a cold front a squall line, most of the region does not see severe weather and there is one cell over chester county that has the potential for damaging winds a severe thunderstorm warning for this region from kennett square west of royersford and westchester until 5:15 this evening, this cell is moving in the northeast at 35 miles per hour, so double scan live showing the red that is rain falling at the rate of up to 2 inches per hour, it's torrential rain and lightning and gusty winds frazier and malvern and devon all in the path of the storm. get inside when you hear the thunder get inside. when we extend to the north this is not where it's quite as strong we have gusty winds with this. i do want to show you this. you see the line of green that is actually known as an outflow

boundary, that is not rain but the rush of win winds ahead of the squall line. early evening, much needs drefrming downpours this is the good news, and frequent lightning and can't rule out of the important of isolated small hail but as that squall line moves into south jersey, it encounters school ocean air and tomorrow parts of south jersey could see storms finally, i'll talk about that in the full accuweather forecast. as you keep an eye on the weather, texas is dealing withouter devastation catastrophic floods left homes destroyed. near dallas officials are keeping a close eye on this dam you can see the water pouring over the side of it it and it's on the verge of failing and it could wipe out dozens of homes

below and rescuers are using infrared helicopters and hundreds are on the ground searching. among those are laura mccomb and their two children their vacation home was destroyed when it floated and crashed into a bridge. >> she called me and said i'm in a house floating down the river tell mom and dad i love you and pray. >> amazing she made the phone call, meantime her husband was rescued nine miles away and residents are helping one another and this man and three others jumped into the water to save a woman and her dog that were trapped inside of the car. >> i didn't want to see the lady drown. >> here is how powerful the flooding is. at its peak, it raised at 23000 cubic feet per second more than twice the speed of niagara falls, look at the pictures

unexpected problems southwest houston, a casket with a body inside was unearthed and floated on to a roadway, they called police and they transported it to a medical examiner and noeshlg picture, residents are on the washing to be on the lookout for displaced wildlife an alligator found its way to an office building off the freeway, an expert was called in and they brought the alligator to the farm. these are images we expect to get throughout the week. world news will have more after "action news." in the lehigh valley the son of allentown's police chief is on trial for allegedly pointing a gun at two undercover police officers. walter perez is live in allentown with the full story.

>> reporter: rick, opening statements were made this afternoon in the case involving 23-year-old christopher fitzgerald the son of allentown police chief joel fitzgerald. they are presenting what they see as an open and closed case of road rage but the defense says he feared for his life. >> christopher fitz verld was giving a ride to his girlfriend to the mall with his son in the backseat, it ended with this captured on cell phone video. >> lay down! >> it all started when fitz girard was traveling down and he was brake checking a vehicle that he believed was tailgating, two in athat vehicle were two lehigh county undercovering detectives, he pulled over and

opened the door and allegedly pointed a gun at the officers who quickly started to back up their vehicles after fitzgerald drove away the plain clothes detectives called police and followed at a distance they made the arrest with the baby still in the car, but fitzgerald's defense attorney paints a different picture, his client feared for his life because at the time fitzgerald was a lehigh county corrections officer and the two men that were tailgating him could have been anyone with a beef against his family. >> a few final notes fitzgerald had a permit for the gun and was fired from his job after the allegations were made and nobody was injured. the charges again him include aggravated assault, excuse me simple assault and reckless endangerment. walter perez channel 6 "action

news." >> thank you. >> police in atlantic city are piecing together what happened at an atlantic city hotel room after a baby was rushed to the hospital police got a call that a 2-month-old was in distress at a hotel room in bally. police in camden is are searching for the man that killed -- at 37th and 8 streets the victim was shot in the back and the 32-year-old man was rushed to cooper hospital and he was pronounced dead. no suspects or motives in this case. scooters are an easy economical way to get around any city but now a group of thieves discovered how popular that mode of transportation is and they are going around at night scooping up scooters in philadelphia. >> reporter: it's a crime that rises as the temperature rises but this spring brought a

