Of homes in texas. As i talked to my mother yesterday she said i got to get off the phone, the bayou is coming into the backyard. Its very scary. Theyll be okay, right. They think theyll get some flooding. Best of luck and i must turn to dave murphy for more placid weather. Matt pelman is until in for traffic. We have one issue. There is a red flag warning thats been posted for this afternoon into this evening. The worst times for this will be from about 1 00 in the afternoon up until about 6 oclock but a little bit on either side of that as well and a red flag warning means this afternoon into this evening theres an enhanced chance of brush fires spreading because of a breeze thats going to pick up the dry forest floor and low humidity today. We have cloud cover sweeping in from the north overnighter and today well see breaks in the clouds. Overall well call it partly sunny skies. Does legal the front thats triggering those clouds is coming in drive. A mic milder than yesterday, 55. 54 in trenton, 43 in millville. I think overall a light jacket probably works as youre heading out the door. On the bus stop pretty much the same story. In fact between 6 oclock and 8 oclock well see those numbers already start to climb. By 8 oclock well be up to about 61, partly cloudy, a bit cool and after sunrise you might start to feel that breeze kicking around a bit. As we roll through the day were looking at partly sunny skies as mentioned. 69 by 11 oclock. Not quite as warm as it was yesterday but still not bad. 72 degrees by 1 oclock. 74 by 3 oclock and your high today is going to be that 75degree reading right at about 4 00 or 4 30 this afternoon. Matt pelman were going to get a little bit cooler tomorrowly ill have details coming up in that seven day. All right david. Time for those overnight construction crews to go catch some z. s theyve cleared from the vine street expressway. This is the schuylkill right by the vine where all the ramps reopened. Theyre going to get sleep and theyll be bacton neither at 11 oclock and theyll close the vine down once again. No closures along 95 as you head southbound and enter the work zone at cottman avenue. Now is a good time to be out. Doesnt look too bad. No congestion just yet. Headed northbound toward woodhaven theres Police Activity taking out one lane on the northbound side of 95 at woodhaven. Construction on southbound 95 by the airport has cleared. But theres still the overnight work on the kelly drive. The milling and paving going on there. I would stay on the Martin Luther king drive until 6 30 this morning. We still have that fire location in overbrook along 53rd near media. Also the Police Activity in Port Richmond at frankford and cambria. And in Hamilton TownshipAtlantic County some downed wires are still mostly blocking 50 southbound past the a. C. Expressway. I think id use elwood road or colon avenue as alternates. Matt. A womans throat was slashed in the Port Richmond section of the city and shes in critical condition. It happened near the 2900 block of frankford avenue at 3 a. M. Two people saw the woman walking down the street bleeding profusely and police. Police say the woman did not have any identification and so far they have no suspects or a motive. Fortunately we did find several cameras on businesses in the area, 2900 frankford avenue and hopefully these cameras recorded something that can help us with this investigation. Police took the woman to the hospital where she is undergoing surgery. It is 5 04 and a Philadelphia Police officer shot in the line of duty gave the thumbs up as he headed home and the men charged in connection with the shooting are awaiting arraignment. Action News ReporterAnnie Mccormick gave us this story. Reporter surrounded by his Philadelphia Police family officer mccullough got an extra hand into a car. He gave the thumbs up to our camera as he exited penn Presbyterian Hospital and the 24yearold young father about to be married spent one night in the hospital after he was shot on the job sunday night. It was then a woman flags down mccullough and his partner after a robbery and carjacking. Police say these two suspects, 23yearold Scott Griffin and 20yearold samir coyett robbed a plan at 59th and market then carjacked a woman near basement mccullough went after griffin. The suspect starts to take off. Officer mccullough starts to chase him. At that point he turns, he shoots and he shoots him one time in the leg. Reporter mccullough applied a tourniquet to his leg because there was so much blood. Then his partner rushed him to the hospital. Last night his good friends from the northeast philadelphia rugby club were celebrating their Friends Health and say hes a tough guy, the best guy to be other oe streets fighting crime. Hes a quiet guy. But on the field hes a mad man. When i heard the report when they said he tackled the guy i said thats jimmy. Joaned it. Hes one of the only people i know that says i love being a philly