>> ♪♪ >> "action news." delaware valley's leading news program. with matt o'donnell, tamala edwards, karen rogers and meteorologist, david murphy. >> ♪♪ >> we're following a developing story on this tuesday, june 2nd. several cars go up in flames in south jersey overnight. we are live at police investigate a possible series of arsons. >> torrential rains led to flash floods in some parts of the tri-state region. accuweather is tracking more severe we had. >> bruce jenner is now caitlyn jenner and unveils his transformation in a very publicly way for all to see. >> a lot of people talking about that and we'll do a little bit more later this morning. good morning it's 4:30 on this tuesday june seconds. let's go to dave murphy to

talk about all this rain and karen rogers as your commute. good morning. >> we talked yesterday morning about we were going to get another lamp round of rain in the afternoon and evening. it did happen. even though the vein dying down, no more thunderstorms out there, we are still looking a the runoff from the rain overnight causing continued problems. so active showers and areas south of philadelphia mostly a little bit around the city and the northern suburbs but a flash flood watch still in effect until 6 o'clock this morning because of the heavy rain overnight and last night and all of that runoff is still getting into some small creeks and streams and still draining away from some roadways. remember, if you are driving around anywhere in the i-95 corridor, down toward the shore and you encounter flooded conditions turn ash round and find another way. better to be late than sorry. rain runoff still an issue until about 6 o'clock. we still have a flood advisory as swell this morning mainly in south jersey and the southern two-thirds of delaware where the heaviest rain fell. some areas getting over 4-inches of rain. roads and streams still an

issue down here so while there is the potential of running into a little flooding action in the i-95 corridor the worst problem is down south this morning. here is satellite and radar. there you can see the last of the heavy showers and thunderstorms coming through yesterday. we actual hal what we call a super cell storm in new castle delaware that popped into parts of south jersey. no tornado confirmed out of that butter there was a tornado warning for a short time last night so a lot of stuff happening last night. as we look out to the west a lot of cloud cover, spotty showers on their way in during the day today. it's cool this morning 56 degrees in philadelphia, 59 in millville, 57 in wilmington. you'll feel that as soon as you step outside and as we head outside to the bus stop this morning, some of you might want an umbrella as we are looking at cool conditions and some spotty showers around as you just saw on storm tracker. karen, later on this afternoon we are going for a high of only about 63 degrees. i'll have more on that coming up. >> all right, some big changes there. you can see the raindrops still on the camera lens as we're looking in delaware county on the blue

route at baltimore pike. the blue route drying out at this point. all opened this morning unlike yesterday morning which had to shut down for awhile the blue route northbound. things looking better with no problems between 95 and the schuylkill. we have flooding out here. david mentioned we'll see this in spots. what was we're seeing in it chesilhurst in camden county on the white horse pike route 30 westbound approaching hendrick street so watch for that. it's out there blocking the right lane. blocking the left lane we've got flooding here in franklin township in gloucester county right on harding highway that the route 40 at tuckahoe road so watch for that. in ocean county an overnight accident cleared on the garden state parkway southbound at waretown road and drying out on route 42 with light volume so far but you need to be careful matt and tam and expect flooded roadways still in some points. >> we're glad we have you here to help people get through it. camden county fire investigators are looking for clues after three cars suspiciously caught fire. "action news" reporter katherine scott is live for us in pennsauken township. she's got details.

good morning katherine. >> reporter: good morning, tam, that's right, there were three car fires within blocks of each other all within an hour. two of the cars have already been towed but you can see we're standing by a mercedes here in pennsauken on woodland. it's dark but you can see the flat tires on that vehicle and police are investigating this one. the first fire was reported around 1:15 this morning on the 3900 block of royal avenue in pennsauken township. you could see the windows were broken thousand car shattered glass was in the street. police the fire department were on the scene. another fire was reported six minutes later about a block away on woodland avenue. the mercedes was cordon off. you can see investigators collecting evidence as they took stock of the damage. not far from there over at garden and highland in camden, word of a third fire came in and you can see scorch marks and pieces of the car in the street after it was towed. no injuries were reported in any of these fires but the

motive here remains under investigation and police want to hear from you if you have any tips. we're live in pennsauken, katherine scott, channel6 "action news." >> thanks, katherine. new this morning, the delaware attorney general's office has ruled two state troopers were justified in using deadly force against an armed robbery suspect last year. police say 41-year-old william mcnulty led them on a high speed chase last november which ended in claymont. authorities say he refused to surrender using his stolen vehicle to try to ram police cruisers and even accelerating in reverse towards them. the troopers then shot and killed mcnulty. a report issued yesterday cleared those troopers. also in delaware a stray bullet narrowly missed a sleeping baby. a man in his 20's was shot on the unit block of bedford drive in edgemont. police say one of the fired rounds then went into a nearby home and struck a crib where a child was sleeping.

