north and east of boston that brought a quick burst of rain earlier this morning in the area and now the cold front is passing through in the area of thunderstorms and 256 within thispoint. the northern end of center city in northeast philadelphia, brief, heavy rain there, a few lightning strikes about 10 in the last 15 minutes in the entire viewing area that extends in bucks county and langhorne and trenton, you can see some particular rainfall totals as this is passing through, per hour rates, a half inch to 2 inches per hour that is falling with these storms, they are not sitting but moving at 20 miles per hour, you get a quick half inch of rain as the storms pass by, as you lift to the north, trenton is try and a few

sprinkles beginning to break out and a quick hit of heavy rain and newtown heading towards trenton and a wet drive south of philadelphia, near wilmington and southern parts of new jersey, this is more light rain in general for newcastle county and it turns steadier and heavier with the storm near bear, delaware, with 48 lightning strikes in the last 15 minutes, through the rest of the afternoon and the rest of the afternoon and evening, the broken line of storms moving into new jersey and southern delaware and dangerous lightning at times and a half inch of rain, some ponding on the roadways and a few to have wins up to 45 miles per hour.

alomg with the constantly updated hourly forecast. >> we are following breaking news this afternoon, a deadly hit and run that happened into front of philadelphia police headquarters, they gave us a look at the vehicle they think is involved and an update for the search for the driver responsible. >> they said they are interview the person they believe was driving the bus at the time, they are confident that this was the bus involved, the picture was taken from surveillance video right before the crash at 6:00 this morning, the bus may have been based out of chinatown and the driver may not be aware that anything happened i'm not sure that the bus driver knew. we are following up on leads. >> that incident happened just feet from police headquarters

from center city, the man who was hit was literally knocked out of his sneaker and was pronounced dead at the scene. john rawlins will have more coming up on "action news" at 6:00 and all updates for you online at 6abc.com. a woman in a wheelchair died this morning when her house caught fire in chester county, it started at 4:45 a.m. on the 300 block of west main street in parks burg, they found the victim once they got inside. they say she was wheelchair bound in her 30s and have not yet told us her name. five cats and a dog also died. they had trouble fighting the fire because of hoarding conditions in the home. david henry will have more coming up on this story at 5:00. a man is now charged with murdering his own mother in newcastle county last year,

police announced the arrest of michael rivera, police say he killed 57-year-old wanita warner, that fire displaced 40 people and he is also charged with arson and is in custody on unrelated charges. we now know the name of the woman murdered in wilmington and the shooting center her young daughter to the hospital. she was shot and killed yesterday afternoon in a house on the 400 block of west 7th street, her little 4-year-old daughter was also shot but she is in the hospital and expected to survive, a third victim a 31-year-old woman is also in the hospital, police have not said who did this or why. pennsylvania governor, tom wolf, is once again calling on attorney general, kathleen kane, to resign as she prepares to

talk about the charges for the first time. this comes on a day when one of her aides turned himself in. >> continuing reverbations, and what the governor thinks the attorney general needs to do. the governor stopped to talk about budget impasses but was talking about the kathleen kane, he thinks she should resign but has not looked for a replacement. i. >> i would have to wait for her to make the decision, i called on her to resign, i'm not sure how she continues to do her job and defend herself against the charges. >> have you talked to her since thursday night indictments. >> kane called a press conference tomorrow night in harrisburg. >> in a related matter, this

man, a close confident of kanes was arraigned on charges this morning. >> patrick reece a retired police chief and a top member of the attorney general's security details maintains that reece was working as a spy by using his work computer to rifle the computer system here in norristown despite a court order prohibiting the action. looking for information pertaining to the grand jury investigating kane. >> there say e volt system where by certain people had access to get into those files, he was one of the people and he did searches and inquiries. that related to this case and related to the protective order. >> reece pleaded not guilty today and the attorney general

will hold a press conference tomorrow at 1:00 can we'll have it live on "action news" and at 6abc.com. in norristown, john rawlins, channel 6 "action news." >> wolf's comments about kane came as the governor blasted republicans about the still stalled budget negotiations in harrisburg. both sides remain far apart. the governor proposed a $34 billion budget and the republicans offered a $32 billion plan. he called it a sham. >> it was a disgrace, if i had taken a budget that looked like that, to my banker, he would have thrown me out of the office, it doesn't balance, the math does not add up. >> republicans do not want tax increases but wolf says they are necessary to fund public schools at advocate levels across the state and lawmakers are expected

