Eye on the surf and the potential for flooding and following an accuweather alert for parts of our region as the impact of hurricane jose begins to peak. We have Live Team Coverage tracking the effects at the shore and we begin with cecily tynan with the latest from the National Weather center. Monica and rick hurricane jose remains a category hurricane maximum sustained winds 75 Miles Per Hour. Its tracking 200 miles off coast and you can see the highest winds, the most intense rain right around the center of it, beginning to make the turn to the northnortheast. Moving at 8 Miles Per Hour. Some showers are moving in south jersey and delaware and even a few light showers near philadelphia and the reports show you that we are dealing with gusty winds and one buoy in the mouth of the delaware bay winds sustained at 28 Miles Per Hour and gusting up to 40 Miles Per Hour but the most intense part of jose is the wave action. Its really whipping up the surf wave heights impressive up to 25 feet at the center of the storm and closer to land wave heights of 11 feet and constant wave action piling up the water at the shore and that produces the tidal flooding. The next concern is the high tide cycle between 7 30 and 8 30 along the shore. The back bays one two two hours after that. And looking for moderate tidal flooding tonight and even tomorrow morning the potential for minor flooding. The coastal flooding and the beach erosion the main concern with jose. Jose is a category one hurricane and we have Hurricane Maria a powerful cat five. 165 Miles Per Hour winds heading toward st. Croix and puerto rico. Ill have more details on this storm in the full accuWeather Forecast. Thank you. Chad pradelli is tracking joses impact for us on the shore firsthand. Live in ocean city tonight. Reporter hey monica, impact certainly being felt in ocean city. And the rain picked up in the last 10 minutes, here on 5th street at the boardwalk, want to show you the surf. The main issue is with this storm is the high surf. The waves are powerful and peaking hundreds of yards from the shore line and you see it coming all the way here under the boardwalk. I was talking to a woman that lived here in ocean city for 20 years, she says this is the first time she saw the water come under this section of the boardwalk, i want to show you the beach erosion the second aspect with the jose impact. So far with this storm. You see that dune was extended out yesterday i would say 20 to 30 feet according to residents that were here that is washed away into the atlanta ocean. You see the sharp cliff look there on the dubs and they are now getting washed into the atlantic ocean. Not a whole lot of people on the boardwalk, take a look. A few people were coming to take pictures and for the most part not a lot of people. I was talking to people and they say they saw people out in the waves, and you see how strong it is. Yesterday an adult and three children were in the waves. Phonings you need to stay out of the water, that is the warning from officials. Rip tides have been particularly bad this year and with this storm, the rip tides are deadly and people need to stay out of the water. It is dangerous and looks inviting but stay ashore. Well watch the tidal flooding later this evening and more reports later on on action news. Chad pradelli, channel 6 action news. Thank you. Lets head down to North Wildwood and that is where jeff is continuing the Team Coverage tonight. Reporter rick, the rain is picking up here as well. So is the tide. Take a look. We are still several hour as way from the official high tide. But within the past 30 minutes, we see this water, the waves get larger and stronger and coming and crashing over the rocks. Jose is several hundreds miles out to sea and the folks in North Wildwood are feeling the effects. It came up to here and jonah came up to here flooding is nothing new to mike newell and mike clark, they are keeping an eye on the back bay. Just feet away. Streets around the mens Home Flooding during high tide and is expected to be worse tonight. What are you expecting tonig tonight . I expect it to go in the house but i hope not. North Wildwood Fire Department is getting ready and high water vehicles are fueling up in case of emergency. Meanwhile onlookers gathered to watch the rough seas and high winds and crashing waves gave residents and visitors quite a show. Its almost never this high. This is low tide, and it looks like full high tide. The waves are ridiculous and you cant walk on the beach the sand was blowing in our face. And the waves washed away part of the beach and this pavilion was closed for fear of collapse and the city is facing erosion and possible flooding the mayor is keeping a positive outlook. Im having a hard time not moving around. I cant imagine going through a category one or two. That would be something that would be really devastating. Reporter back out live the winds continue to crash ashore. I have a feeling when we are back here at 6 00 tonight we probably wont be able to stand in this spot and the waves continue to get larger and closer. The mayor says he is expected two feet of water. And some of those low lying areas after tonights high tide. Reporting live in North Wildwood, channel 6 action news. Thank you. This reminder you can get the latest on hurricane jose by visiting 6abc. Com part of our complete weather coverage available any time on the 6 abc app. As jose spins off the east coast we are keeping an eye on the caribbean, Hurricane Maria is headed to puerto