plan your legendary stay at visitphilly.com >>> cecily tynan is live at the philadelphia zoo. >> playingsome little friends there cecily. >> that is exactly right. i'm here at kids zoo you. this is fun and don't call them ponies, they are miniature horses. >> they are the same proportions as horses but smal these guys condition be more than 34 inches high. to be a miniature horse it's like you put it in a dryer and shrunk it down. >> they make great service animals? >> they have great temperament and great for training and used for therapy animals and guide animals and for kids for special needs -- this one is trying to eat my -- dusty has quite a personality. dusty is the one that kind of misbehaviors a little bit. that one there is flash. i like flash come here flash. >> i showed you his pawing behavior earlier and the most dominant one is spirit back there. >> come here spirit. >> they are all 4 years old and all boys and here at our kids zoo you. and they come down to meet and greet people. >> kind of an ambassador. >> exactly. >> so the kids zoo you. they love to come here and there

a steady leader in an unsteady world. >> let's go back to cecily tynan and accuweather. you got some stormy weather in the area. >> that's right, jim. we went from oppressive heat and humidity to severe storms popping up right now. double scan live showing most of the activity north of philadelphia but it's beginning to sink closer so we have a severe thunderstorm warning posted for northeast philadelphia, parts of montgomery county, bucks county, camden county. this is until 6:45 and some of these storms have been producing very heavy rain. so a flash flood warning posted until 10:15 for mercer county up to about 2-inches of rain from fallen and this shows you on storm tracker life what we're talking about. it's really lighting up the turnpike right now, right over willow grove. we've had 276 lightning strikes with this and this system is really sliding to the east. so, oxford valley, fairless hills bristol levittown all in the path of the storm. not only are we looking at heavy rain and wind gusts we've also had reports of some small hail. a lot of that moved through la

meteorologist cecily tynan in for adam and she has the forecast and cecily, seems like we started greaty. it's been downhill from there. >> it really has been. the clouds rolled in yesterday. storm tracker6 live double can showing we have a few scattered light showers, a few in northwest suburbs, a few more in kent county delaware. there's heavier rain on the way moving in late tonight. temperature-wise you may want a sweatshirt. it's a little bit on the chilly side. philadelphia 77. allentown and trenton 79. millville 74. cape may the current temperature 72 and wilmington 74. we touched 80 degrees earlier today in philadelphia. but the normal high is 87, so definitely on the cool side and also a little bit on the humid side. philadelphia the dewpoint is 61. so, a little bit muggy but you can see how it's trending a lot higher. areas to the south wildwood, the dewpoint 68 and in dover, 70 degrees and that humidity will be increasing in the overnight hours and especially through the week. double scan, satellite6 along with action radar showing the clouds are in place. if you look across

and cecily tynan will be back with the full forecast from accuweather.ht back. >>> a thick green goo is covering the beach as long the southern east coast of florida, the toxic algae blooms are forcing residents and tourists to cancel their plans. the algae does not just look bad but smells horrible and can contain dangerous bacteria. many people out on the water are wearing masks to protect themselves. >> dead, rotten fish. >> it smells like death. >> i got a carful of snorkeling gear and can't get in the water. >> sounds terrible. no time line on when the mess will be cleaned up. it started when they released water from lake okeechobee to prevent flooding but it got into the nearby stream and into the ocean. they have declared a state of money for the four counties impacted the most. >>> police flooded the streets leading up to the 4th of july and arrest said 40 known gang members. fewer people were shot this year compared to last but more were shot and injured this time around. they feared that in the most dangerous neighborhoods that the holiday coul

cecily tynan is at the big board tracking how hot it will get. and how long it will stay. >> this heat takes your breath away, we have air temperatures across the board in the 90s, 94 in philadelphia and 95 in reading and 92 in millville and wilmington 93 and you factor in the dew points in the 70s and this is the way it feels, it feels like 100 in philadelphia. and higher dew points along the shore. cape may point, 103 the same at the atlantic city airport in dover and the current heat index is 104 and that excessive heat warning for the areas in pink continues through friday evening, the heat advisories for outlying areas the areas you see in orange they do expire tonight at 8:00, tomorrow we will have a slight change in our air mass, the reason why, double scan live radar showing this complex of storms that actually clip northampton county with a tornado warning at 3:00,

for jaime apody, cecily tynan and sharrie williams. i'm rick williams have a nice evening. >>> "action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with ducis rogers, cecily tynan and jim gardner. >>> tuesday night and philadelphia lift a ban on feeding the homeless outdoors and surveillance video shows a possible suspect in two attempted abductions in newark, delaware. >>> but the big story tonight on "action news" is the hillary clinton email scandal, the fbi announced this morning that the agency will not recommend criminal charges against clinton for using private servers while secretary of state. while that say relief. she did not get off scott free. fbi director, james comey severely criticized the democratic nominee for president and that may be his most damming statement. >> we did not find evidence that secretary clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive highly classified information. and comey contradicted clinton's statements t