to return to harrisburg later this month to hammer out a solution. we are dealing with rough weather and now a check of the "action news" traffic report. matt pellman is standing by with word in the traffic center. >> my solution for you is don't go out right now, although i know that is not possible for all of you, the rain is coming down we are getting pelted in camden as we look live at the ben franklin bridge from camden, the traffic on the bridge itself is moving okay and the rain is really coming down, just five minutes ago we could see the center city skyline, it's tough to make out rolling through camden county through philadelphia, this is the scene in philadelphia along 95 through girard avenue in the work zone, still raining here as well. lots of puddles on the road and they led to big problems in the morning rush and this afternoon traffic is getting by slowly in

each direction. we have a number of accidents already on this tuesday afternoon one along north broad street at spring garden and a pedestrian at yaden. and that is a good intersection to avoid. and burlington county a vehicle fire past exit 6 on the new jersey turnpike, everything is cleared out there, and northbound into mercer county, look for a crash pass 7 a at 195, an overturned vehicle crash in newcastle county just past route 2, kirk lan highway and the construction continues at the delaware memorial bridge, some slight delays especially heading into new jersey from time to time. lets grab the ipad and our old pal says watch for heavy rain on the schuylkill expressway near roxborough, speeds are very slow but at least this afternoon we don't have the five issues like we had

this morning that gave us headaches on the schuylkill, everything is open just wet and slow. we'll check it again in the next half hour. >> hoppy cat on the case helping us outs there. coming up the company that doubled the time off it is giving to new parents. and another night of protests in ferguson that leads to more arrests. >> and a new chance to speak up over the firing of a local catholic school staffer, how the school plans to give parents a chance to weigh in. (plays throughout)

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i want to show you another live look at center city philadelphia, and what a difference, about 14 minutes makes, this another vantage point over center city, when we showed it to you could barely make out the skyline and heavy rain and thick clouds, but this system is quick moving as adam

mentioned. the sky is beginning to clear a bit and adam joseph is standing by with an update of what to expect where you live in five minutes. in another night of protest in ferguson, missouri ended with a dozen arrests. demonstrators were marking the anniversary of the fatal police shooting of michael brown. >> reporter: overnight officers in riot gear used mace to break up demonstrations after police were hit by rocks and frozen water bottles, armed citizens were also out in public they claim to prevent another night of looting. >> at least 23 people were arrested, no one was seriously hurt. the growing tension follows days of protest shutting down streets and highways, to mark the one year of michael brown's death by

police officer, darren wilson on sunday night it turned violence with this clash. and police say that tyrone harris shot at them in this parking lot, when they shot back they critically wounded him. now they are in a state of emergency. >> it's marred by violence. >> one local state senator says the tension needs to end. >> we cannot sustain ourselves with the violence and hatred for human life. >> no shots were fired and there was no property damage, and no looting but the state of emergency is still in effect in ferguson. >> all right alicia thank you. waldon mercy academy will hold a meeting next month for the controversial firing of margie winters, because she is

married to a woman something she disclosed when she was first hired there, archbishop chaput supported the move to fire her but moved a passion response and parentses will be able to talk to the school's leadership directly and the school will hold a separate meeting to hear from the community. a study on air traffic controllers shows that severalp them have trouble staying awake on the job, nasa surveys workers back in 2011 and they kept the results secret until now, 10 in 12 made significant errors and 60% fell asleep and lost focus, many blamed it on fatigue and the faa says they have made changes to manage this problem. google is having a major restructuring plan, called alphabet. the cofounders will run it with

google itself getting a brand new ceo and alphabet will be a company for google including research projects like google driverless car and the drone delivery arm called wing, the idea is to give alphabet companies the ability to research their own brands. on wall street a big day in the positive direction yesterday, but not today. the dow down 212 and the nasdaq off 65 and s&p down 20 points on the day. adobe is expanding its leave for new parents, they will offer the parent, the primary care giver, 16 weeks of maternity leave that means a new mom could get 26 weeks off. none primary care givers get

four weeks with full pay. some college studentses got a head start on thursday future careers in journalism today here at 6 abc, and spend timt with news veterans like vernon odom, and they discussed the do's and don't's of reporting and came into the studio today. they joined us from the city council fellowship program and went into the editing bays as well. with editor bob. >> editor bob watts. this is always encouraging to see kigds getting excited about this profession. >> as we mentioned rain is moving through and it hits hard and fast. ableage has details. >> it's a real nasty afternoon. >> we had the sunshine that broke out after the morning round of rain and that fueled

