route 70 closed in both directions breaking news right now in the marlton area. wires are down because of the severe weather that's ripping through burlington county right now. those wires came down about an hour ago. you can see traffic is diverted off the highway there. the good news is, there nor reports of any injuries and of course we'll stay on top of this and bring you the latest. >>> you saw this first on fox. a man sworn to protect and serve allegedly put a lot of people in danger this morning. it happened in north philadelphia early this morning. people couldn't believe their eyes. a jeep came ping-ponging off a parked cars before daylight. >> behind the wheel, police tell us an off duty police officer drunk. this on a busy street typically filled with lots of traffic and lots of children. fox 29's joyce evans is live at police headquarters tonight to fill us in. joyce? >> reporter: well, dawn and iain, the owners of those cars spent their day dealing with the damages but the accused officer, he spent his day right behind me here at the round house bein

medford, a crash at route 70 at old marlton pike. slowing near the accident scene. crossing the delaware river no complaints at the area bridges including ben, the traffic is moving just fine. we're complaining on the west trenton regional rail line, half-hour delays because of equipment problems this morning. >> thank you matt. >>> breaking this morning an 11-year-old boy is injured after reportedly shooting himself in the face. it happened while he was handling his father's weapon. katherine scott is live outside children's hospital in philadelphia, where the child was taken. good morning, katherine. >> reporter: good morning, tam, police are here at the hospital to learn more from family members we learned the child has been upgraded to stable condition taken overnight in critical condition, but he was conscious he is expected to survive. he is in stable condition. the investigation continues. let's go to video from the scene in south philadelphia where police are gathering evidence shortly before 12:30 a.m., police were notified that an 11-year-old girl was take

chester brook with a quarter size hail and marlton a house strike by lightning. and mar ris town roads flooded and easton roads flooded and some roads closed in the lehigh valley. and storms start to fall around after sunset and low 70s through 11:00 with the sky beginning to clear. we'll chat about the seven-day forecast much quieter and a big change in time for the weekend in the full accuweather forecast in just a little bit. >> thank you. >>> the search is on for vandals in delaware after the homes of two newcastle officials were targeted with spray paint. monica malpass live in the newsroom with more on this story. >> it has to do with tension in newcastle about parking lots in the historic district specifically. on monday a council meeting and it got so tense police had to be called in. and now they say it's hitting too close to home, literally. >> and cross fit training can be a daunting workout for people of any age and one 60-year-old man is proving it's never too late to get in shape. ali gorman with the inspirational story in health check and those sto

construction, near marlton, route 70 westbound, closed between hartford road and maple avenue.your alternate around this area will be church road or route 38. it will be your best bet. then also looking at some construction as well north broad closed between 68th and zero seven until october 2nd, so it will be one of those that lingers out there, your alternates, old york road, 15th street, will be your best bet. more to come in the next ten minutes. jim, over to you. >> thank you shall meishament some sad news, military officials have suspended the search for five missing crew members, of an army blackhawk helicopter. the chopper went down last week off the coast of hawaii during a training exercise. the coast guard and the navy searched more than 72,000 square nautical miles. military officials say total of four helmets were found. along with other debris from that helicopter were found. >> council meeting in charlottesville, virginia ends with three arrest. protesters interrupted the public meeting last night. some were calling on their city representatives to resign this wa

lets take you to a tour right now, you see heavy downpours near medford lakes and palmyra and marltonhe northeast. moving northeast along the new jersey turn took and i want to show you another cell now that just cropped up near millville and vineland, we have a lot of lightning strikes around and that cell has the potential for some hail and for winds up to 60 miles per hour so the national weather service just issued a severe thunderstorm warning for that cell until 6:00 for the potential for hail, and damaging winds and that system is moving northeast at 25 miles per hour. we also still have the flash flood warning for newcastle county, delaware for north central until 5:45, some areas are more than 3 inches of rain in about an hour's time and a lot of reports of the storms the flooding and jackson township about an inch and a half and less than an hour chester brook reporting hail the size of quarters and marlton lightning sparked a house fire and roads closed due to flooding and flooded roads in easton. storms really dropping the temperatures, philadelphia 70 degrees we were at 8

