Traffic with matt pelman in for karen rogers and meteorologist, david murphy. Good morning. A cool and comfortable start even though we are dealing with a lot of clouds early. Storm tracker6 live double scan shows a couple of showers here or there, one down by dover kind of sitting in place and another light batch of showers pushing away from reading and berks county and getting closer to allentown. That is light stuff but it takes awhile to get past any one spot because it isnt really on the move. Cloud cover on satellite. Were starting out cloudy and well squeeze out a little bit more sun as the day goes on. Temperatures are not bad. 68 degrees in philadelphia right now. 68 in allentown. Everybody in the 60s away from the boardwalk in atlantic city. And dewpoints arent that bad, too. In the low 60s in much of the region. A little stickier down south by the shore. 67 degrees by 7 oclock under the clouds. By noon, 75 and then the rest of the day its clouds with some sunny breaks, a high of 80 at 3 oclock and Still Holding the mid 70s by 7 oclock. Theres the slight chance of a spotty popup sprinkle or shower today but most of the day is dry. It gets more humid tomorrow, matt pelman and then tomorrow night some drenching thunderstorms are possible. Ill have details on all of that coming up in the exclusive accuweather 7day. That is a good looking road. Well, on one side at least. Northbound side of 95 is nice and clear as it usually is in the morning david. Southbound side were just starting to tap the brakes but it really doesnt look too bad either as you head down towards center city but of course thats the side in which we will see delays starting in just a little bit as you travel down toward girard avenue in the work zone. Over on the vine street expressway, oh, boy, just starting to tap the brakes on the westbound side approaching the schuylkill. That too is just normal morning volume starting to kick in. Overnight construction of course is long gone now on the vine but the crews will return tonight at 11 oclock. Hey, in fishtown by the fishtown tavern still have frankford of a blocked off because of that big 8inch water main break from yesterday. Front street would be a possible alternate. There was also a break this morning along city avenue, route one, kind of where it turns into township line road at rolling road by the ross dress for less. So, one lane is out of commission there. Meanwhile were watching a new crash just getting word of this in lansdale along main street at valley forge road by the walgreens and because of all that flooding from yesterday in northern delaware, pyles ford road remains blocked this morning. Way road is the way to go instead on this wednesday. Matt. Thank you, matt. Lets again with breaking news. Chopper6 is live over a partial house collapse in West Philadelphia. The freestanding row home there is next to an empty lot along south ruby street. Bricks and items that were inside the structure have spilled all over the property next door. And the roof you see there is clearly sagging. This must have had a large mural along the side of the building, only a portion of which we see now. Katherine scott is on her way to the scene. She will have a live report later on action news. And happening today, a federal indictment targeted allentown mayor ed pawlowski will be unsealed. The fbi has been investigating a pay to play scheme where city contracts were exchanged for campaign contributions. Nine people already have pleaded guilty to federal crimes since the investigation began in 2013. Pawlowskis attorney jack mcmann says he doesnt know the details of the indictment. Pawlowski sent an action news a text saying i will not step down or drop out of the campaign. The democrat is running for a fourth term in november. New this morning, police in pemberton township new jersey are investigating an attempted abduction of a child. Investigators have only released a few details but they did saint happened last night near president ial lakes. According to police the suspect was driving a Brown Ford Ranger pickup truck. Were also getting a closer look at the attack on a septa Police Sergeant while she was on the job. Her body camera was rolling the moment this happened. Uhuh. Stop. Really hard to see. After that, the man pushed the Sergeant Lynn perone to the ground. Police say the attack happened monday night when perone was responding to the angora station in southWest Philadelphia for reports of someone trespassing on the tracks. Perone is now at home recovering. Action news has learned that the two daredevil photographers who went up the ben franklin bridge are facing felony charges now. We told you yesterday morning about how police confronted the two men who had climbed up a 382foot pillar on the bridge. Police say the two tripped security measures almost immediately which sent an Emergency Response team scaling the suspension cables after them. Investigators say the men were arrested before they were able to snap a single photo. People who live in nearly 50 homes in northeast philadelphia are waking up without water this morning. It is because of yet another water main break in our area. Chopper6 was over the scene last night on the 1000 block of stan shaw street. An 8inch main burst and partially flooded the road. Crews are expected to start making repairs later today. It is 6 05 and crooks have a new angle when it comes to stealing tax refunds. Maribel aber is live at the cnn center in new york with our market watch report. Good morning. Reporter hey, good morning tam. The i. R. S. Says scams aimed at businesses are on the rise. In the first five months of the year about 10,000 business related tax returns were found to possibly involve refund fraud. Big jump. The i. R. S. Says scammers are targeting businesses as it cracks down on fraud schemes aimed at individuals. Nasdaq and the s p 500 little changed. Looks like futures are pointing to a higher open. Report on new sales due out today. Federal reserve will have a statement on the economy when it wraps up the meeting. The fed is not expected to raise interest rates. Americans spending record amounts on home improvements. Theyll pour 316 