warnings in effect former sorry county until 5:30. also sections of kent and new castle county until 5:15 so watching showers and storms bubbling up in the a atmosphere the heat of the day, the hee and humidity around trenton right now watching this particular cell producing dangerous winds in excess of 60 miles per hour. it also has the potential for some quarter to golf ball sized hail. we'll put a hail tracker on it you can see moving out of the levittown area moving into sections of mercer county right now. where you see the pink and purpose perp that's showing you the potential for hail size 1.2-inches in diameter. so that particular size about the size of quarters. as we move down into mullica hill, salem county, pitts grove, moving toward al owe way the potential for ponding on the roadways we're talking flash flood warning in effect until 8:30 this evening. find an alternate route if you encounteencounter flooded roadw. lightning is lighting up ultimate doppler right now. within this box we're talking over 1,000 lightning strikes. so if you can hear thunder, you can be struck by lightning. the entire area is under the gun for severe weather damaging winds as well as hail and also that lightning with this system as it moves through. so what to expect right now. showers and storms are firing across the area. and as we move from 7:00 until 11:00 we have that heavy rain threat, the severe thunderstorm watch goes into effect until 9:00 o'clock tonight. coming up we'll have more on the timing, plus another look at ultimate doppler to show you where the heaviest rain iain is occurring across our area. >> all right, scott. thanks. we also want to pass along phl experiencing an hour and a half delays right now because of weather. moon time last night's storm causing white spread damage across the area. skyfox over the scene in voorhees camden county which got hit march. toppled trees and downed power lines sparked several small fires. residents living in the nearby burnt hill arms apartment had to be evacuated but luckily there were no injuries. >> lots of storm damage reported in burlington county as well. skyfox was over pemberton in the area of henderson and ridge tornado warning was posted in burlington county for awhile last night. in glenn olden delaware county teenager was struck by lightning while running from his house to his family's car on east ashland avenue. fox 29's karen happen will have the latest oh and this can close call and how the teen is doing coming up shortly much you can get weather updates 24/7 at myfoxphilly.com. send us your weather pictures and remember we live stream so if you lose power you can still watch us online on your smart phone or tablet. >> to developing story now we're following in the city of camden. a lot of action at a home on erie street today. firefighters, police, fbi, all there so what is going on? investigatorinvestigators are tt fox 29's bruce gordon is live at the scene right now. bruce, you've learned this could be connected to a cold case. >> reporter: yeah, sure looks that way lucy. wasn't unfours many source telling us this search today part of on-going investigation. another law enforcement source saying that law men received information that brought them specifically to this the 300 block of erie. it's all connected to an act of violence some 10 years ago. they came early and they came with a purpose. fbi evidence response team members joined the camden county police and prosecutor's office in what look to the casual observer like an are a can he lull dig. 300 block of erie was cordoned off just after sunrise and heavy equipment was brought in to dig up the backyard of a mid block row house. neighbors were stunned at the site. >> i'min kd of surprised they would be this close to my home. >> reporter: a law enforcement source tells fox 29 investigators were looking for human remains. connected to a decade old around here. i mean -- >> reporter: you see this want goes through your mind? >> it's crazy. i mean everybody is out there. they want to know what's going on. >> reporter: her mother has lived in this neighborhood for more than 25 years. she watched the commotion, she worried about her daughter's safety. >> as a mom, i want her to move as soon as possible because like she has three little kids. my grandkids. and i don't need them to be seeing stuff like this he is special physical they do find something back there. >> reporter: law men packed up their equipment and left the block. their search complete at least for now. this woman lives in the targeted row home. >> you live here. >> they searched your house? went in your house? >> um-hmm. >> reporter: any idea what they were looking for? >> nope, not at all. >> reporter: they dig inside the house as well? >> i have no clue. they didn't let me go in there. >> reporter: police still on the scene standing watch over the home in the middle of the block here. we do not know whether law enforcement officials were able to find any of the human remains they were looking for. we do know this neighborhood