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Have flood advisories into the evening for street flooding and im tracking the return of cold air and feels like winter and then our weather pattern makes a big shift. Well talk about that coming up in the full accuweather forecast. All right cecily thank you. We are tracking damage the storm left behind. This is greenville, delaware where a tree fell on a car with two people inside. It happened on the 1,000 block of barley mill road and it appears that both people in the car will be okay. A Lancaster County couple accused of illegal giving their young daughters to another man for money enter pleas in court. She plead guilty today and her husband pled no contest. Apparently the couple fell on hard times after breaking off from the amish final and they said they handed over their children to lee kaplan in exchange for financial help. Kaplans trial is expect to begin next month. A sudden about face on capitol hill. Deaf devon nunez is stepping aside after weeks of refusing to recuse himself. Reporter good evening. House speaker paul ryan, says the current ethics probe for nunez is a distraction into the investigation into russia. But believes that nunez should stay in his position as commit echairman. Sent out a statement and my statement will stand. Devon nunez, the House Committee chairman today leaving the capital soon after bowing out. This comes weeks afternoon nunez refused to recuse himself from the investigation into the 2016 election. And blaming politically motivated accusations from left wing groups saying that the charges are false. Devon nunez earned my trust over the years for his work that the Intelligence Community does to keep americans safe. And questions of impartiality. He said he received information showing the trump team was incidentally caught up intelligence, he showed it to the president instead of the Bipartisan Committee he led and now they are investigating nunez for possibly obtaining classified material and his step ago side allows for a fresh start. The investigation is of such critical importance we need to get fully back on track. Reporter the Trump Administration now says they wont comment on the decisions that the House Intel Committee makes. Reporting live in new york, stephanie ramos, channel 6 action news. Thank you. Also in washington, Senate Republicans invoked the socalled Nuclear Option. Making way for Neil Gorsuchs asenshun to the Supreme Court. They call it a turning point in the history of the senate. Back here a newest to beef up gun safety in philadelphia. Today the Sheriffs Department and city council announced a new effort to get more gun locks on firearms in the city. Vernon odom has the story from north philadelphia. Got a gun you get a lock. Philadelphia sheriff shows off a gun lock one of the thousands available free through the fifth floor office at city hall and to be distributed on the streets this summer by town watch outfits, this gives us an opportunity to travel through the summer through the neighborhoods and with the citizens and working through the residents of the city and get them out and possibly save more lives. All you have to do is lock the gun so it cannot be used. It cannot be used. Hundreds of shots are fired in the city each year because of temporary anger or guns falling into the hands of children and the hope is this can cut down on this senseless carnage. The individuals that lost their lives as a result of getting access to weapons last year. One is too many. The gun locks are covered steal cables that thread through the pistol chamber and prevent the weapon from firing. The grand child is all over your house while are you at the coffee table and watching television. It makes you think or wonder is my gun safe . The free gun lock Program Begins right away and full details available on the sheriffs website. Im vernon odom channel 6 action news. A section Near Railroad tracks in kensington is known as a camp for homeless heroin addicts. Now city officials are asking and taking a serious step to try to clean that up. Gurney street below the train tracks are covered in drug needles, and trash. And its technically owned by conrail and today the city issued them a violation notice saying if they dont clean up the area and fix the broken fences the city will file a lawsuit. We thought we were making progress with conrail but there seems to be a hesitation on their part but the only way is to take this action and wind up in front of a judge. We need to get the addicts off the street and intotreme. I go through all the streets of kensington we want them to get into treatment. We dont have enough beds and turned down because they dont have an i. D. Conrail issues a statement saying in part, its committed to working with the city to address the Opioid Crisis by finding a comprehensive solution, and they recently cut off dialog concerning the issue. April 6th marks the 100 anniversary of the u. S. s entry into world war one. They took part in an event to commemorate the day and met at the war memorial and remembered the sacrifices made by New