"action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with rick williams, sara bloomquist, and meteorologist, david murphy. good afternoon in the news this noon, a safety upgrade for

amtrak, the new cameras being added to all trips in response to this month's deadly crash and two people are accused of drunk driving after gps leads them straight to a police station. >> and the big story is a warm and humid tuesday after people return to work after a long weekend. we are live from our temple university cam and muggy with sunshine right now and the mercury is climbing. for that meteorologist, david murphy. >> it's a repeat of yesterday with sunshine and warm temperatures at the noon hour, temperatures around 80 from here to charlotte and raleigh and up to new york and the new number is in 83 in philadelphia and showers to the west missing us to the north the reason for this is high pressure to the coast, and spreading the strong

southerly blow to the southern states and the gulf stream that is warm humid air and feeling more muggy out there today rather than yesterday and tomorrow even worse nothing in place and a cold front off to the west not getting here for the next couple of days and nothing to dislodge this high and the situation we are finding ourselves in today and the cloud cover also high enough away from us or close enough to keep it dry enough where we are keeping most of the clouds suppressed to the west and we should have mainly sunny skies and some clouds shooting through. with all of that sun in store keep the sunscreen heavy as the uv index is high and as you get into a portion of the afternoon where they pass through, and that is something to keep in mine. 83 in philadelphia, as we just mentioned, 82 in wilmington and

68 in sea isle city. those dew points we held them into the upper 50s and everything below 60s makes it comfortable and 65 in millville and these areas with numbers over 60 are feeling more muggy. and we'll let you know how warmer it will get with a better chance of thunderstorms popping up later in the day and the evening and this warm and humid air mass coming up in the exclusive accuweather forecast. >> along with humid weather, you can check in with the radar at 6abc.com/weather. nearly a foot of rain fell on houston, texas overnight. most of the city is under water and the flooding is blamed for several deaths and 500 homes are damaged and two families are missing after their vacation home was swept away.

matt gutman has the full details. >> reporter: the lone star state under an unceasing deluge. and flooding shutting down major roadways and schools after another 24 hours of rain, surging waters sweeping up cars and emergency crews scrambling to rescue drivers inside. we is a lot of folks that had to abandon cars and high water rescues, one of the fatalities may have been in a flooded vehicle. >> we are actually just the next road over. >> the lights just went out. >> that is wonderful. >> the houston rockets urged fans not to head out into the weather and hundredsered at

the center. >> they are searching for laura mccone and her two children. >> i'm floating down the river tell mom and dad i love them and pray. >> 12 people are still missing and five are dead and it's not just flooding 15 tornadoes touched down over the weekend including one across the border in mexico killing 13 people there. in other news amtrak will install video cameras inside of cabs after the derailment here. they are looking into what brandon bostian did before the crash, he suffered a head injury and tells investigators he doesn't know what happened. the cameras will face inward and record their actions. the search is on for a pair

of serial robbers targeting students around the temple university campus this is video since may 14th authorities say that the men have struck six times and in each case, they have pulled a gun on the person and demanded their cell phones and money and backpacks, so far nobody is hurt, but they fear that could change if they are not captured. and police are looking for a suspect that killed a 19-year-old in philadelphia he died early this morning at temple university hospital. seven shots were fired and they are not sure if the man was the intended target or a stray bullet. the video shows two men running from the scene. >> another 19-year-old was killed in a separate shooting in southwest philadelphia at the same time last night he was shot twice in the chest at the

check center they are working to identify the suspects that drove away from the shooting in a dark colored car. a dog attack is under investigation in montgomery county police say that a woman was bitten by several dogs at 6:30 this morning in the backyard of a home of pop town avenue in pennsburg the woman was bit in the hand and legs. two people are charged with drunk driving after their gps led them straight to the upper dublin police station, this is a look at the two men investigators say that he was following smith on sunday night they were aparentally trying to go to the hilton garden east, and her gps took her to the police station instead. both suspects are charged with dui. police are looking for the bicycle riding thief who

snatched a woman's cell phone in broad daylight he was on a dark green bike when he took the phone. after he wiped out on the 1900 block of allegheny avenue he tried to grab him and he went south on jasper street, if you recognize the suspect call philadelphia police. an overturned truck leads to diesel fuel on route 40 in carnie's point it also spilled its load of sod and blocked the on ramp to the new jersey turnpike and police diverted traffic to i-295 touring the cleanup. >> the ben franklin parkway will light up with big name performers once again this summer. organizers just announced the lineup of the wawa welcome america concert.

walter perez is live now. >> reporter: mayor michael nutter says during the announcement the wawa welcome america celebration is the biggest outdoor concert celebration in america, and nobody has a 4th of july celebration like philadelphia. the lineup for this year'sing wawa welcome america celebration was unveiled. 6 abc is a proud sponsor once again of this eight day celebration of free family fun starting on june 27th and culminating on july 4th. food and music will be highlighted with the fireworks extravaganza and the musical guests were announced by mayor nutter himself. >> the roots philadelphia's own band will serve as the house band they are absolutely the best house band any city could have and they will be joined by top national and international

music stars. >> those stars joining the roots are miguel and jennifer nettles and a major announcement will be coming on the lineup this week so stay with 6 abc and 6abc.com for the latest on that. walter perez channel 6 "action news." >> okay. thank you walter. still to come on "action news" at noon, gun fire erupts inside of a wal-mart what we know about the deadly early morning shooting and new allegations in the death of blues legend b.b. king, why his family think he was murdered and who they think is responsible.

