"action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with rick williams, sara bloomquist, and meteorologist, david murphy. good afternoon, we begin with breaking news police are searching for the driver in a

deadly hit and run and it happened outside of philadelphia police headquarters, a vehicle struck a man and kept going at franklin and gray streets, the victim died at the hospital, "action news" reporter walter perez is live at the scene with the latest information. >> reporter: hey guys, the crime scene was just cleared out and reopened to traffic as you can see, but it was here not 30 yards from the round house where the hit and run ended with the death of a man simply crossing the street. it was 9:45 this morning when a man walking the crosswalk at franklin street was hit by a bus. >> not sure if the bus dragged the pedestrian a couple of feet but the pedestrian died. >> his sneakers remain on the roadway at this hour as part of the crime scene, his name is not

released but is he described as a 46-year-old african-american man, they have surveillance video of the incident. but they are unsure who the bus belonged. >> we think it could be septa, but we are not sure, we'll get to the bottom of it i'm sure. >> police are looking at surveillance video of the hit and run and they describe the vehicle as a white bus with tinted windows. we expect them to release that video this afternoon, keep your eyes out for it on 6abc.com and we'll have more on this starting on "action news" at 4:00. walter perez, channel 6 "action news." >> all right walter thank you. now to accuweather and the strong possibility of more showers and storms this afternoon, sky 6 hd taking a live view of cape may, a fairly gloomy day at the shore, meteorologist, karen rogers is tracking the latest in for david murphy over at the big board. maybe a day for the big board.

>> stormtracker 6 live double scan the storm finally left cape may, you can go out there now, atlantic city and surf city, still with the morning showers that are hugging the coastline, in philadelphia we see the area of green, light rain through the region and jenkintown and willow grove, if we look again out to the west, we are noticing, we see some cells develop, we expect showers and thunderstorms, one engineer coatesville and one near lancaster. we don't expect it to be terribly widespread but six lightning strikes right now in mt. pocono as we have steadier rain pulling through. we are dealing with scattered showers right now and the front is still out to the west and we have a ways before we squeeze out the atmosphere and get the showers and thunderstorms firing up in the region, we have a

chance to see lightning and downpours but the potential for one or two of these storms to have strong winds, what is why we are watching it closely. we don't think it will be widespread throughout the region but more widespread throughout the afternoon and evening, one or two spots could be enough to cause damage, the humidity is way up there and the ponding on the roads this morning and a chance of that for your evening commute as well. i'll show you future tracker 6 and the radar coming up. >> karen thank you. as this unsettled weather moves through check in at 6abc.com/weather, live street level forecast from storm tracker 6 keeps you up to date. we are expecting to hear from pennsylvania attorney general, kathleen kane, tomorrow, as she adds the allegations against her. john rawlins live in norristown

with that part of the story. >> reporter: hi rick, prosecutors describe the man at the middle of today's arraignment as a close conte confident of the attorney general. >> did you violate -- >> that is all patrick reece would say, a retired police chief and a top member of the security detail who finds himself as being on the wrong side of the law, he beat a fast retreat and is caught up in the allegations against his boss, he is charged with indirect criminal contempt, that he rifled the court's computer system despite an order prohibiting such action

concerning the grand jury investigating kane. >> there is alleged there was an evolt system where certain people had access to be able to get into those times. he was one of the people and he did searches and inquiries. >> it's said that the information taken from the system was used to tim date some individuals that were testifying against the attorney general. >> reece pleaded not guilty and exited quickly, and he was not in a talking mood and is due back in except for a bench trial, if convicted he could serve up to 6 months in jail. live in norristown, john rawlins, channel 6 "action news" one person died this morning in a rowhouse fire in chester county, the sparks fired up on the main street of park street, it took them an hour to get the

blaze under control and one body was recovered from the home, david henry is on the scene and will bring us a live report coming up at 12:30. a mother that was murdered in a triple shooting was identified now. latrees blacksheer was shot and killed yesterday afternoon on west 7th street, her 4-year-old daughter was also shot and remains in stable condition, the third victim. a 31-year-old woman remains hospitalized and no arrested have been made. and now details on the accidents that injured tracy morgan on the new jersey turnpike. the limo driver had been awake for 4 hours, the limo passengers were not wearing seatbelts, an

investigation determined that the truck driver was going too fast. wal-mart driver, kevin roper was charged with vehicular homicide. police are looking for two suspects in a road rage stabbing, this is route 88 and jack martin boulevard in brick township, police say that three people in an accura, with new york plates began to yell at a toms river man driving with his family in the jeep. the jeep driver was stabbed with a small knife, the suspects two men and a woman drove away. another night of protests in ferguson, missouri, ended with two dozen arrests, protesters marking the app verse of the fatal shooting of michael brown. >> reporter: with the state of emergency in effect here in ferguson, we did not see a repeat of the violence and gun fire we saw earlier this week

but there was a heavier police presence that led to arrests. police and protesters face off again on the streets of ferguson, missouri, police officers in riot gear used maze after they were hit by rocks and frozen water bottles, armed citizens were out in public, they claim to prevent another life of looting. >> at least 23 people were arrested and no one was seriously hurt. >> the growing tension follows days of protest shutting down streets and highways to mark the one year anniversary of michael brown's dental the hands of officer darren wilson. >> multiple shots fired. >> plain clothes police officer

returned fire and critically wounded. the area is now under a state of money. in the hopes of bringing calm back to these streets. no shots were fired overnight and no property damage, and no loolting, by 1:00 a.m. these votes were clear, the question now is will that peace remain in effect today. brandy hicks, channel 6 "action news." we are now 45 days away from pope francis's visit to philadelphia, restaurants and businesses located within the traffic box, the restricted zone are still wondering what they will have to do to stay hope while the pope is here, mayor michael nutter and law enforcement is getting ready to answer the questions and will likely give details later this week and meetings will be held with business owners including those at the reading terminal market. "action news" is twoing to pope francis' home town,

argentina. a white house staffer under arrest, why police say she fired a gun at a police officer. and a prison bus crashes on an arizona highway, find out what the inmates did after the accident. when we come right back.

