That there was. Tuesday night, the big story on action news tonight is the update on a house explosion today in ocean county, the the gas leak blew a house to bits, forcing neighborhood resident out of their homes and holding gas service to hundreds of dwellings. A action News ReporterKenneth Moton is close to the scene, kenneth what is the very latest on this. Reporter jim, accept for three damaged houses police have allowed everyone to return to their home their very cold homes n an hour new Jersey Natural Gas is hoping to start the propers zest to restore gas and heat. It was unimaginable, until we saw the video. A gas explosion leveled a stafford township guest house rattling this community to the core. Gigantic explosion. It felt like the house basically just moved. I come outside and see the the plume of smoke. Reporter tonight new Jersey Natural Gas crews were at work on oak avenue trying to repair the the ruptured line that income out gas and precious heat to 300 houses. Greg johnson who was at home at the time of the explosion, built a fire and pull out space heaters to keep his family warm. Once the gas company was turning everything off i said this would be a long night. I loaded up. Reporter around 11 00 a. M. Natural gas workers and First Responders were on the scene after a report of the gas leak. They were evacuating homes when an officers dash cam caught the explosion. He was returning to his car at about the time the explosion happened. Instantly once the the explosion happened, he entered his car pushed the record button knowing that the recorder would capture 30 seconds prior. Reporter fifteen people were injured including Fire Fighters emts and natural gas employees. Two of those workers are still critical. The guest house belonged to a well known family the reynolds. They are heart broken over what has happened, after the Gas Company Employees but quite frankly mrs. Reynolds says the homes can be replaced. Reporter for i perkins lives a few doors down. Blast shattered her basement windows and knocked their deer head off the wall. They are thankful as they cope with this cold night. It is insulation hanging in the trees outside. I mean ash all over the deck. But were blessed. Were blessed. Reporter Township Police say natural gas workers will go house to house to purge lines and residents must there been to have service restored. That is expected to start at midnight exactly what happened before that explosion on this block, it is still under investigation. Reporting live from stafford township tonight Kenneth Moton for channel six action news. We have some breaking news tonight, a texas jury has found Eddie Ray Routh guilty of capitol murder. He is the former marina accused of killing american snipper author chris kyle, and another man, chad little field at a gun range in 2013. As depict in the blockbuster movie american snipper kyle had met routh in an effort to help the veteran cope with what some believed to be rouths ptsd but his defense claimed it was not post Traumatic Stress but that routh was in the legally sane at the time of the shooting. In just a few hours deliberations the jury deemed routh responsible for the murder. The judge sentenced routh to life in prison without possibility of parole. A abc news is gathering more details on this story from the courthouse in texas and it will have details coming up on night line right after Jimmy Kimmel Live. Threeyear old Elinor Trotta of new castle delaware is in massachusetts tonight awaiting a mother and child reunion. The the little elinor was an object of an amber alert last night and today it was mercifully canceled because the girl was found. Action News Reporter dann cuellar is live on the 800 block of east basin road where elinor was taken by her father last night, dann . Reporter that is right, as you said, the the mother is now in the the state of the massachusetts being reunited with her threeyear old daughter. She flew there accompanied by authorities after getting word that she had been rescued by an fbi swat team. I broke down. I got the to talk to her on the phone. So shes shaken but shes ready to be back with me. Reporter a joyful relieved mother tonight after a ordeal that began last night. Dawn barkus told police her exboyfriend 23 yearold Michael Trotta had assaulted her in her apartment a on east basin road and took off with their threeyear old daughter elinor. She has never been away from me that long. Never been out of her routine. Reporter an amber alert went out across several states and trotta would be later potted in mount laurel new jersey believed headed for new york. But an fbi swat the team spotted him in spencer massachusetts, about 56 miles, west of boston. He had the child with him. We had a visual, or they had a visual on him and again that is why you want to have a relationship with your federal partners today is a great example of working together. Reporter authorities learned that trotta had family in spencer and within 24 hours Law Enforcement working together had the guy they were looking for in custody without incident and a child safely recovered. It is a good day. The a little girl gets to come home to her mother and her mother can rest soundly tonight and community can rest today is my birthday. I prayed all day to god that i would get her back and he gave me the best birthday present ever. I will go get my elinor back. Reporter michael trot ace being held without bail awaiting an extradition hearing to be brought back here to the state of delaware. He is being charged with Reckless Endangerment of a child, and related offenses. Were live from new castle delaware, im dan cuellar for channel six