former mayor michael nutter has a blunt response to am allegations of financial impropriety. next. urn? honey...our turn? yeah, we go left right here. (woman vo) great adventures are still out there. we'll find them in our subaru outback. (avo) love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. get zero percent on select subaru models during the subaru a lot to love event, now through august thirty-first. action news delaware valleys leading news program with jim gardn gardner. >> tuesday night jim is off, i'm rick williams and the big story on action news is a week straight of 90 degree plus highs, tomorrow this heat wave will become the longest of the

year and it could even stretch through another weekend, metrologist cecily tynan is at the action big board with a look at the forecast cecily. >> a heat wave has now gone for seven days now, the good news is it peaked already. the worst of it was saturday when the heat index rose all the way up to 111 but seven days ties as the longest heat wave of the year in late july and this heat wave has the potential to last five more days but temperatures will be in the low 90s and the humidity tomorrow will not be as high as today. the highest heat index in philadelphia rose up to 106 degrees today. tomorrow the heat index should be below 100 so we do not have excessive heat warning and is good news. storm tracker six double scan between 4:00-8:00 showing we had a good line of thunderstorms that caused damage in burkes and

scattering of storms in burkes and chester county east of 222, approaching honey brook, nothing severe with this but that is ahead of a cold front and behind that cold front we get a break. right now dew points are in the 70s. that cold front will bring us drier air tomorrow with dew points dropping into the 60s for parts of our region so it's a slight dip this dew point the heat wave will continue and tracking the chance of more storms tomorrow night, talk more about that in the accuweather seven-day forecast rick. >> cecily we will check back in later thank you. meantime this week of extreme heat and humidity has been brutal for several businesses especially many food vendors. at the open air market food is turning extra quickly. >> everything is ripening really fast and by tomorrow they are yellow already. >> reporter: at carl's farm and eggs they are packing meat and poultry and extra ice to keep it

from spoiling but down the street at center city soft pretzel company they are used to it and normally work in 118 degree temperatures when they are baking. this afternoon's storms sizzled as they made their way out west but they were strong enough to do some damage in burkes county, this is how it looked where a roof was ripped off and tree branches came down in west reddening one of them broke out a car's rear window. >> ten people killed and more than 40,000 homes damaged in unprecedented flooding in louisiana and began during torrential rains on friday and homes and businesses are still under water, at least 30,000 people have been rescued. of the people 12000 are now homeless and packed in shelters. today some residents returned to their homes to assess the damage and many found soggy carpets and drywall along with mold and insects. nearly a dozen local american red cross volunteers packed up this morning and headed south to

baton rouge, action news was there as they caught flights out of philadelphia international airport and volunteers distributing food and helping residents who are staying in the shelters. in california the threat is not water but fire. a new wildfire is blazing a path through the hills outside of los angeles forcing an entire town to evacuate. the residence residence residents are on edge and people miles away are breathing an sigh of relief and we are live in the satellite center tonight to explain why dan. >> rick a california community broke out into tears afterward that arrest had been made further authorities suspect he may be a serial arsonist. >> it is my pleasure to announce the arrest of damin anthony pashilk on 17 counts of arson. [applause] the announcement of damin anthony pashilk's arrest was met with cheers, relief and outrage. >> a lot of anger and relief.

>> reporter: and there was also pain. >> it's hard to look at that man and know he is the one that caused all of this. >> investigators say damin anthony pashilk is the one that started the massive fire that burned over 400,000 acre and destroyed nearly 200 homes and businesses. >> our life and all of our neighbors look what they have to come home to it's horrible. >> reporter: sample sample is a serial arsonist and started other fires including one rages outside of los angeles and moving toward las vegas. >> it is a tragic day however when we identify any individual who intentionally starts a fire and a fire like this it was devastating. >> now despite the devastation there was a huge sigh of relief that a suspect is in custody and due in court tomorrow. live in the center i'm dan channel six action news. >> thank you, dan. one person is in critical condition following a house fire in delaware county, the flames