the atmosphere yet again for the showers and thunderstorms that are popping and a broken line from trenton to wilmington, most of them pushed south and east and there are a couple of downpours lagging to the north and east of the blue route through broomall and the interchange of express way, closer here todays trenton lightning strikes in the past 15 minutes, 38 lightning strikes moving south and east at 20 miles per hour and extend from floor english to riverside, and northeast parts of philadelphia, there are the towns and times this line is approaching, nothing severe but releasing a lot of rain because of that humidity out there, kind of ringing out the atmosphere briefly and those particular locations to cherry hill and 138 and route 30. and as you look to the west near manayunk and the conshohocken curve, the cluster is moving away from the blue route now

bumping over the schuylkill expressway which is pretty busy this time of day and farther to the south, woods town, and salem and middletown, some heavy hitting downpours, nothing severe and lightning strikes as they drift in from the north and west. rainfall totals so far, many areas add to the numbers, but philadelphia .75 inch today than includes the morning round of rain and reading an 1.25 and hockessin 1.5 inches and atlantic city we can bump that number up as the storm as arrive from the west. due points are very oppressive once they hit 70 or above, than is what is fueling some storms and that is why it feels uncomfortable. millville 70 and dover 73, and many musikfest 71. and 84 philadelphia and cooler where it's raining in wilmington and trenton and the shore 80 to

83 degrees, the first round of rain has pushed away and here is the cold front but it doesn't take long for the clouds to clear out and the sun simone legree returning and parts of burkes county at the presents time and that is the general trend, by 8:00, 9:00 the storms are off the coast and you can see the clouds fall apart quickly with the winds that switch in a northwesterly direction tonight. 62 allentown by tomorrow morning, 66 in millville and the early scattered storms giving way to a clearing sky and eventually dropping humidity into the middle of the week. your four day at 4:00, your humidity drops and clouds could bubble up and a scattered shower here or there and an overall deconvenient day and wall-to-wall sunshine and high of 83 degrees, we'll bump the temperatures up at the end of the week and friday sun and clouds and 87 and the 90s return on saturday, it's hot, not overly humid, maybe a scattered

afternoon thunderstorm, and that could be the first of another heat wave on the way, we'll show you the 90s coming up in the seven-day forecast. >> another one coming. >> in the meantime, a little payoff tomorrow. a nice looking day. love that. >> hundreds of volunteers have completed a makeover at a mt. airy homeless shelter, this is the final day of the project at stenton family center, it gifz children a fresh start into the new school year, the first major renovation of that facility since it opens its doors in 191. still ahead the case against three former penn state administrators we'll excomplain what happened today in harrisburg. i don't want to live with

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tim curly and graham span ard all made pleas today in court, the lawyers said their clients did not have advocate time to get attorneys in this case and prosecutor frank fina used privileged communications between the school's council and the three men, the case against them could not move forward if the judge does not side with them. it happened just after midnight, back on july 30th a woman watched as a woman walked up to buy cigarettes but he went around the side and shoved the cashier and took a few cartons and ran out. he and the woman got into a dark colored saturn waiting outside, police are asking anyone with information to give them a call.

and still ahead we are tracking where those strong storms are headed right at this moment. meteorologist, adam joseph, with the details in accuweather. no sweat. >> stubble, a reality for women looking for smooth underarms, as long as are you willing to microwave them. >> say what? >> we'll explain coming snup looking for the best laundry detergent and consumer reports fipished their testing. coming up in what's the deal.

hello again, "action news" continues with an update from accuweather. are you looking live across center city from your sky 6 cam remarks from temple university. a miserable looking day, gray and rainy and a system packing rain and lightning just moved through the area, but it's not gone just yet, meteorologist, adam joseph, tracking the storms for us live at the big board. >> we are tracking the broken line towards new york city and just through philadelphia and center city extending south of wilmington into the state of maryland, as we close in we have a brand new in the first of our thunderstorm warning and this is in southern parts of delaware near dover and especially woodside, especially dover getting hardest hit of this

