long for the next one unfortunately. and joining us live from los angeles with the latest on the damage and the other storm headed for hawaii. >> rick, state officials in hawaii wrapped up a news conference a short time ago. they are still concerned about flash flooding and the powerful winds. high winds, soaking rain and strong surf as tropical storm iselle made landfall this morning. explosions as downed power lines showered sparks in the darkness, leaving nearly 25,000 homes without powers. and downed trees blocked roads for drivers. the forecast, say tropical storm iselle and approaching hurricane julio are the biggest storms since 1992. >> we continue to watch julio. while that is probably north of the big island we can't guarantee it. >> travellers returning to lax

relieving that they beat the storm. >> definitely. a little tension. >> dozens of flights canceled or delayed in honolulu forced the search for a last-minute flight. >> people trying to scramble for their life. >> and weather alerts across the hawaiian islands, closures of schools and officials not taking chances. >> everybody knows that a rough time is coming. we hope that it is minute ma'am -- minimal as it can be. >> some are not concerned. >> we are excited to go to maui. we are just going tore it. >> the forecasters say that hurricane julio now a category three hurricane winds around 115 miles per hour. it could arrive sometime between sunday or even monday. live in los angeles, kirk hawkins, channel 6 "action news." rick, back to you. >> thank you for that record.

world news has more on that coming up. the police in west philadelphia investigating a deadly one-car crash involving a taxi cab. it slammed into a wall, unclear what caused it. a 67 year old driver dead at the scene. the man accused of opening fire in a delaware county wellness center last month now out of the hospital. 49 year old richard plotts faces several charges stemming from the shooting killing teresa hunt, his case worker in darby. and psychiatrist lee silverman also founded in the shooting. plotts was injured when silverman pulled out his own weapon and shot him. the four-year hunt for a major player in the underage prostitution ring ends with an

arrest. catching up with john guerra last night. on the run since 2010. accused of recruiting women as young as 17 years old with offers of cash and drugs and promoting sex acts on craigslist. tleem co-defendants pled guilty four years ago and guerra has been denied bail. and a middle teacher arrested for allegedly pursuing a sexual relationship with one of his own old students. patrick mcguire contacted the girl who is now 13 through social media. he taught the victim at the middle school. the police were contacted and they arrested him on attempting luring. and held on bail. and being sued by visitors who say they are physically abused by overly aggressive hotel security staff in atlantic city. captured on video and we have more on the story.

>> this video raising eyebrows tonight, as you can imagine. in the past two weeks several lawsuits have been filed in civil court against caesars entertainment describing assault and battery in the casino and the club and one expects more lawsuits to fall. and where everyone is welcome is not what they found. >> it was miserable. >> and a classical guitarist is also suing. his disagreement got him punched, kicked and stomped on according to his lawsuit. former college basketball player, rob says things worse for him after his angry dispute with total security at a casino nightclub. >> laying in a pool of my own blood. i thought i was dying.

thought i was dead. >>le it took place in one casino, harrah's. part of the corporation sued by the unhappy customers. in the case of the bin's family, they moved in after the professional poker player was upset when told he was being evicted as the xhulas the compu list him as a guest although he was there for two days. >> and they grabbed him and through him to the floor. i just said get off of him, he has a pacemaker. >> and the mom is dragged off. and this as they struggle to improve things for tourists. >> it can't be toll rated.

