there you can see the car fire on westbound atlantic city expressway right near route 42. emergency workers, fire crews responding to the scene as that car just burst right into flames after smashing through the guardrail on the atlantic city expressway. so, be careful as you're traveling westbound on the atlantic city expressway right near 42. so, that's after you pennsylvanias that big cross keys shopping area and as you're passing near 42 in turnersville where you're encountering this scene right there. a horrible accident. here's a live look at 42. creek road closer to the walt whitman bridge we can see volume a little bit out there but no major delay on 42 as you head towards the walt whitman bridge. looking pretty good there. this is a great shot of the tree and the foliage is looking great on the schuylkill. the roads not great. this is the schuylkill westbound near girard. we had a multi-vehicle accident there that is all cleared that for awhile all lanes were blocked on the schuylkill westbound near girard. but things are moving better and the trees are looking gr

atlantic city expressway. even with that diverse, you're going to be at complete dead stop. diverted off right this. in a stand still for that entire amount of time. my alternate for you there is to take black horse pike. black horse pike northbound past the accident scene, get back on the 42 freeway. exit for the 42 from the plaqbl horse pike. now if you're coming back the other way, there's another crash. southbound side just around belmar. few lanes lost there. not a lot of traffic moving oei right now. not usually the most traveled roads. we'll end here in north philly. a crash on route 1 side. boulevard dealing with that. traffic getting by the scene really easy. i'll have details for you on that when i come back in ten minutes. for now, let's get a check on today's forecast with bill henley. >>> just 30 minutes away from seeing sunrise this morning. skies starting to brighten up. looking good in the lehigh valley. 65 degrees. in twilight right now. 83 degrees at 11:00. delaware, 66 degrees with a little

coming back from the shore the atlantic city expressway just a parking lot, atlantic city expressway merges with the freeway and there you go, a live look at just everybody, all four lanes going into one working toward philadelphia. your best bet this morning leaving south jersey, get over to route 55, if you can get to 55, it will be a clean shot toward philadelphia and you can avoid that grid lock. we will have more when we come right back. fios is not cable. we're a 100% fiber optic network. and with the new fios gigabit connection... you get our fastest internet ever. with download speeds up to 940 megs - 20 times faster than most people have. switch to fios gigabit connection with tv and phone for $79.99 a month online for the first year. plus hbo for one year and multi-room dvr service for two years, all with a two-year agreement. and switching has never been easier. get out of you contract with up to a $500 credit to help cover your early termination fee. go to fiosgigabit.com countless ailments. countless hours. and guess what? you can handle it all. be a leader in your field

take a look around the atlantic city expressway.roaching an accident scene that we had before we even came on at 4:00 this morning. accident investigation underway at gloucester township. detoured around college drive. exit 7-b. because of that detour, also have major tuoverturned tractor at the same place as the ramp. now the ramp is partially blocked. massive delay. black horse pike was a great alternate earlier this morning, now starting to see some of that delay heading northbound on tha road that. you can still take that. you'll sit in delays there too. anything is better of course than the 4 #2 freeway. 55 is still open. you can see the delay here. still open. the white horse pike is another alternate for you there. really depends where are you're coming from. 42 freeway closed on the northbound side. want to avoid that. updates all morning long and back in ten minutes. >> 6:41. spoiler alert. hackers could ruin episodes of favorite hbo shows. >> latest on the online heist. game of thrones compromise. >>> plus, unforgettable

this is 42 freeway right around the atlantic city expressway. even with that diverse, you're going to be at complete dead stop. diverted off right this. in a stand still for that entire amount of time. my alternate for you there is

here's the latest on the closure of the 42 freeway coming up the atlantic city expressway we are grind to go a halt because as soon as 55 turns into 42, look at this we are in grid lock mode coming in toward philadelphia. the atlantic city expressway on the 42, all traffic forced off at college drive which is exit number 7b. now i just heard from the police and it sound like there is an overturned tractor trailer in this delay, on the exit ramp which is exit number 7b to make matters worse. this all happened earlier this morning, around 2:00 o'clock with a multi vehicle accident, and now investigation has the ramps closed. here's assumed in look all traffic down to one lane here here's exit 7b which is college drive, right there by the outlets to give you an idea. so lets dot alternate. coming in from south jersey again all traffic on the freeway pushed off, on to college drive and use 168 the black horse pike. that is grid locked right now. if you are getting ready to leave from south jersey here would i head for cross keys road and, work your way over to 55. if you can get to 55, tha

you can barely see them right 42 at atlantic city expressway. so south jersey, you might see spots of reduced visibility. so be careful out there. we'll check in with construction i come back. >>> call him a safety crusader. >> a 9-year-old delaware boy saw a problem in his neighborhood and is getting it fixed. josh worried about people blowing through a stop sign right outside his front door at the intersection of church in newark. while visiting his grand parents, he saw the word stop ahead written on a busy street. he thought, well, that could work in my neighborhood. so he reached out to the mayor. >> i remembered my letter writing skills from school and i just decided to write a letter. >> and that paid off for joey. the mayor invited skroe i to a meeting with the city traffic committee yesterday and they said yes to his idea. >>> gloucester township is launching its bike sharing program today. the mayor will kick off the new initiative at the bike share kiosk on west church and washington. the program is free and people will be able to use

