>> ♪ >> "action news." delaware valley's leading news program. with meteorologist melissa magee, jeff skversky, sarah bloomquist and walter perez. >> ♪ >> sunday flight a suspicious package shuts down train service at the norristown transportation center. >> investigation under way after ryan howard says a fan threw a beer bottle at him. >> but the big story on "action news" is the arrival of strong storms across the region. in fact, the city of

philadelphia is under a severe thunderstorm warning right now. >> taking a live look right here from over center city, you can see the dam ominous clouds hanging over the skyline. rain is beginning to fall. meteorologist melissa magee joins us tracking the storms with the first check of the accuweather forecast. >> walter and sarah things are getting quite active across much of the delaware and lehigh valleys. on storm scan six live double scan radar 3-d we have a line of convective activity through new england across the midatlantic region with these showers and storms that continue to move eastward pressing into philadelphia. in fact a severe thunderstorm warning has been posted for the city, really that i-95 metro area. this stays up until 6:45 this evening and it is extending eastward into areas in south jersey. the big concern tonight with the severe thunderstorm warning will be damaging winds in excess of 60 miles per hour. we'll track it for you now on storm tracker6 live double scan radar. you can see on street level if you look at the box and look

at the towns, in philadelphia as this is moving to the southeast at about 45 miles per hour at about 6:13, it's in haddonfield, same thing in cherry hill, palmyra and also affecting you at 6:13 this evening. pressing into cinnaminson at 6:16 and also into springdale at about 6:18. we'll show you another cluster of the same line just to the south across areas in wilmington where you are getting a good chunk of pea sized hail associated with this line moving through. it's approaching williamstown at 6:13, s. 6:15 in sicklerville and by 6:20 it is in cedarbrook. we'll be tracking the line of severe showers and storms as it moves through. despite the fact we are under a severe thunderstorm warning there is a severe thunderstorm watch for the entire viewing area until 10:00 p.m. tonight. the big concern scattered wind gusts in excess of 70 miles per hour. scattered hail up to an inch and a half in diameter and isolated tornado we certainly can't rule that out and downpours are likely locally heavy rain up to 2-inches.

we'll take a closer look at the system moving in. we've got future tracker6 on stand by and we'll let you know when the moisture moves out in the full and exclusive. >> let's move to nora muchanic at lincoln financial field where people are braving the weather to get ready for one of the biggest concerts of the summer. >> it's going to be an experience but if beyoncé can get wet so can i. >> reporter: they got on line early and have their ponchos ready to see beyoncé at the linc tonight. >> the lightning i might have a little problem with that but we're prepared. >> reporter: the concert is set for 7:30. beyoncé takes the stage at 10 to 9:00. the linc's facebook page says the the concert will go on rain or shine and there's severe weather in the forecast. >> we've been bugging out about the weather since last like monday. checking the forecast, checking, checking,. >> she's the best entertainer, so loving, so giving, so

talented in every aspect and she's just -- she's amazing. >> we are not prepared. >> reporter: you need a raincoat. >> we don't have anything. we just came with our concert clothes id and ticket. >> reporter: among those dancing in the world formation tour tonight is north philadelphia native quinetta wilmington. she's got a nursing degree but she's dancing her heart out fulfilling a dream. >> i'm so happy. all of my family is going to be there, all of my friends from central and middle school and element army i'm ready for them to see the show and see the woman that i've become as a dancer. >> reporter: meantime beyoncé's adoring fans are prepared for some bad weather but a great time. >> i am not very concerned about the weather because at the end of the day i'm seeing one of the greatest artists alive so rain, sleet or snow i'm going to be here for beyoncé. >> reporter: now, according to a tweet from the linc at this point guests are being allowed to enter the stadium but seating areas remain closed until conditions are deemed safe. right now you have to stay on the concourse.

