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school in delaware county. chopper 6 hd was over head when officers took a person into custody within the last 30 minutes, there are no reports of injuries or shots fired. the lockdown began at 10:50 this morning and was just lifted. we'll updates on air and online at 6abc.com. to accuweather, we are tracking soaking rain heading our way, although it is much needed it could lead to street flooding later tonight into tomorrow morning. this is the view from sky 6 hd, another warm and muggy day out there with lots of clouds and showers set to build throughout the evening, lets get the latest now from meteorologist, david murphy, what can we expect? >> can you look at stormtracker 6 live double scan, and easily find the rain, we have tons of it to the west and pittsburgh and down to nashville, there is

a frontal boundary off to the north and it's guiding that rain more or less in our direction. clouds are getting thicker, some of the spotty precipitation is marching through and later tonight as the front gets closer to us and we'll start to see a band of heavy rain come through. satellite shows you the cloud cover along with the speckled showers that pop up and get closer to us. it's also warm and muggy out there, up to 81 in philadelphia and 79 in allentown un80 in wilmington, this is out of frontal boundary, now the flow is off the ocean rather than the northeast, the dew point is up to 70 so muggy out there, feeling a bit like summertime in the afternoon, high of 82 degrees, well above average. the overnight low is still mild, 72 degrees and overnight we are looking at the rain coming

through, a quick look shows you that between now and all the way up to 5:00 we see bands of the heavier rain starting to form and some sets up north and west of philadelphia later today and late tonight and in the overnight hours, we start to get hammered with the rain, when we come back we'll talk about the progress of this round of rain and how much to expect and sara we have a tropical storm down near the bahamas that is looking like it will cut up the coast, and will that be a factor for us later in the week? coming up. crews are still busy restoring the ben franklin parkway to its original state following the papal visit, the stage is taking days to break down and remove. john rawlins is there to give us an update on the progress today. >> reporter: as far as drivers are concerned, there are still detours, especially outbound or westbound from city hall but

there is a lot of progress as far as traffic is concerned. >> cars traveling around a portion of eakins oval and the outer lanes are open to city hall, the party is over and the massive complex of platforms are coming down this california man is shutting down one of many temporary cell phone facilities. >> we put it up it only took three days, and taking us two days to tear it down and hopefully we'll bet out of here tonight. >> he hopes to be on a plane tonight to san francisco, most of the work here requires two or three more days. so how many people squeezed in along the parkway to see the pope, 800,000 figure is suspect. prior to the event, the app quoted the secret service said the capacity of the secure zone

was 300,000 from the oval to city hall, today the inquire site tropical disturbance from the oval to 22nd street and estimated that portion of the crowd being at 142,000 people but did not estimate the crowd in the eastern portion of the zone. >> so how many people came here on sunday, the best guess is between 142,000 to upwards of 360,000 in the secure zone, there would be more people outside of the zones, we know there was thousands of people that said they could not get in through the security perimeter there and that 800,000 plus figure circulated quickly was based on faulty math at this time. and no estimates coming out yet and we contacted city hall and the world meeting of family fz

they would release numbers soon. so far nothing. maybe something in the next day or two. hopefully. john rawlins, channel 6 "action news." >> john, thank you. jury selection begins today in the trial of a demolition contractor chashlged in the center city building collapse. griffin campbell faces six counts of third degree murder. prosecutors say he left a towering brick wall unstable before it toppled on to a salvation army store, before it collapsed and killed six people. the excavator operator sean benschop already has plead guilty. in philadelphia authorities are looking into what caused a septa bus to crash in a traffic light. septa says that ten passengers and the driver suffered minor injuries. the five candidates for

philadelphia's mayoral race faces off for the first time. the debate is set for 7:00 p.m. on broad street. two democrats and two independents and one from the socialist party. tamala edwards will moderate. the general election is november 3rd. still to come the president of planned parenthood defends her organization in front of congress. and police are still looking for the vandals that damaged a cemetery.

