sincerely, samantha parke fellow mom and fellow citizen. >> ♪♪ >> "action news." delaware valley's leading news program. with matt o'donnell, tamala edwards, karen rogers and meteorologist, david murphy. >> ♪♪ >> good morning everyone. 6 o'clock on this wednesday july 15th. tam is off. er are ino'hearn joins us and breaking right now. >> drenching rain storms are causing headaches for your morning commute. accuweather trafficking the very latest. >> the a neighbor dispute involving a shovel leads to gunfire overnight. we have the new video. >> an elderly woman is on the mend after being caught in a hail of gunfire. we've the details. >> we have live team coverage of these storm. katherine scott is standing by in mobile6. we have karen rogers filling in for david and matt pelman. good morning.

>> flash flood warnings continuing through the arealy we got over an inch of rain in a 20 to 30 minute period when these storms first started to hit and they're continuing through the area. the flash flood warning until 9:30 for parts of delaware chester berks montgomery camden salem counties, burlington and also philadelphia counties included in this area right now. so, this is a wide area where we have flash flood warnings because that rain is still coming down and storm tracker6 live double scan showing it's exactly where the hardest hit areas are right now. first off you can see wow we've updated now 100 lightning strikes in our area. so, this is not dying down its just reigniting through the region. we have almost a training effect because they're coming out of this direction. so, they're moving up to the northeast so you can kind of see it just keeps redeveloping. now you've got it in newark, south of wilmington but the areas that have been hit all morning continue to get hit in parts of salem gloucester and now camden counties in new jersey. so that's one of the main concerns with this right now that we're seeing.

so, you're getting in it glassboro on route 55, on the atlantic city, near medford lakes right now. i just want to go ahead and put up a storm track in this area to give you a sense of where the hardest hit areas are going to continues to go. so we see this hitting lumberton, mount holly at 6:06, then georgetown in new jersey. but also it's in areas to the west as well. we're getting it near malvern near coatesville. norristown not as heavy but this will be headed in that direction, towards jenkintown and up near trenton you're about to get hit with that heavier rain. a lot of rain has been coming down and it's not done yet. that's really the problem. into this evening we have the chance for these scattered downpours and thunderstorms where you could get two to 4-inchs in a short period of time and that's why we've seen that flash flooding this morning and that threat will that continue, matt. >> all right, karen, we're definitely seeing a lot of water on a lot of our highways. here on 42 in camden county the rain that's coming down has lessened up a little bit within the last 15 minutes but all the water is still standing on the roadways attempting to drain.

that means cars can't go quite as fast as normal. so, you will see some delays as you come northbound on 42 in the normally slow spot as those trucks rolled through i think you could see the amount of water that's laying on 42. not quite as wet here on our good buddy ben the ben franklin bridge but still a little bit wet and we still have that right lane construction on the westbound side that will slow us down again this morning. close to the ben, this is 95 where it meets up with the vine street expressway. all the construction on these ramps have cleared out so that's good news. crews are gone. the lanes are opened on this chunk of 95 and they're opened here in the great northeast along 95 but definitely crowded now in the southbound direction here by cottman avenue. then you hit the brakes again farther south from past the betsy ross bridge into girard. again, all the lanes are passable but they are wet and so traffic is needing to go kind of slowly. have reports of some flooding here in delco along the blue route, 476 close to the broomall upper darby interchange. at this point a lot of that water has receded. traffic is moving okay.

the road remains wet. fire locations, traffic lights not working in the norristown area along west main street at egypt road. we'll keep watching all the situations erin in in just a few minutes. >> thanks matt. another round of severe weather is here and right now mother nature is creating her own light show this morning. reporter katherine scott is riding in mobile6 in pottstown. she joins us live with more. katherine. >> reporter: erin you do want to look out for flooding this morning. at the very least the roads are wet but we have seen some issues such as flooding in pots town we're in mobile6. we're actually not moving at the moment because we want to show you this flooding here on high street by college and you can see the road is completely flooded out here. police have flares up where we are. we know emergency vehicles are positioned up by gable to make sure nobody comes through. let's go to video from a little earlier. a minivan was stuck in these flood waters. police were on scene as the minivan was hooked up to a tow

