Only to find that there are no more rooms. This hotel would just give us a room. I think they have Convention People coming in with reservations. Reporter some tried to take advantage of the situation preying on homes and abandoned businesses. We had four people that tried to loot. Reporter one shop owner asking for help posting this Security Camera of looters going unpunished. This is houstons main shelter here. There are thousands of refugees already in place. They set up 2,000 cots much those ran out earlier today. And still we continue to see and people arriving as the rains continue to fall. Reporting from houston, lana zak, abc news. Lana, thank you. President trump and first lady melania are set to travel to texas tomorrow. The administration has not yet released specific details about the trip but we are expected to hear from the president within the next half hour when he holds a joint News Conference with the president of finland. Texas Governor Greg Abbott praised the governments help so far and says hes looking forward to hosting the president. And what i would like to hear from him is his understanding of the magnitude of the damage that texas has faced because its not just the houston area but also the Corpus Christi area where the hurricane first came across the shore of the state of texas. This is going to be a very long term project helping texas dig out. Hurricane harvey is the first major Natural Disaster of the trump presidency. Action news will bring you todays News Conference just as soon as it gets under way. This storm is causing so much massive damage because its essentially stuck in one place continuously swirling over the houston area. Yeah, its expected to stay there for another day or two dumping even more rain. Meteorologist adam joseph joining us this afternoon to explain just the path of this thing, adam. Yeah, basically it was a traffic jam in the upper part of the atmosphere. As harvey made landfall friday night at 10 00 p. M. , further down closer towards Corpus Christi the upper level of the atmosphere had know steering currents so it just sat there and now it has moved back down over the open waters of the gulf of mexico, not expected to strengthen into a stronger Tropical Storm but what its doing is continuously churning and pulling in that moisture out of the gulf of mexico and as you can see houston all points to the east to new orleans still stealing with buckets of rainfall as that remnant low and that Tropical Storm continues tom wind up over the gulf. In fact, weve nearly seen 40inches of rain in dayton, texas. Walter, about 35inches of rainfall. I mean thats over 3 feet in parts of texas. South houston over 30inches of rain, bay to you town 27 and Houston International airport close to 25inches of rainfall. Where this category four hurricane made landfall that was the inin issues shot of very heavy rainfall. Then as it sat it continued to pull in the heaviest of the rain east of the center of the low because you have that spin coming in counterclockwise and those purple areas here near houston over 15 to 20inches of rain extending into western louisiana. This Tropical Storm will continue to meander going into wednesday. It will not lift out of texas until wednesday. The take aways with this, they could see an additional 15 to 25inches of rain over the next couple of days in and around the houston area to western louisiana bringing storm totals of 50inches in spots, major flooding for days, maybe even weeks and, sharrie, the recovery is going to take a lot longer than that. We are talking months. Were going to have much more on our local forecast as well because we have some tropical rain to speak of in that full accuweather forecast. Adam thank you. People across the country have been quick to help houston by sending donations to the red cross and other major nonprofits but as always when sending money there are some warning signs to watch out for. Action News Reporter john rawlins continues our Team Coverage this afternoon from outside the red cross headquarters in center city. John. Reporter hi. This is the headquarters where since it was activated last week the call center here in philadelphia has received over 10,000 phone calls from texans because of harvey related issues. Elsewhere here in the city a federal task force, a Fire Rescue Task force that was on standby is now on the move and as you said, if youre thinking about giving a donation to someone for disaster relief, make sure you know who youre giving your money to. On four hours notice, this specialized search and rescue task force was activated by fema sunday 11 trucks with equipment and 45 personnel bound from philadelphia to texas. 