accuweather is tracking more wet weather in the forecast tonight. we are keeping a close eye on the flood watch right now for our area. lets go to cecily tynan in for adam joseph, this rain is a good thing but we have seen it cause flooding in low lying areas. >> this is what we are worrying about, we desperately need the rain and the ground is dry and causing localized flooding especially in poor drainage area, this is stormtracker 6 live double scan there is a cold front draped to the east and low pressure to the south and that is providing a conveyer belt of moisture and we are getting a break in the action in philadelphia and it's not going to last long now, stormtracker 6 live double scan, showing rain in pottstown across route 100 and 422 and route 30 near malvern, this is all generally lifting up to the north as the

low pressure comes towards us, atlantic city an isolated downpour over the garden state parkway and these are moving across cape may right now and continuing to push to the east and the actual low pressure is taking its time getting out of here that means a wet evening commute and the possibility of localized flooding we have a flash flood watch for most of our viewing area, except for the coast with the sandy soil. we are looking for 1 to 3 inches of rain than will cause the possibility of flash flooding, if are you trying to get home or anywhere, i say turn around don't drown do not drive through nooded roads. periods of heavy rain and thunder and uponing on roads and then it moves out from the west to the east at midnight and i'm

tracking more rain over the weekend, that is coming up in the full accuweather forecast. >> thank you. we have seen at least one car get stuck in high water, the action cam is there as the crews pulled a woman out on the car in ford road and fairmount park and there was an infant in the backseat. fortunately everyone is okay and this happened at 1:15 in the afternoon, police are reminding everyone not to drive through flooded areas, 6abc.com/weather is your go to resource, check in often with storm tracker radar for the very latest. we have more breaking news, this concerning the phillies, general manager, ruben amaro is out, the team announced they will not renew his contract. the phillies this wrapped up a news conference about that.

>> the phillies are looking for a new general manager, he made the decision in the last few days, the fans are not happy with ruben amaro over the last few your years, that did play a small role. take a look ruben amaro is no longer the phillies general manager with seven seasons with the club, they missed the playoffs four out of seven of those seasons and this year the worst team in baseball, he said they did talk to ruben today and took the news like a pro, they did not make the decision before the trade deadline or before he traded chase utley and cole hamels and jonathan papelbon, because it would have been too disruptive. >> i have a responsibility to the fans and the ownership to do what i think is best and get

this thing back to where it was as quickly as i can and as efficiently as i can. so that was the basis for my decision. >> a well run company, there is accountability, even though people are making decisions in groups, there is still a person primarily responsible for the decision that has to be held accountable. we recognized there was a problem and we are trying as fast as we can to get out of problem and get back to winning. >> strong words from owner, in the meantime, interim gm is scott profolk and they are looking for a permanent gm as we speak. >> thank you jeff. a man who kidnapped a woman in german town and brought her all the way to maryland has now admitted his guilt, melvin

barnes was caught on video grabbing carlesha freeland-gaither from a sidewalk and throwing her in the trunk, he drove her to maryland and the fbi eventually tracked them down, he changed his plea to guilty this morning and faces 35 years in prison and vernon odom is in court today and he'll have a full report at 4:30. and developing right now, we just got an update on city leaders for plans for the pope's visit and the big headline is parking inside of the secure zone, david henry is live now working this story for us. >> reporter: yes hi sharrie, the mayor and the backers of the world meeting of familys trying to convince people it's a bigger event and it will be easier to get here and easier to get

around but there are still in difficulties for people that live in the blue areas, and the mayor had a stern warning for those people. >> if you normally park your car in either the secure perimeter or the secure vehicle perimeter, we need to call on your civic pride and duty and ask you to relocate your vehicle or unfortunately we'll have to relocate that vehicle, also known as towing, the towing in the center city area will begin -- >> people will get advanced warnings, the signs go up a week before the towing starts, this area right here sunday at 6:00 p.m., cars will be towed out of that area. and then monday at 9:00 a.m., and 6:00 p.m. on tuesday in this area. that said the city will make it

