It happens once or twice a year, something we are used to but it it doesnt happen as much as everybody think its does. By 4 00 the pizzeria was dried out and ready for the dinner crowd. Joey has a sense of humor about the whole thing. If i couldnt laugh i would cry. How does joe stay so calm after waters come in his business this picture shows Hurricane Sandy with water touching his roof. If he can survive that he can survive anything. As the rain fell it quickly flooded roadways in pottstown and high street was under water and a minivan that tried to drive through stalled out and a tow truck had to be called in to remove the vehicle from the water, double scan live radar shows changes on the way lets go to adam joseph and accuweather. The changes jim are pushing into the northwestern suburbs, the low pressure that brought the flooding rains and the intense lightning is well off the coast and this line of downpours passing through, philadelphia and wilmington and trenton, that is the dividing line and comfortable dry air to the north beginning to filter in. This is the last gasp of a few downpours from Mercer County to the new jersey turnpike as you head north to Monmouth County and light showers with some embedded quick downpours as you head down to route 1 into Philadelphia County and they are moving along and not releasing a tremendous amount of rain like we saw this morning. Close to 50 inches of rain Gloucester County 4. 33, and east galloway anywhere from 3 to 4 inches of rain earlier this morning, limerick and Montgomery County parts of southeastern pennsylvania seeing over 2 inches of rain earlier. Dew points again the measure of the moisture in the air its tropical this week, in the lower to middle 70s, that is why we have seen intense rain, those numbers are so high, as we look to the north and west they are falling into the 50s and 60s, that is the drier air that pivots through here during the evening hours in fact by tomorrow morning, allentown and lancaster will be in the upper 50s and 67 in Atlantic City and turning breezy and kfrnlts and a couple of days well enjoy the comfortable air but heat wave number two will be back as well. Thank you adam. If you are look to stay informed on weather watches and advisories stay 6abc. Com is it. Philadelphia police have released images of four armed men that tried to break into a home in mt. Airy, the resident heard a knock at his door and checked his surveillance camera and saw a man standing on the steps and three more men arrived and tried to push their way inside. They tried to rush inside but the man locked the door and they took off. Two people were grazed by gun fire, a 70yearold man and i 79yearold woman was grazed in the 2800 block of north 25th. Live in northwest detectives in logan tonight, action news reporter, Annie Mccormick is there a link or are they calling this a coincidence. Northwest detectives are investigating the shootings, they do not believe they are related however in both cases Senior Citizens became innocent victims. Lula describes the gun fire sitting on her porch on the 2800 block. I jumped up to run and fell fell on my knee. When i fell on my knee, i saw the blood and i hollered and called my son and told him i had been shot. Row released from the hospital today tillman shows us where she was shot in her leg and still a piece in her ankle. We found two spent shell cases from a semi automatic weapon a few feet from where the victim was. But a stray bullet found another victim george carington on the 2900 block of north 26th street, carington was working on his neighbors porch. One guy road past fast on his bike and another guy was in the street shooting. The bullet grazed his foot and now both seniors fear heading outside. This street is full of kids and its a good thing that none of them were outside. I will not be sitting out there at night. And the suspect descriptions are vague, the police hope that anybody with information will contact them. For now reporting live Annie Mccormick, channel 6 action news. Thank you. A multialarm fire damaged this Darby Township home early this morning, it happened just before 6 30 on the 600 block of clinton after now, at one point flames were shooting through the rof, there is no word yet what caused the fire, the Naacp Convention comes to a close tonight in center city philadelphia, and today former president , bill clinton gave the key note address at one of the final sessions spoke of the economy and criminal justice and the distrust of police, he spoke with delegates and spoke about the lowering of the confederate battle flag in south carolina. Clinton says that that symbolizes hope for the fought. It wasnt the flag coming down it was what it did to the human heart the weight it lifted off of people. Clinton called on people to use their voices and to vote and not just in president ial election years. There is good news tonight for commuters that take the four bridges over the Delaware River, a discount is coming your way, the Delaware RiverPort Authority approved a 18 a month credit for drivers that make 18 or more monthly trips over the walt whitman, betsy ross, commodore bridges, have you to use your easy pass to qualify. Coming up vacant homes have turned into training grounds for firefighters they are honing their skills and well meet the woman taking on the the iron man triathlon for a cause dear to her heart. Changes are moving in and live now reading looking west with sunshine returning and humidity is dropping well let you know how long we have this break in the heat and humidity in accuweather. A big story from the dalles cowboys and its not good news for eagles fans. A new jersey family is out rained after someone stole flowers from a Memorial Bench for their son. Someone took the flowers from the bench, it was set up to honor Casey Brenner one of the four Main Line High SchoolFootball Players killed in a car crash in 2011, caseys dad says this is a special place for him and he just wants the flowers back. I dont like going to the cemetery this is where casey hung out when he was a little boy and his Christmas Tree is here and it breaks my heart. Brenner says this was not the only bench targeted. Someone stole flowers from a nearby bench in linwood. And now moving from their Training Center to a real life environment, Nora Muchanic reports from mount holly. These west hamilton firefighters are drilling on how to execute a primary search looking for help finding people in a burning building the firefighters are conducting their training in vacant houses slating for demolition in the old mount holly garden. We have structures slated to be demolish we can use for training. Because the buildings will be knocked down firefighters dont have to worry about damage they can vent roofs and break windows without concern as soon as you break the window we allow all the traps gases to get outside. The Emergency Center going through exercises helps the training. Can you cut roofs and vent windows and vent hoses real windows real doors and real rooms, its not familiar to us it changes it up a lot. New jersey does not permit setting fires for training but officers spend hours staging