Someone used a big rock and someone used a tire and i helped the two people across the street out of the house. We knew the guy and he came out the front window and a young lady came out the front window. It appears that the explosion ring nated in the rear of the house that was occupied. Well continue to search, we have assistance from the county as well as the state police. Well bring in dogs for additional search. One occupants was scraped up and taken to the hospital for treatment but word is he will be okay. Yesterdays explosion in paterson, new jersey, destroyed two homes and left 38 people homeless and fire rescue crews are waiting for a cadaver dog making sure there were no other people in the homes affected. Thank you. This is the wrath of Hurricane Matthew, this is what the storm did to haiti. Leaving death and enormous destruction in its wake. It has florida in a vulnerable position. Floridians are preparing for the worst and hoping for the best. People waiting in lines to fill their cars and get gas for their generators. Cecily tynan is monitoring the storm and the question here is what impact will it have on our region . Minimal if any. This storm system do stay to the south. Could have a little bit of rough surf. That is it for us. Unfortunately for the southeast coast its a much different scenario. You can see how close it is to florida. Only 400 miles away. Its a big hurricane. Tropical Storm Force Winds extend 300 mile across. If you look at this, the eye wall has kind of collapsed. Because its so big it is inacting with the high terrain of cuba and down to 120 Miles Per Hour. A cat 3, and moving into more favorable conditions. Could strengthen and be a cat 4 before it hits or brushes the coast of florida right near Cape Canaveral on friday. These are the spaghetti plots and its a good consensus paralleling the georgia coast and heading out to sea well south of our region. Big change from yesterday. Yesterday at this time. The official National Hurricane center had it rolling up the eastern seaboard. This shift to the south more than 500 miles in 24 hours. Key points we are looking at the potential for a major hurricane hitting landfall near florida near Cape Canaveral. First major hurricane hitting anywhere since wilma in 2005. And the problem with this track paralleling the coast of florida, georgia and south carolina. That means it will spread out the damage. Ill talk more about that and talk about our local weather in a couple of minutes. Thank you. You can follow the path of Hurricane Matthew any time at 6abc. Com, there you could fine our interactive Hurricane Tracker showing you where the storm is expected to strike next and get the latest from accuweather on any impact that matthew will have on our area. As we just heard cecily say, that impact should be minimal. Authorities are still trying to determine what sparked last nights deadly fire in the bustleton section of philadelphia. The flames killed a couple in their 50s. Action News Reporter john rawlins is live at the scene on bridal road. Reporter the latest in the last 15 minutes, two fire vehicles a fire truck and a fire ladder returned to the scene one is focused on water in the base many in the house that burned. Firefighters will pump the water out of the base many because its interfering with the investigation and another firefighter is going doortodoor with spoke detecters. It was a sad day here, two people are dead. Flames lit up what was just minutes before a quiet night sky, the blaze moved quickly through the split level home, neighbor Veronica Valentino looking into vein into the occupied house. I saw the flames higher than the trees and i ran out and my neighbor was screaming and running up to the door and banging on the door and said the front. Door was hot. Arriving firefighters found a man and woman said to be in their 50s. One lying on the floor in the living room and the other in the hallway, they brought them out and started cpr immediately. Sad to announce that we lost both of them. Investigators from the Fire Marshals Office remained on the scene and the focus was the first floor rear of the house where the fire was most intense. Neighbor ed said the country moved in less than two years ago and taken over the house that belonged to the wifes father, the couple returned from an out of town trip just yesterday. They took their daughter up to new york because she is going to college up there. I was talking to them you know as soon as they came back. You know, they were saying it was a great trip. No accidents no nothing. And now this. Reporter well, investigators are still on the scene here as they wait for firefighters to pump the water out of the base many there to continue their investigation, authorities have not released the names of the deceased couple but its not clear if the autopsies were performed yet. Thank you john. Philadelphia police say that a group of students from st. Joes university was targeted in an Early MorningHome Invasion and robbery. The crime happened just before 5 00 this morning in the 5600 block of woodbine avenue in winfield. Police say that two armed men broke in one armed with a knife and the other with a gun. The burglars duct taped the mouth of a student and zip tied her hands and put her in a closet. She was taken outside and able to escape and alert her roommates who called police. The thieves got away with electronics and the victims car. Philadelphia Police Arrested a suspect for a string of vandalism overnight. Police say that dozens of vehicles were damaged in fairmount and the windows of cars were smashed out along a multiblock area from poplar to parish. They expect to charge the suspect with multiple counts of vandalism. Two members of the School Reform commission in philadelphia submitted resignation letters today. Chair marge neff was appointed by mayor nutter and her replacement will be made by mayor kenney. And feather houston both had terms set to expire in january. New jersey lawmakers delayed the vote on raising the gas tax until friday. They