has in the past seen more than its share of drug related crimes. iain? >> bruce, thank you. philadelphia police are asking for your help to identify two suspects in an auto repair shop robbery. the robbery at rays auto service was caught on camera. two men wearing hoods and masks held up a couple and two kids just six and seven years old. the man struggled with the gunmen and was pistol whipped much the man broke and the suspectsuspects took off empty . if you know something call philadelphia police. >> septa police say an observant passenger, mobile phone an brave detective have helped catch an armed man who scared people on the subway. it all started with this mobile phone picture you're looking at. police say a woman riding the broad street line last night spot add man with what appeared to be a gun in his pocket. she snapped that picture and sent it off to police. a detective spotted the man on surveillance video. and the chase was on. from city hall to love park. that detective describes what happened next. >> i immediately started screaming police, show me your hasn't. he twisted. um, a couple times. i kept screaming show me your hasn't. eventually started screaming lay down. he twisted again. he was not really listening to my command. at that time he started to get down but was still kind of hesitating i saw my opportunity. i holstered up and jumped on his back. >> and then arrested him. police say they discovered beebee guns and knives on the 49 year old. they have in the released his name. but say he's been in trouble before. charges are pending. tonight this man is under arrest charged in delaware county hit-and-run. collingdale police say conroy williams hit a man with his car on purpose on bedford of a back in april. the victim survived. investigators say the incident had something to do with the victim's ex girl friend. williams faces a long list of charges including criminal attempted murder and aggravated assault by motor vehicle. >> we now know what started a raging fire you saw breaking news right here on fox 29 at 5:00. a mainline mansion burned because of a fuel spill and electrical spark. the accidental fire started last wednesday on the 200 block of wyndham lane in wayne. investigators say the homeowner had been doing some work in the garage. doctors treated him for minor burns. a burlington county police department gets some new cutting edge technology. >> evesham police added body cameras to their officers gear many besides in car cameras evesham is equipped each patrol officer with body camera system. the camera can be how abouted in different places on each officer. the department says they'll make things safer, reduce lawsuits, help resolve cases and promote accountability. >> we've all heard smart phones. probably have all one. smart watches are coming. what about smart contact lenses. >> welcome to the future. why researchers say diabetic patients could benefit. also he says he battled crime in philly as city cop but as soon as he got hurt on the job, the city turned its back on him. >> i became a police officer to better myself, you know, to provide for my family. and now, you know, it seems like i made the wrong choices. >> we'll tell you why this former cop says he needs help and fast. fox 29 investigators straight ahead. and disturbing new details tonight. the body of a college student found bound inside a dufflebag. the grizzly clue that could help track down her killer. >> man says a three year old saved his life. what the toddler did when the man accidentally locked himself inside a hot car. >> and baseball all star game coming up right who are. 7:30 on fox. and chase utley it very clear why he wants to stay here in philadelphia. we'll hear from the phillies all star later in sports. >> right now ultimate doppler is lit up again. pretty much the entire area flash flood watch 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expect in your neighborhood. we're going to check in with chief meteorologist scott williams in just minutes. >> happening now a philadelphia police headquarters we now know body found stuffed in a dufflebag on north third street yesterday is a philadelphia student. fox 29's dave schratwieser is live at police headquarters with what detectives are saying. dave? >> reporter: lucy, the victim' parents just arrived here at police headquarters win the ho hour. they are here to see homicide detectives on their way in they told reporters they have no idea why this happened to their daughter in the meantime homicide detectives are looking for a suspect and a motive. homicide detectives now say it was 23 year old a art institute graduate laura, found bound with duck tape and murdered inside a dufflebag on north third street monday morning. >> she had been badly beaten. she had been strangled. she was stuffed inside a dufflebag. report roar police found the new york native' body inside a trash bag her hands and feet were bound with duck tape. hours earlier they found her silver toyota rav four with oklahoma plates torched in south philadelphia miles