western pennsylvania as we go wider, you can see why, all the ingredients are in place how they come together will determine how widespread the weather will be you can see the intense line and i want to zoom into the cluster of storms just to the west of harrisburg this is asoshated with 60 miles per hour winds the bands are reaching up high and those are intense lightning strikes and moving to the east at 40 miles per hour, we are getting ready for some stormy weather and we do have some time before they move in. what are we talking about with these storms lightning and heavy downpours and strong winds, a high risk of that i think the winds could be intense, those wind gusts up to 60 miles per hour just to the west low risk of large hail and the wind profile in the atmosphere shows that there is dope what is called directional

sheer, a change in the direction of the wind as you go higher in the atmosphere and that mean a low to moderate risk of isolated tornado the spin up if the storms start to rotate the timing between now and 7:00, this is when the storms are moving in to the far northwest suburbs, the metro area from wilmington to trenton between 7:00 and 9:00, central delaware and southern new jersey this is a late night event between 9:00 and 11:00 tonight. we'll have more on what to expect where you live. >> in other news, a group of philadelphia police officers could be in trouble after this video surfaced online. it allegedly shows the officers repeatedly hitting 22-year-old tyreke harrell in german town. an internal investgation is now underway. david henry is live at police headquarters tonight with the

latest. >> reporter: yes the police department has opened an intenal investigation, in the meantime though, the police officers involved involved remain on active duty but the suspect's grandmother wants them all fired. >> i think it was wrong what the cops did to my grandson he was not doing anything. the video show a violent struggle, it happened back in april in front of his grandmother's house in german town. the officers suspected that carroll was involved in a drug deal and stopped him on his bicycle and carroll was suspected for a previews drug charge. others could be heard cursing and telling him to put his hands behind his back. >> the cops don't say anything but he did not resist they lie.

>> the president of the police union says he has seen the video, he says that carroll is clearly resisting and it's officers did nothing wrong given the circumstances. >> you can see clearly in the video that he didn't want to be handcuffed he was doing everything possible not to be handcuffed and assaulting the officers and they should be commending the officer ss -- the video has gone viral and many are questioning the use of a taser and the number of officers involved he says they would have been justified using a taser but there is no evidence that it was used. carroll's grandmother did not see burn marks and only complained about a soar ankle when he visited him today she had only one thought. >> here is another black kid

getting beat by the philadelphia police. and how many more of them went through that and how many more have got to go through that. >> now the police department has released a statement saying they are trying to identify all the officers involved but it says there is no evidence that a taser was used as that investigation continues. live in police headquarters david henry channel 6 "action news." dozens of customers are still without power in society hill when smoke poured out of manholes officials say that several elevators were stopped because of it and no one was trapped inside and the cause of the smoke is still under investigation. >> in other news, a new york man has pleld guilty to three counts of involuntarily manslaughter

according to authorities michael ware give his underage and unlicensed daughter permission to drive his suv and three students from council rock high school were inside and all died. after days of passionate debate between lawmakers in south carolina, the confederate flag will be removed from the state house. >> south carolina governor nikki haley made the move official signing a measure into lawless than an hour ago the flag comes down tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. haley says despite the negative connotations the flag carries it will still be treated with respect. we have a state that believes in tradition and say state that believes in history and a state that believes in respect. we'll bring it down with dignity. >> nine the pens used to sign

today's bill will go to the families of nine people killed killed in the church shooting last month. the accused shooter, dylann roof used the flag as a symbol of hate. "action news" reporter katherine scott talked to people around the tri-state area about the flag fallout. >> this flag flew over the state house in south carolina for more than 50 years and tomorrow morning it will be taken down, a debate is raining over what the flag represents a symbol of heritage or a reminder of racist past. >> i think it's a dark mark on america from a long time ago. >> i'm a history guy i studied the civil war, right now a few crazy people have made it a symbol for hate and i think at that point it's time.

