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 truck inside of the driveway was

blowing up. >> burning and blowing up. >> he was on the side of the road and slightly burnt but conscious and talking. >> the truck, the truck lit up and had burn above it in the garage area, and then the smoke started to fill the house, the chimneys started to smoke and i took a look around the back and the roof had caved in. a couple of trucks in the garage, and the house is ruined. >> well, the house has certainly received extensive damage, this is a tenacious fire going on for the better part of two hours, we understand that no one else was home at the time just the homeowner, and he was able to get out and talk to police, he seemed to be conscious and talking to officials at the time. it's a tough battle for

firefighters, heat seems to have been a factor for the firefighters, they have to rotate firefighters in and out of building quickly, the owner was reportedly burned and we don't have an official condition, he was transferred to a local hospital and according to a neighbor he appeared to be conscious and talking to authorities after he got here this afternoon. live in radnor township, john rawlins, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you john. >> the big cleanup is under way in the wake of last night's storms even as new storms threaten the area. and in some places there is a lot of cleanup to do. this is east mt. airy, where trees crushed cars and power poles snapped and brought down lines. wires came down on east 24th street near providence avenue in chester and this is the scene in

fieldsboro where a family lost a truck and lawn mower to an enormous tree. the utility crews are working feverishly restoring power to hundreds of thousands of customers. walter perez is standing by live in levittown buck county, but first lets go to adam joseph. what are the chances the more storms tonight. >> reporter: they are peppered through the region and they won't have the tremendous squall line but double scan live shows the area is quiet, and muggy right now, and one downpour in lancaster county and a severe storm north of lehigh county and that is where a strong warning remains in affect until 6:45 p.m., just to the north of easton, and this is bethlehem no longer in the warning where the storm is pushed to the north and east.

if we look at the storm on double scan live, in chapman, bethlehem, it's north of there moving to the east at 40 miles per hour and 52 lightning strikes and strong winds of 60 miles per hour, but hail is the main culprit with this storm. this is the hail mode, anywhere you see the purple up to portland, one inch in diameter tear, about the size of a quarter, this is drifting towards the poconos and monroe county, a severe thunderstorm watch is up until 10:00 for basically the entire area, the watch is there for when the storms develop they can turn severe and locally damages windses is the main culprit. we'll talk about a much calmer end of the week when we come back. >> thank you. lets go live to walter perez now in levittown, parts of buck county really got walloped last night, what have you seen there

today? >> well, jim, a lot of the same here, you can see on kingwood lane, this giant tree was uprooted by the powerful winds, crushing a car along the way and damaging another. you can't even see the other one. these were widespread, and the people that saw the rough ends of this system were not happy today. connie says she didn't realize her aboveground pool was crushed until this morning, she went out to get it ready for her grandchildren. >> i went out the side door to get it ready for the children and this is what i saw. >> and she was not alone, donna looked outside during the storm after hearing a loud crash, that noise was her car getting crushed by a massive branch that snapped.

the toll of lose that car is both financial and emotional. >> i just moved here two weeks ago my husband just passed away and i'm not feeling too good about this. >> bill wiggins and his family feel blessed because they only lost part of their roof to the windses. >> my neighbor was surveying his property and we saw the shingles and i realized that half of them were ours. >> and then the outages resulting from the tree, his roof doubled as a bowling alley last night. the power lines by his house were the pins. the branches broke off and rolled across the roof, while being downstairs, i could swear the roof blew off and ripped right off. >> back out live, we are still 7,000 customers without power. and some of them may have to wait a day or two to repair

damaged lines, and they are opening senior centers to protect the elderly, all of that information could be found at the website at 6abc.com. >> reporting live, walter perez, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you walter, the coverage of this storm's impact continues on the new 6abc.com. >> we post photographs and videos from this region all day long. we are updating all power outages as the lights come back on. accuweather and stormtracker 6 live double scan is there for you as the storms head our way. if philadelphia, a 92-year-old woman surprised two burglars insides of her cobbs creek home this afternoon. they brutally attacked her and this happened in the 6200 block of carpenter street. the woman came home to find the man inside. they grabbed her and purge punched her and pulled rings off

