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the sound of buzzing chainsaws ripping through whitehall township tonight as remnants of a super cellhunderstorm brought down trees and power lines across the lehigh valley. >> mother nature was very angry i guess. >> reporter: judy kennedy called 911 about 3:15 when this massive 50-year-old tree came crashing down. that's her neighbor's house underneath. luckily the two brothers inside were not injured. >> i just can't believe it came out of the roots like did it. nothing i ever heard before. it was -- it was scary. >> reporter: just a few blocks away -- >> my neighbor had actually called me and told me part of my roof was gone. >> reporter: jessica was assessing damage to her home. her kids play set was toppled bite winds part of her slate roof is now gone which means rain came inside. >> we came upstairs and water was just kind of pouring in and we just kind of tried to do damage control. >> reporter: some of the streets looked like war zones trees toppled like toothpicks. roads are still closed and thousands are still in the dark. high water stranded some motorists. lou citgo help

the flames broke out near kyburz in the whitehall area of the american river inside the el dorado national forest. that fire is 100 acres 5% contained. a passenger in the car captured the moments after the flames broke out yesterday afternoon. and more than 200 fires are fighting the flames from the ground and the air. they say steep terrain strong winds are making their work difficult. some campgrounds have been evacuated, as well. >> busy season up at tahoe, too. so if you are heading to the south shore you have to go around the lake up highway 80. >> i was talking to the assignment desk yesterday afternoon when the pacifica fire was out of control. we dodged a bullet for a couple of years. not so much anymore. it's fire season all year round. >>> wind gusts up to 20 miles per hour right now near the "wragg fire." later today sustained winds also up to 20 miles per hour. we'll be 10% dryer today than yesterday and warmer than thursday going up to a high in the mid-80s. this is a live look at mineta international airport where currently, we have some partly cloudy skies there at 56 degree

there are mandatory evacuations in the whitehall area and sand flat campground. highway 50 will be closed through the night. it's not clear yet when it will reopen -- but it could affect a lot of weekend plans. still ahead -- bad roads in the bay area aren't only unpleasant --- they're expensive. also - after four years - the legal battle is over for a teenager who survived terrible torture. and if you use a car seat for your child -- the new device you'll want to hear about. ♪ u'renly ung ce. lessou he a baru nnouer) e suru x osstk.symmricaall-eel ive us mpglo.it whamakea suru a suru. >> catherine : there's a new "smart" car-seat for children on the market.that's designed to help save lives. it's from a company called "even flo". it reminds drivers that there's a child in the back seat by sounding an alarm when the car is turned off. the idea is to prevent parents from leaving children in hot cars. ten children have already died this year after being left in cars. the car seat costs 150-dollars. for now at least - it's only being sold at walmart. still ahead -- a

high met him at the whitehall. he said come up to this particular suite.four other men in the room. playing card. smoking cigars and watching sports. and cosby asked me if i wanted to have a drink. it was 7:30 in the evening. i wasn't much of a drinker. i said i will have a little grand marnier. that is an after dinner drink. you can tell what a novice i was. he sent a bellman out to get the bottle. brought the bottle back up. fix the drink behind me. took two sips. the last thing i remember. >> really? >> two sips. at 4:00 in the morning i woke up in bed. naked. bruised and battered. and i looked over. he was there naked. and i slivered out of the bed because i didn't didn't want to weak him. wake him. i gathered my clothes. i got dressed. i've went downstairs got a cab. want to my apartment, took a shower. had to go back to work at playboy, had to get the girls on the floor. i went back to work. >> do you have a memory of what happened between the drink and -- >> i don't have any memory at all of what happened. but i knew. i knew that i was brutally rape

the flames broke out near kyburz in the whitehall area off the american river inside the el dorado national forest. the fire is about 100 acres only 5% contained. a passenger car captured this picture after flames broke out at 2 p.m. yesterday. >>> reporter: there have been a number of trouble spots along the way with firefighters. one area they are focusing on are these power lines. you can see that power line intact. but if you make wear down this hill, actually somebody's driveway, just yards away, you can see these flames shooting up covering the trees inching closer to the power lines. >> more than 200 firefighters are battling the flames from both the ground and the air. steep terrain and stron winds are making it more difficult. some campgrounds have been evacuated. >>> the firefighters will be watching the weather today, roberta. >> in all areas. we are primarily looking at the lake berryessa area because we have had wind gusts up to 28 miles an hour overnight. this morning the winds will blow out of the west at 20 miles per hour. this is what we have in the forecast for the "wragg

