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WPVI Action News Weekend 7AM October 9, 2016

A foot of rain left towns under water. Rescue crews are going home to home looking for people who might be trapped. As predicted we appeared to dodge the worst of matthew, but the roads are wet. Chris sowers is tracking rain and the remnants of matthew. Reporter some of the rain is coming down at a good clip this morning. Driving into work it was terrible, rain coming down so hard it was difficult to see, especially with the car in me kicking up the spray. You can see the heavy rain stretching from new england southwestward into richmond, noon. There need changes in the path and projected track of Hurricane Matthew, assaults, but enough to bring subtle enough to bring the shield into the area. Its no longer a hurricane its a large overall system something you would see during the winter months. Instead of this storm, actually for the last several days, the storm was forecasted to do a turn back toward the south and affect florida and the bahamas, later this week. The storm said im going to do like. It was to make a beeline. Theres been a subtle change and were seeing banged along south jersey and the Delaware River. You can see the banged the Delaware River banding, the Delaware River florence, down into delaware. The farther west you go, youre too far west to feel the effects the storm system. Downingtown, exton, not feeling the effect of the storm. As the storm pulls away it will take the cloud cover and rain with it. Maximum force hurricane winds is here, these are Tropical Storm force winds in the orange shade and breezy conditions in the yellow shade. Lets go back real quick. That storm is work out to sea and not impact the immediate philadelphia area. So forecast for today, lots of clouds this morning, periods of rain, some of it heavy at times, damp roads, brighter conditions this afternoon, turning breezy and cooler, highs today around 63 degrees. 1 00 p. M. , 60. 3 00 p. M. , 63. 5 00 p. M. , 62. Its miserable out there, the afternoon promises to be much, much better. Alicia. Visit our website 6abc. Com to monitor the path of matthew, anytime our inter active Hurricane Tracker can show you wind speeds and where the storm is expected to go next. Donald i know you live in your reality, but that is not the facts. But you have no plan. That was round one. Tonight its round two of the president ial debates with the election just a month away. Donald trump goes into this second debate with new opposition from within his own Party Following those lewd comments about women that were caught on tape. The remarks have caused some topranking republicans to call for his removal as the gop nominee. John mccain is on the list of the republicans distancing himself from the campaign. Condoleezza is a rice and Carlie Carlie kim Hillary Clinton is expanding her lead in pennsylvania. She leads trump by 9 points, 47 to 38 among likely voters, but the margin of error is plus or minus 6 percentage points. The bottom line is pennsylvania is up for grabs, Karen Travers has more. Reporter its the showdown in saint louis, a town hall debate that could make or break for donald trump, a lewd and graphic row according from 2005 first recorded by washington post. The billionaire caught on a hot mic with billy bush. I moved on her, ill admit it. Reporter he bragged that his status as a celebrity gives him a free pass to grope women. Reporter Hillary Clinton tweeted this is horrific. Mitt romney and members of congress and chair of the rnc and paul ryan said he was sickened about what he heard. A planned event with ryan and trump did not happen. Clinton got a solid bounce out of the first debate. She now has a five point lead over trump in one national poll. The same poll before the first debate had trump on top. Is this trumps last chance to turn things around. Do you think hillary is debate prepping for three or four days, Hillary Clinton is resting. Reporter Trumps Campaign insists he has the advantage he can focus on the you you haddane and not on the audience. One of the pitfalls, half the questions are coming from the audience. That was Karen Travers reporting. You can watch abc news live coverage. President ial debate at 9 00 p. M. Of course its followed by action news at 11 00 p. M. And you can get breaking alerts from the campaign trail by downloading our free 6abc news app available on the apple and google play stores. Developing overnight, the search is on for a killer who shot a young man in front of his mother. Police say several suspects barged into an apartment a 20yearold man was inside with his mother. One of the suspects shot the man several times killing him. His mother was in not injured. The motive behind the attack is unclear. Hurricane matthew is blamed for ten deaths in the United States including two people in North Carolina swept away in their cars by flood waters. The storm is moving out to sea as the dumped a foot of rain or North Carolina. Flooding homes and businesses 100 miles i understand handle. Dozens of people in the state inland. Dozens of people in the state had to be decrees rescued from their cars. South carolina governor is warning those not to return to their homes. Most injuries and fatalities occur after a storm because people attempt to move in too soon. Do not plan on going back home today or tomorrow. The storm has knocked out power to more than a Million People in the southeastern section of the u. S. Some residents have returned to their florida homes to find them destroyed and things are much worse in haiti. The storm is being blamed for killing 470 people in just one hardhit district of that county. Were following breaking news this morning, police have arrested the man they say shot and killed two Police Officers in palm springs, california. Overnight, police saluted their twin cassetts at this procession underway caskets at this procession. One of the officers killed had just returned from maternity leave. The other was a veteran of the force. Im a wake in a nightmare right now, thats me, but you know what, always the police of chief i have to step forward and be focused. Of course, that arrest coming this morning a third officer was wounded in this shooting, police say that shooter was known to them and again, today is behind bars. The second commuter train crash in the new york city area in ten days has injured almost a dozen of people. The eastbound Long Island Railroad train derailed east of New Hyde Park new york last night. 