Been downgraded to a Tropical Storm. Still harvey delivered quite a punch to the Lone Star State and major flooding is now likely. One fatality has been link to the storm but officials feared that number will rise. We have Team Coverage tonight we will begin with abcs lana zach in houston. Reporter were happy to say Hurricane Harvey is no more but Tropical Storm harvey is also bringing his fair share of problems, nearly 500 flights have been cancelled here in the houston area. And were expecting up to 2 feet of rain. When Hurricane Harvey roared into shore. Tropical wind of 130 miles per hour, and storms surges reported as high as 6. 6 feet in port la vodka. Millions in the storms past, residents of texas, mississippi and louisiana. Corpus christi punishing wind, pulled down power line, gusts blew out windows. Oh, my god. Reporter and tore giant structures like this, among hardest hit rockport at least one person confirmed dead when the devastation there tremendous, building after building ripped apart. Throughout the region emergency teams worked heroic ally but concerns continue. Corpus christi is, you know , Third Largest chemical port in the nation. So, there is, there is a potential that we could have a different type of chemical releases. Reporter bringing witt new problems, widespread relentless, torrential rain. Were not measuring in inches of rain but in feet of rain. Reporter already here in houston flooding in residential areas with advice from the governor, as the rain is expected to continue for days. Turnaround, dont drawn, dont risk your life. Reporter coastguard reports that they have successfully saved at lee 18 people, but, the risk of flooding and drowning really becomes a greater concern here particularly as the buy yous and rivers continue to rise. Reporting live from houston l ana zach channel six action news. Thank you. Meanwhile volunteers from our area are already on the ground in texas to provide the much needed help. Action News Reporter Trish Hartman is live at red cross headquarters in center city with that part of our coverage , trish. Reporter well, walter, as the storm rages on people from here in our area are helping those affected by Hurricane Harvey both from a far and then in texas. On the third floor of the American Red Cross building in center city. At the moment we are working and professional shelter. Reporter volunteers are fielding hundreds of calls from texas as storm pummels the state. Many looking for shelter. Youre helping people on the war day of their lives and talking on people on the war days of their lives. People calling in tears, people calling in freaking out and do the best you can to be able to work through that. Reporter in addition to the call center American Red Cross of eastern pennsylvania has sent two volunteers to texas. We spoke to one of them on the phone. It makes you feel good when you see, how youre helping these people and then makes you realize how lucky we are up there. None of these storms hit us up here as they have hit other areas of country. Reporter fred of sellers ville is in houston now preparing Emergency Response vehicles. When storm dies down he will head head to Corpus Christi hopefully early next week in the help in the most heavily affect areas. There were several areas down there and that is where our vehicles will be separated out, helping a few people and then we will venture that they are running, nothing happens, i would say, safety items working we dont want anybody to get hurt. Reporter way for folks here at home to help, donate blood. People who give blood in our community we will get that blood to texas because those hospitals are going to be challenged, with blood supplies. Reporter other organizations are ready to help too, pennsylvania spca says it has sheltered animals from disasters before and says it could be called upon again to help animals who need shelter. E officers are helpinget that those affected in texas. We also check in with a red cross of new jersey, they say they have 12 volunteers, helping, in texas, red cross officials encouraged people to donate money, or their time, if they would like to help. Reporting live from center city, Trish Hartman for channel six action news, walter. Thanks, trish for that report. Most Severe Weather has moved on people live along the storms path are dealing with what remains behind, specifically, quite a mess. Meteorologist Karen Rodgers here now with more on harveys impact, karen. Hurricane harvey made land fall as a category four the strong toes hit texas since 1961. Now a Tropical Storm but look at this image. You can still see what looks like an eye, center of the storm, no longer an eye because it is a Tropical Storm but look the at convection we are seeing with this as well. You can still see thunderstorms, pounding rain and that is real image. This is a look at storm track er six live 3d can you see these band of rain. They are sitting, spinning, they are wrapping right around this center, but Tropical Storm harvey isnt budging, and that is the real issue. So yes, they had horrible wind that they dealt with as a category four hurricane, very powerful winds but now the issue is the rain and the rain is a real concern because that flooding could be, serious for people in this area over the next three days, as we ares looking at harveys rainfall look at this, victoria projected 20 inches of rain, 21. 