>> we're afternowatching that n atlantic city expressway.his is the northbound side here moving up to that area. heading up to philadelphia and 295, not yet, you can see more volume gathering there. but heading out the door, no problems. this is where it turns into the atlantic city expressway. no problems there. we are watching for a crash on the boulevard northbound side near sea street with a delay moving by there. but everything is still open. that's a good thing. there's a crash in upper moreland near the route 611 ramp. watch for that moving through. and 95 looks good, too. the 95 drive times are moving ten minutes in both directions north and southbound from 295 to 495. speeds are also into the 60s. vai, back to you. >>> thank you. today 500 fans will be given to philadelphia senior citizens in need. they partnered with walmart to give the fans to help seniors beat the heat. the people getting the fans have already been identified. this is the 12th year for this event. more than 6,000 fans have been given out so far. >>> well, two day

this is the atlantic city expressway westbound approaching route 73.ee the cones that are blocking the right lane so crews are out there working so slow it down for their sake. here's 42 and again as you look in the distance you really see the fog out there as you're traveling so it's causing an issue but not a lot of major accidents right now. hopefully we can keep it that way as volume builds, matt and tam. >> all right, thank you, karen. >>> lawmakers from both parties continue to criticize president trump. his responses yesterday about the weekend violence at that rally of white nationalists in charlottesville now kicking off a new firestorm. >> the president defended his initial remarks once again blaming both sides for the violence that happened during a white nationalist rally. >> reporter: you look at both sides. i think there's blame on both sides and i have no doubt about it and you don't have any doubt about it either. and if you reported it accurately, you would say. >> during an impromptu question-and-answer session in the lobby of trump t

a vehicle fire on the atlantic city expressway. some small delay there is. but other than that, the expressway looks good. here's 76 around market street. this is over in jersey. movering through gloucester city. here is the northbound traffic moving up towards philadelphia with no problems or delays now. >>> we're following break news in northeast philadelphia. rescuers went door to door sounding the alarm as flames tore through an apartment building overnight on academy road. matt delucia is live on scene with more on those rescue efforts. >> reporter: this is the apartment building where this all happened early this morning. overnight this is the corner of academy road. right by the northeast philly airport. there were several dozen residents forced out of their apartment. this one building here is one that was damaged and the fire centered in one unit. but there's smoke and water damage to the rest of the building. this started a little after midnight on the second floor in a unit there. firefighters left one person who was rushed to the hospital. there w

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. >>> around the atlantic city expressway. good drive for right now. starting to see a backup or delay. headed northbound once you get around this area here is nice and clear. northbound towards philly right here. headed southbound towards the atlantic city expressway. no major problems. starting to see some slippery spots around south jersey too. pa turnpike looks okay. 22 minutes on the westbound side from route 1 to valley forge. speeds in the 60s there. route 309. a good drive. katie and tracey, back to you. >> the remnants of harvey may reach us in a few days. there's another impact that could start sooner. >> that's right. next how the storm could impact prices at the gas pump. plus a frozen computer screen sent her into a month-long battle over the fix. she called nbc 10 respond for help. coming up next, the simple question that could have prevented her the drawnout fight. from fields and factories they came looking for opportunity. they worked hard. we helped them work harder. they are the students of strayer university. for 125 years, we've su

atlantic city expressway westbound off to the shoulder affecting traffic.re starting to see the yellow areas with the travel time showing us we're starting to slow down, i-95 a 19 minute ride from the woodhaven to the vine. the problem is not with accident on the major, it's not suburbs. in the suburbs it's cool out there, it's in the 40s in pottstown and quakertown. 61 in center city. the suburbs in new jersey, we have sunshine 54 in browns mills, 63 in dover, delaware. heading up to 78 today, matt. >> thanks, karen. >>> new this morning, a man was gunned down in atlantic city not far from the boardwalk. police found the victim dead at the scene last night on the unit block of south virginia avenue. officials have not said if there's a clear motive or any suspects in custody. >>> a serious accident shut down part of the northeast extension of the pennsylvania turnpike for nearly 8 hours. investigators say a driver lost control and crashed between the lansdale and quakertown exit in bucks county yesterday. two adults and four children inside were thrown fro

trailer happened but we are still jammo up to 80 minutes, one hour and 20 minutes from the atlantic city expressway, working your way in toward philadelphia. your best bet this morning, go for the alternate, 55, 47 or route 30 and avoid going up the middle and using atlantic city expressway on to the 42 freeway. forecast, coming up, right now sueby that within right now. >> i was going to give you 15, but i figured lets do it. >> somehow i rushed in a little early. tropical depression emily continues to move, off shore, off thee coast of florida into had atlantic ocean. still a tropical depression because of these, 30-mile an hour sustained wind but somehow strengthens a little bit it could go back to being a tropical storm. good news projected path of this storm even with the cone of uncertainty takes it far away from the new jersey shore from the delaware beaches. so even though we keep an eye on it, it doesn't look like it will trouble us at all, certainly brought a lot of rain to parts of the florida yesterday some places got 8 inches of rain. that is easing up to as the storm moves off shore.