action news. Thanks, dan. Philadelphia police are on the hunt for a driver tonight who struck a teenage boy and kept going. The hit and run happened at ditman and unruh streets in tacony at the 3 15 this afternoon. Investigators say the car was going a wrong way down unruh. The 16 yearold victim is in stable condition with a broken left arm and third degree burns, police say that the suspect is a white man in his 20s with a beard, driving a silver 2004 honda with pennsylvania license plate jp a3255. This is not a legal parking spot, nor some kind of an ad for suvs and their ruggedness. It is a bizarre extent where a vehicle ended up on top of others at a the Ardmore Acura dealership. The crash happened at 9 00 this morning. Police say a 74 yearold woman accidentally hit the gas instead of the brakes when she was leaving the arrow car wash, and then launch her jeep up a guardrail in a snow bank on to several cars in the acura lot. She is okay. But the dealer says two of those cars has already been sold. In the kensington section of philadelphia, a huge blaze broke out at 5 15 this morning. Flames attacked three stores right under the el on front street. The fire erupted just across the street from the deadly warehouse blaze, that killed two Fire Fighters, three years ago, when this wall collapsed on them. Today it was both fire and ice, set freezing temperatures took tons of water poured on the blaze and turn tonight to ice making fight ago this fire that much more treacherous. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie presented his 33. 8 billion budget plan to the Legislature Today but make no mistake the big story here was the Public Employees pension system. The budget proposes putting 1. 3 billion in the pension fun next year but that is a lot less than 3 billion that the state promisedded in 2011 which a judge yesterday ruled was binding. An initiative aimed at improving community and Police Relations was unhaled in darby tonight. Leaders from the naacp, local departments and Delaware County d. A. Jack whalen announced the united we stand project. Education opportunities like the Regional YouthPolice Academy will bring together young people and Law Enforcement officers to learn from each other. And president barack obama invited rank and file Police Officers to the white house today to Exchange Ideas about Building Trust between Law Enforcement and the communities that they serve. One of the officers was from Camden County. Action News ReporterSharrie Williams has the story. It was very exciting to meet the president. Reporter it is a rare opportunity, a sit down conversation with the president of the united states. Officer virginia matte as with Camden County police had that chance today and took full advantage. Im happy to have the president inviting us there because he wants our say in it. Police officers regular Police Officers. Reporter matte as was one of the six rank and file every day officers invited to talk with vicepresident biden and president obama about how community and Law Enforcement can Work Together to ensure trust to build public safety. The president called the within hour meeting staying the the course with his task force on 21st century policing. The president wanted to hear from departments where Community Policing is working. Homicide are down 50 percent in camden over the last two years. So are shootings. Violent crime is down 25 percent. Officer matteas explained to the president how Camden County police are doing it. Were walking in the communities, were out of the patrol car. Were knocking on doors. Were saying hey i am wills an officer what can do i for you today. Reporter matteas is home grown right in camden. She always knew she wanted to be a Police Officer when her uncle was kill in the robbery she knew, without a doubt she wanted to be part of the change, and that is what she shared with the president today. I told him in particular that it is working in my community. I see the difference. Growing up in camden i was ant allowed to play outside. It was too dangerous my mother would say. Now this past summer i had a privilege of seeing children playing outside that i never thought, could happen. Reporter in camden, Sharrie Williams channel six action news. Still to come on action news tonight the Justice Department deciding whether to file federal charges in the Trayvon Martin case. And technology that Officials Say was a literal life save a inner todays train crash in california. Plus source behind this vivid green water in the Delaware Park cecily. Well, freeze is beginning to ease, temperatures generally about five to 10 degrees warmer now then this time last night. Dont get used to it. Im tracking more ago particular air and next chance of snow in the accu weather seven day forecast. We all want our loved ones to rest in peace. So a local couple could not get their fat ares final wishes honored. We will see consumer reporter nydia han get resolution for that family in our trouble shooters report. Plus first full squad work out in clearwater when action news continues tonight. Well, 28 people were hurt this morning, when a commuter train in oxnard, california slammed in the truck that had been abandoned on the tracks. Flames erupted as three of the trains five cars derailed. Police say they have arrested the driver who left his pick up truck after he made a wrong turn and it got stuck. Metro link officials believed that the train upgrades installed to absorb the impact of the crash worked as intended, keeping the cars intact and then saving lives. George zimmerman will not face federal charges in Trayvon Martins death zimmerman shot and kill the unarmed teen