600 people were on board the commuter train that came out of penn station. New Jersey Transit station in hoboken new jersey will resume tomorrow. A new rule is going to be in place, it requires the conductor to join the engineer whenever a train pulls into the terminal. The train was traveling twice the speed limit before the hit the station. Theres still much more to come on action news sunday morning. New overnight, a family scrambles to get out of their burning home in south jersey. Celebrating philadelphias italian pride. A peek at the parade in south philadelphia. Reporter moderate to heavy rain falling in areas south and east. Ill let you know when it clears. We have cooler conditions to talk about in the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast coming up next. Afoot and lighthearted i take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. The east and the west are mine. The north and the south are mine. All seems beautiful to me. Welcome back on this sunday, you can see rain on the camera there. 7 13, 62 degrees, sky6 live hd looking at the commodor barry bridge. The roads are wet out there, there was an accident on the schuylkill expressway on my way in, be careful if youre heading out this morning. Reporter part of the problem a lot of ponding on the roads. There wasnt too many people on the roads, rain coming down heavily you have water on the roads ways. Were seeing patchy fog, the leftover rain is coming down heavily at times and patchy fog starting to develop, as well. So lets flip it over to the radars and show you the latest here. These are the outer edges of what was Hurricane Matthew lifting as far north as the immediate philadelphia area. It started in the form. Showers and it got steadier and steadier and steadier as the day progressed. Most of heavier stuff moved in overnight. Heres glassboro, delaware, right here. We have Flash Flood Warning in effect for kent county. They picked up two inches of rain expecting another inch. You see rain from Atlantic City to cape may. Another band from the Delaware River from trenton to wilmington. Take a look at the rainfall totals. Again, this is in the last 24 hours. Not too bad in philadelphia. Close to an inch. The city of philadelphia is reporting. 4 of an inch. Its south jersey where youre picking up the heavier totals. In between elmer, 1. 3. Middletown in delaware, 2. 6. South of dover, 4 inches of rain. Fortescue gandys beach area, 2. Avalon stone harbor, 2 1 2. Cape may and the villas, were seeing 3, 4, 4 1 2 inches of rain. This is within the past 24 hours, you can imagine the kind of rain the folks saw down to the south where the hurricane came onshore. Rainfall totals, we have ponding on roads take it easy this morning. Skies will brighten up a bit this afternoon. Well have a gusty breeze. The afternoon looks really, really nice believe it or not. This is matthew, the center of the storm is off the coast of Cape Hatteras and working due east. It will pull this moisture with it. Flash flooding for southern kent county. Heres riverview, harrington, watch the areas that flood during a heavy rain event. Low lying areas, smaller creeks and streams. Weve seen a lot of water in the last 6 to ten hours. The remnants of matthew continue to work out to sea, its lifting farther to the north, the center of the storm is right here. The storm center is here, it will continue to pull east later this afternoon. Take a look at the peak wind gusts over the last servitudes. Several days, 155 Miles Per Hour off the eastern tip of cuba. Freeport, bahamas, 120. Cape can a narve canaveral, 107. Jacksonville, picked up rain on top of that. For us that is glancing blow. Were dodging a huge bullet. Showers for south jersey, the delaware bay region, dry north and west, theres the cloud line right here, the clearing line will march east during the day, sunny for most of the viewing area, cloudy for the shorepoints. We have clouds, damp, periods of rain, lunchtime, peeks of sun. 2 00 p. M. , 63. 5 00 p. M. , 61. Outlying suburbs, 42 and center city, 46. Once we get past today, columbus day, 63 degrees, mostly sunny skies, tuesday, sunny, nice, 65. Wednesday looks good, in the 60s, 67 degrees. Thursday is tranquil high of 72. Friday, saturday, the beat goes on, more sunshine and temperatures in the 06 60s. Maybe i should do my pumpkin picking next weekend. Reporter tomorrow when you have off. Off what does that mean . You go pumpkin picking and bring one back for us. The eagles have a date with detroit this afternoon, the last one, as you remember didnt end so swell. They got crushed in detroit last thanksgiving that loss started the eagles spiriling which ended with the firing of chip kelly. Flash forward they have a new coach, a new quarterback. Jamie apody has a report from detroit. Well be right back. vo want to be happy with your next vehicle purchase . At enterprise, we guarantee it. Head to your neighborhood enterprise car sales and let the people who buy more vehicles than anyone. Change your thinking about buying your next one. Hurricane matthew could put a temporary halt to the reduction of ma mosquito zika virus. Today date theres been 141 cases of zika virus reported in florida since july. Patients at mcgee hospital received a visit from a para olympian. She fought back from a severe spinal cord injury. Permanent weakness in her legs made her eligible for para olympic swimming. You inspire me to be a better teacher. You