It is happening right now at the lumber yard on delsea drivein Franklin Township where action News Reporter jeff chirico joins us live with the very latest, jeff . Reporter walter, sarah, this is as close as we can get you right now but looking through those trees you can see Fire Fighters are still putting water on the hot spots. There are 30 companies here from across south jersey working on this operation, that the chief of police here, im sorry, fire chief hearsays the building is a total loss. This ace huge blow to the community as the coluci lum where yard has been serving this Community Since 1945. Viewer video shows the flames and heavy smoke ripping through the lumber yard on the 300 block of delsea drive nearly 200 Fire Fighters, spent hours, battling the blaze in near 90degree heat. The wind side trying to make an effort to stop the fire. But conditions deteriorated rapidly. They back out with the defensive operation. Reporter because the community does not have hydrants tankers from four counties were called into pull water from a nearby lake. Fire fighters ham board by hot water, low water pressure and we did have wind that were blowing around good. We had a few collapses, during the fire. Reporter measures were taken to keep Fire Fighters cool but at least one was taken to the hospital for heat exhaustion. Ims in huge. Reporter brandon says his grandfather started the lumber yard which is a stapel over the past seven decade. His father and uncle now own it. I drove by here, and it was fine. Local was there. When i got here an hour before this happened. I dont know what happened. It is a lum where yard. There is a lot of wood, paneling, and, you know, combustibles. So, it had a lot of fuel to burn. Reporter back out here live we have looking at the medical tent. We have learn that a second fire fighter was taken to the hospital for heat exhaustion and a number of others have been treated here on the scene for heatrelated symptom. Fire marshall is on the scene investigating this fire, and right now we do not have a cause, but police, excuse me, fire Officials Say that cause will hopefully be determined in the near future. We are live in Franklin Township, jeff chirico for channel six action news. Thank you, jeff. Last nights heavy rain left behind a lot of problems throughout our area crew where is forced to shut down part of the Strawberry Mansion bridge overnight after a tree fell blocking the exit to Martin Luther king drive. Down wires were also a problem, so both peco and tree removal crews work through the morning to clear the mess. In center city tree snapped and came down on top of the car in the 1,000 block of south street. No one was inside at the time. As you can see it did cause quite a bit of damage. Heavier rains pounded much of maryland this weekend. Two people were killed as a result of flooding last night this video was shot in he will cot city in baltimore where people had to form a human chain, to rescue a woman from her car. You can see the water rushing over their reek wills roof, clearly these folks were risking their own safety in the process. In the end the woman inside, was rescued, and then pulled to safety. Conditions werent quite as bad around here but some spots in our area had to deal with localized flooding after drenching rains last night and more could be on the way. Meteorologist cecily tynan is in for melissa and she joins with us our first check of the accu weather forecast, hi there walter. Hi walter. Storm tracker six not lighting up as much as it did last night. We a few showers across the poconos and there are two isolated downpours burlington county, and ocean county, one is north of the browns mills, some lightening associate with, and another one is south of Seaside Heights crossing lbi, just across the garden state parkway. But as you stepped outside today it was hot, humid. Right now philadelphia is 89. We were at 90 last hour. And the dew points are very high. Fill right now dew. 69 degrees. But along the shore, and delaware, we have dew points in the city in the 70s. That is an oppressive air mass. Any thunderstorms we get when that air mass is in place will cause drenching downpours. Satellite six with action radar showing most of the viewing area a lull in the action, however, what is going on there is a upper level low that is moving out of ohio, into pennsylvania, and that will be moving right over us, tomorrow. And that will bring us the opportunity for more showers, and then are storms. So this is what to expect. At least next few days. It stays warm. It stays humid. Tonight some patchy fog will be developing, and tomorrow, afternoon, some heavier thunderstorms likely. We will time them out for you and let you know when we will get a break from the humidity with the full a accu weather forecast, sarah. All right, cecily, thank you. Temple university confirms two men allegedly involved in the homicide on friday, in germantown had ties to the police force. Former