over dover and one i'm tracking over the past hour, moving through philadelphia into montgomery county and buck county, stormtracker 6 live double scan really zooming in on this, showing in the past 15 minutes, 19 lightning strikes associated with it, with the high humidity it's squeezing moisture out of the atmosphere and lifting across 263 right now and following 622, just drifting up to the north and the national weather service posted a flash flood warning and we have seen it in the area, already 1 to 2 inches of rain has fall and and beginning to weaken and this is the evening commute as you are driving home, you want to be careful do not drive into roads that are flooded, the dew points are high and philadelphia the dew point is 66 and just to the south, we have dew points in the

70s thanks to the winds out of the southeast, that continues as we head through the week, until a cold front finally pressed through, this is what to expect it could drop -- the most active time period is thursday night into friday morning, i have details on this and what it means for the weekend in the full accuweather forecast. >> thank you cecily, in other news, an employee at a school in chester county has helped to guide people through their path to college and trying to pursue a relationship with a 16-year-old student. david henry has the full story. >> reporter: 40-year-old emily feeny worked here at malvern prep for two years, a private school for boys, and the school says they fired her as soon as

the allegations became known. >> miss feeny do you have a comment about these charges. >> no comments thank you. >> she had nothing to say as she turned herself into a chester county courthouse, she is accused of pursuing a relationship with a 16-year-old student and investigators say she sent hundreds of emails and provocative photos of herself. >> she was pursuing this boy, going after him again and again and again. at one point the boy sent feeny this message, i'm not interested in you, i'm 16 and not into you. but investigators say she continued to pursue the boy but it did not get into anything more than a kiss and she held up the promise of getting the boy into harvard in exchange for him

submitting to her demands. >> when it comes to the difference in power and authority that is what we worry about. >> feeny worked at princeton university before coming to malvern prep. they released a statement in part, we can assure parents that students safety is paramount. she faces unlawful contact with a minor and her lawyer says she is devastated. >> she is understandably upset and we take the manner seriously. we'll look at all the evidence and make the best decision possible. >> feeny is released on $500

bail. in other news, long time subway pitchman jared fogle will plead guilty to child pornography and traveling to have sex with underage girls. he appeared in indianapolis today and he reached a plea agreement with prosecutors including a prison sentence of 5 to 12.5 years in prison and will have to pay $100,000 in restitution to each of the 14 victims. >> let call this for what it is, using wealth, status and secrecy to illegally exploit children. >> subway stopped its relationship with fogle after authorities raided his home, fogle's wife is now seeking a divorce. >> there is more in fogle's plea deal coming up with david muir, that is at 6:30 after "action news" at 6:00. police are trying to track down the driver that hit a pedestrian and left him on the

road to die, 47-year-old dwayne wisher was hit at 2:30 this morning and they are trying to get a better vehicle description, they know it was a compact vehicle either silver or gray. much of the focus of the upcoming papal visit is on sunday's mass on the parkway come september 27th but the pope will first be on independence mall on saturday to give a highly anticipated speech, sara bloomquist has more on that part of the pope's time in philadelphia. >> historic independence hall, the birth place of the nation will provide the back job for pope francis in the late afternoon, here on a relatively small stage, the pope gives something of a policy speech. >> it's not a religious service, it's the pope, the holy father speaking about his feelings about issues that are important

to him. >> for me this is ground zero of u.s. history. >> a park guy says he chose the perfect spot, of his chosen topic, religious freedom and a hot button topic here now, immigration. >> this is something i'm proud of as a pennsylvanian. >> tens of thousands, immigrants themselveses are expected to fill the blocks from the parkway to independence hall. >> it will be a microcosm of what the united states is. >> pope francis joins a long and ill -- the first was abraham lincoln, we know he stopped here on his way to be sworn in as president. >> the pope is expected to tour the hall and perhaps see the liberty bell but this is a pope that has surprised the world

