breaking right now a massive fire guts homes in dell dem don'ty overnight and we'll have more on what is going on here. >> beau biden's death presents yet another family tragedy for vice-president joe biden. >> and it's been a stormy morning and severe weather could be on the way to us. >> good morning, everyone, monday 5:0 a.m., let's go to david and karen for weather and traffic. >> clusters of showers and thunderstorms. those are recent lightning strikes that just popped up. it appears to be close to central gloucester county or perhaps eastern say emcounty and more thunderstorms over by the east north of surf city. these are all pushing off the coast. this stuff is slowly inching its way through. and still problematic showers extending from allentown down through areas east of reading and through chester county.

in some case this is slowing you down produceing a lot of ponding and puddleing on the roadways in a hurry. flood advisories are everywhere except newcastle and near maryland where it has caused flooding on roadways. to the west doesn't look like much going on. once we get into the afternoon hours another round of rain is developing and that will be every bit at heavy as what we're seeing this morning. muggy like over the weekend. 61 allentown and 65 sea isle city and 71 millville and 68 in wilmington. as we head out the dpoor to catch the school bus. some are dealing with rain otherwise cloudy and muggy temperatures in the mid 7 0s by 8:00. as we roll through the day welcome back to school kids and it's finals week for a lot of you high schoolers in particular. muggy on the way to school. 75. by noon 81. high today is likely to be 83 at around 2:00 this afternoon.

and by the time you head home at 3:00 82. that second round of rain developing at least in some neighborhoods some time after noon and extending straight into evening rush hour and beyond. i'll have the latest on future tracker 6 showing how the rain progresses right now it's slowing down roads. >> heavy rain creating a nightmare on the roads already. breaking news now. flooding so bad on blue route they're shutting did t down. four miles of blue route shut down between broomall and st. down between broomall and st. david's. we're looking live blue route northbound look at the jam caused because of this. you can see traffic is just backed up at this point for miles on the blue route because they just shut it down northbound between broomall and st. northbound between broomall and st. david's. that's a big mess. maybe you think coye get off route 1 but route 1 southbound you bump into a downed tree if you did that. take 320 running parallel to blue route. here's another problem here i-95 northbound near 420 dell dl county we had heavy rain coming

through you see plus police and a tow truck. this guy is facing the wrong way. the reason he was hydroplaning a spinout accident because of the heavy rain here. it's off to the side. 95 northbound near 420 bad single vehicle accident and watching live as they are getting areed to toe this car out of here it's been off to the side and last time i looked at the shoddy saw ponding on the roadway. some of that eased a little as heavy rain started to move through the area. it's a mess on roadways. i want you to take you to another problem i mentioned upper providence delaware county a downed tree in busy area because of the storms. route 1 media bypass at 252. fire police on hand and directing at the scene right now and of course the big story matt blue route northbound shut down because of heavy rain. >> keep us posted, thank you karen. breaking over nights a massive fire damaged several homes in chester, delaware county where another fire broke out days earlier. we have new information just n

blaze on the corner block of pickley place has displaced total of 19 people. and the fire began in a vacant home and damaged three neighboring homes. firefighters found heavy fire on first and second floors of home when they arrived or one of the homes. that fire then spread along the roof line. a fifth home was damaged by smoke. another home on the block was damaged in a fire last week. >> had a fire here 420 that's still under investigation. this is still under investigation also i cannot comment as far as cause and original sin concerned until police do their job. >> red cross is helping those displaced. fire crews are he remain on the scene. >> developing overnight pottstown firefighters battling multi-alarm blaze and landed one of their home own in the hospital. flames and smoke damaged a building walnut and north york. i firefighter suffered minor

