k and monica good afternoon. we are in bonita springs florida between ft. myers and naples. and president trump flew over this area surveying damage like this. this is a street and now completely under water. >> we are going down to florida. >> president trump and first lady, melania thanks first responders. >> the job that everybody has done is incredible. >> as he did after harvey getting a briefing on the recovery and surveying the path of nature destruction. >> i want to thank everybody and the first responders we have seen the devastation and we'll see more of this now unfortunately. >> he flew from ft. myers, florida, to naples right over us in bonita springs. melania trump tweeting this video. tweeting there is much work to be done but america is with you. the tour took the president through the hardest hit areas on the west coast.

crushes mobile himes and crushed piles of metal. and he greeted people in naples and met with victims. so much of the city out of power but other parts of the southwest even worse, across the state more than 2 million people out of power but an army out here on the streets hailing from 30 states and canada working around the clock to get this state up and running. >> we are proud of the job that everybody around has done. thank you all, thank you very much. >> a quick trip after just three hours on the ground president trump is wheels up and heading back to washington. molly hunter channel 6 "action news." meanwhile, a criminal investigation is now underway near ft. lauderdale after eight deaths at a nursing home following the hurricane's impact. the initial investigation determined that the facility's air conditioning system stopped working after a transformer failed and portable units were

brought in the building was dangerously hot and nursing homes officials say they were prepared for the impact but not for the failure of the a.c. system afterwards. it's opened up to all people in the wake of those deaths and the full investigation is still expected. animals affected by hurricanish ma and harvey are hoping to find a better fate in our area. the action cam was at the camden county animal shelter housing ten dogs displaced from the storm. five from florida and five from texas were up for adoption there. those shelters are desperately trying to house other animals. all the dogs are up for adoption at the shelter in blackwood go to our website at 6abc.com. meantime the remnants of irma are lingering over the delaware valley as we look live outside. what was irma has brought humidity and spotty showers to

the region and that summer like weather is expected to hang through the weekend. meteorologist cecily tynan, at the big board with the latest tonight. >> hi rick the last weekend of summer will feel like summer and it is warm and muggy and double scan live showing what used to be irma is up over new york state and the concentration of showers and thunderstorms are. we are getting a piece of its energy mainly in the form of high humidity and warm temperatures, today the warmest day in more than a week. we had a cool spell today's high currently 83 degrees and that is 4 degrees above normal and dew points are in the 60s and you feel that moisture in the air. in the meantime. hurricane jose has weakened to tropical storm jose as of 11:00, maximum sustained winds of 7 miles per hour. it's not all that organized but heading into warmer waters and it likely will restrengthen to a category one hurricane.

and the latest spaghetti plots have shifted farther to the west. that means jose may brush cape cod and come very close to the mid-atlantic. large waves and rip currents are building through the weekend and into next week. have you to be careful if you are at the beach this weekend. could be dangerous rip currents and i'll talk about jose and the beginning of fall next week in the seven-day forecast. >> thank you cecily. as we have been telling you the main impact from hurricane jose is at the shore. where the surf is starting to kick up and the water will get rougher as we head through the weekend. today our cameras captured a strong breeze on the beach and a foamy ocean. still working for the atlantic city beach patrol are keeping an eye out for rip currents getting stronger. >> 6 or 7 out of 10 on the scale. be try to keep them close chest deep to see their level of of

swimming. >> pushing you around. >> if you plan to swim in the ocean in the coming days you need to be extra careful. new at 5:00 a local pharmacist is facing charges accused of trying to kill her own chronically ill mother on purpose. her lawyer says she was trying to end her mother's suffering. vernon odom is live now at abington memorial hospital where the woman is recovering. >> reporter: good evening monica. in the eyes of so many this is a sad and tragic case and even in the eyes of grizzled law enforcement veterans. the crisis of the whoger family. donna is facing murder charges accused of trying to kill her chronically ill mother. her mother 74-year-old mary remains in abington hospital. the scene of the crime police say. she suffered from dementia and osteoporosis and cannot move.

