authorities are not commoning on his condition. they will have the latest for us coming up on "action news" at 6:00. buckling walls and cracking wall sups have neighbors demanding action by the city, they say the owner of the home and clinton street is putting their homes in jeopardy, chad pradelli is live in the neighborhood with more. >> reporter: this is the support system put in place, it really reenforced the facade on clinton, you can see the bowing of the front of this home and now it ex tended to this neighbor here and she says her home is buckling now and it's all because of this shoddy construction done by this homeowner without a permit.

>> my bed is trembling and stuff is falling off the walls. >> it appears the facade of mark's home is pulling away. they say the owner of 608 clinton were doing work two weeks ago and it shifted during the work. >> i'm not a contractor, but i know it's not safe, you see the window coming out from the frame, the concerned neighbors called city officials to complain and a code enforcement came out to -- >> a city spokesman says that the construction bureau has launched an investigation but couldn't say whether the owner was doing work without a permit. if that is the case the owner could be fined. they had the supports constructed in front and they have hired an engineer to obtain a permit.

they want the repairs done quickly and their homes fixed quick. i want everything prepared properly and with permits to have a safe area. and property records shows they own dozens of properties but they have not returned our phone calls. >> thank you chad. two more people involved in the murds of a south jersey woman in 2011 were sentenced to prison today. she was kidnapped from her atlantic city home and shot to death on the banks of the schuylkill river, today sanders was sentenced to 30 years in prison and desean hicks spends 20 years behind bars. the man along with smith planned to rob a man that allegedly beat up her husband and the woman happened to be in the house during that crime.

authorities say an entertainer at six flags great adventure in jackson township secretly filmed his female colleagues while they changed in the dressing room, and that he started last fall and may have just stopped last week. is he fired and charged with invasion of privacy. a man that fired at police is now behind bars, s.w.a.t. teams surrounded the man and the sitdation went on for 90 minutes, all of a sudden the man ran out of the door naked. the police caught up with him and he was taken to the hop for evaluation and no officers were hurt. >> a newcastle county father is facing criminal charges for what police say they found in his child's diaper. the story comes from the newsroom tonight, they arrested 20-year-old michael penn on

shoplifting charges yesterday and he they say he was carrying his 8-month-old at the time and they noticed he flipped something into the child's pants, they found 16 bags of heroin inside of the baby's diaper and penn is free on bail and the child is staying with another family money. two thieves cleaned out a home in the may fair section of philadelphia, they didn't know that a surveillance camera was rolling the entire time. on the 3300 block of frank ford avenue, the suspects got in by knocking out a window air conditioner and they took off with a 50 inch tv ain computer and an envelope with septa tokens. we have been update for a story last month. using an umpire's stolen credit cards is now behind bars, they

handed him over to hatfield township police, campbell broke into an umpire's car and stole his wallet out sides of a school park back on june 14th, campbell is held on $20,000 bail. philadelphia superintendant of schools, william hite says that pennsylvania lawmakers do not approve the cigarette tax by july 14th, they will have to lay off workers. they wanted it to expire in five yours, and they don't expect to vote on it until august 4th. the school year is expected to begin september 8th that part may be in limbo now. >> it's shocking to now be back to this space where we don't know if there say path forward in terms of revenue or whether or not we can open schools. >> dr. hite says the five year

cap on the tax will not allow the district to make long-term plans. israeli leaders are signalling a -- at the gaza strip is approaching, his country will have to take over gaza for a few weeks, for a second straight day they struck targets in gaza as a part to stop rocket attacks, officials say more than 20 people were killed and arab nations are calling israel's actions is an outrageous onslaught against palestinians. now accusations that the fbi and the government scanned the cell phone calls of five american muslims. they have die nied any involvement in terrorism and have not been accused of crimes,

the justice department fired back that anybody is targeting for criticizing the government. ray nagin is sentenced to 110 years in prison, they argued that he was at the center of a kick back scheme, from travel be businessmen that wanted favorable treatment, before and after hurricane katrina, the indictment detailed more than $200,000 in bribes to the mayor. the afternoon commute is well under way, time to take a look at how things are moving along. matt pellman is live now. >> it's a rough ride over the hump on this hump day afternoon. we have heavy traffic because of an earlier westbound traffic near gladwyne, it remains stop and go from university to this point west of spring garden, earlier i was saying we'll just

