Wider view on stormtracker 6 live double scan to show you the whole picture, all the storms and heavy downpours ahead of a cold front coming into pennsylvania, pressing to the ea east, the Weather Service is issuing Flash Flood Watches, for our area all except for the county as long the shore. Sandy soil that can absorb a lot more rain, the potential for 2 to 4 inches of rain, could cause flash flooding for your morning commute. Ill tell what you it means for your weekend in the accuweather forecast. Thank you cecily. Well track storms heading our way on 6abc. Com weather, youll find the Storm Tracker 6 radar and hourly forecasts. A second person has now died after a vehicle hit a group of young people in buck county, it happened tuesday night on bud town road, four young family members were walking home from a park when they were hit, a little 2yearold girl was killed and an 18yearold died last night. The driver was not charged. A grand jury voted not to file charges against a Police Officer for fatally shooting a man in bridgeton, new jersey, the 2014 incidents was caught on the Police Officers dashcam, they said they feared for their lives when they shot and killed jerome reed, david henry is live with the very latest. Rick, the grand jurys decision is getting mixed reviews and the towns mayor says he accepts the outcome and continues to call for peace. 36yearold jerome reed was shot and killed during a traffic stop last december, the grand jury concluded that the two officers acted properly, the driver of the car cooperates with the officers, they remove a gun from the glove box and tell reed not to move on he ignores commands as seen in this dashcam video. Ill still stand behind the Police Department and the process. You think it was a fair process . I have to trust our grand jury. The grand jury concluded that the officers believed their live were in danger. Protests came amidst similar incidents nationwide, but there was no partly because he was shot by a black Police Officer. Hands in the air reed as family members were among those protesting, his stepdaughter says that the family has no common about the grand jury report, the Police Issued a report saying with the utmost respect for the family of jerome reed, the Police Department continues to support the Police Officers. Mayor kelly says its time for healing. I hope its a period at the end of the sentence, for some it will be but for others that were hoping for a different outcome, they will be upset. Reeds family hired a lawyer to represent them in a civil lawsuit and the two officers involved remain on administrative leave here in bridgeton. David henry, channel 6 action news. A crane toppled over and injured its operator here in manayunk, it happened on a construction site near cotton street near the canal. Chopper 6 hd was overhead this morning, a 57yearold man was operating the crane when it tipped over and landed partly at the shore stat in on Industry Brain storming sessions, talking about moving the visitors. Buses from ocean city let say, to allow them to get on the high speed line, that was kicked around but buses were scarce and cited auto unfriendly rules, the shore to philly day trip model fizzled and after restrictions emerged. They thought people would flee for the shore but there has been no rush for refuge. We are not seeing that as of right now, we have not even an increase in numbers for that time. As of today we are not seeing it. There is pretty much not a lot of renal activity for that week right now. A third idea, people may snap up shore units to be close to the new jersey transit. They will operate special paperle trains to philadelphia. They urge people to buy sooner rather than later, the tickets are limited and will not be on sale during the papal weekend. They have capacity for 8,000 for the weekend and sale have not been blockbuster, in five days they have sold 500 tickets. This reminder, jim gardners special reports from the popes home town from buenos aires, argentina, continues on action news at 6 00 and again at 11 00, you can see all of jims reports on a special page of our website dedicated to the visit of pope francis, just log on to 6abc. Com pope and see the latest on highway closures and security zones for the pontiffs visit next month. Time now for the traffic report tonight. Not so exciting there. Matt pellman we are excited to see you matt. That is unusually kind, thank you. Good afternoon to you, we have showers and downpours visiting us this afternoon here in delaware county, rick and monica, its quite wet right now and the northbound lanes of 95 will sluggish coming away from the state line to the blue route, and then farther north we have this broken down vehicle on the girard point bridge, blocking the center lane, not sure why it has not gotten towed away yet. Causing delays. The crash is off to the side and the truck fire by peco headquarters was not a peco truck, a different truck fire is out of the way. In maple shade, southbound lanes of 73 are shut down because of a crash just 7 Miles Per Hour approaching the blockage point