>> [whipping winds] >> hurrican harvey is wreaking havoc across southeastern texas t. it made landfall at 11:00 p.m. and continues to unleash it's furry with punishing winds and lane. christie ileto joins us, "action news" has the latest on hurrican harvey it is lashing the gulf coast of texas with damaging winds and torrential rainfall. >> the storm made landfall as a category four and weakened to a category two. it slammed ashore north of corpus christi.

we are seeing pictures of damage left behind by by the storm. trees are down and what appears to be a wall has collapsed from the wind. signs on the ground, officials say they won't be able to assess the damage until daylight. here's more from houston. >> reporter: hurrican harvey roaring on to the gulf coast. >> the best way to describe it is a continue can being kicked down the road. >> reporter: the strongest in the u.s. in more than a decade. >> this is not going to be quick one and done we're not measuring in inches of rain, but feet of rain. >> reporter: residents of texas and mississippi and louisiana getting hit the hardest. rock port texas in its path. trees on roads, buildings destroyed and emergency crews facing difficults -- difficulties standing to the damage. >> we have not been able to get

out and see what we've got going, but it's not looking good. >> reporter: the mayor urged those staying behind to write their scattered -- social securs on their arm with a sharpy. >> you hear the wind, you don't hear the rain, but the rain is going on. you can hear the boards on a the house shaking. >> reporter: winds so fierce they rattled the ceiling tiles at our affiliate. governor activating 100 members of the national guard and pleading with residents who didn't evacuate to have a plan. >> they need to prepared to be without power an maybe have inadequate access to food and supplies for couple of days. >> reporter: tornado watch is in effect for parts of texas and louisiana until tomorrow. crews are on the ground emergency crews trying to assess

the damage. in rock port people are are beig taken to the county jail after a roof of a housing complex collapsed. >> we've been monitoring the monster storm for day, we continue to track its path as it unleashes winds abbey rain on the gulf coast of texas. >> chris sowers is at the "action news" big board with the latest. >> reporter: hurrican harvey became the first hurricane to hit the united states since 2005 that was about 12 years ago when katrina struck in new orleans. it's the first hurricane category 4 to hit the coast of texas that was carla. it made landfall in san jose island, quat -- category 4

moving with gusts up to 140 miles per hour. the strengths extend from the center 35 miles per hour. it's a huge rainmaker. flipped it over to storm tracker 6 live, the feeder bands off the gulf of mexico, the heaviest winds in the reds, oranges and yellows. it came here the northern side, where the worst part of the storm hit. that where we're seeing the wall of water, what we call the storm surge up to 12 feet. the barrier islands were flooded. now we're seeing the heavy rains fall on top of that. on the other side, the winds blow this way, it's an offshore flow, the flooding has been kept to a minimum south of corpus christi. it is this area right here that we worry about with the heavy driving rains and flooding. rainfall totals up to this point are yes, impressive.

7.1, houston, 5.4. victoria, 4 inches of rain already. the problem with the storm, as we look at the spaghetti plots, each line representing a hurricane model, it doesn't know where it wants to go over the next several days. it drifts over southeastern texas as a result, some areas could see 25 to 35 inches of rain. isolated months moo it is not up to -- isolated amounts up to 40 inches, when i come back we'll have the forecast for the delaware and lehigh valleys. >> hurrican harvey is having an impact in our area, flights in and out of the airports because of the storm's path have have bn canceled. jeff chirico spoke to those who had to make changes in their

plans because of the harvey. >> reporter: jennifer lee is counting her blessings she got a final flight out of houston for days, she'll start class while her family in texas rides out a potentially catastrophic storm. >> everybody is concerned about what's going 0 happen during the storm, the level of flooding and what will happen afterwards. >> reporter: as flights arrived from houston, passengers express uncertainty about what they will see when they return. >> we live north of the city, our home is fine, the people who are in the city in the apartments, on the streets, they are going to be not in good shape if the storm stays. >> reporter: the boards don't show it, but airlines preemptively grounded 200 flights across the country. >> they were offering people in new orleans to stay back. >> reporter: did anyone

volunteer? >> i don't think so. >> reporter: with the storm approaching marty cut short his trip to san antonio to see his daughter's family. he will be watching the storm from afar, but optimistic they will be spared of the most of it. >> they are on high ground, i think they will be okay. >> reporter: airlines are offering travel vouchers so flights can be rebooked for no extra charge. if you have a flight scheduled airline officials want you to check the website for the flight status before you head to the airport. jeff chirico channel 6 "action news." >> we'll continue to follow hurricane harvey and the aftermath at 6abc.com. our website is streaming live coverage from our sister station in houston, all weekend long. all right breaking news, a family was the victim of a scary home invasion in southwest philadelphia. police say four men wearing masks broke into the home in the 2000 block of south 64th

