drenched by torrential rain and it's another afternoon of tumultuous weather and meteorologist, cecily tynan is keeping track of all types of watches and wantings. >> we still have a severe thunderstorm watch in effect tonight what this means the potential exists for severe weather to occur and a warm front is moving through now and a cold front across western pennsylvania and that rolls through later tonight and by then we have lost the heating of the day and really the most intense storms came between 2:00 and 3:45 when we had the multiple tornado warnings stormtracker 6 live double scan, showing although this is not severe, we have strong thunderstorms rolling through camden, gloucester county, new jersey, into burlington county five lightning strikes associated with this, you hear the rumble of thunder and have to get inside. what is more intense is the

amount of rain pulling down and we are seeing pockets of rain falling at the rate of 2 inches perfect hour, that could cause localized flooding and make it tough to drive home for the evening commute, this is what happens this afternoon at 3:00, in whitehall township you can see the damage that the winds causing ripping this roof off and an emergency effect in whitehall township the fact that these storms contain the tornado warnings drop such an extreme amount of rain in lehigh and north hamilton county a quick 1 to 2 inches turn around don't drown don't drive through flash flooding, and we get a break if the action and i'll talk about that in the full accuweather forecast. the storm knocked out power to more than 10,000 ppl

customers and 88 are still in the dark at this hour, most are in lehigh and north hamilton counties walterwer ez is live on hobson street where the weather has caused substantial damage. >> reporter: jim, a local state of emergency has been declared for whitehall township this area here seems to be the epicenter of what went through this region in the lehigh valley here is an example, this back patio is completely toppled and many other homes endured similar damage and two houses down there is no damage at all and everyone agrees that whatever came through is powerful. several people that live in this part of whitehall township say it's moments after they received strong weather warnings when it hit. heavy rain and powerful winds and hail and a few funnel cloud

sightings and bill hobson says he never felt anything like this. a noise i never heard before in the windows and never get out of here, the hail was coming down and it was so big, i was afraid it would blowout my windows, that is how it hit. i didn't know the extent of the damage until i walked out and couldn't believe it. >> lots of power outages to report and several downed trees and power lines officials are arriving on the scene to assess and clean up the damage walter perez, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you walter. when severe weather happens you should check the 6 abc storm tracker 6 app with live forecasts and severe weather alerts can you report what you are seeing in your area, the 6 abc storm tracker app is a free

download for your mobile device. the republican party got its latest candidate today as christie made its announcement at hristie adds his name to the expanding list of 14 candidates for the bid for the white house. john rawlins live now in livingston what is the atmosphere there. >> if you were outside, there were hundreds of protesters with his handling pensions. i saying americans were sick of what christie described as indecision and han wringing i was proud to announce my

candidacy for president of the united states of america. christie accompanied by mary pat had blunt talk. >> i say what i mean and i mean what i say. >> as president he signalled the primary target the country's entitlement, such as medicare and medicaid candidates say if we confront this we'll be lying and stealing from the american people, let me fill you in the lie and stealing has already happened and we vet v tote good it back in. >> protesters outside many public workers livid for what christie has done. >> we are not better off than what we were before we became governor and he has broken

promise after promise after promise. >> well, christie's campaign staff has the best chance of early success in new hampshire rather than iowa or south carolina, with that in mine he flew to new hampshire and is scheduled to be at a town hall tonight, the primary in new hampshire is scheduled about eight months from now. john livingston channel 6 "action news." >> the numbers would suggest that christie faces an uphill climb on the road to the white house according to the "washington post" poll, only 22% of americans view christie favorably nearly half have an unfavorable of opinion of new jersey's governor. the democratic field is consider considerably smaller, hillary clinton, martin o'malley and bernie saners are vying for the nomination. >> with less than three months to go the vatican released the