the child was not hurt. new castle county police are looking for two people who reason from the scene. >> happening today the u.s. house transportation committee will hold a hearing. they're looking into the amtrak derailment in philadelphia that killed eight people. the train was traveling twice the posted speed limit and derailed on a curve. amtrak had not installed automatic speed controls. the ntsb says those controls could have prevented the crash. a day after derailment a committee voted to reduce amtrak's funding in the next fiscal year. funeral arrangements have yet to be announced for former delaware attorney general beau biden. his young are brother hunter arrived at saint joseph's on the brandywine yesterday which is the biden family church. many expect beau biden to be buried at the church in greenville alongside his mother and grandparents. the president of delaware's naacp remembered biden's devotion. >> he wasn't like his father. he didn't have a streak in his

body. he wasn't scared to go in no community. he fought for us. >> beau biden lost his bat technological with brain cancer over the weekend. he was 46 years old. >> secretary of state john kerry back in boston. that's where he'll have surgery in the coming days. this is new video of kerry's arrival last night. he's been admited to massachusetts general hospital after first receiving treatment in geneva for a broken leg he suffered in a biking accident. u.s. officials insist kerry will continue nuclear talks with iran. the deadline for a deal is june 30. >> caitlyn jenner made a very public debut on the cover of vanity fair magazine. >> she talked candidly with the magazine about her gender transition and what it feels like to finally be living like in her words her true self. aings news reporter erin o'hearn is lie at the big board with much more on this story. good morning. good morning. this vanity fair article caitlyn jenner says she's finally free and many believe this cover may go down in history as one of the most iconic covers and caitlyn's

big reveal has created a social media firestorm. she gained 1 million twitter followers in four hours. for decades this is how the world knew bruce jenner the olympic gold medal dee athlete and then a father on keeping up with the kardashians on e. in this video bruce steams have vanished. caitlyn has emerged and among her support her children, can kim kardashian writing about the cover quote how quotable. and kendal writing be free pretty bird. kim picked the style team for the cover shoot and this comes two months after jenner's exclusive interview with diane sawyer. >> are you a woman? >> yes for all intents and purposes i am a woman. bruce always had to tell a lie. he was always living that lie. caitlyn doesn't have any secrets. >> reporter: caitlyn has seen a flurry of support on social media.

president obama tweeting it takes courage to share your story. and also actress kerry washington saying love this. so happy for her. the author of the vanity fair article will be on "good morning america" this morning. guys, back to you. >> erin thank you so much. 4:39. coming up more stories you didn't see last night. a father is looking for answers after his son was shot and killed by an oklahoma highway patrol trooper during a high water rescue. >> cameras rolling when a man confronted a driver in kentucky who left a child in the car seat with the engine running. we'll tell you what happened next. david. >> the heavy rain is over, although we still have some lingering flooding issues for the next couple hours across parts of the region. i'm arming the kids with umbrellas today not because of an un91 dating ran but there still will be spotty showers. i'll show you those on future tracker six and we'll give you the rest of the work week call coming up. >> ♪♪

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>> relentless rains have caused flash flooding around the region. the action cam was in williamstown, gloucester county, when the skies opened up along route 322 and sicklerville road. the water couldn't drain fast enough and minor flooding developed in minutes. and this road in newark, delaware turned in a creek. more rains could be on the way

just not this much. >> david you were just saying we'll start to see this clear out. >> yeah, it's going to be damp today with spotty showers but we're not going the see the heavy rain we saw yesterday. storm tracker six live double scan shows you it's fairly spotty precipitation right now. if i go in tighter we have very light rain that's enough to make the roads wet all over again. just to the west of wilmington and this stuff is on the move to some degree this morning pushing up from the southwest up towards the northeast. looks like philadelphia during the morning rush hour might pick up a little bit more of that but generally this is not as bad as it was last night. as we look outside we have cloudy skies. obviously still damp conditions and the clouds a little bit low obscuring the tops of the tallest buildings in center city philadelphia as we check out sky six looking south along broad street. 56 degrees is your current temperature. it is much cooler as you step out and notice that the dewpoint is down below 60 so it doesn't feel nearly as humid. kind of refreshing out there. unfortunately some of you dealing with a shower.