20 are from the Philadelphia Fire Department the other 25 from surrounding areas. Reporter their mission, water rescues. Were sending a lot of water rafts assets. Reporter philadelphias red cross continues a victims of harvey. Right now weve got two Emergency Response vehicles in texas. Were sending a third out today. Reporter the red cross continuing to say to those who want to give something, give blood or money, not tangible items or things. Explaining. Those things have to be cleaned, sorted and shipped. That takes personnel and it takes resources that detract us from our dominant mission. Reporter which is getting people into safe dry shelters. The need for things like clothing will come later during recovery but for now the need is money. Very quickly they can grab their cell phone right now and text harvey to 90999 and that will make a 10 donation. Reporter already there are countless on line sites including crowd sourcing sites asking for money. Are they all legit . Whenever disaster strikes the scammers come out of the woodwork. Reporter andrew good is with the Better Business bureau. When it comes to charities his advice go to the bbbs give. Org. Which rates and looks evaluates charities on the basis of standards and makes sure any standard that meets the 20 standard is credited by the Better Business bureau. That web site is give. Org. It is a subsidiary of the Better Business bureau. Bottom line, if you want to give money to someone make sure it gets to a legitimate organization. There are of course the good ones everyone knows about the red cross salvation army. If history is any guide when you think about what happened in the wake of katrina and sandy there are a lot of fly by nighters out there as well. Great to see the generosity john. As texans come to grips with the enormity of this devastation its the stories of survival that are bringing hope. While countless victims have lost their belongings their resilience will see them through. Here are some of their stories in their own words. I lost everything. Just wiped me out and this is my first hurricane. I felt like wizard of oz, man. I was scared. Ive seen a lot of things but that terrifies me. Blind mind blowing. I didnt realize it was this bad. We lifted stuff as high as we could but thats okay. We were waiting for the helicopter, picked up some of our neighbors. Some of our neighbors are still back there on the rooftops. We saw the boat come by first and took the first chance we could to get out of there. It was over 5 feet in our house. We barely made it out. Im just so grateful that they came. Wow. Images that grip you at your heart. Our comprehensive coverage continues at 6abc. Com harvey. Youll find detailed information on how you can help the victims plus Live Streaming coverage from our sister station ktrk in houston. Still ahead on action news hear from Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Marcus Johnson who is here while his family tries to cope back home in texas. His powerful message to loved ones, its all new at 4 oclock. In the meantime it is time for a first check on the action news traffic report today. Lets go live to gina gannon who is in for matt pelman in the action News Traffic Center today t. Hi, sharrie and brian. Its monday out there. Very sluggish on the roads indicative of a monday. Well show you what is happening. As you can see we are seeing 4 miles per hour, thats on 95 because we have an accident there that ill get to in just a second. A bit slow 95 on the southbound side. Look at that on the roosevelt boulevard that that northbound side 17 miles per hour. The schuylkill looks like were in the yellow there. Not too bad. About 20 on that westbound side. Well take that any time of the day. We wont take an accident on 95 northbound just past the vine street expressway. Really not helping things. Looks like its in the process of clearing. Looks like now we just have the Left Shoulder being blocked. Emergency personnel on the scene but again that left lane is blocked. We are seeing delays back to penns landing so earlier the two left lanes were blocked but now just that Left Shoulder is block so a little more time needed. Guys ill send it back over. The search for a man wanted for slashing dozens of tires in south jersey. We have the new clue that should help lead to his capture. Plus, you may see more vehicles like this on the roads during an emergency. President trump is ready to relax rules for Police Departments who want to use military equipment. Ostriches dont really stick their heads in the sand. A peanut is not a nut. And a real john deere. Is actually real affordable. 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Police departments here in the United States will once again have access to high caliber weapons and warfare typically used by the military. President trump is expected to sign an executive order today that rolls back limits on military equipment used by police. The move would undo restrictions put in place under former president barack obama. Items like camouflage vehicles and grenade launchers could be transferred from the military to police. Militarization of the Police Became a flash point of controversy during unrest in ferguson, missouri following the Deadly Police shooting of black teenager michael brown. Meanwhile local police are hoping a new surveillance photo will lead them to the vandal who damaged half the departments cruiser. This is the ma and man who allegedly slashed tires on vehicles. Officials say the actions of one criminal could have put the entire community at risk. Essentially disabled our ability to respond. We had cars but if we had Major Incident happen half our fleet is out of service but now were were a little better today than we were yesterday. Hes facing serious charges when caught. New jersey correspondent Nora Muchanic will have more on the effort to get all the vehicles fixed and back in Service Coming up tonight at 5 00. Turning back now to our coverage of the flooding in texas. Oftentimes sports United States