We spoke with curtis smiths friends and neighbors, who said despite appearances he was a good husband and father of two. He is a christian guy, real strong, strong willed guy, a good guy. Back out live now in case are you wondering, Court Documents reveal that he was arrested for unlawful enry after jumping the white house fence but reached an greemts with authorities that he would not be prosecuted if he stayed out of trouble, the next court date was scheduled for object. And authorities here is a they have no idea what his motive may have been. Thank you walter. Police are investigating a double shooting outside of an apartment complex today in glenolden, the shooting happened at 12 20 on glenolden avenue, police say that three suspects attacked two men with a hammer and then opened fire, they towed away a car, and one victim is in Critical Condition and the other is stable. Tonight Philadelphia Police are probing the discovery of three decomposing bodies at a garage in strawberry mansion, they say they apparently came from a funeral home around the corner. Chad pradelli is live with the full story. Reporter police here are investigating the powell funeral home for possibly abusing corpses, the owner was inside of centsral detectives being questioned. A spokeswoman there tells me that this funeral home should not be doing any work because the license expired a year ago. Condition believe Something Like this happened in our neighborhood. Neighbors watched in disbelief with their mouths and noses covered in disbelief after discovering three badly decomposed bodies on haggard. It stinks, stinks real bad. Corey harrington made the gruesome fund when the garage door was left open and smelled the stench of rotting flesh. Walked by and took a peek and saw a body and called 911. Two bodies were in cardboard boxes and another one was in a casket. Authority says they were placed in the garage by the powell funeral home, the owner was on scene but had no comments. Would you like your loved ones to be stored like that. You said this was not a big deal can you explain why. She says she received them from Nursing Homes and one was here for a month. They were clearly not stored properly. Nobody should be stored like that. Nobody. And i should mention that Janelle Powell daly has not been charge wade crime, the state board says she is licensed to be a funeral director but her fas its does not have a license and both are required. Im chad pradelli, channel 6 action news. Thank you. A family in Cape May County is dealing with the death of their 5yearold daughter, lily Anna Fernandez contracted a rare strange of bacterial meningitis, her family tells action news that doctors thought it was an ear infection and within days she had to undergo brain surgery. And died last friday. Her family does not know how she contracted the bacteria, the nurse says there is no reason for area parents to panic. Wall street desperately tried to rebound today and for a while stocks gathered steam, rising 440 points after the Chinese National bank announced they were cutting Interest Rates to shore up the economy but the stock market could not hold its momentum, the dow lost everything and more closing down almost 205 points, that means it suffered a swing of almost 650 off its peak today. World news tonight with david muir will have more on the stock market and its trials and describelations coming up on channel 6. For most students the start of the new year is around the corner, students and parents stocking up for back to school. A well stocked classroom is often funded by teachers out of their own pockets. Alicia vitarelli introduces us to a fourth grade teacher. Being a single mom is hard enough however i dont want my studentses to do without. Tula is a fourth grade teacher in north philadelphia. Brushes and paints and scissors, we have colored pencils here im so quited. But those Little Things cost a lot. I was making a list of what i need to do to get my classroom up and running and i was in shock. I need help. Last year she spent 900 theres of her own money, and this summer the single mom started to worry. How should i fun my classroom, work another job or ask people for help. She started with the ladder, starting a go fund me page, my fourth grade classrooms in just four weeks she met her goal. Things are shopping up in my classroom and showing up on my doorstep. The city of the philadelphia gives every teacher a 100 stipend to stock their classroom and the rest is on the teacher. We make care packages with toothpaste and feminine care prosds. They are embarrassed to tell you they dont have anything at home. That is why she says she is keeping her go fun me page going with the plan to pay it forward. Anything coming in past the 800 will go to another teacher that needs it. She is not alone, go fund me says that more than 141,000 teachers across the nation have raise the 17 million this year alone. Well post a length to her website at 6abc. Com. The