The ring leader and people nearby never would have guessed. Its disturbing, i have a 17yearold i cant imagine any of this going on very very surprised. I am shocked we have nothing in our area before and im disappointed to hear about it also. Reporter one of the women arrested is also facing drug charges when investigators found eight baggies of heroin in her purse during the arrest. Walter thank you. Loretta burrows was found guilty for the murder and dismemberment of her husband, for killing Daniel Burrows and burying his remains seven years ago, his remains were found in several plastic tubs of march of 2013. Felony charges are dropped against a buck county father accused of sexually assaulting two young girls during sleep overs at his home. David hech was in court the prosecutors withdrew the felony charges against him the alleged victims were his daughters friend but he is still charged with assault on a girl under 18. A pen state abington professor was charged with Disorderly Conduct after being removed from a u. S. Airlines flight. They say that she started this rant about u. S. Venezuelan relations on a flight to miami she felt compelled to speak up after a week in nicaragua. And now the Investigation Continues into who set fire to a Montgomery County school destroying it the students return to a new class and new building. John rawlins is outside in cheltenham with more. Reporter hi sharrie this remain a crime xeeb, investigators not saying a lot only that an incendiary was used. Its getting ready to open back up but not here. Wincoat Academy Staff is putting the pieces together for a temporary home in just 48 hours a phoenix like rebirth after the stone home of 42 years burned to the ground on saturday a blaze that mesmerized onlookers. Literally the fire chief from lamont lamont, they were like kerry what about school on monday. A grant to use its former Melrose Academy building, while plenty of room, wincoat lost everything and needed pencils and all the basics. Microwaves desks refrigerators, and chairs shelves, anything that you can think of. Wincoat academy is small only 65 students to serve kid s thats that failed elsewhere. Most of them college bound. We are proud of one of our students tonight, a National Metal scalor. News that the fire was deliberate is hard to process. Were there any threats . Not to my knowledge. Who would want to hurt kids, who would want to hurt a school . No. Investigators are hoping to have heavy equipment here to go through the rubble in that building to help their investigation move along as for the academy its due to open at its new location tomorrow at 8 15. John rawlins, channel 6 action news. Thank you. 59yearold Larry Cunningham a registered sex offend from dover delaware is arrested on charges of rape. Investigator say that cunningham had sex with a 16yearold female dozens of time after the teenager delivered a child belonging to cunningham, he is charged with 20 counts of fourth degree rape and remains behind bars tonight. School officials and parents are on the watch for purertussis better known as whooping cough. Registered nurse and reporter ali gorman is live at the big board. Reporter pertussis is a very contagious bacteria infection spread through coughing and sneezing. Older kids and adults rarely get sick but younger kids can. Students and staff at Souderton Area High School are asked to be on the lookout for symptoms of pertussis like runny nose and sudden uncontrollable coughing spells. But dr. Kristin says that pertussis can be tricky to identify, for many it starts with a common cold with a cough but after two weeks the cough gets worse. Its the coughing fits with the gasp for air in the middle that gives it the whooping cough. They may not have the classic signs and may not get severely sick but if it spreads to an infant, the ones really little can get really sick and even die from pertussis. That is why getting the vaccine is vital. They are checking the records and making sure everybody is up to date. Shots are given at 2 months 4 months and 6 months and months and a booster at 4 years old. Especially if are you around children go see your doctor and see if you have gotten that booster shot and if you havent get it as soon as possible. For students around souderton high they should be tested for whooping cough. We have more information on 6abc. Com. Back over to you. Time for a check of the action news traffic report on a tuesday night. Lets go live to autumn marisa. Hi monica and rick you are not so lucky on 95 southbound right now, we have a five car crash, the white car here into the cement divider and taking out the left lane, so three lanes trying to merge down basically into one and a half lanes to get around the accident and the police and penndot on the scene and causing a delay right now you can see speeds on the schuylkill expressway, slow to the vine and the blue route taking you about 40 minutes, 25 Miles Per Hour on the blue route, as you apoach mcdade boulevard, and the vine street expressway slow to 95. Over to the boulevard the northbound lanes over the twin bridges up to broad street very slow going as you can see there southbound doesnt look too badly and an incident in newark downed poles welsh track road to college avenue. Back to you rick and monica. Thank you autumn. The villanova wild katds are on their way to pittsburgh for round one of march madness and the team got quite the sendoff on campus. The big east conference champs are a number one seed in the tournament. They are riding on a 15 game winning streak and are only six game as way from a title since 1995 and the 16 and seeded lafayette leopards will play villanova. They tipoff thursday night at 6 50. Still ahead a rookie