May, seeing heavy rain, as well. Well zoom into the jersey shore area, you can see along the Atlantic City expressway from mays landing down into Atlantic City. You see this here thats the dry spot were starting to clear out, nicely there, so it should not be too much longer before the rain shut off at the jersey shore. Take a look at the rainfall totals, very, very impressive. We have seen just to the southeast of egg harbor over 7 inches of rain and counting. River land area, 4. 6. Dorothy, 2 inches. Absecon, 2. 6 and close to Atlantic City, about 2. 4 inches of rain. I can go farther to the south, as well. Sea isle city, looks like youre about 4. 5 inches. Avalon, 4. 5. Villas, 4 inches of rain. This is another bout of heavy rain over the last ten days, some areas have picked up over 8 inches of rain in south jersey, thats part of the region why weve seen some of the flooding thats the main reason why the flood advisory is in effect in philadelphia. Heavy rains exiting the coast, leftover moisture out here, this will be cutting down and around like this, we dont expect it to pull through the delaware and Lehigh Valleys its pinwheeling around an upper level trough or pocket of cool air. It will move in and skip the philadelphia area. Flood watch is in effect until 7 00 a. M. For areas highlighted in i wouldnt green, most ofe and all of south jersey. Were seeing minor flooding at this point. Some of the roads have been flooded, mainly the ones closer to the smaller creeks and streams and poor drainage areas. Egg harbor, 8 inches of rain. Malaga 7. 25. Elmer, 5. 26. Woodstown almost 5 inches of rain. Thats where were seeing the flooding now, the ground is saturated. Improvements this afternoon, 11 00 a. M. , cloudy and 72. 4 00 p. M. , peeks of sun and 74. Sunday looks much, much better, ill have the details in the sevenday forecast. Action news reporter, bob brooks live at the jersey shore, bob you made your way from Atlantic City to cape may and wildwood area. Philadelphia is not getting a lot of rain, but we can see from the picture, a lot of rain where you are. Reporter yeah, gray good morning we started our morning up in Atlantic City made our way to wildwood, as you said, i dont think its a secret any more were getting pounded as the camera pans off to the side. The live picture speaks for itself. That is the intersection of hudson and rio grande avenue in wildwood. Pause for a second and let you look at the suv trying to plow through that. I would become a victim of that exact situation. Trying to to go through flooded streets gets too deep your car gets stalled out. Dont do that, it is very expensive to fix. Streets are flooding all over wildwood, if you can move your vehicle from those streets to Higher Ground to avoid flooding in the vehicle. Try to protect your properties weve seen several store fronts down hear that have water up to the store front. Just in front of us, as away pan down a little bit, you can see the water line the ripples from the car coming closer to wherer, weve only been parked here for about a halfhour. When we first got hear it was anywhere close to the level. The rain pounding down here, getting deeper and deeper, the streets beginning to flood. People keep that in mind. Keep your property safer as we torrential downpour going on right now. Bob brooks channel 6 action news. Back to you. Mobile 6 hitting the highway on this wet morning this is a live picture mobile 6 heading toward Atlantic City, bob brooks had a lot of rain there, well keep monitoring the area. This is Galloway Township model 6 is on. The rain is coming down lightly. As i didnt say said the shore is getting slammed. You saw a live picture with bob, if youre down the shor, shore, stay inside until the heavy rain lets up. Get live updates on your mobile device or tablet. 6abc app is a free download. This is a purse snatching that happened in sicklierville Camden County july 21. The victim a 78yearold woman was walking home when this happened. You can see the suspect, he attacks the woman and turns around andy pulls out a hunting knife and holds it to her neck and grabs her bag. The victim said he got away with 20 and credit cards. Medics rushed an 8yearold boy to Childrens Hospital of philadelphia after his leg was run over by a csx train in delaware county. Chopper 6 hd over the scene in tinicum township. The accident happened on the wb wb westbound freight track between wannamaker and darby creek bridge. We want to find out if anyone was with him when he was hit by the train. Atlantic city rail line service is affected by this truck accident the truck hit ant an overpass. The struck driver did not realize his boom was raised when he tried to make it under 138 of clearance. Ac rail line will be shut down between philadelphia and cherry hill while repairs are made this weekend. A Police Department is taking issue about the comment made by President Trump on long island he pledges to destroy violent ms13 street gang. The president said it was okay to be rough with suspects. You just see them thrown in, rougher, please dont be too nice, like when you guys put somebody in the guy you protect their head you know the way you put their hands over, dont hit their head and they have just killed somebody, i said you can take the hand