double scan it's the humidity sparks the thunderstorms around the region, the rain in the city an hour or so ago is in bucks county and entering lehigh valley at 390 and 78, and milford getting some good downpour and that continues to drift to the poconos in the next 45 minutes. as we look wide ear at stormtracker 6 live double scan the decent amount of rain in the ohio and tennessee valley, low pressure is near nashville and that low will track on the u.s.-canadian border keeping the extremely heavy rain out of our viewing area but we'll still get a decent amount overnight. the heaviest is at 2:00 a.m., and what to expect in the next several hours, the crack of thunder and heaviest in the

lehigh valley up to 2 inches of rain and lighter i-95 south and east where we see a half inch no inch half. and it taper ofz to the morn rush tomorrow, and we are tracking tropical storm joaquin, south and east of the bahamas, winds of 45 miles per hour, there are changes with the direct track of joaquin that is good for our area but we'll still get some indirect effects. we'll explain more coming up in just a little bit. >> thank you. as heavy rain takes aim, check back with storm tracker 6 live at 6abc.com and follow the accuweather team on fate book and twitter for updates on tropical storm joaquin. temple students are on alert after two of their classmates came under assault, it happens within a few blocks and a few minutes apart. sara bloomquist is live with the latest on the ongoing search for the suspect.

>> reporter: brian, philadelphia police are reviewing surveillance camera footage and this is an area saturated with surveillance cameras, police have no reason to believe that these two incidents are any way connected but the fact that they happened on the same night and both involved temple students have the campus on edge. >> around 11:15, a 20-year-old temple student was sexually assaulted on the 1400 block of nor nor northcarlyle street. she heard footsteps behind her when she approached carlyle, and a man struck her arm and told her not to stream, and pushed her up against a wall in this construction area and sexually assaulted her and fled on foot. >> it's scary because you never

know, you could be walking tomorrow from class or the library and you don't know if something will happen to you. >> it breaks my heart that a young girl has to fear walking to and from class. >> a female student was walking two adults on is ath and thompson street, they were approached by two men, the suspects grabbed the woman and threw her around, one of them fired three shots and grabbed the victim's purse and ran off. she hopes that the surveillance cameras nearby captured the suspects. >> this is the first time that anyone has been robbed here. i don't think whoever did it know they were being watched. >> police told me that part of the difficulty with the two cases is that the victims were only able to give vague

descriptions, and temple is asking students to use the shuttle service made available. >> all right sara, thank you. a septa bus crashed injuring the before us driver and 11 others on board. and it happened at landsdowne avenue, the driver of the route 65 bus suffered some type of medical emergency when it switched lanes and struck a traffic poll, they were all taken to the hospital for treatment. a gun scare forced a lockdown at a delaware county high school earlier today, that gun though turned out to be a toy, "action news" reporter, walter perez is covering this story. he has the details live now this evening. >> reporter: hey sharrie, you know chester city officials were holding a news conference to

applaud the quick response and conclusion to this case. when word came that the 10th dwrader was not being detained. >> it's outrageous, that was the reaction from police chief joseph bail, when he was told that this 15-year-old student allegedly brought this realistic looking gun to school was not being detained. that after delaware county probation officials decide that this toy gun does not qualify as a weapon. >> that is a message to this community you can damn well do what you please and if looks like a toy you can put it out. i'm appalled. >> it was at 10:30 this morning when a student reported to authorities, that another student was inside of chester

high school with what appeared to be a gun. >> he saw him take out of the his waist band and put it in his backpack. >> the student was quite concerned. >> the school was put on lockdown and the fake gun and 15-year-old were apprehended. the student will be charged with a toy gun a misdemeanor, as opposed to a firearm which is a felony. >> this is a practice run for this young man and if they don't do something, he will end up one of the statistics or someone will end up a statistic if he gets away with this. >> reporter: just to be clear, the chief and mayor are not upset with the probation officials or the d.a., it's the law surrounding cases like thth, which is a slap on the wrist.

walter perez, channel 6 "action news." >> more to come on that story for sure. family and friends gathered to remember yankees great yogi berra today, it was held in his home town of montclair, new jersey, he passed away on september 22nd. the flags are flying at half staff in new jersey today to honor the baseball legend who was known for so many things. president barack obama just wrapped up two days of high stakes meetings at the united nations general assembly, one of them a historic sit down with cuban president, raul castro, abc's elizabeth herr is live with the details. >> reporter: according to white house officials, president obama met with raul castro for 45 minutes and they covered topics including ways to improve their relations.