cop. I love beeping out on the street. I love doing it. Reporter that was Annie Mccormick reporting and our coverage of the shooting of officer mccullough continues on 6abc. Com with the latest on the investigation. A Photo Gallery of images from the scene and videos including that dramatic radio call from the wounded officers partner. New here on Action News Police are investigating a stabbing in Norristown Montgomery county. They say the attack happened around midnight near the 600 block of change street. Police surrounded this car in area by alley way. One person was taken to the hospital. No word yet on their condition. It is primary day in the empire state. Frontrunners donald trump and Hillary Clinton are hoping to come out the victors. While four of the five president ial candidates will be campaigning in pennsylvania starting today. Senator ted cruz will be in philadelphia tonight. Governor john kasich will be in pittsburgh today and will visit the valley forge casino in king of prussia on thursday. Senator Bernie Sanders the democrat is campaigning at penn states main campus today and Hillary Clinton will visit philadelphia tomorrow. Well have much more on the race for the white house in a live report at 5 30. The pennsylvania and delaware primaries are on april 26th, 1 week from today. Voters in new jersey will go to the polls on june 7th which is the final day of the primary election season. Happening today, bill cosbys wife cam mill will answer more questions under oath in a defamation lawsuit. Cam mill cosbys deposition is scheduled to continue today in boston. She gave the first part of the deposition back in february. The lawsuit filed by seven women says that her comedian husband defamed them by branding them as liars after they went public whip Sexual Assault allegations against him. Bill cosby faces criminal charges in montgomery county. Despite camille cosbys spousal privilege a judge found because of her role managing her husbands career she could be deposed. Hes denied the allegations. From our new jersey News Room Police in Hamilton Township are trying to track down vandals who toppled an 800pound statue of a roman goddess outside of the Italian AmericanHeritage Center. Its the seconds time the vandals have struck the building on liberty street. Last year someone defaced a statue of Christopher Columbus that stands at the corner of the property. Were trying to be proud of our heritage and were trying show it and theyre just tearing us down. Police checked security cameras in the area for leads but without success. Volunteers have installed their own camera system at the center. The Italian AmericanHeritage Center is offering a reward for information leading to their arrest of the vandals. The flyers play a crucial game four at the Wells Fargo Center tomorrow night. They trail the capitals three to nothing in the playoff series. Michael raffle scored 57 seconds into the game but that was all the flyers got on the scoreboard. They went on to lose six to one. Now, flyers fans showed the worst kind of spirit late in the game when they actually tossed wristband onto the ice hitting some players. They had been a give away as part of a pregame light show. Flyers public address announcer lou nolan scold the fans but they wouldnt stop so the refs hit the flyers with a penalty. We will hear from the players coming up in the next half hour but im hearing a lot of people on facebook who were there and they are flat out embarrassed. Yeah. Especially with ed snider and the tribute. Not the way to support your team when theyre already having a tough glime well see what happens in game four. Storm tracker6 live double scan right now and we are looking at no precipitation across the region. Taking a look outside its a nice one out there again this morning. A little milder than yesterday. So far the winds not bad, probably get a little breezy later in there day. And what else . A little bit milder than yesterday. Partly cloudy skies, though, so we wont have that bright blue cloudless sky that we had yesterday but its still going to be pretty nice. 55 degrees currently in philadelphia. Yesterday did it we were closer to 50 so a little better. 49 in wilmington, 43 a little cooler in millville, 54 as you step outside in trenton and up in allentown, 52 current degrees. As we take a look at the satellite situation you see how those clouds spill down into the region overnight but there are some breaks and a lot of this looks high and thin so we expect some sunshine to break through those clouds. Overall well go for partly sunny skies today. A reminder that there is an enhanced danger of brush fires spreading. Not a good day to have controlled burns, definitely not a good day to flick cigarettes out the car one dough or park your car or drive it over any dry tall high grass. Low humid and that dry forest floor so something to keep in mindly Lehigh Valley today not bad, partly sunny and breezy, a high