Southbound, the accident happened approaching washington avenue. First trfs there was an accident involving two vehicles, emergency and fire truck also came to respond trucks came to respond to that and the tractortrailer hit them. Look at this speed, they are traveling at this hour at 12 Miles Per Hour. I95 southbound is jammed solid from cast girard to the vine street expressway, all lanes blocked because of the horrible accident scene. Stick to columbus boulevard or broad street or the schuylkill expressway eastbound. Seg as we go back to the shot, i95 southbound this is where they are forcing the traffic off on to the vine street expressway into old city at this point. Vine street expressway is reopened, you can take the vine, people are being forced on to the vine from i95, dave. Reporter in addition, we have wet road across the region. You can see spotty precipitation every now and then its coming down pretty good and in dover west of New Castle County we have occasional lightning strikes and heavy downpours. Out to the west from reading and harrisburg another band of precipitation coming in. South jersey its pushing through and getting off the coast at this point. Damp everywhere. We expect the off and on shower pattern will continue through the afternoon. Temperatures are similar to the last couple of days, too, 74 degrees in philadelphia. 69 degrees in allentown. 71 in trenton. 72 in wilmington, 75 as you step outside in cape may. For now its muggy, too, with these dewpoints up in the oppressive humidity zone, 70 for most neighborhoods. 72 by 7 00 a. M. , 74 by 10 00 a. M. Noon, 77. New through here were looking at spotty shower activity. A little bit more of that is possible this afternoon. Hopefully we return sunshine into play, the later we go flue the day. Matt and nydia, we are in the meantime looking at Tropical Storm hermine that has forced off the coast of florida. It will be a hurricane by the time it comes in. Instead of shooting out to sea, theres a change in the track, it coming up the east coast that could mean changes on the weekend forecast especially saturday night and sunday,. We begin with breaking news, a crash between a fire truck and tractortrailer on i95 and penns landing injured five firefighters. The appears the driver of the tractortrailer lost control jackknifing and striking ladder 16. We have Live Team Coverage begin winning annie mccormick, you are live watching the accident scene from the overpass. Reporter i want to take you into the scene through we are over right now. This is i95 southbound where the accident did takes place. We are told that right now they are waiting for a heavy tow wrecker to get over here so it can remove whats left the tractortrailer. I95 southbound between chestnut and walnut. You can see the fire truck, ladder 16. I want to tots to owe toss to the video we just got. Thats the fire vehicle that was involved in the crash with the tractortrailer and the tractortrailer itself you can get a better view of from the ground, only from the overpass we can only see a portion of it. 15 minutes ago, we saw a tow truck pull a car from the scene. We dont know how that was involved. We know that the crash happened on the southbound lanes of i95. Appears that the tractortrailer driver lost control jackknifing and it struck ladder 16. At this point, five firefighters were injured and transported from the scene. Pennsylvania state police did initially shut down all lanes of traffic, right now only the southbound lanes are the ones that are closed. Back out here live, the northbound lanes are still moving at this point. You can see here live theres still a lot of activity. There is still right you can see the tow truck thats the tow truck they were waiting for is going to remove ladder 16 from here. We saw another fire truck on the scene about a halfhour ago, it does leave the scene and right now state police still on either side blocking this off. As karen was saying the backlog of traffic is tremendous. Lynn to her updates on how to get around all this. Annie mccormick, channel 6 action news. Lets switch live to Katherine Scott live at hanheman University Hospital where all five injured firefighters are right now. Reporter well, matt and nydia, were hearing that four of the firefighters are in stable condition. We are a waiting word on the condition of the 35th firefighter all 5th firefighter, all taken to hanheman University Hospital. There are a number of Fire Department vehicles outside the Emergency Rooms members of the Fire Department continue to go inside. Lets go to video with the three ambulances arriving with the firefighters. We saw the first arrive at 3 45 a. M. , two in that one. First a firefighter with a neck brace was able to get into a wheelchair he was pushed in. Are a second firefighter was taken out, he was secured to the gurney. A second ambulance arrived carrying two more firefighters the first in the emergency room in a wheelchair. The next sitting on a gurney conscious and talking. 20 minutes after that, the third ambulance with the 5 firefighter arrived, he was in a neck brace secured to the gurney, we could see his eyes were open. What their exact injuries are we dont yet know. You can take a live look at hanheman University Hospital. You can see Fire Departments are parked outside the emergency room. Were waiting to get an update on their exact injuries, we are learning four are in stable condition after the accident this morning. Katherine Scott Channel 6 action news. Thank you. Developing right now police are on the hunt for the shooter or shooters who opened fire on a group of people including a pregnant woman in delaware. Bullets started flying half past midnight on the unit block of west 27th street. A 23yearold woman was shot in the arm. Two other women were hit in the leg and thigh. All three are currently in stable condition. Police say the suspects fled the scene. New on action news, a philadelphia firefighter is recovering after a violent encounter at a firehouse around 10 30 at 4th and girard in northern liberties. The firefighter was injured after encountering a disoriented man. We know the firefighter suffered a slash to the arm and police made an arrest. A new 6abc franklin and marshall poll shows the president ial race tightening in pennsylvania. Hillary clinton leads donald trump 47 to 40. The in the race for Pennsylvania Senate seat, the polls have Katie Mcginty with a five point lead over pat toomey, up from a one pointed a advantage in july. F and m found one in five voters still undecided. Tropical storm hermine is taking aim at the gulf coast and maybe us later this weekend. Parts of certify asota are under water. Hermine is expected to strengthen into a hurricane today and make landfall tonight. Reporter looks like theres a change in the track, appears as though hermine or the remnants of the storm will wind up here saturday night into sunday, if the current projections hold through that means heavy rain and wind around here, the Storm Tracker 6 live imagery shows there are pockets of steady rain across the region right now. Some of this in south jersey, looks like philadelphia currently is dry, even there the roads are wet from the veerve vows rain previous rain. Lets get you outside, we have sky6 live hd we are looking that appears to be i95 where the big accident is located, karen has been talking about how i95 southbound is shut down at this point. Karen im going to shout over to you where is that shut down. Reporter near penns landing. Reporter i apologize for not listening to the details, i had my hand full with the hurricane change. We have cells west of New Castle County, delaware. South jersey has been in and out of this, theres a batch in reading and lancaster, if youre in the northern suburbs or philadelphia, youre likely going to pick this up over the next hour sore. Temperatures 69 degrees in allentown. 