this is pitman, man to, east greenwich, you name it, town after town they are still in a big mess and still without power, no answer for sure when they will get power. and no help coming from the big man in trenton who is spending more time in new hampshire and less time in new jersey, it seems, because we saw him after hurricane sandy, residents are saying and mayors are saying but we are not seeing chris christie since tuesday's storm and we'd like to see either him or his staff or at least a phone call to tell us help is on the way. >> if this was north jersey, it have would have been done. because we are in the south jersey the state is not recognizing us. we are spend ago lot of money, and resources, to fix this problem and help our residents. we need to step into declare a state of emergency to get funding to help us. >> it is a disaster. it is worse than hurricane sandy. it is a total mess. worse i have ever saw.

park in the driveway in pitman, new jersey. this is some of the damage left behind in the thoroughfare section of the west deptford gloucester county. side wall of the building ripped right off. and then this video from honey brook chester county with gusty wind and heavy rain, and one way too chosen counter with a bolt of lightening. deluge pushed so much water in the sewer system and wind was so powerful that an "action news" viewer recorded a manhole cover being lifted up in a parking lot along route 73 in voorhees, camden county. even meteorologist david murphy pulled out his cell phone during the storm and swept through drexel hill and captured a limb cracking and falling off a tree, fortunately nobody was hurt there. >>> we thanked the a "action news" viewers who have shared photographs and videos of what it looked like in their neighborhood tonight. we posted dozens of them on six abc to the come tonight and our continuing coverage of

we have down wires closing delsea drive at pitman avenue, use 553 or 651 as the alternates. chester county, 926 is blocked stick with pleasant grove wood. wawaset road is shed down locust grove gets you around that. baltimore pike is blocked use 322 to get around that. the route 1 at the pennsylvania turn, nice and dry and clear and smooth sailing. turnpike eastbound watch out for construction past bensalem. >> fbi is working on a profile of a possible serial killer in a small ohio town. 6 women have disappeared from the town of 21,000 people. four of the women's were recovered in creeks or streams. the most recent was found over the weekend. it's unclear if the cases are connected. but the victims life stories are similar they are all woman who had fallen on hard times. >>> two of the victims of the charleston church shootings have been laid to rest, there will be public viewing for clementa pinkney. ame renewed their bible study. this was the same class that shooter dylann roof was invited into before allegedly shooting and killing 9 people a week ago. the interim pastor l

pitman without delsea drive and pitman avenue, use 561 to get around those downed wires. >>> an f-16 crashed in arizona the crash sparked a fire, but no damage to opens homes or businesses, authorities have not given any details on the status of the pilot. >>> a corrections officer is under arrest police say his action helped two convicted murderers escape the prison. this is gene palmer charged with promoting contraband and tamplerring -- tampering with evidence. he smuggled tools and art supplies into frozen hamburger meet. in return he got paintings from one of the suspects. >>> now you don't need facebook to use one one of its popular features that is in tech bytes. >> reporter: use messenger without facebook, you can sign up using your cell phone number, some people wanted to use messenger, but not facebook. >>> google is going virtuical allowing anyone to climb up he el captain. a real life hover board has everyone excited. it's actually work, but there are no plans to sell it. >> the purpose was to show how innovative lexus is, it operates over special surfaces, where you're g

a better heads up warning, blackwood i would take cover and turners turnersville, take cover and pitman north of there take cover there as well. sewell and depford 6:08 p.m. the storm relative velocity mode, where you have the red that is winds moving away and the green is moving towards the radar, we are looking at this in chester county, there is one little blip of red and it's mainly green that is showing the rush of green the destructive winds from the severe storm looking at the red not seeing twisting but a lot of red, take shelter because we have the tornado warning for camden gloucester and parts of northwestern burlington county all of that is until just after 60s to 6:30 p.m., that is where we have the tornado warning in effect until we have the graphic, until 6:30, here is the philadelphia international airport, right about here south of there in parts of gloucester county slicing through camden county and runnemede and burlynn and bumping into medford lakes. where the rotation could be indicated at the intersection of the new jersey turnpike and mantua and paulsboro road and