take the river drives instead. but not the mlk anymore, a crash into the art museum on the inbound side taking out one lane and temporarily stopping traffic at the moment. on the big picture we are expecting a tacony palmyra bridge opening. have you slowing on northbound 95 heading out of center city towards northeast philadelphia and 95 in delco, the crash is off to the side here near 320, ain slow go northbound from 452 from this point approaching the blue route. good luck getting home. >> he is so nice. thanks matt. still to come on "action news" tonight, soccer fans stunned by brazil's incredible loss in the world cup and they take their anger to the streets. we'll show you. and a travel scam making the rounds. and we'll have our consumer report and cecily tynan is live

at the philadelphia zoo. >> hi guys, how do you train a porcupine, the answer is very carefully. this is oscar, a northern porcupine found in reading and the lehigh valley, what the philadelphia zoo has done, they trained oscar if he puts both paws on the tree limb, he get a treat. because he spend a lot of time in his crate, and they want to get him out. they are teaching him how to high five. but he is not there yet, i'll talk about prickly weather and then i'll be feeding the american alligator. he is cute though. >> my hair looks like that in the morning. ♪

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brazil's epic loss in the world cup semi finals may have led to a couple of incidents of violence last night. more than a dozen buses were set on fire in san palo, seven buses

were destroyed in the south portion of the city, meanwhile one shop selling electronics and appliances was luted. three men were arrested. brazil did lose to germany, 7-1. and a warning for what south jersey police is calling a traffic jack. but first sports -- no first consumer story. nydia han has the story and more on free food and drinks. getting some mixed signals, we are hanging in with you. one more second. all right, shall we go to sports. >> i'm ready -- >> police in south jersey are warning about this website the independent traveler, christ even hazelton is accused of stealing $45,000 with a promise

of an overseas trip. and police say there could be more victims out there. police have arrested the owner of the independent traveler. she sold eight packages of an overseas trip to england but refused to refund their money in the tune of $45,000. >> she said the trip was canceled but the money was never refunded. christine hazelton operated the business out of her home and faces theft and other charges. if you are one of these victims police want to hear from you. and christ even hazelton's sister was diagnosed with cancer, and died one month later. the travel agency they say has issued an insurance claim. but the claim is pending. we'll keep you posted on what

happens with this one. >> get ready for freebies this friday, in honor of its anniversary, 7-eleven will offer slurpies and download the app and get a free slurpy for seven days. >> and a free combo meal from chick-fil-a but have you to dress up in head to hoof cow attire. i'm nydia han, channel 6 "action news." >> all right. [ inaudible ] time for sports ducis is here wren hoping for a turning of the tide with our struggling phillies. >> we hope so, but it may be too little too late, perhaps calling

out the players -- calling the offense poor, the phillies won two games in a row and phillies and brewers again tonight. a high scoring affair for both sides, kyle kendrick started off on the wrong foot giving up a grand slam but don brown saved the day two for three with three rbi. and brown doing what he can to save his job and help the phils win. >> we never say die here, we are called to fight for philly for a reason, and we battle hard and that is all i was doing. >> one half of the world cup final was set yesterday with germany's big victory. today argentina and the netherlands immediate for the semi final. if you think soccer is not a contact sport, think again. a free kick from in close, nice

save from the dutch goal keeper and we remain scoreless, we are in the second half. >> to the sixers, summer vacation is almost over at least in orlando, the sixers are playing their last summer game as the league switches to los angeles. michael carter lewis on hand and nerlines noel. casper ware with the three and the game is tied at 6-6. and a lefty hook off the offensive rebound and the sixers are up by 4, they are still play right now. miami and cleveland are stepping up their efforts to land lebron james, the heat makes their pitch to get him to resign in and the cavs are trying to sign ray allen and

miller two good friends of lebrons, that were with him the last couple of years, a far different scene than four years ago with the big decision and now is he low key. >> the pressure is on for him. >> we'll be right back. we showed people a survey that stacked fios up against comcast. what's it like paying for internet that's rated 6th out of 7 in customer satisfaction? not good. it's not the best. no, that's not fun. look at it this way, you're kind of on top. if i was like this, all day. switch from the bottom to the top and see why millions of satisfied customers have made fios #1. last chance! get a verizon fios triple play with a 2-year agreement and get $300 back. plus, a free lg tablet or up to $200 off any tablet from verizon wireless. that's satisfaction. that's powerful. call the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 800.974.6006 tty/v

it is time to check back in with meteorologist, cecily tynan at the philadelphia zoo. the moment we are weighting for, are you feeding the alligators.

