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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 year's worth of rain and the first to hit since wilma in 2005 we had four major hurricanes including katrina. we'll 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 we'll 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 america's 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 it's down right despicable. days before the school starts, vandals tag the the school with racist language, some people wrote non-black cool school and racist words we have to block out. >> how can you spread this horrible hatred it's a shame. >> marley's daughter attends the school and she was hurt. >> she got home from vacation and can't 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. it's 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 5'10" 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 14-year-old 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 it's 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 it's 15 miles per hour it's 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 14-year-old 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. i'm sara bloomquist, channel 6 "action news." >> all right thank you. the eagles and dolphins are long. now it's 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. it's 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 match-ups 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 i'm looking for is former eagles quarterback marshall plays for the dolphins? wentz burned him a lot after practice. marshall. >> he didn't 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 i'm 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 it's 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. we'll 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. we'll take you there next. we just moved in about four months ago, but the living room's pretty blank. it's really nice when clients come in and have done some of their own research. working with a bassett designer was really easy. just kind of ties in very well. we love it! google will help people that suffer from depression. they will be urged for a help session. and a partnership with the national alliance on mental illness. it won't replace a doctor -- opinions and doctors are searching for ways to relieve depression. a treatment using magnetic power is available in a different -- leading to more normal lives. >> i had a lot of stomach pain and irritable bowels and migraines. over the years since tina took a host of medications but one by one the drugs failed. >> they would work for a few months and then i would need 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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. 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"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 8-year-old 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. >> we'll 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. >> it's a day by day deal. i'm 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 it's because they don't 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. 22-year-old 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, instead pleaded guilty to the crime. she admits she stabbed dorothy dealingan in the head with a butcher knife. and she told authorities she did it because she was unhappy with the girl's baby sitting skills. and the mother told "action news" she was too young to be baby sitting anybody. and she was charged with criminal attempted homicide and reckless endangerment of of of another person. 24-year-old george rissle is in the jail charged with eight separate cases of vandalism in coatesville and valley township. authorities say he sprayed racist and neo nazi graffiti here on strobe street where he lives with his mother. known to have is an associations with white supremacist groups. >> a local family wait aid long time for a very happy moment today at philadelphia international airport. hugs and tears for chaplain tim in terminal a. the family was there with signs. everyone coming out for the homecoming was a welcome sight to see. the weather is absolutely gorgeous and what better time to see what is mapping down at the shore. >> meteorologist, melissa magee is live in sea isle city with all the happenings this weekend. hello melissa. >> hi monica. we are stretching our dough because it's about pizza, check out mike d., 14 seasons down the shore, down here at the pizza shop they have pizza tossing lessons, they have that going on check this out we have a limbo line with the kids and the kids activity zone that takes place on the promenade. lots of fun here. woo hoo down the shore at sea isle city. check out what else is going on this weekend. >> it feels like the summer is quickly coming to a close and on the second to last weekend of the traditional season ocean city will light up the sky and the boardwalk merchants association is thanks customers at the shore with a fireworks display and the spectacular is launched from a barge off the music pier but can be viewed on the boardwalk. the fireworks are this saturday and start at 10:00 p.m. >> still looking for some summer dea deals? head out to wildwood for restaurant week. she offer a four course meal and the price just $40. enjoy the food and fireworks and we'll see you this weekend down at the shore. >> so we have got our limbo line going, how low can you go? i don't know if i can go this low anymore. you may need to raise this up. we have the limbo line and we have mike he is flipping that dough. it's so much fun here at the shore in sea isle city. mike show us a trick. behind the back -- around the corner, making it up as we go. but monica and brian you have fun this weekend down at the shore. i want to try this let me see. >> oh please show us. >> i want to see the behind the neck go ahead. i wouldn't buy that one. i'm just saying. >> all the tomato sauce in america won't fix that. >> rain or shine you can get weather updates on your phone or