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>> thursday night, jim will be along shortly from argentina. i'm monica malpass. the big story on "action news"

tonight is the potential for flooding rain from some downpours that just won't quit. let's get to meteorologist cecily tynan and stormtracker 6 live. cecily will the heavy rain complicate the morning commute. >> fortunately, this rain will be out in time forever the morning. the problem shown on stormtracker 6 double scan is we have a band of heavy rain through chester, montgomery and into bucks county right now. and this has dropped more than an inch of rain in spots in a short period of time. could get another inch an a half. the national weather service issued flash flood warnings for this area and mainy montgomery to bucks county and includes part of chester, lehigh valley, war chester, lower salford, upper dublin. this area seeing flash flooding and will continue until 3:00 in the morning this is the line i'm talking about. stormtracker 6 double scan. this strengthens over the past 30 minutes. 36 lightning strikes and moving from malvern across 202 through

422 and across the blue route headed to 309. it's not moving quickly. it's moving at about 10 miles an hour. so that's why it's dropping so much rain in a short period of time. now this is another view on double scan live that shows how much rain has fallen and we have been seeing a pretty widespread area of about 3" of rain and parts of berks county and some areas even reporting close to 5" of rain. so because of that, there is a problem of additional flash flooding overnight. good news is that rain will be exiting by dawn and humidity dropping substantially and more details on that and what it means for the the weekend in the accuweather forecast. monica. >> thank you, cecily. it is not your typical stick em up. a bandit held up a post office. that's a federal crime. joining us live from northeast philadelphia with the details tonight, sharee williams. >> the investigation is moving rather quickly because they

found quality surveillance from inside this post office and also from the surrounding businesses. the crime tape is out here. and that is uncommon at a post office. for the employees and customers inside they were scary moments. with 40 minutes closing, investigators say this man walked into the post office on castor avenue and secretly armed with a gun. >> he enters post office rather calmly and goes in and goes up to the counter and again, rather calmly, and proceeds to rob. >> brand dishing a weapon he demand anything of value including cash, cashiers checks and stamps. >> it's really ridiculous and makes no sense to rob a post office. it's a federal offense. >> the postal inspection service saying the gun-carrying man peers 50 to 60 and gray and white bushy beard is hard to miss. police say he robbed a place

and took off running. none of the employees were hurt. and there were only a couple of customers inside at the time of the armed robbery. they, too, are okay but a bit shaken. >> this compromises the the safety and security of this office and that's our top prioritych the safety and security of customer and employees. we take this serious and we will apprehend the person responsible. >> a live look employees so shaken up they're tun sure if they thop posts office come tomorrow. if you have any idea who the man is in the video call the u.s. postal inspection service and their phone number is 877- 877-876-2455. live in north east philadelphia, sharee williams, "channel 6 action news," monica. >> thank you, sharee. bridgeton police officers who shot and killed a passenger during a traffic stop last year will not face criminal charges and the entire intense confrontation with 36-year-old jerome rext id was caught on

dashcam. >> don't you move. don't you move. >> get him out of the car. he has a gun. he's reaching, he's reaching. show me your hands. >> no you're not don't move, don't move, don't move [ shots fired ]. >> one of the officers had just removed a handgun from the glove compartment they were in fear of their lives when reid stepped out of the car. a grand jury voted not to bridgeton's mayor tells "action news" tonight he trusts the grand jury process and stands behind his police department. the crash that killed a 2-year-old boy tuesday night has also now claimed the life of his 18-year-old half-sister. new jersey state police say jarissa glendo suck onlyed to her injuries. a 6 and 8-year-old relative

remain hospitalized. they were walking back from a parka long bud town road. the street has no lights and shoulder and the driver will not be charged. detectives are on the hunt for a sexual predator who attacked two women at the could be's creek golf course. victims were not golfing but the most recent incident last friday 8 p.m.. the first was july 11, 3:30 a.m. both victims described attacker as muscular hispanic male in mid 80s. 5' 3" to 5' 5". >> a perry. sixt an event started in frangs but continued to the navy yard. party growers came dressed with chairs, table, and annie mccormick joins us live. they hung in there. >>reporter: they hung in there, monica. they are enjoying themselves at