. >> lets head outside to meteorologist, cecily tynan. >> temperatures about where they were yesterday, but the humidity levels are beginning to creep up and that trend will continue, right now in philadelphia, 86 degrees, that was our high yesterday, that is one degree below normal. washington, d.c. 85 and new york city 81 degrees, yesterday we had dew points in the 50s. a dry air mass and now they are edging up into the 60s, humidity is increasing and tomorrow will be very muggy. double scan live radar showing there is shower and thunderstorm activity to the west and some of that will move in during the day especially in the afternoon. what that will do it open the door for extreme heat and humidity. we'll do this again. an excessive heat watch for all the areas around the i-95 corridor. this is when the heat index will climb near 100 degrees, looks like we are heading into heat wave number three. we'll have more coming up in the full accuweather forecast. >> thank you. >>> now, to politics and today in the race for the white house hillary clinton getting a long awaited endorsement f

lets head to cecily tynan who knows how hot it is out there today. as we step outside it takes your breath away. you appreciate air conditioning, it's tough out there. taking a look at the center city skyline, fair weather cumulous clouds and nothing more than that. a few pop-up downpours though in central and northern new jersey, and this one in southern new jersey, just passed through lakewood and headed towards point pleasant. it skirted up a little farther to the northern and that is why we didn't see much activity at all but can't rule out a possibility of an isolated shower or thunderstorm. but most areas are rain free, 94 in philadelphia and the dew point is 68 degrees, you get dew points near 70 that is an prim he issively moist air mass. winds from the north northwest at 14 miles per hour. and the ocean temperature will refresh you a relatively cool 66. taking a look at the heat indexes across the region. dover it's the worst feeling like 102, cape may point you have the sea breeze, feeling good at 85 and trenton feels like 95 and the atlant

cecily tynan is live at the philadelphia zoo. she has an african millepied. >> this is a giant african millepied and they send to pinch and they have an exoh skeleton and they eat the cane plant material at the bottom of the forest floor and it's important for the echo system of the forest. they have a relationship with tiny little mights that live on them that keep them clean. that means they never have to take a shower, wouldn't that be nice. i'll feed the kangaroos coming up from the philadelphia zoo. >> all right cecily thank you. quick break. >>> "action news" continues w ith immediate -- hello again, monica is off and sharrie williams is joining us and here is what is happening on "action news" tonight. >> there is a lot we do not understand and like you i am demanding answers. >> a man selling homemade cd's outside of a convenience store is shot and killed by officers, we are live with more on the investigation. >> also, delaware investigators determine what touched off a fire that killed two young children back in january

meteorologist cecily tynan is in for melissa and she joins with us our first check of the accu weather forecast, hi there walter. >> hi walter. storm tracker six not lighting up as much as it did last night. we a few showers across the poconos and there are two isolated downpours burlington county, and ocean county, one is north of the browns mills, some lightening associate with, and another one is south of seaside heights crossing lbi, just across the garden state parkway. but as you stepped outside today it was hot, humid. right now philadelphia is 89. we were at 90 last hour. and the dew points are very high. fill right now dew .69 degrees. but along the shore, and delaware, we have dew points in the city in the 70's. that is an oppressive air mass. any thunderstorms we get when that air mass is in place will cause drenching downpours. satellite six with action radar showing most of the viewing area a lull in the action, however, what is going on there is a upper level low that is moving out of ohio, into pennsylvania, and that will be moving right over us, tomorrow. and that will

meteorologist cecily tynan at the "action news" big board with the details. and rick and alicia, unfortunately we have wet weather moving in. the good news is the heaviest will be waiting until after midnight but live on storm storm tracker6 double scan showing there's a warm front moving in and this has a bands of showers and this will be moving through overthe evening and this low pressure and that will ride right over us later on tonight and that's what will bring us some heavy rain with a threat of some thunderstorms. so, your fireworks forecast, a lot of people asking me about this, i would take an umbrella because there will be some showers around this evening, lots of clouds as well. also wear a sweatshirt, a little bit on the cool side at 8 o'clock, 75. by 10 o'clock 71. then after midnight is when the real heavy rain moves in so the national weather service has posted a flash flood watch for our entire viewing area beginning at midnight until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. i'll talk more about the specifics on how much rain to expect, when and where an

