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 hours, this is

round one, overnight rain and a rumble of thunder, we could have more than 2 inches of rain and i-95 corridor and areas southeast, a half inch to inch and a half of rain, much needed rain, it will taper off to showers during the morning rush, keep the up brels on hand, we have another storm, tropical stormaquin even have an on shore track it has an impact on our weather, coming up in the full accuweather forecast. police in newcastle county are looking for vandals that targeted a small jewish cemetery, officers were called to minquadale and they saw a heart-wrenching sight, gravestones knocked right off

their bases, david henry has the details. >> reporter: well, you probably never heard of ruben grossman but let me intrude -- someone knocked over his head stone along with seven others. 89-year-old rosily ableman was one of many that came to check on her family's head stones and was relieved that their family was spared. >> my mother and father -- and my grandma. >> milt was moved to tears when he found his family's markers were untouched. >> it was important to me, my son was concerned. and i am too. but everything is all right. >> neighbors discovered the vandalism sunday morning, 18 head stones were toppled and

other sacred artifacts were destroyed or damaged. police collected fingerprints and other evidence, and say this does not appear to be a hate crime, he says it was probably a group of teenagers. >> it had to be a number of them, stones are hard to knock over, you can't lean against them, they don't go down by themselves and they don't go down easily. >> some of these stones have been here for more than 100 years, it's not easily seen from the road and young people are often back there hanging out and those with family buried here wonder what motivates people to do something like this. >> i think they are horrible, we have a lot of horrible people it's a shame, they ruin the world. >> police say whoever did this will pay a hefty price, the

damage here is well over $1500 and that say felony than could lead to severe penalties. live in minquadale, david henry, channel 6 "action news." students at temple university are on edge after two women were attacked blocks apart near campus last night. the first happened at 10:00 p.m. on thompson street, a woman was with two friends when she was approached and they grabbed her when her friends put up a fight, about an hour later, a student was sexually assaulted on carlyle street. two others students say they are concern sfwld you never know, you could be walking home from class or the library and you never know, if something is going to happen to you. >> so now looking at surveillance cameras in the area, both attacks to see if the suspects were caught on tape. a delaware county student was arrested at school this

morning after another student spotted him with what appeared to be a gun, chopper 6 hd was overhead as the police took the student into custody, for taking what looked like a gun into his waist band, that gun turned out to be a toy and vernon odom will have more on the lockdown and the charges the students is facing coming up at 6:00. 11 people were hurt when a septa bus crashed into a light this morning, it happened in west philadelphia and chopper 6 hd is over the scene of haverford and landsdowne avenues, none of the injuries were serious but the cause of the crash remains under investigation. it has been nearly 48 hours since pope francis said his final good-byes to philadelphia, crews are still working to clear the trash and jumbotrons from the ben franklin parkway. john rawlins live with more.

>> reporter: it is a big effort here, workers are working long, long hours to tear down and break down the papal stage, that means still detours and closed streets around here around the oval. the good news is there are fewer than yesterday. >> cars traveling around streets that were closed just yesterday, this morning there was traffic on parts of eakins oval, the massive complex that was the stage and the broadcast booth coming down, by stage hands that put it up last week. >> it's long hour days but we are getting through it. >> you put it up and now you are taking it down? >> yes, it was the biggest show ever and we did it. >> workers say some parts of this temporary village will not be hauled away until thursday, most of the security barriers are gone, good for those seeking a photo with the fictional boxer rocky, he was off limits this

weekend when the fans tried to get here. >> we were going to try to get back here but it was shut down. finally how many people were packed on the parkway to see the papal mass, it's still unclear, the 800,000 plus figure, according to the source is likely the result of faulty math. the capacity from the oval to city hall with the security measures was 362,000, today the inquire cited a crowd science expert, showing the area from the oval to 22nd street and he calculated that crowd at 122,000, and could not calculate the crowd to city hall because that photo was not available. >> so how many people from here to the oval and city hall, just over a mile away, at this point nobody can say with authority and no crowd estimates yet from

the city or the world meeting of families. live on eakins oval. >> we may never know the number but we know it was an extraordinary event. time for a check of the "action news" traffic report, lets go live to matt pellman in the traffic center, hi matt. >> we broad the crews out there cleaning up the parkway they are doing a good job today with the continued closure of the inner drives of the ben franklin parkway we have seen a mess with traffic in the area, this afternoon we see police directing traffic away from the inner drives of the parkway, but a sign that things are returning to normal, i got an email from penndot and they said the construction resumes along the vine street expressway way overnight. things are getting back to normal in center city. this is 422, a broken down truck

past trooper, it's gridlock out of king of prussia. a truck accidents on the pennsylvania turnpike eastbound past downingtown blocking one of the two lanes and a truck accident near warminster and one near york road and tinicum township at 95, and the septa regional rails have up to a half hour delays headed outbound because of the problem at the temple university station. >> thanks matt. more to come on "action news" at 5:00 tonight, including some local flowers made it all the way to rome courtesy of the pontiff, why his aides snagged that bouquet before boarding the papal plane. >> in health check ali gorman explains how a series of simple reminders can make you healthier.