he called me that afternoon and said well meet me at the whitehall hotel.nk anything of it. he was in town doing a comedy show. doing interviews. i met him at the whitehall, i called from downstairs. he said come up to this particular suite. when i went up to the room there were four other men in the room. they were playing cards and smoking cigars. and watching sports. and cosby asked me if i wanted to have a drink. it was 7:30 in the evening. i wasn't much of a drinker. i said, well i will have a little grand marnier. that is an after dinner drink. you can tell what a novice i was. sent the bellman out to get the bottle. brought the bottle up. fixed the drink behind me. i took two sips. last thing i remember. two sips. >> really? >> at 4:00 in the morning i woke up in bed, naked, bruised and battered. and i looked over and he was there naked. and i slivered out of the bed. i didn't want to wake him. i gathered my clothes. and i got dressed. and i went downstairs. i got a cab. went to my apartment. took a shower. i had to go back to work at playboy had to

winds gusted up to 80 miles per hour causing that damage in around the whitehall township area in partsf the lehigh valley. it's ban pretty seasonal day. the low this morning 69 degrees. the afternoon high 86. that's where we should be for this time of year but kit get pretty hot this time of year. july 1st you can see the record is 102 set back in 1901. sun sets this evening shortly after 8:00 their. 85 degrees right now. so looking pretty comfortable maybe you'll be in the garden or on the back patio. 43% humidity a nice breeze westerly winds at about 20 miles per hour. as we look at those temperatures across the area, we have low 80s in wilmington millville 83 degrees. 83 in trenton. we have 79 right now in pottstown and 80 in the pocono mountains. so warm and quiet if you're stepping outdoors a little muggy overnight. 76 degrees by 11:00 o'clock. but it look like it's going to stay dry tonight. however, last month the third wettest june on record for philadelphia almost 9-inches of rainfall so you can see that the drought situation it has pretty much ended across the entire area tha

the state of emergency officially on itselfment one of the first things they tell you on the whitehall township website, no unnecessary travel. >> first daylight, just to look at the damage, to their property and maybe to the neighbors, into the whole neighborhood, in fact, a lot of people you see here with the screens down, they have no power. no air-conditioning, no fans, so they put the windows up. put the screens down, then it pours all night. now further damage, mildew, whapping. hard wood flyers, but we had hail heavy rain, high winds yesterday, again for the second straight tuesday, a week to the day up here, it made the streets lock like a snowstorm had hit in june, because, the hail was golf sized, and it was a lot of hail, so much so, it look like people needed shovels to get out of the driveway. again, trees down, sidewalks up power out. since there is a lot of trouble still up here, still tough getting around. it goss black, and are you home? i'm not home. they said you better get home. i said why what's going on? they said tornado warning coming in. >> street, shop flooded

where dawn timmeney has been just north of the whitehall township area, they are still investigateing to confirm whether or not straight line wind damage or tornado caused that. what's that. straight lynn wind damage is typically in the same pattern but when you have tornado wind damage it's more in a chaotic random pattern. our own fox 29 intern jason michael has been out with the national weather service helping them to assess that damage. we'll keep you posted on what we find out about the lehigh valley damage coming up. back to you. >> all right, scott thank you. >>> you can track all kinds of weather with our fox 29 news app. you can look at live radar images and get alerts sent right to your phone app is free. just search for it in the apple or google play stores. >>> more than two weeks on the run but tonight authorities have caught up to a delaware county home invasion suspect. the fbi tracked 36-year-old tyree manziel all the way to charlotte, north carolina. manziel is one of four men accused of attacking and robbing a marple township family inside their home on june 15th. p

. >> >> reporter: the cleanup continues here in whitehall township they made some progress but there are some trees down and power lines this tree is huge, that whole amount of greenery there on the ground that is the top of the tree, the trunk literally split in half and the national weather service is expected here to determine if

that was where chris o'connell was live. 80 miles per hour straight line wind damage there around the whitehall township but in chester county, honey brook the survey crew teams determined it was an ef1 tornado. packing winds of about 95 miles per hour so as we take look at that enhanceed fugita scale itsy eighths low end tornado that damage has been done across the area there. as we look at ultimate doppler mainly quite a few isolateed pop-ups right now in south jersey moving out of we are land county moving into parts of atlantic county continuing to watch some of those downpours across the area and as we move ahead to tomorrow, it looks like partly sunny to mostly cloudy skies across the area but some rainfall will develop in parts of south jersey as well as delaware. in particular it could be a little unsettled down the shore tomorrow. much more on the timing of that rainfall as well as a look ahead to the fourth of july. iain and luce glee scott thank you. argument turns violent on philadelphia bus now septa is looking why the punches started flying. check out this cell phone video caught