in august she was found to have unexplained low blood pressure several times and found to be multiple injections of insulin. donna confessed trying to put her mother at peace and end her suffering. >> a difficult situation and one you wish wasn't on your plate. >> she loved her mother and they are a close family and sometimes when are you faced with circumstances where you your older parents are sick and suffering and in pain you are faced with time and time again that parent begging you to end the pain end the suffering -- >> her lawyer hopes to resolve the case without putting the entire family through the trial. he advised her not to speak to reporters as her case goes forward. >> there is times when a parent is child not to allow

them to let them live like this. >> you feel for the person everybody involved in this ion. and the law is the law. and we are obligated to uphold the law. so we did what we have to do in this particular case. >> reporter: rick it will be up to montgomery county district attorney kevin steele to ultimately decide how to handle the situation, the family case is already getting national attention. i'm vernon odom channel 6 "action news" in abington montgomery county. >> thank you. neighbors living in one part of south philadelphia say they are being harassed and even terror rised by young people on bikes. this is video recorded on sunday it shows the group hanging around outside of the school at 2nd and ritner. and start to throw rocks and one man confronted them but is hit from behind. >> this is not the first instant

dents they have attacked the elderly and children and it's a huge issue for the neighborhood. >> neighbors want police to do something about it soon. authorities say they are responding to it. for now neighbors are taking to the streets most nights demanding an end to the trouble. and philadelphia police are searching for the person that stole a car and crashed it and fled the scene. it happened after 3:00 a.m. at the base of the ben franklin bridge in old city. police say that the suspect stole the keys from a house and took off in the homeowners car and the driver lost control and hit a concrete barrier and ran off. >> the trenton branch of the naacp is calling for the arrest of william perry. they held a news conference say that perry abused his authority and has no respect for a community whose safety he is suppose to ensure. the local naacp president says that the citizens of trenton deserve better. >> appoint people that respect

us as individuals and a community at large. it's never okay to be labeled as hood rats and other expletives especially from the mouth of a director. if we cannot recognize bad behavior, how can we correct it? >> he referred to two citizens there as hood rats and apologized later for it. and accused of making an illegal traffic stop. and thursday night lets get a che "action news" traffic report now. matt pellman is live now in the traffic center. >> good evening, we watched a motorcade come through along the schuylkill expressway eastbound side we are looking live at south street. we believe they will exit here and the motorcade carrying the body of a fallen philadelphia fire lieutenant this afternoon. we are watching out for them and all eastbound traffic is stop as the motorcade moves through. this is the westbound side of the schuylkill and eastbound lanes no traffic moving in them as we wait for the motorcade to

pass and likely exit to south street to the medical examiners office. center city. the schuylkill is blocked and big delays and a solid line of traffic from gulph mills into center city. big delays in the wake of that. and big delays on the southbound blue route villanova the whole kay down to mcdade and the crash is on the shoulder and vine approaching broad look for a disabled vehicle there. busy evening we'll check it in the next half hour. >> up next at 5:00 confuse over a daca deal. the he said/she said war of words over an agreement between president trump and the democrats about undocumented immigrants. >> and health check and the secret surgery for pop star selena gomez why she went under the knife and the friend she says may have saved her life.

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watch at 6:30 following "action news" at 6:00. philadelphia detectives don't know why someone drove up to four men in philadelphia and just opened fire "action news" reporter jeanette reyes found out that police or someone may have clues. >> this afternoon the search is on for the person or people behind thiuple shooting. police say that an investigation is underway and at this point. they have no idea why these men were targeted. >> it's brazen and we have to get these people off the street because they obviously are capable of doing it again. four men are recovering from s after a bloody drive-by shooting. it happenedlo the corner of 2nd street and the men in their 30s and 50s were sitting outside of their home when a white suv drove by and the gunman fired multiple timesen in the legs and arms and one in the chest. all weret and in critical condition. multipleghbors say that the man that lives in the corner home is a block captain and

married with a family. with the shooter on the loose nobody felt safe to talk on camera. >> there is not background of at least two of the viction tim that would suggest someone would harm them in that way. >> and in this case police are wleads, he says the approach is to prevent them from happening in the first place. >> we need as much help as we can get. preferly beforehand in terms of intelligence on who is capable and likely to do something because of a beef. >> police are reaching out to the community, anyone with asked to contact authorities. channel 6 "action news." philadelphia police are seeking a suspect they say robbed his former neighbors, investigators say that mark mcloughlin broke into the home of hill road in the roxboro