>> the leaders of two nations that were once sworn enemies made history today with this. since the december announcements to restore diplomat sick ties between the cuba and u.s., president obama and cuban president raul castro met once before with you this marks the first time in more than 60 years that a cuban president mote with a president of the united states in the country. and castro calling for an end to the u.s. embargo in cuba. >> now the long process begins towards the normalization of relations. >> president obama in the meantime also cheered a summit pushing world leaders to back forces against isis and other violent extremist groups, noting set backs in syria, iraq and afghanistan and that he is

confident that the militant group will be defeated in the long run. >> we have to build diverse and tolerant inclusive societies that regret anti-muslim bigotry that creates the fears upon which extremists can prey. >> the president says this is not a conventional battle and is open to work with any country to fight isis. brian and sharrie back to you. >> all right elizabeth thank you. it's time now for the "action news" traffic report. >> matt pellman is standing by on a tuesday afternoon in the traffic center. >> everybody that was out of town this weekend is now back in town and out and about on the roadways, it's been a very busy day starting with this morning's commute when we saw huge delays around the ben franklin parkway, because the inner drives remain

closed in both directions and they are making progress, you can see the tent beginning to come down, still on the streets surrounding the parkway expect gridlock, and on the highways, sluggish traffic and jammed traffic, and the crowds are back on allegheny avenue you are dealing with over 10 minutes delays and in hopewell, township, the left lane out of commission and a bad crash that brought down a pole and wires in burlington county it's blocking route 206 at monmouth road and jackson road gets you around that and camden county a broken down vehicle in the southbound lanes of 295, they got apushed off to the side but the speeds don't look so good, 8 and 9 miles per hour as you approach route 73. lets grab the ipad, for many a

back to work tuesday. along 95 northbound in ogle town headed towards 273, we'll check it again brian and sharrie in the next half hour. >> see you then. we have more to come on "action news" at 4:00, edward snowden making headlines again and this one is 140 characters or less. and a funding fight on capitol hill, the president of planned parenthood answers tough questions from lawmakers, the first time since several controversial videos surfaced. >> and the k cups are not just filled with coffee, what it's brewing up next. people of the coffee-drinking world,

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the president of planned parenthood was in the hot seat testifying before a house hearing today, she was grilled about the videos that they say show planned patient hood

workers discussing the sale of fetal tissue. >> the outrageous accusations against planned parenthood with heavily doctored video is offensive and categorically untrue but i realize that the facts never get in the way of these campaigns to block women from the care they need. >> she has never appeared before congress and now both sides of the abortion debate got the punches in some arguing that the support of planned parenthood has decreased the amount of unplanned pregnancies. you can see supporters of planned parenthood gathering to wear pink to rally to oppose federal and state defunding of efforts, it's all part of national pinkout day, for advocates and supporters that

are standing up for planned parent hood, richardson was questioned for more than four hours, and showing pictures of her holding pricey party and focusing on other things besides health care and whether the organization needs federal funding or not. it's a heat the debate going on right now. edward snowden, the man that infamously leaked classified information, is now on twitter, he is living in exile in russia, he sent a single tweet, can you hear me now, because hours later he had hundreds of thousands of followers on twitter, but notably is he only following one account, the nsa the agency where he once worked. >> the top intelligence official says that he is not convinced

that the new cyber agreement with china will end the threats against the u.s. he made the agreement with the president of china, to knowingly not support the cyber threats. and he says that analysts still sister to keep looking for suspicious behavior. to a bit is of business news, a look at closing numbers, attempting to stabilize after a sharp selloff, the dow down 47 points and the nasdaq down 26 points and the s&p up 2 points today. keurig is getting into the soda business, today they unveiled the keurig cold machine, like its coffee the soda is made from flavoring pods that have special beads packed with carbonation, you only have to fill it with

