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 here

is the northwest suburbs and the i-95 corridor southeast not as much generally a half inch to inch and a half of rain tapering off to showers during the morning rush, we are tracking tropical rain and this is tropical storm joaquin, and maximum sustained winds, and this will likely become a hurricane tomorrow, the track has shifted since earlier today. i'll have more coming up in the full accuweather forecast. >> as it's system moves our way 6abc.com/weather is your go to resource, look for constant updates from accuweather and storm tracker radar. police are investigating two crimes near temple university campus, one victim is a student. they happened win minutes of

each others one on north carolina lyle street. sara bloomquist is live at the north carlyle street location, the scene of the sexual assault. >> philadelphia police are reviewing surveillance footage, this area is saturated with surveillance cameras, the first is an armed robbery that involved young people from the neighborhood and the second crime, a young temple university student was brutally raped. police have no reason to believe these incidents are connected but the fact that they happened blocks apart just off campus has students on edge. >> this afternoon temple students were talking about the two crimes that happened just off campus last night. >> that is unnerving, especially the sexual stuff. >> it was 11:15 when the police were called out for a rape in progress, the young temple

student left the library with a friend and they parted at cecil b. more and she heard noises when she was approaching carlyle, and a man struck her in the arm and told her not to scream and pushed her up against a wall in a construction area and sexual assaulted her. >> my mom was calling me and a few of my friends were texting me saying the assault happened here. >> it breaks my heart that some poor girl has to fear walking to and from class. >> just over an hour earlier and a short walk away shots were fired during an armed robbery, three young adults were walking together and they were approached by two men, they grab one of the men and a woman and her friend started to swing her purse at the suspect. >> the lady said she fell on the

floor. >> the suspects ran off with the victim's purse and the block captain is positive that the suspects are captured on cameras. >> i don't think whoever did it knew they were being watched. >> police say there are a number of robberies in the area over the weekend and the incident on thompson may have been among them. neither of the victims were able to give a trips of her attackers and the university is encouraging students to use the escort and shuttles that they provide. live in philadelphia, i'm sara bloomquist, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you sara. with jury selection complete, opening statementses begin tomorrow in the criminal trial against contractor, griffin campbell, he faces six counts of third degree murder in the center city building collapse at 22nd and market. prosecutors say he left a brick wall unsupported and it fell on

to the salvation army business next door, six people were killed and excavation operator sean benschop already plead guilty. this man is wanted for a robbery in logan, it happened at rockland nails on rockland street. he went in to get a manicure and when it was done, he pulled out a sawed off shotgun and cleaned out the cash drawers, he left without hurting anybody. say student saw another student with what looked like a gun, outside is walter perez, what are the details? >> reporter: well, it turns out that while this gun looked very real, it was only a toy and the teenager involved was apprehended but the way the suspect is prosecuted in this

case has local officials very upset. >> it's outrageous. >> chester police commissioner, joseph vail is talking about the decision to release this 15-year-old student after he allegedly brought this very realistic looking handgun to high school this morning, he says it's a reflection of laws in the legislation in cases like this. >> this is a horrendous message to send this community that you can do what you damn well please and if it looks like a toy you can pull it out. >> i'm appalled that anybody would think that way in the city, we have so much violence. >> it was around 10:30 this morning when a student reported that a classmate was walking the halls with what appeared to be a han handgun, the school was put on lockdown.

the 5-year-old will be charged with possessing a fake weapon. >> 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 is going to end up a statistic if he gets away with this. >> jack whalen agrees at the very least these laws should be reviewed. >> in this particular case it would be appropriate to charge him with a felony but our hands are tied. >> a chester official says that although the 10th grader has never been prosecuted before but was accused of pulling a fake gun on a person once before. walterer ez, channel 6 "action news." in delaware nearly two dozen gravestones were pushed over in minquadale, it happened off the weekend and newcastle county