14 in houston. So you can see these high numbers. That is over the next three days. I think these numbers, reason people are saying it could be more than 2 feet because it will sit, spin even longer then. That it is kind of stuck with no steering. Nothing to force it out of here. I want to show you something. This is what we would normally show, the cone, the area that is most projected to be affect when we show you this usually it is shaped like this, right, you have seen this all before where you see cone and effect. This is a circle, because it is not budging. Harvey is sitting, harvey is spinning with High Pressure to the south, High Pressure to the west, it is not going anywhere and that is why it is such a big concern. We will continue to talk about the effects of what is now Tropical Storm harvey, and also, our weather coming up in a few minutes, walter. 20 inches of rain my good ness. Thank you karen of of course, world news saturday will have very latest on the storms path at 6 30 right here after action news. In other news tonight police are investigating a home invasion, and, four mask ed men, in south philadelphia. It happened 4 00 a. M. At a home in the 2,000 block of south 64th street, investigators say the attackers entered the home and quickly tied up the family of four, inside. They went on to steel the familys safe and then took off, nobody was seriously injured and anyone with any information is asked to call the police. Head of the fraternal order of police says he is pleased that the names of the officers involved, in Police Involved shootings will not be released for now. Fop Officials Say they have successfully obtained an Emergency Court order to stop mayor jim kenneys policy of releasing names within 72 hours of the shooting. This followed a mass demonstration outside of an officers home in northeast philadelphia earlier this week it is really important to our officers on the street, their families as well. I mean you saw what happened the other day and this was a direct result of the city releasing the name of this officer, and eventually they are getting the address, and so it is a family that has been going through hell. Temporary injunction, barring release of names without the judges approval will remain in effect until a hearing this coming september. From our delaware news room Fire Fighters faced quite a battle contending with a house fire in New Castle County this video was shot by an action news viewer just after it started right around noon time. Home was located on the unit block of north trail, in brandywine 100. Nobody was injured but as you can see the house was severely damaged. No word yet on how the whole thing started. Much more to come on action news tonight, it is beginning of the another school year for college kid in delaware. We will take to you move in day for students at ud. And later a, journey to help save lives how hundreds of people are taking part in the annual susan komen walk, how far they have gone and how much further they have to go. Plus we will get live to the Wells Fargo Center as soul gets ready for arena bowl 30, jamie apody has sports when action news comes right back volunteers, spent part of their weekend pitching into clean up a john heinz wild life refuge right there in southwest philadelphia refuge is home to hundreds of bird species as well as reptiles, fish and certain mammals. It was established back in 1972 as very first wild life refuge in the country. Today is National Womens equality day commemorating the day that women received the right to vote. They began with the reception at independent National Historical parkas woman gathered to celebrate a turning point in american history. On this day back in 1920 that the 19th amendment was ratified, battle to reach that began way back in 1848 with the beginning of the sufferage movement. Girls were sizzling in wilmington as chef, competed in the 2017, delaware Burger Battle. Culinary masters produced best , creations, offering gets unlimited samples during sixth annual event. Proceed from the food fight benefit ministry of the caring and delaware pro star. Over pennsylvania five years, delaware Burger Battle has raised more than 37,000 for charity. Unique of blue hens landed at the university of delaware. Whole bunch offloaded vehicles as you can see lined up outside campus in newark, ready to get those students in the dorms. First weekend at ud features festivities, designed to welcome incoming freshman, including a puppy play date tomorrow. How about that. Younger generation was also getting ready for new school year, today, in philadelphias germantown segment. Action cam was outside john de kelly school for 13th annual pep rally circle of prayer and book bag give away a long with getting backpacked fills with donated School Supplies they enjoyed ice cream, Face Painting as well. This effort is made possible of enan tabernacle baptist church. Well, how about that, some pretty specify i outfits were on displays at famous Centre Square golf club in norristown as members of the six abc team hot the links. The tournament was great chance for members of the six abc family to get together, for a little friendly competition. All right. Time for a check of sports, jamie apody here talking football but not eagles. Yes, call it soul saturday. Yes. Here we go, title time, Arena Football League team fights to defend its championship tonight at the Wells Fargo Center. Channel six proud to be able to show you this game tonight. Jeff skversky will be roaming the sidelines and that is where he joins us live now, good afternoon, jeff. Hey, jamie arena bowl 30 is just about 30 minutes away, right now soul are on the field getting set, to defend their title and trying to win back to back championships. We are joined by head coach clint, we are 30 or 40 minutes from kick off how do you think your guys will play well tonight. We will play well in front of our home crowd, it