"action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with rick williams, sara bloomquist, and meteorologist, david murphy. good afternoon in the news this noon, more than 1,000 people are homeless because of

flooding in texas. >> and a corruption scandal rocks the world's most powerful sport, the arrest of top soccer officials today. and the big story is a sex assault suspect in philadelphia. police just released this surveillance video today, they believe this is the man that attacked a woman in her own bed on monday. investigators are questioning a man at that same building this morning. john rawlins is live now with an update. >> reporter: police continue to come and go and they have held this scene before 5:00 this morning, one of things they are trying to determine is whether or not this morning's incident is connected to what happened here on monday. police were called to an address on the 1800 block of south rose wood for the second time in three days. mona woman was sexually

assaulted at a home on this block. the officers returned after two women reported that a man tried to open a door and gain entry. and he was unsuccessful. police appeared to transport a female from the residence and earlier they detained and questioned a man from the area and it's not clear if he is in any way connected to the attack. police released this video of the man they say is the suspect in monday's attack in the victim's car which he stole. described as a black male 6 foot to 6'2" medium build. the attack is baffling to long time neighbors. >> it's weird one girl in one house with this problem, it's a shame i feel bad for her had. >> police released the sketch of this suspect from an earlier attack. police think the two crimes

could have been committed by the same man, the common denominator is on monday on the march attack, the asailassailant was wearing gloves that were red or orange. in other news, police are looking for a suspect after stray bullets flew into a house with a family sleeping inside. seven shots were fired on the kinsdale section of the city. one person was taken to the hospital in critical condition three bullets went into the living room, a 52-year-old woman and her so and 15-year-old children were asleep and not hurt. 20 students are charged in a sexting investigation in cape may county all the boys attend lower cape may high school and

middle school. police were alerted to naked photos of one girl being passed around in april. and they discovered images of more female students on a seized cell phone the suspects are charged with invasion of privacy. tracking more heat and the possibility of drenching storms in the forecast later on today. humid conditions now as we look live from atlantic city and sky 6 hd the sun is struggling to break through the clouds it looks nice out there now though. karen rogers is in for david murphy and over at the big board. >> reporter: it did take a while for the clouds to break and we are breaking out in sunshine and temperatures reflect that now and we jumped up 5 degrees in the last half hour, 83 now in philadelphia quite warm out there and 82 in allentown and wilmington and 80 in millville what a difference on the coastline in the upper 60s, a

strong wind off the ocean and what is bringing in the cooler air with ocean temperature 53 degrees are you getting a break from the heat and humidity along the coastline we are up from yesterday the dew points are in the upper 60s at this point and 65 to 70 degrees, it feels humid out there. i want to bring in stormtracker 6 live double scan although we are dry in philadelphia you can just start to see the storms beginning to take shape they are out in harrisburg, a lightning strike right now out in gettysburg, but the reason we are watching them closely is this, our storm threat risk, downpours is a high threat and moderate threat of lightning and the winds you are right on the border between low and moderate. we'll see storms with strong gusty winds and that could be a problem as well. if we bring in stormtracker 6 live double scan, you can see

that in motion as the sun broke out in the heat of the day and they are moving slowly and inching their way towards our region and the timing is a problem for this evening for drivers. and gusty winds with these storms and ponding on the roads, it's been so dry we anticipate problems with flooding. this is future tracker 6 coming up we'll walk you through it. >> thank you. relentless flooding in texas left more than 1,000 people homeless it's raining again in houston today and the region is aat risk of more storms for the rest of the week. a report from texas with the latest. >> reporter: everywhere you look along the river in texas so much devastation and the lone star state is getting hit with more rain today. another round of heavy downpours is striking the heart of texas

already struggling to recover from a string of powerful storms and flash flooding. >> the water was here in 20 minutes. >> outside in dallas the water is pouring over this dam on the verge of failing with a dozen home below. and 12 people are still missing including laura mccomb and her two children their vacation home splintered into pieces after crashing into a bridge. the father was rescued nine miles away. >> we are talking water so powerful it raged at 223,000 cubic feet per second twice the speed of niagara falls damaging 2,000 homes and in houston it's more widespread, we have properties we visually inspected and there could be 4,000 with