at route 41 and church road and 70 are possible alternates. A bad crash in toms river on 37 eastbound by hospital drive, i would avoid that if i were you. And delaware just 7 Miles Per Hour because of a crash past mlk and look for a crash at 13 southbound at roosevelt avenue. Well check it again in the next half hour. More to come on action news tonight, former president , jimmy carter, announces he has cancer in his brain, he talks to local doctors about his treatment. That he started already today. And local children learn how to swim thanks to a foundation in honor of a young boy that lost his life in a pool. And cecily returns with the late of the on storms moving through our area next. Health check tonight. Jimmy carter revealed today that the cancer found was melanoma that has spread to his brain. Ali gorman has more on his diagnosis and treatment. Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer, they dont know before it started but they know it has spread, but the good news is there are advancements recently in treating melanoma. Former president , jimmy carter heard he had cancer in the brain, he thought he would have weeks to live. I have a wonderful life and thousands of friends and exciting and adventurous existence and i was surprisingly at ease more so than my wife. But now mr. Carter is more hopeful in his battle to battle melanoma, he will have radiation to treat four small lesions on the brain. And he will take a medication. I spoke with a doctor from Fox Chase Cancer Center about his treatment and prognosis. I think the fact that he doesnt have symptoms is great and the goal will be to prevent the progression of the tumor and symptoms. The type of medication is immune therapy, to attack the cancer cells, this therapy holds a lot of promise. Its exciting in oncology in general. He will cut back his time at the Carter Center to focus on treatment. He will be surrounded by family and that helps when fighting cancer. Looking forward to a new adventure. President carter is 90 years old and the doctor says as long as he is tolerating the treatments his age is not a huge factor and the drug he is on has less side effects than traditional chemo therp. One day after getting the blessing for the first pill for female sex drive, they have sold the company to a canadian company, valiant is paying 1 billion, a lot for a company with just 34 employees, mostly female. Its expected to be on the market in october. The Philadelphia Fire Department and members out across the city tomorrow collecting donations. More than 200 Elementary Students learned how to stay safe in the water today in camden, the action cam was at the boys and girls club, as the kids took swimming lessons from olympic Gold Medalist rowdy gains, and they used song and dance to learn about safety, all of this is made possible because of zach foundation, it puts on camps across the country in honor of Zachary Cohen who drown in 2008. Oh my gosh, its the guy from last night. What . can i jump on your wifi . Yeah, you can try it. Hey i had a really good time last night. Yeah, me too. The only thing is that. The only thing is what . Whats the only thing . Oh my gosh hes married. Hes a kleptomaniac. Hes a pyromaniac. Hes a total maniac. Hey hey go back to your wife you sociopath leave slow internet behind. The 100 Fiber Optics Network is here. Get out of the past. Get fios. Tea . Now 79. 99 a month. Go online or call now. Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v food lion is looking to hire 79 employees at four delaware stores, the jobs are at their locations in wilmington, claymont and laurel and federalsburg, if you didnt make it to the hotel you can apply online, the grocer is looking for employees in all of its stores. Construction is underway at 12th and Chestnut Street and will be 19,000 square feet and sell a variety of items including clothing and personal Care Products and will have a pharmacy and starbucks inside. The new target is expected to open next july and another one on chestnut will open the statement month. The Philadelphia Housing Authority hosted this Ground Breaking at north 24th and boltson streets, here is the diagram, the project will have 57 new affordable units and 1200 of them when all the phases are complete. Mayor Michael Nutter says that it will help struggling families finally have a stable home. The class of 2019, a Philadelphia University got this special welcome, a convocation was held here in east falls, an exciting way to welcome freshman and rejen rise upper class man. Time for accuweather at the action news big board, some gray skies and threatening weather, did anybody get thunderstorms, we have a thunderstorm in lancaster county, moving into berks county and double scan live showing its a rainy commute especially if you are heading west or south of philadelphia, this one band i am tracking, this starts as a line of thunderstorms, and you can see how its moving to the northeast along the i95 corridor and media right now, we are getting pockets of heavier rain at route 30 and route 3 and the blue route its all