coast guard spent this morning helping a cargo ship that got stuck in the delaware river, the bermuda islander, lost power near salem and then got stuck in shallow water, there were 12 people on board and nobody was hurt. The coast guard waited until high tide to move the vessel to a dock for inspection. Coming up on action news tonight, well go behind the scenes as an order of nuns in buck county cooks up an order for the papal visit. And loads of sunshine today, we hit a warm 89 degrees and we are tracking cooler weather on the way and the latest on Tropical Storm erica in the accuweather forecast. Those stories and more when action news continues tonight. Add insult to injury a sinkhole opened up in the kinging stone section, this is tulip and east huntington streets, crews spend the day making repairs, there is no disruption to gas or water service. There may be 31 days until pope francis comes to philadelphia but part of his wardrobe arrived today. Especially made vestments were sent, white on the 26th and green for the mass on the parkway for september 27th, the robes were made in spain. Meanwhile, action news reporter, Nora Muchanic visited a monastery in buck county where they are making one of the most important elements in the papal mass, actually 100,000 of them. The cloister nuns are making communion way fers for the papal mass. This is our way to participate, we are thrilled to be able to do it. Bakes so many hosts no easy task, the sisters are working extra hours to fill the order but are happy to do the work. The ingredients are just flour and water, the only ingredients allowed. This is rafael, and magdalene and vincent and benny is not working he broke down. The sisters continued working on baking and cutting and packing the huge order, that pope francis will consecrate the host they make is special to these nuns that almost never leave these premises but that they will leave the monastery to attend the popes mass. Its quite an honor to attend the mass, with so many gathered around us. We are thrilled and curious on how it will all work out. One thing the nun dozen know is their hearts are full as they watch the communion host they made gets distributed by the pope during mass. Can you get updates on the popes visit by following at abc 6 pope on twitter, we post the latest tips and pictures and news as we prepare for the arrival of pope francis in september. A marine is helping hoaxless veterans get back on their feet. He creates apartment starter kids, pots and pans and paper towels and blankets all things you need when you move into a home. He partnered with apartment america and great clips salon donated 500 to the cause. Eagles fans looking forward to the game against the packers. Even though its preseason this will be a good ones for the birds and birds fans to watch. Its not often you can call a preseason game a litmus test, they stack up against one of the nfls elite. And jaime apody is live in south philadelphia with more. Reporter its dress rehearsal time and you know this will be the chance for us to see is this 20 eagles team really for real, its not often you can say that for a preseason game but it will be a test to see the eagles play at Lambeau Field and the starters will get to play a good chunk of time for the first time. This guy will be a starter here for a long time. Michael kendricks signed a 23 Million Contract and 16 million guaranteed. And had a spring in his step coming with job security, kendrick does not lack confidence, trade rumors surrounded him in the offseason and he could have waitd this out and tested the free agent market. Here is why he didnt want to. I feel like we are doing things that no other agency in the league is doing. There is no other team doing the things we are doing and im happy to be a part it of and i really believe in this team. We are on a path to greatness, i feel it. My favorite part about the whole thing was mikes quote, that said i know im a baller and they know im a baller and that is why they signed me and that is perfect. Like i said, doesnt lack confidence today when talking about how he is a little undersized and not the pretty oh typical now what will he do with the money . First thing buy his mom a house. Where . Wherever she wants. I like that. To baseball the phillies and mets meet again tonight that is provided there are anymore baseballs left in the stadium, combined they hit 11 home runs, the problem is eight were hit by new york. And they scored 16 runs on 20 hits. And interim manager, pete mccann says though that out. We are going to compete, our guys are competing to win games rather than earlier they were just going out there and showing they could not strike out. A new era is underway at penn for the First Time Since 1992, they will not haveal bag knolly on the bench. The change in head coach may not be a dramatic one, he has been with the Program Since the 80s. We hear it all the time coach kelly with the eagles, a kults tour, culture