Temple Police officer aaron wright and markeith robinson are charged with murder and aggravated assault in connection with the death of wrights girl friend in the 4600 block of green street. The victims name has not been released. More changes are on the way for Regional Rail customers. Starting tomorrow, passengers will not aloud to buy tickets on board the train during certain hours. The passengers riding between 3 00 p. M. And 6 30 p. M. Must show their tics before boarding off fares will be collected or validated before customers go through platform area at temple, jefferson, suburban, 30th street and university city. It is a temporary followcy linked to the shortage o Regional Railcars this summer. Eagles Training Camp was open to the public at lincoln financial field today. Fans got their first chance to check out some rookies as well as that are favorite players. Action News ReporterTrish Hartman was there. Go eagles. Reporter fans were dancing in their seats as they watched the first open practice of 2016, and many were with high hopes for the bird. Hut, set. Eagles. I just bleed green. I just love it. Reporter some tried to curb their excitement. Open minded. Dont expect a lot but ill be opened minded and hope for best. Reporter this season brings lots of changes from new coach doug pederson. No doubts about, you know, how good he will do, you know, this year, we will see a lot of answers, on how to good year will be. Promising new rookies. Jalen mills and running back smallwood. Im exited to see rookies and see how practice is going. Reporter those rookies were just as exited to see the fans. Practice, you know, pretty sweet to see everybody out here, you know, it was exciting and i had fun with it. Reporter more than 18,000 people attended the practice. When it was over many waited in line for access to the feel, for the full open practice experience. Taking pictures, having a great time, great. Reporter selfies, cart wheels and autographs were all fair game. We have to love it. My dad just came, right to me. It was just like, meant to be. Reporter meant to be. Then seven yearold cristina gone sol hose was covered in signatures. My favorite part was talking to the players, to all of the names. Reporter shes fighting stage four sarcoma finishing her radiation treatment and earned her a trip to the link. She wanted to see her eagles team and cheerleaders, football players, her first time being here in the stadium. Reporter reporting from lincoln financial field, Trish Hartman for channel six action news. Were gathering details on a sticky situation on i295 in new jersey this afternoon. Hundreds of water melons are all over the road there in Carneys Point after a truck carrying melons overturn. The right around 4 00 oclock when the driver of the truck lost control on the curve and tipped over. As a result the huge load of water melons went flying all over the highway. No be was injured but as you can see it is quite a mess. Is there much more still to come on ago news encouraging news about a 76 yearold man shot by new jersey state troopers, after they responded to the wrong house. It is christmas in july for special youngsters we will tell you why santa claus took a break from the Summer Vacation to make an appearance in philadelphia a. The phillies battled the braves in atlanta a, Ducis Rodgers has sports when action news continues. Sykes. vo we went to hollywood to ask if americas favorites burgers, tacos and chili could taste just as great made with turkey. Thousands stepped into the jennieo tasting booth to find out. With just one bite, they knew. Now its your turn to make the switch. A 76 yearold man who was shot by new jersey state troopers inside of his home in deerfield township has been upgraded to stable condition. Jerry sykes was hit twice in the chest and once in the groin. The troopers were responding to a 911 call but responded to the wrong home. Sykes apparently thought officers were intruders and grabbed his shotgun. Sykes was standing in his living room when police fired four shots. Sykes also fired a shot, but not yet clear if one of the troopers was hit or if one of the troopers was cut by flying glass. State Attorney Generals Office has since joined in on the investigation. Meanwhile police in philadelphia are investigating an attempted robbery and shooting in the feltonville section from late last night. Investigators say two men sitting on their porch on the 4800 block of pale thorpe street when a man key mannedded money. Gunman shot the victim once in the chest and then took off. The victim was taken to einstein hospital where he remains in critical condition. A, can bus expert came to philadelphia today to hold a workshop promoting jobs and business opportunities. All day seminar took place at sheritan suites in southwest philadelphia doug porter from the Cannabis Career Institute was there to teach new cannabis entrepreneurs how to get started in the industry. Car lovers cruised the back roads of