Well as we track this moisture coming out of the gulf of mexico and moving to the north northeast affecting the gulf coast states. Heres the track with Tropical Storm nate. You can see this storm system more than likely strengthening into a category 1 hurricane as we get into saturday evening and then it works its way up into the United States and it really passes over a large chunk of real estate in a short amount of time as this accelerates here and as it works its way into the mid atlantic region, monday into tuesday, we will be tracking that moisture and the remnants of Tropical Storm nate. What to expect sunday night right through monday, 12 inches of rain possible locally, up to 3 inches of rain in some spots. Ponding on the roads is a big concerns. Were not anticipating creek or river flooding at this time. Certainly muchneeded rain on the way. For now back over to you, brian. All right, thank you. And with all those watches and warnings around the gulf coast, people there are being urged to get ready right now. Residents and Business Owners in new orleans are particularly concerned, theyre wondering if the citys pumps and drainage system will hold up. The mayor says much progress has been made since concerns first emerged this summer, but there is still some work to be done. Crews are also cleaning out storm drains in hopes of keeping neighborhood flooding to a minute number. Meanwhile this is what it looked like when nate moved over central america. This is what it looks like in nicaragua. It was a similar scene in costa rica. As you head into your weekend keep an eye on your forecast at 6abc. Com weather. First a school was closed because of mold and parents fearing a mold problem showed up at the middle school to get their children. Parents showing startling pictures like these on social media. Action News Reporter bob brooks is outside the middle school with details and parents are certainly concerned about this for sure. Reporter theyre very concerned. We spoke with several families who say their children are coming to the schools and getting sick. Were now talking about the health of children and parents say theyre also upset about the mold but also the fact that the School District isnt being truthful as they go about this process. It wasnt hard to find parents upset and removing their kids early today from williamstown middle school. Theyre dropping tiles that are covered in mold and theyre doing this while theyre in school. Reporter they suspect mold has affected the building in the same way that it has the holly glen elementary school. The principal just admitted that there were tiles being removed while children were attending school. Reporter these pictures were posted today to a Facebook Group called Monroe Township schools mold. Theyre from inside tt williamstown middle school. We spoke with a variety of parents and students they are sick at school and no where else. My child has asthma. Shes on allergy medication. Yet any other time when shes home she doesnt seem to need that. Im perfectly fine at home and i come here and my throat is itchy, im coughing. She spent the first week going back to school going to the doctors, i cant breathe. Her eyes were bloodshot i thought she was going to start bleeding from the eyes. Reporter heres what her doctor told her. They put on the paper that shes suffering from mold. Mildew. Reporter thats three families of many we spoke to who says mold in the schools are making their children sick and they vow their kids wont go back until its safe. Im heartbroken has to lose time from school. These children shouldnt have to suffer. Reporter the children from holly glen are set to go to other schools throughout the district. Reporting live in williamstown, bob brooks, action news. Turning now to the latest on the mass shooting in las vegas. Investigators are still trying to figure out if the gun man had any help in the hours and days before he opened fire sunday night. This as cities across america increase security for big events planned over the weekend. Reporter officials tell abc investigators trying to figure out whether the las vegas mass murderer acted alone now believe the woman he was seen with in the days before the attack was a prostitute. But they believe someone may have helped him based on the elaborate planning. The amount of guns he had in that hotel room and because Officials Say some of the ammo was bought under someone elses name. Theres people that know this individual. Theres people that can help us understand this individual. Reporter with reports paddock may have considered other targets searching for hotel rooms near fenway park and booking rooms in chicago, can some cities are increasing security for big events, including in chicago for this weekends marathon. Theres been a double, triple checking of everything. Reporter back in nevada, a somber reminder of the overwhelming loss. Under the welcome to las vegas sign 58 white crosses, one for each life taken. Las vegas is having would be of the darkest days in american history. But im trying to shed a light on that by bringing home. Reporter one of those victims charleston hartfield. Thousands gathered to honor the army veteran and father of three. If theres a checklist to be an american he hit every single box and he made up some boxes. Reporter and donations to help all the victims families and the survivors keep pouring in with more than 9. 