truck and then hauled away. i know we give these warnings often but here you go one more time, when you see flood waters do not attempt to go through. you do not know what's bee 19 them. really you want to be safe this morning. take a different route and leave extra time. let's go to video from elsewhere in pottstown when the storm moved in earlier. the sky just opened up. a lot of rain came at once and police tell me the calls just started coming in all over town. they did see some sporadic power outages. the lightning has been lighting up the sky for hours now. there's heavy rain, wind as well. we're hearing that a lot of flooding near where we are has drained out but as you take a live look on high street by college you can see there still is flooding here in pottstown after this heavy rain that's fallen this morning and has continued to fall. it does get lighter at times but it's been consistent. so, again, just be careful when you head out the door this morning and keep an eye out for that flooding. live in pottstown, katherine scott channel6 "action news.

>> thanks katherine. a dispute between two neighbors and a shovel led to gunfire in the port richmond section of the city. gun shots rang out just before 11:30 last night on the 2100 block of east anne street there's the shovel. police say it started when a 31-year-old man threatened his 65-year-old neighbor with that shovel. the older man retaliated by opening fire hitting his neighbor in the stomach. the 31-year-old is in critical condition but is expected to survive. police took the older neighbor into custody. no word yet on whether he faces charges. also developing an elderly woman was caught in the crossfire of a shooting in north philadelphia. "action news" was there as the woman was being placed in an ambulance. it happened just after 10:30 last night on the 2800 block of north 25th street. police say the 79-year-old woman was an innocent victim sitting on her porch. she is in stable condition now and no arrests have been made. >> happening today former president bill clinton will be in philadelphia to address the naacp convention.

yesterday president obama spoke at the event at the pennsylvania convention center in center city. the president laid out his vision for reforming the criminal justice system. he says the system needs an overhaul to remove bias. >> mass incarceration makes our country worse off and we need to do something about it. the criminal justice system -- >> president obama says lawmakers are working on legislation now to make changes. >> two massive retailers one of the big box variety the other of the internet kind are fighting over your wallets right now. maribel aber is with more on this christmas in july sale. maribel. >> reporter: good morning, matt and you know i need to do that christmas shopping now. amazon and wal-mart are battling today. it's amazon's prime day. the online retailer is slashing prices on thousands of items for members of its prime program. not to be outdone wal-mart cut its prices and says some deals will be available for 90 days. it looks like consumers will

be winners with huge discounts available on electronics toys and other items. discriminating against minorities. american hon at a finance will pay $24 million to car buyers who were charged higher interest rates because they were african-american hispanic and asian. the higher rates were charged regardless of their credit records. the auto loans in question were taken out beginning in january of 2011. stocks rallied for the fourth day in a row as some believe the report showing weak retail sales may delay an interest rate hike. right now futures pointing to a higher opened. we've got a report on producer prices due out later and fed reserve chairman janet yellen will deliver an economic outlook before a house committee. the dreaded middle seat is getting a little wider on frontier airlines. the carrier has added an inch to the seat on two of its airbus planes. the new width 19.3-inches more than a full inch wider

than the window and aisle seats. matt and erin not bad but i'll still take that aisle southeast. >> i like the window. an inch wider does not seem all that -- like oh, it's an inch wider. >> christmas i've gotten an inch wider over the summer. >> come on katherine. >> can't have everything. let's take a look at storm tracker6 live double scan around the region. we have heavy rain we're dealing with this morning and a lot of lightning. i want to go a little closer with our street level view. with double scan we can tell you we're having exactly 109 lightning strikes through the region that i'm showing you. it's all happening right now. that's a lot of lightning and a lot of downpours as well as we can see. i want to show you some of the areas getting hit the hardest. we're looking in newark just south of wilmington, i think it's going to clip there. route 40 in elmer you're getting pounded with the lightning. live lightning strike right now. you see some white strike that's happening right now. in there is a bro' along 322 along the atlantic city

