. >> ♪ >> "action news." delaware valley's leading news program. with matt o'donnell, tamala edwards, karen rogers and with matt o'donnell, tamala >> ♪ >> good morning. it's 5:00 a.m. on this tuesday july 15th. here's what's happening. >> storms featuring powerful lightning, flash flooding and a possible tornado tear across the delaware and lehigh valleys. we are live in one of the hardest hit areas. >> and we're not out of the woods just yet. accuweather is tracking the risk of more thunderstorms and drenching downpours again today. >> a passerby makes a gruesome discovery in an empty philadelphia lot. now police want the know how a woman's body ended up in a duffle bag. >> let's get right to that accuweather forecast. david murphy is off. karen rogers has your accuweather and matt pelman is

taking a look at your roads. good morning. >> good morning, it's going to be another day where we're watching these storms very closely. on storm tracker 6 live double scan we can see nothing more than a sprinkle over here near wilmington and out the our southwest. we'll stay predominantly dry through much of the morning hours. it's later on this afternoon that we're really watching. satellite 6 and action radar slowing that we're going to see clouds, we have some breaks in the clouds here and there and you could start to see some showers trying to fire up. nothing terribly serious just yet. that's going to happen again later this afternoon. look at the dewpoints. the measure of how much moisture in the atmosphere. already 70 degrees or above in some of the areas, 74 in dover, 73 in wilmington. we have this kind of humidity it doesn't take much to get these drenching downpours and we've got a lot working together in the atmosphere to help that happen and that's why the national weather service has this flash flood watch extended through the evening because these downpours are likely. we could see as much as 1 to 3 inches of rain with any one of these storms that follow through in the area.

as we look at storm tracker 6 live double scan you can see that some of the storms are billowing up well out to the west. we'll be watching this closely. it's coming at us later on this afternoon. i'm going to show you exactly what it looks like on future tracker 6 in just a couple minutes, matt. >> personally i thought yesterday's round was enough but i guess we'll do some more. good morning karen rogers. we're still trying to recover from the round of storms last night that left us with high water here in south philadelphia but as you can see this shot looks a little bit different from how it looked 10 minutes ago. they have reopened the northbound lanes of 26th street headed towards the schuylkill expressway. they got the drains unclogged and the tunnels there so you can travel away from the platt bridge towards 76 once again. we are watching some fire activity this morning, an underground fire at 18th and sansom near rittenhouse. they've reopened the ramp from 95 northbound at cottman. that had been closed because of flooding and overall there was not a lot of overnight construction because of the wet conditions. live look now at the roosevelt boulevard extension here in east falls.

lights are out as you head towards 76. probably just some local power issues as a result of the storms last night but the traffic headed southbound here is moving just fine. on the pennsylvania turnpike eastbound approaching reading we had an overnight crash that's now out of the way. all lanes reopened. tam. >> okay, thank you, matt. the national weather service will be assessing the damage in burlington county, new jersey, this morning. they're trying to decide if a tornado did indeed touchdown. "action news" reporter katherine scott is lie in another hard hit area, voorhees camden county. good morning, katherine. >> reporter: good morning, tam. you drive through this neighborhood you can see signs of the storm everywhere. there's just debris lining the streets and one of those big signs of the storm is right behind me. you can see this big tree was uprooted. it ripped through the side of their home. in burlington county the national weather service will investigate to see if it was a tornado that blew from mount laurel towards pemberton. signs of rotation indicate a

possible tornado in central burlington county between 8:20 and 8:45 p.m. in tabernacle a viewer snapped this photograph over the holy eucharist church. >> every street was blocked with trees. have to go all the way around to get to my house. >> reporter: trees uprooted, power lines down. bill and his family were inside their home on pelham road when he heard a lloyd noise. this tree crashed onto his home smashing a hole into the side of the second floor. >> sounded like a tornado. nothing i've ever heard before. >> reporter: and back here live in voorhees at pelham and saddle rich road where the long branches of this tree are stretched across the lawn, there's debris in the roadway, pine cones, leaves branches and some of the families here are anxiously awaiting power. we do see some restoration crews on the block but still a lot of cleanup left to do. live in voorhees, katherine