street early this morning. the men tied up the family and stole a safe. police are looking for the suspects. time 6:07 a.m. new information to tell you about this morning. philadelphia police are investigating a shooting they call suspicious. according to investigators is a driver who was rushing the shooting victim to penn presbyterian hospital actual flagged down police. he said the 22-year-old was shot near the intersection of greenway avenue and cemetarywesa after 2:00 a.m. police assisted with transporting the victim to the hospital. he is in critical condition. investigator say they found a ski mask in the shooting victim's car. delaware county, firefighters battle a three-alarm blaze at an apartment building in sharon hill. chopper 6 hd was over the 1,000 block. flames shot through the roof and thick smoke flooded the area.

one resident was taken to a nearby hospital for smoke inhalation. >> i came out all you could see was black smoke. >> the whole neighborhood just it was like a smoke bomb went off, you couldn't see anything. >> the fire was placed under control around 9:00 p.m. the building was immediately torn down, the red cross is helping 14 people affected by the blaze. police have issued an arrest warrant for 35-year-old brendan hay. surveillance images of the suspect were released earlier. police say he was behind the wheel of the white jeep when 53-year-old anne broad -- brodrick was struck and killed. police recovered the vehicle in delaware county. president trump has blocked

any open transgendered person from joining the military. it leaves open the possibility of those serving to remain in the military. president trump said the decision will be left up to defense secretary, jim mattis. president has pardoned joe arpaio convicted of criminal contempt for arresting illegal i immigrants. >> paying for park be in the city of philadelphia is getting easier, once again, we have details on the way to pay. >> we're keeping our eye on hurricane harvey which slammed ashore in texas, we'll have the latest reports on storm damage.

>> reporter: it's not often i can say this, the end of august will feel like the end of september. the dewpoint is 50 we're expecting temperatures to top out in the upper 70s. it will stay that way all weekend long, i'll have the details coming up next and more on hurrican harvey.

[pelting rain]. >> >> hurrican harvey is slamming the texas coast.

the rain turned this street in corpus christi into a river. two inches of rain fell there. that is expected to increase as the rainfall continues. and right now this is a live picture in gallon -- gallon gallon -- galveston, texas. >> reporter: it is beginning to weaken now, now that it's over land, once it moves inland, it loses energy, warm waters it needs to intensify. winds are down to 90 miles per hour. we're seeing rain with the system. let's start you out with sky6 live hd here looking over the commodore barry bridge. we have a gorgeous weekend coming up for the delaware and lehigh valleys. high temperatures today and tomorrow only topping out in the upper 70s and we've lost that humidity, the humidity that has

just been a thorn in the side for the last several weeks in the region, all that tremendous muggy air, the dewpoints in the 60s and 70s all that stuff is to the south across the gulf coast. we'll enjoy a nice weekend overall. hurrican harvey it is has come onshore north of the rock port in texas north of corpus christi of there's the center of the circulation right here. what you're looking at here is the infrared colored satellites. you can see the brighter reds wrapped around the center of the circumstance -- circulation. it is moving slowly that means we'll see a tremendous amount of flooding. 90 miles per hour, category 1. pressure 976 millibars drifting off to the northwest, this is

the scale that we rate hurricanes. it started out as a category four when it made landfall. it was the first category four to hit the united states in the 12 years, and the first to hit texas since carla. category one storm in terms of winds maximum sustained winds up to 90 miles per hour. as we look at at the positioning of harvey we have a blocking area of high pressure off the maps pushing off the four corner states, the jet stream is up to the north, across the heartlands of the nation getting into the ohio valley. basically there's no steering mechanism to push the storm along. it will sit and spin and do a loop deloop over the next three to five days. the ladder portion of next week it's -- latter portion of next

week it's hanging around. we're talking about the surge and the flooding for coastal portions of texas. we're looking anightmare scenario setting up for texas. the rainfall totals is something i've never seen, victoria seen close to ten inches of rain. we're forecasting 28-inch. the national hurricane center this area in the yellow could see anywhere from 20 to 30 inches of rain with isolated heavier amounts up to 40 inches of rain to give you an idea how much water this is, if it was snow it would be 400 inches of snow. can you imagine that. don't worry we'll not see that this winter. just to give you an idea how much rain we're talking in texas. back home, allentown, 53 degrees. poconos, 46. feeling like fall in the mountains. philadelphia, 67. trenton, 62. millville, 62 on the boards in atlantic city, 64. there's no humidity out there at

