and the upsetled skies continue tonight. look at stormtracker 6 live double scan some storms are hitting now and they are heavy. a look at sky 6 hd lots of clouds hanging over center city tonight, a few rain showers that moved through already and more could be coming as well. the big story is another warm and muggy day and downpours in parts of our area as well. >> lets get details on the forecast from adam joseph. >> rick and monica, it looks threatening from areas northern and west but it remains quiet this evening in southwest pennsylvania and the main action is down to the south on double scan live radar and remains in this region we are up to 62 lightning strikes in the last 15 minutes, a little more than 30 or 40 minutes ago it's not severe but pushing to the northeast at 25 miles per hour, winds around 40 miles per hour with this storm. very heavy rain near millville,

and 55 up to malaga, and a secondary area near hammonton and rich land 5:05 and pleasant mills 5:18 and around that same time for weymouth. not severe but we are dealing with severe rain and water on the roadways and that is leading to a flood advisory in this general area, as far south as cedarville and as far north as buena vista and weymouth until 8:30 p.m., and same for pits grove 1 to 3 inches have fallen and find an alternate route never want to drive through an alternate route west is a powerful low developing near kansas city and st. louis, this lifts to our north today and tomorrow, most of the day tomorrow is sunny and hot, and late in the afternoon and evening look for a line of storms that pass through the storm prediction center and all

points west to state college and a high risk tomorrow and the main threat will be the torrential rain and the possible of strong winds we'll come back and time the storms for thursday afternoon for you coming up in the full accuweather forecast. >> thank you adam. stay ahead of all the changes in our weather at 6abc.com/weather, you'll find the live satellite and radar images as well as the hourly forecast from accuweather, and learn about the accuweather team by following our meteorologists on facebook and twitter. time to go to the shore now with baby shark catches and dangerous man o war jelly fish, the shore is exciting and scary so far this summer "action news" reporter, john rawlins is live in atlantic city tonight. catch anything john. >> reporter: didn't catch a thing but it's a hot topic these days if you have sharks around here or man o war it's hard to stay if they see more than before, it seems to be the case

but there is no sort of official county. for weeks videos and pictures pop up on social media and television of sharks and man o wars this on top of shark attacks in the carolinas has people on edge. or are they? >> not concerned about the sharks. >> why not? >> there are bigger things to worry about. >> andrew has surfed sin he was a young boy for some reason people are more sensitive to sharks. >> when you watch shark week, you get concerned because all you see is attacks but when you grow up here you don't see it much. >> but andrew adds that man o war is a new element, but marine biologist from stockton university says if you see one

with it's long sail, give it and its long stinging tentacles a wide breach. >> if you see one tell the lifeguard, don't touch because they can still sing even when they are dead. >> if you see a man o war floating in the water don't get close to if you see it on the beach, don't pick tup. that encounter could ruin your entire day. john rawlins, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. united airlines flights returned to the skies after a major computer problem forced the carrier to grown all the planes across the country a router problem reduced network connectivity for several software activists and grounded every flight for two hours united apologized to customers and is allowing them to change their flights with the exchange fee, it's the second time in

just two months that the carrier was hit by major technical issues and the stock exchange has new technical glitches they were forced to stop trading for more than three hours this came as chinese markets were crashing and greece is heading for a possible bankruptcy, and here is more. >> reporter: new fears are emerging about how american markets will respond to european markets, trading was halted for hours on the new york stock exchange, they are responding to a technical issue but this coincided with increased market tension, chinese markets continued their great market crash, trillions of dollarses in value wiped out in the past weeks and this is turning into a stampede. >> they say it's a coming