will be a good one, excited for. That advantage to have a great crowd at home in arena football. We will have that. We will be preparing this for 21 weeks. Your quarterback Dan Raudabaugh threw nine touchdowns this week, how many more does he have in that arm tonight. We may run or throw, it doesnt matter how we get them in as long as we get them across the line. It is all about taking what the defense gives us. Your best receiver Darius Reynolds tweaks thinks ankle, is he 100 percent, youll need them. He tweak it. He had sleepless nights for a couple days there. He is fine. He is about 85 percent. We expect him to be highlighted tonight. How special would it be to win another championship and confetti coming down in your own arena in front of your own fans. That is what dreams are made of, that is what you play for, to win a championship and note front of your home crowd is even better. Coach, appreciate it. Best of luck against tampa bay storm. Guys, you can see the game right here on six abc soul and tampa bay storm in arena bowl 30 right here on six abc coming up at 7 00 oclock tonight. Can you wait, soul are in the arena bowl in the fifth time looking for their third championship including back to back. Live at the Wells Fargo Center , Jeff Skversky channel six action news. Back to you, jamie. Wear a helmet. Is there anyone hotter then hoskins, no, phillies rookie made history last night becoming fastest player ever to hit nine home runs. Could anyone predict this . Last night hoskins, launched a two run shot in the first inning as phillies beat cubs sevenone. It was his 19 in 54 at bats and homered on six straight game days. Look at that swing. Talk about a zone. Phillies and champs go at it tonight, ben lively on the hill for the phillies. I dont know how to describe what word to put it, shocked may not be it. Im trying to lose myself in the routine and preparation and let the ability shine through when it is game time. It is pretty cool to be mentioned in a sentence that is, you know, first ever, or you know, tied for whatever, and all that is exciting this kiddies so much fun to watch. Eagles are resting, after impressive showing in the third preseason game. They need to cut their roster down to 53 by next saturday. Local fans are rooting for this guy, undrafted free agent out of wisconsin corry clemens he has two touchdowns in two games in his hometown stadium. He has shown more promise then , donald pumphrey. But, clemens is using that un drafted status as motivation a lot of people, you know, they have that against me. I just use that to show them up and just make sure that the last name on any back i wear with so much pride. Going out here and representing the Philadelphia Eagles is my biggest motivation. These guys gave meehan opportunity to showcase my abilities, and im not going to let them down. And Philadelphia Union takes on expansion squad Atlanta United tonight, at tall on Energy Stadium first ever meeting between these two teams. Franklin selfie at the shore, look at that, scene, sixers top draft pick, stopped in stone harbor for the teams summer shore tour. Sea of fans gathered to catch a glimpse of the rookie, signed some autographs. Amazing them they were wearing his jersey and fultz has in the even played a game yet. It is crazy seeing my jersey around, when i was a kiddy used to have nba jersey on and to see that he is guys put my jersey on, it makes me want to play even harder. Charles barkley was at eagles practice this week. He said sixers are sure thing to make playoffs. First time in a long time looking forward to football and basketball. I know, exciting time and soul tonight. Thanks, jamie. Up next on action news meteorologist Karen Rodgers returns with the exclusive accu weather seven day forecast, stick around. I no longer live with the uncertainties of hep c. Wondering, what if . I let go of all those feelings. Because i am cured with harvoni. Harvoni is a revolutionary treatment for the most common type of chronic hepatitis c. Its been prescribed to more than a quarter million people. And is proven to cure up to 99 of patients who have had no prior treatment with 12 weeks. Certain patients can be cured with just 8 weeks of harvoni. Before starting harvoni, your doctor will test to see if youve ever had hepatitis b, which may flare up and cause serious liver problems during and after harvoni treatment. Tell your doctor if youve ever had hepatitis b, a liver transplant, other liver or kidney problems, hiv or any other medical conditions and about all the medicines you take including herbal supplements. Taking amiodarone with harvoni can cause a serious slowing of your heart rate. Common side effects of harvoni include tiredness, headache and weakness. Ready to let go of hep c . Ask your hep c specialist about harvoni. All right. This is day two of the komen three day walk to fight breast cancer. Action news caught up with some of the hundreds of walkers making their way through Chestnut Hill today. 