and the big story is the severe weather for the delaware and lehigh valley. >> lets check in with adam joseph with the lightest from accuweather. >> how high did we go? >> mid-90s here in philadelphia making this the first heat wave of the year, three consecutive days of 90 or above and the heat buster is a cold front from the west and setting off storms from double can live radar entering western chester county and western montgomery county a thunderstorm warning that means that severe weather is reported. that line extends south into lancaster county and also under severe thunderstorm warning until 6:00 this evening, it we take a look at the radar, you can see the bright colors the intense rainfall moving east of the 222 and adams town and loyola and birdsboro and

plowville expecting this at 5:03, and springville at 5:07, we have the capability with double scan live radar showing you the rainfall rates. between adams town and loyola, about 2 inches of rain per hour, it's releasing a tremendous amount of rain as this line is pulling through along with that very vivid lightning, as we look at the storms here as we go through the late evening hours very dangerous lightning with them and scattered wind gusts from 60 to 70 miles per hour is possible especially where you see the warnings right now even isolated hail from an inch and a half in diameter and the possibility of a tornado and that looks very low and rotation with these storms are up in new england and that is one good side of this storm as it passes through. when i come back we'll look at double scan again it's changing

quickly here. >> all right adam thank you. as the severe weather moves through check in often at 6abc.com/weather, you'll fine the latest forecast and live radar images and the sky 6 cameras will give you a look before you head out. and the power went out at one philadelphia high rise forcing elderly into the heat, about 50 people were gathered outside of 39th and market. they say that the power went out in their building at 11:00 a.m. many had to leave because it got too hot to stay i side. >> all of a sudden everything just went out. lights air be everything. the elevators even they went down they managed to get them back up. >> the power came back on at 2:00 at least one person was taken away by paramedics when they felt fane. the search continues for the gunman that opened fire on a

busy street leaving several people hurt, "action news" reporter, chad pradelli spoke with one of the victims today. >> reporter: investigators at east detectives continue to search for the suspect as the seven victims continued to recuperate police tell me the most severely injured are upgraded and at this time none remain critical. >> sean jones was talking to neighbors when gun fire echos down the 700 block of east hilton, i saw other people running out and i started running myself. when the gun fire quieted seven people were shot including three children with graze wounds. >> it's sad. >> really sad. >> the gunman had a shots gun he left behind and he left prints behind on the weapon and the shooting appears to be from an ongoing turf war for the drug

trade, and a few shots were fired on ontario street a few days ago. that is just a few block as way. >> these are just innocent bystanders. hilton street is quiet. and even with children being shot they tell you off camera here the dealers rule the streets and they are squared to talk. >> this violence has to stop, it's crazy. the police commissioner has said that the cooperation from the neighborhood has been less than ideal, anyone that know who's this suspect is or have information about him is urged to call police. in hunting park chad pradelli channel 6 "action news." more details have emerged about pope francis's visit to philadelphia legendry tenure --

this is expected to bring million its our city. back here at home, they are getting ready for pope francis by creating a mural in his honor the mural of arts program host aid community paint day today in camden local students are working on individual panels that come together to create one large paining it will be more than -- at the saint malaki school in north philadelphia be sure to stay with "action news" for continuing coverage of the world meeting of families brian's reports continue this week and can you keep up with the new developments from the vatican and right here in philadelphia on twitter, follow our special handle at 6 abc pope. >> firefighters in atlantic city

set up shop on the beach now they were forced out of their firehouse because of mold and they have no where else to go. david henry is live are more on that. >> hi monica it's a great day for the beach, unless you really need to be some where else, and are you looking the perhaps what could be the most unique fire house in the country, this is home to the firefighters of station one the building is overtaken by mold and now the firefighters are firefighters are wantering know mads they are camped out in city hall but business there forces them to move again. >> residents are not happy. >> they deserve somewhere to be and they protect us every day. >> they were in the parking lot

