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news police say they caught the man that planted a hidden camera inside a local bathroom. and transformation is well underway in center city. and we have an update from the east market construction. but the big story is a hot, humid and soggy accuweather forecast. as we look live at sky 6 hd, at center city. there are downpours throughout the area that could continue into the afternoon and evening and then tomorrow the return of excessive and even dangerous heat. meteorologist, david murphy, is tracking the latest from accuweather and is live from the big board. >> reporter: it's a muggy morning so far and continues that way this afternoon. notice the majority of the region is dry and a fair amount of clouds are around and when you manage to pop a shower or thunderstorm, there is so much moisture in the atmosphere you could open up downpours, we see that in areas east of doyles down and norristown along the

pennsylvania turnpike, and jenkins town and philadelphia. when you get caught under this, it could be a washout. give it an hour, to hour and a half, you may see a break. there is another smaller shower that has just begun to pop up and is pushing in toward delaware county. and another cluster, a larger area of precipitation that includes some pockets of heavier downpour producing precipitation. you see that in the northern suburbs of philadelphia. we are keeping an eye on the morning's first thunderstorms plowing in our direction as we head into the afternoon, they are currently at the eastern shore of maryland and salem and points north, but later in the day there say possibility we'll see more of that. we are looking at warm conditions and the rain is suppressed in philadelphia at 76. and we'll bounce up to this sort

of temperature profile. 81 in dover and 81 in wilmington and allentown 80 degrees currently. as you look at dew points, very soupy out there. with dew points above the threshold for what we consider oppressively humid air. we'll detail the storms with future tracker 6 coming up and the big story tomorrow is the excessive heat and humid, that is coming up in the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast. >> thank you. with pop-up storms possible be sure to follow each of our meteorologists on facebook and twitter, send us your picture and video of what is happening in your neighborhood. you can check in with 6abc.com/weather with the latest from stormtracker 6 live double scan. now to the shakeup at temple university. the board expressed plans to remove the president after removing another top leader.

john rawlins joins us with more. >> reporter: good afternoon rick, the first sign of major trouble here, came last month when president neil theobald fired his provost blaming him for the huge shortfall in the merit scholarship program. and now the axe is falling on the president himself. >> the campus is peaceful and tranquil today but that bellies the turmoil in the high level suites. theobald has been fired. the board of trustees led by chairman patrick o'connor, will move to remove him formerly next week. because of a deficit in the school's financial aid budget. theobald who has been president here in temple for three years so far refused. >> the board was concerned that there was a lack of

communication of how it grew. and about how it was allowed to continue when in fact there were opportunities to reduce it earlier. it's not a question of anything untoward. it just wasn't handled properly. >> no impact for the student body that was already getting a 3% increase in tuition in september. >> and the board of trustees has an interim president waiting in the wings. richard engeler who served here at temple university at multiple post. he will be placed at the helm as the search goes forward for a permanent president. on north broad street, i'm vernon odom, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. from our delaware newsroom, a volunteer firefighter who died during a training exercise has

been brought back to his home town. this morning more than 50 fire department officials from neighboring communities, escorted the body of tim mcclanahan to a funeral home in lewes, he was killed when he fell from a helicopter from an exercise in george town on monday. in wilmington police say the man that secretly took pictures of women using a restaurant bathroom has been caught. 29-year-old liuis lopez is accused of hiding a camera at the moe's grill. he was arrested yesterday and is charged with five counts of invasion of privacy. now to the race for the white house, a new poll shows that donald trump and hillary clinton are in a dead heat in three swing states including

pennsylvania. we are joined live from washington with the latest from the campaign trail. >> reporter: yes rick, those numbers are showing a tight race not only in pennsylvania but also in one state that clbt clinton used to dominate. tied in ohio and donald trump is gaining ground in pennsylvania and clinton lost her 8 point lead in florida. after endorsing her yesterday and hoping to boost the poll numbers, bernie sanders appeared trying to rally his supporters behind her. >> that issue has not been raised yet and i doubt that that will happen. right now what my job is to make sure that hillary clinton is elected president and we defeat trump and come up with a set of principles and agenda that speaks to working families. >> now sanders taking up the