linebacker with the San Francisco 49ers is retiring because of concerns over safety issues. We hit 68 in philadelphia and now the winds of change pulling in cold air and im tracking a chance of snow later in the week. Ill have details in the accuweather forecast. And the beginning of Heart Disease can start as young as 2 years old what parents can do to fight it coming up in health check. Those stories and more on action news at 5 00 when we continue tonight. Music etta james at last plays throughout sometimes, at last doesnt happen at first. Your dad just kissed my mom. Turning two worlds into one takes love. Helping protect that world takes state farm. My tempurpedic made me fall in love with mornings again. I love how it conforms to my body. With tempurpedic the whole bed is comfortable. Its the best thing we ever did for ourselves. Its helping to keep us young. vo visit your local retailer and feel the tempurpedic difference for yourself. Israeli Prime Minister, netanyahus fate is now in the hands of the voters. Polls leading up put him neck and neck with the challenger, but moments ago netanyahu declared victory. Well have more coming up tonight on action news at 5 30. The search for remaining victims from air asias december crash is winding down there were 162 passengers on flight 8501, and still many unaccounted for, today is the last day fort major search effort large ships are being called off and smaller searchers may continue. Families will request that the main search continue all 162 people on board the plane were killed within it crash nood the java sea. San francisco line backer Chris Boreland is announcing he is retiring after one season. Is he leaving the nfl following a standout rookie season because of concerns about head trauma. We are live now in los angeles with more. Reporter hi sharrie as you mentioned, he was a standout. Last season he was a rookie on the team and received nfc defensive player of the week honors. All of that success made it hard to make this decision and that is part of what he told espns outside the lines. An explosive Rookie Campaign but that is all well see of nfl line backer Chris Boreland he said he was battling with the decision before stepping on a nfl field. Am i going to commit the prime of my life to could ultimately affect my life. He thinks he suffered a concussion during a practice with the 49erses but played through it. He request today scientists claim they found evidence of cte. Dr. Richard besser says its not just the blows to the head that hurt. Blows could increase your risk for cte. A statement says that there is more work to do and player safety continues to be our top priority. Decisions reaching farther than he imagined. I want to be there next year and that hurts. So he is not looking to sway public opinion, he is just encouraging people to do their research and understand the risk they are taking on for themselves. Channel 6 action news. Thank you. Health check tonight, if you want your kids to have Healthy Hearts as adults, you should improve their diets today. A medical meeting showed that a bad diet can start at the 2 and half of them lack whole grains and high cholesterol. Too much satd rated fat and too little exercise. Older folks with back pain can probably skip their first dr. Visit back pain suffers did not get better resolution to their pain but had higher medical costs likely from getting more tests and treatment. If you have back pain, talk to your doctor about physical therapy or life style changes. Ive been drivin a lincoln since. Long before anybody paid me to drive one. I didnt do it to be cool. I didnt do it to make a statement. I just liked it. Lease an mkc for 349 a month plus competitive owners and lessees get 1,500 bonus cash, only at your lincoln dealer. The ceo of starbucks is encouraging his employees to talk about race, for the past few months the coffee chain is encouraging employees to talk about Race Relations and now ceo Howard Shultz wants to get customers involved. Its called race week, they started writing the slogan on cups shultz hopes it will start a dialog about understanding and sensitivity about race. The price of oil keep dropping and now the prices at the pump are once again on the downward trend. 2. 58 in philadelphia down 4 cents the last week, delaware 2. 33 and 2. 19 in south jersey. Getting your green on got you half off on the uss knowledge today anybody that wore Something Green got to take a tour on the ship for half the price. The gun turret and the bridge and the tomahawk Missile Launch pads a great way to be patriotic and celebrate st. Patricks day all at once. After a lunch enfeaturing green themed food they were treated here to an irish dance they will compete at the world irish dance championships in canada later this month. Time for accuweather at the big board. Cecily tynan is standing by. It looks like old man winter does not want to go quietly. But it felt like spring the luck of the irish for the first half of the day the leprechauns were even dancing, by 11 00 52 but then the temperatures shot up at lunch time. 68 dwrg degrees that is 15 degrees above normal. The warmest weather since last november. Cold winds though are rushing in peak wind gusts of 40 Miles Per Hour, this is what is pulling down the cold air. So temperatures are stepping down from the north to the south allentown drops down to 48 degrees and reading 49 and philadelphia 58 degrees and temperatures down across Cape May County still mild and 67 degrees, those winds from the northwest pull down the warm air through the overnight hours and tomorrow you need the winter coat. Tomorrow we are talking about windchills satellite 6 along with action radar showing the cold front that moved