officials and areas down scene from the colorado mine spill are demanding answers, the environmental agency accidentally released the spill of gold mine waste water during an inspection yesterday, the 3 million gallons included high concentration of arsenic and led and other harmful medals and now they want to know about long-term threats to the water supply. they have declared two stretches of river to be disaster area. a man is accused of firing a gun at a u.s. capital.

she say that she was romantically involved with the officer and allegedly grabbed his gun in an argument. and the bullet missed and no one was hurt, singtory was charged with assault and reckless endangerment, the white house revoked her access and put her on unpaid leave. researchers found that air traffic controllers suffer from chronic fatigue, they found that one-fifth of the air traffic controllers admitted to committing significant errors and more than half atreb outed that to being tired. more on this in a live report at 4:30. and a bus carrying 50 inmates crashed in arizona and authorities say that all inmates are accounted for here on interstate 8, the prison bus driver was seriously injured and

several inmates were hurt and taken to hospitals, some of the inmates helped to direct traffic and ministered first aid following the mishap. newly released video shows a car jumping a curb and hitting a starbuck, he and the driver were taken to hospitals with minor injuries after the crash yesterday and no one else was hurt, police are still investigating what caused that driver to lose control. >> coming up next on "action news" a unique new cancer treatment for patients, later on an update on the catholic teacher fired for her same sex marriage. how the school is attempting to address the controversy.

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karen here now with a check of accuweather forecast, we had rain this morning and a chance

of more this afternoon? >> we are already starting to see some of the storms beginning to develop. lets look at stormtracker 6 live double scan around the region, and you can see that the morning rain, that is hugging the coastline now near toms river but it's mostly off the coast, as we go into tighter, we see showers and storms taking place, if you are along route 30 in burlington county, you are getting showers and heavier rain, in woodbury a few showers, and not a big deal. coatesville a bit of a heavier shower, near oxford right now, near honey brook, but farther to the north near mt. pocono we have 12 lightning strikes and heavier rain and thunderstorms beginning to develop there, a wider look, you can see not a whole lot happening yet. and outside here is an ominous view of sky 6 look looking live. as the storms begin to take

shape, they are not really widespread but scattered in nature, 76 degrees right now in philadelphia, the dew point is 70 in edition to the atmosphere in spots it feels so humid out there, when we get a shower or thunderstorm, we get a chance for showers with that. wins out of the west at 14 miles per hour, satellite 6 along with action radar showing the rain moved in and heavy rain in the overnight hour and now taper off and now storms and thunderstorms are beginning to develop out to the west, that needs to cross the region, future tracker 6 showing at 3:30 in the afternoon we have scattered storms here and there with good downpours together and 6:00 peppered through the area but not everybody gets it and then it moves out of here by the evening hours, leads look at what to expect. 3:00 p.m. 8:00 degrees that is your high today, by 5:00 p.m. 80

degrees and then they are exiting the coastline and 9:00 p.m. they are exiting the shore. if you were at the shore you are the last to get the thunderstorms this afternoon and cloudy skies for the most part with a late thunderstorm and 78 degrees, you should be basically dry for musikfest at 8:30, are you mostly dry if are you seeing reba mcintyre. and things clear out nicely for tomorrow, clouds and sunshine and a high of 81 degrees and the humidity drops. it's a change for tomorrow, you can see the real dip coming for thursday, a glorious day before the humidity comes right back up. humid today with a few thunderstorms scattered through the region and anyone of them could be strong and 82 is your high, a chance of a shower and dry. and 85 degrees, and on friday,

it starts to turn warmer and 9 degrees and hot with a thunderstorm and a chance of 90 for your high and sunday partly sunny for the eagles and the union, and staying hot on monday with 80 and mostly sunny skies, low 80s today heating up to the 90s by the end of the seven day. >> it does look ominous. >> it does. hundreds of volunteers are wrapping up renovations to a mt. airy homeless shelter this is day two of a project, at the stenton project. it includes a computer lab and library to give children a fresh start for the new year. in our next half hour of "action news" at noon, new surveillance video of tire slashing suspects in a south philadelphia neighborhood, the two men that police are trying to track down. and details are coming out

on jennifer aniston's top secret wedding, guests and who designed her wedding dress up next.

"action news" at 12:30 continues, with rick williams, sara bloomquist, and meteorologist, david murphy. >> hello again, here are the stories we are following for you on "action news" at 12:30, fire

investigators are looking into a deadly early morning fire in chester county, plus, the fight continues over margie winters the teacher fired over her same-sex marriage. and an alarming study over the safety in the sky, this exposes a big risk to flights nationwide. philadelphia police are looking for a bus driver that hit a man and kept going just feet from police headquarters, it happened at 10:00 and the man was pronounced dead at the hospital, police are looking for surveillance video of the incident and it's unclear who the bus belongs to, we'll continue to update the story on air and online at 6abc.com. >> meanwhile, investigators are trying to figure out what started a deadly fire in chester county, the flames broke out at