>> sara bloomquist is live at philadelphia international airport but we begin with meteorologist, cecily tynan, who is tracking the path of the storm. >> reporter: yes, it looks like irma is more likely going to be hitting southern florida and going up the peninsula. a worst case scenario for florida. this is about the size of texas, already set records in terms of its strength and bearing down on the turks and caicos islands. it looks like that island chain will be decimated by the storm. we have hurricane warnings that extend through the bahamas and hurricane warnings from west palm beach to key west. that means hurricane conditions felt there within the next 48 hours. future tracker 6 shows that is definitely the case. key largo 114 miles per hour. and miami could be in the northeast quadrant of the storm that has the highest wind gust

and storm surge, 127 miles per hour wind gusts by sunday morning. so the latest track has shifted a little farther to the west. that means irma will likely be hitting southern florida by saturday afternoon and sunday afternoon as a category four hurricane, the latest track bring its up the center of the peninsula. that means the entire peninsula of florida will get hit by hurricane force winds and not making a second landfall but decreasing to a category one as it pushes north of jacksonville. the take away from irma's impact likely the worst damage since hurricane andrew in 1992, could be worse than that. storm surge making places uninhabitable for months. and running out of time to evacuate. more coming up in the full accuweather forecast. >> meanwhile hurricane irma has cut a path of destruction through the caribbean leaving as we mentioned at least ten people

dead and thousands homeless. tonight it's headed straight for florida and mandatory evacuation orders are in effect for the coastal communities but as those residents try to get out. they are running in major gas shortages in the miami area 35% of gas stations are without fuel and the stations that have fuel, lines are stretching for miles. florida's governor has ordered state police to escort fuel trucks to gas station as long evacuation routes. >> we have to get the fuel as fast as we can so people have the fuel to vevacuate. >> my car is on e for the past hour. >> irma has done catastrophic damage to the caribbean and in the tiny island of barbuda 90% of structures are destroyed there. >> and some areas in puerto rico could be without power for up to six months.

as folks get out of florida, airlines are trying to keep up with demands. but that could prove difficult as the weather worsens. sara bloomquist is live with more on that. >> monica all the major airlines are suspending operations to and from south florida by tomorrow evening. some as early as late afternoon tomorrow. they did add flights and bigger planes to the south florida airports today. but it doesn't seem to be enough. the clock is ticking and there is an increasing sense of desperation among the people trying to escape irma's path. the passenger as rived this afternoon from a flight from miami. a few departing as the airlines wind down flights to and from florida. they describe the scene at the airport as chaotic. >> a lot of concerned people wanting to get out of town, make their flights and get out of town and they didn't seem to have the personnel to man the flights.

it was a little freaky. >> these passengers were on a flight schedule to arrive in philadelphia yesterday but american seems to be having staffing problems as they work to end operations. the final flight departs miami just before 4:00 tomorrow afternoon. >> it was a nightmare with american. they had to put us up and then delayed us over and over again. i was suppose to be here yesterday. >> they were talking about sheltering us it got that close. >> wow. you must be relieved? >> we are happy to be home. >> they were visiting cuba but with limited internet access they didn't grasp the severity of the storm. >> she missed her first day of school and we got to the airport delayed. delayed. canceled. but it feels good to be moment i'll tell you that much. >> justin drove to daytona from

orlando with her kids and like other airline passengers this time feels different. >> i just look at what is happening in houston and other places, and i feel like these storms are just different, they are bigger and dangerous now more than it has ever been. >> passengers told us they left behind friends that now cannot get fuel for their cars, they are describing gas lines that are two miles long and can't get a seat on any flight. they are realizing they will have to stay. we'll hear from the university miami student from villanova that had to leave his friends behind. live at philadelphia international airport i'm sara bloomquist, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. as people try to get out of the storm's path volunteers with the american red cross are rushing straight into it. to try to help out. they fanned out across florida and the carolinas to get supplies and resources to the tens of thousands of evacuees.