broke out about 8:30 at an apartment on the 300 west 21st street and rescue crews had to remove the victim from a window and rushed to the medical center, no word yet on what caused the fire. two police vehicles rushing to an emergency call tonight collided here in the logan section of philadelphia. they were responding to the report of a shooting and broad but it turned out to be someone setting off fireworks. the police officer struck each other on the 1300 on taber avenue and fortunately no one was injured. kathleen kane will officially step down as pennsylvania attorney general tomorrow. last night a jury found her guilty of a criminal conspiracy to leak secret grand jury information as pay back in a political vendetta and lying about it under oath kane was the first woman ever elected to the state's top law enforcement post and says her efforts to break up what she called an old boys network in state government was the reason she was prosecuted

that people were trying to silence her her investigate porn gate led to resignation of officials including two state supreme court justices however the judge would not allow her to use that as a defense at trial. now kane faces up to 7 years in prison for perjury and plans to appeal the conviction. her short outgoing resignation statement reads quote i have been honored to serve the people of pennsylvania and wish them health and safety in all their days. second in command bruce castor will take over as acting attorney general once kane resigns tomorrow. he is a republican and is something of a full circle coincidence served as montgomery da the same office which prosecuted kathleen kane. a wild war of words has erupted between the former mayor nutter and who keeps employees accountable and all over allegations about how 400,000

was spend and we are live at city hall and what is being scrutinized is the philadelphia marathon and that trip to rome to see the pope. >> that is absolutely right and nutter is calling him a liar and a snake after he accused he and the staff after misusing the milt marathon dollars as a slush, fund. more than 400,000 generated from the philadelphia marathon may have been used inappropriately. that is according to the city controllers audit and they are part of the fund met for projects that benefit the entire city instead it went to 52000 hotel stay, 82 shoes at macys and three open bar event. >> decision was made to circumvent the city process. >> reporter: city controller allen claims nutter and staff did not go through the proper channels particularly when a 45,000 trip to rome was flagged. >> it was to promote the city as a tourist attraction and center for the papal visit and why go

through the regular scrutiny and for some reason he didn't want it scrutinized and go through the procedure that has no receipts, no information. >> reporter: mayor nutter says he is a liar, snake and hypocrite and no truth in what he says and every expenditure was proper and for approved purpose and his report alleges the funds former chairman bell never provided receipts for the purchases in question. she said in a statement the purpose of the expenditures was to fit within mayor nutter's five goals and funds executive ashley signed off on expenditures to indicate her approval but all criteria had been met. but it was he who flagged the city controller once nutter's term ended and kenney took office. important to note no charges have been filed, also unclear if any laws were broken but it's something that the city controller says he is looking into. reporting live at city hall channel six action news ris

rick. >> a delaware woman eye accused of throwing bleach at a mother and toddler under arrest and under bail and lataka mason surrendered today and troopers say back on august four she got in an argument on the target on 1,000 block of brandywine parkway and the argument concerning a shopping cart blocking the aisle and escalated when investigators say mason grabbed the bottle of breach and poured it on the other one and some bleach splahed on the child. a 66-year-old staffed to death by wife of 41 years and police called on the 100 valley park south in bethlehem sunday and found roger dead from multiple stab wounds, his wife 58-year-old kathleen was taken into custody. court documents revealed that she confesses to the murder saying she became enraged after

her husband told her he didn't need her any more and was kicking her out of their apartment. police from delaware county continue to investigate the theft of 40,000 worth of bikes and gear belonging to war heros. it happened friday night as staff and volunteers with the wounded warrior project were in town for the annual soldier ride event but someone stole a u-haul truck containing hybrid and recumbent bikes to help them get around and engage in communities. investigators have been checking local bike shops in hopes of tracking down the missing gear. 81 private stores in pennsylvania permission to sell wine under new law that took effect last week and approved the permit so far out of 174 requests and expects to grant licenses later this week for companies that want to ship wine directly to customers. under the family who had gone hungry got a helping hand

tonight in kensington during a grocery give away, this event was one of several put on by generous volunteers during what is called the festival of life and teamed up with the group feed the hungry over the weekend to pack up thousands of boxes of free groceries and in bucks county and tonight they brought their offering to kensington with the intent of spreading hope and happiness. that is the u.s. airforce thunder birds causing the buzz at the shore today in the skies over atlantic city and beach goers entertained by the practice runs of the aerial stunt team, the pilots make sure they had timing and maneuvers precisely coordinated for tomorrow's big air show and kicks off at 11:00 tomorrow morning and runs until 4:00 in the afternoon with dozens the military and chopper six is taking part and 6abc is a proud broadcast partner. and still to come on action news

