as the reaction earlier this morning from gay marriage supporters gathered outside the court. they cheered cried and hugged as they got word of the historic five to four ruling. president obama spoke from the rose garden shortly after that opinion was handed down. he is calling it a victory for our country. >> there's so much more work to be done to extend the full promise of america to every american but today we can say in no uncertain terms that we've made our union a local more perfect. [cheers and applause] >> the 14 states that had same-sex marriage bans will now have to stop enforcing the bans. meanwhile a big celebration is under way in center city right now. david henry live outside the national constitution center with more reaction to tonight. hi david. >> reporter: mayor michael nutter fresh off his trip to rome and other city officials here. this is a historically significant location for this victory rally.

the modern gay rights movement began here on independence mall 50 years ago. many thought they would never see this day after such a long struggle. >> i thought that i would never live to see it but i'm very happy i did. >> reporter: how times have changed. 50 years ago, gay rights activists from new york, washington and philadelphia risked everything by demonstrating outside independence hall. today the liberty bell once housed in that building is featured in a new ad released by philadelphia's tourism agency touting the city as an ideal site for gay weddings something that's available now to everyone. >> it's just a big celebration of us winning our rights finally after years and years of not having equal civil rights, now we finally have the same rights as everyone else under law. >> reporter: the national constitution center has been featuring an exhibit on gay rights leading up to the supreme court's decision. former pennsylvania governor ed rendell was among those visiting today. >> the right to marry is a basic right and it should

adhere to all americans who are in love with each other. >> reporter: the supreme court's decision gives an extra boost to the people planning to mark the 50th anniversary of those first gay rights demonstrations but they point out despite today's victory the struggle isn't over yet. >> here in pennsylvania there's no hate crime protection there's no workplace discrimination protection so, you know, there's a lot yet to be done. >> you can tell celebrate today the marriage situation but if you talk about it at work you could be fired if you're not in philadelphia. >> several legislators already talking about antidiscrimination legislation, new laws that could go into effect soon. in the meantime, a lot of work still lies ahead but at least an opportunity to savor a sweet victory here tonight. live on independence mall, david henry, channel6 "action news." monica. >> thank you david. archbishop charles chaput issued a statement calling theu.s. supreme court's decision a mistake. he added the task now for

believer center city to form our own families even more deeply in the love of god ton rebuild a healthy marriage culture one marriage at a time from the debris of today's decision. and our coverage of this historic ruling continues at 6abc.com. there you'll find more details about the decision as well as the reactions from across the country. it's all right there right now at 6abc.com. "action news" is learning a deadly terrorist attack in france has ties to lehigh county. french authorities say a suspect rammed a vehicle here into a gas factory opened by air products which is based in trexlertown. now, investigators also found the severed head of the suspect's employer hanging at the factory entrance along with banners with arabic inscriptions. air products says it has now stepped up security worldwide. and world news tonight with david muir will have new details about that terror attack plus more nationwide reaction to the supreme court same-sex marriage ruling,

that's neck at 6:30 here on... next here at 6:30. >> big changes for the phillies after manager ryne sandberg decided to resign today. he made the announcement hours before tonight's game. the news comes as the phillies struggle with the worst record in baseball. annie mccormick live in south philadelphia with more. this was a brig surprise annie. big surprise and a big factor into why he has made the decision to leave the team. we're getting reaction from fans as they head into citizens bank park ahead of tonight's game. today ryne sandberg said that the decision he made on his own telling the media that it's the accumulation of losses that really good ton weigh on him and he felt it was best if he left sooner rather than later. >> i'm old school. and i'm very, very much dissatisfied with the record and not pleased at all with that. >> reporter: after almost three years as the phillies manager, ryne sandberg announced that he is stepping down on his own terms.

gm ruben amaro saying at a 3:30 press conference the hall of famer's decision was sudden. the former phillies second baseman and long time chicago cub came aboard as an interim manager before his promotion to manager in august 2013. today he said he didn't know if he was part of the phillies future. fans headed to tonight's game reacted. >> it was better for that to happen i think. i think they have to go -- they got to make a move to get a better manager. >> i never even saw that coming. i know there was a lot of grief about how he was handling the team especially the players talking back to him on the mound, so yeah, i'm really surprised he didn't stick the whole season out. >> it's pretty sad to hear he's stepping down. it's a shame. the phillies are a good team but i guess he's doing what's best for himself. >> reporter: some of those phillies fans getting emotional when he spoke about his departure today. ryne sandberg getting emotional when talking about phillies fans during that press conference saying i have met some of the most passionate phillies fans and they always gave me encouragement.