pope's itinerary for his trip to philadelphia. david henry is live at st. charles seminary in linwood that will serve as the popes residence while he is here. >> the pope has eight events over the to days he is here and four of them are accessible to the public two private events are held here at the seminary where the pope will spend the night. we are excited here at st. charles, where he will visit the seminary. the pope arrives september 26th and heads straight to the cathedral basilica to celebrate mass for 1600 invited parishioners. >> we have to divide it up to all the people of the diocese of philadelphia so all the churches are represented at the mass. >> the current rector was a young -- when pope john paul

came here. >> for me as a christian and at the time a future priest it was a transforming experience. they will deliver remarks about immigration and freedom of religion and visit families on the parkway. >> this is a past oral visit and a lot more events than they will attend in washington or new york city. >> he will greet the cardinals and british ops attending the world meeting of families and then travel to the prison to meet with selected prisoners and their families and then at 4:00 p.m. the papal mass on the parkway expected to draw upwards of 2 million people the whirlwind schedule proposed challenges for security and logistics. >> he wants to be with people and i think the vatican rightly

figured out if you want to be with people and be in a place that knows logistics and can move someone like the pope around, you want to be in philadelphia. >> a lot of planning is taking place and now that the pope's schedule is formalized. each more specific planning is getting underway as the clock tics down to just 84 days until the pope arrives. david henry channel 6 "action news." >> thank you david. you can see more details about the pope's visit at 6abc.com, and stay up to date with our special twitter account, follow at 6 abc pope for the latest on the world meeting of families. coming up on "action news" tonight, philadelphia police find a key piece of evidence in the murder of an 85-year-old woman. and eagles connor barwin attends a different type of camp today.

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please continue to investigate the murder of an 85-year-old woman and how her car ended up 7 miles from her home. regina was murdered in her east moupt mt. airy home and her car was found on west stillman street, there is a $20,000 we ward for information leading to an arrest and conviction.

the driver of a dump truck was trapped for two hours after a collision with a pickup on the northeast extension, the crash happened at 6:30 and the driver was flown to the hospital for treatment and the dump truck lost its load and the crews had to clear debris from the roadway before righting the vehicle, the first steps for university pre-k started in philadelphia think started to implement universal pre-k they would have to find a way to fun the program for all 3 and 4-year-olds in philadelphia. the commission is required to submit a draft funding plan to the mayor by next january, a $450,000 grant is helping to expand firefighter training programs in delaware carpenter and chris -- goes to a fire

engine and training equipment. the latest development project in philadelphia combined work and play, "action news" was there there for the ground breaking of a 400,000 square foot office building and a ribbon cutting for the 500 acre park called founding green. it has ping-pong and a meeting table for people to work outside. the construction is set to be completed in late 2016.

a new food pantry is set to open in philadelphia today goya foods donated 5,000 pounds of food in the basket. the food pantry opened to the

public on thursday and is open tuesdays and thursdays throughout the years. new announcements for the philadelphia phillies. lots of changes with the phillies ahead of the game with the brewers, they announce they have consistency, pete mccannon will remain the manager for the rest of the season sandberg unexpectedly resigned on friday, through all the losing mccannon kept his sense of humor. >> i was the interim interim and now the interim. and it's a good feeling i know my fate until the end of the season and i look forward to doing good work. >> we felt pete was the right person with the right demeanor he has done it before and had success in that area, and we thought he was the right guy at this time. at the woman's world cup the usa

faces germany, the top ranked germans have scored a tournament best 15 goals in six matches. >> i think it will be a good game, germany is a great team and we still our best is yet to come yes we have been keeping clean sheets and not scoring as many goals but we have a tough group and it's not easy winning a world cup. >> connor barwin is one of the more cerebral players on the eagles and jaime apody found him at a high school. and he says he is ready for the season. >> connor barwin condition wait for the season because he says he came off the best offseason ever. >> i feel very good going into training camp, we are healthy and i'm healthy, and he is not the only one. >> say fired up!