expressway, right on the props getting pounded with this, medford lakes and also near route 70. the trouble is the area that i'm showing you is an area that's been hit over and over because they keep kind of redeveloping the storms from the southwest and they're all moving in this pattern so you've been hit over and over again with these storms much of the morning and that's producing some problems right there. let's go in farther to the north. it's not just in south jersey you're having the problems. in philadelphia you're getting rain, no the quite as much lightning. how about in malvern that's one area where you're about to get hit just as hard. it moves through coatesville and downingtown. it's right now in exton and west chester and that will be hitting malvern in the next couple minutes. these are moving at 25 miles an hour. while yesterday's storms were kind of crawling, these have picked up in their speed a bit this morning. in easton you're getting hit hard by the rain that just left allentown. in quakertown it's raining. you see the area of green but it's about to get heavier. what's in pottstown is moving towards quakertown.

a lot happening this morning. that's why we have flash flood warnings for the central part of our region. let's go outside and show you what it looks like. we want to see the sky. it's not looking pretty there as sky6 looks live at philadelphia international airport. you can see the lightning happening right now as we look live with this. so a very tricky situation to be out in these kind of conditions where you have these tropical downpours as well as the frequent lightning that we're seeing, over a hundred strikes in our area at this moment. 70 degrees the current temperature, the dewpoint x it feels oppressively humid once again today. future tracker six showing it's not that these storms are constant all day everywhere. at 9:30 in the morning yes we still see some downpours in spots but it will lessen in intensity. a little bit more hit or miss. it starts to blossom as the front gets closer at 1 o'clock in the afternoon. we see these storms coming down pretty good with these tropical downpours but then in the evening the storm approaches the front approaches going to squeeze out the rest of the moisture. that's at 6 o'clock. look at nine:30. nothing happening. that's when the atmosphere

gets kind of sweeped out and everything feels a the lo better. it'sthe -- a lot better. by 11:00 a.m. 79, storms in spot. the most active period is happening right now. by 2:00 p.m., 83. still some storms nd it starts to fire up before it heads out of here in the evening hours. here's a look at your exclusive accuweather 7-day forecast. watch for these heavy downpours. never drive through the flooded roadways. 85 degrees for your high. it all changes by tomorrow it's breezy, refreshing, local humidity what more could you want? 82. friday mostly sunny skies at 84. the weekend is a nice one. 88 on saturday. it's more humid. sunday hot and humid just a chance for late day storm sunday and on monday hot and humid, 90. tuesday still sticky. looks like we could see our next heat wave with a high of 90 degrees. so, a lot of lightning happening right now and flooding downpours. >> okay, thanks karen. it's 6:12. let's continue our storm coverage with matt pelman in traffic. hey, matt. >> we're waiting for the next

rounds of really heavy rain to roll through frazier chester county. kind of light at this point. traffic volume not too bad either along 202 but road is definitely wet. we'll check some of the other wet spots and talk about two new accidents when "action news" continues on this wednesday morning.

>> strong storms moved through the region this morning and left a lot of possible without power. peco just told us that 3,116 customers are without power right now. most of them in montgomery county which is a place where we're seeing some flooding right now. >> switch over to mobile6 live and that's where we are in montgomery county heading towards 422. , see the rain on the camera lens there and the roads are extremely wet so a lot of those downpours that we had this morning continue throughout the morning commute and will have an effect as you head out so you got to be careful. >> matt was got in traffic. >> rolling through a lot puddles as we head into the office on this wednesday morning, getting that log flume effect in some cases as we drive through all the water. here on the schuylkill expressway looks like most of the heavy rain has drained which is good but the road is still wet and we're seeing some building eastbound volume headed toward montgomery drive and eventually center city. want to warn you during the midday once again today they're going to work on the westbound side blocking a lane here not too far away from

montgomery drive. that slowed us down yesterday. could slow us down again at a during the midday. watching two new x1 accidents. one on 295 as you haded towards route 42. that's already causing some slowing. the other on the main line in ardmore along lancaster avenue at ardmore. on 95 speeds are starting to drop. we would expect that this hour of the morning. speeds have dropped a little more substantially than normal because of the wet conditions. 28 miles per hour southbound by the betsy ross bridge, just 19 as you travel southbound by girard avenue. meanwhile a bunch of problems in the norristown area. there's an electrical fire along forest avenue. you can squeeze by that. traffic lights on the fritz along west main street at egypt road. luckily they cleaned up the debris we had in lower providence along ridge pike. everything reopened there. in the pottstown area katherine has been telling us about the flooding along high street at gable avenue. that's just west of route 100 there's still a fire location albeit now under control along