for cecily tynan, ducis rogers and the entire "action news" team.'m jim gardner live from the democratic nation an convention and we hope you'll join us for "action news" at 11:00. >>> breaking news tonight on the floor of the democratic national convention. the roll call under way. the tension. history about to be made. chants of hillary, chants of bernie on the floor. with hillary clinton about to become the first female presidential nominee. bernie sanders telling those booing, they're playing right into donald trump's hands. and an emotional michelle obama. did she just give hillary clinton the biggest gift of this convention? >> because of hillary clinton, my daughters and all our sons and daughters now take for granted that a woman can be president of the united states. >> and what we're just now learning about bill clinton's speech just hours away now. >>> also breaking, the deadly attack in church. an

cecily tynan is outside with the latest information from accuweather. >> today was officially the hottest day so far this year. the temperature in philadelphia hit 96 degrees beating last wednesday's high of 95. then you factor in the dew points in the 70s. the high humidity and the heat index the way it felt this afternoon. 103, you know conditioners were cranking today and we had triple digits heat indexes across our viewing area, allentown felt like 100 and trenton and wilmington a heat index of 101, and dover reporting the peak heat index of 111, now that excessive heat warning along the i-95 corridor that area in pink, however the heat advisories they expire at 8:00 tonight. i'll talk more about that and the weekend coming up in the full accuweather forecast. >> we want to remind you if you have heat related issues, you can call the heat line. the number, 215-765-9040. they will answer your calls until midnight and again tomorrow. >> the state of pennsylvania will kick in $10 million in efforts to resolve the contaminated well water in horsham and nearby communities. vernon odom has

meteorologist cecily tynan in for adam joseph. picture perfect day out there cecily. >> it is gorgeous brian and sharrie. we got rid of the oppressive heat and humidity from last week. kind of a breath of fresh air. temperatures running slightly below normal for a change. 83 degrees in philadelphia right now. normal high is 87. it is warmer down to the south, washington, d.c. 86 but new york city even cooler than we are, currently 79 degrees and satellite6 along with action radar showing good amount of sunshine. we are seeing some fair weather cumulus clouds popping up right now. they to in the contain any rain and tonight should be a pretty comfortable night. taking a look at the next 12 hours, temperatures will be dropping down into the 60's overnight and the humidity levels will stay relatively low. so, all in all, pretty comfortable. don't get used to it, though. changes are on the way. i'm tracking the return of humidity as well as heat. looks like late in the week temperatures will soar into the 90's. could have heat wave num

lets get the full story from meteorologist cecily tynan and accu weather, cecily. >>> at 11:00 o'clock tonight it is warm, humid. temperatures will be soaring over the next four days. right now in philadelphia the heat index, combination of the heat and the humidity makes it feel like 85 degrees. it feels like 38 in wilmington. eighty in trenton and red -- reading. it is in the just heat but also the humidity. the dew points, are in the 60's and even lower 70's. so it feels very humid and dew point will a actually be climbing as the temperatures climb. heat advisory has been posted for heart of our viewing area. i-95 corridor and all surrounding communities tomorrow from 11:00 o'clock through 6:00 o'clock. the reason why the heat and humidity, heat index will make it feel like 91 degrees in philadelphia a at 10:00 o'clock. if you like to go exercise outside do it early and then by later in the afternoon the heat index will be soaring up to about 97. 98 degrees on wednesday. and then it actually intensifies on thursday and friday. so this is what to expect, oppressive humidity, hottest

and cecily tynan at the big board with the chance of rain. >>> the weather pattern is going to changethe past few days, quiet weather and low humidity, thanks to the high pressure providing a slice of nice. that high pressure moving off the eastern seaboard. what this will do is shift the wind out of the southwest, pull out more humid conditions. and also pull up some instability in the form of some showers and thunderstorms. yesterday we had dewpoints in the 50s. now 66 degrees the dewpoint in philadelphia. so that's slightly muggy. but if you look to the south, dewpoints in the 70s, that's the air mass that will gradually move our way tomorrow. and futuretracker showing also moving our way some scattered showers and thunderstorms, especially around 2:00 in the afternoon. the afternoon, the atmosphere will kind of force downpours. not everyone will see them but it will open another round for excessive heat. excessive heat watch thursday afternoon into friday evening, along the i-95 corridor. this is where the heat index value up to about 100 degrees and more details on that in the ac