through after lunch time this is pressing down to the south we have the clouds and they are beginning to break up tonight under clear skies it will get very cold. Overnight low down to 29 degrees, in philadelphia. A tale of two seasons, 24 in allentown and 28 in millville. Lots of stars and tonight we could actually see something we dont see in this region. The Aurora Borealis a geomagnetic storm you usually see in iceland, there are chances in part of our viewing area like the poconos could actually see the Aurora Borealis, from 11 00 tonight until 2 00 in the morning, its not guaranteed but its a possibility. Future tracker 6, showing tomorrow windchills at 6 30 in the morning 22 in philadelphia 16 in allentown and 19 in trenton and reading so windchills are in the teens and the 20s in the morning and then windchills are stuck in the 30s in the afternoon. Youll want to bundle up. The fiveday at 5 00 loads of sunshine and windchills in the afternoon in the 30s. On thursday, still chilly but not as harsh because the winds diminish. Friday our last day of winter and first day of spring its messy with wet snow and rain and we bump it up to 55 degrees on saturday before temperatures drop back into the low 40s on friday well talk about the chance of snow on friday. Lets not. The first day of spring, that is cruel. More coming up on our next half hour of action news at 5 00, an action news viewer captures a raining fire in northeast philadelphia. Action news continues. Hello again here is what is happening on action news tuesday night. A Major Political shift could be in store for one of americas biggest allies as people cast their votes in the Israeli National election. And well show you the video that puts him on administrative leave tonight. And its almost time to dance, villanova and lafayette are heading to their first game. And current Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu is fighting for his political life, israelis are casting their vote in a tight case, against herzog. Karen travers live in washington, d. C. With more. Reporter good evening monica, the exit polls are showing a very tight race, leading up to todays election, the polls show Prime Minister netanyahu down by several points but his supporters are celebrating because they believe he has closed the gap the polls closed in israel and turnout there today was some of the highest in years, israels Prime Minister netanyahu in danger of losing his job. I would like a change in government. Many say that netanyahu severely damaged the u. S. Israeli relationship when he delivered this fiery speech to Congress Earlier this month. But today the white house says no matter who wins the strong relationship between the United States and israel will endure. Recent polls have not been good for netanyahu, who scrambled to the finish line and he reversed his decision with palestine. And netanyahu urged people to go out and vote because arab citizen who are antinetanyahu are going out in droves. But its the economy that is driving their decisions. The cost of housing in israel has gone up 60 in five years while the average income gone up 10 to 12 . It could be days and even weeks before the final results are tallied and in and even if netanyahu loses, because of complicated system he may be able to hold on to his job. Karen travers channel 6 action news. Now we have a breaking story, a u. S. Veteran may be facing terrorist charges and he has ties to our area he previously worked for an Aeronautics Company in new jersey and he recently travelled to turkey to syria to try to join the terrorist network. Clancey was put on cap it will to be hammered about the agency. Two agents drove into an active bomb situation allegedly intoxicated. Did not know about the crash until two days later that is because a communication problem he is planning to fix. Clancy was tasked with reforming the secret service after a series of scandals now they expressed doubt in his ability to overhaul the agency. The Fire Department chief is on administrative leave this video is from inside of the Public Safety building from earlier this month. This man at the bottom of metal detectors. She asked brooks to take off all the metal items he unbuckled his pants and pulled his pants down and allegedly pulled them back up and called it a bad day. Philadelphia firefighters are battling a threealarm fire now in the northeast. This is video of the thick black smoke billowing from the apartment complex on academy road its the grace details are sketchy on what caused the fire but it started late this afternoon and no reports of injuries and crews remain on the scene trying to get the upper hand. And this reminder when you see news happening email your photos and videos to jointheaction 6abc. Com or use the 6abcaction on social immediate yarks its how you can be a part of action news. In chester county, the man accused of killing a brother and sister and injuring several others in a drunk driving crash will head to trial. Annie mccormick has the details from lionville. A constable led him out in handcuffs this morning, muir chose to wave his hearing and go to trial. According to an affidavit it was on north ship road and route 100 where he allegedly hit the minivan with his pickup killing miles and charlotte. Muir faces two counts of homicide by vehicle while driving under the influence and several other charges stemming from the crash the hannigan family were members of the charlotte pipe band. The pipe band was part of their lives and they were wonderful individuals. The parents are still too injured and could not make it here today. This is why louis mitch joined the District Attorney in court. We need to be here for them and hope that the Justice