People with loved ones on the island that simply dont foe know what is going on with them and they can only wait and hope for the best. Officials from puerto rico says the entire island is completely without power tonight and maria will have dumped a foot of water on puerto rico. For people in philadelphia with loved ones there the worst part is not knowing what is going on. Olga says she lost connect with her sister and brotherinlaw last night and the brotherinlaw is a par littic. She says she is good dont worry about her. For us to take care of ourselves, so we are worried because i am calling her but phone calls dont go through. The same goes for captain Javier Rodriguez from the 25th police district. A huge portion of his family remains in puerto rico and quite frankly he is terrified. The difficulty is not knowing when well be able to communicate again that he is right or we are right. And sanchez has family on the island she says she fully expects philadelphias puerto rico population to spike here in philadelphia. There is a growing spike because of the growing fiscal crisis in puerto rico and we expect that to be more people. To leave as quickly as they can after the storm. But for the many people that remain fundraisers are already being organized. We are using our upcoming eventses to bring awareness to what is going on in puerto rico and raise monetary donations. Reporter that was referring to september being hispanic heritage month and no shortage of opportunities to help out any way they can including the puerto rican parade in philadelphia airing this sunday in philadelphia. More on that coming up in the next several days. Walter perez, channel 6 action news. Now to meteorologist, adam joseph, at the big board with more on maria track tonight. Now a category two hurricane winds sustained 110 Miles Per Hour. A large storm and effecting areas of the Dominican Republic and parts of puerto rico as well as the u. S. And British Virgin islands, the eye back over open waters that means it is in favorable environment to strengthen once again and expected to do that as it heads to the north and west. This Hurricane Season we have many Historical Records broken with harvey and irma and now maria. When it hit dominica monday night it was a category five hurricane with winds sustained 160 Miles Per Hour the first category five landfalling hurricane on this island ever in history. And then it strikes southeastern puerto rico as a category four, winds 155 Miles Per Hour the strongest landfalling hurricane in 89 years for puerto rico. Category two expected to strengthen at least to a three as it scrapes by the turks and caicos and toward bermuda as well as the east coast early next week and well need monitoring and you start to see it curve to the north and east. But too early to tell if it heads out to sea or hugs the coast. Thanks adam. The cleanup is underway down at the shore after Tropical Storm jose leaving its park on the coastline, it caused rough surf and tall waves that has eaten away at the shore and work is already underway to repair the beaches. Gray hall will have more ahead at 6 00. Now, to the latest on the deadly earthquake in mexico. Officials are vowing to look for survivors in the rubble of collapsed buildings. After the magnitude 7. 1 quake. More than 200 people were killed. And today mexicos president declared three days of National Mourning in honor of those killed. 52 people have been pulled out of the debris alive so far. Well have more coming up at 5 30. New at 5 00, a dramatic day in court for the man accused of punching a man with Cerebral Palsy in the face, he was expected to plead guilty and now his case is headed to trial. John rawlins live now in westchester with that story. Monica, a curious date indeed here. A simple open plea it should have been done quickly and the defendant signed on and did it all collapse after something that was said in open court and a second effort for such a plea and it too failed. What makes this curious is of course the alleged crime was clearly captured on video and the defense Attorney Says that his client admits what he did in a 711 parking lot was wrong. The widely viewed video outside of a 7eleven defend barry baker in orange mocks a disabled customer and at one time hits him in face, he sign aid guilty plea but it didnt go through baker disputing that the to men had never met prior to the 7eleven. Its important that he is not a bully. Bakers Attorney Says repeatedly he admits what he did was wrong but admits he did not target a disabled stranger as some assumed. The pair had a prior runin. A prior altercation. He is taking his lumps for hitting him. But an altercation that happened elsewhere barneys pub near the 7eleven while video cameras there pick up baker they did not record 22yearold michael ryan the man that was allegedly punched by baker at the 7eleven. They have no evidence of the complaining witness being here. Reporter so at this point the case is scheduled to go to trial on monday. We shall see about that. Presumably the man punched in the face will testify and the defense will call witnesses saying yes a punch was thrown but what was seen on the video was a continuation of some sort of incident involving the two men prior to being at the 7eleven. Live in westchester, john rawlins, channel 6 action news. It seems almost impossible but the driver of a tractor trailer got his truck stuck on the boardwalk at the jersey shore. The driver drove on to the boardwalk at albany avenue in Atlantic City. Traveling two miles south into ventnor and that is where the truck could not make a turn to get off the