away, okay . Well, those comments prompted the Police Department saying it will not and will not tolerate roughing up prisoners. Philadelphia is bringing back the Streets Program between chestnut in old city and indiana in fairhill will be shut down october 28 from 8 00 a. M. , to 1 00 p. M. , people will be able to walk ride and bike in the streets free of cars and trucks. The mayor is encouraging people to get out and explore businesses along the route there will be familyfriendly he need events. Its a wonder time to get tighter as neighbors im looking forward to october 28. The mayor start this had last year. He said in the future he would love to do this twice a year once in the fall and once in the spring. Time 5 38 a. M. New jersey veteran who was adopted got the thrill of a lifetime when he was reuknitted with his birth family. It took us years of searching, but his brother and strp finally met sister finally metaphor the first met for the first. I feel like hiem standing outside my i feel like im standing outside of my body. I hope i dont cry. Reporter the emotional hug for kyle who never met his father despite years of searching. Are you okay . Im final. Its crazy its happening right now. The iraq war veteran is married and has two daughters. Always wondered where is my dad, does he know about me, do i have sisters and brothers, im happy this happened. After years of searching, kyle learned about melissa in november through my heritage dna. Com. Their dna matched and so did their personalities. It filled the void a little bit, theres a connection there. It opened up a who new adventure in life. I have two beautiful nieces now which is is amazing. This family drawn together is making up for lost time. Reporter finishing each others sentences already. 31 years of me torturing her. In addition to his father he has a brother and three aunts and cousins he has yet to meet. This weekend he is focusing on what its its like to have a sister. Jeff chirico channel 6 action news. Coffee on tap, our fyi philly satisfies their Dining Options at the king of prussia mall. Thats ahead on action news at 5 30 a. M. This is a live picture of the wildwood area there, meteorologist chris sowers is telling you the shore not pretty today. Bob brooks is in the area, the rain can coming down, roads almost impassable, if you see the standing water, dont drive through. Chris sowers is back with a another look at the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. Reporter im nydia han with Interest Rates on the rise yet again may be the time to buy a house. Even if the bank says you can afford your dream home it doesnt mean thats the best decision for your family. Whawrveght know coming up in what you need to know coming up in the whats the deal. Welcom, 5 44 a. M. , saturday morning, this is a live picture right here, 16th and west in ocean city, new jersey. You see the rain coming down the streets flooded in. The shore is taking the brunt of the rain were getting this morning. I guess good news the rain will not last all morning long down the shore. Meteorologist chris sowers joins us to give you an update. That live picture coming from ocean city new jersey. A lot of rain, we saw bob brooks in wildwood along west rejoe grand it was flooding there. The storm is behaving as expected there. South jersey and shore area seeing the heaviest. If you like to sleep in 9 00 a. M. , you might miss this whole thing. Live in cape may its moving so quickly, actually later on the rain will be gone, lowering humidity levels and high temperatures in the mid 70s. Not a bad day, just a lousy morning. You can see the whitecaps on the ocean. Winds are picking up out of the northeast 30 to 40 miles per hour. This is a true coastal storm something you see during the winter months, its purring along its way. Lets flip it over to the radar. Storm tracker 6 live, Flood Warning was issued for Cape May County sea isle all the way down to the point, the villas, stone harbor, wildwood, avalon, reeds beach under the flash Flood Warning until 8 15. Smaller creeks and streams will continue to fill up. Its an area in our viewing area that picked up over 3 1 2 inches of rain. Some locations closer to 4 by the cape. Theres a quick look, we assumed into Cape May County, reeds beach, cape may, wildwood, this whole area continuing to see heavy rain. Everywhere along the garden state parkway up to ocean city reporting moderate to heavy rain. Absecon area, this location right here, continues to see a tremendous amount of rain. The pomona absecon egg harbor area that picked up 6 inches of rain. What were starting to see is a dry slot or drier air working its way in on the backside, this is actually pushing this way. All the heavy rain is in the process of pulling away. It should be out of here in the next hour or so. Rainfall totals if youre north of philadelphia, you have seen nothing from the system. Lehigh valley, allentown has not reported any rain at all. Trenton, a quarter of an inch, philadelphia same thing. South jersey and delaware thats where the rainfall totals pick up. Millville, 2 inches of rain. Atlantic city, 5 inches. Egg harbor pomona area 6 and 7 inches of rain from the storm. The heavy rain is working out to sea. A break across southeastern pennsylvania and another round across western pennsylvania, pittsburgh, altoona, johnstown heavy rain that will dive off to the southeast and steer clear of the delaware and the Lehigh Valleys. 