tap water, the cold costs $370. >> learned something today i have been saying it wrong. >> i call is keurig and you say keurig. maybe you were saying it wrong too. >> lets head to adam joseph and look at the rain in our area now. >> passing through parts of the area, one area lifting into the lehigh valley passing through philadelphia in the middle of the afternoon and some light showers with pockets of moderate rain in lancaster county and south of lancaster and coreyville, seeing some pock egts of rain lifting to the north and in western parts of berks county dealing with light showers and a steady area of rain towards 22 and bethlehem and readington heading up 33, passing through fairly quickly so dampening the roads for the lehigh valley for the start of

the evening rush hour. >> it's super soggy out there, extreme warmth and humidity, 81 in philadelphia and 81 in millville and upper 70s for the lehigh valley and wilmington 79 degrees, if you take a wider look you see this pipeline of moisture and low pressure is in the tennessee valley and it will work west of pittsburgh overnight tonight and that is where it takes several inches of rain with that track of low. and we'll get a decent amount of much needed rain and this is a good thing coming and future tracker showing at 10:00 spotty downpours around the region and it turns steadier and heavier at the midnight hour at 2:30 in the morning and you can see brighter colors south and east of philadelphia and north and west of allentown unreading and left over pockets of heavy rain forbe the morning rush at 10:30 and steady rain in the morning pull as way and tomorrow afternoon

cloudy and still warm with spotty showers around. as we look at the rainfall totals, it's brighter and more expected north and west with the track of the low, in philadelphia, an inch or a little more as you head towards the coast, a quarter inch of rain and some areas could see a half inch including dover and as you get into the lehigh valley and the poconos and reading 2.5 inches of rain and then tropical storm joaquin with winds sustained at 45 miles per hour, it's due east of the bahamas right now by 425 miles and as we look at the track, it is slowly going to drift around this region through saturday now, with winds sustained at 70 miles per hour, and it's still far removed from our region at the beginning of the weekend and it drifts off the carolinas here on sunday morning, we are still not within the cone of uncertainty even by the end of the weekend,

but there are other ingredientses that will help syphon in the moisture as we get into the end of the week and we'll have details on that coming up at the end of the next half hour. the heaviest in the morning and as we get into the end of the week, it turns windy with rain at times thursday into friday and cooler with highs only 60 degrees and lingering showers and windy on saturday and all of that rain and wind, joaquin is nowhere near our region, we'll explain what is going on here in the next half hour. a dip in the temperatures. >> a huge dip. >> getting into fall. still ahead on this tuesday afternoon, studentses staged a walkout in the middle of class, find out why a teacher led hundreds of them outside when "action news" continues. >> and 120 years 11 brides, the pennsylvania woman carrying on a

special family tradition with a wedding gown wore by all the ladies in her family.

dozens of students at high schools staged walkouts once again today, this is the second day they have done this, yesterday 400 from the public cools and 100 from the charter schools just left classes, they were led by a charter school teacher that was demanding the resignation of the superintendant as well as the student voice on the school board, first responders from across south jersey got a special thank you from the camden diocese. ♪ ♪ bag pipers accompanied the color guard in blackwood at saint agnus, emergency teams from six counties and all faiths took part and the mass honors those that serve as well as fallen

comrades. philadelphia students learned this morning about the college application process, they got one-on-one help from local judges today. this is the second year the group has hosted the workshop at the school. two days after pope francis left philadelphia to go back to the vatican, guess what/pope bot also went home, it showed up at our friends preston and steve's studio, they sent him on a trek through the delaware valley to show that philadelphians do in fact have a heart. and the city got a bad rap when hitch bot got destroyed in center city. >> the pope inspired so much. >> coming up in our next half hour of "action news."

