>> now on "action news," zeroing in on a possible cause of the six alarm fire that damaged 20 homes in mercer county. >> there's new fallout from the video of a police officer seen pinning a teen to the ground. a father says he want to press charges. >> an umpire collapses on the field. >> good morning, it's 6:30 on this tuesday june 9th. first weather and traffic with dave murphy and karen rogers. good morning. >> still kind of warm and muggy after a humid day yesterday. take a look as storm tracker six live double scan shows us that the strong gusty storms that were in parts of the region are now gone but we have a couple of sprinkles and showers around especially down in cape may and in burlington county new jersey. a little bit by baltimore. there are severe weather watch boxes we had some tornado watches north and west of philadelphia last evening but no tornadoes. a couple of strong straight

line gusty storms producing some problems with downed trees and wires here or there but that was it. and i thank all of you folks for treating those storms with respect and taking cover indoors as they came through. that's always the best way to handle that. looks like it's a some iggy start, warm, 71 in philadelphia, 69 in allentown 68 in trenton, 70 in wilmington, 70 in sea isle city. it's going to be another warm one. 81 by noon and by 3 o'clock 86 degrees. now, late this morning in through about midafternoon there is the chance of some additional pop-up showers and thunderstorms. they won't be everywhere but where they hit they could produce gusty winds and drenching downpours similar to last night so you want to take cover if you hear a rumble of thunder today. hopefully they start dying down later in the afternoon. karen rogers will have the complete accuweather forecast and more on those storms with future tracker six coming up. >> all right, dave we've got breaking traffic news. i-78 eastbound still shut down right now in the lehigh valley. it's closed at lenhartsville. i want to show you a picture

of this accident scene here on the waze app. we had someone showing us this image and you can really see how that tractor-trailer just went off the roadway. it's halfway down an embankment into the trees. that has all traffic right now shut down on i-78 eastbound and you can see speeds in this area traveling about 5 miles an hour leading to this accident scene. what they're doing and this picture was brought to us by larry mcfly a member of our 6abc team, what they're doing is forcing all traffic off. we've got an image of that. there you're looking at traffic being forced off on i-78 eastbound that's the backed up traffic because all traffic is blocked right now. they're forcing offer traffic on exit 35. that will put you on old 22. police said there were two vehicles involved and they were still responding to their scene. they don't know about the details of how many people are injured, how serious this accident s on this image you can see the road has been kind of drying out but we had

storms that went through this area last night causing problems. the accident itself happened at exit 39. they're forcing traffic off on exit 35 so this is your best alternate. take old route 22. basically runs parallel to i-78 piqued which is shut down right now in berks county with a two vehicle accident involving a tractor-trailer went off the road down an embankment right there. overall looking at the big picture we've had a couple other accidents in the area and we've got one that's causing a problem right now in mount airy. southbound lincoln drive at rittenhouse, that's still out here. we had one on the boulevard southbound here at levick street. that has since cleared but no other major accidents on the blue route, schuylkill, i-95. the big one right now is the one in lehigh valley, matt. >> all right, thank you, karen. as many as 60 residents of a mercer county neighborhood are picking up the pieces this morning where an intense multi alarm fire destroyed nearly an entire block of homes. "action news" reporter katherine scott is lie at the scene of this fire in hamilton township. katherine. >> reporter: matt, no one was injured in all this but

this was a fast moving fire and there is a lot of destruction left behind. you can see as we take a look at the houses here this morning, there's quite a bit of debris on the sidewalk like glass and window frames. the roofs are ripped apart. 60 people have been displaced. >> i lost everything. like the whole roof of my house is gone. >> reporter: marsha jackson and her family got out safely but their hamilton township home has been destroyed. she said she smelled smoke yesterday afternoon around 3:45 and looked outside. >> it started like four doors down. by the time we got out and got the dog out, you know, it was already at my house. >> reporter: in the end, 20 homes were damaged, 15 of them heavily. 175 firefighters were called in to the 1700 block of east state street. some came as far as hunterdon and burlington county to help battle the fast moving flames. >> it moved fast. we ran out of personnel very quick. we couldn't get them on scene fast enough that's how fast it was running. >> reporter: the cause of