already, his time in philadelphia should be no different, we know that this pope does what he wants to do and we'll see what he feels like doing that day. >> world meeting of families organizers are deciding if some or all of independence mall will be ticketed for the pope's appearance, that is an announcement they hope to make very soon. i'm sara bloomquist, channel 6 "action news." >> thousands will be traveling from wilmington, delaware, the weekend that pope francis is in town and amtrak has sold 10,000 tickets at the wilmington station, there will be street closures to accommodate the pedestrian traffic and there are spots for 600 vehicles to park at the nearby lots will open to hold another 4,000 cars. >> jim gardner's special reports from the pope's home town of buenos aires, will continue at 6:00 and 11:00 and we have a

special section devoted to news on the pope on our website at 6abc.com, you can watch jim's special reports from argentina all this week. time for a check of the "action news" traffic report on a somewhat soggy wednesday night. lets go live to matt pellman. >> we feel water logged and that is causing severe backups monica and rick, as you stretch from montgomery county to bucks and this is the live shot in buck county along 95 at the scutter falls bridge there was anorthbound crash than is off to the side and the heavy southbound traffic heading into buck county and pennsylvania, you can see all the water that these vehicles are rolling through, there is minor flooding reported along 95 and 1, the super highway, and downed wires giving us delays on septa rail line, all trains are halted and all of the other lines are

running but warminster not running now. on the roads speeds are down in buck county like along the purpose took, 20s and z versus the 50s and 60s. and a different scene in the city, the callow hills section, at ridge avenue, i would stick to spring garden as an alternate. >> thank you sir. still ahead, the popular ice bucket challenge raised millions to help research lou gehrigs disease, how the money raised may have helped a break through in treatment. and mac and cheese with doritos on top, the meatballs at

lincoln financial field that is making our mouth water. and cecily is back with the full accuweather forecast. when "action news" at 5:00 continues, stay with us.

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indonesia search and rescue agency is looking for one of two black boxes, from a plane that crashed over the weekend, they ridgely said both were found, they have the black box but the flight data recorder is missing. all on board crashed when it hit a mountain on sunday. the prison release of oscar pistorius is put on hold. the south african department of justice says pistorius's case has to be reviewed again, after being approved to be moved to house arrest was too early. he was do you to get out of prison early. he is stepsed to five yours for killing his girlfriend in 2013. hackers say they exposed unfaithful partners from around

the world but releasing personal information hacked from ashley madison, they told them to put the site down and they didn't so they released the information online. others say that many of the profiles seem bogus but that the leak is huge. on health check now, last summer's ice bucket challenge for als raised 220 million there's and obviously now that is paying off. registered nurse and reporter ali gorman joins us at the big board. >> i know you both took the challenge, this is my video of my nephew john gladly putting water over my head and his brother. it seems everyone was taking the ice bucket challenge and now we see how it helped. scientists at john hopkins say they have made a break through

and could not have done it so soon without the money, they discovered how a brain protein linked to als works and developed a potential treatment and money for human trials all because so many people were willing to get wet. also today head lice also makes the rounds when kids go back to school and making it harder to get rid of. they say that lice in at least 25 states are now resistant to chemicals in common over the counter treatments, the problem is the product is used too much. >> it's important not to treat the whole family because if you treat them and they don't have it, they could become resistant to the shampoo. >> samples in new jersey show partial resistance and the best tactic is of course prevention, don't share hats, brushes, combs

or towels and speaking of bugs, when kids go back to school they will be exposed to more germs, september is the start of cold season and with kids spending more times indoors and in close proximity to people they will be at greater risk to catch a virus. the best is hand washing, kids that wash their handed several times a day especially before eating, common surfaces should be disinfected. it make a difference especially during cold and flu season. a local young authors will be featured on a disney program. in christiana, delaware she spoke but righting her own book and start aid program that recruits men to read to children at elementary schools across the

state. the book tells the story of her life but with a fantasy spin on it. >> my first bok, i never thought i would get this far at this able age and i hope to encourage everybody to read and have a reading partner. >> the show called, we day, aired friday night at 8:00. good for her. >> still to come on "action news" tonight, a quick reminder we want you to go to facebook and like our 6 abc "action news" page, that gives you access to all the top stories as well as updates and breaking news. you can also communicate with us members of "action news" team. narrator: first pat toomey