>> the harrah's employees say the vacationers were the aggressors. and the casino said the security personnel is trained to use the lease amount of force. looking at the video, of course asking questions. >> ok thank you. and "20/20" with a special report on the lawsuit. we will bring you that. and the red cross helping five families out of their home after a fire in montgomery county. the flames were shooting from the woods apartment in the 700 block of west lincoln drive in upper dublin. eight apartments damaged or destroyed. one person taken to the hospital to be checked out and still to work on the cause. out of the delaware news room a bit of a scare after a crash landing. it happened at the airport.

and they say he landed on a grass lunnway but the plane skid i across the street into can be's yard. the f.a.a. is looking into the incident. >> time for a check of the "action news" report. >> good news last hour. >>i hope you enjoyed it. this time around not so much. the schuylkill, eastbound side how about 1:07 to get from the big red into the vine. really not good when you consider ideally it should be a 14-minute ride. parked away from king ever puo a prussia. tomorrow 6:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. blocking a lane on the schuylkill and one lane will get by. seeing those delays tomorrow on the schuylkill expressway. and due to an earlier issue on

the ben franklin bridge, now everything looks fine. but paving happening this weekend giving you restrictions and delays. use the betsy ross or walt whitman instead. le and sunday the northeast extension closing between lansdale and mid county. ramp 95 northbound to girard close this is weekend as well for more construction. not so great now, not a lot to look forward to. but enjoy your weekend anyway. young men encouraged to share creative voice this is summer. two philadelphia organizations teamed up for boys right now. a hip-hop crew got them pumped for the free workshop. mentors are helping to help 7 to 12 graders transfer emotions into the written word. >> present cool. and the next half-hour of "action news."

he has the new car and had the perfect song, but it was over before he could sing it. >> this cooler gets an $8 million idea or could it be? many think so. if you are headed to citizens bank park the phills taking on the mets. low humidity and talking about the temperatures and letting you know when you stick around for the weekend in the accuweather forecast. i do and ducis with a look at this ahead at the preseason match-up. don't go away. >> go birds. day dreaming again?

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>> a mail carrier in ohio could face federal charges for trashing letters she was supposed to be delivering. a resident in cincinnati recorded this dumping wednesday. the postal service received several complaints from neighbors missing their mail. fortunately other crews went to the dumpster and retrieved the documents before they were sent to the landfill. they are investigating the incident. an alleged car thief thought it was the best day of his life, listen to the music in a minute.

but it turned out to be one of his worst. ♪ >> cameras rolled as this chipper crook boosted what was a bank car placed by the police. all smiles on the video rocking out to the music until the car suddenly stopped. officers turned it off remotely and moved in to make their arrest. back here in philadelphia, less than 2 1/2 hours from the eagles' first preseason game. they are in chicago taking on the bears. the kickoff, of course, at 8:00. speaking of sports, jamie apody live at the "action news" sports center with more on today's sports including tonight's big game. >> are you ready for some football? i know i am. it has been a long off season. more than 200 days since the eagles lost to the saints. let's get it started live at soldiers' field. ducis rodgers is ready, so are the birds. >> hey there, jamie. you mentioned the wait is over. the birds are practicing behind me a little more than two hours

away from kickoff between the bears and eagles in preseason game number one. you mentioned high hopes for the season and a lot of them arrive on the hopes of one mccoy. coming off a career year winning the nfl rushing title. mccoy says always trying to get better. shedding 5-10 pounds and jeff asked him about that. >> why do you need to a little lighter if you were already that good. >> i always need to get better. i am trying to fix it i am a lot quicker. being better on my diet. and small keys that i can get better at. actually i had 1600 yards rushing and i would have added 400 more yards. and it is part of growing, that you are chasing perfection. >> 2,000 yards, that would be something.

you can see much more of jeff's one-on-one with mccoy. and that will take you up into kickoff between the bears and eagles. a couple of injury notes, wide receiver cooper will not play, he has a food injury. jeremy macklin will suit up, ready to go. the kind of season for the phillies that makes want to live in the past. as part of alumni witness they get a bobble head figureen. and after hitting the grand slam in the eighth helping them sweep the astros.

and the phillies start a season with the mets. a lone survivor of the core, talking to him thinking his days might be soon. and maybe part of the trade between the caves and the timber wolves. and he is not sweating it. >> if i get the call it is what it is. it is a business but at the end of the day i can't really worry about that. i am just focused on betting better in the summer. >> young took time out to talk after the basketball camp. and if it is true sending young to there for bennett. when they get him from cleveland it is part of the monster kevin love deal if reports of true. eagles people, we are excited. back to you in the studio.