cities and lift them up during the darkest times and thats a role the Houston Texans are hoping to fill. The team along with owner bob mcnair is donating 1 million to the united flood relief fund. The texans relocated to dallas and are using the cowboys practice facility. Nfl players across the league with ties to the houston area are feeling the impact of harvey in a very personal way. That includes eagles wide receiver Marcus Johnson. Walter perez joins us live outside the novacare facility with his story and powerful words today. Walter. Reporter anyone who has played sports at a high level especially professional will tell you it takes a tremendous amount of preparation and focus but how do you stay focus if you know you have loved ones in harms way. Thats a struggle eagles receiver Marcus Johnson can tell you all about. Marcus johnson for the eagles score. Reporter 23yearold Marcus Johnson has been turning heads this preseason including this nice grab that put six on the board last thursday against the dolphins but he admits staying focused has been difficult over the past few days. My godmother, both of her homes flooded and then i had other family in dickinson that had flooding in their homes. Its a tough situation. Reporter in fact johnson says his entire extended family lives in texas with most of them residing in the houston area. He says once he realized just how dire the situation was becoming, he quickly contacted his parents. My immediate tomorrow is doing okay. You know, i have other family members who are struggling right now so its tough but at the same time, you know, i just continue to pray and when i can help i limit the university of texas standout spent some time on the eagles practice squad last year before really making a name for himself over the past few weeks. Johnson says hes heartbroken knowing that the people who helped him follow his passion and improve his game are in trouble. This whole season a lot of close people who helped me get my game to where it is right now and to be able to do the things that im doing, theyre struggling, training facilities, homes people that are close to me. Reporter as he fights for a roster spot with the birds his plan is to simply do anything he can possibly do to help the community that he calls home. Im strong in my faith. Im going to continue to pray for them and when i get the opportunity to go back whenever that may be i definitely want to help people rebuild homes, whatever i can do to just give back to the community. Reporter now, of course, the eagles signed a couple of receivers during the spring. They got two more during the draft and then you have nelson agholor. Johnson says his family told him to not worry so much about them and to keep on fighting to make that dream come true. Reporting live from the novacare complex, walter per recollection channel6 action news. Sharrie. A lot on that young mans plate. Walter thank you. Cameras were rolling when an act of kindness unfolded inside the Houston Convention center which was filled with harvey evacuees. A Police Officer took off his own pair of socks from his own feet and then offered them to a woman whose feet were soaked from trudging through the flood waters. He had been wearing two pair but likely never expected to hand socks of course to a stranger when he probably went to work today. Just incredible to see these images of devastation. Absolutely. Adam talking about some potential tropical rain in the future. Yes, especially philadelphia south here tomorrow as the systems try to develop off the carolinas and its already churning up the waters with a northeasterly wind here. Live in cape may with our sky6 camera, if you watch the waters edge you can see these large swells just crashing at the shore line here. It is a Beautiful Day above but as you take a look at that lifeguard chair, if you can take a close look there, the flag on the lifeguard chair really whipping around here. You can see the white caps. I was down the shore this entire weekend and that wind was persistent off of that water saturday, sunday, today and that continues to churn up that water like a washing machine. In fact, were expecting six to 10foot waves here as we go into the day tomorrow at the shore. It is not a beach day because it will be cloudy, number one, but also very dangerous rip currents with those large swells. Winds near 40 to 45 miles an hour gusting at times especially tomorrow afternoon into tomorrow evening and rainfall at the shore about a half an inch to over an inch as some bands of rain develop off of a storm that could become Tropical Storm irma just to our south. So, temperaturewise right now 76 philadelphia, 74 allentown, 76 in millville. So everyone basically in the all right, were going to go back to brian and sharrie for our press conference with the president. Adam thank you. As you just mentioned President Trump about to make his first Public Comment about the situation unfolding in houston, texas. Lets take you live to the white house and hear what he has to say. It is my great honor to welcome president to the white house. Weve just concluded a very positive meeting and i want to begin today by extending my thoughts and prayers for those affected by Hurricane Harvey and the catastrophe of flooding and all of the other difficulties that theyre currently going through in houston, in Southeast