south street at montgomery street. in upper merion trinity road going to close today for construction from 9:00 until 3:00. stick with south gulph road and of course balligomingo road remains closed from a few weeks ago. 320 over by gsk still gets you around that. matt. >> thanks matt. this is new video of an orlando police officer getting injured during a hit and run. he approaches the car on the driver's side with his gun drawn. the passenger on the other side bolts so the officer runs in front of the car and the driver decides to go forward and plows him over. both people who were in the car

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>> a wet and wild wednesday. >> yeah. >> wow, let's look outside in bucks county and doylestown. this is the scene along the 611 bypass at easton road. not a lot of traffic out here yet but the road is very wet. you can see the spray coming up off the vehicles that are traveling through. getting word of a new house fire in phoenixville this morning. this just coming in. it's blocking dayton street near high street. a lot of water along 422 but no major problems, no accidents reported so far. you just have to allow a little more extra time to deal with all those wet conditions.

and some construction coming later today starting at 7:30 this morning in northfield atlantic county along shore road by the atlantic city country club. you want the stay over on route nine to get around that blockage. it's going to shut down at roosevelt avenue. at this point things aren't too bad on the garden state parkway or a.c. expressway. rain just starting to fall in some of those areas. mass transit is on time so far this morning with no major delays on septa, new jersey transit or patco. karen. >> storm tracker6 live double scan showing us that we've got 156 lightning strikes happening right now. this is one of those days we're so grateful to have the best technology that exists because we can show you how many lightning strikes where it's happening so you can see right now we've got it in newark in wilmington, in woodstown. this is route 40 right here. you're getting hit hard by that in swedesboro n-glassboro on 322 in gloucester county. in berlin in camden county on the white horse pike. medford lakes you're not getting hit as hard yet but this storm is heading in your

direction. it's going in kind of a northeasterly direction but they keep resurfacing down to the southwest and pulling right through this area. that area of south jersey getting hit particularly hard but it's not just south jersey. we can see that movement right there. as we shift just a little bit to the north we can see these storms brewing. you're getting still that heavy rain in pottstown, in malvern and downingtown you have heavy rain moving through. in philadelphia it's rain but not a lot of lightning strikes there. in willow grove you've got the rain, in doylestown and we can see that because of all the rain we've had the flash flood warnings continue until 9:30 for the central part of our region. we had an inch and a half of rain coming down in about 30 minutes. that's how quickly these storms dumped rain matt. >> the american league won the all-star game for a third year in the row. millville's own mike trout became the first player in 38 years to lead off the mid summer classic with a home run. the al squad won six to three at the great american ballpark in cincinnati. trout also became the first player to win back to

back all-star m.v.p. awards. pete rose cincinnati's hometown hero and baseball's banned career hits leader was given an 80 second standing ovation when he was honored before the game.

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seeing some wet roads there. the wiper is going because it's still raining but not as heavy as it was earlier this morning. >> gloomy morning. we have another power outage update for you. atlantic city electric reports 2,731 people are off line right now. most of those outages are in clementon, camden county so we'll keep you updated on those numbers. >> the former mayors of harrisburg is charged with stealing from taxpayers to fund a rather unusual collection. authorities say stephen reed stole the funds to purchase artifacts like a vampire kit a suit of armor and a sarcophagus. and authorities also say he gathered a total of 10,000 architect facts all to be directed to failed city museums. attorney general kathleen kane says the 65-year-old's if this dealings crushed the city of harrisburg during his 28 years as mayor. >> 6:27 nowly the storms that moved through overnight have made a mess of your morning commute. >> the action cam has been busy tracking down flooding

from heavy storms and "action news" is up next.