tablet. including real time views of stormtracker 6 live double scan radar, a free download for your mobile device. >> the winner of the massive $750 million jackpot stepped forward to claim the biggest single lottery jackpot in u.s. history. mavis was a hospital worker but called her boss and said i'm not coming back after 32 years and playing the lottery was a pipe dream that came through and at first didn't believe she won. >> last night it was like a didn't realize i won and today as i'm driving here i'm like this isn't true. this can't be. and then now it's like -- i am a winner -- and i'm scared but i'll be okay. >> boy we hope so. that is nice, lottery officials say she chose a lump sum of $438 million or 336 million there's after taxes. >> she'll be just fine. >> lets go live to matt pellman. how is it going out there? >> a lot of people heading to south philadelphia to see the birds in the preseason game and traffic is exiting 95 southbound at broad street beyond the exit ramp, a fender bender, and not causing extra slowing, northbound where we get the worst travel time and more than a 20 min delay and stacked up to the double decker bridge. platt is no better as you head toward philadelphia, all approaches to the linc are busy as people head into the preseason game. earlier crash on the blue route northbound approaching the schuylkill is gone, southbound is really bad from norristown to baltimore pike, it's a slow moving line of traffic. and we have the crash we are watching in chester county. you will want to avoid telegraph road. and our wreck in cherry hill along 70 westbound has been pushed out of the way. and in vineland an earlier wreck brought down a pole stay clear of the east side deli and stick with tuckahoe as an alternate. and a trenton line train is canceled because of mechanical issues and the 10 control trolley not running, and on the buses instead because of track work in west philadelphia but the norristown high speed line is back to normal after the accident a few days ago. we resume local and express service earlier today. >> thank you. still to come on "action news" a great way to explore the water and get exercise and they can be dangerous too. today experts talked about the best way to handle yourself in the canoe or kayak. >> and the beginning of a brand new exciting chapter for hundreds of college students to take you through montgomery county. adam joseph is tracking the latest. he'll tell us all about it. >> not tracking a whole lot, quiet is what we want and that is what we get. as we look at the relief coming tuesday. 90 degrees and 84 today and down to 82 today and go even lower than that into the weekend. we'll talk about the refreshing numbers in the seven day. >> plus, ducis rogers with a preview of tonight's preseason match-up with the eagles and dolphins including a live report from the linc. well, the coast guard wants to help anyone in distress in the waters they patrol and avoid wasting precious time and resources when they encounter an empty water craft. they are asking them to identify their craft offering free stickers inside of the vessels with the owners name an contact information and it makes them easy for them to know if someone is really in distress. >> sometimes the vessel drifted off and the person is at home on the couch watching tv. we want to prevent our assets from going out and conducting church and rescue. contract the coast guard auxiliary for a sticker. ducis rogers is here and the preseason game tonight for the eagles and we are excited. >> the third preseason game is the most important one. because the starters get the most work in. and tonight it's against the dolphins. >> reporter: well, one thing to watch for is that some of these starters will not get work in. hicks and graham left practice and they will not dress and nick foles but that say big hit to the defense. >> but look it's still the preseason if they are ready for the week one opener against the red skins and of course, getting the offense rolling is key. lets look at carson wentz and the eagles starters getting ready for the dolphins, they will play the first half. and trying to get alshon jeffrey into the rhythm and ran the wrong route last week and the eagles are not worried about the offense against the bills. >> this is the game where you game plan a little. honestly i don't know how much of that we are doing, we want to execute at all times whether it's practice or in the game. this last preseason game you want to play well and you don't have the opportunity in the fourth one really and if you don't is it the end of the world/absolutely not. we continue to grow and get better every day out here. >> we know that carson wentz is talented and a lot of tricks on the football field. this i did not know, carson wentz on the harlem globetrotter. how about wentz spinning the ball hopefully he does better on the football field and he is not stressed out about the lack of offense and he wants to be sharp in his final preseason game of 2017. >> he is not quitting his day job. for jeff skversky jaime apody, channel 6 "action news." we'll be back next hour ducis. >> thanks a lot guys. bye bye marlins and good riddens that is what the staff is saying today. the two teams wrapped up the series with another high scoring affair and another day and reece hoskins home run, a solo shot he has eight homers in his first 15 major league games and phillies up 6-3 and brings in two with the double and they bang out a dozen hits and lead 8-3 and later blow the lead. he hits one deep to left center and a crazy bounce and no right fielder breaking up the play and it goes for a two run in the park home run and the marlins take the lead on a sac fly and the phillies lose 6-8. and the soul looks to make it two straight title. they host the storm in the arena bowl. the cope has an easy formula for winning. >> each individual has to do their job. if each individual does their job our whole squad, does well. i don't need heroes i just need them to do their job. >> coverage is here on 6 abc begins at 7:00. the soul, the reigning champs. >> thanks. >> it was movein day for the class of 2021 here. and they got help from the football players. and they will take part in orientation activities and a day of service on saturday. fios is not cable. we're a 100% fiber optic network. and with the new fios gigabit connection... you get our fastest... internet ever. with download speeds up to 940 megs - 20 times faster than most people have. switch to fios gigabit connection with tv and 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temperature coming in at 78 degrees, below formal for this time of year. as we take a look at the current numbers in the area, 81 in philadelphia and 80 in wilmington and 77 in allentown and trenton. 