in absecon without the westbound lanes. absecon boulevard stay on delilah road to shore road to get around that blockage. let's do the community report. if you're heading to the poconos no problems on the northeast extension a vehicle stopped on the shoulder in south white hall. matt and tam. >> two news crews became the big story after they were held up at gunpoint during a live report. they are covering a deadly shooting along pier 14 in san francisco. an armed man approached the photographer and pointed the gun. another crew intervened. the other photographer was pistol whipped. they grabbed the camera and jumped into a getaway car. the attack was a string of incidents on news crews in the bay area. >>> a collarful scene of soaring hot air balloon turned tragic in utah. the balloons were rising 1200 feet in the air when a flying pig was hit by another balloon. luckily the pilot was able to make an emergency landing. he suffered only minor injuries. >> triple crown winner american pharoah is not hanging up the horse shoes

-- absecon boulevard. that's 30. mass transit is on a holiday schedule. in most cases that means a saturday schedule. >>> breaking overnight, a robber picked the wrong people to hold up in the nicetown tioga section. gunfire wad exchanged two people including the robber are dead. katherine scott joins us from the scene with the full story. >> reporter: matt, that's right, police believe it started is a robbery, four people were shot, two died including the alleged robber who has a ski mask on. detectives and the crime scene unit remain on the scene. look at the evidence markers, a lot of bullets fired marking off all kinds of evidence, bullet fragments. bullets hit a home here and hit multiple cars. this happened around 2:30 in tioga-nicetown. police believe the robbery suspect stopped a group on the 1900 block of juniata street. police believe someone in the group had an assault rifle, the robber was hit and ran down to bruiner street and died. he had a ski mask on. police believe there were more people t

and, absecon. margate vent none avenue, closed due to flooding. once we get this batch of showers out we have better news for tomorrow. i ale have that with the full forecast. ukee and jessica. >>> as we told you earlier a lightening strike may have caused a a fire. >> here are fire fighters were in the right place at the right time. "eyewitness news" reporter todd quinones has more from the scene in phoenixville. >> reporter: investigators here believe it was a bolt of lightening, that started this devastating fire. the fast moving fire left little time for people to get out. >> me, my pops, we just put on, and we helped walk her out of the house. >> reporter: anthony and his dad both volunteers fire fighters in the poconos happened to be driving to work just before 6:00 this morning. they saw smoke pulled over and started pounding on the door of the eight five-year old woman telling her to get out. >> all we kept saying is your house is on fire. >> two little angels came by at the right time. that is how i look ate. >> reporter: joe believes his

closer to the coast we have an issue with a downed traffic signal absecon boulevard at illinois, use delilah or shore road to route 9. for those of you down the shore if you're trying to get between sea isle and avalon, you can do that via the townsend inlet bridge. it's back in business for this holiday weekend. on the big picture watching a couple of issues police activity in nicetown tioga katherine has been telling us, kelly drive will close at 10:00 a.m. for the independence day are regatta. inner drive of the benjamin franklin parkway will be blocked at 9:30, expect closures around independence hall and mall because of the block party around 9:30 a.m. had the issue with the police activity along route 1 the super highway by highland avenue there goes the ambulance being towed away. all the lanes are reopened. there's a crash in worcester at stump hall road. and collegeville a water main break at park avenue and west third avenue. >> new this morning james holmes iq could play a role in the defense. the doctors noted his iq dropped while in jail. the changes are abnormal and cou

the "action news" cam found water flowing into this home in absecon. lets go to karen rogers in for david murphy with the

the "action news" cam found water flowing into this home in absecon. lets go to karen rogers in for david murphy with the latest. >> the national weather service has flash flood warnings in effect until 12:45, for another 15 minces for laebtic and ocean and burlington counties and watch for the heavy rain, causing high tide to get the runoff there. stormtracker 6 live double scan showing us we have rain in the region, lets go closer and see who is hardest hit fortescue sea isle city and right along route 49 and route 40 in hammon hammonton and the heaviest is in atlantic city. and media and woodbury, and steady light rain and medford lakes and trenton is starting to dry out and droir in coatesville. and predominantly the rain is on i-95 and areas east. here is what to expect the heaviest on i-95 and areas east, locally 2 inches of rain and more flooding is possible especially along the coastline we have had had so much rain and we are getting stronger storms there stormtracker 6 live double scan showing it's unusual to have an area of low pressure that

