Lets go over to dave murphy and karen rogers. Good morning. Some folks waking up to thunder right now. Yes, especially down south. Lets go ahead and take a look. We have satellite and radar and you can see the line of cloud cover and also some of those showers out to the west. Want to go ahead and start you on storm tracker6 live double scan and you can see that in the south, there is a cluster of thunderstorm activity pushing into areas around dover and this is pushing towards the north and east so if youre in south jersey in cumberland and salem county you may be picking up some of that, downpours and lots of lightning. Up to the north its spotty precipitation here or there, maybe a little bit of fog mixed in and out in the northern and Western Areas weve got some basic showers, couple of other thunderstorms pushing away to the east of allentown in through northern Hunterdon County and some of this action out to the west may also make it into allentown a little bit later this morning. You can see plenty of clouds out there and we are expecting mostly cloudy skies as we go through the day and there will be periods of rain off and on through the day and every now and then it could be heavy enough to produce heavy downpours and you can see some of that happening down in the Southern Tier right now. As we take a look at temperatures, we are not too bad temperaturewise. 69 degrees in philadelphia currently, 66 allentown, 70 millville, 72 cape may. Your dewpoints still up there high enough to give you noticeable humidity especially as you get working out and Walking Around this morning. 66 degrees is the current dewpoint in philadelphia and that would be moderate humidity, a little more humid down in cape may. As we roll through the day, 68 degrees by 7 oclock. 71 by noon. By 3 oclock 73. A chance of showers off and on just about any time through there and we might see the skies brighten a little bit later today but theres still that chance of a popup shower or a rumble of thunder straight into the evening karen ill track all of this and well have the latest on monster irma. Some of those roads are wet. Watch for that. Construction crews blocking the two lanes of i95 southbound right at the betsy ross bridge. We see the lanes blocked right now. Also the left lane of the off ramp blocked but it should be cleared within a half hour. Look for those construction crews out here on i95. In king of prussia we have this huge sinkhole we showed you yesterday. This is still a problem and shafer road is blocked at 202. This was caused by a water main break. In new jersey on route 42 northbound traffic headed towards the walt whitman bridge, nice, easy, light volume to start you off on a wednesday morning. Some overnight construction here in marlton. 70 westbound, this is a busy area, 70 westbound between cropwell and haddonfield road the right lane blocked until 6 oclock this morning, tam. Thank you, karen. Hurricane irma has made its first landfall. Residents of barbuda say phone lines went down as the eye of the storm passed and now florida and other parts of the caribbean are bracing for one of the strongest storms seen in more than a decade. Abcs janai norman has more on the current preparations. Reporter a monster storm whipping through the atlantic. Hurricane irma a category five storm with its eye on the caribbean heading toward the florida peninsula. Its a really big storm. Its theyre really taking it serious this advertisement now one of the most powerful storms ever recorded over the atlantic ocean. That storm still deepening and strengthening with winds stoppingy topping 185 Miles Per Hour, the hurricane could bring waves up to 23 feet. A category five hurricane, yeah. Yeah. Its really scary so you have to be prepared as much as possible. Reporter governor rick scott preemptively issuing a state of emergency in all of floridas 67 counties. In south florida gas stations running dry and store shelves emptying quickly. The line to get water goes around the whole supermarket. Reporter in miami the mayor sounding the alarm calling for evacuations ahead of the storm. This hurricane is far too powerful, possess far too great a threat for us to delay actions any longer. Im going to board up the house and probably head north. Reporter in the low lying florida keys, mandatory evacuations. Officials telling tourists to get out as soon as possible. And telling residents not to rely on shelters. Going to stay with family or friends outside of the evacuation zone is the best choice since shelters only provide for basic needs. Reporter Hurricane Irma is expected to hit florida by this weekend and already a second storm has formed behind it. Airlines are canceling flights and offering waivers to passengers trying to get out before the storm arrives. In washington, janai norman channel6 action news. Philadelphia police are looking for more possible victims of a dance troupe leader who was arrested on child sex assault charges. 28yearold tyree dumas founded dollar boys inc. Hes charged whip with sexually assaulting two boys as far back as 2008. Katherine scott has the full story. Reporter matt, thats right, Police Believe there could be more victims. And they want people to call svu if you have any information. So, this is where the dollar boys operated out of in West Philadelphia here at this store front at 54th and market. This is also where the arrest was made. 28yearold tyree dumas is the founder and ceo of the dance ensemble. You can see him in several promotional videos for the group online. Dumas faces charges of sexually assaulting three boys. Police say one of the charges stems from a case they investigated last month involving an eightyearold who was recently involved in the program. That triggered the arrest. The other two were reported back in 2013 stemming from alleged assaults in 2008 when the accusers were 11 and 13 years old. Action news spoke to the mother of the recent accuser who says she became friends with dumas and introduced him to her eightyearold son who loved dancing and wanted to be a dollar boy. She says her son is now devastated and she wants justice for him and the others. I trusted this man. He was i called him my best friend. We did so much together. And just for me to trust this man with my child, it hurts my heart because i trusted him with my son. Reporter dumas remains free on bail. If you have any tips, the special victims units wants to hear from you. Were live in