billion in renovations around the house this year up from 296 billion. This is according to Harvard Joint Center for housing studies a boom for home depot lowes on contractors a many people are staying put because there are so few Affordable Homes for sale but matt and tam lowes or home depot thats the place to be. Were there two or three times a week. Thanks maribel. David whats going on with the weather. Storm tracker6 live double scan has a couple of sprinkles and showers here or there. Most of are you waking up dry t you see the northern and western suburbs with just some light precipitation, highlighted mainly in lighter shades of green. As we lapse this it really isnt moving very quickly so if you get stuck underneath this you may be under it for awhile. Heavier cell near lincoln pennsylvania in lancaster county. If i go to the wide view you can see that theres a second batch of precipitation down south around dover and this is also just been taking forever to get south. Lets see if the air force base is out from under it. Nope, not yet. This has been waffling around the air force base. You can see the runway popping up out there. Everybody else is dry. Cloudy skies across the region. Well probably struggle to get rid of those clouds in the morning and later today well see some sunny breaks. Its cool and comfortable as you start out though. 65 degrees right now in philadelphia. Just a breath of fresh a breath of fresh air is what were saying. Theres 65 degrees in reading, 68 in lancaster and the philadelphia and wilmington. 65 in trenton. And 69 currently on the thermometer in cape may t humidity on the low side this morning in most neighborhoods. Future tracker6 shows you those morning sprinkles and showers may stubbornly stick around into the picture through lunchtime and into the afternoon. It will be dry most of the way but we cant rule out a spotty sprinkle or light shower. At the same time clouds will be a part of the play. But well also try and get some sunny breaks today. Up in the lehigh valley, clouds, some sun, not too humid, 78 degrees is your forecast high. Down the shore it looks like mid 70s from surf city down to ocean city. Low risk of rip currents today. Clouds early. A little brighter during the afternoon and as we head down toward cape may and rehoboth and bethany beaches in delaware you wind up with highs around 76 degrees. In philadelphia, well go for a high of 80, clouds, some sun. Im going to call it mainly dry. Although we have to allow for that little popup sprinkle or shower. Not much wind today. If youre headed to the phillies or the union at Talon Energy Stadium this evening its a nice night for sports fans. Union taking on Columbus Crew at 7 30, partly cloudy, comfortable, 75 for the first touch and then 71 for the finish of the game. Hopefully the union can get back on the winning track. 67 degrees partly cloudy and comfortable overnight and that makes for a comfortable start early tomorrow morning. But things are going to change. In the afternoon, well see a warm front get past us. Thats going to usher in higher humidity. And its also going to bring in warmer air, too. Tomorrows high 86. Then this area of low pressure comes in and that features some showers and thunderstorms mainly thursday night into friday and some of those could be strong. We have a scattered chance of damaging wind producing thunderstorms and i also have a concern about more drenching downpours that could produce more isolated flooding. 80 is todays high, clouds, some sun, no big issues. Tomorrow more humid, 86 with that storm activity at night and ive got the accuweather alert on friday because we are looking at the possibility of some flooding around friday morning and maybe some more strong storms. 83 is the afternoon high and if things work out just right we may dry out later in the day on friday. For the weekend, it might start out muggy on saturday morning but it does look like in the afternoon its not going to be as bad. Clouds giving way to sun. Saturday mid 80s and then sunday 86 degrees and or 84 degrees i should say and really nice, mostly sunny, nice. Monday, tuesday, also look not bad. Good looking sevenday. Yeah, not bad. Thanks, david. Time is 6 10. Concussion concerns. New data released about football and the Lasting Impact of injuries on the brain. Water woes. We have an advisory to pass along for parts of the jersey shore. Matt. Not as much water on the roads this morning, tam, which were thankful for. We had a big crash here last night along the blue route but this morning traffic is moving fine by media swarthmore. Coming up though well check traffic on 422 when action news continues on this wednesday morning. Welcome back. Taking you back to chopper here over the scene in West Philadelphia. Our breaking news. This is the unit block of south ruby street. You can see this is where that twostory structure has come apart falling down around 4 45 this morning. A terrible wakeup for the family here as the side of the building just cracked opened and you can see all their Household Items not only do they need somebodys clothes hanging there, looks like a cooler, a bathtub. This home completely destroyed. Theyll have to gather their belongings and find a new place to live. It seems as though there was a mural or something on the side of the building, hard to tell now. You just see what is left of somebodys life lived in this home. Lets turn now to matt pelman for a look at traffic. Matt. Its disheartening. Good morning matt and tam. Were not too disheartened on the roads so far this morning. Things are looking good as we look live at 422. Just started to tap the brakes on the eastbound lanes headed towards route 23 in king of prussia. No big volume problems at this point. During the midday today were expecting construction to be happening along 422. In the eastbound direction theyre going to be working between 724 and sanatoga. So that will happen starting around 9 oclock this morning until 2 oclock this afternoon on the eastbound side. Meanwhile construction these days along trooper road. In fact, one project just started yesterday. Its trooper road just north of main street, ridge pike there. The