the flames broke out near kyburz in the whitehall area off the american river inside the el dorado national fire is 100 acres and 5% contained. >> it started on the north side of the highway. on the south side that's the biggest concern. >> more than 200 firefighters battling the flames from both the ground and the air. they are getting help from water-dropping helicopters but dry fuel and winds are making firefighting efforts more challenging. >>> in pacifica police have arrested a 13-year-old boy they believe started a brush fire yesterday. the 5-acre fire burned in tall brush on a hillside above the little league field. it started around 3:45 in the afternoon. helicopters dropped water on it. firefighters got it under control before it threatened homes. >> it's fire season year round now. >> everybody i talked to at the california department of forestry says it's fire season 24/7, not just one particular time per year. it's all year round. good morning, we have the latest forecast for the "wragg fire." in fact, this morning it's dipped down to 48 degrees but we did have some wind gusts i

. >> someone had been standing or sitting where the trees came through the roof. whitehall township sustained heavy damage. they're on the ground to figure out whether a tornado touched down there as well. >> a mudslide forced police to shut down part of a road in montgomery county crews are removing mud and debris from the road working to stabilize the slope to keep it from happening again. the road will be closed between front street and portland most for several weeks now. >> utility crews working to restore power to more than 3,000 homes and businesses tonight. the bulk of the outages in lehigh and northampton counties. there are more than 600 first energy customers who need electricity. >>> much calmer if you're venturing out tonight, beautiful night for baseball in fact. phillies taking on the brewers in about an hour after the game, xfinity puts on a fireworks show. sheena parveen is tracking conditions right now. >> much nicer right now than it was 24 hours ago. >> dry conditions across the area i don't expect anything in the way of rain tonight, maybe a stray sprin

now, this is the scene in whitehall township. downed trees and crushed back porches after a fast moving storm packed powerful winds and hail moved through the area. according to residents there the sky went dark and then a funnel cloud -- at least what they thought was a funnel cloud formed and that's when they took cover. >> peeled the roof right back. my siding is all dented up. my screens have holes in it. my shed back here has holes in it from it. so yeah, i got quite a bit of damage here. >> we went down in the basement and heard a loud color and it was the patio roof coming down. >> reporter: so again the national weather service will be out to these different areas today to determine if, in fact there was a tornado in honeybrook and again it may head out to the lehigh valley but residents certainly know that they have days of cleanup ahead and a memory of a very frightening experience. tam. >> thank you, erin. >>> and the frustrated residents of south jersey who went a week without power have finally gotten some relief. atl

power crews are working to get the lights back on and officials put whitehall township under a state emergency tonight. >> there's just a lot going through my mind right now. >> reporter: but the most important thing going through jenny's mind is that she made it inside as soon as the sky began to turn. >> the winds were stronger so we just went in and ran down into the basement and few seconds later heard the loud crash of the roof coming down. >> reporter: to one wasout side when the roof crashed foo her backyard. >> all the stuff we have to fix and have the insurance company come out. >> reporter: she's not alone we found plenty of neighbors with roofs that looked like this, trees blew over and power outages at intersections caused delays. >> it's devastating. >> reporter: frank knopf moved into his home 43 years ago. >> this is was a complete whiteout with all the hail. >> reporter: he was inside with his wife when the storm hit. he found this tree toppled over. >> i planted this tree when i moved in here 43 years ago. >> reporter: down the street we found paul cunningham's sense

. >> >> reporter: the cleanup continues here in whitehall township they made some progress but there are some trees down and power lines this tree is huge, that whole amount of greenery there on the ground that is the top of the tree, the trunk literally split in half and the national weather service is expected here to determine if this was a tornado or just a really bad storm. the work started early this morning. >> cleaning up all morning, out since 6:30 this morning to get everything cleaned up and get it back to where it was. >> trees are down and many are trimmed and cut up and leaves scattered everywhere and some progress in what could be a long cleanup. they tell us last night their power came back on. there are lines down and on the other side of town here, the power is still out and a lot of big poles came down and wires, and crews are out repairing the lines and poles and homeowners are waiting on adjusters. >> it seems to be there is a lot of damage around and as long as everyone was safe that is a good thing. >> a state of emergency is declared in whitehall township that

