Four before making landfall Early Saturday Morning and moving inland near Corpus Christi weakening to a cat two however this system is stalling and in addition the rain is a big problem. Rain is measured in feet. One to two feet up to 30 inches in parts of the region. This is almost a years worth of rain and the first to hit since wilma in 2005 we had four major hurricanes including katrina. Well have more on this on the full accuweather forecast. The governor of texas has declared a preemptive emergency in three counties from eastern texas to mississippi. Bracing for high wind and water. Regardless of the storm track well have coastal flooding. Water, food and batteries are in short supply in many stores up and down the coast. Parts of Corpus Christi, texas is under evacuation orders and the oil industry is watching this closely. A third of americas Oil Refineries are there in texas. A meeting is held in texas due to racist graffiti on a school. Gray hall is live in langhorne to fill us in. Hey monica, that meeting is scheduled to take place from 7 00 until 9 00 from the township building behind me. The focus of this community is not happy about what happened here. This is an act of racism and something they do not want to see in their community. Community members say its down right despicable. Days before the school starts, vandals tag the the school with racist language, some people wrote nonblack cool school and racist words we have to block out. How can you spread this horrible hatred its a shame. Marleys daughter attends the school and she was hurt. She got home from vacation and cant believe it happened across the street from her house. The vandalism was discovered saturday morning, she head to the school to see if she could clean off the graffiti. She is holding a town hall meeting to discuss what happened. And how the community can move forward. I want to be able to walk away from the meeti what they can say to their kids and what to do if they see this happening. The Neshaminy School district released a statement, one of our district believes is that it strengthens our society and teach and expect tolerance and respect. And this strengthening our resolve. The hurtful act hurt people in the community and hopes police are able to track down the people responsible. I live in this township and served in this township. This is not something that will happen in our county. All right back out live another reminder that the meeting is scheduled from 7 00 until 9 00 tonight and we should mention that we spoke to the police chief about this case. Its an active investigation and they have really good leads and if you have Information Contact authorities. Gray hall, channel 6 action news. Thank you. And a National Civil rights group wants hateful grat eve in wilmington up racist symbols and graffiti was spray painted on a car in woodlawn, the incident was not ordinary vandalism but a targeted attack on a resident of that neighborhood. Philadelphia police know who they are looking for in a series of car battery thefts. This is Juan Carlos Lugo known as juan martinez. They say he is responsible for a battery theft of jeep wranglers. He is 510 with a bald head and goatee. A teen walked into the path of a car while face timing with a friend continues to fight for her life tonight and it has shocked the Abington Community and sara bloomquist is at the School Administration building to bring us an update. Well, monica some athletic practices and other School Activities went on here on the campus. This 14yearold girl who police say was face timing when she was hit by an on coming car on busy highland avenue remains in critical condition. Witnesses told police that the teenage girl was involved in a video chat near Abington High School in wednesday afternoon. I heard god no. As a mother its a very upsetting no. I knew something was wrong. Jacqueline lives nearby and neighbors rushed to the scene and saw them huddling around the badly injured girl and 2 45 when the girl was hit by the on coming suv and Police Confirmed witness reports that the girl was distracted. We determined speaking to witnesses that the young lady was distracted on the face time on her cell phone. Which was obviously a contributing factor in the accident. The driver of the suv stopped at the scene and also tried to help the teen. She was transported to Abington Memorial Hospital and later flown to childrens hospital. Normally highland avenue is a 25 Miles Per Hour speed limit and 15 during classes, and that starts next week. Usually the traffic is obeying the speed limit like 25 Miles Per Hour. But when the lights are flashing its 15 Miles Per Hour its hard to believe that you know that someone got hurt. There was an accident investigators trained forensic examiners at the scene and further scamming physical evidence and damage to the car and piece together what happened here. Reporter the abington School District does confirm that the 14yearold attends here. And we are told that she was entering ninth grade this year and the School District says she was on the way to the School Activity when she was struck and a few scientists told her she was on her way to cheerleading tryouts and counselors are made available to students. Im sara bloomquist, channel 6 action news. All right thank you. The eagles and dolphins are long. Now its