friday night and the man needs to do something to get those boys somewhere to go. >> the firefighters may be enjoying the view but it's a long way from their equipment. station one has a ladder truck and an engine, they are both parked on the other side of the boardwalk about a block away and residents worry about response time. especially with the high-rise building and the response time. the further away, the longer it takes them to get there. >> and they worry about the stamina of the firefighters sweltering at the beach. >> they don't need to be on the beach, the beach tires you out. why would they have them on the beach put them somewhere where air conditioning is at. the firefighters are afraid to talk because of looming layoffs. >> clean up that mold out of the station, that is the main thing deal with the mold that has probably been in there since sandy. >> the fate of the firefighters here has become a hot potato for

everyone involved. the city is planning massive layoffs and the union is examabling to get grant money to save the jobs, we reached out to the mayor fire chief and union president, but none have gotten back to us. david henry channel 6 "action news." >> time now for a check of the "action news" traffic report tuesday night. matt pellman is in the traffic center with the latest on the commute home, 95 looking slow. >> i want to get back to you on this disabled vehicle, it's still here unfort tately in the northbound lanes of girard avenue not sure why they have been towed it away, for now you are merging to the left as you come north of the vine street expressway that means did he lays that spill back to washington avenue the crash on 95 near christiana highway is clear, speeds recovering there as well. causing worst damage in

wilmington with speeds in the 20s into christiana. and traffic light troubles this afternoon in lawrence township mercer county at route 1 and franklin road by the ho joe's and camden and burlington a disabled train. the burlington bristol bridge scheduled to close again tonight at 9:00 scheduled for maintenance. we'll check it again in the next half hour. >> thanks matt. well, the many doctors that help to treat victims of the amtrak train derailment were recognized today the director of health was at temple university hospital to present a certificate, temple and the other local hospitals, were honored, dozens of the injures were taken here for treatment and one remains at temple today

and eight people were killed and more than 200 were hurt. still to come on "action news" tonight stroke can affect people of all ages coming up in health check this new mom tells her story of suffering a stroke at 26 years old. we have the warning signs of strokes as well. and the time capsule lost at a new jersey school we'll tell you how that worked out. and accuweather from adam joseph is next.

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time for accuweather for the "action news" big board adam joseph has changes on the front. >> we are watching the severe line and we got a tornado warning issued for chester county over downingtown, here is the graphic we are just putting this together it was issued a couple of seconds ago, this is until 5:45 p.m., just east of the coastsville and downingtown this is where the radar was picking up rotation including exton and westchester and all the way east to king of prussia including devon and berlin heading to the east at 35 miles per hour as we take a look at where to go if you are in a tornado warning, go into the

lowest part of the basement the first level of your home stay away from the second story window, that is where the most damage is avoid windows, go to the lowest level of the house the best place to be would be an interior closet or a bathroom without windows you'll want to cover your head in that tornado warning area, as we go to stormtracker 6 live double scan a little bit closer here, it is heading towards lineville at 5:27, and coatesville at 5:27 and bradford hills at 5:28 this is a tornado warninging downpour doppler radar indicated. it was indicated around downingtown and we see a couple of areas where you have these little hooks coming into the squall line pushing in and the heart of this storm is around coatesville and around downingtown, 171 lightning strikes in the last 15 minutes.

a very dangerous storm a tornado warning until 5:45 p.m. and we'll see if we have this other source with 3-d we are tilting it in that 3-d mode can you see coatedville and just to the north and east of coatesville, we see the cylinder on radar this extends from the top of the storm tapping into strong winds we are getting a rush of wind and you can see that cylinder extends to the ground of coatesville and moving eastward at 35 miles per hour, here is the pennsylvania turnpike, it's just south of there, if you know your territory, a couple of cylinders near exton and moving eastward towards malvern and berlin get to the basement first level of your home, and we are getting tremendous amounts of lightning now and going back to the street level of double scan, lets go