the storms and their aftermath. we begin with george spencer in whitehall township. authorities declared a state of emergency. we've seen some of the pictures you've been sharing on social media. you found extensive damage? >> jim, only one week after the last major disruptive storms there is more damage to report. this is one family's drive way currently unusable. they have begun cutting up some of the trees here obviously, and removing some of the debris but quite clearly this job will take days. >> it's a pretty big tree all in itself. >> the crowns of the mighty pines were tossed to the ground from atop their trunk. now, the tree ripped right off its base crashing on top of a passing driver. >> i couldn't go around the corner here. >> john says the powerful winds all went in the same direction, leaving fields of grass looking like they had been coned straight. >> it sounded like a railroad train was coming. >> i've been here -- i'm 88 1/2 years old, i've never seen anything like this before. >> we declared a state of emergency. >> the township's mayor says early storm warnings allowed residents to find she

the collision of storms created a phenomenon called wet microburst, random gusts of hurricane and gale-force winds. one of those gusts destroyed this marina in maryland. another hit whitehall township in pennsylvania, where jenny dannecker heard the storm gaght experg barely escaped. >> so we just went in and ran down to the basement and a few seconding later heard the loud crash of the roof coming down. >> reporter: in new jersey residents like paul marositz described rain and hail coming in sideways. >> the wind was worse than sandy. that's how loud it was. >> reporter: in washington, the storm created a spectacular light show but also forced a group of girl scouts camping out

. >>> meanwhile the same crew from the national weather service traveled to whitehall township in the lehigh valley to see if all that of damage was caused yesterday and less than five minutes ago they determined it was not a tornado but it was a micro burst. meanwhile meteorologist, cecily tynan, is at the "action news" big board. you made a point that a funnel cloud does not necessarily make a tornado, what is a micro burst and what is a tornado. >> we saw microrst is what we saw and last week a macro burst it can cause as much damage as a torn, and straight line winds and an ef 1 tornado in honey brook, the severe thunderstorm and the tornado warning was at 2:00, that is a lot of lead time with the tornado, maximum wind is 95 miles per hour, the path was as wide as a football field is long. that is 100 yards and it stayed on the ground for is1.5 miles the distinctive signature of a tornado, the southern hook of the flank of the storm to the south and east. people are asking me how does a tornado form, it is born out of a thunderstorm intense powerful towering thunderstorms, more th

there are mandatory evacuations in the whitehall area. is not clear when highway 50 will reopen by might affect a lot of folks over the weekend. >> mark: the area around the lake remains closed. the wildfire is being called a rapid-fire. >> reporter: i am here and temperatures are extremely moderate with a win dying down. this is that the winter's community center. they had five people say here last night because of the mandatory evacuation. they're still multiple communities in the lake area under mandatory evacuation . the fires still burning out of control but they say they have a little more containment on that about 20%. but they're still standing at 6900 or 7,000 a. charred by this fire. they have airplanes and helicopters and helicopters all fighting the fire trying to get under control. the winters community center is an evacuation center for the fire area. the big question is when can the remaining evacuate east leave? >> as determined by the fire department and the sheriff's department so we don't know those things. our focus is

the national weather service arrived in whitehall this afternoon, looking for evidence of a tornado. >> i'm willing to let the experts make that call. but it really looks to me like it was a tornado that came through the central part of the township. >> the damage is pretty bad. >> the damage is extensive. >> even with all of the damage here on this whitehall farm i started talking with the national weather service, at this point there's no evidence of a tornado coming through here it's not as clear cut of a case as it was in chester county randy gyllenhaal nbc10 news. >> sheena parveen is here. >> do we have to worry about any more storms? >> no, not tonight. tomorrow we have rain 340e6shing through the area. as far as the severe threat we're not going to seeing that around. we have very quiet conditions on satellite and radar. very different from yesterday at this time. and locally we're still seeing plenty of sunshine outside. here's a live look at citizens bank park. we've been dry pretty much all day today, i expect we stay dry as we go through tonight. temperatures not too bad,

this is the scene in whitehall township. downed trees and crushed back porches after a fast moving storm packed powerful winds and hail moved through the area. according to residents there the sky went dark and then they ducked for cover. >> peeled the roof right back. my siding is all dented up. my screens have holes in it. my shed back here has holes in it from it. so, yeah, i got quite a bit of damage here. >> we went down in the basement and heard a loud crash and it was the patio roof coming down. >> reporter: again the national weather service will officially make the call on last night's weather today but there is no doubt residents have days of cleanup ahead of them and the memory of a very frightening experience, tam. >> thank you erin. >>> and the frustrated residents of south jersey who went a week without power have finally gotten some relief. atlantic city electric completed its restoration yesterday. the company reports last week's outages which reached 280,000 actually exceeded those that they had from super st

