american eclipse live team coverage including tomorrow's weather conditions next on action news. ♪ action news delaware valleys leading news program with metrologist melissa magee, jeff skversky, sarah bloomquist and walter perez. ♪ it has been nearly 38 years since we've seen it with our own eyes here in north america a solar eclipse when the moon

passes directly from the sun and the earth tomorrow it will happen again and people all across the country including here this our region will be watching. sunday night i'm sarah bloomquist along with walter perez and the big story on action news is the eve of the great american eclipse. >> the last time the moon cast the shadow was february of 1979 and 14 hours the big celestial show continues. >> and trish hartman is in center city with the excitement and prep ra preparations and melissa magee tracking the forecast during the critical hours. >> and adam joseph is live from st. joseph missouri a prime spot watching the eclipse on the so called path of totality. hi adam. >> people here are pumped including myself and we made that 1400 mile trek here to missouri to see totality here tomorrow and we are at rose

kranz airport a place where 20,000 people will congregate something this spot has not seen in 214 years. and do you know what a lot of people are already in position for that big show tomorrow and many came in early to beat the traffic tomorrow morning. an empty field will be packed tomorrow but for now to pass the time folks tossing around a frisbee to pass the time as cars continue to make their way down a very dusty road into what they are calling home for the night and some in a simple tent and more in the others as glamping with a lot of chairs food and rv and modern technology a little bit of baseball this evening and no matter your accommodations they are all here from an amazing show from all over the country including brad and barbara who slept in this truck in a nasty storm that rode through early this morning. >> the winds. >> the wind came in all the sudden and tore this thing from

its poles and evening was flying around out here people were scattering around buckling down their tents. >> reporter: to tell you no matter if you see a partial or a total solar eclipse here is a little more on what they are about to see tomorrow and also why we chose this specific area. surprisingly noted a solar eclipse occurs once every 18 months across the world, we know this thanks to super computers with a catalog of all eclipses dating back to 1999-bc and predicting more to the year ad-3,000. that is five millenniums. simply put a solar eclipse happens because the moon's orbit occasionally crosses between the earth and the sun when the moon which is a quarter of the size of the earth appears to block the sun the shadow is then cast on earth. everyone in the u.s. will see at least a partial eclipse but only a fraction of the country will

experience totality that is perfect alignment of earth moon and sun when that happens a typical sunny afternoon changes drastically. >> the sun is completely covered you can sebright planets that are near the sun and sebright stars near the sun and you have this really great experience of feeling the temperature drop. >> the 70 path the totality will span 12 starts in oregon and ending in south carolina missouri will be the 6th state to see totality including the city of st. joseph. we chose the city for a very good reason it lies directly in the middle of the 70 mile wide path the so called bullseye this means we will get to experience totality for a time of two minutes and 38 seconds one of the longest times in the country and made the trip an easy dedecision for us and derrick. >> if you want to experience it you should go to where the totality is going to happen if you wait for totality to happen for where you are you may wait for several lifetimes.

>> reporter: well do you know what we don't have several lifetimes to wait so that is why we are here now instead of going to the eclipse you really have to come to the eclipse yourself. you have to make that happen. >> and wearing derrick's digs show us around. >> shay pits and we have everything we need including the fan the chairs and tent and that sort of stuff. this is not where you are sleeping. guys come take a look where derrick and his wife slept last night in the storm and sleeping here again tonight. >> here we are in the fabulous accommodations of course a plush leather interior with all the appointments you need including air conditioning and satellite radio and we can see this on line and last night we rode out the storm in the car. >> i do have an extra bed down the road in a hotel if you need. >> you have to experience it here so we will strap you to the top of the car. >> i like your thinking guys and

tell you we will be here all day tomorrow with derrick with live shots and facebook twitter and instagram melissa we will send it back to you in the studio where i'm sure it's nice and cool, it's a little warm out here. >> i bet adam. >> talk about where you are because you are within the path of totality and talking the total solar eclipse and exciting across the united states and back at home in the delaware and lehigh valley so path of totality is a 70 mile wide path from oregon all the way down to south carolina and adam is in st. joseph missouri right in that path of totality. back here at home we are talking about a partial eclipse tomorrow so we have pretty good viewing conditions on the way sun and a few high clouds moving in by the afternoon it starts at 1:21 tomorrow and peaks at 2:44 in the afternoon and it ends at 4:01 so we are talking about 80% of the sun being eclipsed by the moon. for the rest of tonight it's clear, it's quiet and a nice night 6 2 suburbs and 69 in

philadelphia for the overnight low and future tracker six with sun tomorrow morning and disturbance coming from the west and tapping into return flow tomorrow to get the moisture coming from the south and west and see off to the west of philadelphia a few more clouds but in the evening commute like 6:00 tomorrow a couple of isolated and pop up showers and maybe a rumble of thunder back in the region and what we can expect sun and afternoon clouds moving in for the eclipse and look to be dry for the duration of that event then for the evening isolated shower on the way then we are cranking up that humidity as we get into tuesday and talk about the details for an exclusive accuweather forecast guys. all right melissa thank you our region may not be in the path of totality but still get a look at the eclipse and plenty of ways for people to enjoy this event and even learn something new and action reporter trish hartman is live outside the franklin institute with more hey there