of 70 degrees this afternoon. Down the shore once again its going to be a little bit cooler. High of just 62 degrees, partly sunny, breezy, a good looking day overall, though. And then in philadelphia, well go for a high of 75. Got up around 80 across much of the region yesterday especially up in pennsylvania. But 75 is todays high partly sunny breezy still well above average. There are those winds out of the northwest at 1225 miles per hour. Thats pretty blustery. As were heading to the phillies tonight hopefully we can get on the winning track against the mets, phillies looking at 67 degrees for the first pitch and 57 in the ninth inning. One of those nights where i think you bring along a couple layers and maybe you add as the game goes on. Then overnight tonight dipping to 48 degrees in philadelphia, some rural suburbs 41. The winds die down, we clear out but it does get a little bit cooler. Your exclusive accuweather 7day forecast, todays high, a pleasant 75 degrees. It will be on the breezy side. Tomorrow lots of sunshine but a bitter cooler, getting up to 70 briefly in the afternoon, spending most of the day in the 60s and then sun mixing with some clouds on thursday, a high of 74. And later at night a shower is possible. As we go into friday, passover arriving at sundown its going to be a warm 177 degrees but through the day at times there will be a couple showers and maybe even a rumble of thunder as we get later into the day. So, a little unsettled on friday. Not a total washout but showers around. Now looks like those showers are done by saturday morning and during the day some sunshine will return, a high of 69 degrees and of course its the 6abc union game at 4 oclock in chester and it looks like well be right on or about that 69degree high when we have the first touch in that game. Sunday mostly sunny and nice, 69. And down to 64 on monday with some showers possible. Thanks, david. 5 12 now. Still ahead on action news massive flooding from torrential rains in texas. It has left several people dead plus nearly 1,000 residents had to be rescued. A gay pastor claims he got a taste of hate in the form of a cake. He has filed a lawsuit. Matt. Not filing any complaints here this morning, just north of exton tam along 100 but still have that ongoing construction in the southbound lanes here near ship road. That right lane out of commission. Well check the construction on 422, theres some on the pennsylvania turnpike and an issue in mount laurel, all when action news continues on this tuesday morning. Welcome back. Taking a live look here the view out across center city. It is 5 15, 59 degrees already. Dave murphy just saying were getting up to 75 today. Very nice change from about 10 days ago when we were talking about snow. Whats going on in the burbs there mattie. We are up to our eye balls in construction these days. So much road work going on in so many spots, matt and tam and now were dealing with the overnight stuff. So lets get to the burbs and 422 still has overnight restrictions here in the westbound lanes right by route 23. You can see the flashing arrow board out there. The good news is on the eastbound side, which is the direction most of you come in the morning, things have reopened. So, both lanes back in business as you head toward king of prussia but westbound the crews are not out of there quite yet. Theyre also still working on the pennsylvania turnpike nearby eastbound side approaching valley forge. The right lane is out of commission if youre headed northbound on the northeast extension near quakertown the left lanes blocked. Then approaching the Lehigh Valley the right lane is blocked. First you stay right then you stay left then you do the hokey pokey and turn yourself around. Over in Burlington County watching work along 130 both ways at burlington road. Left lane out of commission were hearing until 3 30 this afternoon. Working on the sewer main break in mount laurel. Hartford road remains shut down just like it was during yesterdays afternoons commute. Briggs road larchmont boulevard ark road all possible alternates. Hamilton township Atlantic County still have the downed wires along route 50 southbound just south of the a. C. Expressway. You can use elwood road or maybe colon avenue as some alternates. I think 50 southbound is probably not your best bet. Time for the commuter report brought to you by the waze app. Our old pal kathy swag out and about in north philadelphia. She says theres a pothole along girard avenue. If youre headed to saint joes prep for school this morning watch out for that. Tam. Thank you, matt. The city of houston is under water and bracing for even more rain in the coming days. At least five people have died because of the weather and in one county alone more than 1200 high water rescues had to be performed. This rainfall considered to be the most significant to hit the houston region in more than a decade. The governor of texas has declared