out in west norriton the road is blocked, whitehall road and williams way. police activity on the scene as well as an accident on the pa turnpike northeast extension northbound approaching lansdale that's blocking the left-hand lane. up on 422, we'll head through montgomery county eastbound from 29 still an eight-minute trip. no problems there. average speeds. we'll check in with mass transit coming up in the next ten minutes. >>> 4:32. happening today, we expect to learn if charges will be filed against a driver who hit and killed a man on the bike in the hunting park section of philadelphia yesterday. nbc 10's matt delucia is live at police headquarters with more on what we know about this case. fill us in matt. >> the woman who hit the bicyclist is not in police custody right now. she was questioned yesterday. charges could be filed once the d.a. gets the case. this happened after 1:00 yesterday afternoon. the woman was trying to pass another car on north 2nd street. police say she went into the wrong lane and hit the bicyclist. he was rushed to temple hos

the lehigh valley. agency sent a team to whitehall township today to survey damage after yesterday's powerful storm stormthis mark the second tuesday in a row of severe weather for our area. and meteorologist kate bilo has more dough tails now about the damaging storms and also the chance for more wet weather over the next few days. kate. >> thank you jessica. let's hope next tuesday is quiet. we don't need to start a trend especially after the damage we've received with these storms. let's go more in detail with that confirmed tornado touchdown in honey brook chester county that was a 2:11 on tuesday. more than 10 minutes lead time on that with tornado warning issued around 2:00 p.m. it was an ef1 tornado. 95 miles per hour winds the path was 1.5 miles long and width of 100 yards pretty maze. zero confirmed injuries with that tornado touchdown. little further to the north and east in whitehall township in lehigh county, straight line winds with a micro burst. wind speed 80 miles per hour with a path length of about 440 yards. storm scan3 right now once again shows around of showers and storms that have

then by 2:00 in the area of whitehall and eldorado county has. night and then south like talking o'higgins meanwhile iscariots the lake area said the fire. right >> reporter: fire still turning 200 homes in this hour it's been a very stubborn fire and then " get all the stops and then attacking the same on the air on the ground and then the terrain and conditions not a designer blocked the sun. and contain a fire that burned nearly seven thousand acres lights. assistance for food. the the"at multiplexes issues and have for cruise way in so only 50 percent containment is taking a little bit longer. >> reporter: fire trend boosted him of the red fire burning for 24 hours of. it is still giving crews. "low fuel whistles and olive or vegetation around here" >> reporter: the four investigations remain in effect for the county and town of winters and. fired it continues to scorch relent. "people get back in the homes and costly looking at that and how we can do that and safety number one priority." " for >> reporter: index flour's sellout but some peopl

and the architecture across whitehall since 2010 with the creation of a national security council and national security secretariat makes it more complex. i think the arrangements are working well but the foreign office is focusing resource and efforts on rebuilding the core capability, the core competencies that allow it to own that process. you own a process not by bidding for it but i consistently showing that you have the capability do the work that is required to be done. >> the predecessor committee concluded that you budget couldn't be cut affecting the foreign office capacity. trying to improve the capacity of the office. perhaps you could could share with is the challenge you've just been invited to take on from the treasury. what the scale of budget measures and how is about? >> i think part of the experience would suggest initial pitching by the treasury should be regarded as aspirational. but it is clear that to deliver the overall fiscal trajectory of the department is collectively will have to make substantial savings double-digit percentage savings. in the case of the f

neighbors assess damage to their homes in the area of whitehall township. some of the streets look like war zones with trees toppled like toothpicks, and roads closed. high water stranded some motorists, one man says he helped rescue one of them. >> there was a lady between 70 to 80 years old in the car and knocked on the window and asked if she was okay, asked if she could swim. i grabbed one of my mechanics and the two of us went and rescued her out of her car. >> residents were told it may be several days before the power restored. for some the recovery will be even longer. heavy storms were another unwelcome site for people who live in delaware county are already recovering from severe weather just last week. this is in lansdowne, 300 block of east baltimore avenue virtually turned into small river there. people who live in that area say maybe feel beaten down at this point. >> i'm getting tired of t it is not safe. it is dangerous, you know i just want -- i just want my family out of, there take them out, not safe. >> i drive a small suv ford escape. i