fight against trump. we can't have a man with trump's temperament with the nuclear codes. >> and another battle, this one against supreme justice, ginsburg. >> he says whatever comes into his head at the moment and has an ego. >> trump firing back telling ginsburg to get off the court and saying that it's highly inappropriate that supreme court judge gets involved with a presidential campaign. donald trump had a meeting with mike pence at his indiana home this morning. abc news learned that trump is getting closer and close toward picking his running mate possibly as close as this friday. >> all right maggie thank you. later this week "action news" will have complete coverage from the republican national convention in cleveland, ohio.

sara bloomquist and jim gardner will be there as it gets underway. look for their reports from cleveland starting this friday. and we'll bring you comprehensive coverage of the convention in philadelphia, live coverage begins on july 22nd before the convention starts on the 25th. bun year ago today they started to pour cement for the east market development in center city philadelphia. today the action cam got a behind the scenes tour of the progress. it's an entire city block from market to chestnut from 11th to 12th street. including stores and shops and restaurants and an organic market. >> we are taking that old warehouse that has many lives over the years including recently the home of the family court into the -- it's really a

center for the design community. >> this first phase is just a small portion of the east market project, john rawlins will have more details coming up in a live report at 12:30. still to come on "action news" police are searching for a possible serial killer that seems to be targeting victims in phoenix, arizona. and prime minister david cameron turns in his resignation to the queen. and an excessive heat watch in effect and the same concerns we had last week. heat indexes could go as high as 100 to 104, so get ready for that. we'll have your seven-day forecast and a look at showers and storms on stormtracker 6 live double scan. >> thank you those stories and more when "action news" comes right back.

a possible serial killer has struck again in phoenix, arizona, one man is connected to four additional shootings, one of them fatal. he is suspected of killing seven people since march. all the victims were ambushed outside of their homes near their cars, police released a

sketch of the gunman but they are not sure of the motive. britain's prime minister is heading to buckingham palace to meet with the queen before taking residence. prime minister cameron met with the queen to hand in his official resignation, he made his final appearance at parliament for a standing ovation. teresa may will be the second female prime minister. and now the new human services commissioner. mayor jim kenney announced that cynthia figueroa will take over the job. she once worked as a deputy for that job. dhs has been under fire lately after the state downgraded its license after finding violations of child welfare laws. a 20-year-old man is

credited for his role in the dramatic rescue of an entire family. two adults and four children were on a boat that started to take on water off the coast of elis island in new york city. the vessel flipped over within four minutes, a doc worker from a cruise line saw it happened and jumped in to help including a girl trapped under the boat. >> i eventual got the girl and pulled her out as fast as i could, and she came out and was looking for air and breathing crazy and i was just happy to see her alive. >> a police rescue unit came and helped with the additional rescues, but docket was responsible for saving all the lives. still to come on "action news" at noon, a casino worker from atlantic city are taking their protest on the road. and later on childhood allergies come in all varieties and they can be difficult to deal with.

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about 1,000 union members walked off the job on july 1st. lawmakers are expected to vote on a budget plan. including a $1 tax on cigarettes and state sales tax on digital music and apps. tom wolf allowed the budget to take effect without a signature or a plan to fund it. a new study suggests that prenatal vitamins may be a waste of money. they found no proof that this could lead to better health of the baby, and women should take two vitamins, folic acid and vitamin d and focus on improving their overall diet. doctors received the all

clear to continue a cancer study, the fda suspends the trial last week after two patients died from brain swelling but it turned out that the problem was from a separate chemo drug and not the experimental treatment. they have allowed the trial to continue. the "action news" team is out working on news stories beginning today at 4:00. lets go to alicia vitarelli for a preview. >> reporter: jennifer aniston is out with a powerful message. the actress is financing a op ad for the huffington post. she doesn't miss a beat. we'll have more on her mission how she is using this message to empower young women. and a family owned business in westchester run by three