77 degrees in reading, and in the poconos right now the air temperature is only 67 degrees, if you head up there you may want to bring some sweatshirts or a light jacket especially during the evening and overnight hours. as we look at satellite and radar crystal clear and there are some mid and high level clouds to the west. and that will bring some cloud cover at times overnight tonight. and partly cloudy and comfy and 66 in the suburbs and 63 if the city with the northwesterly wind at 6 miles per hour. as we round out the week a lot of sun and clouds at times and low humidity and temperatures 67 at 8:00 in the morning and 70s from 11:00 a.m. through the evening hours, should stay below 80 degrees in the city of of philadelphia and only in the 70s in the suburbs. as we head to the shore to sea isle city. with meteorologist, melissa magee, there you are kind of sunning yourself in the sand and folks are enjoying themselves this late afternoon. >> reporter: yes, as they should be. the weather is just fantastic here down the shore. and a lot of folks are on the beach and sand enjoying a beautiful afternoon. the numbers as we head into the weekend, sunshine and a few clouds and a high temperature coming in at 78 and as we get into the weekend plenty of sunshine and no issues by then on saturday a high of 78 degrees and a bit a september feel in the air by sunday. with a high in the upper 70s, so lots of fun here in sea isle city. we'll have more coming up in the next hour of "action news." >> i see beach volleyball behind you there. you have to get a team going. you have been burning off a bit of energy -- >> calories, limbo, hula-hoop. what else do you want from me? >> i want a pizza you don't ruin. >> it's on the way. i'm taking orders. >> enjoy yourself there. as we head to the poconos like i mentioned very cool for the next three days, highs notice upper 60s and again a lot of sun and fall preview up there, once the sunsets in the evening. mighty chilly in the mountains, hurricane harvey, winds sustained at 85 miles per hour a category one hurricane moving 10 miles per hour around 300 miles southeast of corpus christi and aiming towards corpus christi as a category 3, the first major landfalling hurricane since 2005 anywhere in the united states and water temperatures in the upper 80s in the gulf of mexico feeding this storm and that is the reason why it exploded early on today getting all of that warm water vapor on the top layer on that gulf of mexico water. as we look at the exclusive accuweather forecast active down there where they are expecting one to three feet of rain in spots. it's going drift down there, and sunshine is soak us friday, saturday and sunday, and monday as well as most of tuesday. upper 70s and a really perfect stretch of of weather here. low humidity and lows in the 50s every night in the suburbs, around 60 degrees in center city and a little bit a change come wednesday and thursday as more clouds come into the forecast and temperatures of 80 then with a couple of showers and a seven day stretch in august of below normal temperatures and low humidity and lows in the 50s in the suburbs. it's remarkable to open up the windows and save cash on the air conditioning. >> thanks adam. more coming your way when "action news" comes right back. if you'd have told me three years ago... that we'd be downloading in seconds, what used to take... minutes. that guests would compliment our wifi. that we could video conference... and do it like that. 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"action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with ducis rogers, cecily tynan and jim gardner. thieves strike a south jersey charity and it's an explosive crime in a south philadelphia restaurant and the big story is a bucks county school community it's hurting tonight because one of its schools is defaced by racist graffiti. someone scrawled despicable language on herbert hoover elementary school in langhorne. happening as staff and families are getting ready for the start of the school year and members will gather tonight for a meeting at the middletown township building and that is where "action news" reporter gray hall is right now. what is the reaction to all of this. >> reporter: jim, people are upset, they are heart broken and alarmed by this and many tell us that racism and hate has no place in our community. >> this is not going to happen anymore in our community. >> bucks coins leaders like diane are out ranged after someone spray painting racist graffiti on the elementary school. some of it was non-black school and so offensive we had to blur them out. >> i want them to fine them so they are not punished but educated. they are in pain. >> it's believed that someone targeted this school and the vandalism was found. and people are upset.

