Knowing. So far 50 people have been rescued since the quake and the mexico president is calling for three days of mourning. Meanwhile, Hurricane Maria is eyeing turks and caicos after leaving a path of destruction in puerto rico. The storm destroyed puerto ricos electrical grid and officials saying it could take months to repair. Neighborhood after neighborhood is flooded with debris. And roofs ripped off the homes there. And President Trump says the island is absolutely obliterated. He says he will visit there and the United States is sending aid to help with recovery there. And the earthquake and hurricane is inspiring philadelphians to help out. Action newss great hall is live at hunting park with details on the number of initiatives going on around town. Reporter hey brian, we can tell you at 5 30 mayor jim kenney along with other city leaders are hold a press conference to show their support for the Puerto Rican Community and let people though how they can give back. Whether its puerto rico or mexico people in the area are stepping up and opening up their hearts and their wallets. This group of students with the university of pennsylvania Students Union condition believe how much they have collected. Originally they set a goal of 10,000 and are now well over 30,000. The reason we are money based is because we are here, we cant be there and pick up what is left in the streets but the money can go to medicine inthings that are needed. You can send funds. The famstudents we spoke to says their families are all safe but the earthquake killed hundreds of people and caused Severe Damage and many people are still trapped in buildings and the images and stories are heart breaking and students are hoping that their small act of kindness will play a big part in helping those in need. We are no experts but we know that this money will end up in the hands that do. Puerto rico is reeling from the effects of Hurricane Maria. West Kensington Ministry says that money and resources is beneficial but prayers something that everyone can give for free. In mexico and puerto rico. Its a healing process. We are a Global Community and one of us hurts all of us hurt. A local Latino Organization is collecting money and the celebrations this weekend will be used to collect money needed. Its not the first time people when through tragedies and people are resilient and have grit and are strong. Back out live. The press conference gets underway at 5 30 at last check, the students at the university of pennsylvania have raised over 36,000. That is the latest from hunting park gray hall, channel 6 action news. Great to see the outpouring of support. Thank you. Along with assessing the damage Hurricane Marias track is on peoples mind. You can see its an impressive hurricane category three a major hurricane with winds sustained near 120 Miles Per Hour. You can see the eye in the middle of the storm, it is about 30 miles wide but when you look at the satellite. The red colors are the strongest thunderstorms and winds and a lot of it is to the right and notice to the left its breaking apart a little bit and its encounts countering shear than will prevent maria from strengthening further and in fact, it will start to weaken. Good news there. And moving to the northwest at 9 Miles Per Hour. It is not going to hit land at this point as we move forward into the upcoming weekend, it is going to go east of turks and caicos and get a little brush with the storm on friday. Winds sustained at 115. And next wednesday cat one with 100 Miles Per Hour winds. The latest track shows it moving towards the right and out to sea and not going up or close to the eastern seaboard. The latest with the models with the National Hurricane center is that this is more than likely going to remain offshore as we get into next week. That is some good flus but things can always change. But its looking like that at this point. Well have more coming up in just a little bit. Adam, thank you. You can keep up with the latest track of Hurricane Maria at 6abc. Com. And we posted links on how to help the storm victims in puerto rico and those impacted by the quake in mexico. And youll find the articles and pictures from both Natural Disaster theres on 6abc. Com. An emerging trend of crimes at atms has investigate ofs telling customers to be vigilant. They found skimming devices targeting people in the city and the suburbs. Sara bloomquist is live now in West Philadelphia with the details. And surveillance images. Reporter sharrie this has been a problem and now local police came across surveillance photos of persons of interest. They believe the men in the photos are installing skimming devices to replicate debit cards and steal money and they need help from the public identifying the men in the photos. The man on the left is expected of installing a skimmer like the device on the right in the fox chase section of philadelphia in the fox chase section and willow grove. To make a duplicate atm card and take money out of the bank, a theft that is occurring. The men in the photos are suspected of installing a similar device on a bank in abington. Captain roland lee captain the Major Crimes Unit explained that the skimming device is relatively easy to assemble. The magnetic strip is installed and stolen when inserting. Its not actually part of their regular equipment of the atm machine. Above the tiny camera records the the pin number when it is entered. People that have mechanical skills can put it together. Police feel confident that these three had the skills to assemble and install the skimming devices its an