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we like to do on a monday morning no problems coming up parkway, working your way on the atlantic city expressway. there is one accident right here the atlantic city expressway ramps from the garden state parkway. coming back from the shore this morning just watch for police activity. coming in other way from say collegeville royersford working your way on 422, in problems heading in to king of prussia. mass transit an to a good start. >>> we will get ready for this once in a lifetime cosmic spectacle, great american eclipse, just about eight hours away right now first total solar eclipse, across our country in 99 years will be visible. we will see it here at 1:21 this afternoon, peak at 2:44. you may want to skip out on your lunch hour. we are expecting about 75 to 80 percent blockage of the sun so people are getting ready. lets go to the areas with the best views, oregon thousands pack nothing there a small town of primeville. they have campers there, the first places where the eclipse will be completely visible in this country. lets go to the middle of the country missouri long line as people

not this clear everywhere, we have a problem here, atlantic city expressway, this is westbound just off the garden state parkway we have an overturned vehicle that's two overturned vehicles at this early hour, one on mlk drive, the right lane is blocked, this occurred in the overnight hours, if you stayed at the shore, and you think i will make it nice and easy coming into the city at this early hour, it's a problem because of that. live this new jersey, 42, that's northbound traffic coming up from deptford. if you're looking at creek road, you're moving just fine, matt and tam. >> well, we're hours away from the great eclipse. small towns across the country are welcoming thousands of vimplets -- visitors who want to be in the direct line of the totality. the franklin institute's telescopes are ready for action. 2:44 p.m. is when philadelphia will see 80% coverage of the sun. in wayne, the nature center is hosting a soldout event. children will help record data to send to scientists at nasa, cross country tra trajectory ofe solar eclipse begins at 9:00 a.m. this morning. when you add up

no problems there, and we'll end on route 73 and the atlantic city expressway. both directions look good. north and southbound on 73, if you're heading back there, you'll have no problems there either. >>> i'll look forward to 95. i'll show you temperatures well short of 95. 60 degrees and cooling. during the day clouds will be increasing. in fact, it turns mostly cloudy this afternoon in philadelphia. so the clouds building in the suburbs, too. mostly sunny returning mostly cloudy for this afternoon. the clouds take over later this afternoon. but it will be dry in the suburbs. right now 63 degrees. cool to start with with clear skies and light wind and very little humidity. the temperatures have cooled down nicely this morning. up to 77 degrees, but then increasing clouds this afternoon. 81 degrees at 4:00. you'll see some sunshine to start with. new jersey, that will start the warming processes. low 80s at the shore. and clouds will be increasing at the shore, too. increasing clouds right around lunchtime and turning cloudy this afternoon. at 64 degrees right

right now in our left lane area -- local area but you can see heavy downpours along the atlantic city expresswayin fail. zero lightning strikes but this is the heaviest rain in the area and as we look to the north and west you can see it is starting to break up and end in those western suburbs so the heavit

north into trenton still a wet drive this evening, it extends down to the coastline. 55 the atlantic city expresswayslow going here. it gradually improves this weekend in the overnight as we begin the drying out process. temperatures are extremely cool for august standards, the normal high 84 degrees. we hit 67 and that came at 9:28 this morning. the 65 degrees right now is the low for the day. the high came this morning. the low is coming this evening. so kind of flip-flops here today. 63 allentown and 66 if wilmington and 66 in cape may. 56 degrees, up in the poconos. we have tropical storm harvey. winds sustained at 50 miles per hour. the heaviest rain from houston to the border of louisiana. they continue to extend eastbound to the panhandle of of florida and back at home here we are dealing with the rain. that will continue of the next several hours. but you start to see it break apart and that is the trend here for the middle to latter part of the evening hours. by the time we wake up tomorrow it's dry and a lot of clouds still littering the sky and there will be some breaks and fillered sunsh

. >>> after a fiery overnight crash, all lanes are back open on the atlantic city expressway, that aicle traveling westbound hit a guardrail and crashed into trees on the side of the highway in washington township. a viewer captured the flames shooting from the car at 6:00 a.m. and police reopened all lanes by 6:45, no word on the driver's condition and what caused him to lose control. >> still to comproduction ons te set of the latest dead pool movie as police investigating the death of a stunt woman. >>> and an emotional reunion, a world war ii vet returned a flag to the family of a fallen japanese soldier. and david murphy is back with the seven-day forecast. >>> secretary of state, rex tillerson says that the white house is interested in a dialog with north korea. after a week long war of words. they are waiting for a sign of interest from north korean leader, kim jong un, it appears that north korea is backing off and a threat to attack guam. according to state runnemede yeah, kim jong un has reviewed a plan of attack but is waiting to see what the u.s. does next. >>> a 23-year-