are special. This video has my heart, this is a video between teachers and their students at a high school in kansas, missouri its going viral. Jamie who is in charge of a program for at risk students issued a challenge to their fell teachers. She said tell an individual student they are important and appreciated. It has seen five million times. Most of the time its students telling their teachers how much they mean to them, how much they inspire them. This flipped the script telling their students how special they are. Its wonderful to see. Well be right back. Reporter welcome back everyone, 24 00 sunday morning, youre 7 24 sunday morning. Youre looking at the remnants of Hurricane Matthew, thats dry air working in on the backside of the storm. The center of the storm is right there. Remember the winds blow in a counter clockwise fashion around the storm always the works out to sea. Eventually well work this dry air into the delaware and the lehigh valleys as the storm moves off the coast. That will happen this afternoon. It looks miserable this morning, but your neighborhood will look better once we get past lunchtime. There was a huge change overnight in the projected path of the storm. Most of the models took the storm and wrapped it around. Watch what the spaghetti plots are doing now, watch the sudden change. Its due east north of bermuda. The sudden change got it north to new england. Some locations picked up between 4 and 5 inches of rain on the delmarva. It was the 5th hurricane this season. Cuba 155mile an hour wind gusts. Savannah, in just in just, 18 inches of rain. I95 in South Carolina closed in both directions. Its open now, but thats how severe the flooding was. Sports the eagles go for 40 in detroit. Ducis rogers and jamie apody are on the birds beat. Reporter good morning, the eagles are rolling these days, they hope the bye week has not slowed them down. This afternoon, jamie apody is with the birds. Reporter im in detroit, thats canada, they play hockey there, over here its about football. The eagles have arrived last time they were in town it was thanksgiving day they left with a 31 point loss, that left a bitter taste in the mouths of all the eagles. Its a precious moment to play in your hometown against your hometown, something i dream about all the time. You guys coming in undefeated, feel like new team, new year. New team, new year, and everybody is fresh and ready to go, and we all behind wentz he make sure sure we put him in good situation. How many friends and family in the stands . Ill have hundreds of family, but not all on my dime. Reporter poad poad channel 6 action poad jamie apody, channel 6 action news. James franklin got a vote of confidence this week. The lions never trail. Penn state up by 10 at the break. Late in the third quarter, plenty of time, 70 yards, penn state wins 3814. The lions next dame in two weeks against number two, ohio state. The sixers preseason schedule took them to cleveland last night to face the cavaliers, no okafor, no nerlens noel. How about that sixers needed a few more of those, they lose 108105. Sports sunday later on tonight. Off 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 mrs. Wagners car to arrive for the airport, she can use fios to download the movie up in the air to watch while shes. Up in the air. Thats the power of fiber optics. And right now get our best offer ever, super fast 100 meg internet, tv and phone for just 69. 99 per month online. Cable cant offer internet speeds this fast at a price this good. Only fios can. And were saying thanks during the last 10 years blinds to gos customer apppreciation sale buy one get one half off your favorite products. We love our customers and were showing it. Blinds to go. Blinds for life. We are hours away from the second president ial debate. Donald trump is not back be down in the aftermath of a sexually charged moment caught on tape. Hurricane matthew leaves flooding down south, the storms rain is drenching us, too. It is 7 30, sunday morning, meteorologist chris sowers joins us with another accuweather forecast. The rain is coming down moderately, we have not had too many issues with flooding or accidents or anything like that. Were doing okay, its a beneficial rain. The heaviest by far will stay there, delmarva, virginia beach. That area there, thats the area that will pick up the heaviest rain. Storm tracker 6 live set it in motion for you, you can see the yellows extending northward into philadelphia and south ever new york south of new york city. Ill make a couple of zooms. Note we have two bands one from trenton into wilmington along the Delaware River another band in south jersey, surf city south to wildwood and cape may. Were zoomed into the philadelphia area first. Jenkintown, route 1, crossing over Delaware River into riverside, you can see the heavy rain indicated by the yellows and orangeses, theres route 30 in camden and burlington county. Its a slow go lots of ponding on the roads. Philadelphia, moderate rain. Wilmington, same thing moderate to heavy rain is falling theres route 30 and 206. The steadiest is from 206 westward into city of philadelphia. The next zoom going farther to the south, jersey shore surf city through Atlantic City and Sea Isle City and wildwood and cape may, moderate to occasionally heavy rain falling along 89 garden state parkway. Slow go, route 47, delsea drive, cape may, ponding on roads, fortescue moderate to heavy rain. Those areas have seen 2 to 4 inches of rain in the last 122018 hours or so. Forecast for today. Morning rain, lots of clouds expected, patchy fog, a miserable morning around the delaware and the lehigh valleys. Well see skies brighten this afternoon turning windy and cooler, highs in the 60s. Nydia. Thank you. The second president ial debate is tonight in saint louis. Donald trump vowing not to quit the race, on twitter he will quote never drop out of the race and never let my supporters

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