he also said today that he doesn't know if he will do this againly we'll wait to see what his upcoming plans are. for now we're live outside of citizens bank park, annie mccormick, channel6 "action news." monica. >> thank you, annie. what do you think about ryne sandberg's resignation as phillies manager? we would like to know. let us know on social media using the #6abcaction. philadelphia police are investigating a shooting that happened in the west oak lane area. police say two men were shot multiple times about 12:15 this afternoon. the shooting happened near the intersection of north windsor and blakemore streets. both victims are at einstein medical in critical condition. no word what led up to the shooting and so far police have made no arrests. one person is in the hospital another is in custody following a fight on a septa bus this morning. about 10:00 a.m. septa officials say two passengers on a route j westbound bus in philadelphia's olney section had some kind of a problem. that issue led one of them to allegedly stab the other. no word how serious the injury

is. tax hikes and pension funding, they were slashed today as governor chris christie signed new jersey's fiscal year 2016 budget. "action news" reporter vernon odom has the story from trenton. >> reporter: governor christie used his veto power to strip more than one and a half billion dollars from the new budget approved by the democratically controlled legislature. the 2016 budget stands now at $34 billion. the governor slashed a pension fund payment down to 1.3 billion, vetoed an income tax hike and a corporate business tax. >> the legislature continues to be deaf and blind as to taxes and so we have vetoed the income tax increase there they've passed for the fifth time in six years and we've vetoed the corporate business tax surcharge which they've passed for the third time in six years. >> reporter: the governor answered critics who say he's too busy setting up a run for the white house instead of connecting with storm victims in south jersey who are still without power clearing the debris and worried about

damage repairs on their property. he's not toured the stricken areas in person. >> we have had all of our cabinet members the prep 88 cabinet members, the head of the state police, head of the bpu down there. >> reporter: and what about leaked reports he'll formally announce his candidacy for the republican nomination for president on tuesday in his hometown of livingston? >> we're not answering any questions about my political future today. i'm here as the governor to talk about state business and there will be plenty of time at a tuck about my political future next week. >> reporter: governor christie continues to cla imno final decision has been made yet but few if any actually believe that. in fact, he is scheduled on tuesday yet another town hall meeting in new hampshire just hours after many anticipate he'll make his formal announcement here in new jersey. i'm vernon odom channel6 "action news" in trenton. >> and coming up on "action news" tonight roadside farm stands, they are a summer staple of course in south jersey. see where all the fresh produce comes from. plus, jaime apody live in south philadelphia where as we

told you ryne sandberg just stepped down as phillies manager, jamie. >> just goes to show you you never know how your day is going to go. ryne sandberg showed up at the ballpark and then quit. he'll tell us why he decided to make this sudden move coming up. adam i'm sweating and it's not just because of that hot phillies news. >> be glad you're sweating. if you were there tomorrow you would be soaked. there's no stopping torrential rain and thunderstorms moving our way for part of the weekend. flood watches are up. i'll have all the details in accuweather. >> those stories and more when "action news" continues tonight. >> ♪♪

>> bumper crop of fruits and vegetables ripening on new jersey farms. fresh corn blueberries coming to a farm stand near you this weekend. thanks to a good growing season that harvest will keep coming until october. new jersey correspondent nora muchanic with more. >> reporter: waretown farms is one of the hundreds of farm stands and markets dotting the garden state this time of year ready to sell what's come to be known as jersey fresh fruits and vegetables. >> we don't keep it in cold storage nothing is frozen, nothing held onto for a month or whatever. i mean its literally fresh picked. >> reporter: this years are farm fresh produce is coming in and includes tomatoes cucumbers beats, zucchini and of course that famous jersey corn. >> i bought some for father's day and it was the first batch of jersey corn and it was delicious and i'm back again. >> reporter: at russo's farm in tabernacle they grow and sell over 15 varieties of fruits and vegetables and customers at their market are eager to take them home. >> i just love the normal

