>> this was epic proportion, nobody has ever seen anything like this. >> meantime president trump and first lady melania, landed in texas, tonight the president is under fire though for what he did and did not visit. >> i want them to notice the red cross is on the way and we have a lot of training and this is wa we are ready for. >> meanwhile, relief on the way with thousands of people in need in the southeast. help is continuing to pour in to the hardest hit areas including new medical assistance in the delaware valley. as harvey continues to battle the gulf coast. it's still pouring in some of the hardest hit areas. so far abc news has confirmed that eight deaths occurred from

harvey including a police officer caught in flooding while on his way to work over the weekend and the death toll is expected to rise. more than 2000 others have been rescued by the coast guard and one area in houston got nearly 50 inches of rain, the most rainfall from a tropical system over the u.s. main land. we are following the local relief efforts and tracking where harvey is next. first chad pradelli on the ground in houston for us tonight. >> yes rick, we are called at rescue row one area that is heavy et hit and one area with the heaviest -- many search and rescue operations, this family just showed up on the kayaks and they were out there and she saved this dog. we saw a lot of stranded

animals. >> what did you find here? >> puppy little girl. >> really high water and neighborhood and nobody there. >> you see a lot of strands animals with this hurricane. and stranded families, this family was just rescued by a good samaritan in the houston area, trying to help people out. look at the floodwaters, this is waist deep and moments ago i see heavy trucks with tires up to the tops of the vehicles, making their way through the waters and getting into the neighborhoods to do more rescues, we spoke to a woman a short time ago. she was in tears, and she was trapped in a trailer park. >> the texas ride trailer park. >> how long has she been there,? >> the whole storm. no lights. >> when did you talk to her?

>> 30 minutes ago. >> i have to go get my mom. >> just heart breaking stories. one of many in the area of houston hit by harvey. the rain continues and the waters continue to rise and the currents continue to move along these areas, rescue crews are continuing to put long hours in and people coming from around the state and counted to help out and afterwards there will be a long, long cleanup. i'm live in northeast houston, chad pradelli, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. tonight president trump and the first lady are on the ground in texas. mr. trump flew into corpus christi this morning about 200 miles northwest of houston to get a briefing in texas governor, chris abbott. these are the result of close team work. >> they are telling me now your representatives have been in working together it's a real team. and we want to do it better than

ever before. we want to be looked at in five years or ten years from now this is the way to do it. >> right now the president is in austin texas 150 miles northwest of houston. he has not visited with victims nor toured any heavily damaged areas. something that grew criticism on social media today. he is planning to return to the area on saturday. >> one of the confirmed dead in this flooding disaster was a houston police sergeant. 60-year-old sergeant steve perez was trying to get into work early sunday morning, unable to get to his station because of water on the roads and tried to head to another station instead. his body was discovered after hours of searching. >> we couldn't find him. and once our dive team got there it was too treacherous to go under and look for him. we made a decision to leave

officers there waiting. until the morning -- because as much as we want to recover him last night, we could not put more officers at risk. >> sergeant perez was a police officer for 32 years. >> with so many people in need of help, aid is pouring into southeast texas from around the country that includes local doctors ready to treat anyone in the storm. "action news" reporter, any mccormick live with that story for us. >> monica and rick from across the tri-state area, medical personnel is headed down south and dozens have come through philadelphia international airport but some of the hospitals are able to help those affected in houston, from here at home. thomas gray received his orders from the dep of health and human services, members of the medical

assist an team left for texas today. >> some hospitals are getting ready to evacuate and air medical activities for rescues underway. >> gray is a registered nurse and leads a group of medical professionals from southeast pennsylvania. they are looking for where the need is sometimes that means a makeshift emergency room. >> tractor trailer loads of equipment that can be set up with tents and stretchers and medical equipment and medications and cardiac monitors. >> at md cooper in camden they are staying in contact with their houston headquarter, they are fully functional in the hospital. what is close is the out patient services. >> they continued to tweet images and damage and smiling and resilient staff. here in camden houston patients that evacuated are receiving care.

