that might wash out our holiday weekend and a troubling tattoo has police investigating one of their own next. ♪ action news delaware valleys leading news program with jim gardner. >> baton down the hatches we are days away from a date with hurricane hermine. the tropical menace is gaining steam in the gulf as it's set to make landfall within the hour in

florida and after it's done with the sunshine state it's headed here to wash out our holiday weekend unfortunately. thursday night jim is off i'm rick williams and the big story on action news is tracking hermine behind me is what it looks like from nasa satellites in space. and this is what it looks like from appacola the florida panhandle as the storm is lashing the gulf coast at this hour. we have live team coverage this evening as tropical storm hermine watches have already been posted for our area action news reporter christie is at the jersey shore where there is a costal concern this evening, and let's begin with metrologist adam joseph and the power of storm tracker six double scan as hermine is about to strike the u.s. and adam you have the latest. >> live double scan to the south of tallahassee and winds sustained at 80 miles per hour, you can see the intense bands of heavy rain, thunderstorms strong winds spiralling in around the

center of hermine and if we close in you can see that eye wall is now brushing the coast near appalachacola and to the east hitting florida for the first time in nearly 11 years that a hurricane has made landfall and you can see the intense of bands of rain wrap around the center of the storm and that is where the most intense part of the storm is always situated so it is happening right now with that landfall located in the big bend of florida. the last time a hurricane made landfall was 2005 that was hurricane wilma and this is the first u.s. landfalling hurricane in two years. for us we have tropical storm watches in effect for the entire jersey shore as well as the delaware beaches and extends down into maryland and virginia, a watch means the potential is there for winds to be sustained over 40 miles per hour, the possibility of power outages and tropical storm warnings in effect from cape haderus to the

coastal communities of the state of georgia. as we look at the very latest track that just came out from the national hurricane center once it makes landfall it will weaken and winds 50 miles per hour friday and saturday, on saturday morning it emerges off the coast of north carolina and then between saturday at 8:00 p.m. and tuesday at 8:00 p.m. this system is going to stall just off of our coastline and notice what happens with the winds on sunday, they will actually increase as the storm strengthens just off of our coast. rick i'll let you know what that means for us locally here especially along the shore coming up, in that full accuweather forecast. >> all right adam and check back this later and thank you and go to action reporter christie on the border and the storm will have an impact on the unofficial end of summer at the shore this weekend. >> that is right rick it's no secret that when there is bad weather and it's stormy outside

fewer people come here to boardwalk and that means if there is less foot traffic it can hurt businesses and their bottom lines. this is a preview of what could be heading to the jersey shore this weekend hermine a category one hurricane heads our way. >> we are getting calls, you know, several several calls an hour. people just asking if they should come down or you know a lot of them are alone. >> reporter: cancellations are on the minds of many beach goers including those bound for impalla for the last unofficial weekend of summer. >> very unpredictable storm to us, could be bad or nothing. >> it's that unpredictability that could hurt businesses bottom lines on a big travel weekend. >> probably make a few less dollars this weekend. >> the pizza on the boardwalk is already bracing for less foot traffic. >> it's a concern of ours. when there is a storm a lot less

people head to the shore so that does effect sales. >> we depend on the holiday weekends to you know for a tourism is our number one driver of the economy here so any time you impact that with the weather event it can do a lot of damage to our local economy. >> sullivan has boards at the ready but admits the storm won't drive her family from the beach. >> doesn't look it's that bad from the forecast so i'm not too worried. >> earlier this summer they reported the tourism industry is growing here partly because of the good weather so we are going to have to wait and see if this ill-timed storm impacts here. reporting life in ocean city christie channel six action news rick. >> thank you and organizers of the made in america concert on the ben franklin parkway preparing for what could be a wet event this weekend, as of tonight live nation and philadelphia's office of emergency management say they

have no weather contingency plan but that might change closer to saturday. meanwhile concert goers say they will be there rain or shine. and make sure to check in with the action news morning team as they are tracking the tropics metrologist david murphy will let you know exactly where hermine landed on its path to us. the philadelphia police department is investigating one of its own tonight after a photograph surfaced online of an officer with a controversial tattoo on his forearm, in fact, the mayor is calling that tattoo incredibly offensive especially to veterans and victims of the holocaust and tonight some are demanding that officer be fired. action news report dan is live from police headquarters with the story, dan. >> rick the officer under fire is a 17 year veteran of the department who the fop says has never been in any trouble. but the department says he is now the subject of an internal affairs investigation over what some allege is a nazi style