the garden state parkway between atlantic city expressway and route 322. going to be there until 6.ane closed. nothing actually closed. road is still open. just losing a left-hand lane there. still watching the garden state parkway. end here with the bridges. clear on the tacony-palmyra. updates for the rest of the morning. next update i have is in ten minutes. now, nbc 10 first alert weather. >>> 19 before five and about an hour 20 minutes before sunrise. we'll get sunshine today. already steamy this morning. there are clouds overhead. can't see it yet. skies have yet to break down. look at the 70s. delaware, philadelphia, south jersey in the 70s to start with. even temperatures at the 60s. suburbs it is a muggy morning. steamy conditions. low 70s right now for west cal lon township. lincoln university 68 degrees. exton north wales at 70 degrees. warmer start this morning. steamier one too. high humidity going to stay with us. clouds will be in and out this morning. later this morning and this afternoon that will likely start to see some spotty showers. then possibly some more show

. >> watching the 42 freeway around the atlantic city expressway. does look like we have flashing lights. maybe a construction vehicle moving out of the way or so. not blocking any of the roads. here's the southbound side. moving down the expressway. looks like he went towards the black horse pike and northbound side with no problems right now. watching a crash on upper moreland. a disabled vehicle popped into our system here. out in limerick. and also still trying to watch some of this construction around the schuylkill expressway. we're finding scattered spots. still with lane restriction looks like they might have pulled some of this up. around belmont, we had cones in the center lanes. still watch for some of that construction around city line avenue. some near the vine street expressway area. the vine street expressway is open too. good news there. >>> counting the days. nbc smash hit this is us comes back september 26. right now, you have a chance to see the show live in los angeles. here's the deal. nbc 10 teaming up with 933. giving away two

working north and east and a severe thunderstorm warn that just expired but still along the atlantic city expressway toward egg harbor and lightning and downpour and another cell moving across the mouth of the delaware bay causing flooding and also reports of hail, of wind gusts as well. and this will continue as we head towards the evening hours. once the sunsets it will begin to diminish and this shows you how much rain near malaga, 2.5 inks of rain. the flash flood warnings expired. jackson township an inch and a half of rain and chester brook quarter size hail and lightning struck a house and it caught on fire in marlton and easton roads closed and flooding. i'm tracking more storms and big changes for the weekend details in the accuweather forecast. >>> upper darby police have set up a drag net tonight for a man believed to be a driver for the lyft ride sharing service. according to a hover town woman she was kidnapped by the driver this morning. walter perez is live at the gas station. upper darby where the abduction tom corbett place. what is the story. >> investigators are piecing together e

southbound on the garden state parkway doing work at the atlantic city expressway, if you are headed to the shore the expressway to the parkway, there is that tight squeeze, where it takes you down to one lane, for everybody that is shore-bound. mass transit though looking good. sue has your hump day forecast in 15 seconds. >> getting you ready, highs on either side of 09 degrees, probably, on the low side today. and, increasing humidity, each and every day, it is pretty typical for the dog days of august, summer storms popping up each afternoon, not necessarily everywhere, but, somebody will get something, at some time later on in the day. 74 degrees in philadelphia, 59 mount pocono, wildwood has 72 to start. so these are definitely much milder temperatures, and the dew points are going up, we've got upper 60s to the north of us, seven open in philadelphia, comfortable place is mount pocono for sure with those comfortable dew point, but we're kind of strag link the uncomfortable oppressive line with the humidity, out there this morning. we've got some thunderstorm activity way to th

the 42 freeway around the atlantic city expressway. looks a little blurry right now. this direction is headed northbound towards philadelphia. here's southbound towards the shore. no problems or delays. growing to end here on the vine street expressway. open in both directions. not dealing with construction. >>> now to breaking news we're following for you overnight. fire engulfs a ben salem house leaving an elderly couple dead. >> see the charred remains of the home after the early morning blaze. matt delucia joins us live from the scene. >>> firefighters have it under control. right behind me see a lot of firefighters here at the scene at this point. this is the house on the # 00 block of kings lane. fire started around 12:30 this morning. quickly consumed the house. firefighters got here, elderly couple was found dead on the floor. at one point part of the house started to collapse. we're told there had been a power outage earlier in the evening. fire investigators are trying to figure out what started this. seen family members at the scene upset over the death of

he stopped to get gas on the atlantic city expressway where he took off without paying, the police chased the suspect off and on before he crashed on south 8th street in south philadelphia. >> i think what was surprising, the journey ten hour flee from police that's crazy. the victim was not physically hurt. nobody was injured during the police chase. >> carriage horses took a break to help clean up a watermelon spill by eating the crushed fruit off the streets. police say the driver took a turn too fast throwing dozens of watermelons off the trailer. the derived said he came you mean from maryland to sell the mellons to vendors throughout the city, but instead became a nice snack for the horses. >> it will not smell so good in the heat. it's not the heat we're talking about, it's the rain. >> temperatures in the 70s. staying cool, periods of rain and some of it heavy enough to flooding. storm tracker 6 live double scan, we can see it hadn't hit philadelphia yet, but the first round of rain, we'll have a few of them today. the first round of rain starting to approach the area. i want to g

