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Night of the Democratic National convention. Tonight Hillary Clinton will accept the nomination for president at the wells fargo center. That is where sara bloomquist is live to kick off the team coverage. Hi sara. Reporter its the crowning moment of the entire convention this, is Hillary Clintons chance to persuade voters, tonight she will accept the democratic nomination for president. Chelsea clinton will introduce her mom on the national stage. Action news reporter, Annie Mccormick joins us live from the Convention Floor with more. Reporter hi sara. A number of big named democrats did take the stage last night including the president himself making the case for all democrats to unite the party and for all of them to vote for Hillary Clinton. Now, tonight youll see a more personal level and Chelsea Clinton herself and talking about her mom and the candidate as well. A big embrace of former rivals turned allies became the height light of last nights convention. President obama and his remarks admits the country is testing by war and recession over his eight years but sees hope and promise with Hillary Clinton. A mother and a grandmother who would do anything to help our children thrive. A leader with real plans to break down barriers and blast through glass ceilings and widen the circle of opportunity. Vice president , joe biden, preceded the president and had this to stay about clintons rival, donald trump. His cynicism is unbounded and lack of empathy and compassion can be summed up in the phrase he is most proud of having made famous, your fired. Running mate senator, tim kaine, gave his first address and told Good Morning America he believes they are breaking through to Bernie Sanders supporters. They know that donald trump is a threat to everything they care about and i feel like we are in good shape. The arc started off with turmoil and churn but there is a direct arc to unification. This morning crews feverishly worked to transform the stage where Chelsea Clinton will introduce her mom. Biden gave a hint of what miss clinton may say. She has to let people see her heart. See her heart. Everybody knows her head. Reporter back out here live, that is where it will take place, where you look now where the crews work to set up the stage and do the mike checks, tonight will be an end a love two weeks for many people, sara yourself included. And we have not heard word of the big name stars that will be here but youll hear it within the next few hours. Thank you. Protesters are taking every opportunity to make their voices heard before the dnc is over and run rally is getting underway at Thomas Paine Plaza in society hill that, is where action news reporter, janet reyes is live. With a look at the situation. Reporter this demonstration is set to get underway in a few minutes here, for many this is the fourth day of demonstrations, Bernie Sanders rallies seems to draw the largest crowd. And today is the last day of protesting, on the day Hillary Clinton speaks they hope to go out with a bang. Many protesters woke up this morn in tents for the fourth time this week. It ended with a woman badly injured putting out a burning flag. A lot of energy, and not everyone knows how to channel it efficiency. That is why representative of everyone as a hole. But you know its at least a passion. Bernie sanders supporter and delegate sara long says its been a roller coaster week especially after Hillary Clinton was formerly nominated. Its animosity with us and all the hillary supporters. About 100 officers on bike patrol gathered from across city hall ready to be deployed across the city. Yesterday we did less and some days more than others. But we put some miles on these bikes. They will be out protecting civilians and demonstrators, like bruce carter during a week when all eyes are on philadelphia. I call we do more celebrate and keeping people inspired so they dont lose hope. When they see we show them respect and we are protecting their rights to free speech, you know it breaks down all barriers. So far this week, a total of 104 citations are handed out, they are 50 citations, and police tell me that demonstrations are largely peaceful. They are hoping for the same today. Hillary clinton is speaking and Bernie Sanders are feeling proud. Well see how that goes. Janet reyes, channel 6 action news. Thank you. Before Hillary Clinton accepts the nomination here in south philadelphia tonight. The convention spotlight will be pointed across the Delaware River in camden. A concert will feature lady gaga and lenny kravitz, its invitation only but did give out 1,000 tickets to the community and people lined up this morning. The concert is presents by donald noroff. Stay with us for constant coverage on 6abc. Com and live updates on facebook and twitter. Rick well see you back here at 12 30. All right thank you. Meanwhile, republican nominee, donald trump, will be campaigning in iowa today. But the out spoken candidate is sparking calls of treason, he told a large crowd that russians should find emails missing