adam joseph is in for cecily with more on the forecast. >> 90% of us are on the dry side and warm asd not too humid and i few storms popping in southern areas, as we look at stormtracker 6 live double scan especially in the southern areas we are dealing with some of those pop-ups from southern parts of newcastle county as well as kent county. and even cape may getting a little bit of light rain showers at the present time. a flash flood warning ongoing and continues until 7:15 tonight and 2.5 inches of rainfall in 45 minutes, that has fallen apart around millville but you see more firing up near smyrna and south of dover to milford and again clipping southern parts of cape may county. near smyrna abringing heavy rain at chambersville. and south of states landing and trying to work over the bay here over the next 45 minutes to han hour. the forecast for the fire works this evening. mostly dry for almost 95% of us. maybe a few thundershowers popping in southern areas even ben the 8:00 and 11:00 hour with temperatures in the upper 70s to low 80s. we'll talk about more unsettled weather

adam joseph has the forecast.orter chris christie is live in buck's county with a look at how residents there spent the holiday. let's begin with jeff chirico with the good, the bad and the soggy, jeff? >> that's right, rick. the fireworks ended minutes ago. it ended an eventful july 4th celebration here on the parkway. >>> a stunning display lit up the night sky at the art museum capping off a week long celebration in the city where it all began. >> happy fourth, philadelphia. >> th they wowed thousands. many decked out in patriotic finest for a food and fun. ♪ ♪ >> it. i'm having a great time. >> what brings you here? >> mary oblige and boys to men and the whole stick fromiladelp. nothing like living in center city. it's the place to be. >> the senate family says philadelphia itself is the true show stopper that has them coming back every fourth of july. >> this is our thirdare so nicey is so clean. the historical stuff -- i really like it. >> not everyone was smiling. this group was among 500 that got fraudulen

adam joseph. >> two more days of 90 or above and peaks here tomorrow. as we look at the weather center an stormtracker 6 live double scan most of the storms today north of the poconos and lehigh valley into southern new england and we see a couple of nasty storms popping in northwestern pennsylvania and those will fall apart as they work to the south and east. no energy to get things to bubble up here. we can't have cooling downpours here this evening. it's certainly feeling tropical out here and the dew points running in the 70s in much of the area, dover 77 and 75 in cape may. you rarely get to 77 in this region this is oppressive humidity and that is why it feels so uncomfortable out. it's not the air temperature but the dew point that throws the numbers into the 90s. heat index 93 philadelphia and 94 in trenton and at the shore today you are jealous someone is down there thinking they are colling off. 97 in beach haven and cape may over 100 in the last hour and now 93 and dover 102 degrees is how it feels right now. >> the excessive heat warnings go

and first lets begin with adam joseph and the old day forecast from accuweather. >> not bad across the area, dealing with downpours and thunderstorms in far southern areas but most staying dry and hot. take a look at the temperatures in philadelphia. we are now marking this the third heat wave of the year, it began on sunday and 91 yesterday and today it touched 90 degrees and three days in a row of 90 or above and call it a heat wave above the normal of 87 degrees, stormtracker 6 live double scan most areas are dry and we have been dealing with pop-ups of heavy rain and thunderstorms south of the city especially southern tip of cape may county getting showers there on the edge of cape may and drying up west of wildwood and sea isle city and a rainy afternoon and rehoboth beach and storms firing up in lancaster county and parts of maryland and this nasty thunderstorm with 60 lightning strikes south of oxford heading towards newark and parts of newcastle. that could slide towards sail imand parts of cumberland county going into the evening hours. for the fireworks forecast most areas st

meteorologist adam joseph enjoying some of the sunshine as we see. adam how are you. >> not bad to start off the week here. sunshine, that clouds, pretty low humidity to speak of but that is all about to change as we take a look at the heat index, how it feels right now 88 degrees if philadelphia. you can see the 90's lurking in cincinnati to raleigh, feels like 102 in saint louis, 102 in dallas so most of the middle section of the country dealing with some pretty extreme numbers and that starts to move in our area tomorrow. the heat index across most of the delaware valley tomorrow afternoon 95 to 100 degrees and you see a pop of around 100 degrees for wilmington millville and dover. that's how it's going to feel tuesday afternoon. in addition to that humidity increasing along with the heat we are tracking some storms to the west. most of this will miss us to the north overnight tonight but it could clip some spotty areas north of philadelphia in the wee hours of our tuesday morning and this is going to set us up for a very hot, humid and at times st