also, some lightning reported to have caused some house fires in marlton. also around the mt.e due to all of that vivid lightning that we saw across parts of the area. so hour by hour, maybe a leftover overnight shower and then tomorrow morning, it's muggy. those temperatures climb near 9. more pop-up showers thunderstorms expected tomorrow but the coverage will likely not be as widespread as it was tod today. but nonetheless we still have some rainfall chances in the forecast. before today's rain tie temperatures made it into the upper 80s. 89 philadelphia. 87 for wilmington and atlantic city. temperature wise right now, we have 71 in wilmington. 71 in atlantic city. so overnight low temperatures mid to upper 60s. that spotty overnight shower it stays humid and hour by hour for tomorrow, a muggy morning. partly sunny skies. temperatures warming up upper 80s, 90 degrees by 4:00 o'clock. watching once again for those pop up showers and thunderstor thunderstorms. 90 tomorrow. 88 degrees on friday. as we move toward the upcoming weekend a cold front friday into saturday will brin

some lightning strikes in marlton, mt. laurel, likely causing some structure fires.the flood advisories north and west also right now concentration of that heavy rain into parts of south jersey. so more of the same over the next several days. not everyone will see the rain, but once again, it will come down kind of fast and heavy as we go hour by hour, most of the rainfall moving into parts of south jersey. some of it could hold together and clip sections of the shore. tomorrow morning it's dry, it's quiet then watch what happens. more pop-up downpours across the area. kind of gusty winds, ominou omis rainfall outside of our studios now. rain cooled. look at the temperature 70 but look at the high humidity 90%. rain cooled right now. 71 in allentown. still 88 degrees though in dover. for tonight, it's mild, it's muggy, upper 60s. for tomorrow, we'll do it again across parts of the area. high temperatures nearing 90 degrees with yes, more pop up showers and thunderstorms. 88 degrees by friday. morning showers saturday but note the cooler temperatures. 84 on saturday.

michael pepper atlantic city firefighter and pharmaceutical representative tho of marlton admitted to bilking state benefits programs and other insurers by committing fraudulent claims for unnecessary prescriptions. two others including matthew tedesco pleaded guilty yesterday. >> ♪ >>> there is a lot of excitement about monday's solar eclipse and it's made those dark eclipse glasses a hot commodity. "action news" reporter trish hartman has more on the search for those elusive glasses. >> reporter: the line at the franklin institute flowed out of the science store into the lobby. >> i had my girlfriend waiting in the car i'm almost on e i ran in and they were selling them for five dollars a pair and limit five of them. i want my daughter to see this. >> reporter: a shipment of 3500iso compliant eclipse glasses was delivered today. customers could purchase up to five pairs at $4.99 each a relief for anxious eclipse fanatics waiting patiently in line. >> this is perfect timing. i'm taking off next week starting monday so this is wonderful. my whole family. >> reporter: the glasses will

white marsh, montgomery county, marlton and mt. laurel and burlington counties a house and structure fire wires down in vineland. we saw a lot of images of flooding on i95 north and southbound in philadelphia, and on the schuylkill mainly over cumberland and cape may counties in new jersey. late to moderate rainfalls, watching this line of storms, you can see over last hour, these cells are weakening as they continue to move their way eastbound, but still think one of those could sneak their way nnot going to rule out a lingering thunderstorm, otherwise mostly cloudy with areas of fog, low temperature falling back to 70. will we have quieter conditions in store for thursday and more importantly the upcoming weekend, i'll have the answer in your eyewitness forecast coming up in a few. >> habitat for humanity becomes a victim of a theft in salem county, tools used by the group to build homes for those in need were stolen. from a construction site in pitts grove township. >> tears of joy and a whole lot of sweat equity have gone into

route 70 closed for little while in marlton, new jersey, because of downed wires around 5:00 near the 73 overpass. all the way to locust avenue. the roads were open back up about an hour after that. in evesham, fresco user andy was on pat paddock street where a house fire was hit because of a strike by lightning and caused a fire. water damage is now keeping that family of four out of their home right now but the good news, no one was hurt and that fire was just contained to the attic. >>> in magnolia the rainbow fresco user andy found this one for out there. when you see news happening, take out your phone and shoot it and use the fresco app to zen it to our newsroom. you just might get paid. >>> 50,000, that's how many people amazon is looking to hire from around the country in the first amazon jobs day and many of those jobs are right here in our area. 1500 of those positions will be at the fulfill many center in robbinsville, new jersey. fox 29's jennaphr frederick spoke with one woman who really hoping to get hired. >> reporter: yes. >> welcome. >> who isn't? >> have i three daug

