Matthew is barreling toward the caribbean islands and could leave major damage behind. A trial date is set for a new jersey father accused of murdering his 3yearold son. The septa Transit Agency resumed a full weekday schedule on the regional rails this morning for the First Time Since july. Many say the commute was far from perfect. John rawlins is following the story and joins us live from suburban station. John. Reporter hi, sarah. Ill tell you, perfection was the goal, it wasnt achieved. The status board showed 10 of the trains running 3 to 19 minutes late. Earlier a rush hour train reported 52 minute delay. A train out of the newark operations to philadelphia canceled because of an equipment issue. The riders had to take the next train along. For the First Time Since the 5th of july, the trainls were trains were back on schedule. I was looking forward to this day. I didnt believe last week it would be today. Im glad it is. Reporter reviews to the first day back to a regular schedule decidedly mixed. A required said he was sitting outside 30th street station saying it is still a disaster will they ever get the commute right again. Others spoke of delays and glitches, but willing to forgive. It was behind. Reporter it was late. Yeah. Reporter any reason why . No. We had to adjust our morning, its a little off, but its first day. I would expect it. Reporter you can make allowances. Yes. Reporter nobody had Great Expectations here, they just wanted to get back to a normal schedule. It was a rocky start. Scary clown threat caused extra Police Presence at Neumann Goretti. Saying going to Neumann Goretti going to shoot the teachers and kids. They will be hope to lock it down and the Catholic School pray. One such threat against a Charter School in northeast philadelphia was retracted by the user who posted it. Philadelphia police say they are actively investigating the social media post and looking for those responsible for the threat. A trial is set for the man who murdered his 3yearold son. The defense asked for more time for investigation. He was charge with the murder of his son brendan in last october, the boy was found in a wooded area after he was found missing. The prosecution said he killed his son in an effort to apiece his girlfriend. Hurricane matthew is about to inflict massive flooding in the caribbean. It could dump up to 40 inches of rain and could have winds up to 30 miles per hour. People are boarding up windows and clearing out store shelves. Meteorologist david murphy is tracking the monster hurricane from the action news big board. Reporter monster is the correct word. Its a category four major hurricane. What youre looking at is the water vapor image. You can see the clearly defined eye of the hurricane. A sign of a strong storm. This is beginning to push north. Haiti, jamaica in the line of fire and the eastern tip of cuba and the bahamas after that. Take a look at the stats on the storm. Its within 200 miles of kingston, jamaica. Closer to the western tip of haiti. 140mile an hour sustained winds. Its meandering to the north. Not moving all that strong, but the forward speed is expected to pick up later in the day. Looks like jamaica is farther from the center of the storm yes you will get rain there, but Tropical Storm winds. Haiti will get thrashed as the storm moves past as a category 4. That should sometime later tonight and into tuesday morning. Tuesday evening its in cuba, after that it looks like the turks and caicos gets a hit. After that it looks like it pushes closer to the u. S. As we take a look at the current watches and warnings these are all the places you dont want to go, cuba, jamaica, turk and kay kay turks and caicos. As the storm moves north these be extended to the north and the watches will become warnings. When i come back with the full forecast well like at how far north the storm makes it. We have sunshine as expected. Morning sprinkles are out of the way. The big story is the return of partial sunshine. A bump up in numbers, 70 in philadelphia. Expecting to hit 76 before the day is finished. The exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast, with the workweek forecast, the weekend call and the latest on the spaghetti plot models with matthew is coming up. David will continue to track that. Thank you. 6abc. Com weather is your resource, check Storm Tracker 6 live before heading out. You can count on regular updates by following each of our meteorologists on facebook and twitter. Turning to politics now, donald trump just made the first public appearance since the New York Times published his tax records from 1995. Reports say he may have avoided paying federal income taxes for nearly two decades. Lana zack is in the washington with the latest from the campaign this noon. Reporter good afternoon, rick, following the endorsement of labron James Hillary clinton is in ohio campaigning. Donald trump is tight lipped about the controversies that came up this weekend. At his First Campaign event of the day, donald trump failed to respond to accusations thats a tax dodger, instead hitting Hillary Clinton on Cyber Security. The only experience in Cyber Security involves her criminal scheme to violate federal law engineering a massive cover up and putting the entire nation in harms way. Reporter he did not mention the New York Times report that he duke a nearly billion dollar loss following the collapse of the Atlantic City casinos and the airlines and purchase of plaza hotel. While following the law, trump could have avoided paying federal income tax for two decades. Trumps campaign called the leak of the 1995 income tax return illegal. Trump sure galts surrogates are calling him a genius. Donald trump embodies the idea he diplomat have to pay taxes for 20 years. Another controversy that came up, according to the associated press, several former cast members on the apprentice are saying trump was sexist and crude when he was on that show. The campaign that is called that false. Reporting live from washington, lana zack, channel 6 action news. Back to you rick. Thank you. Meanwhile, Vice President candidates are gearing up for their first and only debate. You can watch tim kaine face off against governor pens tomorrow night at 9 p. M. Cara mccollum has left par Kim Kardashian west has left paris after being held up at gunpoint. The justices issue another blow to president obamas immigration order. David murphy will have the sevenday forecast when action news comes right back. Reality Television StarKim Kardashianwest is back in new york this noon hours after she was robbed at gunpoint in paris. According to french police, the suspect first attacked the could have been at the stars residents. The suspects took 10 million in jewelry and escaped by bike. Kanye west cut his show short in new york after getting word of the attack. Im story i have a family emergency i have to stop the show. West is in the middle of a multicity tour. The next scheduled stop at the Wells Fargo Center in philadelphia. No word if that concert date has been canceled. Pa rushian police say they are Parisian Police say they are looking for five suspects in the attack. Dozens of Police Officers may use money from a new federal grant. 