Texas and now its looking more and more like the state of louisiana will be also affected. My administration is coordinating closely with state and local authorities in texas and louisiana to save lives so we thank our First Responders and all of those involved in their efforts. Were working directly with texas Governor Greg Abbott who by the way is doing a fantastic job and his entire staff likewise as well as with governor John Bell Edwards who is very much involved in starting the process of louisiana. Weve pledged our full support as texas and louisiana battle and recover from this very devastating and historic storm. Theres probably never been anything like this. Under the supervision of fema, administrator brock long, there had been a tremendous amount of work done. He has he has been so outstanding in so many ways. More than 8,500 federal workers are involved in the texas effort alone. Ive also today declared emergencies in louisiana at the request of governor edwards. Recovery will be a long and difficult road and the federal government stands ready, willing and able to support that effort. Right now the single most important thing is the safety and security of those still in harms way including the First Responders who have been so terrific and brave protecting the lives of our people is my highest priority. Every asset at my command is at the disposal of local officials. Tragic times such as these bring out the best in americas character, strength, charity and resilience are those characters. We see neighbor helping neighbor, friend helping friend and stranger helping stranger. You see that all over. You watch on television, you just see such incredible work and love and teamwork. We are one american family. We hurt together. We struggle together. And believe me, we endure together. We are one family. To the people of texas and louisiana, we are 100 percent with you. Were praying for you. Were working closely with your leaders and officials and i will be visiting the impact zone tomorrow to ensure that youre receiving full support and cooperation from the federal government and on saturday, we think were going back to texas and also we will be going to louisiana. Nothing can defeat the unbreakable spirit of people of texas and louisiana. Right now every american heart sends its love and support to those whose lives have been upended, totally upended totally by this very horrible storm. We ask god for his wisdom and strength. We will get through this. We will come out stronger and believe me, we will be bigger, better, stronger than ever before. The rebuilding will begin and in the end it will be something very special on just want to thank everybody in the affected area because it has been absolutely incredible to watch the spirit, the cooperation and the love. I would also like to share a message to the people of finland who have that recently suffered a terrorist attack. We stand in solidarity with you against the terrorist threat. We must all Work Together to deny terrorists safe havens cut off their finances and defeat. Mr. Trump speaking offering his words of encouragement and comfort to those who have been impacted by Hurricane Harvey along the gulf coast particularly in texas as we take a look at the images of course that are there, the president saying that hes been moved by seeing the love and teamwork that people are putting together to get through this devastation saying that he is 100 percent with you, his message to those who are listening across the nation offering his support this afternoon. 8600 federal workers on the ground in texas this afternoon. The president also saying he has now declared a state of emergency in louisiana and the route yet to be determined by harvey in the coming days. More on this of course throughout the evening tonight. In the meantime we come back home as road closures will likely be causing some traffic delays around eakins oval while crews work to get up and ready for this weekends made in america music festival. Drone6 flew over the area this afternoon, Spring Garden street between pennsylvania avenue and the ben franklin parkway and two lanes around the oval are now blocked off. More closures will gradually be added throughout the week to make room for five different stages more than 60 artists including host jayz and the chainsmokers will perform in that festival over the Labor Day Weekend. All streets are expected to be opened for the morning rush tuesday september 5th. A new school year as officially begun for thousands of local students. Today was orientation day in delawares Brandywine School district. The action cam was in wilmington as the children arrived at Mount Pleasant elementary. They had the day to settle into their new classrooms and of course find their new desks. Classes will start in full right there tomorrow. Exciting times. Yeah, got to be. If you pay to protect yourself from Overdraft Fees stay with us. A new study says you may be getting hit with them anyway. Well explain how to avoid the charges coming up. Plus its the invention that says food trends have gone too far. Peanut butter and jelly flavored salad dressing. It doesnt end there. Ill show you some of the other creative condiments that one company is now selling. Leeches much of houston under water. To make this unfathomable flooding situation worse Officials Say dams are