closer east of downingtown where we see the hook, what is where we can get the indication of where this could possibly be here is exton right here is westchester, basically between there and over downingtown and in fact double scan technology thank is reflect mode, showing the heavy rainfall and lightning as it pushes east of 322 if we can, to flip over the storm relative velocity mode, we look at this, this is an indication of winds in the storm and takes out the moment up of the storm you have in the velocity mode red. this is winds moving away from the radar greens are moving towards our radar it's opposite forces of the wind, you see this blocking a red and green side by side, there is indication that there is rotation in the storm

and this mode is the best mode to be in not the mode where you see the rain because this could be street level paul lets close in closer with this, to see xakly what streets are on here, and put them on here where you get the bumping of reds and greens, over downingtown south of the 30 bypass a couple of roads is boot road, right off of 202, and also east lancaster avenue heading north and east of downingtown and in fact 322 to the south. lets go farther east, this is moving directly to the east here, here is a couple of heads up if are you more in the path of the storm near grove if you are in grove, i would be taking shelter now as well. it's about to passover corey road and this is doppler radar indicating that means the radar is seeing rotation, we don't have a spotter that saw a torn on the ground but a good time to

take cover. raven road as well. and another one that is south whites whitesford road south of downing grove. we are not seeing a cylinder at the present time here, that was originally north of coatesville but a lot of time with tornadoes in our area, they ten to be weak and sometimes they bounce, they hit the ground and come back up. that is what the radar could be seeing, the cylinders that pop up and then go away, we are locking live at double scan live radar, going effort at 35 miles per hour heading just to the south of malvern and north of westchester, and heading south of radnor, as you get this track, the towns over here are kind of updating exton 322, westchester 5:33 and green

hill 5:34, and that continues to move off to the east. moorestowns it is heading towards is frazier at 5:37 and mill town 5:38, this is the direct path of the doppler indicated tornado, 87 lightning strikes, you are talking about dangerous vivid lightning and a tremendous amount of rain and just very strong winds and in fact with that. as we take a look here here is double scan live in 3-d we see a cylinder pop up again and kind of going in and out at this time. and basically it's right over the pennsylvania turnpike right over the pennsylvania turnpike just to the north and west of malvern, the new interchange that opened a year or so in malvern that is where we see the rotation with this storm on double scan live radar the last 15 minces seeing 44 lightning

strikes in this part of the storm, and i want to go back and tell you safety tips between if are you just joining us the tornado warning in chester county until 5:45 p.m., stay off the second story of your home, lowest floor in your home, inkechuku ndukwen interior rooms without windows would suit. where do i go on the multistory building, first level and base many perfect even better and in those areas cover your head. let me go back to the tornado warning, to show you where we are talking about in chester county west of coatesville you are not within this warning, mainly near exton as well as westchester south and east of king of prussia and glen mills but in the direct path is

malverner berwyn moving across the main line. lets go back to double scan live radar, the storm velocity mode here, winds are moving away from the radar near westchester and grove, and the wind is moving towards the radar and the perfect signature on the velocity here for the rotation you would want the growns and reds to bump up and touch one another, we see a void of some of those winds in the grove there is some separation here a good sign but nonetheless you want to take shelter on route 100 and boot road and westchester and east goshen park you are under the gun for this moving in from the west right now and there you see the heaviest part of the storm that typically follows where there could be a tornado and that is typically ahead of the storm and you get the tremendous lightning

and rain past where the rotation is moving in from the west right now mill town in the direct path, moving off to the east, here is glen mills as you bump into delaware county to the south, this is on the verge of that heading towards malvern and gradiville at 5:43 and just reading off some of the towns and even paoli 5:42 you are in the path of this possible tornado. these nasty storms are moving in from the west and they continue to trek off to the east and let me bring in 3-d as well. and if we can maybe tilt that again to see if there is an indication, right now it is not there, don't let your guard down because you don't see a cylinder, they tend to pop up here just popping up in the last frame last updated imagery here on live scan radar north

and west of malvern, here we are at the intersection of downtown westchester and north of boot road and exton a populated area and it's rush hour and you know people traveling at this time, get them on the phone and let them know what is going on and if they are in a car, they want to get to a sturdy building near a shopping mall, go and head indoors for a short amount of time. if are you in this path east goshenville or goshen park north of milltown the storm velocity mode here, the greens moving away and the reds moving toward. and at this point it could be if there is any left over rotation in this particular storm it would by over grove at this present time. the time now is 5:34 and this