of winning and detail of the Little Things and the kids worked hard through the spring and free season but it starts with Little Things and we are attention to detail and make sure everyone is on the statement page. They open against lehigh that is sports. The popup park in fronts of city hall is going green, today city officials unveiled the Roosevelt Park h2o, its focus is on conservation and water management. It will be used to irrigate the plants. Some youngsters in camden spend part of the day working out with the philadelphia 76ers, its a basketball camp for kids at the beginning of the three day clinic and they received teams for performing on the court and received hip hop dance moves from the dance team, each child got new teachers and a reversible jersey and a backpack. Perhaps the best weather week of the summer . We have a lot of sunshine on the way, stormtracker 6 live double scan showing we could use the rain but there season any out there, and we are not seeing any in a while, cape may and the folks for the most part have left the beach, a couple of people still there enjoying its weather and loads of sunshine and the sea breeze kicking up and temperatures on the warm side with the low humidity it felt nice today, currently in philadelphia 86 degrees and down from a high of 89 and millville 84 and cape may 81 and allentown and reading 79 degrees and the poconos feeling like fall, currently 72, satellite 6 along with action radar showing the front that moved through last night swept the humidity out to sea is now east of us, we have the area of dry air and across the great lakes lots of clouds and showers, from an upper level low and a pool of cold air, that is moving east and messing us. Clear skies and comfortable great night for sleeping and 56 in the cooler suburbs, and tomorrow 84 degrees, lots of sunshine, and cooler than today, 84 is the average high for today and heading into thursday interest trough washes out and that means another beautiful day, and temperatures dip to a high of 83 degrees, down the shore tomorrow, mostly sunny and pleasant, dont forget the sunscreen, 83 in laents city and ocean city the ocean temperature 79. The tropics are heating up and Tropical Storm erica was born earlier today, maximum sustained winds of 40 miles per hour, it has weakened slightly moving to the west at a good clip, its 605 miles east of antigua, its heading over the Lesser Antilles and heading towards puerto rico, if it stays together it could head towards turks and caicos, and towards the bahamas and threatening florida earlier next week and the question is will it Stay Together, this map shows in the bright green, wind shear, what it can do is literally cut the tops off a Tropical Storm, and there is also a lot of dry air, the big question is, will erica Stay Together and strengthen, its all up in the air and ill continue to track it and post it. Back here at home the exclusive accuweather forecast, lots of sun tomorrow seasonable and 84 degrees and thursday mostly sunny and low humidity and temperatures cooler than normal, 83 degrees and friday beautiful, lots of sunshine and 85 degrees, heading into the weekend we keep the low humidity and it begins to turn warmer and youll feel the additional moisture in the air on saturday, and high of 89 degrees and monday and tuesday as we head towards september, looks like we could have another heat wave unhand with highs up to 90 on monday and tuesday, but until then the comfortable weather continues through the end of the week into the weekend. Thank you. We found out today that next years Philadelphia Flower Show celebrates the countrys national parks. The Horticultural Society says the theme is explore america and features iconic sights from national parks. Of course 6 abc is the official broadcast partner of the show, the flower show returns to its Pennsylvania Convention center on march 5th. World news is next on channel 6, action news continues at 10 00 on phl 17 with brian taff, adam joseph and ducis rogers. And join us for action news at 11 00 here on channel 6. For cecily tynan, ducis rogers and the entire action news team, im jim gardner we hope youll join us for action news at 11 00. Street losing streak. Down again after the worst threeday point loss in history. 401 k take a new hit and new fears tonight about how low it can go. Developing now, high school hostages, Police Respond to a 14yearold with a gun holding a roomful of students and his teacher. What happened next. The train attack terror suspect in court today blind folded and barefoot. Prosecutors reveal his intent to kill and what he did moments before the american heros stopped him. Trump attack. The g. O. P. Frontrunner unleashes a new twitter tirade, hitting his opponents, taking aim at fox news. What will he say to thousands gathered in iowa right now. And nightmare at the museum, the 350yearold masterpiece worth more than 1 million, no match for the 12yearold who stumbled right into it