other one happens during the overnights between eisenhower avenue and shannon dale boulevard. Egypt road pawlings road are possible alternates. Trooper road a lot of work there these days. Watching a crash this morning along main street at valley forge road by the walgreens. All overnight construction we were watching along the northeast extension 476 has cleared out so youre good to go there and our eastbound zone on the pennsylvania turnpike approaching bensalem has also cleared so all lanes reopened as you head toward the Delaware River bridge and new jersey. But elsewhere in bucks county in tinicum township some pipe replacement going on the next few days from 7 oclock until 3 oclock theyre shutting down upper tinicum church road. Merion steam road or 32 river road are alternates around that and this morning were watching a water main break along route one city avenue at rolling road by the ross dress for less. One lane is out of commission there. Tam. Okay, thank you, matt. A summer camp at Purdue University in indiana ended early over allegations of violence and sexual assault. Police and Child Protective Services investigating reports of threats, battery attempted rape and distribution of child porn. A University Spokesperson says the reported incidents actually involved the camp participants only. Were talking about children at the camp ranging in age from 11 to 15. Following a stunning frightening report about brain disease in professional Football Players the nfl says it is committed to making the game safer. Researchers at Boston University found 99 percent of players whose brains were donated for this study had cte, the brain disease that is linked to repeated blows to the head. The study looked at brain tissue donated from 202 deceased Football Players who played for an average of 15 years. All but one of them had cte. The disease can cause memory loss aggression and anxiety. A houston father took matters into his own hands after spotting what he believed was a drunk driver weaving all over the place. Hes driving really fast man. On the wrong side of the road. Alejandro fernandez says the driver of that white mustang already damaged in another crash nearly hit him. Fernandez called 911 and then followed the driver into a parking lot. Fernandez pulled the driver out of the mustang and held him until police arrived. A report of a suspicious vehicle on a road in upstate new york led police to this. A car that is missing doors, its windows and there is an ax stuck on the roof. Police in weathers field pulled the driver over and arrested him after he failed several sobriety tests. The story behind the ax, make up yours. We dont have it yet. Im sure its quite the tale. 6 17 now. Todays produce tip is up next. Coming up at 6 30 a family feud in Montgomery County leads to an armed fight involving a father and son and a gun and a sword. David. Cool and comfortable across the region this morning although a couple of you are dealing with just some very light scattered showers. Some of that up around allentown and theyre not moving really, theyre kind of sitting in place. Little bit more of this down by dover. Well be back with your 12hour forecast. In todays tech bytes a promise of apple factories in the u. S. President trump told wall street journal the tech company will build three plants right here. He didnt say where though or when apple didnt comment. Apple only owns one factory in ireland and outsources most of its other manufacturing to china. Adobe announced a long anticipated demise of its flash plug in. It will be phased out by the end of 2020. Flash has been criticized by offering hackers ways into targeted machines. If taco mode is activated it will show the taco bell menu and your driver will take you to the nearest taco bell drive through and passengers will get free tacos and souvenirs. Lyft and taco bell giving it a try this weekend and next weekend in a los angeles suburb. Time is up. Those are your tech bytes. Have a great day. At panera, a salad is so much more than one thing. More than one flavor, or texture, or color. A good clean salad is so much more than green. And with panera catering, more for your event. Panera. Food as it should be. Hi, this is your action news produce tip. Today were talking about one of summers bests, cherries. Cherry season is pretty short. Get them now through early august. When youre shopping for cherries look for a couple things. One, you want to make sure youve got this bright green stem. Shows you it was harvested recently. This is going to be your fresher cherry. The other thing youre looking for is something that doesnt have blemishes. Stay away from brown spots. Nice clean vibrant colors and thats about it. Enjoy. My summer favorite. Love the cherries. Were about have some delays stemming from a bridge opening at the tacony palmyra bridge. [laughter] as you head outside, coming up in just about 10 minutes the bridge will be going up. Head for the betsy ross bridge instead. No problems at the ben franklin or here at the platt bridge if youre traveling to the airport early this morning to catch a flight. Traffics moving well here along the platt by i95. For the most part were sitting pretty on mass transit. Just a few minor delays and dont forget septa bus routes five and 25 continue to run with detours through fishtown because of that big water main break from yesterday at frankford and thompson. David. All right, matt in the weather sent we have satellite showing you some cloud cover locally. A couple of sprinkles and showers in just a couple of corners of the neighborhood and theyre all light. Comfortable this morning, 68 degrees in philadelphia, no the not bad. Humidity on the low side. Really refreshing as you step outside. Even though were starting out with clouds we expect some sunny breaks through the day and temperatures getting warm. 75 degrees by noon. By 3 oclock, 80. Thats your high. And then 79 by 5 oclock. Just a slight chance of a passing sprinkle or shower around and if you want to head out with the low humidity maybe if id dope wants to come along to the park with you and the kids it is going to be that kind of a day and at the airport were hopi