storm tracker 6 live double scan radar will be scanning the chance for more storms later today. good morning everyone, 5:30 on this wednesday. tam is off, erin o'hearn joins us. david is here along with matt who is until for karen. good morning. >> we have breaks in the clouds across parts of the region. in extreme south jersey there are a couple showers popping through right now, no lightning with that currently and out to the west not a lot going on just yet but it will be warm, humid a bit unstable and through the afternoon in particular we'll be looking at a couple more spotty thunderstorms. 73 degrees in philadelphia right now, dry in the city. 65 in allentown. 67 in reading, 74 in wilmington and 73 in sea isle city and down the shore you have some of those morning showers for at least another hour or maybe a little more than that. 72 by 6:00 a.m., 76 by 8:00, partly cloudy and warm as you head out the door over the next several hours. and it stays warm and a bit sticky today. 79 degrees by 9 o'clock. 85 by noon. and then we're up close to 90 by 3 o'clock. that is your high of 89 today and then 85 by 6 o'clock.

again through the afternoon a spotty shower or a thunderstorm possible and matt some of those could be gusty. i'll have more on future tracker 6 and better weather ahead in the accuweather 7-day. >> good deal david. if we listen this morning we can hear the sounds of if we listen this morning we lots of downed trees and limbs from the storms last night. power problems giving us issues on septa's regional rail lines. chestnut hill east line still not running. chestnut hill west is running and luckily the fox chase line is now back to normal running the entirety of the route between fox chase and center city. little update on the 101 trolley. trolleys still are not running but shuttle buses are and now it's between scenic road and media. little correction over what we had earlier. scenic road to media is the length the buses are running. camera time along the schuylkill expressway near the roosevelt boulevard and the exit for lincoln and kelly drive, we've dried out along 76 looking phone. on the kelly drive those earlier traffic light troubles

at sedgley drive have been repaired so everything is back to normal on the drives this morning. also our crash in abington by the village cleaners along 611 at guernsey avenue cleared out. over in cherry hill still have the downed wires blocking covered bridge road. stick with pine valley road and in evesham township there's a downed tree and wires closing greentree road, 70 gets you around that blockage of the matt. >> thank you matt. we begin way developing story in atlantic city new jersey where neighbors say an armed man fired shots at police during a standoff overnight. swat teams first arounded the man at a home along the 600 block of elberon avenue. the barricade lasted an hour and a half when the man suddenly ran out the back door naked. police quickly took him into custody and center him to the hospital for an evaluation. no officers were hurt. local utilities continue their effort to restore power knocked out by a fast moving storm system. at last check, peco reported

92,700 outages, chester county has the most of those with 38,400. "action news" reporter katherine scott is live in mount airy with a closer look at the damage. katherine. >> reporter: matt some of the residents around here lost power and are also dealing with quite a bit of damage as well. take a look behind me. you can see a section of this tree is lying across several cars here in this parking lot on the 300 block of east mount airy avenue. it just crushed these cars. we saw damage like this year and across the area last night >> a big gust of wind just came and then we seen this tree just tip over. this tree in wissinoming was no match for last night's storm. it uprooted and neighbors watched as it fell across the roadway on the 4500 block of mckinley street hitting the cars in its path down. in wilmington, the wind whipped through fourth street many people caught in the downpour hurried to get out of the rain or huddled beneath umbrellas.

in mount airy allen's lane was blocked off, a large tree came crashing down across the 500 block. its long branches reaching across the road. parkside avenue between 53rd and bryn mawr was also closed off. police on the scene after another tree crashed down there. drivers were being diverted. back here live in mount airy you can see when the tree came down it took down some lines with it. we did see some peco crews here earlier. they've been out across the area doing some work. you can see some of this tree has been sectioned off chopped up into firewood and so they have been here obviously. a lot more clean upin mount airy and across the area. live in mount airy katherine scott channel 6 "action news." >> a young camper caught in a strong thunderstorm in maryland has died. a tree fell on a group of seven children in the river valley ranch in manchester while they were walking to a storm shelter last night.

one child later died from his injuries. the six others suffered nonlife-threatening injuries. with more storms in the forecast, be sure to download the free storm tracker 6 app now. get live radar and breaking weather alerts on your apple and android devices. >> 5:35 now. the philadelphia fire department has released a time line of saturday's gesner street fire including the dramatic 911 calls to quell anger over its response. >> 6517 gesner street. four houses are on fire. >> all right. >> all right, please hurry. >> that frantic call came in less than three minutes after the initial report at 2:44 a.m. by then the fire department said it had already sent an engine to the scene and backup was not far behind. >> that incident went from three houses to eight houses in 10 minutes, so if that fire had been burning for 30 minutes like everyone said, the whole block would have burned down.