police are asking for help finding the vandal or vandals. detectives found gravestones pulled from their markers. and the president of the synagogue that attends to the cemetery believes that teenagers were responsible. >> it had to we a number of them, the stones are hard to push over and it's not like you can lean against them and they fall over, they don't go down by themselves and they don't go down easily. >> the cost of the damage is still being totalled, anybody with information is being urged to call newcastle police. >> as expected. pennsylvania governor tom wolf has vetoed a short-term spending plan including a budge increase that would wipe out funding -- >> but the legislative leaders say that the four month plan

would end unnecessary hardships while the budget talks go on. coming up on "action news," it was a sweet reunion outside of a delaware firehouse between a newborn and the firefighter that brauts him into the world. and chip kelly decides how to replace two injured eagles. well, it's time to find the umbrellas, i'm tracking rain overnight and more on the way later this week. >> partially due to hurricane joaquin. coming up in the accuweather forecast. jamie wanted a taste of the real new orleans

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the return to normalcy continues with the festival of families and the papal mass. john rawlins was there today. >> the tear down at eakins oval continues, at the center of it all they continue to dismantle what they built last week to the massive wiring that powered it all. >> we are head of schedule now, we should be done by thursday. >> with the security fences now gone, tourists like the toros of oregon are able to get the rocky statues today. they didn't know it was off limits. until they were sitting in traffic. >> the pope was there and we got a sighting and it was really,

really cool. >> how many people were packed into the parkway to see the papal mass? it's still unclear, the unofficial but widely repeated 800,000 plus figure, is likely the result of faulty math. the secure area had a capacity of 321,000 people. it shows of oval to 22 street and that cloud was calculated at 121,000. and was unable to calculate the crowd from city hall because that photo was unavailable. so far no crowd estimates have come from either the city or the world meeting of families. at eakins oval, john rawlins, channel 6 "action news." from our delaware newsroom, the paramedic that delivered a baby outside of a firehouse got

a chance to meet the little erica and micka smith came to show off 5-year-old elijah, she delivered at the firehouse because she could not get to the hospital on time. >> this is baby number three and i knew i had to push. >> within minutes paramedic christopher shad and his partner >> within minutes paramedic christopher shad and his partner delivered little elijah. it's terrible. well if you can't serve tasty sausage why are we even a family? i may as well move out. well, if that's what yo... you're right. i'll stay. and tomorrow we're going to help johnsonville rebuild that factory. i'll take dinner in my room, with chocolate milk. make pasta tastier with johnsonville italian sausage.

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so call 1-800-royal-caribbean or your travel agent today. eagles trying to fill in roster holes, two big holes to fill for them. >> chip kelly made changes in the offseason, by choice, today the replacement kicker and replacement guard is due to necessity. >> he may not have a name on the back of his jersey but caleb

sturges will hear his name called from here on out. >> a great long snapper and holder and make field goals and perform well. >> the kicker who won the job is finish, parky felt something on sun but kicked through it the whole game and they found he tore all three muscles in think groin. >> i thought this does not feel good, i'm rest and rehab and come back stronger than ever. there is no doubt in my mind i can be the eagles kicker next year. >> andrew gardner is also on i.r. so they brought back julian again. >> i always have to do the stupid body fat test and you sit there with your shirt off and they pinch you in all the worst places, give me your gut and i'll stick a finger in your

belly button and right here. >> since traveling him in 2011, they have resigned him 11 times. >> i'm not sure i have not set a record for a single player and single team, i'll really really hoping, if not cut me and sign me a few more times and we'll see if we can get that record. now the sixers hope they will have new results, the team opened training camp in galloway, new jersey, nerlins noel hopes to be a force and like chip kelly brett brown is trying to create culture. me? i'm just trying to see around a reporter's big head. >> we want to cultivate a championship lifestyle and cultivate a championship team. >> it was great, a lot of

energy, and sometimes in training camp, everybody is sometimes amped up and going a million miles an hour, it's good to have the energy and have everyone excited . former coach brown is in trouble with the ncaa, he is sited with academic fraud and unethical conduct, a former administrative assistant did course work for a player and he is suspended for the upcoming season and the team is banned from post season play. >> the whole lesson from this new procedure is to hold people accountable and the ncaa decided that it's the head coach's responsibility if anybody in your program acts inappropriate, are you responsible and i accept that. >> mets are in town to take on the phillies in the final home stand of the season.