>> breaking on "action news," lightning in the sky and flash flooding on the ground stranding drivers. we're helping you get through the morning commute. >> take a look at where the storms are heading now. storm tracker6 live double scan radar is lit up with activity. >> a moon shot from the millville meteor. south jersey native mike trout starts off the mlb all-star game with a home run and ends it as the m.v.p. good morning. katherine scott is out on the roads for us. also we have matt pelman with traffic and karen rogers filling in for dave murphy. >> good morning. we have flooding rain culling down frequent lightning, flash flood warnings in effect for much of the region right now. in delaware bucks berks lehigh and montgomery counties it expires at 8:30 morning but

through philadelphia, montgomery, bucks, camden, salem, burlington, chester counties it continues until 9:30 because we've had over an inch of rain in a relatively short amount of time. storm tracker6 live double scan can show us exactly where the storms are hitting right now. with double scan we've got the best technology to show you not only who is getting it but what's happening in that area. you see that number up there? 184 lightning strikes that's happening right now through the region and it's predominantly in areas philadelphia and southly i want to go in just a little closer to these areas to show you who is getting hit the hardest currently through the region. so you need to be careful as you're heading into these areasly it's definitely a time to be careful as you're traveling through. so we could put a storm track up and show you this storm going to monroeville at 6:33 writes mill at 6:36, aurora at 6:41. that storm there causing problem. the one in glassboro getting heavy rain reported through the region right now and one

that has moved through newark and will be moving through washington park at 6:34, then basin corners then penn acres and wilmington manor at 6:36. a as you're headed out you need to be careful about these storms. they're creating huge problems through the region. i want to put on a different mode right now with storm tracker so we can actually show you the rate of precipitation. 3-inches an hour coming down in salem. near elmer 2-inches an hour, near malaga, 2-inches. even up just east of berlin 2-inches an hour and that's what's producing the heavy rainfall that's causing problems this morning as you're headed out the door and you need to be so careful about that, not just in south jersey but in philadelphia we're seeing some of that rain through the region, had riverside, in florence, in malvern as well. and that's why those flash flood warnings continue. as you head out today you need to be careful because we can expect these scattered downpours and thunderstorms at any time. they could produce two to 4 inches of rainily we'll show you future tracker six and talk about when this ends and

what comes next in that seven-day forecast, matt. >> certainly a lot of rain coming down in a short amount of time and it stands on the roadways until it can drain out karen so we have seen standing water, we've seen people losing control, running into guardrails and other people as a result. if fact we had a fender-bender here on 422 eastbound side right by trooper road. it was only here for a couple minutes, pulled away. it was minor in nature. that's the good news with a lot of the accidents that happen in this kind of situation with this sort of weather they're pretty minor and can clear out quickly but they're happening. 422 busy with normal morning volume as well. had a fire location in pottstown along south street street. fire crews have left. everything reopened. high water along high street just to the west of 100. definitely a spot you want to avoid. there's o house fire in phoenixville blocking off dayton street near high street. traffic light troubles in norristown, west lane at egypt road. forest avenue at west james is another fire location an downed tree in plymouth

township along reynolds road. conglomeration of different issues associated with the storms rolling through this morning. this is 95 with a whole lot of southbound traffic as you can see by allegheny avenue. slow going by cottman then again from the betsy ross bridge through this point down to girard. had a crash on 295 as you head from gloucester county into camden county near route 45. that just cleared out but on 42 things just really starting to pick up. volume building headed northbound toward 295. matt. >> thank you, matt. montgomery county has seen thousands of power outages from the storms. "action news" reporter katherine scott is traveling through that part of our region live in mobile6. katherine. >> reporter: matt, we certainly have seen some problems caused by the storms this morning. you do want to leave extra time when you head out because it's unpredictable. we have seen some problems in areas. right now where we are, let me switch over so you can take a look at what we're looking at, we're on collegeville road and you can see the conditions here. the weather, the rain isn't really that heavy at this point but there were downpours earlier.