easier for people that live in the areas, they are providing 1500 free parking spaces at the naval hospital in addition to that, the philadelphia parking authorities has six parking grations with 6,000 spots available. they are $20 a piece for the entire weekend, you will get a placard to place in your windshield and you can remain parked in these areas before the towing begins. a lot of changes and updates to the festival grounds and otherwise, we'll have more for you coming up on "action news" at 6:00. david henry, channel 6 "action news." >> a lot of developments thanks for breaking it down. we have much more coverage on the papal visit still ahead. coming up at 5:00, eva pilgram has an update on hotel space and erin o'hearn has the story of people that live near the

parkway trying to get ready for the huge crowds outside of their front doors, we are constantly updating 6abc.com/pope. among other things, there is a ligs of highways and road closures and more on how you can see the pope during his two scheduled parades. >> 14 years after heroic passengers foiled an attempted hijacking, a memorial is now open where their plane crashed. a visitors center opened in shanksville, pennsylvania where flight 93 went down in 2001. the $26 million complex uses photos and videos and interactive displays to tell about that flight the one of four that failed to reach its intended target. rutgers campus is expanding

their security, they are offering window alarms and lighting for studentses that live south and west of the college campus and they have increased patrols and there are also plans to install dozens of security cameras in the neighborhood. after 10 current and former rutgers students are accused and arrested for assaulting people in the spring. five of those are on the football team. rain means slow going on the roads. >> lets head live to autumn marisa in for matt pellman in the traffic center. >> hi sharrie and brian, we see the storms pop up, they are causing slow going on the roadways, we see ponding and we are seeing low visibility and reduced speeds and some cars are quickly pulling over to the shoulder. currently right now we are dealing with an accident on the schuylkill expressway this is in the westbound lanes at 30 and

street station taking out the right hand lane and back to passyunk, the schuylkill expressway is looking clear now and about an hour ago we had a storm on the schuylkill and nice high speeds across the region, where you see the lower speeds is where you see the storms popping up. be careful on 202 and 422 as well as the pennsylvania turnpike, lincoln drive is closed between kelly and rittenhou rittenhouse. taking a look at 95, the northbound lanes of 95 were flooded earlier between the vine street expressway and allegheny, that is since cleared out the way but as we see storms move through again we can expect to see the flooding again. we'll keep an eye on things and bring you an update in the next half hour. >> thank you. there is a new list of america's top colleges and one local school came in at number one and another dropped in the rankings. and hundreds of thousands of people are forced out of their

homes, after almost two feet of rain fell in a single day. and the company that makes k cups is hoping to jump start its sales with a new product and they are turning to a company in our area to make it happen.

thousands of refugees and migrants faced a new obstacle downpours were an obstacle for refugees as they crossed in the country. european countries are struggling to accommodate them, today the white house says that the u.s. is preparing to accept 10,000 syria refugees in the next budget year. 20 inches of rain fell in

just 24 hours in japan and that causes rivers to overrun their banks north of tokyo, the government order 25,000 people to head to higher ground to safety, huge walls of water swept away homes that could not stand the force of that flood, a meteorologist explained what happened. >> a cold front set up shop sunday night and then tropical storm went across the western part of japan and it was forced to sit in the same area, because of another tropical storm running east of japan. >> the speed and intensity left a lot of people stranded and the japanese army was called to rescue people from rooftops and rising floodwaters and meantime the runoff is threatening the already damaged fukushima plant. keurig is trying to reverse its slumping sales and turning

to a local company to help do it. they are teamling up with campbells to offer fresh brewed soup in a k cup, they have noodle soup in two different flavors, this is keurig's first official food into the food market and they have partnered with starbucks and dunkin' donuts and maxwell house. and the closing numbers, on wall street today, green arrows across the board, the dow up 67 points and the nasdaq up 40 points and the s&p up 10.25 points on the day. teachers in the chester upland school district are treated to a free lunch today, the meals were a gift from sons of ben, the fan group for the union soccer team, they often support charity efforts in chester because they play their game there in ppl park.