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 exactly what happened in this case. and here is what we do know. a 31-year-old woman went missing this morning and back with her family tonight and that family is very relieved. >> i can breathe again and my whole family can breathe again. >> bill law says that is the only way he can describe finding his daughter britney after he went missing this morning. she was out celebrating her sister's 21st birthday and they ordered a ride from lyft the ride share service. there is no confirmation that a lyft driver picke

happened last month route 73 in marlton. police say the moment the man in the bathroom confronted him, that's whether giles ran off, jumped into a car, and hasn't been seen since. >> time 5:09. march grade officials will hold special meadeing this morning to discuss that controversial do you know project, they're considering taking legal action. yesterday the army corps of engineers began pumping water out of the base on formed between the sands dunes and homes. once the water is drained, they're going to replace it with a foot of sand and raise the trench to allow for more draining. they also plan to put in temporary walkways so people can get to the beach while they work on t resident though still not happy. they want a better solution. >> each day it seems like they're just playing catch up rather than getting ahead of the problem that we have. >> the seagulls are here. the flies are here. they're laying their eggs. the laugh vai will pop up in 48 hours. this is a public health environmental major concern. >> there is mor

happened last month on route 73 in marlton. the moment the man in the bathroom confronted him, giles ran off, jumped into a car, and he hasn't been seen since. >> margate officials will hold a special meeting this morning, to discuss the controversial do you know project, they're considering taking legal action. yesterday the army corps of engineers began pumping water out of the basin that's formed between the sand dunes and homes, once the water is drained they'll replace foot of sand and raise the trend top allow for more draining. they also plan to put in temporary walk weiss so people can get to the beach while they walk on t residents say they need to find overall a better solution. >> each day it seems like they're just playing catch up rather than getting ahead of the problem we have. the seagulls are here, the flies are here, they're laying their eggs, the laugh vai will pop up in 48 hours. this is a public health environmental major concern. >> it will have more on this one, because the city's board of commissioner me

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montgomery county, structure fire due to a lightening strike and wires down house fire due to lightning marlton, burlington county. same case in mount laurel structure fire on white chapel road due to lightening. quarter sized hail in chesterbrook. we have had multiple reports of the hail, mainly pea sized in nature, mount laurel, gloucester county several trees down due to gusty winds and we had widespread flooding reports as well. storm scan three showing us a quiet picture even over the last 30 minutes or so. west of i-95, this rain wrapping up but we still do have these stronger cells, that are moving their waye at 25 to 30 miles an hour closer to the coast especially ocean county down toward atlantic county, little egg harbor knocking on the door for you, heavy rain over mulika and this rain will start to push itself closer to our shore points. brigantine could be dealing with heavy rain, lightening, gusty wind looking at 6:45. cape may county starting to see light rain, on our northern edge but still quite a bit of rain up wind that could be building in as we head in the next hour, still

were a lot of lightening strikes that led to a couple fires in, fact white marsh montgomery county, marltonburlington county, both locations you ended up with some fires courtesy of lightening strikes in those areas. structure fire took place on chapel road in mount laurel, vineland we had wires down there wasn't a lot of wind with these storms so that wasn't driving them through all that quickly and in short because there were such slow moving storms, we have a lot of flooding out of those thunderstorms that rumbled through there. i-95, schuylkill a couple minutes went by and huge puddles every where that really slowed people down. now as we see at the moment all calm and collected. it will in the stay that way but at the moment morning drive will not be hindered by wet weather. your issue this morning will be fog, and i was listening in , on kyw news radio and another of our traffic anchors steve reese was driving in and on 422 especially this really dense fog. it is localized but where we have it, it is dense. keep that in mine. meanwhile eventually we will see showers and thunderstorms

in marlton, new jersey we have mercon trucks route 73 at route 70, one lane is blocked and that is blockn each direction. rahel and jim, back over to you. state's graduated driver's license program, for both teenage drivers, and then their parents. proposed changes first in seven years would require young, novice drivers to undergo more supervised practice, before graduate to go a probationary license. >>> reading eagle crime leather berks county celebrated its 19th anniversary yesterday by accepting a $74,000 gift, it is largest gift in the none in profit's history. it came from the estate of michael, and in his will he left machine toy prevent identity theft. >>> from the americary more than 30 residents of boyer town and pottstown received cash pry at fifth annual home garden contest. cash pries worth as much as $200 for first place winners, contest has six distinct categories with options for children, adult, flowers, vegetables and small places. >> that is a look at newspaper headlines from around the delaware valley. >>> up next, pat gallen is here with your morning sports. >> i am