this was the scene in absecon this morning. you can see the waterspout out in the local home depot. orlando says that the the inside of his parked car is drenched. >> i had to tow it out and there is no sidewalk the whole sidewalk got covered. >> it was more of the same here along much of long beach island, a few vacations said that the rain was coming down if buckets. haley says that when it was over long beach boulevard including the school parking lot looked like a river. >> i come outside to watch the cars come by they send waves literally up to our front door. >> reporter: but what took her back was the strong wind that came with it. >> it was strong and windy and this flag got ripped out. a little bit of action. >> and back out live where it might not be over yet, the rain is just starting to fall once again. reporting live walter perez channel 6 "action news." >> walter thank you. >> lets head over to meteorologist, adam joseph, hopefully adam the worst of this is behind us now. we have some residual downpours in a couple of locations but they are not flooding downpours, but

absecon city route 30 westbound closed at illinois avenue 0 due to an earlier accident.route 30 closed between 646 and route 9 due to an earlier accident. the bridges heading in and out of the city currently no problems for the walt, the ben or the tacony palmyra. road closures coming up. >>> now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist sheena parveen. >> well it's going to be a nicer day today than it was yesterday. drier conditions across the area. you will notice that we'll still have clouds in the forecast. can't rule out a stray shower. but tomorrow that's when we have more showers that will be coming. we're looking at scattered showers pretty much through the day tomorrow. so far, it does look like most of the showers should be clearing out in time for fireworks. at least that's good news. a live look out right now across center city, atop the aramark building. clear skies, dry compared to what we saw yesterday morning at this time. 67 degrees. it's still humid outside. temperatures north and west still in the low 60s through the lehigh valley. 62 degrees

water, bethlehem pa water reported up to the car doors northfield new jersey closed roads stranded in absecon margate vent are in avenue was closed due to flooding, as we head through the evening, what to expect a few additional showers and storms. thinks last of it. certainly worst is over but still downpours and last thing that we need another round of heavy rain on top of these areas already been dealing with flooding and saturated ground all day poor drainage flooding will continue and slow travel, low visibility in anyone of these storms will slow you down on area roadways. you can see we have another round of rain with hard hit areas, these showers and storms could intensify before finally before nine or 10:00 we will see these storms moving out skies will clear and then we have much better weather, on the way for tomorrow, still warm, steamy outside right now but we have cut that humidity down quite a bit tomorrow. temperatures only reaching these numbers, maybe for highs, much better weather on the way. we will have more coming up with the full forecast, jessica. >> quite a day weathe

if you're closer to absecon in atlantic county route 9 has flooding. some cars were stranded. closer to franklin township near newfield and gloucester a combined total between yesterday's storms and this morning, 4.3 inches. so flooding in that area is top be expected. gerngs you just want to be careful. our future cast shows as we head into the rest of today, we'll continue to see another round of rain closer to noon 1:00 2:00. you can see rotation in that area of low pressure as it continues to move away from us. by 4:00 we're dealing with another round into atlantic city stretching into cape may. if you live along the shoreline into parts of south jersey burlington county, the latest model shows that's where we'll see the heaviest downpours as you head home from work. be careful. our temperatures are mainly in the 70s as we head into the afternoon. we expect to warm into the 80s. 81 will be the high in allentown. 79 in quakertown. 83 the high in mt. holly. along the shore, 83 in cape may. around the philadelphia area, we should push into the mid-80s with another round expec

we're right in between the home depot and absecon boulevard. you can still see some of the trash out here in the roadway. drivers drove right through it. all thanks to mother nature. this is video of the downpours during the morning rush hour on the atlantic city expressway by 10:00 a.m. rush hour drivers were lying on the white horse pike got the brunt of the storm. it looked more like a lake than a road. >> it was a monsoon around here. >> drivers found out the hard way about. >> you got soaking wet? >> it's a foot. oh, my god. >> it was a mess. >> yeah it's a mess. >> when their engines stalled. >> keeps you guys busy on days like today. >> i was up over my knees. i was up to my waste. >> a long history of flooding joe fair weather took these photos of flooding he says nearly touched his mailbox. he's using five pumps to get water out of his neighbor's crawl space. >> they did drainage cracks over the years. i had to push cars out of the way. so it was unbelievable. >> his advice on what has been a soggy stretch this summer. >> don't try to

