And flood watch in effect this afternoon and tonight. Roads creeks and streams could take on high water. Remember florida flash flooding situation if you get a downpour and you start to enter a road that is starting to flood, the water can rise in the hurry. Drivers and pedestrians should avoid that. This morning we had a thunderstorm rolling through the Lehigh Valley looks like its bothering easton and clearing allentown and bethlehem. Theres smaller blips in south jersey, were seeing the moisturing of the atmosphere. The bigger stuff will be in the afternoon in all likelihood. 70 in allentown. 76 in cape may. Dewpoints are up there. Most of the regions in the 70s. I expect the numbers to climb. It will be tropical humidity for most of us this afternoon. The exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast shows us it will be warm, 3 00 p. M. , 87. The high 88 between 4 00 p. M. , 5 00 p. M. , own though there could be a even though there can be a lull around midday, most days feature spotty showers and thunderstorms, all of them producing flooding downpours. Gets better over the weekend, karen. Details coming up. All right, dave so were watching the storms to the northwest, storms near 55 in new jersey. But not here, i95 at girard southbound traffic heading toward center city. Were dry, but were building volume youre seeing that come in as you look at the travel time, an easy 1 minute ride from woodhaven to the vine. We have a downed tree on the schuylkill expressway, originally blocking the right lane, they pushed it off to the side. They chopped it off and hauled it out of here, youre clear on the schuylkill expressway westbound. In torresdale an accident a vehicle smashed into a pole brought down wires, academy road at grant avenue. Cruise on the scene with this one. On the bicker, thats the only accident. Blue route, schuylkill expressway, i95, its friday people trying to cooperate, so far so good on the morning ride, tam. Thank you karen. New developments overnight in the deadly terror attack in spain. Police say they stopped a Second Attack killing five suspects in the process as the manhunt goes on for the person who drove a van into a crowd of people in barcelona killing 13 as dozens were hurt and everyone screamed. Katherine scott is following the latest, she is live in our Satellite Center with the latest, good morning. Reporter good morning, tam, a moment of silence is baghdad held for the victims in barcelona. A third person was arrested after a van plowed into a pedestrians on a busy promenade in barcelona on thursday. 100 injured and 1 killed. This morning 13 killed. This morning the popular tourist strip las ramblas has reopened after crews worked for hours to clear the scene. 5 00 p. M. , local time crowds ran as a white van veered side to side tarring targeting people. Two suspects were taken into custody on thursday including the 28yearold who rented the van. The driver fled the scene on foot. Now weve received word of a third arrest. Spanish authorities said the injured are from 24 countries. One Belgium National is confirmed dead. 26 french nationals are among the injured. Heard screams of people and i looked up and saw the white van knocking people over at high speed. Reporter meanwhile, 68 miles southwest of barcelona, five suspected terrorists were killed when a Police Operation was carried out in a seaside town in response to a possible terror attack. Its believed to be connected to the barcelona attack and an earlier deadly house explosion. Overnight Vice President mike pence vowed that the United States and its allies would find whoever is responsible and punish them. Katherine Scott Channel 6 action news. Thank you for that. Action news spoke with tourists returning to philadelphia from barcelona, many say they went there mindful of the potential for a terrorist attack. Our strategy was to stay out of the touristy areas and not spend too much time. Very upsetting and were glad were home, god bless america. Others say they plan to travel overseas despite the tragedy and the uncertainty of what may come next. Developing overnight, the statue of former philadelphia mayor frank rizzo was vandalized for the second time this week. This time someone spray painted the words black power. Jeanette reyes is live in center city where cleanup crews have arrived. Jennette no audio. Well get back to jennette onces once we fix the awed problem. Members of the Upper Darby Police department were in washington to attend a vigil for a teenager who was shot and killed. The parents of the 17yearold donated her organs and helped save 6 lives including an Upper Darby Police officer who was in need of a liver transplant. She was shot and killed by a stray bullet in washington, d. C. Police are looking for her killer. A tenyearold boy literally took a bite out of crime while protecting his mom. He bit a shooting suspect in the arm in the kensington last night. The man had broken into the boys home on the 1800 block of monmouth street. The incident started when someone fired shots near cambria street and kensington avenue. He took off after the boy bit him. Police arrested him at a vacant home nearby. 6 06 a. M. , the terror attack in spain is having an affect on the markets, as well. Lets go over to maribel aber live with the market watch report. Reporter the market fell sharply as investors reacted to news of terror attack. Over three markets fell 1 for the first time in 3 months. The vix gauges fear. L. L. Bean is boosting production of their iconic boots. It will produce duck boots. L. L. Bean makes its boots in the u. S. Hopes to produce a million pair of them this year. You have to go with what you know. Lets get back to the story, the latest act of vandalism on the statue of frank rizzo. Jeanette reyes is live in center city, cleanup crews are trying to get the words taken off the statue. Reporter thats right, matt, they arrived minutes ago and took down the tape and got to work. Take a live look here behind me, a couple of men are cleaning off what were spray painted on the steps and the statue. They are using a chemical it