the board of commissioners in south whitehall township is considering whether to restrict the numbersales a homeowner can have. the board is considering limiting the number of yard sales to four per year per household. the measure also includes limiting yard sales to daytime hours and limiting the signage. the board will vote on the measure a little bit later on this month. >>> let's take a live look at citizens bank park. it is quiet at this hour as the phillies hit the road for the holiday weekend. they'll be in atlanta taking on the braves. the phils lost to the milwaukee brewers last night, 8-7, in 11 innings. before the brewers left town one member of their organization made history with his appetite. >> i love this story. the team's bull pen catcher ate his way into history in the visitors clubhouse. teams keep track of the record for most cheese steaks eaten during a series. that's what teams do. marcus hannel decided to break that record which stood at 18 over four days. he did it in just three. >> they taste good in the gij. . >> if you're keeping track, that equals 22,000 c

right now the issue is before the board of commissioners in south whitehall township. the township's manager says some residents are abusing yard sales, having them too often and creating too much congestion. the board is considering limiting the number of yard sales to four per quarter per household. the measure also includes limiting yard sales to daytime hours. they will vote on the measure later this month. >>> well today rainy day, especially in south jersey or delaware. we still do have some showers around for the rest of this evening. if you are heading out for your holiday weekend plans, you might run into a couple showers but it's all pretty light. weekend rain chances are still going to stay in the forecast and the big question with that is going to be if it clears out for fireworks time. i will show you the timing in just a minute. now we are at 77 in allentown, mid 70s reading, pottstown, philadelphia wilmington. some areas in south jersey that had heavy rain earlier today, you are in the upper 60s. 59 millville. 68 in atlantic city. locally, we are pretty g

the full accuweather forecast. >>> lets switch now to eva pilgram live in whitehall township, that is where the weather service is working to determine if another tornado touched down this one in the lehigh valley. hi eva. >> reporter: hey monica the cleanup continues today and people are are assess how bad the damage is this is where the national weather service was moments ago trying to determine if this was really a tornado in the lehigh valley or just a really bad storm. >> the work started early this morning it pick up what mother nature destroyed. >> cleaning up all morning been out here since 6:30 this morning trying to get everything cleaned up and get it back to where it was. >> i didn't think it would bring this tree down. >> i called the insurance and it's nerve-racking. >> trees and power lines snapped and golf ball-size hail crashed through siding and rooftops. >> it sounds like someone was hammering on the rooftops and windows. >> maria came out to clean up broken glass and noticed something odd. >> i couldn't get my car out. the wind was so strong it pushed her garage off square if you look at the

we're also getting a look at some of the damage in whitehall township. a ppl crew was on scene where a tree was knocked down. this is everhart road. another landed on a pickup truck in north catasauqua. the app is free for your cell phone or tablet. >>> it's a historic step and it's expected today in u.s./cuba relations. at any moment now president obama is said to announce that the countries have agreed to open embassies in each other's capitals. the two countries agreed to restart diplomatic relations. u.s. embassy in havana is expected to open later this month. nbc news will have a special report when president obama makes his announcement. we'll bring that to you live when it happens. three people were killed after this car crash. it burst into flames at the schuylkill expressway early this morning. our traffic camera shows you the fiery scene into the westbound lanes at montgomery avenue. this was the scene from the ground. right now police are still trying to figure out exactly what caused this crash. >>> this morning philadelphia police are trying

the highway and is now 30% contained. there are mandatory evacuations ordered from whitehall to the campground. fire officials said opening highway 50 is a priority for now any traveling to tahoe should use 80 or state route 88 instead. >>> let's check on the weather. the winds are a big factor here. check on the conditions in tahoe and napa county. >> spencer christian is off. sandhya patel is here. >> it is coming up to 30%. so is the wind out of the west/southwest, now gusting to 19 miles an hour sustained at 8. that's not a good thing for the firefighters. as we look at the fire near lake berryessa, 81 degrees, relative humidity running low 26%. and the wind gusts have also come up, south, southwesterly, to 20 miles an hour. as we take a look at the next 24 hours, near the lake berryessa area, the wind trends, at 5:00 p.m., 14-mile-an-hour wind gusts and winds drop off as we head to tomorrow morning, only to pick up 14 miles an hour just like at 5:00 p.m. tonight. clear skies right now. and a beautiful view from our golden gate bridge camera with plenty of sun. mostly clear and breezy if yo