they wanted to help teachers after they agreed to work for uncertain paychecks. now top colleges and universities and a local school came in at number one, princeton university took the top spot in the u.s. news and world reports annual rankings, harvard second and yale third, the top ten had the same schools as last year, penn dropped from number eight to number nine. two of the lifestylists from the show fab life came to dish about it ahead of the premiere, super model, tyra banks was the show's producer, she brought along a cohost, lauren mack, they were so cool, signing autographs and taking pictures and joining us for lunch, common they will be joined by three

other experts. chrissy teigan and lee ashley and joe z. together the five of them say they will make all of us fab, standing for fun and beautiful. >> like inviting five friends in our house every day. >> yes, because we are crazy, crazy friends that know how to make your food taste better and your booty look better and your house look better. it's a lot of information in one quick bite. >> a nugget. >> yes, a nugget. >> we just wanted to say booty today on "action news" at 4:00, this is what we call a tease, tomorrow on "action news" at 4:00, i ask the queen of the selfie and the smize, to help me out, i always end up with a double chin in pictures, and fab life premiers next monday on 6 abc, at the end of nail it, but

she helped me work it there. >> so much personality. they were awesome today. >> and our booties will look better. >> i like that. >> it is time now for accuweather. >> lets head over to cecily tynan, i won't even say anything else. >> are we going to post pictures on facebook and twitter. our weather is anything but fabulous as stormtracker 6 live double scan show that we have some heavy rain across the region and this is much needed rain and it's coming heavily enough to cause localized flooding, i want to zoom into this one cell working out of northern kent delaware, to smyrna, gusts of 30 miles per hour with this thunderstorm as it continues to drift up to the north, we have had some pretty steady heavy rain in montgomery county and green lane and crossing route hundred now east

of honey brook and we have flood advisories mosted until 9:00 tonight for lehigh and western chester and upper buck county as well. basically any areas of poor draining that see the heavy rain will look like this. i want to thank justin for posting this. this is a parking lot that often does flood when we get the heavy downpours and that is exactly what happened today. it's not all bad news, we desperately need the rain, we have 20 days in a row without any rain and the record is 29 set back in the 1800s, this is pretty unusual and so far philadelphia reporting .08 inch and more is on the way for the evening hours, for this cold front the heat wave is over, yesterday in the 90s and today 76 in philadelphia and millville 78 and allentown 70 and

wilmington 76 degrees, i went running in the rain and it felt so good, much better than running in the heat and humidity, satellite 6 along with action radar showing this is the front that is right over us, if you look down to the south, washington, d.c. and northern virginia, there is more moisture on the way, and the evening hours there is rain and millville 66 and reading 63 and allentown 63. a cool night. future tracker 6 showing 6:00 tonight most of the heavy rain is in south jersey and delaware and some back in at 10:00 and then it's all out in the morning hours, a few lingering clouds east of philadelphia and the sunshine is back with lower humidity, the four day at 4:00, looking nice for tomorrow, mostly sunny skies and low humidity with a high of 84 degrees on saturday, we start the day with some sunshine and

showers late in the day and saturday evening with a high of 83 degrees, sunday looking unsettled and cool and lots of clouds and showers and the high only 77 degrees, and rosh hashanah starts at sun down and breezy and low humidity high of 76 degrees on mon. we'll talk more about next week in the full accuweather forecast coming up. >> you took your run outside and i took mine inside. >> the treadmill. >> i love running in the rain. >> i ran to the car. >> still ahead two people are hit by a car and badly hurt and that happens on a stretch of road involved in tragedy before, and dramatic video shows arcing wires setting a house on fire in south jersey this morning, what we know about how it started and the people inside at the time. >> and when it comes to dads and daughters, boyfriends can be an

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. from our delaware newsroom, four people were seriously hurt after getting hit by a car in newcastle, it happened at the same spot where someone was hit and killed two weeks ago, police say that a car headed east hit a man and woman at 11:30, that driver did stop but the two victims are in critical condition today police have not yet told us their names. >> police in northwest philadelphia are looking for the people that broke into a home behind a chinese restaurant, it happened on the 5600 block of walnut street, police say that two armed suspects got into the back of the restaurant and stole several items and some cash and took off. police did not say how much they got and no one was injured. still ahead an update on the