>>le the first thing i think about when i look at the confederate flag is slavery. >> at this store in broomall they sell hundreds of different flags but the confederate flag is not one of them. >> people are deeply hurt by its symbolism. >> it was available from their manufacturer until recent weeks. >> they will no longer make the confederate battle flag because of symbolism. >> at this shop it was never in high demand but occasionally they got requested for reenactments or school projects. >> it's sad when a negative meaning is attached to a flag and we don't want to hurt people. >> once the flag is removed from

capital grounds, it will be taken to a nearby relic room and museum. a national nonprofit that aims to protect animals is blasting a chicken farm. mercy for animals released this foot able, the video shows workers clubbing chickens to death and breaking their necks and it's a contract chicken farm for tyson foods tyson released a statement saying it does not tolerate improper animal treatment and takes animal abuse seriously. a group investigating sexual assault victims wants president obama to revoke bill cosby's presidential immediateal of freedom. so far it has collected 2000 signatures after documents were

released where cosby admitted to obtaining drugs to give them to women before sex. >> he received the highest civilian award back in 2002. matt pellman is in the traffic center and things could be getting interesting. we should make it through but some vehicles are throwing in the towel. we have a bunch of broken down vehicles here on 76 the schuylkill expressway, a broken down truck near 38th street it gave us a substantial backlog and then in this backlog a minivan broke down, this is a close look at the minivan that appears to have run out of gas. and a broken down truck from the ben franklin bridge, and that is out of way but headed out of new jersey to center city, watch out for the on going construction. a crash in quakertown near the

pizza hut still a wreck in lower fredericka long gravel pike near big road and in the pottstown area, a wreck at medical drive and arm and hammer boulevard still the overturned box truck closing 273, near highway 1, we'll check it again rick and monica coming up in the next half hour. >> still to come on "action news" at 5:00, a swimming square off the coast of massachusetts, why a family says a selfie stick of all things helped to save their lives after they were stuck under water. >> this report is massive, we felt it at the games and outside of our hotel room, fans were everywhere. >> we are hearing from home town hero carly lloyd before tomorrow's celebration for the u.s. womens soccer team.

a family that almost got swept out to sea in massachusetts credits a selfie stick with saving their lives. it happened off a popular beach

in nantucket, erin was carrying a go pro on a selfie stick and they used it to pull them to shore. >> the deadline on iran's nuclear program is approaching and secretary of state john kerry signalled today that diplomats would not strike a deal by tomorrow morning, under u.s. law it must be complete by the end of the day in washington to avoid the congressional review period. that is significant because iran is urging the easing of economic sanctions. >> it's a difficult conversation but it's a necessary one, we are talking about the ends of life decisions. >> and health reporter and

registered nurse ali gorman has the details. >> reporter: as a nurse these are important discussions sick or healthier or young or old and for people under medicare it has a plan for providers to have those conversations with patients, the aim is to give people a greater say toward what's they want at the end of the life, that means trying every possible option to cope them aalive or discontinuing life support for people that did not want feeding tubes or life support. this was outrage from republicans, the so-called death panels, now it's more widely accepted and expected to go into effect in january. and we are learning about anti-depressants and the impact on unborn babies the cdc found

slight birth defects for women taking paxil or prozac in the weeks before the first trimester but did not find with zoloft. we definitely had our fair share of the heat this week, everyone has to take precautions but if you have a heart condition it's especially important, your heart has to work harder in the heat, if you start to overheat your heart rate will go up and that could effect your electrolytes, but your heart depends on them to relax. stay relaxed with a sports drink and pay attention to warning

signs. >> you may feel more short of breath and more fatigued with activities that you could do previously. >> if you have any of those symptoms, shortness of breath, fatigue find shade and cool yourself down, if you have chest pain or prolong shortness of breath that is a medical emergency and you should call 911. >> thanks ali. still to come a scary sight in a river, the 40 pound animal that put an area on high alert. and honda recalls more cars because of faulty airbags. when "action news" continues in just a moment.