this is how parts of absecon gzy á earlier today.it's an entire street flooded as you can tell from sidewalk all the way to the other sidewalk. here's another, joseph fair weather sent us this picture right here these shots you can almost make out his feet. water, his knees are right here by the way. here's another one for joseph. this car trying to get through these waters. you can see only the tops of the tires are visible. and then let's check this out. there's some video i want to show you right here. mickey sanchez sent us this club. this is vineland cumberland county right here. the rain is teaming down the street filling up and not stopping drivers from getting around right there. if you want to send in your pictures, don't forget to do so through the nbc10 news app or nbc10.com. you might see yours on tv. glenn, we're still looking ahead to more rain, but not as bad. >> absolutely. and the other thing i want to say after seeing those pictures is don't drive through that stuff. if the water's up to the tops of your tires, it i

in absecon city route 30 westbound is closed at illinois avenue due to a down pole. in atlantic city route 30 westbound is closed between 646 and route 9 due to an earlier accident. we'll check in with mass transit again coming up in just ten minutes. >>> now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist sheena parveen. >> well a nice friday to start your holiday weekend. drier conditions today. we have showers in the forecast tomorrow and the big question is will it stay dry for fireworks? i'll show you the timing in a second. here's the live look out at cape may. hazey this morning, fog along areas at the shore. in cape may, clear skies, temperature in the mid-60s at the shore areas north and west closer to allentown, upper 50s. upper 50s for pottstown, 63 westchester, 68 philadelphia. much of south jersey and delaware, temperatures mostly in the upper 50s to mid-60s. pretty comfortable this morning. but it is a little more humid outside. locally we are nice and dry. the clouds are not far behind. we'll see more clouds move through today. the thing about the w

train they were headed from philadelphia to atlantic city when the train got stranded norm of the absecon station without air conditioning and after three hours their train returned to atlantic city and full service resumed this afternoon. all lanes are back open tonight along 422 and trooper montgomery county after a pedestrian was hit. this is the scene from sky 6, on the eastbound side. the victim was semi conscious when the police took him to the hospital. >>> jury deliberations continue in the cyber stalking case of the deadly delaware courthouse shootings in back in 2013, david matusiewicz and his mother and sister are all being tried in the death of christine belford she and a friend errwer fatally shot by david's father who then shot himself. this followed a battle for custody. >>> pennsylvania governor says he is confident that his death penalty moratorium will stand despite legal challenges. kathleen kane has asked the supreme court to issue his policy of giving reprieves as unconstitutional. she asked for a study on capital punishment punishment. >>> coming up a truckful of raw

garden state parkway tilton road near absecon, nobody reporting any problems, it's early and they are sleeping in. let's take the numbers at 69 degrees in philadelphia. 57 in millville. 60 in allentown. what a nice, comfortable start to the day later on it will warm up with a high of 87 tam. >> thank you are karen. >>> new this morning authorities in california say the man dubbed the snow bird bandit is a retired lapd detective, he was arrested in connection with five bank robberies. he was nicknamed the snow bird bandit because of his age and appearance. his family contacted authorities indicated they had information built robberies. >> it is big question is whether changes are coming to the roster when the phillies return home. the cubs owe dodgers rangers and red sox are all interested in cole hamels. >>> eagles report to training camp in over a week. now new quarterback sam bradford is expected to be ready. he will be a full participant in camp barring any major set backs. he is coming off back-to-back torn acls. >> can you believe it's time for football? >> i'm happy about that.