rico. The storm made landfall earlier today and Officials Say it caused staggering devastation. The storm cut off phone and Internet Connections in the country and it has been hard to get images or video of that damage. Right now to a developing story. Officials in the Lehigh Valley says that charges will not be filed in connection to the death of a Lafayette College student. Walter perez was there for the announcement. Live in easton with the full story. Reporter rick, the da says that the investigation is not over yet and toxicology tests are not back yet but the story told by witnesses seem to corroborate in this case and paint the picture of an accident and nothing criminal akin to the penn state case. The da means that after interviewing everyone that had contact with whlafayette Mccray Williams there is no reason to believe anything criminal occurred. I have no evidence of criminal conduct on the part of anyone. Witnesses said williams was drinking through the weekend beginning on friday. And never appeared to be out of control or overly intoxicated but by saturday afternoon williams was in his dorm room and started vomiting and a fee female student went to check on him and he vomited again. She is not paying attention and hears a loud sound. And turns around to look she sees mr. Williams on the ground. He reportedly said he was okay and when to sleep in his bed. Over the next 24 hours or so his teammates popped in to check on him and then williams slept through the morning and when the teammates check on him again they described him as groggy and agitated and decided to take him to a doctor and called the coach who instructed them to call 911. Williams was in the backseat of a vehicle and then taken to the hospital where he died the following day. It seems the Blunt Force Trauma occurred when he fell and the only thing the witnesses are guilty of is not knowing what is going on. He was saying from what i gather, get out of here im sleeping and he was not unconscious even when they took him to the hospital he was semi conscious. He was asked about the possibility of underage drinking charges, proving anything like that in court this far after the fact is virtually impossible. No criminal charges will be filed at this point. Thank you. President trump had a clear message today for the United Nations when he addressed General Assembly america first. A speech the white house billed as an incredible moment and an enormous opportunity. He used his speech to call out enemies of the United States. Condemning the nation for the continued defiance of international demands. The United States has great strength and patience but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, well have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. Rocket man is on a Suicide Mission for himself and for his regime. The president set his sights on iran blasting that regime as a destabilizing force in the world and called for reform of the United Nations saying they feed less talk and more action. Lets get a talk of the action news traffic report. Lets go to matt pellman. We are doing soggy here at the cape may toll plaza, no reports of flooding closure as long the major roadways down here. Its passable and traffic is moving fine along the parkway and the same is not true in marlton at evesham road where the promenade is on the northbound side. Stick with spring dale instead of 73. And cherry hill 78 westbound money construction for another hour by chapel avenue by peoples pizza, one lane out of commission until 6 00 and it sounds like the crash on 42 southbound in Gloucester City has cleared and residual delays back to the walt whitman bridge from 676 southbound. And its camera time in montgomery county. Typical westbound slowing at the casino and route 23 and better news on the eastbound side where the 23 on ramp reopened yesterday and the construction project there is finished. Okay thanks matt. Much more ahead on action news at 5 00. A message from governor Chris Christie to President Trump the initiative christie gave a big financial boost to today. And the fight against the Opioid Epidemic how the states top Prosecutor Says this step will help to solve the crisis when action news comes right back. Protip chop all your veggies for the week at once. Super protip buy your veggies prechopped. Boom. The best food at amazing prices, giant. Giant has unbelievable pro tip produce prices. so youll never have to choose between your favorites. I thought i was your favorite. Take a fresh look at giants produce prices. Health check tonight new jersey governor Chris Christie says he will spend 200 million to fight the Opioid Crisis in the garden state and wants to set a National Example on how the crisis should be addressed and the money will go to established and new programs requiring all medical schools to require a curriculum on opioid addiction. In pennsylvania the top prosecutor made an announcement hoping to push the fight against opioids in the keystone state in the positive. They have joined a National Investigation targeting those that make the drugs and those that distribute them. Lee powells life was cut short in 2008 when he dried of a Drug Overdose and 13 pennsylvanians like powell die every day of an overdose and 80 of people suffering from opioid addiction began by using Prescription Drugs and now a nationwide investigation targeting what they say is the source of the problem. And now they are pulling our resources and actively coordinating across party and state lines to