boardwalk and the cab had to be detached and towed. And they had to remove benches to move the tractor trailer and he told police he was lost and unfamiliar with the area. Time now for a check of the action news traffic report. Here is a man familiar with the area, matt pellman. And who is rarely bored because of situations during the afternoon commute. A big crash 95 southbound side right here by the allegheny on ramp and since we last spoke more fire crew as rived on the scene and now back to having two lanes blocked on the southbound side of allegheny and a travel time almost four times what it ideally should be. You start to hit the break as approaching cotman down from this point at allegheny, think alternates like the southbound boulevard youll be better off. The northbound side its pushed off to the side. The northbound side is thinning and the southbound delay is bad at this point. Chester county, southbound side of 202, just 6 Miles Per Hour approaching 29 great valley down to approaching 401 a crash there taking out the right lane. And if you are thinking about heading to the burlington bristol bridge, i wouldnt. Its going up in 20 minutes. Head for the turnpike connecter instead. Well check it again in the next half hour. Much more ahead on action news at 5 00 tonight. New responses to Jimmy KimmelsRepublican Health care plan. What bill cassidy is saying after kiln elaccused him of lying on his show. And the gift of life, how a simple Facebook Post led to a life saving decision and a bond between complete strangers. Lets check in with cecily tynan now with an owl at the zoo. Im here with danny and with dewey as well. Dewey is a speckled owl. Look at the camera here. They are called that because if you look at the pattern of the eyes, it looks like they are wearing glasses and they are found in south and Central America and they are opportunistic feeders they eat pretty much anything they can catch. Mice and frogs and even known to eat skunks because they have great eye sight. Owls have a really sense of smell. Join me Facebook Page during the commercial break and well have a live chat going on now and learn more about dewey and more about the sloth bears. When action news turns. Protip chop all your veggies for the week at once. Super protip buy your veggies prechopped. Boom. The best food at amazing prices, giant. If youd have told me three years ago. That wed 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. snaps if youd have told me that i could afford. A gigspeed. A gigspeed network. Its like 20 times faster than what most people have. 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And he claimed that cassidy lied to his face and cassidy responded saying kimmel does not understand the bill. There are billions more dollars to provide Health Insurance coverage for those in those states passed by, by obama care and we protect those with preexisting conditions. It has been retweeted 6,000 times. Two young women are celebrating the gift of life they started out as strangers connected through facebook and now they share an eternal bond. Register nurse and reporter ali gorman joins us tonight. Reporter an incredible story and heart warming a woman in south jersey felt compelled to help a woman she never met before. It was like a roller coaster but would do it all again. Erin francis and brianna siple are recovery but celebrating successful surgeries and the gift of life. Due to a childhood illness, erin learned at 24 years old her kidneys were failing and went on dialysis and need aid transplant. Nobody in her family was a match. You have to be positive but its hard. Newly married her husband rich shared her story on facebook to keep family if the loop. And hopefully could bring in a donor. That is where brianna then 23 comes in. Sometimes you read a story and feel like you cant do anything about it. But for some reason i felt so connect and like i was suppose to do something. She nevermeter rin and didnt tell her but started to get tested to see if she could donate her kidney and along the way she start the a video log. I have so many emotions. At first after six months she was rejected. I still know no matter what for some reason i was suppose to try. Months later she met erin at the gift of life walk and told her she tried to donate and another transplant center approved brianna and they had surgery september 12th and reunited in the hospital a day later. I like to see the big smile on her face its so special. After the bond we created. My hero and organ donor and best friend and the most selfless person i ever met. They got matching tattoos it says be more across their arm. Brianna encouraging others to become organ donors, if you cant do that try to do something to help someone in need. Incredible story. Thank you. Still to come on action news at 5 00. The 76ers are honoring the team and the legacy of philadelphia. A trend bucked by walmart. The unconventional way the company is stocking up for the busy holiday season. A blue mass in old city the Memorial Service was to honor local dea and personnel lost in the line of duty. Family and loved ones gathered at the church for this service. In wilmington it was about four letters, hbcu. He came to the Liberty Prep School to talk about the importance of education. The dealt wear 87ers and the Delaware Union lent their support to consider the hbcu and they helped to renovate the schools basketball court. And walmart is bucking the trend of large scale hiring this year, the company says it will offer extra hours to its current workers and take on more temporary workers at Distribution Center but did