74 in philadelphia. 72 in wilmington, 71 in trenton. 75 in cape may. It feels muggy out there this morning. In terms of rain, future tracker 6 shows you its possible by midday we get into a lull after the morning showers are through. The models the last couple of days have been bullish popping up additional shower activity and maybe a thunderstorm this afternoon. Up in allentown, mostly cloudy, spotty showers, high of 82. At the shore, were going for highs in the upper 70s and we have the rip current charge and spotty showers and clouds not a great beach day. 82 is the high in philadelphia. Mostly cloudy with showers possible maybe a rumble of thunder at times, as well. Overnight, partly cloudy, less humid we transition to Better Weather with a low of 66 degrees. A couple of issues were looking at, tropical depression 8 is not a Tropical Storm its getting out of here, Tropical Storm hermine is making changes affect us. It looks like it will become a category one hurricane as it makes landfall in the florida panhandle. Notice the track up north, it was down here and up here, the trend is to bring it inland. Unfortunately for us, looks like the storm will come closer to inland areas and can you recall closer to us. The new track has the center of the storm farther out to sea than the last track, thats good news. If we get heavier rain from this, it will be closer to the coast. I expect it to have more of an impact than originally thought. Some models takes i meant out to sea and others take it closer to the coast. If it stalls it could bring us more problems on sunday. Looks like it rides up the east coast and affect us saturday into sunday, heavy win and coastal flooding and ebeach erosion. 82 is the high, showers and late sun. Tomorrow, 82 beautiful day, increasing clouds, saturday, 77. If hermine is close enough, saturday night into sunday, well have periods of rain. 76 is sundays high. Monday, the sunshine returns for labor day. Keep you posted on that, it gets warmer heading into next weeks workweek and down right hot by wednesday. Police chief in the south south is off the job after a video of a traffic stop surfaces. A toddler is in a body cast after a his father orchestrated an accident to kill him. Reporter were blocking all lanes on i95 when action news comes right back. 5 15 a. M. , back to breaking news on i95, all lanes of i95 southbound are shut down and the northbound lanes are at a standstill after tractortrailer and ladder 16 collided. At least five firefighters were injured at hanheman hospital. We are understanding from our Katherine Scott, that at least four of them appear to be in stable condition. Lets turn to karen rogers for more information on this. Reporter as you look at the scene you can see the problem here. Heres the tractortrailer that has jackknifed blocking all lanes on i95 southbound near penns landing. I talked to state police, they said the front of the tractortrailer slammed into the wall, not only is it a disaster here, its going to take a while to clear, because the tractortrailer is stuck, penndot has to look at the integrity of the wall to make sure its okay before they allow traffic through. I95 southbound near penns landing you see the accident scene. Police say before this accident, there was a twovehicle accident with injuries, all the emergency workers came to respond to that. The fire truck was there, thats the problem, the tractortrailer come into the area and sees the scene and loses control and jackknifed and hit into the fire truck. A horrible decent on i95. I have another shot before i show this. This happened before 3 00 a. M. Reporter this is american about to hours, you have not been moving, people are stuck here. I95 southbound because they dont want to allow people to keep getting stuck in the line of traffic they are forcing everybody off to the vine street expressway. Youre traveling on the vine, youre going 1 Miles Per Hour. I95 southbound jammed from girard to the vine street entries way, what to do instead. Take columbus boulevard, take broad street take the schuylkill expressway. We have people on the waze app saying everybody is at a complete standstill on i95 southbound. 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On the spot keep on scratchin morning, i95 is a mess, lets show you the scene, theres the jackknifed tractortrailer blocking all lanes. Its going to be out there for a while. This is i95 southbound near penns landing. They are forcing traffic off near the vine street expressway on to the vine. I95 southbound shut down, northbound is okay. Use columbus boulevard or broad street or the schuylkill expressway instead. Burlington county an accident northbound approaching exit 6 blocking the right lane. Reporter Storm Tracker 6 live double scan we have spotty showers moving through. Right now a lull in philadelphia. In delaware, parts of south jersey and out in our western suburbs there is rain. This will be on and off through the morning commute. There might be another cell that potassium up later this afternoon. That pops up later this afternoon. Im dressing the kids in shorts and ts. 73 by 10 00 a. M. , 77 by noon. We get into the low 80s. Not as warm or as hot as recently. 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Florida is bracing for a strengthening system that could an impact on our holiday weekend. Good morning everybody, september 1, tam is off, nydia han joins us, david murphy is watching hermine and karen rogers is looking at i95. Reporter a major accident blocks a major highway for hours. People are stuck in the backlog. This is i95 southbound all traffic is blocked. This is the accident scene approaching washington avenue. Let me show you what youre looking at, thats the jackknifed tractortrailer. Part of the problem, the front of the tractortrailer is wedged up against the wall. Its going to be hard to straighten out, after they do remove it, penndot has to check the wall