meteorologist adam joseph is back. >> yes, he is and he's outside. hi, adam how is the forecast. >> really nice. the sunshine is back and we have low humidity so it's a win-win situation. as we take a look at the numbers they're climbing as well. it was cool weekend. saturday with the clouds, 79 degrees, 83 yesterday with that sunshine below the normal of 87 but today we're cracking back above normal so far today hitting 88 degrees. as we look at dewpoints, it is dry out there. any time it's 60 or below you can say it is very comfortable out. you see a littleup tick towards dover and cape may into the mid and upper 60's down there slightly humid but with a little bit of a breeze off the water it still feels pretty good. satellite and radar high pressure in control just a few cumulus clouds, some cirrus clouds at times here this afternoon but that that sunshine really ruling the sky today and for this evening temperatures going to remain very pleasant. 85 degrees at 7 o'clock, 83 at 8 o'clock and then finally dropping into the upper 70's between 10 o'c

. >> and now adam joseph is here now letting us know when the conditions will break and watching storms as well. >> the humid conditions will not leave the area so to speak until the upcoming weekend and another storm chance tomorrow. and we are under heat wave number 4 and same for yesterday and peaking at 94 degrees above the normal of 87, you factor in the oppressive tropical humidity and the peak heat index was 111 degrees, felt like 109 in millville and wildwood and atlantic city no break at 104 and the city of philadelphia 101, and all the humidity and intention heat and energy coming in it sparks storms we have a severe thunderstorm watch for all the areas in yellow, that is three quarters of our area. does not include the shore or southern delaware or new jersey. the winds could be as high as 70 degree and the biggest concentration is new york into new england and a clustner central parts of pennsylvania and we'll watch this as it sinks to the south and east and nothing imminent in our area and a couple of downpours popping at this time. any of these storms, the highest risk is

meteorologist adam joseph is here now with the accuweather forecast. want to keep the umbrellas handy? >> tomorrow and tomorrow night. and many of you are saying is the sky going owe open up? stormtracker 6 live double scan you see it's dry across the area today and right now. and that will stay the case overnight tonight. as we look at stormtracker 6 live double scan we kind of widen it out for you. you see all the thunderstorms and downpours stretching from the carolinas to the virginias and tennessee valley low pressure coming in not severe weather but heavy downpours especially the second half of the day. as we look at these heavy downpours in the morning, a low risk for them they won't start popping up from the afternoon west to east 1:00, 4:00 and 7:00. the evening rush will take the hardest hit with ponding on the roadways and brief heavy rain in the area. we'll look closer with future tracker to show you where and when they pop up and talk about a nice start to the upcoming weekend. we'll clear it out just in time in the seven-day forecast. >>>

adam joseph is here. think i'm crazy but i did. >> i ran into the woods away from the sun and when it came i was still soaked. >> you were running in the woods. as you take a look at the numbers, in the 90s two days in a row now. as we go through the evening hours here we stay at 90 degrees right through 7:00 and even at 10:00 tonight that number own dropping down to 84 degrees and it's really not so much the air temperatures but the oppressive humidity that whacks you, looking at stormtracker 6 live double scan much of of the time the high humidity and heat fuels the storms and as you see most of them in new england and fairly quiet now and could be an isolated shot of a couple popping here this evening. the big story is tomorrow that is when the heat and humidity will peak and excessive heat warning goes into affect in pink and all the towns that are listed. heat indexes go ago above 100 and for the shore and the lehigh valley a heat advisory. 9:00 tomorrow morning, feeling 90 in philadelphia and atlant

lets go live to meteorologist adam joseph with the accu weather forecast, adam. >> a little to complain about especially for end of july to have full sunshine, low humidity and below normal temperatures. right now in philadelphia we're sitting at 82 degrees, 79, that is tonight new york city. and you can see a lot of that heat and humidity and storms, everything has been squash, in the mid-atlantic. so really nice second half of the weekend. so, satellite and radar high pressure coming from the west, you can see just a few cloud near pittsburgh, eastern part of the great lakes and canada overall that sunshine is in control all along, the east coast. as we head out for our sunday evening, if you can salvage a few more hours before you have to think about work for tomorrow, upper 70's early in this evening and then they drop to 70 degrees at 11:00 o'clock tonight with the clear skies, and it will be 60 's by that point in the suburbs. but as we head in the new workweek another heat wave, is arriving, humidity does stay, below oppressive thankfully with this heat wave, and any widespread s