>> watch your finger there's, be careful. >> i won't fall in here, i usually like to get close to the animals but not in this case. this is blacky, the american alligator, and as i feed him fish, tell me about him. he has been here a long time. he has been here since 1956, he has out lived at least three females. >> wow. wow. should i try to throw it towards his nose. >> these guys have incredible jaws. amazing. like 2,000 pounds per square inch of pressure. you want to stay far way. >> yes you do. >> there you go blacky. i have been here before, and you look at him and they say it's not a real gator, but they can stay still and then they snap their jaws, that is what they do

in the wild, why do they do that? >> they are waiting for their prey. >> i got another one. i have three fish, this is your third one blacky here. how much does he typically eat? >> he eats once a week. >> yes. and this is like a treat today. >> okay come on blacky find it. find it. once a week, is that typical in the wild as well. >> they can go a long time. >> wow. blacky i threw it over there, and guess what, i'm not swimming in to get it. you'll have to find it yourself. i don't know if he is smiling or snarling at me right now. joyce thank you. >> you're welcome. >> i want to talk about the weather right now. >> i don't want to say more pleasant, i like gators, we have storms around, stormtracker 6 live double scan showing that right now they are scattered and

they do have the cell that is causing severe weather, severe thunderstorm warning is in affect for northern northampton and southern monroe county and lehigh county and northern lehigh north of allentown, you see this cell moving northeast at 45 miles per hour. and it has reports of winds up to 60 miles per hour and quartzer size hail. it's just turning north of allentown and bethlehem and moving up towards the poconos as we speak. we do have the potential for more severe weather, a severe thunderstorm watch is in affect in our viewing area except for cape may county until 10:00. last night the main threat, locally damaging weather, this is not a squall line of thunderstorms this is just widely scattered. it shows it wasn't a heat wave, 89 was the high and now down to 88 and wilmington 84 and allentown 81 and millville 84. at the shore really nice and 75

degrees, notice reading the temperature is 73, that is a rain cooled 73 degrees, satellite 6 along with action radar showing some scattered activity along the i-95 corridor from a cold front that me anders to the south and it shows not completely bright and sunny through the day tomorrow. scattered storms at 8:00 as we head into the evening hours, we have a few more spotty storms and drier air moves in through the day tomorrow. the call from accuweather for tonight, we are looking at spotty thunderstorms, it's warm and muggy, the overnight low is 58 to 72 degrees, the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast shows there is less humid air tomorrow and nicer with a high of 86 degrees and a mixture of clouds and sun and saturday nice and partly sunny and 87 and back in the humidity on sunday with a threat of afternoon thunderstorms until tuesday and

then drier air returns on wednesday. a reminder, the summer ale festival is kicking off at the philadelphia zoo on july 19th, get your tickets on philly zoo.org. back to you, bye bye blacky. >> cecily thank you.

back to our breaking news story in radnor township. the fire flared up again, firefighters are having a touch time with this stubborn blaze, the homeowner was working in the garage and spilled gas and it erupted into flames and he was injured and now we hear that a firefighter was injured.

"action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with ducis rogers, meteorologist, cecily tynan, and jim gardner. wednesday night and a new round of thunderstorms threatened the area until 10:00 and a stolen suv crashes into a passenger bus sending it into a front lawn, but it's big story on "action news" tonight continues to burn in radnor township, pennsylvania, chopper 6 is live over the two alarm blaze that is ravaging a home at

200 windham way near radnor elementary school. this there are two injuries including a firefighter. lets go live to john rawlins, what can you tell us? >> we got word about the firefighter jim, the other injury is the man that owns the house, this is extensive fire damage to a large stone home, the man that owns the home and who actually built the home, was working on a truck, something of a hop hobby of his, and that ignited the fire when he spilled gasoline. the fire rapidly spread into the rest of the house and as you can see it's justs burning extensively and continues to flair up from time to time. we spoke with neighbors that arrived on the scene shortly after the first police officer. >> i saw the homeowner on the side of the road and said