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as basic as it gets. >> planned parenthood's president was put in the hot seat over the federal funding for her organization. >> after videos allegedly surfaced of the organization making a profit over fetal tissue. >> here is more on the fight on capitol hill. >> reporter: hi brian and monica, you heard at times that hearing was contentious, and she was grilled for nearly five hours, where she maintained that these standards were established under president reagan. >> the allegations based on heavy doctored videos are offensive and categorically untrue. >> this is the first time president richards was before

compa capitol hill. >> they prevent 1.2 milli$1.2 m pregnancies. >> taxpayers are being used to preup services that you provide that are aborient services. >> supers gathered wearing pink. >> they are entitled to their own views but here is what they are entitled to, and that is their own facts. >> we will not let anyone shut planned parenthood down. >> planned parenthood, received $5.5 million each year, by law none of the federal money supports abortions but critics say it's still a problem. >> we should fund the government and shift the money to organizations that didn't do this kind of behavior. >> but according to the latest

poll, americans favor continuing funding of planned parenthood, by 2-1, they are moving forward on a funding bill that will keep the government running and fund planned parent hood. on health check we told you about one successful transplant over the papal weekend, a woman got a police escort over the ben franklin bridge, the donor for life programs reports an active weekend. ali gorman is live now at the big board with details. >> reporter: hi, this is the picture of the banner that hangs out the gift of life headquarterers in philadelphia. this is a quote from pope francis endorsing organ donation, a message that hits home every day. >> inside of transplant information center, it was a busy weekend, 21 people within the tri-state area received organs, there were 10 donors,

that could go to help more than 500 people, richard haas of the gift of life said they had 15 pages of contingency plans with the papal weekend and wall the road closure its took coordination with the hospitals, police and secret service and transportation services. >> our main office here is in the zone and know that many of the organs and tissues come here for testing we had to make sure we were able to get the specimens and organs inside and outside of the zone. >> all in all the system works and truly reflects the words of pope francis, it's a testimony of love. >> it's about neighbors helping neighbors and making sure that during a difficult time for you can reach out and help someone else. >> you can become a donor by marking your license or by going

to donors.org. we have the link at 6abc.com. and it appears that text messages may be good for your heart, that is texts that include heart healthy reminders, in australia they assigned two groups with the usual care and four others to receive four healthy heart reminder a month like exercise or stress, almost a third lowered their risk factors by exercising or controlling their blood pressure compared to 10% in the group that did not receive the text messages, the study did not go long enough to see if the study could lower heart attacks but it's a simple and cheap way to motivate people to make simple decisions. the real new orleans and we just couldn't say no to that face.

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for their pod based coffee makers, the cold machine will be pod based and retails for 170 there's. there were flowers for pope francis that went home. he was spotted outside yesterday with this bouquet in hand, the traditional stop, the "action news" spotted that bouquet being loaded on to shepherd one, and someone grabs the flowers before taking off in philadelphia. >> we were happy to be part of that. >> cool stuff. >> coming up we'll check the accuweather forecast, and look at the center city camera, cecily tynan has the details from accuweather.

well, a lot of us already got wet with rain today and more of a widespread soaking coming our way and cecily tynan has the details now. >> it won't just be tonight, keep the umbrellas on hand for the next five days you'll need them, stormtracker 6 live double scan showing we don't have much activity and there is generally light rain in berks county and lancaster county and the light rain is over lebanon lifting up

to the north and west, and that system is coming in over the overnight hours, and winds from the southwest, it feels like august, philadelphia 85 degrees so far, and the average time this time of year is 73, that is 12 degrees above normal and felt more above normal with the humidity. atlantic city airport a warm and humid day, 85 degrees, satellite 6 along with action radar showing the low pressure that is moving in overnight is currently over kentucky and tennessee and what this will be doing is tracking right over central pennsylvania, that is really the focus of the heavier rain where they can get 4 to 6 inches of rain but we are looking at heavy rain overnight while most of us are sleeping, 8:00 still pretty dry season cloudy in philadelphia and showers northern and west and as we head overnight 2:30 heavier showers rolling in and perhaps a rumble of thunder, the morning rush

