accuweather. lets get the latest from cecily tynan. >> the cold front moving in will sweep the heat and humidity out for a couple of days and the front itself has limited moisture with it so we are just seeing isolated showers popping upright now but with a high humidity, they can bring down heavy downpours the most concentrated band is moving out of lehigh county and bucks and harrow harrow, a good one across 611 and showers into quakertown, no grown to cloud lightning strikes, just a band of heavy rain and scattered thunderstorms moving into norristown and another one south of jenkintown, and this is the activity we'll see over the next couple of hours before that dry air moves in. we did have some severe weather though at the shore estelle manor in ventnor and atlantic

city reporting a thunderstorm with 39 miles per hour wind gusts. the big story with this is not the rain but the fact that it's getting rid of this. today's high 91 degrees and felt like 95 with the humidity. i'll talk about a brief break coming up in the full accuweather forecast. >> thank you cecily. well before you head out the door check the storm tracker 6 app on your mobile device, find the hourly forecast for your exact location. follow our meteorologists on facebook and twitter. >> it happened this morning, authorities ordered evacuations of naval philadelphias in south philadelphia and the naval support activity in the northeast officials have not explained the nature of the threat and it's easy to imagine they never will. live at the navy yard, chad

pradelli. what do we know about this? >> reporter: jim sources tell "action news" that the evacuations were due to some resent intelligence gathering but they would not say what it was. but in the end they calld this a non-credible threat. the vacations were orderer before 11:00 a.m. and navy personnel were told they had to leave and the threat protection level was raised to the highest level, charlie. >> we didn't get much information but that it was a charlie and we had to evacuate. >> there was no urgency and they made their way out of the storage center and shipyard in an orderly fashion, it's home to many businesses unrow lated to the navy. >> we saw cars and traffic in the middle of the day and it was very unusual and we were wondering what was going on here. >> liza owns the bella cafe, she received a message from the

property owner that it was up to individual business owner fz they wanted to evacuate. >> it was only navy and government employees being dismissed. the show must go on so we rode it it out. the move was wise, within the hour the facilities were clear and the threat was called non-credible. >> i thought maybe i would get a half a day but i'm happy to have the customers. >> the fbi and the navy and police continue to investigate and like you said imagine jim the details are few. chad pradelli channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. two brothers were arraigned today in connection with a home invasion in broomall yesterday the bail was set at $500,000 each for germane and sterling wallace, marple township police say that the brothers and two others broke into a home on cedar grove road they attacked

the individuals and stole schoolry and money from a safe in the home. they face robbery and saul charges and a fourth suspect is still at large. philadelphia police are trying to catch a taxi thief tonight. investigators say that 12 cabs are stolen in the last nine days, the thefts happened in west philadelphia and surveillance videos showed crimes in progress. a man drives off in a parked taxi, police say that the suspect is likely somebody that knows the cab business well. >> it looks like they are targeting models 2007 to 2009 ford crown victoria cabs, and most of them are from the police auction. those models are known to have ignition problems various keys can start the engine and that the thief actually used the key to start the vehicle, six of the vehicles have since been row covered. with the word that this is different, philadelphia mayor

michael nutter has begun to explain how the transportation will happen for the papal visit on september 26th and 27th how you usually get to an eagles game or something forget that this is something difsh. john rawlins is live on the art museum steps. >> reporter: he is making a point and it's complicated come september think about it here, for a couple of days in september, the population in philadelphia will likely double and the rail system will do something it has never done before and the advice is if you come to a papal event wear comfortable shoes. >> this is the largest event in the city of philadelphia in modern history. >> it's expected that more people will come than welcome america and more than the phillies world series parade and more than the visit of pope john

paul ii. for the meeting of families we are anticipating somewhere from a million to 2 million visitors don't expect to drive your car to papal events and expect to use mass transit. the rail lines carry 70 now is people a day and the goal for when the pope is here $200,000 a day. the paoli thorndale line has 18 none center city stations but during the visit the train will only stop at two paoli and radnor, to ride you'll need a special $10 pass that goes on sale in july. >> special one day passes will be required for both saturday and sunday. other rail instruments will not be accepted over the weekend. as for parking at the station