trish. >> reporter: hi sarah this is one of many places hosting watch parties for the solar eclipse tomorrow. we stopped by a couple of others tonight to see how they are getting ready for the big day. the tents are up eclipse glasses are in stock and the solar snacks like sun flower seeds and sun chips are ready for sale at roberts elementary school in wayne. it's the sight of a sold out event planned by mckaig nature center 300 people are expected and the kids will help record data to send to scientists at nasa. >> as the sun gets blocked obviously there is less solar radiation it's going to cool the temperature of the air so that is with one of the things we wi have the children look at. >> reporter: for a less scientific way to celebrate they are offering a special drink called the solar eclipse and it's a citris martini with a shot of sambuka. >> wear your special glasses.

>> reporter: they expect to see quite a few solar eclipses tomorrow the drink that is. >> whether it's like action season or football season if there is a seasonal drink people go crazy for them. >> reporter: folks plan to watch the eclipse and are excited and ready to see this phenomenon for themselves. >> probably because i've never had a chance to see one of these before in my life and i may not again so i figure you have to take the chance while you have it. >> excited to watch history for my own generation. >> reporter: and of course if you are going to look at the solar eclipse tomorrow make sure you have proper eye protection glasses or a till filter iso co compliant and if you need a list they are on 6abc.com center city trish hartman 6abc. >> sounds like fun and tune in tomorrow to 6abc, abc news will bring you live coast to coast coverage of the great american eclipse starting at 1:00 right after action news at noon. complete coverage of

tomorrow's eclipse right now online just go to 6abc.com/eclipse 6abc.com will be the place to be whether you are indoors or outside we will have live cameras from coast to coast covering the total eclipse as it sweeps its way across the country and at 2:00 a special edition on 6abc.com as the delaware valley experiences the 2017 solar eclipse. of course we want to see your pictures of your eclipse experience post them on social media using the hash tag 6abc action. two people died tonight in chester delaware county in a crash involving motorcycles and atvs. police say two vehicles collided near the intersection of 10th and lamokin streets about 7:30 tonight, officers say one victim died at the scene the other apparently died at the hospital. speed may have been a factor in this crash. across the river one man is hospitalized after a shooting in a new jersey park and happened

before 6:30 in mill creek park over beverly kokas road and he got to the hospital and his condition is not yet known. police are not sure what led up to this shooting. tonight the son of late mayor frank rizzo talking about his father's controversial legacy and two sides continue to fight of the fate of a statute which has been vandalized twice in the last few days and annie mccormick is live if center city with the story. walter more than 20,000 people signed a petition in support of keeping the frank rizzo statute where it is and frank rizzo junior says he is not behind the petition or rallies for the statute and appreciative of it and weighs in on the controversy what he thinks and also what his mother thinks. >> he says son relax. he said they couldn't take him down when he was alive and not take him down in death. >> reporter: frank rizzo junior

repeating 101 mother's reaction to controversy swirling around his father's statute outside the municipal services building in center city. city councilwoman helen gim called for removal of the statute in a tweet about racism and slavery. >> i think there is a lot of miss information and it's disappointing i spent 16 years as member of city council and my job was to put out fires not to create them. >> reporter: tonight philadelphia police have a unit parked beside the statute after a week where vandals defaced the symbol of the former police commissioner turned mayor who held the positions from 1972-1980 his south philadelphia mural was vandalized this weekend and has been a target before, he was a controversial figure among some. his son says he was a heavy hand at law enforcer but not a racist. >> people really cared about this man because they knew that he loved this city, there is as

much as anybody could love it. >> reporter: thousands want to keep the statute and mayor's office will listen to public input in the coming weeks. >> i think at the end of the day people will realize that this -- that frank rizzo has nothing to do with the confederate statutes that are being removed or the feeling it's a few people that hated him when he was alive and unfortunately some of their children inherited that because that's what they heard at the kitchen table. >> reporter: and there were two rallies that were originally planned for tomorrow. one in support, one that is opposing this statute. supporters have said they postponed their rally, they are also asking opposition to stand down and they were concerned about violence. mayor kenney's office saying late tonight they agreed to meet with supporters on the condition that they would not hold a planned rally tomorrow. reporting live in center city

annie mccormick channel six action news. >> more to come on the story thank you annie. more to come on action news and a breaking news a ship in a collision at sea with another vessel and what officials are saying tonight. asking the public to find this dangerous man who attacked a store clerk or stabbed a store clerk in the neck in center city details coming up. eagles and phillies in sports from jeff skversky and metrologist and more on eclipse watching forecast as well as the workweek conditions when action news continues.

