a few headaches for you during the morning commute. >> let's go the weather and morning commute with karen rogers and matt pellman. >> reporter: if you could delay a little bit the heaviest rain is moving through. we have area of green that is steady rain in spots but the areas in yellow that's moving across the i-95 corridor and trenton an philadelphia and pushing east. that's the heavier rain pushing through. we can see the breaks in the rain in reading and lancaster and wilmington you're almost out of it, dover you're almost dry and cape may showers. the heaviest rain is moving through. it will continue to move through and break apart. we'll see chance of showers it will feel cloudy and damp certainly the first half of the day. 62 in quakertown. >> reporter: 635 in pottstown 67 in center city. the rain some of the low clouds we have holding the temperature down a little bit. feels muggy out there.

65 in affirm ton, 67 in -- hammonton, 67 in dover delaware. 9:00 a.m., lots of clouds with a shower around. noon, you're basically dry cloudy, maybe a peek of sunshine. 3:00 p.m., 79 degrees, clouds and sunshine chance of a shower in one or two spots, north and west of the city you'll see a chance of thunderstorm. 6:00 p.m., 77. the high 79s the roads are wet. >> reporter: not the greatest conditions for a thursday morning ride. as you look at 422 the rain is not pouring down, but the road is wet. westbound they patched the road buckle from last night. in case you were wondering everything is open on the westbound side for your morning commute. everything is open on the vine street expressway, overnight construction is out of the way they return tonight at 11:00 p.m. on the big picture we have a fire location in sharon hill

delco blocking hook road stick with 13 chester pike to get around that. the night market in callowhill tonight, so a bunch of closures from 3 to 1 #-- 11:00 p.m. mulch spill on the black horse pike. stick with 130. the. >> nine people were killed at a shooting at a historic african-american church in south carolina. >> right now the gunman is on the lose and the fbi has been brought in they are looking at this as a hate crime. >> erin o'hern is at the satellite center with the breaking details. >> reporter: this is an act of violence, while the community is in shock police are on the hunt for the shooter who they say spent time at the prayer service

inside the church before standing up and shooting. this all unfolded at 9:00 p.m. a white man in his early 20s open fired during a prayer meeting inside the ame emanuel church. 8 people were found dead inside the church and another found dead later at the hospital. the pastor a state senator was pushing to get body cameras on police after a black man was shot by a police officer. he was among those killed. authorities have not released the identity of the victims but the fbi is on the scene now investigating the murders as a hate crime. >> this is a tragedy that no community should have to experience it is senseless, it is unfathomable, that somebody in today's society would walk

into a church when people are having a prayer meeting and take their lives. >> the entire community to pray for safety for our people and we would hope that this person who has committed this heinous crime which is a hate crime be brought to justice. we stands in solidarity and we solicit your prayers for the family members who lost loved one here tonight. >> our thoughts and prayers are with the families, as well. >> reporter: the suspect is in his 20s on the run and considered armed and dangerous. meanwhile, there will be a vigil outside the church at noon. we're checking an update from police at 7:00 p.m. stay with 6abc.com to get the itest information with that update comes through. coming up in the next half-hour you'll hear an incredible survival story from inside the church erin o'hern channel 6

"action news." >> we have an interview with a victim of a slasher on a septa train. >> reporter: 50-year-old shalee. daily has a gash on her wrist. it was this man captured on surveillance footage who approached her around 9:30. >> i came in, i blocked like this he got mad. >> reporter: she said he tried to to get away, but he chased her around the platform. a yellow box cutter in his hand. >> i said he said i'm going to kill you, i want to slice you. >> reporter: as he swung the box cutter she tried to defend herself. i'm holding the paper he sliced me here, he kept coming back, i'm doing like this, i'm going

to fight your soul. >> reporter: he fled the scene before the police arrived shalee walked to the hospital to get stitches. to get more on the slasher go to 6abc.com. >> the attorney for an allentown teen conspiring to kill her own mother wants a trial delay trying to get the case moved to juvenile court. she is being tried as an adult. she and her boyfriend are charged in the stabbing death of her mother. the teen was charged as a juvenile but later charged as an adult after prosecutors say she found text messages detailing her role in her mother's murder. police are looking for the bandit who held up a rite aid and carjacked a prius.

