27yearold antawn watson led officers on a high speed chase from pleasantville Atlantic City where he opened fire on officers. The video shows watson refusing to drop the weapon as the officers commanded. Instead he exchanged gunfire with seven Police Officers and an autopsy revealed watson suffered 45 gunshot wounds that he had pcp in his system at the time. The officers used the force found to be justified. None were charged. The Prosecutors Office released the video after new Jersey Supreme Court ruling this month that footage of Fatal Police Shootings should be released in most cases. Now an update on the investigation into a neighborhood dispute that resulted in the death of two people shot and killed last week in the citys frankford section. Tensions continue to run high as the admitted shooter has not been charged with any crime. And today the sons of the woman killed launched their own personal pursuit for justice. Action News Reporter sara Sarah Bloomquist is live in frankford tonight. Reporter the memorial continues to ride outside Robert Depauls home. Neighbors say the ma and who shot and killed depaul and his girlfriend August Dempsey is here at his home next door tnot charged with any crime. Today dempseys sons hand delivered petitions to the District Attorneys Office demanding justice. Anthony and Nicholas Dempsey arrived at the District Attorneys Office in center city this afternoon petitions in hand, their attorney by their side. He said the young men collected over 5,000 signatures calling on the new interim d. A. Kelley hodge to file charges in the murders of August Dempsey and Robert Depaul. The families of August Dempsey is that Robert Depaul welcome her involvement and would appreciate any information surrounding this investigation and its conclusion as soon as possible. The family. Reporter the dempsey is that depaul the father of four were killed on july 16th outside depauls home in the 4700 block of james street. The next door neighbor admitted to shooting the couple in the head. He claims during an argument the couple scaled his fence so he fired in selfdefense. That will neighbor was briefly taken into custody, then released. Lock him up. Reporter over the weekend neighbors rallied demanding to know why no charges have been filed. Dempseys son defendantd their mom. She would never provoke any violence because she knows she would have to make it home to me mine brother and i dont understand why hes still here in his his. Reporter outside depauls house a side overhead reads warning the murder of bob and august still free. Police are still positioned around the clock now because of fear of retaliation. Dempseys friend Barbara Miller says its all too much to bear. Everybody just wants justice. I feel like it needs to be served and i dont know why its taking so long. Reporter Philadelphia Police tell action news they wrapped up their part of this investigation and handed the case over to the District Attorneys Officers for a review. The d. A. s office says their investigation is ongoing so at this time they cannot provide any comment. Live in the frankford section, im Sarah Bloomquist channel6 action news. Rick. All right, sarah, thank you. A 17yearold driver has been charged for returning into several students with his car. Happened july 12th with video of the incident recently surfacing on the internet. Police say a fight between Ridley High School students and a rival school escalated. The suv ran over a 15yearold but fortunately only suffered bruises and abrasions. The driver did turn himself in to police and was charged as a juvenile. Well, if you live or travel through south philadelphia, then this is a familiar scene. Parking in the middle of South Broad Street. Its become a long standd tradition to park in the median but is it legal. A local Organization Says no and is suing the city over it. And the lawsuit has created quite a neighborhood controversy as you can imagine. Action News Reporter bob brooks is live along broad street tonight with more on the story. Bob. Reporter rick, you can believe it theres so many people who are passionate about this, again that familiar sight behind me there, parking in the median of South Broad Street but theres a certain activist group if they get their way no one will be parking there anymore. The view from chopper6 on this summer day reveals a familiar sight in south philadelphia. Cars parked in the middle of South Broad Street. But now theres a group who wants them moved out of the median permanently thats creating quite the controversy. Theres nowhere to park as it is now. If you start taking all these cars away from being parked in the middle of broad street where do they go. Reporter neighbors argue median parking is a south philadelphia way of life. This is like our birth right in south philadelphia to park in the middle. This has been a tradition for i dont even know, very, very long time. Reporter a lawsuit has been brought by fifth square. They describe themselves as fills urbanist Political Action committee. Theyre targeting south broad from washington down to oregon avenue stating in their lawsuit plaintiff fifth squares