Also, we have new information about the man charged with murdering a Temple University student. But the big story on action news is Hurricane Maria making landfall in puerto rico. The island is getting pummeled with lifethreatening winds and widespread flooding. As maria slowly crosses the u. S. Territory its toppling cell phone towers and snapping trees and tearing off rooftops. Thousands of residents fled their homes for the safety of shelters. And hotel guests were forced into hallways to stay safe from the storm. Reporter sara, Hurricane Maria is blamed for death and destruction in the caribbean and now making landfall in puerto rico and the danger is not over yet. Hurricane maria striking puerto rico headon with winds topping 160 Miles Per Hour. 7 15 in the morning and when you think we have experienced the peak of the fury, stronger winds, greater gusts abc reporter joe torres in the storm and this group from a Wedding Group is huskered down in their hotel room. Millions in the storms path boarding up and seeking shelter in one of 500 shelters while others scramble to fly out of the island last night before the airport shut down. We are going to Dominican Republic to get out of the storm. I live on st. John and we were there for irma came through and just basically devastated the island and did not want to stay for maria. And overnight maria wreaking havoc on the virgin islands. Riding out the storm as st. Croix took a pounding. Our first room had a lot of water coming in. Its scary. This morning officials reporting widespread Power Outages and flooding across the caribbean battered by maria. Reporter and right now with maria moving across puerto rico the governor says its too soon to talk about the full extent of the damage in the area, but expected 100 of the island to be without power at some point. Channel 6 action news. Thank you. A woman from the may fair section from philadelphia is among the visitors trapped in puerto rico. She went to see family there not anticipated that maria would become such a threat. Yesterday the couple told us they were stocked up on water and planning to ride out the storm with a relative. The remnants of hurricane jose is still causing rip currents and damage at the jersey shore. The action cam is live at cape may where a Coastal Flood Advisory remains in effect. Some of the worst beach erosion they have seen there in a decade. Lets get the latest on jose and maria from meteorologist, david murphy, tracking both storms from the Weather Center for us. Lets start close toward home. This is jose still a Tropical Storm and rotating off the coast and there are clouds pushing into philadelphia and definitely down along the shore but its lower impact situation over land. We are looking at breezy conditions today. The center of the storm itself has gotten stronger, the maximum sustained winds at the core of jose up from 70 and up from 65 this morning. Still a Tropical Storm and moving northeast at 8 and this storm s p expected to come away from us and circle back before it shoots back out to the northeast and it may take until the end of the weekend for that to begin to happen. Maximum gusts are 85 Miles Per Hour. The bottom line this storm is expected to hang over the coast. Still bad at the beach and you can sit at the beach and enjoy the conditions, but if you go into the water you are look agent problems. A high risk of rip currents today and rough surf and the National Weather service says that could be the case through the weekend. At least a moderate chance of rip countries. And minor tidal flooding we had moderate at times of high tide and now moderate but that could be for succession of high tide the next couple of days. Ocean high tide is 8 00 until 9 00 p. M. And the back bays later than that. And wind gusts are not that bad but some of them 22 Miles Per Hour or higher. Not as bad as they were yesterday. On to maria we go and maria is off puerto rico and continuing a path to the turks and caicos. The Tropical Storm force winds hype lighted in yellow and Hurricane Force in read and twothirds of puerto rico getting the Hurricane Force wind. And the future of this storm tomorrow afternoon the turks and caicos we begin to see the Tropical Storm force wind and it may clip part of that island nation as well. Hurricane maria with a 140 Miles Per Hour and category four status and maintain that as it goes toward the turks and caicos friday morning and then it weakens a bit and still a major category three and a two by monday morning. If we look at the cone of possibility of the most likely track is off our coast but some possible tracks go farther inland. Well have to keep our eyes on maria. If we have impact it could probably be around next tuesday. Ill be back with the local forecast weather and it gets warm and staying nice around here through the weekend. That is coming up. Thank you. And as always keep up with the latest on Hurricane Maria and the updated forecast for our area. Any time on your phone or tablet. The 6 abc app is a Free Download for your mobile device. Developing now First Responders are digging through the rubble of collapsed buildings in mexico looking for any possible survivors of yesterdays powerful earthquake. At least 225 people are confirmed dead. There is a desperate search in mexico city where volunteers and police are helping to dig through the ruins of a school. Part of that crumbled killing 25 people most of them children. The 7. 