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taff along with sharrie williams, breaking news from atlantic city, new jersey, the faa says that a small plane crashed into the atlantic ocean just before 3:00 this afternoon, the single engine went down 20 miles offshore and the aircraft was reportedly traveling from michigan to atlantic city airport. it's not clear at this point how many people were on board or what conditions they are in right now, the coast guard is investigating but having difficulty flying helicopters because of weather conditions, stick with "action news" on air and online on this breaking news in atlantic city today. the other talker today. the weather, lets get the word from accuweather. are you looking live at a soupy center city skyline, you can see from the brilliant colors, storm tracker 6 we are not in the clear yet. lets get to cecily tynan. >> it's three weeks since

stormtracker 6 live double scan got a work out like this, we have rain to the west and south of philadelphia, the most intense cell right now is moving out of kent county delaware moving 20 miles per hour into cumberland county and 10 lightning strikes are associated with this, sea breeze and can ton all heading that way, not only does this have lightning and gusty winds it has pretty intense rainfall, we can skip over stormtracker 6 live double scan, and go to the rainfall rates, where you see the purpose, that is where the rain is falling at 2 inches per hour it's not there for an hour but if it was you would get 2 inches of rain, we have a flash flood watch for most of our viewing area, we are looking at the potential for 1 to 3 inches of rain than has caused localized

flooding and i'm tracking more rain over the weekend, we'll talk about that in the full accuweather forecast. >> thank you, 6abc.com/weather is your go to resource, as the heavy rain moves through, check in often with stormtracker 6 live double scan for the very latest. now an accused kidnapper that sparked a three day multistate manhunt plead guilty today. melvin barnes plead guilty to abducting a struggling screaming woman. but now has changed his tune. >> delvin barnes is now a convicted kidnapper, he fled guilty to a crime that shocked the city last november. this video from 2013, shows barnes abducting carlesha freeland-gaither this triggered

a manhunt and barnes was arrested in jessup maryland, police used his car's gps device to track him and he admitted to making the victim lie in his trunk bound up. he was lying in the backseat of his car next to his victim. it was revealed that the victim was quote, sexually exploited. the crime started out as a random robbery attempt because he needed money to get back to virginia to surrender to police there wanted for raping a girl in chester city a month before the german town incident. they have agreed to a 35 plus year sentence in exchange for the guilty plea. barnes will not have to -- he wants that 35 yours in prison

deal. rather than an absolute life behind bars, at the federal courthouse, i'm vernon odom, channel 6 "action news." police in camden are still looking for two men that burst into a home early this morning and stabbed a man, it happened on the 1200 block of landsdowne avenue before 4:00 a.m., the homeowner was rushed to the hospital in critical condition and a woman was also in the home but not hurt. police are trying to decide if the crime was random. a new jersey family is out of a home today and investigators say that the weather is to blame. their home caught fire when a fast moving storm caused power lines to break loose. katherine scott explains why neighbors say they could feel the electricity in the air. >> the whole house went up in seconds. >> you can hear the electrical charge pulsing as fire ripped through this barrington home, bob the manager of time-out

sports bar next door started recording on his cell phone. >> that is aluminum siding and it sparked the whole side of the house tonight was like an electrical shield was on the side of the house, firefighters were called to bell avenue at 3:30 a.m. after the passing storm snapped this tree pulling down power lines, when they arrived they say there was no activity or fire, firefighters notified the power company and were then called to another location and while they were gone the wire started to arc again. >> we heard a loud explosion and it seemed like a ball of fire. >> by the time they were back this home was completely energized it appeared that the wire dropped on the ground and hit either a water pipe or the gas pipe and the entire house was energized with electric. and we couldn't do anything until it was secured.