5 million raised so far. And this programming note to pass along this afternoon. Abc news and 20 20 will air a special documentary presentation tonight. It will feature brand new first person accounts and footage highlighting the heroism. Heartbreak and heros airs tonight on 6abc. In China Town Community leaders gather together to break ground on a 75 million project. Once the Community Center is built it will offer something for everyone. Vernon odom joins us now. This is something the neighborhood is very excited about. Reporter indeed, alicia. For more than 20 years now, Community Leaders have been hoping, wishing and praying trying to get the project going. Now there are shovels in the ground and a projected completion date. A traditional line dance shows just how big a day this was in chinatown. A vip ceremony to officially stage the groundbreaking at the 10th and vine location where the Community Center will begin to rise. The project will cost 75 million. For more than 20 years china towns leaders have been planning and hoping they can get this concept off the ground, at last. This project alone generates 23 million a year in economic development, 900 jobs from this development. It just means more people will be coming and living in chinatown. Were diverse, were going to be even more diverse because this is going to be a destination neighborhood. Reporter the highrise will feature 150 apartments mostly for seniors but plenty of space for young people activity as well. Education, community events. It took the financeiers a long time to get on board. Longtime chinatown Business People and residents believe this will launch their community into a new orbit beyond its borders. Were going to chinatown everyone have a place to play and have a place to meet people and have a lot of people can can come in and work. Reporter alicia, the completion date is expected to take 26 months from now, just in time for christmas, 2019. Im vernon odom, channel 6 action news in chinatown. All right, thank you. A change in leadership is coming to new jersey with the race for governor in the home stretch. 6abc is pleased to be hosting next weeks debate. Action newss jim gardner will be one of the moderators and were looking for help from you. Send us the questions you would like the candidates to answer. What do you want to hear from them . Go to twitter and use the hashta hashtags njgovdebate. There are some significant issues on the roads this afternoon as we get a check on the traffic report. Were starting off with an issue out there. If youre going to be traveling out right now on the southbound side of the roosevelt boulevard, it looks like we have some crews that are going to try and block off the westbound lane there. Definitely going to be an issue on the boulevard southbound and were seeing the closure of the southbound exit ramp of the schuykill expressway. You can see how crowded we are, this waiting line happening right now on that southbound side. Typically we have our big delay northbound, although it doesnt look too bad, you can see up in the distance they could be starting to block this ramp right now well keep you updated with all of that but again very crowded conditions you can see on the big picture. 95 very crowded. We have an issue with a disabled vehicle on the westbound of the vine street expressway approaching the parkway. That can can definitely set you back. Schuykill jammed in both directions. Also some delays on the southbound side of the blue route. Before you get to this point, dont forget we have this disabled vehicle approaching the parkway. Right here approaching 76 going to be stacked length to length. Definitely crowded conditions this afternoon. And we have a new issue as well. A disabled vehicle on the pa turnpike guys, back to you. Still ahead on action news, the Trump Administration allows more employers to opt out of providing Birth Control for women. We have details about this change coming up. And caught in the phone booth of the future. Well take a look at the new proposal to bring faster free wifi and calling kiosks to our area. Thats a phone booth . Giving the gift of music. A world renowned pianist and delivers a major investment hey, my window is closing. Yeah thats okay. Alright miles. I love you. phone hangs up yeah i love you too. Ill have the langoustine lfor you, sir . I. The original call was for langoustine ravioli. A langoustine is a tiny kind of lobster. A slight shellfish allergy rules that out, plus my wife ordered the langoustine. I will have chicken tenders and tater tots. If youre a ref, you way overexplain things. Its what you do. If you want to save fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance you switch to geico. Sir, we dont have tater tots. Its what you do. I will have nachos do i use. 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Incite corporation officially opened a new Global Headquarters in that city this morning. The company will employ 700 people for now. A congresswoman and senators were on hand to celebrate in addition to cutting edge lab space, the building has a pickleball court, putting green and Community Garden up there on the roof. Well its kind of a onestop communication kiosk and they may be popping up in philadelphia. Lynx at several locations citywide. They will provide super fast secure wifi as well as charging stations for your mobile devices. They also have touch screens for residents and tourists to find services. The company is now awaiting final approval. I guess you dont need a quarter for that one. This sunday the annual columbus day parade sets off in philadelphia. We were there this afternoon at city hall to honor the grand marshall of this years parade, Connie Francis. Shes from newark, new jersey but she says shes always had a soft spot for our city. Philadelphia because of american bandstand is like my second home. This is where it all