the fire remains under investigation. the red cross was called in to assist the families devastated to have lost their homes but grateful for their lives. >> my daughter lost her fish in the fire and she's so upset. >> reporter: her pet fish. >> uh-huh. >> five of them. >> five of them. >> sad 'cause she lost her fish but her life is saved. >> reporter: investigators believe the fire began in the area of the roof and then spread. there were roofers at work prior to the fire but it's unclear what the source is. the cause of this fire remains under investigation this morning. we are live in hamilton township, katherine scott channel6 "action news." >> thanks katherine. 6:35 new this morning police will be stationed at a school in burlington county for the start of classes this morning. police had responded to the harrington middle school in mount laurel overnight. the district says someone made a threat over the phone. police searched the school and will screen everyone that comes into the building today. the district has asked students and staff to bring

fewer items into the building to speed up that process. the mount laurel school district says a number of similar threats were made to schools across new jersey. >> this is new here on "action news." philadelphia police released new surveillance of a suspect wanted for the robbery of an off duty officer. this was a story we told you earlier this week here on "action news" and the video was taken the day of that holdup along the 6900 block of rising sun avenue. now the man on the left considered to be armed and dangerous. his accomplice who you saw on the right was killed in the shootout with that off duty detective. at the time of the robbery last week. police in pennsville, new jersey, say the suspect in a hit and run that critically injured a teen has confessed. 23-year-old zachary mcdonough surrendered to police just hours after officers said they found his heavily damaged car hidden under a car cover. mcdonough is accused of hitting 17-year-old kyle pszenny early sunday morning near hook road and lee avenue. friends report that pszenny has had brain surgery and that she's showing positive signs. students will gather for a vigil at pennsville is high

school's football stadium later this evening. >> members of the naacp in texas want a white police officer fired for pushing a black teen to the ground at a pool party. the cell phone video seen by millions also shows the mckinney police officer eric casebolt pointing his gun at other teens t jada says he pushed her away while she tried to help her friend who was pinned to the ground by the officer. jada's father intend to file a criminal complaint. >> i said wait a minute, this cop is out of control. >> in watching the video we did want to conduct a full investigation. >> hundreds of demonstrators rallied against excessive force in mckinney last night. other people held a small counter protest to say they believe the officer was doing his job. the fraternal order of police released a statement stating that this was not a racially motivated incident. casebolt is on administrative leave. >> new this morning a delaware county teen is credited with saving an umpire's life.

he knew just what to do when the umpire collapsed during a baseball game. 16-year-old mike brodzinski is a junior firefighter with the darby fire company. law on second base during a game in folcroft last night when covering to the sharon hill fire company the umpire went into cardiac arrest. brodzinski immediately started cpr. the fire company says the umpire is now recovering at a hospital thanks to this teen's heroic actions. >> someone who was at that game tweeted me this morning says it happened so fast. that teen, his actions so quick saved the guy's life. >> way to go mike. >> isn't that nice that kids are getting that sort of training. storm tracker six live double scan shows that you we are no longer looking at those strong thunderstorms that and inhabited parts of the region last night. as we take a look at the birds eye view, a lot of what was down in cape may county is now only over by the shore. if you have plans to travel along the garden state parkway this morning, especially over the next half hour or so, you're going to find that it's a little bit wet but this is light nuisance rain and it is

having a tendency to push farther off the coast. as we go up farther to the north, we have been looking at a little bit of precipitation up in burlington county that was not too long ago actually down around philadelphia but this is really falling avenue the map and as we go out wider again there's a little bit more down by baltimore that might try and come up later on. generally speaking we're looking at a dry morning commute for most of you. as we take a look outside lots of clouds still in place across the region. as we're down the shore looks like there's a little brightening of the sky here or there looking south from atlantic city and as we take a look at your temperatures, 71 degrees currently in philadelphia with a dewpoint still up there at 67. so, we are starting out humid. that humid air that got into place yesterday is still around. winds out of the southwest at 10 miles per hour. as we take a look at storm damage from yesterday, as i mentioned at the top of the half hour we did have tornado watches north and west of philadelphia across much of the region yesterday but know funnel clouds locally. 65 miles per hour straight line wind gusts though in topton pennsylvania in berks county.