so, again, you might see those downpours and then it light tense up but the rain really hasn't stopped for the last couple of hours and we are seeing some problems. right now we're heading to the scene of a two alarm fire on dayton street in phoenixville. we don't know if weather or the lightning strikes were a factor here but storms were in the area at the time the fire started this morning. heavy flames were coming from that three story building and again the cause is under investigation so we're on our way to that fire right now. we're almost there. let's now go to a video from pottstown. high street had high water. a minivan was picked up and hauled away. police were nearby to make sure other vehicles didn't attempt to navigate the water. when the rain started it was like someone turned the faucet on. a lot of rain came all at once. there were some power outages lots of lightning. you could see it streak across the sky. right now we are headed to that fire in phoenixville just a couple minutes out. we're not sure if it's weather

related. stay with action us in for updates and again be careful when you head out. we have seen some flooding, there could be debris in the road. you want to keep an extra eye out. live in phoenixville, katherine scott channel6 "action news." >> we're following several shootings investigations. this one forced an apartment complex to evacuate. someone was shot around 2:30 at the highland manor apartments. >> an elderly woman was caught in the crossfire of a shooting in north philadelphia. "action news" was there as the woman was being placed into an ambulance. it happened just after 10:30 last night on the 2800 block of north 25th street. police say the 79-year-old woman was an innocent victim. >> this 79-year-old female was sitting on her front porch of the house where she lives. she was sitting with her son her son in his 60.

they were sitting on the front porch enjoying the whether when two shots rang out. >> the woman was taken to einstein is that in stable condition with a gunshot wound to the right leg. police are looking for suspects in the shooting. >> philadelphia mayor michael nutter's security detail had to spring into action when homeless man confronted him on the street and the mayor himself calmed the man down. >> stop. stop. stop. >> it happened monday outside the municipal services building near city hall. a 56-year-old man who identifies himself as george creamer says he didn't intend to hurt the mayor. he says he wanted the mayor to know the plight of the homeless during the pope's visit in september when the ben franklin parkway will be closed. >> let's head to the big board to break down yet another big night for south jersey native mike trout. the angels outfielder made history by becoming the first player to win the all-star game's m.v.p. award two years in a row. this is part of how he did it.

trout stole the show right off the bat literally by going opposite field hitting a lead off hometown start the game. only "action news" was there as trout returned to his hometown of millville cumberland county, new jersey, overnight alongside fellow all-star and new jersey native todd frazier. frazier won monday night's home run derby. here's what trout had to say about traveling back with his bud. >> jersey boys stick together. he's a great died. he has a great familily i met his family at a and it's going to be fun. >> now, trout is catching some heat for this. this is the typical american league picture for all the all-star members. who is the only one not paying attention to where the camera is focused from? mike trout. the only one looking away out of all the people in the american league all-star team but you know what, mike trout he's the best that the mlb has to offer right now and we're proud of him so he can look away if he would like. >> yeah, okay.

thanks, matt. i was looking away. crews in kentucky plan to resume their search this morning for several people missing in flood waters in the appalachian mountains. flood waters killed two people and left six more missing. it's estimated that more than 150 homes have been destroyed in the flooding. >> looks like south jersey is getting hammered right now. >> you know when the first line of storms came through this morning we were getting some 16 miles an hour winds with this and this just keeps pounding south jersey and so that's a real problem right now. let's take a look at storm tracker6 live double scan around the region we can see the rain that is blanketing although the heaviest may be south jersey, much of the area is getting hit by this. i want to go in closer with double scan. in south jersey alone we have 156 lightning strikes right now. so, this is salem ing route 49. you can see the direction these are lifting up to the north and east through woodstown on route 40, in glassboro along 322 along the white horse pike in berlin, medford lakes along route 70 but it's not just south jersey getting hit by this.