from clintons server. Russia if are you listening, i hope you are able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing and i think youll probably be rewarded mightily by our press. Lets see if that happens. The idea was condemned by both democrats and republicans, this comes as new questions arise about his wife melania, her website now directs people to her husbands real estate page. Lets look live outside. Its hot be muggy with the chance of drenching rain and flash flooding later today. Meteorologist, david murphy, is tracking the conditions. Reporter rick its hot and humid out there and we are starting to see the afternoon thunderstorms in Lancaster County to the east and towards chester county, a recent strike with the lightning bolt, and i am also picking up something on i95 north of baltimore and pushing towards the east and farther to the west if you look at the wide view its easy to see the trouble ahead. We have a lot of thunderstorms and showers in southwestern pennsylvania and all of this is creeping to the east. Later we go into the afternoon and evening, and the overnight hours, the better chance of not only having current thunderstorms popping up and a widespread pattern that could produce drenching downpours and flooding rain. A Flash Flood Warning is posted by the National Weather service, ridgely it would kick in at 7 00 tonight and now they posted it at 2 00 so only another couple of hours before it hits, the entire area south of the Lehigh Valley. And all the way down to the shore. This goes until friday evening. So for this afternoon, tonight and overnight and tomorrow morning and tomorrow afternoon, well be on the lookout for drenching downpours and thunderstorms. 90 in allentown un88 in dover and 84 in cape may. The dew points are up a bit higher, philadelphia sagged back down to 67 but that is still pretty noticeable humidity out there. Youll need cool drinks as you go through the afternoon and an umbrella and shelter if a thunderstorm heads your way. Ill track the storms with future tracker 6, for the afternoon and overnight tomorrow and later in the half hour. In other news drastic changes to School Funding could affect every student in new jersey. Chris christie wants to distribute funding to every student gets the same amount of mon money. Democrats have called the plan unconstitutional. Some wall Street Investors are betting against atlantic city, moodys says the city will likely default on a debt payment on monday unless the state comes through with a 74 million loan. They are facing the deadline to get the finances in order if that doesnt happen the state is poised to take control. Police are looking for the person that murdered a man two blocks from his house in philadelphia. Police found the man dead underneath a pickup truck in tioganicetown. They believe he tried to run and hide from his attacker, they are checking cameras for any helpful video. We are learning new information about a man killed in a robbery and carjacking in german town last night. Two men approached the victim and stole his dodge ram pickup truck. The police have video of the robbery and carjacking and they are still looking for the suspects and stolen vehicle. In delaware wind, a neighborhood gas leak forced people out of their homes and businesses, this happened along the 300 block of clifton heights, a contractor doing paving on the street struck a High Pressure gas line according to police, neighbors were told to evacuate along with defaults and children at a nearby daycare center, peco arrived on the scene to repair the line and residents were allowed back in their home. Coming up the vatican explains what caused pope francis to fall during a mass in poland. And now what caused this fire ball seen in several states last night. And the sevenday forecast from accuweather. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. So we wired the wagners house with 100 meg internet. Which means that in the time it takes mr. Wagner to pour a 20 oz. Cup of coffee, tommy can download 30 songs, and jan can upload 120 photos. 12 seconds. Thats the power of fiber optics. 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As firefighters try to gain the upper hand on the blaze that charred 37 square files and 37 home were destroyed so far. The jackpot has jumped to 4 477 million because no one wo the drawing last night. The next drawing is saturday night and as always see the winning numbers during action news at 11 00. And still to come on action news at noon, a Serious Health set back can force a person to give up driving but there say local Program Helping people of all ages get back on the road, details ahead in the art of aging report. If you have medicare parts a and b and want more coverage, guess what . You could apply for a Medicare Supplement Insurance Plan whenever you want. No enrollment window. No waiting to apply. That means now may be a great time to shop for an aarp Medicare Supplement Insurance Plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. Medicare doesnt cover everything. 