a georgia high school is mourning the death of two students involving a state police car, the two girls that died were passengers in the vehicle that collided with a patrol car over the weekend, the cause of the crash remains under investigation. preliminary findings show that the teen's car turned into the panel of police car, funerals for both girls are planned in

dallas. right now the head of planned parenthood is testifying before an oversight committee on capitol hill. they are laying out why the organization needs federal funding and conservative critics have lashed out against the group after releasing videos of the group showing that they make profits with fetal tissues. >> these are offensive, and categorically untrue. >> today is the first face-to-face interests view since the videos emerged. they are trying to pass a spending bill that will stop the government from shutting down this week. after that the house is to approve a measure for tomorrow. for tea party members to take

money away from planned parenthood as a price for defunding planned parenthood. the meeting took place on the sidelines, the first time that an american president has met with a cuban president on u.s. soil and they first spoke in december after the secret process to restore diplomatic relations was revealed. this was castros first visit to the united states since 1959. >> a new audit names philadelphia in a multimillion-dollar mystery, the report found that the government paid $40 million for ambulance rides where no records exist that say they were caring for patiences that needed care, new york and houston accounted for half of the questionable rides and payments. >> an arizona family got caught

up in a botched marijuana smuggling operation, a 45 pound bundle of marijuana fell through the roof of their home. smugglers frequently use planes to drop drugs across the border into the united states. coming up seven more car companies may be involved in recalls involving airbags.

we are following the investigation into attacks on two female temple university students, police say that both women were robbed and assaulted on campus within a two hour period, and the first student was robbed and shots were fired on thompson street at 10:00 last night and then at midnight a 20-year-old student was raped on the 1400 block of carlyle street. the sexual assault victim had left the library when she heard footsteps, a man with a gun pushed her against the wall and sexually assaulted her. and these believe that two separate suspects are behind the attacks. two car companies could be facing recalls because they used airbags used by takata, it could affect tesla, volvo and

mercedes. they can explode with too much force during i crash and the problem is linked to eight deaths and hundreds of injuries. as more americans upgrade to big screen tvs they may be putting their children at risk. television falling on to kids may be creating injuries. this could happen even more often as tvs get larger and more affordable. they should always be permanently fixed to a wall and supported by a stable base. eating more fruits and vegetables can control your weight. die those that ate none starchy vegetables gained less wait and daily servings of tofu or soy

also helped . researchers looked at 100 children that were exposed to cancer treatment of the first two trimesters during their mother's pregnancy, the study is established in the american journal of medicine. now the "action news" reporters are working on news stories for today at 4:00. >> there is a new hoax that is making the rounds on facebook, it has to do with paying for privacy, we'll tell you what to be on the lookout for today at 4:00. plus, should you make the switch to solar, we break down the pros and cons today in what's the deal. and in big talkers we can't get enough of this story, a wedding dress that is 120 years old and the woman in the lehigh valley

will be the 11th woman in her family to wear it. we'll have her touching and incredible story as this fashion still stays rell vents. and the woman that took 200 hours making it ready for this wedding. you'll love this one. >> thank you alicia. accuweather is coming up when we come right back.

200 amputees and injured veterans passed through pennsylvania today during their ride to recovery, part of a program to let vets heal from their mental and physical injuries sustained while fighting for our country. the cyclists will ride through philadelphia today and valley forge tomorrow before continuing on toward maryland. i bet they were breaking a sweat out there, it's one of those

muggy afternoons today feeling more like summer still. >> yes, and here we are well into fall. stormtracker 6 live double scan shows you we are beginning in this warm and humid air mass to squeeze out a little precipitation and if i go in tighter, it's not real impressive but scooting up through burlington county new jersey and camden county and a bunch over by salem county crossing the lower delaware river into wilmington, you can see a couple of showers beginning to well up, that is the continued case through the afternoon and evening and then heavier rain making an appearance. as we look outside, a nice picture from chopper 6 hd from the channel 6, 6 abc zoo balloon, the flying is nice because the wind is not strong.