her finger, they bit one man and he hit her. they took a television set and left one important piece of evidence behind. >> they had gloves on so it will be hard to get evidence but they left the gloves so hopefully we can get dna evidence. upper darby police have arrested the alleged bedroom intruder and five women are breathing a whole lot easier tonight, "action news" reporter david henry is live now. >> reporter: there were four break-ins that police know of, the first one was at this apartment here, the suspect is only charged with this one break-in and that is because the 16-year-old victim here is the only one that got a good look at him. >> she encountered him earlier in the day and she gave him his nickname. police have arrested 21-year-old

tyrell booker of yaden. he apparently followed his first alleged victim home after approaching her on the street. the girl's mother showed how he got into the girl's apartment by entering an unlocked side door. terrified women awoke to find a man standing by the bed, he was using the cell phone to make a video of another. police fear he was getting boulder and more fierce. >> we were scared that his braise andness was increasing and the potential for violence could be astronomical. the victim was the only one to get a good look at the suspect, she described him down to a gap in his front teeth and was able to pick booker out of a photo array. this two days after the first attack but let him go.

booker spent several years in jail on a burglary charge and was released in december. the break-ins began in april. the police describe it as a three-month reign of terror. >> your home is your castle and this bum comes in and whatever he was going to do he didn't do but we are fortunate that none of these women got hurt or sexually assaulted. >> they believe that booker alleged allegedly -- and he is held on $100,000 bail building their case hoping to connect him to all five incidents. >> thank you david. from our delaware newsroom tonight, a man is facing charges for stealing an suv and crashing it into the dart bus in wilmington. investigators say that the driver of the suv ran a stop

sign and t boned the bus and the bus driver said the suv came out of nowhere. >> i didn't get a chance to see, i felt the bus turn and i ended up over here. >> police say that the suv was taken after the carjacking earlier this morning. the suspect had to be cut out of the vehicle and only the driver and passenger were on board the bus, both of them suffered minor injuries and the suspect is a convicted felon, currently on probation. >> coming up on "action news" tonight, new jersey transit make a decision whether or not to raise fares. the father of victims of the blaze breaks down slinging harsh accusations at the philadelphia fire department. plus a judge rules on the fate a nazi living in northeast philadelphia. >> we continue to track one storm east of northampton, 38 lightning strikes in the last 15

minutes. we'll let you flow if there are other storms in the region. ducis rogers with what seems like a turn around for a phillies player, when "action news" continues tonight.

the parents of the four children that died in last week's fire in philadelphia appeared before city officials today. they discussed the circumstances around the fire and the fire department's response to it. residents of 6500 glock of guestner street says the emergency response was too slow and the fire department rejected that saying crews arrived within

three minutes. >> the father of those that died broke down when he spoke. >> we pay taxes too. -- >> liberia's ambassador to the united states was also there today. word tonight that a buckling foundation wall in the basement was to blame for this collapse of two row homes in the cobbs creek section of philadelphia, the party wall dividing 6017 and 6015 clapped and fortunately nobody was hurt. the contractor is getting 30 days to demolish what is left. a federal judge has denied bail for johan briar of

philadelphia. authorities have charged the 89-year-old breyer. he says he worked outside of the camp at auschwitz and never killed anyone. today the agency's board adopted fair hikes for a third year in a row, new jersey transit is spending a billion dollars on capital improvements including a plan to purchase new buses, this is a

now, lets make sure we get this right. phillies going after the third straight win against the league leading milwaukee brewers. >> you never know, if you can figure out these phillies baseball team, let me know.