produce. and wait until it comes in fresh strawberries, fresh corn imnicole had a basket full of fresh items is that thrilled ruses is opened for season. >> it's important to me what i feed my children, so for them to have like local and fresh good vegetables and fruit is very important to me. >> reporter: of all the crops he grows farmer tony russo is most proud of his sweet corn. he sells 100,000 crates of it a year. >> corn is the best i've seen it in maybe 10 years, 15 years. we've had good weather conditions enough moisture, temperatures have been good. five to seven days it will be ready especially with this kind of weather. >> reporter: fourth of july. >> fourth of july there should be plenty of corn. >> reporter: and so the bonanza has begun. from now until october you can stop at any of these farm stands and know that what you're getting is jersey fresh. in southampton, nora muchanic,

channel6 "action news." >> pennsylvania senator bob casey was in philadelphia today making a push for additional funding for amtrak. the senate is calling for $1.4 billion in the upcoming fiscal year to upgrade infrastructure increase safety and preserve jobs. casey says amtrak has a significant economic impact on pennsylvania. it does employ 2700 people in the state and transports 6 million passengers to pennsylvania stations every year. as thousands of visitors flock to the tall ships festival there is a noticeable attraction missing. the world's largest rubber duck in recovery after a mishap. yesterday the duck looked like it was hiding its head. the pontoon it sits on ripped. it is being repaired and once the duck is fixed it will be back on display. the tall ships festival is in town all weekend. due to the forecast for rain tomorrow though, tomorrow night's fireworks have been pushed back to sunday night.

>> time for sports. jeff skversky here. this was a shock. >> absolutely. there have been communication issues with ryne sandberg since he took over in 2013 with players. remember the chase utley situation claims the other day he didn't know about the ankle injury. all season of course that whole bullpen fiasco in baltimore last week. sandberg says see ya' later. phillies manager ryne sandberg quit in a shocking turn of events. sandberg says like many of you he could not take the losing any more. sandberg says he's been thinking about this for weeks but not until late this morning did he inform general manager ruben amaro so amaro was completely caught off guard here but sandberg says he could not take managing the worst team in baseball any longer and he did not want to be a part of the looming front office changes. let's go live to jaime apody at the ballpark. jamie you can't blame him for

being upset about the losing but to quit, nobody saw this coming. >> no, actually the last phillies manager to resign was eddie sawyer in 1960 and he said i'm 49 and i want to see 50 so maybe that's it. maybe this wasn't a healthy situation for the competitor that sandberg is. you think about it, it was just strange, ruben amaro jr. kept backing him as his manager, sandberg said he wasn't worried about his job and just to quit on a whim like that he explained to us why he came to this decision today. >> i do not like to lose. i hate to lose and i think that's the biggest thing that weighed on me and with some changes at the top looming, i go back to my statement i did not want to be in the way of anything happening and the progress going forward. >> let's be honest sandberg

was not going win with his roster. nobody would. pete mccann none says if these guys can't play for rhino they can't play for anybody. now he has the unenviable task of jumping in and steering this sinking ship. >> i don't like it. it's something i'm willing to do because i like the phillies. they've been very good to me and i think it's important for to us get past this as quickly as possible. >> focusing on the game of baseball will kind of help. you just really have to understand the situation i think in a little bit more detail and i don't think we have that type of detail, so we just have to kind of go and focus on what we do and that's play baseball and try to win ball games. >> wonder how long hamels will be here as well. as far as winning ball games that's going to be a tough task tonight considering they've got the first place nationals in town who are throwing max scherzer who happens to be coming off a no-hitter. that's the good news here at citizens bank park where ryne sandberg quits today.

i'm jaime apody action chews. jeff. >> all right jim police department phillies say they don't know who will be in charge of hiring the next manager. the term center city has a whole new meaning tonight after the sixers drafted yet another center so that's three big guys down low for the sixers. now all trying to help the city win a championship. so, how in the world are they going to fit on the court together. sixers gm sam hinkie says they'll experiment with jahlil okafor, joel embiid and nerlens noel to see how they can all play together. hinkie scouted okafor extensively. here's what he says about him. >> we feel incredibly fortunate to be able to have jahlil ton add him to our team. i spent so much time in durham north carolina thin years. if you were to have told me that we would get him we would have slept a lot more. >> who couldn't use more sleep. flyers with the nhl draft tonight. twenty-first round picks