tattoo on his arm and he is ean-hans and during the national convention a member of the philadelphia coalition of justice snapped this image of him with a tattoo of an eagle with father land over it an image they claim is a nazi symbol. >> not just like generic symbol of germany it's like specifically a time around the nazi era. >> the group demanding the officer be fired. >> the officer should be removed immediately, he shouldn't be paid while he is being investigated. >> police administration says the matter is under review. >> something we have to be mindful of at no point this time does the department condone anything that is interpreted as offensive or hateful or as discriminatory in any form or fashion. >> mayor jim kenney says if the symbol is what is alleged that could be offensive. >> if it is it's a disturbing

visual and that is a symbol of what people in world war ii fought against and see where it goes and turns out. >> reporter: president john says the officer who is of german heritage was just trying to show his pride in a german police association which he says uses a similar symbol which he provided for us to see. >> he is a military vet, a father a great cop, on the other arm he has tattoo of an american flag and is that offensive with a black panther on his chest or back or leg would that be offensive. >> no disciplinary action ever taken against him. >> now he is crucified and family being crucified, he had to change his phone number over a tattoo he had for over a decade stop it come on. >> as internal affairs conducts its investigation they say the fop will be there to defend the officer for now until the very end however long that may take, police headquarters i'm dan

channel six. >> action news rick. >> dan thank you the nfl made it official today the 2017 draft will be here in philadelphia and at the perfect location on the rocky steps at the art museum. the next generation of nfl players will walk those steps. >> the nfl draft used to be a simple affair but turned into a three day fan fest. the league and tourism officials say some 200,000 fans will touchdown in philadelphia and the entire event could generate 86 million for the local economy. that's twice the take from the annual army navy game. health officials are reporting lead in the water at a local university tonight. rowan students are getting an unwanted education about this dangerous contamination. action news reporter bob brooks is live on campus where students are being told not to drink the water. bob how long is this expected to last? >> rick good evening it's for

the foreseeable future and talking about lead in the water here at the university and as it stands right now students cannot consume any tap water that is here coming off the campus. on rowan university campus you will notice that almost everyone is carrying around bottled water and there is a profound reason why the campus tap water has tested positive for lead. >> it's in the fountains too, it's everywhere. it's in the sinks so i have been just carrying jugs. >> discovery was made after discolored water was noticed in some dorms. >> i got the e-mail after i drank a whole bottle out of the sink. >> the glass for municipal water test came back negative for lead and the problem lies within the campus specifically old buildings and old piping. >> the buildings are all pre-1986 which is the year when construction materials were not allowed to have lead in them. >> in fact, we are told there is no quick fix to this each of the 50 buildings on campus has to be

handled uniquely. >> it's too early to talk about remedies, it will change from building to building how we solve the issue but this is a prolonged event. >> so here is what is being done to combat the issue now where there is testing being done don't drink signs have been posted or the fountains are turned off altogether. bottled water is available to all students each day and you can see there is plenty. pur fieed water fountains are in place that look like this and students can also fill their water bottles up there as well at 7:00 tonight the q and a session with faculty was made available to address concerns in the student center and school says transparency with their students is what is most important working through this. >> we want students to know that we are looking out for their best interests. >> okay back out live here again the most important thing for rowan students to know is do not consume any tap water coming from any of the buildings here on campus, reporting live at

rowan university bob brooks channel six. >> new details tonight on that deadly shooting in an atlantic city out let mall a gunman entered the zoomies clothing store around noon time at the walk and shot the store manager before turning the gun on himself and the shooter and victim knew each other although their exact relationship is still not clear, the victim identified as 26-year-old christopher and the gunman who shot himself but survived is 55-year-old lewis masonet of summers point, he is in critical condition tonight and could also face murder charges according to police. a philadelphia firefighter is commanded for his quick thinking that averted a violent collection from being worse and five firefighters were still injured in this early morning crash on i-95. it happened southbound near penn's landing and firefighters were there tending to an earlier

