if you were around these parts, you know how powerful these storms could be. people that live on the 200 block in voorhees certainly do, it snapped a big tree like as it was a toothpick and today crews were there to clean up the mess. meteorologist, cecily tynan and adam joseph have the late word from accuweather. cecily lets start with you. >> stormtracker 6 live double scan lighting up two hours ago, all the activity was over south jersey and delaware and now it's beginning to extend into southeastern pennsylvania and philadelphia and parts of chester county and the focus of the severe weather is across south jersey the same area that got hit very hard last night with straight line winds, we have a severe thunderstorm warning until 6:15 in parts of burlington and ocean county including browns mills and lakehurst south of new egypt. this cell is moving east slowly

at 12 miles per hour. reports of wind gusts up to 60 miles per hour and we are seeing some hail with this system. we can move this into hail mode and you can see near chads worth and speed well, we have hail as big as one inch in diameter, in edition we are getting downpours that is causing flooding, this is ahead of the cold front and the actual cold front is across central pennsylvania and that cold front doesn't have much thunderstorms, you have to look ahead of it, where we get the surge of moisture so a severe thunderstorm watch is in affect until 9:00 tonight. can you see the line of storms, one of our viewers tweeted this to me, they extend all wait to the gulf coast, we have about 1400 miles of storms with this

cold front but first we have to get past the flash flooding, lets go to adam joseph for that. >> a long line of storms and a plume of moisture, we have to look at the surface of where we live but the midlevels of the atmosphere, 15,000 or so feet up, we look at the water vapor imagery and can you see from quebec ahead of the cold front down to the gust coast states, all the blue is tropical moisture ringing out the atmosphere behind the front you see the brown or orange, that is the dry air that is punkuriinin r -- and dropping the humidity a flash flood water from runnemede to burlington county and salem and woods town and deerfield and these are training thunderstorms moving over the same locations this afternoon, we have seen between 2 and 4 inches of rain so far in this

area. a flood warning, if you see a flooded roadway find an alternate route, it doesn't take much water to stall your car or drifrt it away. a flash flood watch remains in the entire area, that means potential of anyone seeing flooding with 1 to 2 inches of rain with these storms. through tomorrow morning we could see inches through dover and trenton and philadelphia, a little bit less to the north and west. the front is closer there and the plume of moisture is focused on delaware and new jersey, but still a long night ahead before we can completely clear the atmosphere. when meteorologist cecily tynan she'll give you the late word and the seven-day forecast with much better weather around the corner. >> did you. "action news" reporter, waltder perez is in voorhees where folks are not looking

forward to another night like last night. >> the mayor says just because the area is not relatively small doesn't mean there isn't a whole lot of damage. >> trees down roofs down, siding missing and people are looking for their outdoor furniture. >> we found a shed on a tree, some fell under the force of straight line winds topping 70 miles per hour. >> we had a down burst of wind from a severe thunderstorm last night and unlike a tornado, a down burst of wind is just a general thrust from the cloud or higher up. >> tabby says that she knew the worst of the storm was about to hit when the window she was standing by started to shake. >> saw swirling wind outside and it seemed right outside of the window, i dropped everything i was doing and fell down to the floor. >> a giant tree branch tore a

gaping hole in her parent's bedroom. >> it was the same scene across the street at lisa's help where trees toppled over and nothing next door. >> 70 feet away and there is nothing. it's bizarre. >> neighbors say the most important part of the story, centers on the fact that nobody was injured. >> everything can be replaced but life can't and i'm really happy about that. >> many neighbors here in voorhees have tarped their roofs hoping mother nature will show them mercy this time around. walter perez, channel 6 "action news." >> and the national weather service surveyed the damage in burlington county and found no evidence of a tornado, but the straight line winds were strong enough to snap a tree and landed

on a van. and a smokey wire resting on a downed tree. a large oak fell and crushed a woman's car, she was visiting her cousin when the storms rolled through. a 14-year-old boy struck by lightning in glenolden, delaware county, last night is back home from the hospital, david botkin paris is home now, the lightning hit as he left his mom's house. >> walked to my friend's car and i was like running and i heard it and then i was just shocked and shaking and bleeding everywhere. >> the boy's mother says the doctors told her that the rubber soles of david's shoes probably helped him from getting more injury, he just got the shoes recently from a friend.