it is nighty no power for many people in pitman. they've been in the dark since tuesday's storm hit just after 6:00 in the evening. >> frustrating. ready for the power to come back on. just frustrateing really. >> jessica register is one of many struggling to survive. >> yesterday was pretty hot. very very hot. we all slept downstairs last night because upstairs is just unbearable. >> she has three children season expecting fourth. >> had candlelight around the table with crayons and books and the whole nine. they enjoyed that. >> we have no power. >> but now they're going a little stir crazy i think. >> reporter: they've been trying to spend as much time outside as possible especially seven-year-old nicky and nine-year-old vinnie. but the stress of having no electricity and losing food is taking a toll. >> somebody just brought me milk but it will go bad. stuffed shells and eggplant is going to be bad. she's saving what she can in this cooler but the ice is melting fast. >> we have milk and grapes and cheese. sour cream arc couple

and in pitman closing delsea drive tam and nydia. >> police in minneapolis are praising the quick thinking of a group of bystanders involving a serious accident involved a car and pedal public. >> reporter: the operator was not hurt. the driver of the car was taken into custody and could chase charges of criminal vehicular injury. >>> two victims of the charleston shooting will be laid to rest today. ame had bible started again last night. this was the same class that dylann roof was invited into before allegedly shooting arena killing nine people a week ago. the interim pastor led the group, the message of the session was the power of love. >> a live preview of "good morning america" is next. >> reporter: we're looking at a warm one today 86 degrees, i'll show you how we get there. an increase in cloud cover and showers around. we'll look at the national weather forecast to make sure you're not missing out on any thunderstorms or hitting any when you travel today. anything. anywhere. anytime. anyone. spread the delicious taste you know and love. hershey's is mine, yours, our chocolate spr

because two right lanes are blocked at springdale road because of downed wires. 47 is blocked at pitmannue, traffic lights are on the fritz on the black horse pike. treat it as a stop sign. in paulsboro we have traffic lights and downed wires we're not getting anything on the waze app. >>> winds and the seas and premonsoon rains are bringing relief to southern pakistan. a scorching heat wave have killed 883 people. the temperatures have dropped to 93 degrees temperatures have reached 113 degrees hours long power outages and little running water and people fasting had worsened the situation. >>> after two years of silence boston marathon bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev has spoken saying he is sorry for the pain and the death he caused. he made the comments before being formally sentenced to death yesterday. the apology came three hours after gut-wrenching impact statements from victims and survivors, many had mixed reaction to what dzhokhar tsarnaev had to say. >> he had showed no remorse or regret or empathy for what he has done to our lives. >> i have forgiven him, i have come to a place of p

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and through a lot of mentorship, through gentlemen like this, one of my closest mentors tony pitman who you may know as t-rock, they helped mold me along that way. i feel like that it's my -- my responsibility to get that out to the community and we use the website to do that. >> you have one more than one child. >> oh, yeah, i have five. five. >> okay, so you have had a lot of experience, a lot of opportunities to learn. pastor george, founder of the board, tell us about your children. >> oh, my goodness. i have two beautiful daughters. one is 20 and the other one is 9. the oldest one is in college in spellman, shout-out to spellman. we love spellman. the 9-year-old is talented and gifted. active. loves to big legos. she wants to be an engineer. one day iguess guess she'll follow in daddy's footsteps. >> how did you get involved? >> oh me they asked me to get involved and we need someone to have someone who can meet the fathers spiritually and real talk. that's what's missing a lot of time that real talk. >> jeff, you have got children, and a lot of experience as a dad. >> yes. actuall

. >> meanwhile, customer ron pitman and his wife, rachael, had their own close encounter outside. >> the store, there were three deer running up the steps directly at us. after the deer went into the store, and my family was safe in the car, i wanted to go back inside to make sure nobody was hurt. so i walked back in to check out what was going on. >> he finds shadler and lisa in the office and sees the deer hoofing it to the back of the store. >> they had a hard time getting traction. it's almost like ice to them. they were just all over the place. deer were in the back of the store, they were milling around trying to find -- they were looking for a way to get out. and that back fire door has a window in it, and they jumped through the window. when they hit the door, it came open and that's how they were able to get out. >> it's over just that quick. in the front door, out the back. pitman and his employees wander about, checking for damage. >> they went through the store, making sure everything was fine, and fortunately, nobody got hurt. >> i expected to see the deer had run into t