from where her bed was found. >> her whole life was in these bags from pictures to clothes to shoes to jewelry to everything. everything that she owned -- >> she was very special because her main goal in life were related to religion and to health things. >> reporter: she graduated from the art institute. police say she lived here on north eighth street with temple students until recently when they moved out for the summer. >> we don't have a clue. we have no idea what happened. >> dastardly, heinous, why? why?, why? why? why? brutal, unbelievably heinous. >> reporter: were checking surveillance video from where her car was found and where her body was dumped. fox 29 found her bank statement and personal journal notebook at the scene on north third. a red gas can make up and a burnt dollar bill were found near where her car was locate. >> somebody that's young in the prime of life going for everything that they love and dream of to have that snuffed out it's got me shaking. >> reporter: now police did find the victim's wallet and her cell phone. they say it does in the look like this a robbery. there were no signings of sexual assault. there is a $20,000 reward for information leading to an arrest an convict. iain? >> all right, dave, thank you. tonight this man is accused of stealing a flash screen tv, a cable box and a vanilla fudge ice cream drum stick from delaware home. 47 year old richard wall set off an alarm in the home in lewes yesterday when officers got there, they say they saw walls getting into a car. police say they found the tv, cable box and the ice cream in the passenger seat. officers believe walls tried to break into some other apartments as well. >> turning back to your weather authority now. a delaware county teenager was in the hospital overnight after being struck by lightning during last night's intense storms. fox 29's karen hepp is live in prospect park tonight. karen, you talk to the boy's brother. >> reporter: i certainly did. it's raining root now. we've been having late afternoon storms we get lot of rain. there was this teenager 14 years old and this is the car he was walking over to he is trying to get into this buddy's car. the buddy came here we're expecting him shortly he gets his hand the thing and he feels like he's struck by lightning. you can see he was certainly hurt by this. he spent the night in the hospital and we're expecting him to be arriving within the next five minutes but this is what his brother said it was like. >> just really scared for him. i thought he wasn't going to make it honestly. dan says his brother had just run from the house to car right here by this telephone pole when all of a sudden he felt like he was struck by lightning. >> said he tried to open the car door and got struck right in his arm. >> reporter: dan is still reeling. he says the scene was really frightening. >> blood everywhere when i came in and scary. crazy. mind blowing. >> reporter: medics rushed dave to the hospital. he was treated overnight. when the athlete starts high school in the fall he'll have quite a story to tell but right now he tells his brother he's still rattled. >> he said i'm glad that be alive, and he felt -- his thumb was numb. >> reporter: so again we're hearing from all these friends showing up. so many people in this family, a big family. they were obviously completely upset when this happened for very very good reason. we are expecting him back we'll hang out and we're going to hope to speak with him when he does arrive here at this house. guys, back to you. >> thank goodness he's okay, karen. live look right now at camelback mountains adventures in the pocono mountains much your weather authority keeping a close eye on this sky. you can see bigger limits looming off to the right right there as more storms begin to move through our area. chief meteorologist scott williams yesterday epic and now round two. yeah, you know, insult to injury, lucy. a lot of folks are cleaning up the damage from straight line winds and it looks like more showers and severe thunderstorms developing. it's warm, it's humid right now. rain cooled though in philadelphia area to 76 degrees. but those clouds, they're ominous and they are growing a lost in the atmosphere as we put this into 3d perspective, you can see those very strong up drafts approaching 50,000 feet so violent up drafts can lead to violent down drafts causing some of those gusty winds like the straight line wind damage that we saw around the voorhees area yesterday. so heavy rain moving around philadelphia. moving back into sections of south jersey right now. as these thunderstorms become severe. severe thunderstorm warning for mercer county until 5:30. sections of camden also burlington and ocean county now severe thunderstorm warning until 6:15. so very heavy rainfall around smyrna, delaware, salem moving toward the deptford area along the ac expressway. as move outside of philadelphia very heavy rainfall. severe thunderstorm lifting north of the trenton area right now in mercer county but as we move around