priest. on tuesday he made off with drugs, the bandit dumped the priest and his vehicle about a block away. tropical storm bill weakened to a tropical depression but packed a heavy punch over texas. a 10-year-old boy is fighting for his life after being swept into a flooded pond. it took tern minutes to pull the -- ten minutes to pull the boy from the water because he was partially pinned. streams and lakes are swollen because of recent heavy rains stay on top of the forecast by going to 6abc.com/weather view storm tracker 6 live, the hourly and seven-day forecast, and the latest video from our "action news" meteorologists. >> right now that storm tracker 6 live will be showing rain. >> reporter: that's right, we have rain moving in and in some areas it's coming down hard. storm tracker 6 live double scan you can see rain kind of blanketing much of the region

especially the central part of the region. i want to go in tighter right now and take a look at the areas that are getting hit the hardest currently as we look at storm tracker 6 live double scan with our street level view. this area of yellow that's moving through center city. all the streets are wet right now. moving through cherry hill, mount holly and riverside and medford that's the worst of i told. good downpours in gibbs town and media. we'll show you the areas that are on the back edge you see it in reading an lancaster breaking apart. wilmington almost done, dover you're kind of drying out because this is pushing to the east at this point. we're not entirely dry beyond that we get showers here and there. let's look outside, we'll see the steady rain leaving looking in atlantic city, the skyline there. 68 degrees the number right now. the temperatures are down with

the rain and fog that we have in spots, the dewpoint 64. obviously moisture in the atmosphere, even beyond that it will feel kind of humid. the winds out of the south-southeast and the barometer is holding stealed. satellite and radar showing the heaviest rain moving in early if you wait until 7:00 a.m. we'll see the back edge move through the city at this point. beyond that you get the sense we're not dry, we have clouds and showers. we have our always on day planner to help you plan your day. future tracker 6 showing 10:00 a.m. spotty showers around not the steady rain we have right now. by 1:00 you're mostly dry maybe a sprinkle here or there or breaks in the clouds that's about it. later today around 5:30 we have the chance of showers enthunderstorms popping up. you can see how the cells look different they are heavier

there. the best chance north and west of the city. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, spelling it out for you today we've got cloudy skies it's feeling damp, the steadiest rain is happening right now. beyond that in the morning hours you'll see a shower around. late today a chance of a thunderstorm, 79. friday, sunny skies, 89 for the high saturday, sunshine fades behind clouds, 83 degrees, sunday is the wet day. we have a front coming through and some tropical moisture downpours likely. 82 degrees is the high. monday, hot and less humid chance of a thunderstorm and 90. tuesday, sunshine and clouds, 87. wednesday partly sunny skies and 89 degrees, so today you'll need the umbrella. after the afternoon hours it's mostly dry. >> thank you karen. it is 5:40, we have dramatic new video showing a police cruiser going up in flames, officers didn't have to go too far tofngd

tofngd -- to find the suspected fire buck. >> it was a typical morning for a couple until they open their eggs. >> reporter: we're seeing a torrent of water flying over the railroad on the state road down below. as i talk about this it's not happening. there, that's what i am talking about. we'll talk about accidents and situations coming up after the break. >> authorities release the picture of what the two escaped killers look like now they've on the run for nearly two weeks "action news" will be right back.

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>> welcome back you're taking a live look here, sky6 live hd out across a hazy, cloudy, center city right now. 5:44, 67 degrees we'll get to 79 today. >> how rough is it out there matt. >> reporter: it's international panic day, i don't want anybody to panic. it's a little bit rough we'll get through it. it's international picnic day and international sushi day. a lot of things to celebrate. we're looking at wet conditions in doylestown along 202 and construction northbound lanes of 611. we haven't seen huge delays with

this, but something to be aware of. we're not seeing the rain pour down in bucks county in the last half-hour. we're watching a crash in montgomery along longford road near brandon circle. it's not so bad on 422 heading toward king of prussia. better news in belmawr they cleaned up the mulch spill i-95 northbound approaching the black horse pike. speeds are picking up in the 30s. you may see work crews in that same neck of the woods but everything should be clear by 6:00 a.m. not clear in deptford township gloucester county, hurfville road shut down from a downed pole because of an overnight crash close to dr. dan's auto repairs, use 55 or the black horse 168 to get around that blockage. time for the commuter report and nearby in deptford township getting reports of an