some construction that is clearing out of the way, 295 north ramp to route 42, that is reopened and marlton, new jersey, route 73 at route 70 we have construction crews out there that has been since cleared, jim, back over to you >>> investigators still don't know what caused a deadly house explosion in lancaster county. national transportation safety board release aid report on the incident yesterday that said the gas line to the house in manor township was not leaking, three gas technicians and a sewer inspector were working at the house when it exploded, one worker died and the other, were hospitalized, the home was destroyed and four nearby homes, were condemned. >>> police new want to talk to a man climbed to the top of the city hall and posted a video on line. we have first shed you this video yesterday posted sunday on the you tube page exploring with carson. he climbed all the way to the top of the william penn pen statue which at the time was surrounded by scaffolding. the climb her remains anonymous who did it to document history not to cause any trouble. incident has exposed a si

white marsh, montgomery county, marlton and mt. laurel and burlington counties a house and structure fire wires down in vineland. we saw a lot of images of flooding on i95 north and southbound in philadelphia, and on the schuylkill mainly over cumberland and cape may counties in new jersey. late to moderate rainfalls, watching this line of storms, you can see over last hour, these cells are weakening as they continue to move their way eastbound, but still think one of those could sneak their way nnot going to rule out a lingering thunderstorm, otherwise mostly cloudy with areas of fog, low temperature falling back to 70. will we have quieter conditions in store for thursday and more importantly the upcoming weekend, i'll have the answer in your eyewitness forecast coming up in a few. >> habitat for humanity becomes a victim of a theft in salem county, tools used by the group to build homes for those in need were stolen. from a construction site in pitts grove township. >> tears of joy and a whole lot of sweat equity have gone into

we are live at the elks lodge in marlton with more on the efforts there. >> reporter: this has been an ongoing effort for a couple of days now. you see behind me this is the truck they are filling up and i tell you it doesn't look fill now but that is because items are still within the elks lodge and tonight they expect elks lodges from across south jersey to come over and bring their donations as well. all of this is headed to texas on friday. >> it's what the elk dozen the elks care and they share. >> they got the call from the texas elks on monday. and knew they needed something bigger than an rv because the donations here are pouring in. >> i'm panicking, i found out last night more people are coming and how to get this down here. >> this morning i called miller trucking and their elks out of mount holly and came up and brought the truck that just got here. >> the response is overwhelming. >> angelo is an elk too. his business, family company and jewellers is one of the drop-off sites and the help for harvey continues in south jersey for pets too. not far from the elks at the anima

route zero seven right at radnor boulevard, just off of the old marlton circle there, watch for someer construction crews, you can see, the roads here, wet as scotty just showed us, heavy bands of storms rolling through south jersey, this morning. just outside of garnet valley, smith bridge roadblocked just off of ridge road, and route 202 again with some high flood water, any of the roads that are close to the streams, like the brooklawn circle, that always floods, we get little drizzle, and that's what we're dealing with this morning, route 45, route 130, and then in cherry hill, route 70, right near haddonfield road watch for some high water. downed tree, powder mill road, and trains running every 20 minutes again this morning on the norristown high-speed line with no express service, karen, thomas, back to you. >> 4:33 here, following breaking news, a man in critical condition this morning after being shot multiple time in the chest and stomach. this happened in south philadelphia, just after midnight at 16th and wharton. police are looking for two male suspect, the victim by the

all of these storm reports , structure fire in montgomery county, same case in burlington county, marlton and mount laurel due to lightening strikes, also some quarter sized hail in chesterbrook chester county we have seen multiple reports of hail as well, pea to quarter sized in nature, also gloucester county several trees down due to gusty winds. we will have this threat staying with us into the evening hours, scattered thunderstorms, mainly concentrated as we head in the next couple of hours. east of 95 heavy rain, slow moving in nature, problems with localized flooding but as we head after sunset tonight the storm threat will start to diminish but we will talk more about the storm threat and if we can kick these storms out in time for upcoming weekend coming up in the full forecast in just a few. >> lauren, see you then. >>> delaware county woman reported missing and found safe after police say she was abducted and robbed by a man she believed to be a lyft driver. "eyewitness news" reporter joe holden joins us from upper darby with what we have learn about this investigation, joe. >>