financial crisis but a lot of leverage and tools that authorities can use to avoid that. >> equally worrying is the volatile situation in europe greece is a few days from a possible bankruptcy and collapse the concern that a collapse in greece would have the a ripple effect for the rest of eu and the united states. >> greece will wake up in four days in a different europe. this is really and truly the final wake-up call for greece but also for us. our last chance. >> the new york stock exchange reopened here shortly after 3:00 today and most stocks are down just in time for the closing bell outside of wall street back to you. >> thank you. there will be more on this financial crisis across the world coming up on world news tonight with david muir, this is after "action news" at 6:00, at the "action news" big board now a summer time favorite is back in new jersey fresh produce by

the pound and this particular roadside stand is run by a group of students getting a lesson in business outside of classroom. glassboro high school kicks off its farm stand this week, featuring vegetables and fruits grown locally in new jersey and the stand itself is run by the teenagers, through it the students get a glimpse of working in the real world there are eight positions and the students go through filling out an application and an interview and they are taught to run the business from start to finish. >> i am learning customer service and bagging and carrying groceries to the car sometimes it's a great program. >> it's for people without work experience that can actually learn from it. it's a good way to make money. >> now the farm stand program was started by rutgers decades

ago when but the funding went away glassboro high thought it was a great learning tool and kept it running. rick and monica, the students are paid to work at the stand and they are earning new skills and earning money. not a bad combination. >> thank you sharrie. time for a check of the "action news" traffic report midweek. >> this is matt's summer job and he is doing a fine job so far. >> i'm here for now and traffic is standing still at times here on the eastbound side of the schuylkill expressway and then it moves and stops again and we call that stop and go and it's because of plenty of normal eastbound volume and westbound is heavy but not here by conshack and a crash at willow avenue, plenty of slow speeds on westbound 422 in the teens the whole way from king of prussia to colesville. and at creek parkway unone in

cliston heights along baltimore avenue at pens street and one in tioga-nicetown. and approaching girard that is finally gone and everything is reopen there and in voorhees by the auto helpedlenders look for that hazmat situation and slow speeds on 55 because of the really wet conditions. we'll check it again rick and monica coming up in the next half hour. much more to come on "action news" at 5:00 tonight, it's that time of year when you need to worry about exposure to tics. in health check ali gorman talks to the doctor before the concerns for lyme disease and what to do to protect yourself. >> lets go live to cecily tynan at the philadelphia zoo with friends. >> reporter: hi rick and monica i am here with schenn a red tails hawk, here at the zoo

because of an injury. they are found as far north as alaska and as far south as panama, and a lot of them in our area their eyesight is so phenomenal it's like you standing on one side of a football field and reading a newspaper on the other side. that is how good their eyesight is. and they are pretty smart too, i will introduce you to other birds coming up. >> i didn't even know hawks could read cecily. >> we'll have that and more.

a statue you of bill cosby has been removed from disney world, at the hollywood studio theme park, the statue's removal comes two days after unsealed court documents reveals that cosby admitted to obtaining drugs to give them to women he wanted to have sex with. officials in new jersey have ruled out the ebola virus on a man hoppized in monmouth county

and andal ali gorman is at the big board with more. >> a man was take ento the medical center in lakewood new jersey, ebola is ruled out and the health department says the patient has a travel related illness that is not contagious if you spend time outdoors you are at risk for lyme disease especially in our area, pennsylvania new jersey and delaware have a high number of cases, in 2013, pennsylvania has more cases than any other state. i spoke to a doctor with lyme disease who is a patient himself. dr. robert fisher is a disease specialist at einstein medical center. >> when i got home, i neglected

to do a tic check he developed a severe fever and muscle aches. >> was sick as a dog for five days and on the fifth day i noticed i had large red blotches on my body, that is a less common rash that signifies lyme disease, two-thirds have a bull's-eye rash, it could be round or oval or somewhat irregular in shape but 5 to 10 or 15 inches in size, limes stees is tweeted with two to four weeks of antibiotics but prevention is key, use long pants and deet, and if you fine or remove a tic within 72 hours it knts transmit the disease, if

you can fine the tics and remove them you are particularly safe. you want to take tweezers be pull it straight out. there may be small parts left but those tiny parts cannot make you sick. rick and monica back over to you. >> local senior athletes are awarded for their skills today the annual winner circle reception senior games were held in drexel hill, more than 50 athletes take part in the events including golf and shuffle board and track and field. the oldest honoree is 99 years old.