ongoing problem with 20 skimmers discovered in philadelphia alone. The same such skimmers are popping up on atms in the suburbs. And police need the public to help identify the persons of interest and take steps to pro tent themselveses. Make sure everything is legit and i put my code in i make sure i cover it up first. That is why they have the rubber strip around there. That is suppose to help prevent theft. Police are not sure if the men in the surveillance photo are working together or if there are several groups operating. Cant police if you can identify any of them and take steps to make sure the atm you are using has not been compromised. Sara bloomquist, channel 6 action news. Thank you. How about new Surveillance Video showing a knifewielding robber committing a crime at a drycleaners in north philadelphia. Earlier this month the man went into the store on oxford avenue and demanded money from an employee there and when he couldnt open the Cash Register the suspect began to fight with the employee. It looks like the worker tried to lock the robber in the store at one point and then overpowered. In the end the suspect got a female employee to open the register and no word on whether or not either employee was injured. It is time on a thursday afternoon for a first check on the action news traffic report. Lets go live to matt pellman. Good afternoon boy oh boy do i have a travel time for you. 82 minutes as we kick off the thursday afternoon ride on the northeast extension, 476 between mid county and the bucks county line. That number should be 22. We are looking at an extra hour thanks to an earlier crash approaching quakertown and all lanes are reopen and the damage is definitely done 11 Miles Per Hour as you begin the long slow crawl North Plymouth meeting to quakertown. I would not try to use 476 at this point and stay on 409 and brave the traffic lights and that will be the better ride. Well keep you posted. In Chester County a word of a fire location shutting down sugar town road. And lancaster avenue if you want to stay up there. We know its a busy afternoon because a phils game is wrapping up in south philadelphia now. People are leaving the bank and hitting i95 and heading southbound and expect extra travel on the schuylkill. The vine street expressway is busy in both directions and earlier a broken down vehicle on the ben franklin bridge on ramp to the eastbound vine that has cleared out. Lets grab the ipad and do the commuter report. Henry avenue in roxborough watch for a crash just to the west of walnut lane. Well check it again if the next half hour. Cheesesteaks that is what i heard in that. Still ahead President Trump announces an executive order aimed at north korea. And the republican senator fines himself in a pivotal spot as the Health Care Battle refs up again, here what pat toomey is saying about the latest effort to repeal obama care. And we have details about the company hoping to help transform the city. Sweet 4k tv, mr. Peterson. Thanks. Pretty psyched. Did you get fios too . 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Their main industry exports to fishing to textiles and they are already under a string of tough sanctions but so far none of this stopped them from developing nuclear arms and missile programs and the late of move is already garnering International Support and china says they are also on board. I must tell you that this is a complete denukization that we seek. We cannot have this as a world body any longer. South korean president moon today praised President Trump for his strong words against the north during his speech at his speech at the u. N. Assembly this week and comes as members conducted a live drill near the border and not a response to latest tensions but a lot of eyes on these today. Lawmakers in washington are grappling with the latest efforts to repeal obama care and a fight that finds senator pat toomey in a critical spot. One of a handful of republicans undecided on the socalled Graham Cassidy plan and he stopped by 6 abc and i asked him to respond to critics that the bill would force millions to lose insurance and risk protections for those with preexisting condition s. There are those that have an agenda. Those are numbers based on numbers. Those numbers are ridiculous, i hope we take a step forward but if that legislation is that, we are still wrestling with it. They will vote on the bill next week before a looming deadline where they are forced to work with democrats. Toomey is not tipping his head you can hear more on action news at 5 30. Councilman johnson says it as risen to a crisis in philadelphia. He gathered with naacp leaders and mothers in charge and families of of homicide victims he plans to introduce legislation to combat the gun crisis during tomorrows City Council Session and coincides with the national day of remembrance for murder victims. Numbers are all in the red as vest investors are worried about an interest hike. The s p is down nearly 8 points on the day. A Historic Building in trenton is home for the business to keep up with the ever changing technology. He helped them cut the ribbon on the new headquarters earlier today and they are using space on west state street, planning to create 150 jobs and promote startups in the struggling city. A bankruptcy filing is not stopping toys r us from hadding jobs for the holidays, the toy company will hire at least 12,000 Seasonal Workers in major cities but not give an overall numbers, the parttime workers will mainly help out at stores and Distribution Centers and one of the new jobs is a toy demonstrator. Those