police helped six family members to safety, they were not injured. onlookers say they could feel the charge. >> the house was in an electrical charge like a science fiction movie and the firefighters were here and they were afraid to go in and the ground was burning and the gas was coming out of the ground. >> by the time they were able to extinguish the blade the fire sustained serious damage. in barrington, katherine scott, channel 6 "action news." meanwhile, firefighters in the first state were busy battling this enormous blaze in new casting county, the action cam was there as flames shot from the roof of the townhome on the unit block of christiana drive. it took 13 companies nearly two hours to get it under control. four people were hurt but it's not clear if the injuries were

serious. the cause of the fire remains under investigation. we want to revisit the breaking news we are passing along to you since the start of this newscast, we do have an update on the plane crash, 20 miles off the coast of atlanta city, new jersey, the coast guard tells "action news" that they have multiple resources combing the wreckage scene off the coast, initially there was indication they were having difficulty because of weather conditions but they have three vessels on site and in the air searching for survivors, again this plane a single engine mooney m 20, crashing 20 miles seests of atlantic city, new jersey, from michigan, bound for atlantic city airport. no word at this point of how many souls on board or the conditions of those individuals. three vessels and a helicopter in the air searching for the

wreckage and any survivors. in the meantime pet stores are getting new guidelines, they are -- since the store opened in july, they believe that the store gets its dogs from puppy mills, today the camden county freeholder board banned stores from selling dogs from puppy mills. >> a local komen cancer survivor made it his mission to spread the word and the warning signs of it. monica malpass is here with more. >> reporter: that is right, he found out when he was just 30 years old that he had stage four rectal cancer and over the next few years he when through

several treatments and surgery, when he finally got his health and strength back, he got the word out that young people can get colon cancer too. ali gorman will share ed's unique journey and how he is trying to raise awareness. coming up on "action news" at 5:00. >> thank you monica. one of philadelphia's most historic treasures is celebrating a major milestone, officials gathered on water works drive to mark the 200th anniversary of the fairmount water works, the first successful urban water works in america and set standards for cities across the country and it has been trance forred to a living laboratory. we are still a few days away from finding out who will win miss america 2016 but miss new

jersey is already a winner, she took home the quality of life award right there in atlantic city, it includes a $6,000 scholarship and she was chosen for her community service and her platform against distracted driving. when it comes to haggling for a better price don't stop at salaries or new cars, coming up we rundown a list of things you probably didn't know was negotiable. and embracing life, a police officer calls a suicide victim bank from the brink with kind words and a warm hug but that is not it. and why so many people were upset by the way adobe chose to display its new photo shop feature. i don't want to live with

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is right for you. the latest in a string of highway shootings that has computers on edge, all of the ten confirmed shootings are centered around i-10 through phoenix, police are not sure if it's a lone sfiper or more than one shooter, so far no one is seriously injured. now to a touching story, kinds words and a warm embrace, those were the tools that an off duty raleigh police officer used to save a life last night s a traffic camera show a suicidal man hanging off the side of the bridge. later on you see an officer approach desperately trying to develop a report with him.

the man stepped back over the ledge and into the officer's arms and after hugging for quite sometime, the man was escorted to a patrol car to get help. even more powerful, the officer says he happened to be headed towards the bridge when the call for help came in. >> beautiful story. big talkers now, apple showed off its new products yesterday and it seems that the new technology may have been trumped by a moments on stage that many on social media call outrageous and misogynistic. >> i am not happy with the model's smile so i can grab the lips and give her more of a smile. that is adobe's director of design, eric snowden showing how to change a person's facial fix your, while there were cheers in the crowd as you heard, the

twitter sphere was enraged. tweeting things like, don't tell women to smile and it's not okay to sell a product by anybody lating women to your liking. >> they meant no offense they were simply showing off the new photo shop technology. finally when it comes to dads and daughters boyfriends are a touchy subject but one did not expect to be arguing with his 2-year-old over whether or not she could have one. >> you can't have a boyfriend. >> what is wrong with you? >> i don't want a boyfriend. >> but you do have a boyfriend. >> yes. >> what is his name? >> garret. >> you don't have a boyfriend. >> i do. >> you are not allowed to have a boyfriend until you are 50.