three years ago in a case that sparked national debate. A florida jury found him not guilty of murder citing a lack of evidence. Department of justice probe focused on whether zimmerman could be charged with a federal hate crime. President barack obama had a veto pen killing keystone xo pipeline. He killed the bill. It is only the third veto of his presidency. Republicans in congress may attempt an override but they need 23rd majority in both house and senate. Right now they do not have those votes. Let me be clear the veto does not necessarily block the pipeline project but ate allows the president to make the final decision, whether or not, to approve it. Stocks hit new record highs today, bolstered by comments from Federal Reserve chafe janet yellin. She testified and indicated that the fed is not ready to raise Interest Rates just yet but the the job market still recovering and inflation still low. The investors, seemed to have appreciate the patient approach, because it keeps Interest Rates, near record lows longer. Revel casino has found a new buyer. And it is the same man as before. Florida developer glenn straub agreed to a new deal today to buy the bankrupt and shuttered resort but this time for a lot less. 13. 4 milliondollar less. He will pay 82 million for revel. The sale is set to close at the end of march. Straub says he is negotiating with several of the old revel tenants that sued to block the first sale. As for what he will do with the property plans include a 50 milliondollar expansion of the exterior and a 50 milliondollar interior redesign, including a more accessible hotel lobby, a spa, and more. Straub says he has an eye on opening by summer, and it wont be called revel anymore. This is not what they had in mind when they talked about going green. A stream in newarks Phillips Park turned green today. The university of delaware says that the broken pipe on campus caused 500 gallons of water to leak in the storm water system. Dye is used to track it from a air handling system. The Officials Say green coloring is harmless and will event up in the christiana river. Action news trouble shooters have been working a very special case trying to help a local couple honor their fathers final wishes. Nydia han has the details from the action news big board. Reporter a name and a date put on a grave stone. It seems like a simple job but one couple says getting it done was anything but. Milton burns died in october of 2013. His daughter and son in law paid to have his name and date put on the familys existing grave stone where their mother had already been laid to rest. We paid them 185, plus 75 for a permit. Reporter barbara and ed wineguard paid life stone by stephan in the even of 2013. They did warn that the engraving may not get done until the spring. March came around, april comes around, may comes around, june came around, july, still nothing. Reporter finally in august the wineguards say they have asked lifestone for a refund. The couple says that the check they were promised never came. So then they contacted the action news trouble shooters. Channel six jumped right on the story. Reporter couple weeks after the action news trouble shooters got involved the wineguard said they called life stone by stephan for an update and this time they were told that the work was complete. How do you feel that it is engraved. We feel a lot better. Thank you for doing this. Thank you for channel six. It is like finding within of the good guys won this time. Reporter do you think your father is at peace. I do. Reporter here are lessons they have learned from this. Never pay in full up front. And always check the reputation and history of a business in advance. Lifestone by stephan has an f rating at Better Business bureau, 44 complaints begins the business. All those complaints we didnt know this at the time. We didnt think that would be a hassle. Reporter lifestone by steph april says all of complaints have been resolved and they were all weather related. The company ace that information just hasnt made it to the bbb yet. Meantime wineguard are relieved that their father is finally at peace. I think thanks to you because you followed through for us. Reporter were so glad we could help you. You think this would have been important to your father. Absolutely. Reporter life stone by stephan says the Company Makes every effort to complete jobs in the timely fashion and understands these are sensitive shall yous. But cot says it got backed up on jobs because of the winter weather, and in, fact, still has a backlog because of the cold temperatures. Im nydia han for channel six a a action news. Thanks, mid y lets get that latest information from accu weather and meteorologist cecily tynan. Jim, were getting a lit built of the break from the brutal cold. It is not a warm will day tomorrow but it will be above freezing. Storm tracker six live double scan showing that batch of white off the coast. We could i have few light snow showers brush parts of the cape may, Atlantic County and a dusting on some cars. That has moved off of the shore, and temperatures currently cold but this time last night we were five to 10 degrees colder. The it is all relative. 