. >> ♪♪ >> the pens port string band serenaded virginia pitman this afternoon.ldren, grandchildren and friend at wesley enhanced living in northeast philadelphia were on hand. happy birthday to virginia. >>> world news saturday is next here on channel six, don't miss "action news" at ten on phl17 tonight. so we're back here on six abc at 11:00 o'clock. for walter perez melissa magee, jeff skversky and the entire "action news" team, i'm sarah bloomquist. we will see you right back here at 11: >>> welcome to "world news tonight." the hunt in overdrive. one escaped killer still on the run. officers on high alert in the air and on the ground. inside the final hours of the prisoner finally taken down. >> i have never been so scared in all my life. >>> couples racing to the altar to say "i do." that historic ruling lifting the ban on same sex marriage. tonight, the states still saying "not here." >>> and not here, either. a climber pulling the confederate flag down at the south carolina state capitol. the raging debate tonight, as more victims of that church massacre

a tree came down on a car in pitman new jersey. this is thorofare section of west deptford.ll of a building just ripped right away. and then there's this video from honeybrook with gusty winds and heavy rains and one way too close encounter with bolt of lightning. >>> when weather events or breaking news happen in your neighborhood we want you to join the action, become part of the "action news" team by e-mailing your photos and videos to join the action at 6abc.com or use #6abcaction on social media. >> we appreciate our viewers helping us tell the story. you got to use that hashtag so we can find your pictures and videos. >> yeah, my neighborhood is automobile bigotry branches. as i'm texting my son i'm saying no, i'm not picking you up from your guitar lessons as two big ones came down the as we take a look outside we are looking at sky6 at the airport. things cleaned up pretty nicely at the airport. be careful driving around as karen rogers will be telling you all morning there are tons of trees and wires down especially right through the central portion of the region. s

kitty man he's talking about a hazard along 55 northbound near pitman so watch out for that. tam in just a few minutes. >> thank you matt. >>> 12 passengers who got sick on flight from fiji to la have been examined and released. yesterday the fiji airways crew reported that passengers were sick with stomach problems. the cdc says the illness is consistent with norovirus. all passengers were cleared. however one 19-year-old man chose to go to the hospital. >>> the 12 american passengers were not traveling together. however, they had all stayed at the same hotelly in fiji. >>> excuse me. rachel dolezal has stepped down as the president of the naacp chapter in washington state. but the firestorm around her is not letting up. she told the world she was black but last week her parents came forward to say she's white. erin o'hearn is live at the big board. she's got more. good morning. good morning. this story continues to develop tam and this is 37-year-old rachel dolezal who has seemed to carefully construct a life as a black civil rights activist in the last decade. that world i

pitman also glaus glassboro you can see when we see that flashing color when we are indicating intense rain and reflectivity on our doppler radar. steve can you put on our storm reports and see if anything is new you from the weather center because these storms have a history of damaging wind with multiple trees down and some power outages as well associated with them. here is the line crossing over philadelphia and river moving into the warning area, of south jersey, through chester county these storms had a history of multiple trees down and you can see a funnel included in blue bell reported at 5:00 with these storms previously. lets go to south jersey and zoom in on that purple return over here, an area of concern right there near mount laurel, new jersey. we have a potential for severe storms. mount laurel slow acres eaves bureau, medford road through marlton this area lets look at this rain rate this is hainesport mount laurel road a very heavily traveled road, church road, marie tree road, this is 17 inches an hour which would be amazing. i have never even seen that before but j

both pitman and mantua townships still picking up the pieces from tuesday night's severe weather. many residents are still without power and the cleanup from downed trees and other debris could take weeks. men leading recovery efforts in both towns asking trenton to step in. >> if this was north jersey it could have been done already and because we're down here in south jersey the state is not recognizing us. there are towns next door to us they have worse damage than we. to we're spending a lot of money and resources to fix this problem to help our residents. we need the state to step in declare the state of emergency so we can get funding to help. >> it is a disaster. it is worse than hurricane sandy sandy. i mean it's a total mess it really is. worse i ever saw. >> about 9,000 atlantic city electric customers between both towns are still without power tonight. >> iain is touch on the power thing. let's give the run down pse&g more than 7300 homes without power. c electric 2,120,000. peco 45,000 are still powerless. delmarva 2200 families are in the dark. >> another hard hit are