Jerseyans 100 years ago. And tep septa is urging phillies fans to ditch their tokens and and get a key card a way to get on and off the broad street line, septa says that most of the turn styles have been replaced already that means those with token and cash have to wait in line before boarding and as an added incentive anyone that adds 10 theres to their septa account in center city gets a phillies themed prize. And speaking of traveling, lets get a check of the traffic report on a thursday night. Matt pellets man lets see whats up. A rough day on the roads and rails but we are starting to dry out and plenty of traffic in south philadelphia along i95, northbound side backed up substantially from the walt whitman to the work zone at jared avenue and a ton of suburban issues, including this one new garden Chester County and downed wires and jammed in both directions headed to the closure point at the hill top crab shack and newark road can get you around the closure. And a crash on the Commodore Barry bridge bridge headed into pennsylvania and slowing into new jersey as well. And the commodore is probably not your best bet, use the walt whitman instead. And the issues on the knowledge turnpike south of exit 4 flooding in the left lane and farther south in Gloucester County more flooding and speeds of 12 Miles Per Hour and 295 southbound a better bet. Well check it again if the next half hour. Thank you. More ahead on action news at 5 00, a crack down on distracted driving in new jersey. New at 5 00, what could soon arrive at your front door if are you caught doing anything but driving behind the wheel. Plus, a potential break through through with children affected by autism. When action news at 5 00 continues. Vanessa i got hurt and was given painkillers. By the time the drugs ran out, i was addicted. It happened so fast. I ended up on the streets, where the drugs are cheaper and easier to get. I was a full blown heroin addict, selling my soul to get high. When i realized i needed help i didnt know where to go. But i got help and you can too. Youre not alone. Help is within reach. Call 844 reach nj or visit reachnj. Gov. The road to recovery starts now. Leave it to the pros . I am a pro. I made this lawn from seed pride, and less water than youd think. To those whod say the grass is greener on the other side. I politely disagree. Pennington smart seed. Guaranteed to grow with 30 less water. Reclaim your turf. If youre looking frien. Hi hi everybody cookie allnew its sesame street live make a new friend playing Liacouras Center this weekend only tickets on sale now liacourascenter dot com he was phone at mr. Warmth and the merchant of venom. Tonight fanned reason the country are mourning the loss of an immediatic icon, don rickles, he was best known for his scathing standup comedy and frequents casinos in Atlantic City and his wife, barbara, is a philadelphia native. He suffered from kidney failure and died at his home this morning. Don rickles the legend was 90 years old. Secretary of state, Rex Tillerson says that president beshir assad should no longer have a role in governing the syrian people. He spoke out two days after the suspected chemical attack that killed at least 72 people including babies and children. Tillerson says that there is no doubt that assads government was behind the attack. And the u. S. Is evaluating an appropriate response. And thousands of people are gathering in moscow today at the cathedral for the metro attack. They laid out flowers and read the names of the victims out led. The top investigative body says more people are arrested in connection with the suicide bombing and 13 passengers were killed. Health check tonight umbilical cord blood stem cells, used in different diseases including cancers and blood disorders. And one trial suggests they may help kids with autism. Reporter its a small test but getting a lot of attention. Doctor says that stem cells from the childs own umbilical cord blood could lessen the symptoms of autism. Gracie gregory is one of 25 children on the autism spectrum that received stem cells from her own core blood. The core blood the babies blood left over in the placeent aor after birth, after the baby is born and contains lots of different kinds of cells. The hope is that the cells will help to rebuild connections in the brain. In their study 70 of the children including gracie, who had the treatment when she was 5 saw improvement. Before the study autism affected probably 75 of our day. And now autism maybe affects 10 of our day. Was it the stem cells . All we know is that something happened to her. Whether it was the stem cells or a natural progression at this point, she got better. She became more socially connected and affection nate. It super charged her learning curve. It was a small study only 25 kids but the rye searchers started to plan a larger study. In other health news we are learning about the dangers of ohio dating and a study shows people overweight and that Heart Disease losing and then gaining weight back may be more harmful than not gaining weight. The fluctuations are dangerous for