is very strong we can smell it from here, its doing the job, the goal is to prevent this from happening again. All right were having technical difficult, the incident of the spray paint on the statue comes as nationwide calls to take down statue many believe glorify racism. The focus has been on the frank rizzo statue. This began with protests earlier this week those were largely peaceful. There were tensions between protesters and police officers, but no arrests were made. There were a couple of other incidents one vandalism confirmed another possible vandalism this was done in front of witnesses hours ago, we do know that that man was seen by several people, he got in a car and drove off. No arrests have been made. Reporting live in center city. Jeanette reyes channel 6 action news. They are having trouble getting the spray paint off, and angry people still there. Reporter 3 or 4 times something that is done that just this week. Storm tracker 6 live double scan shows you we are dry in most areas, there are some areas seeing showers and thunderstorms and part of that is up in the northern suburbs, in fact originally we were focusing on the Lehigh Valley, of course that shower and thunderstorm activity is ready to leave easton. A new one has popped up northwest of new hope and doylestown getting a little bit of a shower, as well. Some of these in the humid air mass this morning are dumping heavy rain in a hurry. We want you to slow down and look out if you get an extended dose of this, because it could popup showers, excuse me, back up flooding on roadways. Theres a flood watch in effect today mainly in the afternoon and evening. Also i want to go down to south jersey, because we have scattered activity down there, these are lighter showers, but they could develop into something a little bit more, be careful on route 55 if you happen to get doused outside on sky6 live hd we have dry conditions on i95 and the ben franklin bridge. Very muggy out there, setting the table for more heavy dune pours. 73 in allentown. 76 in philadelphia. 76 in cape may. Everybody in the 70s. Everybody very humid. Future tracker 6 overselling the current rain theres not really this line existing, but theres a chance before the end of the rush hour some of you see more heavy downpours. The new model run has this existle until 12 when we existing until 12, when we get into a lull. Well have a 2 or 3 hour stretch where you could get out and get things done without the storm. This sort of of action you see here could be in philadelphia by the end of rush hour and the rest of the evening theres a threat of more of this, wherever it hits were looking at the potential for not only heavy rain, by the way it ends after midnight, but flash flooding on roads, creeks and streams, thats something to keep in mind when you see the downpours today. Very humid and downpours possible in the Lehigh Valley, 87. Down the shore, moderate risk of rip currents in the water, muggy on the beach, highs in the mid 80s and cloudy for the most part, theres a chance of a strong shower or heavy thunderstorm there, as well. 88 degrees is the high in philadelphia. Cloudy skies and sunny breaks possible. Steam j, downpours and steamy, downpours and storms part of the picture. 74 is the overnight low. Better for the weekend. We wind up wet at tiles and humid in the at times and humid in the poconos. Saturday, humidity drops, sunday looks good. At the shore, moderate risk for recipient countries. Not great today, humidity dropping on saturday, nice on sunday. Its the same pattern in philadelphia. Today, steamy, tropical humidity, at times drenching downpours and strong thunderstorm or two, high of 88. Tomorrow after a humid start it gets less humid in the afternoon. Hot high of 90. Sunday, less humid, 88. Eclipse monday, looking at a fair amount of sunshine. Not as much in the afternoon, it will be clear for eclipse viewing and humid on tuesday and wednesday. The total Solar Eclipse is almost upon us, if you dont have the fancy dplationz we glasses, we have a cheaper way to accomplish the same thing. Reporter westbound traffic heading toward king of prussia. Dry here, well take you to the blue route coming up next. Lets go over to karen rogers, its friday, it would be nice to have a nice commute. Reporter it is friday, you know what, any commute is good on a friday. At least one on the blue route, everything is looking okay. No big accidents at the moment, southbound traffic heading toward i95. Northbound looks like building volume jamming ahead northbound on the blue route past baltimore pike, but not a major delay. Its heavy in spots as the commute is starting to build through the region right now. We have an accident in torresdale where the car ran into a pole and brought down wires, academy at grant avenue. Stick to frankford. Boulevard extension southbound traffic heading toward the schuylkill expressway. Light volume, building volume, but not a major delay. Travel time, everything is in the green, that will change in the next halfhour. Were driving through storms. Storm tracker 6 live double scan were watching a cluster of storms in the Lehigh Valley. Now were seeing them approaching the blue route and the schuylkill expressway as well as scattered in south jersey. They are in new hope, now, one in had an hampton. One in conshohocken, and brewing near the city itself. In dplaz borough and glassboro and millville. Its a soupy air mass. Very warm shower or thunderstorm popping up, a downpour with any one of these. The commanders and two Others Leaders of the navy warship that collided with a commercial container ship will be relieved of their command. The report details the heroic efforts on board to save the crew of the u. S. S. Fitzgerald off the coast of japan in june. The compartment flooded in seconds. Seven sailors helped rescue crew members even the commander that was trapped after the ship took a direct hit. Eagles 23 periods of time time penalties and 7 turnovers. Cornerback ronald darby watch this, impressive debut with the eagles, he intercepts former teammate pass and returned it for 48 yards. The eagles win 2016. Was the performance great, by no means, it was not where we want to be, but i know we have the right guys and the right team, we have to put it together. Eagles host the dolphins on thursday night. Reporter it is friday starting to get busy out there. Busy in here. Feeling like friday. [laughter]. Reporter we cant say what happened in the commercial break. 