Continueing to scope the river through air by boat wine land. Looking for any survivors. Looking for any potential bodies. Reporter president obama says he spoke with Governor Greg Abbott to express his condolences and assured the governor he can count on the federal government to help with requests for assistance. We will expedite those requests to make sure that both search and rescue operations where necessary but also recovery operations occur as efficiently and as quickly as possible. Disaster declarations in dozens of texas counties tonight. Forecasters are predict morgue wet weather. Very hard to pre hen the magnitude of this flooding flooding. It is historic. Chief meteorologist Scott Williams has that part of the story. Youve lived in texas and ive lived in texas and iain has lived in texas. We would agree this is some of the worst flooding not caused by a Tropical Storm or a hurricane in recent years. Take a look at the video. You can see people are still missing after this deadly flooding moving through sections of Austin San Marcos as well as the houston area. The water tables have been saturateed for the past several weeks. Lets take look at whats been happening on ultimate doppler going back to last week. You can see some of the same areas seeing the develop of those strong thunderstorms producing a lot of rain much this goes back to last thursday. So over and over again some of those same areas have been hit. Take a look at some of the Doppler Radar estimates around some of the hard hit areas. Places like houston moving back toward the austin area have seen over a foot of rain in the past several days. So take a look at this particular hydro graph. This is the greens bayou river at houston well above major flood stage. It will crest over the next several hours and then recede but several that scenario has been repeated for the Colorado River and austin texas as well. Catastrophic damage across that area and the pattern there is a developing el nino that will unfold warming Pacific Waters and that will continue to kind of lock this pattern in over the next several weeks or potentially for the remainder of the year as we typically see that jet stream to the south increasing the moisture across those areas. Thats certainly something well have to keep tabs on for the remainder of the year and also a part of that system will impact us as early as tomorrow evening. Ill have the timeline on that as well as developing heat for us coming up. Back to you. A lot to talk about. Do it soon scott. Our coverage of the flooding in the southwest continues ahead this hour well go live to houston where rescuers have their hands full with people stranded in flooding they havent seen in more than a decade. In the meantime download our fox 29 news app to get all the breaking details on this and other stories. Its free. Youll find it in the apple or google play stores. Police continue their search for the man they say broke into a womans bedroom and assaulted and robbed her. Investigators are looking into whether this incident is relateed to one a couple of months ago. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser is live in south philadelphia near the scene of that crime and dave a scary morning yesterday for that woman. Reporter some frightening moments indeed, iain n fact, investigators now believe they have a pattern here with these two incidents. They have more than half a dozen similarities in that pattern including the fact that the suspect in these cases wore red or orange cloth gloves with the fingers cut out. Scary. Its frightening. Reporter for women living near the 1800 block of rose wood street in south philadelphia, its a time of deep concern after a woman was sexually assaulted in her own home. Im scared i might it might happen to me. Brazen, bold, and certainly threatening. Reporter Home Invasion and Sexual Assault happened around 5 00 monday morning. A 35yearold woman asleep in her bed a woke to find a man standing over her wearing a ski mask. Puts his hand over her mouth to quiet her. While he demands money. Reporter police say the man threaten the woman, took her car keys and some money. Then sexually assaulted her and fled. The victims car turned up a few blocks away. Tuesday, police were checking it for fingerprints at the Police Impact lot and looking for Surveillance Video. There is possibility we may have something the location of the vehicle was recovered and dropped off. Reporter this is the second sex assault in the neighborhood recently. Back in late march Police Released this sketch of a man they say entered a womans home in the 1700 block of south chadwick street, robbed her and tried to sexually assault her after he took her two children to another room. Just their presence alone using that as a shield or a means to get what you want. Its, you know, something wrong about that folks. Reporter police say women in the area should leave lights on, lock their windows and doors, and be careful. Keep the doors locked. This individual is dangerous in that he may be look through the neighborhood. Now is the time to case the area. Reporter now Police Looking for fingerprints, dna and Surveillance Video which they hope to release as soon as they get it. Coming up at six why investigators believe this guy is capable of anything. Lucy . All right, dave, hopefully they can find him soon. Protesters back on the streets of cleveland three days after a judge acquit add white officer of voluntary manslaughter charges in the shooting deaths of unarmed black couple in 2012. Also today the city of cleveland agreed to overhaul its Police Department which means the city will now work with Community Leaders to make changes to its police force. A judge still has to approve that plan. Among