in chadds ford and in west chester, malvern getting some heavy downpours energy media on the blue route, i mean, that rain has just been pounding the area and we see this cell that is just creeping through philadelphia right now. it came down from the south and that area of red showing good rain coming down. in cherry hill it's lifting towards riverside and florence where you already have that rain. one more look to the north because even as we go further up near doylestown and lansdale we're not talking about the lightning strikes that your down south but nonetheless i mean this rain that is just not quitting right now. let's take one more wider look so you can get a look. even in the northwest communities you're getting that rain. let's go outside and see what it looks like as sky6 looks live and we can see the clouds up above over the skyline there. checking the current temperatures. 72 degrees. the dewpoint at 68. oppressive humidity once again today. i want to go right to future tracker six its not that it's going to rain constantly all day but we still have the threat at any point. i think the heaviest we're

seeing is happening right now but the front doesn't come through until the late afternoon. here's a look at 10 o'clock in the morning. some downpours some storms coming through here or there. we advance this to lunchtime. it kind of blossoms a little more as you get some of the heating of the day adding to the mix here. this is at 1:30 where we see downpours through the region. it lessens a little by the evening. watch as this front comes through. this is 6:30. , see it sweeping out by 10 o'clock and that's going to change the atmosphere in a really big way. here's what you can expect today. the rain is going to come down and it's going to come down hard a lot of times today so be careful of that. by 8:00 a.m., 73. by 11:00 a.m. 79, by 2:00 p.m., 83. expect a storm or downpour at any point. it look to be the early afternoon hours that get heightened again. by 5:00 p.m. some of those storms ending and 81. our high today will be 85 degrees. it's humid with these downpours. it all changes tonight. tonight is refreshing. overnight low 67. you're drying out tonight you're clearing out. tomorrow is gorgeous. breezy, refreshing, lots of

sunshine 82. friday mostly sunny skies and 84. the weekend is a nice summer weekend like you would expect during the summer. it's very warm humid chance for a storm at the end each day on saturday and sunday but nothing like we're seeing today. 88 on saturday. sunday hot and humid 90. monday hot and humid 90. tuesday if we keep that 90 it will be another heat wave for us. still sticky and it looks like tuesday may be the day we see more strong storms as that heat breaks a little bit but strong storms happening right now, lots of lightning. be careful as you're heading out and remember that flooding safety you never want to drive through. >> 6:42. we'll head to matt pelman for a look at the roads right now. >> they are wet for sure this morning. matt we're live in delco. a delay starting to form on the southbound side of the blue route 476 by the route one media bypass. elsewhere on 476 we've got some bigger problems with an overturned vehicle. we'll talk about that as we also have delays on 95 and the schuylkill when "action news" continues on this wednesday morning.

>> ♪♪ >> 6:45 and parts of south jersey are seeing a deluge of rain right now. taking a look at traffic there on route 42 in deptford township new jersey. also a lot of lightning strikes. be careful when you head out this morning. >> matt pelman has details. he's over at the big board with your traffic report. hey, matt. >> the song that kept going through my head this morning it's electric. there's so much lightning in the sky. that lightning has caused some damage. we have a few downed trees fires reported not sure if

that's associated with the lightning but a good chance it could be. a vehicle just flipped over on the northeast extension. 476 southbound side near the quakertown interchange there at 663 john fries highway. so right lane is out of commission as you come down from the lehigh valley and pass quakertown which inevitably will cause delays for those of you traveling southbound on the northeast extension. here's some of that storm damage i spoke of just a minute ago in norristown traffic lights on the fritz along main street at egypt road. fire location on forest avenue. tree came down in plymouth township along reynolds road. a crash ridge bike at butler pike. a crash to avoid in ardmore close along lancaster avenue at ardmore. slow speeds on 95. 12 miles per hour southbound by the betsy ross bridge and slow speeds as well on the schuylkill. here's what it looks like live

on the eastbound side by montgomery drive. you see all the taillights starting to stack up headed in towards center city. luckily, though, the rain not coming down here at the moment. we're actually starting to dry out along 76, the schuylkill, at least for now. this is the ben franklin bridge. definitely crowded by now on the westbound side from the mid span into eighth and vine, that construction in the right lane certainly not helping us out. matt. >> thank you, matt. this is new dash cam video of a car fire rescue in north jersey. the vehicle had slammed into a utility pole on route 17 in paramus on monday. debris went flying. some of it hit a police cruiser. the officer inside then noticed the smoking car. he called for backup and three officers safely pulled the trapped driver from the smoldering vehicle. the victim was dazed but able to walk away from the scene on his own. >> officials in mexico have released surveillance footage showing the moment notorious drug lord joaquin el chapo guzman made his escape. you can see him by his bed in the jail cell.

he moves into a space behind his shower. there are a few shadows then he's gone its the believed the team dug a tunnel for guzman. officials say he must have had inside help. three people at the prison have been fired. the reward for his capture is now $4 million. >> 6:48. meteorologist karen rogers is tracking heavy storms in south jersey right now. karen. >> we have flooding rain with these storms and currently 128 lightning strikes. i'll show you where they're headed next, who's getting hit the hardest when "action news" comes right back.

