Meteorologist, david murphy and karen rogers. Good morning. Strong storms around the region. Those are pushing off the coast. Theres a little bit of lingering shower activity by the jersey shore but that could be going out to sea pretty quickly and the clouds you see early are also going to have a tendency to brake up. We should transition to mostly sunny skies later. 73ght now were 73 degrees inwn in wilmington, 72 in cape may and as you check out dewpoints still kind of humid out there with dewpoints still in the 70s so its going to still feel pretty sticky as you first hea can see how the numbers are lower in the north and west. Thats the direction from which were going get drier air and were looking at improvement today in a couple different ways. 73 degrees by 7 oclock, by noon 83. Your shy 86 degrees. That will be a little bit cooler than it was yesterday, still a warm afternoon on tap but as we go into the afternoon, those dewpoints will drop, the humidity will learn it will be more comfortable later today. By 7 oclock were Still Holding onto the low 80s. Karen, it looks like were looking at another decent day tomorrow as summer is officially arrives although there is a chance of a popup shower or thunderstorm in the afternoon or evening. Well show you that coming up. All right dave lets look outside lie on the vine street expressway. We were due to have that overnight construction shut down the vine but due to the storms they canceled the construction and all lanes are opened now. Theyll return again tonight at 11 oclock, theyll shut the vine down until 5 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning. Youll probably encounter downed trees here and there. Watch for that as youre headed out. This one in bryn mawr is on roberts road at marquee terrace. The road is closed. Stick to marion avenue as your alternate. You may see debris, downed trees as youre traveling. Heres another one in Upper Providence township on rose tree road blocked near sandy bank road. If youre in this area stick to berry 39 get around that closure but no problems on your highways. This is the schuylkill at Montgomery County. We can see westbound traffic headed towards king of prussia. We have construction on the schuylkill. That will be starting this morning. Well talk more about that coming up in a few minutes, matt. Weve been anticipating it. Thank you, karen much. Happening today Opening Statements scheduled to begin in the corruption trial of Philadelphia District attorney Seth Williams. The full jury wall was select is there selected yesterday. Katherine scott is live outside the courthouse to tell us what to expect today. Katherine. Reporter matt, thats right, the jury has now been seated. Now its time to try the case which the judge thinks will last somewhere between three and four weeks. Opening statements are set for this morning and then prosecutors will call their first witness. Philadelphia District AttorneySeth Williams will be back in federal court this morning for Opening Statements in his bribery and corruption trial. Williams faces 29 federal charges accused of taking more than 100,000 in gifts and Luxury Vacations in exchange for favors to two local business owners. Hes also charged with miss spending 20,000 designated for his mothers nursing care. Williams has maintained his innocence. Jury selection took one day, eight hours to whittle the jury pool of 137 people to nine southeastern pennsylvania counties down to 12 jurors and four alternates. The jury is made up of 10 women and two men. Two of the women are africanamerican. Williams played an active role in the final selection process. While williams remains District Attorney and is still accepting his salary, he is not seeking a third term. His First Assistant took over daily operations. His law license has been suspended by agreement with the state supreme court. And if he is convicted, williams faces a maximum of 20 years behind bars. Were live at federal court katherine scott, channel6 action news. Tam. Thank you, katherine. Also happening today tthe Montgomery County judge who preside is there over the bill cosby trial will hold a hearing on the release of the jurors names. Prosecutors are fighting requests to make the names public. They say release releasing the names would make picking a jury for the next trial difficult. They told the judge they just could not break their deadlock which throwed a mistrial. Storms tore through our area bringing down trees and power lines. This was the ominous sight the storm delivered to residents in strauss town berks county last night. Travis roll man certainty us this video of a funnel cloud appearing to form. A Lightning Strike is being blamed for ignited a three alarm house fire in pocopson chester county. The lightning hit the chimney and went down into the basement and first floor of the house. Neighbors on osbourne circle spotted the bolt. We saw a huge lightning flash and instead of coming to a point it was like two bars of the white test lightning i have ever seen. Homeowners were out of town. A woman who was house sitting made it out safely. Protesters rallied for man shot and killed by philadelphia police. Is it stand in your truth. They came together outside