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meteorologist, david murphy is back now with a look at precipitation out there, and street flooding in communities. >> especially where the areas are showing up in red and yellows. i'll show them to you right now. stormtracker 6 live double scan shows you a couple of hits of

precipitation, the worst of it locally has passed philadelphia, there are a couple of showers coming down in and around the city. and there is more coming down from the south and west. lets go in tight, there is the movement all the stuff going up to the north and east. wherever are you caught underneath the orange and red cells, it's coming down fast and furious, there is ponding or puddling slowing things down. the worst appears to be just to the north of the radar site near landsdale, and another cluster passing through jenkintown and southern bucks county and in and around philadelphia we are not totally out of the woods but the mass of precipitation is pushing away and we are dealing with one last heavy hitting cell moving through south broad street up toward vine and pushing up toward the boulevard and i-95 north. another cluster formed north of wilmington and pushing in toward delaware county and media, can you see how newcastle county

delaware is drying out and slight heavy hitters there and on top of earlier showers we had. and there are isolated cells one of them looking to head into reading more or less and more stuff out of york, pennsylvania. and the heavy stuff is north of philadelphia and a couple of heavy cluster and the thunderstorms down on the shore of maryland. as we look outside we the action cam out at boathouse row and cherry pickers out there. perhaps making sure the light bulbs are all set for the dnc. it's not quite as warm in philadelphia because of the recent rain but those numbers will pop up. the dew point is 73 and that is humid. notice the 76 in philadelphia, but in trenton 80 and 81 in wilmington where the rain is not

much of a factor and philadelphia will pop up to this sort of number profile. as we look at future tracker 6, we are in play for more heavy downpours. and by 3:00 the model goes from philadelphia to the south, look at that, the potential for heavy localized rainfall but perhaps a gusty thunderstorm here or there. there is action to the north but we are to allow for lingering stuff at 9:00, 10:00, 11:00, you lose that convective potential for breaking out the storms and they have a tendency to die down. 86 is the high in the lehigh valley and down the beach not exactly a sunny day but mostly dry by the water, ocean temperature is 75. the only thing i would say to you is you need to keep an ear out for that thunder and head in off the beach if you hear that. 85 is the high in philadelphia today warm and humid and drenching showers and thunderstorms possible at times,

and winds out of the south at 17 miles per hour. it's nice that a lot of the region managed to get some rain today and we are returning a deficit especially areas north, muggy with a shower or thunderstorm, and the next two days look hot and humid with a capital h. 85 is today's high and warm and sticky and drenchers around and 94 on thursday, and 95 on friday and the excessive heat watch is in play and we'll get heat index values making it feel over 100. saturday at this point looks dry and muggy and sunday a possibility of a spotty storm and mainly dry and humid this weekend rick but not as oppressive as thursday and friday. >> thank you david. and there is much move ahead in our next half hour of "action news" at 12:30. a lot of kids develop allergies to cats and dogs but that does not mean the pets have to go.

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stormtracker 6 live double scan, we see rain showers falling in parts of the region and stronger storms could pop up later. david murphy will have all the details in accuweather. and the heart ache continues in dallas as loved one say farewell to those killed in the ambush. and a major construction project is really taking shape in center city. we are live with an update on the east market project. now the details, rain has dampened the day today in parts of the region and we are tracking storms that would be strong later this afternoon into the evening. rain fell steadily in winfield heights and it's a good idea to keep an umbrella handy and take cover from any storms that may pop up suddenly, take a quick look outside, sky 6 hd showing you an ominous scene over center city it's almost like a movie. rain is still falling and david murphy is outside on the terrace dodging the rain