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more than 30 years next year instate students will play about $12,500 for a year's tuition, a 1.5% spike and out of state students will pay more than 31,000 there's, that is up 2.3% from last year, students opting to live on campus pay another $11,200 for room and board. >> new restaurants and businesses are be here in newark part of the old avon distribution building the county count ill is set to vote next week to zone the property from industrial to commercial use. coming up at 5:00 we'll check the forecast looking outside sky 6 hd looks dry but cloudy up above at philadelphia international airport meteorologist, adam joseph with details from accuweather. >> also a quick reminder to go to facebook and like the 6 abc

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installed underground and was damaged in super storm sandy. >> time for accuweather at the big board. >> cloud now and sprinkles now in montgomery county in southern pennsylvania and the most active area is southern new jersey, heading to some shore communities as we look at double scan live radar it's a gusty storm 47 lightning strikes in the last 15 minutes, west of route 9, north and barnegat heading to the northern tip of long beach island torrential rain and winds near 40 miles per hour with this storm and this extends to the south where we have flooding rains this afternoon, anywhere from mays landing and buena and hammonton and back to millville. this cluster of storms moving east-northeast, from ocean city and long beach island we should

be on the lookout for this gusty storm to the west and rainfall rates 2 inches per hour in mays landing and 14 lightning strikes in this vicinity. despite the fact that it's not severe, anything storm with lightning is dangerous. dew points are between 75 and 77 dover is at 76 that is truly tropical air and even though it's lower to the north and west. it's still very uncomfortable no matter where you are. millville down to 36 because of the recent rain and you can see the winds how they converge right here from the northwest and the southwest, that is near what we call the sea breeze front and that is helping to fuel it in the southern areas, the warm front is draped through the ohio and tennessee valley, a low near st. louis and that low moves north tomorrow and that will be the force can mechanism

to get strong to severe storms to top tomorrow 4:00 tomorrow afternoon it's still overall dry and hot and humid and not until late in the afternoon and evening the storms develop and approaching philadelphia, we see the line around 6:00, 6:30 in the evening, towards the coast at 9:30, and then swings off the coast just after the 9:00 to 10:00 hour. your five-day at 5:00, hot with strong storms and the biggest threat is torrential rain and powerful winds. a beautiful end of the week at 86, and warm on saturday with low humidity and sunshine and hot and humid once again and by monday the next chance for thunderstorms, meteorologist, cecily tynan hanging out with some lets just say feathered friends out there. this one cecily i could be next too, it's pretty beautiful.

>> i thought about you with beau, they are known as messy eaters and i have seen adam eat the pistachio nuts at his desk it they can crack one of those brazil nuts in half, they are beautiful and found in flocks about 6 to 12 of them and they are extremely smart but we found out on the air they will not do tricks live on tv. they are smarter than the people aren't you? >> i will go live into the avian center and talk about the foul weather on the way in the accuweather forecast. back to you. >> thanks cecily. more to come in our next half hour of "action news" at 5:00, the search is on when a thief has a plan when walking into a northeast eatery and a massive effort in upper darby following

monday's devastating fire, and a classic brought to light on a stage. we'll show it to you. >> reason they cute.