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a group of volunteers get their hands dirty planning trees in camden, it's part of city restoration project, and the trees and shrubs can be enjoyed and the creative arts morgan village academy.

these are going to get rain for their growth later on. >> we have a lot of rain on the way and stormtracker 6 live double scan showing right now most of our region is rain free, we have a few light showers in western lancaster county, northwest reading and heavy rain is on the way overnight and ahead of it, it's warm and very humid, 78 in philadelphia, our high today is 85, 12 degrees above normal and it felt like an august day, 72 and 74 degrees, you look at the arrows and the streamline, right off the wind off the ocean and this is pulling in a lot of moisture in the air, dew points generally in the low 70s, so that is oppressive and dew points as high, any shower we get overnight will drop a lot of rain in a short period of time. satellite 6 along with action radar shows this plume of moisture, i'm keeping my eye on

this heavy band of rain over virginia than will lift to our northwest suburbs overnight. 8:00 heavy rain in the lehigh valley and the poconos still a lot of clouds, 2:00 in the morning it intensifies, especially west of philadelphia, could get a rumble of thunder waking up the family and early tomorrow morning 8:00 the steadiest rain will be north of the region but still pockets of showers, so the morning commute is on the wet side and even into the afternoon lots of clouds and ascattering of showers, and this is round one, future tracker is showing the heaviest rain is north and west of philadelphia, 1 to 3 inches of rain in philadelphia, less in cape may county, shows close to 5 inches in allentown but the northwest suburbs could get well over 2 inches of rain with this first round. in the meantime tropical storm joaquin is intensifying

quickly and the wind shear has decreases and now maximum sustained winds 65 miles per hour and another 7 miles this becomes a hurricane and 400 miles east of the bahamas and it's drifting west at 5 miles per hour and it looks to push to the west-southwest just meandering and becoming a hurricane 1 hurricane and it shows a sharp turn to the right up the east coast by the weekend and you look at this, hey it's going to miss us keeping off coast but even with a storm like this when you have an offshore, the currents setup in the atmosphere with the negative trough what this does is pull in the tropical moisture ahead of the storm, friday night into saturday, we can get several inches of rain and winds are a

major factor and winds 25 miles per hour gusts and the shore 40 miles per hour that could cause minor beach erosion. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, morning rain and tapering off showers, and on thursday, the winds are up and the rain intensifying thursday night and 62 degrees and friday is looking to be a washout with high winds and periods of heavy rain and 60 degrees and saturday still lingering with showers and 68 degrees and on sunday the potential for more rain as another low drifts over us, 6 degrees and on monday, put away the umbrellas and sunshine and mostly sunny and 72 degrees, we'll have an update on joaquin at 11:00, i would not be surprised if by then it's a hurricane. >> the negative troughs can really ruin your weekend. >> finally tonight philadelphia's pope bot survived

its journey across the delaware valley, the preston and steve show sent the pope bot around the region to prove that philadelphians are kind, it got a bad rap after the hitch bot was destroyed in enter city. "action news" continues at 10:00 on phl 17 with brian taff and sharrie williams and ducis rogers and please join us for "action news" at 11:00 here on channel 6. for cecily tynan, ducis rogers and the entire "action news" team, i'm jim gardner, we hope you'll join us at 11:00.

tonight, we're tracking two storms. one set to become a hurricane. the major system hitting. flash flood alerts stretching 1,000 miles. d.c., philly, new york and new england in the path. and then, the tropical storm strengthening at this hour, swirling off the coast. the breaking news tonight. the mother, minutes away from execution here in the u.s. the plea from pope francis to spare her life. the parole board's decision. the showdown. the head of planned parenthood in the hot seat. after what was captured on those controversial videos. and that moment at the debate. >> its heart beating, its kicking. >> tonight, questions about that video now answered. the midair scare. the passenger plane forced to land. the brakes igniting a fire at jfk airport. and the new iphone, for $1?