twos until 5:45, to the eastern part of the chester county and i'll bring the map in for you where this warning is in effect until 5:45, between exton and westchester, and it gets close to king of prussia, but it's moving into the areas that are very populated route 202 route 422 all in the direct path of what could be that storm releasing a tornado. again we go into the radar right now and then okay and i just got word, dann cuellar is live in exton well head out there you are on the phone in exton, you are seeing and hearing a tremendous amount of lightning now am i correct. >> big brought lightning what happened just a few minutes ago just before 5:30, suddenly it looks like 8:30 at night than

5:30 in the afternoon it got roly dark and lightning everywhere and the rain is coming down ferociously and we saw the winds come in and one in the clouds they looked ominous before the rain started. kind of greenish grayish looking clouds and then the rain and lightning crackling behind me, here in exton off route 100 adam. adam are you there. >> dann you are correct, you get the strongest winds and rain before the lightning arrives, a greenish glow to the skies we get this light reflecting off of ice in the clouds sometimes it's hail that gives off the greenish color are you in the heart of the storm when it comes to the rain intensity and the

lightning intensity. but where the possible rotation is, is east of you, you are safe there, it's near malvern and westchester and to your east. i'm assuming it's a constant rumble where you are listening to. >> it's almost constant every 10 seconds a boom and then another lightning and thunder going by and real brought flashes of lightning brought ening up the sky, it was 5:30 and bright and sunny and all of a sudden gradually it looks like 8:30 at night really dark here and coming down hard in the exton area. >> look at that. really big bright lightning there. there it is. >> i can hear it because you have 58 lightning strikes around you in 15 minutes, that is just an indication, are you in a van

i hope. the news van. >> yes we are in the van we are not getting out of this van now. >> stay in the van dan for at least 15 more minutes. the storm extends west of downingtown and tremendous amounted of water on the road and as well as live shots on sky 6 hd on the roads there, we want to let you know where you are dan are you okay in the van when it comes to a possible tornado, it's east of you but stay in the van because of the lightning bolts are constant and vivid and i'm assuming the rain intensity is intense right now. >> it's really coming down hard here adam, the roads and water is accumulating on the roadways it's coming down faster than the drains can handle so the water is starting to accumulate on the roadways coming down ferocious

ferociously here. >> dan appreciate that update. stay in the van another 15 or 20 minutes and then the storm will lessen in intensity. and sky 6 hd showing multiple flashes here going on. the possible rotation is just to the east of westchester right now, near glens mills just to the south and with the of newtown square on the verge of east strausberg road and route 3, we see the hook coming into the storm where you sometimes get the rotation dan eluded to seeing a greenish color to the sky and also the ferocious wins prior to the heavy rain. and this is downtown westchester and mill town and west town road heading towards route 3, just north of edgemont moving east at 35 miles per hour, and i want

to look at 3-d to see the cylinders we see one pop up but not one at the present time. you can see you are are looking here what are the dots? those are the lightning strikes, tremendous amount of lightning after a very hot humid day fueling these storms and again here you can see the reds and growns trying to come closer together, earlier i was telling you gray in trend the two and west town road, the greens are going towards the radar and the reds going away from the radar this is where there could be rotation and if there is not rotation at the ground we are talking about a tremendous amount of wind being row released from the area be near west town, if anyone knows the roads better than me it's matt pellman. talking about this general area, of the tremendous amounts of rain coming down.

