There, we have to go to Houston Texas theres an emergency situation taking place. Reporter good morning were waking up as you can tell the strong winds and rain in houston, there are tornadoes warnings flash flood warnings and a lot of people worried if they have to evacuate their homes now. If they do, many people are being told they might need to. Theres nowhere to go and everything is flooded. More rain is on the way. Rescues continue throughout the night in houston, the countrys 4th largest city in crisis. The water came up so fast, it was incredible. Reporter Emergency Management officials are asking the public for help saying they need boats for rescues as roads turned into rivers. The geography in houston not helping the situation. Rain water is forced on to streets and then on small bayous easily overwhelmed by heavy downpours. First responders are stretched so thin neighbors are helping others. Its been 40 yores ive been here, and never saw this water this high. Reporter others are being plucked from the rooftops choppers as far as away from san diego and cape cod are pitching in to help. Many are having trouble getting through 911. Residents are told not to call unless the situation is life threatening. We need help in 5th ward. We need people here to evacuate people. Get people here now, before they die. Reporter the citys mayor asking for patience. Many of those who left left with nothing. Its all just materialistic stuff. Reporter so difficult to vee so many people suffering there are millions of them along with the woman that you just heard of. Both airports in houston, closed. They are flooded. More than 300,000 though us people are without power. The number is growing and people are stuck with they are, because there are so much water everywhere, we wait to see what harvey has in store for us next in houston. InNatasha Barrett. Action news. Katherine scott takes a look at the local efforts to help people in texas she joins us live at the red cross in center city. Katherine . Reporter matt, volunteers left from here yesterday joining others from our area who are already on the ground. There are multiple local agencies and organizations lending their resources and support including the American Red Cross eastern pennsylvania chapter. Yesterday volunteers set off from here in a truck stocked with food. They banked on their long journey to baton rouge, louisiana to help victims of harvey. Nationally, ten thousand volunteers are expected to pitch in. The red cross has been on the phone for days recruiting volunteers who can head to the affected areas and in the coming weeks. Headquarters in philadelphia handle two National Call centers. They are providing shelter and er information from hundreds ever miles away. Keep in mind this is just the beginning, more volunteers could be deployed in the coming days, some go for two weeks, others a month or more, depending on what their training is. Live in center city, Katherine Scott channel 6 action news. Thank you. We have created a special section on our website dedicated to the late information organ harvey. You can find live broadcasts abc 13 in houston. We have photos and videos from the flood zone at 6abc. Com harvey. Turning to business a disaster in texas is having an impact impact across the country for that part of the story we turn to maribel aber with our market watch. Maribel we expected the ripple effect. Good morning, i couldnt hear that. Gas prices are expect the to jump as Tropical Storm batters Energy Facilities in the houston area. Gas prices spiked last night. At least ten Oil Refineries along the gulf coast has been shut down thats knocked out 2 Million Barrels per day of refining capacity. We have jobs reports due out this week. Thats it latest in biz back over to you. Were clouding up today. Reporter were still comfortable, Storm Tracker 6 live showing were dry, sky6 live hd and sunshine coming up over the horizon and a few clouds in the picture. We expect the clouds to increase as the day goes on. Cool and comfortable in philadelphia, 61 degrees right now. Midst 50s in allentown, reading, lancaster and toward trenton and millville. 57 degrees in wilmington. So almost what you would consider chilly as you step outside in some neighborhoods. 