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hello again 4:30 and "action news" continues with the latest on the trial of a contractor charged with murder in the deadly center city building clap. the jury is selected and we are live. and a man got a manicure at a logan salon and held up the place instead of paying. and a happy day in delaware, the parents get to meet the bundle of joy they helped to deliver days ago. and heavy rain is coming our way when are looking at a drenching downpour and possibly flooding, lets get to adam joseph with the latest from accuweather. we can use the rain it has been just three weeks since we had measurable rainfall, seeing downpours not a bad thing even if you get a little bit of street flooding, most of area is dry and we are dealing with some showers to the west and heavy downpours in the lehigh valley, that passed through philadelphia and montgomery county this afternoon, as we take a wider

look we can see to the south and west in washington and richmond, areas of color on the radar, north of nashville and cincinnati at the present time, that low works to the north and west surging with the impressive dew points, feeling the humidity if you are work outdoors or doing some errands without working a sweat without doing the work, and the moisture is helping to feed the low with the heavy rainfall overnight. at 2:00 in the morning, the low is in the central part of pennsylvania, and we are still dealing with the rain here and heavier rain with the track of the low near binghamton and burlington as well as northern parts of maine and early in the morning we have lingering rain and we'll see an improvement with respect to wet roadways within we get into the mid-day hours on wednesday and the afternoon is mainly cloudy with the northerly wind trying to cut

the humidity down in the afternoon, over the next 12 hours, overnight rain ain rumble of thunder. and 2 inches to the north and west and south jersey an inch to inch and a half or so. and when i come back we'll chats about another round to come in later in the week and the latest on tropical storm joaquin in the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast. when severe weather or breaking news happens nearby, email your photos to jointheaction@6abc.com or use #6abcaction on social media. jury selection just wrapped up in the trial of a contractor charged in the deadly center city building collapse. after griffin campbell rejected a last minute plea deal. vernon odom is live with the latest. >> reporter: 16 people in all were chosen today. 12 jurors and 4 alternates, that

is a surprise to some because many thought it could take far longer than that because of all the publicity of this two-year-old case that traumatized the city. this catastrophe is deeply embedded in the mind of philadelphians, the building chance killing six people and injuring many others, it collapsed because of an unsupported three story wall under demolition, it felt into the crowded one story, salvation army thrift store. 80% of the jurors said they had seen news coverage, the lawyer for griffin campbell is accused of six couldnntses of third deg murder. >> everybody saw the coverage and we ask for a fair trial. >> he chose to go to trial.

in july sean benschop the operator of the 10,000 pound excavator, plead guilty to six countses of manslaughter and he is do 10 to 20. on this day the volunteer committee trying to raise enough money to build a memorial park says they still need donations. >> we are $400,000 of the 1.4 million we need to build the park and we can't start construction until we have the funds. opening arguments are not expected to begin until sometime in the morning and the trial is expected to last about four weeks, live at the criminal justice center i'm vernon odom. philadelphia police are searching for suspects after a late night shooting in kensington, a man was shot in

the back at 11:15 last night. officers rushed the victim to the hospital where he is in critical but stable condition, at this point there is no word on a motive. police are looking for a man that held up a nail salon in logan after getting his nails done, it shows the suspect walking into rockland nails on sunday and he pulled out what appeared to be a sawed off shot gone and rummaged through drawers and took cash. a fire in norristown led to several homes being evacuated. the one alarm fire broke out at 10:00 a.m. this morning, you can see the damage here investigators say it started in the 100 block of west elm street and spread to the porch of a neighboring row home, out of precaution, several residents were asked to leave their homes until the flames were under control, nobody was hurt and the cause of the fire is under

investigation. today pope francis made a plea for mercy for the only woman on death row in georgia. monica malpass is live with more on this story. her name is kelly and she was sentenced to death back in 1998 after convincing her love to kill her husband. a letter from the pope himself asking to put her execution on hold. and now researchers say there say high tech way to make your heart healthier. we'll have those stories tonight at 5:00. the five candidates for philadelphia's mayoral office will face off tonight for the fers time. the debate is slated for 7:00, jim kenny will be joined by two