the surprise location at the navy yard. take a look behind me you can see how organizers explained it into dining experience. if people cannot prove it's a rain or shine event. >> fourth annual dinner en blanc may have been damp. this is where it originated 30 years ago. >> it's a special place in history we wanted to show it off and what's happening now the great development here. >> wearing ponchos and holding umbrellas preferably in white or clear, 4500 people dined in the rainfall. >> it's fine comes without rain or shine. >> look at all these thousands of people out there. it has not bothered us much. we're just glad to be here. >> the hot ticket has plenty on the waiting list everyone must wear white and come prepared. >> we have chairs and table and white linens and dishes. >> yep with everything. place setting, food and of

course, wine. ambiance and secret location have these young ladies shookd traveling to several sit questions for the elegant experience. >> it's a little of anticipation. trying to get to where it might. >> our goal is to neighboring to the mother sthoyp paris. >> yes. >> but organizers say phillies party? ces la viv sglext there's so many great places to the choose from we have a long list of great stops. back out here live you can see people are packing up for the night the buses are here to take many people home. this took months to plan and they had to coordinate with multiple city agencies. for now live at the navy yard, annie mccormick, "channel 6 action news." >> thank you, annie. folks showed up to discuss cuts to the chester school district fund that officials had to reschedule another night talk

about the district's special ed program. those programs are publicly financed and privately managed by charter schools. chester's coingts too high and chester has more special education students than the statewide average. the meeting was rescheduled next tuesday as a different venue. >> pope is expected to speak out about human rights during his visit to philadelphia next month. part of the concern was shaped by his own country's history. and "action news" anchor jim gardner joined us live from argentina tonight with more on that. good evening, jim. good evening, monica. for millions of catholics here in argentina the papcry of pope francis is like a breath of fresh air in a country that is holding stench of the war. >> from 1986 to it was controlled by pi dictator shop.

more than 30,000 people kidnapped and they're call the disappeared. adults and children. at least 8,000 were tortured and killed. one of them was easter belstrino shes with a chemist and her lab assistant was the han that became pope. her daughter, anda maria showed me where her mother and six other people were taken by naval officers. they were protestsing outside a church in beaten us ar ees. they were mothers whose children disappeared. they were tortured and while still alive dropped from a plane into the sea. >> anda maria was kidnapped. she told me father burkoiio helped with her release. the rumors are did jorge head of jess wits during the dirty

war look the other way? some militant catholics ina kus him of doing the bidding. burgolio was told abandon to the military two priests. france and orlando. they were accused of the lef leftist activities and they were tortured and released after five months. burgolio tried to testify he tried to warn the priests before the abduction and convinced military to let them go. >> what they said was he didn't do all that they say he has done. >> there are journalists in argentina liked tore and chief of the herald who continued to be uncomfortable about his role during the dictate toreship. >> as for anna maria she does not know what he was thinking

during the holy war and that it was an accomplice to the dictators. >> her mother's body was retrieved after it washed up on shore. it is buried in the courtyard of this church. >> and dictatorship collapsed in 1983 after the old faded war against britain and democracy then returned to argentina. but what they call the dark days still cast a shadow here. there will not be any celebrations next year the 40th anniversary of the junta and dirty war. monica that's the story tonigh tonight. >> our coverage ever the pope's uncoming visit to philadelphia along with on comers from argentina can be found at 6abc.com/pope and we have the information you need to know, maps, highway closures and security zones for the pope's visit in september and the atlantic city beach front has been rocking with big name bands these past summer night

and tonight cas call flats everybody came to see. ♪ >> thousands packed fandz near pacific teev see the country trio. they will get 5,000 to distribute tickets. state officials are considering building a permanent this day to bring in more tourism♪ he says the weekend is not quite the weekend but when ji jimmy buff set on stage it's 5:00 somewhere. buffet brought margarita bill to camden tonight as thousands of parrot heads cheered them on. hugh we lewis and the news opened the show. >> former president carter and his reaction that his cancer has spread to his brain. how doctors plan to treat him

and what his chances are. >> women that made it through grueling training to become first female army rangers. cecily. >> creating heavy downpours and breath of fresh air for the start of the weekend. it looks good at the end. >> plus ducis rogers here from sam bradford. >> plus ducis rogers here from sam bradford. "action news" continues blinds to go's