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oh my god this is crazy. oh my god. >> new video shows the massive tanker fire that shut down a busy freeway in detroit over the weekend this is the view from one woman's car as 9,000 gallons of gasoline went up in flames on sunday. the driver told police that he had mechanical problems and then crashed. investigators say that the company that operates the truck has several violations and four crashes since 2009. to people are dead following a shooting at a wal-mart in north dack, police say someone opened

fire at 1:00 this morning inside of the grand forks super center that is open 24 hours a day, the gunman was one of two people killed and another person was hospitalized. daughters of the late blues legend, b.b. king, claim he may have been poisoned to death two of his children call his cause of death murder. they put the blame on two of his closest aids and his doctor listed the cause of death as dim dementia dementia. the full results are expected in 6 to 8 weeks. threats against six international flights into the u.s. put police on high alert across the northeast yesterday. military jets escorted a flight into jfk airport.

someone claimed a chemical weapon was on board and other flights were inspected at boston liberty and atlanta. the trial for a reporter in iran got underway today he is charged with espionage against the republicanic, he holds an american and iranian citizenship, he grew up in the united states u.s. officials are pressing for his release. still ahead on "action news" at 12:30 time warner cable has a new buyerer, the deal to create a new provider in the country. and the bounce house goes airborne, the scary scene of a memorial day cookout. coming up at 12:30.

>> charter communications is atelling to buy time warner cable in a deal worth 55 billion there's, the agreement will create one of the largest tv and internet providers in the u.s. with 21 million customers. the values the shares as $29 billion. today's announcements come just weeks after comcast dropped its offer to by tomorrow warner. the top baby food formula in the country will be the first

without genetically altered ingredients, similac will offer it at the end of the month at target and they may eventually offer others without altered ingredients. they are giving away new milk to mothers trying to promote breast feedings only a third of the maternity wards gave out the formula. public health experts have diskournled hospitals from giving away formula because of the proven benefits of breast feeding. as the weather gets warmer people are heading out to exercise. and it's a way to prevent -- be sure to tune in for a live chat with the sports medicine expert.

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david here n ow for a check of your accuweather forecast here comes the heat and the humidity. >> it's warm today like it was yesterday, and a little bit more humid, and we'll feel that in our region as you go outside and exert yourself double scan live shows us we are precipitation free and we can use rain in allentown and reading. and enter into a drought situation. and as we take a look outside. lots of sunshine, raining down

on the strawberry mansion bridge and this is our photographer who got the shot, you can see at i heat barrage from the surface of the bridge and an indication of how the heat is building kind of an interesting picture in philadelphia your dew point has gone north of that 60 degree threshold for that air and winds west at 13 miles per hour. bringing up the warm air from the south and bringing up higher moisture content, 67 degrees in sea isle city, we have dropped with the sea breeze and 82 inland and 82 in dover and 82 in wilmington and 84 in the lehigh valley and trenton sitting on 83. future tracker 6 showing you we have sunny conditions straight through 5:00, there will be showers but closer to the new york and pennsylvania border than down in our direction poconos may pick up some of this, we had a slight concern of reading and allentown but it

doesn't look like it. that would be shower and thunderstorm activity farther north and by 10:00 10:30 tonight we are maintaining mainly dry conditions and 88 degrees are your forecast high and lot of sun and humid out there, at the shore sunny and warm and 82 degrees, if you walk a couple of blocks inland and hard to be bothered by it at the beach though. mostly sunny skies and a bit on the humid skies and winds running west at 10 to 20 miles per hour. it will be on the breezy side with warm temperatures partly cloudy and warm and muggy and 70 is the overnight low well above average, winds from the southwest 8 to 16 miles per hour. and in between the two numbers we have the evening rush hour, you'll need the shades on the way home, 88 by 4:00, that is

your high, we may hit that maybe 15 minutes earlier and 85 by 5:30 and 7:00 still holding on to the low 80s, tomorrow we have a slight risk, a low chance any way, north and west of region from areas just west of allentown and the poconos and thunderstorms forming and bringing strong damaging winds and a lot of hail, it doesn't look like when the storms enter it's not quite as strong and it will take them a while for the evening hours where there is not much support for that kind of thing something to keep in mind some storms tomorrow will be on the rough side this morning we are not expecting anything, and still not a lot going on and when we get up to 4:00 we'll have our eyes on the northern and western areas for strong gusty thunderstorms and as the stuff breaks through and gets down to i-95, the big issue for us is drenching downpours

and the strongest winds probably back to the north and west, things could change and the model may change and we could be drawing that chance of stronger storms to the south and for now drenching downpours are the big issue and by 10:00 11:00 at night we may still have some around for cecily and adam to show you 88 is today's high and the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, not oppressive and you are feeling more sweaty and a higher humidity of 87 and you saw a chance of drenching thunderstorms, and gusty ones north and west, thursday the actual front comes through 83 is the high, and a couple more storms around and we get dry friday and saturday sunday 81 degrees, and a spotty shower be it doesn't look like a washout. >> we may be back in the 70s right now much more to come in our next half our of "action

news" at noon, a bounce house with kids inside. when a waterspout comes ashore we have the details in a live report. plus, you can have a uber car the next time you fly, the deal they are ironing out right now.

we begin at 12:30 with breaking news, an emotional

guilty plea less than an hour ago. christopher murray admitted to killing his own wife as she power walked in pennypack park last summer. vernon odom was in the courtroom for the emotional plea and joins us now in center city with all the details. >> reporter: it was emotional in court this morning, christopher murray breaking down as he apologized to his wife's family and his own and his children who are teenagers that are basically now orphans, he entered a guilty plea to the third degree murder of his wife, connie and it took place of course in pennypack park. >> lawyers have worked out a deal with the district attorney that has the 48-year-old murray pleading guilty to murdering his wife and in exchange he will get 40 years in prison. he admits to strangling his