the 15th Police District in northeast philadelphia last night. Jones was shot and killed in hunting park on june 8th. Investigators say jones ignored a Police Warning not to pull out a gun. Surveillance shows jones being shot in the back while running from the scene. He was originally stopped for driving a motor bike recklessly. A judge in mays landing ruled James Kauffman must remain in jail until his trial on weapons and obstruction charges. Yesterday Court Prosecutors played dramatic video of his confrontation with police in linwood last week. Action News ReporterAnnie Mccormick has more on the story. Dr. James kauffman he has a weapon. Drop the gun. Drop the gun. Reporter body cam video captured by Linwood Police show the moments when authorities attempted to serve a search warrant at dr. James kauffmans Atlantic County medical practice. Authorities say kauffman pulled a gun and threatened to kill himself. Assistant prosecutor seth levy played the video in Atlantic County superior court. His attorneys argued he should remain out of jail with restrictions until his trial. Testifies corner ed jacobs says his client was reacting in fear that he was being arrested for his late wife April Kauffmans murder. No, im not going to jail for this. Reporter dr. Kauffman has never been named a suspect in the 2012 homicide. Jacobs argued his client never pointed the weapon at police. Prosecutors called kauffman a flight risk and danger to the community. Last week investigators seize is there medical files weapons and cash after they also served search warrants at kauffmans residences including homes in Atlantic County and philadelphia. The one search warrant that we have, keep in mind there are five, refers to a couple of species of Healthcare Fraud but also refers to a homicide obviously the April Kauffman homicide. Last week i said that it did not involve the homicide but in a way it did. Its like saying from a former tv show, its all connected. Reporter Annie Mccormick channel6 action news. Philadelphia Public School teachers have ratified a proposed contract with the School District having worked for the last four years without one. Members of the Philadelphia Federation of teachers voted at temple universitys liacouras center. It will mean races for the 12,000 teachers counselors and staff. Well have much more in a live report in the next half hour. Happening today, we will learn more about pennsylvanias medical marijuana program. The medical Marijuana Law was enacted last year. It permits patients to take the medication in several forms but not smoking the drug. The department of health will announce the recipients of the first 12 permits to grow and distribute medical marijuana. 4 38 is the time. New video on action news showing a rat dragging a bag of trash across a new york city sidewalk. It remains a tragic mystery at sea. Investigators are trying to figure out why a u. S. Naval destroyer collided with a massive cargo ship. David. All right, guys, we are looking at a warm one today with a high of 86 degrees, still a little bit muggy this morning but those temps t, the dewpoints are going to fall and the humidity levels should get more comfortable as we go through the afternoon. Then a couple more chances of rain in the sevenday forecast. Thats all ahead from accuweather coming up. Of the darkness and into the light. To everyone struggling in silence addicts, family, friends you are not alone. Its time we lift each other up, reach out, say something. Addiction is a disease. Dont suffer. Dont wait. Help is within reach. Call 844 reach nj or go to reachnj. Gov the road to recovery starts now. Harvey cedars beach patrol has resumed its after hours beach patrol. The night patrol will monitor beaches and be available to respond to emergencies from 5 00 until 8 00. Summer arrives tomorrow. Yes, like 12 24 a. M. , less than 24 hours away. It will be here when were on. Yes, it will the. Theres still a couple little sprinkles and showers around the region. Ill give that you two dimensional view. Looks like the main batch is pushing off the coast. Theres a little bit of a light sprinkle thats popping through the central portion of south jersey right along the a. C. Expressway and northern Atlantic County and it looks like back in the northern and western suburbs there might be just a little hit of rain here or there. That heavy stuff from last night is gone. On sky6 we are looking at city hall, sky6 and dillworth park there looking nice and bright like the way they put those lights in the trees, almost looks like christmas but doesnt feel like it. Its 73 degrees in philadelphia and so far the dewpoint is still high so as you step outside youll feel that humidity. Winds westsouthwest at 12 miles per hour. But things will be Getting Better as we continue to push this system off the coast and drier air filters in. You can see that were starting out with a little bit of cloud cover but the sun will emerge. Were going for mostly sunny skies today once we get rid of that Morning Cloud cover. Todays forecast, well, improvement. 