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stocks finished in the grown today across the board the training day went off without a hitch when a technical problem shut down the exchange yesterday. the dow ended up 33 points and the nasdaq climbed 12.5 points be the s&p 500 went up 4.5 points. >> and honda is recalling 4.5 million more vehicles over faulty airbags this stems from

airbags made by takata, that can explode sending shrapnel flying. >> tuition at pennsylvania state owned up vertis going up 3.5%, the state system of higher education board approved the hike today instate will go up to $7660 and that say $240 hike and pay more for technology fees, this comes despite a request from tom wolf to keep tuition the same. a north jersey neighborhood can breathe easier after a gator was pulled out of the passaic river. police say that the animal was likely brought there illegally state be wildlife officials are holding the gator until they

fine a do or education center to take it in. >> still to come on "action news" at 5:00 we'll check the forecast for you. >> taking it live to pens landing with storms heading our way, cecily tynan has the details.

>> meteorologist, cecily tynan has the latest on the changes in store for us tonight. >> exactly right, it's quiet here however live on double scan you can see an intense line from

harrisburg to gettysburg, we have 100 lightning strikes in the past 15 minutes, you see the bowing out and that indicates rushing winds and that indicates win gusts of 60 miles per hour and it's moving east at 40 miles per hour. and it will be moving into the lancaster county within the next hour lancaster is under a tornado watch that means the conditions are favorable for a possible tornado to develop and the rest of our viewing area are under an exsevere thunderstorm watch. the big of the threats with this is damaging wind gusts we are looking at potential for wind gusts, 60 to 70 miles per hour and the air is saturated with moisture and dew points around 70 degrees, tropical downpours possible and a quick 1 to 3 inches of rain since the storms are moving quickly, i don't

expect ride spread flooding and we have a chance of an isolated tornado or two, the best chance is north and west of philadelphia closer to the warm front where we see a little more directional sheer. temperatures show that it's warm and humid 85 degrees in philadelphia right now and dover 86 and reading 85 and allentown 83, you add the humidity dew points around 70 it follows like 90 in philadelphia and 93 in dover when you have the heat and humidity that can help fuel the storms, satellite 6 along with action radar showing one limiting factor is that we have some cloud cover that is good, you want to see the cloud cover when you have severe storms, moving in and that can help kill the storms and the problem though is breaks in the clouds and you can see low pressure moving up to the north and this is a pro frontal trough, and that is moving in with the storms and a cold front is moving in later and that is

clearing out the humidity as we head through the weekend, future tracker showing 6:30 tonight showing storms approaching the northwest suburbs, and should be approaching the coast by later on tonight by 10:30 and moving out by 11:00 you'll still have time to hit the boardwalk in ocean city, melissa magee is there. oh man you look like are you working hard. >> you getting paid? >> it's stuff on a thursday i get paid for this too girlfriend. this is called a kite flier, here at the shore it's about the fun and well have more on what to expect down the shore and the shore forecast coming to you when we return. >> how do we get that gig? >> i'm not shower i want that gig. >> not me. more "action news" when we come right back.

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we have potential severe weather heading our way and adam joseph has the details coming up. and a homeless man is charged with the fire in the business district. and have you seen this woman? they say she is using muslim dress to rob several banks. now lets look at the strong storms heading to our area now. >> it's in the western suburbs and will impact plans this evening. delaware county emergency services contacted emergency crews to clear trees on chester creek. you can see just how much debris is collected around the bridge, this could lead to major flooding as workers led to heavy machinery getting the job done. >> lets get to adam joseph at the "action news" big board.