were suppose to take up the measure today. If approved the deal would raise gas prices 23 cents a gallon in the garden state and phases out the estate tax and a slight roll back on the sales tax. And the old building that houses Camden High School will be torn down and replaced. The funding was approved today by the School Funding authority. It will cost 130 million and governor Chris Christie was at the school to make the announcement and says the construction will be finished 2021. Coming up a horse goes missing in Chester County and gets stuck in the mud and well see the massive effort to rescue the clydesdale. A teacher wins an award considered the oscar of teaching. And the big prize that comes with the honor. Coming up well let you know how long the warming trend continues and the latest on Hurricane Matthew in the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. Ducis rogers with the eagles game preps after the by. It happened today in rural Chester County. The dramatic rescue of the horse that simply got stuck in the mud. Action News Reporter, sara bloomquist is was on the scene. Reporter chopper 6 hd was over thornbury farm as efforts were under way to save cyrus. A clydesdale stuck in the mud in a pond used for drinking water. At 10 30 the farm manager found him in the mud unable to move. He probably was chased by one of the other big horses. Be started thinking when he came down on his own, it was what do you do . Veterinarians sedated the horse and came up with a plan to get him out of the mud without injuring his leg. They keep the mud away from the foot to get the suction off of it and brought the leg up so there was no tense on them when we started pulling. Teams trained in trench rescues were able to pull him out of the mud. Once they knew he was calm and secured. They used a large crane to lift cyrus up and over the pond to safety on the other side. I lost it. That was horrible to watch. I was scared for him. Cyrus was rescued at auction three weeks ago and at least 18 years old and likely spent his entire life working the farm fields. He and is going to virginia. And will likely make it there now. Its been amazing. Cyrus will spend tonight in an Animal Hospital strapped up to keep him from falling down. And he is not out of the woods yet but his handlers are optimistic he will pull through. Im sara bloomquist, channel 6 action news. A fifth grade teacher at a south Philadelphia Elementary School won the top prize in what is considered the oscars of teaching. Jada puglisi was mobbed by students when she learned she was awarded the milk and education award. She said she is thankful for her students for allowing her to shine. If you are sitting out there, i was just like you. I grew up in south philly, not too far from here. Both of my parents did not graduate from high school. I was actually the first in my family to graduate from high school and i was the first in my family to graduate from college. The award comes with a 25,000 prize, puglisi plans to use that to finer her masters degree. Der leading Pennsylvania Police organizations endorse pat toomey as best to protect our families. Independence usa pac is responsible for the content of this advertising. Eagles are getting ready for detroit and they have a score to settle. Last year on thanksgiving they wept to detroit and got crushed. This year they are a much better team and as Jeff Skversky reports they hope to keep the good times rolling. Eagles coach Doug Peterson is knocking on wood they stay healthy and keep winning after the by week. So how to get them focused. They are blaring the kiss song detroit rock city at practice. Our season starts now what we did already is great and we are in a good position but we need to buckle down and prepare as if this is week one. There is only three games and coming in after the by week, its a new season. 0 and 0. Carson wentz went home after the by week to get away. And get ago way when are you carson wentz. His family and friends and fans were excited to see him and he saw a lot of number 11 eagles jerseys. How does he respond to the time off and his new found fame. We have a long way to go. He plans to go the extra mile, in at 5 30 this morning studying tape and trying to get better even though he is the only rookie quarterback in nfl history to go 30 with no turnovers, chomping at the bit to get back here. Once we are here and in football mode its easy to be locked in. As the season rolls on dont be surprised to see wentz roll out of the pocket more and more. Now to Nigel Bradham he has made more news off the field than on it. The linebacker was arrested for having a loaded gun at the miami airport. This comes after accusations of assaulting a Hotel Employee back in july. He knows he has to make better decision. I have to stick to my responsibilities and be way more responsible. He is talked to by a lot of people already. He understands and ill wait and see what happens and ill keep talking to him like normal all the guys and keep reminding them we have to make good, smart decision as way from the building. The simmers are prepping for preseason game number two they will be at the Wells Fargo Center center. The big man finally made his debut, a two year wait. He showed crazy athleticism on both sides of the court and scored six points in 13 minutes of action. Got a nice jumper and showed range with this shot here. A 22 footer from the top of the key. Coach brett brown was pleased that he got to finally see him in action. I would not call it relief for me. Just the excitement certainly trumped relief in my mind. The challenge of deciding how you are going to spend your minutes. Because he wants to play more and we want to play him more but its not wise at this stage. Tomorrow night is he expected to play another 12 or 13 minutes. Bring him along slowly. Cecily tynan with the accuweather forecast when we continue in just a moment. Planned parenthood. I would support legislation in pennsylvania that would ban abortion and i would suggest we have penalties for doctors who perform them. Would you put people in jail for performing abortions . At some point doctors performing abortions i think would be subject to that sort of penalty. Dscc is responsible for the content of this advertising. I survived breast cancer. If the doctors hadnt caught it early i might not be sitting here. So im outraged that pat toomey voted to defund planned parenthood. Which thousands of pennsylvania women depend on for cancer screenings. Pat toomey was even willing to shut down the federal government to eliminate funding for planned parenthood. Shut down the government over planned parenthood . I think we ought to shut down pat toomey. Senate majority pac is responsible for the content of this advertising. I know you have a lot to talk about but very to do something first. In 1995, 21 years ago gas was 1. 