trikes on the schuylkill expressway. a car burst into flames with people still inside. >> strong storms moved through the region overnight. accuweather is updating, though, when it should all clear out. >> plus funnel clouds formed in the western suburbs as the wild weather began moving in. the national weather service will be on site today to determine if we indeed had tornadoes. >> good morning. 5:30 now on this wednesday july 1st. let's go to accuweather and matt pelman is in for karen rogers. good morning. >> those strong thunderstorms we were looking for yesterday are off coast pushing away from our airports around new york city in case you have a connecting flight. long island still getting hammered with this and lots of lightning strikes there. around here it's just a couple sprinkles and showers beginning to fall apart. looks like additional stuff near gettysburg. most of what we're seeing this morning will be on the light side. flash flood watch has expired. we were going to hold this until 6 o'clock but the weather service feels the rain has slack concerned off enough where all of those watches

have been moved farther to the northeast. so, roadways should be getting drier out there. nonetheless there are a lot of trees and wires down because of last night's storms. so be careful of that. all those watch boxes across the region last night of course, they are all gone and once we get rid of this current batch of rain it does look like we're generally getting into a lull for a good portion of the rest of the day with just a slight chance of additional pop-up shower or thunderstorm this afternoon. 70 currently in philadelphia, still feeling muggy out there. 68 in wilmington and low to mid 70's down along the boardwalks this morning the as we roll through the day 87 degrees is going to be your high at 3 o'clock. gun just a spotty shower or a thunderstorm later today. the main issue will be just the warmth and humidity. if you have plans to head to the ballpark tonight again mainly dry conditions. probably a little bit on the humid side 83 for the first pitch, 77 in the ninth inning. matt pelman we have another round of rain coming in the accuweather 7-day. that's just ahead. >> it was pouring when i woke up at 2:30 this morning, david, really coming down. a lot of that water that came from the skies is now in the form of puddles on the

roadways that you could hit this morning and lose control. we've seen some of that happening. we saw a crash here on the schuylkill expressway westbound side that sparked a vehicle fire here by montgomery drive. awful accident that they're still cleaning up so they have the two right lanes blocked. just that left lane is squeezing by and we're already seeing a really sizable jam on the westbound schuylkill coming away from girard avenue through this point at montgomery drive. i would say on the other drivers, the mlk or kelly but watch out for a lot of high water on them especially as you round the corners. had some high were there on the schuylkill eastbound this morning near the conshohocken curve. they unclogged the drains there. thwart hasthat water has receded. debris along pine town road at egypt road. they got that cleaned up. downed tree in chester county, westbound lines of the 30 by that right lane blocked but the left lane can get by. and in pennsauken a crash brought down a traffic signal. 130 southbound is blocked near

38. maybe haddonfield road, 73 or 295 are alternates around that. matt. >> thank you, matt. breaking right now a-car burst into flames on the schuylkill expressway this morning. two people did not make it out alive. "action news" reporter katherine scott is live at the state police barracks in wynnefield heights with what we know right now. katherine. >> reporter: that's right matt, two people died in this crash. one person was rushed to hahnemann university hospital. this was a terrible crash. troopers here for the belmont barracks were called out to that scene on the schuylkill expressway and let's go that video of the accident that happened around 2:30 this morning in the westbound lanes of the schuylkill approaching montgomery county drive and you can see the flames were intense. somehow this car lost control and flipped to its side. then it burst into flames. here's what the car looked like after the fire was extinguished. it was just a shell. we don't know yet what led up to the crash or whether the wet roads or storms going on at the time were a factor in this crash. the driver and a passenger

died. another passenger was rushed to hahnemann. fire and rescue crews and state police were on the scene. traffic is backed up but so far has been getting by. of course stay with "action news" for updates. we're live in wynnefield heights, katherine scott channel6 "action news." >> thank you, katherine. and this is new this morning. police tape surrounds a shotup minivan in north philadelphia. the driver was wounded and is now hospitalized. on north stillman street the vehicle came to a stop around midnight. the driver was shot in the leg three blocks away on chalmers avenue and kept on going. at least six bullets smashed out windows and flattened a tire in the van. it is unclear who fired the shots or why. >> it was a loud night for most of us with thunder lightning and heavy rain and did a tornado touchdown in chester county? erin o'hearn is live at the big board with more on our wild weather. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. did it or didn't it? that is the question. incredible video shot by an "action news" viewer yesterday

joel urbine was behind his business just before 2:30 in the afternoon he was shooting towards the area of lancaster and chester county line right near honeybrook. this you can see right here as it comes back it's not a confirmed tornado but the national weather service is sending a survey team to the area today to determine what exactly it is. take a listen to this viewer as he shoots direct from honeybrook. >> you see it's moving, guys, it's picking up into -- it's spinning. you see it? >> reporter: again, this is just another funnel like formation spotted yesterday as the area was slammed with severe weather. frightening to be so close to that formation. let's turn to the lehigh valley now. the national weather service says it may travel there today to inspect damage near lehigh valley international airport. this is the scene in whitehall township. downed trees and crushed back porches after a fast moving storm packed powerful winds and hail moved through the area. according to residents there the sky went dark and then they ducked for cover.