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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 year's worth of rain and the first to hit since wilma in 2005 we had four major hurricanes including katrina. we'll 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 we'll 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 america's 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 it's down right despicable. days before the school starts, vandals tag the the school with racist language, some people wrote non-black cool school and racist words we have to block out. >> how can you spread this horrible hatred it's a shame. >> marley's daughter attends the school and she was hurt. >> she got home from vacation and can't 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. it's 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 5'10" 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 14-year-old 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 it's 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 it's 15 miles per hour it's 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 14-year-old 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. i'm sara bloomquist, channel 6 "action news." >> all right thank you. the eagles and dolphins are long. now it's 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. it's 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 match-ups 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 i'm looking for is former eagles quarterback marshall plays for the dolphins? wentz burned him a lot after practice. marshall. >> he didn't 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 i'm 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 it's 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. we'll 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. we'll take you there next. we just moved in about four months ago, but the living room's pretty blank. it's really nice when clients come in and have done some of their own research. working with a bassett designer was really easy. just kind of ties in very well. we love it! google will help people that suffer from depression. they will be urged for a help session. and a partnership with the national alliance on mental illness. it won't replace a doctor -- opinions and doctors are searching for ways to relieve depression. a treatment using magnetic power is available in a different -- leading to more normal lives. >> i had a lot of stomach pain and irritable bowels and migraines. over the years since tina took a host of medications but one by one the drugs failed. >> they would work for a few months and then i would need something else. >> that is common for patients. >> 25% goes into millions of people. >> 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. 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"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 8-year-old 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. >> we'll 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. >> it's a day by day deal. i'm 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 it's because they don't 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. 22-year-old 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, instead pleaded guilty to the crime. she admits she stabbed dorothy dealingan in the head with a butcher knife. and she told authorities she did it because she was unhappy with the girl's baby sitting skills. and the mother told "action news" she was too young to be baby sitting anybody. and she was charged with criminal attempted homicide and reckless endangerment of of of another person. 24-year-old george rissle is in the jail charged with eight separate cases of vandalism in coatesville and valley township. authorities say he sprayed racist and neo nazi graffiti here on strobe street where he lives with his mother. known to have is an associations with white supremacist groups. >> a local family wait aid long time for a very happy moment today at philadelphia international airport. hugs and tears for chaplain tim in terminal a. the family was there with signs. everyone coming out for the homecoming was a welcome sight to see. the weather is absolutely gorgeous and what better time to see what is mapping down at the shore. >> meteorologist, melissa magee is live in sea isle city with all the happenings this weekend. hello melissa. >> hi monica. we are stretching our dough because it's about pizza, check out mike d., 14 seasons down the shore, down here at the pizza shop they have pizza tossing lessons, they have that going on check this out we have a limbo line with the kids and the kids activity zone that takes place on the promenade. lots of fun here. woo hoo down the shore at sea isle city. check out what else is going on this weekend. >> it feels like the summer is quickly coming to a close and on the second to last weekend of the traditional season ocean city will light up the sky and the boardwalk merchants association is thanks customers at the shore with a fireworks display and the spectacular is launched from a barge off the music pier but can be viewed on the boardwalk. the fireworks are this saturday and start at 10:00 p.m. >> still looking for some summer dea deals? head out to wildwood for restaurant week. she offer a four course meal and the price just $40. enjoy the food and fireworks and we'll see you this weekend down at the shore. >> so we have got our limbo line going, how low can you go? i don't know if i can go this low anymore. you may need to raise this up. we have the limbo line and we have mike he is flipping that dough. it's so much fun here at the shore in sea isle city. mike show us a trick. behind the back -- around the corner, making it up as we go. but monica and brian you have fun this weekend down at the shore. i want to try this let me see. >> oh please show us. >> i want to see the behind the neck go ahead. i wouldn't buy that one. i'm just saying. >> all the tomato sauce in america won't fix that. >> rain or shine you can get weather updates on your phone or tablet. including real time views of stormtracker 6 live double scan radar, a free download for your mobile device. >> the winner of the massive $750 million jackpot stepped forward to claim the biggest single lottery jackpot in u.s. history. mavis was a hospital worker but called her boss and said i'm not coming back after 32 years and playing the lottery was a pipe dream that came through and at first didn't believe she won. >> last night it was like a didn't realize i won