>> four children died in the blaze. liberia's ambassador to the united states is in town to help the neighborhood heel. you will hear from him in our next half hour. >> the fate of a cigarette tax increase to fund philadelphia public schools remains uncertain this morning. the pennsylvania senate amended the bill and sent it back to the house. the measure now calls for the two dollars a pack hike to expire in five years. there are also new provisions for hotel taxes. the changes require house members to come back and vote on the new bill and it is unclear when that would happen. mayor michael nutter says without the tax increase, schools cannot afford to open on time. >> happening today, hundreds of casino workers are expected to fill the boardwalk to fight the closure of the showboat in atlantic city. 2100 jobs would be lost if the hotel closes next month. workers claim the showboats' owners caesar's want to close it down protect other

properties. new jersey osama bin laden man chris brown is proposing a bill that would place a limit on the amount of casinos a company would be allow ted to own in atlantic city. >> it's very floridian our weather around here. >> storm tracker 6 live double scan shows that you we have some showers down the shore this morning and as we take a closer look still not showing any lightning here and these showers are beginning to break apart so it might be damp down there in parts of south jersey for another 30 minutes perhaps but are you seeing some improvement. as we take a look outside we have cloudy skies over philadelphia international airport and then some of our sky 6 cameras have been showing some breaks in the clouds this morning. the temperature 73 degrees currently in the city. your dewpoint still up there at 68, though. that's the second straight hour we've had that reading and that indicates fairly humid air. winds out of the southwest at 10 miles per hour and whenever you get that southwest wind you tend to bring up that more sticky gulf air. future tracker 6 between now and noon shows you we're basically dry, maybe a couple

other sprinkles and showers down at the shore. in the afternoon there's a chance of some more spotty showers and perhaps a couple gusty thunderstorms. i don't think as much of the region is avenged by that today but as we roll through the afternoon and evening you have to look out for a couple of these at least and if you hear that thunder you want to take cover indoors on the lower floors because again some of these might be of the gusty variety. we certainly were expecting that last night and we certainly got it. all right so today temperature-wise still warm, 76 degrees by 8 o'clock, 83 by 11 o'clock, 88 by 2 o'clock and i expect to hit that high of 89 more or less around 3 o'clock this afternoon. we'll be close to it by 5 o'clock. again some spotty thunderstorms here and there through the afternoon in particular and it will still feel rather humid out there today. high temperatures across the region, lots of us in the upper 80's, might even see a 90 or two across the region here or there and down the shore you're getting a break again with highs in the low to mid 80's down at the shore. tomorrow couple of little sprinkles and showers popping in and out of view, maybe a thunderstorm down by the shore in the afternoon but generally

speaking it will be drier, more settled. humidity lowering during the day. 89 degrees warm and humid today, a spotty gusty thunderstorm can't be ruled out. clouds and sun and mainly dry tomorrow, 86 with perhaps a shower around. and then the pick of the week is friday, nice and warm, a fair amount of sunshine and a high of 87 and it now looks like saturday is improving. nice and bright, a high of 87. probably not all that humid. and no rain. we're going to take the threat of a thunderstorm out of the forecast on saturday. that's good for the phillies at night and good for the union at night. it's 6abc night at p. pl park on saturday. warm and more humid sunday, 88 the high, perhaps a couple spotty late day thunderstorms. i don't. it's a washout. monday looks unsettled, 86, humid, clouds and sun and perhaps some strong thunderstorms are rolling through again on monday and then partly sunny on tuesday. okay. >> okay. thanks so much, david. 5:39 now. taking cover. panic strikes the streets of israel.

why defense forces take aim at hamas. >> out of step. a girl's dance troop from camden suddenly finds itself without a place to practice. matt. >> nice and dry here in kensington this morning matt along aramingo avenue at lehigh. no problems at this intersection. we've got lots of downed trees and downed wires around the region plus a new construction project starting the day in chester county. details are after the break. >> an already delayed flight gets grounded because of storms and so the crew throws a pizza party. >> why not? >> "action news" continues.