with the latest from double scan radar. >> we look at the severe thunderstorm watch the entire viewing area, with the exception of southern delaware it just means the atmosphere is favorable for storms to turn severe once they develop and you can see lancaster county in the red and that has a tornado watch in the effect until 9:00 and that could mean rotation with the storms in the far western suburb suburbs, live radar shows a line of storms developing and moving through york county and severe storms near 60 miles per hour approaching harrisburg, and approaching lancaster you can see there is a bow to this particular line of storms that is a rush of wind that is being row leased with the storm and these storms are strengthening as they push into an unstable atmosphere. in fact we take a look at this storm on double scan with the

3-d mode cutting it in half and they are reaching levels close to 40,000 feet in the atmosphere that means tremendous updrafts and can be dangerous down drafts bringing the strong winds out of the storms. coming back we'll look at the timing. >> all right adam thank you. stay ahead of severe weather with your mobile 6 app, you'll find hourly forecasts and alerts for weather, when you see severe weather happening we want to know about it send your pictures to jointheaction@6abc.com or post it to social media, using #6abcaction. in other news a homeless man is in police custody charged with a four alarm fire in the upper darby district. 54-year-old james morris was allegedly squatting in the second floor of the abandoned pay less shoe store when the

fire started. it's unclear if morris had anything to do with the fire john rawlins is outside now. >> reporter: the peculiar story involves the selling of scrap metal and squatting. they want to make the point that the building that burned the building destroyed had a shoe store on the first floor and was thought to be a vacant second floor but it wasn't and that is where the fire started. >> the fire started on the second floor unknown to the people on the first floor. >> the man arrested from the second floor an alleged squatter james morris the second floor thought to be vacant could be entered using this alleyway fire escape. they were curious about morris when they approached them and

said he and others slept in the building and confessed he traded metal shelving to this man with the shopping cart that sold it for scrap. >> morris for some alcohol beer or vodka agreed to give this guy the scrapings of the shelving inside of second floor of pay less. >> morris is charged so far with trespass and theft was in the building just before the fast moving blaze was discovered. >> there was no type of accelerant found nothing up there that believe its was intensely done. >> the business district across the street, a new upscale movie studio grill is due to open later this month. >> the uber darby mayor has

ordered an inspection of the area to see if there is more quaters in this area of upper darby, the man that had the scrap metal in the cart is considered awity witness in this case and the focus remains on james morris, he remains behind bars because he cannot make bail. an 11-year-old boy is recovering and a 17-year-old is behind bars accused of setting the boy fon fire it happened at 60th street and hazel avenue 16-year-old put hand sanitizer on him and then put a cigarette lighter up to his skin, he is being charged as an adult with aggravated assault and arson and held on $100,000 bail. a tractor trailer drive

senior facing criminal charges stemming from a deadly crash in montgomery county he is charged with homicide by vehicle, investigators say he failed to properly secure the trailer on his truck before it detached and hit a big rig in audubon and the other driver was killed. officials say he shouldn't have been on the road in the first place. >> basically snuck down to philadelphia and got a new license knowing his privileges would be suspended in new york. he was able to hide that from pennsylvania authorities. the fbi is joining the search for a female bank robber that struck several times in east philadelphia authorities want the public to take a good look the thief dressed in full muslim garb and wears white

latex gloves so they won't leaveficer finger prints. >> there are reports of her fleeing in a dark colored suv possibly a rogue or nissan more on oh. no one was seriously injured when five cars crashed no one another on kelly drive this morning it happened between fountain grown at 1:00 a.m., two vehicles were badly damaged and others were caught up in the crash. the weather outside not great, it's worsening but we are closer to the weekend, that means lets see what is going on at the shore. melissa magee is live in ocean city with more. >> bumper cars. that is my favorite. >> yes bumper cars. rick and monica so many fun, we

are at wonderland pier here in ocean city and this he are here since 1965, when you are here you can have so much fun, we'll have the latest in ocean city or wherever your shore destination takes you this weekend. i got to go. this weekend the night in venice boat parade will be crossing along in ocean city, you can outfit your boat to this year's theme dancing under the stars boaters from all over the world head from longport to takes avenue, thousands of peck taters are expected to watch as decorative boats and colorful homes decorate the night. prizes are awarded to the best dressed homes and boats. i hear that adam joseph will make a special appearance this year. >> oh it's that time of year in