will be asked to conquer the task of helping kids and adults to test out the latest and greatest toys. Fun. As long as i dont have to put it together. I was like 40 minutes later. Daddy come on. My wife and kid s to the playground. You want to gear yourself to water this upcoming weekend. Its a hot one for the first weekend of fall. In fact, hot down at the linc as well. The eagles are in town. They are home opener here sunday afternoon fun head to the game against the new york joins temperatures will cook in the afternoon. Mostly sunny and humid as well. Not only do we have the heat coming up this weekend the humidity will come back as well. We get a bit of a break going on right now, 87 at 1 00 in the afternoon. To the beginning of the game and before it wraps up temperatures are touching 90 degrees. And in fact as we take a live look at sky 6 hd we have blue sky out there. Noticing high clouds as well milky white appearance to the sky and those are cirrus clouds because of jose that continues to spin well off our coast. Temperature now 87 in philadelphia. The dew point a measure of how much moisture is in the air that is 60 degrees and fairly comfy, that is back up into the mid60s over the weekend. The light northerly wind at 3 Miles Per Hour. And the heat index is the same because the dew point is low enough and the ocean temperature 73 degrees. 88 in wilmington and 85 in dover, and upper 70s right along the shore. The ocean is really warm 73. And if you think about heading down this weekend, given the summer like forecast, obey the lifeguards on duty because well have some rip current risks and some large swells because jose continues to spin and has not moved at all. And you see the clouds spinning their way westward and that storm will continue to unwind over the weekend. Tonight mostly clear and not humid. 60 in allentown and 63 trenton and 59 in toms river and 65 in dover. As we go through the first day of fall. Sun and high clouds and temperature goes into the lower and middle 80s in the afternoon. Speaking of the afternoon that is when we say hello to autumn and the fancy way of saying it, the autumnal equinox. The direct rays are over the equator and beyond this we see the earth tilt away from the son goes into the winter and that, of course, is our coldest part of the year. As we look at the four day at 4 00 forecast. No signs of fall 85 tomorrow and 89 summer warmth on saturday. And hot and humid on sunday and 91 degrees and monday record tying 92 and we are talking about our first fall heat wave right away out of the gates here. Well talk about it in the sevenday forecast in the next half hour. Wow. Didnt expect you to say that. Adam, thank you. A baby fighting a terrible disease is getting much needed support from cleat strangers, 14monthold bill hagar landed at the Philadelphia Airport today heading to chop for a doctors visit for a rare disease. Known as ags that affects the development of his brain. Baby will and his family are from portland, maine, the car ride would have been eight so pals arranged transportation on an airplane that only took one hour. The team donated their time and aircraft and fuel so will could travel to philadelphia in comfort for histreme. Our best wishes to will and his family. Up next on action news at noon, a multimilliondollar plan to build an airport. And a school is offering this option pay up the lunch school bills or head to court. Well explain coming up. Delaware the wilmington airport is getting a taxi way thanks to a 5. 5 million theres grant Chris Carpenter and chris couns will help to fund that. The grant is part of the faas 78 million in airport infrastructure. Wilmington is one of the airport to get a portion of that grant. Dozens of children and Police Officers are enjoying an afternoon filled with fun all to promote peace its a big pal event, and continues until 6 00 fur want to head out for the night of peace. You can can do that at the herald gate center in north philadelphia. There is more ahead on action news at 4 00. Including the latest on the Delaware County volunteer firefighter accused of sexually assaulting a 13yearold girl. Plus im nydia han something called the pom project officially launched in philadelphia. How can you get involved coming up in whats the deal. Today, we spend a whole lot of time like this. So at citizens bank, weve created banking tools that fit how youre living today. From advanced atms. To online banking. To our Award Winning mobile app. And if you prefer facetoface, we have that too. Ask me, terry goggans, how our balance of technology and people can help you. Action news continues with meteorologist, adam joseph, Alicia Vitarelli, Sharrie Williams and brian taff. Hello again 4 30 now. And the reason one School District is considering taking parents that owe lunch money to court. And computer cupid inside of the new app that allows to you play match maker for your facebook friends whether they like it or not. And baseballs commissioner is redoubling because of an accident at yankee stadium. And how the little girl that was hit by a foul ball is doing today. And we begin at 4 30 with alligations that land aid volunteer firefighter behind bars in Delaware County. The 33yearold man used a madeup game to assault a teenager several times. And vernon odom ask live now to explain this one. Reporter good evening. This tiny close knit town is in a full state of shock today. The accused tony timmy is a live long resident of this town and there has been no crime like this in at least 10 years. This is anthony tinny a volunteer for firefighter in these