particularly bad string of motorcycle and scooter thefts to south philadelphia and center city and in almost every case the scooters are locked up but these thieves are bold and resourceful, as you are about to see in this surveillance video released by philadelphia police. >> may 25th a white econo line van pulled up to a garage at 13th and locust. one man behind the wheel and two others got out. they wheeled out two motorcycles loading them into the back of the van motorcycles and scooters are disappearing off the streets of philadelphia at an alarming rate over the past to months this map shows exactly where it happened. >> since april 1st we have 19 scooters or motorcycles stolen in primarily south philadelphia. two have been stolen in center city. >> they are cheap you know, the

bike is almost $4000 that is gone. >> sean is a manager of south philadelphia scooters. he hearing from his customers that had their scooters stolen in recent weeks, most of the bikes that are stolen are locked but they lift them off a pole if it's low. that is what happened to this scooter that was found in camden. >> they throw it in a big van and off they go. >> he recommends buying a heavy duty lock that comes with a price tag of more than $100. >> make it harder and easier to go to the next person that probably won't be locked. >> bring your scooter or motorcycle inside and keep an eye out for suspicious vans in the area. >> if the bikes are out there

and if they are not secure these groups will take advantage you need to secure the bikes and if you see anyone acting suspicious, call 11 and let us know. >> most of recent thefts happened between 1:00 and 4:00 in the morning, the guys here tell us it's best to get the full insurance coverage and it will probably only cost you about $400 a year. most of the scooters have been recovered in camden and they are stripped and beat up beyond repair, just to get the insurance policy and just replace it. i'm sara bloomquist, channel 6 "action news." >> from our delaware newsroom a major step was taken in redeveloping the west side of wilmington governor jack markell attended a ceremony near fifth street, and is being torn down for new affordable

apartments and the neighborhood was created by william bancroft to fill demand. >> this incredible revitalization is playing a part to make sure that sanitary and decent and affordable housing is available for a century to come. >> it's implemented in several phases and could take as long as ten years to complete but this first phase of 72 units will be finished by 2017. now a check of the traffic report, you may get home in 2017. >> speeds are flat today and no thanks to the weather, outside in downingtown the rain is coming down a minute ago and left us with severe ponding and puddling and severe westbound delays as you head past route

82 and the storms bring down wires and salisbury citizenship near valley road and north coventry more downed wires at 474 and catfish lane. and plenty of slow speeds on the schuylkill and roosevelt boulevard a crash on lincoln drive on the northbound direction at rittenhouse street and slowing on 95 with speeds like 11 miles per hour. here at 320 a crash taking out the left lane giving united states slow speeds from this point at 320 and delaware and wilmington a wreck at centerville road at century boulevard and the mass transit, trolley routes so 11 34 and 36 seeing westbound delays because of debris on the tracks. >> all right thank you matt. more to come on "action news"

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we go from steamy to stormy, a broken line moving into buck county and the leading part of the storm is crossing 202 into norristown and moving east at 35 miles per hour, and we have 22 lightning strikes associated in

this view the past 20 minutes gwinnett and lanes dale and through chester, we are getting heavy bands of rain and the rainfall rate showing 2 inches per hour this is not a good thing to get during the evening commute, sometimes you have to pull off the side of the road and wait for the rain to subside it's hard to drive in this rain farther to the north in langhorne and yardley we have another heavy downpour and two lightning strikes associated with this, it's not severe and dropping heavy rain right now crossing route 1 and i-95 much needed rain, the national weather service posted a severe thunderstorm watch until 7:00, that means there is a potential of strong gusty winds but i don't think it will make it to the coast we have much cooler

air along the coast sea isle city 66 degrees and cool air is like kryptonite to thunderstorms, they will die down through south jersey and philadelphia 88 degrees and humid and plenty of moisture in the air allentown and lancaster dropped down into the 70s with the rain and the dew points show the story when you get dew points in the mid to upper 60s, what is a humid air mass and we are able to pull down heavy downpours. stormtracker 6 live double scan showing we are dealing with a free frontal trough, the actually cold front is moving through tomorrow afternoon that could bring thunderstorms to south jersey. moving through the i-corridor, as it heads into south jersey, tomorrow morning mainly dry in