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>> tonight, former president jimmy carter is done to his first round ever radiation targeting his cancer. he underwent treatment at emo emorry under arrest atlanta. >> i've been very lucky the doctors have been able to control the aspects of frain the operation or presence of cancer. >> carter says doctors removed

the cancer from his liver and later that day discovered four small tumors in his brain. he reflected on the reaction of getting the news describing prognosis with good humor and sincerity. >> i thought i i had a few weeks left. but i was surprisingly at ease. you know, i've had a wonderful life. i've had thousands of friends. and i've had an exciting and adventurous and gratifying existence. so i was surprisingly at ease. much more so than my wife was. >> team leading his care said his prospects are good even at the age of 90 and they'll give him injections of newly approved drug to help his system attack the cancerous cells. >> for the first time we're hearing from two women that were first to qualify as u.s. army rangers. first lieutenant shay hey and reese will graduate tomorrow

that after completing a grue grueling 62 day training program that requires miles of patrolling. participants often have to be sleep deprivd with little food. these soldiers were not just out to page a statement. >> to the other faez that plan to come i hope they come with strong mind that's what it takes to get through it. just like everybody had to do there to make it to tomorrow. >> i feel pretty much the same way. i'm just happy to be done with the course. i just came here to try to be a better leader and improve myself and i feel like di that. >> but the two women post west point graduates cannot yet serve number combat. second of defense will have to make that decision by the end of the year. >> from our new jersey newsroom unemployment in the garden state is now at lowest level since resection started and the rate of 5.9% is two tenth drop from june and that's lowest it's been in new jersey

since september 2008. >> notice weather july was hottest month every recorded globe allegely according to the national oceanic and administrationch the first seven months of the year set plan teary records and no one expects 2015 will end up as hottest year ever dating back to 1880. climate scientists says it reaffirm the earth is warming up and they say the heat is not only in the air temperature but it's also raising ocean temperatures to record levels and that in turn is expected to lead to one of the stronget el nino patterns ever driving systems to yet another extreme. >> and with el nino that's why it's been so active in the the pacific they've had six hurricanes already andel mean owe in the atlantic comes off the storms. we had four named storms and today our hurricane danny formed in on atlantic. that's why it's quiet here and active out in the pacific. very interest weather pattern developing tonight as well.

stormtracker 6 double scan showing we have steady rain in parts of south jersey and kent county, delaware. i want to show you this line that i've been tracking for the past hour. it it rolled out of berks county and it's now moving across montgomery county into bucks county. and it's actually intensifying. we had 73 lightning strikes in the past 15 minutes. if you live in war chester or lansdale you probably have scared dogs and children in your house. this is pulling tremendous rain. right here on this line crossing blue route we have rain falling at the rate of 2" per hour and that also is creating wind gusts. when you sew we had wind gusts 0 to 40 miles an hour ahead of a cold front sweeping through in the overnight hours. nrosh flood warping posted until 3:00 in the morning for

this area, parts of montgomery, and bucks county flash flooding is already occurring and we could get another inch or inch and a half of rain fortunately this time of night a lot of people are not on the roads. this is the reason why dew points show ultra humid it is tropical out there. dew point in wilmington 47. dover 77. you get much higher. temperatures show it's a warm night now, 70s. 79 in philadelphia down from high of 90. sixth day of heat wave number four. wilmington 38 and 75 in allentown and action radar showing this is the last of the line. it's beginning to braeing up ahead of that cold fronts and that continues to push to coas coast. early tomorrow morning 7:00 it will be off the coast. however we could have some lingering clouds along the shoreline into the afternoon. but along i-95 corridor areas