parts. Police locked him up with ind. C. Enassault and multiple counts of sexual abuse of a minor. The alleged victim a 13yearold girl he was supposedly a friend of her parents and on occasion police say her babysitter. Police launched their investigation last spring after the child told Child Social Services that tinny touched her inappropriately at three different locations. We found that the victim was inappropriately touched and the defend made inappropriate comments about her body. The defendant had inappropriate sexual relations with the juvenile. This is tinnys vehicle sitting outside of his home five blocks from Police Headquarters our attempted to interview the family who live in the statement upstairs apartment was rejected by a man identified as his brother. Are you a friend . Are you a relative . Is he guilty . Its not a big surprise he was a spiteful person and always arguing. We never got along, its just a shame. Im glad he turned himself in. Rose davis has known him for many years. Different than normal people. How so . Like he is not real bright. But he is always trying to help people. Sharrie again, anthony tinny locked up in the Delaware County prison tonight his bail set at 200,000. Live in eddie stone, im vernon odom, channel 6 action news. One well continue to follow thank you. Philadelphia police need your help finding the gunman that held up a dollar tree worker at a juniata park atm last weekend. Surveillance video from outside a Wells Fargo Center from 1200 east hunting park avenue shows the robber running up to the woman as she went to deposit the stores money and pointed the gun at her head and demanded the cash. The worker was not hurt. If you have information about this robbery call east detectives. The engineers involved in two separate new york city train crashes had sleep apnea, according to the national trance safety board. A woman was killed when she was hit while standing on a platform in hoboken. It hit going double the speed limit. The other crash in brooklyn left 100 people hurt and the ntsb has hearings set for february. And a road is still closed because of left over flooding from hurricane jose. A Police Officer was posted monitoring one van as it was allowed to make its way over the road and high tide combined with jose led the Brandywine Creek to overflow last night. Well dry out over the weekend. Adam joseph joins us now i believe you said the word heat wave before. Yes. It pains me to say that word this time of year. Well even get near records next week. Well talk about the next few hours, temperatures in the upper 80s and stay in the mid80s through 6 00 this evening and still in the 80s at 7 00 and once the sunsets 79 to 77 degrees as you get between, 8 00, 9 00 and 10 00 p. M. As we look out the window, live on sky 6 hd in cape may. A couple of folks strolling along the waters edge and the water looks calmer today but we still have some good breakers and of course, that rip current risk remains on the high side. Through this evening here. If you are heading down there or plan to go down near the water our venture into the water probably want to rethink that because of the high risk into the evening hours than remains moderate to high possibly for the next five to seven days all because of jose and then because of maria. Well talk about both of those storms as well as our sevenday forecast and if there is any sign of fall ill let you know coming up in accuweather. Know youll be looking for it thanks. Police in West Philadelphia had great weather for their annual community day. They were invited to play hulahoop and dance and jump rope and sharing a meal with officers, it gives the children an opportunity to get to know the officers that regularly patrol their neighborhoods. Students at ice enbury Elementary School took part in an art and literacy project and painted pinwheels with messages of peace. Its all part of pinwheels for peace an annual worldwide project that began in 2005. Last year more than 3500 locations took part in this project. Amounting up to 4. 5 million pinwheels. How about drone 6 now with the live view over the harold gate pal center where a day of fun is underway to celebrate peace day philly. The event dubbed peace begins with you features flag football and potato sack races and Police Officers and area children as they form a huge circle around the world pal and peace. Good sight. A Bucks County Community is on alert after a new warning from police. Rick williams is live now in the newsroom with the details we are learning on this one. Thank you. The warning comes after an elderly man felt victim to a burglary scheme and police say its nothing they have not seen before. Here is why, everyone should be wary of it and coming up tonight at 5 00 well tem you how the burglary suspects were able to distract the man while they ransacked his home unnoticed. And its Common Knowledge that tics spread lyme disease but it has another infection one that took a bucks county mans life. Just some stories we are following for you. When we see you in a bit on action news at 5 00. Back to the studio. Thanks rick. The rockets brought the gift of joy to new jersey. They stopped by the cake box in bordentown, burlington county. They enjoyed cupcakes and talked to fans and took pictures, one of seven visits the rockets have in new jersey, rhode island and connecticut. At the age of 96 she received her High School Diploma and now this vibrant senior from new jersey is ready to check off one more new milestone. Leona says she is ready to fulfill her dream of being a nurse. She got to job chateau professional