day locked up here in the federal courthouse. the judge released him on his own recognizance tonight. fattah denies wrongdoing. only "action news" was there as chaka fattah jr. surrendered to the fbi this morning to face mults pel charges including bank fraud and bank charges and stealing money from city schools and using business loans to pay off personal expenses including gambling debts. this is the result of a two-year investigation into the investigation into the congressman's son. >> he told the banks he was a successful businessman and gave them the financial information over the earnings he had including at one point an entirely fictitious income tax to give him loans. >> i earned every dollar legitimately and i don't think

that this is the way an investigation is typically handled, they spend millions of dollars working on this for two and a half years. >> prosecutors say he stole thousands of dollars from the philadelphia school district and jacked up claims for funds he received for a charter school program for at risk middle schoolers. chaka fattah was not in court but says this will bring the matter closer to the day where my son can defend himself in court. very full confidence in my son and i love him and stand by him today and every day. >> this morning chaka fattah jr. told "action news" that he believes that the charges and the entire fbi investigation were politically motivated and he told the judge he cannot afford a lawyer now and the

judge appointed a federal defender to work on his case. vernon odom, channel 6 "action news." >> okay vernon thank you. meanwhile, sources have identify aid woman that may have been strangled while jogging in northeast philadelphia. a cemetery worker found a body believed to be 46-year-old connie mcclain murray in pennypack park and the discovery has shaken the commune and wendy saltzman will have a live report coming up at 6:00. now to breaking news from times square, new york city, two double decker tour buses collided injuring 13 people, three of them seriously. at 47th street and 7th avenue next to the ticket discount broadway tickets booth. can you get the latest online at 6abc.com. two americans who contracted the ebola virus while working with

sick patients in liberia, are reportedly on the mend tonight. they are back in the united states and marcy gonzales is at the hospital. >> she got here four hours ago and her health is improving even if it didn't quite look like it when she first arrived. nancy writebol being wheeled in on a stretcher. much different than kent brantly walking into the hospital from this plane. >> for her to be on a stretcher is not an indication to where she is with ebola, an indication that she is very, very weak. >> writebol was evacuated last week and landed in atlantic city, an especially equipped ambulance bringing her here for treatment. >> samaritan's purse are

grateful and both her sons are grateful to have time with mom. >> writebol and brantly are said to be getting better after taking an experimental drug in liberia. doctors say that everything is being done to keep the disease from spreading in the u.s. experts explain that while a patient in mount sinai in new york is kept in isolation as they await test results, a precaution and a sign of how cautious hospitals are being. >> if they are doing the test they go are doing the job. that is a good thing. the ambulance that brought the patient here is being bleaches and the material enside being burned. they take no chances here. >> thank you marcy. coming up in just a few minutes in health check, ali gorman takes us to cooper hospital in

camden, the hospital has patient rooms that can be turned into isolation rooms to fight a disease like ebola and hear from a local expert on the ebowl outbreak just ahead. >> the pentagon says an american general was killed today in afghanistan, an inside attack, a man believed to be an afghan soldier on a military base opened fire. eight soldiers from america were hurt. they call this a terrible strategy and confirms the general to be the highest ranked military to be killed in afghanistan. the shooter was killed in the fire fight that followed the attack. the israelis and palestinians have a delegation in cairo for long-term talks this after a three-day cease

fear, traffic picked up and shops began opening their doors, nearly a month of fighting killed 19 hundred palestinians and 64 soldiers and threeivecilans. there will be more on the death of general coming up on world news with diane sawer, at 6:30 right after "action news" at 6:00. back here our viewers are chatting live with philadelphia police commission under charles ramsey on 6abc.com. they are asking about crime and police corruption and more. sara bloomquist is live in the call to action center where the chat continues tonight. >> reporter: hi there rick, you viewers can log on to 6abc.com and submit questions for philadelphia police commissioner charles ramsey and all of his downpour commission unders are joining us this evening and they are chatting for over an hour now, questions on drug dealing and deployment and issues in

variation neighborhoods, it hopes the commissioners get a better sense of the community. ashley c. said is there anything the city can do better for the violence on our street. lets go to commissioner ross on this one. often times the people feel powerless. >> there are things they can do. the tragedies we have had recently the public was instrumental in solving these cases, they can do things like town watch. that is your neighborhood. nobody cares about it more than we do. but if you hear something, hear how insignificant you think it is. pick up the phone and call us. never feel that way, you hold the key to help us improve the city. >> and those high-profile crimes, the community came forward and helped you solve

them. >> the reality is, they do it in many cases, you har about the high-profile cases but it happens in more cases than that. sometimes people believe that we don't care about the other cases when in fact we do. >> thank you deputy commissioner richard ross. log on to 6abc.com and they are here to answer your questions tluts our newscast this evening. >> thank you sara. >> it was a proud day for police dogs in montgomery county, this was a special ceremony recognizing the county's k-9s as officers of the law and they each received their official police badges after a new law that recognizes them as police partners and not property. this after the fatal stabbing of a k-9 in pittsburgh named rocco, and now under rocco's law a suspect that hurts or kills a police dog can get the maximum

10 years in prison. time now for the "action news" traffic report, lets go live to autumn marisa. >> hi we have an accident on the vine street expressway, the eastbound lanes at 11th street. they are trying to clear it off and it was blocking the middle and right hand lane, cars are moving along and they are trying to clear that away. speeds on the schuylkill expressway are getting better, 33 miles per hour and we were single digits earlier, it takes 30 minutes to go from the vine to the blue route. and slow going on 95 as you make your way towards broad street, we have an accident in the right hand lane approaching the walt whitman bridge and we have traffic because of the concert tonight. northbound 477 and oak road, an oil spill and all lanes are blocked. west avenue is the alternate. if you are headed to the phillies or katy perry we have

several sports trains. >> thank you autumn. still ahead on "action news" at 5:00 tonight, an incredible rescue caught on camera off the waters in hawaii how eight bothers were saved when they started to take on water. the summer heat is back but the not lasting long, a front with a few storms and a change in the air mass in the full accuweather forecast. >> cecily thanks, we'll have the stories and much more when "action news" at 5:00 continues.