interest in the enforcement of median parking laws laws is to ensure the Safety Health and welfare of those pedestrians motorists and bike lifts that use or traverse broad street. They say its illegal in philadelphia code to park here in the median so they want the police to come down here and start writing tickets and they want the Parking Authority to help enforce that code. Many we spoke with say parking is vital to their business survival. It would kill us. We cant park we get ticketed every single day trying to be down here to work and then the people coming here to come into the store for two seconds they come out and get a ticket so its crazy. We need the parking. Reporter if it were to be stopped, some neighbors say there better be another alternative moving forward. Where do you go . Thats a serious question and if the city wants to move it and these activists want to move it, give us a solution. Reporter rick the big question is what is the city going to do about this . I called some officials today. They say theyre not going to comment on this because of the pending litigation. For now reporting live in south philadelphia, bob brooks channel6 action news. Rick. All right, bob, thank you. People are cleaning up across the tristate from last nights storms. Theyve been blamed for flooding in Gloucester County new jersey. Chopper6 hd flew over Rowan University in glassboro. Apartment lots looks a lake. Eight people were living in the basement for the summer. They have since been relocated. Philadelphias new. District attorney was sworn into officers today. Kelley hodge will that spend five and a half months serving as interim d. A. Completing the term of Seth Williams who resigned amid a federal bribery conviction. Action News Reporter vernon odom has more on the citys first africanamerican female district attorney. Congratulations. [cheers and applause] reporter former assistant d. A. Kelley hodge is now philadelphias 25th district attorney. The first africanamerican female. With family and colleagues packing a city hall courtroom she vowed to restore confidence in the d. A. s office in the wake of the scandal that surrounded exd. A. Seth williams. She spoke directly to the people of philadelphia. The citizens of this city deserve our best as members of the District Attorneys Office and i hope to inspire you all to always seek to be better today than you did the day before. Reporter among those beaming in the audience hodges parents and husband. She gru up in Montgomery County and first told her father she wanted to be a lawyer when she was only 10. Shes very humble with everything that she does and i appreciate that. To be her father, i love her so much. Reporter todays developments were of course triggered by the ouster of Seth Williams who respect signed in disgrace late last month after pleading guilty to end his federal corruption trial. Williams is in federal custody since his guilty plea last month. His former sentencing is set for late october. Many believe kelley hodge can have a positive impact during the five and a half months she has in filling out williams second term. She can restore confidence to the individuals who work in the District Attorneys Office. She can restore confidence to the public that were having moving forward in a positive way. I think for the public what is transpired over the past few months or years in the past were looking forward. Reporter hodges role in the d. A. s office may be prominent for some time to come. The could two candidates in the fall election are getting political pressure to name kelley hodge as a top assistant. At city hall im vernon odom channel6 action news. Still to come on action news tonight a new jersey family reveals their harrowing story after coming feet from a water spout while out canoeing yesterday. And Ducis Rodgers live in south philadelphia tonight for the start of eagles Training Camp. Hey, ducis. Reporter hey there rick. Day one is in the books. Coming up in sports well hear from head coach Doug Pederson for his comparison of this roster to that of a super bowl champion. Please tell me it will get cooler out here. Actually ducis it l the reason why, we have a cold front moving in but thats also bringing the threat of strong storms. In fact we have a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for parts of lehigh and berks county tonight. Ill track the storms, talk about the big cooldown on the way in the accuweather 7day forecast. All right, cecily. Those stories and much more when action news at 6 00 comes right back. It was something you dont see every day off the coast of new jersey but some boaters captured amazing images of a water spout that formed during yesterday its stormy weather. And for several moments they feared for their lives. Today they shared their video and their harrowing story with new jersey correspondent Nora Muchanic. It was terrifying. It was i feared for our lives. Reporter Roxanne Yates was with her daughter jayden and boyfriend adam on a canoe in the marshes sunday afternoon when she saw this water spout churning up the water barreling directly toward them. It was really loud. The