>> ♪ >> welcome back. it is 5:43. a beautiful shot through sky 6 of the ben franklin bridge. not so beautiful last night. we had some nasty storms move through the area and probably a few more on the way today. >> could see some, yeah. matt pelman you're still tracking some problems related to those storms yesterday. >> you got that right. you could still see some downed trees be downed wires, down tree limbs at least as you come out of the neighborhood this morning. so, you're treating it like an obstacle course and swerving around and dodging as you come out of the burbs this morning. let's chart in cherry hill where there are downed wires closing covered bridge road. pine valley road is an alternate around that. in evesham township greentree road which is a busy one is out of commission because of a downed tree and some downed wires, a combo pack there

blocking greentree road near brandywine drive. route 70 good alternate to get around that one. meanwhile here in delco providence road traffic light troubles along there, 252 at rose tree road. when the traffic lights are dark you got to treat it like a four-way stop and that construction project started a four-way stop and that closes providence road during the mid days between springfield road and lansdowne avenue there in upper darby by penn pines diner. in bryn mawr traffic lights out along 30 lancaster avenue between county line road and railroad avenue and out a little bit to the west in east town township and tredyffrin township chester county along 30 a new paving project starts tonight. long stretch of lancaster avenue between 252 and old eagle school road going to work to make it better but for now watch out for restrictions during the middays and the overnight hours through the ends of august. it's camera time. elsewhere in chester county this is the 30 bypass by 32 32. eastbound no big delays. roadways dry. off of this interchange at 30 and 322 they open the new park

and ride last week so if you want to carpool and share the car with some of your friends that's a good spot to ditch your car and get in there's and use their gas instead. time for the commuter report brought to you by the waze app. up in the lehigh valley one of our friends using the app says watch out for an object in the road one of many on 22 west in upper macungie. matt. >> the israeli government authorized its army to activate up to 40,000 reserveists in preparation of a possible ground invasion of gaza. >> crowds ran for shelter in tel aviv as air raid sirens went off. hamas has launched more than 100 rockets into israel. isn't response the israeli army hit scores of targets in gaza killing at least 25 people. >> new this morning a south jersey travel agent has been arrested on charges that she ripped off customers to the tune of about $45,000 medford police say 67 year old christine hazelton ran an

online travel agency out of her home called the interest traveler. investigators say last year she sold at least eight people travel packages for an overseas trip called masterpiece classics of the english mid lands. then she told them the trips were canceled. >> they basically told them that they couldn't go, that the trip was canceled and that they would refund the money and the money was never refunded. >> hazelton faces theft and other charges. she has been released while she awaits a court hearing. philadelphia police are looking for a group of teenagers who might have been involved in the robbery of a cab driver. surveillance cameras captured seven teens inside a 7-eleven store shortly before the incident at 12th and filbert streets on saturday. one of the teenagers reportedly threw a water bottle at the driver's head. another teen then grabbed the cell phone of the driver. anyone with information should call 215-686-tips.

>> 5:46 now. coming up on "action news" why a plane filled with passengers got some pizza. >> plus, a dance troupe claims the city of camden shut the door on its practice facility. david. >> storms rolling through last night. my twitter follower kristen in levittown tweets in this picture this morning of damage overnight. lots of trees down in levittown she says but as you look at radar now all we've got left is a little bit of shower in south jersey and no more storms yet. we'll have your daypart >> ♪ ok buddy, aim it at us.