game time and the two will meet tonight for the birds third preseason game. Our jaime apody and Jeff Skversky are there with a preview. Reporter hey guys, carson wentz and the eagles starter s expected to play the entire first half and a serieses in the third quarter. Wentz used the word shop all week only one touch down for the offensive team this preseason. They only had five drives this preseason together. Its still very early. Lets look at carson wentz this week and he did look sharp against the dolphins. We have not got a chance to see the new weapons they added and tonight they will get the most playing time and as jeff said the last look at the team and other in washington in two and a half weeks. They are not really game planning. And looking how coach peterson spreads the ball around. We have a number of weapons on offense and creating mismatches to see how coach wants to go about that. And talk about it all the time and matchups in this league and create miss matches and put putting a guy like sproles getting them lined up against linebackers and creating miss matches that is the name of the game. One of the miss matches im looking for is former eagles quarterback marshall plays for the dolphins . Wentz burned him a lot after practice. Marshall. He didnt do much here. He says he still recents the whole trade that sent him there. Maybe carson wentz can take a hit at the defense. And Wendell Smallwood the eagles running back will make his preseason debut he missed the first two games with the hamstring. And we are live at the linc im Jeff Skversky back to you new studio. Time for a check of the action news traffic report thursday night. Matt pellman is standing by and birds fans are not flying to the linc for the preseason game, we say lot of traffic along 95 and the schuylkill expressway especially now that the phils game is over, everybody is leaving the bank and heading to the and the schuylkill is busy and blue route 476 is even busier, a lot of red and an overturned vehicle crash here approaching the schuylkill just cleared within the last five minutes, still over an hour on the northbound travel time. Southbound its a big gaper delay, 252 and 352 are you better off. Telegraph road and thorndale road the fire and police directing you there. A wreck at Cooper Landing one lane out of commission in that location. Well check it again in the next half hour. Still ahead on action news at 5 00 tonight it may look like a big hair dryer but new technology giving hope for a more normal life. And before they head to the classroom new College Students are lending a hand in the neighborhood. Well take you there next. 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During a difficult episode last winter, she and her doctor added tms trance cranial magnetic simulation approved by the fda nine years ago. It goes on the left side of your brain. Magnetic pulses simulate the brain and doctors believe that that boosts activity in areas connected to mood control and depression and now using a new version the brains way helmet. You are able to penetrate deeper into the brain. About price as deep as the old pads. You are able to stimulate a larger area of the brain also. The recommended protocol is 20, 20 minute sessions twice a week. Tina had a mild sensation and headache a few times. I started to bring books in and read during the treatment. She says it works she is taking less medication and feeling better. I was like wow is this how normal people feel. Nearly 70 to 75 of patients do get a response with the helmet. A potential treatment for pregnant women and moms that take medication and people on drugs for other problems. The widener students spend the day sprucing up the community. More than 100 members pitched in with everything from preparing classrooms from cleaning to gardening around town. This event puts its Civic Mission into action. Sears is continuing to shrink the retailer is closing 28 more of their kmart stores this year, after 180 locations that have shuttered and 150 due to close by the end of september. They have 1250 Stores Nationwide split between sears and kmart brands. As schools prepare to go back in session one is celebrating a dramatic drop in School Suspensions. District principals and teachers came together to talk about School Suspensions and credited it to code of conduct and district wide training. And this year alone they had a 50 decrease in suspensions. And the action cam was there as faculty members toured the classrooms at allen and stern in frankford. Superintendant, william hite was on hand and they are designed to improve literacy in early grades and the new Technology Allows them to develop early academic and cognizant skills. Contestants arrived in philadelphia for the 49th annual miss black America Pageant and held the News Conference to kick it off. The pageant started in 1968 in response to the miss america program. The reigning miss america will crown her in manayunk. hard exhalation honey . Can we do this tomorrow . grunts of effort can we do this tomorrow . If you have Heart Failure symptoms, your risk of hospitalization could increase, making tomorrow uncertain. But entresto is a medicine that was proven, in the largest Heart Failure study ever, to help more people stay alive and out of the hospital than a leading Heart Failure medicine. Women who