>> and this is the scene in the soul locker room afterwards, popping champagne, celebrating back to back arena bowl championships. back live at the wells fargo, guess what in they are greedy, talking about a three pete. jeff skversky, channel6 "action news." jamie? >> great job out there tonight. >> alrighty, coming up, guess who did it again? reece hoskins. you have to see it to believe it. more when we return. reecreecereecreece hoskin

>> this is getting almost ridiculous. rhys hoskins homered again, nine now ten. it's apparently dirty dancing gone wrong. phils an cubs, bottom of the

first. he homered in four straight. he has more than two major league teams. cubs score 17 straight. they lit up ben lively. anthony rizzo's two runs gave them the lead, phils lose 17-2. coming up, 11:35. we show you the union. >> sounds good. "action news" at 11:30 continues next. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪

>> saturday night, i'm walter perez. heres what's happening on "action news" at 11:30. tropical storm harvey is stalled over texas and is expected to bring 30-inches of rain, maybe more which could cause catastrophic flooding. we go live to houston for more. president trump is keeping tabs on the storm from camp david. he's also monitoring the fallout from last night. he made several controversial

decisions including pardoning the sh sheriff of arizona. >> we begin with the latest on tropical storm harvey. volunteers are pitching in to help those caught in the storm's path. >> on the third floor of the american red cross building in center city -- >> we are providing professional shelt are. >> volunteers are fielding hundreds of calls from texas as the storm pummels the state. many are looking for shelters. >> you are helping people on the worst day of their lives. you have people calling in, in tears. you do the best you can to help them work through that. >> the red cross of pennsylvania sent two volunteers to texas. we spoke to con of them on the phone. >> it makes you feel good how you are helping the people and it makes you realize how lucky you are that none of the storms hit us like they have other

parts of the country. >> fred is preparing emergency response vehicles. he will head to corpus christie hopefully early next week to help in the most heavily affected areas. >> our vehicles will run out to feed people. we make sure they are running, that nothing happens. we don't want anyone hurt. >> a way to help here? donating blood. people that give blood in our community, we'll get that blood to texas. they'll be challenged with blood supplies. >> other organizations are ready to help too. the spca says they have sheltered animals in disaster before and could be called upon again to help. we checked in with new jersey, they have 12 volunteers in texas. red cross encourages people to donate money or time if they

would like to help. trish hartman, channel6 "action news." >> meanwhile president trump is keeping an eye on the storm from camp david. vice president mike pence and chief of staff john kelly were on the other side of the call. the west wing is dealing with more than tropical storm harvey. they are dealing with a storm created by the president last night. >> as president trump keeps a close eye upon hurricane harvey, he's weathering a political storm. a number of announcements out of the west wing. sebastian gorka forced out, the white house saying he no longer works for the administration. the president signed a directive banning transgender individuals from serving in the military.

then trump compromised sheriff arpaio. >> the backlash was swift and fierce. protesters speaking out in his home state. >> the white supremacy and sheriff arpaio are showing will not be pardoned. we will not forget. >> arpaio was voted out of office last year convicted of criminal contempt for violating a court order to stop racial profiling latinos. >> i'm angry. trump okayed the terror arpaio caused. >> the sheriff was facing six months behind bars and had yet to be pardoned. the white house called arpaio a worthy candidate for pardoning. >> john mccain said no one is above the law adding that arpaio

showed no remorse. arpaio thanked the president. >> i have always said pardon or no pardon, i'll stick with him as long as he is the president. >> arpaio calls his conviction a political witch hunt and will have more to say next week. mary bruce, washington. >> our firefighters contending with a fire in new castle county. this video was shot by a viewer after it started around noon. no one was injured but as you can see the house was severely damaged. no word how it started. >> the newest flock of blue hens landed at campus. the first weekend at u.d. features festivities designed to welcome freshmen including a

publicky play date tomorrow. >> a younger generation was getting ready for school in the germantown section. the action cam was outside the school for the pep rally, circle of prayer and backpack give away. these kids also enjoyed face painting and ice cream as well. this is made possible by e none tabernacle baptist church. >> we are talking beautiful weather in our neck of the woods. wait until you see the forecast for tomorrow. changes coming up for the labor day holiday. we talk about that next in the seven day. ♪ ♪

>> we return now to developing news in texas where a whole bunch of towns including houston are bracing for epic flooding. tropical storm harvey rolled into town as a category four hurricane. now 24 hours later the rainfall is not letting up. lana joins us. thank you for taking time to answer questions about what is going on down there. first of all, how successful were the evacuation efforts? did people stay behind? >> in a lot of places, very successful. in rock port, only 60% of the residents heeded the warning to evacuate. 40% stayed. that town leveled by the wrath of hurricane harvey. we understand hundreds of people are homeless in that area alone.