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target is paying a $67 million deal with visa related to the security breach, it happened during the height of the shopping season and compromises credit card and debit accounts, it hurt profits and sales for months. >> lots of excitement today as

villanova freshman moved into their dorms all their belongings were halled in today and freshman orientation starts tomorrow and classes start next monday. and the college of new jersey have nine new buildings, developers finished the first phase of the campus town at the college of knowledge, it includes 80 thoughts square feet of retail stores and living unitems, the part a public and private partnership. they are on the way. >> yes, they are. still to come we'll check it's forecast for you, looking outside sky 6 hd live at the shore a lot of fun for most folks ending the summer, cecily tynan with more from accuweather. consideration

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time for accuweather at the "action news" big board. some had dicey weather, but it's clearing out a bit. >> the cell that caused the warning is lifting up but one cell popped up over philadelphia, but stormtracker 6 live double scan shows much of our region is rain free, i'm tracking more thunderstorms and

showers for friday, after all the rain this afternoon if parts of philadelphia and buck county, the national weather service issued a flash flood warning until 7:30 there, this is starting to diminish in its intensity. we have rain working up to the northeast of 611, only four lightning strikes in the past 15 minutes, this is beginning to rain itself out. we had one heavy downpour in north philadelphia over west wyoming avenue, no lightning strikes just a heavy downpour and this is moving up to the north towards west godfrey avenue, we'll see more of these happening tomorrow afternoon into friday morning, as the cold front finally moves through, but today we have a bonus day with the heat, 92 the high so far in philadelphia, enough mid-day sunshine to make this thetive

fifth day of heat wave number four. we have a warm and humid air mass over us and that will help provide the fuel for downpours as we head through the day tomorrow and tomorrow morning, satellite 6 along with action radar showing the main weather maker is this cold front just now near chicago and this cold front will be moving to the east very slowly and that will help see more of the moisture out of the atmosphere and produce heavy downpours especially thursday night into friday morning, tonight we'll be warm and muggy and a few scattered thunderstorms, once the sunsets the thunderstorms will begin to die out. wilmington 73 and cape may 75 degrees, future tracker 6 showing tomorrow morning lots of clouds and spotty showers or thunderstorms but then as we head into the afternoon and evening hours we'll see the activity picking up west of philadelphia and then sweep

through the philadelphia area into south jersey overnight ahead of that cold front, the five-day at five, steamy with afternoon showers and thunderstorms and friday a soaking start with that cold front and then by the afternoon, in philadelphia, could see a few peaks of sunshine and 85 degrees, the weekend depends on where you are, the cold front stalls offshore on saturday, in philadelphia, partly sunny and closer to the shore with clouds and a chance of showers and 85 degrees, more clouds again and the possibility of a shower and 87, monday the humidity intensifies with a high of 89, i have comfortable weather on the way until then we are stuck in the muggies. >> thanks cecily, more to come in our next half hour of "action news" at 5:00, developing news on the phillies front, reports that chase utley could be heading out of town and donald

trump is gaining ground and hillary clinton is losing steam. and the manhunt is underway in thailand as they identify a prime suspect in the deadly bombing.