nurses from the Global Health unit while donning a nurses cap. She enjoys helping people. I love it. I was afraid i would do something wrong but after i got used to it, i like it. I like to wait on people any way. She just keeps going, more than 80 years ago she was forced to drop out of high school in eighth great to help her family on the farm. The action cam was there when a special Graduation Ceremony was held after she passed her ged. There is no word on what she plans to do next. She has the High School Diploma and wearing the nurses cap today. What will she do next . An impressive and inspiring woman. Never stop pursuing your dreams. If you ever wanted to play match maker for your facebook friends stick around a new dating app lets you do just that. Whether you want to be set up or not. And if you are a stay at home mom the mom project wants you. How to get involved in the program to help women jump start their careers after starting a family. If you saw it you cant unsee. Today is mom jeans with a twist. What you need to do about the 700 denim. And meteorologist, adam joseph, is back with the full forecast from accuweather. When action news at 4 00 continues next. 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The commissioner of baseball is promising to redouble efforts to expand netting in ballparks involving a awful accident involving a toddler. A 12yearold girl was on her grandfathers lap when a 105 Miles Per Hour foul ball hit her right in the face. The child was rushed out of the stands by medic leaving players stunned and those in the stands in tears. Amazingly the girl is reportedly doing okay. Todd frazier the toms river native that hit the girl got emotional. I have two kids under 3 years old and i hope she is all right. I think the netting should be up and every stadium should have it. The yankees only have netting between the dugouts and home plate. Today commissioner manfred vowed to work with clubs to increase protection at all ballparks calling this ex extremely upsetting. Big talkers how and one Missouri Town in a child has Unpaid School lunch bills the parents could face legal action and why the story has people talking. First school side of this, some parents have not paid for lunches for their children from kindergarten to senior year and they call this a roughly 30,000 a year problem. If they have an unpaid balance that hits 500 the parentses could be sent to Small Claims Court and misevents like graduation. The district says if this is about need and the family is truly struggling they have options. Well work out a payment plan for them or signup for free and reduced lunch, some of them dont fill out the paperwork and they have to fill out the paperwork for it to work. So the big question is . Is this new policy fair. Weigh in on the poll up on our 6 abc facebook page. Are you one of those people that is constantly making matches in your mind. These two would make a great couple. If you dont want to be that person that nags but would like to get a few facebook friends on the first date. There is an app for that. A match maker called fridge. 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How do you go to the bathroom . There is a lot of options. Thank you. Lets get a check of the roads right now. Matt pellman is here with the update for us. If you want to waste time i have times for you a low speed time on the northeast extension and the northbound side not to fly because of an earlier crash. The crash is long gone and the travel time is looking a whole lot better than it was the last time we checked when it was 82 minutes, now its 37 minutes, that is still a 15 minute delay but a whole lot better than earlier and still trying to recover with speeds in the 20s on the northbound side of the nex, a crash at trenton road and brit old by chicken foot park and that has cleared out and the work going on in newtown, and one of the lanes blocked there. And south philadelphia you exit for columbus boulevard and phils game is over and the northbound delay is extra heavy from this point to the work zone in girard avenue and the slow speeds on the big picture. And the southbound boulevard past girard and a crash at haverford avenue by the mcdonalds and popeyes. And a crash blocking sugar town road. And an overturned vehicle in west goshen at halfer son drive. And delaware blocking newport pike and use new kirk instead this afternoon. Thank you matt. Meteorologist, adam joseph, standing by with the accuweather forecast. Next. Health, is having the freedom to do what you want to do with your life, every single day. So at aetna, we promise to keep finding new ways to join you so nothing gets in your way. Because no matter where it is youre going, or whatever stage of life youre in. We believe that when it comes to health. You dont join us. We join you. New jersey born and raised. Like his father before him, he served our country with honor in the navy. Came home and worked his way up from floor technician to supervisor at the salem power plant. As a husband and father, grenier knows how families struggle to make ends meet. Thats why hell fight to cut our taxes, and stand up to career politicians like steve sweeney. If we want to change trenton, theres only one way. Fran grenier. So the calendar says that fall is coming tomorrow. Mother nature says something different. Totally i know you two like summer but at this point in the year i want it over. Lets move on. You want the pumpkin spice. Are you happy about the seven day but im happy to talk about this in the Weather Center that is fall here. Sky 6 hd as we go into the last sunset of the Summer Season some high clouds and if not too thank they could display a beautiful sunset this evening and again tomorrow fall officially arrived at 4 02 p. M. In the afternoon the autumnal equinox. Pay attention to this. I want to see you guys smile with this. As you go through fall, the normal high drops 33 degrees from the start of fall to the start of winter. Daylight we lose 2 50. Average first frost is just before halloween. Why are we doing this . This is awful. And the average first snow is in the middle of december. Letting you know what is ahead here. They want to wrap me. Okay well talk about the heat and humidity. 