the name queen village wasn't popularized until the 19 70s. >> and then there are some names like mantuaecessarily come with a easy explanation. >> this is the most odd one i can think of. i thought maybe lenny len pay, or dealing with people who made dresses, something like that, it is named after mantua, italy. and that's it. have no idea why. >> matt, i have to admit, 200 plus neighborhoods, i get a little confused at times. >> you're not kidding. we all do. there are so many. >> sometimes you talk to people in the neighborhood, they can't even get it straight. >> well, that's really -- >> and sometimes it can be different on one side of the street than the other. so it is very confusing for us. >> i feel like there is a new one popping up every day. >> yes. >> if you are in any of the neighborhoods this morning, hot, hot and humid to say the least for the entire philadelphia area. for our saturday today, we will watch for couple of showers, thunderstorms out, there as well, later on in the afternoon. we will talk about the chance for maybe a strong to even possibly severe thunderstor

looking good coming in from mantua and sewell, no delays, all the majors looking good this morning and the roads are dry, matt, tam, dave and jennette. i threw matt in there. >> he is sitting in front of an air-conditioner getting ready for the rest of the week. >> reporter: it's going to be hot over the next several days. right now we're comfortable, though. storm tracker 6 live double scan showing we have no precipitation out there. what a picture this morning over the commodore barry bridge. clouds and sun, i think overall we'll start out fairly bright today and eventually wind up more of a sun and clouds mix later this afternoon and let me just see if i can get my computer to roll here, if i can we'll continue, if not we'll take another break. there we go. we are looking at temperatures not too bad, 68 degrees in philadelphia. 65 in wilmington. 58 in in allentown. 70 degrees in cape may. we're looking at satellite with cloud cover down to the south and more cloud cover to the west, a little bit of additional cloud cover sweeping in later on. in the lehigh valley, 87 degrees today.

over the new jersey coast may be the biggest catch ever aroun >> breaking news out of philadelphia's mantua neighbor. another man is fighting for his life after gettin getting shot 3 times. police say this happened just past 9:00 on the 3900 block of brown street. that 30-year-old man is now at penn presbyterian in critical condition. we'll bring you more as soon as we learn more details. >>> five fire after fire at a center city apartment building has residents quite worried. in fact many are staying up at night. they're concerned that another one is going to break out after several incidents and authorities believe someone is actually setting those fires. fox 29's jeff cole has more. >> reporter: they're billed as luxury app homes right smack in center city. jfk boulevard and 18th. but all is not right here. >> a lot of us are really, you know, paranoid and fearful we're not getting sleep at night because we're kind of any noise that we hear we think it's something that's going on so we're jumping out of our rooms trying to check the hallways because nobody else is doing. >> reporter: che

. >>> police are investigating a shooting in philadelphia's mantua section that left a man fighting for his life. this happened just after 9:00 last night on the 3900 block of brown street. police tell us shot at least 13 time. he was rushed to the hospital where he is in critical condition. no arrest haves been made. >> and a community comes together to mourn a man shot and killed in delaware county. family and friends gathered yesterday evening in chester to hold vigil for 28 year old shah kwon crews chapel. gunned down last friday near west seventh street and highland avenue. he was shot at least five times. his mother got emotional as she remembered her son he he always helped people. no matter what, he loved his family. he loved to sing. he loved to make people laugh. and specially he loved his daughter. my heartaches. i just want him to just come back. i just need him to just come back. >> and so far police have made no arrests in that shooting. >> in other news, neighbor admits to shooting a cup toll death in frankford, now the victim's family and friends are demanding the d.a.'s