your heart and so is carrying extra weight. It shows how vital it is to lose weight in a slow and healthy weight and to maintain the healthy weight. Thank you ali. Well there was an emotional display of hope at the hospital of university of pennsylvania this afternoon, a parade of transplant patients held their own math walk they are either recovering from a bone Marrow Transplant or waiting for a donor and their way of celebrate the match walk and run through philadelphia this weekend. Many patients cannot be out in public because of their fragile immune systems. We celebrate them. Still to come on action news at 5 00, a big honor for the Philadelphia Please Touch Museum and the jobs that amazon plans to add nationwide. Well tell you about it when action news comes right back. Amazon is adding 30,000 parttime positions to its workforce in the u. S. Most are in one of amazons warehouses located around the country and 5,000 of them will be created in the Virtual Customer Service programs, home based employees that work 20 hours a week will be eligible for benefits. This weeks after they announced a plan to create 100,000 fulltime jobs in the u. S. By the end of 2018. The please touch museum and the Franklin Institute. The usas ten best rank the the please touch museum ranked sixth for engaging and interactive experience for kids and adults. The Franklin Institute scored sixth. What is it like to be a doctor that is what Montgomery County students got to find out today. They went through surgeral rotations and radiology and more and today the Community College in pottstown. This is the first year of a three year bridge to employment program. Police and first sponsors are getting special training to help folks with autism and other intellectual disabilitieies the hosted this session with police and taught police how to deescalate a crisis and what condition the person may have been how to keep the person safe. April is Autism Awareness month. Still to come on action news at 5 00. A check of the forecast for you. Lets take auto live outside a gorgeous shot from the sky 6 hd camera at the ben franklin bridge. A big contrast from today. Cecily tynan has the accuweather forecast next. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. Maybe thats why weve been ranked highest in Customer Satisfaction by jd power 4 years in a row. And now you can love fios too. Get 150 meg internet, tv and phone. All for 79. 99 per month, for the first year with a twoyear agreement. Its the only internet with equal upload and download speeds. Cable only offers upload speeds that are a fraction of the download speeds. Plus get hbo for a year and free multiroom dvr service for two years. And Verizon Wireless customers can stream tv on the fios mobile app, datafree. Get the best. Go to getfios. Com time for accuweather at the action news big board. Is tcecily tynan has the accuwer forecast. Wewer getting ready to build an arc earlier. We had the gusty thunderstorms and double scan live showing the area of clearing now and i want to flip over double scan and this shows rainfall amounts we did have the training effect with storms. They rode up through south jersey and areas north and we got a quick 2 inches of rain and the rain was falling at 4 inches per hour but moving quickly and that is why we are looking at localized flooding. Temperatures were climbing and stuck in the 40s with the rain. 40 in allentown and philadelphia 57 and Atlantic City airport 60 and 60 degrees in dover. So satellite and radar showing it did rain today tonight was coming down heavily, we had the gusty thunderstorms and now you can see the area of clearing. However, if you look over maryland another batch of showers are rotating in during the evening hours, well see a few more rain showers around but nothing as intense as earlier this afternoon. So tonight a possible shower and partly cloudy and the winds are picking up 45 degrees in philadelphia and allentown 14 and wilmington 43 and cape may 46 degrees. Future tracker 6 showing 9 00 tonight perhaps a few scattered showers and otherwise partly cloudy and dont get used to the clear skies, the clouds come in tomorr tomorrow. The snow snow showers up across the poconos, and 3 00 in the afternoon, when the phillies home opener starts its cloudy with a few spotty showers around and i think theyll get the game in no problem. But if you head there dress for winter. Well have sustained winds at 22 Miles Per Hour. However, wind gusts of up to 40 Miles Per Hour. And the windchill will make it feel like 40 degrees tomorrow. The afternoon high only 49 degrees, really a taste of winter. 12 degrees below average and if you look at these numbers they are only here for one day. Well begin to turn around the temperatures as we head through the weekend and early next week. The fiveday at 5 00. Tomorrow a nasty day, windy and damp and chilly. 