grass was just flat from how fast the wind was blowing. It was several hundred feet high all the way up in the clouds maybe 5 feet in diameter on the ground. When the spinning thing whatever its called, um, when it started spinning, i started crying because it kept getting closer and closer. Reporter sevenyearold jayden jumped out of the canoe with her mom who laid down on top of her in the mud and marsh as the water spout sped toward them then suddenly not 20 feet away from them it shifted. Like it was coming straight towards us and then it veered the other way. Reporter stranded by low tide and unable to get cell service roxanne hit the emergency button on her phone. Cumberland county dispatchers were able to ping the signal. The muddy shaken boaters held up a life vest on top of the paddle. They did the right thing by getting out on the shore because you never know what could happen to small canoe if something had gone over top of them. These water spouts are mini tornadoes on the water. Reporter believe it or not it was jaydens first trip in a canoe. Not so scary after eight. All. Reporter it turned out to be. It was a terrifying day. The scariest day of my life. Reporter what started out as a fun afternoon of canoeing turned into a terrifying ordeal that no one involved will soon forget. In down township, im Nora Muchanic channel6 action news. A 320foot long vessel that used to shuttle passengers between delaware and new jersey is going to be sunk. The mv twin case will be turned into a man made reef next year. It will create habitat for sea life and newspaper and opportunities for boaters anglers and scuba divers. Some of the ships equipment and electronics are being removed so they can be resold time for sports tonight and it is football season again in philadelphia and Ducis Rodgers live at Training Camp on this first day. Hey, ducis. Reporter hey there rick. From seven and nine last year hopefully the playoffs this year in 2017. The work to that goal began today and things rick will happen rather quickly. The first preseason game is 17 days away and we are less than seven weeks away from the start of the regular season. Head coach Doug Pederson had his players on the field early this morning, 8 50 for the start of Training Camp. The first three days of this camp are just for the quarterbacks rookies and selected veterans. Front office made several changes, changes that had pederson comparing the talent on this roster to that of the Green Bay Packers of the 1990s. That team went to back to back super bowls. But coach knows its not just about talent. It takes a coaching staff, takes leadership from the top, it takes, you know, egos have to be put aside and we have to come out here every single day and work hard. I was on those teams in the 1990s and went to two super bowls back to back with the packers and so ive seen what it takes and i got to make sure were doing those same things here. Reporter new eagles wide receiver torrey smith hung out with his family on the field after todays practice. His sons cameron and tj. Smiths wife chanel gru up in conshohocken. Smith who came over from the San Francisco 49ers says he enjoyed his time off but hes ready to work. Its been fun, enjoyed the break and time to get ready for the real thing. Reporter how confident that this could be a playoff team. Very confident. You see all the talent, see what we were able to build in the off season so im just about trying to put it altogether in camp and trying to be the best team we can be whenever that first game comes around. Eagles, eagles reporter teaching his son at a young age thats the way you raise a young man. Now the eagles signed a tight end today to a three year contract. Hes got a very interesting background. Zaruba is a member of the Canadian National rugby team. He last played football competitively in high school. The 26yearold recently tried out for the team made the team. Hes 6foot five weighs 265 pounds. The eagles tell us he still needs to get a work visa before he can start practicing with the team. Moving on now to baseball just down the road at Citizens Bank park the phillies will begin a series with the houston astros. Astros one of the best teams in baseball. Vince velasquez will make the start tonight. Phillies are coming off a win over the milwaukee brewers. Yesterday the phils have won five of their last seven games. They have scored five or more runs in seven straight games for the First Time Since the 2005 season. The skipper says his players are motivated. Everybodys playing for a job next year. Everybodys playing to be part of our future and i think the guys are competing amongst themselves and its good to see. You know, everybodys more aggressive. Theyre into the games and obviously our offense has come alive so if that continues, i think well be in good shape. Reporter phils astros tonight. Its the eagles back on the field tomorrow morning. Were live in south philadelphia with the birds, im Ducis Rodgers channel6 action news. Rick, back over to you. All right, ducis and well see you tonight at 11 00 thank you. Take a quick break. Meteorologist cecily tynan has your