74 degrees by 8 oclock, probably still kind of muggy there. By 10 oclock, 79 but by noon 83. Youll feel those humidity levels drop through the morning and afternoon and by 3 oclock it will be warm enough for cool drinks if youre out there toiling but 86 degrees for a high, low humidity not as oppressive as yesterday as we were getting ready for the arrival of those strong storms. High temperatures across the region, 83 in allentown oin philadelphia and wilmington not far above those numbers. 85 in millville r86 in dover and if youre down the shore today at this time looks like low 80s and the Ocean Temperatures dip back down into the low 60s. Phillies back at it tonight against the cardinals. Should be a pleasant night. 83 degrees for the first pitch, 77 for the ninth inning and hopefully the guys in the red pinstripes can get a win. Tomorrow looks like we start out dry. There will probably be some sunshine early. As we head into the afternoon another feature arrives that does start to trigger some spotty showers and maybe a thunderstorm. And you can see how that continues here and there through the neighborhood up until about 9, 10 oclock tomorrow night so not a lot of rain tomorrow but a little bit. Couple of issues to talk about in the tropics. Its been awhile but here we go. This one right here north of venezuela has become a Tropical Storm. That is now Tropical Storm brett. Continues to take a path that looks like it will come south of puerto rico and the dominican but well keep our eyes on that for you and then this second area of precipitation and instability down over on the yucatan peninsula also appears as though it has about an 80 percent chance of becoming another Tropical Storm, this one would probably affect the southern gulf of mexico and might curve up into texas so two systems were watching. Your exclusive accuweather 7day forecast 86 mostly sunny and less humid today. Partly sunny on wednesday, 85 degrees and that will be the official arrival of summer is. Again, the official start is 12 24 in the morning. And then thursday hotter, still not very humid but a high of 90. Friday is when the humidity starts to come back, another high of 90 and we could see an afternoon or evening shower or thunderstorm. On saturday we have clouds mixing will some sun, a high of 88. Again athunderstorm cant be ruled out late. Partly sunny on sunday, 85 with a thunderstorm and then on monday, sun mixing with some clouds, 82 degrees and there might be a leftover lingering storm on monday. Little unstable heading into the weekend. Okay, and when were not on the air you can check the sevenday forecast and check out the threat of storms with storm tracker6 live radar by going to 6abc. Com weather. A suspect was killed during an attempted terrorist attack on paris named champselysees. The 31yearold driver who was known to authorities set his car on fire yesterday and tried to ram it into a police van. The car contained explosives, two gas canisters, two handguns and a russian made rifle. He died on the street. No one else was hurt. Happening today, the remains of the seven sailors who were killed in a crash at sea will arrive at the Dover Air Force base in delaware. The mystery surrounding the collision is deepening. The Japanese Coast Guard now says it is investigating why the crew on the cargo ship that hit the u. S. S. Fitzgerald took so long to report it. Some reports say 50 minutes went by. The navy believes the destroyer can be repaired but that will take months. Four separate agencies are now looking into the crash. Democrats are trying to draw attention to efforts by Senate Republicans to push through a healthcare bill overhaul they have been joined by some republicans and complaining that the new bill has been crafted in secret. Republicans are using closed door meetings to write legislation replacing much of president obamas healthcare law. Democrats lack the votes to block this years gop effort but they have threatened to slow the senates work as of last night with procedural motions and speeches. Republicans hope to bring the bill to the senate floor for a vote as early as next week. This is new. A woman in new york city recorded a rat dragging a trash bag across a brooklyn sidewalk. Lee connor says it happened last thursday morning. The video which she titled pizza rat strikes again because apparently this has happened before shows the rodent pulling the garbage across the sidewalk eventually it could not go any farther so is the rat grabs what appears to be a mini personal sides pizza and goes into into a holen the ground. Neighbors in brooklyn say rats have been a problem. It was on my stove. Definitely on my stove and im like stomping doing everything. Hes like what you want . If they dragging plastic bags, what they going to want to eat next . Does look well fed, doesnt it. The man who owns the nearby house where the rat went underground says he patched up that particular hole on monday morning. Welcome back, everybody. Yup, youre seeing the clouds up above the Commodore Barry bridge lit up right there, kind of a quiet scene after a stormy night. Still a couple sprinkles in one or two spots but today is dry and those clouds are going to break for mainly sunny skies. We have a good one for you ahead. If youre coming in, the, i almost said live from new jersey. 