mertztown a 60 miles per hour gust. penny size hail in skippack pennsylvania. alburtis pennsylvania got trees and wires down from a gusty thunderstorm. the closest funnel cloud was in schuylkill county outside of our area. as i had mentioned really do appreciate all of you taking those storms seriously and getting inside when they come through. that is going to be the way to play these storms the rest of the warm weather season. future tracker six showing you that we by 11 or 12 o'clock we'll probably see the redevelopment of a few more thunderstorms today. they won't be as widespread as what they were in the northern and western suburbs yesterday butter where they hit they could produce drenching downpours and perhaps gusty winds. looks like most of these are getting off the map as we get into the late afternoon hours and early evening hours. early evening there could be just a couple of more pop-up storms later off to the north and then not only does storm activity die down later this evening but humidity levels start to drop as well. keep in mind any storm that does form today can produce lightning downpours and perhaps gusty winds. if you hear thunder take cover

indoors, okay. your exclusive accuweather 7-day forecast, today's high 86. we've got that spotty storm activity as you just saw on future tracker six. tomorrow the humidity will stay low. it will be warm with a high of 86 but it will feel a lot nicer out there with lower humidity. enjoy it while it lasts because on thursday a front comes in from the west and encourages another southwesterly flow that will get us hot and more humid during the day, a high of 92 thursday. friday hot and humid, 90 with a late thunderstorm and it's back to the 80's for the weekend with a spotty shower or a thunderstorm here and there. not a washout. >> okay, thank you david. it's now 6:41 and more brand new stories are up next. a father's warning other parents about a dangerous car stunt that nearly cost his daughter her life. karen. >> we're looking live at a backup on i-95 right here. this is your northbound traffic at the commodore barry bridge slow approaching here all the way to the blue route. we have a few new accidents coming in and i just got off the phone with state police about a big accident in the lehigh valley. i've got an update when "action news" comes right back.

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>> 6:44. let's turn to karen rogers. >> we've got a big accident shutting down i-78 eastbound in berks county. so, here is an image of the actual accident scene and can you see that tractor-trailer down an embankment. halfway into the woods. this is what's creating problem and police shut down i-78 eastbound in berks county and they're forcing all traffic off at lenhartsville. you can see this right now from this penndot shot. so, this is exit number 35. that's why you're not seeing any traffic right here. everyone is being forced to get off. what they're doing is going onto old route 22 as your alternate. no traffic coming eastbound on i-78 in berks county because of this accident scene. we see from this shot the roads look like they've dried out.

i talked to police there state police in berks county and they're telling me that the roads in some parts were wet through part of the area. they're not sure if that contributed to the accident but they know it's anst involving a tractor-trailer and another vehicle and what they told me is they're trying to allow one lane to get by. it hasn't happened just yet but they're working on that. you can kind of see this tractor-trailer stuck here. the problem is you've got all this backed up traffic. they've got traffic they're not letting anybody get by. people backed up nowhere to go on i-78 eastbound. police tell me they're trying to get to a point where they allow some of that stuck traffic to get through. you can't get through there. everybody is being forced off on i-78. larry mcfly sent us this picture. speeds of six, 2 miles an hour leading to the accident scene on i-78 eastbound and that's the cars that are moving. there are a whole lot that just aren't moving at all as we can kind of see 0 miles an hour i saw earlier on some of this so it's a mess on i-78. basically route 22 runs parallel just south of i-78 so you can take 22 as your

alternate and that's what you have to do because it's shut down in berks county right now so trying to open one lane, hasn't happened yet. a couple can of other accidents. it's been busy out here today. we've got one just coming into us in lower moreland. a vehicle ran into a tree. in trevose street road traffic lights are out. another vehicle ran into a industry so some of these areas roads are a little wet lower salford township on salfordville road. a lot happening this morning tam. >> thank you karen. abc news reporting former house speaker dennis hastert will plead not guilty in federal court today. hastert is charged with lying about withdrawing big sums of money to keep sexual misconduct allegations under wraps. if convicted the republican could face a maximum of five year sentence an $250,000 fine on each charge. >> a utah father is speaking outer against the dangerous act of car surfing. kevin kenner's daughter sidney was severely injured last month after trying the stunt. the 13-year-old rode on the

outside of a vehicle while a friend drove. she fell off and suffered severe trauma to the head. doctors put her in a medically induced coma. >> don't even think about this type of activity. the torture and the pain that we went through for two weeks in the hospital. all you kids, it's not funny. >> the teen survived but will spend months in rehab. federal health officials say there were only 99 reports of car surfing between 1990 and 2008. but more than half of those were deadly. >> it is now 6:47 and a live preview of "gma" is up next. also new details on a hog wild highway rescue in ohio. >> ♪♪

