>> i'm jacob and i'm from texas and i have never seen this much rain. texas it doesn't usually rain this much. >> while not unheard of it's not exactly routine here too. the drains were full of bay water from high tide. so the rain water was in the streets. >> better a boogie board than a bicycle to get around. the morning was met with no sunshine for tourists. >> it has flooded but never this bad. it has definitely taken a day out of the week. >> much of but not all of the water receded. as for injuries -- >> we had a few stranded motorists that called the police department for assistance and i imagine there were a few parked

cars that were lost this morning because of the intensity of the rain and how quickly it fell. >> lets get the latest from double scan radar and cecily tynan. >> we are getting heavy downpours tonight in the same area that got them this morning. stormtracker 6 live double scan, showing there are a few spotty storms in the lehigh valley, but really the focus of heavy rain is from atlantic city to milford delaware and all areas to the south and because of the rain not only now and this morning, the national weather service posted flash flood watches until midnight for atlantic and cape may and cumberland and salem and kent county delaware, the potential for more heavy downpours could bring more flash flooding. satellite 6 along with action radar shows that what is happening this morning is the training effect. these storms moved like a train on a train track over the same area over and over again. at 7:00 we had the heavy cell in

cape may and atlantic county and then it got hit again and by 1030 a third cell, and by noon it started to move out. but it reloaded, and the stationary front there is bringing more rain. stormtracker 6 live double scan showing the rainfall totals, bear in mind this area, the month of july gets a little more than 3 inches but this area south of tuckahoe row 6 inches of rain nearly two months worth of rain in the matter of hours, ocean city 4 inches and created scenes like this. 32nd and haven avenue, the water actually over the top of the tires of the cars and a lot of barricades out there. >> thank you cecily of the course there are thousands of people without power tonight from storms earlier in the week and peco is working to restore

service to 5600 customers at that hour down from 260,000 at the height of the storm, they made the most progress. it happened today on the 2300 block of ridge avenue in north philadelphia, a gunman tried to rob a pharmaceutical deliveryman making his rounds at a local delivery store, the scene was outside, two daycare centers, david henry is live at the scene of the shooting, david have you the details. >> reporter: jim the bullet fired out here in broad daylight could have hit anyone including two children, the delivery van pulled up and parked down at that corner. what the driver didn't know at the time was that he was being followed and would soon be staring down the barrel of a gun. >> it was all caught on video surveillance. the white delivery van pulls up followed by a green sedan and a passenger gets out of the car,

the driver pulls on to a side street and parked around the corner, he gets out and walks back towards the pharmacy, the two workman down the block are startled by the sound of a gunshot and start backing up and the driver of the car apparently reacting to the shot hustles back to the car and gets back in and then speeds off. his partner allegedly shot the deliveryman in the hand in a botched robbery attempt and ran off. moments before two employees of a nearby daycare center, can be seen turning the corner with two buggies. >> we have over 100 children in this building and it's stressful we need to keep these children safe and things break out at any moment. >> the day care on the side of pharmacy immediately went into lock doub. the wounded deliveryman ran into the pharmacy calling for an ambulance.

>> i'm in shock, you don't expect stuff like that to happen. an ordinary day. >> the man was rushed to the hospital for a hand wound and he this believe the robbers were casing the pharmacy and the van was filled with valuable drugs, just one oxycodone pill can fetch $80 on the street depending on the dosage. pharmacy employees say this is the first instacident since opeg in march and are happy the deliveryman was not badly injured. >> he is nice and quiet, and someone is low and petty to shoot him. >> they are lucky nobody else got shot, including the day care workers and children that turned the corner just seconds after the shot was fired right over there. david henry, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you david.

philadelphia police are still looking for the man who attacked and robbed a 91-year-old woman inside of her home in cobbs creek, audrey washington arrived at her carpenter street house to find two men inside and they punched her and stole the rings off her fingers. she is bruised and sore and otherwise okay the men got away with a television. investigators are checking servers cameras looking for the prn that fired ten shots on passyunk avenue, chopper 6 hd was on the scene as investigators tried to piece together what happened. a security guard at the refinery heard shots and called police, the shooter is still on the loose. >> more than 300 philadelphia school district employees are receiving layoff notices starting today. the layoffs will impact noon time aides and special education

classroom assist antss, no teachers receive notices yet. district employees are notified today and tomorrow and they become affect july 31st. the federation of teachers call the cuts a contrast tragedy and they are work to restore the positions. superintendant william hite says there will be more layoffs if the tax is not enacted before july 17th. mayor nutter used his line ilt emveto democrats criticized the governor for lacking leadership and scapegoating teachers and the governor's speech had a campaign style tonight as he called on lawmakers to sacrifice with the rest of the state. corbett is currently seeking

re-election running against democrat, tom wolf in november. coming up eagles running back lesean mccoy stops by our sports center and he is already talking about the super bowl. >> meteorologist, cecily tynan will have the latest from accuweather and that and more when "action news" continues.