[laughter] >>> meteorologist adam joseph here now with a closer look at the weekend forecast.ough the day. >> yeah and there's some good news with these severe storms. the severe thunderstorm watch has been canceled for most of our area. >> okay. >> it was ongoing until 9 o'clock but it's been canceled early. no severe thunderstorm warnings presently but we're still getting rocked at the shore by nasty storms. storm tracker6 live double scan shows the storms pressing south of vineland dover atlantic city to cape may. we close into storm tracker6 live and even though this is not severe, you can just see how bright the lightning is and how intense it is. we've got 305 lightning strikes in this vantage point from ocean city down to stone had a are pour back to reed's beach. a lot of lightning is along the immediate shore line. it is 5 o'clock, it is happy hour down at the shore so make sure you're indoors if you're down there for at least another 15 to 30 minutes and the rainfall rates as these storms are coming through, it is truly tropical. we're squeezing out close to five to

adam joseph is in for cecily tynan and adam we could spark storms because of the severe thunderstorm the last hour in effect until 10:00 p.m. in a line from reading and philadelphia and chads worth and points to the north and any storms that blast through here could have winds of 60 miles per hour and even the possibility of small to moderate size hail. they are in the lehigh valley sparking warnings here south of scranton but there is a cylinder south of scranton so they have produced powerful winds and that cylinder is near extra and ton and they push north to south as they try to spin up pretty nasty storms. the storms mainly north and west of philadelphia and it's biggest impact is the poconos and the lehigh valley. and could brush the city if they hold together between 9:00 and

. >>> "action news" continues with meteorologist, adam joseph, jaime apody, rick williams and monicass. >> hello again monica is off and sharrie williams is joining us tonight and here is what is happening on "action news" this evening. before president trump meets with leaders in germany, protesters at the g-20 summit square off with police. and police officers in wilmington give a boy an extra special birthday surprise. >>> the details now, president trump's second official trip to europe. after a short trip in poland president trump touched down in hamburg, germany where the g-20 summit is set to begin. people took part in a protest and police used water cannon and pepper spray to break up protesters after the large crowd attacked police officers with bottles and stones. >> abc's maggie ruly is in washington tonight with the look at topics up for discussion during the two day event. >> reporter: the g-20 summit brings together some of the world's biggest power players and this year prz is expected to clash with many of them on major topics like trade and climate change. using tear

meteorologist, adam joseph, coming up with the complete accuweather forecast.s. >>> the playground was spacocke with temperatures near that 90 degree mark. in some locations. we take a look at the temperature in philadelphia on the brisk of 90, 86 in the lehigh valley as well as trenton and 72 dover and 72 and a lot of clouds and showers getting close to cape may at 73 degrees. for the fireworks forecast tonight most areas staying on the dry side could be a thundershower in far southern areas, most areas looking good 82 at 8:00 and everything wraps up tonight 11:00 temperature around 78 degrees. as we take a look at stormtracker 6 live double scan there you can see downpours and storms in southern areas along the border of kent county as well as southern newcastle county. very wet especially along route 1 along the state of delaware. as we look at stormtracker 6 live double scan here things firing up north and smyrna and this is not moving quickly. that is the thing. where they are pulsing up there is not a lot of steering with wind and they are drifting slowly