accuweather forecast when we come right back. Stay with us. Meteorologist cecily tynan is here now. We have some cooler temperatures this week but also some wet weather as well. Yes, yes, some storms tonight and thats the front that will bring us the cooler more comfortable air but first we have to get through tonight. Lets go live on sky6 taking a look at the center city skyline where its quiet. Weve got a good amount of sunshine but there are some very strong storms moving into our northwest suburbs so a severe storm warning has been posted for parts of berks county, Lehigh Valley including new tripoli allentown kutztown towards boyertown. What this means any storm that rolls through has the potential for wind gusts up to 70 Miles Per Hour and also hail the size of pingpongs and there are more storms moving in from the north and west. Lets show you on storm tracker6 live double scan showing that weve got this is a cell that im tracking. Its hitting allentown right now. Its moving to the southeast at about 30 Miles Per Hour. Thats the severe storm. So emmaus line port Center Valley coopersburg Pleasant Valley and quakertown all in the path of this storm. This year alone weve had 87 lightning strikes in the past 15 minutes so thats a dangerous storm. Theres also another cell moving towards berks county. This has the history of hail the size of dimes. Thats not severe but thats still a very strong storm. So we could actually flip this over and we can show you the hail swath because this is the severe storm moving into allentown and you can see all that hail and again, that hail has been the size of pingpongs. That continues to move to the south and east and this is all with the line of the cold front and thats what will bring us relief but its also bringing pictures like this. Mike tweeted this to me. This is the Lehigh Valley. You can see just how dark it gets very quickly. You get blue skies and then you get the building clouds. Heat index shows you its not a heat wave but its still pretty hot. Philadelphia feels like 90. Our high today 88. Feels like 91 in millville and wilmington. Allentown a rain cooled 81 degrees. The heat index. So satellite and radar showing this is the line of storms. Its a broken line. Not everyone will get them but those who did will be getting some brief heavy downpours gusty winds and a lot of lightning. So future tracker timing it out, by 8 oclock well have that line of storms moving into our northwest suburbs hitting New Castle County by about 10 oclock moving through philadelphia into south jersey. Then everything moving off shore by about 1 oclock in the morning. Tomorrow morning you wake up, lots of clouds, perhaps some patchy fog but by the afternoon, the sunshine is back and you will feel a difference in the air mass. Instead of temperatures in the upper 80s and a dewpoint around 70, tomorrow 81 degrees, philadelphia, wilmington, millville. Many of our suburbs temperatures will be stuck in the 70s with much lower humidity. So, the exclusive accuweather 7day forecast, stormy tonight. Tomorrow its cooler with some sunshine especially by the afternoon. The high 81 degrees. Wednesday we keep that comfortable air mass, 82 degrees, low humidity. On thursday, it gets more humid, it gets warmer 87 degrees. Evening thunderstorms possible. Friday kind of a day of transition. Early thunderstorms. Then by the afternoon some sunshine, 86 degrees and that sets us up for a gorgeous weekend. Saturday partly sunny, 85. Sunday seasonably warm, low humidity, 85. And monday temperatures start to trend a little bit higher, a little bit more humid with a high of 88 degrees. And i will have an update on the storms coming up on action news tonight at 11 00. See you then. Great day to get outside and enjoy nature. These kids spent the morning exploring at the Camden CountyEnvironmental Center in cherry hill. They walked down to the water for a nature lesson. An instructor told them all about the different species in the water then scooped out some of the contents of the lake and let the kids look through it. They were pretty excited to find a tad pole. Abcs world news tonight with david muir is next here on channel6. Action news continues at 10 00 on phl17 with brian taff Sharrie Williams adam joseph and Ducis Rodgers and join us for action news at 11 00 on channel6. For Jim Gardner Cecily tynan Ducis Rodgers, im rick williams. Have a nice evening. We hope to see you tonight at 11 00. Tonight, several developing stories as we come on. The president s son in law jared kushner. Breaking his silence on capitol hill facing questions about his meetings with the russian ambassador, with the russian lawyer, with the russian banker. Will you be back on the hill . And walking up to the mic outside the west wing. The driver charged tonight. We have new reporting. The horror inside the rig. About 100 people discovered in the back of a truck taking turns breathing through a hole in the trailer. The stunning video just released. The ambush. The Army Green Berets coming under fire. The last stand. This evening, witnessing the fire fight with isis and what our team discovers when isis was using to get