philadelphia, very heavy rainfall right now toward the airport, mullica hill moving around the piles grove area. where you see the red and orange we're looking at rainfall rates one to 2-inches per hour and that is why we have that flash flood warning in effect until 8:30 for sections of south jersey because of that very heavy rain. many locations already receiving over 2-inches of rain. a couple of storm reports coming in to the weather authority. you can see some hail reported around lower makefield as well as the pitts grove area with these severe thunderstorms. airport delays, they are adding up up and down the eastern seaboard from boston to new york city, philadelphia reporting some moderate to severe delays, also, moving down to the nation's capitol because of that severe weather. once again the entire area under the gun until 9:00 o'clock for some damaging winds, some hail, as well as some lightning with this activity. so we're looking at lows to night around 70 in the city. 66 degrees in the suburbs. coming up, we'll time all of this activity moving out of here and much improved weather iain as we move into that seven day forecast coming up. >> all right. scott, thank you. >> police say a man tries to steal a fan with a mother and her child inside and this happened. you can see he didn't get very far. how some good samaritans jumped in and stopped him before he could take off. >> amazing stuff right there. he's a former philly cop who claims he's spiraling down to poverty because he was hurt on the job and now nobody will help him. fox 29 investigates his story ahead. >> let's take live look outside center city right now. you can see the winds picking up it's getting dark. we expect heavy 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the tens of thousands who have flooded across the border and just this past year alone. >> unbelievable survival story for an ohio family caught up in flood waters they got trapped in a creek that quickly flooded their car. authorities say the family tried to climb to hire ground but the mother was swept away 4 miles. before climbing to safety. the father then grabbed his daughter from the back seat and hung on to a tree nearby for almost an hour. >> when i got here i her the man screaming when i came down here, um, the car was in the water underneath this tree going across there and he was straddling that tree with the three year old daughter in his hands. >> authorities then led the father and daughter to safety and got their car out of the flooded creek. a wildfire tears through southern oregon destroying homes and forcing evacuations. the mack today sin fire spread through 2500 acres. six houses were destroyed. about 230 other buildings were harms way. the cause of that fire is still under investigation. >> olympian oscar pistorius out clubbing? a spokesperson for pistorius admits he got no a fight at a nightclub over the weekend. meanwhile, he's still out on bail for killing has model girlfriend reeva steenkamp. his family says he was at the the club with his cousin when a man aggressively questioned him about the trial. other witnesses say pistorius started it. he's awaiting closing arguments to begin in the trial where he maintained he thought steenkamp was an intruder when he shot her to death on valentine's day of 2013. he facing 25 years to life if found guilty of murder. to the developing situation in the middle east. deadly fighting rages on hamas and ace rail continue to fire on each other after a cease fire deal failed. militants are firing rock noose israeli territory after rejecting the peace deal israel is firing back. the rest of the world has been pushing for a peace agreement since violence between israel and hamas escalated last week. u.s. secretary of state john kerry is condemning hamas' decision to reject the truce. >> israel has a right to defend itself and it is important for hamas not to be provoking and purposely trying to play politics in order to gain greater followers for its opposition. >> today israel said it is prepared to step up its response and expects full sport from international allies. >> a man trapped inside a hot car. >> coming up how a thee year old helped save his life and it is a challenge practically every new parent faces getting your baby to sleep at night. imagine iain he had three of them all at once. doctors say they have the answer that could give you and your baby sweet dreams. what they say you are doing wrong still ahead. plus he says he served the city for two decades as beat cop but when he got hurt, on the job, well the city looked the other way. fox 29 investigates. >> let's hospital happen back outside right now. live look at center city. look at that. it is not looking too nice out there. storm clouds moving in. most of the region is under a severe thunderstorm w >> right now your weather authority keeping a close eye on the sky and of course ultimate doppler radar which is what you're seeing. another round of powerful storms headed our way right now. you could see heavy rain, strong winds even