officials here are obviously keeping a very close eye on weather conditions but at this point the beyoncé concert is a go. at the linc, i'm nora muchanic, channel6 "action news." >> as the thunderstorms move through, you can get the latest forecasts and conditions with 6abc.com/weather throughout the evening. storm tracker6 live radar puts forecasting power right at your fingertips and be sure to follow our team of meteorologists on facebook and twitter for updates. >> moving on to other news the phillies and the police are investigating what appears to be an ugly case of fans behaving badly. first baseman ryan howard says a fan threw a beer bottle at him during yesterday's game. "action news" reporter jeff chirico reports from citizens bank park. >> reporter: there's widespread disappointment over that beer bottle tossing incident after yesterday's loss to the brewers. and philadelphia police and the phillies are taking this very seriously. now, the phillies provided this photo to "action news" that shows the alleged beer thrower. police are now trying to identify this man. this all happened just after

ryan howard grounded out in the ninth inning as he returned to the dugout someone apparently threw a beer bottle that landed near him. it didn't hit him but we spoke wit with officials and fans who say this type of activity is just unacceptable. >> they like to win. they're -- they're fanatical, you know, they know their baseball but i'm not going to -- i'm not going to put a label on the philly fans because of one bad apple. >> people need to think and not use their emotions and think about what it does for the city, think about what it does by putting someone in harm's way with a projectile coming at them whether it's a battery or bottle of water or whatever and it's the wrong thing to do and people who do that and get caught will be arrested and prosecuted. >> he's one of the reasons we have what we have here and whomever did that is pretty ignorant so i wouldn't be -- i don't think he's a true phillies fan. >> a disgrace. it's uncalled for. it's not necessarily. doesn't represent philly at

all. >> reporter: philadelphia police say at this point it is too early to determine what, if any, charges that man could face. at citizens bank park jeff chirico channel6 "action news. >> developing news now out of delaware county where a tractor-trailer crash is making a mess of traffic on i-95 and i-495. the action cam was on the scene near boothwyn. you can see the jackknifed truck is sitting across several lanes. that's forced officials to shut down all of the southbound lanes of i-495 and all but one lane of i-95. this all started a few hours ago when a car cut off the tractor-trailer causing it to crash into a guardrail to. make matters worse more than 100 gallons of fuel leaked from the truck's tank. no one was injured. drivers being urged to avoid that area. a suspicious package shut down train service into the norristown transportation center for several hours today. around 1:30 someone reported an unattended package at the bieber bus parking garage adjacent to the transportation

center. service had to be suspended while police tried to figure out what it was. about an hour and a half later they determined there was no threat. no word on what the packaged turned out to be. service was restored but passengers are still being told to expect delays. >> thousands of people lined the streets of manayunk today hoping to catch a glimpse of some of the best cyclists in the world. athletes taking part in today's philadelphia interception international cycling classic took on the grueling course inlewding the manayunk wall. trish hartman has more. >> reporter: the elite cyclists zoomed by up the hill known as the manayunk wall in the philadelphia international cycling classic. throngs of spectators cheered them on even as a light rain started to gray we don't care. we come. the weather makes the race more interesting. >> reporter: this family from doylestown hosted one of the american professionals teams at their house an experience they'll never forget. >> i got to ride with him a couple times for a little

while and then we got out everything about cycling that we wanted and they've been so nice. unbelievable. >> reporter: what's it been like having these elite cyclists stay at your house. >> really fun. my mom actually -- she liked it a lot 'cause they cleaned up after themselves so. >> reporter: good house guests. >> yeah. >> reporter: the men went first and then the women making loop after loop on the 12-mile circuit through the city. for the competitors some clouds and light rain isn't necessarily a bad thing. they say they'd rather deal with this weather than having sun beating down on them constantly as they're climbing this hill over and over again. ly. >> oh, yeah, this is much better for me. i like it when it is cooler than hot. >> enjoy the cooler temperatures and they make it a little faster. the heat can sometimes be a big factor in the conditions more than the cooler temperatures and a little bit of drizzle. while the race is known for its party atmosphere -- >> yeah yeah.

>> reporter: several organization have been working to make it more family friendly. >> this year we organized a block party. we're bringing out the neighbors. we're bringing out families. we also have a flag display here on the avenue and it's a welcome to the international community that's coming out here to roxborough. reporting in manayunk, trish hartman, channel6 "action news." >> one final note on the race. the men's winner was edward pradas of spain. he finished in three hours 57 minutes 30 seconds. on the woman's side it was megan gaurnier. >> much more to come here on "action news" tonight. hundreds of people lost power today in olde city. what investigators say caused the outage. >> also fund rafer that really went to the dogs today. we'll tell you about the great cause that these pups and their owners are helping to support. >> plus, the phillies bats come alive as they take on the brewers today at citizens bank park. jeff skversky has sports when "action news" comes right back.

