county this hour. right now police are looking for the driver that hit a 1-year-old child twice and we learned it was not an accident but an intentional act. the driver hit the girl and backed up and hit her again near delaware avenue in newport. police are on the scene since early this morning. the child is hospitalized and her condition is not yet released. police trying to find the person behind this terrible act. turning now to accuweather on your friday. a big cool down expected for your weekend fortunately. accuweather says that temperatures drop and the steamy conditions fade away during the evening hours. but first there is an another hot and humid afternoon on tap. meteorologist, melissa magee, has a check of the forecast for you. and we are talking heat wave today. >> yes, if we hit 90 degrees this will more than likely be a heat wave in philadelphia. we are getting the numbers now above average. in the city 88 in philadelphia. that is 13 degrees above the average high and 87 for allentown and down in dover coming in at 85. the big difference today the dew point levels, the summertime humidity overhead. and some spots dew points in the 70s. you can feel the humidity in the atmosphere. and 73 dew point there in dover. we have the heat and the building humidity. something to keep in mind for areas in south jersey there is an air quality alert and ozone action day. the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups. give yourself extra breaks and monitor your activities. from you young, elderly or suffer from respiratory illnesses. tuesday a high of 93 and yesterday a high of 91 and we are calling for a high of 92 in the city today. and if we hit that it will be a heat wave. the record is 96 set back in 9126. there is a risk of of finding severe storms and isolated storms are likely on the i-95 corridor and areas south and east. an isolate the thunderstorm is on the way and making for a cooler and refreshing weekend and temperatures closer to normal back into the 70s. we'll have the full exclusive accuweather forecast. >> thank you. drivers in the city may run into extra delays. kelly drive is closed in both directions to make room for the prestigious stotesbury cup regatta. chopper 6 hd was over the area this morning. police are detouring all traffic from strawberry mansion to fount green drives. it remains in effect tomorrow night until 8:00. a man accused of driving his car into a crowded times square in new york city told police he was hearing voices and expected to die. 26-year-old richard rojas is expected to be arraigned. he is charged with murder and 20 counts of attempted murder and vehicular homicide. rojas drove a car into the crowd killing an 18-year-old girl from michigan. he served in the u.s. navy but was discharged. in bucks county a man is behind bars for shooting in a wal-mart prognosis. 32-year-old brandon grasso is accused of firing a shot behind the wal-mart in quakertown and a woman was driving the vehicle with her son in the passenger seat. the driver became aggressive and passed them and heard a loud bang. >> i thought i heard a -- and thought he hit us and then saw the hole there and all of that popping out and the windshield busted and glass hitting me. i thought oh my god he actually shot us. they began searching for grasso in his late model mercedes benz he was found in a motel late last night in milford township. president trump is getting ready for his first international trip as president. is spent the week defending his white house. we are joined now from the nation's capital with the latest. >> reporter: rick, the white house is steel reeling from a week of headlines. the first appointment of a special counsel and that is on everyone's mind here in washington. >> as the white house tries to move forward from the latest headache, lawmakers on capitol hill are doubling down. rod rosenstein spent a second day in a row briefing lawmakers behind closed doors. explaining the controversial decision to fire fbi director james comey and why he selected a special counsel. the ability to follow any and all leads. i was quite satisfied. >> the former fbi director, robert mueller is charged with investigating meddling in the election by russia. the white house denies the accusations. >> the entire thing is a witch hunt and there is no collusion certainly between myself and my campaign. >> but so far nothing but praise for the decision from democrats. >> i was pleased certainly by the selection of mr. mueller you will not push him around and he is a straight shooter. >> and republicans are giving their cautious approval. matthew dowd says this is the just the beginning. >> the bigger problem is like a tree, you think the tree is just russia and then you start to dig and there is a root system and it can go in any direction that robert mueller wants to take it. >> we are still waiting to hear who will be the next director and