27 a gallon and microsoft introduces windows number 5 and ebay launches their auction site and a dvd. 20 years ago in 1995 and the wig story was toy story and 21 years ago today cecily tynan began work at channel 6. I walked in here and it felt like home. Im trying to catch up to you. How many years for you . 46. I have some more years to catch up. Can i talk about the weather now . I have some stuff to talk about. Stormtracker 6 live double scan showing that we have dry conditions out there today. Good amount of sunshine in philadelphia, more clouds across south jersey, currently 65 in philadelphia be the high is 71, a nice day. Allentown 69 and cape may 63 and wilmington 66 degrees. Satellite 6 along with action radar show that we are still dealing with high, thin clouds across south jersey and delaware, that is the case tonight. So tonight more clouds to the southeast and clearer to the northwest and areas of fog and its a chilly night as well. 44 degrees in the cooler sub you ares and 52 for sent steer and tomorrow we continue the warmer trend after a cool start to the day and by the afternoon temperatures in the mid70s with mostly sunny skies and a very nice day. In the meantime, we have a major hurricane across the bahamas right now, its a category 3 hurricane, it has weakened somewhat maximum sustained wins to 120 Miles Per Hour and it looks like it will strengthen on its way to florida. And they have is making landfall at Cape Canaveral as a category 4 hurricane friday afternoon. And then it continues the journey and will parallel the georgia coast and likely sideswiping the carolina coast as a cat 2 hurricane and heading out to sea and even possibly heading down to the south and looping and could even head back to the bahamas by later next week. I am talking about the steering pattern a lot over the past few days and you have a strong upper high that is steering that storm system closer to the coast. It looks like this will weaken a bit and head to the east. Mean tile the upper trough and cold front that would be drawing matthew up the coast but its faster and weaker and kicking it out to sea. But then another High Pressure building to the south. What this looks like the next several days into next week, that storm could actually be trap there had me andering off the east coast and making landfall. We could be talking about matthew for several days. Back at home, the exclusive accuweather forecast beautiful weather tomorrow and lots of fine, 75 degrees on friday more sunshine and 75. Saturday mostly cloudy and some showers, not from matthew but from the cold front moving in from the west. Since its faster, this is future tracker 6 showing we could have showers breaking out any time at lunch time. Looks like a quarter to half inch of rain. Not a tropical downpour but a good inch of rain. Sunday sunshine and a cool breeze and high of 68 degrees, looking great for columbus bay and high of 66 and tuesday mostly sunny and high of 67 degrees and wednesday sun mixing with clouds with a high of 69 degrees. We do get another update from the Hurricane Center on matthew at 11 00 and ill have the latest but fortunately it looks like we are out of the danger zone. Abc world news is next on channel 6. And action news continue at 10 00 on phl 17 with brian taff and Sharrie Williams and ducis rogers and please join us for action news at 11 00 here on channel 6. For cecily tynan, ducis rogers and the entire Action News Team im jim gardner, we hope youll join us for action news at 11 00. When i was one year old, i was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer on my spinal chord. But i spent my whole life fighting back. So you can imagine what i thought when i saw donald trump say. I dont know what i said, ah, i dont remember that reporter he is talking about suffers from a chronic condition that impairs movement of his arms. I dont want a president who makes fun of me. I want a president who inspires me, and thats not donald trump. Priorities usa action is responsible for the content of this advertising. Katie v she stays late. Rd. But she gets paid 21 less than her male coworkers. Pat toomey has voted time after time against equal pay for women, against pay that helps hard working families get ahead. Katie o c for my daughters and yours, ill fight for equal pay for women. Families need it; youve earned it. Katie v o im katie mcginty, and i approve this message because its your turn to get ahead. Tonight, the breaking news here. Millions of americans now bracing for Hurricane Matthew. What could be a direct hit. Hundreds of thousands already racing to get out. The mandatory evacuations at this hour. The deadly storm steam romming through the caribbean, the u. S. Coastline next. The new track right here tonight. And is it possible this hurricane could circle around and hit twice . Also tonight, the scare onboard a passenger jet. The owner who says his smartphone was burning, smoke in the cabin. This had been the fear all along. Donald trump and his new attack late today, using bill clintons own words, as Hillary Clinton now prepares for their second showdown. American secrets stolen . Authorities say the Government Contractor and the top secret documents involving our