60mile journal friday willow grove to south philadelphia culminates at navy yard tomorrow. Since 2005 the philadelphia three day has raised more than 68 million, to find a cure. Time for a check of the accu Weather Forecast and today was perfection, karen. Picture perfect, tomorrow will be nice as well. Can you believe this august it has been just so relatively felt more like september. It almost feels hard to sit, enjoy such a Beautiful Day when we are talking about catastrophic flooding in texas all of our prayers to those folks. Absolutely. I want to show you this. People are out there enjoying their evening, their afternoon today, we saw nothing but blue skies, unusually low humidity. Dew points are way down there and if you didnt quite get out there enough today, no worries, you will have another day, at just like it, coming your way but we do want to go back and continue to follow Tropical Storm harvey because this storm is unlike what we have seen before. As it made land fall, as a category four hurricane, on friday night. Winds sustained now to 65 miles an hour. It is now downgraded to a Tropical Storm but look at the movement. Stationary. So this monster storm isnt budging and that is real story the category four, 130 miles an hour winds, and yet, it is not winds that is most damaging. It is rain. That gives you an idea just how much rain were talking about. Fifteen in some cases over 20 inches of rain because it is sitting there and it is not moving. So, that is the big story as we talk about the weather down to the south. We will see that sitting, spin nothing this radar image and not a whole lot going on elsewhere. We have High Pressure in our area and that is why there is in steering medic is in tomorrow kick it out of there it will sit, continue to spin but in our region looking at this satellite image we will see hardly a cloud in sight, it has been absolutely, beautiful and as we look at these temperatures through the region how about it, 77 in wilmington, dover. 78 degrees in millville. Seventynine in philadelphia, a comfortable 76 degrees, in trenton. So later on tonight we will once again going to have an unusually cool night where were talking lower 50s in the lehigh valley. 58 degrees. Someone was saying on social media, twitter, how about a fire pit. Oh, yeah fire pit forecast. Sixtyone in philadelphia. Sixtythree for overnight low in cape may. Tomorrow, equally beautiful. Picture perfect with low humidity. 79 degrees, High Pressure in control, lots of sunshine, and were staying kind of quiet and dry through the weekend. At the shore another gorgeous day, it is nice, sunny, heyed to drag my butt off my beach to come here but hardest thing i had to do, tommy can get back, there will be a sea breeze and that is really nice it has been buggy down the shore but with the sea breeze and wind switching with the northeasterly component, it is nice. Note that is ocean water temperature equal to the air temperatures. In the poconos we may have a touch of morning fog otherwise a Beautiful Day tomorrow. Mostly sunny skies but by lunchtime 66. At 4 00 oclock it will be 70 degrees. If you have enjoyed these low dew points that we have, look at these numbers. Dew points tomorrow in the 40 s. That is so unusual for this time of the year. That is more like fall. You know you have been feeling that way. Even by monday, 53, unusually low, by tuesday, wednesday, it is still comfortable, normally in august and wed often see dew points in the zero sevens talking about oppressive humidity. Next four days we will see a nice stretch of weather. Heres your exclusive seven day, sunny, pleasant tomorrow 79 for your high, and then monday, partly sunny skies, 77 , it looks like we could have a drizzle monday into tuesday, and tuesday, damp and cool look at that number 73. More than 10 degrees below average. If we have a period of rain we may hold lower then that. Wednesday, it starts to turn lower with the chance of a shower 78. Thursday, cloud, sun and about close to average with 82 degrees and 30 percent chance of the shower or thunderstorm but what happens friday is cool once again. Here we are going in to Labor Day Weekend and were talking about temperatures in the zero sevens with lots of sunshine beautiful with low humidity, on saturday, it is nice, sunny , a high of 80 degrees and partly sunny skies for first part of your Labor Day Weekend. You drive yourself into joy ness. Aim glad you are glad. World news saturday is next on channel six. Dont miss action news at 10 on phl17 tonight. Then we are back here again on six abc at 11 00. Now for Karen Rodgers jamie apody, Melissa Magee and Jeff Skversky and the entire action news team, im walter perez, we will see you right back here at 11 00 oclock. Ney . Can we do this tomorrow . grunts of effort can we do this tomorrow . If you have Heart Failure symptoms, your risk of hospitalization could increase, making tomorrow uncertain. But entresto is a medicine that was proven, in the largest Heart Failure study ever, to help more people stay alive and out of the hospital than a leading Heart Failure medicine. Women who are pregnant must not take entresto. It can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. Dont take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren. If youve had angioedema while taking an ace or arb medicine, dont take entresto. The most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure, kidney problems, or high potassium in your blood. Tomorrow, tomorrow. When can we do this again, grandpa . Well, how about tomorrow . Ask your doctor about entresto and help make tomorrow possible. Tonight, breaking news. Hurricane harvey, state of emergency. The images just coming in. One texas town nearly blown off the map. The view from above. Home after home ripped apart, businesses destroyed, neighborhoods underwater. The deadly monster storm hitting the texas coast as a category 4, winds blasting up to 130 miles per hour. An incredible push. And our team in the storm zone as the most powerful hurricane in more than a decade hits the continental u. S. Now emergency officials warn catastrophic flooding could be on the way, houston in the danger zone. At least four reported tornados already striking. Plus, the search and rescue operations under way. The coast guard rushing in
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