our storm coverage continues on the 6 abc news app, we have information on cleanup and dozens of photographs of damage left behind and be sure to check 6 abc news app. police identified the body of a woman found yesterday at the 300 block of kensington. laura araujo was stuffed into a duffle bag. >> today the medical examiner confirmed laura araujo had been beaten and strangled. >> we don't have any idea what happened. >> this afternoon her parent as rived at police headquarters hoping to learn about his daughter's murder. >> her father a psychiatrist in oklahoma described her as religion and careful about her

friends. >> we really want to get help from the police because we do not know anything. we are not from here. >> yesterday around 5:30 a.m., a man looking through trash discovered the young woman's body in a duffle bag on this 300 block in kensington. >> her hands were bound in front and her feet were bound and she was placed in a trash bag and then folded into a blanket and ultimately stuffed into a duffle bag. >> an autopsy determined she had been beaten and strangled, two hours before her body was discovered, please found her burned out car along band street in philadelphia. police believe the killer set the fire to cover up evidence, up until a few weeks ago she lived with two female friends, but moved out and everything she owned was found with her body. >> all of her personal

belongings were in bag as long side of her body, where she was actually killed at we are not sure yet. >> araujo graduated in may from the art institute. >> people are learning of the crime. >> dastardly and heinous, why, why, why. >> that is sad my heart and prayer goes out to her family. >> they don't know where she was currently living or if she had a boyfriend. they want to hear from anyone that was close to her. i'm sara bloomquist, channel 6 "action news" the fbi and investigators from camden county, the prosecutors office descending on the camden neighborhood today, "action news" learns that they are working a cold case that dates back almost 10 years, dozens of detectives took over the 300 block of hery street, you can see the tents set up and

the heavy equipment bought in for the search. investigators focused their search in the basement of a home and they did not say what if anything they found today. coming up tonight, police arrest air septa passenger riding the rails with a large cache of weapons. and i'll have the latest of severe weather moving and a welcome breath of fresh air coming up in the full accuweather forecast. >> all-star game in minnesota, ducis rogers has that story when "action news" continues tonight.

septa police seized a not so small arsenal of weapons from a rider last night sortly after he left the broad street terminal. though arrested the man identified as darryl donahue, he told authorities he needed the weapons for protection. from our delaware newsroom, medics took four children to the hop this afternoon after a school bus accident in greenville, police say that the bus and the hyundai son at acollided on bucks road at 4:00, four children were taken to the hospital with minor injuries, police have not said where the bus was headed or what caused the crash.

>> more than a dozen projects to improve the delaware river and its tributaries got a boost today. it awarded more than $2 million in cash, and gave incentives to land owners aiming to feed into the delaware. it's key to drinking water and to the overall economy. work to install a water main will continue tomorrow no upper merion, drivers should expect delays on south golf road and can you call 511 for traffic updates. philadelphia had pop-up parkz and now a pop-up beer garden, it's independence beer garden opened this afternoon over looking the liberty bell, with two large bars and picnic tables and games, the spot is a

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night's home run derby ran long but was worth the wait for the flyers developmental camp concluded today, this is for the young guys, like travis, he is only 18 years old, coach berube had a clear idea what he wanted out of this camp. >> we are not here to evaluate them but to teach them things about training and skill work on the ice, what impresses me is their focus more than anything, it's long days and they are doing a good job of willing to learn and putting in the work. >> coach berube took in an