dramatic video of a harr harrowing rescue off the waters of hawaii. they were clinging to life and some heads just barely held above water. for two hours they battled the waves and the beating sun and then the coast guard arrived and they were lifted one by one to a waiting chopper, the tracking device on the boat helped them find the boaters in time. on health check, we continue our coverage on the ebola virus

and how local hospitals would respond if a potential patient was in our area. ali gorman is at the big board ton. >> in almost every hospital in america has procedures in place to handle contagious viruses like ebola, as a nurse they know what to do if they suspect something contagious. here is one local hospital's procedures. >> it looks like an ordinary room. >> emergency room dr. rick huhn shows us two rooms inside of cooper university hospital. there are two circulation fans that will be turned on, any path agains will be sucked out. >> patients have their on bathroom and all equipment needed is kept inside of room. used only on the opinion so as not to spread germs.

workers also depend on an isolation cart like this one. a gown and goggles and face shield. >> it protects your eye and nose and mouth. >> in the case of ebola this is vital because it is spread through body fluids and the air felt ration system is not necessary but an added precaution, ebola is not spread through the area. and according to the experts that is an advantage. it make its easier to contain more than viruses or other viruses that spread to many more people. and cooper has two of the isolation rooms designated and can turn a whole wing into isolation rooms if needs. these are not just for ebola, they are used for tuberculosis and the key is to recognize the

need in the patient quickly. a group of volunteers are stepping up in a big way to address hunger among children and they delivered 4,000 pounds of food to the never say never community center in philadelphia today. students are on summer vacation and no longer have access to school food programs. the bank held a food drive at its branches in order to collect the donated goods for families in need. still to come on "action news" tuesday night, we want to remind you to log on to 6abc.com to chat with commissioner charles ramsey.

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time now for the accuweather forecast at the "action news" big board. cecily tynan is taking a look at temperatures with kind of a steadily increasing throughout the day. >> they are warm, typical august weather, on the cool side the past couple of days, stuck in the 70s, but currently in philadelphia, 88 degrees, allentown 86 and wilmington 86 and trenton 87, and cooler on the beaches, temperatures in the upper 70s. stormtracker 6 live double scan showing that we are rain free right now and if you look up to the north and west, you see this line of showers and thunderstorms about 400 lightning strikes in the past 15 minutes, with this. this is a cold front heading in our direction and it will be arriving here, probably late morning tomorrow, not a lot of moisture with it. but a piece of energy will get involved and that will bring us scattered storms, future tracker showing tonight mainly rain free, we have a little pocket of

storms that could just clip the northern lehigh valley and the poconos tonight. heading into tomorrow, tomorrow morning you wake up areas south and east of philadelphia, more sunshine north and west, and as we head into the afternoon a piece of energy gets involved, some showers and thunderstorms beginning to move into lancaster county and the latest model shows this energy driving south of philadelphia, if this is true, that means 5:30 tomorrow night the best chance of thunderstorms in parts of delaware and extreme south jersey, an update on "action news" at 11:00, sometimes these vormax, is what they are calling it's hard to know where they are headed. meanwhile, tropical storm bertha, sustained winds of 60 miles per hour and it is moving north-northeast at 40 miles per hour and it's no threat to land

and will not hit the east coast and will not hit bermuda. as it moves up the eastern seaboard, dangerous rip currents are a problem throughout the day tomorrow and by thursday they begin to ease and if you are at the shore and the beaches, you will want to be careful, don't swim without the lifeguards, some big concerns since 1959 only two named storms hit the islands but hurricane iselle, and tropical storm julio is on its heels and it will hit the big island on friday and then big concerns for hawaii. warm and muggy and an isolated thundershower across the poconos and 70 in philadelphia, and the five-day at 5:00, shows afternoon storms and not everyone receives them and 86 degrees and then a breath of fresh air by thursday, and lowering humidity 84 degrees and friday, saturday and sunday,

beautiful temperatures in the low 80s and plenty of sunshine, will we keep it next week? i'll have the answer in the full accuweather forecast. the weekend is looking really nice. >> something to look forward to. much more to come in our next half hour. a scare in the sky over the uk, when a passenger claims to have an explosive device on board zbln a former nba player is making history in the sport but it has nothing to do with being on the court. jaime apody has the details coming up in sports.

"action news" continues. >> hello again, monica is off and sharrie williams is joining us tonight. here is what is happening on "action news" this evening. a major storm in the atlantic is increasing the danger of rip currents along the jersey shore. also, the search is on for three men that attacked a woman outside of her north philadelphia home and it sat in the box since the great depression but tonight local

scientists are talking about an amazing rediscovery in their backyard. now the details, you can't see them from the surface, but that doesn't make them any less dangerous, we are talking about rip currents. swimmers at the jersey shore need to stay alert while out in the water. new jersey correspondent, nora muchanic, is live in atlantic city with this story for us. >> reporter: hi there, you bet bertha is having an affect here, some say it's the roughest surf they have seen at the jersey shore in years. it's hard to see a rip current but you know what it's like when you get caught in one. the surf is angry and powerful and swimmer says it can knock you off your feet. it's rough, i got sucked under and it took me and i couldn't get back up. >> bathers at atlantic city south ca