To 3 inches on the way and possible flash flooding as well. Once we get rid of the rain, tomorrow an excessive heat warning is posted along the i95 corridor and heat indexes close to 100 degrees, well take a closer look at that in the full and exclusive accuweather forecast. With storms in the forecast be sure to follow each of our meteorologists on facebook and twitter and inter acts with us to show us what is happening in your neighborhood. And 6abc. Com weather remains your go to resource with the power of storm trammer radar. Despite the rain there are more protests scheduled throughout philadelphia, some related to the black lives Matter Movement and some related to the dnc and with the Convention Just 12 days away they dont seem likely to stop any time soon. Janet reyes is live outside of city hall with what you can expect and how local businesses are getting ready. Reporter speaking of protests, one is set to get underway here in a few minutes. Protests are set to become a familiar sight because of the dnc and Business Owners are expecting the unexpected. With just days to go with the Democratic National convention, we may not know if we are hosting the future president of the united states, but we know that tens of thousands of people will flood the streets of center city next week all of them potential customers for businesses. We had one of our best weeks ever and we are anticipating the dnc. They are expecting a less celebratory crowd. Up to 10,000 to 50,000 protesters. Only two have been denied and 17 are pending and the numbers are growing by the day. We hope everything is peaceful and safe, and we dont want anything that jeopardizes businesses or the safety of citizens, but the more people the merrier. Businesses are optimistic on what thousands of protesters might do to their bottom line. One thing it might do is discourage people from going where there are protesters. It will take place in center city, Thomas Paine Plaza and areas in south philadelphia. The city is giving merchants no choice but to play it save. Doors must be closed and Patio Furniture put away and trash cans locked down. Otherwise well get fined. Being a Business Owner in philadelphia, protests are the norm. This is the birth place of america and we showcase freedom of speech. We got off the phone with licensing and inspection with the city, they say they are enforcing the regulations in place for quite sometime. The first reason is because they want to keep the city tidy for when our guests come and they want to play is safe in case the protests get out of hand. Janet reyes, channel 6 action news. Thank you. Meanwhile, both presumptive president ial nominees are busy today as the clock tics towards each convention, donald trump is getting ready to pick his running mate. Mike pence, Newt Gingrich and new jerseys Chris Christie are all possible picks. From the protests to the politics, remember that action news will have complete coverage of both conventions, the rnc begins next week in cleveland. Sara bloomquist and jim gardner will be on hand with live reports and well have comprehensive reports of the Democratic Convention right here in philadelphia. July 22nd is the start of the programming. And they are reeling from quite the shakeup. One School Official called it an earthquake and one that started from the top. The board of trustees revealed plans to dismiss the schools president just weeks after the removal of another top leader, the president Neil Theobald is in the process of being fired and the ouster being led by patrick oconnor. The board of trustees took a unanimous vote of no confidence in theobald and will vote to remove him next week. The issue is a 22 million budget issues. He was offered to resign but so far has refused. The board is concerned that there was a lack of communication and how it grew and how it was allowed to continue when in fact there were opportunities to reduce it earlier. There is no Immediate Impact expected on the student body, by the way they are getting a 3 tuition increase in the fall and this comes less than a month since he removed the provost from the school from his post, blaming him for the 22 million shortfall. That means the university could lose their top two leaders in less than a month. Its exactly one year since construction crews poured the concrete and began work on the east market in philadelphia. We got a look inside to see the progress they were making the john rawlins there today. You have a hard hat on. What is the latest there . Reporter keep the hard hat on in case it rains. This is an enormous project, east market an entire city block. From market to chestnut. It used to be a no mans land but no longer, it will be connected to adjacent areas and its own epicenter. They are am suburbs, there will be a 17 story apartment tower. 322 new rental apartments well deliver of april of next year. People that work live there may work here, this supports architects and designers. Walter walked us through what will be his showroom. From furniture and beyond. This is a prime spot, and really evolving naturally into this design hub. In this 15,000 square food ground space is the moms orgaarket from the d. C. Area. We are dedicated to organics and pretty radical for lack of a better word in our culture. Its ceo says think trader joes and whole foods and then some. We are an organic mattress and text tile clothing and our new sustainable protein section with insects. You heard the man correctly. Sustainable protein, insects. It must be a big thing in washington. That is one element of moms, one of the largest almost of the east market complex behind me here. It is growing leaps and bounds, that is for