. >> and adam joseph is here now. >> some people feel like they are surfing driving home here from workthe water on the roadways, heavy at times in area. lets take a look we have in the weather center a flash flood warning that remains in effect until 7:30 p.m. tonight for parts of newcastle county and middletown as with well as townsend and newark and this area 2 to 4 inches of rain in a short period of time. as we look at stormtracker 6 live double scan you can see we are dealing with a general light rain across reading and allentown and times in lancaster, there is a concentration of some heavier downpours in parts of eastern chester county kind of drifting over route 30 as well as the schuylkill expressway it's a very busy road this time of year, that extends down to route 1 into delaware county and southern chester county and northern newcastle county and along 95 and there is that area that is just sitting and kind of refiring itself here. it's almost called back building as the storms fire over the same locations middletown and smyrna. really heavy rain and turn around and find a

way back. >> that is one word. >> adam joseph is joining us now and the mercury is way up. >> we havehe warning, the excessive heat warning through tomorrow and little relief through the weekend as well. take a look live on sky 6 hd over penn's landing the ben franklin bridge we have the hazy sky out there and the atmosphere feels super heavy today with all of that moisture in the air just waiting to be rung out and we don't have a lot of mechanisms in the at post mere to get widespread downpours or thunderstorms. 93 is the temperature in allentown and 93 in trenton, 95 in philadelphia, and a bit better in beach haven, cape may the upper 80s. and we are really hot in lancaster and wilmington also in the lower to middle 90s. then you factor in the haze, the humidity and feels like 98 philadelphia and on the brink of 100 in trenton and busting over 100, can't laster, wilmington and atlantic city airport. basically all areas to the south and even at the shore even at the 80s right now the heat indexes are in the mid up toer 90s. so little relief even with the bit of a sea breeze coming i

meteorologist melissa magee in for adam joseph today. a whole lot more comfortable out there today. >> yeah, that's right, brian and sharrie. yesterday it was pretty unbearable and we were tracking severe showers and storms across the region. right now in philadelphia, feeling like 88 degrees, it feels like 93 in washington, d.c. but off to the north and west in new york city, 68 degrees, 58 degrees in boston so there is some cooler air waiting in the wings but for now we do have to get through another round of some showers and storms. storm tracker6 live double scan radar 3-d showing you these showers and storms across western sections of pennsylvania and also central pennsylvania state. some of which are turning severe. we'll track this moisture as we go throughout the rest of tonight. future tracker6 showing you by 10 o'clock tonight we do have some showers and storms pressing into the i-95 corridor and these will continue to roll to the south and east as we go throughout the rest of overnight hours. so, what to expect? a line of gust

hit broaer y smash, wicked. tynan, who is also very pop is in for adam joseph tonight.oer dam joseph tonight. >> that is tonight at 11:00. >> what a difference a day makes . esterday warm and humid and 8 degrees and today temperatures stuck in theal i0s and crecol a din tomocarow and is ar tracking th run of the threat of strong storms. we'll have detaiute in the accuweather forecast. >>> day to of eagles training camp and team leader, carson wentz is talking. ducis rogers is live now with more on that. >> reporter: hey there rick and monica, day two of eagles training camp is in the books and many story lines out here at camp and we focus on one from yesterday. the budding bromance between the quarterbacks. carson wentz and nick foles are inseparable out here not just next to each other on the depth chart but next to each other in everything they do. nick foles told us he is willinging to impart whatever knowledge he has to carson wentz and wentz told us that knowledge is invaluable. we bonded so quickly and it's cool, he is around it and know what's it takes here. he

lets go to adam joseph did the hot and humid details. >> everyone is feeling the heat and humidity today most of the area is quiet a pop-up near trenton and a couple of thunderstorms heading towards long beach island. some storms were severe as they passed through cumberland county and atlantic county. they are no longer severe but packing quite a punch along 72 and the garden state parkway heading toward surf city and long beach island. 39 lightning strikes, a lot of lightning in this area along the shore communities and also gusty winds of 40 miles per hour. also, and area of downpours and thunderstorms near mercer county, trenton, and lawrence and 33 heading towards windsor, not severe a couple of lightning strikes here. those are the two areas we are tracking and the rest of us are quiet. we are feeling the heat index of 93 in philadelphia and 96 in washington as we get into the middle of the week on your wednesday, a lot of clouds fighting sunshine and even with the clouds and pop-ups in the afternoon it will feel like the mid-90s from 1:00 and 5:00 tomorrow afternoon and thursday a

she is in for adam joseph. >> reporter: what a change of pace to step outside and not to get hit by the wall of heat. it's pretty cool out there but also on the cloudy side. satellite 6 along with action radar showing more clouds than sunshine and every now and then you get a brief peek of sunshine and upper level disturbance up over new york state that is providing all the cloud cover and helping to bring us some refreshing temperatures. average high for this time of year is 87, we are 10 degrees cooler than that. 77 in philadelphia, we keep that cool air through tomorrow so if you head to citizens bank park for the phillies game last night. last night a two hour rain delay and tonight no rain delays just a spotty sprinkle, first pitch 74 degrees, by the ninth inning maybe a light jacket or sweatshirt and down to 70 degrees, it stays cool tomorrow and another day with more clouds and sunshine and then i'm tracking the return of the threat of severe weather, late thursday night into the day on friday. we'll talk more about that. and what it means for the weekend coming up in the full ac