would give yourself a couple extra minutes on the boulevard as well and this accident route 70 at old marlton pike that has cleared, jim, back over to you. >>> preorder start for samsung galaxy note eight, it has impressive new features but item getting most attention is the battery. >> the galaxy note eight. >> samsung unveiled latest smart phone galaxy note eight, the a an event in new york, it has several new features including largest screen ever on a note device, but company isn't just selling updated technology, it is also trying to reassure customers that it is safe, in 2016, some buyers of the galaxy note seven saw their phones start smoking because of defective batteries >> looking over and my phonies on fire. >> reporter: entire line was taken off market and samsung lost billions. >> huge black eye. >> reporter: c-net says samsung has developed a new battery tested extensively. >> entire year hitting reset button making sure consumers will trust brand again. >> galaxy note eight comes with edges and s pen, the phone has two, 12 mega pixel cameras one wide, other t el e photo. when y

27-year-old joseph quiles seat cellly another guy in the bathroom of a chick-fil-a on route 73 in marlton last month. the moment the man can fronted him he ran and jumped into a car and took off. >>> let's check on your fox 29 weather authority as we take a live look at cape may on hot d day. kind of what you'd expect on the first daveing. >> true. let's get over to meteorologist scott williams. hello, scott. >> hi there, lucy and iain. typical summer like pattern and like august stepping outdoors. 91 degrees currently in philadelphia. so far that's our high temperature for today. dew points climbing into the low 60s and that humidity inching up a bit. the sun will set this evening at 8:14. most of the area is dry. however, watching ultimate doppler we'll zoom in. a few isolated pop-up showers northeast philadelphia moving toward tacony, palmyra so crossing the bridge we're looking at that activity coming up we'll talk much more about thunderstorm chances and a potential heat wave brewing. back over to you. all right, scott, thanks. >>> developing now, some improvement today in margate af

right now it's on route 73 in marlton, new jersey.o rain falling from the sky at the moment and the windshield wipers are not on as they get on the move again. meteorologist cecily tynan will have more from accuweather coming up in about 10 minutes. >> mobile6 -- while we're dealing with the risk of flooding in our area parts of texas are under water posing a real danger to people there. crews are working to reach people around the san antonio area stranded by rushing waters. dramatic rescues like this have been happening since this morning after heavy rains and thunderstorms hit that area. >> abc's donya bacchus has been monitoring the situation in texas and around the midwest. donya is live no you in los angeles tonight. hi, donya. >> reporter: hi, sharrie and rick. there were 22 high water incident calls in san antonio alone today and in many other places the storm came fast and it hit hard. in san antonio, texas, raging flood water quickly engulfed this suv. >> water is approximately just about going over the hood. >> reporter: fo

you're experienced it, this was throughout the area here, video coming out every route zero seven, marltonw jersey, downed wire shutdown that area for awhile yesterday. happened right around the 5:00 3 overpass, all the way to locust avenue. utility crews were brought in to clear the scene, so the road could reopen, paddock street, where a house caught fire after being struck by lightning. water damage, keeping the family of four out of their home right now there is good news, fire contain to the attic. >> one great thing i guess if you will about the rain. the rainbows that come. fox 29 photo journalist, tina, captured this, double rainbow last night in pennsville, new jersey. in magnolia, another rainbow, press kerr user andy, we love to see your images, when news happens, be sure to take out your phone and shoot it and sends it us to using the fresco app right into our news room. and you could earn a little cash. it is 4:56. coming right back here o here on "good day" philadelphia, stay with us. they even have those new easy open gogurt tubes. we used to struggle 20 minutes to open our

they don't show up as a delay, and hello to the marlton circle the old circle here route 70, 73 over in cherry hill, new jersey with no delays coming up and over the bridge, alex and thomas, back to you. >>> 8:04. a driver is dead in quakertown after falling asleep behind the wheel and driving into a pool supply store. >> impact led to a fire and a eventual hazmat situation. steve keeley on the scene in quakertown with more, steve. >> reporter: we don't know if it was a man, woman or what they were driving or is what left of what they were driving you can see is what left on the pool business in the height of the pool season. hazmat situation is obvious. pool businesses have chemicals like chlorine, and things that make the water good, maybe to seal a pool and that stuff caught on fire. it cause a danger. we will spin around and we will show you here's 309. this is on a straight away but coming up on a hill and slight curve, you get a sense of how fast people are going here. it feels like we are standing in the middle of the pennsylvania turnpike which we took to get here. but people