particular line, and the biggest concern of this is winds in excess of 60 miles per hour, we have lightning in smyrna and parts of newcastle county but the area we are targeting is still in maryland along route 301, heading northern and east towards marydel and towards canterbury that is where the severe storm is pushing and most of the towns are in the state of maryland right now but we'll watch this line as it pushes to the south and east over the next 20 minutes, also to the north and east we are tracking an area of heavy rain move ago way from trenton and florence and that extends down into northeast philadelphia and parts of center city still getting hit by heavy rain and 42 lightning strikes and nothing severe right now and as this particular area passes through it drops 2 inches per hour and moving at 20 miles per

hour. and you are not getting 2 inches out of it, and just shows you how heavy it is as the line passes through, as it heads into new jersey and delaware, we'll have it on your full accuweather forecast. and the better part of the forecast what is the drop of the heat and humidity, we'll have the seven day coming up in 15 to 20 minuteses. tell wear state police say that the weather is to blame for an accident in prices corner, newcastle county, a white suv flipped over several times on route 71 northbound, just after 3:30 this afternoon, there is a look there, it's driver lost control during a heavy downpour, they are still being checked out at the scene. when severe weather or breaking news happens nearby, join the action, email your photos and videos to 6abc.com, or use the #6abcaction. >> turning to the latest on a

drive-by shooting in chester, this show shows a woman being shot, outs side of deli and she ran inside and collapsed on the floor, the victim's family is talking only to "action news," sara bloomquist is live now at chester police headquarters, with more on that story. >> reporter: brian, that is right the investigation continues here this afternoon, that surveillance video you just showed we aired at breaking news last night on "action news" at 11:00, as we often if not always do, we posted to the "action news" facebook page and that is where it caught the attention of the rodriguez family who quickly realized they knew the woman that was shot, apparently an inoh vent victim in this drive-by shooting. a woman was standing outside of a deli in chester, can you see

her there in the black shorts talking on the phone that is when the car at the top of the screen drove by and shots rang out and the woman ran into the store and collapsed. >> "action news" posted the video to our facebook page, this morning linda rodriguez and other family members saw it and realized they knew the women shot, she is her sister, angela rodriguez who lives here in chester. >> it looked like her, the hair and how she dressed and standing, it was her, it had to be her. >> family members were disturbed that it took time before anyone came to angela's aid. >> that was sad, to just walk by her knowing she was shot, somebody could have helped her. >> the rodriguez says that angela is at crozier medical

getting care. >> i never would have expected a family member would get shot, i see it on the news a lot but never thought it would be my sister. >> and at this points, chester police are releasing few details about the drive-by shooting, whether or not they have suspects or a motive. live in chester, i'm sara bloomquist, channel 6 "action news." >> all right sara thank you. a delaware county money manager is one of several people charged in a unique insider trading scheme tied to international hackers. police say that he and others made $30 million from the scheme, allegedly hacking into press releases before they were made public and gained access to corporate earnings figures and traded ahead of the pack on wall street. and he was arrested at his home today. police have released home

videos of vandals laughing as they slashed dozens of tires, and this was the aftermath along the hundred block of swanson street and they targeted tires on the 100 and 300 blocks of queen street. in all 100 cars were damaged. if you have information give southwest detectives a call. delaware teenagers are rebuilding her charity after it was ransacked by criminals. >> diamond started the unique butterfly charity two years ago, this year's backpack give away had to be canceled because of a break-in at the charities office on robinson lane, someone stole 100 bags along with the charity's computers. >> they took things that were special and what people were looking forward to and it ruined the whole event, the whole fund.

>> the charity's office is now closed as diamond looks for a way to start over from scratch. delaware state police are invest gating the break-in. retail giant target chose the creations of local design students to sell as part of its local dorm room line and their ideas are being sold nationwide. rick williams is live in the newsroom with the details. >> target selected the winners, looking for innovative solutions for dorm winning, four of the winning designs were made by students at a class at philadelphia university. the products made by studentses for students are part of the target's back to school line. coming up tonight at 5:00, katherine scott will show us the creations and tell us how they came to be. also, coming up tonight these bicycles being made by a local company are being recalled because of problems with the

pedals. that and more when we see you on "action news" at 5:00. >> thank you rick. more than 100 pre-k scientists in camden got a helping hand getting ready for school, where 4-year-old preschoolers were given i'm ready for kindergarten workbooks, the books are made for students to learn numbers and letters and were given by camden prep. the superintendant was also on hand today. in less than 24 hours, hundreds of our viewers are picking up free tickets to two of the hottest concerts of the summer, in case you missed it, do a.c. and live nation are giving away 200 tickets to the maroon 5 show on august 16th and 200 tickets to rascal flats on august 20th.