81 degrees in philadelphia, the temperature climbed through the morning and dew point is at 70 and it feels extremely humid and light at 6 miles per hour, 80 in trenton and 79 in allentown and 81 in millville and 77 in cape may, new jersey, future tracker 6 picking up the showers i showed you and by 2:00, 3:00, they could well up in more pronounced showers but will be spotty and in the evening most of the rain is north and west of philadelphia, and farther into the evening hours, some additional rain is from the south and this is a heavy hitting rainfall totalling an inch or more and may even be thunder mixed in. i would keep your eye on the forecast before heading down to the game. lehigh valley, mostly cloudy and a high of 80 and down the shore

mostly cloudy skies and 76 and we'll see the showers building in and you have some nearby inland from you. 82 is the high in philadelphia and the way temperatures are marching we could wind up a degree or two above that and mostly cloudy skies and humid and showers are possible through the afternoon into the evening and later tonight it gets rainier, with the heavier rain breaking out and maybe a rumble of thunder, look at the overnight low down to 70, that is not too far below an average high for this time of year, tomorrow in the overnight hours, the rain comes pounding down and in the morning it looks like most of the heavy stuff is over the northern and western suburbs and could be lingering poor drainage flooding and then the end of the rush hour and things wind down a bit. and then cloudy and damp with a sprinkle or shower and it looks like there is a lot less rain involved. tropical storm joaquin formed

and some of that could come in our direction, this latest track came out an hour ago and far different than this morning's broadcast, then it looked like the remnants would head straight inland and give us rain and now the track is slowing down and now this is where it will be at 8:00 sunday morning and it looks to stay off the coast, some of the spaghetti plot models are bringing it inland and most of the models have it off the coast, and we hope that the way it winds up and it looks like saturday and maybe sunday are the days affected. 82 and hupd today with showers, and steady rain tonight and tomorrow morning, tomorrow cloudy and damp and 76 and cool on thursday and friday ahead of the approach of that storm, as we get into saturday, that is when we watch the coast, if the storm is close you have and we

get wind down the shore, we get conditions into philadelphia and perhaps rain at times, if it stays off the coast not much of a problem, maybe rain down at the shore. and cloudy on sunday and whether we see rain depends on the track. >> we need it though. >> we do. it's not all bad. >> but flooding could occur. >> tonight and later in the week. >> the turn around thing, don't drive through it. thank you david. today is national coffee day and there are plenty of ways to celebrate, a number of chains are offering a free cup, including dunkin' donuts and krispy kreme and some participating wawas are joining in. much more ahead in the next half hour of "action news" at noon, more trouble for the duck boats in seattle in the wake of last week's deadly accident and rutgers university is again the target of a cyber attack.

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started when school officials found a gun in what appeared to be a backpack, not surprisingly the school went on lockdown and an arrest was made at this time and moments ago we found out that it's a 15-year-old and it was actually a toy gun found in the backpack, we mention no shots were fired from law enforcement, once again it was a toy gun and no injuries were reported. more information from this story coming up on "action news" at 4:00, but the information we got moments ago was that a 15-year-old was somehow involved in this thing and from what we are told it was a toy gun, more coming up on "action news" at 4:00. walter perez, channel 6 "action news news.". >> walter, thank you. police are investigate ago tacks on two temple university students overnight. katherine scott is live now with

more details. >> reporter: that is right sar remarks there are two different incidents involving temple stoons, one was a sexual assaults and when the police officers arrived, she was visibility shaken and had a head injury from being pushed against a wall, this happened just south of campus just outside of the patrol area for temple police, a few hours earlier a temple student was robbed a few blocks away. >> it's surprising that two really bad things happen on one night. >>. >> reporter: shots were fired on thompson at 10:00 p.m. >> it was right outside of my apartment so i heard the gunshots, less than two hours later a few blocks away, police were called out to the 1400 block of carlyle for a rape in progress, the victim a 20-year-old templ