>> we are available to them at any point. we are abe to get them in quickly and continue our care. we share the same electronic methods. they are responding to an urgent call for blood banks and asking to respond to blood types. o positive. o negative and a positive and b negative. and platelet donors as well. >> in that group of medical personnel. they left and include doctors and nurses from jefferson and einstein and from the penn health system as well. the group that left today is expected to go for a two week rotation and other groups are expected to bee deployed as well. annie mccormick, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. while we are talking extensively about the houston area. the flooding is starting to affect communities in coastal louisiana as with well. evacuations have begun in lake

charles at the texas liouisiana border harvey continues to move. winds are 50 miles per hour that is up just a bit but the rained emtend now to the panhandle of florida. as the tropical rains continue to flood in from the gulf of mexico as the storm is now just starting to move a little bit faster, to the north-northeast. but still sitting near houston and downtown houston, light rain and the edge of the rain is just to the west of houston but cedar bayou just to the east of houston, still being inundated with this very torrential rains. that is where the record was set for the most rainfall in history. they have now picked up 51.88 inches of of rainfall.

over 10 inches a day beating the previous record of 48 inches from one tropical system from amelia in 1978. it made landfall in corpus christi still directing to the east of houston and making landfall late tonight into tomorrow and in texas. it goes to the north and east. and starts to pick up steam into thursday and friday. heading to the tennessee valley and ohio valley and bringing rain for the weekend. and speaking of rain. we are deal weighing solid area of green i-95 to the south and east. it's one nasty wet day here with beach erosion and coastal flooding. we'll talk more about this system and harvey for the upcoming holiday weekend in the seven day. >> thank you we'll check back in later. abc is hosting a network wide day of giving on thursday. 6 abc is joining in the effort.

on thursday we host a phone bank to take your donations for the victims of harvey. all proceeds goes to the american red cross. it's this thursday starting at 4:00 here on "action news." time for a check of the "action news" traffic report tuesday night. lets go live to gina gannon in for matt pellman. >> crowded conditions traveling on 95, you see how bumper to bumper it is here on the vine street expressway if you make your way on to the vine. you see how slow it will be now and the phillies game is canceled tonight. and that 95 southbound delay we are used to seeing may not be out there but give yourself more time. between the vine and wood have and a half our on the northbound side and southbound 25 minutes and the vine crowded out there in both directions. back to you sfwh thank you. more ahead on "action news" at 5:00 tonight. a new threat from president trump after another missile

launch from north korea. the emergency meeting held today as tensions begin to spike. a new use for nicotine patches. the disease that the stop smoking aid may be able to help treat.

the unsecurity council head a meeting on north korea after a provocative launch by kim jong un. this ballistic missile flew overally japan and president trump said all options are on the table. propose the budget cuts by president trump would devastate effortses to protect the delaware river. according to the penn research and environmental center. they show that cuts to clean water programs stop the progress for fight against sewage and mined pollutions. twice evans and donna bullock joined with penn environment today to call for the epa to continue its full funding. >> health check tonight nicotine paps may have a use other than quitting smoking to treat an

inflammatory disease that can cause severe lung damage and drains a sufferer's energy. >> we hope that people will get a secondary benefit. not only will the lung disease get better but feel more energized and get up and go. >> patients wear the nicotine patches for six months, and results from a small study are promising and the tests are expanding. >> clemson researchers set out to recitizenship how safe our food habits are. the urban legend that you can drop food on the floor and pick it up and eat it 5 seconds later. there is no save time for food to be on the floor. how about blowing out birthday candles, they found that increases bacteria by 14% and wet lemons picked up 100% of hand bacteria.

>> my head is spinning from that story. local kids got expert baseball training in south philadelphia. ben lively along with ben morgan worked with the kids in indoor batting cages, part of the nationwide play campaign. the first program in professional sports to include children with disabilities. the national down syndrome society were represented at today's event at citizens bank park. delaware state police honored the first officer honored in the line of duty in the agency's history. officer francis ryan, was trying to catch a speeding driver on philadelphia pike in 1922. when his motorcycle was hit by another car and died in the hospital a few weeks later, and a sign was put up where officer ryan was struck almost 95 years ago. to remember his ultimate sacrifice. >> very nice. still to come on "action news." the big back to school supply in

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>> i am grateful i got all of this stuff and i'm proud of myself. and like, i feel lucky. a middle school opened up this week in camden. and partnering up in that school. to donate 200 backpacks to those students. jeanette reyes. channel 6 "action news." >> love seeing that. still to come a check of that forecast. looking live outside and showing you a soggy ben franklin bridge from the sky 6 camera. adam joseph has it's exclusive accuweather forecast and when we'll ethe sun again maybe tomorrow. i no longer live with

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here is the soggy details. >> it's a nasty raw day and rain for each of us and the coast being battered address we look at the weather center live on sky 6 hd in cape may whipping to the north and east. carving at the shore line breakers six to ten feet high throughout the day today. and that remains the case through tonight and tomorrow and we see many rain drops on the lens there with the very powerful winds and looking at stormtracker 6 live double scan,

we are drying out to the west and the pennsylvania turnpike. we see the rain break apart. allentown and montgomery and bucks county. as we close into the heart of philadelphia, all the rush hour the major roadways and highways like the schuylkill expressway, and lancaster avenue. the garden state parkway deing with a lot of rain here this evening and wet conditions and even a little bit of minor flooding in spots on some area roadways, watch that with uponing on the roads. temperatures in the 60s right now. for everybody. from the shore to the city up to the north and west and mt. pocono now just 56 degrees, that wind is not very strong inland 10 miles per hour in philadelphia. 13 in trenton and allentown.