all. we had a cold front push through earlier in the week. it knocked all the humidity out to sea. high pressure buildings in from the north, we're seeing cloud cover in parts of the area this morning, we'll go full sun and pleasant 79. 77 by 1:00 p.m., 4:00 p.m., 79. poconos feeling like fall, a breath of fresh air, you're not getting out of the 60s today. tomorrow, 70. jersey shore perfect beach weekend high temperatures both today and tomorrow in the mid 70s and wall-to-wall blue skies. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, when was the last time you saw this, we're in august, 79 today and tomorrow. monday, 77. >> reporter: tuesday, looks okay, cloudy skies and showers, 73. >> british rockers cold play were set to perform in houstoning last night, but the arrival of hurricane harvey forced the band to change plans.

the group said they did not want to put anyone in danger just to see them perform. they canceled show and rescheduled for a later date. we'll see you after the break.

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sticking with us, 6:25 a.m., saturday morning, this is a live picture from houston, texas where hurricane harvey continues to slam the coast of texas. this looks like a picture of downtown houston, wouldn't you say? yes. hurricane harvey made landfall as a category four as dwindled to category one. we're keeping a close eye on what's developing in texas. phillies fails the cubs in the second -- face the cubs in the second game and hope to win

again. >> soul is gearing up for their arena bowl. ducis rogers has saturday morning sports. >> reporter: phillies and cubs last night cool uniforms as part of the mlb player weekend. reese hopkins, the rookie does it again, his 9th homer in 16 games. he is the fastest in mlb history to get to 9. carson wentz tweeted, this dude reese hoskins is killing it for the phillies. it's a 3-run triple for hernandez, the phillies lead are 5-1. phillies win 7-1. here's hoskins. >> you get into the zone, though, you can't explain it,

it's just blissing, no thinking involved. it's just one of those things. >> nonchalant about it. >> reporter: eagles have been thinking chemist, they had some thursday night gains the miami dolphins. carson wentz connected with his targets in the first quarter. he threw a 50-yard bomb to tory smith. alshawn jeffrey 15-yard td pass. the first team offense look better, but they want more consistency. >> right now the best thing we made it through, healthy for the most part and we can dial in on the redskins for the next couple of weeks. >> philadelphia soul on the brink of back-to-back chips. yesterday was media day for arena bowl thursday, they host

tampa bay tonight at the wells fargo center. ron jaworski is just as pumped as the players. >> we expect to win. >> it would be good to win 18 straight at home. he want to go 0-0. our fans are a big part of that it would be great to get it done. you can see the arena bowl on 6abc at 7:00 p.m. it's the night of the big fight, it's the undefeated boxer against the enemy fighter. trash talking did you work the weigh in. by the way way i'm not a fan of talking like that. that's a look at sports, i'm ducis, you have yourself a terrific weekend. >> battered by dispeople winds

and torrential rain, hurricane harvey is on the coast of texas where it caused roofs to cave in and knock out power to hundreds of thousands. >> plus, the calendar says it's summer, but it will feel like fall across the delaware and lehigh valleys. meteorologist chris sowers joins us live with the accuweather

forecast. >> reporter: good morning to you, i'm sure many of you don't have a problem with that, as well. it's been a hot humid summer across the delaware and lehigh valleys. >> reporter: hurricane harvey there's victoria, heaviest part of the storm is indicated by the red cloud tops spike spiking 40, 50,000 feet. the cruising attitude for a jetliner is 39,000 feet. the feeder bands from corpus christi up to houston texas. future tracker 6, we zoomed into the area. here's corpus christi. this buoy report which is just in the middle of one of the feeder bands coming onshore is seeing maximum stained winds out of the of the southeast at 40 to 5 miles per hour. some of the gusts up to 7 # miles per --

77 miles per hour. this is where we're seeing 90 to 100-mile an hour sustained winds, the feeder bands we're seeing the heavier rains and good gusts. they extend into houston, texas. racism totals look like this because the storm is going to meanders about over the next several days. some of the rainfall totals could exceed 30 inches in southeastern, texasment victoria picked up ten forecasting up to 28. hurricane center has isolated heavier months to 40 inches. catastrophic flooding is expected north of corpus christi the national hurricane center is using wording like this, extended power outages and some neighborhoods could be uninhas notable for weeks is -- ininhabitable for weeks if not months, that's the same wording they crew used for hurricane katrina.

i will be back with updates. hurricane harvey hit texas late friday night, but it continues to drop heavy amounts of rainfall. >> this is a shot of galveston, texas. looks like the rain has stopped, but the wind is blowing things around there. we don't know the full stenlt of the damage -- stenlt of the damage, but we have seen buildings damaged and roofs torn off homes and trees and power lines toppled over. much of the area is in the dark, we're waiting on the daylight to get an idea of damage. 200,000 people are without power. we got video of a massive fire that destroyed three homes near galveston. no word on how it started. witnesses say the strong winds helped the fire to spread. >> it's constant howl, you hear the wind, you don't hear the rain, even though the rain is going on. you can hear the boards on the house shaking.