injuries. no word what caused injuries. the we know the firefighter will be fine. the building was converted to several apartments the fire is under control and cause is still being sorted out. >> 5: 35 the whitehouse says joe biden will be in delaware today. >> he's getting ready for funeral of eldest son. beau biden died surrounded by his family. >> parishioners st. joseph brandywine where the biden's go to church prayed for the family yesterday. many have known him since he was a child. patrick leonard was playing golf with beau biden's father in law on friday. >> it was fifth hole and he gets a phone call and he said he was told get the grandchildren, go to washington. i mean you knew it was not good. beau biden was a two-time attorney general for delaware and major in delaware national guard and announced in january

he planned to run for delaware governor next year. he was 46 years old and leaves behind his wife hallie and two children. >> as many of you no joe and beau biden have known their share of tragedy. 1972 beau biden lost his mother and infant signaturener terrible car crash beau four and hunter were killed in the wreck. when joe biden was sworn in for the u.s. senate he did so at beau's hospital bedside. this is the first time in more than 50 years a sitting or vice-president lost a child while in office. the last instance was back in 1963 when jfk had to bury his infant son patrick. the premature baby died days after birth. >> we'll have coverage on his life reaction on funeral arrangements once they are made public. >> two masked men named a man in

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tomorrow night. watch both drawings during "action news" at 11. >> time now to talk about all this rain we're dealing with. >> yeah lots of it coming down and parts of new castle county delaware, south jersey, southeastern pennsylvania. double scan shows you rain is there right center portion of region some extending northern and western suburbs more over by the coast going in tight on this central area getting not only pockets of rain and heavy thunderstorms near fwlarboro andel mer we have all this coming through a lot of our most -ly traveled roadways now including southern reaches of blue route and schuylkill expressway. i-95 and all these roads including new jersey turnpike and 295 and route 5 a5 on ac expressway are experiencing ponding and puddleing this stuff tends to push to the east quickly. you can see it there. and we expect later in the rush hour things to start to improve a little bit. if i go out wider we have only

areas in northern suburbs including allen town to through pottstown and areas south of reading. this stuff pushing east. those of new milford and doylestown and norristown you're about to pick up some of that rain. again south jersey we've got another cluster of showers popping into western cape may county over the next couple minutes and pushing flew a sea that's pushing towards the east and we'll get into a lull before another round develops later this afternoon. as we look outside, cloudy skies across the region including in center city philadelphia where it's on the damp side with hevrier rain the further south you move through septemberer of the region. 70. dew point 67. still muggy. winds coming up out of south at 9 miles an hour. future tracker 6 shoz you you this morning batch of precip pushes east by end of morning rush hour and rest of morning is virtually dry for most of us and clouds and sunny breaks. by noon a chance of thundzer

showers developing to the west ands with we push into the time kids are coming nrom school in it will not be raining everywhere but could produce brenching thunderstorms and this is produced by frontsal boundary coming down from north and by 6:00 we're spreading showers out. 4, 5 6:00 additional showers up and down the i-95 corridor and by 11:00 tonight cecily tynan will likely have heavy rain and thunderstorms to show you on stormtracker 6. main risk from all this today is downpours. there will also be lightning we're dealing with that now and some storms may produce strong winds as well. there's a slight risk of that across the region today. temperatures warm and muggy again. 83 degrees the high at 2:00. by 5:00 we'll be down to 75 and there will still be more rain on the ray. high temperatures across the region mid 7 0s to the north and upper 70s down the shore and low 80s across much of the region. your 7-day from accuweather

shows high of 83 today. there will be muggy conditions all day at times heavy rain and when that rain is coming down look for ponding puddleing street flooding and poor urban area flooding and maybe flooding on small creeks and streams as well. the next round of that coming in this afternoon and extending this evening up past midnight. tomorrow there could be lingering rain in the morning and generally speaking a lot less. we'll cool down to 70 and feel comfortable later in the day and both wednesday and thursday are nice days. 73 wednesday 75 thursday. back to 80s friday and saturday. not a washout though. 78 sunday another spotty shower. >> thank you david it's now 5:42 ra mazeing new video showing a car going airborne with driver still strapped inside. >> massive air conditioning unit breaks free from crane mrun ming 28 stories to new york city streets below. karen. >> so much heavy rain and poor drainage northbound looking live

on the blue route northbound shut down near broomall details on this and how to get around it with "action news" comes right