"action news" continues. >> hello again here is what is happening on "action news" wednesday night, a plan of action for the upcoming papal visit, how churches in montgomery county are preparing for the worst for the pope's trip to philadelphia. and the recruitment drive for philadelphia hoping to capitalize on the pontiff's visit here. and the new eats at the linc, the new gourmet snacks for eagles fans to chow down on while watching the game. and the papal visit is just five week as way now, and montgomery county is making their own plan to beef up security. "action news" reporter, chad pradelli has more. >> reporter: the papal visit has increased security across our region and today montgomery county leaders and houses of

worship gathered in norristown to discuss ways to keep houses of worship safe. the scenario an active shooter situation inside of a church. run from the danger if possible and hide from the shooters view and in a situation of last reso resort, act with aggression and commit. it makes common sense. >> we have done an internal threat assessment and we are marching to get the questions answers. >> he told him he is a primary tar get as a lead pastor and has developed an escape plan and in the event of an attack he will draw an active shooter bay from the people in the pews. >> we are careful about cameras and making sure everyone in the

nursery has gone through training and background checks, we are working hand in hand to make sure the residents of montgomery county are shave. roughly a dozen church leader attended the morning's session, a key reminder for everyone during it's papal visit, if you see something, say something. >> this is as good a time as any. >> and recent active shooter incidents show that only 4% of the shootings happened in houses of worship, still leaders around our region are making sure their places are safe. chad pradelli, channel 6 "action news.." >> sticking with papal news, the archdiocese of philadelphia is hoping to capitalize on the momentum surrounding pope francis' visit, official asnounced today they are starting a new recruitment program, the action cam was at

saint sip reon church. it's the call by name program in the fall, submitting people's name that are good candidates to become priests. they will host dinners and events for young adults. >> we trust with full confidence that the vocations are out there, and we are hoping to ride the wave of this enthusiasm that is coming with the papal visit and the world meeting of families. >> the archdiocese says that this year's class of 20 new seminarians is three times larger than last year and church leaders think the transformation underway is playing a big part in that. pope francis is staying at that seminary while he is in town

next month. >> thanks sharrie. philadelphia police say they have arrested a man responsible for eight robberies, in some cases hitting the same store twice, police say donald thompson robbed eight stores in the last two months alone and three of them twice including the family dollar store on caster avenue this monday and the employees recognized him from the first time he robbed their store and another woman yvette simpson was arrested for driving thompson's get away car and they hope that this video will help them find a suspect wanted for robbery in philadelphia, that a man walk nood the run ray pharmacy demands cash and threatened to shoot everyone in the store, he ran and got in a cab. to politics now. a new poll shows that hillary clinton could be losing her lead in the race for the white house,

the poll puts clinton's support for registered democrats at 47%, the lowest poll amounts since she announced her nomination and bernie sanders has 29%. and donald trump is just 6 points behind. the first time he was found to be a legitimate candidate in the general election. and after monday's deadly attack on a shrine, the man was spotted leaving a backpack at the scene of the bombing just minutes before the explosion and they are looking for two possible accomplices walking with the man in the video and a $28,000 reward is offered for any information leading to the bombing suspect's arrest. >> the port authority of new york and new jersey want stores at newark liberty airport to

stop selling drones, they sell remote control flying objects despite banning them near airports, the fcc is considering stricter rules on drones after sightings near the airport this year. the linc has just added several gourmet snacks to the menu and eva pilgram when there to get a taste. >> cheering on the eagles has never been more delicious. >> we try to introduce new culinary trends and give people what they want. >> first up, this is not your run of the mill meatball sandwich. >> we grind our own brisket and put in cheese and other spices and topped with gravy and

parmesan cheese. >> new this year is zach's ham buggers is a tried and true stop with 31 years under their belt. they are all made to order the way you like it. >> you want something to eat, eat two, pass them down and eat out of your box it's nice and convenient and a real value. >> if you want to find all of this food at lincoln financial field there is an app for that, but i warn you be careful take your time and pace yourself. there say lot of food and it's really good. >> you'll need a kick to keep tasting at quick and carmichaels barbecue. mac and cheese with a twist. a slight chipotle flavor and plain or with pork and doritos to give it a crunch. >> my wife does a good job.