>> frightening time for the folks in texas. this is video missouri city texas where possible tornado touched down there. you can sue see the damage. looks like the roof ripped off the home there. we're being told minor injuries have been reported there, president donald trump whole visit the area next week has assigned a disaster declaration for the state of texas. >> in the delaware we'll see a low impact from hurricane harvey most of which will affect travelers. airlines have grounded 200 flights across the area this weekend. major airlines are offering travel vouchers for those flying to the affected areas. if you're heading to the airport check the websites before you leave home. >> hurricane harvey is having an impact on petroleum

production, texas coast is home to one-third of u.s. oil production. aaa is monitoring impact on gasoline supplies. >> production sites want to get back online as quickly as possible. but, again, we don't know how much damage the storm will do. >> experts predict prices could rise 5 to 15 cents per gallon in the wake of the hurricane. >> 6:35 a.m., local red cross has loaded trucks to help those in need in texas after the major storm. the call center said it's handling calls from people who want to help out. red cross regional ceo said the best way to help is to give blood or cash donation on phone line or text. >> if you can give blood, giving blood here matters, we'll get it to the people who need it. >> a handful of red cross volunteers from philadelphia are

already heading to texas, philadelphia firefighter an urban search and rescue is heading to texas as part of a national task force. parts of south texas could be uninhabitable for weeks or months stay with 6abc.com for continuing coverage of hurricane harvey, we'll have the latest updates on air and online at 6abc.com. an delaware county apartment buildings went up in flames leaving a dozen people without a place to live. the three-alarm blaze burned for hours, trish hartman has more on the devastation. >> reporter: diana lived on the third floor of the apartment building on sharon avenue and said she lost everything. >> i left to walk my dog and neck thing you know my boyfriend here's pop pop pop. he was like there's smoke coming

from the apartment. >> i ran, as fast as i could. >> reporter: crews responded to reports of an explosion at the back of the building at 2:30 p.m. one resident was taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation. flames shot from the roof and thick smoke flooded the area. >> when i came out the only thing i could see was black smoke. you couldn't kim through, you had to take the whole way around. >> the whole neighborhood was like a smoke bomb went off. you couldn't see anything. >> angela lived on the third floor, too, she was at work when the fire started and her two cats are presumed dead. >> i hope they didn't suffer much, though i hope they went quick. >> reporter: 6 apartments make up the three-story buildings, crews used a drone to get an aerial view of the fire. the first time they used the county owned drone to fight a fire. >> looking at this, it gives them an area overview how much

damage was in there. >> reporter: as the blaze burned an excavator tore down the walls to give the firefighters a better way to fight the flames. >> i guess it will be a new fresh saturday. >> reporter: american red cross said 14 people were displaced because of the fire, a cause is being investigated. reporting in sharon hill, trish hartman channel 6 "action news." >> from our new jersey bureau, the former chief of the audubon park volunteer fire company is heading to prison. camden county judge ordered a 6 year sentence for john torusso, he pleaded guilty to child pornography. he used the fire station computer to use and distribute images and videos. after his sentence he must register as a sex offender. we have details memorial

service for jim what i what i w. he died of a heart attack on tuesday, governor chris christie ordered allstate buildings to fly flags at half staff on the day of his memorial service. >> supporters of senator pat toomey gathered outside his office to say thank you for fighting for republican values. she wanted to counter the protests by democrats that have held weekly since the election. philadelphia area jim kenny to release names of officers involved in police involved shooting has hit a road block. the fraternity order of police wentz to court seeking the order after black lives matter protesters demonstrated outside an officer's home thursday night.

the court order prevents the release of the officer's name unless approved by a judge. the temporary injunction holds until a hearing in late september. bust of former pennsylvana governor james beaver was found under i-95 overpass in fdr park yesterday morning. it was taken from fairmont park thursday night and it took an effort to steal. >> that's a mystery, we think it's about 4 feet tall and 300 pounds. this is not kind of thing you can throw in the back of a pickup truck. we're stymied about how someone got up 12 feet high. >> officials don't know why anyone would take a bust beaver served as a general in the union army he took office in 1887 and penn state beaver stadium was named after him. >> good thing it was found and

returned, but the mystery continues. >> much more to couple on "action news" saturday morning, a defiant north korea, once again fires missiles. details on the latest test from the communist nation. >> hurricane harvey is pounding the state of texas we'll have the latest on the powerful storm. live look from the ben franklin bridge looks nice out there, meteorologist chris sowers will have the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, "action news" saturday morning continues in just a moment. we just moved in about four months ago,