hour not widespread heavy rain but areas of showers and they linger into the afternoon and by 3:00 in the afternoon plenty of clouds with a scattering of showers, future trackers show through wednesday, the heaviest rain north and west and south and east of i-95 likely a half inch or less, this is showing 5 inches in the lehigh valley, and that i think is overdone but the heaviest rain is north and west of philadelphia and allentown could get easy more than 2 inches of rain and tropical storm joaquin is ikechuku ndukwe just drifting south south we have of the bahamas, looking like it will continue to drift over the next three days, look what happens it become a category one hurricane tomorrow and makes the turn to the north and west on friday and continues to climb offshore, you look at this track, you think we are going to be okay, but the

problem show, the tropical moisture will be pulled inland, we can get as much rain with an offshore storm than with a direct hit. in the meantime, the five-day at 5:00 showing it's going to be wet, tomorrow morning rain tapering to showers and 80 degrees and could be showers for the u.s. open championships at ppl park tomorrow night. on thursday, the winds pick up and heavy rain in the evening and 62 degrees and that continues into friday and friday is really probably the wettest day in the next five days, saturday showers and 68 degrees and sunday tracking the potential for more rain, 68 when will we see the sunshine again. we need the rain we'll get plenty. ññ

the special interests in trthreatening to move ournos casinos and jobs away. this "move" would harm the local economy, cost thousands of jobs

and spike rising property taxes. but, democrats vince mazzeo and colin bell are fighting the special interests to keep atlantic county jobs, grow the local economy and keep property taxes affordable. vince mazzeo and colin bell: fighting to protect our jobs... and send the north jersey interests' home packing. "action news" continues with adam joseph, jaime apody, rick williams and monica malpass. hello again here is what is happening on "action news" tonight. we are watching the weather for you looking live from sky 6 hd rain is starting to fall in the area, and it's the first day in

a long stretch for some stormy skies, plus the trial begins for a man charged in connection with the death of six people in a 2013 building collapse in center city and pope francis tries to intervene in the case of a georgia woman condemned to death the letter he sent to try and spare her life. >> and now the details, it's a soggy week from here on out, a round of rain moving in and that is just the beginning, a tropical storm is on its heels, sky 6 hd over center city you can see gray, cloudy skies and adam joseph is at the big board. >> it's been weeks since we have seen measurable rain in philadelphia and we'll get plenty through the rest of the week, we had a batch of rain through philadelphia right around 2:00 this afternoon that has lifted north into the poconos and light showers through lancaster and berks county and we are fairly dry at

this point but extremely muggy, the dew points are more like july and august around here as opposed to the beginning of october with the wind coming in out of the southeast and dew points in the 70s and oppressive and also very warm, temperatures today were 12 degrees above normal, sitting at 85, it's that humidity and the dew points coming in off the ocean feeding the low pressure over the tennessee valley and a cold front that is draped just to the north and west, you see the amounts to the northern and west and that pivots here overnight into early tomorrow morning, the center stays to the north and west as it stays north of state college, that is where the heaviest rain will be but we get much needed rain first thing tomorrow morning at 7:30 about lingering showers and downpours and leaves in the afternoon and a northerly win stays cloudy and we'll talk about the next round

of rain that has some indirect effect because of tropical storm joaquin. i'll explain more in the seven-day forecast. >> adam thank you, you can check in at 6abc.com/weather and following the accuweather team on facebook and twitter for updates on tropical storm joaquin. the jury is selected for the murder trial for the construction owner griffin campbell is accused of leaving a brick wall unsupported and his attorney says he is being made a scapegoat. vernon odom has the story. >> one of philadelphia's most horrible man made disasters, the video from june 13th has been seen over and over again by most philadelphians, the trial for philadelphia contractor for griffin campbell prove that

today. >> 80 per were familiar with the collapse, that is no surprise. >> there are six counts of third degree murder stn he turned down a plea deal that would see him locked up for 10 to 20 years, sean benschop has already plead guilty to six counties of manslaughter, benschop was knocking down an unsupported three story wall when it collapsed on to an adjacejaajac salvation army store. >> was stoned while operating the equipment. >> they are trying to raise $400,000, they say they still need donations. >> we are 400,000 short, the budget is $1.4 million and we

have tremendous support, specifically the general contracting community and the labor organizations but as we stan here today we are $400,000 short. the campbell trial opens in the morning and it is expected to last up to four weeks, i'm vernon odom, channel 6 "action news." dozens of supers turned out to rally behind planned parenthood, the rally was dubbed pinkout and was like many nationwide, the -- they are accused of spending money on political organizations and that taxpayer money is used to provide testing and contraceptives and needed benefits for women. rutgers university came under another cyber attack, the fifth time, the email and online course management system.