. >> ♪ >> new this morning, a man was shot 13 times as gunfire erupted in philadelphia's mantua section happened at around 9:15 last night along the 3900 block of brown street. police arrived and rushed the victim to the hospital where he remains in critical condition. >>> also new, two cars crashed in south philadelphia sending one of them veering into a building. the action cam was at passyunk avenue near lambert street late last night. one person was taken to the hospital. no word on that person's condition. >> there is yet again a call for increased security along the schuylkill river trail in the aftermath of two recent robberies. philadelphia police say last week a group of teens muscled someone off of a bicycle and then stole the bike near race street. a jogger also reported two teens jumped him and stole his iphone near 25th and locate crust streets over the weekend. in the last year there's been an outcry about crime and harassment along the trail and that has led to the installation of more lights and mile markers as well as a newly founded trail watch. >> you look out over th

fighting for his life this morning after he was shot multiple times over night if philadelphia's mantua section. >> this happened just after 9:00 last night on the 3900 block of brown street. police tell us the victim was shot at least 13 times. he was returned to the hospital where he is list in the critical condition. so far no arrest haves been made. >>> well, up next, we will tell you what caused a forest fire in south jersey that took days to get under control. >> also ahead, more raging wild waters and rains, what's left over from monsoon there. >> and last night, phillies- astros game went late after a rain delay. pat's here with highlights coming up in sports. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> money talks, sure does, but speak egg every monday i, we will tell you how much families are expected to spends on school supplies this summer and how much of that cost teenagers are covering. wait a minute. why would teenagers be covering that? >> they should, they should be , if you're working you need to help your family out. >> common, kids got to

the gunfire erupted around 9:00 last night on the 3900 block of brown street in philadelphia's mantua section. the victim is now in critical condition and police are searching for a suspect and for a motive in this shooting. >>> also new, a vehicle jumped the curb and slammed into a store in south philadelphia. the car spun out of control after a crash with an suv. this all happening along passyunk avenue near lambert street around 9:30 last night. one person was injured. there is minor damage to the store front. >>> and there's been long running tension and concerns over the security of the schuylkill river trail and two recent robberies are raising the issues yet again. philadelphia police say last week a group of teens muscled someone off of a bicycle and then stole it near race ted two teens jumped him and stole his iphone near 25th and weekend. this even after efforts in the last year to make the trail safer including the installation of and mile markers as well as the newly founded trail watch. >> if yriod of time and the numr of incidents here as compared to any neighborhood or

we're following several breaking stories including a confrontation between philadelphia police and mantua>>> new at 6:30 arc masked man who looked like something out of stephen king's it, police where not clowning around when it came to this case. >> breaking now on "action news," a one man is killed when fire engulfed an montgomery county home. >> a teen is killed at one of the country's largest state fair when a thrill ride breaks 'part. >>> breaking overnight, a pop star saying sorry just like his hit song after strike ago photographer with a truck. >>> matt o'donnell is off, jeanette reyes is joining us. >> let's go over to matt pellman in for karen rogers, david how is it feeling out there. >> reporter: it's pretty nice, we have high clouds and sun to the east. the closest rain is by toronto, but we could see a pop-up shower or thunderstorm in the afternoon or evening, basically dry now, though, 68 degrees in philadelphia. humidity on the low side to start out. 68 in allentown and reading, 71 in boston -- wilmington, dewpoit all that bad, 63 is higher in philadelphia than a couple of

in this every now and then, you can see that the rain is arriving in fenwick and mullica hill and mantua and places like that. cherry hill getting the lighter stuff, but the heavier stuff on the way. 76 in philadelphia. # 2 in -- 72 in allentown. 74 in cape may. most of us dealing with dewpoints in the 70s that's oppressive humidity. 77 degrees by 7:00. 3:00 p.m., 85 that will be the high and later this afternoon and evening there's the chance of a redevelopment of more strong gusty thunderstorms. you want to take cover from anything that rurms -- rumbles around today and tonight. there's scattered storms posted by the storm prediction center storms that form could produce damaging winds gusts and hail later today and tonight. the best chance of severe weather philadelphia and south. everywhere in the yellow box you have to be careful. when i step inside things get better for the weekend i'll have more on that. >> reporter: the morning commute is a wet one. looking live in delaware county, northbound traffic heading toward the blue route i-95 322 not far from the commodore barry bridge.