add that to the volunteers already deployed in texas in the wake of harvey and the organization you can imagine is stressed very thin. >> we are stretching potentially over five or six states and we have the wild fires still in california. and we is even have a couple of folks still supporting the canadian red cross with the wild fires up there. it's definitely a stretch on our human and material resources but the red cross plans for this, this is what we do and we are ready if and when irma strikes. >> officials with the red cross say making sure that shelters are set up is the most critical task now but they believe that they are ready. >> we are also tracking the path of hurricane irma on the 6 abc app and we'll alert you to any updates as the storm progresses and get the latest from the team of meteorologist on possible impact here. the 6 abc app is a free download for your mobile device. "action news" anchor, brian taff is heading down to florida ahead

of hurricane irma. look for live reports tomorrow right here on "action news." >> in other news a viewing is held this evening for a temple university student that was brutally murdered last week. "action news" reporter, trish hartman is live now where the family of jenna burley is preparing to say good-bye. >> reporter: that viewing is just getting underway for jenna's friends and family at williamsburg funeral home. it goes from 5:00 until 8:00 tonight. earlier today jenna's temple university community also gathered to remember her. >> dozens of temple university students came together on campus holding red flowers, mourning the death of 22-year-old jenna burley of harleysville. she was new to the community enrolling as a transfer student majoring in film and media arts. police say that burley was

killed last week. a 29-year-old is charged with her murder along with abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence and the instrument of a crime. she was seen leaving a bar near campus and they believe they just met before they left the bar. and burley's body was found in wayne county on a lakefront property owned by the suspect's grandmother, another viewing for jenna's friends and family will be held tomorrow morning at st. marie goretti and a private bural. >> folks that new jenna says she was an advocate for the homeless and instead of flowers donations for jenna's blessing bag. we posted the information at 6abc.com. trish hartman, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. well, a centennial celebration of the ben franklin

parkway is about to get underway. this morning i joined city officials and other partners to announce the details of parkway 100 and the 100 day celebration kicks off tomorrow with the we are connected festival and it continues through november of next year. and we are looking back at the history of of the parkway be sure to tune in for the one hour special on the entenial. it airs wednesday september 20th starting at 8:00 p.m. cecily tynan and i will host along with other members of our "action news" and fyi philly teams. >> sounds like fun. coming up we'll check the traffic report. right now. matt pellman is live with the low down. >> from the parkway to the parking lots on the roadways this evening. not so much fun on the schuylkill expressway westbound side right by the university avenue on ramp there is a crash involving the work van sticking out into the right lane and westbound is extra heavy come ago way from there to university

out to south. if you hop on the vine street expressway, that is jammed solid too. from the schuylkill 76 to broad street. that is where we have the broken down vehicle they are in the process of trying to tow away. and coming off the schuylkill on to the boulevard northbound side heavy from 76 to broad street that is normal afternoon volume. and a crash along bristol road and construction closing county line road until 6:00. and elmer watch forever the truck fire on harding highway. we'll check it again in the next half hour. >> all right we'll see you then. more ahead on "action news" tonight. donald trump jr. appears before the a congressional hearing investigating russian meddling

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time for the accuweather forecast. thursday night. meteorologist, cecily tynan with the latest on irma. >> it remain a dangerous storm. a deadly storm. lets head over to the "action news" weather center. this is the latest satellite on irma. it remain a dangerous category five hurricane and the eye is affecting the turks and caicos island it's over salt kay, and the islands will get decimated by the storm system. if you have seen the damage from saint martin, it looks like it could be even worse for turks and caicos. the maximum winds 175 miles per

hour. and category five starts at 157. it remain a dangerous cat five. it's moving at a good complaint for a storm this size. west northwest 16 miles per hour. and maximum wind gusts 215 miles per hour. and we have three hurricanes in the atlantic basin that is typical when you look at when hurricane season does peak, september 10th that is sunday and that is likely when irma will be making landfall along the florida peninsula. this is the latest track on irma, it remains a dangerous category five hurricane through the bahamas and making that turn and hitting near miami, sunday actually in the morning on sunday. and that is bad timing because this is heading towards high tide and the latest track brings the center of the storm right up north through the center of the florida peninsula. typically the hurricane will favor water one side or the

other, if this verifies it means the east coast of the florida peninsula. it is hit the hardest, wind and rain and tremendous storm surge and turks and caicos, we are talking about 15 foot storm surge and south florida. 5 to 10 feet that is above the actual high tide than will cause problems, back at home, we have quiet cool weather, a nice day 73 in philadelphia and allentown 71 and wilmington 73. satellite 6 along with action radar showing a few building clouds this afternoon and some fair weather clouds building to the north and a cold front moves through tomorrow and that brings us a reinforcing shot of cool air and feeling like fall and temperatures dropping down into the 50s under a moonlit sky and tomorrow again cool only up into the low 70s and a few building clouds if the afternoon and maybe a sprinkle northern and west with the cold front behind the front and temperatures dip more on saturday.