the changes that are proposed training in whats called bias free policing. Cell phone snatchers get a away tempt asking go according to plan in north philadelphia. Surveillance video from may 17th shows a guy on his bike on jasper street just before the incident. Now watch another angle shows him flying around a corner with the robbery victim in hot pursuit he wipes out but manages to get up and fend off the womans attacks. He took off down jasper street. Nobody was hurt but police are still looking for him tonight. More safety up grades from amtrak tonight in the wake of the crash in Port Richmond that killed eight people and injured more than 200 others. First, it was equipment that will slow a speeding train as it approaches dangerous stretches of track. Now a camera designed to keep a closer watch on the person in control of the train. Our bruce gordon was among the first on the scene of that crash on may 12th. Hes at 30th street station with this latest development. Bruce . Reporter lucy, amtrak had already been working with the federal Railroad Administration toward placing inward facing cameras on its northeast corridor trains. In light of recent tragic events amtraks president has moved up the timetable. Investigators probing the deadly amtrak crash in Port Richmond were able to review footage recorded from a camera facing a head of the northbound train as it accelerated into a curve about 10 minutes out of 30th street station. But there were no inward facing cameras to record the actions of engineer Brandon Bostian in his cabin as the train gained speed. Thats about to change. Amtrak says it will install inward facing cameras in most of its northeast corridor trains by the end of this year. The price tag 6 million. Attorney tom klein represents a passenger injured in that crash. Pointing a camera inward at the engineer is a good idea. It should have been done. It could have been done and it wasnt done. Its too late for those who were horribly injured and now have died. Reporter the inward facing cameras like the ones facing outward will not show the engineers actions in real time. Instead, the footage would have to be downloaded from the trains socalled black box recorder after the fact. Septa buses, for example have lots of cameras facing inside. That passengers and at the bus driver. In the case of this recent accident the footage showed the driver was not wearing a safety belt. Fell out of the drivers seat while making a sharp turn. But klein says in general cameras will force operators to change their behavior. Which means that they are going to do things in a prudent and sensible fashion and they are going to know that every move is being recorded. Reporter Safety Measures were announced as we got an update on the condition of amtrak passenger eli kulp. The 37yearold celebrateed local chef suffered a severe spinal cord injury in the crash. His Restaurant Business partner elian yin told fox 29 kulp recently enter add rehabilitation facility. I cant say im optimistic. I dont know what his prognosis will be or how long it will take. I feel strong because i feel eli, you know, wants us to be strong and so for him were all being, you know, as positive and strong as possible. Reporter the engineer of that amtrak train 188 Brandon Bostian suffered a head injury in the crash and has told investigators he cannot remember what happened. Amtraks president says he expects push back on these inward facing cameras from the unions but says in essence the technology is there and were now going to use it to enhance safety. By the way eli kulps family set up a gofundme page to help cover medical expenses. If youd like to help out go to myfoxphilly. Com well link you to the sight. Iain. All right, bruce, thank you. We are following breaking news for you tonight in montgomery county. Skyfox is live over a buckled road along route 422 and oaks. Police are telling us this is near exit 29 on the eastbound side of route 422. Crews are working to fix this right now but you can see cars are driving around it. We dont know how long its going to take to get this thing fixed well of course continue to monitor it and bring you updates when they become available. Investigators in southwest philadelphia are looking for clues in a late night deadly shooting. Police found a man shot in the chest at 65th and elmwood avenue twice around 10 15 last night. Investigators say they also found a small handgun under his body. They arent sure if its part of the shooting, though. Along with that gun they also found some cash and a phone at the scene. Police have yet to release the mans name. So far they have no suspect. A philadelphia man admits he strangled his wife as the two fought over his text to another woman. So Christopher Murray will now serve 20 to 40 years behind bars. The 49yearold pleaded guilty to third degree murder. He says he loved his wife connie and wishes he could turn back time. Thieves target cars in a local neighborhood. But what theyre after is something you dont often hear about. Where all of this is playing out. Pay attention phillies fans. Your general manager says you dont understand the game. What hes saying tonight about those comments. Id like to hear that one. Will public shaming make your children behave . One woman is betting yes and shes makeing her children hold signs explaining what theyve done wrong but is this mom in the right . Well let you decide. It seemed like the perfect prank. Funny and memorable but after tens of thousands of lady bugs swarmed a High School Authorities werent laughing. The punishment some say is too harsh. Ive got a todo list and five acres of fresh air. Top three tools hammer, screwdriver, front loader. Happiness is a driveover mower deck. A john deere dealer