developing news out of the mantua neighborhood a man is fighting for his life after being shot 13 times last night police say it happened just pennsylvania nine on the 3900 block of brown street. thirty year-old is in criticl condition this morning, so far , no arrests. >>> it is 5:05 right now two. people in custody for an odd one, they were on the ben franklin bridge, but they were climbing it or scaling it, trespassing no matter what, you can walk over but in this incident it was creating a problem and police came out there to get them off. it started around 1:00 this morning and went on for quite sometime. they shut down both lanes of the ben franklin both directions, patco was suspended and they had crews on the water, they did get them down, they got the situation under control and it took an hour and a half. >>> messages of hate and police a again pop up in south philadelphia. this morning a reward is offered to stop vandals behind this disturbing graffiti. our steve keeley in south philadelphia with those messages this morning, steve. >> reporter: yeah, easy way to make news, an

. >>> developing news out of philadelphia's mantua neighborhood a man is fighting for his life after being shot 13 times last night, police say it happened just past nine at 3900 block of brown street. thirty year-old man is at presbyterian hospital in critical condition. so far no arrests. >>> messages of hate and threats against police once again pop up in south philadelphia. this morning a reward is offered to stop the vandals behind this disturbing, graffiti. our steve keeley at south detectives this morning with what we need to know, good morning, steve. >> reporter: yeah, i'm never a fan or comfortable even reporting this stuff because we are giving this a lot more visibility then it would get back here hidden under the old conrail tracks where road is closed and people come to dump old tv and tires that we see here but is there message on the pillar, there it is on one of the concrete barriers as well and these messages are spray painted like this for eight blocks here in, south philadelphia. in fact not too far. do you see that person they would never see this driving that wa

. >> man fighting for his life after he was gun down in the mantua section of philadelphia now police are working to identify a suspect, and a motive. the shooting happened just after 9:00 last night on the 3900 block every brown street. police tell us the victim was shot at least 13 times. he was returned to the hospital where he is list in the critical condition. >>> the driver of a tractor-trailer full of undocumented imigrants could spends the rest of his life in jail or even face the death penalty. ten people are dead after being found in the trailer in texas. reporter john loyer ends has the latest. >> james bradley, jr.; charged with knowingly transporting undocumented immigrants, that's after eight people were found dead inside a tractor-trailer in a sweltering san antonio parking lot. two others passed way and dozens more injured. denies the allegation saying he didn't know there were people crowd the in the back every his truck. the zero six year old could face the death penalty, man who has done business with bradley for knife years was shocked at the news. >> honestly he w

the gunfire erupted around 9:00 last night on the 3900 block of brown street in philadelphia's mantuacondition. police are searching for a suspect and for a motive in this shooting. >>> and also new a vehicle jumped the curb and slammed into a store in south philadelphia. the car spun out of control after a crash with an suv. this happened along passyunk avenue near lambert street around 9:30 last night. one person was injured. there is some minor damage to the store front. >>> and there's a push for increased security along the schuylkill river trail after two recent robberies. philadelphia police say last week a group of teens muscled someone off of a bike and stole it near race street. a jogger also reportd that two teens jumped him and stole his iphone near 25th and locust. over the weekend in the last year more lights and mile markers have been installed. there's also a trail watch and now surveillance cameras and emergency call boxes should be on the way for later this summer. >> ♪ >> just about 6:35 now. the u.s. senate is gearing up for a make or break vote on healthcare refor

utility who, an mantua.ice and s.w.a.t. teams . no word if anybody was hurt. >>> walk for winnie. today community members are wanting for the well-known activist who was shot and killed in her home in february. >>> and today the 1 millionth guest is expected to cross the shark bridge. that person will win a prize. we'll have another update in 25 minutes. you can always stay updated with our free app. "today" continues in minutes. he gets things done stevfor south jersey.o tell you don't believe him. because steve sweeney gets things done for himself, for the special interests who pay for his campaigns, and definitely for chris christie. but steve sweeney doesn't get things done for you. unless you count cutting education funding, raising the gas tax, and sending more of your tax dollars off to trenton instead of south jersey. if you're tired of typical politics,keteve swe. >>> this morning on "today's take," christmas in july, mariah carey's new movie and we've got a sneak peek. then throw-back thursday fun