1 magnitude quake sent thousands of people into a panic including an american tourist waiting to board his flight. The whole building was shaking for five whole minutes and people running in every direction and people were screaming and people were crying. This is the second major earthquake in mexico in less than two weeks. Members of a local church are waiting word from their loved ones in mexico. Several live in the area affected by the earthquake. Vernon odom is live now at st. Patricks church in norristown. Reporter hello, im in a place today where that earthquake and indeed Hurricane Maria are hitting people very close to home. It is so tranquil at st. Patricks church in norristown in contrast to the turmoil in central mexico. Hundreds attend church here and some are from central mexico the epicenter of yesterdays 7. 1 earthquake. And puerto ricos celebrate the mass here in spanish. That puts the father at the center of two epicenters. Hundreds are telling me they are worried about their family and friends and extended family in mexico. Not just pueblo, the epicenter, but also in mexico city. And the other thing, of course is, i have Many Puerto Ricans here that are parishioners of my church and they are very worried about the Hurricane Maria that has touched the island as we talk. This lady, Christina Montez survived the earthquake of 85 and it brings back her personal nightmares from 32 years ago and learned that her relatives are okay. Im very happy to god that all that everyone is fine but a terrible sadness for everyone else. She was very impacted by the whole thing and sad about the whole thing, and she remembered in 85 is that they didnt know what was happening, all they felt was the earth move. Sara, many of father guss parishioners are at work at this hour midday praying as hard as they can that their loved ones back home will survive this perfect storm. Vernon odom, channel 6 action news in norristown. Thank you vernon. The preliminary hearing for the man charged in the murder of of a Temple University student is postponed. He did not appear in court this morning, his lawyer was there on his behalf. He remains in custody accused of beating and strangling 22yearold jenna burley in his north philadelphia apartment in august and then took her body why to his mothers home in jenkins town before using lyft to bring her to his grandmothers house. The preliminary hearing is now scheduled for november 29th. Still to come on action news at noon, the man hailed as a hero during a robbery is facing a possible lawsuit and authorities make two more arrests on the attack on a london subway and david murphy has your sevenday forecast. It was a case of confusion in the court in westchester where barry baker was expected to enter a guilty plea for charges he punched a 21yearold disabled man but baker said he disagreed with the summary of the case read by the judge. British Police Arrested two more men in connection with the bombing on the london subway that brings the number of suspects in custody to five. Authorities have not yet filed charges. They are still searches properties and a homemade device partially exploded injuring 30 people. And authorities are investigating vandalism at four trump golf courses including bed minister in new jersey. And according to news someone used chemicals to put messages in the greens. The suspect is due in court next week. The starbucks kusts mer that stopped a robbery may now be facing a lawsuit. It shows greg jerry enjoying his drink in fresno last july and a masked man pulls out a gun and demands the money and jerry jumped in action and hits the man with a chair and was stabbed in the neck during its struggle and managed to grab the knife and stabbed the man several times. And now the mother says her son is a victim too. Planning to sue jerry for using excessive force. The guy went from a Good Samaritan to a vigil anthony. Stabbing someone that many times the Fresno Police chief is calling the lawsuit ludicrous. He says he was fearing for his life and will not face charges. Coming up a local School District approves a unique Drug Intervention Program that starts in elementary school. That story from bucks county next. Kennedy health is tackling the Opioid Epidemic in new jersey. Medical personnel are discussing it in berlin. Donald norcross was the opening speaker and tony luke the cheesesteak founder is sharing his story after his son recently died from an overdose. And the penn School District is launching an antiaddiction program. Planning to add fulltime staff at pennsbury Elementary Schools through the high schools. It comes just a week after School Board President lost her 27yearold son, josh, to an overdose. It has to start with the normal every day joe, if you see something say something. The drug intervention plan