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there's no way we could've designed it ourselves. no. 6:44 a.m., live picture right here coming from galveston, texas as we continue to track hurricane harvey. here's good news, the system has been downgraded to category one. meteorologist chris sowers who is, of course, tracking the system for you, that doesn't mean the folks in texas are out of the clear because a constant rain for several days could cause severe flooding. we'll keep an eye on the system all morning long. facebook has activated a safety check feature for those affected by hurricane harvey it allows user to mark themselves as safe so friends and family know they are okay and made it through the storm safely. >> this is when social media comes in handy to track family

members, especially if you have someone down there. >> reporter: hopefully most of them are gone and evacuated and heeded the warnings. cecily said hurricanes bring a package. problems and they do. we talk about the strong powerful winds and the storm surge and the rain. winds were never going to be the big issue, but it was going to be the heavy storm surge and rain. this is a tremendous storm for the southeast coast of texas. i'll talk about that in a second. in the meantime looking at the view of the camden waterfront. the battleship new jersey in the background. we have a little bit of overcast in parts of the area. other locations waking up to mostly sunny skies, it feels nice out there, 50s to the northwest, 46 degrees in the poconos. can you believe that. 53 in allentown. philadelphia, 6. 62 in millville. cape may, 64.

trenton currently checking in at 62. no humidity at all, feels nice and comfortable. satellite and radar there's the day. looking at mostly sunny skies, a few cumulus clouds to start. during the course of the dare you may see cumulus clouds bubbling up again. looks like a nice day. we do it all over again for sunday. future tracker 6, 5:00 p.m., mostly sunny conditions, a couple of clouds mixed in same thing as we head into sunday afternoon. mostly sunny skies to start and puffy cumulus clouds to mix in. high temperatures both days in the upper 70s. here's the latest on hurricane harvey it's been downgraded to a category one, the lowest category, maximum stained winds 90 miles per hour. we're seeing gusts 1 to in the eye wall -- 120 in the eye wall. over the last few frames, watch

what happens wuk see the -- owe you can see the eye close over victoria, that's a sign that the storm is starting to weaken that's why the winds dropped down to 90 miles per hour. the latest spaghetti plots looks like, each line represents a forecast model, we want to see these lines come together that would show an agreement within the modeling. these lines are all over the place that means the models have no idea where it's going to go over the next 3 to 5 days. we don't see any system that's going to approach from the west to the north to kick this out of here it will sit and spin for days, saturday we'll see rainfall totals again 30 to 40 inches in parts of the area. as we look at the water vapor shot this is florida right here. we have invest 92l a small low pressure system over tampa and moves into the open waters of atlantic. temperatures are very, very warm, temperatures in the 80s,

close to 90 off the coast of florida. this system is not forecasted to intensify into anything tropical. we'll have to watch this closely. by tuesday it climbs up the eastern seaboard, the question is how far north does the extent of the rain move. we're forecasting showers tuesday afternoon into wednesday, but at this point it's just that, just a couple of showers, we'll watch that closely over the next few days. reading, 77. philadelphia, 79. millville, 81. jersey shore, mostly sunny, gorgeous, high temperatures around 77. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, dliesm weekend overall -- delightful weekend overall, today and tomorrow, upper 70s. increasing clouds monday, as we watch the coastal system. tuesday, wednesday, mainly cloudy conditions, a shower or two, 77 for friday. mostly sunny skies. >> all these 70s.

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saturday morning, 6:56 a.m., what you're looking at this is a live picture coming in from houston, texas as we keep our eye on hurricane harvey. here's the good news, the system has been downgraded to category one. when it made landfall was a cat 4. folks in texas bracing for rain in the days to come. as we begin to see the daylight in texas we'll see a better idea of how much damage the system caused. >> if you want to give your bar stools a little flare check out this easy do it yourself project. >> reporter: high end bar stools can cost big bucks i'm talking

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[whipping winds] >> hurricane harvey wreaking havoc across southeastern texas this morning. it made landfall at 11:00 p.m. anne continues to unleash it's fury with punishing winds and rains. christie ileto joins us. we have the latest on hurricane harvey lashing the gulf coast with damaging winds and torrential rainfall. >> the monster storm made landfall as a powerful category 4, but weakening as it crawls across the land. the slammed into rock port north of corpus christi. it's dark in texas, but we've begun to receive