>> that is right in the area are you talking about we are seeing the downpours in exton, this is route 100 at commerce drive as the vehicles travel northbound on route 100 you can see the amount of water they are rolling through, so much rain has come down here, there is a substantial amount of ponding and flooding. this is just south of the turnpike by 113 so southbound traver right here, can you see the rain is really coming down occasionally we so the flashes of lightning in this area and the car went through the intersection can you see the amount of water in such a short amount of time has build up on route 100 at route 13. the switcher we use to switch the cameras is based in malvern any power problems in malvern, means we cannot continue to switch the cameras the rain is falling and we have numerous

reports of downed trees and wires, most of them in between 30 and the pennsylvania turnpike, this is malvern route 202, near 29 had this is where we are usually heavy. and look how dark the sky is normally it's not this dark, southbound traffic barely moving down toward 401 and the rain is coming down here at 202 and can you see the rain falling sideways in king of prussia, this is the schuylkill expressway and the mall is over here, the flashes of lightning and the rain is coming down and ponding and downed trees and wires already, it's a mess out there in chester county as you move into this part of montgomery county. >> it's moving into montgomery county and i want to bring you up to date. that tornado warning is expired.

it was to go to 5:45, and it expired early that is good news, but severe thunderstorm warning in effect for wilmington as well as philadelphia and also in camden gloucester, salem and newcastle county and destructive winds in excess of 70 miles per hour i want to bring you an updated view of double scan live radar you can see how bright the radar is lighting up 553 lightning strikes in the last 15 minutes with this line moving into eastern chester and delaware county and about to head towards center city, the tornado warning has expired but we cannot let our guard down, as this line pushes to the sound and east moving over the most popular part of our viewing area during the rush hour, we'll continue to track the severe storms with

dangerous vivid lightning and torrential rain and powerful dangerous winds being released by this, and we are not seeing much in the way of hail with this and we continue to track this line as it pushes into philadelphia as well address wilmington and rick and monica i'll head back and chat with paul our weather producer who is helping me with all of these graphics and images, a round of plaus for him. we'll be back in a little bit. >> we thank you for your coverage as well. we'll keep you up to date on air and online.

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so the tornado warning etch priored in chester but now coming to philadelphia. >> meaning this storm means business as it pushes in right now. >> and the heat too. >> it's a cold front and we have tremendous heat and humidity we saw today and it fuels the storms and taps into the upper atmosphere and the strong winds are pulled down. looking at stormtracker 6 live double scan the latest imagery, the storms enerring it montgomery county as well as philadelphia and wilmington. we'll close in to see where the severe thunderstorm warning is in effect not for trenton but just to the south of trenton and includes all of i-95 down to wilmington and philadelphia as

well as east of the philadelphia for gloucester and morn burlington county and all of philadelphia county and southern chester county and southern parts of montgomery county, and the main threat is the extremely powerful winds coming in from the west. here it is the leading edge, the strongest winds before the rainfalls. we are talking about a tremendous amount of dangerous vivid lightning 337 lightning strikes in 15 minces alone from norristown to chester coins through delaware county and newcastle county, here are the towns, around manayunk at 5:54 and around 6:00 center city at 6:02 and woods town at 6:05 p.m. as this races off to the east, and it continues to push

east of there towards medford lakes, 6:10, when the severe storms pull in and winds in excess of 60 miles per hour and especially near wilmington right now has it pulls out. a live look at sky 6 hd in downtown wilmington the rain is coming down in torrents, the camera is shaking around a lot as we get the ver wins right now. many people are having to pull off and again can you see the flashes, it's one after another after another with this particular line coming through as we release the energy in the form of heat and humidity we saw today. lets close in double scan in downtown wilmington it's passing over the city, 495 through pennsgrove and heading

to the south and east. and eventually we'll bump over the river, storms dangerous lightning and stay indoors, winds gusting to 70 miles per hour with this line, isolated hail is possible with this, we haven't seen much in the way of hail and a possible tornado could be likely at any moment we see the tornado warning 20 minutes ago in parts of chester county, as we look at double scan live radar in the 3-d mode, we zoom out and see in southern chester county that would be near oxford some blacks on the radar which could possibly be hail as this heads to the south and oosthuizen and as we tilt 3-d here, spikes are being released by the storm and a tremendous amount of it as it heads to the south and east and you see the cylinders that popped up in chester county when we had the tornado warning, 101