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>> time now for a preview of "good morning america." >> amy robach standing by with a run down of what's coming up. hey, amy. >> reporter: i got it matt and tam. great to be with it on this tuesday morning. coming up next on "gma" abc news exclusive. two witnesses who say they were face to face with those two run away convicts the night of the prison break are speaking out. new details on the prisoners escape and the employee that's being questioned. also ahead a big health alert. a woman with a rare drug resistant form of tuberculosis in isolation. she has been in the country for nearly two months now and officials are working to track down anyone who may have had contact with her. the late of the details on this developing story. and then the latest in the blade runner case. oscar pistorius in prison for killing his girlfriend now set

to be freed after serving just 10 months. this morning the victim's parents are speaking out against this decision. and then "gma" at the world cup. team u.s.a. kicking off last night the women facing australia. one of the biggest sporting events in the world. paula ferris is at winnipeg stadium with all details on the soccer stars who led team u.s.a. is victory all next on "good morning america." matt and tam back to you. >> thanks amy. >> keep with that breaking news with traffic. major highway shut down in the lehigh valley. what you're looking at is traffic being forced off of i-78 eastbound at exit 35. that's at lenhartsville. no traffic aloud on i-78 eastbound. we have a accident involving a tractor-trailer down an embankment. we've got stuck traffic up there backed up for miles. it is a mess. stick to old route 22 instead. i want to change our camera shot. show you what it looks like. looking good on the blue route near mid-county but not far from here in mid-county we're hearing about a big problem on

the turnpike southbound near mid-county. they have emergency construction blocking the right lane near lansdale and it's causing a huge backup on the turnpike, dave. >> all right karen, storm tracker six live double scan shows us that we are drying out this morning. there are a couple can of sprinkles and showers down along the coast of cape may county and southern atlantic county, couple more showers east of baltimore that may try and creep into the region a little later on. if you're dressing the kids i don't think you have to go overboard on the rain gear but let them know that if there is a pop-up shower or thunderstorm later today they want to try and take cover from that because any thunderstorm that forms this afternoon spotty as it might be could produce gusty winds and also drenching downpours. going to be warm today 81 degrees by noon. your high will be this 86-degree reading that you see at 3 o'clock. some spotty storms in couple neighborhoods during the afternoon hours. later tonight the humidity finally starts to drop off. matt. >> okay, david thanks. a tractor-trailer carrying 2200 piglets overturned in an ohio highway. it happened on route 35 near dayton last night. crews picked up the squealing pigs by their hind legs and

took them to a county fairgrounds. unfortunately more than 300 of the pigs did not survive. others ran into a wooded area and given where they were probably going, that is not all that surprising. >> ♪♪ leave early go roam sleep in sleep out star gaze

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>> a massive six alarm fire destroyed nearly an entire block of homes in hamilton township mercer county. no one was hurt but as many as 60 residents have been displaced. investigators are looking for the cause of the blaze. residents say there were men working on the roof shortly before the fire broke out. police will be stationed at harrington middle school in mount laurel this morning. the district says someone made a threat over the phone. police searched the school and will screen everyone today. >> big traffic story is i-78 eastbound shut down. this is the scene of the accident. this is the cause of the headache. we've got traffic backed up. i talked to state police. they're hoping to open a lane. can you see that tractor-trailer went by an embankment. a terrible accident scene. stick to old route 22 because all traffic is being diverted off eastbound on 78 at lenhartsville and a couple of other accidents here and there, downed lights in trevose, downed tree in lower moreland. lot going on dave. >> all right, karen at least we've dried out for the most part with a couple of light sprinkles and showers or there are this morning.

73 degrees by 9 o'clock. on or about 70. humid for most of the day. today's high 86 and then we have spotty showers and thunderstorms during the afternoon. take cover if they hit your neighborhood. >> head to 6abc.com facebook and twitter when we're not on the air. for karen rogers, dave murphy, tamala edwards i'm matt o'donnell. "gma" is next. ♪ ♪ you're unpacking already? yeah. help me find some mugs? ♪ the best part of wakin' up... ♪ [ beep ] hey. [ giggles ]ok. ♪ ...is folgers in your cup ♪ new jersey's pension system is a mess

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good morning, america. new this morning, on the run. the prison worker being questioned by police after that daring prison break. what did she know about the escape? as we hear exclusively from the two people who came face-to-face with those escaped killers in their backyard. >> lucky to be alive. happening now, health alert. the desperate serve for the hundreds of people who may have come into contact with a woman infected with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis. the patient is isolation this morning after traveling around the country for months. dr. besser is here with the latest. pool party chaos. outrage rising as new video emerges of what really happened at that suburban texas pool sparking that wild scene. a police officer throwing a teenage girl to the ground. we're hearing from the kid who recorded the