42 northbound traffic coming up from deptford or turnersville heading towards the walt whitman bridge moving nicely this morning. But youll probably encounter some downed trees from the storms so youll want to watch for that one. Here we are on 40 southbound near main street in Hamilton Township. Youve got a tree blocking one e or two lanes here. Traffic is able to kind of get around it but youll have to watch for that one in Atlantic County. I95 at cottman traffic moving nicely, i95 nice and dry. Schuylkill expressway lots of construction that weve been talking about. Eastbound between the blue route and city avenue well see lane closures begin today at 10 00 a. M. Last about until 2 00 a. M. On the schuylkill westbound were going to see those closures for wednesday and thursday from 10 00 a. M. To 2 00 a. M. Lane closures on both directions on friday. This will cause headaches not for your Early Morning commute but starting around 10 oclock matt. Thanks karen. Americans are saving more. The percentage of people who have adequate savings to cover six months of expenses what is known as a six month stash has jumped to 31 percent. Thats according to a new study by bank rate. Com. On the other hand a quarter of Americans Still have no savings at all. Meal kit company blue apron says it could be worth 3 billion. The company is getting ready to start trading on wall street later this year n a filing it says it will initially sell 30 million shares at about 16 each. Blue aprons revenue has grown tenfold as more and more people look for healthy and convenient meals at home. Apple and other Technology Stocks led a rally on wall street driving them to a record height again. Futures are pointing to a higher open this morning. Ups is rolling out new peak shipping charges. The companys adding a charge of 27 cents for shipments to residential customers from november 19th to december 2nd and then from december 17th to the 23rd during the holidays. There will be an even bigger fee for overnight second or third day deliveries. That amount is under a dollar. Oversized packages will also have an added fee. A pittsburgh familys Home Improvement project has been a source of annoyance for the last 13 years. It starts with a soft beep, beep, beep, beep and it gets louderrer and closer together and that will that is sylvia lynn describing the sound comes out of her walls every night. Lynns husband put the block in there 13 years ago. He dropped it tied it through a string to an air bank and sit to go off 10 minutes later. He thought well live with this but the battery will run out in three or four months but that was back in 2004. Has to be a way to get that out of there. Probably involves busting opponent walls and paying to close it back up. New on action news a. M. Pennsylvania valedictorian uses his speech to criticize leadership of his School District is that suddenly cut short. Cocacola mixes up philadelphia and pittsburgh in an social media ad. Whoops. That story is coming up at 5 00. A crash in Hamilton TownshipMercer County killed an off duty Hamilton Police officer. This happened yesterday afternoon on the 2700 block of nottingham way. The officers name has not been released. Authorities are still investigating what led to the deadly wreck. This is new. A High School Valedictorians speech earned abruptly, the microphone cut out just as he was criticizing his northeastern Pennsylvania School officials. Hopefully this will change he called out the wyoming area School District for its handling of the student government. Aside from the mic cutoff he says the School District superintendent has agreed to a meeting to discuss his concerns. 4 57 now t has anyone ever told you that time will heal a broken heart . Well, turns out that may not be true. Details about the Lasting Impact that a broken heart can have. We have new developments on the status of o. J. Simpson. He could soon be free on parole. It takes a lot of people to make a good school day. Miss hoffman gets us there safe every time. Mrs. Migliaccio teaches us all about fractions and haikus and the erie canal miss reeves makes us sound amazing. And miss santoro always takes time to see how were doing. Miss simpkins keeps our school looking great. Recess wouldnt be recess without miss basile. And mrs. Mccarthy always has tons of good books to read. Which makes for a pretty good day at school. Action action news. Delaware valleys news program. With matt odonnell, Tamala Edwards karen rogers and meteorologist, david murphy. Good morning everyone, its 5 oclock on this tuesday june 20th and heres whats happening. It looks like its a done deal. After four years without one, philadelphia teachers could soon be working under a new contract. A busy night for firefighters who battled flames inside a restaurant in the sees crescentville section. Storms have moved out and now thank goodness maybe well start to see some sunshine back this way. David and karen trying to push all that rain off the coast for you right now. Its almost gone at this point and the cloud cover is going to disburse, we should wind up mostly sunny. The wide view shows you those watch boxes from last night and that line of strong thunderstorms that came through. All thats left now is a couple of light sprinkles and showers tryi