. >> floor road, absecon, white horse pike, another heavy flood area, white horse pike and black horse pike going into atlantic city. so as you mention the worse is over, the water is receding in most areas but you do want to watch out because there could be couple of more sticky spots, where it really are deep puddles and hard to tell how deep those puddles are and we could tell by the people that had their cars stuck this morning that wasn't fun don't repeat that, reporting live, in atlantic county hamilton township clever bryant, cbs news. >> good to hear it is cleaning up. two alarm house fire may have been caused by early morning lightning strike. that will fire broke out dayton street phoenixville chester county around 5:30 this morning, six people were force from the their home. firefighter had that blade under control in less than an hour, there were no injuries. >> you can track storms, lightning strikes really just about offering do with your forecast just by download g the cbs philly weather app. available right now on itunes and google play. >> and elderly woman is in stabl

absecon city route 30 westbound closed at illinois avenue due to a downed pole and earlier accident. in atlantic city an accident scene on route 30 westbound, closed between 646 and route 9. more drive times coming up in ten. >> and breaking news two people are dead two wounded after police say a robbery gone bad led to an exchange of gunfire. here's a live look at the scene in the nicetown neighborhood of philadelphia. investigators say a man in a mask walked up to a group of people and tried to rob them with a gun. someone in that group had an assault rifle and started shooting. the robbery suspect was hit several times. he and another man died. a third man and another woman were hurt, they're listed in stable condition. the bullets also hit some cars an a window in a house. no one in the house was hurt. matt delucia will have a live report coming up in a half hour. >>> philadelphia is gearing up for the party on parkway. at the height of the wawa welcome america festival tomorrow, about 500,000 people are expected to pack the ben franklin parkway. . >> reporter: about 500,000 peop

absecon boulevard at illinois avenue downed pole is blocking the westbound lane. if you're trying to get between sea isle and avalon they reopen the townsend inlet bridge. that's good news for you on this holiday weekend. >> a colorful scene of soaring hot air balloons taking part in indpoans day -- independence day festival tack a tragic turn. the fly pig was hit by another balloon, the balloon was ripped on impact, and started falling from the sky. the pilot made a safe landing and suffered minor injuries. >>> a man is caught stealing air bags from a cars parked in feltonville on east wyoming avenue. he have breaks windows to get at the air bags. theives are stealing them because the demand is high. >> we worked harold to get everything -- hard to get everything straight and someone comes in and screws everything up. that's really bad. >> the other than said he knows the suspected thief he said it's a guy named alex who used to work for him. >> fighting fraud with selfies. >> reporter: tech bytes paying with a selfie. in the future there are identities where you

all along absecon's white horse pike nbc10 spoke with the franchise restaurant owner, he's pretty sure a lightning strike split this pole in half. >> it missed us by inches. we would have had a bigger problem. all the wires were down there were sparks on that side. >> atlantic city electric crews worked quickly to blow four transformers. >>> a lightning strike caused this house fire this morning in phoenixville, it happened in the 200 block of dayton street around 5:30 a.m. the flames were spotted by a volunteer firefighters from the poconos who happened to be dropping his son at work about. >> there was fire coming out the window on the third floor already. some people were on the -- most of them were downstairs already, i was getting them out that way. >> i saw a fire and we all ran out, we didn't think of anything else, we ran out of the house. >> their insurance will not cover lightning strike. they've had to start a go fund me page to raise money for repairs. >>> when bad weather hits don't be caught unprepared. you can get weather alerts sent right to your smart phone or tablet.

city, same place it has been over past hour or so but pushing further south toward shore communities absecon, atlantic city. this could drift toward sea isle, ocean city eventually as it pushes south. it may fizzle and tie out but definitely something to watch down the the shore. heading in southern delaware we will see this rain moving south in maryland but still pretty steady rain southeastern delaware and we have two flood advisories for these regions. the here's southern delaware until 9:45 that has been expanded and extended all of southern sussex county. as we head in atlantic, bass river, galloway, pennsylvania moan, egg harbor city, they are all under flood advisory until 9:15. this is what we have been dealing with. the these heavier rains that pop up, in one or two spots but areas that are right under the rain, you are getting threat for flooding and ponding on the roadways. 91 degrees is the temperature. in the very comfortable right now. ninety in reading. ninety-three in trenton. seventy-six the atlantic city airport thanks to the rain. our high 93. thinks first of potentially s