raining and the heaviest cell is moving into berks county over the pennsylvania turnpike and this one has thunder and lightning, 23 lightning strikes in the past 15 minutes, heading to the northeast at 15 Miles Per Hour, wolmersdorf and blue marsh, you will want to get inside. Lightning can be deadly. This is the reason why we have the potential for so much rain, its juicy out there, this is an ultra tropical air mass, when have you dew points, 75 degree, that feels like new orleans this time of year and as the front moves in its squeezing the moisture out of the atmosphere, temperatures show that it has cooled off in philadelphia with the Building Clouds and 82 degrees with the sunshine earlier and we hit 90 making this the sixth and final day of heat wave number four, satellite 6 along with action radar showing the front that is triggering the thunderstorms, across western pennsylvania, you can see behind that, you have clearing skies, once this front presses through early tomorrow morning, the humidity is dropping substantially and the sunshine will be out but we do have a stormy several hours to get through before that happens, future tracker showing at 10 00 a new line of thunderstorms developing across the western suburbs, getting closer and spotty at 1 30, this is when the thunderstorms are exiting the coast at 5 30, and west of the philadelphia the clouds are clearing out and the afternoon is looking really nice, loads of sunshine and lower humidity and the low humidity should be lasting for the first half of the weekend, here is what to expect from now until friday morning, heavy downpours, locally 2 to 4 inches of rain enough to cause flash flooding, and i dont expect Severe Weather with damaging wind gusts, we could have wind gusts of 30 to 40 Miles Per Hour, some morning clouds and showers in philadelphia, very early in the morning and afternoon sunshine, 83 degrees, this is where the clouds linger the longest, clouds and thunderstorms the first half of the day and 85 degrees and the poconos clears out first and lots of sunshine and a high of 77, the fiveday at 5 00 shows a transition day and dropping humidity and 87 degrees and low humidity and 86 and the front gets closer mainly east of the philadelphia and monday warm and muggy and 89 and tuesday a high of 86. Meteorologist, Melissa Magee, are you making friends in avalon. Having a lot of fun. Im making a lot of friends and standing outside of the bounce house because its too much inside for me, but this is all about thursday on dune, on dune drive, here in avalon, we have the fire truck and kids having fun and arts and crafts and kids bouncing their beach balled well have more on the all important beach forecast when we come back. Sounds like fun. Thanks melissa. More to come in our next half hour at 5 00, trump takes on immigration, his plan for Illegal Immigrants in the u. S. , and his support only continues to grow. More than 100 overdoses avoided. The tool that people are credited with saving lives. Action news continues. Hello again, here is what is happening on action news tonight, the dire situation is only getting worse in Washington State, the wild fire that killed three firefighters and forced entire towns to evacuate. And new numbers of unemployment rates in new jersey hit a new low and a live look at atlantic city, that is where rascal flats are expected to take the stage and thousands are down the shore ready to rock out. And heavy rain is moving through our area right now, that is right, meteorologist, cecily tynan, is keeping an eye on double scan radar. Reporter hi rick and monkarks we have a band of rain moving in on philadelphia right now, as we zoom in no lightning strikes associated with this, but its dropping moderate to heavy bands of rain, blue route, route 202, and 32, this is ahead of a cold front sweeping through overnight that brings more rounds of heavy rain, because of that the national Weather Service post aid Flash Flood Watch for most of the viewing area except for the counties boardering the shore. The rain could fall at 2 inches per hour, ill have more details on the timing of this and when we all clear out coming up on the full accuweather forecast. Thank you. Meantime, Washington States governor is asking for a federal Emergency Declaration to help fight the wild fires in that state. Two firefighters lost their lives fighting those flames. We are following the latest developments. Reporter rick and monica, washington governor, jay inslay said today that the state is facing an unprecedented cataclysm because of the fires raging there and expected fires to be worse today as they try to control flames that burned 88,000 acres that killed those firefighters. They continue to battle a wild fire in centsral washington, the blaze turned deadly in the town of twist. The winds were blowing in every direction, three firefighters were killed and four more were injured and one critically when winds shifted unexpectedly and the flames overtook the crews vehicle, we know the fires have burned a big hole in our states heart. These are big heroes protecting