can teach tractors to anybody. In the right hands, an imatch quickhitch could probably cure most of the worlds problems. Thats how we run, and nothing runs like a deere. See your john deere dealer for great green tag savings on the one family subcompact tractors. Check out this Surveillance Video. It shows two bold crooks stealing batteries right from several parked cars. This happened back on may 17th at maxs auto lot on the 7,000 block of oxford avenue avenue in northeast philly. Any anyone with information call the Philadelphia Police. Including grown glass in a play area. Investigative report jeff cole fracking the fallout. Have state officials reactioned rather stunning finding. Absolutely. They say they have jumped on it. State daycare regulators they in fact jumped all over these providers even before the report by federal Inspector General was released but the details of what the feds came across raised serious concerns about the quality of daycare here. The feds found an unsan tower toilet with mold and damaged floor and walls in age bam of a daycare. Sharp tree trimming saw stored by a door kids used to enter an outside play area. Bleach accessible to children and a pool would no fence to keep kids back. All of this what the Inspector General for the department of health and Human Services found in just 20 pennsylvania Daycare Centers. 17 of the 20 were found in violation of date state regulators. Pennsylvanias department of Human Services says, it quickly forced all of the providers to shape up fast and has since closed two of them. The two of the 20. Dhs says Governor Wolf added more than 13 million bucks to dhss budget and theyve started to higher more inspectors. Still, the federal probe look at just 20 government supported Daycare Centers and 17 came up with problems again. It raises serious concerns about the safety of kids and child care in the state. One suggestion to pennsylvania from the feds, reduce inspectors case loads so they can actually get to more centers. Im jeff cole, iain. Jeff, thank you. 20 people, 19 of them children, are under arrest tonight charged in connection with a sexting investigation. Its centered around Lower Cape May Regional High School and richard m. Title man middle school. Nude photographs of female students were being sent around all the people have been charged with invasion of privacy. We now know some of the headliners set to rock the stage here in philadelphia on americas birthday. The roots will return home for the philly fourth of july jam. This time as the stars of the show you know them as jimmy fallon house band on the tonight show of course. Theyve also been a main stay at the wawa welcome america festival every single summer. The newcomers on the ben franklin parkway stage this year are r and b my artist miguel and Country SingerJennifer Nettles those two names even a few music fans here in philadelphia scratching their heads. Miguel and Jennifer Nettles. No. Dont know them or dont like them. Dont know them. Reporter miguel and Jennifer Nettles. Fan of either one . Never heard of them. Miguel and Jennifer Nettles. What do you think . I have never heard of them. Reporter either one . No. Reporter i guess youre not a big fan . Probably not. He kept trying. Yeah he did. The phillies fourth of july kicks off at 7 00 on the ben franklin parkway final night of the eighth day independence celebration here in the birthplace of america. Slow and painful start to the baseball season for phillies fans but the fans arent angry at whats happening on the field. Theyre now mad about some comments by their general manager ruben amaro jr. Off the field. Howard eskin in the newsroom with more about these comments made about you the fans and i know the fans arent going to like this. No phillies fans are now apathetic about the Baseball Team itself. But the general manager create add social media fire storm and the world we now live in it was trending on twitter. He made a comment to csn philly. Com about the fans wanting the team to bring up pitcher aaron know what and zach from the Minor Leagues to the major leagues. Here are his comments. They dont understand the game. They dont understand the process. Theres a process. And then they bitch and complain because we dont have a plan. We cant do whats best for the fan. I was doing the morning show this morning on sports radio 94 wip, and had ruben amaro on and asked about his comments. I didnt say they dont understand. I said some fans dont understand and its not all philadelphia fans. That was not the purpose of it. It is some fans who believe who think that bringing the two to the major leagues at this time is the right thing for the organization. Its those fans. Ruben amaro actually knows what he wanted to say but he didnt say it the right way in what he said the first time. Now hes trying to back off. But hes technically right. Its not all fans. But its still gets fans angry. More from the phillies general manager coming up in sports. Lucy iain. Right. Thank you very much, howard. A dream come true in chester for some young soccer fans. Philadelphia union welcomed 100 students from philadelphias our lady of Calgary School today. Students learned soccer skills directly from union coaches and players. How cool is that . Right on the field of ppl park. Union players said hawaii, we enjoyed all of this as much as the kids did. We care about our fans. We care about our community and a loft is about soccer but more than just soccer, too. Its about helping others and helping our community and doing whats best for ourselves and for the fans. Todays visit a reward from true Mark Financial the students apparently did outstanding job in getting the word out about the importance of how money works in this world of ou