bucks county to raise money for charity. The dozens of people took part in the seventh annual road rally, the events raises money for Fox Chase Cancer Center while promoting upcoming new hope automobile show on august the 13th. So, it is middle of summer. Why in the celebrate christmas a little early. That is what these kid did lining the sidewalks to see santa claus and his helpers deliver toys in tioga hundreds of toys were given to kid at Shriners Hospital for children. Most of the youngsters are recovering from injuries or battling serious illness this was 20th annual christmas in july toy run. Meanwhile sesame place is celebrating its 36th birthday. Todays theme park in langhorne brought back popular neighborhood Street Birthday Party parade. Youngsters here were able to meet up with their favorite characters and check out all of the birthday theme floats. Ducis here now with sports and phillies losing a close one in atlanta. Their offense has been nonexistent in the last few weeks. You cannot win if you cannot score. Quite often scoring is the problem for phillies. The bats go cold this afternoon in at the plant a. That is about the only thing that wasnt scorching in atlanta today. Jared eickoff put together his second straight solid start. In the fourth inning, they double play. Eickoff pitches, five scoreless innings allowing two hits, no walks. Rain delay hits in the sixth inning and eickoff does not return. And, drew bailey comes in relief and he finds trouble in the seventh inning. That is Jeff Francoeur belting a a two run home run. Two to nothing the Atlanta Phillies get on the board in the eighth inning. He turns and a this solo shot his third of the season. Down pie one. Twoone ballgame. The ninth inning phillies down their final strike, and carlos ruiz cant catch up to it. Phillies lose twoone. They finish road trip foursix. We will wait for tomorrows trade deadline to see what may or may not happen. Like wizard of oz eagles pulled back curtain, the team opens practice to their fans. And no tickets needed to the link this afternoon, flee for all. Brian dawkins was on hand, and he was added to the scouting department yesterday. Quite a few carson wentz jerseys out there and second overall pick did not disappoint. Rookie has a cannon for an arm. This was wentz first real work at the link. It is cliche but he was like a kid in the candy store. He loved every single moment of it. Oh, man, pretty cool, getting in the locker room. I said all right, this is nice. Coming out here everybody is yelling, for a practice, pretty sweet, to see everybody out here supporting. The it was really exciting. I had fun with it. Some of the plays he made yesterday and through rookie camp, you know, just a couple of out plays you just go that is kind of quarterback that you know you have. And, you know, he is right on track where we want him to be. In the meantime sam bradford team. Eagles continue to say he is the number one quarterback. Eagles practice has been averaging three hours in length. That is longer then they have been under chip kelly but players feel they are getting more out of these practices because the Coaching Staff is taking the time to coach the players, between plays. Right now regular Football Game three is hours so practice should three hours. It gives you more time to go over, something that you may have missed and they have more time to work on your prep. Only way we will get better, only way. You know, im also a believer that, you know, you spend time in the meeting room at night, watching the tape and making corrections there as well. We probably have more, mini time then with chip. A lot of meetings. More Old School Traditional style of andy reid and i love it. Join us for sports sunday tonight at 11 45, Mike Missanelli from 97. 5 the fanatic will be here to tell us what worries him most about the week of Training Camp with the eagles tonight after action news. Union are back in action tonight at home against real saint Real Salt Lake city. In eight all time matches union never beaten this opponent. This afternoon nascar race in the pocono was a wash out. Well, it was for most. It had been rescheduled for tomorrow morning at 11 00. Martin truex junior will be on the pole. Rain is a problem every where. Except for that little guy. Ducis, thank you. Up next on action news it was hot rod central in south philadelphia today. We will check out some cars on display at East Passyunk car show. Cecily tynan has the exclusive accu weather seven day forecast but first a preview what is ahead on world news sunday. Walter, sarah, good evening. Coming up tonight, a deadly flash flood sweeps through an american city. We will show you human chain to save lives. Plus donald trum in a war of word with the parents of the slain muslim army captain. Then we will take you inside zika hot zone right here in the u. S. That is right after action news. 