System takes it course. They took everything in one moment, they are still physically recovering and trying to cope with what happened. We reached out to the defendants attorney and right now they have no comment, muir remains in jail he has not posted bond. Annie mccormick, channel 6 action news. A berks county gym owner is under arrest for allegedly selling drugs out of his business dwayne curly owns d. C. Fitness in shillington detectives found meth, cocaine and steroids and needles, and a search of his home turned up similar items curly is now charged with possession and inten to distribute is held on a quarter Million Dollars bail. Dwayne oliver the man accused of attacking a teenager on a trolley is sentenced today. Oliver punched and kicked pay 17yearold girl while she was riding the route 17 septa trolley while going to school. Police say the altercation began when oliver became angry with the victims backpack constantly hitting him. Police are looking for a man behind a string of robberies last month in the city section, the armed robber hit his First Business on february 16th at the wireless cricket store and uses the same mode of operation ever sin. This was taken on the 7700 block, and the man entered the store and looked around and approached the counter and pretended to purchase items that is when he placed a plastic bag on the counter. The man pulled a gun and grabbed the cash and took off. On march 13th they believe the man pretended to buy items at the j and m beauty store and placed the items in a black bag. Dover police are looking for this man 22yearold harris for assault at the Old Navy Clothing store it happened at the dover mall, and police say that harris picked up items and placed them in a plastic bag, a male employee tried to stop him by standing in front of him. He pushed him to the ground and punched him in the head and then ran from the storm leaving the merchandise behind. Harris is facing charges including robbery and touching and Disorderly Conduct. If you know where harris is call dover police. Over to rick and monica. Time to get a check of the traffic scene out there as folks head home. Now for an update you can tell its windy out, the tacony palmyra bridge had an opening but its back up and running and a disabled tractor trailer in the right hand lane, and 309 this is northbound at church road, an doesnt that just showed up and northeast philadelphia, the fire at frankford avenue and home avenue are blocked, take pennypack street to get around that as well. Looking at the big picture speeds look better on the schuylkill expressway through the blue route and the conshohocken curve the doesnt on 95 southbound at cotman avenue, that has cleared and speeds are picking up there as well. Thank you autumn. Still ahead on action news, an Airline Passenger loses it from a flight to washington, d. C. , and a sweet serenade on this st. Patricks day from a local pretzel company. Adam . Spring is trying to push up the eastern seaboard but winter temperatures linger to the northern and they will take over well talk about the big change in the accuweather forecast. Plus, ducis rogers with march madness blue villanova and lafayette. woman ready for another game . woman oh, sorry man daydreaming again. man about going on a cruise . in unison yeah. woman around the hawaiian islands, for 2 weeks. in unison we were man with a helicopter tour. woman how did you know . Youve got the new instant game from the pennsylvania lottery. woman yeah, 1 million payout. man with top prizes of 1,000,000. foreground woman the leis are a nice touch. male announcer want to see your dreams come to life . You could scratch your way to instant winning. The pennsylvania lottery. Bring your dreams to life. A scare in the sky forced the United Airlines flight to circle back to washington, d. C. , just after takeoff. The flight was on its way to denver when the passenger charged the cockpit allegedly screaming about jihad some quick thinking passengers declared it a emergency and some passengers said the man was acting suspicious during boarding and he was taken to the hospital for evaluation. Turning to sports our two local teams headed to march mad and are on their way tonight. Ducis rogers is live with more. The madness begins on thursday for villanova and lafayette but will continue for only one when it is done, first lets check in with nova, lets go live to jaime apody. Reporter villanova is the david in this david and goliath in this battle. Lets not forget that the wildcats are coming in on a 15 game winning streak and that being said they were given a sendoff fit for a hopeful champion today nova nation and wish them luck on what is hopefully a long tournament. They are excited to get to pittsburgh and get down to the business of basketball. What is your message to these guys this year. You told us that anything less than a final four is a disappointment. I think they know that they would be disappointed if they dont get to the final four and they know its possible they midnightght night not. They were on their way villanova and lafayette tip on thursday night at 6 20 p. M. Well be there to cover it the whole way through. Coming up next we go hear from the villanova campus. Lafayette is headed to pittsburgh with a nothing to lose mentality. Coach pat ohanlon has them in the ncaa tournament for the first time in 15 years, the leopards had two days to die vest in trip to the tourney and the euphoria has not worn off. Excited, happy to be part of the whole ncaa tournament. This is something we all dream of and want to be a part of since we were growing up a lot of emotions going now and happy to be a part of it. Pen basketball is ushering in a new era with jerome he is