the afternoon, and we could see thunderstorms developing south and east of philadelphia, and behind the front we have slightly drier air for friday the five-day at 5:00, warm and scattered thunderstorms mainly south and east of the philadelphia, 88 and friday it's warm and less humid and 87 and saturday warm and muggy and 88 and you want rain we have got it, sunday into monday showers and thoms and cooler with temperatures in the 70s. and we do need the rain we'll take what we can get. we'll have more coming up in 20 minutes with adam. >> a thunderstorm warning in philadelphia until 6:30 tonight by the way, that just in. >> all right thank you. we'll get the latest on that later. and "habitat for humanity" broke ground on five new houses known as hope village, build near the intersection of cecil b. moore avenue, they will be built starting in the month of

june and one is called the pope francis house an anonymous donor gave $60,000 to sponsor the home. >> quick break and another half hour to go.

in the news tonight toing outside sky 6 hd shows you the center city skyline and adam joseph is tracking storms heading through the delaware valley right now. they could be severe and a red card for soccer's governing body, the bribery scandal that rocked the sport and has several top officials facing federal charges. and the latest republican entering the race for the white house what rick santorum says is different about his campaign this time around. now the details about the storms heading through our region right now, the national weather service announced the thunderstorm warning for the next hour at 6:30.

here is the latest in effect including tell wear, buck county as well as philadelphia county all the towns here horsham and drexel hill and landsdale has the potential of seeing severe storm with strong winds and not everyone in this area will get the severe storm because the storms are so compact and small only one or two or three towns will be impacted directly by the severe storm right now over rad more the line of that storm as well as wynnewood and gulph mills 22 lightning strikes and winds in excessive 50 to 60 miles per hour, with that storm and to the south no lightning with this one, this is heading to the north and east heading towards brock haven and media at

5:30 and 5:32 and ridley park around 5:34, watch this as it progresses to the north and east be the biggest threat is the downpours and as well as gusty winds and central new jersey and delaware the storms are weakening as they encounter dry air, we'll talk about more potential storms tomorrow in the full accuweather forecast. >> we'll check back in later thank you. >> in the news a multimillion-dollar bribery scandal is sending shock waves through the soccer world. several fifa executives are banned from the sport and faces charges and now one man accused is speaking out for the first time. marcy gonzales is live with more. >> reporter: hi rick fifa's president is not charged and he is up for re-election on friday he released a statement saying

the organization is cooperating with federal investigations and this kind of alleged misconduct has no place in the sport. >> today fifa getting a red card from federal investigators 14 people including top executives overseeing soccer are charged with racketeering and wire fraud. >> they took it and turned it into a criminal enterprise. >> they are accusing them of taking $150 million in broibs and kickbacks over the past two decades some of them influenced them to allow south africa to host the world cup -- the winner is qatar. >> beating out the u.s. as host even though temperatures there can reach 140 degrees. >> this is really the world cup of fraud. >> now after three years of

investigating, the arrest began, at least seven taken into custody in switzerland fifa officials were gathered for their meeting and all inspected to be extradited to the u.s. >> we provided all the information requested by them, several charged including michael blazer allegedly wore an undercover wire have already pleaded guilty one accused former president jack warner postd this video on his facebook page proclaiming his innocence. >> and despite all the allegations fifa officials say they will not change the locations of the next two world cups. reporting live, marcy gonzales channel 6 "action news." >> one of the men arrested today is fifa vice president jeffrey webb and he was just in philadelphia to announce the

gold cup finals in july. we'll have more coming up on "action news" at 6:00. philadelphia police need your help finding a man that broke into an apartment and beat up the person sleeping inside it happened at 4:30 a.m. in the city's cobb's creek section, the video shows the suspect climbing on the balcony at the eagles corner store and cutting the power inside and once inside he severely beat a sleeping man an employee there and then stole money from the cash register if you have information call philadelphia police. opening statements came in the case of a buck county man acuted of killing a pregnant woman and her 4-year-old daughter, prosecutors say that marcel johnson stabbed them to death in september because he wanted their drug business and setting their apartment on fire

to cover up the killings. prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. rick santorum the senator wants another shot at the white house, the christian conservative announced he will make another run for the nomination four years ago santorum out lasted a crowd at the field to be the last man standing against mitt romney, a fierce advocate for family values. aids say that this campaign -- for american workers, in an exclusive interview with george stephanopoulos made his case. >> it's an exciting opportunity to come back home and be at a manufacturing facility and to reconnect to what i grew up with and understood to be an america

that worked. >> santorum told stephanopoulos that things would be different this time around because he has more money to put on a stronger national campaign and you can see the full interview with rick santorum. it's tomorrow on "good morning america," and marco rubio ran paul and ted cruise announced they were running. over to monica a federal judge set a release date for emails of hillary clinton, she has been under scrutiny for using a private email server while she served as secretary of state and the state department will release the first batch next month and will continue every 30 days until january of next year. and solar power called on lawmakers to increase support for renewable power.