sustained at 20 miles per hour. with gusts over 30 month 40 miles per hour. and again that northeast wind is hammering a lot of of our dunes as eroding a sand. working away from the carolinas not becoming irma. having winds near hurricane force as it deepens off the coast? that continues to churn up the waters and tonight into the day tomorrow. waves 6 to 10 feet 15 to 25 miles per hour. and dangerous rip currents. and you see it improve listen to the lifeguards. 8:00 tonight still raining and that continues through midnight along i-95 and it starts to pull away. and wednesday morning and afternoon the sunshine making a come back as we look at the five-day forecast temperatures in the up ever 70s for tomorrow. clouds in the morning giving way to sun. a nice day with an isolate the

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"action news" continues. >> hello again here is what is happening on "action news" tonight. the waters continue to swamp much of southeastern texas leaving thousands of texas clinging to high ground before help arrives. that is tropical storm harvey continues to churn of the coast. volunteers are answering the call in answering disaster relief efforts this texas. yes smoother skies for one airlines for one group. and texas continues to suffer under several feet of floodwaters, more than 17,000 people are turning to shelters for a dry place to sleep and food and clothing.

and at least -- and order any citizens are working around the clock to rescould you those that remain trapped. >> we have been in water all day. since actually last night. and we didn't think help was coming until you guys came and i thank you so much. i have not just myself and husband, i have summer and taser as well. you guys saved our lives and thank you so much. >> tears of joy and relief felt by people in several communities if the wake of the flooding. one woman along with her husband and pets were rescued by the texas national guard. >> neighbors are answering the call of neighbors in distress. molly acres posted this a pregnant woman going into labor

cannot get through to 911 and they sent out an email to all residents asking for a doctor or nurse, the plan was to move the woman to the second floor and out of harms way and the houston fire department showed up and made a human train to guide her to a waiting military truck to get her to a medical facility. and getting pets and livestock to a facility look at this cattle drive through floodwaters in beaumont. they waded through waist deep water and got cows across the state highway. and the governor spoke account concerns of the state. eight people are dead and countless others are now homeless and the damage done to structures and home will likely break records. >> re focused now on saving every life we can and then help

with the evacuation and process and in typical texas fashion we'll rebuild and may go it better than ever. >> before harvey hit texas and governor abbott declared a presidential action declaration so rebuilding can begin. well, the houston mega church led by televangelist joel osstein opened the doors to people seeking shelter. osstein received criticism for not using the massive church for a shelter because of the sheer size and location high above floodwaters. osstein tweeted out his decision to open the doors this morning. he wrote victoria and i care deeply about our fellow houstonans and lakewood's doors are open and we are receiving anyone that needs shelter. >> the opening of the lakewood church is a welcome site to thousands. five bus loads of evacuees

arrived carrying their belongings, scenes like this are much more kpon. a houston sheriff tweeted this picture and wrote quote the total loss our team is seeing is indescribable pitching at the present times and roofs. >> we want to update you on the crews from our area helping in the flood zone, the pennsylvania task for called one that left sunday morning and they did arrive in san antonio. they are working in the northeast and northwest suburb in harris county. they will help first responders getting folks from their flooded homes to higher ground. katherine scott has more on two red cross workers, they left for texas today. >> they loaded up and headed for chestnut. the first respond vehicle red cross east chapter heads to

texas. the two are driving it south. both volunteered for this assignment. >> it's difficult to watch and see what is going on down there, and knowing we'll be there and be able to hopefully make a difference in these people's lives and alleviate some suffering going on it makes us feel a little bit better. >> this van is set up to feed people and hold food and hot water and emergency supplies for harvey victims. hemingway started to volunteer for the red cross nine years ago after watching hurricane relief efforts on the news. he wanted to help. >> we have training and this is what we are ready for. >> the pair will make their way to a staging area in louisiana and then get an assignment where they are needed most. and at the headquarters trained volunteers are fielding thousands of calls from houston across the country. as rescue operations continue in texas.