>> she gave him a slap there, kennedy enamored with her cousin's roommate, they will keep this video for when she gets older goes on her first date or gets married. i hope my husband is watching this one, we have a 1-year-old. >> 50 seems harsh. she doesn't know what 50 means, you just can't have one when you are 2. lets get a check of the roads right now, lets go to autumn marisa in the traffic center for matt pellman. >> from you out on 202, this is 29 in malvern, our season lanes here, the rain is coming down and the windshield wipers are going and the water kicking up and it's coming down heavily, if you are over on roadways like 95 or the schuylkill expressway you are seeing much drier conditions at this time.

you can see free flowing traffic and no issues, and speeds of 25 miles per hour on the schuylkill that is normal for right now, watch these storms as they occur, we see ponding on the road and low visibility and cars pulled off to the shoulder, use extra caution, make sure you reduce your speeds if a storm should appear. we have flooding on 422 westbound between arm and hammer and 724, and flooding on lincoln drive, closed between kelly drive and rittenhouse street, school house lane is your alternate. and 295 in new jersey, a disabled tractor trailer, we had this out there yesterday, a different one but same scenario, that nice long line of cars in the southbound lanes of 295, and 42 is looking nice and clear. we'll bring you an update in the 5:00 hour. >> thank you. a rainy day today, how long

will the rain stick around, cecily tynan has the exclusive accuweather forecast. next.

now to meteorologist, cecily tynan, flooding is a concern today, the rain is more than welcome. >> we need the rain desperately, we have localized flooding but nothing widespread, all in all this is a good thing, stormtracker 6 live double scan showing that philadelphia and interior south jersey getting a break in the action, we have heavy rain now in parts of newcastle county and kent county, delaware, and this is all really drifting up to the north and east, and 13 lightning trikes in the past 15 minutes, it's producing thunderstorms and severe weather and heavy downpours, farther to the north

and is a steadier lighter rain and some rain north of pottstown and malvern and crossing the blue route, no lightning, that lightning is confined south of philadelphia, where it's warmer and more unstable. millville 78 degrees, allentown only 70, reading. that rain brought an end to the sixth heat wave of the year. stormtracker 6 live double scan showing a conveyer belt of moisture from the south and west and this is generally exiting as we head through the evening hours. the focus of the rain is over the next three or four hours and then the rain ends late tonight and it's relatively cool, 62 degrees in the suburbs, 68 for center city, future tracker 6 showing 7:30 pockets of heavy

rain, moving out by midnight and clouds breaking through the overnight hours, tomorrow we'll be improving dramatically, the sunshine will be back by the afternoon and that is when the humidity is dropping and still on the muggy side in the morning and the afternoon is beautiful, 84 degrees and a slot of dry air and another bit of low pressure in the wings developing saturday afternoon and saturday evening, the best part of the day on saturday, will be in the morning when you get sunshine and that low pressure will linger on sunday bringing us more clouds and cooler weather, the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast tomorrow the nine is returning and the humidity is dropping through the day and the afternoon just spectacular and 84 degrees, saturday not a washout, the first half of the day should be dry and showers developing in the afternoon and evening hours, if you head to the union game, take your rain gear and sunday cool with lots of clouds and perhaps isolated

showers and not a lot of heavy rain, and 77 degrees, a cool start to rosh hashanah, and a taste of fall on monday with a high of 76 degrees and then we warm things up again, tuesday 82 and wednesday warmer with a high of 84 and thursday temperatures jump up 8 degrees above normal with a high of 86 degrees. so planning your weekend looks like the best part of the weekend is saturday morning and then showers developing and sunday i'm having a pool party for my daughter's 8th birthday, i hope the weather improves. >> very to work on that. >> they'll all be in your basement. >> arts and crafts.

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"action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with jaime apody, meteorologist, cecily tynan, rick williams and monica malpass. we begin tonight at 5:00 with breaking news off the coast of atlantic city where a single engine plane crashed into the ocean, it happened at 3:45, 20 miles southeast of atlantic city. the conditions down at the shore not very good, rain and fog are

no doubt effecting efforts to send helicopters to the scene, it's described as a single engine mooney m 20, and took off from gaylord, michigan and was heading to atlantic city airport. now the coast guard has three vessels at the scene of the wreckage. also, tonight at 5:00, we are tracking heavy rain in our region, causing flooding on streets in the region as we speak, this is the scene in the last couple of hours, the streets in the area of 32nd and girard under water completely and several drivers took the risk of driving through, meteorologist, cecily tynan, at the big board. >> hi monica, i always say turn around don't drown, fine another way, those floods can be dangerous, here is the reason why, d