hail in your neighborhood. chief meteorologist scott williams is tracking the all. >> take a look at surveillance pictures from an armed robbery in bucks county. police say this heavy set armed man his face covered with some sort of mask rob the walgreens on york road in warminster on monday. investigators say that he stole drugs and then took off in gold sedan. you can't see his face in these pictures but police want to you call them if you know anything that can help. tonight a berks county mother is under arrest for the death of her own child. back in may, the fire department responded to a home on the 1200 block of green street in reading. that's found an unresponsive one yeared boyger maya rivera later pronounced dead at the hospital. investigators say an autopsy revealed evidence of abuse. upon further questioning police say the toddler's mother myra smith admitted to grabbing the child because she was frustrated over his crying. smith is now in jail charged with third degree murder. >> bergen county north jersey purrs charged three teens with sexually assaulting a 15 year old girl and taping the on and iphone. 18 year olds craig how well, justin drape per and wilson accused of having sex with the woman while she was drunk in the backyard where two of the suspects lived. they now face sex assault charges one is also accused of child pornography. >> in tonight's fox 29 investigates a philadelphia cop says the city he swore to protect and even the union he belonged to have abandoned him in his time of need that way. here's fox 29's jeff cole. >> reporter: from a distance 50 year old herbert spellman has the body of a pro if the ball player, broad shoulders on 6-foot frame weighing 300-pound. but to see him walk is to witness a man who appears to be in bone grinding pain. >> what kind of pain are you feeling right now? back, neck, nerve damage, knees, you name it. it's painful. >> report roar spellman is a former philly cop. >> i love protecting and serving and helping people. that was my nature. >> reporter: who wore the uniform for 20 years. before he says a crash in his patrol vehicle back in 2006 ended his career. >> i got rear ended i believe and was knocked unconscious. as a result of that i'm in terrible pain. >> reporter: spellman says his pain is so severe he cannot return to work. he wants the city to grant him full pension and cover his medical benefits. but the city just does not believe he's injured. in fact, he's been denied full pension benefits related to his injury continually both in front of the pension board and in court. medical records given to fox 29 investigates by spellman show in july of 2006, just a month after his crash, dr. jay glickman found his trauma was directly related to the injuries sustained in the accident. in march of 2007, dr. glickman writes that his final diagnosis is that spellman's disabilities are a direct result of the confident. >> three years later today gene stalk ken treating spellman for neck and pack bane reports he is totally disabled from full duty police work. >> they look at the mri and said off permanent injury. you got several disc messed up and nerve damage and there's in way you can return back to work. >> spellman who fox 291st spoke with earlier in the year walks with an obvious limp and with the help of a cane. he says, other than several years of workers' comp payments which ended in 2012, he's been without an income. he says his wife supports his family but it's not enough to keep his home out of foreclosu foreclosure. >> i attempted to go back to work and got injured even more, and as a result of that, i lost my and come now and i'm without anything. >> reporter: here's a big reason why. in september of 2009, dr. arnold berman a drexel university professor of orthopedic surgery found that spellman's injuries were now fully resolved, and that he may work as a police officer full time without restrictions. >> let me just argue from the city's perspective. he's all right. he needs to go back to work, pension money is taxpayer money. we can't give him this. i know my body is not lying because i'm in pain all the ti time. >> reporter: in december of 2009, the deboard of pensions denied him disability benefits and did it again a year later. fox 29 called the pension board but it was the mayor's spokesperson who returned our calls to say spellman had access to due process. the police officers union said it couldn't talk. it said to do so would be violation of medical privacy. as for spellman, he regrets ever becoming a philly cop. i became police officer to better myself. to pro void for my family. and now, you know, it seems like i made the choice here. >> jeff cole, fox 29 news. >> we've all heard of smart phones and smart watches but what about smart contact lenses? >> they could exist in the future. why researchers say diabetic patients could benefit from them. also, ahead, an elderly man arrested accused of shooting at a tv news crew. what happened to him just hours before that put him on edge. >> and it's the case of a marine with a