the university says no data was compromised. state officials are investigating and after an august attack, said the cost of that was the reason it raised tuition. edward snowden, the man that leaked classified information on government surveillance is now on twitter, he is now living in exile in russia and he sent a tweet today, can you hear me now, hours later he had hundreds of thousands of followers on twitter and he is only following one account, the nsa, the agency where we once worked. lets see where the traffic is flowing. >> mat is here with an update. >> the traffic is here with a vengance, but it's so angry,

here on 422, a broken down tanker truck in the westbound lanes past trooper taking out of the two westbound lanes, the traffic times are going on six time what's they should be. those westbound delays are spilling back into the westbound side of the schuylkill expressway, with speeds in the teens there, i think i would head out to norristown at ridge street. across the board where there isn't incidents we are back to normal heavy volume, like along 95 speeds in the teens and the ben franklin parkway the inner drives are still blocked in both directions and in pens port, it's blocked because of downed wire there's. p several accidents in depford, one involves a pedestrian at jetup road at crown point, look for the emergency crew there's helping out and burlington county, a crash brought down a

pole at monmouth road and the right lane is still blocked and big delays on the regional rails especially the outbound trains, power problems for 40 minute lee lays inbound and outbound 15 minutes behind. >> all right, thank you my friend. some local judges visited a high school in the city's german town section to help high school seniors figure out their future, members of the council kicked off their annual college work shop series, they will help walk them through the college admissions process and help them choose their career of choice. coming up a rare personal appeal, pope francis asks the state of georgia to spare a prisoner's life and how the board responded. >> and the record they will

break if successful. this is a beautiful thing on double scan live radar much needed rain moving into the region overnight tonight, but by the end of the week we may see a little too much, i'll explain in the exclusive accuweather forecast. >> the eagles getting ready to take on the red skins, jaime apody has more when we come right back.

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in just two hours and despite a plea from pope francis itself, the state of georgia is set to execute the lone woman on death row. she was accused of orchestrating her husband's murder in 1987, the pope sent a letter asking for her life to be spared and cited the pope's speech to congress saying every life is sacred and a sentence to better express both mercy. she is set to die tonight at 7:00. donald trump admits she can be a bit childish when he is attacking other presidential candidates, trump says he is simply responding to them and is

simply a counter puncher, he has seen a shift in his leave and he is in a virtual tie with retired neurosurgeon, ben carson. jaime is here and the eagles have a brand new kicker, and the reason why will make you cringe. >> eagles kicker, cody parky tore all three muscles in his groin and kicked the whole game any way and that is why parky is out and caleb sturges is in. the former dolphin kicker knows most of the success rests on his right lane, and he says good to go. >> had a workout yesterday and did that the last few weeks and you got to stay ready, it's a competitive league and a lot of good kickers out there so, so

just staying red down in florida. >> what is the healing process for this? >> do you think you'll be able to go next year? >> they said i don't need surgery just have to rest it, that is what i'm going to do, rest and rehab and come back stronger than ever. >> and back also is demarco murray, his numbers are low but so are sam bradford's. the lack of offensive production has the fans concerned. >> one time you'll play so well that everybody is bam, super bowl and then you try to grind something out and take hits and then they say they are not super bowl, for me it's my first year in the league and the game of football say process driven deal. >> more bad news, andrew gardner

placed on dl with an injury. and 7 feet tall, he was the largest attendee at the pope's event this weekend. sixers opened training camp in gallow galloway, new jersey, they have low expectations considering how young they are, brett brown says there is a long way to go until we see them win together. >> i see an abunnance of 20-year-olds that is breathtaking in regards to the growth that needs to happen, for these guys to navigate an nba career. >> i feel good coming into the training camp. we are really coming in with a lot of confidence and i want to keep the guys upbeat.

>> and good news surrounding larry brown, he is suspended for nine games, and his mustangs banned from post season play for multiple violations including academic fraud. and the former administrative seventiance did course work for one of brown's players. there are two teams heading in opposite directions, the mets trying to get home field advantage in the playoffs and check out this catch from d 3 college football, the college wideout, look at him kick the ball in the air and some how catch it on the ground. one more time in this case lying down on the job is a good thing. >> are you okay with the parky news? >> i am emotionally scarred from that, i didn't know there was three muscles in that region.

