>> breaking right now nine people are dead after a gunman opens fire during a prayer meeting at a church in south carolina. police have released a picture of the suspect. >> a woman speaks to us after she is punched and slashed by a box cutter waiting for a septa train. >> wet roads all of a few headaches as you try to make your way through the morning commute. >> hey everyone, 6:30, thursday, karen is in for david

and matt has the roads. >> reporter: it's a miserable day. we have light steady rain, i want to show you storm tracker 6 live 3d. it shows you the problem. a couple of hours ago we have an area of yellow that moves through the city. heavy downpours that moved through you have the ponding on the roads that you're driving through. the refuse you dealing with -- rest of the region dealing with light rain. in doylestown you have breaks coatsville you're on the back edge of that. center city you have light rain through much of south jersey and delaware. the heavier rain is along route 70 heading toward seaside heights. the trouble is driving through all the ponding on the roads expect delays we have showers at this point ponding on the roads and localized flooding because of the heavy rain we got a couple of hours ago. 66 degrees in philadelphia. here's how the day is going 9:00 a.m., 70 degrees, still a shower around, just not the

steady rain. noon, 72. mostly dry, lots of clouds. # p.m. 79 degrees, cloudy skies maybe a peek of sunshine, but later on in the evening commute at 6:00 p.m. you have another chance of heavy rain coming through or thunderstorm north and west of the city. you have headaches in the morning and headaches in the evening, matt. >> reporter: nobody accuses us of sugar coating things and we won't do that this morning. it's a miserable ride into work on this thursday a number of accidents i-95 delco northbound side approaching curlin street. the penndot arrow board directing you to the right lane in which you can get by the accident. damage is done. it's a parking lot on northbound i-95 near the delaware state line. i would think alternates, 13 through chester or stay on route 1 baltimore pike and the media bypass.

elsewhere in delco a crash. fire location in sharon hill hook road. willow grove a cash at fitzwater town and 611. police are directing you through the direction. watch out from a crash harleysville pike at park avenue. new jersey turnpike, exit 2 for 322 a wreck is taking out the left lane. nine people were shot and killed at a historic church in charles, south carolina. >> the fbi has been called in and calling it a hate crime. >> katherine scott has a connection with the church in charleston and erin o'hern has

breaking news. >> reporter: just about a how are half-hour ago, there was a press conference police released this picture. they need the public's help. they believe this is the man responsible for killing the nine people. he has sandy-colored hair and wearing a distinct gray sweatshirt said to be between 20 and 25. if they can help identify the man they believe he is armed and dangerous, they want to prevent him from hurting someone else. let's look at another picture of the car they believe he was driving. there it is, there's a front license plate they released this information just about a half-houring ago asking the public for help. it's an all hands on deck effort torched the suspect. let's take you back to what happened 9:00, the man in his

early 20s opened fire during a prayer meeting inside the a. m.e. church. 8 people were found dead inside the church and another died at the hospital. the pastor pinkney also a state senator was pushing for a bill to get body cameras on police after an unarmed black man was shot in a neighboring area two months ago. reverend al sharpton said pinkney was killed last night. the fbi is on the scene investigating these murders as a hate crime. again we showed you the picture of the man in his 20s we'll have that at 6abc.com so you can take a closer look at this, obviously the community is grieving it's a community filled with fear there's another press conference expected around 7:00 p.m., of course, we'll bring you those details when we

receive them. for now window we're live in the sat center erin o'hern channel 6 "action news." back to you. >> now let's head over to katherine scott live in queen village with more on the ties with the south carolina church and our area. good morning catherine. >> reporter: ame church has congregations around the world but it's still a tight-knit community and a community that's greeting. the pastor at mother bethel received a call about the shooting and has been up ever since. he said there's many members of the mother bethel whose parents migrated from south carolina. pastor mark kelly said reverend pinkney was a good friend of his, they would talk about their congregations and dr. tyler interviewed reverend pinkney

about the african-american episcopal church in south carolina. >> we'll be getting e-mails and messages from people in south africa and the caribbean and all over are we're family. >> and dr. tyler said that mother bethel will be doing something to show sal -- solidarity but they don't know what it is yet. the search is on for the slasher who attacked a woman who waited for a septa train. police say this surveillance video shows the man before the attack yesterday morning at an el station in philadelphia's frankford section. 50-year-old she shelly rene daily said he attacked her.

>> i'm holding the paper he sliced me here. he said i'm going to fight your soul, i'm going to fight your soul. >> the victim walked to frankford area help where she received stitch to a five inch gash on her wrist. if you have any information believed to be the attacker, call police. >> it's a sandy start to the -- it's a randy start to the day. >> reporter: and what bad timing. storm tracker 6 live double scan showing we have rain around the area. i want to go in closer, doylestown you're dry, just a few st. sprinkles around. norristown you're at the back edge. coatsville malvern, you have steady rain. we have a little while to go it's taking its time getting through the city, although it's breaking up near glassboro and along route 7 on you have heavy

rain at seaside heights. we have ponding and puddling on the roads. we have areas of fog, as well. be careful flying out of the philadelphia international. it's not horribly reduced. 66 degrees in philadelphia. the dewpoint, 63 degrees, a lot of moisture in the atmosphere with the rain. beyond that it feels muggy out there. the winds out of the southeast at 10, the barometer holding steady. satellite and radar showing the area of rain that pushed organ through in the overnight -- on through in the overnight hours and beyond the steady rain we have showers here and there. that's what the rest of the day will be like. future tracker 6 showing not the steady rain at 8:30, but showers east of the city, it will take longer because it's pushing west to east at this point. from 12:00 on we'll see clouds and sprinkle, but no steady rain around, the heaviest is happening through the early

morning hours. at 6:30 for the evening commute we're watching for a chance of shower or thunderstorm. i don't think everybody will see it, i think the best case is north and west, you'll have trouble for some folks affecting you in the morning and the evening. we may have a downpour or thunderstorm to the north and west. 8:00 a.m., 69 keeping the temperatures cool with low clouds and showers. shower around 8:00 a.m., showers east of the city. 11:00 a.m., 71 mostly dry maybe a sprinkle. 2:00 p.m., basically dry lots of clouds, peek of sunshine the clouds 79. 5:00 p.m., 78 that's when we'll watch for the chance of a thunderstorm coming through north and west, the high today 84 degrees, not a pretty day i know, but not raining all day long. tomorrow partly sunny skies 89 degrees maybe one or two people get an early shower, the rest of us are dry.