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get it done by the end of the day. >> matt pellman is live in the "action news" traffic center with an update on this wet tuesday afternoon. >> some bad blood feelings towards the traffic, but i'm not sure it was ever mad love, we never loved the roosevelt boulevard, it's extra heavy up to the schuylkill and the broadway, and another round of really heavy rain, rolled through east falls making its way towards center city and on the vine things are wet and congested in each direction and we don't have the five problem swrez along the schuylkill that block tropical disturbance from time to time. the lanes are open but the traffic in them is barely moving at times. same is true on 95 north of the walt whitman bridge especially to the work zone in girard avenue and a fire along hamburg street at indiana avenue.

but it's under control. delco, chester pike by monarch billiards, a crash, in warminster a crash at bristol road, and north coventry, a downed tree at temple road and a crash at schuylkill road and price's corner the overturned vehicle crash along 441 northbound past kirk wood highway, that is off the list. we'll check it again in the 5:00 hour. >> we'll check what we can get. >> you'll do it with a smile as always matt. >> meteorologist, adam joseph, is back with the exclusive accuweather forecast coming up next. ♪

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>> south of dover but the rest of us getting much needed rain around here and this is round two of the rain, as we look at double scan live radar right now it's a broken line south of trenton snakes its way through center city and southern parts of new jersey and delaware as we close in, into the area where we have the warning it continues until 5:15 and it's mainly south of dover is where we are watching that particular thunderstorm, heading towards fredericka, and winds of 17 miles per hour as we watch this line through dover and merrydel, and that line kind of winds its way to bridgeton and malaga, and fortescue, heading towards millville at 5:00, the area near bridgeton pushed in and 59 lightning strikes in the last few minutes and of course that dangerous lightning as well.

>> it canceled. >> that severe thunderstorm warning canceled early as we look at that radar, most of that pushed to the south. as we look at double scan, philadelphia seeing some moderate rainfall for all the major interstates for center city, georgetown, wrightstown heading into parts of burlington county eventually ocean coins, and 6 lightning strikes and most of that is south and east of the new jersey turnpike, 82 in millville and sea isle city, the rain has cooled temperatures off and still tropically humid. 72 in trenton as well as wilmington. the first round of rain this morning is now in northern new england and this is the cold front passing through sparking the additional downpours and thunderstorms, behind this area of rain, dew points are dropping into the 50s really quickly.

and it's very dry kfrnlts air that pulls in late tonight and tomorrow. clearing after those early thunderstorms, 62 to 70 for the overnight low and tomorrow it's breezy and warm and 85 degrees and low humts and watch for an afternoon spotty shower, but nothing like today, a big improvement from what we felt on this tuesday, and then by thursday, mostly sunny and gorgeous and high pressure is in control and low humidity and a high temperature of 83 degrees, the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, 85 as it's humidity drops could be an isolated shower and a good amount of sunshine in the morning and full sun on thursday, 83, we move the temperatures back up 87, with late clouds on friday, late saturday and 90 with an afternoon thunderstorm and heat wave number four looks to be on the way and temperatures are right around the 90 degree mark, hot and humid into monday and

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acme's huge anniversary sale! it's just better. "action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with jaime apody, meteorologist, cecily tynan, rick williams and monica malpass. heavy rain is falling on our region tonight causing streets to flood and making for a tougher commute home, tuesday night and the big story on "action news" is storms that are hitting the delaware valley tonight. stormtracker 6 live double scan keeping an eye on the storm, cecily tynan joins us now with the very latest. >> hi rick and monica, both commutes getting heavy rain, we started with a soaking rain in the moshing and that moved up over new england and a broken

line moving across our viewing area, this is associated with a cold front, once this moves through its the humidity buster but is moving into warm, moist air, we have 262 lightning strike in the last 15 minutes in this view alone. we have lightning and gusty winds, this section of the storm is moving into burlington county, 85 lightning strikes and heavy rain near writes town and heading towards browns mills and route 70, woodruff and ft. dix and browns mill and burs mill, are in the panel of the storm but it's not severe, the rain is falling at an inch and a half to two inches per hour, if it sat there an hour you would end up with two inches of rain, it's not sitting there but moving at 20 miles per hour, it make its difficult to drive in this situation, also, we have a