are pregnant must not take entresto. It can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. Dont take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren. If youve had angioedema while taking an ace or arb medicine, dont take entresto. The most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure, kidney problems, or high potassium in your blood. Tomorrow, tomorrow. When can we do this again, grandpa . Well, how about tomorrow . Ask your doctor about entresto and help make tomorrow possible. A picture perfect day and more of this to come. We get a check of the accuweather forecast. Cecily tynan is delivering the good news. The nicest week for the whole summer, kind of unusual for august. We have a special guest, we have carson wentz or his image at least. We couldnt get him here in person, he is busy this afternoon because the eagles will take on the dolphins at the link. The last home preseason game and if you head there the weather is cooperating a gorgeous night and partly cloudy skies at 7 00 for kicko kicko kickoff 78 degrees and light breeze perfect weather for a football game. Its just gorgeous across the viewing area. Philadelphia 81 degrees and allentown 77 and the same in reading and the poconos only 67 degrees, if you are lucky enough to be down the shore cape may 80 and boardwalk in Atlantic City 76 and part of the reason why it feels so good, the dew points are remarkly low for august. August is typically hot and humid and dew points in the 60s and 70s and we have dew points in the 50s and even 40s, all thanks to High Pressure building in and satellite 6 along with action radar bringing in a piece of energy known as its short wave moving through tonight. And limited moisture, it brings us a bit of cloud cover. Partly cloudy skies, great night for sleeping and you dont neat the air conditioner, allentown 56 and cape may 65 and wilmington 62 degrees. Your day planner for your friday is looking nice. Temperatures slightly cooler than today. A mixture of sun and clouds and 7 00, 74 and temperatures climbing up into the upper 70s and low humidity and this trend continues through the weekend. Your forecast for saturday. Looking nice if you are down the shore grab your sunscreen and keep applying, loads of sunshine and philadelphia 78 and mostly sunny and the poconos grab a sweatshirt for the evening and 68 degrees and sunshine and cool and low humidity. The fiveday at 5 00, it doesnt look much better than this. Five days in a row of comfortable weather, tomorrow 79 degrees and a mixture of clouds and sunshine and on saturday, lots of sunshine for the union and tailgating for the soul 78 degrees. And sunday 78 and monday 78 and tuesday a little more in the form of clouds 77 degrees. Ill let you know if showers sneak in by the middle of next week. What a boring forecast . We love boring. Much more action news when we come back. Action news continues with meteorologist, adam joseph and Monica Malpass. Brian taff joins us, President Trump goes on a twitter tirade blaming top gop leaders for failing to deliver on promises. A woman accused of trying to kill her 8yearold babysitter does an about face on the first day of the trial. And the lone winner of the massive power ball jackpot is a secret no more. Now the details, President Trump is attacking congressional leaders on the debt ceiling negotiations, the clock is ticking and the president says his border wall is not up for negotiation. Here is more from washington. Reporter republican lawmakers are struggling to keep up after President Trump threatened to shut down the government and pull the u. S. Out of nafta. Well probably ending terminating and a half nafta at some point. He campaigned on the wall and won on talking about the wall. This shows that twice as Many Americans believes that President Trump is a divider not a uniter. That goes to his vulnerability he is a businessman and makes it work and if we go to a situation season the government is shut down because of threats to the president it make its harder to move forward. House Speaker Paul Ryan expressed concern about shutting down the government and at a tour one employee asked the republican congressman if he could influence the president. Its a day by day deal. Im kind of joking. The Senate Majority leader, Mitch Mcconnell facing his own problems with the president tried to tone down the nafta rhetoric. We have a trade surplus they buy more of our stuff than we do of theirs. The president preemptively tried to blame democrats but Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says that with them controlling the senate and house, if it shuts down its because they dont have a plan. And the they are moving forward with their plan to it will reportedly give the Armed Services to implement the controversial ban. World news tonight with david muir has more on the transgender ban and the ongoing tension with the president and senior republicans, you can watch that following action news at 6 00 tonight. Meanwhile the navy confirm that the body of a sailor with ties to cherry hill, new jersey is found on the uss john mccain. 22yearold Kenneth Smith was an Electronics Technician on the ship and among nine other sai r sailors when a tanker collided. And now it switches to a search and recovery. And a woman going on trial for stabbing a baby sitting girl in collingdale,