john hangar asked reporter to ask the state to approve the governor's budget it increases the budget by 200$200 million. according to reports, philadelphia ranks behind other cities in solar installations. >> we'll have to decide if pennsylvania will be a leader on solar or frankly a follower the solar industry is booming across the country and it's time to boom here. >> today's event was organized by the advocacy group penn environment. it was local 98 office and spring garden. >> from our knowledge newsroom now, last week's cow escape in mercer county has landed a trenton slaughter house in hot water, chopper 6 hd live over hamilton township last friday after officers trapped the cow

the animal was shot with a tranquilizer and died later. in buck county a tanker accident caused delays on the pennsylvania turnpike it was carrying diesel fuel and crashed on route so 10. now, for a check of the highways and by ways, lets do it. matt pellman is here with the latest. >> the downpours keeping the speeds down in chester county rick and monica when last we spoke we talked about the ponding and puddling and right after that the vehicle lost control and the exit for thorndale and the right lane is squeezing by and coming out of coatesville you see the delays and westbound the normal volume combined with the wet conditions past route 100 to 282 in coventry, downed wires, stick

with 422 to get around that, and fire and police are directing you around baltimore pike and a crash at delco at chester pike at cherry street and one along the lincoln drive at rittenhouse and the schuylkill westbound there was a crash that just cleared and because of the debris along the tracks, routes 10, 11 34 and 36 the trolleys are diverted to 40th and market. >> thank you. bucks county eighth graders showed off their moves and poise this morning. the action cam at robert schafer middle school threw a ballroom dance showcase they learned everything from swing to salsa and the program uses ballroom dan to teach discipline and

focus to boost their self-esteem. a slithering surprise a man steps on a snake. >> that and much more, adam joseph is tracking storms moving through the tri-state area.

a man in oklahoma got quite the surprise walking through a parking lot this weekend, he was looking at his phone and starts jumping in sheer panic because he stepped on a four foot long snake and it bit him and luckily the snake was not venomous. >> and a spirit flight attendant took pictures in the jet engine and it started a firestorm. erica post the the pictures she is seen posing in front of the plane's engine when contacted she said she was not at liberty

to discuss the photograph. fillies are in new york trying to void the sweep of the mets, jaime apody is live at the sports center with more. >> i hate to break it to you guys, the phils should start investing in a broom closet because it was a sweep and dinosaur day this guy is almost as frightening as the phil's play, sean oh sullivan got absolutely shelled and in the third phils down 2-0 and michael cuddyer tagged him for a two-run shot to the second deck and now a 4-0 lead for the mets and phils could not muster anything at the plate and they were held to four singles through six innings and then the player nicknamed four, got into it the phils were swept out of city

field and not a good way to end a 10 game road trip they won own three of them. the warriors will punch their ticket for the nba finals and steph curry will wear a protective sleep on his elbow after the brutally awful fall. and now lebron james and the cavs sealed their spot in the finals last night and he helped them sweep the hawks. and now he will make tistive and straight nba finals appearance and some are putting him in the same sentence at michael jordan and they will go for the first title in any sport since 1964. >> it's emotional to be back in the city and you know i made my decision to come back here i knew what i wanted to do and i knew it wane going to be easy.