section yesterday morning allegedly tied up a 75-year-old neighbor and assaulted the man and then stole car keys from the victim's sister who is 74 and asleep in the bedroom. mcloughlin remains on the run and the victim is admitted to icu. the man is recovering from being hit by a pickup truck in delaware as he was walking along rockwell drive in stanton. doctors are treating him for serious injuries and the driver remains at the scene and police are investigating if the person will face criminal charges. chopper 6 hd was over the west oak lane section of philadelphia as firefighters were getting a handle on a blaze that ignited over a row home here. it happened on the 6700 block of north bovier treat. and at one point a large stream of water shout out of a second floor window and not clear how

the fire started or if anyone was hurt>> college students were getting a jump start on the next chapter of their lives, they were at st. joes university for the career fair. they met with all majors and class years and they were able to have their professional head shots taken like that young man and a week long event to get ready for the future. good luck to them. >> thursday night o of the highways and b ways for folks tryin home maybe they are trying to get to the phils game and not the greatest ride as you head in at a couple of spots like the schuylkill expressway eastbound, it should be a 15 minute drive, not 51 minutes, but we have the motorcade that moved through a little while ago on the eastbound schuylkill carrying the body of the fallen philadelphia fire lieutenant into universit they are gone now andrything is reopen at 7ound and

you seeve igested as you head in toward center city and university city. what you don't want to instead is take the southbound side of the blue 11 miles per hou and our southbound accident approaching mcdade is now gone. trying to recover and there open but a slow pace. bro the street expressway westbound approaching broad is gone but up time we have the fireflys festival the next few days inner drives of the ben franklin parkway are blocked off at 20th street at the free likely and franklin institute and as you can see it's a lot of congestion in this area with the inner drives blocked heading out to the art museum and gridlock in the area. avoid it but don't stay on the vine street expressway because that is equally congested at this hour. >> wrapping up an opening a ship is northbound at the tacony palmyra bridge. and expect one at the burlington bristol bridge. and a right lane out of commission at 73 a southbound almost

an hou half of that. good luck getting home. >> thanks. is the chopper available? could we? -- still to come on "ac he has perhaps one of the most famous voices in the world why andre bocelli was rushed to the hospital. >> all right time to check the forecast meteorologist, adam joseph tracking the latest in the weather senter. appetite of summer barbecue outside this weekend. the last full weekend of summer is just about here and temperatures move back up. a big difference from yesterday. 75 today and 84 degrees we'll talk about staying in the 80s through much of that seven-day forecast. ducis rogers and ron jaworsk has look eagle opponent the own.

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>> i would go with andy reid. >> alex smith now has weapons around him. the quarterback position say dependant position you depend on other people to help you do your job. here are the big plays again the patriots, tyreke hill can out right fly and kelsey that everyone likes to double cover runs a clear route and you get tyreke hill out up and alex smith will read this beautifully and you explosive play-off the top of the drop and knows he has hill the great speed down the fill and you get a 75 yard touchdown pass. the chiefs in week one had a plethora of explosive plays and some came from kareem hunt. i know thousand in an alex smith is seeing a juicy look and likes

what he sees he knows right now a linebacker has to cover hunt out of the back field on a deep route and once the ball is snapped. alex smith reads it and knows he has a mismatch of a speedy back on a linebacker and you get a 78 yard touchdown pass. right now alex smith is in the zone because he has a lot of talent around him and great speed. >> let talk about the eagles on offense. >> the one guy besides carson wentz that played terrific is zach zach you are -- and he delivers the strike and the safety. you try to cover him not going to work. he finds him and beats the

linebacker, first down eagles and then a match-up against the corner one of the best in the business josh norman and he beats him. carson wentz knows where he is it going to be. >> was target the eight times against washington and caught eight balls. jaws do the eagles win this game on sunday? >> the eagles have a depleted secondary with ronald darby out for two weeks, that does not bode way for the group of wide receivers and tight ends that the chiefs have. >> we'll find out on sunday. back to you guys. >> the ronald mcdonald house just announced the latest effort to raise money for cancer and urging the organization to sign up fort farry night 5-k at the navy yard. it supports research into 100 types of childhood brain tumors. september is suicide prevention month and because of that a well deserved honor was