sure. Live in center city, john rawlins, channel 6 action news. You pulled off that hard hat look nicely. Put it on me i look like a pin head. Autumn marisa is in for matt pellman with a first look at traffic. Reporter it really depends on what roadway you are on. This is on the schuylkill expressway around the conshohocken curve, the rain is really coming down. Bringing our eastbound lanes to a stand still. We were looking good there but as the storm moved through you see its nice and slow going there. Taking a look across the region speeds in the big picture dipping down into the teens, we see storms out near malvern and slow going at 202, and a few incidents to tell you about. The first one is in new jersey, 295 southbound at route 30 keep that in mind. 202 northbound past route 30 we have a disabled vehicle taking out a lane and the wet weather to corporate into the slowing down there as well. Lets go over to 95, this is southbound through the construction at cotman, its slow going there and the northbound lanes you are seeing more of the delays, taking you 30 minutes to go from the vine to woodhaven. Back to you sharrie and brian. Thank you. Still ahead on action news at 4 00, the numbers are in, find out if prime day bargains turned into a big win for amazon. And americas closest ally has new leadership today. The leaving of David Cameron and the woman that has taken his place. And a big fight in south jersey, people that fought to keep their homes got to stay and cut the ribbon on a major upgrade. Takbbq trophies hese best cracked pepper sauce. Most ribs eaten while calf roping. Yep, greatness deserves recognition. You got any trophies, cowboy . Whoomp there it is uh, yeah. Well, uh, well theres this one. Best insurance mobile app . Yeah, two years in a row. Well ill be. Does that thing just follow you around . Like a little puppy the awardwinning geico app. Download it today. The change of power is now complete in britain. David cameron stepped down as Prime Minister today. He left earlier than planned following britains vote to leave the european union. Queen elizabeth accepted his resignation and short time later, the queen invited teresa may to be the new leader and may promised to guide britain through the divorce of the eu. We will make it not just for a privileged few but for everyone of us. That will be the mission of the government i lead and together we will build a better britain. May delivered that address outside of the new home at the Prime Ministers home on downing street. A moment for families that were waiting years to move into new homes in their old neighborhood. This is part of the mount Holly Gardens neighborhood and the neighbors who fought for their right to stay and won. Alita is wipe ago way tears as she stands in her new kitchen emotions decade in the making. She and her son were living in mount Holly Gardens for 22 years and this marks the first time each of them have their own bedroom. They are one of three families moving into their brand new homes today all part of a landmark lawsuit they filed against the township in 2002. This is the mount Holly Gardens they used to live in and developers were looking to knock down the blighted neighborhood to make room for new projects and they say that amounted to discrimination and they would be and they cut the ribbons and the Ground Breaking resultses. Brand new homes built just for them. The historic the successful culmination of many parties coming together with the solution that offered improved housing and the overall quality of living for our residents. These homes are the first of many for a Development Project that includes 44 residents and 17 of them replacement homes for other plaintiffs in the law stat. Making it right for residents that were still remaining down here to have a new home in the neighborhood they wished to stay in and the neighborhood is going to turn around to be a positive affect on this town. Today the families say they are just happy they got to stay in their neighborhood saying goodbye to their own rundown homes and moving into those brand new homes they say they only dreamed of. Great stuff thank you. Amazon says yesterday was the single biggest day of sales in the companys history. The retailer held its Second Annual prime day a shopping holiday they created to create sales in the normally slow summer months and sales were up 60 from last year. And that was despite concerns that checkout problems would deter customers. It caused amazon to close flat but opened up today after they released the stunning numbers. The dow is rallying up 25. 5 points and remaining in record territory. And the nasdaq falling 17 points and the s p 500 up less than half a point today. Its time for the accuweather forecast on this soggy day. We continue to track rain out there. We are getting very wet. Meteorologist, Melissa Magee, is standing by with the accuweather forecast. Brian and sharrie we are getting wet because we have all the warmth and a lot of oppressive air overhead fueling showers in the region. Here is stormtracker 6 live double scan radar, you can see the rain scattered about the delaware and lehigh valleys. And well focus on the philadelphia region street level showing you in philadelphia some light rain and sprinkles at this hour. But along i95 into the northern and west in jenkintown and willow grove heavy pockets of moisture. And malvern we are tracking out the rain too. Street level into the northwest suburbs in berks county and reading pockets of rain on i76 and boyer town into route 100, we deal with the moisture and this continues into the early evening hours, temperatures now with the southerly wind still pretty warm and 81 in philadelphia and down to 78 in reading and 81 in the lehigh valley. And at the cost in cape may 75 and trenton 72 degrees, but this is the story today check out the dew points, the level of moisture in the air. Any time you have dew point numbers at 70 or higher, you can feel the difference and not the best looking hair day today. 