out of the tacony branch library with his mother and was crossing torresdale and a man in a car flew by and started firing at a person on the block and one bullet struck the child on the left side of his head. fortunately it was just a graze wound. one man rushed to the mother to attend the child before the police arrived. >> he was all excited and i concalm him down. please sir, don't let me die. >> he was literally out here at the library crossing the street and probably going home. you heard pow pow he just got shot. this city is coming to a complete end, we have to stop this nonsense. >> the child was rushed to childrens hospital where he is reported to be in stable condition and detectives have very little information on the

gunman. they are looking to get more information from the child's mother. live here in the tacony section, i'm dann cuellar, channel 6 "action news". we are following a developing story, a second american journalist has reportedly been executed by the terror group isis, this video appears to show steven sotloff being killed. a white house spokesperson says extensive efforts were made to rescue him. turning now to the forecast, accuweather says there is a chance we could see pop-up storms as we move into the evening. meteorologist, cecily tynan is tracking the skies with stormtracker 6 live double scan. >> hi rick and monica, stormtracker 6 live double scan on a wide view showing there is a lot of activity out to the

west, that will bring us relief from heat and humidity, and a severe thunderstorm watch in affect, in pennsylvania including lancaster county. that is the only area locally, 70 lightning strikes in this view in the past 15 minutes, this one cell in elizabeth town, it could skirt western berks county, not severe but heavy downpours, and thunder and lightning. you need to get the kids in when the skies get dark? this is hot but not a heat wave, sunday 93 degrees and yesterday 89 and today so far 93 degrees, if we had hit 90 yesterday it would be a heat way but when you factor in the humidity it's oppressive. it felt like 99 earlier this afternoon and allentown 95 and millville 97 and trenton 95

degrees, when you factor in the heat and humidity. the front is moving in tonight though and bringing us relief and strong storms. not everyone will see them but those that do, some brief torrential rain and gusty winds and dangerous lightning and the best chance of these hitting philadelphia is between 7:00 and 9:00 tonight. details on these storms and brief relief on the way and more heat and humidity and storms as we head into the weekend. >> all right cecily, stay on top of the changing weather situation with the new 6abc.com, visit 6abc.com/weather for storm tracker 6 radar and the hourly and seven-day forecast. there is also a collection of weather-related photos and videos at 6abc.com. atlantic city's most expensive casino is now officially closed a little more than two years after it opened the revel casino hotel closed

this morning. kenneth moton is live now. >> reporter: it's been a day of people stopping by and looking up and using their phones to snap pictures of this now closed business, revel is no more. it's a beauty of a building a two-year-old modern hotel on the boardwalk and now it's bankrupt and empty. >> they put money into this when the town was going down and they rolled the dice and lost. >> gamblers when home and the chains went up and this $2.5 billion failure closed its doors. >> i feel like it's not going to survive the long-term because the casinos live and die a lot of times. >> the mayor knows that all too well. we spotted him on his morning

bike ride past revel. taking care of the recently unemployed is his priority. tomorrow at 9:00 a.m., for laid off casino workers 8,000 without a job after trump plaza become the fourth casino to close this year in two weeks. people have lost and ongoing is the people that are kicking the tires. >> this nearly 50 story glass tower has been hundreds of millions in debt since it opened. but the debt will be incredibly less for the new owner but could be spring before anybody take its over again. >> there are several investors that are looking at this property. >> and someone will be footing the bill to maintain this property while the search is on for a new owner, a power plant was built just for revel.

a spokesperson says it will provide minimum power to this building, we are work on that part of the story coming up at 6:00. kenneth moton. >> thank you. well as he mentioned new jersey casino regulatesers did grant final approval for another casino to close, the trump plaza is shutting down in two weeks and the gaming enforcement issue aid closure notice to stop operations on september 16th. it's the fourth atlantic city casino to go out of business this year. police say that a 15-year-old girl from new york may face charges for the deadly crash that killed three teenage boys from buck county. they were killed in the crash in the poconos over the weekend, they were about to enter their sophomore year at castle rock south high school and the wayne county da says the two girls and four boys had just gone to breakfast and on the way back

the driver lost control and flipped more than once. walter perez who broke the story, will have more on the latest developments coming up on "action news" at 6:00. four of the five saidcaters accused of helping elementary school students cheat appeared in court. they came face-to-face with a teacher that says they witnessed the cheating in action. vernon odom was at today's preliminary hearing and is here with all the details. >> reporter: rick, it was very tense in that courtroom today, closing arguments are underway and about to wrap up for the five philadelphia school districts. educators and all veterans. jennifer hughes did all she could to hide her face after damaging testimony from a former

student. williams in the black pants told hughes changed her answers on a standardized state test, known as the pssa. hughes told me the answer because i did not know the answer on a multiple choice science task. >> and they say that the principal angela cortez was the wring leader and this has her and four former teachers facing charges. they reviewed questions and changed answers. she was denoted for not playing ball with cortez. according to her cortez walked into the class and said do all of your work on scrap paper and do not put it into your workbook until your teacher checks it. >> it would not be unusual. >> the principal was out to get high test scores to avoid having