>> today barwin reported to camp, his first he pro camp for kids grades one through eight. >> i never went to a camp with a professional athlete, and never met a professional athlete when i was a kid. it's pretty cool. >> it's really awesome seeing him and getting to do a lot of stuff with him. >> want to be a defensive man and beat people up like crazy. >> is connor beating people up like crazy? >> he is really fun. >> he has a message, that they be great at any think do. >> to be a great student and football player and great friend, just try to be better than you were the day before. and because of bar win you can bet these kids are. jaime apody channel 6 "action news." >> eagles training camp begins

on august 2nd. summer has officially started at the philadelphia museum of art, art splash started today it's a ten week long summer program for children. the museum will host a number of family friendly events and an interactive tour to show visitors how nature inspiring the artwork and how they can draw their own design.

especially on tuesdays we had the squall line last tuesday and tonight we are seeing the scattered thunderstorms and it's worst of it is over that occurred this afternoon stormtracker 6 live double scan showing that we still have the strong thunderstorms rolling through right now nothing

severe but that being said, they are dropping heavy rain and high gusty winds this cell right now is working north through woodbury just east of the delaware river so collingswood and merchants wood and maple shade and frankford in the path of the storm, gusty wins, i would not be surprised if you get winds of 50 miles per hour from this cell and the potential for pea sized hail and another storm line developing right now in northern lehigh county near 309, 12 lightning strike as associated with this and this is generally working up to the north and east, and we have gusty winds and downpours and the lehigh valley and northampton county was hit hard with tornado warnings and also hail, jessica sent this from whitehall township where a state of emergency is in effect for power lines and trees down and flash flooding and think had

hail the size of golf balls that indicates to you strong the thunderstorms were with an intense updraft. these are the reports, between 2:00 and 2:45 this afternoon, we had numerous tornado warnings and a funnel cloud was spotted in lehigh county and trexlertown and chester county hit hard and westchester reporting a 63 miles per hour wind gust and northampton counties were reporting the golf ball-size hail that we saw. this is something that is a big concern flash flooding i always say turn around don't drown, this was posted on my facebook page, a lot of localized flooding intel wear county, whoever was driving that car drove under the underpass and that water was deeper than expected. that car is going nowhere fast, you want to avoid the flooding

we have a flood advisory posted until 8:00, it has decreased in size but includes philadelphia buck county and chester county and delaware county. you want to avoid flash flooding some of that rain was falling at a rate of 2 inches per hour, that is why it caused the flash flooding the ground can't orb sosh that, the sunshine is back and we have a rain cooled 78 degrees, the high today was 86 and allentown 78 and millville 78 and dover 82 and reading 78 degrees, satellite 6 along with action radar shows a warm front moving through triggering showers and thunderstorms, that cold frop moves through later tonight and fortunately by then we lose the daytime heating and that line of storms should be weakening 8:30 tonight we see spotty thunderstorms at 2:30, is when we get another round of

thunderstorms and then the weather settles down tomorrow and partly sunny skies in the afternoon and a couple of pop-up showers and perhaps an isolate the thunderstorm in the poconos but not an active day like today. if you are heading down the shore, a moderate risk of rip currents don't go swimming when the lifeguards are not on duty, a high of 82 degrees down the shore, the shore really missing out on the severe weather today. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, tomorrow a few morning showers possible especially south of philadelphia and then after noon sunshine, 87 degrees and thursday unsettled with spotty afternoon thunderstorms and 87 degrees, a brush of rain south of philadelphia and partly sunny and a nice afternoon, 84 degrees and saturday for the 4th can't rule out the possibility of a pop-up thunderstorm i don't believe they will be widespread and temperatures rise into the upper 80s by next week, we are

still getting in a lot of pictures and videos of the storm damage we'll have an update tonight at 11:00. free fun continues around the city as part of the wawa welcome america celebration admission was free all day at the philadelphia history museum and there were special readings for children as part of the go forth and learn series, and the first hundred kids got to take home a free book. can't beat that. abc world news is next on channel 6, and "action news" continues at 10:00 on phl 17 with brian taff and adam joseph and please join us for "action news" at 11:00 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.

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