>> thank you so much. if you want to tailgate you may need this cooler. it has a radio, cell phone charger and blender. still 21 days left to support the idea on the funding website. no word when the production will begin. >> can you grim burr -- grill burgers on it, that's twha want to know. and a nice addition to fish town. and penns landing with a town. and penns landing with a nice weekend and melissa magee we showed people a survey that stacked fios up against comcast. what's it like paying for internet rated 6 out of 7 in customer satisfaction? not good, it's not the best.

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years. nice. melissa magee here. nice weekend speaking of nice coming our way. >> that's right. no complaints, no issues. get out and enjoy it. a nice stretch of weather on the way. showing you what is going on, the radar shows it was nice today, continuing over the weekend. dry as we look at the radar. no issues with the precipitation. you won't have any with the dominating ridge of high pressure in control. it will stay that way tonight and we have got cool conditions if perhaps you are stepping out on the town. watch the phills take on the mets and maybe up north to the musikfest tonight. the temperatures outside, official high in philadelphia so far coming in at 82 degrees. wilmington 82. poconos 73. along the coast in sea isle city 79. dover coming in at 80 degrees. satellite 6 along with action radar showing pretty quiet much of new england. the exception in bangor, maine. the high pressure north of toronto, you see clear conditions from new york to philadelphia. and cloud cover move across

washington, d.c. widening out the picture, that ridge of high pressure to the north will help to suppress all of the precipitation south and west of the region. do you not have to worry about any of the moisture over the ohio and tennessee river valleys as we get into the weekend. the only thing you may notice is a few more high thin clouds streaking in for the second half of the weekend. and futuretracker 6 has you covered. numbers along the i-95 and lower 80s north and west of town, allentown and reading. 79 in atlantic city at 3:00. and pair of 7's in wildwood. and getting into the afternoon hours sunday, not much of a difference. temperatures in the upper 80s. the only thing will you probably notice by sunday afternoon is a slight increase in the humidity. but still nothing unbearable for the month of august. down the shore, 75 degrees the ocean temperature tomorrow. and as you head inland, sunny and nice and high of 79.

78 sunday and sunshine and a new high thin clouds around. up north of philadelphia, north of the shore to the poconos we head. mostly sunny, high pressure, high 76. 77 as we get into sunday with sunshine. and the call from accuweather tonight, a moon-lit sky. get out and enjoy. 65 in the city and 57 in the suburbs with the cool west-northwestly wind keeping the numbers below average. the accuweather forecast showing sunshine and a few clouds tomorrow. high up to 85. slightly humid sunday with a high temperature up to 86 degrees. warm and turning muggy monday with a high temperature of 84. tuesday, mostly dry with high of 82. and late tuesday an average thunderstorm likely and that could spill over into wednesday with morning rain. a high of 84, just beautiful. in the wake of that, low humidity and high of 80. no 90s in sight. this is august by the way, no heat wave on that board.

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♪ "action news." delaware valley's leading news program with ducis rodgers, meteorologist cecily tynan, and jim gardner. >> friday night. the reward grows to find the killer of a northeast philadelphia woman. and three children shocked while swimming in a philadelphia pool. the big story, developing news from iraq. the u.s. is using war planes and predator drones to strike out at jihadist militants in the country. two f18 war planes and drone dropped 500-pound bombs on a target city. last night president obama said there would be air strikes

against them if the group isis advanced on the city. ment u.s. has a consulate there and military advisors. and the u.s. dropping humanitarian supplies for refugees, and many of them running from their homes and fleeing certain death and trapped in a mountain range. reports say isis executed dozens of the refugee men and kept the wives for unmarried isis fighters. and they captured the dam with catastrophic sequences for the civilian population. and reporter john rawlins getting local reaction of this in the 6700 block of bustle fon -- bustleton where refugees live. >> talking to experts and a