scott channel 6 "action news." >> katherine thank you. the action cam in sky sky 6 caught some of the hundreds of lightning bolts that struck our area last night. one bolt hit a house in the fox chase section of philadelphia around 9 o'clock at night. the action cam was on the 400 block of chandler street. the woman who ownded this house had just sold it a few hours before the storm moved in. the three bedroom home suffered extensive damage. there were no injuries. the home was vacant. you can follow the storms as they rumble through from your phone or tablet. our free 6abc storm tracker app gives you audio alerts for weather warnings plus access to live radar and the accuweather philadelphia. >> residents in philadelphia's kensington neighborhood are on edge after the discovery of a woman's body. the young victim was found bound inside a duffle bag. "action news" reporter erin o'hearn is live at the big board with the full story. erin. >> matt, a frightening and gruesome discovery yesterday by a man who police say was picking through the trash near a vacant home on north third street in kensington.

investigators say say among the garbage oh found a duffle bag and inside it was a body of a hispanic woman who police believe was about 23 years old. her arms were bound with duck tape. this happened around 5:00 a.m. yesterday morning and about two hours earlier homicide detectives say a car was found torched on the 1600 block of brace street in south philadelphia behind some homes and a warehouse. police are trying to determine if that car belonged to the woman. nancy are understandably on edge as they wait to get more answers about who this woman was and why she fell victim to such a horrendous crime. >> i'm terrified. like i love to walk, get out walk my dogs and all. it's scary this world. what is the world coming to. >> we want to make sure what's going on. honestly we don't know. our community is nervous at this time. >> investigators believe they know the identity of the young woman but they are waiting to get in touch with relatives the make a positive i.d.

the results of the autopsy could be released as early as today. matt. >> thanks so much erin. hang today, philadelphia archbishop charles chaput is scheduled to meet with a clergy abuse victim. the archbishop is planning to talk with john quinn this afternoon. quinn is a clergy abuse survivor who is flying in from arkansas for the meeting. the archdiocese of philadelphia paid for the flight. leaders are not saying exactly why the meeting is taking place. it will happen at the recollecter to behind the cathedral basilica saint peter and paul. parents in the penns grove school district in salem county, new jersey, turned out last night hoping to get a school board member removed. they want walter hudson taken off the board because he has been arrested three times since being elected last year. just last week, hudson was arrested during an altercation with a police officer. the board's attorney says the district cannot legally remove board members. it is up to the state education department to take action. >> time now to turn to your accuweather forecast.

if you thought well at least the storms are out of here not quite yet. >> no, we have sort of a repeat performance. we could see really drenching downpours with these storms as well, so flooding even more of a concern. let's take a look at storm tracker 6 live double scan. starting our morning off quietly as we see nothing more than a couple showers around south side and west of the city of philadelphia. really won't be until later on today that we get the real action. let's go on outside and show you what it looks like right now as sky 6 looks live at philadelphia international airport. some local clouds around morning with all of the moisture we had and the rain from yesterday with those powerful storms. 75 degrees the current temperature t it's warm already. the dewpoint 70 degrees. atmosphere very heavy and humid. the winds south-southwesterly at seven. little bit of a breeze but really not helping much and that pressure continues to drop. satellite 6 and action radar showing that we have a fair amount of clouds. we're going to see some holes in the clouds and you could start to see some showers trying to pop here or there.