>> but there is someone for the veg tearans this year, pizzeria veteri is offering seasonal pizza, cooked in their pizza oven in the stadium. if you want a pizza you can come to lincoln financial field and get the same pizza. eva pilgram, channel 6 "action news." >> starving now. >> wow lets go there and eat and when the game starts -- >> time to get a check of traffic, matt pellman is in the traffic center with an update. >> are you as hungry as we are? >> just eat instead of getting on the train, if you take the warminster line, are you not getting through, still the downed peco wires, all trains are halted and other lines in the area, like landsdale and trenton lines they are running. that is in the wake of the heavy downpours that we saw coming through and left us with flooding in doylestown and now a

vehicle stuck in the water at lantern drive, they were doing what cecily told us what not to do. turn around don't drown. and the downpours were spotty, here on the boulevard extension, it's dry here in east falls but a mule north at broad street things are soaking wet. never know what you are find on the way home. >> always an adventure, more ahead on "action news." chase utley could be a philly no more. the rumors about utley's future and a possible move to the west coast. and big changes coming to dancing with the stars, who is in and who is out for season 21. >> a hot and steamy day today, 92 in philadelphia, look to the west though, temperatures in the 70s, the contrast causing rain. >> those stories and more.

one person was critically hurt when an explosion ripped

through washington state this morn rg, there were reports that two people were missing in the rubble but now they say everybody was accounted for and the hotel manager evacuated in minutes because she could spell gas and there was a leak. time for sports now and big news from the phillies, reports say that chase utley is being close to being traded away, ducis rogers is here with more. he is, he isn't? we hear this all week. >> it appears he is. a day after ruben amaro jr. says it was likely he would not be traded word is he will, word has it he is going to the l.a. dodgers. >> the long of the tenured athlete in philadelphia may be out of here, according to reports chase utley is going to the donor in exchange for two minor leaguers and as you said

this comes a day after gm ruben amaro jr. says that utley will be here for the rest of the season, check this out. one you want to remember, could be the final time we see utley warm up in a phillies uniform. chase utley debuted for the phils back in 2003 and the full-time starter at second base for a decade and four time all-star and an active member in the philadelphia community and has raised his average .38 points in just eight games and the dodger second base many is out with an injury until september and they need him. >> you know there is nothing for me to say except as far as i know chase is on the team and i'll use him as i see if it in

the game. >> he is not here and not playing in the lineup, that is by design, i can't explain what he has meant to me in my career. he has been right there, you know guiding me through everything, you know everything i have experienced, so -- you know it would -- i have not heard anything official. >> utley was planning to be out of the lineup because they are facing a left handed pitcher and now only ryan howard and carlos ruiz remain from the world series championship team. we'll have more coming up at 6:00, jaime apody, channel 6 "action news." >> we'll talk to you again then, to football now by the time saturday's game rolls around the eagles and ravens know each well and may be sick of each other. unlike the cowboys and rams yesterday there was no brawls

but the two teams were getting after it a bit. >> even as the practice went on the competition increased, i'm sure it will crank up to another notch tomorrow and saturday night it will be full tilt. >> pretty much the same for us, shorter we are not out there going as long killing each other but definitely different to go against a different team and see different looks. >> demarco murray practiced today because that is news he was limited during training camp and held out of the first preseason game, they insist nothing is wrong with him just keeping his workload low. >> i am confident, and comfortable with the offense and comfortable with myself and doing a lot of great work, it depends on what they want to do, they know what is best for the team. >> we'll have more on chase utley at can have.

>> thank you. a utah police officer's dance moves are going viral, he hopes it will help bridge the gap between the public and police around the country. they caught him on surveillance cameras, the store handed over the footage to the police department and they post ttd on their facebook page joking they are trying to get the office help as soon as possible. >> that is the whip and the na na he was trying to do. >> and speaking of dancing, there is a big change, len good man is not returning to the judge's table and he says between the english show and his grandchild he has to cut back. >> and the show revealed the po fessional dancers this fall, among them a surprise, corrina smirnoff is returning to show

the cat is here. it's out of bag. >> also returning this season, derek hough and defending champion, val and "dancing with the stars" returns monday september 14th. >> we can't wait. a check of the forecast for you. >> stepping outside sky 6 hd showing the center city skyline and cecily tynan has the exclusive accuweather forecast. oh my gosh, it's the guy from last night. what?! can i jump on your wi-fi? yeah, you can try it. hey! i had a really good time last night. yeah, me too. the only thing is that... the only thing is what? what's the only thing? oh my gosh he's married. he's a kleptomaniac. he's a pyromaniac. he's a total maniac. hey! hey!