a head coach at Boston College and cornell, before that donahue spent a decade as a penn assistant and is thrilled to be back. I would never dream i would be a big five head coach there is only five of us and imagine that i am one of them is just incredibly overwhelming. To baseball now we are inside of three weeks until the regular Season Opener while the phillies may not be in regular season form yet the phanatic is. Logan forsyth has two hits and both are home runs. That is a look at sports monica back over to you. Thanks ducis bag pipes and pretzels are hoping to heal in the hospital on st. Patricks day. David cohen thanked them for sending over shamrock shaped pretzels for patients and staff at the hospital. I know grandmas house isnt the most exciting, but its only for a few hours. Look what ive got. When you get verizon fios, you get beautiful hd picture quality, super fast internet, and americas most reliable network. So you wont miss a second of that movie that game they love, or those moments with family. Can we sleep over . Please come on see why fios is rated 1 in Customer Satisfaction in hd picture quality based on Customer Satisfaction studies. Call today to make your house, the house. Meteorologist, adam joseph is here now way closer look at the forecast we were in the 60s, what happened . Its spring time. Im a realist. I like that because it is going downhill overnight tonight after the high of 68 at noon today. You know how to hurt a girl. He is only doing his job. Rick is on my side, that is the first time in ten years as we look at double scan live radar, its because its st. Patricks day are you feeling lucky. As we look at stormtracker 6 live double scan, its all quiet despite clouds pulling through, we have live radar look at this picture from iceland the Aurora Borealis all the colors in the sky dancing in the overnight hours as a large geomagnetic storm is occurring and all the gases are headed to the at atmosphere and even in our northern suburbs its possible from 11 00 tonight to 2 00 in the morning, in a dark location away from lights you may see colors in the sky north of philadelphia, its not a given or guarantee but a possibility. And this storm is pretty large within you look at the geomagnetic scale. Trenton we dropped to 48 and allentown and reading near 60 in wilmington and lower 60s in the southern areas and the poconos dropping to 34 degrees, the winds are gusty on either side of 40 Miles Per Hour in many locations and the winds will remain a factor tonight and through the day tomorrow. Its a clipper system bringing rain in new england and the cold front pushed to the south allowing the winds to drain in from the north and west. The clouds will fall apart and that bubbled up this afternoon overnight tonight and its mainly clear with winds near 40 Miles Per Hour and a high near 43, windchills tomorrow only until the 30s, the High Pressure remains in control, and 46 degrees still the chilly breeze throughout the day before a system to the south will slide to the south and bring a fringe of moisture in the area friday and it will be cold enough for wet snow to mix in at times especially north and west for the first day of spring. For tonight a lot of stars and a cold wind and everyone dropping below freezing and generally in the 20s, the exclusive accuweather forecast windchills in the 20s and 68 today and chilly with less wind and 46 and the first day of spring as the moisture comes in first thing the morning and mainly rain south and wet snow to rain philadelphia to trenton and possibly staying at wet snow in the North Western suburbs before warm air comes in one day for 55 and then back 10 to 20 degrees below normal, sunday monday tuesday highs stuck in the 40s. You see snow you start saying really . Is melts on the pafment and has a hard time sticking. That is a good thing. Thank you. Right now jim gardner and the Action News Team is standing by with these stories next at 6 00. An air force veteran with ties to south jersey tries to join isis fighters. And a penn state professor was arrested off a flight after going on a rant. For Adam Joseph Cecily Tynan and Sharrie Williams and Rick Williams im Monica Malpass have a grade night. Action News Delaware valleys leading news program. With ducis rogers meteorologist cecily tynan, and jim gardner. It is monday night no it isnt, its tuesday night and the big story on action news tonight is breaking now in northeast philadelphia this is viewer video of the wind whipped flames burning at an Apartment Building in the 91 hundred block of academy road, its now four alarms, buses are brought in to shelter and eventually relocate residents that have to be evacuated from the building there is no word on what sparked this fire but as you can see it is burning out of control. Well have the latest details on action news at 11 00 and of course as we go on 6abc. Com. When you see breaking news we want to you join the action, just email your photographs and videos to jointheaction 6abc. Com. Or use the 6abcaction on social media it is how you can be part of action news. Here is the latest on the arrest of a man for allegedly trying to join isis and he has tied to Cumberland County new jersey. Word has come that he was secretly arrested two months ago but indicted just yesterday. Authorities say he tried to slip into syria in january to fight violent jihad with isis, but has tied to bridgeton and millville new jersey. Dann cuellar is live now in millville tonight. Reporter action news has learned that as recently as last spring, the suspect has working as a mechanic here in millville. We spoke to a roommate who is taken aback by trying to join isis. Seemed like a nice guy he was muslim dont discriminate