north-northeast wind at 16 miles per hour. as we look at satellite and radar looks like the clouds hang tough today. at time we'll see spotty shower activity coming through but it's that heavy rain last night that's caused us the problems and in some cases still looking at the some high water on some roadways. record rain on monday. philadelphia got up to 1.96, wilmington 3.8-inches, atlantic city 2.22 the heaviest rain using storm tracker six double scan technology shows you right around hammonton and down through buena 5-inches, up to 6-inches in this bullet area highlighted in purple an lot of the rest of the region in the three to 4-inch range. some of these lighter shades only about 2-inches but it's down in south jersey in particular where we have the lingering flooding problems and again a flash flood watch still in effect until 6 o'clock this morning because of runoff from all of that overnight rain. future tracker six showing that us that as we go through today what we see is going to be much lighter, just spotty precipitation. by 6 o'clock we'll probably be

mainly try maybe the skies brightening slightly. by 11 o'clock there's a chance of a seconds shower popping through especially down south. where are temperatures going today? we showed you it will be cloudy and damp at advertisements it's also going to be cooler. 53 by 8 o'clock, 56 by 11 o'clock 2 o'clock 62, your high of 63 probably around 3 o'clock this afternoon and by 5 o'clock we're back down to 61 degrees. high temperatures across the region only about 60 in allentown, low 60's down the shore and low 60's in the i-95 corridor with those spotty showers. your exclusive accuweather 7-day scattered showers today, not a washout. flood waters receding as we speak and hopefully by the end of the rush hour we will not have anything left over other than just damp road indications where those showers are drying up. 63 is today's high. tomorrow it could still be a little bit damp with an occasional spotty showers, a high of 68. some sun will be working its way back in at times and then clouds to sun on thursday and a nice afternoon with a high of 69. on friday we are getting warmer again maybe a little

bit more humid, 79 the high and a slight chance of an afternoon or evening shower or thunderstorm popping up. not a washout on friday, though. same thing on saturday. clouds and sun a high of 80, a spotty storm possible and by sunday partly sunny skies with just a slight chance of a passing shower and a high back down to 76. >> okay, thank you david. new this morning the oklahoma highway patrol is released dash cam video in the deadly police-involved shooting of a man last friday. the family says 35-year-old nehemiah fisher an assistants pastor and older brother were pulling their trucks from the flood waters. police say they were being told to leave a flooded area. the video shows nehemiah fisher wrestling with the officer before being shot to death. his brother was arrested for public intoxication. the deadly shooting remains under investigation. also new police in florence kentucky are taking a look after a passerby caught video avenue child left al flown a truck. the passerby says the driver left his son in the back seat while he stopped into a hardware store.

the keys were in the ignition with the engine running and the windows opened. the passerby confront the driver and he said he was keeping an eye on the truck and his son the entire time. police are investigating. >> time for your first look at business at the big board. atlantic city's struggling casino industry could have new competition within new jersey. there's already a proposal for a casino at the meadowlands in north jersey and now three legislators are drafting a bill to allow casinos in essex and hudson counties. lawmakers say it is more about keeping the state competitive and not about taking away business from ac. ac feels differently obviously. microsoft will unveil its newest operating system at the end of july. windows 10 will come with voice activated search and will allow users more seamless access between computers tablets and smartphones. banks and healthcare stocks throwed a modest gain on wall street yesterday. futures are mixed. the apple watch is bound to be the company's best product

debut ever. more than 7 million watches have been ordered since the device went on sale in april. only 2.5 million have been shipped so far. apple says the rest will be delivered bite end of this month. as for me, tam i'm still old school. >> and so am i. i'm going stick with you. it's 4:48. still ahead, more stories you didn't see last night. a car thief makes a get away from a california dealership smashing through a window. >> hear what tipped police off later on "action news."