near compass the is is the. The army corps of engineers is releasing some of the water. Half of the coast guard helicopters are already in texas rescuing more than 2,000 people left stranded. Fema has already deployed more than 900 search and rescue operators. Theyre also calling on citizens to help their neighbors. People were screaming out help, help. Well come back for you. Next thing you know theres 20 different people you rescued. Experts estimate as much as 4 feet of rain has fallen in some areas so far with potentially much more to come. As frightening images continue to pour in from texas many in our area are asking how they can help. The eastern pennsylvania chapter of the American Red Cross says right now they need financial donations to deal with the immediate needs. You can text word harvey to 90999 to make a 10 donation to the red cross. Tangible items will come later. People donate things. Those things have to be cleaned, sorted and shipped. That takes personnel and it takes resources that detract us from our dominant mission because right now were still in the eye of the storm. Weve got to get people safe. In addition to sending 12 volunteers, red cross houses two of the Organizations National call centers in philadelphia. Over the past 24 hours, they have taken more than 10,000 calls. Well, you can find the red cross information on our very special section of our web site. Visit 6abc. Com harvey for the latest information coming out of texas. You can also watch live broadcasts from our sister station abc13 in houston plus view photos and video from the flood zone. Yeah, and the folks at our sister station doing a fantastic job guiding that city through devastation and their own families are dealing with the as well. Absolutely. Adam, 9 trillion gallons of rain i read this thing where it said if you took a 2 miles long 2 miles long and 2 miles high thats how much water. I saw an image today of like a Volkswagen Beetle you ink about a 5footre car up. Person, we could see it higher than that once all is said and done. Back at home, yes, it is quiet right now but things are going to change here for us as well as we look down the pipeline of the east coast you can see some moisture gathering off the carolinas especially south carolina. Low pressure is trying to develop here and has a 90 percent chance of turning into Tropical Storm irma just off of the coast late tonight early tomorrow. But it does move out to sea and were going to get a little impact especially for our shore towns. Sky6 live in cape may folks kind of just looking the the ocean. That continues to create white caps. That wind has been whipping out of the eastnortheast all weekend long piling up the water, creating those waves and that will only deteriorate as we go into the day tomorrow. In fact, we do have a wind advisory now up from noon tomorrow until 12 a. M. On tuesday. So, thats basically noon tomorrow through wednesday night. And as we wednesday tuesday night into wednesday morning where winds could gust anywhere between 40 and 45 miles an hour from that Atlantic City along the coast right down to Rehoboth Beach creating some beach erosion as well as dangerous rip currents. Well talk more about this system and some of the rain its going to bring for parts of our area brian coming up in that full accuweather forecast. Adam thank you. The Roman Catholic archdiocese of philadelphia says a Bank Employee took advantage of their parishioners generosity by stealing donations meant for the church. Annie mccormick live outside archdiocesan headquarters in center city philadelphia. Annie, whats the story here . Reporter brian, td bank has confirmed theyve fired an employee and authorities have that charged that employee with third degree theft. Td bank wont say what agency is vesting. Theres an investigation into how much they lost. At noon mass today the basilica of saints peter and paul in center city parishioners responded to news that a td Bank Employee stole donations from the archdiocese of philadelphia. Scary somebody would do that to any Organization First of all not just the Catholic Church but anybody. Its unlawful. Im surprised. I dont know, maybe the person was desperate for money. I dont know why a person would do that but the person should definitely give the money back because i know a lot of that money helps the catholic priests and helps the poor people out. Reporter last week the archdiocese sent out this letter alerting parishioners to the theft specifically the stolen donations were from two annual direct mail campaigns run by the archdiocese for the Catholic Charities appeal and the seminary appeal. The letter states the crimes happened between december 2016 through july 2017. More than 400,000 households are on the archdiocese mailing list and all receive requests for the annual donation. Td bank has a contract to process the donations sent to a p. O. Box. The archdiocese says it was an alert parishioner that noticed a check mailed was never cashed and they believe the td Bank Employee was pocketing cash sent by mail and tossing a portion of the check. Td bank issued a Statement Today saying in part, one of our employees was terminated for cause and charged by the authorities with third degree theft. As far as the amount stolen td bank believes it alls in the range of 500 to potentially 75,000. Brian and sharrie, thats