>> ♪ >> "action news." delaware valley's leading news program. with matt o'donnell, tamala edwards, karen rogers and with matt o'donnell, tamala >> good morning everyone. it's 5 o'clock on this tuesday august 12th and developing this morning. >> a violent night in atlantic city ends with four people shot. >> actor and comedian robin williams is found dead at the age of 63. we look back at the oscar winner's triumphs and struggles. >> accuweather is tracking rain and potential for flooding coming later today. >> karen is filling in for david. she's all over that and matt pelman is taking a look at traffic. good morning. >> luckily we've got storm tracker 6 live double scan standing by so we can see exactly where this rain is right now. looking right here we see mostly areas of green indicate

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foxboro right here on 6abc. kickoff at 7:30. ducis rodgers is following the team. he'll have live coverage following the joint practices today on "action news." >> 5:16. coming up more bad news for the cash strapped postal >> the fda approves a first of its kinds test to help detect

>> well, as parents start gearing up for the new school year, we have a warning. investigative reporter wendy saltzman has preview. >> reporter: our investigation found a local school district hiring known felons and lacks laws that could have allowed criminals to work lands in hand with your kids. >> it's not a matter of them not doing background checks. they're doing the background checks and seeing the felonies and still hiring these people. >> reporter: tonight we have one senator's push to prevents this from happening in your school district and our in depth investigation uncovers other convicts working in our

schools. >> that's outrageous. >> reporter: i'm wendy saltzman. i'll have our exclusive investigation tonight at 11:00 on "action news." >> i'm a little bit like the kids. i don't want to see those big yellow school buses because they clog the traffic. >> i like them because the house is empty. [laughter] >> we're on different papers with that but we'll enjoy our bus free traffic for the next few weeks. here we're looking at center city where it remains mostly dry this morning and this ramp from the vine eastbound to 95 southbound has reopened. it was closed for a short time overnight for some construction. we had big problems last night on the market frankford line. a septa worker was struck by a train. everything's back the normal this morning. he was working on that maintenance project for the trolleys. don't forget routes 10, 11, 13, 34 and 36 remain diverted to 40th and market through monday morning. karen. >> storm tracker 6 live double scan showing we're already seeing the rain through parts of our region right now and this is the way it's going to be today. we're going to see periods of rain on and off through the day so just be prepared for it

at any point. , see in philadelphia nothing at any point. here or there but certainly to the north we're getting hit a little hard interreading, in allentown a little steadier and down in dover you can see some rain falling as well. let's take a look at your exclusive accuweather 7-day forecast, periods of rain today. some of which could be heavy. we even have a slight risk for severe weather especially west of the city of philadelphia. a lot going on today. 79 degrees for your high. it's going to be on and off straight through tonight into the overnight hours. then tomorrow we start off with clouds. we get some sunshine, a spotty shower at any point tomorrow. a day of transition. a high of 83. after that, the weather's beautiful, less humid and lots of sunshine so just hang in there, tam. >> looking forward to that. thank you karen. going to health check the fda says it has a new way to screen for colon cancer. it's the first screening test that uses a patient's dna to find potentially dangerous growths and tumors. the colo guard test. patients who test positive for

the mutation should undergo a colonoscopy. linking exercise to lower breast cancer rates. researchers studied middle aged women. those who exercised regularly were 10 percent less like to have a breast cancer diagnoses. women who exercised when they were younger but stopped five or more years before menopause did not see the benefit. the lesson here. keep up the exercise. >> the agency that delivers the mail in america lost piles and piles of money in just a few months. abc's devin dwyer has america's moneyism topping america's money bleeding red ink. the u.s. postal service lost $2 billion in the last quarter, almost three times as much as the same period a year ago. that even though its revenue was up in nearly all areas. the judge supervising the lawsuits against general motors over the ignition switch defect says he's going to push for deals not trials. but there's a question of whether the automaker can be

sued for anything from before its government bailout five years ago. another judge will decide on that. and amazon is getting into the mobile payment movement today launching its own credit card reader that costs just 10 bucks. amazon's readers connect to a smartphone allowing individuals and companies to accept payments through a credit card. and finally burger king's chicken fries are back. they were dropped from the menu about two years ago because of slow sales but a social media campaign to bring them back appears to have worked. that's america's money. i'm devin dwyer. >> up next a new scam at a local atm. we have a video police want you to look at next. and legacy of the late actor and legacy of the late actor robin williams. hear how local comedians are robin williams. what's up, george? massage chair. my little indulgence.

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talking about the show. people show up with various things, sometimes it's something, sometimes it's nothing. there was a big case of something on saturday when somebody brought in an 18 70's trove of boston baseball memorabilia. turns out it was -- they appraised it at a million dollars. this is a collection of rare baseball cards and signatures. it came to a woman, she inherit head it from her great great grandmother who ran a boston boarding house in 1871 to 1872. the name of the team at the time was the boston red stockings. we know them today as the atlanta braves and she's now in for a lot of money. good thing she didn't slow throw that stuff out. >> sometimes it pays off to save stuff in the attic. a south jersey couple comes home to find their safe and $200,000 worth of jewelry gone and this may not be the first time the bandits have struck. >> also the unexpected loss of one of hollywood's most beloved funny men leaves stars

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and always will be...you. >> ♪ >> happening now on "action news," remembering robin williams. the man moo made generations williams. inner demons. >> developing overnight gun violence grips atlantic city. we're gathering new information on the shootings and on the search for suspects. >> storm tracker 6 live double scan radar will be tracking periods of heavy rain today. "action news" is updating the path and timing of the storms. >> good morning. david is off. let's go to karen rogers much she's got her eye on what's going to go on with all that rain and matt pelman is watching traffic. good morning. >> we had warned you today was going to be the wettest day of the seven day period. live double scan showing us the rain has moved in already in parts of our region. we're especially seeing it north of philadelphia and south of philadelphia but it's going to be that kind of day

where at any pointer you're going to see a period of rain coming through the area.