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A car show featuring hot rods and muscle cars covered several blocks on East Passyunk avenue as they check out will cool rides, they enjoyed live music from different performers on every block some cars included antique mustangs and thunder bird. Very cool. Cecily tynan in for Melissa Magee tonight. We will see some exercise today and we must weigh less because it is so humidy slept and i weigh less. As far as the air conditioning, yes. Yes. Humidity is oppressive. It will stay to way one more day. Then we will begin to get a break. Storm tracker six live double scan is showing that most of our region is rain free but we do have a few spotty downpours, one, pulling right through browns mills right now, and another one is hitting lbi. These are just sinking down to the south and east right now but they have heavy downpours. Barnegat light now, you are getting hit and, unfortunately it was very active across poconos today. We still have some scattered showers, mostly beginning to move out. Bad timing, with nascar in town. And today, definitely hot and humid, again. This has been the trend as we say good bye to july, the high, 90 degrees. Normal high is 87. Record high, it can be hot to 100 to the morning low on the steamy side, 75 degrees. Currently 89 degrees in philadelphia reading 87. Millville 88. Dover 89. Cape may 82. It is not heat but humidity, dew points are very high. Sixtynine in philadelphia, but most of our viewing area we have dew points in the 70s, dover the dew point is 78 degrees. That is a tropical air mass. As that with the temperature, heat index feels like 94 in philadelphia. Ninety in cape may. In dover, it feels like 104 degrees. Definitely oppressive. Satellite six with action radar showing not a lot of activity here but looking to the north and west you will see a little bit of the spin. That is low pressure. That will do is ride right over us, tomorrow. So, tonight, warm, muggy, isolated early thunderstorm, patchy fog developing overnight low 70 in the cooler suburbs. Seventythree for center city. Definitely a very warm night. Future tracker showing tomorrow morning waking up were not much in the form of the showers. Maybe a spotty showers. We will see mostly cloudy skies but as we head through the afternoon with the build up of the humidity and low pressure right over us we will likely see a lot of showers, and thunderstorms, unfortunately that could complicate the evening commute. So tomorrow the high is 88 degrees. Very humid. Low pressure is right over us. What will happen on tuesday is that low pressure will move further east and that brings us more stable air mass and we will begin to cool off, 84 degrees, still muggy on tuesday but wednesday, we will get a nice break from the humidity. So the exclusive accu weather seven day forecast. We will start month of august off, the the way we ended july, warm, humid with afternoon thunderstorms, a a high of 88 degrees. On tuesday we will cool off to 84 degrees. Still possibility of the shower but we will not see anything widespread. Wednesday, nicest day of the week, partly sun which low humidity. 84 degrees. On thursday, gets warmer, humidity begins to creep backup, 86 degrees and friday here comes the heat and humidity again with a high of 90 degrees, possibility of the late day thunderstorm, we will have have more widespread thunderstorms, saturday, late in the daze and a lot like this weekend 91 degrees and sunday partly sunny and warm with a high of 89 degrees. Warm, humid start to the week. Best day of the week will be wednesday. It is already august, incredible. Flying by. It is going fast. Thanks, cecily. You can find the seven day forecast and live look at Storm Tracker six live double scan radar anytime of the day on our web site just go to six abc. Com weather. All kind of cute little kittens were up for adoption today at the pennsylvania spca in philadelphia. The event is part of the celebrate, for the hallmark channels upcoming inaugural kitten summer games premiering on friday. It features kittens that found loving homes through adoption. All day to day pennsylvania spca in the philadelphias juniata park section offered free adoptions and 25 off kitten. Abc world news sunday next here on channel six. Dont miss action news at ten on phl17 tonight. Then were back here again on 6awc at 11 00. For cecily tynan, Ducis Rodgers, Melissa Magee, Jeff Skversky and the entire action news team, im sarah bloomquist. We will see you right back here, at 11 00 oclock. 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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What he told George Stephanopoulos about the veterans mother, as trump tallies his own sacrifices. Hot air horror. New video, moments before the deadliest hot air balloon crash in u. S. History. Tonight, what were learning about the victims and the new questions about the dangers of these joyrides. Zika in america. The high alert now that the first cases from mosquitoes here are confirmed. Tonight were with a woman who