and today as i'm driving here i'm like this isn't true. this can't be. and then now it's like -- i am a winner -- and i'm scared but i'll be okay. >> boy we hope so. that is nice, lottery officials say she chose a lump sum of $438 million or 336 million there's after taxes. >> she'll be just fine. >> lets go live to matt pellman. how is it going out there? >> a lot of people heading to south philadelphia to see the birds in the preseason game and traffic is exiting 95 southbound at broad street beyond the exit ramp, a fender bender, and not causing extra slowing, northbound where we get the worst travel time and more than a 20 min delay and stacked up to the double decker bridge. platt is no better as you head toward philadelphia, all approaches to the linc are busy as people head into the preseason game. earlier crash on the blue route northbound approaching the schuylkill is gone, southbound is really bad from norristown to baltimore pike, it's a slow moving line of traffic. and we have the crash we are watching in chester county. you will want to avoid telegraph road. and our wreck in cherry hill along 70 westbound has been pushed out of the way. and in vineland an earlier wreck brought down a pole stay clear of the east side deli and stick with tuckahoe as an alternate. and a trenton line train is canceled because of mechanical issues and the 10 control trolley not running, and on the buses instead because of track work in west philadelphia but the norristown high speed line is back to normal after the accident a few days ago. we resume local and express service earlier today. >> thank you. still to come on "action news" a great way to explore the water and get exercise and they can be dangerous too. today experts talked about the best way to handle yourself in the canoe or kayak. >> and the beginning of a brand new exciting chapter for hundreds of college students to take you through montgomery county. adam joseph is tracking the latest. he'll tell us all about it. >> not tracking a whole lot, quiet is what we want and that is what we get. as we look at the relief coming tuesday. 90 degrees and 84 today and down to 82 today and go even lower than that into the weekend. we'll talk about the refreshing numbers in the seven day. >> plus, ducis rogers with a preview of tonight's preseason match-up with the eagles and dolphins including a live report from the linc. well, the coast guard wants to help anyone in distress in the waters they patrol and avoid wasting precious time and resources when they encounter an empty water craft. they are asking them to identify their craft offering free stickers inside of the vessels with the owners name an contact information and it makes them easy for them to know if someone is really in distress. >> sometimes the vessel drifted off and the person is at home on the couch watching tv. we want to prevent our assets from going out and conducting church and rescue. contract the coast guard auxiliary for a sticker. ducis rogers is here and the preseason game tonight for the eagles and we are excited. >> the third preseason game is the most important one. because the starters get the most work in. and tonight it's against the dolphins. >> reporter: well, one thing to watch for is that some of these starters will not get work in. hicks and graham left practice and they will not dress and nick foles but that say big hit to the defense. >> but look it's still the preseason if they are ready for the week one opener against the red skins and of course, getting the offense rolling is key. lets look at carson wentz and the eagles starters getting ready for the dolphins, they will play the first half. and trying to get alshon jeffrey into the rhythm and ran the wrong route last week and the eagles are not worried about the offense against the bills. >> this is the game where you game plan a little. honestly i don't know how much of that we are doing, we want to execute at all times whether it's practice or in the game. this last preseason game you want to play well and you don't have the opportunity in the fourth one really and if you don't is it the end of the world/absolutely not. we continue to grow and get better every day out here. >> we know that carson wentz is talented and a lot of tricks on the football field. this i did not know, carson wentz on the harlem globetrotter. how about wentz spinning the ball hopefully he does better on the football field and he is not stressed out about the lack of offense and he wants to be sharp in his final preseason game of 2017. >> he is not quitting his day job. for jeff skversky jaime apody, channel 6 "action news." we'll be back next hour ducis. >> thanks a lot guys. bye bye marlins and good riddens that is what the staff is saying today. the two teams wrapped up the series with another high scoring affair and another day and reece hoskins home run, a solo shot he has eight homers in his first 15 major league games and phillies up 6-3 and brings in two with the double and they bang out a dozen hits and lead 8-3 and later blow the lead. he hits one deep to left center and a crazy bounce and no right fielder breaking up the play and it goes for a two run in the park home run and the marlins take the lead on a sac fly and the phillies lose 6-8. and the soul looks to make it two straight title. they host the storm in the arena bowl. the cope has an easy formula for winning. >> each individual has to do their job. if each individual does their job our whole squad, does well. i don't need heroes i just need them to do their job. >> coverage is here on 6 abc begins at 7:00. the soul, the reigning champs. >> thanks. >> it was movein day for the class of 2021 here. and they got help from the football players. and they will take part in orientation activities and a day of service on saturday. fios is not cable. we're a 100% fiber optic network. and with the new fios gigabit connection... you get our fastest... internet ever. with download speeds up to 940 megs - 20 times faster than most people have. switch to fios gigabit connection with