accident, the ladder 16 fire truck was being used as a safety buffer to warn traffic but a tractor-trailer somehow did not notice and plowed into the back of the fire truck. fortunately the firefighters saw the wheel coming and saw it coming and took action and only action news. >> firefighters joseph pulled the ladder forward when he saw the tractor-trailer was going to make impact with the cage and the impact of saving the lives of all our members. >> he could see them in his right and left mirror and got bigger and bigger boom. >> and only action news was there as the five firefighters were brought to hanman university hospital and thank thankfully suffered bumps and bruises and out of the hospital and the semi driver not hurt and investigating why the driver crashed still to come on action news rockets red glare and what is going on the space site and what was inside the rocket when

it blew. one last chance to impress the coach and make the cut, ducis rodgers bring us the highlights from tonight's eagles game adam. >> dry air moving in as i speak as it suppresses that tropical humidity and we will talk about a beautiful day on tap tomorrow but then that tropical humidity returns for the weekend but hermine we will have the latest in action weather. new presidential poll numbers in pennsylvania when action news comes right back.

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planned to use to connect people in remote parts of africa was obliterated in a fireball today when the space x rocket blew up on the launch pad at cape canaveral and shook buildings four miles away in a cascade of explosions continued for several minutes, no one was hurt, this was only supposed to be a routine test firing before tomorrow's launch and space x has not determined what caused the blast but says it happened while the falcon nine rocket was being fueled and the fire burned

out this evening but the launch pad off limits until the morning and jersey native agreed to plead guilty for killing a tsa person in los angeles and he opened fire inside terminal three at lax killing one screener and wounding three others before being shot by police. by pleading guilty he will not face the death penalty but spend the rest of his life in a federal prison. ♪ a new 6abc franklin and marshal college poll shows the presidential race tightening with likely pennsylvania voters and republican nominee donald trump gained ground from july to august narrowing the gap from 13 points behind hillary clinton to just five points. libertarian gary johnson has 5% support and green party candidate jill stein has 3%. from delaware newsroom tonight looking up the web community correction center in prices corner for good and only housed a few offenders and a task force

determined it needed several costly up grades and moving the inmates to plumber the state said it will save 100,000 a year, the decommissioning ceremony honored john web the building's name sake and he was the state's first african/american warden and his family was this attendance. health check for the first time the zika virus has been found in mosquitos on the u.s. mainland. zika positive found in three traps in miami beach where human cases have been found and the first time in more than 25,000 tests that a mosquito tested positive and a popular plant is getting part of the blame and trap water in their centers providing a mosquito breeding ground, residents urged to pull them out or rinse them frequently. it wasn't zika but west nile virus crews were spraying for tonight in rocks bureau and the health department trying to

bring down the mosquito population to prevent west nile which attacks the nervous system and the brain, there has been one human case in the city this year along with 46 positive mosquito samples. limit standing water can also help. all right metrologist adam joseph is back now with a closer look at that very changing forecast. >> yeah and it's going to continue to change with every different model run we get in so this is something not etched in stone at this point but give you what we think at this very moment as we look at storm tracker six live double scan the eye of hurricane hermine is now starting to scrape the coastline of florida near what they call the big bend there. winds sustained at 80 miles per hour and you can see the bands of rain wrapping around the center there. you have these feeder bands one after another pulling into the coast of florida with very intense wind as well as very heavy rainfall, as we close in there is that classic eye of the hurricane again as it's now just

starting to hit land winds near the eye off shore showing north 55 miles per hour gusting to 61 miles per hour, it's just a powerful storm as it is now making landfall in florida and the first hurricane to make landfall in florida in 11 years. tropical storm watches are up for our coastline, we have not had a tropical storm watch since sandy. down in the beaches in delaware also that watch up for the up coming weekend meaning the potential is there, it's not definite but a watch means potential is there for winds to reach tropical storm force over 39 miles per hour sustained and the possibility of those power outag outages. as we track hermine pulls across georgia and south carolina tomorrow afternoon you still see that classic circulation, it starts to get close to the virginia north carolina border early on saturday morning, we start to see the cloud cover increasing and then it emerges over the open water of the atlantic which is very warm so