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andre bocelli is recovering after falling from a horse while riding in italy. he asked his fans not to worry about him. and he could be released from the hospital at any time. >> we wish him well. time to check the forecast and adam is here with the word. >> summer is back and never left us on the calendar but left us with how it felt. the heat and humidity is returning for the upcoming weekend. we look at the weather center and looking at the talon energy stadium a mixture of what is going on in the sky. cumulous clouds and darker clouds supporting a little bit of rainfall and blue skies and an on and off through the day today. that will remain the case tomorrow through the weekend. both saturday and sunday here. it is warm and humid both days and we'll call it partly sunny and could be an isolate the shower each afternoon.

in a couple of locations but for the most part it is warm and humid with tempe the north carolinaal that is now 79 degrees. we'll go 5 degrees above that on saturday and 83 on sunday. stormtracker 6 live double scan we have a couple of showers pop today and one or two and chester county and one also or two in bucks county and the shore and cape may county also saw a couple of showers and at this point everything is fairly dry and should remain that way through the overnight hours. 80 degrees allentown and trenton. 81 in philadelphia down from the high of 84 degrees this afternoon. mid-70s at the shore and the ocean temperature is warm if you head down there this weekend, waters are warm and definitely want to swim where the beaches are guarded due to strong rip currents as well as large waves because of jose. that is because of it being well down to the east. satellite 6 along with action radar and a spin there the remnant low of irma and the med

atlanta and ohio valley has cloud cover and on and off light showers, they are scattered around and most areas stay dry and mild and muggy. 62 in the suburbs and 67 in center city. with a light westerly wind and the close out for the work and school week tomorrow. 82 allentown and trenton as well as toms riff and 84 in millville and a bit cooler at the shore because of a sea breeze because of the moderate risk of rip currents under mainly partly sunny skies. jose was a hurricane and now a tropical storm. winds at 70 miles per hour sustained moving north-northwest at 8 and did the loop and now moving back toward the u.s. coastline, pressure 989 millibars and the national hurricane center thinking it will turn back into a hurricane, a minimal one but winds near 80 to 85 miles per hour. and as we get into monday and tuesday of next week originally everything was pushing it way out to sea but the latest models

coming in trying to move the track farther west so we'll have to watch this it brings us clouds and very large waves and does is it bring us rain or wind? that is still the question. the exclusive accuweather forecast a string of 80s as we go into the weekend and the beginning of next week warm and muggy every single day and could be an isolated shower and again most days are dry and clouds at this point on tuesday from jose. with temperatures in the upper 70s for tuesday and then wednesday and thursday it is bright and still warm temperatures falling from the mid-80s into the upper 70s from a week from now. >> thank you. all right well there are already pros on the rugby field and now the pros are making the iconic philadelphia cheesesteak. the newcastle falcons learned the right way to make a cheesesteak from geno in south

philadelphia. they will meet on the field this saturday.

right now jim gardner and the "action news" team standing by with these stories next at 6:00. a neighborhood nuisance neighbors are concerned with a group of trouble making teenagers and we have that story. >> and now feeling the effects of tropical storm jose even though it's in the atlanta hundreds of miles away. and he was a teacher and state legislature today they honor the late senator, jim whale when. i'll have the story coming up. those stories next at 6:00. for adam joseph cecily tynan, rick williams and the entire "action news" team i'm monica malpass have a good night.

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"action news" delaware valley's leading news program. thursday night a montgomery county pharmacist is charged with attempted murder of her mother and president trump tours the damage in the wake of hurricane irma. but the big story is a south philadelphia neighborhood becoming increasingly concerned about teens and their trouble making behavior. this is video, surveillance video from second and ritner from sunday night. it is a graphic case in point. residents want more police and they want these bike riding teens to stop making trouble. what kind of trouble? lets go live to 2nd and ritner

and sara bloomquist. just about a half hour from now, 6:30 neighbors will gather here in front of the shareswood school at 2nd and ritner. they tell us they will be out here because they want reclaim their neighborhood. teenagers riding on bicycles and basically harassing people and they came up with video addressing the concerns they are talking about. >> anthony came across this surveillance video while trying to figure out how his car window got broken ite hangin