not specify how many. The rival target plans to bring on 100,000 temporary workers through the end of the year. The 76ers has have announced their spirit of 76 Campaign Games they will play seven home games on this Tribute Court at the Wells Fargo Center and that bell you see at center court will be included on the jersey for the games. The games are scattered through december and april and each honor the citys thist history and the 76ers past. Drone 6 is live above wildwood, new jersey tonight and meteorologist, cecily tynan, has the accuweather forecast. Sfx tmobile mnemonic sfx netflix mnemonic sfx tmobile mnemonic sfx netflix mnemonic sfx tmobile mnemonic sfx netflix mnemonic tmobiles unlimited now includes netflix on us. Thats right, netflix on us. Get four unlimited lines for just forty bucks each. Taxes and fees included. And now, netflix included. So go ahead, binge on us. Another reason why tmobile is americas best unlimited network. Time now for the accuweather forecast. Cecily tynan is live at is the philadelphia zoo. Im hanging here with meg. She say red footed tortoise from south america and i like her. She has a lot of personal for a tortoise. The way you can tell its a tortoise, it spends more time on land. Its the shape of a shell. You see the scoop, the kind of bump, they are really, really high. And if this animal were to spend more time in the water it would want to be more hydro dynamic. And a smoother shell. The legs look like clubs and that is so they can raise themselves off the ground and walk around and if they spent a lot of time in water there are turtles that would look more like flippers and better for swimming and she is cool and wants to hang with me. These guys since the climate is so consistent they dont typically do anything like hibernation, they actually get in communal groups and that helps them thermo regulate. There we go. Talking about thermo regulation. Well be in summer heat for the next several days. Philadelphia 86 degrees and allentown 85 and trenton 82 and wilmington 88 and cooler along the shore with the temperatures in the upper 70s. The reason why we have clouds thanks to jose and you see the western edge from Atlantic City to new york, and southeast, pennsylvania and delaware dealing with a good amount of sunshine today. But because jose is out there. We have some coastal flooding, the advisory is posted for the next high tide cycle for minor coastal flooding along the ocean between 8 00 and 9 00 and along the bay between 11 00 and 1 00. We are still dealing with the coastal flooding. Tonight partly cloudy and warm night. 69 in philadelphia and allentown 64 and trenton 66 and the boardwalk in Atlantic City. You wont drop down below 70 degrees. Feeling like summer and the day planner, the last official day of summer, temperatures warm up quickly and we start at 7 00, at 70 up to 80 degrees, by 11 00. And 3 00 and 5 00 up to 85 and it will be on the muggy side. And the next several days people will be at the shore and the weather at the beaches will be really, really nice. Rough surf and rip currents will continue. Youll want to be careful in the water and also if you are Walking Around be careful as well. There is a lot of erosion there. A lot of dunes eroded things to hurricane jose. And summer heat continues into fall. Tomorrow we look at a good amount of sunshine and again on the muggy side with a high of 86 degrees and friday as fall arrives, its still pretty warm and 83 and noticeably less humid and a Beautiful Day and we warm up quickly over the weekend. Saturday 86 degrees and sunday heading to the eagles game may want to wear shorts and drink lots of water with a high of 90 degrees and clouds mixing with sun and a high of 86 degrees and a great day to head to the philadelphia zoo and check out your friends like meg here. I will be in the exhibit not with the sloth bears but preparing it for the sloth bears. And then well bring them out. Pretty in her own way. Cute. Yeah. Thank you cecily. End of throat surgery. Guided you through recovery. Joe tastes just as sweet to us, as it does to you. We join you. Action news continues. Hello again. Here is what is happening on action news. A frantic search for survivors in the rubble of buildings destroyed in mexico during a 7. 1 earthquake. Well hear from worried pishners with family in the area. And a warning signin Montgomery County falls victim to the thing it was designed to prevent. Instead of getting people to slow down the speed sign became a target for drivers and a companion for local drivers how it helps a young man continue its work to help others. And its a race against time in mexico tonight where emergency crews are joining every day citizens to dig through the rubble of buildings that collapsed in yesterdays earthquake. Today survivors worked to free children trapped in the wreckage of what was a school. It was a heart breaking scene more than 20 children were killed. Several though are still missing and people are holding out hope that more will be found alive. We have more from carlos in mexico city. Reporter in a frantic search for life rescue workers are clawing their way through the rubble of what was once a wing of an elementary school. Raising their arms above their heads to silence the crowd to listen to sounds of survivors. At least 21 children and four teachers have died there. The building pancaked as yesterday the earthquake hit. Some students and at least one teacher among the missing. The 7. 1 quake sending fire balls into the sky. And people scrambling into the streets. The shaking lasting for minutes all around mexico city the buildings are in ru