>> a malfunctioning transformer knocked out electricity to part of olde city this afternoon. peco says wet weather conditions caused the transformer to fail in the 300 block of wood street. 1200 customers were initially affected. just over 40 customers remain without power right now. peco stays restoring power to the remaining customers is a complex job and could take up to 12 hours. 260 men and women officially took on a new title today. doctor. they graduated from the philadelphia college of osteopathic medicine joining 1,000 osteopathic doctors. dr. brian nester was the commencement speaker. he's the currents ceo of the lehigh valley health network. >> a church in northeast philadelphia marked a milestone today with the help of a very special visitor. archbishop charles chaput celebrated mass at saint martha's parish.

the parish is 50 year old. he noted this parish continues to grow as it meets the changing needs of its members. the. they had a tail wagging good time at the world of animals vet hospital in bensalem. they hosted a fundraiser for the red paw emergency relief team. there were games and vendors and entertainment even a puppy kissing booth. as you can see plenty of people brought along their pets for a fun time. red paw provides round the clock emergency help for displaced pets. >> ♪

>> it was a tough contest for a great cause today in the point breeze section. connor barwin of the eagles and a few teammates took on a community team playing some hoops at ralph brooks park. the game an block party later were part of barwin's make the world better foundation which helped redo the brooks park. organization's mission is to

redo one city playground each and every year. >> very nice. jeff with sports following up on our report from earlier on this bottle throwing incident involving ryan howard. >> classless by a phillies fan yesterday. it's yet another black eye for the image of philadelphia sports fans. after ryan howard says a fan threw a beer bottle at him at the end of yesterday's game, the bottle did not strike the phillies first baseman but as you can imagine he's livid. phillies say this is the unidentified fan who allegedly threw the bottle at howard. the phils center the video of the incident to police who are investigating it tonight. howard says this is the first time in his career an object has been thrown at him from the stands and he's infuriated by it. here's what howard tells the philadelphia inquirer. if you want to yell out something, that's whatever but when you start throwing stuff, that's when stuff gets personal. if i would have done something, if i would have went into the stands and tried to beat up this dude, i would have gotten in trouble by major league baseball. he probably would have tried to sue me. but it's okay for him to throw

a bottle and then go home and be on his merry way. nah, doesn't work like that. here's what the phillies will to say. >> that's dangerous for whoever threw that. we can't have that happen. >> i think it's very disappointing to be honest with you for a guy like ryan to have done what he's done here in his career and won m.v.p., help win a world series, i don't think it's acceptable. >> all right. let's talk baseball. please. the phillies have been unable to get on a run thanks to lack of runs. the phils have scored three runs or less in more games than any other team in baseball but today in the finale against milwaukee finally they find their swing. the phanatic he needs to find some clothes. he's streaking. must be a good luck charm because the fleece phillies go streaking at the plate. third inning franco deep to left. two-nothing lead. fifth inning they score a season high-five runs. tommy joseph hitting .350

since ryan howard was benched nearly goes yard there. upon further review it's a rbi double. four-nothing phils. next batter the new guy jimmy deep to right no, doubt about this one, the three-run homer, phils take a seven-nothing lead. next batter cameron rough no question about this, either. phils go back to back for the first time all season. they scored more than three runs in an inning for the first time all year, too. phils win eight to one. we'll discuss the game and beer bottle incident and much more at 11:45. mike missanelli is join me in studio. the splash brothers couldn't hit water if they fell out of water in game one. how will lebron and company respond tonight in game two? here's the game plan. >> you cannot give up 25 points off turnovers on the road.

it's not a good ingredient for success. so, we have to do a better job of that. >> and the nba finals game here on 6abc coming up at 8 o'clock. golden state leads the series one game to zero. despite only 20 combined points by steph curry and clay thompson. names start your engines or not. rain washes out the 400 until tomorrow. the run monday -- they'll run monday at noon. down the shore just outside of america's favorite playground the l pga shop rite. nonorquist becomes the first player in the 28 years of history in this tournament in galloway township to win back to back titles. council rock south football star turned new york giants offensive lineman justin pew hosting a kids camp in newtown. eagles fans you'll love this.

when pew asked a group of 20 kids how many were eagles fans, nearly all of them said, yes. >> what do you expect. >> good luck recruiting those kids justin. >> if you asked pugh five years ago who his favorite team was i'm sure the answer would have been the same. thanks jeff. >> thanks was there. >> as we've been reporting severe storms moving across the area right now. >> up next meteorologist melissa magee has the exclusive accuweather 7-day forecast when "action news" comes right back. >> ♪ caring for someone with alzheimer's means i am a lot of things. i am her best friend.