when you think they threw in the towel they get two wins, be don brown one of the players that ruben amaro eluded to when he said he would sit players. >> it's the beginning of a turn around. >> i feel good and have you to stick with it, i know i'm a heck of a hitter and that is my mindset and it will come and i have to keep working, never say die here. we were called to fight in philly for a reason. we go out and battle hard. the world cup final is at 3:00 p.m. here on 6 abc, germany is in after the big win against brazil. argentina and neth lands are meeting now. never say soccer players are

some of the here one of the best in the world with a free kick and a nice save by the dutch keeper, we are in the second half of extra time. still scoreless. >> the sixers are wrapping up the orlando portion of summer league play-by-playling the nets. hanging out with michael carter williams. he looks like the rapper drake. noel with the block there, and the other end, casper ware knocks down the three. and early in the first quarter, noel get a hook. and the sixers are up 20-14 and they are still in action. miami and cleveland are stepping up their efforts to land lebron james, he allegedly met with pat reilly in miami today as they make their pitch to resign him and the cavs trying to sign mill miller. finally back to the world cup.

yesterday host country brazil was embarrassed 7-1 and the soccer crazed country is in mourning. but they are not going overboard. going into the street breaking their 71 inch tvs because they are so upset. i would bet the money back guarantee is now void. look out. you don't get that upset do you? >> you have been seen me. you saw what i did in the sports cast. several basketball legends attended the reebok classic breakout camp, shaquille o'neil and dominic wilkins and shawn kemp were some of the special guests, they addressed over 100 high school ballplayers from around the country, these young men earned

some storms tonight perhaps but nothing like last night. we are watching the squall line march across the state and it brought the rush with it. as we look at double scan live around the region, it's hard to find the yellow, oranges and reds on the radar with some of those intense storms, we are tracking what was a severe storm in parts of the lehigh valley, now away from martins creek and 611 near oxford, it's pushing into northern parts of new jersey and northern parts of

pennsylvania and as we slide to the south parts of lancaster county near lincoln, downpours here and no lightning strikes now with gusty winds not severe along 222, and that is it going on right now. until 10:00, 11:00, 12:00 tonight. these storms could pop and if they pop they could turn severe and it could be more than a misthan a hit around the region. we were at 93, 95 in the region, right before 90 we hit 89 and and you need three days to hit heat wave number two, so only one so far this year. trenton 84 muggy degrees and 86 in philadelphia and 84 in wilmington and rain temperatures have fallen back into the 70s and reading and the poconos, despite the 70s there because of the rain, it's still muggy, satd light and radar shows again we have the box, the yellow box

with cloud cover until 10:00 tonight. everything is trying to fire up to the west and as it pushes to the east it's falling apart. we don't have a lot of dynamics in the atmosphere and it's overworked, once it fuels up it pushes to the east and at 8:00 again, on future tracker, a couple of downpours and thunderstorms around and that continues until 11:00 and first thing tomorrow morning, sunnier to the north and lingering clouds, we'll try to clear here tomorrow with the front lingering at the shore. and not as humid, if there is not going to be a shower tomorrow or more in the way of cloud cover along the jersey shore and delaware beaches and the spotty shower, a quick thunderstorm at 11:00 and by 3:00 in the afternoon, 81 degrees, the exclusive accuweather forecast, mid-80s to upper 80s the next two days, lower humidity thursday into

friday. a little more cloud cover south and east. partly sunny for all here and 87 degrees, sun more humid and a late afternoon thunderstorm is possible at 88 and it's unsettled monday into tuesday with the next front, 88 to 86 and it turns less humid by that front with 84 degrees, this is the good parts of the encore performance where we don't really have an encore. >> abc world news is next on channel 6, "action news" continues tonight on channel 10, brian taff, shirleen allicot and ducis rogers. for ducis rogers, adam joseph and cecily tynan and the entire "action news" team we hope you'll join us at 11:00.

welcome to "world news." tonight, sound and fury in the northeast. storms so sudden, so swift, seconds make the difference. and a child is killed at a summer camp. new target, rockets fired by hamas, aimed at the site of a nuclear power plant, how the israelis shot them down, and families running for cover on all sides as our reporters are there. and something new for the family vacation here at home tonight. the biggest water slide ever, and we take you for a ride. a good evening to you on this wednesday night. we begin with news about the powerful storms that have been rising with