north wildwood where the battle of the grill takes center stage and the new jersey barbecue and blues festival is a party you don't want to miss. head out for live cooking demos and finger licking good food. the three day festival kicks off this friday and lasts through friday. hope to see you this weekend down the shore. >> so we are at the log flume it's a popular attraction here at gillans i when on the ride earlier with one of our producers, amanda it was too much fun and i was too chicken to put my hands up. and last year i did covered my hair so i wouldn't get it wet. if you are in ocean city hopefully you'll have fun down at the shore.

once the weather breaks it looks fantastic. >> adam says he wears a hair net. >> he denies it all. >> glad you are having fun you. lets see how much fun folks are having with the traffic. >> i'm glad she got off the bumper cars, we have seen enough bumper cars out there headed down towards the shore points on 42 southbound, a crash approaching 55 is now gone and things are breaking up a bit, but jersey to philadelphia this is not the way to go ben franklin bridge because of that ongoing patco construction blocking two of the right westbound lanes causing the huge delays this is most of the summer people head for the westbound walt whitman instead. this is the vine street expressway closes at 11:00 westbound and tomorrow night the eastbound side and then should p be done with the xroefr night closures of the vine. and we have two different 5-k

edwards scheduled for tonight and one at ardmore and one in wilmington. not sure they will get those in. >> thank you. still to come on "action news" it was a storied match-up on the grass at wimbledon. took on rival maria sharapova accoming up in sports. and carly lloyd shares her world cup experience on kelly and michael today sharrie williams has details on that. >> we are tracking severe storms moving into york and eventually lancaster county winds near 60 miles per hour with this storm. we are tracking them in the full accuweather forecast. >> all right those stories and more on "action news" at 5:00.

checking sports tonight the flyers continue their offseason training today. >> jaime apody is live in the sport center with more on that. >> flyers head coach, dave hextall told me there is a lot

here the expectations and the spotlight tons of media and a huge crowd came out to see the team's up and comers. hextall has talked to us and for now it's about the youngsters and getting a jump start on their future. >> it's a good opportunity to get to understand what each and every guy looks like on the ice and what their tendencies are and you know i don't want to start evaluating players, we are working on skilled players here, a great way to get to know a player and what he looks like on ice. >> many are playing in the developmental league here, and scott lawton number 49 jumping to 6th the first round pick went back and form between the flyers and phantoms and doesn't

mind coming in for the extra work. >> i want to be confident coming into camp and prove i belong here and have a good camp and see where it takes me i think this summer is big for me and this camp is going to help my game a lot. okay if the phillies get out of l.a. with a split that would be impressive considering gonzales with an era of over 8 and scott greinke with an era under 8. and the second of which came off the bat of a guy we no so well. got to love jimmy rollins entered the seriesing hitting .208 and has a great series against his old team. serena williams is one win

away from another grand slam win, she beat her for the 17th straight time, it was easy work and now williams will face the 20th seed for the title she has never been in a grab slam title. >> it definitely gets better, it's a long time sin i have been if the final here i feel really good just to be in another final, it's really cool. >> speaking of grand slams lpga is in town this week the top lady golfers have converged on the country club and michelle wie is in the midst of a terrible year, she shot a two over and is six shots back, among the leaders carly web, look at this approach and the

par 3, eighth leads to an easy birdie put i should said eaty for carly web, i would need a couple of shots or a windmill or something to make that shot. i want to hear more about carly lloyd. >> we have it for you she continues to share her success story with the world. lloyd appeared on live with kelly and michael this morning with her medal hanging around her neck, she talked about her hat trick during the big game and the win has not fully sunken in yet and she is talking about the messages she is returning from the fans. >> the best messages is hey my son is watching the tv he sees how hard you work and he is like mom if i work hardy can be just like her to me that is priceless and that is what it's all about. >> lloyd and her teammates will

be honored tomorrow with a ticker tape parade in new york. >> "action news" will be there for tomorrow's parade in the city, we'll stream it live at 6abc.com starting at 8:00 a.m. and well have more throughout the day.