a state of emergency in nine counties. Police in Washington State are on a manhunt for two brother whos are suspected of killing a husband and wife. Patrick sean and monique disappeared over a week ago. Police eventually found their two cars dumped in the woods 15 miles from their home. Now police say they have video that ties the suspects, john and tony reed, to the disposing of the victims vehicles but they just need the found a them. Detectives believe the married couple was murdered but their bodies have not been found. New on action news, a pastor in texas claims that a cake that he orderd from a whole foods had a homophobic slur written on it. Hes an openly gay minister. He says he frequently orders cakes from this austin whole foods with no issues so he says he just grabbed the cake and checked out. He says it wasnt until he was at a stop light they looked down at the cake and realized what it said. The cake was supposed to read love wins but according to brown someone added an exya word a derogatory term for gay men. Brown claims that the store manager offered him a gift card and then took the offer back but the company is now pushing back and standing by its baker insisting that the cake was made and sold to brown with no slurs. The phillies face the mets for game two of their three game set tonight. Vince velasquez takes the mound jared i can cough tossed seven strong innings. But the phillies scored three runs fewer for the 12 timeth time in 14 games they lose five to two. 5 18. A wild ride on wall street goes on. Dancing with the stars made a switch last night. Actually nine switches. It was a wacky flight on dance with the stars. No one was eliminated as the celebrities were forced to switch pro partners. At the end of the night americas next top model winner nile demarco ended up with the highest score for his elegant viennese waltz. Football player antonio he brown did his rendition of the chacha. Theyre just mixing everything up getting crazy. Ill tell you. As we head outside this morning, its not crazy. Its nice and calm here along north broad street at Spring Garden street. Everything is looking good all the overnight construction here has wrapped up. Down around city hall you might find some of that milling and paving work going on. I know how you love the milling and paving. All week this week in Mercer County weve got construction blocking a lane each way along route one between the trentonmorrisville bridge and perry street but overall isnt Mercer County things are looking so much better than they were yesterday morning when we had that overturned truck that spilled the bricks all over the road and so far this morning mass transit is on time, david. All right, matt. Right now we have a light jacket on the kids. We do have temperatures a little better than yesterday but still in the mid50s in most neighborhoods. Not that breezy yet. This afternoon it will be warm enough for just shorts and ts on the kids. But it will be a little bit on the breezy side, okay. Overall were going for a partly sunny sky. It does legal well wind up with a 70degree number by noon and by 3 oclock, 74 degrees. By 5 oclock were dipping back down to 73 degrees. As we take a look at the airport any major delays have nope, all green aircraft so nothing major at thislilearly hour. In boston that might be problems later on. Well be right back with more action news. Topping americas money, the boost for your 401k. Wall street opens this morning closer to an all time high. The dow gained 106 points close just above 18,000 the highest level since july. Stock marks around the world are also higher this morning. Even though gas prices have been rising recently experts say this summer theyll be the lowest in a dozen years. 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Also breaking, firefighters give it their all at a former business in south jersey battling the flames that went up overnight. And happening today, the battle for new york. Both frontrunners could once again pour it on in the delegate race. Lets head over to meteorologist, david murphy. Hes got more goodies from accuweather and matt pelman is in for karen rogers. This morning. Mainly goody bag stuff today. We have one issue we have to talk about and thats a red flag warning posted by the National Weather service for this afternoon and early this evening. The breezes are going to be high, humidity is low and the forest floor is real dry because we havent had any rain around here in awhile and for that reason any brush fires that were to start across the region would have a pretty easy time spreading so be careful not to flick cigarettes out the car window or do any controlled burns today and dont be driving your hot engines over any tall high grass. Cloud cover spilled in overnight. Its high and thin enough where well get some sunshine through and overall were talking partly sunny skies today. Cool this morning but not quite as cool as yesterday