president trump says he will make the decision and it could happen soon. >> in washington channel 6 "action news." >> all right thank you. >> from our delaware newsroom. police are investigating a cause of a deadly crash on the 2700 block of frazier road in newark last night. a passenger in one car was killed and two people in the same car survived. four teenagers in the other vehicle suffered non-life-threatening injuries. crews have repaired a natural gas leak that forced police to close a stretch of route 70 in cherry hill, new jersey. it was closed after crews accidentally cut the line this morning. katherine scott is live now with more. >> reporter: rick, traffic was diverted earlier but the cars are moving along just fine right now, you see the black patch in the road, the cars and trucks are driving over it. that is where repairs were made this morning. both eastbound lanes are open for an hour and a half now and as for the leak no evacuations were necessary. traffic is back to normal in cherry hill. at the site of a gas main break overnight. it started at 12:30 a.m. in the eastbound lanes of route 70 near curtis for nightly road closures for road work and one crew was completing work on a project for the transportation department when a 2 inch main was cut. heavy equipment was hauled in to get beneath the surface for repairs and traffic got by in one westbound lane. the westbound lanes are completely open by 7:30 a.m. as well as one eastbound lane. by 9:00 crews filled in the hole and smoothed out the surface before the inner eastbound opened at 10:30 a.m. >> as for pseg customers service was not disrupted. >> thank you. coming up tonight on "action news" at 11:00 an investigation looks into philadelphia's new controversial sugar tax dollars and where the money is going. investigative reporter, chad pradelli, is digging in state records and found some alarming subsidies and missing background checks and outstanding tax bills and allegations of physical violence. >> some of the findings do you think they did a thorough investigation? >> that is something we'll look into. don't miss this investigation tonight on "action news" at 11:00. quest love from the roots will d.j. at the pennsbury program after all. the high school announced that quest love canceled for saturday's big dance and received a letter from his representative saying there was technology concerns but quest love who is from philadelphia told "action news" it was due to a scheduling conflict but the situation is work out and quest love tweeted i will stick to my word and dj your prom saturday night. and told "action news," i'm not even going to charge them doing prom. case closed. and billionaire businessman michael bloomberg will speak at villanova's commencement it takes place at the stadium at 4:00. and those can watch from a simulcast on campus if they are concerned about the heat. and bystanders rescue aid woman that fell on to the subway tracks and a woman grabbed by the neck, see what led to charges of a school employee coming up. and melissa magee is back with the seven-day forecast. when "action news" continues in a moment. former new york congressman anthony weiner has plead guilty to transferring obscene material to a minor after a girl in north carolina said she exchanged texts with the politician for months and she said he asked her to undress on camera. after answering his plea he was released on bail. and could face up to 10 years in prison and may have to register as a sex offenders. >> an employee is facing charges for the way he disciplined a student. he picked him up by the neck and carried him down the hall. and joseph golden remains preon jail. the boy repeatedly walked out of class. the final confederate monument in new orleans is scheduled to come down today and they will take down the prominent statue of robert e. lee, completing the removalal of four confederate statues that they call divisive. this one unlike the others will be taken down during the daytime. and they plan to leave 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expenses and wages. victims hurt from exploding airbags are covered under a separate fund. a double edged sword from breast cancer, 155,000 breawome the u.s. are living with met static breast cancer. the upside is patients are living longer as treatments improve. the percentage of those living five years has doubled since the 1990s. the city of wilmington is promoting a healthy lifestyle by promoting the bike movement. they were encouraged to ditch their cars this morning and ride to the office instead. this was the kickoff to a month of activities to coincide with the wilmington grand prix. it kicks off in brandywine park. the "action news" team is out working ton stories for tonight at 4:00. alicia vitarelli is live now with a preview. >> happy friday. happy freebie friday. from hair removal to yoga to boot camp there is something for