>> good morning, we're working on some new developments on this thursday, september 25. the woman and two men charged in the beating of a gay couple during a late-night encounter were arraigned overnight. >> a local prosecutor changes what she will be done about a woman bringing a gun across a pennsylvania border. >> we have rain coming down and the brunt of it will get in the

way of morning commute. >> it's particularly bad down the shore, let's get details from david murphy. >> reporter: storm tracker 6 live double scan is giving us an excellent of view of where the rain is right now. you can see how bands of rain are pushing up into philadelphia, falling apart a little bit, but providing us with a fairly steady rain it's this heavy stuff that's pushing into glassboro and wilmington. the schuylkill expressway is wet. the pennsylvania turnpike, 95, 295, the jersey turnpike all wet and slow at this point. as we go to the coast, though, you can see a lot more yellow off the ocean, as this starts to push in, we'll see the rainfall amounts start to pile up in areas of cape may county and atlantic county the garden state parkway will be picking up ponding and puddling. as we go out live, the northern suburbs seeing the first of this

rain, but as we move a little bit later into the rush hour it will get worse, as well. it's going to be slow going with what i am terming splashy roads, some of these could be poor drainage areas, especially as the heavier rain comes in at winds pile up. everybody will be buffeted around by the wind. 690 in philadelphia. 59 in allentown. 67 in sea isle city. as we head out 0 the door, bring the umbrellas, it will be raining. 60 degrees by 6:00 a.m. we'll tell you about the afternoon call. next on "action news," all three suspects who attacked a gay couple were arraigneds overnight. they left central detectives

overnight. as the legal process plays out, we're learning about one member of the trio and the troubling signs in her past, kenneth moten explains. >> reporter: all three are accused of a violent attack on two gay men. but it is 24-year-old catherine dplot who is getting -- knott who is getting attention. >> she comes from a wonderful family. she has a law enforcement background in her family. >> reporter: knott's attorney is talking about carl knott. he was a lieutenant in abington township when his daughter tweeted about special treatment from her dad. abington police chief bill which he said the woman was on a legitimate ride along, but the rest was false, as for the other tweets they appear not to be true. >> there is no allegation

against any member of this police department that goes unresearched, we research it, because we value the reputation of our police department. >> reporter: kelly said he spoke with other officers and chief knott an officer he has known for 30 years. >> he is an outstanding individual i respected him tremendously. >> reporter: there's more trouble for katherine knott who works as an er tech at lansdale hospital. abington health suspended knott and said it is investigating. as for that attack. attorneys for the suspect said it wasn't gay bashing, but a mutual confrontation. >> it escalated after one of the purported victims struck the young girl on the street. >> reporter: the borough administrator said on the advice of legal counsel no comment. kenneth moten channel 6 "action

news." >> two people remain in the hospital after a shootout that killed a man. this all happened in front of a school. >> no, no. >> that was the frightens reaction of parents who came running to the pan american charter school in north philadelphia yesterday afternoon. a driver in a car got into a shootout by someone on the sidewalk. the driver ended up dead. police don't know what touched off the shootout. >> gun charges against a south philadelphia mother of two may be formally dropped today or the atlantic prosecutor may ask allen to enter a pretrial prevention program. she drove with into new jersey with a legal gun.

allen pointed out the same prosecutor allowed ray race -- ray rice to avoid jail time after aggravated assault on now wife. >> i did 46 days in jail. >> reporter: allen bought the gun after getting robbed twice while returning home from her job. >> the hunt is on for a man who fired a shot during a bank robbery in bucks county. investigators don't think this is the first time that he struck. take a look at the suspect, he wore a mask and gray wig to make himself look like an old man. at 2:00 p.m. he walked into the wells fargo branch on county line road in she will fant. he fired one shot nobody was hurt. investigators thing that was the same man who mitt hit a bank on june 13 and wells fargo bank in

germantown, june 2. north of reading police are looking to a man who held up two gas stations using a fantasy sword. police released these photos on sunday night. officers sayment same man used the same decorative knife that was used in role playing games on friday night. if you recognize the suspect call pennsylvania state police. a new poll for the rails of governor is out this morning, it shows democratic challenger, tom wolf maintaining a sizable lead over tom corbett. 49% favor wolf, 51 favor corbett. 60% think the state is off on the wrong track. there's a sampling error of plus or minus 4%.

>> time for business on this thursday morning. walmart is getting into the banking business. go bank is a checking bank service that will linked to mastercard debit card. it will charge $9 a month for the service. the federal aviation administration is granting permits to 7 move production companies to fly drones. reps say the permit is an important step to get the federal government to relax it's ban on commercial drone use. stocks bounced back on wednesday, right now, futures are lower. apple stock is down slightly with concerns over the iphone 6. we told you about the bending problems yesterday, you put it in your pants and sit down.

they say the iof8 update is blocking their calls, apple is working on a fix. >> alcohol may be the key to lure visitors to atlantic city. tom contain suggested changing the open container law for boardwalk and beachgoers. cane suggests tax incentives and adding a crews ship port. >> 4:39 a preview of president obama's address on ebola, the unite nations it is yet another important international issue on the president's plate this week. >> a georgia father will not face the death penalty if convicted of killing his own son him -- we'll tell you why. >> reporter: if you're dressing

the kids it's rain gear today we'll stay in the 60s, too. keep a jacket handy even this afternoon when the rain is beginning to die down. when we come back we'll have more on storm tracker 6 live and show you where the heaviest stuff is heading next.