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and smooth finish that's never bitter. put down the dark roast you've been putting up with and reach for the one you deserve. >> ♪♪ >> and we have a power outage update just into "action news." peco has 3,803 outages most of those are in montgomery county. this is up by about 700 from when we updated you around 30 minutes ago. so, these numbers keep on climbing. nasty storms this morning. >> yeah. and that lack of power is messing with some of our traffic lights at some intersections. the rain messing with some of the speeds on some of our roads. see it is slow now here on 42 northbound side. in fact about an extra 14 minutes on that northbound travel time from the acx up towards the walt whitman bridge. chester county starting to dry out actually along the 30 bypass by 340 the thorndale

exit. eastbound come the headlights and the delay isn't too bad either none delays so far this morning on mass transit. karen. >> storm tracker6 live double scan showing us the heavy rain hitting our area. this is one of the days we're using the best technology that exists to keep you safe because we've got 137 lightning strikes in our region alone. going into some of the heaviest rain in salem on route 49 and route 40. see all the lightning strikes, the heavy rain coming out of wilmington into chadds ford in woodbury glassboro near 322 in hammonton near the atlantic city expressway and near medford lakes as well. we can see the movement of this lifting up to the north and east and at that point really dumping a lot of rain. we're getting it also in west chester, in malvern. we see in it radnor. in philadelphia it's a heavier cell that has lifted right through the region and even up in our northern communities we're not getting at much lightning there but still blanketed with rain. throughout the region that's a real problem and that's why

the flash flood warnings continue until nine:30 this morning. so much rain falling in a relatively short amount of time matt. >> thanks karen. another look at the incredible emergency landing on a new jersey highway over the weekend. police in stafford township ocean county just released this video of a sky diving plane landing in the middle of route 72 on sunday. the plane was carrying dive students to a jump when the aircraft lost power. one instructor suffered a cut. no one else on board or on the road was physically hurt.

>> ♪♪ >> 6:56. drenching rain storms cause problems for drivers across our area this morning and continue to do so. the action cam was on high street in pottstown montgomery county where a tow truck pulled a minivan that was stuck in flood waters from manatawny creek. >> delays for those coming down from the lehigh valley this morning because of a crash on the northeast extension southbound approaching quakertown. the right lane is blocked and just getting word of a new wreck in worcester along valley forge road at township line road. karen. >> flash flood warnings continue through the heart of the region. we're still being blanketed by storms. 171 lightning strikes throughout the entire region stretching through west chester chadds ford swedesboro glassboro into mount holly new jersey. even into philadelphia a strong storm just rolled

through. we have a threat of storms through this evening and everything changes after a high of 85 and it's humid today, it's more refreshing tonight and dry tomorrow. >> we have posted pictures of some flooding and also some of the lightning strikes on 6abc.com. for matt pelman karen rogers dave murphy erin o'hearn tamala edwards i'm matt o'donnell. good"good morning america" is next.

good morning, america. breaking overnight, the biggest severe weather outbreak of the summer. nearly 900 storm reports in 48 hours. lightning striking transformers blowing them up fast-moving floodwaters ripping hopes from their foundation. >> oh my god. >> more damaging winds and hail on the way. new this morning, new video from the fbi of that boston police captain's son pledging his allegiance to isis. >> in your mind then is all the united states an enemy? >> yes. >> what we are learning about his plot to carry out a massacre on a college campus and why his own father turned him in. the great escape. new video this morning of one of the world's most dangerous men breaking out of prison. el chapo slipping out of sight in his maximum security cell into that mile-long tunnel. our reporter inside that tunnel this morning revealing how he did it. and welcome to pluto. earth's first