while evacuations are successful, we are facing more evacuations. richmond texas was issued a warning because of the risk of flooding. though it's a tropical storm, the situation is tense and precarious for people. >> jaw dropping. have the rainfall estimates changed or do some still face the prospect of two feet of rain? >> that's right. part of what also makes that really incredible is not just how many rain, but how sustained its supposed to be. we heard from officials moments ago. they were saying that this system, being it's sitting here continuing to pour its rain down on the effected area, the system

will last four or five days. they are strapping in for the long haul as this continues to saturate the ground and overplug the bayous and rivers. >> thank you so much for the report. let's move on to the accuweather forecast. karen, how unusual it is for a storm to sit there? >> we hardly ever see it not moving at all. the national hurricane center saying it's moving one miles per hour. usually there is a steering mechanism, a cold front, something to push it out of there. nothing like that. it's just high pressure nearby. you remember what happened when we were dealing with sandy. it was a shorter period of time. if you can imagine day after day. it may still be there thursday. you can watch this, right in is you see how it's not budging? this is 3:00 to 11:00 tonight.

you are not seeing movement. you are not expected to. that's the real problem with what is now tropical storm harvey. let's talk about those rainfall totals we are estimates. the national hurricane center saying 15 to 25. however, they are saying there could be isolated spots with 40-inches of rain which is unheard of. this is a tropical system dumping rain. high pressure to the north of it, high pressure to the east of it, giving us nice weather, but there is nothing forcing the storm to move, nothing encourt and juryincourtandnothingencourt of there. it's another beautiful night. low 50s in the lehigh valley. 61 in the city. feeling fall like, 58 millville.

62 on the boards and a.c. 79 for the high tomorrow. picture perfect, low humidity lots of sunshine with the pressure. you feel a sea breeze, more of a northeasterly flow than northwesterly. you could see early fog staying in the 60s. 70 for the high. you reach a high of 70 at 4:00. the seven-day forecast, sunny and pleasant tomorrow. 79 for your high. monday, partly sunny, 77. our next chance of showers, it starts to get unstable monday night. tuesday, damp and cool. 73. could be lower if we get a bit more rainfall. wednesday, turning warmer slowly. 78 with the shower. thursday clouds and sun. you are in the 80s. 82. friday, cool again, 77.

remember, this is labor day weekend, 77 friday. saturday, nice. sunny, 80-degrees. early projections look like the rest of the labor day holiday make it warmer than that. perhaps unstable. we have to see. certainly the holiday starts off nice. >> thank you, karen. >> a sister's darkest fear comes true when her brother is gunned down on the streets of camden. here's rick william's with crime fighters. >> thomas recalls the last time she spoke with williams. he was running out the door to meet friends thursday december 18th, 2014. >> i said be careful. i love you. he said i love you too, sis. i never heard my brother's voice again. >> at 6:38 p.m. police were

called. they found the 28-year-old shot in the head. thomas worried about her brother's choice of friends. >> couple people i didn't like him hanging with. i feared this. >> the citizen crime commission is administering a $1,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person response. all calls will remain anonymous. >> i need justice by all means necessary. get this animal off the street before he do it again to somebody else's family. >> to see this story and others in the crime fighter series go online. i'm rick williams, channel6 "action news." >>

>> volunteers spent part of the weekend pitching in cleaning up the refuge in philadelphia. the refuge is home to hundreds of bird species, reptiles and mammals. it was established in 1972 as the first wildlife refuge in the nation. time for a check on sports with the jamie apody. the big story, the soul. it's half a century since a professional football team in this town had a chance to clench a title. they sent fans home happy. money reynolds cashed in to give the soul the lead. look at this throw. back in the endzone. the celebration was on.

the soul beat the storm 44-40 to win back to back championships, third title over all. >> we wanted the confetti to come down in philadelphia and these guys made it happen. the quarterback played with a torn acl. that's the kind of guys we have. we love you. >> yesterday cars be wentz carsz challenged hoskins to a derby once he cools off. it mae b may be a while. he's homered in the past eight. phillies give up 17 straight wins, ben lively lit up, phils lose it 17-2. union playoff hopes are still alive. alejandro up 2-0 on expansion

but blow the lead at home and in the 91st moment, tied it up with a flying header. union 2-2 the final. it's a franklin selfie at the shore. sixer top draft pick for the team summer tour. joel embiid fashion, he in nailed the team's famous catch phrase. >> what does trust the process mean? >> we are getting back to the winner stage. i think we are there. you have to trust it. there you go. >> finally, back to the soul. you saw the game in channel6, our jeff skversky did an amazing job on the sidelines and managed not to get killed. kicked off on the play, look at

jeff running for his life, having a tough time getting over the board in that suit, walter. he is wearing a suit. it's tough. he should have warn sneakers, maybe a helmet too. >> awe, jeff skversky, the grace of a gazelle that man. >> we love you, jeff. castle is next on channel6. "action news" continues at 6:00 tomorrow morning with nydia han, gary hall and chris sowers. for the entire "action news" team, i'm walter perez. have a good night. ♪ ♪ ♪

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