posted speeds, just heads up, starting to heat up little bit then also looking at 42, by atlantic city expressway, you can see the the movement around there, so not going to be until deeper into the 6:00 or even 7:00 hour on a friday when we really start to see some slow-downs. right now though everyone looking good. then we still have construction crews, route 73, both direct cents between south lincoln drive and waterford road. one lane blocked there, starting to see some yellow popping up on the censor map, letting you know you're traveling less than posted speeds, more coming up in the next ten minutes, rahel, over you. >> meisha, thank you. feds accusing form qvv executive out after million dollars. james used the shopping channel to finance his lavish lifestyle which clouded first class travel, luxury, resort, clothing, spa treatment f convicted co-get up to 11 years behind bars. >>> in a statement the west chester based company says at qvc we take enough business conduct on the part of plow east and business partners very seriously, in addition to con doubling ago thorough investigation in

crews on the atlantic city expressway. you can see the cones set up approaching route 73.his is in winslow township right now. the crews are out here because they have to do emergency road work and they're blocking the right lane. so when it's hard to see with fog and you've got construction workers out there you really need to be a little extra careful. construction also here until 6:00 a.m. in mount ephraim right on the black horse pike northbound at valley road. they'll be clearing at 6:00 a.m. matt and tam. >> thank you, karen. >>> a public memorial service will be held in charlottesville virginia today for the counterprotester who was killed when a driver deliberately drove into the crowd. 32-year-old heather heyer was demonstrating against a white supremacist rally on saturday. president trump is once again facing backlash about his statements regarding the violence in virginia. at trump tower yesterday the president said both sides are to blame. >> what about the alt-left that came charging at the as you say the alt right? do they have any semblance of guilt? i've c

the 42 freeway around the atlantic city expressway. looks a little blurry right now. headed northbound towards philadelphia. here's southbound towards the shore. no problems or delays. growing to end here on the vine street expressway. open in both directions. not dealing with construction. >>> now to breaking news we're following for you overnight. fire engulfs a ben salem house leaving an elderly couple dead. >> see the charred remains of the home after the early morning blaze. matt delucia joins us live from the scene. >>> firefighters have it under control. right behind me see a lot of firefighters here at the scene at this point. this is the house on the # 00 block of kings lane. fire started around 12:30 this morning. quickly consume

the only trouble spot that i'm seeing all this morning long is the atlantic city expressway in winslow township, westbound lanes near 73. emergency construction happening there. the right lane is blocked and there are crews out on the road. look out for that. one more look at the drive times around this morning, 95, 76, 476, all clear. >> thank you. >>> coming up, hometown hero, how a delaware county community is honoring one of their leaders. >>> your team, your season, your station. eagles, dolphins next thursday, coverage starts at 6:00 on nbc 10. count on it. [ gasps, laughs ] you ever feel like... cliché foil characters scheming against a top insurer for no reason? nah. so, why don't we like flo? she has the name your price tool, and we want it. but why? why don't we actually do any work? why do you only own one suit? it's just the way it is, underdeveloped office character. you're right. thanks, bill. no, you're bill. i'm tom. you know what? no one cares. >>> now, take you state by state and county by county for a look at some stories across our area. >> in camden, two men pleade

here's the atlantic city expressway westbound approaching route 73.ve got some emergency road work going on and the crews are out here blocking the right lane. we've got the cones set up and it's a little hard to see with the fog so be careful as you're traveling around. if you have construction crews or pedestrians, if you're only looking at .3 of a mile visibility, in trenton n-millville, in allentown, reading, lancaster, that's a wide area where you're seeing this dense fog. half a mile visibility atlantic city and wildwood, wilmington. 5-mile visibility in philadelphia. there's like a little hole in the fog near the city right here but through much of the rest of the area visibility is significantly reduced because of this fog. it's dense today. 71 degrees the current temperature. we're going to see a good amount of sunshine later today. 88 degrees for your high. so, it's getting very warm and the afternoon won't be quite as humid as it was yesterday, matt. >> okay, thank you, karen. >>> new this morning, former new york city mayor rudy giuliani i

first carjacking, and off-duty septa employee and then secondly, an armed robbery along the atlantic city expressway >> 2,000 south eighth, on the southbound. >> reporter: police closed in on the suspected arm robber and carjacker just before 2:00 . eighth and snider, quickly became a crime scene. >> boom. >> reporter: crowded street suspect crashed the stolen 2016 dodge challenger into another vehicle. >> he hit the car. >> reporter: what went through your mind when you saw that. >> i was nervous, it was scary >> reporter: septa police confirmed that the man behind the wheel carjack the employee in spring garden around 4:00 this morning. hours later he committed an armed robbery in south jersey, followed by on and off again pursuits of the vehicle for over an hour in both new jersey and pennsylvania. that is before he crashed 12 hours later. now we have learned that some more information about what happened here in south jersey. he was filling up at a gas station, filling up at stolen vehicle and when attendants asked him to payee brandished a gun and said he was a police officer but he was taken i

