Pollution including asbestos. They appeared and gave us an indication that they are checking the air quality and checking the Water Quality and they are going to be fully inspecting the site for any asbestos. But the Delaware Department Natural Resources spokesperson did not inspect it in more than a week. The fire is dubbed suspicious and the fire marshall investigation continues. The hatfields lived adjacent to the factory for investigations say they show no signs of breathing problems since the inden. They moved here 50 years ago when the factory was booming. My children and my son and children worked there for 11 years and my family from down in West Virginia and kentucky and my nevada hugh retired from there. Monica tonight three burning questions linger, one was this arson . If so who did it . And three, what is the air quality in the wake of it . Thank you. A Drexel University student is facing several charges in a close call above the skies of center city last night. Joseph ros
Triggering the storms. Stormtracker 6 live double scan showing not everyone is seeing them but we have a pretty concentrated line of storms moving through the i95 corridor right now. It is now pushed through Center City Philadelphia and is heading into south jersey, crossing routes 130, this view alone, the past 15 minutes, we have 21 lightning strikes and there is a pretty good concentration of heavy downpours working into cherry hill and this is pushing to the east be that line extends through southern new jersey and southern delaware, it passed through wilmington. And salem you are getting hit very hard with downpours, 33 lightning strikes in this view alone. That being said, they are not severe, we are not looking at damaging winds or large hail. But we do have lightning and heavy downpours. And the possibility of small hail as they work through over the next few hours and this with a front means behind it the skies will clear and temperatures dropping down into the 50s overnight a
Action news, delaware valleys leading news program with jim gardner. According to the news we are on the brink of a historic, unprecedented moment. And, in fact, according to the associated press, Hillary Clinton has achieved that historic moment as the first woman to clinch a major partys nomination for president. It is monday night, and the big story on action news tonight is 2383. 2383 delegates. The a. P. Says the number of super delegates committed to clinton today giving her the magic number to clinch the president ial nomination for president. This was expected to happen tomorrow night when clinton and Bernie Sanders face off in the last big night of primaries head lined by california and new jersey. Sanders and his supporters reject the notion of clinton being the presumptive nominees because super delegates can change their minds until the roll call at the convention. And if he wins tomorrow night he will go on a barnstorming tour in hopes to changing their minds. And claiming
Its 71 degrees in philadelphia right now. 63 in allentown. 70 in millville. Feeling kind of sticky out there. These dewpoints 66 degrees in the city. Any time you hit over 60 you start to feel the humidity so were certainly feeling it out there. 68 in millville. 72 down right soupy in dover, delaware. Lets take a look at what we can expect on satellite6 and action radar. We see a fair amount of clouds, some showers that are off the coastline but we are watching this little batch of showers that was trying to fall in our far northwest suburbs but really starting to fall apart as we do. We saw a little bit of sprinkle in the poconos. Other than that not a lot happening with that Early Morning shower. The best activity well see is later this afternoon, 4, 5 oclock we get a couple spotty showers or thunderstorms. Not everybody will see them. Most of the day youre dry, its warm with sunshine and clouds. Its a pretty good day. By 7 00 a. M. , 73. By 9 00 a. M. , 76. It will be a little breez
Court this morning, the third day of them laying out their defense. Their contention is that two unscrupulous people and they had no knowledge of this. They are trying to show that the congressman say crook. Both testified here for the government after entering guilty pleas. Fattah claims federal prosecutors are carrying out a vendetta against him and his family. Four codefendants are charged with fattah all charged with rack iraq tearing, the government says they stole from charities he founded and from the treasury. To pay off the debts from his ill fated run for mayor. They have called witnesses including former u. S. Congressman boreski. Reporter rick still no indication if congressman fattah will take the witness stand in his own defense. The defense is expected to wrap up later this week. Live at is the courthouse in center city, im vernon odom, channel 6 action news. Thank you. 44yearold felix ramos is arrested on charges that he rape aid woman behind a Shopping Center in northe