missing heart. his family says he was buried without it and they're now fighting to find out why. we have the judge's ruling all new at 6:00. >> drenching downpours across the area. it's splash and dawn dash outside our studios. coming up we'll talk about the timing of if he were a lobbyist... if they were political contributors... maybe tom corbett would listen to them, instead of cutting... funding for their schools. but corbett's huge tax giveaway to the oil and gas... industry has cost us billions. forced deep cuts in education. and his mismanagement caused a massive budget deficit. now corbett wants to give the oil and gas industry even... more handouts. because that's who tom corbett listens to. and this is who pays the price. ♪ >> california teacher dances her way into the guiness book of world records again. terry dancing for over 76 hours straight with video game just dance. she already hold toss records but is he this was to fight childhood obesity. she says these exercise games can benefit a child health while also having fun. >> in your health news smart contact lenses may be in your future. swiss drug novartis and google teaming up to create smart couldn't tense lenses. the lenses will help diabetics and other people to help diabetes much the lense boss actually measure the glucose and tear fluid and send date to to mobile device. designers are working on lense that is would restore aging eyes ability to focus kind of like a camera's auto focus. novartis says it could be five years before the lenses are ready for you. >> a new study says dna helps create friendships. researchers studied to thousand friends not biologically related and this is what they found. friends genetically have more in common than strangers. they found that pairs of friends are genetically similar to fourth cousins much researchers say the most common gene shared by friends is the gene involved in person's sense of smell. the study is in the proceedings of the national academy of sciences. largest event of its kind in the world. and it's coming to philadelphia. the 17th annual brave new voices international youth poetry slam festival starts tomorrow. today mayor michael nutter helped wl come festival organizers and a few of the 500 young poets will be taking part. the festival will shine a spotlight on young people from across the us and five other countries. today we got a taste of some of the talent that will be on display. one young writer sharing a powerful poem about the dangers of smoking. >> rolling in packs of 20 i'm that bad mamma jama looking for trouble. once you burn me, i burn you and, baby, it ain't no cure for the way i caress your mouth. >> the festival will run tomorrow through saturday at the university of pennsylvania. the young writers will take part in workshops with renowned poets and writers and complete youth development program. that is super cool. >> she had so much presence. >> presence, right. >> elderly man a rested of accused of shoot tag tv news crew. >> what happened to him just hours before that put him on edge. and police say a man tries to steal a van with a mother and her child inside and this happened. you can see he didn't get very far. how some good samaritans jumped in and stopped this guy before he can take off. and chase utley is the starting all star second baseman tonight and that game will be right here on fox will he be starring for the phillies after the trade line. chase will tell you why he will >> live look right now at old city. your weather authority tracking storms clearly it is raining and raining hard right here. we'll check back in with chief meteorologist scott williams in just minutes. open the door. open the door! >> attempting carjacking in california stopped in its tracks by some good samaritans. a man tried to jump nap a van with a woman and her child. a group of bystanders though rushed over. forcing him out of the car and held him down. a witness says people in that community keep an eye on one another. >> i think it's great that people will stand up for each other. i know that won't happen in a lot of other neighborhoods. >> the suspect is currently being held for attempted carjacking, attempted kidnapping and attempted auto theft. >> good nor those people jumping in action right there. in detroit a man opened fire on tv news crew but he's not under arrest in fact police say he is the victim. the 88 year old man lives in this home much police say group of armed robbers beat and tortured him last week. he was -- it did not turn out well for him. on monday, reporter from our detroit station went to try to talk to the man but he apparently believed the reporter was trying to set him up for another robbery which is understandable. another news crew was also on the scene and reportedly the terrified man fired a single gunshot at them. no one is hurt. police believe the man was simply incredibly scared after all that had happened to him. >> a tennessee man lucky to be alive after being freed from a hot car all thanks to 384 old. temperatures soared into the 