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let's get right over to meteorologist melissa magee in for adam joseph.his miserable muggy forecast and when we're going to get a break from it. >> yeah, doesn't look like it's coming even as we get into the weekend because that heat will continue and so does our heat wave guys. in fact we'll show you the numbers right now as you look at the heat indices how hot it feels. feels like 96 in philadelphia, 94 in allentown, 99 the current heat index number in wilmington. feels like 91 degrees in atlantic city at the airport. so, that's why that excessive heat warning as we take a look it stays up until 8 o'clock tonight. heat indices along the i-95 metro area and some locations in the upper 90's to near 100 degrees. it continues for the start of our weekend on saturday. the heat index tracker along the i-95 area, 8 o'clock in the morning it feels like 86 already. feeling like 95 by lunchtime tomorrow. more heat and we're also tracking some late day showers and storms. here's storm tracker6 live double scan radar 3-d. you could see the cluster that we are track

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meteorologist, adam joseph tracking the latest in the accuweather center. >> the heat is taking mostthe action here this afternoon because the storms have fizzled at this point. 91 in philadelphia and 90 in wilmington and factor in the humidity. 98 in atlantic city and excessive heat warning goes into effect on thursday. we'll have more in the seven-day forecast. >>> and ducis rogers has carson wentz and eagles players having bonding time in fargo. >>> the olympics are headed to los angeles and paris and the international commit emade the announcement from switzerland eastern the 2024 or 2028 in september. >> we are looking forward to working in not competition but collaboration. we are competing to 2024, l.a. is red to throw it in two months or two decades we have the infrastructure and love and vision that make sure it serves the movement and people of our city. >> while the mayor of los angeles says his city is ready paris is widely seen as the favorite for 2024. >>> eagles news tonight and away from home. >> the eagles are on the road in a far far away place. 14 days away from ea

ask your hep c specialist about harvoni. >>> "action news" continues with adam joseph, rick williamsnd monica malpass. >>> hello again monica is off and sharrie williams is joining us. president trump is in europe and greering up for high level talks for the g-20 summit and a meeting with vladimir putin. >>> and two thieves with weapons storm into a local eatery looking for cash. >>> and what drivers may have to give up if they refuse to pay up. >> now the details, president trump and the first lady touched down in war saw, poland an hour ago ahead of several important days of meetings with european meetings, this is president trump's second trip overseas and on his agenda the g-20 summit and russian president, vladimir putin. >> reporter: sharrie this is a high stakes high-profile meeting for president trump and one diplomatic test the entire world will be watching. >> it's a high stakes meeting between two of the world's biggest super powers, on friday president trump and russian president, vladimir putin are meeting face-to-face for the first time. >> the single highest profile me

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. >> and adam joseph has the seven-day forecast when we come bam. ♪ back. ♪ ♪ [ indistinct chatter ]laying ] it's here, but it's going by fast. the opportunity of the year is back: the mercedes-benz summer event. get to your dealer today for incredible once-a-season offers, and start firing up those grilles. lease the e300 for $569 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. mercedes-benz. the best or nothing. >> adam back with another check of the accuweather forecast. this may go down as one of the best days of summer. >> full sunshine, low humidity, comfortable temperatures. tomorrow won't be bad either. take a look. action cam out in central city, city hall and dilworth park, everything aglow. a tranquil night, a quiet night. that's how the week will start. double scan started the week on the wet side. things have cleared up. as you can see, it's crystal clear everywhere. not one drop of rain in this vant age point. give it a couple of days, we see isolated storms here and there. right now, 64 at the airport. 68 cape may. a chill down the shore if you are out there this evening.