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now, good morning. >> when we saw this shot earlier you remember the traffic was stuck here and this is closure point. that's why you're not seeing traffic here. this is stuck traffic right here that's been stuck there for miles because they shut blue route northbound down shut down at broomall exit 9 and are on the heavy rain we had and poor drainage in that area caused flooding so much so the cars could got get past. we saw that backed up traffic now nothing northbound on the blue route because they officially shut it down stopped cars from enteringing blue route northbound to she can get the crews out there and remediate the flooding. when a mess. broomall, exit 9 in upper darby. southern is there's flooding issue ouz but we can see traffic. heavy hain moved through this area. not that it's raining too much now but they had a short amount

of water in a short period of time. >> i want to show you how to get around this. you may think i can take 1 southbound to 2352 i would not can that we have a downed tree in that area also represented to heavy rain. we have police on hand directing traffic on the scene. that will back you up. route 1 media bypass at 252 right at the point you may get on 252 to avoid the klosh oar you can't because of downed tree. you can take 320 which runs parallel to blue route. that's your alternate. they have crews trying to alleviate the flooding. we can see on waze app how backed up we are at miles an hour on the blue route as i scan ahead everybody talking about flooding at this point on the blue route near broomall. this person reporting it. southbound but southbound still on it's northbound they shut down and that's the mess that's created right here. you can see on the way up too on the blue route northbound it's a mess with flooding causing

problems can also see heavy rain happening now and lightning strikes currently. and we see that near route 42 and near 55 watch for that and parts of gloucester and camden counties as you get closer to the shore areas of red, heavy rain. as we look at blue route this is blue route here and we can see heavy rain is lifted from that area. but, still within the region. i want to get to one more problem in the area we'll look outside live. we mentioned heavy rain and 42. watch for it now. 42 northbound slow traffic matt. >> thanks karen new video on "action news" looks like a screen straight out of the ducks of hazard. the surveillance captured black footage of black sedan flying over cars and crashing into a building. they believe the driver may have refused pedals in the car hitting accelerator rather than brakes. the driver was transcripted with

serious injuries and is expected to survive. >> happening today family and friends are preparing to say goodbye to three mechanics of washington d.c. family. funeral services will be held today for save us savopoulous. their mansion was torched. police have arrested daron wint for the crimes but they believes others were involved. >> a high school in colorado cancelled the valedictorians speech because he was planning on coming out. he figured coming out to everyone at graduation would go along with the theme of his speech which is respect intoll raps. his parents say the schoolle's principal called him about the feech and doing so their son outed to them even though it's not how the son wanted the referlation to happen. >> there was just silence. there was no acknowledgment of

evan's accomplishments and as a parent that was the most hurtful thing for me. >> the school did not honor young at graduation. the school board relace leased a statement saying the valedictorian failed to follow guidelines of reference guidelines of referencing

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exit 5 and avoid the delay there take route 1 northbound to 320 dave. >> karen this will be a problem for us not only this morning but again this afternoon and for evening commute and later tonight as once we get rid of current round of rain another one develops later on. you can see in the traffic shot the blue route is drying up and we tell you it takes a lot of time for the storms to clear. thunderstorms south jerz write and couple more in allentown. if you dress the kids dress them with umbrella on the way. matt, lightser this afternoon we'll probably also want to keep one handy in case the next round of showers develop in time to catch kids on i what home. >> one of the busiest areas of midtown man at an due it a crane accident it sent a massive air conditioner 28 stories to the ground. 7 were injured it's a miracle no one was killed. as it was falling the air

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♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ if you want it ♪ ♪ go out and get it ♪ >> good morning, 6 a.m., june first following several breaking stories. >> heavy rains bring traffic to a stand still on a major highway. flood