degrees it feels like 104 in dover and it's a quick drop between 70 and of wilmington and trenton after 6:00 between 6:00 and 8:00 tonight, and after 8:00 they will slide off the coast and we'll begin to dry the atmosphere out with respect to the clouds. the exclusive accuweather forecast lower humidity tomorrow and really a beautiful day at 86 degrees morning sun on thursday, afternoon cloud cover and showers and thunderstorms possible late in the day we are hoping after the tall ships arrive, at 2:00 in the afternoon, morning rain on friday and drier in the afternoon at 79 degrees, right now the weekend not looking great and clouds and on and off showers around and monday into tuesday, the sun comes back out and we are near 80 degrees and

drying things out with lower humidity and we are tracking the storms as they move toward center city. not a tornado warning but a severe thunderstorm warning for many and these storms mean business with the wind and torrential rain. >> thank you adam. quick break.

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we are talking about the severe thunderstorm warning and watches existing in our area, we are are looking live at stormtracker 6 live double scan, in delaware it's coming down in that area, a number of thunderstorm watches and warning in our region and wilmington is getting hard at this hour. philadelphia the temple university camera shows the skies are dark this is not your typical sky condition at 5:50 in the afternoon unless you are having severe thunderstorms and they are about to move in any minute. center city philadelphia live on

the action cam, can you see from the sky 6 cameras, dark skies they are about to get bombarded with rain and lightning strikes are possible. chester county was seeing up you to 58 strikes in a 15 minute time span, it could be dangerous but it is a severe thunderstorm warning, also not to be taken lightly. >> lets get over to matt pellman for a traffic update. >> it's raining cats and dogs in conshohocken you can see the downpours and the speeds are down too as you look at the schuylkill expressway, a number of drivers are pulling over to wait out the downpours and it it is really colling down and cameras are flashing when you deal with blips in the area. from the lightning. this is the blue route south of

the mid county toll plaza and the rain is coming downside ways and there is ponding and puddling making hydroplaning dangerous and the traffic has to move a whole lot more slowly, and we have downed trees and downed wires in chester county so far in that stretch of chester county between the pennsylvania turnpike and the bypass, not as heavy along 202, traffic just waiting here in the intersection and hopefully the power doesn't go out because we'll have problems with the railroad gates as well address traffic lights. i want to go down to 202 in westchester westchester, where we see a lot of rain going down, you get the vantage point. we have issues with the traffic cameras going out with the lightning and blips in the power this is 202 in chester

county where the rain continues to fall, this is 95 in delaware county really coming down here and visibility is severely hampered. rick and monica back to you. >> we have local information this is our city avenue camera from our garden terrace, torrential waves of rain and we hear the rumbles here in the studio, our own equipment is impacted by the storm and peco is reporting 38000 customers without power because of the torrential storm be careful if are you out and about. "action news" at 5:00 is over and jim gardner is standing by with more coverage on "action news" at 6:00.

"action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with ducis rogers, meteorologist, cecily tynan, and jim gardner. it is monday night and the big story is tumultuous weather, as storms rake across the tri-state area, the strong storms spawned a tornado warning for parts of chester county and that warning expired and within the past minute there is a new tornado warning in effect in camden gloucester and parts of delaware county that will remain in effect at least until 8:30, this is sky 6 hd at philadelphia international airport, there is a thunderstorm warning in effect for the entire region that as

well until 6:30 and with good reason, it is pouring in most of the region right now with repeated lightning strikes and you thunder claps we have some real weather outside. lets go to meteorologist, adam joseph at the big board adam some of these storms are hitting hard but they are moving quickly. >> they are moving fast to the east at 30 to 40 miles per hour. you mention the new tornado warning it was just issued until 6:30 p.m. radar indication that a tornado or rotation in the radar is just south of the philadelphia international airport moving to the east towards runnemede and berlin and to the west of medford lakes thank is gloucester and camden county and the western part of the burlington county until 6:30 p.m. the philadelphia international airport you can see some of the runways here, that is where the