. ♪ >> ♪ >> "action news" continues with meteorologist adam joseph, jaime apody, rick williams and monica ♪ >> ♪ >> hello again. we begin with breaking news from the white house where president trump has just announced that he has named a new chief of staff out of out of current one. the president tweeted i am pleased to inform you that i have james general secretary john f. kelly as white house chief of staff. he is a great american. he went on to say john has also done a spectacular job at homeland security. he's been a true star of my administration. kelly is currently the secretary of homeland security. >>> reince preibus has been at the center of speculation that the president hasith in him. and has been the target of an escalating feud with new communications director anthony scaramucci over possible leaks from the white house.g middle of the night vote as the senate rejected the latest and at least for now the last attempt to dismantle obamacare. it ended with senator john mccain giving the bill literally the thumbs down and here is that dramatic moment. >> you heard the gasp. when

adam joseph has the alert. >> 95-degrees in philadelphia after yesterday's high of 96. tuesday, 91. you need three day in a row consecutively to call it a heatwave. we are there at this point, heat waive number five of the year. heat warnings ongoing throughout the night tonight and tomorrow. they don't go down until 8:00 p.m. tomorrow evening. it's the counties along i-95. that's where you feel the heat index near 100-degrees tomorrow afternoon. severe thunderstorm watch in effect this evening. north of philadelphia, you see the storms that pushed out of the mountains near scranton and poconos, lehigh valley, mercer county, trenton and off the coast. no storms, but lingering clouds respect harrisburg, baltimore across philadelphia to the shore. future tracker, feels like 96 in philadelphia tomorrow. 102 in charleston. for the weekend saturday, feeling like 96 in philadelphia. at that point, you start to see the core of the heat being pushed down to the south. you see 80s coming in from the north and west. there is a transition that the heatwave will end in the seven-day forecast. w

adam joseph has the details as heat warnings are set to take effect. >> heat warning 11:00 a.m.o noon tomorrow. that lasts until 8:00 p.m. friday. trenton, wilmington, philadelphia, all of the counties adjacent to i-95, look at breaking 90 by 9:00 to 10:00 in the morning. you see the better half hovering around 100-degrees. a summer scorcher. it's the heat that is the biggest story. 100 to 105 in those zones, also including dover. at the shore will is a sea breeze 95 to 100. same effect north of the turnpike. can't stress enough to drink lots of water. that's for the upcoming weekend. if you work outside, seek shade every now and then. if you don't have air conditioning, keep the windows open with the fan running to circulate the air. monica, when we come back, we talk about a break in the seven-day forecast. >> the heat continues throughout the day tomorrow. the stale humid air made it tougher for firefighters at a two alarmer in delaware county. many took time to hydrate. hoses were used for more than battling the blaze, keeping the men and women cool. >>> a boy is fighting fo

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for adamfor adam joseph cecily n i'm monica malpass. >> ♪ >> "action news."ding news program. with ducis rodgers, meteorologist cecily tynan and jim gardner. >> ♪ >> monday night, the big story on "action news" tonight developing news on the disappearance of four men and the building efforts to find them. the search goes on for mark sturgis of pennsburg, tom meo of plumstead, dean finocchiaro and jimi tar patrick. patrick was last seen on wednesday. there is heavy equipment involved in the search for the four men in solebury township. "action news" reporter trish hartman is there. dann cuellar is live in bensalem township where police are searching another property and have just taken someone into custody. trish, let's begin with you. a lot to talk about. what are these late developments. >> reporter: well, jim, the bucks county district attorney has said this has been like finding needles in a haystack. they're following strong leads and resources from all over bucks county are being used to find these four men officials say they now believe that will foul p

that and much more coming up next. >>> now for monica malpass, meteorologist adam joseph cecily tynaniams the entire "action news" team i'm rick williams. join me next for "action news" at 6:00. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> "action news." delaware valley's leading news program. with ducis rodgers, meteorologist cecily tynan, and jim gardner. >> ♪ >> monday night, jim's off, i'm rick williams. in the news a house fire turns into a drug investigation in the mayfair section of philadelphia. >>> and an overturned tractor-trailer causes traffic backups along the blue route. >>> but the big story on "action news" tonight is the continuing government shutdown in new jersey and the beach backlash against governor chris christie. >>> this is the third day of the shutdown in new jersey due to the budget stalemate and while the governor is shuttered state parks and beaches on this day before the fourth of july christie has been taking heat because of this photo coming up showing he and his family using the summer beach house at the closed island beach state park. "action news" reporter walter perez is live in t