10 00 a. M. Were seeing peeks of sun well north and west in the Lehigh Valley and the poconos. Lots of clouds south and east, maybe leftover showers and patchy drizzle. 2 00 p. M. , same thing, the general idea skies brighten up north and west, cloudy skies across south jersey and delaware. Everybody will see the skies brighten up a little bit, even the jersey shore will see sun before sunset. Sunday looks beautiful, walltowall sunshine from start to finish. 9 00 a. M. , hardly a cloud in the sky. Low humidity temperatures in the low 80s. Heavy rain gradually tapering off by mid morning. Breezy and cooler, brighter skies north and west of high temperatures, delightful for this time of the year, 75 in philadelphia. Allentown, 78. Cape may, 75. Dover, 74. The general idea is for gradual improvement each and every hour here, leftover rain by 9 00 a. M. 11 00 a. M. , 72. Cloudy skies by 4 00 p. M. Were beginning to see peeks of sun. Jersey shore lots of clouds expected today, windy and morning rain, 75. Sunday, bright and breezy, delightful with a high of 78. The only issue down the jersey shore, this is all weekend long a high risk of rip currents be careful as you head into the water. Highlighted today for the possibility of flooding this morning across south jersey and delaware, by afternoon its clouds and sun, high of 75. And then as we head into sunday, sunny and nice, 83. The next heat wave which would be heat wave number 6 looks like it would begin tuesday high of 90. Wednesday, 91. Thursday, 90. The good news i dont see 96 and 97 that we saw with the last one. That will be easier to handle. The weeks will not be a total washout. Reporter its a 50 50 split. Lets take you outside, this is mobile 6 in Atlantic City. Of course, were tracking the rain all morning long. Meteorologist chris sowers will let you know how long the rain will stick around and what you can expect throughout the day. Were back in just a bit. He gets things done stevfor south jersey. O tell you dont believe him. Because Steve Sweeney gets things done for himself, for the special interests who pay for his campaigns, and definitely for chris christie. But Steve Sweeney doesnt get things done for you. Unless you count cutting education funding, raising the gas tax, and sending more of your tax dollars off to trenton instead of south jersey. If youre tired of typical politics, stop electing typical politicians like Steve Sweeney. [ intense music playing ] ] its here, but its going by fast. The opportunity of the year is back the mercedesbenz summer event. 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That doesnt mean you can make the payments and save for retirement and college and go on vacation. Reporter deciding how much mortgage you can afford is. But a good rule of thumb is to cap your housing costs 25 of your take home pay. You need to have money in case the the airconditioning breaks or you have to replace the roof. Reporter in the end, they found a home he had love for less than the bank was willing to loan them. Leaving enough room in the their budget to safe for the next big thing. Away want to have a nest egg for vacations and emergency and eventually having our first child. Reporter having trouble calculating a number you can live with. Working with a Financial Planner or third party you can trust could be a good move. Important bank rate report, 80 of homeowners say mortgages make it difficult to save money. And parents have a hard time juggling their competing priorities. Nydia han channel 6 action news. Tonight at 7 00 another he today of fyi philly, ducis rogers stopped by an cafe in king of prussia. Youve got foam on top. Reporter for a brew of a different sort, the cafe and bakery in king of Prussia Center had cold coffee on tap. You get more of a rich texture. Reporter its next to the king of prussia davios offering an all day cafe experience. It opens at 7 and closes at 9 00. Reporter the menu includes housemade baked goods. We make everything here, it goes from our hands to you. If youre looking for something sweet. Theres a rotating menu of authentic italian recipes. Who comes up with the flavors . Living in italy for 40 years. Reporter thats what we drink in littlely when you want to wake up in the morning. This is break fast in italy . Sign me up. Were live at the shore where someplaces are flooding. Meteorologist chris sowers says you can expect rain all morning. Were tracking the storms. Well be back in just a bit. , breaking news to tell you about, a child is dead and 6 others hurt in a fastmoving fire in camden overnight. An action news viewer sent a picture of the fire after it broke out on the 1200 block of morton street. When firefighters got to the scene they found flames coming from both floors of the home. Witnesses say some children were being tossed to neighbors to escape the fire. However, one child did not get out alive. Although the fire is under investigation, officials do not believe it was intentionally set. I would say no, you wont normally have a suspicious fire when you have occupied
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