eagles practice today and picked kelly's brain on sports science. >> he is a good man to talk to and smart, and he has done a lot, with the nutrition side of it and doing things differently and it's always good to see and communicate with him. >> it's a brotherhood. they tip-off the summer season tonight in las vegas, they lost to the cavs but noel looked sharp, he finished with 14 points and had 7 rebounds and blocked four shots, coach brown with a court side seat was a bigger and bigger fan. >> just how excited i am to see him play, he is so young, we'll start there and look at the bound he has in his game, he is highly competitive, something we didn't have last year with some level of protection, i get so

excited to see him play again. >> the highlight came courtesy of andrew wiggins, he finishes at the rim, this is why the sixers were hoping that he would slip to number three in the draft and he when number one overall to cleveland. >> they will talk about that kid for a while. he got away. >> gone, history. cecily tynan has the exclusive accuweather forecast, when we continue in just a moment.

second night in a row, gusty

thunderstorms, our weather improves dramatically and stormtracker 6 live double scan showing we have rain and thunderstorms and some of it is pretty heavy. philadelphia right now, we have some moderate rain, there is one heavier cell near coatesville, pennsylvania, it's started to fill in as we zoom in near philadelphia, we are not looking at severe weather right now moderate rain and the beginning of a stormy night and this is moving to the northeast very slowly and the focus is across south jersey, this is a ban of very heavy thunderstorms moving across northern cape may county and tuckahoe and mays landing, the past 15 minutes this area has had 200 lightning strikes and gusty winds with it. and torrential rainfall, as we zoom up farther, we had the

straight line winds and now close to 300 lightning strikes the past 15 minutes, the problem wtd storms are the fact that they are slow moving and moving to the northeast at 20 miles per hour. they are training over the same area and the rainfall rates falling at 1 to 2 inches per hour and the ground is already saturates and there is more flash flooding on the way, i stress to people turn around and don't drown when you see the floods roads, we have seen this, from our twitter accounts, from williamstown, new jersey, it looks like a river, it's not convenient when are you trying to get home, you should find another way when you see the flooded roads only one foot of water can move a car. when you hear the thunder that means the lightning is close enough to hit you, a teen was

struck in glenolden last night. the warning continues until 8:30 tonight and in cumberland county, we are looking at the potential for 3 inches of rain and the flash flood warning is in affect, the entire viewing area is a flash flood watch, the stormy weather comes on the cusp of heat wave number two. this is officially our second heat wave of the year, but things will change, once the cold front moves through we have a breath of fresh air along with satellite 6 showing a breath of fresh air temperatures notice 50s and then a trailing cold front, this front will finally slide off the coast tomorrow, and this will bring us lower humidity and cooler temperatures and get rid of the storms, future tracker showing 7:30 tonight that the storms are still around especially along

i-95 and parts of southeastern pennsylvania and 10:00 it's still stormy and after 10:00 it gets spotty and tomorrow morning it's front clears the coast and still scattered showers, maybe a thunderstorm at the coast and then it approves, it's high pressure builds in and 83 tomorrow and the humidity is dropping in the afternoon and you'll feel the difference in the air mass. if are you at the jersey shore tomorrow, some morning thunderstorms possible and late sunshine and the weather improving during it's day, 81 degrees. the accuweather forecast, tomorrow morning showers in south jersey and afternoon showers and sunshine and we keep the cooler air mass on thursday and on saturday partly sunny and 84 and sunday 86 and perhaps a thunderstorm, and a better chance of thunderstorms on monday and tuesday, when we get a surge of warm, humid air

returning with a high of 86. a full report on the storm damage tonight at 11:00. >> some of the best young word smiths in the world have arrived in philadelphia. mayor michael nutter welcomes participants in the poetry slam, the festival includes 500 young poets and spoken word artists from it's united states and abroad. they are holding work shops and it's free for people in philadelphia. abc's world's news is next on channel 6 and "action news" continues at 10:00 on phl 17, with brian taff, shirleen allicot, adam joseph and ducis rogers, and please join us for "action news" at 11:00 here on channel 6. >> for cecily tynan and ducis rogers and the entire "action news" team, i'm jim gardner, we hope you'll join us at 11:00.

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