>> ♪ >> "action news" continues with meteorologist adam joseph, jaime apody, rick williams and monicahello again. here's what's happening on "action news" tonight. another major shakeup at the white house. newly appointed communications director anthony scaramucci is out. a murder mystery in southwest philadelphia when a man is found shot to death inside his car in the middle of a parking lot. >> ♪ >> and now to our developing story. a major staff shakeup at the white house tonight. communications director anthony scaramucci is out after only 11 days in his post. the announcement was made just hours after new white house chief of staff general john kelly was sworn in to his position. still not clear weather scaramucci voluntarily resigned or was asked to leave but again another shakeup at the white house tonight. abc's megan hughes is live with more on today's announcement. megan, good evening. >> reporter: the retired marine four star general just took over as white house chief of staff at 9:30 this morning. hours later, scaramucci was out. general john kelly immediately shaking up t

"action news" continues at 10:00 on phl 17, with brian taff, sharrie williams and adam joseph and ducis please join us for "action news" at 11:00 on channel 6. for cecily tynan, ducis rogers and it's entire okay team. i'm jim gardner we hope you'll join us for "action news" at 11:00. >>> tonight, the russian connection. donald trump jr.'s e-mails revealed. agreeing to a meeting, told he would get information that would incriminate hillary clinton. those e-mails revealing he was told it was the russian government trying to help his father win. don jr. replying in the e-mail, if it's what you say it is, i love it. >>> also at this hour, the russian lawyer with reported ties to the kremlin who came from moscow to the trump tower. she is not speaking out about the meeting with don jr., and paul manafort. who is she? what did she bring? >>> also moments ago on the deadly military crash. the c-130 with 15 marines and a sailor on board, we're on the scene. >>> the close call at san francisco airport. what we have learn

. >> ♪ >> "action news" continues with meteorologist adam joseph, alicia vitarelli, sharrie williams taff. >> ♪ >> hello again. 4:30 now and "action news" continues with the latest from germany where president trump met with russian president vladimir putin today. >> plus, the image of governor chris christie enjoying the beach after he had closed it to the public drew ridicule on social media. now new jersey lawmakers are planning legislation to make sure everyone has access to the governor's get away. >> and you have seen the videos, parents behaving badly at their children's games. one community is now implementing silent sidelines. that's coming up in big talkers. >> but first at 4:30 an expensive mess on a wilmington street. >> residents were jolted awake just after 12:30 this morning to the sound of scratching metal and squeaking tires. what they found outside was at least a dozen vehicles mangled and ruined after a pickup truck tour down their street hitting everything in sight. "action news" reporter vernon odom live now at the scene with the details on this story this aftern

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meteorologist adam joseph with this accuweather update.torms passing through parts of the area. you can see storm tracker 6 live double scan stretching from the lehigh valley west of philadelphia, especially chester county and delaware county and northern parts of new castle county. anywhere from coatsville, ken net square and newark and concordville, winds near 60 miles per hour with the storm. as we close in on the storm, 249 lightening strikes in the 15 minutes. this is a nasty storm you want to take shelter. heading toward chadds ford, media, wilmington, delaware county, the city, montgomery county,

adam joseph is live at the big board. >> the changes come in the form of heavy downpours especially tomorrow afternoon and a lot of clouds and sunshine out there and temperatures below average, 81 now in philadelphia. and you can see 70s in richmond as well as charleston, west virginia, cooler to the south because of very unsettled weather that is temporarily pushed to the south and west because high pressure is situated in new england and that supplies a northeasterly wind pulling the front way down to the sound and it's extremely active in virginia, and west virginia and that continues into parts of missouri linking the low pressure with the front and littering this area that are moving in our direction. future tracker 6 showing waking up cloudy tomorrow morning and afternoon tomorrow turning active as a weak disturbance passes by to spark the downpours that contain heavy rainfall briefly as we look at the impact scale for the heavy downpours tomorrow. low tomorrow morning, you are okay for the morning rush tomorrow most area roadways are dry, starts to bump up at the lunch time hour and h

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