conduct a wide ranging details review of all the Major Pharmaceutical Companies involved in this crisis. Issued subpoenas to eight companies five that make opioids and five distributors that handle 5 of the opioids. People here in the community are finding a way to make money and you can go into any emergency room and cry you have back pain and walk out with 15 percocets. Joe was given his first pain pill. A friend told me to try it and i felt like i was invincible. And soon on the dark road to heroin. I did not want to be that person. They hope the investigation will save other families from pain like hers. He hopes it removes the stigma of addiction and moves more people to get the help they need. Still to come on action news tonight. A drug store deal approved by the feds, the multibillion dollar sale that has walgreens growing more. New at 5 00 the service of cold stores saying they will provide to amazon customers. Kohls says some of its stores will begin accepting return items to amazon 82 stores in the chicago and los angeles areas are tabbed to pack and ship to amazon with no charge to customers this after kohls says they will sell amazon brand devices in a dozen stores no word if that will expand to kohls stores worldwide. And federal regulators accepted the plan to buy up half of riteaid stores. Walgreens gains nearly 2,000 stores in the deal. The plan is in the works for two years after walgreens tried to buy riteaid out right in 2015, that led to the partial deal approved today. People in West Philadelphia got important Free Health Screenings today. Pen medicine came together for this event. And they got their Blood Pressure checked and given guys from cardiologists and they taught the life saving skill and there were Healthy Cooking dem stral stralgsstration as well. This is all hosted by the housing authority. Ali gorman moderated a discussion today about gene therapy. Experts came together in center city to talk about the potential to treat more diseases in the future and the obstacles facing the emerging industry. Hosted by Life Sciences pennsylvania. Still ahead on action news at 5 00. Well check the forecast. Looking live from the jersey shore there you see cape may. Cecily tynan will have the latest on hurricane jose when action news continues tonight. Time for the accuWeather Forecast. Tracking jose as it continues to bear down on the jersey shore. Moving northeast at 8 Miles Per Hour. We see showers developing from jose moving inland. Lets head to the Weather Center this is radar on jose and you see the showers reaching the i95 corridor and not reaching the northwest suburbs as jose spins up the coast 200 miles off the east coast. So the rain showers are ending around midnight as jose continues to push to the northeast and once it is out of here we are getting set for summer like temperatures, actually right through the weekend, our first weekend of fall, jose is weakening offshore and it will kind of sit and meander there for days. If you head to the jersey shore and delaware bays this weekend, the rip currents and high surf continues through the weekend. And with the temperatures you may want to head to the with each. Double scan live radar showing now we have showers moving from jose and hammonton and glassboro and pinwheeling in from the north and east off the atlantic and that is piling up the waters. Temperatures you see depends where you are. Allentown and reading they say jose its not affecting us . Sunshine and temperatures in the 80s and mixture of sun and clouds and right along the shore with the clouds and showers, quite a bit cooler with temperatures in the upper 60s. You see satellite and radar here is the center of the storm again pushing to the northeast holding on to the category one status with maximum sustained wins of 75 Miles Per Hour. And moving into cooler water as we head through the week and that means it will continue to weaken and the time we are concerned about for high tide is the tide cycle. Moderate tides in Atlantic City but tomorrow morning and even tomorrow evening well still see some coastal flooding but it should be on the minor side. Once we get rid of jose temperatures begin to warm. We have a little bit of an upper level disturbance moving through tomorrow. So it wont be completely bright and sunny, 11 0078 degrees and temperatures in the low 80s in the afternoon. The big story in the atlantic is Hurricane Maria. Maximum sustained winds up to 165 Miles Per Hour. A cat five bearing down on the u. S. Virgin islands, st. Croix likely the next target for maria with a Hurricane Force winds and then it looks like it make a direct hit in puerto rico heading to the turks and Caicos Islands after of that and hopefully after that out to sea. The fiveday at 5 00, a mixture of clouds and sunshine and warm day 84 degrees and thursday 86 and fall arrives and its warm. 84 degrees and look at the weekend 86 on saturday, and sunday up to 90 degrees and let you know if things cool off in the sevenday forecast. Thank you cecily. Quick break and more news stay with us. Action news continues with meteorologist, adam joseph, jaime apody, Rick Williams and monica malpass. Hello again here is what is happening on action news tonight. Wind and waves are kicking up at the jersey shore as hurricane jose makes its way up the east coast. We are live with the effects and the track and homecoming for local heroes meet the men and women that helped victims of the hurricanes in texas and florida. 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