>> you can watch the nba finals here on nbc, game one is thursday at 4:00 p.m., should the warriors beat the rockets tonight it would be the longest layoff in nba history. we told you about the raids on soccer's governing body now they are banned from the sport for taking bribes and kickbacks and awarding things like world cup bids. >> the humidity hopes it helps them stay hot. they have now won two straight against rival washington and new york, this weekend they play d.c. united one again and they hope that they can -- their third straight shout-out. >> we gave away too many goals this year and the goal is to put a third consecutive clean sheet together in d.c. and that gets you at least a point and that is a place we can go and push for three. >> hopefully nothing like this

happens, in norway, edison hawk gets carded and he is not happy and he tries to kick something and woops. you can do that on the turf but not on the freshly waxed floor and what is the moral of the story today. accuweather when we come right back. >> looking west from philadelphia international airport, adam joseph will tell us about the storm clouds when "action news" comes right back.

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>> meteorologist adam joseph is here. >> as we take a live look now back at the camera from philadelphia international airport ominous clouds and you can see the clouds trying to sink they look like they are bubbling downward and that is part of the strong winds coming out of the storms as they approach philadelphia international airport in fact as we look at the severe thunderstorm warning it includes the airport and all of montgomery county and north eastern county and buck county as well as north western parts of burlington county near mount holly, this is the zone where we see strong winds lightning as well as torrential rain, there is the airport there on double scan live radar about to

approach the airport and causing delays and at least a ground halt temporarily call the airline if you head there in the next hour or so. this particular storm is heading towards landsdowne in southwest philadelphia before 6:00 and south philadelphia just before the 6:00 hour and balkan cynwyd be this particular storm not so much on the severe side we are tracking it to the north and east tracking over parts of north and east near flower town and another area that is seeing a downpour with some lightning with it. some gusty winds near princeton moving away, with lightning strikes in the last 15 minutes, they are not in a solid line and they are on their own hitting particular counties within that zone of a severe thunderstorm warning. also double scan live radar we

can slice the storm in the vertical because we have the two beams and they are reaching heights of over 30000 feet in the atmosphere that is where the commercial airlines will fly and that is why it could disrupt some of the flights here this evening. where the rain has passed through muggy and high dew points, it fells luke a steam bath out there once the storms pass through, and the winds coming off the water and the winds off the water will stabilize the atmosphere in southern new jersey and tell wear, as this line passes through philadelphia it should fall apart and future tracker confirming that as it bumps no the marine air they start to fizzle out east of the philadelphia and after that not a drop of rain in southern new jersey through the midnight hour with must be a lingering downpour or thunderstorm near philadelphia. the early storms passing through philadelphia to the west and

warm and sticky otherwise and 63 degrees and tomorrow the front stalls and a better chance for storms tomorrow are in southern new jersey near the shore at 88 degrees but warm and humid for everyone with temperatures if the upper 80s, the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast we'll watch for the scattered storms again tomorrow afternoon, more so south and east of philadelphia south and west and a touch less humid the muggies return with the heat and saturday is dry with 88 and another boundary pulls through and it's a slow moving boundary with more widespread sunday into monday and cooler next week with sunshine returning on tuesday and looking good on wednesday and sun and clouds. and frequent lightning and gusty winds as well tonight. >> thank you.

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a group of middle schoolers got an up close look. they were on hand to demonstrate how the show's puppets work from lions king, they made a visit to the academy of music where the lion king is playing and produced by disney the parent company of abc. next at 6:00 philadelphia released a video of a suspect in connection with sexual assault. the city is preparing to transform their waterfront to attract people and businesses, i'm nora muchanic with a look at the plans coming up. >> for cecily tynan, monica malpass, sharrie williams have a nice evening.

>> but the big story on "action news" tonight is a line of severe storms hitting and missing parts of the tri-state area a thunderstorm warning is now in effect for philadelphia until 6:30, this is the way it looked in paoli just a short time ago, torrential rain hit

the area and typical of other downpours we have seen today they come and go very quickly. lets get to meteorologist cecily tynan. >> we have the severe thunderstorm warning in the heart of the delaware valley including philadelphia. this is the reason why, a strong cell is east of the philadelphia, this has heavy downpours falling at the rate of 2 inches per hour and 14 lightning strikes the past 10 minutes, moving east at 35 miles per hour, north philadelphia olney all in the path of the storm, and as adam pointed out it's moving over the airport now. we have heavy downpours near jenkintown and another one moved north of horsham with 8 lightning strikes, the severe thunderstorm warning includes philadelphia and now into langhorne and abing