tonight we will show you hillary clinton's visit to philadelphia today and why donald trump says he is not going to change. plus a bizarre murder attack where the suspect was biting off a victim's face. we learned what the suspect was doing when his parents less than an hour before. also an advantage young adults who don't go to college have over university students. that is coming up, in health check. cecily. >> tomorrow is heat wave day eight the longest of the year and the heat index tracker showing it's not as intensive today with heat indices below 100 and let you know when real relief arrives in the accuweather forecast. in sports and ducis rodgers with the exciting return to philadelphia of chase utley including fireworks at the plate tonight when action news comes right back.

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no idea what prompted a college student's gruesome and savage attack that included biting off parts of a victim's face. they suspect hallucinegic drugs

but tests came back negative for cocaine, meth and heroin and the 19-year-old student murdered a couple in their 50s seemingly at random and stabbed the neighbor who tried to help. when police arrived they found him on top of the man who was killed eating his face. tasers and even a police dog could not stop him and he took officers with all their strength to pull him off. >> i've seen a lot of crime scenes. i was there last night. i don't know i've ever seen anything with this much violence. this much aggressive in a homicide. to say it's sad somehow misses it. i'm not sure i even have the words to tell you how i feel. >> police say 45 minutes before the vicious attack he was out to dinner with his parents. he stormed off angry about slow

service, his parents were so worried about his bizarre behavior they called police and he was wounded in the effort to stop him and he may not survive. there was growing intrigue tonight about the secret world of cyber espionage and says the nsa may have been hacked and the computer programs used by elite team of american spies were stolen. the hacker is offering to expose them or auction them off to the highest bidder and may be an elaborate ruse but most believe it's legitimate and now nsa leaker edward snowden says it's likely a message being sent by the russians to counter the dnc e-mail hack and any retaliation by the u.s. ♪ the road to the white house made its way through philadelphia today. democratic presidential nominee hillary clinton spoke to supporters at west philadelphia high school this afternoon with the deadline to register for the november election less than two months away clinton kicked off a

voter registration drive. she also pledged to tighten gun control regulations drawing big cheers from the crowd. >> and yes i am going to take on the gun lobby to try to save lives here in philadelphia and across pennsylvania. >> clinton added that she would push for comprehensive background checks, close loopholes in gun laws and bar people on terrorist watch lists from buying guns and also vowed to conduct a national security and born policy that americans could be proud of saying why vote donald trump be wilders her when he talks about policies and donald trump says he has no plans to pivot to another style for the general election. party leaders have been urging him to stop making controversial statements. >> i am who i am that is me and everyone talks about you will pivot, i don't want to pivot. i mean you have ob you. if you start pivoting you are not being honest with people, no, i am who i am.

i've gotten here in a landslide and see what happens. >> in milwaukee and stemming from a shooting of an armed black man by a black police officer over the weekend and trump said that law an order must be respected. health check at 11:00 and turns out that college students are getting an education in alcohol use. a new government report today reveals that more college students admit to regularly drinking and bilge drinking than their peers who don't go to college. the survey covered 21 million americans ages 18-22 and nearly six and ten full time college students said they had alcohol in the past month and half who were not enrolled and 38% of college goers admitted to bilge drinking compared to 33% of non-college students, more college students also said they had used cocaine. metrologist cecily tynan is back to find out what is on tap in the weather world.