negater plea serious just yet. i think that's going to wait until the daytime heating kind of helps ignite the atmosphere a little and this front begins to cross. this is future treark's look at 4 o'clock this afternoon, maybe a stray shower popping up at any point today but you start to see that line form out to the west and then at 6:30, it becomes a little more clearly defined almost the same timing as yesterday and we see some of the storms indicating the red or pup pell indicating some really heavy downpours potentially hail with some of these storms as well. this is a look at 8:30 as it begins to cross through the area and then once again tomorrow morning well get the remnants of another line that starts to come through and produce more shower activity during part of your morning rush. so it's going to take awhile before we're really done with this weather. severe weather threat again today. we are under a slight risk not for the entire region for gusty winds, downpours and lightning with these storms that come through and we have flash flood concerns again. we had that flash flood watch continuing through the area. we've got a strong jet stream with colder air up aloft and

the winds are parallel to the front and that could help training. the storms that come through along this front could possibly hit the same areas over and over and that's what could give us 1 to 3 inches of rain in any one spot so why we have to be really careful with today's storms. here's a look at your exclusive accuweather 7-day. it's not going to rain all day but you really have to watch for it especially this afternoon when you get these gusty storms and these drenching downpours. 87 degrees for your high. tomorrow morning looks like we have another round of mostly just showers and then in the afternoon it's breezy and cooler and 83. thursday refreshing, lower humidity, dry, partly sunny and 83. that's our last good dry day. friday sunshine behind clouds the chance for a shower, 85. saturday a couple of spotty storms around, 84 but that also means many spots will be dry so it's not going to be terrible for you, just something to keep an eye on. sunday clouds and sun, a better chance of a few showers and thunderstorms and 86. monday warm and humid and 87. so, some strong storms coming again today.

>> gotcha'. >> thank you, karen. it's now 5:10. next up police hope some newly released surveillance video will help them catch this criminal. they say he ran through the streets of philadelphia firing his gun. >> a little later in the morning buzz the coolest cooler. some call it a portable party and you may agree when you hear what it can do, matt. >> all right, sounds good, matt. we're live here northern montgomery county where we had some problems with the traffic lights here along 309 at the five points intersection. they are working this morning. we have some issues elsewhere and some new construction projects to talk about after the break. >> and the lone phillies representative in today's all-star game. let's hope he makes a few friends there. "action news" continues.

>> 5:13 now. the action cam is live in center city where an underground fire broke out about 45 minutes ago. underground fire broke out street. mostly causing a traffic issue here. they're having traffic detoured at 18th street right now as peco crews try to figure out what the problem. >> let's go over to matt pelman. he's taking a look at what else might be an issue on the roads. good morning matt. >> a couple minor issues this morning. instead of 18th in the rittenhouse area stick to 16th to get around that fire situation. we're dodging tree limbs, a little debris in the roadway after last night's round of storms. let's head to the suburbs. chester county along route 100 not a whole lot cooking yet. one southbound car headed down towards exton. nobody's out and about just het headed up towards lionville. during the midday and rest of the days this week from 9 until 3 o'clock they'll block a northbound lane towards

route 113. in which esther county cook county route 23 closed until 6:00 this morning between country club and valley park roads for resurfacing. that's for a couple weeks. stay on pawlings road or egypt road to get around it. new water main work in delco giving restrictions along bishop avenue and macdade boulevard. good spots to avoid. stay on 13 as an alt n over in cinnaminson and pennsauken in camden county, doing some overnight work going until 6 o'clock this morning along 130 southbound between church road and route 70. you're without two of the lanes there. let's grab the ipad do the commuter report on this tuesday morning. made it through monday. time to tackle tuesday. down in the first state not a whole lot cooking so far. one of our friends using the waze app says watch out for a vehicle stopped on the shoulder along 95 south near newport. tam. >> thank you, matt. this is from our delaware news room. state officials confirmed four additional overdose deaths