"action news" continues with meteorologist, adam joseph jaime apody rick williams and monica malpass. >> here is what is happening on "action news" tonight, a sigh of relief at the closing bell after a computer glitch halted trading today. and thousands of airline passengers were put in a holding pattern and rita's water ice fans have to do without a delicious option because of avian bird flu. and the big story, at the new york stock exchange trading came to a halt at 11:00 a.m., after an intense day, all eyes are on the china market in the throws of a free fall. >> and there were no problems

with other exchanges, like the nasdaq, so traders could buy and sell stocks easily they have not elaborated on the exact problem but said it was not the result a security broach. president obama was briefed on the situation, as we said the problem was fixed and trading resumed just after 3:00 p.m. nora muchanic is live in the trenton newsroom tonight and nora you spoke with local financial experts on the impact on personal finances. >> i did and what they are saying is don't panic. the shut down of trading was unusual to be sure but should not result in consequences for the average investors. employees at vanguard the largest mutual company in the country. they fueling calls about concerns about the shut down, all trading was suspended at 11:30 because of a technical

glitch. >> whoa -- just lost it, there it is. and with while this was very unusual this was an extremely unusual event the experts are saying this is more common because the stack market is relying on computers we may see the glitches more and more. i'm nora muchanic channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. as we know glitches can happen the majormal fangs that happened at the new york stock exchange was not the oath glitch of today thousands of unites passengers were left stranded across the country when the airline went down the malfunction started at 3:30 this morning and a problem with an internal router resulted in a system failure area wide. there were more than 800 delays and a handful of cancellations

including philadelphia international airport, customers were offered the opportunity to change their flights without paying a service fee. >> i wish i didn't have to be here in this long line. i understand things happen and computers go down, so our plane is delayed by two hours and it could be worse. >> could be worse. united airlines says it took two hours to get the problem under control and there are lingering effects. this is the second major computer issue over the last five weeks early june the airline halted all takeoff with a problem with their slight dispatching system. >> the wall street journal's online page was knocked off line today and federal investigators say that none of the incidents today were the result of malicious activity and maybe it's a coincidence world news tonight with david muir will have more on the computerer glitches at united and the stock exchange you can watch that

tonight after "action news" at 6:00. in other news, a construction worker was rushed to the hospital after a partial collapse at a construction site. it happened on the 1200 block of 45th street the crews were tearing a building down when the wall collapsed on to a 45-year-old man, he is expected to be okay. in minneapolis county this is colonial county this is technician michael morris he is charged tonight with having sex with a senior at plymouth white marsh high school. they say they have evidence that the relationship starts before the student turned 18. morris is in jail on $15,000 bail. the county sheriff's department rounded up nine parents that failed to pay their child support, these are the four men and one woman that authorities want to find, collectively they owe more than

$72,000 in back child support, the folks arrested tonight around the county owe more than $124,000 in child support, this is surveillance video from the store at the 500 block of spring garden street he pulled a semi automatic hand gun and pointed it at the 25-year-old female clerk, he demanded money and took off the clerk was not hurt. in upper darby two days after a four alarm fire there shut down businesses. it started in the pay less store and several surrounding stores were damaged by smoke or water. and it's not clear exactly what started the blaze. a car fire halted traffic on

i-95 in south philadelphia today, sky 6 captured all the exit on the vine street expressway and all lanes were blocked as firefighters responded to the scene to put the fire out not clear if anyone was hurt and all lanes were reopen an hour later. big changes coming to rita's italian ice this summer all because of the evian flu outbreak they will no longer offer custard just soft serve ice-cream. the outbreak has led to a nationwide egg shortage rita says that the custard will be back as soon as there say sustainable supply of eggs. time for some egg citing news as far as traffic -- not. matt pellman is in the traffic center. >> my news is also egg citing though if not egg-cellent speeds are not excellent

southbound side lots of slowing from bridge street into girard where we spent afternoon with a disabled vehicle blocking a lane and gone now and the heavy delays lingering and northbound the normal afternoon volume meanwhile in lower providence, a crash at willow avenue speeds in the 20s now and that is an improvement on 422 westbound, and king of prussia right around the corner from each other a pair of accidents and one on goddard boulevard slowing on the eastbound turnpike this afternoon as well. speeds in the turnpike passing the king of prussia service blaz a still the hazmat past cooper road the right lane is out of commission and wires are blocking part of williamstown road. rick and monica hope that was egg citing enough for you. >> as always.