>> going to be hot again. no but it won't be quite as humid as today in philadelphia and areas north so there is a little relief on the way but the heat wave continues. >> take what we can get after a full week of this storm tracker six live double scan showing we do have some scattered downpours breaking out parts of lancaster and burkes county and this is ahead of a cold front that is moving through tonight so we have a pretty good heavy downpour right over albertson and generally moving to the east, northeast at 30 miles per hour no lightning strikes with this, nothing severe but what is a boundary that will bring slightly lower humidity to parts of our region tomorrow. now though the heat index shows you it's still stifling and still feels like 97 degrees in philadelphia this late at night. feels 93 wilmington and millville and 93 trenton. you can see though the areas that had gotten some showers and thunderstorms earlier this evening feels quite a bit better

there with a heat index in the mid 70s. satellite 6 along with action radar showing here is the system that is pulling through, it's a cold front, not really a lot of cold air behind it temperatures will still be in the 90s but will provide a wind shift again for parts of our region but tomorrow morning you step outside and head out to work it's going to be very humid. bright sunshine, warm at 6:00, 78 degrees by 8:00, 80 degrees but i want to show you what happens with the dew points as we head through the day. future tracker showing 8:30 in the morning and dew points across the board in the 70s. as we head through the day we get slightly drier air to mix down from the north. by 6:00 philadelphia areas to the north dew points in the upper 60s and areas to the south dew points in the 70s that is the higher humidity so it's going to feel a little bit better again for philadelphia and areas to the north but still in the heat wave 92 degrees tomorrow that marks day 8 the longest heat wave of the year and it's going to be close,

could continue on thursday with a high around 90 degrees and it will be a little bit on the muggy side. if you are on the beaches tomorrow it will be hot, no sea breeze it will be humid. delaware beach is 91 and new jersey 88 degrees. if you are heading to the atlantic city air show drink lots of water, it's going to be a hot day. so the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast hot, humid and not quite as oppressive and 92 degrees. thursday, friday, saturday, sunday forecasting highs near 90 degrees if we hit that that will make it 12 days in the heat wave, sunday night and monday some thunderstorm and that is with the cold front, that finally brings us real relief on tuesday, tuesday mostly sunny, low humidity and seasonable temperatures with a high of 85 degrees but again this heat wave has the potential to last 12 days but the good news is the worst of the heat wave last saturday is now over so it's

already peaked. >> all right thank you cecily. philadelphia dinosaur and other local bands got the chance to perform tonight at the theatre of the living arts in center city. ♪ performance served as the kickoff to phl live center stage 2016 and initiative brings local musicians to venues across the city from now through october. it all leads up to award show in december when the fan favorites will get to perform again. ♪ ♪ ♪

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a lot of fireworks at the ballpark tonight much of it ignited by chase utley. >> he certainly has a flair for the dramatic. it's been a year since the phillies traded chase elliot to los angeles and tonight he made his return to philadelphia unfortunately still wearing dodgers blue. >> chase utley! utley gets a standing ovation that lasts more than a minute and single handedly destroyed and 2-1 dodgers in the fifth and utley faces velasquez and 3-1 dodgers the fans request a curtain call and utley obliges and bases loaded and a grand slam and ten homers in the season and three against the

phillies and a curtain call and lose 15-5 and here is utley before the game talking about his fans. >> i cannot really say enough about the amount of support that i received not only me but the number of my teammates received over the years. i truly believe that without their support and without them kind of pushing you to become better we would not have had the teams that we had. >> he is something else. the eagles addressing an area of need today and added wide receiver dorian green beckham with a trade with tennessee and ship out kellie and green beckham entering the lead and had four touchdown and comes with back baggage and he was looked at for pushing a woman down the stairs and marijuana possession and never charged with a crime but the birds say they are willing to take a chance on him. >> i think the important thing

is he has an opportunity and we are going with our eyes open and he has to prove. >> we are not in the rehabilitation because but at the same time with the staff i assembled we can bring guys in that can might have had you know a little bit of a history and we can help these players. >> eagles made the move because the receiver core has been so inconsistent sam bradford is all for the trade but still believes this the guys who are already on this team. >> i think they have shown the capabilities to make plays and have done it you know just like all of us we are just working to be more consistent and but over all i think those guys have done a great job. >> reporter: still ahead an olympic update plus an olympian has a message all of us can use.

olympic up with date in today's gymnastics simone biles captured the gold metal the fifth of the games and u.s. basketball team destroyed japan in quarter finals and it cousin cool to see won the bronze becoming the first female olympian on team usa in weight lifting and her reaction was priceless and saying things you get bullied are the things that made me become an olympian consider that when some jerk tries to tear you down. good for her. that is sports. >> all right very cool thank you ducis and jimmy kimmel is live followed by night line and action news continues at 4:30

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