may still have blocked storm drains and here is a still of that picture from whitehall township taken by mike, not only is the porch here but i noticed looking at this for the third time, there was branches down and whole trees down, we'll look at the noon forecast just a couple of minutes ahead. >> thank you. >> amtrak had delays along the northeast corridor because of the weather yesterday trains ran late between philadelphia and washington, keystone service was suspended between philadelphia and harrisburg, crews are to clear trees that fell on the tracks during the storms. stay ahead of the summer's ever changing weather with the 6 abc storm tracker 6 app you'll find the latest forecast and the live radar and updates from social media by following the "action news" weather team on facebook and twitter. >> we are following breaks news from chopper 6 hd at this hour, police are on the locate of an accident involving a suv. it's flipped over there on your screen, this is whitaker avenue and luzerne street. at least one person was trapped in the suv for a time and had to be extricated from the vehicle. no wor

the road as being blocked. police activity there as well whitehall road and williams ways. and if you head out the door on the pa turnpike currently no problems. except for on the northeast extension. westbound from route 1 to valley forge. currently no problems if you're headed eastbound. back to you. >>> new from overnight, the search is on now for two men who robbed a restaurant in center city philadelphia. police say the robbers went into tria cafe on 11th and spruce streets just before 3:00. they appeared to show a fake gun and made off with four bank bags filled with $1,500 in cash. no one was hurt. >>> also new from overnight, a firefighter was hurt battling a fire fire. there were initial reports of people to be trapped inside but the fir fighters found no one. >>> we expect to wlern if charges were filed against the driver who hit and killed a man on a bike in the hunting park section of philadelphia yesterday. matt delucia is live at police headquarters with more on what we know. fill us in. >> tracy, at this point, no. >> chas filed that could change later on this

officials expect full power restoration in the coming days, steve keeley now live in whitehall township, one of the areas officials say was the hardest hit steve? >> well, it is getting hit still. it is pouring out here. and i've been up since 1:15, at least. and i've been in rain since then. it hasn't stopped now. i went from new jersey to here we got caught in that horrific back up, and fatal crash on the schuylkill. and i had tweeted that probably we were hydroplaning, once we got out of there, it was powering out, there were thunderstorms, right before that accident, and right at the time of the accident. and i was telling people, two hand on the wheelment look how heavy it is raining. stay on the rain, greg, before you get to the scene of the tree here. just to gave you a idea, these are big raindrops so where ever you are driving today you got to go slower, because these big puddles on the side of the even highways, where all of the drains get clogged make you hydroplane. don't be surprised if you hear that was the cause that far accident, because in the middle of the night, not a

the london bombings in july. this has come to an end. flags were already flying at half mast this morning over whitehall as well as over buckingham palace.he play at wimbledon of course has been delayed, in this tribute over the britons who lost their lives. the bodies of some of them have been flown home on thursday. we do know that the u.k. is working together with tunisian authorities in an ongoing investigation into the beach massacre. as of now, eight people have been arrested with what they say are direct connections into the shooting. >> good afternoon, everyone. molly: we know as well that the british defense secretary, he has called for the u.k. to change its take on its fight against extremism. the british defense secretary said the attack in tunisia has now led to the realization that the u.k. is engaged in a fight that will last a generation. the country is considering expanding the royal air force airstrikes against the islamic state group into syria, this is the gunman who carried out the tunisia shooting is thought to have been a network inspired by militants from the islamic state group. for more on this story, i am joine

based on the investigation they estimate the maximum win speeds reached 308 miles per hour, whitehall township hit the hardest, and was left with widespread damage, as you can see in this video which included fallen trees and a lot of hail damaged homes and cars. >> developing now, ferry in the philippines capsized leaving 36 dead and 19 other missing. officials say the ferry caring 173 passengers, and it was headed to island about 30 miles away when lashed by strong waves. survivors say the front of the boat came out of the water before the ship completely flipped over, and then began to signing. at least 118 passengers rescued by nearby fishing both. officials though are still searching for those who are missing. >> 6:07. fireworks can be lot of fun to look at out july 4th, but could be bad for some of our nation's heroes. why the men and women who fought for our freedom may not want to go to any fireworks displays. we snap it. we stack it. we smoosh it. we love it. hershey's makes it a s'more... you make it special. hershey's is mine, yours our chocolate. i saw a commercial that sa

the national weather service team is on their second stop in whitehall township and coplay, workers are working to clear trees and wires knocked over in the storm. >> i have been out here all morning since 6:30 this morning to get everything cleaned up and get it back to where it was. >> a state of emergency declared yesterday should help bring additional resources to help affected homeowners in whitehall township. >>> lets go over to meteorologist, adam joseph live at the big board to explain what made this storm system so damage itting. >> here is the latest from the national weather service for the tornado in honey brook an ef 1 rating it goes from ef 0 up to ef 5, those are the monster tornadoes we see in the midwest, it happened at 2:11 and the max sustained winds 95 miles per hour and the width was about a football field wide and a mile and a half damage with that particular tornado. here is the radar at the time the radar touched down near honey brook you can see the hook the hook we talked about yesterday, all the hail and heavy rain is north of the tornado and where you have th