>> ♪♪ >> welcome back on your tuesday morning. expect to encounter a lot of wet roadways as we're trying to dry out and some flooded areas as well as that water continues to try to recede. looking at 95 at girard, no extra overnight construction because of the weather so they didn't have any of that. new northbound traffic pattern debuted over the weekend. don't forget that with lanes now in the center. in marlton we've got a problem here, an accident where a vehicle ran into a pole. we've got emergency crews on the scene now on route 70 westbound between 73 and cropwell road so watch for that one with restrictions in that area. also here in new jersey in camden county, we've got flooding blocking the right lane on the white horse pike westbound approaching hendrix

street and parts of south jersey were hit particularly hard so we're seeing areas that are flooded out there like here in franklin township in gloucester county, we've got flooding blocking the left lane right on route 40 harding highway westbound near tuckahoe road. i know it's never fun being late to work but you can't cross those flooded roadways. be careful as you're headed out. prepare to hit them especially in south jersey this morning tam. >> thank you karen. new here on "action news" this is a different kind of smash and grab inside a san francisco bmw dealership. a bandit managed to get behind the wheel of a pricey vehicle and sped right out of the store and he did it by crashing through a window. look at the mess he left behind. but his luck didn't last long. the car jumped a sidewalk and slammed into several cars. it stopped when it crashed into a wall. the thief gave chase and was arrested a short time later. >> screeners with the transportation security administration failed a number of tests designed to challenge their ability to identify explosives or weapons. homeland security employees

posed as passengers and tried to get banned items through security check points. t.s.a. officers failed 67 of the 70 tests. the head of homeland security was so alarmed by the findings he personally visited the t.s.a. last week. the acting add vader of t.s.a. has been reassigned over these findings. congress will continue talks on amendments to the patriot act today. if i was lakers do not respect an agreements national security agency could lose its power to collect and store the calling records of americans. this program would likely be phased out six months to a year. it was several of the controversial issues of the pat yacht act that expired at the end of may. >> all new in the next half hour of "action news" the tourist fights back with a robber weeding a gun. >> the daughter of devon still was diagnosed with pediatric cancer one year ago today. hear how she will be honored next.

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>> new this morning a university of alabama student is accused of killing his mother over failing grades. police say 22-year-old taylor blancic confessed to beating his any other death after an argument on friday. the student said he and his mother were arguing over grades and he struck the woman in her head. he's charged with murder. >> also new on "action news" a western pa man is facing a felony charge and 15 misdemeanors after setting up

a fake dui check point police say the 19-year-old impersonated the state trooper outsidey using a portable scanner flares handcuffs an bb gun. he set up his roadblock in a lincoln neighborhood saturday evening. he stopped one car. the authorities think he was drunk at the time. >> on the people scene cincinnati bengals player devon still and his daughter lea will be honored at next month's espies. the pair will receive the perseverance award as lea battles with cancer. the five-year-old was diagnosed with stage four neuroblastoma one year ago. in march still took to instagram to announce lea's cancer was in remission. she's currently suffering complications with her treatment. devon still a former player at penn state is asking for prayers for his daughter. >> it's 4:57. developing this morning a cruise down china's river takes a disastrous turn when a boat capsizes.

>> an american tourist is at tacked and killed at a wildlife park in africa. park officials reveal what went wrong. "action news" continues.

>> ♪♪ >> "action news." delaware valley's leading news program. with matt o'donnell, tamala edwards, karen rogers and meteorologist, david murphy. >> ♪♪ >> good morning everyone. it's 5 o'clock on this tuesday june 2nd and we are following several developing stories. >> several vehicles go up in flames in a south jersey neighborhood overnight sparking an arson investigation. >> and developing, there's a frantic search under way for hundreds of tourists who are on a capsizing cruise ship overseas. >> it is going to be a damp day an few showers could ling are out there. accuweather is tracking any remaining flood problems. >> let's turn to dave murphy and karen rogers for weather and track. good morning. >> we had so much rain yesterday that we do still have some lingering problems. the active rain is not really among those issues, though, as all we have is some light sprinkles and showers that are beginning to pop up toward philadelphia falling apart a little bit much south jersey which got most of our heaviest rain last night also seeing a couple of showers so still a little bit damp out there. for another hour