e are following a busy day for accuweather there is one round of rain our way and another overnight. adam joseph is at the big board. >> if we go 24 more ours we'll probably be in the clear this time tomorrow and thereafter, the yafr is quiet after heavy downpours in southern and central parts of new jersey, we are tracking a couple of thunderstorms bringing drenching rains east of grown lane in doylestown and one cluster around the philadelphia international airport in the next 20 minutes, and lightning strikes around the two storms you can see two areas that were hit hard near speedwell and lower bank, this cluster near malaga, and elmer west near salem and south of speedwell south of lower bank fell pretty quickly this after none with slow moving downpours and most

of the flooding has subsided as we look at double scan live radar, a line is developing east of pittsburgh and one in the ohio valley, these two push to the east overnight tonight, they won't pass through here until after midnight you won't be jolted out of bed after midnight with the line of downpours and rum arables of thunder and another round of showers and thunderstorms mid-day tomorrow in the afternoon, and that is especially in new jersey and southern parts of delaware and we begin a drying out process in the afternoon, when we come back well look at the seven-day forecast. wait until you see thursday and friday some spectacular days, and the good part of the forecast as well. >> stay ahead of severe weather, with the storm tracker 6 app, you'll find the radar images and alerted for incoming storms and

when you see severe weather happening, we want to know send your picture to jointheaction@6abc.com or post them to #6abcaction. president obama is minutes away from delivering a special at the naacp convention in philadelphia. air force one touched down a while ago at philadelphia international airport, he is expected to push for sweeping changes for the country's criminal justice system. john rawlins live now outside of the convention center. john rawlins is live now. >> it's a busy and eventful year, that is for sure, we have had ferguson missouri and charleston south carolina that led to the removal of the confederate flag from the property of south carolina as we switch to the camera inside of the convention center we see you thousands of people here to

hear from the president and his motorcade is under way, and we don't believe those thousands are here waiting for the president running late because of world events. the white house signalling advocating reforming the criminal justice system will urge congress to pass a bipartisan bill responsered by corey boker of new jersey and ran paul of kentucky and will shorten sentencing time for none non-violent crimes. >> this issue of race and inclusion is a national security issue, when someone can go into a church anywhere in america and kill nine innocent people -- >> i am interested in hearing his thoughts on education and

education policy and more specifically what his thoughts are on making sure we grow quality jobs. >> i want to hear about jobs and black on black crime. >> the whole justice system turned the sentencing of those that are offended, the whole system needs to be revamped and taken seriously. >> a live picture again of the podium inside where the president is expected to be the next few minutes, is he running a bit late, and he took time to speak by phone to various leaders of the iran nuclear deal, after the speech he will be going to rittenhouse square where there is an organizational meeting were he'll spend an hour

and depart philadelphia all in all a quick visit to the city of brotherly love and he will leave at 7:00 from the airport. live at the convention center john rawlins, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. >> some thought it would never happen but the nuclear agreement with iran is a done deal at least for now. it took 17 straight days of rocky groeshations and diplomacy to get to this point. >> we have stopped the spread of nuclear weapons in this region this offers the opportunities to move in a new direction and we should seize it. >> the government limits iran's nuclearilities recentpreventing tehran from developing a nuclear weapon over the next 10 years lawmakers in washington have 60

days to row vow the dole and republicans are already threatening to block it. the president will block any legislation that stands in the way of this government. from our delaware newsroom, the police are looking for any connection from a fire and a shooting that happened on the same street. a 15-year-old boy shot a 27-year-old man in the legs during an argument yesterday. and late last night a fire sparked in a vacant home just two doors down from the teen's home. one of those houses was for sale at the time and the landlord says it will take time to fix all the damage. >> we need extensive repairs but the biggest damage is smoke. the odor just knocks you over, well have to take everything out and clean everything and paint and replace rugs. >> there is no word on how the fire started or if there is any

relation to the shooting. northeast detectives are releasing video of a robbery suspect. they say he pushed in an air conditioning unit to broke into a home on grab avenue in the torresdale section. the thief got away with money and jowlry. >> this is former harrisburg mayor reed arriving at court to face charges of racketeering and broibry, and other charges into an investigation into city finances. >> is anything you did criminal? >> not that i know of. >> rode was arraigned on the charges that include tampering with evidence and a laundry list of charges. he was released on $250,000 bail and kathleen kane says his dealings crushed the city and