119 million in Justice Department funding, the grants are being awarded to 184 Law Enforcement agency across the country and create or protect 900 positions. Its a response to tragedies like the ambush that killed five Police Officers in dallas. Dallas department will higher 25 new officers using its share of money. Ntsb investigators are hoping a second data recorder from 89 new jersey train crash in hoboken will help them find out what happened. The main data recorder where the engineer drives the train is currently underneath the section of the collapsed roof. Its too dangerous to recover it. The engineer has no memory of the crash. Investigators are trying to determine what sparked a fire that destroyed more than 30 school buses. The flames broke out yesterday at this Transportation Company in wisconsin. School officials were able to find alternate rides for the students that normally rely on the buses. Withses reported hearing explosions as the fire spread. Theres no word on a possible cause. In washington, the u. S. Supreme court began another term today and dealt a blow to executive action by obama on immigration. The plan was to shield millions of immigrants. The justice declined the white house request to break the tie once a 9th justice is pointed to the bench. 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Is here, we saw sunshine this morning, david. Peeks of sunshine. Reporter people on facebook were like whats that . That was me. Reporter i bet, sure. Storm tracker 6 live double scan shows us we are dry. We had a couple of sprinkles and showers in parts of the region during the morning commute. You saw that live on 6abc. We are drying out. As we look outside, the outdoors are looking better. We have cloud cover around, but were getting the blue sunny breaks, in this picture you can see how the sunshine is beginning to break through and reflect off the center city skyscrapers. The temperatures are raking to the break through by the sun. 70 degrees, the dewpoint below what we consider humid, not all that breezy, winds out of the west at 6 miles per hour. If youre a fan of an autumn breeze cruel not feel much that have. 6 in trenton. 69 in millville. 69 in cape may. Future tracker 6 showing you how the rest of the afternoon well continue to break up the cloud cover a little bit. At the same time down out of the north there can be a spotty popup shower here or there. This is the 4 00 p. M. Imagery. Obviously as you go through the afternoon and evening e its spotty showers that will not mess up your day all that much. Clouds and sun today, spotty shower cant are ruled out. Dry the majority of the time, nice in the lehigh valley, 73. Down the shore, clouds and sun, cant rule out a spotty shower, 74. Ocean temperature is starting to dip. Sign the of times. 73 in philadelphia, spotty shower cant be ruled out. Mostly cloudy overnight tonight and overnight well redrop a shower or redevelop a shower or drizzle that will be a pattern well have tomorrow. 58 the overnight low, wind light. Future tracker 6s take on tomorrow. Early sunshine, but you can see how the majority of the day is clouded in, yes there could drizzle or spotty light vigil or shower, a little more than that as we met had he had into 6 00. Hurricane matthew as we told you at the top of the halfhour has developed into a major category four hurricane looks like it will split the difference between jamaica and haiti. Even as the center of that storm misses that nation, you are going to see the strongest winds on the east side of the storm, batter haiti, which is not good news for that poverty stricken and earthquake stricken area. As we get into the weekend, category 2 could be on the doorstep of carolinas. After that were looking at the potential of that storm being in our latitude. Most of the models have it going out to sea being blocked by a trough. Some other models have it looking at a closer path. 76 degrees clouds and sun, spotty shower, but dry in most spots. Tomorrow, cloudy, again, 69 and drizzle around. Wednesday, thursday, friday, highs in the low to mid 70s, beautiful all three days, sunshine an dry conditions. Saturday, 67, cooler on sunday, spotty shower is possible each day. In terms of matthew if it did come close by to us it would be the middle of next week, most models have it far enough away its not a big problem. Thats good news. Still ahead in the neck halfhour at 12 30. The archbishop of philadelphia announces new plans who reached out to those who experienced abortion. A gas pump turns a woman 20dollar tab into a ten thousand dollar one. Well tell you what it took to fix it. Those stories and more next. Holy, hello began, heres some of the stories were following on action news at 12 30, a father charged with the death of his 3yearold son has a date for trial. Septa tries to go back to the regular schedule, but glitches remain. Haste and jamaica get ready for the hurricane. South jersey father accused of killing his son makes an appearance in court. Action news reporter, Katherine Scott has more from the courtroom. Reporter the trial initially was supposed to be begin today but the defense needed more time to prepare, so now a firm trial date has been set for january 9th. Charged with murder for the death of his 3yearold son, david ceato appeared in a camden courtroom this morning. The attorney asked for more time including investigating their own investigation including the reports from a forensic medical examiner. The last thing we want is over with so