the five-day at 5:00, a mixture of clouds and sunshine and at the linc great football weather and 71 and sunday sunny and gorgeous and 74 and 73 degrees and rain tuesday night and the remnants of irma i'll talk more about that in the seven day. >> thank you. there is more ahead in our next half hour of "action news" at 5:30. a moving tribute for the delaware state trooper killed in the line of duty. we'll tell you what an anonymous donor did to make sure corporal steven ballard's memory will live on. and all hands on deck to make sure those hurt by hurricane harvey how these local seniors citizens are getting involved.

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day on capitol hill answering questions about his meeting with russian nationalists. and now to the latest on hurricane irma as the monster storm continues to move toward the u.s. main land and the message that officials have for residents of florida and the keys and low lying residents as well get out now. and the powerful category five is prompting towns to begin evacuations, cecily tynan is in for adam joseph tonight and live at the "action news" big board with the latest track for irma. >> the staying power of irma is mind blowing and this storm is interacting with the mountains of of the dominican republic. typically a graveyard for hurricanes. it's still a strong category five hurricane and it's going through the turks and caicoss

now and this area will be decimated. moving 16 miles per hour fast for a storm of this size. it's about the size of texas and the latest track maintains category five status into the southern bahamas and interacting with cuba, it lessens a bits and making landfall by miami by sun morning as the tide increases and the latest track brings it right up to the center of the florida peninsula. east of center that is close to a worst case scenario for florida. it's rare for a storm to take this track. the latest on irma with that track to the west. staying over the florida peninsula. that means the hurricane storm force winds that extends 60 miles north of the center will affect the entire peninsula. that means hurricane storm force winds across the entire peninsula. and widespread damage and the

worst part of the storm is the northeast quadrant, that puts it over the east coast of florida as it moves in and i'll have more details coming up later on. back to you. >> thank you. well, we are getting a look at the utter devastation on the island of saint martin from the air. the dutch ministry flew over head to survey the damage and homes and buildings are scattered about and the airport suffered heavy damage and boats were strewn across the harbor and smaller islands are dealing with dangerous conditions tonight on saaba that lies south of sane martin much of the island's vegetation was destroyed season homes destroyed as well and roofs ripped right off and the main concern is a shortage of food. people are not expecting boats to deliver aid until at least late next week. >> "action news" was in philadelphia as the aaa flat bed

truck packed with pallets of water set out for houston, texas. that joins two others from the mid-atlantic fleet bringing supplies to residents impacted by hurricane harvey. and tow trucks will head there to clean up cars, aaa is monitoring the situation in florida and will deploy other trucks down there if the need arises. meantime an it is containing supplies for the victims of hurricane harvey is heading down to texas. it was packed with 20 tons of supplies, gathered by the fraternal order of police members and supporters and raise the $10,000 going toward relief efforts. it was blessed by father wetzel before departing. and we are tracking the path of irma on the 6 abc app. we'll alert you to updates as the storm progresses and get the

latest from our meteorologists on the possible impact here. in other news a construction worker was hurt in an accident on a job site in collegeville, montgomery county today. chopper 6 hd is over the scene of the 700 block of campus drive where a beam fell down on a worker around noon. the victim was rushed to the hospital and no information on the extent of the injuries or what caused the accident. one person was killed in a crash on pike creek on lyndon hill road. no clear what led up to the collision and a passenger in one of the cars died of their injuries and police have not said if anyone else was hurt. in washington today president trump touted his deal with the democrats that took congressional republicans by surprise and at the same time the president's eldest son, don jr. spend time on capitol hill. emily is live in washington

tonight with more on that. >> reporter: rick, republicans were surprised and frustrated with president trump's decision to side with the democrats but today more of them changing their tune. paul ryan saying it could be a good thing. >> there was a lot of spirit in the room a lot of good spirit. >> president trump describing the meeting with congressional leader as very bipartisan and great. the president surprising everyone when he sided with the democrats agreeing to extend government funding and to raise the debt limit for just three months in exchange for hurricane relief funding. >> i was proud of the senate minority and democratic leader, he could speak new york to the president. >> and now defying the wishes of his party finding a democrat minority with added leverage. >> the president made a game call yesterday he thought was in our interest to have bipartisan support in a bipartisan package.