tv and phone for $79.99 a month online for the first year. plus hbo for one year and multi-room dvr service for two years, all with a two-year agreement. and switching has never been easier. get out of your contract with up to a $500 credit to help cover your early termination fee. go to fiosgigabit.com pennsylvania state senator tina tagleone was on hand as kids helped to pick out backpacks for school and offering up child fingerprinting and music and face painting and refreshments. >> they are having fun. one of the top ten days of the year and i'm thinking a few more. >> plenty more in the seven-day forecast. lets take a look at the weather center over the commodore barry bridge you can get a deep blue sky like this in the month of august you know it's all good outside and just a few puffy clouds and some clouds dotting the sky and as we go into saturday and sunday both days pretty much the same. sunshine will rule and clouds at times in the form of cumulous clouds and both days your temperature coming in at 78 degrees, below formal for this time of year. as we take a look at the current numbers in the area, 81 in philadelphia and 80 in wilmington and 77 in allentown and trenton. 77 degrees in reading, and in the poconos right now the air temperature is only 67 degrees, if you head up there you may want to bring some sweatshirts or a light jacket especially during the evening and overnight hours. as we look at satellite and radar crystal clear and there are some mid and high level clouds to the west. and that will bring some cloud cover at times overnight tonight. and partly cloudy and comfy and 66 in the suburbs and 63 if the city with the northwesterly wind at 6 miles per hour. as we round out the week a lot of sun and clouds at times and low humidity and temperatures 67 at 8:00 in the morning and 70s from 11:00 a.m. through the evening hours, should stay below 80 degrees in the city of of philadelphia and only in the 70s in the suburbs. as we head to the shore to sea isle city. with meteorologist, melissa magee, there you are kind of sunning yourself in the sand and folks are enjoying themselves this late afternoon. >> reporter: yes, as they should be. the weather is just fantastic here down the shore. and a lot of folks are on the beach and sand enjoying a beautiful afternoon. the numbers as we head into the weekend, sunshine and a few clouds and a high temperature coming in at 78 and as we get into the weekend plenty of sunshine and no issues by then on saturday a high of 78 degrees and a bit a september feel in the air by sunday. with a high in the upper 70s, so lots of fun here in sea isle city. we'll have more coming up in the next hour of "action news." >> i see beach volleyball behind you there. you have to get a team going. you have been burning off a bit of energy -- >> calories, limbo, hula-hoop. what else do you want from me? >> i want a pizza you don't ruin. >> it's on the way. i'm taking orders. >> enjoy yourself there. as we head to the poconos like i mentioned very cool for the next three days, highs notice upper 60s and again a lot of sun and fall preview up there, once the sunsets in the evening. mighty chilly in the mountains, hurricane harvey, winds sustained at 85 miles per hour a category one hurricane moving 10 miles per hour around 300 miles southeast of corpus christi and aiming towards corpus christi as a category 3, the first major landfalling hurricane since 2005 anywhere in the united states and water temperatures in the upper 80s in the gulf of mexico feeding this storm and that is the reason why it exploded early on today getting all of that warm water vapor on the top layer on that gulf of mexico water. as we look at the exclusive accuweather forecast active down there where they are expecting one to three feet of rain in spots. it's going drift down there, and sunshine is soak us friday, saturday and sunday, and monday as well as most of tuesday. upper 70s and a really perfect stretch of of weather here. low humidity and lows in the 50s every night in the suburbs, around 60 degrees in center city and a little bit a change come wednesday and thursday as more clouds come into the forecast and temperatures of 80 then with a couple of showers and a seven day stretch in august of below normal temperatures and low humidity and lows in the 50s in the suburbs. it's remarkable to open up the windows and save cash on the air conditioning. >> thanks adam. more coming your way when "action news" comes right back. if you'd have told me three years ago... that we'd be downloading in seconds, what used to take... minutes. that guests would compliment our wifi. that we could video conference... and do it like that. 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"action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with ducis rogers, cecily tynan and jim gardner. thieves strike a south jersey charity and it's an explosive crime in a south philadelphia restaurant and the big story is a bucks county school community it's hurting tonight because one of its schools is defaced by racist graffiti. someone scrawled despicable language on herbert hoover elementary school in langhorne. happening as staff and families are getting ready for the start of the school year and members will gather tonight for a meeting at the middletown township building and that is where "action news" reporter gray hall is right now. what is the reaction to all of this. >> reporter: jim, people are upset, they are heart broken and alarmed by this and many tell us that racism and hate has no place in our community. >> this is not going to happen anymore in our community. >> bucks coins leaders like diane are out ranged after someone spray painting racist graffiti on the elementary school. some of it was non-black school and so offensive we had to blur them out. >> i want them to fine them so they are not punished but educated. they are in pain. >> it's believed that someone targeted this school and the vandalism was found. and people are upset.

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