a wide range and right now the archdiocese says that they are working with td bank and also investigators to try to figure out exactly how much was taken. Now, the archdiocese also has set up a call center for those parishioners who do have questions. So far they have fielded about 40 calls. That number one8668128700. Reporting live in center city Annie Mccormick channel6 action news. Sharrie back to you. Annie thank you. A northeast philadelphia man accused of damaging more than two dozen cars while allegedly on a drunken rampage has been formally charged. This is 38yearold man. Officers arrested him right there will at the scene. Hes now facing a number of charges including dui. An out of control car claimed slammed into a utility pole and then crashed into a ditch today in mercer county. Hamilton Township Police and power crews were on scene trying to clear the downed wire from the 1200 block of klockner rinvestigators are stil working to find out what caused the accident. They have not said if anyone was hurt. One woman and one cat had to be rescued from a house fire in southwest philadelphia overnight. The flames sparked at a home in the 4900 block of pascal avenue at at 11 15 last night. It took firefighters more than an hour to get this under control. Four row homes were damaged. The woman and her cat were okay. One firefighter was taken to the hospital for observation. Experts have spoken for years about the positives of breast milk and breastfeeding. Now theres evidence of even more benefits. Action news anchor Rick Williams now live in the news room with the details on this one today. Hi, rick. Hi, brian. Thats right. Researchers took a close look at a compound commonly found in breast milk. Turns out that compound has healing powers that was never known before. Coming up tonight in health check at 5 00, ali gorman explains what that compound can do and why doctors see so much potential in it. Also coming up tonight in sports he is the record setting rookie in philadelphia who one making headlines nationwide. Rhys hoskins has made name for himself in less than three weeks in the major lesion. What the phillies have to say about his home run hot streak coming up to and night at 5 oclock. Some of the stories were working on you. Until then lets go back to the news room and sharrie well see you later. See you at 5 00 thanks rick. Teachers and administrators preparing to kick offer the school year in Delaware County the chesterupland School District held its annual convocation this morning. It was the Large Assembly is a three day event filled with motivational speakers. Classes in the district begin a week from tomorrow. Well, students in elsmere, delaware, also went back to school this morning. Teachers greeted the children as they arrived at austin elementary school. Students in first through ninth grade in the red clay School District went back today. High schoolers from tenth to 12th grade they get an extra day. They go back tomorrow. The big kids. I dont have to go back to school. Of course it seems like its too soon. It seems soon, that is true. We return to the coverage of our remnants of Hurricane Harvey with the story of a woman who went into labor ladies night lawsuit. Why one california man is suing his local gun range for allowing women to shoot for free. Plus, if you would rather have a Peanut Butter and jelly sandwich than a salad youre not alone. Youre also in luck. One company has you covered if you are willing to get a little bit creative. More than a little bit actually with your condiments. Protip. Get these great smoked ribs. 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A houston news crew helped rescue a pregnant woman who went into labor in the height of the storm. Our sister station abc13 was there for part of her scary ordeal. It began this morning when she became stranded by high waters and then her contractions began. Fortunately reporter Chauncey Glover was on a boat in the area covering the storm. He kept the woman calm as he brought her out of the flooding and got her into a public works van which took her to awaiting ambulance. I was trying to get her feeling comfortable making sure she was breathing. Glover stayed with the pregnant woman until medics rushed her to the hospital. Were still working to find out her condition and also about the baby. Flames poured through a building today in downtown houston adding to an already chaotic day for the citys fire crew. The large blaze broke out inside the lone star legal aid offices sending a thick cloud of smoke into the air. One resident who lives nearby says he heard an explosion and that is when he grabbed his smartphone and started recording. The cause of the fire still remains under investigation. All right, sharrie, over here at the big board with the big talkers today beginning with the lawsuit that put an end to a special ladies night promotion at a california gun range. But this is not about noise or safety its about a supposed civil rights violation. An Orange County man by the name of gregory roll lon dough is suing the business claiming that waiving the 12 range fee for women is a form of discrimination and violates his rights. Its not his first time. Over the past several years hes filed lawsuits against businesses in three counties after they offered incentives or promotions to women. At least one cohassett