"action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with rick williams, sara bloomquist, and meteorologist, david murphy. good afternoon, we begin with breaking news congress

chaka fattah senior is facing charges. that he used charity funds to repay his campaign loans. chad pradelli is live now in sent city with the full story. >> reporter: we knew the feds were investigating chaka fattah and today they dropped the hammer with this 85 page indictment that could put the congressman behind bars for decades. the 29 count indictment alleges chaka fattah and four other co-defendants, engaged in conspiracies consisting of several schemes, including money laundering and bank fraud. they say that fattah borrowed a million dollars from a supporter and after losing he used a nonprofit he founded and controlled to pay back $600,000 of the funds. >> to disguise the source of

these funds fattah arranging for the payments to pass through two other companies, including one run by the co-defendant. >> that they created sham contracts and made false entries and tax returns and the congressman is accused of using campaign funds to repay his son's student loan debt. >> to hide the scheme and conceal it they arranged for his campaigns to make paymentses to a political consultant company to satisfy student loan belonging to congressman fattah's son. >> at this point we have yet to hear from congressman fattah he is expected to release a statement here in the next hour or so. the 29 page indictment we have not gone through the entire indictment we'll have more details coming up on "action

news" at 12:30 for now live in old city, chad pradelli channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. by the way we have streamed the u.s. attorney's announcement live on 6abc.com this morning and that is where our coverage of the indictment of congressman fattah continues with the allegations and the investigation. also breaking right now police have a suspect in custody after a shooting at the delaware park racetrack this morning, one person was wounded by gun fire near the stables investigators were searching a nearby complex for evidence annie mccormick is live now at the scene. >> reporter: we are hearing from people at the park that the suspect the shooter is a jockey and the victim is a trainer, and this may have happened over the dispute over a woman. they did tell us that the victim was taken to nearby christiana hospital and a suspect is in custody. >> state police on the scene at 9:00 this morning at delaware

state racetrack that the shooting happened outside of the barns in the stable area and one man was shot and police arrived on the scene and 20 minutes later investigators arrived to prides court apartments two miles from the racetrack where they were searching for the suspect. the apartments are located on sussex road and one man was there taken into custody but they will not confirm if it's the suspect in the shooting one trainer says that after the shooting witnesses describe whad they saw. >> i was at the ends of the barn and my foreman said that guy almost hit your truck. he sped out the back gate. >> people that work here is a that things are now back to normal here at the park as for the condition of the victim we are only told by delaware police that he remains at delaware hospital. reporting live in wilmington, annie mccormick channel 6

"action news." >> thank you. turning now to accuweather and there is an excessive heat warning that took effect for most of the region. the hot and humid conditions combine to make it feel like 100 degrees this afternoon, lets get the latest from meteorologist, david murphy. >> extremely hot and humid across the region we have to take it easy into the afternoon and the other issue we often have when the air is hot and humid and saturated and unstable, no lightning from any of these yet on the eastern shore of maryland and toward baltimore notice when they move they are creating heavy downpours and not going over any given area all that fast, i condition guarantee this getting up into our region. it will rain cats and dogs for 30 minutes and potentially give you poor drainage area flooding but it's the heat and that is enough. the heat warn withing started at

noon and goes until 6:00 tonight and heat index feels like 100 and the areas extend from mercer so trenton koibt and through philadelphia to the i-95 corridor and all the way down into wilmington delaware. we have poor air quality out there, yesterday it was a code orange in new jersey and today it's new jersey pennsylvania and delaware those of you insensitive groups especially seniors and people with heart and lung conditions want to limit your outdoor exposure 88 in philadelphia and 89 in allentown but factor in the high oppressive humidity it feels like it's 95 and already guys we have one 100 degree index value that hit the map in dover and we may see more areas up north repeat that 100 degree measure as we go through the next several hours. when does this end? and what about thunderstorms that will help end the humidity some are strong and i'll have details on all of that in the

exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast. >> because of the heat warning, the philadelphia corporation for aging opened up the heat line, the call center is open until midnight, it can help you find air conditioned places and tips to avoid heat stress. and the heat was an obstacle for officers fighting a large blaze and investigators from several different agencies remain on the scene at this hour and some home his to be evacuated from the blaze at 5:00 this morning, "action news" reporter john rawlins live from the scene and i have the latest from kensington. >> hi rick, it remains under investigation here at this time, the fire marshall staff is here for a couple of hours we are told, this was reported as an explosion, basically that the ground moved and that is what woke them up but the city cannot confirm the explosion almost but what is certain is

there was a wall that basically collapsed a major collapse the failure of the front wall of the house and a fire. >> the upstairs radiator blackened and still standing and surviving whatever caused the front facade of this rowhouse to crumble. and now it's up to investigators figure out what happened here. neighbors say they were awaken by a blast. >> i heard a bank bang and the window blew up and i saw smoke coming through the walls and i got my kids and got out. >> an intense smokey blaze followed and it took firefighters more than an hour to control the situation and firefighters quickly overheaded because of high humidity. neighbors say that a single man in his 30s lived in the house and is he described as several as a quiet loner.

>> he is always by himself and as you alone. neighbors say they have not seen that man since the fire and collapse but the fire department reports that the man is okay. >> one male was living in the home and we were able to get him out and he was not injured. >> he was at the home at the time and we war able to eskew him and get him out. >> remarkable when you look at the scene here, there were no injuries reported and two families are displaced at this time and the house at the sender of all of this will be demolished. >> john thank you. a large fire burned through row homes in trenton this morning and it's blaze hit four alarms before erupting on south olden avenue, officials moved neighbors into a nearby elementary school after the

flames destroyed some homes nora muchanic is at the scene right now, and she will bring us a live update at 12:30 one person was hurt in a crash that tied up traffic on the pennsylvania turnpike, on the westbound lanes of lower moreland township the wreckage blocked the entire road and one person had a head injury and no word yet on what caused the crash. philadelphia police and firefighters were among those taking part in a disaster drill this morning. about 150 first responders were put to the test during the exercise at septa's at&t station in philadelphia they were responding to a chemical release with mass casualties, these types of drills help coordination and communication with different agencies. >> still to come new information about a most wanted terrorist. what we learned today about the top taliban leader. >> and the controversy deepens

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afghanistan's main intelligence agency now says that taliban leader omar is dead and has been for two years now officials say that he died in a hospital back in pakistan in 2013 after the afghan government was examining claims about the rowecluseive leader's death, he has been declared dead many times before though. the dentist who killed a lion in zimbabwe had no idea it was illegal. he relied on his local guide to make sure it was legal he was lured from a protected area and killed in july, palmer allegedly paid $50,000 to track and kill the animal meanwhile his two

guide as peered in court to face poaching charges. and now the faa is looking into why a passenger jet reportedly ran out of fall. from las vegas to north dack, the pilot was just four minutes from falling out of the sky. >> we are circling fargo and we don't have the fuel to go anywhere else. >> there is a window in 20 minutes for landing. >> i don't have 20 minutes. >> the plane could not land at the fargo airport because it was closed for the navy's blue angels practice, the pilot had to declare an emergency to come down. now they are looking into why they did not plan around the blue angels practice. that was planned for month and why the plane did not have enough fuel to divert to another

airport. a day care is shut down after two brothers were hospitalized with sun burns their mother says the day care took them to a water park on friday and left them outside all day you white house sunscreen they were covered in joint blisters when they got home. the day care is now closed and facing a state investigation. protesters in oregon are doing everything they can to prevent an oil rig from leaving port. some are using kayaks to block the shell driller. >> the activists are the final line of defense in protecting the arctic from this insane proposition of drilling in a place where if there is an oil spill it could never be cleaned up. >> the protesters dangling off the bridge reportedly have enough water and food to last for days and the officials from

shell acknowledge the right to protest but will not condone illegal tactics. >> the government is approving a procedure that only takes 15 minutes. we'll see more from the child that received a double hand transplant.