87 degrees we have to share the love. 88 in wilmington and 86 in trenton and upper 70s along the shore. Satellite and radar there is jose to the east. You see it clipping parts of cape cod and high clouds on the western fringe of jose and those clouds are made of ice crystals and could playoff the sunset in some spots. Mostly clear tonight and not too humid. 60 in the suburbs and 67 for the city and north wind 3 to 6 Miles Per Hour. As we go into the first day of fall tomorrow the high clouds are around at times and the human stays low and mid80s inland and low 80s at the shore and the moderate risk for rip currents because of jose. As we move forward and talk about maria, we are talking about the upper part of the atmosphere the upper millibars. Close to 20,000 feet up. And this is what typically steers weather systems. More than likely the High Pressure builds over our region and the bubble of highs will break us here for seven days but that should be Strong Enough protect us like a wall and shoot maria out to sea as long as the high is high enough. We look at the spaghetti plots agreeing that the high will settle in and act as a wall for the east coast and likely steers maria. This is good consensus this far out to curve it out to sea and we continue to track that. The exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast brace yourselves if you want fall because not so much. No sign of fall 85 tomorrow and 89 as we get into saturday. Hot and humid on sunday 91 and it stays humid and record tying monday and highs in the low 90s. We still stay 14 degrees above normal on thursday, 87 degrees. I was digging in the yard may rick what is going on . We have to move on. Live television. More of him at 5 00 but whats the deal with the mom project. Come on over. Next time, i want you on my bowling team. [ laughs ] rodney. Bowling. Classic. Can i help you . Its me. Jamie. Im not good with names. Celeste i trained you. We share a locker. Moose man yo. He gets two name your price tools. He gets two . I literally coined the phrase, we give you Coverage Options based on your budget. Thats me. Jamie yeah. Youre back from italy. [ both smooch ] ciao bella. Well, an all too common problem for women to get into the workforce to focus on raising their children and now a relatively new concept has launched in philadelphia to try to provide a solution. Here is nydia han to explain. We introduce you to the mom project last year. It plays match maker for women that want to get back to work. And fill the gap that moms left behind. And now it officially launched right here in our area. Allison robinson started the mom project in chicago after her son was born and 90 leave the workforce after having children and 60 would come back if more flex ib. They fro provide leadership and recentry programs. 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Hope youll join me tonight and every night for a full hour of action news at 10 00 on phl 17. Coming up next on action news at 5 00. The death toll continues to rise after Hurricane Maria battered puerto rico and the cleanup efforts underway in the caribbean and the relief pouring in from across the United States. And breaking fuse a band new lawsuit from Aaron Hernandezs lawyer blaming football for his legal troubles. And local officials take up the fight on the Opioid Epidemic the new action out of Delaware County. That and more coming up next. Gps faster route detected. Let me finish downloading this from the cloud. Looks like you found a better way to do this, dad. Organic, nongmo feed, 100 veggie diet. If i can raise you two, i can raise anything. Perdue. Raising more organic chickens than in anyone america. The old mans still got it. Action News Delaware valleys leading news program. With jaime apody, meteorologist, cecily tynan, Rick Williams and monica malpass. Puerto rico is in very, very tough shape. The cleanup continues in puerto rico after suffering a direct hit from Hurricane Maria. The concern shifts to where maria is heading next. Its thursday night and monica is off and shack is joining us and the big story is the devastation that maria left behind in puerto rico and the massive effort to get the island back up and running. This as maria once again gained strength as it churns to the north. We have Live Team Coverage and cecily tynan has the latest word from the Hurricane Center but we begin with elizabeth live in new york tracking the damage in puerto rico. Reporter in puerto rico the governor says they are still not in the clear and he is still asking families to stay in their homes for their safety but today some residents ventured out to try to get their life back. Puerto rico beginning the process of cleaning up from Hurricane Maria. A daunting task with in streets left impassable and neighborhoods submerged as rain drop 30 inches. And the governor heading out himself with the National Guard rescuing families including children from flooded homes