now as that investigation continues, there is a second scene over here, just into the street near absecon avenue, route 30 and this is where we understand the police-involved shooting took place. sources tell "eyewitness news" that the suspect here was armed, with a knife came at the officer responding to the initial call, and the officer then drew his service weapon and killed the suspect. the suspect is a person we understand that is known to police has a criminal history, his family allegedly has a criminal history and so police, when they came to the scene, were trying to assess that dangerous situation the officer drew his weapon and killed the suspect. we understand this was a veteran member of the police department. so far the atlantic city prosecutor's office has not released any details, they are heading this investigation turned over from atlantic city police. so again, we have two fatalities here, first the employee of the store who has been removed just in the last half hour, and the suspect involved in that initial crime. we trying to get more information, we are waiting on t

this will get in absecon by 65:00 p.m. if you you are down the shore within the next 15 to 20 minutes we expect that rape to get into atlantic city and toward beach haven lbi area as well and toms river where you can see north of toms river thunderstorm happening right now. the flood advisory that was in effect for the city and delaware county in to wilmington has been canceled, is there another one following this line of storms, small stream flooding from ocean burlington atlantic, camden, gloucester counties including buena vista and hammington that goes until after 9:00 o'clock tonight. how much rain has fallen in in fleet wood 1.37 inches. record daily rainfall was set in redding with a inch and a half. bethlehem point p-7 7 inches. camden at .6 two. mount laurel .41. heavy rain with these storms. still some showers and thunderstorms this evening and by 7:00 o'clock the threat should move off the coast cannot rule out a lingering shower behind that first line but most of us, get heavy stuff over why and down the shore

they were north of the absecon station, after a time the train received power and then it broke down again, the passengers were stuck for more than three hours eventually they returned to atlantic city, then it was almost 1:00 and they were back where they started. >> it's frustrating, it's like they don't have a plan b. something like this happens from time to time but they acted like this never happened. you would think there would be an alternate plan if something like this happens. >> new jersey transit apologized for the delay. >>> philadelphia is investigating some of their own officers after video surface of a bunch of cops, by a woman that called herself a social commentator commentator. and this was taken by a witness showing a group of officers repeatedly hitting carroll back in april carroll is facing drug and other charges and has a criminal history. internal affairs has opened an investigation and david henry will have a live report at 5:00. >>> after years of emotional and fiery debate the confederate battle flag that threes over the south carolina capitol is officially

this will get in absecon by 65:00 p.m.u are down the shore within the next 15 to 20 minutes we expect that rape to get into atlantic city and toward beach haven lbi area as well and toms river where you can see north of toms river thunderstorm happening right now. the flood advisory that was in effect for the city and delaware county in to wilmington has been canceled, is there another one following this line of

egg harbor city, pennsylvania moan, galloway and absecon.he these showers could make it toward shore points this evening before fizzling out once the sun goes down and we will lose heating of the day these showers should difficulties pay as well. temperature wise you can see how much cooler in pamona at the a airport with rain overhead drastically dropping temperatures down to 75 degrees. here in philadelphia 90. ninety-one in reading. eighty-six down in wilmington. here's what it feels like, that 75 feels like temperature shows you how quickly rain can cool the air. feels like 94 at the airport. ninety-two lancaster. look at these heat index values feeling like 112 in st. louis. 105 in wichita. 105 in little rock. stays hot throughout the end of the week. hot, humid tomorrow. humidity at its peak as we await this frontal boundary thursday, showers and storms in the afternoon. high pressure builds n still hot friday. the noticeably less humid. we will take a look at our comfort index and you can see worst of it wednesday into thursday and th

this is eyewitness cam video north of the absecon station as passengers were moved to another train. on their way back to atlantic city that train became disable near through a road. crews got it working again train ride just before 1:00 and service has since resume. >>> upper darby police arrested a man in connection to monday's fire that damaged a row of businesses on 69th street. investigators say fire started in a pay less store where 54 year-old james morris had been squatting on the second floor. morris was arrested on charges he took metal this shelving from that business and gave it to another man as scrap. >> is there only one person that we're looking at for anything and he is in custody. the scrapper we got just before this news conference is an excellent witness right now for us. >> reporter: the cause of the fire remains under investigation. >>> the confederate flag that has flown over south carolina state house for more than 50 years is heading to the state's confederate relic room. governor of south carolina just sign a bill removing that flag and its pole from the out