it will be in weakened state at first on saturday afternoon with light rain developing but as it hits that warm ocean and gets extra energy from the north it is actually going to deepen, strengthen as we get into sunday off of our coast there is the center and there is atlantic city and you can see the heavy rain spiralling around that storm and backing in from the ocean. so future tracker wind gusts saturday at 4:00, 41 miles per hour along the shore, 20 or so miles per hour gusts in philadelphia and i-95, 24 hours later we are still dealing with winds coming in out of the northeast, 60 or greater at the shore, interior southern new jersey and right around that 40 or so miles per hour wind gusts from philadelphia to new jersey and that is going to create moderate to major flooding at times of high tide and just after a new moon so saturday 9:40 p.m. is the fist tide and sunday morning 10:07 and sunday night at 10:17 are the tides we are watching and taking a look

at future tracker possible rainfall 1-3" and philadelphia area as much as a half a foot of rain likely at the shore but again this all depends on the track and it's going to shift around a little bit and want to watch every newscast and keep up with us on social media, exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast and sunny and spectacular and 82 degrees clouds increase saturday arrives from the south and east at 77 and rainy with gusty winds on sunday, left over showers on monday as that system stalls, maybe breaks of sun west of the city and behind it it's very warm and hot and humid tuesday, wednesday and thursday as we go in the lower 90s and check in with metrologist david murphy with the track to see if it goes west stays the same or east and will make the difference in the world. >> hollywood came to center city tonight for a special red carpet premier of an award winning movie and the film is called the house is not a home a super natural thriller with a special

screening at the theatre on broad street tonight and among the stars in the movie is gerald web from philadelphia and he produced the film and wanteded it to open in his hometown tonight to celebrate and web and the stars of the movie participated in a q and a with those in attendance. these are hands and not necessary to open the sliding doors. ♪

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>> the feel good and the final for the september 11 opener tonight against the new york jets and it was mostly the back up but the birds look good and earlier in the week the coach said johnson would play and johnson does not play and still waiting to hear from the nfl on his ped test and marcus smith has been a disappointed and comes to play and tackles for loss in the first quarter and chase daniel moves the ball at times but also has some poor rows and the interception in the red zone and throws to fix the night. in the opening quarter and bryce petty looking for robby anderson and name might sound familiar and receiver played at temple a 44 yard touchdown 6-0 new york second quarter special team and paul turner trying to make the team as the receiver and helps the cost 71 punt return for a touchdown and take it anyway you can and eagles lead 7-6. late in the third quarter and kristen hackenburg and ed

reynolds kicks him off and 90 touchdown return for safety and eagles end the preseason with 14-6 victory and we are live, jamie. >> ducis rodgers one take away from the game paul turner has to make the team, he was the best receiver all preseason with the 71 punt return for a touchdown don't and peterson has to keep five receivers in my opinion and peterson has a lot of difficult decisions to make in 36 hours 22 guys will lose a job. >> i told the guys after the game tonight how proud i was of all of them for the effort they put in and challenged all the young guys really to make it hard on myself and how and the personnel staff when we have to make decisions by saturday. >> you've heard it but that is the truth, you are not only trying out for the team and some guys tonight i can tell you what some guys made the teams if not this team tonight with their play. >> i asked daniel afterwards what it means if the eagles did

go 4-0 in the pre season and means nothing and when they did it in 2012 won 4-12 in the regular season and live with jamie action news six. >> hear why temple says it won't take army lightly and penn state set to honor joe paterno, details next. hillary clinton: i'm hillary clinton and i approve this message. vo: in times of crisis america depends on steady leadership. donald trump: "knock the crap out of them, would you? seriously..."vo: clear thinking... donald trump: "i know more about isis than the generals do, believe me."

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school plans to commemorate the 50th first game and take place during the september 17th game against temple. delaware won its opener 56-14 over delaware state please join us for temple football play book every saturday on 6abc at 9:45 head coach matt will join us live in studio this week, he will give us the behind the scenes look at the game against army this weekend and also a look ahead and happy to be joining forces the temple this season. >> that will be fun and thank you ducis rodgers and jimmy kimmel followed by night line and rider and music from yg and we continue at 4:30 in the morning and now for ducis rodgers and cecily tynan and ducis rodgers i'm rick williams and have a nice evening and we will see you here tomorrow night.

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