. >> the boy with the code name jack pot is michael pitman jr. he's the son of alvarez's cousin. now the 16-month-old is a hostage whose fate lies in the hands of a man who is armed and dangerous. police surround the apartment and get the gunman on the phone. but negotiations go nowhere. >> tell them to stop trying to make advancements because the child is at my side at all times. if you guys are concerned with the child, then you guys will take into consideration. >> as the standoff grows well into the second day, the police are growing increasingly concerned to the welfare of the toddler. >> the suspect went from calling him the nephew to referring to him as the hostage. >> after 40 hours, authorities escalate their tactics. using explosives, they blow a hole in the wall of the apartment to see inside. >> these would allow the officers the ability to see into the area where the suspect and child were concealed. >> the strategy pays off. the next day a s.w.a.t. team officer sees an opportunity through the port and takes a shot. >> he observed the suspect bend over and picked up

absolute perfect present for your dad your son, your pop who ever, right, there broadway theater at pitmand love for two to come on out. you know, maybe i can get you two-for deal, one buy a ticket, i can get the other one in no, i would love to have you come out to the show. one thing did i want to sneak n chase utley sitting over 200. >> hey the mendoza line. mario mendoza loin. >> just thought i would mention it, he is finally over 200, all right? >> big daddy thank you so much. >> nice seeing you. >> good to see you too. still ahead, a delicious deal, a woman so anxious to buy a house, she offered the homeowner free pizza for life. chris has the story. i'm whoopi goldberg and new york is my home. there's no place like it in the world and no better place to lean about the people who shaped who we are today. hear about the lives of slaves in colonial new york and about the fight to abolish slavery. pick a stop on the underground railroad and visit the home and grave of one of new york's most controversial citizens. a journey in new york is a journey through history. plan you next trip at

. >> this will be on sunday, broadway theater pitman, 2:00 big daddy graham.or particular. >> the oh that's great. big daddy congratulations on the book and the play and it's been a good run. and we'll see you soon. >> hey, one of these days i'll get downstairs! >> ya? >> we have security down here. >> i know. >> we don't let you pass. >> but they barely let me in the front door. >> i'll let you in. >> thank, alec. >> your welcome. >> big daddy thank you. 6:50. >> blind woman says she is lucky to be alive after being hit by a bus crediting her dog with saving her life. eight year old figo is service dog, trained to guide and protect his owner monday when crossing the street, in new york. a bus hit both of them. the owner doesn't remember much of what happened. but, she does remember, figo jumping in front of her throwing himself between her and the bus to protect her. >> he is amazing and i'm not surprised. that's the way he is. you know? they say the love of an animal. and their partner. he proved it. >> wow. figo has fracture and some other injuries, and may

delsea drive 47 blocked at pitman avenue, downed wires the problem there and also affecting mass transit some of those buses have to be rerouted when you're trying to drive through areas with downed trees. >> we wish everybody the best of luck getting around out there right now. let's go out to dave murphy. at least it's a nice day if you have to stand and wait outside. >> yeah, it is nice. the humidity is down, the sun is up. take a look. 72 degrees in philadelphia. of course we have those wires and trees down and we want you to avoid any of those wires as they can be dangerous if they get reenergized. 86, sunny and nice over all. nice for the union tonight against seattle at ppl. high of 86. clouds increase. chance of a late day shower. most in the evening and that means our parade of sail is probably going to be dry tomorrow. tam. >> that's good to hear. thank you david. that's it for us right now but we'll see you back here in 30. >> ♪♪ tle help from my state farm agent i plan to retire in 15 years. wow! you're totally blindsiding me here. who's gonna manage your accounts? this is a