the journey from 322 to 42 is a 9-minute one and 42 northbound from atlantic city expressway to 295 southbound is also a 9-minute trip. the construction has cleared out of i-95 northbound to the betsy ross bridge so you're good to go there and a look at the vine street expressway shows us that volume is picking up a little bit but everything is still moving along okay. karen? >> thank you there, sue. this is a very disturbing story, unfortunately we have to tell you about. these guys, father and son, now facing child pornography charges. they were arrested after police found some material at their glenside home. they say they got a tip from aol.com about these guys harry and patrick ennis. they issued a warrant and found 600 inappropriate images on their computer. >>> there was a suspected gunman who chose the wrong house to hide in because there was a kid, 10 years old, who fought back. our shawnette wilson has the story of a young boy who bit the suspected gunman. >> reporter: this 25-year-old shows us where police were forced to break down the front door of her home in kensington this after

from wildwood, cape may, all the way up past ocean city here but once you get to the expressway look out , westbound an accident, just west of the atlantic just west of the parkway so right as you get on expressway heading back toward philadelphia, just watch for an accident, market frankford the subway using shuttle buses until 5:00 this morning. left over crew is still outside on the schuylkill eastbound between gulph mills and gladwynn, big day for solar eclipse, scottie has the forecast in 15. black blank it is eclipse damon. all eyes on the visibility. 70 degrees. humidity high. 81 percent dew points in the low to mid 60's. ultimate doppler is dry, it will be isolated thunderstorms late this afternoon into this evening moving from the west, but once again as we take a look right now we are dry and quiet. high cloud will stream overhead during the day-to-day but visibility should stay pretty good. we have 70 in philadelphia. lower 60's in millville. 66 degrees in dover. upper 50's, currently in the pocono mountains. as we get hour by hour looking at that cloud forecast, we will have fair weather, cumulus cloud later this afternoon, w

. >>> starting on the 42 freeway just near the atlantic city expressway. hearing reports of a crash on the expresswayway. east of this on the westbound side. we don't have a camera that approaches that scene. looked at the map system too. didn't see anything there. this is a little further past the scene. here northbound on the 42 freeway that's actually moving towards philadelphia. so the 42 freeway looks good for the most part. crash in worcester on white hall road. another crash in upper merion on valley forge road. around valley creek road. also watching 422. through the work zone looking good. starting to see some eastbound delay moving towards the schuylkill. katie and tracie, back to you. >>> tropical storm harvey keeps dropping rain and misery on houston and texas. flooding reached epic levels. rescuers saved hundreds of victims. damaged estimates have already topped $2 billion. here's what we know so far, houston officials are urging people to healther in place and stay off flooded roadways. harvey continues to batter the city. 70,000 customers ar

he stopped to get gas on the atlantic city expressway, 6 hours later and took off without paying. police chased the suspect off and on for another four hours before he crashed on the 2000 block of south 8th street in south philadelphia. >> i think what's more surprising that the journey that the guy went on afterwards ten hour flee from police, that's crazy. >> the victim was not hurt and nobody was injured during the police chase. >>> we have a major truck recall to tell you about in the market watch report. maribel aber is live at the condition center with the details. -- cnn center. gm is recalling pickup pickup ts because of a power steering issue. the recall covers 2014 chevy as and gmcs. futures are pointing to a higher open, wholesale prices and productivity is due out this week. that's it for business from new york, have a great start to the week. >> you too, maribel. >>> we'll have a wet start to the week. >> reporter: we'll have periods and rain it will get heavier this afternoon. the current view of storm tracker 6 live double scan you can see how philadelphia is wet an

dewpoint temperatures, you can see where the muggiest air is south of the atlantic city expressway, eastf the delaware river. mainly south jersey and delaware, dewpoints are awful with most locations either at 68 or 69 or up into the 70s. as we scale it, you can see 65, 70 that's humid, we're seeing that north and west, you get into 70 degrees or higher. which is most of south jersey that's when we talk oppressive. it feels uncomfortable out there right now. temperature-wise, the numbers are not that bad. 66 in bethlehem. musikfest this evening, looks fine. quakertown, 63. warminster, 67 degrees. 72 in center city. 69 in media. south jersey and delaware, it's warm, as well. smyrna, 70. gandys beach, 73. cloudy along the delaware bay. tuckahoe, 73. browns mills 67. here's storm tracker 6 live we've set it in motion for you, just a couple of leftover showers across southern ocean and atlantic counties in south jersey, with heavier stuff off to the south. you can see this cell exiting sussex county pulling away from dewy beaches over the atlantic. and another cell salisbury. there's lewes a

