people moving in next door. it s a good thing. right now it s a little bit of a bad thing cause of the dust. but we re looking for the new business to come into the community. reporter: for decades perceptions about public safety and homelessness have plagued parts of market east but with plans to overhaul the gallery and other projects like this one on chestnut street paul levy of the center city district says markets east is turning the corner. this is part of a completion of a 20 year process of really diversifying s-not only officers and healthcare but retail hotel residential so a really active vibrant city that s coming to market east. reporter: so, it would seem things are in motion here on market east. this is east market. that s the name of the project. this big project between 11th and 12thth streets and chestnut and market. it is a major undertaking the estimated price tag 500 million dodges it will probably take four to six years to complete. however they
substantially longer prison term. he faces a maximum of no less than 80 to no more than 160 years in a state correctional institution. reporter: now right now akhmedov remains in prison and is expected to be sentenced on october 1st. we re live here in center city i m dann cuellar channel6 action news. monica. all right, thank you, dan. meantime from our delaware news room, police in new castle county are on the scene of a deadly crash involving a motorcycle. this one happened at the intersection of moore s lane and mid field road in new castle. police say the motorcycle hit the right back of a small sedan turning into the castle hills park land area. the motorcyclist was taken to the hospital but died there. two people in the car were not injured. new jersey state police investigating two tractor-trailer accidents in gloucester county, one truck went over a guardrail near route 295 and route 628 in westville. another tractor-trailer was involved in a minor accide
but if you have to get up and you got to get to work let s help you through it. you ve got some storms to deal. reporter: i told you yesterday i thought we would see some of these storms even early through your morning commute. that s what s happening right now on storm tracker6 live double scan. we can see live lightning strikes happening as well. we can go in tight with double scan and show you what s happening. right along 202 in chadds ford along west chester pike and also the route one media bypass in south jersey as well right along route 49 getting some lightning strikes as well and the problem is not just the frequent lightning but the heavy downpours. we ve got the humidity even up from yesterday. so as you re driving to work you re driving through that. satellite6 and action radar showing that we re not looking at the entire region blanketed with storms that s going to last all day but the trouble is it s not just through the early hours. at any point today we hav
this afternoon. the threat tracker shows that there is moderate threat of any kind of localized flooding or lightning. the highest threat is for highs, strong gusty winds. a severe thunderstorm watch out already. this is the line of showers back in central pennsylvania that is approaching. this is the excessive heat warning today and tomorrow. once the line of showers comes through that s it for the dangerous heat at least for several days. 86 right now. wilmington, dover, millville, georgetown, a lot of places in the mid 80s. the humidity is high. it already feels like it s getting close to the mid 90s. we ve got at least a couple more hours of heating. back to the north and west showers are going to come in before we get a chance to have that feels like temperature triple digits. we have a lot of rain and showers and thunderstorms. and then it comes through the area so just about everybody is going to get rain. and then everybody is going to get significant relief from the
seven-day forecast but not for today. we expect temperatures to push back into the 90s. 67 in the poconos, 63 if you re heading out the door son. pottstown, 3 in philadelphia and 69 degrees in dover. yesterday was day six. we did see a high yesterday of 90 degrees. as we head into the rest of today, our temperatures push to 93 degrees. by tuesday, 91 but we do expect temperatures to drop out of the 90s on wednesday or thursday. right now, as we head into the next eight hours or so, our temperatures will stay in the low have by 6:00 a.m. by 9:00 a.m., 80 agrees and by the time you head out for lunch, 88 degrees. it will be a warm lunch hour. more details on what you can expect from your weather in my next forecast. right now, we check in with first alert traffic reporter jessica boyington. good morning. good morning, brittney. we are deal willing construction on the spring garden off ramp. road closed, signs and crew actively working on the scene right here. what the problem