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Reporter most of her abilities returned but before getting behind the wheel doctors recommended she be cleared by bryn mawr rehabtation program. First they have an evaluation. Vision and reaction time and how their arms and legs are working and looking at memory. And then they are tested on the road and the type of driving they do and if their skills have changed. They may be good enough but if they use their old habits they could get in trouble. Pointers are good for any driver, come to a full stop at the stop signs. A policy buys you coverage and doesnt cost anything. And leave distance behind the car when you stop and avoid times with sun glare. And our ability to recover from glare goes down with age and if you have nor on think of the feet that could lead to problems with the hand controls, that is when people mistake the accelerator for the brake. When there is pedal errors that is because their foot is numb. She passed her test and is happily back on the road. The Action News Team is working on stories for tonight at 4 00. There say push to give people more cable choices, we have the story in tonights whats the deal . And as we look live at sky 6 hd, at independence mall, its hot and humid with rain on the way today. David murphy will have the sevenday forecast when we come right back. Some youngsters in camden except the summer brushing up on their reading and today they showed off their skills, this was an open house brought by the cooper institute. The program kept 50 kids academically connected through a reading program. The Summer Reading program is in its 11th year and free of charge for the children of camden. Kind of a novel program. Very good rick. Thanks david. Well, we need the umbrella today . Yes, and you may have to run for cover in a thunderstorm heads your way. Right now we begin to see the beginnings of this, if you look at the wide view on stormtracker 6 live double scan it doesnt look like a lot is going on there. But as you go in tighter you can see we are popping thunderstorms. This thunderstorm started of by lancaster, about a half hour ago and is producing lightning and heavy downpours. Not a big guy but pushing through coatesville creating a lot of noise and heavy downpours. Those of new downingtown will probably see the arrival of this in 5 to 10 minutes and another one training out to the west. Also, want to go down the pike to the south, we have additional action popping up in central delaware. This started maybe 5 minutes ago. It just blooms and appears and getting ready to slide across the delaware bay. And lightning strikes at bay side in western Cumberland County and bridgeton this may be on the way as well. If we pop out to the west, there is an another thunderstorm that formed north of baltimore and west of edgewood maryland and this one may head in our direction. Not a lot happening but we see a cluster of the first thunderstorms beginning to pop up. As we look outside we have the Fairmount Park on the action cam and its a fairly sunny morning heading into the cloudier and stormier afternoon, and also muggy out there. As the humidity levels come back a bit. 91 degrees is the hot noon temperature in philadelphia, 67 is the dew point and we are over 70 for a time this morning and we slipped a bit and that is noticeable humidity, winds southsoutheast at 5 miles per hour. And a lot of moisture in the atmosphere for the storms wubs they start to really open up and give you a downpour. 90 is the high in allentown un89 in reading and 89 in trenton and just 82 down the shore in cape may. Future tracker 6 picking up the rest of the day, and at 3 00 we have a better chance of more widespread showers and thunderstorms coming through and by 5 30 its not raining all at once but where it is we could open up with heavy downpours and wind gusts ahead of these storms and later tonight cecily will probably have more to show you with another round of intense thunderstorms, it could get worse overnight. And risk of Severe Weather down south in extreme south jersey. In the Lehigh Valley 93 and spotty rain and not as much up north as the heart of the region. At the shore be careful of a shower or thunderstorm. 93 with a shower or thunderstorm likely at times, as we go into the evening commute and the thunderstorms not happening all at once and you could see a drenching downpour and more to come overnight tonight. And into tomorrow. Especially in the morning and afternoon. A quick look at your seven day, lookout its high humidity, and drenching downpours and showers and thunderstorms in the package today and in through a portion of tomorrow and we dry out late in the day, dont walk or run through water. And mid80s for the weekend rick. Thank you. We now know what caused this mysterious light streaks across the sky out west. People in utah and california reported seeing the fire ball, a nearby air force base said it was a meteor breaking up and then they said it was a Chinese Rocket reentering the atmosphere. They are referring all questions about the rocket to chinese authorities. Here are the stories we are ll