68 on the promenade in cape may. Theres the satellite picture showing the clouds getting closer from the west and welling up from the southwest as we have a coastal system getting its act together to the south of us. In the Lehigh Valley look for sun giving way to increasing clouds. Comfortable, 76 degrees, low humidity. Down the shore, high temperatures in the mid 70s. While the ocean temperature looks warm, theres a high risk of rip currents because of the coastal low thats beginning to form. This will be a repeat for tomorrow, and well see about wednesday. Not a good day to be in the water, the surf will be rough and youre risking injury and maybe worse. Ask the lifeguards before you try anything. Sun and clouds in philadelphia, pleasant, 78 degrees and low humidity today. For the phillies tonight it will feel like autumn early, the braves in town, comfortable, 72 degrees for the first pitch. In the upper 60s in the 9th inning. It will be dry, but on the coolish side. 60 overnight low, mostly cloudy. Theres a possibility of rain welling up in the overnight hours especially toward morning down the shore. Future tracker 6 shows we start out cloudy by 6 00 a. M. There you see the rain coming in between 6 and noon. Some of it could spread up to philadelphia. Thats pretty much the stopping point for most of this all the way up to 6 00 p. M. And the coastal low gets away from us and we dry out later in the evening. Tropical storm harvey still a Tropical Storm look at the way its been meandering all weekend long. Still will be in the vicinity of southeastern texas all the way into tuesday and overnight wednesday and overnight thursday. One change in the most likely track it takes it east of houston. That could limit rain over the next couple of days in houston, they could use a break, but somebody will have problems with the storm. Its a slow move to the south and the north over the next several days. More rain for southeastern texas somewhere. 15 to 25 inches additional possible that means more flooding. The exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast, todays high, 78 degrees, sun to clouds low humidity. Tomorrow, cloudy and rain in the southern half of the region, 72. Wednesday, clouds will break, 78. Back to 83 on thursday, sun and clouds, warmer and theres a chance of a shower or thunderstorm late in the day or evening on wednesday or thursday, excuse me. Friday, sunny and cooler, 74 degrees. Saturday, lots of sun for the beginning of the Holiday Weekend. Partly sunny on sunday 83 thunderstorm on sunday. Police fall victim to the a crime in camden county. The search is on for the vandal who took one dozen cruiser out of the commission. There are several ways to reach out to the victim of the Hurricane Harvey. Reporter well check 422 and talk about new accidents coming up. Welcome back it is monday morning, were here to help you get your workweek started, a lot of people heading back to school, thats exciting. Were taking a live look at city hall Temple University cam. It is set to be a cool day today, 61 degrees, 6 12 a. M. Any school buses out there, karen. Reporter im not seeing school buses just yet in our camera, but they are out there. That means more volume on the roads. We had nice easy summertime traffic well see the end end of that over the neck a couple of weeks. 422 heading toward trooper. A lot of accidents in the suburbs, one at lancaster avenue at montrose avenue in bryn mawr. In new jersey an accident in sicklierville on the Atlantic City westbound approaching berlin cross keys road. The accident is on the shoulder. Watch for crews on the scene there. On the waze app an accident causing a delays on route 55 northbound in new jersey. This is deptford as you head near deptford crossing near the mall and going toward route 42 thats a busy area. The area of red traffic jammed on 55 northbound with an accident there. Majors, i95 the schuylkill expressway, 42 were seeing the green traffic flow. Not looking at a big delay just yet, but volume building, overall delays will kick in the next few minutes. Its down to the 40s quakertown and pottstown. 49 degrees. Its cool out there. 55 in malvern. 355 in media. 61 degrees in center city. The suburbs of new jersey, 55 in browns mills. 54 in glassboro, 63 in dover, delaware. Were starting the day with sunshine, 78 the high, a nice day, matt. Thanks, karen. New this morning, a firefighter is recovering from being injured battling a large house fire. The flames shot from one of the homes on the 49 hundred block of paschall avenue. We are told that the firefighter that was injured is in stable condition. Police are looking for the person who slashed 52 tires on fire vehicles in somerdale, camden county. The damage was discovered at 130 yesterday morning. The suspect entered the lot on kennedy boulevard and caused thousands of dollars worth of damage. Anyone who recognizes that man is asked to call police. A suspected drunk driver went on a mile long rampage turning two neighborhoods in Oxford Circle into a demolition derby. The driver is accused of hitting 27 cars yesterday morning. The suspect ditched his suv several blocks away, but police found him not long after. 