everyone getting ready for summer. >> and a florida couple says they were mocked for trying to have a baby and they did so on social media. and when they called for help we'll tell you how it play out. and gene windows for 90 doctors and then fake dirty denim for $445 but that is nothing to this detachable denim. i'll tell you first rick, because i know you want to order a pair. >> in this heat i might try it. you never know. quick break and accuweather when we come right back. time for the accuweather forecast, the weekend forecast with cooler temperatures. right melissa? it's refreshing and temperatures are cooler than they were today. a nice change heading our way if it's too hot to you. stormtracker 6 live double scan radar you see it's dry right now. no issues with precipitation it's all about the heat and hot air today. we'll show you the picture outside today in atlantic city. in the back bays of the marina there. looking at all the buildings. a bright blue sky and plenty of sun overhead and temperatures well above average, we have seen sizzling heat. yesterday a high of 91 and a high of 93 and we should be close to 75. outside in philadelphia, 88 degrees 87 in allentown and 78 in the poconos and at the coast in cape may 80 and dover 87 and you have the humidity to contend with, so in most spots it feels like the 90s when you factor in the humidity. here is satellite sheriff you look off to the west and we are tracking a frontal boundary draped in the ohio valley and portions of the great lakes. you see showers breaking out ahead of of the main line and we track the activity through the afternoon hours. essentially a warm front and cold front dipping down to the south and high pressure over the great lakes and the ridge of high pressure over the great lakes and that will cool us off in time for the start of of our weekend. >> so as we go throughout the rest of today. 2:00 this afternoon. we have a temperature of 91 degrees, 4:00 p.m. clouds and sun and a temperature of 91, an isolated shower or storm is likely and 6:00 in the upper 80s. 82 at 8:00 p.m. and down into the 70s at 10:00 p.m. future tracker 6 showing you we have a couple of showers we are tracking. showers at 4:00 in the afternoon from a west-east direction. they are spotty isolated in nature but because we have the heat and building humidity the storm prediction center puts us at a moderate risk of severe weather. 9:00 tonight we have a couple of shower wrez deal wng thing withd that makes way for the change. 92 today more than likely a heat wave today. with an isolated afternoon shower or storm. the front dips to the south as we get into the start of our weekend on saturday. it's cooler tomorrow with the northeasterly wind and lower humidity it's a nice day and high temperature of 72 degrees. here is the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast. as we get into the rest of the afternoon we are maxing out at 92 a spotty and stray isolated but strong thunderstorm is possible. on saturday, partly sunny and cooler and 72 for the high. sun to clouds on sunday and a high temperature of 73, and as we get into late sunday night there could be a couple of showers and this will be the case into early monday morning before we get late day clearing and otherwise next week temperatures are in the 70s. the heat is on today but the cooler air returns tomorrow. >> a roller coaster ride thank you. >> a famous painting just sold for more than $110 million in new york. a japanese billionaire won the piece after a 10 minute bidding war. the untitled painting was done by the late american artist. the last time that painting sold it went for $19,000 in 1984. there is more ahead in the next half hour of "action news" at 12:30. from homeless to harvard find out how the recent ivy league graduate beat the odds against her. and alicia vitarelli shows us the hottest beverage spots. those stories and more coming up fext. "action news" at 12:30 continues with rick williams. sara bloomquist and meteorologist, david murphy. welcome back sara is off and we begin this half hour with the latest on a developing story out of newport delaware where a toddler was hit by a vehicle. police in newcastle county is looking for the driver that hit the 1-year-old girl. john rawlins is live at the scene with the very latest. what can you tell us? >> reporter: hi rick, i am in the unit block of roosevelt in newport. we are waiting for an update from police. you see the driveway, this is where the little 14-month-old was and some how she was standing there with a car not once but we believe twice this morning. it's not clear if that was an intentional act or accidental act and the 14-month-old was taken to the dupont hospital where she is evaluated at this time. according to witnesses who saw the child she had a gash to her forehead that was bleeding but she was bleeding and conscious at the time. although at this point au