a ten car pileup in philadelphia this morning, the state police and philadelphia police responded to this crash at the cotman exit. it happened at crews spent two hours clearing the scene, there were no reports of injuries. a corporation plans to put new roots down in camden where hol tech international will make its new home. the 600,000 square foot design will create 400 jobs for the area. it was awarded $6 million in tax breaks over the next 10 years, the new jersey department of

transportation conducted a hurricane evacuation drill today. to test the mobilization response time and the preparation of roadway flow plans, being able to quickly reverse the direction of traffic is important to maximize the capacity of the road during any emergency. a staple of the philadelphia museum of art got a -- the statue of diana, it's a feature of the museum since the 1930s, they are thrilled that the sculpture is once again glowing in the great hall. it's called tech girls, an organization encouraging girls to take on leadership positions in technology industries where they are traditionally underrepresented. they are holding their entrepreneurial camp at their university.

>> tech girls hopes to spark motivation in these 11 to 15-year-olds to be leaders in technology. >> showing them what technology affords them. they are there to develop ideas to create a prototype and create a business plan. there is an app developed for friends to create a photo race. >> i like technology it allows you to do so many different things. >> this camp is designed to address the fact that women lead less than 3% of tech startups. >> we are trying to create women that embrace technology for their future careers. >> i want to pursue my technology interest and combine the two to have medical breakthroughs.

the possibility that she will be able to apply technology to a career in marine biology is exciting. >> learning everything about technology and new things -- >> the labor department predicts there will be 2 million tech jobs opening in the year 2020 but women will fill less than a third of them. >> you think about it as isolated, kind of like those certain geeks that live in their basements and you never think that maybe i could do that. >> tech girls trying to change that. lisa thomas-laury, channel 6 what can i get you? [customer] oh, sorry. i was daydreaming. [server] dreaming about your wedding, huh? [customer] yes! actually. [server] with a big ice sculpture and a string quartet? [violins playing] [customer] yeah. how'd you know? [server] you've got the new instant game from pennsylvania lottery. [customer] yeah. $1 million golden ticket,

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phillies trying to win their fourth in a row to beat the phillies. >> it's the cure all of all. that is what jonathan papelbon

says as they go for sweep of the nation league leading milwaukee brewers. they can't figure out mat garza, no hits for six full innings, david buchanan makes a mistake in the sixth, a solo shot and buchanan settles down from there and in the eighth garza is out of there and jimmy rollins, this two-run single gives the phillies a lead at 2-1. and ryan howard goes for an automatic double and they plate seven runs in the inning and garza goes from a no hitter to needs to phone a friend. the phillies win 9-1 and complete the four-game sweep and they host washington tomorrow. >> that is one thing we spoke about it milwaukee, we had a meeting in the cage, just the

hitters, with the hitting coaches, just getting back to playing a game within a game. baseball is tough enough and if you go out there worried about winning every single day, you play the game and not be focused on winning, that happened today. to the eagles, lesean mccoy made teams pay to the tune of 2,000 yards. jeff skversky spent the morning with shady here at our 6 abc studios. >> is this team right now a super bowl contender? >> i think so. i think so. we are young men and explosive and hungry. look at nick foles the type of numbers he put up and the hard work. there is no quarterback controversy or competition. >> and lesean mccoy is the man in the back field. he led the league in rushing and

he is still not satisfied. he is as competitive as ever. he believes he is the best back in the game. >> do you think having that personality will make you great make you better? >> i am chasing motivation, this is how i was raised. we get so many different types of players how do you stay ahead of the curve. i don't have flews, i would be lying, the best thing about it is how do i get better. >> mccoy host a charity basketball game on saturday to raise money for lou gehrigs disease that is dear to her heart. mccoy's mother lost a battle with als two years ago. >> my grandmother is smiling, and the lord has blessed me with talent to give back. >> allen iverson is among the

celebrities to attend and he is expected to take on ai on the court. go to shadyweekend.com for more information. >> a multisport star there. >> he can play. >> it looked like christmas in center city philadelphia, santa and mrs. claus arrived in style. they announced their i'll be home for christmas spectacular. the show is an annual tradition and they recognize men and women that serve their country. 2,000 tickets to the december 5th premiere is given to the

if he were a lobbyist... if they were political contributors... maybe tom corbett would listen to them, instead of cutting funding for their schools.