significant damage. >> among the more than 500 calls for water rescues this was caught on a cell phone this man jumped in to save a woman and her child if their car. >> you can see how high the floodwaters rose, that home ripped from its foundation, the water so high it put a ladder into the tree here and that is a pool raft, officials say more than 1,000 people in this region are now homeless. brandy hicks channel 6 "action news." fire claimed the life of a woman in the brewery section of philadelphia this morning, firefighters were called to the home at the 2600 block of west thompson street at 6:50, the fire was extinguished and then firefighters found a woman dead on the first floor. commissioner derek sawyer says there were no working smoke

alarms in the house. one person is dead after a single car crash in vineland new jersey early this morning police say the driver was speeding on elm road and struck a pole. another driver passing by alerted police to the scene officers say that the driver had been dead for sometime before being found. >> an accident tied up traffic on the pennsylvania turnpike in buck county this morning, a tanker carrying diesel fuel crashed in the westbound lanes and the driver was taken to the hop with minor injuries and traffic was delayed in the area while crews removed the truck, the cause of the accident remains under investigation, former senator rick santorum is expected to join the race for the white house today. this will be santorum's second

campaign for president after finishing a distant second in 2012. top soccer officials under arrest the charges against fifa executives. and the controversy sounding the world cup. and what a teacher's students are giving up to help with her medical bills. and karen rogers has your seven-day forecast.

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the u.s. justice department is charging 14 top soccer figures with money laundering and fraud. they were arrested at an upscale hotel in switzerland today. investigators says they took $150 million in kickbacks over the controversial decision to hold the world cup in russia and qatar. officials believe that corruption caused the u.s. to lose out. one the fifa vice president's is jeffrey webb who was in philadelphia to announce the gold cup finals in july. all the suspects will be extradited to the u.s. to face formal charges. the irs was looking for the

thiefs that stole personal information from more than 100,000 taxpayers, it was lifted from a website called get transcripts it lets them obtain tax filings from previous years they took social security numbers and addresses to claim fraudulent tax refunds. they will contact all the victims and provide free credit monitoring to anyone affected. a chicago police officer is being called a hero for saving the life of a man perched on the ledge of a parking garage, video shows the man in the red shirt straddling the railing high above the ground and the nearby police officer was leaving a restaurant and says the man was screaming and looked distraught and looked like he would jump. >> he threw his wallet and cell phone down, saying he didn't need them anymore where he was

going. >> the officer called for backup and then detectives continued to talk to the man from the ground he snuck up behind him and grabbed him just in time. some seniors gave up their class trip to help their principal fight cancer she got her diagnose one week ago in new hampshire, after hearing the news the senior class took a vote they all decided to give her the $8000 they raised over the past four years to help with her medical care. >> it's hard for me to accept help. and i have no idea what to say. >> she is just very caring and selfless and we want to be selfless too. >> everyone of us has a connection with her and she has given so much to us we just want to give back. >> the money was ridgely meant

to cover a four day senior trip to a ranch in upstate new york, instead the students will spend one night closer to home. >> very nice. still ahead amazon is now hiring in our area, where you can apply for full-time jobs, plus the reason new parents can wait longer to cut their baby's umbilical cord, we'll tell you the difference a few minutes can make.

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apple surpassed google as the most valuable brand in the world. established by research company brands. apple's value increased to $247 billion up 67% over the past year and google is now in second place, valued at $174 billion. amazon is now hiring at distribution centers across the united states including pennsylvania new jersey and delaware full-time positions are open in lehigh countiy and middletown newcastle county. amazon wants to add the extra workers to speed up delivery times, about 6000 full-time employees will be hired at 50 locations nationwide. turning to health check researchers are finding success fighting cancer with another virus, the experimental