philadelphia police have new surveillance pictures of a man who stabbed a 711 clerk in center city and want public to look at the suspect this man got in a fight with a 62-year-old clerk at the store along the unit block of juniper street at 6:45 this morning the fight

escalated and is when they stabbed the clerk in the neck the man ran from the store empty handed and left the knife behind and the clerk was rushed to the hospital and is expected to survive. if you know this man or spot him please call police. a possible barricade situation in kensington ended with weapons and believed to be a grenade and a man wanted on aggravated assault charges got away and police officers went to a home along 3300 hartville street before 1:30 this afternoon, officers tried to take a man in custody there but he ran from the scene, another person inside the home let them in and that's when investigators say they found the guns and presumed hand grenade the area was blocked off for a while so the weapons could be removed safely. three men from delaware are behind bars for allegedly manufacturing methamphetamine and police say brian holben, hunter stockman and lathan verry were cooking up the drugs behind a residence in farmington and

found components and key ingredients to make meth. a gas leak forced customers and staff in the whole foods in win wood to briefly evacuate this morning and happened 11:30 a.m. action news learned a gas line was struck in a parking garage nearby, and pico crews arrived and brought the situation under control in about 45 minutes. nobody was injured.

breaking news to pass along for the second time in a bit more than two months a u.s. war ship collided with a merchant ship the guided missile destroyer and the uss john mccain collided with a tanker in the straights east of singapore and ten sailers are missing five were injured. the mccain was on its way to singapore for a routine port visit mccain says prays for the sailers and the ship is named after his father and grandfather. president donald trump is getting a show of support after a tumultous week of criticism over response to violence in charlottesville. >> he doesn't say what is

political correct and sometimes that gets him in trouble but he does not have a racist bone in his body. >> do you believe it. >> reporter: jerry falwell junior backing the president after his speech back on tuesday. it was a speech that fell fellow republicans said potentially defending white supremacists and homeland security jeh johnson said the president should have spoken in a way to unite not divide the country. >> i would encourage him through his words to try to do that not just speak to his base but to speak to all of america, he is the president for all of us in this country. >> reporter: debate continues as former white house staffer steve bannon says quote no administration in history has been so divided among itself. time for a check of the accuweather forecast for those of us in the path of partiality, not in the path of totality for tomorrow. >> and i think we have sun to start a few more high thin clouds will move in by the

afternoon and pretty good viewing conditions on the way in partiality. picture outside sky six live in hd from our temple university camera looking at the center city skyline and mostly clear, quiet another beautiful shot to share with you see six live and hd in penn's landing and a quiet and still delaware river and all is calm across the region it was a beautiful day today with a high in philadelphia in at 85 degrees dew point temperatures were low and in the city we come in at 76 and dew point numbers starting to rise tapping into return flows and tapping into the southwest wind as we go through the rest of tonight and fast forward and 8:00 some sun and temperature of 72 and giving way to high afternoon clouds and tracking a disturbance off to the west that will work eastward as we get into tomorrow evening but it was about the dew point temperatures and dew point numbers earlier today were in the lower 60s upper 50s now we

are getting that southwest wind so 65 degree dew point in philadelphia meaning you're going to be noticing a touch in the humidity especially as we go throughout the day tomorrow, 72 degrees dew point down along the coast in cape may satellite six with action radar showing you it's dry and quiet with a northwest wind today thanks to a dominating ridge of high pressure a ridge of high pressure starting to lose its grip and because of that you see the clouds off to the west moving across the ohio valley and tracking a disturbance coming out of the ohio valley working its way eastward as we get into tomorrow afternoon and into tomorrow early evening so 62 suburbs and 69 in philadelphia for the overnight low. partly sunny tomorrow and tracking an evening isolated shower or thunderstorm otherwise it's warm and more humid in philadelphia high temperature in 89, 88 reading, 83 in cape may and 86 degrees in dover but tomorrow it is all about the total solar eclipse and you will see a total solar eclipse in the

path of totality from oregon to south carolina and take the eclipse 90 minutes to cross the united states the last time it happened was back in 1979 here at home across the delaware and lehigh valleys dealing with partial solar eclipse and goes at 1:21 tomorrow afternoon and the max eclipse time is 2:44 and 80% of the sun will be eclipsed by the moon. this will be ending at 4:01 in the afternoon but i did mention there will be a disturbance off to our west working its way eastward so future tracker six showing by 1:00 tomorrow afternoon with that moisture coming from southwest direction a few more high thin clouds for the city and points to the west by 6:00 tomorrow evening that disturbance will be making some progress to the east so a pop up shower in trenton and same in reading and isolated but some could be heavy hitters as we get into tomorrow evening well after the eclipse has passed. exclusive accuweather seven-day

forecast showing sun and afternoon clouds and isolated shower tomorrow evening a high up to 89 then tuesday hot and more humid at 93. wednesday humid with a thunderstorm early a high of 84 and something to keep in mind for the atlantic city air show on wednesday but in the wake of that it's refreshing by thursday a high up to 82 mostly sunny on friday and 81, beautiful start to next weekend a high temperature on saturday of 81 and sunshine and clouds next sunday guys with a high temperature coming in at 83 all eyes up in the sky tomorrow as we are watching this. >> bonus round of the august weather it has been amazing. >> thanks melissa. much more to come on action news stick around. a partial solar eclipse can trick you and you may feel it's dim to stare at the sun but harmful rays are getting through and can damage your vision and make sure you are wearing nasa approved eclipse glasses.

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