along the side of highway scary situation those cars are either burned or not traveling anymore how a 50 close is about halfway between placerville south lake tahoe mandatory evacuations and whitehall area sand flats campground the fire north of the american river both sides highway 50 burning north for the covers area or than a hundred acres of burn unclear how this started and how 50 close through the night we don't know when it will reopen but this could certainly impact plans. >> catherine: repression in the space dozens of law enforcement vehicles escorting the bodies of flaming hair word cylinder and fellow officers saluted as precarious but it went to a funeral home. the people stop to pay their respects. >> reporter: the floors of a community and then a couple minutes ago many of the officers here working tuesday night early wednesday morning when this happened codify only see what the committee has done for them and ask for a moment of privacy a very somber moment while this is still sinking and an update tonight we can tell you suspected killer and they say that they're looking for setting carnauba early yesterday morning when officer was killed base. say that it won a sp

the collision of storms created a phenomenon called wet microburst, random gusts of hurricane and gale-force winds. one of those gusts destroyed this marina in maryland. another hit whitehall township in pennsylvania, where jenny dannecker heard the storm gaght experg barely escaped. >> so we just went in and ran down to the basement and a few seconding later heard the loud crash of the roof coming down. >> reporter: in new jersey residents like paul marositz described rain and hail coming in sideways. >> the wind was worse than sandy. that's how loud it was. >> reporter: in washington, the storm created a spectacular light show but also forced a group of girl scouts camping out at the white house to seek shelter in the executive office building. this microburst storm was part of a weather pattern that forecasters call the ring of fire, the high pressure and hot air that's dominated the east and the south from new england to texas throughout the month of colder air slamming into the ring from all directions brought floods to texas and record rainfall in the east. washington in june got three times the normal amount of rain. >> reporter: i'm carter evans. here in the west i

the estimate, mack mum wind speeds, about 80 miles per hour, whitehall township hit the hardest with widespread damage, as you can sigh, from this video, which included fallen trees, and then hail damage homes after cars, and realize it is over the cars being i am free florida, we've been in hurricanes, than was worse than. that will we were scared to death. >> thousands without electricity, ppl says power has since been restored. >> divers searched massive right at property in gloucester county yesterday. >> first, first responder hoping to find a teen missing tar went swim with friend. to sabina, the search about to begin this morning. >> daybreak here this morning, weaver seen crews, back here on the scene, we have seen state police, as well as emergency crews showing up back to the scene it, have skyfox up little earlier what it look like they hadn't end earth the water just yet, but look like they were gearing up. we have video to show from yesterday's intense search for this missing teenager. now the call came in at about 4:00 yesterday to police for a possible drowning. >> tee

the british national archives. it was being picked up by military and political officials. they were being sent back to whitehall. many things were printed about the activities in the colonies. however, it's notable -- i sensed last week looking at everything printed by john dem lamp -- dunlap in 1776 and how he used his punctuation and one of many examples were not sure he really distinguishes between a period and a dash so i can give you three instances where you have a period and then a dash an both cases have the same meaning. this could have been produced by dunlap at a successive date. he reset it from the velllum copy -- we have not two dashes as in the original broadside that one single long dash perhaps with a period or not. to put a question around the significant of dunlap puzzle practices. i want to turn to 3 other sets of evidence or pieces of evidence for bodies of evidence to consider different understandings of the declaration in 1776 subsequent to the immediate responses and then to the translations, the first translations, then briefly to other declarations of independence since then. how did the

they estimate the maximum wind speeds reached 80 miles per hour, whitehall township was left with widespread damage, fallen trees and hail damaged homes and cars. >> i was in shock when i saw this specially when it was over the cars. >> i'm from florida we've been in hurricanes, than was worse than that. we were scared to death. >> and it is scary. thousands lost power during the height of the storm in lehigh county, the ppl says power has since been restored. >> major us airlines being accused of teaming up to illegally raise prices. now, the justice department is investigating. coming up: we'll tell you what they allegedly did as a group to pull off the price hike. >> and, are your student safe when they go to school? new report find the unsafe and unsanitary conditions inside classrooms and bathrooms. what schools make the list. if you want a paint with no harsh fumes. if you want a paint without harmful chemicals. if you want a paint that's safer for your family, and the environment... only this can. natura from benjamin moore. paint like no other. certified asthma and allergy friendly b