that have only about 100 spots good luck. >> maybe someone should drive you and drop you off, but don't anticipate you will drive up and park your car and jump on the train. >> they are promising online guides soon. >> this will share up to date mass transit and maps to help people to get from point a to point b. >> the thinking is many many people will have to get from point a to point b. details are still to be worked out. like septa expect operations at patco and the new jersey transit to undergo changes for the two days that the pope is in town. >> to repeat not like an eagles game. thank you. delegates from the archdiocese and the city of philadelphia and the world meeting of families travel to rome nemt week for their final

meetings. brian taff will be along for that trip, you can look for his reports from that trip beginning monday from rome here on "action news." and follow brian's trip and get the updates by following at 6 abc pope on twitter. workers are bordering up windows at a westchester building gutted by fire last night, they stabilized the roof at market and north church streets, firefighters were called in to fight the blaze after 9:00 last night. it took nearly four hours to get the flames under control and nobody was hurt and investigators have yet to determine the cause, dozens of police officers were honored to keep you safe on the road today in conshohocken the minneapolis county describe attorney's office along with buckle up pa gave out 30 awards to police officers in delaware and

montgomery counties. the police officers were recognized for taking part in the state's aggressive driving and enforce many project. the focus is to deter people from driving dangerously and speeding and the program to purchase and renovate or sell abandoned or foreclosed homes was in delaware the groenl initiative is aimed to create the opportunities for local families and the announcement was made at the delaware reinvestment summit hosted by a number of community organizations. the search is on for a bank bandit wearing muslim gashrbgarb. and jaime apody was at the face it told. >> sam bradford was held out of 11 on 11 action when will he participate? he'll answer that question

coming up. >> it's hot and humid today with isolated thunderstorms and downpours and i'm tracking much more comfortable air on the way. i have all the details in the accuweather forecast. >> those stories and much more when "action news" continues tonight.

police say a woman in muslim guard held up a bank this morning on the 12,300 block of academy road, police say that the woman passed a note to the teller demanding money and authorities have not said if she got away with cash and k-9s were

called in to search for the woman. and a sink hole that formed in a bethlehem neighborhood has been filled and rain caused the nine foot sinkhole at the base of a utility tower and the drain runs under the tower and the drain pipes were overwomened with the rain and they filled in the home and stabilized the area, and 5 inches fell in parts of bethlehem one of the largest and most prestigious conventions happened in philadelphia, it's expected to bring more than 15,000 people from 40 states and 65 countries to the pennsylvania convention center the world's largest bio technology center bringing $43 million to the local economy. >> the programs were better suited as fans in shades today

at south philadelphia's high school graduation friends and family were in the stands and they sought shade under umbrellas he told his classmates to reach for their dreams and there was lots of smiles as seniors graduated and family and friends gathered to watch the students accept their diplomas at temple university's performing arts center. right now verizon is offering unlimited talk and text. plus 10 gigs of shareable data.

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eagles back on the field and so many questions and so few annes. >> the eagles have made a plethora of changes on both sides of the football the ones with the most impact is the quarterback, sam bradford. jaime apody is live at the training facility in south philadelphia. >> reporter: yes ducis first he has to stay healthy but first he has to get there bradford and

his knees were the focus. i will tell you one thing bradford throws a beautiful ball, but you he was not ready for 11 on 11 action and he did take the snaps seven on seven and has a better understanding of the offense, and a better understand of philadelphia media and he can read our minds. >> before i start i do not know when i'll be back. >> you think bradford will be ready for 11 on 11 training camp. >> god i hope so. >> he said god i hope so do you have the same mind set? >> yes if i'm not ready for is he on 11 i thinking in went terribly wrong we continue to work each week and grind and be ready for training camp. >> lets hope thatting in

nothing goes terribly wrong. chip kelly says that the reason he released mathis is because he asked for a release on many occasions. and -- anybody have norton anti-virus anymore, both teams are cooperating with authorities. >> you may or may not be happy about the chicago black hawks winning the stanley cup but have you to be happy fortimmo it's unbelievable. >> obviously. i am been dreaming about this for the last seven years and you know i'm leaving the game it gave me a lot and i gave

everything to this game and i'm happy and ready and leaving this game as a stanley cup champion. >> good for him. well lebron james needs his game face tonight, his cavs trail the warriors 3-you 2 in the nba finals, it could all end tonight and game six tonight is in cleveland and game seven would be back in california if necessary. >> we are focused of what is in front of us we are not thinking about a game seven it's about tonight. >> this game is just as important as the last game and the last four before that. i don't put more added pressure on it. >> you can see game six a potential clincher and the women's world cup, they take on nigeria. they honored 30 artists in center city philadelphia peco hosted this arts and aging

program, and those hoppered had their artwork put on display around the city during the month of may.

once again a day to celebrate high school seener you'res, this case the class of 2015 graduated from carver high school and they received their dim lopes in front of their proud family carver is one of several area schools that held commencements because the schools had early dismissal because of the hot weather. the weather has been brutal.