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>> time for a check of the accuweather forecast. the rough stuff melissa already arriving. >> yeah, walter and sarah

we're tracking storms as we speak. storm tracker6 live double scan radar, you can see we've got the line of showers and storms moving across the region. this is the cold front that we've been tracking. in fact we'll go in a little tighter and show you we've got that severe thunderstorm warning posted for philadelphia and areas to the south and east there in south jersey. so, this is moving to the southeast at about 50 miles per hour. we're expecting winds gusting up to 60 miles per hour. actually track some of this moisture for you on storm tracker6 live double scan street level. you can see the heaviest rain starting to press out of philadelphia but it is moving to the east so along route 130, also along route 38 pressing into cherry hill. we put on the rain rate factor here with storm tracker6 and you're looking at about 3-inches of rain falling at an hour and also close to about three and a half inches of rainfall rate per hour. any time you find rainfall rate numbers like this, this is an indication of some localized flooding. wouldn't be surprised if you had that across the region.

now we'll take up over into areas in trenton and mercer county where we have moderate to heavy rainfall falling along route 206. also along route one there in trenton and also pressing into florence. now we'll show you this other area that looks pretty interesting where we are finding some bowing taking place across areas in south jersey. if you are close to folsom at about 6:26 we're tracking those showers and storms for you. same thing for hammonton at about 6:28. look at the storm tracker here in elwood it will be approaching your region at about 6:34 this evening. i would allow for the showers and storms to persist early this evening and we'll get late neither clearing. you can see where the rain has fallen and where it's yet to come. it's 68 degrees in allentown with the rain cooled air, 70 in philadelphia after a high of 84. still 81 in millville, 85 degrees in dover and 72 degrees in cape may. you look at the dewpoints it's the level of moisture in the atmosphere and any time you have dewpoint numbers above 65 degrees or higher, you could feel the humidity

overhead and if you hit 70 it's down right oppressive. 78 degrees dewpoints there in dover with those strong showers and storms moving through. here's satellite6 and action radar you can see the cold front from new england extending down across the midatlantic region with those strong showers and storms that watch box is a severe thunderstorm watch that stays up until 10 o'clock tonight before that cold front passes on through. future tracker six showing you the moisture 7 o'clock this evening still have a line of showers and storms from trenton right along that 95 corridor and also into areas in south jersey. remember we could find winds in excess of 60 miles per hour with the moisture moving on through. 8:30, 9 o'clock tonight that moisture starts to move off shore. as you wake up early on monday morning 7:30 in the morning should be dry for the morning commute. plenty of sunshine returns and lower humidity as well. that is the call from accuweather tomorrow. we'll max out at 87 tomorrow. the humidity drops throughout the day. it's sunny and warm, 85 degrees in allentown and 80 in cape may for the high temperature. the exclusive accuweather 7-day forecast showing it's

warm. it's not humid tomorrow. up to 87. an afternoon thunderstorm is likely on tuesday coming in at 83. a cooler breeze on wednesday, perhaps a spotty shower coming in at 75. delightful on thursday, 75 degrees. 77 on friday. touch warmer as we get into saturday, a high up to 80 and 83 as we get into next sunday so we're tracking showers and storms damaging winds the big concern and locally some heavy rain, too, guys. >> melissa thank you. abc's world news sunday is next here on channel six. don't miss "action news" at 10:00 on phl17 tonight. we're right back here again on 6abc at 11 o'clock. >> now for melissa magee jeff skversky sarah bloomquist and the entire "action news" team, i'm walter perez. see you back here at 11 o'clock. >> ♪

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welcome to "world news tonight." breaking news. millions bracing for dangerous weather. a massive storm system marching across the east. major cities on alert. rain, strong winds, and possible tornadoes. and now, a new tropical threat tonight. forced to flee. a fast-moving wildfire. mandatory evacuations. crews battling to save homes. including those multi-million dollar mansions owned by hollywood celebrities. vicious blows? as the body of muhammad ali returns to kentucky, the question tonight. did boxing contribute to his parkinson's disease? race mistake? donald trump saying a mexican-american judge is biased against him, and a muslim judge would be as well. denying that's racism, calling it just "common sense." and, pressure to win.