>> good. thanks matt. more to come on "action news" tonight. the washington red skins in their effort to keep their name, we'll explain. >> and cecily tynan is hanging out with new friends at the philadelphia zoo. hi monica and rick i love this one, this is shakespear, a bar owl, she is blaine and that is why she is here at the philadelphia zoo they are found in eastern canada and u.s. and south to mexico what is interesting about owls that they eat their prey whole and they digest in and then regurgitate a pellet made of feathers or the fur or bones of the prey so an interesting way to eat your dinner hope i didn't freak anybody out at dinner time now. we'll be talking about the interesting birds at the mcneil avian center.

back to you guys. >> gross but interesting. also jaime apody has phillies dodgers, flyers and wimbledon news.

>> the confederate flag is still a point of debate for south carolina lawmakers, the state house of representatives took up a bill to remove the flag from the state house to the museum. that overwhelmingly passed through the senate and some members of house stalled the bill for amendments or debate. today's debate comes one day after the house voted to ban the confederate flag from cemeteries. the senate has yet to approve that measure. the washington red skins received another legal blow in their fight to keep their name trademarked. a federal judge ordered them to keep the trademark registration and that the name could be offensive to native americans and that cancellation infringed on their right to free speech. the cancellation won't take affect until the team completes the appeals progress. >> jaime apody is live in the "action news" sports center with

more. >> hey there goes, and phillies fans you are all talking about it. it appears that the chase utley era may be over in philadelphia. he is batting a career worst .179 i think caesar has done a good job there you go. >> will it end here playing for a last place team or trade him to a conturned, some say he is should be the next manager they boat the dodgers yesterday. jeff francoeur had two rbis and adam morgan against dodgers ace clayton kershaw tonight. and last night he had 13

points owing okafor had nine repounds, he gave himself a c plus for the effort. interesting. >> definitely an adjustment playing with the shot clock and i'm trying to make adjustments and it's not easy but i'm getting better every day but i'm a little tired. >> the flyers top prospects must have had a hard time packing for the development camp today they hit the beach they competed in the trial on the isle a day of inaction with fans, they held a hooked on hockey clinic for kids at stone harbor elementary schools. summer fun for everyone. >> it's fun to give back and you know this is where we started as a young kid looking up to some of the older guys and it's nice to get out here and play with

the kids. and show them how to play and you know for one day they can play the game and enjoy it and have some success. >> in case the flyers rink ever melts they know what to do they can construct their own raft to get across the water and shovels make bad ores and hockey sticks would have been better. two big names advance, roger federer wins today in straight sets and plays eddie murray in the semi final and prince william and princess kate found a babysitter because they took in tennis today. djokovic won in straight sets to make his sixth straight semis. finally got to love former ace roy halladay yesterday he tweeted pictures and issued

speeding tickets twice in the same day by the same officer, he tweeted a unicycle saying lets see them giving me a ticket on this and a great sense of balance too because it's hard to ride a unicycle. >> me neither, rosy perez is leaving her spot on the view and made the news official on this show after a tearful good-bye. >> i'm excited for what is to come but i'm so sad to leave "the view," the staff and producers and abc and especially these two ladies. i want to thank you. >> perez was referring to her cohost whoopi goldberg and nicole wallace, she wantses to focus on acting again and she will get a proper sendoff when the season wraps up.