saturday, 83 not entirely dry chance of a shower at the end of the day. sunday, we have downpours father's day start of summer, 82 degrees, we get the tropical moisture we get downpours there. monday, hot and less humid, 90 with a thunderstorm, tuesday sunshine and clouds, 87. wednesday partly sunny skies 89 degrees as you're heading out right now. so yourself you can see 79 degrees for your high today the clouds keeping it not always warm as it has been. thanks, karen. time 6:41 still ahead on "action news," there's brazen and then there's brazen. a man torches a police cruiser in massachusetts in front of the camera and in front of the police station. we have images of killer conviction who escaped from an upstate from i sayen we'll have that -- upstate prison. we have delays and wet

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>> things are stacking up matt. >> reporter: ready for the laundry list. delco, i-95 emergency crews blocking the left lane, the right lane is squeezing by heading toward the blue route or the airport. i hope you don't have to catch a flight. 6 miles per hour on the northbound side of i-95 again i would stay local through chester on 13 or way up on route 1 baltimore pike up to the media bypass. a crash on 495 in delaware, northern delaware has cleared that's good news as has the one on i-95 northbound by academy i was telling you about earlier. southbound you're looking at a 45 minute ride on academy into girard. fire location in sharon hill blocking hook road. the traffic lights are on the fritz in willow grove at

fitzwatertown road. northbound on exit 2 in gloucester consist on the new jersey turnpike there's a crash off to the side. there's one another exit 5 taking out the left lane but not causing a huge delay. in deptford township we have a downside pole from the overnight crash along 41 everything blocked there stick with 55 that's busy now the black horse would be another option. >> new video on "action news" showing a massachusetts man torching a police cruiser and celebrating before gheght caught. surveil -- before getting caught. he douses the cruiser with gasoline and sets sets it ablaze. it's been two weeks since the men broke out of the prison in upstate new york he is there a chance they are out there trying to disguise themselves.

foicialt released these images of richard matt and -- officials released these images of richard matt and david sweat. officials are saying the two men could be out there anywhere, we'll be right back.

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and this breaking right now a fire has damaged a delaware county seafood business, flames broke out before 5:00 a.m. on the 1,000 block of hook road in darby township. when the firefighters got there they found a fully engulfed fire at sea there were no reports of injuries. >> reporter: heelsewhere, if you're going to the delaware state line, it is 41 minutes that's not so good because of a crash northbound approaching curlin street blocking the two left lanes the right lane is squeezing by head for 13 or stay on route 1. this is the schuylkill expressway by the boulevard everything is open here, but

some rain still coming down it's wet and slow. and, of course firefly is in dover this weekend you won't be flying on the way there lots of traffic along highway 1 and route 13. >> if you're late today blame the weather, storm tracker 6 live double scan showing that we have really heavy rain that moved through. the we're in the process of trying to push east, as i take a closer look you can see we're on the back edge of that, norristown and malvern, trying to out philadelphia gone a little ways. in south jersey you'll be dealing with this a while it's moving west to east. here's the heavy rain that brought you all the ponding on the roads is in seaside heights. well have clouds and showers and 70 degrees noon, 72, the temperatures are down with the clouds and rain. 3:00 p.m., basically dry and 79.

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>> here's an update on our breaking news, police in charleston, south carolina released these images of a white man wanted in a deadly shooting at the ame church.

authorities are calling this a hate crime. officials are planning a news conference at 7:00 a.m. that's just in a few minutes we'll be streaming it live at 6abc.com. the search is on for the slasher who attacked a woman as she waited for a he want septa train in in frankford. the victim spoke to "action news" and said she was attacked for no apparent region and slashed on her writings with a box -- wrist with a box cutter. >> reporter: in deptford township, down pole is closing 41 at dr. dan's auto repair. >> reporter: the rain is light at this point but it's steady and pushing east. the high is 79 degrees, it will be cooler with all the clouds. the steady rain pushing out of here 9:00 a.m. a shower around, noon mostly dry. thanks karen thanks for

watching, head to 6abc.com and facebook and twitter when we're not on the air. for david murphy, karen rogers, tamala edwards, matt pellman. i'm matt o'donnell. "good morning america" is next with the latest on the shooting at the south carolina church.

good morning, america. breaking news deadly church shooting. tragedy in charleston. at least nine people killed overnight in a massacre in an historic black church. >> i do believe it was a hate crime. >> police say this suspect, a white man in his 20s walked into the bible study, sat down with the group and opened fire. >> this is the most unspeakable and heartbreaking tragedy. >> the pastor a popular state senator among the victims. incredible survival stories emerging. >> we got two people coming out, an adult female and a child. they were found in the room. they need to get checked out. >> a woman allowed to live to tell the story and a 5-year-old making it out by playing dead. >> the fbi on the scene. a massive manhunt for the killer under way right now. a city grieving and on edge this