lets get right to meteorologist cecily tynan at the "action news" big board, cecily? >> jim, we have been in heat wave number two the past few days, air temperatures in the mid 90's but heat index, the way it feels when you factor in the humidity upper 90's to hundred degrees. that was the peak of the heat yesterday. we did have have scattered downpours and thunderstorms moving through this evening but double scan live showing last of it exiting the coast between surf city and atlantic city. parts of the south jersey getting hit very hard especially in atlantic and burlington county. you can see this area, that is just to the north east of the atlantic city expressway near egg harbor is reporting about three, two and a half, enclose to 5 inches of rain, four and a half in pamona at the atlantic city airport and that could lead to some localized flash flooding. flash flood warnings have now been cancelled, and then double scan live is showing next round of showers and thunderstorms with this cold front, that would be sweeping through, during the day tomorrow, i'll have

city to the shore on today's independence day festivity but first let's begin with meteorologist cecily tynan. she's at the big board with the somewhat soggy accuweather forecast. >> double scan live showing a band of showers moving in as we speak and this is all moving up to the north and the east but this is light to moderate rain, no thunder or lightning with this but a wider view showing that there's low pressure across the ohio valley. that actually has severe weather. that low pressure will be moving over us in the overnight hours and that will bring us some heavy rain with perhaps some thunder as well. that will be well off midnight. so, your fireworks forecast, there will be some showers around, no lightning. you may wander to take an umbrella an sweatshirt. by 8 o'clock 73 degrees, by 10 o'clock 71. after midnight between about 3 o'clock and 8 o'clock in the morning that's when we get the heavy rain and perhaps the thunder and lightning and because of that the national weather service has posted a flash flood watch for the entire viewing area from midnight until 10 o'clock tomorrow m

meteorologist cecily tynan is live outside with the details. what if we don't like soup, cecily. >> no choice. get outside and enjoy the weather now then if you don't like that soupy weather because that is heading our way but today very comfortable. 85 degrees in philadelphia right now. 86 in washington, d.c. new york city only 79 degrees and part of the reason why it feels so good is that dewpoints are generally in the 50's. that's a dry air mass. satellite6 along with action radar showing loads of sunshine. we are seeing some fair weather cumulus clouds popping up but once the sun sets, they'll be clearing out and tonight will be a very comfortable night. showing the next 12 hours, temperatures will be dropping down into the 60's overnight. dewpoints will be rising about 60 degrees so it will get a little bit more humid in the overnight hours but generally it's going to be feeling pretty nice. it's not going to last. humidity will be creeping up as we look ahead. late in the week i'm tracking the return of 90's with a heat index around 100. a

keep on scratchin'. >>> this looks good here. >> a happy ending here our own cecily tynan released ridley the owl back in the woods, you may remember ridley, cecily found ridley back in may and found her some help and the good people at the wildlife center nursed her to good shape and cecily fought back tears and they said that ridley was ready to take flight. she did so at the arboretum in delaware county. >> i did get emotional. and you are making fun of me. i posted that video on my facebook page, it was when i was out and about people would ask me about the weather and now people say how is the owl? well ridley is doing great. lets move out on to the weather. i'm an animal lover. making fun of me. showing that we have rain free conditions out there and nothing to cool us off now, another hot one 93 degrees, the current index in philadelphia. 96 in wilmington and the sixth day of the heat wave, we'll do it again tomorrow and then things will be changing, satellite 6 along with action radar showing we have a boundary to the south, and this really separates the moderate humidity in phila

. >>> so, get ready to sweat it out this weekend because meteorologist cecily tynan said we're not even halfway through an expected heat wave. cecily, lets get all of the facts and figure from accu weather. >> jim, we are in day two of what will likely be a five take heat wave. it began yesterday with the high of 96. heat index 103. today 92 degrees with the heat index of 94. so not quite as intense today but saturday, sunday, and monday, temperatures, yet again will be in the 90's and i think monday the heat index could be up around 100 degrees again. your saturday day planner showing already by 10:00 o'clock temperatures up to 85. we will hit 90's by two in the afternoon and late in the afternoon could get pop up showers and thunderstorms. we will have details on that and weekend including the shore and poconos coming up in the full accu weather seven day forecast, jim. >>> thanks, cecily. there is a report out there that at about midnight last night, donald trump, and his staff, asked his staff if he could change his mind and ask someone other than mike pence to be his running mate.