was first proposed by the family of luke johnson a pennsbury graduate that died in june after spending time in a florida rehab and the new program will begin next week. Turning to health check a new device could help fight pneumonia the number one killner children worldwide. Its usually found with a chest xray but in some countries those are hard to access. That is yes they produced the tabla that shows digital sound waves, and its tested in some hospital emergency rooms, the hope is that it will lead to quicker and better treatment. A new study says that taking regular breaks from your diet will reboot your metabolism. And lead to better results. Australian research evers that found people that took two weeks on two weeks off. However the break weeks cannot be a free for all and you need to be sensible rick and dont overindulge. You cant just go to big macs. Maybe little cheeseburgers like six sliders. The Action News Team is working on news stories for tonight beginning at 4 00. Here is Alicia Vitarelli with a look ahead. You guys are a real hoot. Get your own show. We are working on it. 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Yes, and then two other tropical systems to talk aboutment how about that. Stormtracker 6 live double scan shows you that we are basically dry and the green up by reading could be producing a sprinkle and if that is so it will be here and gone quick. Sky 6 is at the shore and a couple of people down by the water doing what i advise you do, stay on the beach and get your fishing pole out that is fine. But stay out of the water. The surf is rough and we have an another high rick of rip currents. Dew point 65 and moderately hum helping thing as long 15 Miles Per Hour breeze pleasant and ocean temperature is 72. 82 in allentown currently and 81 in reading and 77 in trep ton and 82 in wilmington and millville. And 78 currently in atlanta city. Satellite and radar showing you that most of the rain from jose is spin ago way from us. Cloud cover cutting the region in half. The farther west the brighter it is and sun and clouds with breaks. 75 Miles Per Hour winds with Tropical Storm jose now it strengthened just a bit and is expected to weaken and become an extra tropical low and we expect the move back toward the coast and a shot up to the northeast or just falls apart and its going take all weekend for that to happen. Even monday morning we could have remnantses of jose off the coast. We are looking at great weather on the sand. If you want to head down to the beach today or through the weekend early next week. Great. But in the water not so great. Continued rough surf and dangerous rip currents today and the next several days through the weekend and i think the warnings will be from moderate to high straight into saturday and sunday. Minor high tide flooding at this point. We got rid of the last moderate flood this morning at high tide in some flood prone areas. 78 degrees and rip currents at the shore. And a lot of cloud cover but youll see sunny breaks and the Lehigh Valley sunny overall and breezy and 82 and philadelphia a mix of sun and clouds and sun and breezy conditions and 84 degrees, more sun the farther you go west. There are the winds today rather blustery but nothing to worry about really. And partly cloudy and mild and 69 is the overnight low and then Hurricane Maria. Maria is still a whopper. This is a category four right over san juan, it looks like the eye is beginning to push off the shore but conditions are inundating the entirety of that country. Category four looks to hold up to the turks and caicos where sometime friday morning and thursday night into friday we expect it to go by turks and caicos. And a four say four and they will get hammered no matter what. And a category three and then tuesday a category two, and then the wide move probably towards the coast and should stay off well see. And Tropical Storm lee, the former lee that fell apart after forming shortly before maria last week. There is a 60 chance that bubbles up to a Tropical Storm. 86 tomorrow and warm and humid and friday as autumn arrives, pleasant a high of 84 and for the weekend 86 saturday under the sun and 89 on sunday for the eagles home opener and may hit 90 by monday. Wow. A lot going on thank you. Action news at 12 30 continues with rick williams, sara bloomquist and meteorologist, david murphy. Starting with the latest on Hurricane Maria. Still crossing puerto rico with the destructive winds and flooding. Maria is the third strongest storm to make landfall in the United States territory. The whipping winds tore rooftops off buildings and windows were broken when maria approaching puerto rico before dawn and there are close to a Million People without power and the storm claimed the lives of nine people in the caribbean and meteorologist, rob marciano was in san juan as the eye wall hit. Hurricane maria making landfall in the southeastern tip of puerto rico early this morning and carving right across the island. Winds gusting here in san juan over 110 Miles Per Hour and experiencing now the eye wall. Incredible storm surge and waves pounding the shore