422 at trooper, eastbound traffic on your right heading toward king of prussia moving okay, right here. We have storms popping up here and there, youll be driving in them. We have a problem that popped up with the 102 trolley. There was a vehicle blocking the rails for a bit, dave. Reporter in the Weather Center were looking at radar were seeing an emerging pattern of showers and thunderstorms pushing east of allentown. Easton about to dry out. You can see spotty showers in bucks county and Montgomery County and around philadelphia and west of center city and more action down speckled in through south jersey, some of you beginning to she the shower activity. As we go into the afternoon it will be widespread and more pronounced. Warm out there, 76 degrees in philadelphia. 87 degrees by 3 00 p. M. 5 00 p. M. , 88. A flood watch in effect today, flashflood watch for quick hitting showers and thunderstorms that could produce drenching downpours and that could produce problems on creeks and streams. At the airport were looking at all green aircraft. No rain in philadelphia yet, but that will change later today. Going on to healthcheck more evidence shows working overnight could increase a risk of breast cancer. Researchers found artificial light can block hormones to help stave off the disease. Where theres a higher level of light at night has a linkage to breast cancer, but the study targets a Certain Group of woman who are current or former smokers. The Great American eclipse just over three days away. And if you have trouble finding the special set of glasses or reasonably priced one, we have a cheaper way to watch the eclipse being safe. Heres nydia han with a special consumer report. Reporter im nydia han with this weeks consumer extra. Were days away from the historic total eclipse, the first since 1979. If you cant get your hands on special glasses to look at it, it doesnt mean you have to miss out on the excitement of the event. You should never look directly at the sun. According to nasa all you need is a cereal box and heavy duty foil and white cardboards and markers and pictures scissors and tape and glue. Cut a white piece of cardboard in the bottom of the box. Get a piece of tape across the center of the top to make sure it stays closed. Tape a piece of foil over one of the openings and keep the other side open youll use that for viewing. Using a small nail push a hole in the foil, now its time to decorate your box break out the construction paper and cover it, make sure you leave the top of the box uncovered. Now that the viewer is built all you have to do to use it make sure your back is facing the he eclipse, hold up a box like a pair of binoculars and a small image of the sun will appear inside. Im nydia han. I might have an old box of lucky charms that you can make these things. This is a construction project. 6 27 a. M. , david murphy is tracking storms, the call from accuweather next. New at 6 30 a. M. , another Confederate Monument comes down overnight as a controversial statue is vandalized here at home. Developing now on action news a third suspect is detained in a deadly van attack in spain that authorities linked to a larger terror cell. The battle over the frank rizzo statue boils over a vandals tagged it with spray paint. We have a stormy day and we have wetness on the runways at Philadelphia International airport. Good morning, 6 30 a. M. , friday, august 18. Lets go over to karen rogers and david murphy for accuweather and traffic, good morning. Reporter seconds ago a shower opened up. Take a look we have flood watch in effect today. At well see quick hitting flash flooding on roads creeks and streams this afternoon and tonight. Currently Storm Tracker 6 live double scan shows you a broken pattern of precipitation. Every now and then you get a heavier cell that passes through quickly. Some of it in south jersey, some it in philadelphia including 6abc. Some up in bucks county, the stuff in the Lehigh Valley has pushed to the east. 74 in allentown. 76 in cape may. Another part of the forecast today its going to be steamy, weve already seen the dewpoint in philadelphia rise from 69 to 71 just in the last hour 1 2. Anything over 70 is oppressive humidity. Tropical humidity around at times today. 82 degrees by noon, it will be warm, 5 00 p. M. , 88. I expect that to be the high around 4 00 p. M. At any time today there could drenching shower or thunderstorm that opens up, maybe a couple of gusty thunderstorms mixed in. Karen things get better in a hurry over the weekend. Ill have the details on that coming up. For now, umbrella weather. Reporter we were standing by Storm Tracker 6 live on one side and Traffic Cameras on the other. Were following the rain. You can see how wet it is as this cell crossed the schuylkill expressway at the conshohocken curve. This is eastbound heading toward center city. No major jam, but youre slowing down. The roads are wet in a hurry. Torresdale avenue, southbound at academy road and grant avenue an accident brought down wires. Stick to frankford. West conshohocken a disabled vehicle fayette street at bar harbor brook drive, one of the areas, the roads are wet, now you have the guys stuck here. Looking at the big picture, were looking at slowing on the schuylkill expressway westbound approaching the boulevard to past belmont. I95 32 Miles Per Hour southbound near girard getting heavy crossing the walt whitman bridge. I want to go outside one more time. Westbound traffic coming into the city, a little volume, but move okay. Developing overnight, a third person has been arrested in connection with the barcelona van attack that killed at least 13 people. Katherine scott is live in the Satellite Center with the latest on w