small towns. Family of the critically injured firefighter arrived at the Medical Center in seattle overnight, the 35yearold man is intensive care, suffering burns to 60 of his body. In california, fires have forced evacuations of national parks, east of oakland billowing smoke can be seen for miles and tankers are being used to try to contain the blaze. Governor kate brown toured the damage from a wild fire that destroyed homes including carolines. Well have to find a place to live probably for a couple of years. The heat and drought in western states is making this fire season one of the most explosive in recent years, right now close to 29,000 firefighters are fighting about 100 large fires in the northwest and here in california, lauren list channel 6 action news. Thank you. New developments in the race for the white house, businessman, donald trump continues to make headlines, literally. His face appeared on the cover of time magazine, reiterating his pledge to build a wall along the u. S. Mexico border, he wants to end birthright citizenship and deport undocumented immigrants. I will get them out so fast, so quick, it will be tough, not will you come with us please despite the controversial statement trump continues to rise in the polls, new numbers from the quinnipiac university. Put him ahead of former florida governor, jeb bush in his home state of florida. And polling better than democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton in florida but trails her in pennsylvania and ohio. Thank you sharrie. A woman was hurt this afternoon after he crashed her car into a gas station mini mart, it happened at the shore stop express in middletown, the car took out part of the buildings frame and several windows, a driver a 42yearold woman was taken to the nearby hospital, she is in stable condition, officials are checking to see if the building is okay enough to stay open. The cause of the crash is still under investigation. From our new jersey newsroom, unemployment in the garden state is now at its lowest level since before the recession began, according to the States Bureau of labor statistics it was down to 35. 5. . The lowest since september of 2008. Police have been using a nasal spray, narcan, it has kept 115 people alive, eight of those saved happened this month alone, according to police there have been 350 drug overdoses in camden this year. Rascal flats is expected to rock the beaches tonight in atlantic city, people are lining up to stake out a spot, the concert kicked off 90 minutes ago and rascal flats taking the stage at 6 00. According to officials, the city will get 3 for every ticket sold. They hope a boost for parking lots and local businesses and restaurants. Let go down the shore as a matter of fact and check in with Melissa Magee. She is looking at the forecast and what is going on at the shore this weekend. Melissa melissa she has her own cheering section. Monica we dont need rascal flats, we have our own concert going on here in avalon, i tell you why they are having fun, they dont have to go back to school until three weeks from now. Awesome. This is about thursdays on dune, we are on dune drive, the final thursday on dune, but its a Family Friendly activity where all the kids come out and have some fun, can you check out the fire trucks and the bounce house here as well. Folks are bouncing away and we have disney celebrities as well. We have got arral from the Little Mermaid and jake from the neverland pirates. Lets check out what else is going on down at the shore. Enjoy an evening full of fine and Live Entertainment during family nights in ocean city, all you have to do is walk up and down the boardwalk from 6th to 14 and streets as performers sing and dance. Family nights take place every thursday on the boards from 7 30 until 9 30 p. M. Start the weekend off right with a show in the sky, check out the summer fireworks extravaganza in wildwood. Cool colors will light up the sky at beach and pine avenue, good news the fireworks are visible almost in where on the beach. Get ready to hang ten during the long Board Classic at lbi. They will be judged on style and how well they ride, expect a day of fun and Live Entertainment on Washington State beach, this is the seventh annual event that benefits the alliance for a living ocean a group dedicated to clean water, it starts at 8 00 a. M. And free to watch but a small fee to ride the waves. Have fun hope to see you this weekend down at the shore. Ha, ha, ha. We are inside the bounce house guys having a lot of fun and you can have some fun up until 7 00, its all about avalon on the dune, on dune drive, careful little buddy, hopefully monica and rick have you if you down the shore. Im sitting down because i cant take the bouncing. Dont hurt yourself melissa. Time for an update on your evening commute. Matt pellman is in the traffic center. Bumpy ride as we try to get home on this thursday, wet in many spots and not wet here yet in south philadelphia, doesnt matter, we have an issue in the northbound lanes of the girard point bridge, a broken down blanks