her school red flag by the state. the investigation began in 12, theyketting that the principals in other schools are being investigated into what they believe was a widespread cheating scandal and the investigation continues. live in the justice center, vernon odom, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. police in delaware have released a sketch of a suspected rapist, a 29-year-old woman says she was sexually assaults here on coleman street in wilmington. the police were called to the scene at midnight and the suspect was described as a black man in his early 20s, and thin build. he was driving an older model silver sedan with temporary delaware tags. all right tuesday night lets get a check of the "action news"

traffic report. lets go to matt pellman and see what is going on. >> back to life and back to reality as people say as they head back to work. it's feeling really real, the westbound side a big old jam past passyunk, the reason is an earlier crash and police are out here taking out the left lane, a little spill here and they still have it blocked. coming out of the city, think about using the kelly drive and ridge avenue and lancaster avenue, one accidents in new jersey, northbound near collings avenuing and that is off to the side but here in birmingham township chester county, 926 is still closed because a crash, head to meeting house road or lenape instead and the norristown regional rail line got a new, special schedule today. trains are running 5 minutes

earlier than normal. >> all right matt thank you. more to come on "action news" tonight. the ebola virus has infected another american doctor in liberia. the new warning from top health officials, new details are emerging from the nude photo scandal involving a-list celebrities what apple is saying about the security breach. we'll check back in with cecily tynan, hey, uncle craig, what's the deal? oh...you can't record that many shows at once. why? i guess they didn't feel like it. you can't save every single cartoon. why?

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tamp that down the fewer cases we have in the weeks and months to come. right now the epidemic is completely out of control. >> the latest doctor sickened is wtd same group as nancy writebol. she is to appear at a news conference tomorrow. turning to health check, women diagnosed with breast cancer have a range of treatment options. five times as many patients have chosen double mastectomies even when it's on one side. >> but it doesn't improve the chances of long-term survival. they found survival rates after double mastectomy is the same forever single with radiation afterwards. >> this is a surgery that has a higher complication rate and we need to improve on the

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>> the former majority leader canter has a new job, working for the new investment bank, he left congress after he lost his re-election bid in the primary. he searched seven terms for pennsylvania. and he will be the firm's vice chairman and managing director. 1-800-flowers is buying another gift website, they purchased harry and david in order to broaden the asortment

of gifts to choose from. the transaction is expected to close in october. shares of 1-800-flowers jumped 17% from today's news. the leader of one philadelphia charter school is asking teachers and parents today to continue supporting their education efforts, the walter palmer school in northern liberties is one of seven charter schools up for possible closure. classes still began today but the future hangs in the balance and mr. palmer himself talked about the concerns for his school today. william hite sent a letter to him in may saying that the school did not meet financial standards and that the process will continue. it was the first day of class in colonial's school district and it started off with a special visitor. governor jack markell helped to welcome back students at william penn high. they are encouraging students to

pursue a college education, at an assembly, they urged the class of 2018 to take advantage of the all the advantageses offered by his administration online. and in warminster county, bells are ringing at mcdonald elementary, youngsters arrived for their first day and we got a peek inside of one classroom when the kids met their teacher and he took attendance. schools with their new

time for accuweather at the "action news" big board. >> a lot of kids starting school, my daughter complained it was too hot at recess. this is the place to be. somebody enjoying the beach in cape may with the sea breeze kicking up. certainly near the water is the place to be. right now philadelphia it's 91 degrees and in allentown and reading, wilmington 90, and cooler on the beaches and warm with temperatures in the 80s and you factor into the dew point, the heat index make its feel like 97 in philadelphia and 99 in dover, and feels like 93 in

sea isle city and 94 degrees in reading. so labor day weekend has come and gone and the summer heat and humidity is here, pushing in from the west. this is triggering thunderstorms. this is beginning to die out in lancaster county, we have 39 lightning strikes in the past 15 minutes with that. that is generally moving up to the north and east and skirting the western part of chester county and a wider view showing a lot more activity out to the west, even a tornado warning in affect in central pennsylvania and what this is, it's all ahead of a strong cold front moving through tonight and what this will do is shift our winds tomorrow. we'll be getting the winds out of the northwest and that brings relief from the heat and humidity for two days. as we get a drier and cooler flow of air. tonight the storms are not a

solid band, but some at 8:30 south of philadelphia, around 11:30 a few more spotty thunderstorms and then off the coast by 12:230 and the humidity drops into the afternoon. a warm day but it will feel better than today. dew points tell the story, dew points in the 60s, and dew points in the 30s and 50s feeling really nice and they increase back into the 70s on friday and saturday, humid and evening thunderstorms again, not everyone will see them and they come with drenching downpours and 65 in allen tonight and 67 in millville, the five-day at 5:00 shows tomorrow and thursday we get a break from the heat, 88 degrees both days and lower humidity and friday the humidity returns along with the heat and 90 degrees, saturday 90 and a

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tape online showing the murder of steven sotloff. now they are trying to determine if the video is real. marcy gonzales is live now. >> u.s. intelligence officials have not been able to say if the video is authentic. his family is grieving asking for privacy as they await confirmation. word that another american journalist is executed by isis. this video appears to show steven sot loff calmly atting the camera, saying obama your foreign policy of intervention in iraq was to be for preservation for american lives and interest. why i am paying with my life. this comes just two weeks after james foley