lets go live to cecily tynan live at the big board. >> we are halfway through the heat wave, day two and counting, yesterday's high is 95 and today so far 94 degrees, the normal high is 97 degrees, with the high due points some areas it feels hotter than that. the heat index shows that dover currently it feels like 102 degrees and that is dangerously hot and feels like 97 degrees at the atlantic city airport and the heat index in philadelphia dropped to 95 and we were at 99 earlier today. excuse me -- stormtracker 6 live double scan showing that there was a piece of energy that moved through a short wave and this is really moved up to the north, we did have some showers and thunderstorms in central new jersey, that is now pushing off the coast and we'll have to wait for an approaching cold front tomorrow afternoon and evening to bring us more widespread activity. that means the excessive heat warning continues through 6:00 tomorrow, along the i-95 corridor, this is where the heat indexes are the highest, near 100 degrees, a good idea if you can go up to the poconos or head to the sho

meteorologist, cecily tynan, outside on the terrace with the latest from accuweather. >> reporter: hi monica, philadelphia reaching a high today of 92 degrees, that makes today day five of our heat wave and counting, of the course though, compared to yesterday, a record high of 97, and a heat index of 109. compared to yesterday it doesn't feel that bad. the current heat index in philadelphia 94 degrees, most of our viewing area heat indexes below 100 and the exception is dover where it's 100 degree but yesterday the heat index in dover was up to 114. the reason the cold front that brought us violent thunderstorms last night. satellite 6 along with action radar showing us we are getting high thin clouds from the front and stalled to the south and this is bringing united states the winds out of the northwest. it feels a lot better than yesterday. the heat wave is not over yet, two more days of temperatures in the 90s and a brief dip in the humidity and gets more humid and unsettled late in the week coming up in the full accuweather forecast. >> thank you cecily. time for a check of the

cecily tynan has the latest on temperatures, it's still hot but today is the worst. dew points are dropping a little bit tomorrow. rick are you live -- listening to the forecast. this is a beautiful shot from easton, pennsylvania, seeing a good amount of sunshine, hazy sunshine out there, it's a great day to be inside of air conditioning, you look out and say it looks beautiful but doesn't feel that way. wind gusts of 25 miles per hour in philadelphia and 28 in allentown and the southerly wind is pulling up high temperatures. dew points in the 70s and the heat index the way it feels, 101 at the atlantic city airport. satellite 6 along with action radar showing this clip of energy in atlantic city causing a warning at 3:00 that is known as a dew point front. behind this system we are mixing in slightly drier air as we head through the day tomorrow. so the dew points instead of the 70s will be in the 60s. it's not as oppressively humid that being said tonight is sticky and warm, and partly cloudy skies and 77 in philadelphia and 72 in allentown and 75 in wilmington and

only fios can. >> time for accuweather at the "action news" big board. >> meteorologist cecily tynan weekend forecast that has some cool weather in it cecily, hm. >> yeah, second half of the weekend especially and we have some relief on the way. storm tracker6 live double scan showing that we've got some relief this afternoon in the form of storms. they're widely scattered. not everyone is getting them but those who do are getting hit very hard. case in point, we've got a flash flood warning in effect near new hope right now until 9:15 up to 2-inches of rain has already fallen and could get another 2-inches from this system. part of the reason why, the high dewpoints, there's so much moisture in the air. also, the cell is moving slowly sinking to the southeast at only about 10 miles per hour so it's right south of new hope right now. it's heading towards pennington, yardly, woodside, ewing, morrisville trenton and mercerville in the path of this storm. we have 92 lightning strikes the past 15 minutes. really the big issue with this storm is the heavy rain. we also have this one cell,

for cecily tynan, ducis rogers and the entire "action news" team i'm jim gardner we hope you'll join00 for the climatic night at the democratic national convention. the. >>> tonight, breaking news. the enormous stakes for hillary clinton. still writing and tweaking her speech late today. after that unexpected moment. coming around the corner after listening backstage to performer rival, now making the case for her. >> there has never been a man or a woman, not me, not bill, nobody more qualified than hillary clinton. >> tonight, what will clinton say here? what might she reveal to a country so fiercely divided on hillary clinton? >>> donald trump and the backlash tonight, after saying to russia, if you're listening, find hillary's e-mails. tonight, the campaign now saying it was sarcasm. >>> and this evening here, my one-on-one with clinton v.p. pick senator tim kaine. i ask him, what does he make of

cecily tynan what about the rest of this night and tomorrow? the last full day in philadelphia for most of these delegates. >> things are getting stormy, stormtracker 6 live double scan showing the storms over sea isle city have left and we get a break and this is reloading today and tomorrow, and this could cause travel problems as well. today all about the heat and 94 degrees with the heat index of 97, day six of the heat wave, the longest heat wave of this year. when we get rid of the heat, we shift to the potential for flash flooding and a watch is posted for most of our viewing area thursday night through friday night for the potential for flash flooding and the air mass is saturated and any storm could bring down a lot of rain if a short period of time. if you step out tonight it's hot, 94 in philadelphia and the same in millville and the heat index 102 in dover and it gets more humid tonight. satellite 6 along with action radar showing we are in between systems now a cold front up to the north and a stationary front to the south, what th