fell into a $300 million debt. >> this chain of debt grew larger and wrapped itself around the city and harrisburg still dragged this debt behind it today the chains of the past continue to affect the future. >> reed is under investigation for questionable dealings with the stow's trash incinerator and artifacts he purchased for failed city museums, including a wild wild west museum. a preliminary hearing is scheduled for next week and he cannot travel across state lines. the delaware port authority is voting on a plan to row furbish the walt whitman bridge the plan would cost $60 million and workers would row paint the bridge and the toll plaza and ramps, the plan would take three years if approved it would mean lane closures on the walt whitman. >> talking about the bridges and

other roadways add to that the presidential motorcade there are lots of issues out there. >> a whole smorgasbord of things. including a crash here in delco on the northbound side of 95 near chichester avenue the vehicle ran off the roadway into the grassy medium being pulled out as we speak the two right lanes are getting by from the delaware state line and you can see the backlog results from neimans road, and here on the vine and schuylkill expressway is reopen, everything is back in business on the highways but we are not done yet, he will move from the convention certain to rittenhouse square and we'll see closures on the city streets and then back to phl back to the airport later on this equal so you'll see closures on the vine

street expressway eastbound we'll keep you posted. this is 202 a better start than yesterday after none, in the work zone, just southbound volume towards exton and the crash and the police chase in wilmington eastbound is blocked, stick with 11th street to get around that. one of our friends using the app talking about volume along the garden state parkway in wildwood, the on going zone going into 5:00. we'll check it again coming in the next half hour. >> still ahead here today a new investigation into exploding airbags and this one includes a different company and hundreds of thousands of vehicle. >> now they are changing their story. we have the latest twist in what

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today a new twist in the so-called gone girl case in california, it mirrored the plot of that hollywood blockbuster they were accused of making the whole thing up and now we learn more about the man charged in the case and what this means for those victims. >> today vindication for this california woman and her boyfriend accused of staging her kidnapping. >> can you imagine being rescould youed from a kidnapping and then people are on you for committing the crime. this man is now behind bars, accused in the bizarre case four months after police say that denise huskins and aaron created

a plot of being tied up and held for ransom. >> mr. quinn and miss huskins have plundered money from our community. >> now they have released what they think really happened. intruders woke them up in their home and forced to wear swimming goggles and messages. and demanding two ransom payments of $8500 put in a car and driven 1300 miles away. now they link the kidnapping to matthew mullen after the former grad and disbarred lawyer was charged in a home invasion burglary at another home last month. >> she feel a tremendous relief

but does not change the fact that she was publically shamed. >> no explanation as to why they thought the kidnapping was staged and meanwhile mullen's attorney says is he not guilty and there could be other people lynched to this crime and it's all playing out like a hollywood film. the mexican government is offering a $3.8 million reward for guzman better known as el chapo, new documents show he was planning this break just after he was captured in february of 2014, the tunnel took more than a year to plan and would have required significant assistance from the inside. and philadelphia police are investigating a stabbing in the grays ferry section of the city, a 16-year-old was playing basketball when a group of six men with t-shirts around their

head approached him and slashed him twice in the back with a box cutter, the victim was taken to the hop and treated and released and no word yet on a possible motive. u.s. safety regulators are investigating another company for possibly manufacturing defective airbags, arc automotive made them that are in chrysler town and country minivans and they could potentially rupture and send shrapnel no the vehicle. gains across the board today, the dow is up 75 and the s&p is up 9. >> pretty incredible here, the last remnants of boston's record breaking winter is finally gone. the huge tide street snow pile

that was around for months is finally gone now there is a huge puddle and garbage there look how big the pile was in the middle of boston's epic winter. >> so depressing. >> good to see it finally gone. >> they took bets on how long it would stick around, lets get a check of our accuweather forecast. no snow but just rain. >> it's time to start thinking about it six months until christmas. double scan live radar tracking a couple of thunderstorms around the region one cluster near the philadelphia international airport moving away from chester along 295, just west of woodbury, and another cluster along lancaster avenue west of philadelphia only six lightning strikes with this and heavy rain passing by over some roadways during the evening rush and another cluster of storms near