West Philadelphia tkatherine scott, channel6 action news. Matt. Thanks, katherine. One of two public works employees who was struck by a car in Montgomery County has died. His coworker remains in Critical Condition this morning. It happened on west broad street near lions gate circle in franconia township yesterday afternoon. The two workers were painting lines on the road when a vehicle plowed into them. The driver remained at the scene. Today there will be several protests across our area in defense of daca. President trump has announced the beginning of the end of the obama era program. The current government policy is meant to protect the almost 800,000 young immigrants brought to america illegally by their parents when they were children. Many have no connections to the lands of their birth having built lives, educations and careers here. Speaking through a tweet trump said daca will cease to exist in six months. He says its now up to congress to create a fix for the socalled dreamers before deportations begin. President trump spoke about the issue yesterday. I have a love for these people and hopefully now congress will be able to help them and do it properly and i can tell you and speaking to members of congress they want to be able to do something and do it right. Last night trump suggested he might get involved if congress does not come up with legislation. He tweeted congress now has six months to legalize daca, something the Obama Administration was unable to do. If they cant, i will revisit this issue. Happening today, Opening Statements begin in the corruption trial of u. S. Senator bob menendez. Prosecutors say the new jersey democrat used his job to help advance the personal and business interests of a major donor. Court documents show the doctor gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to the senators political funds and committees. Both menendez and the doctor are pleading not guilty to fraud and bribery charges. More students in our area are getting ready for that first day back to school. Philadelphia archdiocesan students return today and in camden as children head back to class, theyre encouraged to sign a perfect attendance pledge. Students who do so will be entered into a raffle to win tickets to the 76ers first game of the season. Good incentive. Yeah. 4 39 now. New on action news a kind gesture leads to an ax attack. The video is coming up. The city council of charlottesville votes on whether to take down two confederate monuments. Well tell you what they decided. David. Some of you waking up with thunder, others just showers. Storm tracker6 live double scan shows you that there are a lot of thunderstorms down by dover in particular that look like they want to cross the delaware bay into parts of south jersey and the northern and western suburbs also getting hit with showers. Well take a closer look at all of this, help you out for your day and the rest of your week. Thats all coming up. Dozens of shelter dogs from texas arrive overnight in Chester County to make room for those who were lost during Hurricane Harvey. Thats up next. New video from the overnight. More than two dozen dogs from texas have arrived in west chester. The shelter is taking in 27 dogs from austin. They say the dogs moved up here to make room for family pets that were lost during Hurricane Harvey in texas so that they can be reclaimed eventually by their rightful owners. Making space down there, were helping out. Very nice. Lets talk a little bit about whats going on with our weather. Locally weve got thunderstorms down south. Storm tracker6 live double scan right now shows you that and some of those thunderstorms are actually producing quite a bit of lightning as we go in tighter on them, you can see most of the areas down by dover being affected by this, but these are also on the move toward the northeast and it does look like theyre going to be heading into Cumberland County and salem county and eventually if they maintain their current status and form, right into Camden County and gloucester county. Philadelphia could even be clipped by a little bit of this so right now that is the Biggest Issue for us and it does look like youre not only getting heavy downpours out of this but lots of lightning maybe even a little gusty wind out ahead of these storms. As we go back to the wide shot again the northern and western suburbs picking up some lighter precipitation, most of this right now appears to be headed more or less to the north and west of allentown, although allentown, bethlehem, easton themselves have a little bit of lighter precipitation. Bucks county with the one cell pushing away from doylestown at this point. As we take a look outside, we have sky6 at the airport. Airport doesnt look all that wet right now. As we are in between those showers and thunderstorms. As we take a look outside and we take a look at temperatures, were at 69 degrees in philadelphia. Some spots a little cooler than that. Dewpoints, moderate humidity out there with that 66. Winds out of the northwest at eight and the ocean 73. Future tracker6 for the rest of the morning showing you straight through the afternoon in fact that we have additional showers and maybe some thunderstorms popping through. These wont be everywhere all at once but where they to hit theyll produce drenching downpours and perhaps isolated street flooding. Todays forecast overall 69 degrees by 8 oclock. 70 by 10 oclock. 71 by noon. Not nearly as warm as it was yesterday. We did hit our high of 83 but today only about 73 and at times there will be those showers passing through parts of the area maybe even a rumble of thunder. As we take a look at high temperatures across the region under the clouds, 68 degrees in allentown, 73 in philadelphia, and 73 down in cape may today. Cloudy skies for the most part. Hurricane irma is still a category five and is right now in the vicinity of barbuda and also antigua and it still looks like this storm is going to maintain a very strong track all the way over toward cuba and south florida. One thing i will point out the most likely tracks do appear to miss the Dominican Republic haiti puerto rico. Doesnt mean you wont have some impact but it would have been a lot worse had the storm track been farther south. By the time this does get into southern florida its starting to make that move to the north we talked about yesterday and we could see 140 Miles Per Hour winds especially on the