from heroin laced with fentanyl. that brings the total to 11 deaths this year attributed to the dangerous drug mixture surpassing the death toll from the last major you outbreak of the tainted drug back in 2006. philadelphia police are looking for gun toting criminal who ran through a port richmond neighborhood while carrying a firearm. the police are also saying that surveillance video video caught video on july 6. bullets damaged a car an house. if you have any information on the shooting please call philadelphia police. >> major league baseball's all-star game tonight in minneapolis. the phillies only representative this year second baseman chase utley. the oakland a's yoenis cespedes won the home run derby. it's the seconds year he took the long ball crown. that is the first time a player has done it since ken griffey jr. did it in 1998 and 99. more sixers summer league

action here. center nerlens noel and his mates face the cleveland cavaliers and andrew wiggins this year's first pick in the draft. wiggins was impressive in the cavs 86-77 win over the sixers. >> 5:17 now. the world's largest land snails show up in an airport out west. >> new research finds women may have another drug option to reduce the odds of breast cancer returning. karen. >> it's humid out there already and really warm with temperature in the mid 70's. we're watching the radar closely. right now you can see a couple showers out there, they're pretty light heading right near philadelphia and one just south of lancaster. details in your forecast coming up next. safety goggles? this breakfast burrito is exploding with flavor. i think you're getting a little carried away. morning, guys. try dunkin's southwest steak breakfast burrito with steak and fire-roasted vegetables. enjoy huge flavor for $2.99 today.

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along 95 by philadelphia international airport. last night was a night they were supposed to start that new resurfacing project along 95 between the girard point bridge and 420. you see no crews out there right now. all lanes are opened. but one lane is blocked here in middlesex county along 33 eastbound at apple garth road. still some high water there in the right lane and the trolleys were detouring around the tunnel last night because of some construction this morning for those first trolleys everything is back to normal. karen. >> let's plan this day ahead. we're starting off basically dry. we've got a couple of sprinkles out there in a few spots but no storms. by 9:00 a.m., 78 degrees, it's humid. by noon, you're up to 83. you could see a shower popping up at any point. by 3:00 p.m., a shower thunderstorm could be popping up, 87 and that will be your high for the day today. but i think it's more likely you'll see these stronger drenching thunderstorms late in the afternoon into the evening so certainly by 6 o'clock, many areas getting hit by these storms. we have that flash flood watch continuing through the day because they could be drenching downpours today.

87 degrees for your high. most of the activity happening once again late this afternoon into this evening. tomorrow we start off with some showers left over early. then its breezy and cooler, better for the afternoon a high of 83, tam. >> thank you, karen. going to health check new evidence suggests that a gel may work as well as a pill for a drug for breast cancer patients. researchers it's a northwestern university found that applying tamoxifen in gel form redewses the activity of the tumor just as well. prior research shows women with breast cancer who take tamoxifen live longer. doctors say they're doing adult type overuse injuries among little leaguers more often especially among pitchers leading to elbow surgery for some children and teens. the damage is done by throwing too many pitches. experts also say kids are not getting the rest that he had need between seasons because baseball is now back a year round sport. >> u.s. stock futures are mixed this morning as the most

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the region. >> storm tracker 6 will be ready for more thunderstorms today and accuweather will be tracking them closely. >> good morning, it's 5:30 on tuesday, july 15. david murphy is off. karen rogers has kept her eyes trained on storm tracker 6. she's the go late of the for accuweather and matt pelman is taking a look at your traffic. >> good morning. we'll be watching storm tracker 6 live double scan so closely today. right now we're just looking at a couple of showers. we can see them right now near philadelphia as well as near lancaster. it's not a big deal just yet. no lightning, no strong storms out there. that's going the happen a little later on today after the heating of the day but they are going to be quite strong once again. satellite 6 and action radar showing right now we've got the clouds and we just have a couple of showers that are trying to move its way through. trying to move its way later this afternoon into this evening that's when those strong storms will come by. we have a flash flood watch that's been extended through tonight because these downpours are likely. we could see 1 to 3 inches of rain and that's why the flash flooding is possible. any time you see rainfall totals of