perkasie and doylestown and 10 lightning strikes. and no severe weather today it's been a common theme on tuesdays and thursdays. in our area we have seen three tornadoes, two macro bursts and one micro burst and philadelphia recorded its third highest wind gust ever up at 72 miles per hour today was a drop in the bucket compared to what we dealt with the last few weeks 79 in philadelphia cooler because of row sent rain and sea breeze at the shore and temperatures in the upper 70s, but the tropical humidity is back and it's oppressive with your dew points in the area back no the lower to middle 70s, and with those dew points on the high side and a system approaching from the west

we'll see another round of downpours and thunderstorms and you can see that area is far to the west and it's not until after the midnight hour that many of us will see a downpour or thunderstorm pass through. so it's warm and muggy and we'll watch the late downpours to develop from the west at 2:00 in the morning, 74 in philadelphia and 69 in allentown and 74 in cape may. future tracker shes the line approaching here at 2:00 in the morning, you may be jolted out of bed by a quick crack of thunder and quiet early tomorrow morning at 8:00 and in the afternoon tomorrow we see downpours and thunderstorms popping once again but it does not look severe tomorrow and jersey shore and northwestern areas tomorrow after none looking drier. tomorrow unsettled at times and again in the afternoon at 85 degrees and then a summer bouty on thursday, we'll drop the humidity completely here, 82

degrees, one of the best days to far this month. a repeat performance at 84 degrees as we get into the weekend 88 saturday and turns more humid and a little bit of cloud cover developing in the after none and a late day thunderstorm and overall not bad. i'll have the sunday forecast coming up in the next half hour. >> i like when you talk about the weekend on tuesday. >> thank you adam. it was a historic day in space exploration today we get the first up close look of the dwarf planet pluto. the new horizons spacecraft recorded its historic fly by with nasa scientists celebrating at mission control and now they are waiting for pictures to come in later tonight and the journey to pluto started in 2006 and the arrival makes the united states

the first to visit every planet in the solar system and pluto was a planet in 2007 and now it's denoted to a dwarf planet. >> i think i spotted bill nye the science guy how a teenager that escaped a plane crash was and was found alive. and the push to finish a brand new south jersey outlet mall a behind the scenes look with a month to go to opening day. the first of its kind court case playing out in california, why this couple is fighting over a baby who hasn't even been born yet. well explain in big talkers.

>> south jersey's highly anticipated outlet mall opened next month be "action news" got a look at the process.

they will have new stores at the gloucester premium outlets, it took almost a year to build and promises to bring 800 jobs to the area, it opened for business on august 13th. three generations of georgia families continued a life saving tradition, they are all three regular blood donors to the red cross, they have been doing it for years but today marks the first day they did it all together. we talked to them about why it's so important. >> it's a service that helps people and easy to do and easy way to help other people and i have been convinced of that for many years. >> the employee mcmahon men have donated 245 points of blood over the years and each donation can

save up to three lives. still ahead a miracle survivor, a 16-year-old girl lives through a plane crash that kills everybody else on board. >> and nfl players are known for their end zone dances and this toddler can also bust a move. who this bouncing baby belongs to. it's a cyber smack down tomorrow they are promising a blowout sale better than black friday and i have a sneak peek.

it's 4:30 and "action news" continues with the latest on a -- and bitter custody battle over a child that has never been born yet. what makes a woman take her ex-husband to court to save their frozen embryos. and a delaware county woman reaches out to "action news" hoping to thank the person that returned her husband's lost wallet. why there was so much more than cash inside. >> we begin with president barack obama in philadelphia the action cam is inside of the philadelphia naacp convention where the president will had push for sweeping changes for the justice system.