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>> definitely an up and down weekend forecast for accuweather and meteorologist adam joseph has the story. >> we have a wet period in the middle part of the weekend but we'll salvage the second half of the weekend for some of those outdoor plans. as we look at double scan live radar all is quiet across much of the area. there's a couple of sprinkles

in northern parts of bucks county and also into parts of atlantic county and also the extreme southern part of cumberland county, you can see near dorothy a downpour sitting there really not moving. there's no steering in the atmosphere to get it going so it's kind of raining itself out north of cumberland an few sprinkles along route 40 as you head towards mays landing away from buena but really that's about it right now across the area. the highlight for the weekend is some possible flooding in parts of the area with that saturday soaker. a flood watch will go into that effect saturday afternoon through sunday morning. that means there's the possibility of some flooding on the roads and the streams anywhere from philadelphia through southeastern pennsylvania up into the lehigh valley. also includes northern parts of delaware but does not include southern delaware or any of our counties or new jersey, also the shore not within that flood watch. although you're still going to get healthy amount of rain here late saturday into saturday night. anywhere from wilmington,

philadelphia to the south to the coast, one to 2 inches of rain. but to the north and west where we have that watch we could see more than 2-inches of rain in about a 12-hour period of time. 79 allentown as well as trenton right now. it is warm in philadelphia, 82. we have that wind wrapping off of the water out of the east so that's why you see the matching temperatures of the ocean and the air temperature because of that wind off of the atlantic. we look to the west. there's no stopping this beast of a storm. this is a pretty powerful storm. south of chicago cincinnati you see the watch boxes popping up across kentucky parts of west virginia and down towards memphis tennessee severe thunderstorm watches there. so as we time this with future tracker the clouds are already here tomorrow morning. and through much of the first part of the day tomorrow at the shore it will be dry despite the clouds and a very strong winds out of the east. rain arrives from the southwest. starts to puncture 95. turns heavier and steadier to the west. tomorrow evening you can see it is pouring here, even

thunderstorms that could contain gusty winds. south of philadelphia 9 o'clock raining just about everywhere, heavy at times and that continues into the overnight hours but by sunday morning, it is out of here. first thing sunday morning by 11:00 you can see some sunshine breaking back out for the late morning hours. south of philadelphia there could be some severe storms washington down to dover maybe cape cape may county. 72 ocean temperature. moderate risk for rip currents because of the strong winds out of the easterly direction. 73 tomorrow, windy with that afternoon rain coming in with a dry morning. and then breezy and brighter on sunday at 78 degrees. the exclusive accuweather 7-day forecast, your rainy day is saturday especially in the afternoon, evening and overnight, 74. we salvage sunday, breezy, some sun at 79 degrees and then it is beautiful here on monday 84 degrees. if you're down the shore for for the week. and then afternoon thunderstorms with another

front tuesday of 87. beautiful wednesday, thursday, lots of sunshine in the mid 80's and then more showers and thunderstorms a week from now with a temperature of 84 degrees. so, we will be watching the skies for a little bit of stormy weather late tomorrow into tomorrow night. >> at least we have half of it to look forward to. >> we do. >> abc news with david muir is next here on channel six. "action news" continues at 10:00 on phl with brian taff adam joseph and ducis rodgers. for the entire "action news" team i'm monica malpass. have a good night and enjoy your weekend.

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>>. >> brek breaking news tonight on several fronts. a special edition of "world news tonight." first, history at the supreme court on same-sex marriage. the reaction on both sides. now legal in all 50 states. the lines. couples waiting to get married. the 5-4 ruling. justices who were against this, you will hear their fiery dissent. and the states refusing to let the weddings begin. the breaking news in the hunt for the two escaped killers. tonight, they have shot and killed one of the men. at this hour, authorities say closing in on the other. we're on the scene. american authorities on alert tonight, after 90 minutes of terror. three separate attacks overseas -- tourists at a beach resort. an american-run factory. a mosque. brian ross and bob woodruff, overseas tonight. and, honoring the charleston