to deal with these ongoing hurricane disasters. >> the speaker of the house paul ryan accepting the plan he called ridiculous and disgraceful hours before the meeting but president trump signalling the start of a new trend. >> i think we'll have a different relationship than you have been watching over the last number of years. >> meanwhile the president's son spending hours with the senate judiciary committee investigating russian meddling during the presidential election. obtaining the prepared statement he read to investigators saying he agreed because of possible information quote, concerning the fitness and character of a president candidate. >> and don jr. tweetd this afternoon after he left the meeting saying he answered questions for five hours going on to write. saying that this interview fully satisfied the inquiry.

>> thank you. world news tonight with david muir will have more on donald trump jr.'s appearance before the judiciary committee and david muir is live in miami you can watch that following "action news" at 6:00. time for a check of the "action news" traffic report. lets go to matt pellman in the traffic center with the very latest. >> hey guys,ity hits keep coming on the vine street expressway had a westbound crash earlier and an eastbound disabled vehicle they are both gone and now a westbound accident approaching broad street taking out the center lane and police are on the scene here jammed solid coming west of 95 and eastbound is jammed coming off the schuylkill in part because of the broken down vehicle. on the schuylkill a wreck on the westbound side of university avenue on ramp, with extra slowing with speeds like 9 miles per hour. and a crash on it's southbound side of the roosevelt boulevard south of broad street you are jamming there away from ninth

street and warminster on bristol road east of york road you don't want to use county line instead. that is closed for construction each day this week. and a new crash by the county line plaza in souderton. avoid 113 at 309. and avoid route 40 harding highway in elmer, a truck fire out there all afternoon close to the heritage dairy store. and monroe road is an alternate. and heading to the route 40 diner in bear, the crash along 40 polanski highway has cleared out. as will i. >> thank you. more ahead this evening, the regular season kicks off this week and the eagles face off with the rival red skins. ducis rogers and ron breaks down what the birds need to do coming up in sports. and kelly ripa and ryan

seacrest kick off their first full seen of live. and meteorologist, cecily tynan, continuing to track hurricane irma from the "action news" weather center. >> irma is the big storey, back at home it's quiet and on the cool side. temperatures in the low 70s. 73 in philadelphia and cools off more as we head into the weekend. i'll have all the details on that and the latest on irma in the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast. >> those stories and more when "action news" comes right back. ♪

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knew what it was like to work and go to school and pay for his education and take care of himself. this is amazing. >> the scholarship committee will evaluate applications starting next year. all right the nfl officially kicks off tonight with the patriots and the chiefs. but of course we are three days away from the eagles and red skins kicking things off. what better way to get prepared than a brand new segment. birds break down with ron jaworsky and ducis rogers. jaws take it away -- >> jaws first of all how important is carson wentz's development from year one to year two. >> absolutely critical. it's time to make the quantum leap. they lacked explosive touchdown passes, passes of 20 yards or more. so what does howie roseman do he

gets some wide receivers. and that is a juicy look for carson wentz. you know why? press jump and run and the safety in the box you'll have a chance for the deep post play and you need to keep that safety in the box and run at him on an outbreaker to keep it and wentz see its and sets up in the pocket and pressure though. look at that pressure he moved from the pressure stepped up in the pocket and laid the ball out there for a wide receive their is averaging 17 yards for reception in his career with torrey smith and you get the big play and eagles touch down. love the speed of torrey smith. >> that is one weapon he got for carson wentz let talk about the other one. >> alshon jeffrey 6'4" and great red zone receiver another area where eagles lacked efficiency

last year. carson wentz completed 49% of his passes, lets go back to the dolphins game again, you see two receiver route. you see alshon jeffrey on a quick slant and aguilar run a quick bubble screen and everyone else ducis is blocking either or three off this corner right there. if he charges, the bubble screen you throw the slant and that is what will happen. the snap and maximum protection look at here, look at this anticipation. this is cameron wake a defensive end -- the second lane to open and this is maturity in year two and what do you get? a throw right on the body and red zone efficiency. now speed and red zone efficiency and carson wentz is doing this.