a severe thunderstorm watch we are watching them approach lancaster county a severe thunderstorm warning in effect for the entire area of lancaster county, from lancaster to kirkwood as this bows out it produces winds of 60 miles per hour and close to 63 lightning strikes within this line in the next 15 minutes, here is the towns and times it is approaching towards lancaster down through route 30 and we watch this through chester county and parts of berks and montgomery county if this line does indeed told together the heat index is bumming into favorable air and atmosphere, we have the heat and humidity to fuel these storms and keep them together, as we look at double scan live radar, a definitive line approaching from the west

there is nothing to prevent this from weaking and as pushed into the sunshine and lancaster county is under the warning, until 9:00 so there is some weak rotation with some of these storms as they push through the east and north you can expect in wilmington around the 7:00 7:30 hour and the shore at 9:00, 10:00 11:00 and it quickly exits the coast at midnight and that is when we start to dry the atmosphere out and fog starts to develop after midnight tomorrow morning. the strong to severe storms as they pass through have frequent lightning and bow echos it could create some destructive winds and downpours and a minimal tornado threat everything is out of here and the poconos forecast for friday the sun dropping humidity tomorrow and 78 on saturday and

sunday 82 and warm and brought with a slight uptick in the humidity. meteorologist, melissa magee is having fun in ocean city on all the rides and now relaxing on the sand it seems. >> yes adam, it feels fantastic right on the sand close to the beach and the water, you know the weekend looks really nice as we get closer to friday and saturday, we have the shore forecast covers flenty of sunshine tomorrow with the high of 82 degrees and on saturday, once the unsettled weather moves on out it looks great, a high of 82 and as we get into sunday a high of 81 and the ocean temperature at 75. we are having a blast here down at the shore i'll send it back over to you. >> enjoy it and i'll be there again on saturday for the big night in venice boat parade my boat theme is disco i'll have my best bellbottoms on and the

baby will about they and well have a lot of fun. less humid and 86 degrees and sunny and warm and low humidity at 89 and hot and more humid at 89 and 89 degrees on tuesday with thunderstorms and drys out on wednesday and seasonably warm on thursday with temperatures at 87 degrees we'll continue to watch the storms as they pass through during the evening hours but this front sets up for a beautiful weekend. >> perfect. >> more "action news" after the break.

right now the "action news" team is standing by with these stories and more coming up on "action news" at 6:00. authorities raid emergency care centers, and philadelphia police are investigating a video tape arrest, where police officer as peer to repeatedly hit a

suspect. >> and a truck of raw sewage hit a house. we'll show you coming up. i'm monica malpass join me for "action news" at 6:00 next. >> good night.

"action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with ducis rogers, meteorologist cecily tynan, and jim gardner. >> thursday night and jim is off and i'm monica malpass, upper darby police make an arrest in connection with a business fire and passengers are stranded for hours on a stuck train bound for

philadelphia. and the big story is the severe weather threat that is moving into the delaware and lehigh valleys right now, stormtracker 6 live double scan shows you the storms moving in from the west along with rain this system does bring with it the potential for damaging winds. lets go to meteorologist cecily tynan, with the latest. >> monica that potential for severe weather is a big concern, we have a watch posted for our entire viewing area until 11:00 tornado watch for lancaster counties and areas to the west. and lancaster county under a severe thunderstorm warning, we have a line of strong storms beginning to move out of york county, we have seen reports of wind gusts of up to 60 miles per hour and there is a bowing of that line showing the rushing wins moving down from higher in the at atmosphere and lancaster and rockville all