that is a live look at the podium where the president will speak we'll bring that speech to you in its entirety when it begins. philadelphia police are trying to get to the bottom of a murder mystery in the east oak lanes section a man was shot in the head behind an apartment this morning, officers are trying to figure out why he was killed and who he is and what he was doing there. annie mccormick is live now with more on this investigation. >> reporter: this is a who done it for philadelphia police they have a john doe shot dead at a west oak lane apartment complex and they are hoping for someone with information to come forward. >> philadelphia police were on the scene after a body was discovered in a back parking lot on the 1400 block of fist avenue. >> unknown white male shot in

the face, as of this time he is a john doe. >> the victim is possibly in his 40s or 50s and pronounced dead at the scene and homicide detectives think the victim was there since midnight. >> heard a gunshot between it the hours of 10:00 and 11:00. >> a neighbor tells "action news" that several neighbors say the shot many heard may have been the one that killed the victim. >> gunshots are no stranger to us, you hear fireworks and gunshots going off it's time for me and my wife to move out of here. >> the victim had no identification on him and he is expected to be fingerprints today or tomorrow, if you have information you are urged to can't philadelphia police. for now reporting live from police headquarters annie mccormick channel 6 "action news." >> thank you.

>> delmarva officials say that a gas line forced evacuations in one wilmington neighborhood. "action news" was out on delaware avenue as firefighters went door-to-door to check gas levels athe 4:00 this after none residents were evacuated while this was being done and officials closed delaware avenue from lincoln to union streets because of a heavy gas odor and service was disrupted for several customers and working to remedy that problem right now. "action news" confirmed that a philadelphia police officer was officially charged today robert penn is charged with criminal conspiracy and obstruction among other things when penn was shot in overbrook park in march of 2014 prosecutors say that penn asked his brother-in-law to call the philadelphia daily news to report that he shot him. penn surrendered to the internal affairs division and who actually shot penn is unclear

today. turning now to the unsettled accuweather forecast, our sky 6 camera atop temple university captured a line of showers today. the rain moved out quickly but won't be gone for long, we have a few hours away from active accuweather activeness. >> that is the official designation now. >> serious. i like that. it won't be until after midnight. many hours before we do see that. as we take a look right now at double scan live radar across the area, there are a couple of pop-ups that 1re8ed and far from a major line passing through new hope and parts of buck county, a thunderstorm passing through and one in central parts of center city and gloucester

county in new jersey and franklin township, close to 3 inches of rain, sea brock farms coming in with 3 inches of rain, upper deerfield township, close to 4 inches of rain and gloucester camden and parts of cumberland county seeing rain. we are not looking at winds as an issue with the storms we'll time them coming up with future tracker 6, and talk about a beautiful end of the week, we don't want to ignore the beautiful part of the forecast coming up. >> thank you adam. stay ahead of the severe weather with the storm tracker 6 app on your mobile device you'll find radar images and the hourly forecast and alerts for incoming weather, when you see severe weather happening we want to know senyour pictures to jointheaction@6abc.com or post it on social media using

#6abcaction. a boxing legend is making the rounds across our area, former heavy weight champion larry holmes stopped by chickie and petes and has stories about his legendry career and fans can answer questions about the performance and it's this friday night in harrahs in chester. >> there was dramatic moments about the rescue of a tree worker and "action news" was there for it all. monica malpass was live with it all. >> the worker was in a lift truck clearing trees when one tree went through the truck and pinned his leg through the metal. this was the scene in haddonfield, knowledge, the worker was stuck in the truck three stories up in the air before he was rescued. find out about the special teams that were called in to help free that man and save his leg.

also, young students head to a local farm to harvest crops that they helped to grow, how the fresh food will be used to help others in need. that is coming up at 5:00. we'll see you then guys. >> thank you. volunteers took to kayaks and canoes to help clean up a bucks county waterway it's been overtalk enby an aggressive aquatic plant known as the water chestnut. they battled about and pulled the invasive plants out of the water, governor tom wolf recently declared july lake appreciation month. >> a local couple is hoping to fine an anonymous good samaritan, michael boyd jr. dropped his wallet while

watching kenny chesney, and today it arrives at their home completely intact. and his wife jodi posted this hoping to thank the stranger it was wonderful to get the cash and credit cards back but the return of the tiny misspelled note from their now 6-year-old son i of lave my dad. >> coming up the smack down tw two row tail giants means great deals for the customers. >> a san francisco woman takes her ex-husband to court to save their frozen embryos, why he wants to destroy them and why she says it's her last chance to be a mom. and nfl players are known for their ends zone dances why it's no surprise that this toddler

has moves. >> meteorologist, adam joseph back with the full accuweather forecast. and word of a nice weekend coming up and "action news" at 4:00 returns after this.