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>> maybe too much in a short period of time. but tonight we should handle through tomorrow morning. as we look at double scan live radar we see pock egts of rain in parts of the area including philadelphia, parts of cheffer and bucks county and lehigh valley, and a few lingering showers in reading and berks county, we see the greens, it means light rain at the present time from reading to leesport and hamburg, with the heaviest rain staying at bay to the west. eventually the radar is filling in overnight tonight. 80 in philadelphia, we hit 85 this afternoon 12 degrees above normal, a tropical feeling out there, and enhancing the rain, it holds the temperatures in the 70s from washington to baltimore a cold front is developing near

cincinnati along the boundary and that low rides to the west and keeps us warm and muggy overnight and the rain coming in generally after the midnight hour, at 8:00 heavy rain near the poconos and most of us dry and the radar fills in at 2:00 in the morning, especially north and west where are you closer to the low. you get the rainfall intensi intensifying and by 8:00 tomorrow morning it's heaviest lifts to the north and still lingering pockets of moderate rainfall, by the afternoon the low is way over new england so we have spotty showers to deal with for the rest of your wednesday afternoon. through the day tomorrow, including tonight, a half inch to inch and a halfer all points south and east of philadelphia, as you lift north and east of pennsylvania, especially lehigh valley, poconoss that is where you can see the higher end of the rainfall totals, 2 to 3

inches and tropical storm joaquin winds up to 65 miles per hour sustained the moving south-southwest at 5 miles per hour, around hundred miles away east of the bahamas, at first joaquin sinks to the west. and then a hook, by saturday could be a category one hurricane but well to the south in the open waters of atlantic and then on sunday it's still far to the south and east out to sea not even near the outer banks, but don't get fixated on where the center of the storm is, because we have players that will impact our weather in the latter part of the week, upper level low near the atlantic and negatively tilted and that will syphon in the moists your from joaquin, despite the storms off the coast we'll get a lot of rain being pivoted in as we get into your friday, saturday and sunday and the indirect effects,

not direct effects from joaquin thursday afternoon and friday and winds 25 to 40 miles per hour and the possible of coastal flooding with several inches of rain likely across much of the area. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, still warm at 80 tomorrow and rain in the morning and scattered showers in the afternoon and it starts to turn windy on thursday with the afternoon rain of 62 and the heaviest rain on friday, and still windy with showers on saturday of 68 and we could still see enhanced rain around here at 68 degrees, it tries to clear monday into tuesday, we could see flooding rains over the weekend with coastal flooding friday into saturday and the center of the storm will stay out to sea. >> thank you so much. >> still to come, a daring stunt 20,000 feet above the earth. we'll tell you about the world record skydive that has these

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you've got to see this more than 200 skydivers from around the world, linked arms and plunged back to the planet at 120 miles per hour, and they are hoping to break the world record for a formation jump and this was just practice here, 202 skydivers will jump from nine planes from southern california, the previous record was 117 people, this was a significant increase and they will make the jump sometime before friday. >> brave souls indeed. next at 6:00, detectives are investigating two separate attacks next to temple's main campus, one involved an attack on a student. and we are live with the latest, and a thief arm wade weapon and plantar gets a local nail salon, what he did before he took the cash, and cleanup continues

along the ben franklin parkway, we'll show you all the progress they are making there. for cecily tynan, rick williams and monica malpass i'm brian taff, have a great night, "action news" at 6:00 is coming up next. the special interests in trthreatening to move ournos casinos and jobs away. this "move" would harm the local economy, cost thousands of jobs and spike rising property taxes.

but, democrats vince mazzeo and colin bell are fighting the special interests to keep atlantic county jobs, grow the local economy and keep property taxes affordable. vince mazzeo and colin bell: fighting to protect our jobs... and send the north jersey interests' home packing. > >> "action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with ducis rogers, cecily tynan and jim gardner. >> tuesday night a gun scare forces the lockdown of chester high school. but the big story on "action news" is the late and wet words from accuweather, we are looking

ahead to a night of much needed rain, cecily tynan is live at the big board. what is the story. >> by the end of week we are looking ahead to dry weather again, this is just the first round of heavy rain this week, double scan live radar showing what is going on, you see this plume of moisture thanks to low pressure over kentucky, what this low pressure will do is track across central pennsylvania, that is the access of the heaviest rain but we'll get a round of rain throughout the overnight hours, future tracker 6 showing at 2:00 this is when the heaviest rain occurs north and west of philadelphia and could have a rumble of thunder. heading into the morning commute, the heaviest rain lifts to the north and we'll have lingering showers and it will still be warm and humid and temperatures nose dive for thursday and friday. >> this is what to expect the next 12 hours again with round one of the rain overnight, the rain is steadiest in the wee hours of morning with thunderstorms, the heaviest