>> this is extraordinary and it will rain through thursday, and because it's going to continue to rain more people are going to be displaced. >> efforts are underway to help storm affected animals. saint hub's animal shelter will welcome at least 100 shelter dogs from texas to their madison knowledge campus, after the dogs and eat and rest many animals will be transferred to partners across the northeast corridor including shelters in our area, this helps to provide capacity for an nals in this storm. >> local chapters are preparing their own volunteers and planning to deploy volunteers tomorrow with emotional support. katherine scott "action news." >> abc is hosting a network wide day of giving, joining theest on thursday of this week we host a phone bank to collect donations

for victims of harvey, and it's this thursday starting at 4:00 here on 6 abc. world news tonight with david muir continues coverage of hurricane harvey includingests to house thousands of evacuees and rescue those trapped in floodwaters. following "action news" at 6:00. police are working to track down a thief that did not just want cash from a local chinese takeout. cameras were rolling as the suspect parked his bike outside, in southeast philadelphia. this past sunday evening, once inside the man appropriated a 23-year-old woman pointing something at her back. he stole her cell phone money and food. >> the fbi and philadelphia police are asking for help finding a bank robber that targeted a bank in the middle of the day. these are from inside of the

santander bank on walnut street. a man walked in and acted like he had a weapon and demanded money from the teller and after he got the cash in a bag he ran out. nobody was hurt. if you recognize the suspect authorities want to hear from you. a police officer inadversely caused a shelter in place alert at princeton university. the school issued the alert on campus. it was their own plain clothes officer escorting a group on a museum tour. the officer had a badge on and gun in his holster but never told museum staff he was there. the alert was lifted 10 mined later and the officer is cooperating in the investigation. fire officials are investigating an attempted arson in kensington and that happens along the 1800 block of frankford avenue. people tried to burn down the

housing units under construction. no word or extent of damage to the home. dogs were brought in to search for clues. >> an underground transformer fire caused manhole covers to -- in camden near broadway at midnight. witnesses heard two loud explosions and saw smoke and fire, crews and fire crews showed up and immediately went to work. there is a new contract agreement with american airlines and the service employees international union. the sciu will be recognized for the first time by american airlines. including baggage handlers and sky caps. it will lead to fair bargaining. phase three of road and

parking restrictions for the made in america music festival are now in affect. parking is now prohibited on pennsylvania avenue from 22nd street to 23rd street and restricted at park town place from 22nd street to 24th street. musicians will perform on saturday and sunday including jz and the chain smokers. >> time now for a check of our traffic report tuesday night. a busy tuesday gina? >> it is. excessive travel times especially on the schuylkill expressway on the eastbound side of the schuylkill your live look at the conshohocken area, 43 minutes now between the blue route to the vine, give yourself time. 37 minutes on the object side and overall big delays on your majors this afternoon. and on the big picture we have single didn'tity speed out there on 95 and the northbound side the vine street expressway 10

miles per hour on the schuylkill. on the roosevelt boulevard and another accident traveling in the area. hatfield 309 northbound, that entire roadway is blocked if you are traveling out in that area. on the market frankford line. busing happening on 30th 5th street and the thorndale line, delays of 11 minutes, chestnut hill line and running 12 minutes late. and doylestown line 23 minutes late. watch yourself there, the vine street expressway allow for additional time this evening. >> thank you again. still to come on "action news." jaime apody has more from coach doug peterson with the long snappers impact with flares and fans. and they started with flash and style today in philadelphia. we'll show you. and meteorologist, adam joseph, tracking the latest in the

"action news" weather center. a rainy day and cool day. and we'll bump it back up tomorrow. the high is philadelphia this morning at 67 degrees and 17 degrees below formal of 84. we'll go back above normal. >> a safer way to get around in west philadelphia. when "action news" comes right back.

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getting reaction tonight an a trade of i long-term eagle many. >> your favorite? >> 100%. a lot of people will miss this guy. nobody misses the long snapper, the fact we are talking about this trade still today is a testament to -- a third round pick in 2019. the bird's longest tenured person. it was a hard decision to make. >> just tough. you know i have known him for a long time. the icon staple around the city of philadelphia. for a lot of years.

and you know, it's hard and it's challenging in a way. and as you know, we bring competition in town for every position and i'm fortunate how he still gets to continue his career obviously and i'm happy for him and everything he has done and those decisions are extremely hard. >> coach has more tough decisions they have to cut the roster to 53 players by saturday. the biggest battle is running back people are rooting for corey clemens and has to beat out donald humphrey. >> is this a tense week? do you feel what is on the line? >> oh yeah. and coach peterson addressed it in the first meeting and knows what we are feeling. getting cut and it's the nature