>> police released the 911 call made by a teenager who survived a plane crash. >> i was driving to washington and we crashed and i was the only one that made it out. >> 16-year-old autumn veatch described the crash it killed her family. a stranger gave her a ride to a store where she was able to call 911, other than bruises and burns and dehydration, doctors xpikt her to be okay. members of a search and rescue

team are calling it a survival. >> when something of this order occurs, you don't have even -- you don't know the joy you feel as someone searching when you hear news like this. >> the cause of crash romaines under investigation, but a sheriff's deputy believes the plane was flying too low. a texas woman is alive thanks to the police officer that pulled her over, he stopped the vehicle because he thought the driver was talking on a cell phone but when he walked up to her window he realized she was choking and performed the heimlich maneuver and it turns out the woman is a daughter of a fellow police detective and he received a letter of commendation for his quick think snoog this may be the most of the wall story a colorado man is in police custody accused of

stealing a knight's sword at a fair only to be put in distress by a damsel. that is britney beard who tackled him when he ran away with her husband's sword. he swiped the knight's blade never expecting the knight's wife to put up such a fight. >> i pull the shirt here and it ripped in two and kicked him in the back of his legs, i jumped on his back and put him in a head lock. >> police believe that ward was intoxicated at the time of the accident, he will face a lifetime of embarrassment. >> like a moment out of game of thrones there. here at the big board a bitter and first of its kind custody battle is being heard in court. this is over a child that has not been born yet. a couple in san francisco got

divorced but they created frozen embryos he doesn't want them and she does. five years ago she found out she had cancer so they froze the embryos, now that they divorced she wants them destroyed. her attorney says that the consent forms were with the fertileity center. >> they were newlyweds they were in the even thinking about divorce. the trial is expected to last a week. in case you hadn't heard tomorrow july 13th is the day without sports that means there is no professional sports to watch on tv anywhere, so they gave out suggestions of what to watch instead. social media is going wild with this one calling the list

sexist that women will want to watch rom coms and men can't go a day without sports. they said silver linings play book will satisfy her needs and his. and tv dramas like scandal i have to agree with that one this tongue in cheek campaign is not playing out so well and finally speaking of having game, there is no shortage of touch down moves by nfl players in the end zone but one is being upstaged by his toddler, this is what happens every time torrey smith jr. the son of the wide receiver, hears "watch me whip"

♪♪ ♪♪ >> yes this gets good, they are going wildly voirl and the little go just about whips his arm out of his socket but is on beat every single time. the second the song comes up and he is up and jamming. that is really really good. >> thank as alicia. lets get a check of the roads now. >> lets see if matt pellman can do the moves in the traffic centser. >> he has better moves than me. we have problems on the road like a crash on the admiral wilson boulevard eastbound in camden it just cleared out. the lanes are back open but the traffic in them not moving fast. on the other side of the river this is the ben franklin bridge

from center city, the bridge is damp we saw the shower come through and the bridge is a little wet and we have the construction in the two right westbound lanes coming outs of camden, in chinatown without ray street right now, because of president obama's visit he'll make his way to rittenhouse in a bit and watch for the rolling closures as the motorcade passes. and boathouse road, the mlk is a better bet and a crash at 84th and bartram at the wawa. and this is 202 just north of the king of prussia mall, a northbound crash cleared off to the turn lane and one by the red lobster taking out the right lane, a handful of accidents we'll check them again cope moving around them in the next half hour. adam joseph back with the

exclusive accuweather forecast, and we are awaiting president obama live in center city philadelphia.