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a delaware man is celebrating his child's birthday by painting disney characters in his backyard, and this one is mickey mouse and goofy and the neighbors love it, they are asking when the next painting will be? he says labor day, disney is the parent company of 6 abc by the way. >> and now cecily tynan is here with the forecast, we hit another day of 90. >> 92 today, the fifth day in the heat wave we have a few isolated downpours out there, again you can see most of our

area is dry and there are a few clusters popping up and one is rolling through the lee lie valley, and it rolled through easton 10 minutes ago and continuing to move to the north at 611, that is the focus, the magnet of showers today and we have another one that has popped up in northeast philadelphia, also right along 611 heading towards jenkintown and malvern, the problem is that these downpours occur in the same area where we have downpours an hour ago and the weather service extended the flash flood warning in montgomery county into buck county, about 2 inches of rain has fallen in this area and with more on the way we see additional flash flooding, i always say turn around don't drown, it was hot in philadelphia and allentown and trenton and loads of sunshine and temperatures in the 90s

again and wilmington got a shower this afternoon, this cooled the temperature from the high of 86, and the sea breeze is only 83 degrees, trenton a rain cooled 78 degrees, millville 86 and cape may 80 and wilmington 82 degrees, satellite 6 along with action radar it doesn't look much different than yesterday, the cold front is just limping to the east and ahead of it we have all of these moisture bubbling up with the winds from the southeast, that creates a setup for a good soaking especially for tomorrow night into friday morning, the slow moving cold front provides lift to see out of atmosphere and any downpour could have 1 to 3 inches of rain and the most active period could be friday night into saturday morning. tropical storm danny looks to become a category one hurricane

next week and approaching the northern windward islands and puerto rico by the end of next week. back at home the exclusive accuweather forecast steamy tomorrow and warm and 87 degrees and thunderstorms developing and most activity in the afternoon and evening hours, into friday morning with the cold front so a soaking start to friday, 85 degrees and saturday partly sunny with showers lingering along the coast, 85 degrees, and on sunday, the cold front will retro grade, farther to the west and to the coast and that brings us clouds and sunshine and the possibility of showers and 87, monday is gets warm and humid and tuesday a humid day and 76 and next wednesday beautiful with a high of 84 degrees, keep the umbrellas on hand you won't need it all the time but any thunderstorm could have a real heavy downpour. >> thank you cecily.

kelly clarkson made a guest appearance on jimmy kimmel live, she turned tinder profiles into songs. next the "action news" team is standing by with these stories next at 6:00, a counselor and coach is accused of trying to have a relationship with her student and the fatal crash in south jersey involving four siblings and a cousin. >> and jim gardner is in

argentina meeting up with a family that is coming to philadelphia for the world meeting of families next month. and for the entire "action news" team i'm rick williams join me next for "action news" at 6:00.

"action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with ducis rogers, meteorologist, cecily tynan and jim gardner. wednesday night and jim is on assignment and will join us in a few minutes, i'm rick williams. a main line restaurant closed for a roach infestation gets

another surprise inspection. but the big story on "action news" is the arrest of a chester county private school counselor and swim coach. emily sweeney allegedly pursued a malvern prep student for sex and promised him admission to harvard university in return. david henry is live with the details. >> reporter: yes, admission to harvard or sex with teacher, that was the choice they say was presented to the student here at malvern, fortunately he chose to go to the police. >> this was braise and and prolonged and over the top. >> district attorney tom hogan says that 40-year-old emily feeny was relentless in her pursuit of the boy, she was the swim coach and he was on the team, investigators s