oil and gas companies gave corbett 1.7 million dollars in political contributions. and he gave them a sweetheart deal on taxes that's costing pennsylvania billions. corbett's mismanagement has caused a huge budget deficit. and his painful education cuts are forcing teacher layoffs and increasing class sizes. now corbett wants to give the oil and gas industry even more handouts. and what's he getting from them? corbett's keeping that secret. so pennsylvanians are challenging tom corbett to come clean. release the records of your meetings with donors... that you've been hiding. disclose all the contributions, letters and emails from oil and gas lobbyists who influence you. we've got a right to know who tom corbett's listening to. because it sure isn't us.

parts of the jersey shore got pummeled this morning. there are still flood watches out there. >> this front has stalled and stormtracker 6 live double scan showing where in philadelphia it's beautiful right now and we have a band of rain draped across the shore into southern delaware and some of it is pretty heavy. fortunately ocean city that got the flooding this morn, the heaviest rain is south of ocean city, cape may and sea isle city and west of milford is beginning to dry out. there is the dry line, this is slowly moving to the east and we have pockets of real heavy rain in cape may, all the shore towns from sea isle city to cape may. it will gradually dry out over the next several hours. but these are slow moving downpours, be patient it will take a while. the national weather service

issued a flood watch for southern new jersey and delaware for the potential for more flash flooding and downpours. i always say turn around don't drown, if you see the flooding don't try to drive into it, your car can stall out quickly. temperatures are comfortable, 84 degrees, our high is 87, the average high for this time of year. trenton 83 and wilmington 82 and a rain cooled, 68 degrees and millville 73, satellite 6 along with action radar showing this stalled offshore, we see the focus of the moisture around philadelphia, some of the clouds to the south of this system that slowly begins to move to the south and east. the high pressure takes control and friday is brighter north and west of philadelphia, closer to the high pressure 86 degrees with the front close enough, the stray shower is possible south and east along the shore points,

as we head into saturday, the high pressure muscles in and nice weather, not oppressively humid 83 degrees and good amount of sunshine and we increase the humidity on sunday and saturday is the pick of the weekend. if are you down the shore tonight, more heavy downpours for the next couple of hours tomorrow, a stray thunderstorm is possible and not completely dry and not a washout, saturday loads of sunshine and 78 degrees, sunday is looking nice on the beaches and partly sunny and a high of 78 degrees, if you are heading to the poconos, the possibility of thunderstorms tomorrow and 79 degrees, saturday a mixture of sun and clouds and sunday more humid and thunderstorms possible late in the day with a high of 78 degrees, even the mountains saturday will be nicer than sunday. partly cloudy skies in philadelphia and soggy at the shore for the next couple of hours, 61 is the low and the

exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, tomorrow feeling pretty nice, a mixture of sun and clouds and a high of 86 degrees, lower humidity tomorrow perhaps some lingering showers at the shore, saturday warm and bright and 87 degrees, and humidity not too bad, on sunday though, you feel the difference in the air mass, getting muggy with a few afternoon thunderstorms possible and 88 degrees, we hit 90 on monday with high humidity and it's steamy and pop-up thunderstorms, but the real intense day looks to be on tuesday. this is when an extremely strong cold front moves in and the potential for severe storms, some area could see hail on tuesday. 86 degrees ahead of it. behind that cold front though, we have almost a fall-like air mass, the high 82 degrees, low humidity and bubbling up clouds in the afternoon and thursday the afternoon high of only 81, i

would not be surprised if thursday some parts of our viewing area don't make it out of the 70s. >> don't have to worry about sweating and go for a run. >> seesaw. >> okay. >> finally a missing dog is back home tonight safe and sound, her owner is thanking "action news," little lily got away without her collar in cherry hill. cathy bush mentioned it to nora muchanic when she was in the area covering storm damage and nora mentioned it on the air and sure enough a family seven blocks away found her and lily is back with her other comfortable nine pal. abc world news is next on channel 6. and "action news" continues on phl 17 at 10:00. now for cecily tynan, ducis

rogers, and the entire "action news" team i'm jim gardner, we hope you'll join us at 11:00.

welcome to "world news." tonight, texas standoff, the gunman disguised as a delivery man on a deadly rampage, the police chase through city streets and the teenager who may have helped stop an accused man from another attack. spy scandal, a top cia spy in hot water tonight for spying on one of america's key allies. the summer curveball on the way, how a monster storm on the

other side of the world is about to bring a big chill to millions of americans here at home. and the giant superstar who decided to take some time with his kids, about to mount an epic comeback tonight.