72 in philadelphia and 74 in wilmington and out to the west oppressive with the dew point temperature of 75. Here is satellite 6 along with action radar you can see the moisture that is currently moving on through, a warm front that came through yesterday and now ripples of Energy Moving through. Here is the rest of tonight, we are in the summer soup with the scattered downpours overhead dropping down to 75 in philadelphia and 70 in allentown and 74 in cape may and the overnight low in lancaster falling down to 71. 11 00 p. M. Tonight or tonight i should say, we have the clouds around and as we get into the morning hours, still a cloudy start to the day but i think the clouds will break for a fair amount of sunshine and as we go through the afternoon hours with the warmth and humidity, a shower or thunderstorm overhead but not like what we have seen today across the region. Here is the story tomorrow, we talk about the excessive heat warning posted along the i95 corridor, future tracker 6 temperatures showing you 5 00 tomorrow evening numbers and heat indexes close to 102 in philadelphia and 101 in wilmington. The highest heat indexes we have seen in the delaware and lehigh valleys. Looks like a heat index tomorrow of 95, and a thunderstorm by the afternoon and on friday continued dangerous heat and high of 95 and hot on saturday underneath a partly sunny skies and it looks like well be dry then with a high of 90. Hot on sunday muggy and High Temperature of 91 degrees, definitely the heat fires back up and feeling more like july across our region tomorrow. All right melissa thank you. Still ahead it was an American Flag that once drapes the casket of a vietnam vet and was stolen on the 4th of july, well have an update at 4 30. And a man accused of planting a camera in a restaurant bathroom. Police have finally tracked him down. And cases of one family making and selling items for all the women in your family. We have an exclusive deal on things you dont want to miss coming up. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. So we wired the wagners house with 100 meg internet. Which means that in the time it takes mr. Wagner to pour a 20 oz. 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Lopez is charged with five counts of invasion of privacy. Police are looking for the man that robbed a market in the somer dale section of the city, they gave us Surveillance Video on monday. The suspect walked in and grabbed a drink from the refrigerator but when he walked to the cash register, he pulled a gun and threatened to kill the clerk, the employee threw money on the floor and the suspect picked it up and called police. Nobody was hurt. Chopper 6 hd was over the northbound outer lanes of roosevelt boulevard at 5 00 this morning. That is when police say a car went off the road at hornic road and took down a traffic light. The driver went to torresdale, and we dont have word on the extent of the injuries. The boulevard was closed for an hour. The city of philadelphia has a new commissioner of human services, mayor jim kenney introduced figueroa today. She brings local experience having served as Deputy Commissioner from 2008 to 2011, she was pretty psyched about it. They are responsibility among other things the safety and well being of children and families. Many young dancers took to the stage in south jersey to show off their moves. I admit i thoroughly enjoyed this entire video earlier today. The dance explosion National Dance competition finals they are underway in the wildwoods, dancers from all over the country are competing for cash and prizing during the six day event, the competition kicked off saturday and runs through sunday at the wildwoods convenience center, if you want to check it out and see the dancing the admission is free. Looks like fun. There is more to come in our next hour of action news. Two thieves caught on camera robbing a pizza shop. And now police are trying to track them down. The Philadelphia Fire Department wants to hear from you, more on its annual recruitment drive and how you can apply. Coming up next. Whats with them . Oh, those two . Theyre always fighting for attention. Theres more to a legendary city than its legends. Plan your legendary stay at visitphilly. Com action news continues with meteorologist, adam joseph, Sharrie Williams and brian taff. Hello again, 4 30 and action news continues with a somber day in dallas, thousands gathered to pay tribute to three of the five officers gunned down in last weeks sniper ambush. And a special reunion for a family in new jersey, a flag stolen from their home has been returned. And Paul Mccartney shows support for one of philadelphias finest and this is the talk of town. And clouds and showers have dominated most of the day and more drenching storms are possible before another round of excessive heat moves into. Melissa magee is live from the big board with the latest. Reporter we are still tracking the wet weather scattered about our region, here is stormtracker 6 live double scan we have the rain in south jersey, also along our 95 corridor and to the north and west as well. Because of the moisture you are seeing, we have a flood advisory into the evening, flooding is occurring for the green shaded counties, berk, lehigh and bucks this hour. We go in tighter with Storm Tracker 6, in kutztown on route 222 and bo