members of the party and tamala edwards will moderate and online registration is closed but walk-in is welcome as long as there is room to hold the folks, the general election is november 3rd. a baby who couldn't wait to be born got a chance to meet one of people that helped to deliver him. they stopped by the fire company in delaware to show off 5-day-old elijah. she was delivered outside of the firehouse because she could not get to the hospital in time. >> you come back to the fire station and i called 911. >> this was baby number three and i knew i had to push. >> made the u-turn in time. >> christopher shad and his partner delivered little elijah, and it was a delightful experience and it all ended

well. >> nice to see baby and mom and dad and everybody is here and safe and healthy. >> the smiths had quite the experiences with deliveries, their daughter was born in a hospital without power because of hurricane irene. coming up another facebook hoax, this one targets people and their privacy. we have details next. and mount everest could be off limits to climbers and the new restrictions that the government of nepal is now weighing, adam joseph has the accuweather forecast as "action news" continues on this dreary tuesday afternoon.

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car across several interstates and that car flipped several times as the driver attempted to get off the highway, and then check it out the suspect took off on foot, it didn't take long for officers to catch up and take that driver, then runner into custody. nepal is considering putting restrictions in place, for people that want to climb mount everest, the country is deciding on whether or not to bar very young or very old climbers and those with disabilities and require them to have experience on medium size peaks, nepal makes money on climbing permits but they have come under fire for disasters over the last few years. now brown university is rescinding an honorary degree to bill crosby, taking back the

degree it granted cosby in 1995, and that cosby admitted to condubts contrary to brown and it comes in the wake of accusations by dozens of women of sexual assault. big talkers now, at this very moment, the dating app, tinder is demanding the removal of this billboard linking it to std's. they put up the billboard in l.a. and it reads it's on beverly boulevard and the found ace claims that more people are getting std's because they are using the dating apps, the senior director saying it makes conscious you'll sex as easy as ordering pizza and they will not take the sign down and the dating apps are pushing for it

today. from you on facebook you have surely seen people posting this status, that in response to the new facebook guidelines, i declare that my copyright is attached to my photos et cetera, know this, it's a hoax and not the first time it's making the rounds. so you know facebook does not own your posts but they can distribute and share the things that you do post depending on your privacy settings, breathe a sigh of relief but this is a good reminder to check your privacy settings and can you do so at the upper right corner of your profile. and finally we could not love this more, this one wedding gown has been passed down for generations in one pennsylvania family, for 120 years, the women have all worn this heirloom dress and this month, abigail

kingston will become the 11th woman in her family to walk down the aisle in it, when she got the victorian gown, she thought there was no way she could wear it because of its condition but a local designer spent 200 hours restoring it and getting it to first her just right. >> they said it's raw silk and needing special cleaning and work and her something blue is her grandmother's blue sapphire ring, isn't that special, she is sharing in this tradition 120 years deep. i'm old fashioned, this one got me. >> and this is the next one in line. alicia thank you. lets get a check of the roads tonight, and matt pellman standing by with an update on what looks to be an incident out there. we don't want anyone to have the

veil over their eyes on this tuesday ride home, i vow to tell you all the spots where you don't want to go and this is one of them, a broken down truck on 422, westbound side blocking the two lanes in this spot that would normally be busy, so it's a parking lot, as you come out of king of prussia from 202 at 422, use ridge pike as and alternate. eastbound past downingtown word of atractor trailer taking out one of the two lanes and the next batch of downed wires, at goshen road and 320 sprole road gets you around it. and a bunch of them on the bucks montgomery county border and watch for wrecks in horsham road in horsham.

and tinicum township, delco has a crash blocking 420. and any way, 420 blocked close to the airport. avoid that airport as well. we'll get things fixed up with this. i'll catch you again in the next half hour. >> we take you to be our traffic correspondent in sickness and in health. >> i do, i do. >> thank you. after the break thinking about making the switch to solar, before you do it there is a lot to consider. we have details in what's the deal. stepping outside, a live look at sky 6 hd over the philadelphia international airport. meteorologist, adam joseph, has the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast next.