started for me. Philadelphia will always be close to my heart. This sunday Connie Francis will lead the parade. The parade ends at Marconi Plaza with a big festival with food and entertainment. Today i had a chance to share all of the reasons 6abc is so proud to broadcast this parade. Join me for the columbus day parade. Coverage starts at 12 30. It goes until 2 00 in the afternoon. And connie tells me she was born concetta maria. No doubt shes italian. Obviously folks are wondering what the weekend will hold weather wise. Its a very warm one and temperatures above average. Clouds will be around. Well talk about those details too. As youre looking at the Commodore Barry bridge. A slight gray because of the cloud cover, despite the clouds right now, temperatures are well above average for the month of october. Weve got a temperature of 81 degrees. During the overnight hours temperatures still in the low 70s. Still a mild night across much of the region. Well fast forward into the weekend and on saturday, high clouds, very warm start. High temperature in at 84 degrees on sunday, a mostly cloudy sky. You will notice an increase in the humidity as well. A High Temperature coming in at 79 and we will be tracking some showers throughout the day as well. As far as temperatures right now, still very warm. 80 in philadelphia, 80s up and down the i95 corridor to the north and west, 79 for allentown and reading and the poconos 72. At the coast in cape may 76, down in dover numbers are in the lower 80s. Heres satellite 6 along with action radar. You can see weve got a partly cloudy sky across the region. This frontal boundary snakes all the way back to the grak lakes and portions of the midwest. Were tracking a cold front as we get into the second half of our weekend. But for the rest of tonight, certainly not bad. Its balmy for football tonight with friday night lights. Rather cloudy, very mild. Kickoff for high school football, temperature coming in at 75 degrees. Once we get into the Fourth Quarter were coming in at 70 and you can watch all the highlights coming up after action news at 11 00. As we get into the second half of the weekend its mostly cloudy and a couple of spotty showers overhead by 4 00 sunday afternoon. The showers off to the west but then well track that moisture as we get into 11 00 p. M. Sunday night and that will be some of that remnant moisture from Tropical Storm nate that will be working its way into our region. A lot of that heavy precipitation by 10 00 a. M. On monday to the north and west of philadelphia. In fact future tracker 6 confirming that. The bulk of that heavier precipitation looks to be to the city north and west where we could find 12 inches of rain and locally some spots higher than that. The 4day at 4 00. Its humid on sunday, 79. And were tracking that rain from nate by monday with a high of 78 and leftover showers by tuesday coming in at 83. Well let you know when it will actually feel like fall coming up with that 7day in the next half hour. Eventually, we suppose. Its coming. All right, thank you. A muchneeded and well deserved transformation took place today at one womans home. She is an american gold star mother. An organization of moms who have lost a daughter or son in service to our country. Dixons home was in need of improvement and today the Home Depot Foundation came through in a very big way. I love that. Theres much more to come on action news whats new from light and fit . Greek nonfat yogurt with zero artificial sweeteners. Real fruit and 90 calories. Youll be wowed try new light fit with zero artificial sweeteners. The winner will get 100,000. So the competitors are really giving it their all. Reporter its free for anyone who wants to come and watch the break dancing competition. The breakers started this afternoon. It all wraps up on sunday night and 100,000 prize on the line there. Look at that little man. Some budding young philadelphia musicians got the lesson of a lifetime today. That there is world renowned Grammy Nominated pianist lang lang. Lang lang was at thomas Home Elementary School today to announce a donation to be used in investment in music education. He simply saw a need for this. The Public Schools kind of lacked out art and music as part of the system. And i felt pretty sad, because music and art inspire people the most. Well, that money will go to build a stateoftheart piano lab and provide a curriculum at 3 Elementary Schools in philadelphia over the next six years and other schools are expected to follow. Its amazing. A 5yearold girl from delaware chose to use her birthday to help put smiles on the faces of kids who are in the hospital. Pretty special young girl here. Sadie perry turns 5 on september 28th so she asked her party guests to bring childrens art supplies instead of gifts. From paper to crayons and markers and paint and more, sadie collected over 100 items. Today sadie and mom delivered them to Dupont Hospital for children. She loves art and we thought no better way to share her love than to collect something. We thought it was a great idea to do it. I couldnt agree more. One of sadies favorite im ems that she donated are those wooden treasure boxes. The kids can use them to collect special items and thats one pretty great little girl there. Special kid. Love that smile too. Still to come in the next 30 minutes. Including the reason mattel pulled a baby monitor. A special needs child wandering by himself after being dropped off at the wrong bus stop. It is 4 30 and action news continues with a riddle of sorts. What do ice cream, olive oil, wynn and yoga have in common . You can enjoy them all for free so stay tuned. An arrest a