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>> an airline captain found a cure for frustrated fliers stuck on a delayed. he fed them.

gerard bradner ordered pizza. the flight had to refuel. the frontier pilot admitted he was hungry himself and decided to take care of his passengers rumbling symptom max. >> did you bring enough for everyone? yeah, he did. [laughter] >> you would tear eighty four motive. >> it's like the wild frontier out there this morning with all the downed trees and downed wires with everything we're dodging as we head oft neighborhoods. because of the storm damage septa chestnut hill east line not running. 101 trolley also not running. buses running instead between scenic road and media. watch agnew crash in whitpain township along skippack pike which is 73 at ivy road. no issues on the turnpike. route 1 in bucks county drying out this morning, david. >> still a little humid out there this morning but temperatures in the 60's in many of our outlying suburbs in pennsylvania. 66 in quakertown, 67 pottstown, 68 down in okay

ford in southern chester county. low 70's closer to the i-95 corridor however. across the river in south jersey we're more on the 70's side of the picture. 72 minute sin son vineland woodbine and 70's from hockessin delaware down to dover as well. as you're rolling through the day, say you're running errands probably another one of those days where the morning is better than the afternoon. in the afternoon we'll not only be warmer with a high of eighty nine degrees and also somewhat humid, as we get into the afternoon there's the chance of a spotty gusty thunderstorm. not everybody sees it but it is a chance. erin. >> thanks, david. hang today, the release of a u.s. senate survey on sexual assaults at college campuses. the report surveyed 440 colleges and universities in the country. it found that one in five of the colleges surveyed does not provide faculty and staff with training on how to help victims of sexual assault. the survey also found that about one in three of the schools does not train students in thousand prevents

sexual assaults or what to do when an assault happens. an estimated one in five female college students is sexually assaulted. new on "action news," a happily married couple in tennessee is calling it quits over healthcare. lynn dan larry drain said they wouldn't qualify for the affordable care act or social security if they stayed together because their joint income was too high. so to be able to pay for linda's medical bills due to epilepsy, the drains decide d to separate after 33 years of marriage. >> in order to keep my wife alive i can't live with her. >> the drains live about 2 miles apart and larry is working a part-time job just to make ends meet. >> 5:52 now. police are on the hunt for the man accused of attacking a local paramedic. new details coming up at 6:00 a.m. >> a big cleanup effort is under way after last night's storms. the action cam is live where a huge tree, as you can see philadelphia. a live update ahead at

>> ♪ >> good morning. 5:55 on the clock. cape may new jersey inviting beachgoers to enjoy another day. high temperature in cape may as opposed to a 90-degree lie in philadelphia. look out for strong storms later today. >> happening today, vice president joe biden will be in philadelphia to address the national religious convention.

he will deliver his remarks to 1800 delegates attending the 42nd biennial congress of the greek orthodox of america. he's expected to call on turkey to respect the freedom of its greek orthodox citizens and reopen the greek orthodox seminary. were you ever jerry sandusky's adopted sons sitting down with oprah to discuss the an buse he says he endured as a child. in the interview matt sandusky describes methodical control and manipulation by his father. the son of the former penn state coach settled a civil claim against the university last year. matt sandusky was not part of the criminal case that sent his father to prison for 30 to 60 years. >> nationally celebrated drill team from camden says it has been locked out of its practice facility. tawanda jones founder of sophisticated sisters says the group showed up to the water tower on monday and found fencing around the building and closure signs. the city owns the property and

jones says it failed to notify the dancers in advance. >> we are grateful for them letting us use the space for as long as they have. but to shut us out with no notice and a lot of my kids are walking from east camden. we have some that come from sicklerville, gloucester, you know,'s really a slap in the face. >> you may remember the group stole the show with a performance last year on "dancing with the stars." a spokesperson for the city of camden says the group has any other been locked outer. the water tower is under renovation and not deemed safe. the spokesperson estimates it will take four months to complete the project. >> time now is 5:57 and an automaker expands its recall. up next details on the safety device that can cause real harm to car owners. >> and brand new at 6:00 a driver has a big beef with an ambulance crew in berks county. what police say he did to an emt next.

>> ♪ >> "action news." delaware valley's leading news program. with matt o'donnell, tamala edwards, karen rogers and meteorologist, david murphy. >> ♪ >> good morning everyone. it's 6 o'clock on this wednesday july 9th. tam is off. wednesday july 9th. here's what's happening. >> a strong line of storms rolls across the region leaving behind downed trees, crushed cars and thousands of people without power. >> philadelphia leaders go to great lengths to defend the actions of firefighters and dispatchers the morning a fire killed four children. >> a missouri woman learns she is living in a real life house of horrors. >> let's get your weather and traffic update from david murphy and matt pelman filling in for karen. good morning. >> good morning. it's comfortable enough out here on the terrace although just a tad humid. as we take a look we've got sun coming up over the horizon.