on the road along rose berry court watch out for that, coming from the members of our 6abc commuter team. >> video shows a massachusetts man torching a police cruiser and celebrating before getting caught surveillance video shows the man dousing the cruiser with gasoline and setting it ablaze. police say the arsonist is arthur burnham is being held without bail pending a mental health valuation. it's been two weeks the two men are out still on the run since breaking out of prison two weeks ago. officials released these images of richard matt and david sweat. joyce mitchell had an affair with matt to kill her husband the two men could be anywhere. two women in ohio are

facing an arrest in jail after scuffling with police at a pool. police tried to get the people to leave the fairfield aquatic center. the exact details of what happened next are in dispute. the i can say dixon family accuses the police of using compressive force. an adventureous feline was a mascot at a scoff folding company for years. she climbed into a 40-foot container after being shipped to hawaii, after getting to there somebody heard the meow inside. the cat was shipped back to kansas yesterday. >> postal employees are accused of scamming a popular charity to give themselves gifts.

>> a couple opens their eggs to a one in a billion find. >> reporter: it's 66 organ -- on the boards in ac. heading up to the 70s details in the seven-day forecast, it's a wet start all that is next.

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>> a florida couple opened their groceries to find something that didn't look like the others. the family peered into there egg carton torched a perfectly round egg. chances of finding one is one in a billion. a round egg sold on ebay for $700. ment chicken needs to think round and it comes out round.

>> reporter: you can't eat it if you're going to sell it. >> reporter: i'm thinking omelets. we're not having a ball on the roads. i-95 i told you along state road we were seeing the waterfall because of the water laying on i-95 as the vehicles came along it was spla are -- splashing up over the railing. it led to an accident on northbound lanes approaching academy road. a vehicle was facing side way. the crash is off to the side in the northbound lanes. we have a fire location to avoid in sharon hill closing hook road near seafood will a place. >> reporter: storm tracker 6 live is showing we have an area of steady rain we can seep the

area of yellow -- we can see the area of yellow that's moving through the city. it's slowly inching from west to east. storm tracker 6 live you get that picture, you have to hang in there beyond that we've got showers that will philly. here's how it will look through the day 9:00 a.m. 70 degrees, still showers in spots but not the steady rain, lots of clouds. noon, lots of clouds still a sprinkle and 72 degrees maybe a peek of sunshine. 3:00 p.m., 7 # degrees mostly cloudy skies and 6:00 p.m. 77. the trouble at the end of the day, 6:00 we have the chance of a shower or thunderstorm moving through, north and west of the city. the rain today kind of like book ends. >> three postal workers in new york city are suspected of being real life grinches. they are accused of stealing

gifts by rigging the program. the postal workers are charged with conspiracy and mail fraud on on the naughty list for possible termination. hacking has taken place on government computers in canada. they are working to restore the services. in a video posted on youtube anonymous said the antiterrorism laws opposes rights. >> massachusetts university is honoring the youngest victim killed in the marathon bombing. this is martin richards seen holding a sign saying no more hurting people peace. they are renaming the institute

of social justice to honor martin.

0. >> we've got a clear picture of a man wanted in a violent delaware county home invasion. police want to know where to find tiree manzell. brothers jermaine and sterling wallace were arraigned on tuesday. they are accused of breaking into a home in broomall and

tieing up a teen and his mother and stealing jewelry. police are saying that a man murdered his girlfriend in the logan section of philadelphia. the family called police and that's when the body was discovered. police have not said how she was killed. >> new on "action news," after a pair of shark attacks last sunday one north carolina town is considering a ban on shark fishing. two sharks attackerred two young people -- attacked two crowning people within 790 minutes of each other. officials in oak island want to stop people from luring sharks close to shore to fish. firerman said they don't think they should be blamed or limited because of the rare shark attacks. we continue to follow breaking news out of charleston, south carolina where police walked into a historic african-american church and opened fire during bible study killing nine people. we have a live report with a

local angle to the story. a california man made waves on facebook when he posted an oddly shaped chicken tender from kfc. hear the chain's odd response later on "action news."

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>> good morning everyone, 6:00 a.m., thursday, june 18 we're following breaking news. >> new details are emerging about the gunman who killed at least nine some people at a church in south carolina. >> several vehicles collide on i-95 in delaware county the impact sends a tire flying into on coming traffic. >> accuweather is