>> are the windows up in your car? you better put them up. rain is moving in. >> they are closed. i'm sorry. >> okay. glad we can understand each other now stormtracker 6 live double scan showing that we do have some isolated downpours and i am concerned about your car, winfield where the station is rain is moving in right now and heavy rain south of manayunk right now over ridge avenue that is one cell we have a cell of pretty heavy downpours moving through near doylestown and perkasie and sauderton and landsdale, it's able to bring down a lot of rain in a short period of time and this will break the back of the heat, 93 in philadelphia and allentown a rain cooled 76 and 88 in

millville and 91 in dover and in the own the beaches getting the land broez temperatures in the upper 80s and the heat index makes it feel like 96 in sew i'll city and 97 in dover and 93 degrees in philadelphia but the heat index will not be a factor tomorrow and the dew points tomorrow will be if the 50s, you'll feel the difference in the air mass. satellite 6 along with action radar showing there is a cold front moving through right now but we are not looking at a solid band of showers or thunderstorms, just some isolated downpours that is occurring over the next couple of hours then it gets more comfortable, 62 degrees, the low in the suburbs, 70 for center city with a lowering due point the problem down to the south and the west is tropical storm bill it moved ashore north of corpus christi and they have tornado watches in affect but the main legacy with bill is going to be the flooding rains we are looking at the potential

of 4 to 8 inches of rain in eastern texas and then 2 to 5 inches of rain across the plain states into the midwest and we could tap into some of the bill's moisture if some is left saturday night into sunday morning enjoy it 84 degrees and sun and clouds in the afternoon and low humidity and that 84 is going to feel like 84 degrees, you'll feel the difference of a refreshing day, on thursday the warm front is moving in and rain in the morning and lots of clouds and temperatures on the cool side, and behind the system we'll warm up as we head into the weekend, that cold front is moving through saturday night into sunday morning, if there is enough moisture left from the remnants of bill, tropical downpours saturday night and sunday morning, the exclusive accuweather forecast try to get outside and enjoy it tomorrow.

84 degrees and high thin clouds and thursday morning rain and clouds and 79 degrees, sun is mixing with clouds and 75 degrees and saturday looking at the potential for scattered thunderstorms, depending on how much is left, 83 degrees and best chance of storms is saturday night and sunday for father's day and summer arrives at 12:38 in the afternoon it will be hot 90 degrees and we bumped it up to 91 and pop-up storms on monday and tuesday and temperature drop a bit with a high of 86 degrees we want to invite "action news" viewers to watch our special. summer storms keeping you safe thursday at 7:30, we are showing you our outlook for the summer season for the hurricane season and also how you can escape a car if you get trapped in floodwaters thursday at 7:30 i know you guys are working on that look forward to seeing you. the legacy of a wilmington

legacy plays on this week in his home town, the annual clifford brown jazz festival a tal ened trumpet player died tragically at 25 in 1956, each year artists gather to perform in his honor. you can hear the music in rodney square through saturday. abc's world news tonight is next on channel 6. "action news" continues at 10:00 on phl 17 with brian taff, adam joseph and ducis rogers and then join us for "action news" at 1:00 here on channel 6. for cecily tynan ducis rogers and the entire "action news" team i'm jim gardner we hope you'll join us at 11:00. jamie wanted a taste of the real

new orleans and we just couldn't say no to that face. then we wanted more of that local flavor so betty says... oh yeah, that's betty. you're going to want to do this alligator thing. and betty didn't lead us wrong. a little later we passed some dancing. and who doesn't like dancing? especially when it's followed by fireworks everyone's nola is different. follow yours.

tonight, a massive tropical storm hits the coast, tens of millions in the path as it moves north and east next. streets and highways under water tonight, schools closed. the tornado sirens in chicago as this moves up to the midwest, indianapolis cleveland, pittsburgh across to new york. the deadly balcony collapse at least six dead falling four stories, many in the hospital. new questions about the construction was the wood treated. the former naacp still saying she is black. you'll hear her explanation right here. the major development in the hunt for the escaped killers, the discovery in the pipes and the prison worker's husband we asked what he makes of the allegations against his wife.