>> 4:42 this rain coming in right on track as accuweather

predicted.his rain coming in >> reporter: and starting to get steady at times. storm tracker 6 live thank you, you'll have to do it this way, sorry about that. storm tracker 6 live down scan shows we have a fair amount of rain across the region as we see down to the south of us there are heavier cells. we can go ahead and take a look at sky 6 and take you in close are on radar in a moment. there's sky 6 right now. you can see there are cloudy skies out there and we want to give you the two dimensional view on storm tracker 6 live double scan right now. we can take that. i see what we're doing now. you can see that there are heavier cells highlighted in yellow that are beginning to come in through south jersey and getting up close to philadelphia. if we come in closer, there's the schuylkill expressway, the pennsylvania turnpike off to the north and i-95. all these roads getting a very steady rain at this point. it's the stuff pushing up from

the south in places like wilmington, glass bore own chadsford and medford lakes. we go farther to the south, there is more of that coming into the shore area. some of it is off the coast barreling in. atlantic city, the garden state parkway is about to get so could by this. -- socked by this. route 55 and the ac expressway, we have that barrelling in there, as well. as we go wired off the coast of cape -- wider, off the coast of cape may, it's still coming in. as we look outside, serve wet, of course. obviously it is on the damp side for the morning commute and probably staying that way until the end of commute. temperature 60 degrees in philadelphia. the dewpoint is 57, pretty high.

the winds out of the northeast at 17 miles per hour. more on the winds in a moment, it will be heavy up until 7:00, 8:00. there will be heavier bands that increase the ponding and puddling on the roadway. it does look like in the afternoon we're winding down to nuisance showers and drizzle. how much rain are we expecting in. doesn't include what has come down, but looks like we're in for another couple of inches, 1 to 2 inches. current windy gusts are coming in with that coastal system.

23 in philadelphia. 30 along the coast. the rain, 1 to 2 inches total. locally some areas could go as high as 3. we could have poor drainage areas and road flooding. wind gusts, 25 to 35 miles per hour, higher at the shore where you're closer to the storm. here's where the temperatures go today. 60 by 8:00. 63 by 11:66 is the high by 2:00 p.m. most of the steadiest rain in the morning. high temperatures north to south, 69 in cape may. 62 until allentown. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast shows a high of 66 degrees, it will be rainy in the morning and still cloudy and damp through the afternoon and friday we get a quick bounce back, clouds in the morning give way to increasing sun highs in the mid 70s and the weekend looking good, low 80s.

in fact we'll hold 80 on monday, as well there could be a thunderstorm at night, and we start to cool down next week. >> watch the storm move out with us with the new 6abc.com. head to the weather page on your desktop, smart phone or tablet for live views of storm tracker 6 live radar. >> president obama wraps up his view at the u.n. with the call to help with the ebola epidemic. he i should an alarm. and committed 3,000 troops to build treatment centers overseas. dr. richard besser said what is needed is specific. >> reporter: we have to put the people in the treatment centers to provide care.

some countries have to say we're building the units we'll put people in there to take care of cases. >> while experts say it's not like that i ebola will spread to the united states, the chances increase everyday as the virus rages out out of control. >> a pregnant woman claims officer with the nypd slammed her to the ground. >> one man went to extremes to make sure his car wasn't scratched, but

>> welcome back let's take a look at your traffic scenarios here, first up, ever where it is wet out there, it's going to be slow. this is the schuylkill expressway, a truck ran into the median in the westbound lanes past gulph mills. traffic is not bad, but that will increase as the morning goes on. 422 oaks, rainy conditions, traffic fine on that portion of the 422, but a vehicle went off the road at route 100 westbound. watch for emergency work he wors

heading to the scene. >> calling them a scenario makes it look chic. where pilots see green and where they see other colors. here's the national picture, the lower 48 all the planes live on the screen. 1285 which is quite a few for a thursday morning. we have ice cream sandwich type of shape because of the coastal storm. if you have a flight papped the east coast -- up and down the coast coast, from boston to florida, you may see delays. ord, midway, in chicago could see delays later on tonight, they are expecting fog. flowers expected in -- thundershowers expected in

houston and in san francisco, just rain. >> new york city police are investigating some of their own officers this after an altercation was captured on surveillance video between officers and a pregnant woman. the video shows woman struggling with police, authorities say the woman tried to intervene in the arrest of her son. a georgia father accused leaving his father in the hot car will not face the death penalty. he was indicted on 8 counts of the death. his attorney said the child's death was an accident. prosecutors announced they will forego the death penalty at this time, but did not elaborate on their reason. >> all new in the next half-hour of "action news." the wild pursuit on the streets near disney lands. we have details on the arrest and video. >> we'll take a sneak peek at

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>> good morning, everyone, it is 5:00 a.m. on this thursday, september 25, here's what's happening. >> accuweather is tracking drenching downpours across the tri-state area, we have the latest on how this could impact your morning commute. >> crews in delaware county battle smoke and flames to reach a person trapped in a fast-moving house fire. >> police catch up with the suspect in the disappearance of the virginia student more than 1,000 miles away from home. >> where the storm is at and what it is doing to traffic good morning. >> reporter: storm tracker 6 live double scan is doing an excellent job showing where the heavy bands are