treatment uses a herpes virus to fight melanoma researchers say it worked in a phase three clinical trial that is the final step before the fda can give approval. well, a few extra minutes attached attached to the umbilical world can help down the road, babies that waited had slightly higher social skills and motor skills compared to kids whose cords are cut within 10 seconds, all babies benefit from receiving extra blood and iron from the placenta after birth. the "action news" team is working on news stories beginning toeb at 4:00. >> alicia vitarelli is live in our newsroom. >> coming up at 4:00 we are talking about a break-in and a robbery and a brutal attack

philadelphia police this afternoon are looking for the man that broke into a restaurant, beat up and employee that was sleeping inside and then robbed the business now they are asking for your help to track them down and a new law based on bill cosby the state trying to save their sexual abuse laws in light of the accusations again the comedian. you can take us on the go with the 6 abc news app, it's free and watch our newscast streaming live on your smart phone or tablet. accuweather is coming up

. karen rogers is in for david murphy, nice to see you. >> nice to see you too. >> she brought rain though. >> we need it. >> we'll go find david.

>> if you are sick of watering the flowers yourself you can get it for free later. lets look at stormtracker 6 live double scan around the region, we are dry in philadelphia we are now starting to see the storms take shape well out to the west at this point. lets go closer with double scan, we have the area zoomed in nine lightning strikes in the past few minutes this is still out there in harrisburg and gettysburg, not in our region but a sign of what is to come this evening. lets go outside and see so far so good looking live on sky 6 hd, on the ben franklin bridge, we were stuck with the clouds and now brightening up we can see blue skies and sunshine mixing in. your highlights, talking about the next seven days, staying sticky and tracking downpours coming your way later today. 83 in philadelphia and warm temperatures today more than 10 degrees above arm the dew point

is 69 and feeling sticky we get a breeze from the southwest and it's not helping too much and the pressure is holding steady, we saw sunshine and high clouds filling in and you will notice the rain approaching our region, we go tighter with storm tracker six foot tracker. the line is developing from the west and it looks to hit the lehigh valley at 5:00 and progressing from there still on the doorstep of philadelphia at 6:00 some red and purple and that means good downpours associated with this, not a lot of difference here, it goes from dark red to nothing, that is where you get the sharp divide i'd and you can get gusty winds as well. at 9:00 they start to fall apart but late this afternoon and tonight, those are the risk of severe storms gusty winds up to 60 miles per hour, we have a low

probability of that somewhere in the 25 mile region the sharp divide is a sharp divide. we have a chance for a storm but not severe. lets see how this plays out. 88 and warm today and clouds and sunshine and by 5:00 we start to see the storms west of the city and by 7:00 hitting the city and areas nearby and by 9:00, 72 degrees and the temperatures come way down and a wider look around the united states and we see the heavy storms once again that hit dallas and now new orleans after they got 10 to 20 inches of rain getting more rain coming their way. here is your exclusive accuweather forecast, humid today and scattered thunderstorms around and good downpours with this 89 for your high and sunshine and storms partly sunny and 85 and saturday a bit warmer and dry and 88 and

sunday it's looking like clouds and showers and even a sustained period of rain, watch for that if you are headed to the phils game. a big change on mon, clouds linger and 83 tuesday breezy and nice and 74. >> thank you karen. some buck county eighth graderers showed off their moves and poise this morning, the action cam was at robert shay middle school in bensalem for a ballroom dance showcase studentses there are working with dancing classrooms philly to learn everything from swing to salsa. >> a passenger catches the flight attendant taking pictures in the jet's engine before it took off now they are responding to this controversial

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and the video that police hope will make an arrest. and 14 fifa officials have been arrested. how they allegedly took $100 million. >> now the details police released surveillance video showing a possible suspect in a south philadelphia home. "action news" reporter chad pradelli is live in hunting park with the latest. >> reporter: police have no suspects no persons of interest and no one in custody being questioned but they have released the surveillance video of the suspect and they want the public to take a close look. in this newly released surveillance video you can see the suspect driving the victim's car just minutes after she was sexual assaulted in her home monmorning, he parked and goes back out and goes in her car and tries to wipe away finger pr