6 15 a. M. , a phillies rookie is on a historic run. Reese hoskins hitting Streak Continues he proves he is not too bad with his glove, either. David has weather. Reporter all right gays were off to a sunny start. Severaltemperatures are treatins okay. 12hour forecast next. Safety check is on in houston on facebook. You can check on ways to help victims. The safe function allows user to check on friends to see if they are or. You can donate ten dollars to the red cross relief efforts text harvey to 9099. The charity will ask for your zip code to confirm your donation or go to red cross. Org to make a contribution there. You can donate through apple itunes in amounts from 5 to 200. Apple had a had similar donations campaigns for other natural disasters. Other celebrities are calling on friends to donate. Those are tech bytes. Oh wow, what kind of underwear are those . 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John mccain and an oil tanker have been recovered. The destroyer was badly damaged during the crash that complicated retreervel retrieval efforts. One of the victims was Kenneth Smith from cherry hill, new jersey. Anst over ran police barricades. One officer was injured while making arrests and several others were hit with paint. A lightning bolt threw a hiker to the ground and tore a gaping hole in his shoe. She had just reached the 9,000foot summit of a Northern CaliforniaMountain Range when he was struck. The electricity shot through his body and exited his foot. He is in fair condition, though he cannot hear in one ear. 2017 Video Music Awards offered more than the starstudded red carpet walks and impressive performances. It took a serious turn and addressed the violence in charlottesville virginia. Heather heyers mother was there to announce a new foundation in her daughters honor. Only 15 days ago, my daughter heather was killed as she protested racism. I miss her, but i know she is here tonight. [cheers and applause]. Ive been deeply moved to see people across the world, the whole world find inspiration in her courage. The foundation will provide scholarships to help people join heathers fight against hatred. Pink made headlines she delivered a touching and bitter sweet story about her 6yearold daughter who was in the audience. She explained her daughter worried she was ugly, which pink responded telling her not to change. We dont change, we take the gravel in the shell and we make a pearl and we help other people to change so they can see more kinds of beauty. Pink performed a medley of her hits and gave a speech after septembering the michael jab b jackson vanguard award. Donations go missing from the Catholic Church with the philadelphia archdiocese saying it thinks happened coming up. Now on action news, disaster in texas, torrential rains continue at this moment as rescuers work around the clock. Sending relief first Response Teams are heading to the flood zone right now. Its back to school, students in suburban districts return to class. Good morning, everybody, 6 30, august 28. Tamala edwards is off, Jeanette Reyes joins us. Lets head outside to david murphy and karen rogers has traffic. Reporter we have satellite showing clouds west and southwest of us, they will fill in as the day goes on. Trenton, allentown, reading and lancaster and millville youre in the mid 50s. You step outside in the neighborhoods it feels chilly. 61 in philadelphia. 68 milder in cape may. As we roll through the day, 62 degrees by 7 00. 75 by noon. Even though we see more clouds as the day goes on, its a nice day with low humidity and high of 78 by 3 00 p. M. Back to the low 70s by 7 00 p. M. Tropical storm harvey is circulating down in texas creating havoc looks like most of the rain and action is east of houston, but some of the wrap around precipitation to the north and west could still pop through. When i step inside well have more on harvey and the chance of additional lighter rain thankfully around here tomorrow. An issue with rip currents down the shore, karen thats coming up. Reporter all right, dave, for now, the roads are dry heading out on monday morning. I95 southbound at cottman a disabled vehicle on the shoulder, we have penndot on the scene trying to assist with this. We have volume building on i95 southbound not horribly jammed just yet, but its beginning to build across the highways. We have a lot of accidents in the suburbs this cleared looking better susquehanna road at fitzwater town road. White hall road Skippack Pike a vehicle drove off into the woods. Emergency on the scene white hall road montgomery county. Boulevard heading