a build a fund highway spending is up for vote today in washington it will keep transit

dollars flowing to states and they are expected to consider the measure before lawmakers leave town for the august recession and the senate plans to take up the measure later this week. the deadline for a new spending bill is friday at midnight. >> the government has approved a new weight loss option reshape medical makes the stomach filling balloon and used an endo scope to fill it with fluid making the patient fuller and eat less. the weight loss balloon is billed as an alternative to gastric banding devices. the first child in the world to get a hand transplant will spend several weeks in physical rehab before going home to maryland. zion harvey was here when they announced the procedure. he lost his hands and feet to an infection and the operation to live him new hands took ten

hours and a team of 40 degrees and more than a year of planning. >> the "action news" team is working on news stories for tonight beginning at 4:00. alicia vitarelli is here with a look ahead. >> reporter: coming up a video you do not want to miss, a video showing why one wedding guest will make a good bride but not such a great mother. and coming up save money by taking a selfie but experts say it works we'll tell you all about it and share tips on the cash diet. and a big talker's followup the florida fuel food after barbecue smoke drifting to a maybe's yard is still going on and escalating why the neighbor is now suing for damages. all over barbecue don't forget you can take us with you and

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david here with a check of the the accuweather forecast, dangerous heat. >> absolutely, really humid out there too. waez look at stormtracker 6 live double scan down south of philadelphia, there are spots that popped up and heavy showers, and no lightning from any of these yet and that is not out of question look at what is going on over rehoboth and lewes delaware we have one of these guys develop and this is probably due to the heat and humidity in place and the interaction with the cooler air over the water there is another little guy to the east of milford delaware and i want to go ahead and go out one more

time and show just to the west of dover delaware, another heavy cluster of rain beginning to pop up and this may want to push up toward smyrna over the next 60 minutes. the big issue for most of us is the heat and of course the shore is where you can get some relief, 80s down the shore but well aloof that elsewhere. that is longport on the action cam. 89 in philadelphia right now and that dew point is over 70 that is oppressive humidity we are talking about winds aree at 7 miles per hour. 88 in dover and 88 in millville and 9 in allentown and 90 in trenton and more like the low to mid-80s down the shore. and heat index values are in the mid-90s and feels like 100 in dover. future tracker 6 showing you the chance of a pop-up shower here or there, every now and then a downpour is possible like we

showed you on storm tracker 6, and could be more in delaware or parts of south jersey and then the threat of that sort of thing diminishes towards sun down and the heat and humidity is not going anywhere hot and humid and heat indexes getting into the upper 90s and down the shore highs mountain mid-80s and be careful about the swimming because there are rip currents around the jersey coastline and not so much in delaware 94 is your high today feeling like 100 for a couple of hours this afternoon, hot and humid and sun mixing with clouds and the heat warning in effect until 6:00 this evening, remember the air quality is not great. 77 is the oversunlight low and mainly clear and very humid and very muggy and then we get into tomorrow there are more clouds around and it won't be quite as hot, and by 10:00 in the morning future tracker 6 suggesting showers and the bigger issue is in the afternoon

as the cold front aapproaches and we have a chance of strong thunderstorms coming down into the afternoon and evening, and floating off the shore by about 10:00 or 11:00 at night. there is a slight risk tomorrow that anything that does pop produced damaging winds gusts that could bring down trees and wires and the good news is the humidity goes down behind the storms, 94 and excessive heat and feeling like 100, and around 90 for a high and still hot friday, saturday and sunday, but with the frontal boundaries popping through we'll see more of a flow from the northwest and we'll lower the humidity pretty dramatically on friday and more comfortable through the weekend. >> thank you david. much more ahead in our next half hour of "action news" at noon we continue to cover breaking news, in the past hour, federal broughters anoubsed a laundry list of charges against chaka fattah sr. including

racketeering and bribery.

it is 12:30 and we are back to our breaking news story. congressman, chaka fattah sr. is dieted in a major racketeering scheme among them is the misuse of hundreds of thousands of dollars of campaign money chad pradelli was there as the charges were announced.

>> reporter: rick, congressman fattah is accused of taking part in not one but five schemes, most of them have to do with the alleged misuse of campaign funds, this is the 85 page indictment, according to it if convicted. congressman fattah faces decades behind bars, it alleges congressman, chaka fattah and four other co-defendants engaged in several xoems bribery, falsifying records money laund laundering and bank fraud and they said that fattah borrowed $1 million from a supporter and after losing he found a nonprofit to pay back $600000 of the funds. >> to disguise the source of these funds they arranged for the payments to pass through two other companies including a