>> peeled the roof right back. my siding is all dented up. my screens have holes in it. my shed back here has holes in it from it. so, yeah, i got quite a bit of damage here. >> we went down in the basement and heard a loud crash and it was the patio roof coming down. >> reporter: again the national weather service will officially make the call on last night's weather today but there is no doubt residents have days of cleanup ahead of them and the memory of a very frightening experience, tam. >> thank you erin. and the frustrated residents of south jersey who went a week without power have finally gotten some relief. atlantic city electric completed its restoration yesterday. the company reports last week's outages which reached 280,000 actually exceeded those that they had from super storm sandy. any time severe weather happens, be sure to check the free 6abc storm tracker six app, get live radar and severe weather alerts for your neighborhood and for anyplace that you're going. >> time now is 5:36.

and pennsylvania enters a new fiscal year today without a budget. governor tom wolf vetoed the state legislature's entire spending plan. it is the first full budget veto in pennsylvania more than 40 years. the democratic governor says the republican backed $30.2 billion measure is packed with gimmicks that don't add up. state funded agencies have begun planning for the possibility of a prolonged delay in getting state funds. the wolf administration told state workers back on monday that they would continue to work and be paid. >> my guess is we had a few people joining us at 4:30 this morning who were awakened by today book in the middle of the night. >> no kidding, right. all those thunderstorms fortunately are final over toward the east. we have a lot of roads that still have some water on them and more particularly trees and wires down in parts of the region. we'll go over that in more detail in a moment. for now you can see all we have left is just some light rain activity and it is mostly pushing toward the east of philadelphia toward the east of allentown and almost ready

to get past cape may. the rest of you will have to wait more than another hour or so for that to finally get out of here. as we take a look outside, we have cloudy skies overhead with a couple of little bright patches here or there off the coast of atlantic city. and we are expecting some sun to return. currently 70 degrees, dewpoint at 66 so it is humid out there this morning and the winds ouster south-southwest at 7 miles per hour. we did have some interesting pictures being tweeted in by our "action news" followers on social media. south philadelphia ray sky wire with a really nice picture of one of the stronger storms and you can see how this may have been showing some rotation and storms in and around philadelphia and elsewhere did actually produce some hail as well as strong gusty winds and of course we had three tornado warnings yesterday too. whitehall township jessica shows us this hail stone that she found and that looks like probably quarter sized hail, maybe a little bit bigger. some of these storms pretty powerful. some of the damage that we had, well, it's out in the west as erin o'hearn was just telling us around honeybrook

chester county right around where berks county, chester county and lancaster county come together where the national weather service does plan to go out and investigate a possible tornado. yesterday there was some damage in western can chester county. elsewhere we had 64 miles per hour wind gusts reported flash flooding and quarter size hail in philadelphia delaware county, montgomery county county around the chester county border and back toward the middle of chester county as well. so in and around here would be areas where you might see some trees and wires down as you're driving around. a second spot of concern would be right through lehigh and northampton county right up the center of the counties where we had funnel clouds reported, golf ball sized hail and 61 miles per hour wind gusts, homes damaged. in fact that hail stone i showed you was probably more like golf ball sized hail so this would be another area where you may have problems driving around. in terms of today's rain it's out of here quickly. then by noon looks like we get into a lull, clouds and sun kind of humid. later than there's the chance of a spotty shower or thunderstorm. i'll allow for something in philadelphia as well and by later this evening it looks