. >>> cecily tynan with the accuweather forecast when "action news" continues in just a moment.nt to soar along the highest, longest and fastest zipline in north america, there's only one place to do it. and that's not the only thing you can only find in new york state. ♪ it's all in the catskills. only in new york. new york. it's all here. it's only here. plan your summer vacation at iloveny.com >>> just a tad steamy today, we are halfway through the heat wave, there is light at the end of the tunnel. two more days we can make it. stormtracker 6 live double scan showing we don't have showers to help cool us off. we are live on sky 6 hd looking at the center city skyline, there is still brightening in the skies, i think we'll have nice sunset pictures, if you take photos post them on my facebook or twitter account. the sunsets at 8:22 and i may use your photo on "action news" at 11:00. tonight all about the heat, look at the heat indexes. philadelphia felt like 100 degrees this afternoon and the same in millville at the atlantic city airport and dover felt like 102 and the highe

and christie ileto finding out how people are coping, but cecily tynan with more on the heat wave. >> the hottest so far, 96 degrees. that is not the full story. the index you will to 1 100. and atlantic city airport 105. that wins within and where the heat index approaching 100 degrees. the air mass will slightly change tomorrow and over the weekend. and i will talk about how in the full accuweather forecast. >>> let's switch line to "action news" reporter christie ileto on the ben franklin parkway. how has the city been reaching out to vulnerable citizens in this brutal heat? outreach workers passing out water and bringing them to shelters who are cannot bare this dangerous heat. >> it is outbrich -- outreach. >> what are you doing. >> we have plenty of ice and water in the bag. and doing hot spot where most of the homeless put together >> and make sure the hazard automatic meet. >> and getting you off the street for school places. >> no one immune to thursday's steamy weather, supposedly those working in it. the humidity a game-changer at the limping. and meeting if guns and roses

. >> cecily tynan is off and we have add adhere to tell us how it's going. it looks pretty good today. >> today is the best day of the week and the best day of the next seven as the heat and humidity builds again. we look berks county westbound, haze in the distance but that haze will build especially friday, saturday and sunday into monday. but for now we have an easterly wind at the shore. pulling the numbers into the 70s around 80 degrees, the ocean temperature sitting at 70 degrees, inland locations below average for this time of year. and rare for the month of july. 85 in reading and 83 in wilmington. a few high clouds bubbling up from the north and west and that is the flow now with the drier winds coming in although they are light, it's bringing in lower humidity and the winds switch from the southwest here starting tomorrow. >> so another comfortable night tonight under a clear sky and gently breeze. 62 in reading and 66 in wilmington and similar to that along our shore communities. thursday tomorrow there is some minor changes with respect to the te

with jaime apody, meteorologist cecily tynan, rick williams and monica malpass. >> ♪ >> ♪ [cheers anduse] >> and with the sound of that gavel the 2016 democratic national convention is officially under way in philadelphia. baltimore mayor stephanie rawlings-blake was chosen to do the honors in the wells fargo center today. and philadelphia's own boyz ii men kicked off the party itself with a performance. it is monday night. the big story on "action news" is of course the convention that has the world watching philadelphia. hillary clinton will make history here as the first female presidential nominee of a major political party. we are live at the wells fargo center where it is all happening and "action news" anchor rick williams, my colleague is joining us live there. rick, a lot of drama before that gavel ever dropped wasn't there. >> good evening everyone. that's right after months of planning it's finally begun. the democratic national convention will last four days and promises to bring a lot of excitement and a few surprises, too. there's also controversy that kicked offer the c

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and the check of stormtracker live radar, and here is meteorologist cecily tynan. cecily, a tough night. >> it certainly was. the storms were intense. double scan live showing we don't have any severe weather now. we just have a cluster of some downpours working off the coast. but if you consider this morning the early storms and this evening, this zone in yellow, this is the rainfall totals. and this is where we had anywhere from 2-4 inches of rain. and that caused flash flooding. the flash flood warnings just expired. and we also had a lot of wind damage. winds this afternoon, 68 miles per hour bringing a lot of trees down. we also had wind damage in trenton, mount holly, northeast philadelphia. a lot of areas reporting hail. and hail as big as nickels. it did provide temporary relief. the heat index at 7:00 before the storms in philadelphia 104. by 8:00, 75. don't get used to it. i will talk about the return of heat and humidity and more storms on the way in the full accuweather seven-day forecast. jim? >> thank you, cecily. more weather issues here. >>> reporter

for cecily tynan, ducis rodgers, and the entire "action news" team, i'm jim gardner. we hope you'll join us at 11:00. >> ♪ >>> tonight, as we come on, another city, another deadly shooting. inside a courthouse. the building on lockdown for a time. several dead. the gunman taken down in the shootout. what we've just learned about the suspect. >>> also tonight, the ambush in dallas. and what shorts have now revealed about what might have been a much larger plot. and what the killer scrawled in his own blood. >>> major new developments. the newly obtained police recordings tonight from the moments before that horror, livestreamed on facebook. what the new audio reveals. >>> the terrifying moments. the takeoff aborted here in the u.s., the passenger jet barrelling down the runway. what happens when the pilots suddenly try to halt the flight. >>> and the popular singer and the desperate search for his son.