told paying rolondo1500 bucks. In my opinion, extortion. This gentleman says that he would call off his attorneys if the range owner would pay him a certain amount of money. Well, the owner of the gun range is firing back so to say saying he will not settle. He plans on fighting rolondo in court. No word if hes baiting. In the coming days and weeks many of you are taking the kiddos back to school which can bring of course a range of emotions about but one group of back to School Photos is generating one particular emotion and thats appreciation. This is haley booth along with her fouryearold daughter rachel and her exhusband caleb who is rachels dad. Heres a picture of their newly extended family along with calebs new wife and haleys new boyfriend and another. This one of little rachels mom and step mom walking her into her first day of school in oklahoma. Haley posted these pictures on facebook as a way to show that peaceful coparenting is possible. She did not expect these pictures to go viral but they have now shared nearly 30,000 times. In her post haley wrote rachel did not choose to be born. She certainly never chose for her parents to be divorced why would we make her harder by having to choose which that set of parents to love. It takes a village and im thankful for mine. If you ever find yourself wishing your healthy salad could be junk food laden with carbs and sugar. These pouches contain dressing that takes like everything from Peanut Butter and jelly to mac and cheese. Salad shots an invention born from kickstarter offers a way to upgrade your greens by disguising the taste with all natural ingredients. The dressings which feature more traditional flavors like ranch are sold at a number of Specialty Grocery stores. The other condiments including roads petal chocolate chip and pb and j are expected to follow in the future. A fact one food blog or calls a sign of the impending apocalypse. As the dad of two twin boys, whatever works, thats what i say. I think they would go for it. Yeah. Pretty cool brian. Thanks. Lets get another check of the roads this afternoon. Gina gannon in for matt this afternoon. Hi, sharrie. I think we could start a trend with the macaroni and cheese salad dressing im in for that. Its not bad. Very sluggish out there. We only have a few issues of red on the map. Like on 95 northbound like on the eastbound side of the vine street expressway. And on the roosevelt boulevard but on the schuylkill its not bad as well as on the blue route but i want to show you whats happening on the schuylkill expressway if youre traveling in or out of the your western suburbs. Heres your live look on the westbound side and eastbound right by 202. If youre trying to make your way to the pennsylvania turnpike or 202 it is sluggish out there and it looks like the eastbound side a bit heavier right now. Looks like 10 minutes right now so got to give yourself time if thats where youre traveling but the schuylkill all in all not too terrible this afternoon. On the roosevelt boulevard our typical jam. Jammed from 76 to broad street. Doesnt loop that. Look like that that southbound side is sluggish at all. Ail lanes blocked because of this gas main break be extremely careful if your traveling in that area. Another accident blocking all lanes as well in east exton on east lincoln highway which is business route 30 between springdale and ship road so a little more time needed there. Brian and sharrie back to you. Gina thank you. Meteorologist adam joseph coming up with our sevenday forecast when we come back. From Fertility Services to prenatal education, weve helped the two of you get this far. And were proud to now join all three of you, as you continue the greatest journey youll ever embark on. Aetna. You dont join us, we join you. Politicians playing gameston while south jersey gets short changed . Then vote fran grenier. Think its time we had a regular guy, not a lifelong politician . Thats fran grenier. Looking for a fighter to take on the tax hikes and job killing regulations . Elect fran grenier. Want a leader wholl actually stand up for south Jersey Schools and communities . If you answered yes to any of these questions, theres only one way fran grenier. Meteorologist adam joseph joining us here. I spent a little bit of time down the shore this weekend. It felt a little bit like fall. It did. You know what it was down there, it was that wind coming out of the northeast. It was beautiful if you were inland. When you hit that sand you got to exfoliation with the wind coming in off the water. Been there. That wind going to get us into trouble tomorrow down there with rip currents and some pretty big swells. As we take a look at the Weather Center here, it is beautiful above. There is a little bit of cloud cover trying to sneak in here this afternoon. High clouds at first and now you can see on the Commodore Barry bridge and just above it there some of those cumulus clouds popping up on sky6 live in chester and the clouds will that continue to thicken up overnight tonight ahead of a system developing down to our south. So, the rain is going to develop from south to north during the day tomorrow but it may put on the brakes in and around the philadelphia area so closer towards the lehigh valley, you may be spared tomorrow from rain but at the shore winds gusting to 45 miles an hour during the day tomorrow. If you thought saturday was windy or yesterday or today, tomorrow were going to crank it up even higher and then mid 80s are back by thursday. Weve had all these days with temperatures only in the 70s and thats where we are right now. 74 up in the lehigh valley. 