21 degrees in philadelphia allentown 20. In millville dropped down to 18. Trenton 16 degrees. Reading 19. Wilmington currently 20 degrees. Satellite six with action radar showing we did have clouds associated with that low pressure after the coast that brought dusting of snow off the coast. Now cloud are clearing out. This is leading the the way to a really nice wednesday. Ahead of this cold front we will get westerly wind. That will warm things up. 38 degrees. Still 8 degrees below normal. But today temperatures never climbed out of the 20s. It will feel nicer then today. Dont get used to it, though. By thursday, behind that arctic cold front temperatures drop back down in the 20s. 26 degrees the high, lots of cloud, and some snow showers with the low pressure like the one tonight, this will be mainly combined along the coast. It will edge up more to the north. We will see flurries in philadelphia likely. At this point best chance of some accumulating snow, light accumulation a coat to go an inch would come from surf city through in millville, dover and all areas to the the south. If it moves up further to the north we will move this line, and ill keep you posted. It looks like a relatively minor event. Bigger issue is the cold. Tomorrow the day planner shows loads of sunshine. Nicest day of the week. 7 00 a. M. 21. 10 00 a. M. 29. 1 00 oclock 34. By 4 00 oclock, 34 degrees. Not as cold tomorrow. Good amount of unshine. We have a high up to 38 degrees. The thursday though temperatures will plunge back in the the 20s. 26 degrees with cloud, some flurries, some light accumulating snow along the coast and on friday we will keep that cold air right in place, 26 degrees. We will end the month of february on the cold side, plenty of sunshine on saturday, but sun wont heat things up much. The high only 30 degrees. We will start to turn corner a bit on sunday, march coming in somewhat like a lamb, with an afternoon high of 40 degrees, but it wont abby bright sunny day. Any morning sunshine will give way to cloud throughout the day, some showers on sunday night and monday some morning showers, 46 degrees and tuesday looks mess which a possibility of the mix of some rain and perhaps some snow and a high of 38 degrees. 38 degrees tomorrow. Back in the 20s on thursday and friday. Thanks, cecily. 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Someone did a halffast job posting our vacation pics. When i post my slow jams, im a little half fast totally half fast stop living with half fast internet. Only verizon fios comes with speedmatch uploads as fast as downloads. And the fastest wifi available from any provider. Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v every point hugely important to the flyers. Es specially with time running out a month and a half to go in the season what seemed unlikely a couple months ago is well within reach. Flyers entered four points out of the playoff spot, visiting carolina injuries to steve mason and ray emery rob zepp is in net. Alexander semen with the perfect pass, to jeff skinner. He was handcuffed. Twoone hurricanes. Late in the Second Period flyers on the penalty skill. Canes scored two power play goals. This is jordan stall. He and the flyers are man handled four one tonight. Ryne sandberg is looking to set a tone for his 2015 phillies. He waited until full squad got together for first time this spring to impart his message. Jeff skversky has more from clearwater. Phillies manager Ryne Sandberg was not happy with some of the things that happened on and off the field last season and he wants that to change, right here, right now, in fact, that was the message in his team speech this morning but there was one familiar face, missing in the crowd. It is first full squad work out for your 2015 phillies. The but for the the first time in 15 years Jimmy Rollins is in the out here. The listening to a phillies manager address his team. Even chase utley admits it is not the same without j roll. It is definitely going to be different. I came up. Jimmy had a few years in the big league. He taught the me, i thought he and i made each other better. Reporter longer double play combination in League History is over but now Freddie Galvis get to play short where j roll once stood. Galvis who only hit. 176 last year said he does not feel pressure to live up to the former mrp. I think i dont to have fill nobody shoes because i have to do my game. Jimmy was a different game. Jimmy was a speedy guy. He was a good player. We have seep him play defense. He is a a amazing. He makes everything look very easy. So obviously i will try to help him out as much as possible and maybe he can help me out too. Utley and galvis did in the do too much Work Together today. Utleys sprain ankle kept him out of drills. Galvis says j roll was like a father to him. With the phillies in clearwater, Jeff Skversky channel six action news. Still to come villanova takes to it providence and jay wright shares his affection for his seniors. Villanova a is making its case for a number one seed with wisconsin losing tonight cat need to make sure they do not stumble down the stretch. Nova and providence senior night at the pennsylvaniaville beyond. Big night for senior guard darren hillard, 19 of his 24 points, comes in the second half. Jeff on pinkston gets it done. He scores 16 points in his final game at the pennsylvaniaville beyond. Nova improved to 26two with a beating. Coach has a lot of love for his seniors. Each group has got, you know, something unique to them but this group to me is always going to be really special because of where they brought us, what they went through and where they brought us. Almost march. Yes, it is. Thanks ducis. Basketball and weather. Yes right. Jimmy kimmel live next on channel six, followed by night line jimmys guest will forte and music from prince royce. Action news continues at 4 30. Now for the entire Action News Team im jim gardner good night. Dicky from hollywood its Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight will forte. From the duff, bella thorne. And music from prince royce. With cleto and the cletones. And now, heres jimmy kimmel