like it's all over. i do want to show you though, that the chance for severe weather as posted by the storm prediction center across the country has moved to our north and east today. so we're not expecting any more strong gusty storms around here. nonetheless if you hear thunder go inside because you can always get into trouble with lightning with these storms. 73 degrees by 8 o'clock, 81 by 11 o'clock and your high is 87. we'll probably slot that in right around 3 o'clock this afternoon. warm and muggy today. your exclusive accuweather 7-day, there's that 87, humid a-thunderstorm can't be ruled out but mainly dry the rest of the way. and then sun giving way to clouds on thursday, a high of 84 and late in the day thursday there's the chance of a shower. the best chance is probably closer to the coast or in those counties that seidle right up to the ocean and that will be tomorrow afternoon. then friday morning there could actually be a lingering shower or thunderstorm before we transition to a dry afternoon and a high of 82. for the holiday saturday clouds and sun. the fourth of july 84 degrees a slight chance of a spotty thunderstorm in the afternoon

or evening but most of your five works celebrations will probably be able to go off without a hitch. and then it looks like we're sunny and very warm on sunday, maybe a bit humid this weekend and staying under the sun as we head into next week's work week. >> okay. thank you day. it's now 5:41 and developing this morning the death toll is expected to rise after military plane slams into homes overseas. >> a pennsylvania couple wants to get to the bottom of how their baby suffered a fractured skull while at the hospital. matt. >> matt, it's not the morning to be on the schuylkill expressway westbound unless you like this sort of thing which i doubt that you do. westbound a parking lot from the vine on out toward montgomery drive because of a crash. regional rail issues an closure in pennsauken coming up. >> okay matt. the white house is boosting security to stop people from jumping the fence. "action news" will be back.

>> ♪♪ >> welcome back. you're taking a live look here down the shore. you can see the waves and the surf there looks a little riled up after we had some of that rough weather move through. 5:44 69 degrees. >> getting up to 87. look out for maybe another storm out there. matt what are you seeing on the roads. >> more that drivers may be riled up after this morning commute because it will take them awhile. good chance it's going to be a frustrating ride coming out of the suburbs. we have big issues on this

hump day morning matt and tam including the closure of 130 southbound in pennsauken. exact location is drexel avenue. so that's southbound approaching route 38 at the airport circle. action cam is on the way to the scene. they're detouring you through the neighborhood but if i were you i would stay farther away from that accident and downed traffic signal. think about using 644 haddonfield road, use 73 or stay way over on 295 to get around it. before we leave new jersey let's talk about paving work in gloucester township camden county. starting at 7 o'clock. so just over an hour they're going to close church street close to the black horse pike there where holy tomato is on the black horse pike. stick with clementon avenue to get around that. if you're headcrash on lancaster avenue. downed tree we had on the westbound 30 bypass right by 340, they turned it into

sawdust. everything reopened there along the westbound lanes of 30. time for the commuter report brought to you by the waze app. we still have big problems on the westbound side of the schuylkill expressway. just 4 miles per hour headed toward that accident scene by montgomery drive but no problems aside from a lot of puddles reported along the kelly drive and the mlk. matt. >> thank you matt. rescue teams continue to search the wreckage of a downed military plane in indonesia today. they have recovered 141 bodies so far. more than 100 air force personnel and their families were on the plane. it crashed shortly after takeoff and slammed into a building in a residential area of medan the country's third largest city. dozens of mourners attended a vigil for 85-year-old regina bruner. the east mount airy woman was that found murdered inside her home monday. her car had been taken from the scene. police found the vehicle abandoned on the 3100 block of north stillman street in north philadelphia yesterday.

detectives have the not identified a suspect. >> new jersey governor chris christie will be back on the campaign trail. christie has a stop planned portland maine. there he'll meet with the governor. christie is the first 2016 presidential candidate to campaign if maine. after his big announcement yesterday in new jersey he waste node time getting going campaigning in new hampshire which will hold its all important first in the nation primary next february. >> 5:47 is the time. two pilots are out of a job and a passenger is banned from flights. we're getting a little too friendly with a bunny in the skies. >> a newborn baby suffers a fractured skull while at a pennsylvania hospital. and now a nurse is under investigation and the parents want some answers. david. >> several strong thunderstorms from yesterday have left some damage in some areas including northampton pennsylvania, where mark shows us pictures of a house with some of the siding just torn off by the strong winds. we'll be back with more on what to expect today including your day planner forecast. that's just ahead.