northeast side of the storm right around miami and down toward key west as well. As you take a look at the spaghetti plot models most of these models are indeed taking this storm up through or close to florida and then right into the Southern States georgia, the carolinas, places like that where it would probably just fall apart. Very high probability of Tropical Storm force winds and even better chance of Hurricane Force winds and you can see that the strongest winds do look like they might just catch the northern coast of the Dominican Republic and haiti but its really the bahamas and open water, turks and caicos really getting pounded by this and of course miami does have the potential of having that as well. Its not just irma out there. In the distance we have Tropical Storm jose thats formed. This could also become a hurricane and more or less follow irmas path. Your exclusive accuweather 7day forecast a high of 73 today, cooler with periods of rain, perhaps thunderstorms at times. Tomorrow an early shower breaks and then we get some sun in the afternoon with a high of 74. And were still looking at that nice stretch of weather for friday, saturday and sunday. Fridays high 73. Saturday 71. And on sunday, were going to go mostly sunny and nice, 72 degrees. Now looks like if we do see rain related to irma it probably wont be until tuesday. Okay, thanks, david. New on action news here, police in Southern California are looking for the attacker who swung an ax assaulting a man several times. Surveillance video captured the disturbing attack. It happened inside of a 7eleven in west hollywood. The victim sustained serious injuries but is expected to survive. We obviously stopped it right before the moment of the ax hitting him. Police identify the attacker is brady brown. They say the victim saw brown stealing from the store and offered to pay for his items to prevent the crime but instead police say brown started swinging. New from overnight the charlottesville, Virginia CityCouncil Unanimously voted to take down two confederate monuments. The vote came directly after a Public Meeting last night. The citys decision earlier this year to remove a statue of robert e. 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We see the crews on the scene. Theyve been in the process of picking up. Theyre supposed to wrap up at 1 oclock at 5 oclock. I95 northbound at route one watch for that left lane still being blocked with overnight construction but hey, no construction here on the roosevelt boulevard extension. Thats your southbound traffic headed towards the schuylkill, moving nicely, kind of clear right here and not a bad start to the day. We do have lots of crews out there working, though, and gosh, working through a night where they had some rain. 130 northbound between church road and new albany road in Cinnaminson Burlington county theyre blocking a lane. That should wrap up about 6 00 a. M. And the construction here on route nine northbound at leads port road has been blocking a lane in Galloway Township also expected to wrap up about 6 oclock. One more construction crew in wilmington and so watch for this one on garces lane. The road is closed and so in this area you have to watch out its going to stay closed for about another week, matt. Thank you, karen. Penn state is preparing to sue the charity founded by jerry sandusky. The former assistant football coach is serving prison time for sexually abusing some young boys some on campus. Prosecutors say he used the second mile to find many of his victims. The charity was dissolved but still has assets. Penn state is hoping to get some of that money to defray millions of dollars in legal bills in the case. Now lets take a look at business. Lego is letting go of about 1400 Workers Worldwide after soft sales in the first half of the year and the cuts are coming as they prepare for movie making. American airlines expanding basic economy fares to more of its fights. Its for customers who just want a cheap seat and no frills. I guess you dont even get peanuts. Delta and united also sell basic economy on many of their domestic flights. Tuesday was a tough day for the u. S. Stock market. It was the worst day in nearly three weeks. Stocks slid acrosstheboard but futures this morning are looking mixed. And who is not addicted to amazon prime . In fact, savvy shoppers are now using it to get ready for Hurricane Irma in south florida, residents who are there battening down the hatches have decided rather than being stuck in stores with nothing on the shelves and standing in line that they will use amazons two day delivery to get their supplies rather than dealing with the picked over shelves. Wonder if the shippers will get overwhelmed. I guess well find out. I would imagine the delivery guys there are constantly moving. New on action news red balloons like the one in the horror clown movie it have been happening up in a pennsylvania town. The Police Departments response coming up later. Caught on camera, First Responders save the life of a septa bus rider in Delaware County. Thats up next. Its always been about the millions of families. Americas 1 is a status earned in every wash. And one we reearn, everyday. 1 trusted. 1 awarded. Its got to be tide. Man overdosed on a septa bus in Delaware County and had to be revised with a special antidote. It happened as the bus made its way along macdade boulevard in collingdale. Passengers and the bus driver tried to wake up 40yearold mario gonzalez. You cant tell from the video whether hes unconscious or was he slumped over doing drugs but he was definitely down. Had to wake him up to see whats going on. Collingdale police and paramedics administered two doses of narcan before gonzalez woke up. Gonzalez now faces narcotics charges. A local farm is taking their love for the sixers to new heights. Well show you how theyll be trusting the process this fall. Desperate search continues for a mother of two from houston. She disappeared hours before Hurricane Harvey hit. 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Around here the accuweather seesaw is sliding the other way today from summer back to fall plus were tracking storms right now. And lets get you more details on that. Dave murphy has been watching all of it and karen rogers is taking a look at your traffic. We only have one day of summer and its over. Low 70s. Yes, its a little bit wet. You can see the sunshine from yesterday giving way tolo