'm sure it taste better than that baseball. sixth inning first run since tuesday. cameron roth a two run double. 17 innings scoreless and finally over.

phils take a 3-2 lead back on marlins in east. jeff baker rbi triple. marlins take 4-3 lead, in the 9th, down one, jim write rawlins, two on, one out. donovan comes home with it not in time. tied for four. utley back to salano, bobles it. ben revere scores takes the lead. not pretty, beggers cannot be choosey. we'll take it. six game losing streak finally over. flyers captain claude giroux will not be charm bid police after arrested and spent tuesday night in jail for inappropriately touching an noyvr a bar. claude giroux apologizes and sincerey apologized to fans, teammates and philadelphia flyers organization for my miss guide add text at humor. g also apologized to the police department and male officer he touched multiple times.

>> former temple basketball star rick bronson was charged and arrested for asoughting a woman at a fitness center in suburban chicago. he started at temple in 90s and was candidate toy become assistant this season. there's no word if this will affect his status with the school. temple has no comment. >> noel's expectations are as

high as 6' 11" frame he is not trying to put too much pressure on himself when he suits up for the first time this season. noel takes floor for the first time in orlando summer league. recovering from torn acl. >> i have not played in a year an a half but i'm staying focused and i'm being patient with the process of coming back to organized games. >> finally hockey players are not the only ones losing teeth during the game. now baseball announcers are losing teeth as well. red sox announcers jerry he remy losses a tooth while calling game against cubs somehow falls out and how about this play-by-play partner trying to help him out. i don't know if this is official dentist visitor what trying to

get the tooth back in there. from time to time broadcasters lose their traichb thought never a took. >> what is he putting on the air. >> i don't know. >> it's funny. >> it's funny. >> thank you, jeff. >> finally tonight a hero's welcome for a soldier that has proudly served his country. family and friends even straichkers line the streets of audobon new jersey to welcome home private first class joseph jones the third and 22-year-old is member of the new jersey national guard and was away on 11 month deployment in afghanistanch the town thanksed him for his service. "jimmy kimmel live" on channel 6 followed by "nightline". jimmy's guests jessica alba, jim falcon and musical guest cia.