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♪ the best part of wakin' up ♪ so, where do you want to start? i think this is a pretty good place. ♪ is folgers in your cup ♪ >> as we were waking up severe weather was rolling through. sometimes i use my mounted go pro camera in my car to take video of my commute when i come in. i came upon a huge puddle of water on the schuylkill expressway. it was without warning went all over my car and stopped its progress. now heavy rains clogged some of the drains along the schuylkill creating a log fume effect on the highway. i called police to make sure they could try and prevent other drivers from hitting this way too fast. don't want to see some accidents out there, david. >> you know, i could have used one of those go pro cameras, too, because i came to the edge of route one in my neighborhood and a big tree branch blocking most of the road. high to drive around it. most of that stuff is gone. a couple li little light showers left over, that's it.

flood watches are offer the board at this point. 75 by 9:00, 83 by noon. today's high will be 87. during the afternoon there's a slight chance of a pop-up shower or thunderstorm. most of you will probably not see that. i want to take you to the jersey shore. it's going to be okay on the water with clouds and sun and ocean temperatures in the 70's but for the second straight day we do have a chance of rip currents so be careful of that. only swim next to the lifeguards today. matt. >> yeah, david i have a feeling we are seeing some issues with the hydroplaning on the roads this morning. we're also seeing big issues on the septa regional rails. no service because of amtrak power problems on the airport wilmington newark and now the thorndale paoli lean. no service on those three lines and of course we'll keep you posted. we've also been keeping you posted on this situation. the schuylkill westbound a solid jam from the vine out to montgomery drive. still have that crash blocking the right lane. in case you were wondering

burlington bristol bridge did not close overnight for construction. will close again tonight. tam. >> okay, thank you, matt. new video this morning shows a highway in susquehanna county that pennsylvania roadway looked more like the produce aisle in a grocery store. 42,000 pounds of cabbage and tomatoes spilled all over the road leaving a big mess for police and for cleanup crews. state police say a tractor-trailer driver lost control, hit a guardrail and then flipped over. so the mess of smashed vegetables stretched for at least half a mile. the highway was closed for about eight hours. the driver has minor injuries and cuts to his face. police cited him for speeding. and new here on "action news" an argentinian airline fired two of its pilots. the company says they were taking selfies with a playboy model in the cockpit in the middle of line in flying the plane. the model posted these photos on social media. they show her posing between two smiling pilots with a cockpit controls right there behind him. the argentinian airline says the pilots were fired and they could face criminal charges.

that model has been banned from flights for the next five years. >> a girl scout troop is standing behind its motto that supports transgendered people. a donor who gave the washington state troop $100,000 has requested the money not be used to support the movement. so, the troop returned it. the girl scouts started anline campaign with the #for every girl. that campaign raised more than $170,000 in just one day. >> 5:53 now. still ahead the fbi joins in the investigation into a fire at a prominent black church in south carolina because this is not the first one we've seen in recent date. >> plus, security at the white house. hear what the secret service is doing to try to keep people from jumping onto the property. >> ♪♪

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>> 5:56. breaking with new video just in. an accident brought down a utility pole on route 130 near drexel avenue in pennsauken, camden county. the action cam is here. matt has been talking about this in traffic. police as you see are on the scenery directing traffic around the pole. the southbound lanes remain blocked at this moment. matt pelman will keep you updated on this story. >> a hazardous materials incident injured a resident in newark delaware. three firefighters also needed to be checked out for possible exposure to some sort of fumes. this happened at hunters crossing apartments on the units block of fairway road yesterday evening. it's still unclear what caused the leak the the building was evacuated at first and then

ventilated. my this morning a nurse in western pennsylvania is now under investigation. she dropped a newborn at the hospital and that left him with serious injuries. that baby boy is now in a neck brace. fortunately he's in stable condition and doctors are hoping that he's not going to need surgery. the newborn's mother claims the doctors told her the nurse was feeding the boy and suddenly dropped him because she fell asleep. the nurse who has 30 years of experience has agreed to a drug test as officials try to determine what exactly happened here. >> happening today the secret service and the national park crews will begin installing metal points to the white house fence. the makeover is meant to deter fence jumpers. two intruders have scaled it in less than a year's time. a judge just sentenced one man to 17 months in jail for leaping over the fence and running into the white house before he was caught. the metal points are only a temporary fix until a long term security solution can be put in place. >> 5:57. we're following breaking news. two people were killed after their car crashes and then

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>> ♪♪ >> "action news." delaware valley's leading news program. you. >> matt o'donnell, tamala edwards, karen rogers and meteorologist dave murphy. >> ♪♪ >> good morning everyone. it is 6 o'clock on this wednesday, july 1st and we are following breaking news. >> we've got some traffic tragedy along the schuylkill expressway overnight. an out of control car crashes and then bursts foo flames and we'll also tell you how this is still impact the morning commute. >> another church down south goes up in flames. federal investigators are now on the scene. >> accuweather is helping you get through any lingering effects through last night's drenching downpours. >> there are a few. let's go dave murphy and also matt