let's get the very latest from meteorologist cecily tynan who's at the "action news" big board with stormtrackercecily? >> and, wick, this radar is not something you want to see during a holiday weekend. we've got pretty steady rain that's really moved through philadelphia right now. areas to the north and then if you look across west virginia and virginia, there's low pressure with some thunderstorms. and that's also heading our way overnight. so zooming in right now, the heaviest rain is over ocean county. it's right across the garden state parkway. really between seaside heights and surf city. this is lifting up to the north and the east. it's just crossed route 72. this extends in not quite as concentrated a fashion into parts of montgomery and burks county, landdale. you had a cell that moved through to south of doylestown. north and west of reading wef gotta pockets of steadier rain. with this rain coming heavier at times overnight. that flash-flood watch goes into effect at midnight for our entire viewing area until 10:00. everyone will see the -- not everyone will see the flooding but th

>>> cecily tynan will have more on the accuweather forecast, plus ducis rodgers with the phillies. >>course, an update on the breaking news in dallas. the shooting at a downtown protest and an officer injured. now reports that two officers were shot. the latest from dallas >>> now to update our big story tonight. breaking news from dallas, texas, where multiple shots were fired at police during a protest march tonight against the police shootings. the lieutenant governor of texas has asked for prayers for the officers shot, and our sister station, wfaa says two police officers were gunned down and rushed to hospitals. an army of officers surrounded a multi-story parking garage in downtown dallas where the sniper is believed to be holed up. they say the gunman is wearing some kind of tactical body armor. the latest on this breaking story on 6abc.com overnight and on "action news" beginning at 4:30 in the morning. >> a 12-year-old girl killed in texas today when a truck crashed into a bridge sending a concrete slab flying onto the car in which she was riding. her mother is in critical c

america runs on dunkin'. >>> you may remember meteorologist cecily tynan rescuing an injured baby owlg a run in the spring. the cecily paid a special visit to the schuylkill wild life station center yesterday, to check out ridley the owl, little bird of pray is flying on her own now and now learning how to hunt. ridley is expected to be released back in the wild in the next two to three weeks. way to go, cecily. >> that is right. friend to all animals. >> so cute. ridley is adorable. >> we pray that things go well. >> yes. >> i have been working on those rails, all the live licensing day but we expect delays, once again, as morning progresses. i would say after 7:00 you're more inclined to see delays and overcrowding. if you are boarding at a station closer to the city there is a chance that the train will speed right by you and not stop because they are too many passengers on the train. also working on the bridges overnight, but working tacony palmyra, betsy ross and here on the ben franklin has cleared, david. >> sun and cloud, hot and humid and oppressive once again. your temperatu

meteorologist melissa magee in now for cecily tynan. tracking it all. >> hi, sharrie and rick. we are tracking those showers and thunderstorms some of which are turning severe at this hour. storm tracker6 live double scan radar and a broken line of activity pressing into the region extending from that 95 corridor and pressing to the east. there's actually a severe thunderstorm warning for new castle, kent and salem counties until 5:15 this evening so the counties included the -- the states include -- the townships i should say wilmington bear also salem middletown down to smyrna and dover the storm systems vi ttheast at about 40 miles per hour. winds in excess of 60 miles per hour and the possibility of penny or quarter size hail. street level with storm storm tracker6 you could see as we track the precipitation as it moves eastward out of salem it will be in alloway at about 5 5:12 and fenwick at 5:13. a cluster of 80's along route 301 in middletown and also between newark at around 5:07 this will be in stave landing in 5:25 it will be pressing into canton. we'll be tracking t

adam joseph in for cecily tynan this evening with a look at the fork.there adam. >> yeah, brian we did not hit 90 today so officially the heat wave over, 86 right now but it still feels like it's 90 or above in many locates because of that extremely high humidity and as you note on the midatlantic temperature map here, not one 90-degree mark when you're talking about air temperature but those dewpoints remain in the mid and upper 60's for the greater washington, philadelphia and new york city area, 70 in richmond so the humidity still around and that's what's going to get us into trouble here along with some atmospheric energy that comes in from the west. you can see all the downpours and thunderstorms kentucky ohio, west virginia and this is pushing off to the east and will arrive here late tomorrow morning into tomorrow afternoon. but for tonight out on the town, hey, it's looking pretty good for a friday night. 84 degrees at 7 o'clock, 82 at 8 o'clock staying dry through 10, 11 o'clock with those temperatures falling into the upper 70's. but we'll ta