the schuylkill running slow, vehicle fire on the 42 freeway westbound actually it's on the atlantic city expresswaybefore the 42 freeway that will impact anybody coming back from the shore this morning, septa running with delays on two of its regional rail lines, right out of the gate, the airport line, the warminster line running with 20 minute delays, speaking of the airport, check with the airline, we'll see weather delays probably as the rain gets closer to philadelphia international airport. mike and alex back over to you. >>> three people in the hospital after an apartment building goes up in flames. the fire also forced dozens, as many as 50 people, out of their homes >> and lauren is at the scene with the latest and looks like people are trying to take things out of the home what's left. >> reporter: that's all you can do after a fire like this, you can go inside and try to salvage what you can and we came to the parking lot so we can get a closer view. of a lot of people pulled their cars up open the backs of suvs and trying to pile as much as they can, the deputy fire chief told us when c

captured the scene on their cell phone at 6:00 this morning in the westbound lanes of the atlantic city expresswayer left the roadway and crashed into the guardrail and caught fire. no one was hurt here. >>> look at this messy scene in delaware county. a water main break causing traffic troubles in boothwin it happened along conchester highway and bethel highway. a main burst and thousands of gallons of water shot straight into the the sky. a section of bethel avenue was closed while chester water company authority repaired the break. >>> a 9-year-old from newark delaware is proving you are never too young to make a difference many joey lives near church road a busy intersection with a four way stop. people are constantly blowing through the stop signs and getting into accidents. joey wrote a letter to the mayor asking that the words stop ahead be painted on the road. >> i thought that would prevent car crashes and beeping and screeching. >> well, joey met with city officials this afternoon to discuss implementing his idea. >> good for joey. >> making a difference. speaking of traffic lets get an

then a 45-minute drive down the atlantic city expressway to the service plaza. police say pitts fueled up and showed his gun to the attendant, claiming to be a police officer. >> i can't imagine what was going through his mind doing all that this morning. it's crazy. >> reporter: the chase was on, and pitts went over the delaware river again, returning to philadelphia. but getting down the narrow mercy street proved a challenge. you can see the stolen car ended up crashed into another car. neighbors all heard the loud bang. >> they said he ran. >> reporter: officers quickly captured him. the wild scene was scary, but fortunate no one got hurt. >> i'm glad there was no kids or elderly people out here. >> reporter: could have been a lot worse? >> it could have. >> reporter: again, fortunate no injuries here. pitts faces a number of charges, including robbery, weapons violation and impersonating police. >> drew, thanks for that. the s.w.a.t. team swarmed a west philadelphia home after reports of gunfire. police were called to the area after several people reported

action news" viewer capture tropical disturbance on their cell phone, it happened on the atlantic city expresswaycester township. he crashed into the guardrail and the car caught on fire. despite the intensity of those flames no one was hurt. >>> a man with a crowbar went into a philadelphia check cashing business and tried to pry open an atm. it was rolling at is the chu agent on logan, the suspect was unsuccessful opening the atm and was able to get into the office and take $260 in cash. if you recognize the man in this video philadelphia police want to hear from you. >> repairs are made to a we're main that broke in delaware county shooting water high into the sky. the break happened along chester highway. all the water and the crews on the scene caused traffic delays around that area. officials with the chester water authority says that the main that broke was a 6 inch cast iron main. no injuries were reported and be aware of the road closures if driving in the area. you see what happened earlier today and the effects are still lingering this afternoon. >> a lot of water going into the air th

a pocket here working into the atlantic city expressway. that will fill in from the south and giving it a few hours and much of this will stop falling and that will move to the east and a drier night is ahead. 63 allentown. 66 wilmington and 69 in millville. so far in philadelphia our high has been 67 degrees. as you look at the radar here, over the last few hours. drying up to the north and west and that erodes to the south and east. low pressure is to the south. and really starting to ramp up here. a powerful storm off the coast, as it moves off to sea with hurricane force winds. that continues to churn up the waters as we get into the day tomorrow. above the sky will be approving and 8:00 tonight. rain around and midnight, a few left over showers and dry it up here tomorrow morning and any cloud cover early, temperatures tomorrow upper 70s. 78 for philadelphia for allentown and 77 millville and 76 at the boardwalk, it improves weather wise very dangerous rip currents for the day tomorrow. as we look at that tropical storm harvey that con

between the atlantic city expressway and route 322. >>> 6:02. new from overnight. investigating three suspicious fires within a mile of one another. all started when someone through a device through the window of a home on cob creek. short time later, car and truck set on fire. police took a man into custody and working to figure out if suspicious fires are all related. >>> now to continuing coverage of the zerk fsearch for a murde the main line. after trying to identify the man in the red hooddy, they know who he is and believe he's hiding out in philadelphia. >> pam, what's the latest. >> we know he tried to rob a kid on a bicycle before the homicide. moments later, john lee, the man who was killed happened to be walking by on saturday night. after that failed robbery attempt. according to police then went after 29-year-old lee shot and killed walking to a friend's house. launched all-out search for him considered to be armed and dangerous. used the same 40 caliber handgun to open fire on residents in overbrook about an hour before the homicide. he fired 17 shots