and the left lane is squeezing by on the bridge itself and huge delays at the airport and stick with the platt bridge instead and the crash on the shoulder is giving us big southbound delays as well. Delays pretty much all day on the vine street expressway. If you are headed for camden for the Jimmy Buffett concert, are you stuck in this mess through the eastbound vine in center city. Ryan avenue is closed until 10 00 and cotman avenue gets you around it. In maple shade the southbound lanes are still closed because of a crash. Manolo and church road are possible alternates. More to come on action news tonight, reality star, Caitlyn Jenner, could be facing jail time after a deadly crash in southern california, the charges officers are recommending against her. And chase utleys trade is still sinking in for fans. More on his trade to the l. A. Dodgers. I competed hard. Former olympian, Caitlyn Jenner could face manslaughter charges for her role in a car crash, back in february she alemly rear ends a car and pushed it into on coming traffic, the driver inside died. They found that her driving was unsafe for the Road Conditions at ta time. Today they recommended that the District Attorney charge jenner, if convicted of that charge, jenner could face up to one year in jail. David sweat, the convicted killer that sparked a massive manhunt across upstate new york is facing new charges, sweat and another convicted killer, richard matt escaped from prison in june, matt was killed and sweat was caught two weeks later and he made his First Court Appearance since being captured. He faces one count of escape and one off possessing contraband. Thank you. Time now for sports, the team is reeling after hearing that chase utley is headed to the dodgers. Ducis is here now. Reality will set in tonight when phillies visits the marlins and chase utley is nowhere to be found. He was traded to the dodgers for a pair of minor leaguers, he will go down as one of the all time greats. He could veto a trade, and he opted to go, he will be closer to home. It was a difficult decision for me and my family to go. Not so much changing uniforms, but its about leaving the city that has given so much to me over the course of 12 or 13 years i have been here, its definitely difficult, but like ruben said its time. To the eagles, the joint practices with the ravens continue, by the time saturday rolls around these two teams will know what each others breath smells like. Jeff skversky is here with more on the teams. Ducis eagles fans will cringe hearing this and seeing it, eagles quarterback Sam Bradford Wants to get hit and knocked to the ground as long as he gets up, he needs to get hit to feel comfortable for the season opener, chip kelly says he is not sure how much time if any bradford will get saturday against the baltimore ravens, but bradford admits today he would be extremely disappointed if he did not get into the game, considering that chip kelly said he would make his debut this weekend. No issues in Training Camp with that surgically repaired left knee, after suffering the injury right about this time last your, emotions are running high and ready to make the debut. I think there are a lot of emotions, im excited to get back on the field and last year i thought i worked hard and was ready to go and obviously got hurt again and im excited to get back out there. There are butter flies there just getting back on the field knowing ill take a few hits and get up and get going again. Speaking of quarterbacks, the eagles defense going up against one of the best quarterbacks in all of football, audubon, knowledge, native, and super bowl hero, joe flacco. They have been the worst and second worst defense against the pass the last few seasons. We test ourselves every day and every play we are out here, it doesnt matter who is out here, its a great opportunity to go against another team and see other players and go against a different offense, we test ourselves every day on every single play. Marcus smith, the first round pick from last year left practice with a hamstring issue, we are live jeff skversky, back to you. Thank you. Oh my gosh, its the guy from last night. What . can i jump on your wifi . Yeah, you can try it. Hey i had a really good time last night. Yeah, me too. The only thing is that. The only thing is what . Whats the only thing . Oh my gosh hes married. Hes a kleptomaniac. Hes a pyromaniac. Hes a total maniac. Hey hey go back to your wife you sociopath leave slow internet behind. The 100 Fiber Optics Network is here. Get out of the past. Get fios. Tea . Now 79. 99 a month. Go online or call now. Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v lets head down to the shore p. Where Melissa Magee is having fun in avalon. Hi there rick and monica, we are having a lot of fun its thursday on dune, on dune drive, i know there is a lot of fun happening in a. C. And we have the forecast covered for you. Well start with double scan live radar we are tracking unsettled weather along the i95 corridor and areas north and west, that is where you find the steadiest of the rainfall. Lets go in tighter, there is a pocket of moisture in chester and delaware and western pennsylvania counties if you are traveling on route 202, north of malvern a pocket of rainfall and route 30 as well. Now berks county, we are tracking heavier rainfall across that region as well in some of our western suburbs, in wolmersdorf, that is where we have the strong pocket along route 422. A flash flood advisory for berks county and that stays up until 9 30 p. M. , we could fine a lot of rain in a short period of time. Cities included in that is lebanon and paradise, as far as the temperatures today, well, it was day six of our heat wave, heat wave number four, we maxed out at 90 degrees in the city, with the moisture moving in we are down to 81 in philadelphia, 82 in atlantic city. And 71 degrees up to the north in the poconos, here is satellite 6 along with action radar shares with you the story on what is going on, a cold front to the west moving across centsral sections of pennsylvania and clearing across pittsburgh and the ohio valley, the clearer skies are marching eastward as we get into the second half of the day tomorrow. Here is future tracker 6, showing you at 9 00 p. M. Tonight a lot of moisture into our warren suburbs in lancaster and reading and points north as we go lieu the overnight hours, we are tracking the showers and stormed and as you get up tomorrow morning, 6 00 in the morning a broken line of storms from new york city to coastal new jersey, as we go through the midmorning and Late Afternoon hours well have clearing along the way. The ocean temperature coming in at 76 degrees and clouds and a thundershower early in the day with late day sun arriving, saturday much better, sunshine and clouds and 84 and sunday a popup shower overhead, up at the poconos tomorrow, clouds and breaks of sun, a high of 77 and saturday not bad, sunny and nice 77 degrees, partly sunny and a high of 78. Here is the sevenday forecast, showing you tomorrow morning, shower and then some afternoon sunshine a high up to 87 degrees, a drop in humidity as well. As we go throughout the day on saturday, lower humidity and a high of 86 degrees and the eagles are at home, a preseason game at that time. The low moves offshore, and clouds and sunshine and a popup storm and monday its warm and monday, and high of 89, after that tuesday, wednesday and thursday. Well have high temperatures, in the middle and upper 80s. So there is some improvement on the way, well have to watch a broken line of activity throughout the first half of the day on friday. We are having a lot of fun you enjoying yourselves . Yeah next hour we head to the beach to show you a different view of avalon. What is not to love . Always fun. Quick break and more news when we come back. Narrator first pat toomey voted to defund planned parenthood risking health care for millions of women. Now republicans want to shut down the government to block funding for planned parenthood. What would a shutdown mean for pennsylvania . Veteran will anyone be there to process my Veterans Benefits . Senior what will that do to Social Security and medicare . Mom will i be able to get my daughter into head start . Small business woman what about Small Business loans . Narrator tell senator toomey stand up for planned Parenthood Health care not a government shutdown. Right now the Action News Team is standing by with these stories next at 6 00, Police Believe they attacked two women on a philadelphia golf course and reaction from south jersey where a grab jury decided not to charge two officers charged in a fatal shooting. And jim gardner is live in argentina, where he explored the popes early days as a student of the catholic faith. For adam joseph, cecily tynan, Sharrie Williams and monica malpass, im rick williams, join me next for action news at 6 00. Good night. Action News Delaware valleys leading news program. With ducis rogers, meteorologist, cecily tynan, and jim gardner. Thunderstorms and drenching rains are moving across the region tonight and the rain is expected to linger through the morning hours, thursday night and jim is on assignment and will join us in a moment. Im rick williams, and the big story on action news is the Flash Flood Warning posted for most of the area, cecily tynan is tracking the storms with double scan radar. Showing we have two batches of heavy rain moving in ahead of a cold front that will sweep out the oppressive humidity, we have a steady rain moving in here from centsral pennsylvania, this has a lot of lightning strikes and that moves in in the overnight hours, right now in philadelphia, a steady light to moderate rain, if you like pina c coladas or getting caught in the rain, Jimmy Buffett is in camden. One batch is moving out of maryland now on route 1 and lightning with that and heavy downpours, heading to oxford, chester county, and heavy downpours in parts of lancaster and berks county tonight. Because of oppression he humidity and the storms are moving very slowly, they can drop a lot of rain in a short period of time. A Flash Flood Warning is posted