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the morristown camp is staging the musical. there is my son nicholas playing the high even a, and judging by today's debut should be a roaring success. >> my favorite high even aever. meteorologist, cecily tynan is live aat the philadelphia zoo. this is neat you are in the exhibit and immersed. we are in the rain forest here and there are two other exhibits as well. it also has islands exhibit and plantations and you get a variety of different birds speaking of variety there are more than is hundred birds here and interesting looking ones,

there are ones here fighting for the blueberries. >> this is our blue one and our yellow, and the black one with the curled hair and they just walk along the boardwalk and visit people and have a chance to really get a chance to meet a bird up close and personal. >> i'm trying to get this one to eat from my hands. here we go they are so interesting though they are freaky looking pigeons really. >> it's great for particularly young children to say you have pigeons in your backyard and there is another pigeon in the world. >> follow me over here, we have meal worms here. and i want to show you the ducks over here. let get their attention with the worms. those are not ducks. >> those are terns and they love to stroll around and fly around

the exhibit. and they are not interested in the worms at the moment. >> this is so much fun, i talk about how the zoo is great for kids but you have a decidingly adult event coming up. >> we have a great adult event the summer ale event on july 25th a chance to come and celebrate the zoo as an adult and enjoy 30 craft breweries while you are here. >> and you have to be 21 you can get the tickets online and get an opportunity to see the zoo in another way. >> i'm in a rain forest and it feels less humid in here. we have heavy downpours around and some spotty light showers near chester and montgomery county if you look down the shore, eastern ocean eastern burlington and atlantic county now dealing with some pretty heavy downpours, generally these are moving east at 25 miles per

hour. we are looking at wind gusts 30 to 40 miles per hour and a lot of lightning strikes and these areas are under a flood advisory until 9:00 tonight, some heavy rain with these cells temperatures show it's warm and hupd and philadelphia 82 degree and allentown 87 and the shore 81 degrees, if you factor in the heat index do you points in the 70s, it's oppressive out there the heat index feels like 86 in philadelphia and 92 in dover now satellite 6 along with action radar showing the system that we are tracking tomorrow is low pressure riding along the front, in missouri right now, that will be north of us that means we could have some severe weather, so future tracker 6 showing 8:00 tomorrow morning mostly cloudy and dry and by 3:00 we get breaks of sunshine and with that sunshine the build up of heat and humidity and at 6:30 a squall line is likely to develop north and west of philadelphia and reaching the

shore at 9:30, with what to expect we could have dangerous lightning and downpours and weak rotation northwest of philadelphia, that means we can't rule out the possibility of an isolated tornado and that is something we are tracking tomorrow. the exclusive accuweather forecast, going from steamy to stormy tomorrow and 90 degrees late thunderstorms and friday though a breath of fresh air 89 don't get used to it and 89 on saturday and 86 on sunday and temperatures back up into the 90s on monday. and there it is it feels like that again and we are tracking those storms tomorrow. back to you guys. >> of course stay ahead of the all the changes in the weather at 6abc.com/weather and you'll find live satellite and radar images as well as the hourly forecast from accuweather and learn about the accuweather team and follow our meteorologists on facebook and twitter.

some youngsters are learning the art of chinese, they held a meeting for the emersion program, 15 youngsters take part in it this fall and they spend part of their day in the chinese speaking class and the other half in an english speaking class. >> very cool. technical glitches affect the united airline and the stock exchange. and a man steps in to stop a bank robbery suspect. and people are rallying around a teacher fire because of her same sex marriage.

for jaime apody rick williams sharrie williams i'm monica malpass we'll see you in just a bit.

"action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with ducis rogers meteorologist, cecily tynan and jim gardner. wednesday night jim is off and i'm monica malpass, and two bodies are discovered in the woods in cape may county and authorities recapture an inmate in philadelphia that was mistakenly released and the big story is technical glitches that interrupted businesses across the country trading on the new

york stock exchange grinded to a halt for hours and there was an issue with the wall street journal website and a computer outage caused united airlines to halt today. >> a lot of frustrated travellers here at philadelphia international airport and around the country, united airlines had a computer glitch that grounded all of its flights this morning, that caused a ripple effect that was felt far and wide. >> a lot of time to hang out in the houston airport. molly's flight was delayed more than two hours, her flight and hundreds of others sat on the tarmac while united airlines grappling with a computer glitch. >> she was not in a rush. >> they communicated with us and told us that the computer system was down and the pilots could not get the flight