slow going on the atlantic city expressway.at route 73, some road work, that's going on there. so, that's going to gave you a problem this morning. coming up next, we do have i95 southbound, between new hope and newtown, the right lane block, until 3:00 this afternoon, because they're doing road work up there, in bucks county. we'll have your forecast in 15 seconds. in alter genes, looks like low levels of ragweed it, will pick up getting closer to autumn. molds spores still very hide outside, grass, pollen, very low. >> other weeds are picking up. one county left with the dense fog advisory, that's lancaster county, in effect until 9:00 this morning. >> zero visibility out there. starting to improve other places where we're seeing the sunburn through the fog. but could still slow you down up around reading, pottstown, allentown and even down in millville, new jersey this morning. we are mentioning hurricane gert because it is right off the virginia-north carolina coast, close enough to our delaware and new jersey beaches. powe

crowd, avalon, wildwood, no problems at all on the parkway and we are looking good on the atlantic city expressway and alex, back to you. >>> has it happened again? one woman is dead in france after a vehicle rams into two bus stops in port city of marseille. french police reporting that they have arrested the driver. this comes just days of course after the van attacked in barcelona. we are getting more information to find out exactly what happened. >> 6:34. >> yep, we are gearing up for today's once in a lifetime cosmic phenomenon. every time set up seems more amazing. >> more dramatic. >> yes. the great american eclipse, it is happening in less than seven hours and moon will move directly between the sun and the earth casting a shadow of darkness but for us it is not as much of a shadow of dark ness. >> no. >> it will be partial eclipse for us here in philadelphia but you will need special glasses to look. you cannot just look at the sun folks. >> hold on. >> it already started. >> look at that. >> this is early. >> oh, no. >> is that 80 percent right there. >> it looks like black and white coo

headlights coming toward philadelphia this morning the atlantic city expressway, just keep in mind on the ramp to the park bay, whether it number seven, that construction project, sometimes a 30, 40 minute delay just trying to get on to that ramp for exit number seven. willow grove park mall scene of the kick off for komen three day heading to the event this morning take the turnpike and exit at willow grove. when you come out of the tolls follow signs for route 611 south and mass transit looking g karen and thomas, back to you. >>> we have breaking news, right now, there has been a police chase, that has ended with a crash and there are injuries, we know number of different departments are involved lets get out to the scene and sabina kuriakose with what is happening right now, wow, that looks bad, sabina. >> reporter: karen, you can still see accident scene investigators out here right now, we did have police clearing the scene just a short time ago a few minutes ago and agencies start to leave but still very active, it appears these officers with their flashlights picking you this

atlantic city expressway a good drive right now whether you're headed eastbound or westbound. no problems getting there. back to you. >>> this morning we are following breaking news in south philadelphia. that's where police say an 11-year-old boy accidentally shot himself in the face while playing with a gun. this happened in the home along south hicks street. right now the boy is listed in critical condition but he is expected to survive. >>> now to a dangerous distraction that has a teenager hospitalized this morning. witnesses say the girl was face timing on her phone when she walked right into the path of an on coming car. it's a story that might spark conversation with your child ahead of the new school year. katy is there live. >> reporter: this is how it would look if you were face timing while walking. you can see how laser focused someone can be on the phone and not aware of what's happening around them. police believe that is what happened moments before this impact when this car and a 14-year-old girl came in contact. it happened yesterday afternoon on high land av

skyfox over steadily crash on the atlantic city expressway this was the seep on the highway in hamiltonownship around 2:0. police say only one car was involved. three people were inside. one person died. medics did take the others to the hospital. we do not know how they're doing tnight. >>> a crash involving philadelphia police sent three people including two officers to the hospital. the officers were responding to call around 12:45 this afternoon when police say they crashed into a car on 59th and market. both of the cars had damage but all three people are in stable condition. >>> developing right now, a controversial app is raising a lot of concerns tonight called sorarah it let's you give honest feedback. >> but there's already been reports of bullying as it becomes more popular with teens. our dave kinchen joins us now outside the studio and dave you talked to some parents expense about this new hot app. >> this happen has become popular virtually overnight as millions of teens hook it up to snap chat accounts but parents are becoming quite worried. >> it's scary. >> it's a bridg

heavy rain and rumbles of thunder and the most severe part of this area is down along the atlantic city expresswayand egg harbor. 17 lightning strikes in the last 15 minutes and releasing a lot of rain in a short amount of time. this area there is a lot of campgrounds and kids at camps hopefully they brought them in before the storm as rived and hear the thunder in the distance. picking up 2 to 3 inches that indeed create a lot of water in a short amount of time. and even smaller creeks and streams. 70 in philadelphia right now 71 in trenton and rain cooled with the storm that passed through, in philly and 70 right now, we hit a high of 89 degrees before the storms. we are also getting a lot of photos on facebook and twitter. beth ann sent this in. the structure of the clouds they look wavy in nate hur and was asking me what kind of clouds are these? >> they are called asprattous clouds the up drafts and down drafts with the thunderstorms and creates this neat picture almost looks like a painting and folks are capturing that nature's beauty and severe weather today. 88 in dover and 80 in cape may