north and west sunshine back and it will feel better with that lowering humidity. if down the shore tomorrow, lots of clouds in the morning and then maybe a thunder shower early. 85. saturday is looking nice. sun, mixing with clouds, 84. sunday that's cold front going to move further west and that will bring more clouds and possibility of popup shower. certainly not a washout. if you head to the poconos you clear up first up there it's beautiful. sunny, low humidity, 77. same on day. 77 and sunday, high of 78. morning cloud, afternoon sunshine. lower humidity, 87 degrees on saturday low humidity very comfortable 86. on sunday it begins to get more muggy a few more clouds, 87. maybe a popup shower east of philadelphia. and on monday we're back and that warm and humid air mass, 89. then tuesday partly sunny and 86. wednesday and thursday temperatures in the mid 80s.

we have a flash flooding in parts of montgomery and bucks county and overnight it's all clearing out. >> thank you, cecily. >> "jimmy kimmel live" is coming up 11: 35 after "action news" here's jimmy with a preview of tonight's show. >> thanks monica, hello philadelphia, here's a snippet of what we're up to tonight. >> ki sleep over in the lincoln bedroom. >> no, no, no. the lincoln bedroom jimmy. >> ki wash my hair in the lincoln bathroom. >> no

>> ducis here with sports. will he start or won't he. >> chip kelly has not said yes yet but we predict sam broad ford will start against baltimore. only a handful of snaps in the last year. jeff skversky is covering the birds. eagles fans you'll craneth hearing this and eagles fans you'll craneth seeing it sam bradford eagles quarterback says he wants to get hit and knocked down to the ground of course if he gets up. it is the best way to get the comfortable against the pocket and pass rush.

>> chip kelly non committal about bradford availability for the game against ravens. bradford admits he would be extremely disappointed if he were held out again. eagles quarterback has had no issues with left knee in camp and he's seen most of the first team reps and after going down nearly a year ago as you can imagine he emotions running high and bradford want to get out there and test out the knee. >> i think it's good to get the first hit out of the way. you never like to get hit. sometimes it gets you in flow of game. so you know hopefully it does not happen and it's not a big shot. but you know i would not be -- would not hate going to the ground one and getting unand knowing i'll be okay. >> we asked him if he would be ready to go for preseason camp and he did it. no ill he fets and not a day hey, his knee is bothering him. and i think he's getting more comfortable in what we're doing

scheme wise. >> marcus smith the linebacker left practice earlier today with a white am string injury. mri tomorrow. with eagles, jeff skversky, "channel 6 action news." >> redskins ring a hard time keep rg3 healthy. quarterback suffered a concussion during a preseason game against lions daen not return and now have to go through league mandated concussion protocol. no word when he may return to action. still ahead, tiger woods golf game is not dead yet and jerome williams

>> the post chase utley era began tonight in miami. phillies and marlins this here is darnell sweeny one of the players phils got in the utley deal and he fly alone at bat. >> rough night for jerome williams and marcelle. wow, two run blast in the second. left two innings 8-1. cody ashe deliveries a solo shot to pull phils within two. that's it they lose 9-7. >> former eagles head coach dick vermeil join the soul. >> when you think tiger is washed up he does this shoots in the opening round of wind ham championship how about that birdie on first hole. he has not had a win on pga tour in some two years. perhaps he's back perhaps.

>> thank you, ducis. bacon lovers had a ball tonight at second annual bacon and beer festival. 14 restaurants to offer tasty restaurants and breweries featured beers and competitions for best dish and brew. everything from bacon khouder and donuts to plowedy marys with bacon. >> it was at the ballroom of the scottish rite auditorium. >> jimmy kim sl next. first lady michelle obama and lilly tomlin and "action news" continues at 4:30 with matt o'donnell, david murphy and karen rogers with traffic. for cecily tynan, ducis rogers, jim gardner in argentina and all of us, i'm monica malpass, have a great night. all of us, i'm monica malpass, have a great night. kling