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>> all right now to meteorologist, adam joseph a wet few days but looking good coming up. >> lets get past tomorrow and look at double scan live radar we can't skip past it so well chat about it, most of the area is dry and very warm and tropcly humid out there and there is a couple of downpours and thunderstorms passing through buck county and quakertown and doylestown.

this is headed towards marlton and zero lightning strikes with that. 81 in allentown and 80 in reading and 85 in wilmington and it looks cooler at the shore at 81 it is still humid there as well. we are catching overall a break with the one round of thunderstorms earlier today, we catch the break and then more activity in the western part of the pennsylvania and the ohio valley, this is set to arrive but not until after the midnight hour so around 1:30 in the morning it will start to approach allentown and reading and does not look severe but has heavy rain and some lightning and thunder with it as it passes through the city at 2:30 in the morning and we catch another break here for wednesday, and clouds and hazy sunshine south of philadelphia but then if the afternoon low pressure will develop just to the east, and

downpours will occur again tomorrow afternoon mainly along philadelphia, wilmington and trenton, and the coast. if are you in southeastern philadelphia, it looks to be dry and 85 degrees and fresh canadian high pressure sliding in on thursday, a refreshing breeze and a high of 82 degrees, the ocean is warm at 82 degrees and 84 and muggy and a soggy afternoon, with downpours developing so if you want to hit the sand do it the first half of the day before they develop in the afternoon the exclusive accuweather forecast downpours again and a thunderstorm south and east of philadelphia tomorrow afternoon and then everyone has a beautiful afternoon, low humidity and 82 and comfortable on friday and sunshine sticks around at 84 and the humidity comes back up over the weekend and saturday warm and 88 with a late day thunderstorm possible but a

front stalls here sunday into monday and hot and humid and 90 degrees and a couple of thunderstorms possible and we could have heat wave number two on the way tuesday with a temperature of 90 degrees, only one heat wave so far this summer season, it has been hot and tropically humid consistently this summer a few more 90s at the end of the seven day. huge online shopping day expected tomorrow. what's the deal coming up next. i don't want to live with the uncertainties of hep c.

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we want to go to center city philadelphia president obama addressing the gathering at the naacp. >> everybody have a seat. i got some stuff to say. i've got some stuff to say.

i love you back you know that. so, see now whenever people have like little signs ya'll got to write it bigger i'm getting old and i like that picture of me that is very nice thank you. lets get something out of way up you front. i am not singing today. not singing. although i will say your board sang to me as i came in for the photograph so i know there are some good voices in the auditorium. let me also say what everybody

knows but doesn't want to say out loud, you would all rather have michelle here. i understand. i will do my best to fill her shoes and she sends everybody her love and malia and sasha say hi as well. i want to thank your chair rosalind block and your president, cornell brocks and your governor tom wolf who is doing outstanding work and is here, the mayor of philadelphia michael nutter a great friend and ally and governor dan malloy who is here today and outstanding members of congress who are here. i want to say thank you to all of you for your love and support

but most importantly for the work you are doing in your communities across the country every single day. it's not always received with a lot of fanfare. sometimes it's lonely work and sometimes it's hard work and sometimes it's frustrating work but it's necessary work and it builds on a tradition of this organization that reshaped the nation. for 106 years the naacp worked to close the gaps between our founding that we are all created equal and by our creator some rights, those are the realities we live each and every day in this first century this

organization stood up to lynching jim crow and segregation and helps to shepherd a civil rights act and a voting rights act. i would not be here and so many others would not be here without the naacp. in the second senry we work to give children a shot at education and help families rise up out of poverty and protect future generations from environmental damage and create fair housing and help workers fine the purpose of a good job. together we make real progress including my brothers keeper

initiative including the passage of a law that declares health care is not a privilege of a few but a right for all of us. [ applause ] we made progress but our work is not done. by just about every measure the life of some black americans still lag behind their white peers, our kids america's children, so often are isolated without hope, less likely to graduate from high school, less likely to earn a college degree and less likely to be employed and have health insurance and less likely to own a home. part of this is legacy of hundreds of years of slavery and

segregation and structural inequal inequalities that compounded over generations and it did not happen by accident. it's the result of of continuing is sometimes more subtle bigitiry whether who gets called back for a job interview or who gets suspended from school or a neighborhood you are able to rent an apartment in which is why our initiative to strengthen fair housing laws is so important. so we can't be satisfied until the opportunity is gapped for everybody in america. everybody. but today i want to focus on one