90s as bob king became lock in his car at his church parking lot in knoxville tennessee king was unable to get himself out of the car. but then he saw three year old keith williams near. and holler at the child that he was locked in and the boy ran for help. >> he was hot. he was lock in the car. >> very thankful, 'cause i don't know how long it had been. probably another 20 minutes sitting in there if he hadn't notified somebody. >> king says his car had electrical issue much the little boy's mom is impressed he knew what to do. >> absolutely. it is an age old question. how do you get your baby to fall asleep? two doctors from long island claim to have the answer and they're sharing it with the whole world. they say their method will help you and your baby sleep at night. fox's joel waldman is new dad so he definitely check it out. prior to becoming a father to beaut fell emma and don't lie now, what was your biggest fear? >> not sleeping. >> me? >> i never had that worry. and why would i? meet my little pressures five week old vita aaliya. >> cry for me. >> that's my hal baby. >> cute. >> that's me singing. >> is that a hunger cry or a dad get away from me you're a horrible singer cry. >> american i dollar mitt not be in your future. >> american idol may not be in my future but i started to idolize these rock star parents all pros at getting that are newborns to sleep through the night. >> as long as you stick to it, we can have your child sloping through the night in the first few weeks of life. >> it saved my and tire life. >> doctors louis and jonathan gentleman's see pediatrician brothers and coauthors of the newborn sleep book discovered something simple but extremely effective that could change your life as a parent something i wish i had known last night. >> guess who is up again? and no, it's not vita. it's me. >> this method is you have to recognize that your gut and your brain are connected. >> ideally we want to really subtract the mill of the night feeding out so by doing that it will be five feed passion day. >> the doctors say space those feedings out four hours apart or as close as you can at first to that magical number. each baby's volume of foodie pend on the individual child. the important thing for you to know is your baby is get all its food during the day and remember, not every cry is one of hunger. >> i have no idea how i'm going to get through the work day. >> i'm exhaust. >> i do know this. it would of a whole lot easier with thes? see newborn sleep book v good night. >> i hope i do. >> would your triplets have done, not feed them at night. no way. >> nor mine. the authors of the book told reporter joel waldman they have more than a 90% success rate. so who knows? of getting babies to sleep through the night before they're one month birthday. >> good for them. >> definitely weren't around when my kids were little. >> let's check back in with chief meteorologist scott williams. we're watching the atmosphere clouds, showers and thunderstorms kind of developing in the atmosphere as we take look around the center city philadelphia area. very moderate to heavy rainfall right now down toward the airport, camden looking at some of the shower and thunderstorm activity moving toward the narberth area. drexel hill as well getting in on the direction. take look outside of our studios. the umbrellas are up much those windshield wipers are going. the streets are wet if you encounter ponding just find a different route to go through. don't try and drive through flooded roadways. 74 degrees rain cooled, humidity at 85%. the entire area once again under the gun for damaging winds, hail as well as lightning until 9:00 o'clock this evening. we have that severe thunderstorm watch for the entire area. currently watching very heavy rainfall in south jersey as you move from deptford down to hammonton and we have a severe thunderstorm warning for sections of ocean and burlington county until 6:15. zoom in around the metro area right now you can see philadelphia moving into sections of camden county as we move into burlington county right now. very heavy rain moving toward tabernacle as well as browns mills. that's where we have that snear thunderstorm warning capable of winds over 60 miles per hour. heavy rain and comer land, salem county moving from new castle county into kent county around dover very heavy rainfall right now. that heavy rain has produced over 2-inches of rainfall. so the counties highlighted in green, flash flood warning until 8:30 this evening. watching out for that very heavy rainfall. you can see some hail reported earlier around lower makefield moving toward tabernacle, southampton, some hail reports pitts grove, some hail reports as well with the showers and storms popping up. so we're looking at the activity producing damaging winds, some hail. the heavy rain continues into the evening. the severe thunderstorm watch until 9:00 o'clock tonight. overnight leftover scattered showers and storms. but that severe weather threat will be diminishing. we have a cold front still off