>> he has weapons. given the eagles schedule they are at kansas city next week and the week after home rival giants. can we call game one against the red skins, a must win? >> not quite must win yet but a tough game. >> let me ask you this? who wins this game and why? >> i love what jim schwartz has done with the defensive line, this may be the strength of this eagles football team. the d line will give pressure on curt cousin and the eagles win. >> we'll find out on sunday. >> thank you. well, they fill your living room every morning at 9:00 here on 6 abc. this week live with kelly and ryan kicked off the first full season and our alicia vitarelli went to new york city to pay them a visit. >> are you like america's tv couple. you are pretty cute. >> we like to call each other mommy and daddy. >> being around them feels like

family because kelly and ryan have been friends for two decades. >> it's seamless and every time we come out there is a list of articles and things we should get to but we don't because we are catching up with each other. >> the commercial break is like a cocktail hour. you have hugs. >> kelly is phone for standup during the commercial break zbrz when they say live -- >> welcome to live facebook. live on live online. >> they mean it. >> this is a shock, live in tv and in cyberspace. >> we are live on facebook and live on television. >> they went live for my facebook friends. >> are we live? with gelman filming it for us, he couldn't resist producing it too. >> take off your shirt ryan. that will get it up to 100. >> and the shoes.

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temperatures running about 7 degrees below normal. definitely cool standards for early september. the accuweather highlights show 70s for the next seven days and the arm high is 81 and we stay well below average and the weekend on the cool side and i'm tracking impacts from irma in the middle of next week but here they look to be minimal. that is certainly good news for us. local temperatures now currently philadelphia 73 degrees and allentown 71 and trenton 72 and cape may 72 and wilmington 73. lots of sunshine and we have clouds bubble up in the afternoon and they are dissipating now tonight a moonlit sky and definitely a chill in the air, 50 degrees in the suburbs and great night for sleeping and if you liked today you'll like tomorrow. 73 in philadelphia and allentown 71. cape may 73 and wilmington 74.

partly sunny and stray sprinkle as a weak cold front moves through. we have a tropical trio, three hurricanes in the atlantic basin. hurricane katia, maximum sustained winds 170 miles per hour and irma a monster storm the size of texas. hurricane jose is now a major hurricane. category three hurricane, 120 miles per hour maximum sustained winds and heading towards the north leeward islands and recarve out to sea and shouldn't affect the u.s. lets focus on irma, it's a huge storm a powerful storm and looks like it is setting its sights on florida. the latest informational hurricane forecast track has the center of the storm hitting near miami. sunday morning that is bad timing around high tide and this track is unusual. typically you don't see hurricanes head right north up

the peninsula. if this happens it spreads the impacts of the hurricane force winds and the worst part of the storm hits east coast of florida. and the remnant moisture continuing to push up to the northwest. as far as rainfall we are looking at a lot. generally 5 to 10 inches across the peninsula of florida and the storm surge 5 to 10 feet that is above the normal high tide level. this will take it on the chin. the exclusive accuweather forecast, back at home tomorrow a nice day mixture of clouds and sun and 73 and saturday pleasantly cool for the temple football game at the linc and saturday gorgeous and 71 degrees and through monday high of 76 and tuesday clouds increase ahead of the moisture from irma, 73 degrees and wednesday i want to stress it looks like the rain here will be light from ir

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stays and folks in florida scramble to evacuate ahead of the storm and some of them are arriving in philadelphia. and a philadelphia officer is suspended after a deadly shooting. those stories next at 6:00. for the entire "action news" team i'm monica malpass have a good evening. >> good night. fios is not cable. we're a 100% fiber optic network. and with the new fios gigabit connection...

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to dismiss for a deadly shooting. but the big story on "action news" is hurricane irma. chaos in the caribbean and fear in florida. islands in the caribbean have been devastated with at least 10 dead. barbuda lost 90 per of its structures. and saint martin one of the most popular vacation destinations notice caribbean u.s.erred major damage and this is what st. thomas looks like today. irma is still a category five hurricane and moving recent alsoly towards florida and governor rick scott says this as blunty as he can. if you live in an evacuation zone leave. you can rebuild your home but can't recreate your family. motorists are causing log jams at gas stations as everyone wants to fill up their tanks. >> vernon odom is in king of prussia talking to families with loved ones in the