as we look at double scan live radar most of the area is dry at the present time, rain that opposed through is now lifting northern of allentown and north of easton, as you see near martins creek and chatman heading towards the poconos, before the rain fills back in later tonight and early tomorrow morning. it is extremely muggy out there and that is helping to enhance the rainfall totals over the next 12 hours, 81 in millville and 80 in philadelphia and 72 in allentown it dropped there because of recent rain and that

will kick back up and 77 in dover and sea isle city 75 degrees, the moisture is gathering to the north and west and a cold front draped between toronto. and that will lift to the northern and west and that means the rain will be near that low as you go farther away in the central part of pennsylvania, at 8:00 tonight, rain in the poconos and the lehigh valley, south and east, and it fills back in midnight and thereafter, and maybe the rumble of thunder north and west. and early tomorrow morning at 8:00, as we head to work and school there are lingering downpours and showers as we start to lift away into the afternoon tomorrow, it's cloudy and dropping humidity with scattered lighter showers through most of your wednesday, and expected rainfall totals through at least wednesday morning, philadelphia south and east a half inch to inch and a half of rain and as you lifts north of the pennsylvania turn

took to the west. and tropical storm joaquin, winds sustain 45 miles per hour and moving to the west at 5, and 450 miles east of the bahamas and it will reach around this region for the weekend, it's still very far removed from the delaware valley and winds at 70 miles per hour and it tries to lift to the north. and we are uncertain where it could. what is going happen here is we have an upper level low that will stall near atlanta, that is a negatively tilted trough and that will syphon in the moisture so we'll get heavy rain despite that joaquin will stay off the coast. it's indirect effects because of

joaquin and tropical downpours and possibility of moderate coastal flooding at the shore line. rain in the morning giving way to showers and 80 and windy thursday, friday and saturday sun and rounds of rain especially on friday with temperatures dropping to near 60 degrees and we could see lingering rain through the up comes weekend with highs in the 60s before we try to clear it early next week with temperatures in the lower 70s, everybody saying oh, my gosh it's going to make landfall but we are still grabbing moisture. this rain comes as good news for people planting the trees today the action cam in camden this morning as 150 volunteers from american water planted hundreds of trees, shrubs and perennials, part of a camden city park restoration project

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buying. you can use the link at 6abc.com. >> infinitely at 4:00, a story just for adam, shoppers at a flea market in florida got a shock when they found a python hiding in a pile of clothing if you look closely you can see the snake nestled in there. it was at least seven feet long, they were called in to help get rid of it, the name was not poisonous and crews say it's common to find pythons it time of year. >> he actually walked out of the room so not to have to look at the video. >> now for sharrie williams, alicia vitarelli, adam joseph, i'm brian taff. hope you join me with sharrie and ducis rogers and the whole gang tonight and every night for a full hour of "action news" at 10:00 on phl 17. >> here is monica malpass with a

look ahead at 5:00. >> hi there, coming up next at 5:00, the search is on for the vandals after police found this terrible sight at a delaware cemetery and the ben franklin parkway remains closed after the papal visit this weekend and a funding site on capitol hill, a harsh battle of words with funding planned parenthood.

"action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with jaime apody, meteorologist, cecily tynan, rick williams and monica malpass. looking live at the ben franklin bridge on sky 6 hd, it's the calm before the storm at the delaware valley, looking live at double scan live radar seeing storm heading our way, it's expecting to soak our streets tonight. tuesday night rick is off, and the big story on "action news" is the rain bearing down on the tri-state area, cecily tynan is keeping a close eye on double scan live radar. >> hi rick and monica, you can feel the hoist your in the air and it feels like summer,

stormtracker 6 live double scan showing the rain that is falling right now is limited. we have a few showers in parts of western berks county and lancaster county and there is heavy rain moving through the northern lehigh valley right now, martins creeks you see how that is lifting up to the north away from us, that is the heavy rain that moved through philadelphia earlier this afternoon but the heavy rain is still out to the west, if you look at the big picture on live double scan live radar, there is this conveyer belt of moisture, thanks to low pressure over kentucky and what this low pressure can do is track across central pennsylvania in the overnight hours, that is really the access of the heaviest rain overnight and we'll get a soaking, future tracker 6 showing the heaviest rain is in the overnight hours especially in the northwest suburbs and that lingers into early tomorrow morning, this is what to expect over the next 12