to the west. so warm and humid out ahead of it but drier air will be moving in during the day tomorrow. so as we time out the activity scattered showers, some of the heaviest rainfall by 8:00 o'clock into burlington, ocean county also moving toward cape may and comer land counties. still looking at activity by 10:00, 11:00 o'clock tonight. but we start to recover if you will in the atmosphere during the day tomorrow with decreasing clouds and we finally start to dry out. 91 degrees was the high temperature today. right now temperatures rain cooled into the 70s across the area. so overnight low temperatures, bottom out right around 70 degrees as you wake up tomorrow morning 84 degrees for the high temperature tomorrow with early showers. and then look at thursday. look at friday. sunshine, staying pretty nice. we'll give that a 10 forecast by the numbers on a scale of one to 10 looking pretty good. the weekend right now low 80s. there could be pop up storm on saturday. better chances sunday as we move nearly next week. we'll have another update with ultimate doppler coming up in a bit tracking these storms. though. >> scott, thank you. >> we got big-time thunder overhead right now. you can march it. >> shake the studios and maybe the all stars will shake things up tonight. >> you hope so in this town we want something exciting when it comes to baseball. tonight maybe that's the case. mid summer classic 2014 baseball all star game. the story line each day before the game really has been derek jeter he's playing in his last all star game but the only phillie this year in the game would be chase utley starting at second base. he's hitting seventh. then after the all star game, will he get back to what the phillies want him to do and will he be involved in a trade? utley in minnesota for the all star game made it clear, he pretty much won't approve a trade because he just likes it here. >> the fans have really showed me support over the years, and i really appreciate that. the fans in this town is why war all here to be honest with you. i know in philadelphia i love playing there. the fans support us. they're into the games. they're loud. they're exciting and i think they bring the best out of us players. >> nice thought. all they have to do is win. a reminder that our coverage of the all star game starts at 7:30 that's tonight right here on fox 29. also the 50th anniversary of the only phillies all star mvp that guy, that is johnny, for those people who don't remember much this is the ninth inning and the 1964 all star game two on, johnny callison hits three run homer to win it for the national league. he didn't even think he was going to be on the all star team. guys, like clemente and aaron and mays he did it. and they won. pretty cool stuff. now if you care about dwayne wade he got his money from miami signed a two-year deal. wade and the heat are now playing for the money. no chance they will win any more titles with this team. without lebron james you're ridding me? and wade's skills are shot but he still got god bless him $17 million a year and he can't play. that's unbelievable. tiger is getting his practice in on the range for this year' british open which begins on thursday. phil mickleson the defending champion but tiger is just trying to win another major let alone the four he needs to tie jack nicholaus. he still trying to get everything he needs to win that tournament. >> you can have emotional turmoil and still play well. physically when you're hurt, you're hurt. and it's, um, it's tough to really play well especially over long period of time. this -- golf samarra thon. it's four days. when i'm physically not feeling my best it's turf. >> germany coming off the world cup winning their fourth. held their celebration today in berlin in germany. the parade for the championship celebration an estimated 400,000 showed up to root on their stars. they got a new fan. guess who jumped on? that would be rhianna. now a german soccer team hanger on. she has the world cup trophy and the players have their trophy. she just needed another photo op. >> maybe she's always loved them, howard. just saying. >> i'm going to ask you do you believe that? no. i'm just saying maybe. >> all right. another full half hour of news straight ahead. all new at sick fox 29 talks to the 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system moving through it is bringing heavy rains and powerful winds. let's get you right over to chief meteorologist scott williams. >> good evening iain and lucy. of course, we continue to follow the threat for strong and severe thunderstorms the entire area under the begun for damaging winds, hail as well as lightni lightning. right now, around the philadelphia area, down to camden, collingswood looking at some of the moderate to heavy rain. but we're watching the atmosphere in the vertical. you can see those thunderstorms growing to 30,000 feet. so strong up drafts can produce violent down drafts and that's what produced the damage in voorhees and sections of burlington county last night