cecily tynan has the exclusive accuweather forecast. fios is not cable. we're wired differently.o we wired the wagner's house with 100 meg internet. which means that in the time it takes mr. wagner to pour a 20 oz. cup of coffee, tommy can download 30 songs, and jan can upload 120 photos. 12 seconds. that's the power of fiber optics. and right now you can get 100 meg internet with equal upload and dowloads speeds, tv and phone for just $69.99 per month online. cable can't offer internet speeds this fast at a price this good. only fios can. and slightly more humid than yesterday. certainly comfortable and bearable out there. 87 degrees in philadelphia right now, that is our normal high for this time of year. normal for a change. trenton 84 and see the arrows that is the wind direction. ocean temperatures in the mid-70s. beach haven 78 and cape may point 79 degrees. satellite 6 along with action radar showing we have high pressure beginning to work off the eastern seaboard, once that does tomorrow it pulls in the winds from the south-southwest. there are scattered showers and thund

with ducis rogers, meteorologist, cecily tynan, and jim gardner. >> tens of thousands of dollars worthd from homes in several towns, the burglary spree came to an end when the police got ahead of one suspect. i'm melissa magonica malpass an story the burglary ring that targeted homes across the delaware valley. chad pradelli is live now with the "action news" exclusive. >> reporter: three of thur suspects in custody were captured behind me, according to authorities they were attempting to burglarize a home what they didn't know they were being tracked by police. >> anthony jones's front door is boarded up and out tens of thousands of dollars in jewelry and other valuables. >> jones was in london for work when authorities say that sean lender shown here on the door bell cam broke into the house on the unit block of gray stone in marple. >> i didn't know if they had an inside tip and knew where my safe was. >> it was behind a door. >> a month earlier a home on the 400 block of newtown street road was also burglarized. they caught linder and james allegedly trying to break into this home

cecily tynan is live at the "action news" big board. cecily what is the latest from accuweather? >> the system ending the heat wave is bringing much needed rain and too much too quickly. that is the flash flood threat. double scan live radar showing the conveyer belt of moisture. it originated in the gulf of mexico. that is why we have the tropical feeling and the threat of severe weather shifted south of philadelphia and the national weather service canceled the severe thunderstorm watch for philadelphia and areas north, that is really south of philadelphia south jersey and delaware until midnight. these are the areas that have the threat for damaging winds and hail and we have been seeing this with a cell that was moving out of dover. double scan live radar showing along the i-95 corridor in delaware, but south jersey delaware is where we see the heavy hitters as we zoom to the south that is the cell i tracked out of kent county and heading to cape may.

. >>> coming up on "action news" at 5:00, cecily tynan with an outdoor adventure. staying cool at the zoo hopefully? >> i'm trying i'm in the shade here and we are just featuring animals naturally from hot climates because we are in a heat wave. jeanette is a bearded dragon, when they feel threatened they puff out their throat and it looks like they have a beard and when they are aggressive they are bobbing their head and when they are submissive they bob their head like this. i'll be feeding another animal from australia, the kangaroos later on on "action news." back to you guys. >> she is a ventriloquist now. >> all right cecily we have more coming up, "action news" at 5:00 is next. >>> "action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with jaime apody, meteorologist, cecily tynan, rick williams and monica malpass. >>> hydration was key for anyone out and about today. mother nature cranked up the heat and humidity this morning and the muggy weather is not going anywhere any time soon. monica malpass is off and sharrie williams is joining us. we have a heat wa

with jaime apody, meteorologist, cecily tynan, rick williams and monica malpass. >>> the skies opened up this afternoon. and the rain came pouring down. heavy storms came through the region and could be severe at times. thursday night and the big story on "action news" is accuweather tracking strong storms, there is heavy rain and thunder and lightning and hail as a possibility too. lets get over to cecily tynan with the latest details and images from storm tracker radar. >> the heat wave is going out with a bang, if you look at this, on double scan live, you can see almost this conveyer belt of moisture moving our way. that is a severe thunderstorm watch in effect until midnight. and we have a severe thunderstorm warning now for central kent county and dover and woodside until 5:30, this cell is packing a punch. the potential for wind gusts up to 60 miles per hour even hail and this rights now is heading to the southeast at 20 miles per hour. so dover air force base are you getting hit and you are crossing route 1 for folks heading to the delaware beaches and people in the path of th