of the business you have to be able to accept the fact of that part. >> oh, no. >> it will now be two straight nights without a home run for rookie reece hoskins because you can't homer if you don't play. it's rained out tonight. and hoskins did hit the ball, went two for four with the rbi double. phils won it 6-1 and they have the braves number. >> sometimes that just happens and some teams you can't beat and nothing seems to go your way, i can't figure it out. >> neither can we. it felt like a fall day and that means fall football. the temple owls getting for notre dame. jeff collins not a bad place to do in in south bend. he made his guys practice out in the rain because they are tough guys. and speaking of tough guys, the

last time college was in notre dame stadium was when he finished in 2003. ducis rogers gets the story today. >> help me out the last time and the only time you were in notre dame stadium was to what? >> run a marathon. 14 years ago i got a wild hair to run the marathon and i trained and started as the hall-of-fame and ended at the 50 yard look at notre dame stadium and finished. and it was a great challenge but very memorable. >> how cool is that? a great time too. more with ducis and coach colins on temple play book. get to know the new coach and you'll like him and the preview of the opener against the irish. when is the last time you ran a marathon? >> how are you doing monica? i was at the marathon cafe a

couple of weeks ago. the new chestnut street corridor project in west philadelphia was unveiled today. it includes a parking protect the bicycle lane including safety improvements like shorting crosses distances and painted areas and crossed a mile across 53rd street and this is the first of its kind in the city. mayor kenney hopes to have more safety corridors in the city for the coming years. charter school kicked off the new school year with a musical. ♪ ♪ 200 kids and faculty at the campus kicked up the beat with the musical "hair spray" they performed on stage last november. they made the music video to show the entire student body at

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lauren's the spark that started the fire. the goal is keep places like this open so all people, regardless of disability, have an opportunity for employment. meteorologist adam joseph is here now with the good, the bad and the dreary a half inch to inch. we dry out and more rain as we get into the holiday weekend.

we are dealing with a flood advisory until this evening, a small sliverer along 95 the entire state of delaware in extreme southern new jersey. and not a lot of rain but minor drainage problems here where you have some drains backing up and leaves collecting and dealing with ponding on the roadways, and not looking at significant flooding with the rain today across our area. as we look at stormtracker 6 live double scan we are starting to break the rain apart especially to the north and west. still dealing with it wilmington and trenton. a little yellow popping up showers south of the city and the heaviest rain in delaware county. northern newcastle county and philadelphia county and stretches up towards trenton and mercer county. moderate rainfall at this point. we are starting to see the edge of that rain breaking apart in malvern and paoli, that sinks to

the south and east here. to matter what it's a cool day in allentown. reading, philadelphia and millville to the shore. everybody is stuck with the 60s today and the poconos 56 degrees, and remind ourselves it's technically august. low pressure to the south spinning up the rain and hammering the shore. with the northeasterly wind beach erosion back bay flooding and rip currents. and swells of 6 to 10 feet today. and all of this starts to lift away. by 9:00, midnight, starts to fade away on the radar scope, 9:00 a.m. we start to see the sunshine appear and that continues into tomorrow afternoon. in fact, 78 allentown philadelphia, millville 77 degrees, watch for dangerous rip currents tomorrow and the storm over the open waters will churn up the swells for another day

tomorrow despite the weather above is improving. harvey's remnants are coming through the tennessee valley and aim over our area in new england fort weekend. doesn't mean flooding rains and a washout for the weekend and we'll get a round of rain up to an inch it improves the second half of the holiday weekend. low humidity and it's warm and maybe an isolated storm with a front on thursday of 85 and sets up for a beautiful mark on friday. 73, low humidity and rain develops on saturday. again possibly up to an inch of rain. not looking at any sort of significant flooding by us over the weekend and sun returning on sunday and the best day is labor day and 73 degrees. more "action news" coming your way.

that is it for us. good night.

"action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with ducis rogers, meteorologist, cecily tynan, and jim gardner. tuesday night and jim is off and i'm rick williams and the big story on "action news" is tropical storm harvey. and the relentless toll on the gulf coast. here is what we know right now. harvey is truly an hist or ecstorm. one area southwest of houston recorded 50 inches of rain a u.s. record for a tropical

system. abc news confirmed eight deaths including a houston police officer who drowned trying to drive to work on sunday. and the coast guard rescued 1800 and they will open two or three more shelters and the convention center took in more than 9,000 stranded residents. >> president trump and first lady melania touched down in texas this morning much the first stop was corpus christi for a briefing of the damage and recovery forts. trump is dealing with the first major natural disaster as president. he wants to handle the response better than any administration before him. >> we want to be looked at in five years from now. and this is the way to do it. this is of of epic proportions nobody has seen anything like this. trump went to austin for more briefings and did not tour the damage. a white house spokesperson says that they wanted to be cautious