73 trenton. 76 philadelphia. And the Atlantic City airport right now coming in at 74 degrees. But as we look at these changes on satellite and radar, there are the high clouds that streamed in first thing this morning. Again, able to filter the sunshine through but as you look to the south youre starting to see a little edge of rain sneaking up along the coastline and that is over Cape Hatteras right now, the outer banks of North Carolina. You see the rain trying to intensify here. If you look at the streamline, the winds here you see a little spin near Charleston South Carolina its right on the waters edge. That is low pressure that is going to skirt just to the south of North Carolina and then out to sea but as it does, it has a 70 percent chance now of becoming Tropical Storm irma. So overnight tonight mostly cloudy, some late showers in far southern areas but most of the night is dry and comfy, 57 to 64 degrees. Future tracker showing tomorrow morning it is wall to wall clouds here and there are some of the showers to the south. The problem with Northern Areas is we have High Pressure to the north and thats dry air filtering in with that northeast wind so it will try to rip a lot of rain apart but philadelphia especially down to the shore there will be periods of rain tomorrow afternoon, some could be briefly heavy at times but by tomorrow night, were starting to see that drier air take over as the storm moves out to sea and really this is the setup. High pressures over new england. Again, that high is a lot of dry air that will be coming in out of the northeast. That is going to save us from what could be irma from coming up the coastline but what its going to do is bring strong winds between what could be irma and that high along our shore points, winds gusting to 40, 45, rain down there about a quarter to a half inch tomorrow especially in those far southern areas and waves six to 10 feet with really dangerous rip currents so tomorrow not a day youre going to want to park yourself on the sand. Wait until wednesday. As we look at the exclusive accuweather 7day forecast, 70 breezy tomorrow with afternoon rain especially philly down to the south. Clouds early wednesday morning giving way to returning sun of 80 degrees. Thursday is warm, its a bit humid ahead of a cold front that could spark a storm later in the day of 85 degrees but that will usher in cooler air, 74 with sun on friday and right now Labor Day Weekend i cannot promise its going to be dry all weekend but i can promise its not going to be wet all weekend. There will be a period of some steady rain. The question is is it saturday or sunday. Well fine tune that as we go through the week. Thanks adam. How to watch out for those Overdraft Fees coming up in whats the deal. Fios is not cable. Were a 100 fiber optic network. And with the new fios gigabit connection. You get our fastest. Internet ever. With download speeds up to 940 megs 20 times faster than most people have. 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Thats it for action news at 4 00 join me along with brian, adam and Ducis Rodgers tonight and every night for a full hour of action news at 10 00 on phl17. And coming up next on action news at 5 00 we continue to monitor the very latest out of houston as Tropical Storm harvey continues to spin over that area. Right now some communities are under mandatory evacuation orders. Thousands of people have been rescued. Officials say hundreds more are still awaiting help. Well have more on the nationwide outpouring of support and also of course track the storm. Its all coming up next at 5 00. Action news. Delaware valleys leading news program. With jaime apody, meteorologist cecily tynan, Rick Williams and monica malpass. Every american heart sends its love and support to those whose lives have been up ended totally up ended, totally by this very horrible storm. Breaking news tonight a promise from President Trump. In the past hour the president promised the full support of federal resources to those affected by the flooding disaster in texas. This ahead of his visit to some of the hardest hit areas. We were up to our ears and some houses it was over, so, yeah, its high. It was over 5 feet in our house. We barely made it out. Im just so grateful that they came. Also tonight, we are hearing harrowing stories of survival from people trapped by the rising flood waters. Now the rush is on to get everyone to safety as rain continues to hammer Southeast Texas. It is monday night, monica is off, Sharrie Williams is joining us and the big story on action news is the devastation still unfolding in the wake of what is now Tropical Storm harvey. Right now at least 20,000 people are under mandatory orders to get out as flooding continues to affect the entire houston area. At least eight people have died since harvey made landfall. Officials say more than 2,000 people have been rescued. And tonight thousands more are still waiting for help. Officials say they are working to figure out how to get more shelter for those pushed out of t
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