scenes putting wires in the way. If you dont practice how to do it it could kill you one day. They have joined west hampton training here and believe that this provides critical experience to train firefighters, im Nora Muchanic channel 6 action news. And from our delaware newsroom tonight, there is a new option for inner city wilmington residents to eat fresh this urban farm is located at 12th and brandywine, they are growing everything from cucumbers to kale. Its a community garden, they say its a prime example of how Fresh Produce and fraught can be grown in any environment. They are kick off annual christmas in july campaign and ducis rogers was there to give a helping hand, all the money raises will send june privileges children to summer camp in the poconos. You are dressed for summer. Shortsleeves, showing off the pipes. Too much information. Im thrilled to see peoples generosity out there. On to sports, mike trout is certainly something else, making the allstar game his mid summer classic, he won his second mvp allstar last night the night began with pete rose getting a rousing ovation and then the first batter of the game was trout and took zach greinke out the first to lead off the allstar game in years with a home run and then he scores another run on this Prince Fielder single. And trout worked hard as a result he is living a dream. It feels awesome. I cant explain it right now, the whole environment the whole experience it has been so fun. You know its awesome. The sixers have added a point guard and they signed Pierre Jackson to a one year dole. The Sixers Summer League schedule ended last night and today the tournament begins in vegas, 76ers and nets, jackson to jp to codo, hello right now the sixers trail by 5. And it looks like dez bryant would miss games for the dallas cowboys, they have agreed to a five year 70 million deal, that is the second highest paid receiver based on salary he said if he did not get a longterm deal by today he would hold out. Athletes that compete in triathlons are elite and those that do the iron mans are the elite of the elite. Jeff skversky introduces us to one who runs for the sake of others. Every stroke and ever step and ever spin kelly takes has a purpose. He does triathlons to help fight multiple my home a, the second form of and runs another 26. 2 miles in honor of her aunt mary who suffers from the disease. She competes in memory of her friend car awho just died of Breast Cancer at the age of 44 whenever she gets tired they reads this note from kara, i remember her voice and her cheering me on and it pushes me through. Engelson is gearing up for the lake placed iron man competition, she will put a temporary tattoo of her name on her body. Ill look down and see my aunt marys name and karas name and this is my choice and i will not complain for one second of this race. One step, one spin one stroke at a time she hopes to reach the goal and the finish line and kiss cancer goodbye. Jeff skversky channel 6 action news can you put more information on 6abc. Com and help kelly with her quest. Adam joseph for the accuweather forecast when we continue in just a moment. Trying to clear the weather out for fresh air and color temperatures, its moving in to the northwestern suburbs, everybody enjoys it here, as we look at double scan live radar a couple of lingering showers moving off the coast and wilmington and one downpour around trenton and just to the east of philadelphia on route 130, and george town and parts of Burlington County will get a last gasp of heavy rain and west of Jackson Mills but this is the introduction of the drier air that will filter in over the next fow hours. The action cam was out on this dreary summer day, many of our lawns getting way too much water over the last month and a half, some areas have seen close to a foot and a half of rain since june 1st yes it has been a very wet summer. Todays rain in philadelphia not a ton of rain we saw. 75 inch and owner areas saw way too much. Boyer town and berks county and folsom and tuckerton and vineland 2. 2 inches of rain. It turns breezy and drier overnight tonight and a beautiful thursday is on tap, take a look at the wins, picking up to the north and west and 1 in philadelphia and 21 in reading and that is the drier air that is moving in with those northwesterly winds. In fact on thursday looking at the temperatures this after none, upper 70s to the north and west 82 in philadelphia and 70s at the shore and combine the below average temperatures tomorrow and its a spectacular summer day 72 in allentown and the poconoss and drier air and tropically humid in new jersey and delaware even there you notice the drop, low pressure is off the coast sparking the thunderstorms between 4 00 and 5 00 you see the clouds falling apart and syracuse near northern parts of pennsylvania and that will continue to drift in over the next few hours it is clearing overnight and breezy and more comfortable and 59 degrees in many of the suburbs tomorrow 67 for center city, High Pressure is in control just to the north tomorrow and the wins wrap around this high from the northnortheast, low humidity and walltowall sunshine and 82 degrees and the high slips off the coast here on friday and its a sunny start and then high clouds are pushing into the afternoon the sky is turning milky white and 85 with the low humidity if you are at the shore tomorrow, make shower you swim with the beaches are guarded because there is enhanced risk of rip currents tomorrow and beautiful air temperatures upper 70s and lots of sunshine with the northeastly wind 8 to 16 miles per hour, the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast, beautiful back to back days for the next two and high clouds come in on friday and 85 saturday muggy and hot and 90 degrees and future tracker showing at 1 30 there will be thunderstorms and showers developing with the next front but that should slip to the south and hot and humid sun and less chance of popups on sunday but then we bring the heat and humidity back up here on monday in addition to more downpours and thunderstorms for the beginning of next week and we back it off on wednesday. A stretch of 90s in there. And that could be heat wave number two. Abc world news tonight is next on channel 6, and action news continues at 10 00 on phl 17 with brian taff, adam joseph, and ducis rogers and please join us for action news at 11 00 here on channel 6. For cecily tynan adam joseph, ducis rogers and the entire action news team, im jim gardner we hope youll join us for action news at 11 00. Tonight, the debate the firestorm. Is america safer after the deal with iran . President obama fights back against his critics here at home. The moment he chastises a recorder on live tv saying you should know better. Breaking news tonight. New video of el chapo in his cell moments before disappearing through that hole in the shower. And now, the birds reportedly discovered. Did he use them to test the air quality in that milelong tunnel . The video authorities did not want the public to see. The unarmed man shot and killed. The multimillion dollar settlement. 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