49 degrees, but look at the temperatures how they rise. 58 saturday and 68 sunday and monday 78 and tuesday first day this year of temperatures in the 80s. 81 and will the 80 degree weather stick around . Adam has that coming up. Action news continues with meteorologist, adam joseph, jaime apody, Rick Williams and Monica Malpass. Hello again, here is what it happening on action news tonight. Nuclear option used. The details on the senates decision to trigger the option to break a filibuster on president Trumps Supreme Court pick and the man on capitol hill is leading the investigation into the russian meddling into the u. S. Election stepped aside. You see someone reading email or texting while driving police wand you to call ~ 77 to report it. And the socalled Nuclear Option changing the rules to confirm the Supreme Court nominees. That clears the path for judge Neil Gorsuchs nomination. Reporter monica, good evening. For millions of americans, had is what the election was all about. The next seat on the Supreme Court. And for senators here on capitol hill. They are turning it into an all out battle. The vote is 55. 45 nays. On consideration the motion is agreed to. With that republicans have gone nuclear. Senate majority leader celebrating as the nomination of judge neil gorsuch goes forward and much of the chamber remains serious understanding the consequence of what just happened and from now on it tak takes 51 senators to confirm the pick without a single democrat voting yes. In a post Nuclear World if the hands are in the same party there is no incentive to speak to the senate majority. That say recipe for more conflict. But republicans are blaming the democrats for forcing their hand. Calling their filibuster of neil gorsuch. Unprecedented in the history off our senate and out of proportion for the qualified judge before us and reminding democrats they went nuclear in 2013 and democrats changed the rules for lower courts and made a point to hold the Supreme Court to a higher bar. What mix mcconnell did field was wrong and portends contentious days in the future. The mood on capitol hill remains tense and the back and forth drama continues, we are expecting the final vote on judge gorsuchs nomination to come through sometime tomorrow night before lawmakers head out on a two week recess. Channel 6 action news. Thank you. In other political news, the man that leads the congressional investigation into russias meddling into the 2016 president ial election is removing himself from the probe. House intelligence chairman devon nunez is temporarily stepping aside and sites ethics complains against him that he violated discussing classified material following his meeting at the white house a few weeks ago and in the interim texas congressman mike conway will take charge of the probe. And an official tells abc news that there is ongoing discussions with the white house and pentagon about possible military action in syria. This stems from tuesdays chemical weapons attack. And no decisions have been made yet about possible military action. World news with david muir will have more on triggering the Nuclear Option and nunezs decision to step way from the russian probe. The irs says identity thieves filed 8,000 fraudulent returns using a data retrieveal tool on student aid sites allowing students and parents to import Tax Information into their free application for federal student aid or fasfa, they told the Senate Finance committee that he warned them about the problem and they disabled it in march as a security precaution and should be available again in object for filing the 20182019 academic year. A woman was shot twice overnight in southWest Philadelphia. Police tell action news it happened after 2 00 a. M. Near florence avenue. The woman was shot in the stomach and leg. She was taken to the area hospital where she is listed in stable condition and so far no one is arrested. Today philadelphia mayor, jim kenney signed a bill requiring thehamber of commerce for tax businesses and those offered in comparable cities everyone the first report is due to count ill on june 30th of next year and future reports due every three years after that. And they are looking into Third Party Organizations to conduct the study. New jersey is beginning a new initiative to crack down on distracted drivers, one of the First Program to send warning letters to distracted drivers reported by other members of the public. Nora muchanic explains now. Reporter drivers beware. Police departments all over new jersey are in the midst of a distracted driver enforce many blitz and they are asking the publics help. They can now call ~ 77 to report other drivers on the road that are reading or texting or otherwise distracted. A distracted driver needs to be concerned about the person in the next lane or anyone of us who sees them breaking the law. Can you give the trips description of the vehicle and it goes to headquarters in west trenton and they are routed to local police, a summons cannot be issued but after one of ~ 77 reports come in a warning is sent to the registered owner of the car. And well keep track for repeats and the same vehicle. If i saw someone doing that i would not hesitate and it irritates me getting cut off by people on the phone or texting or eating. Do you make a call yourself . I would definitely do it. 416 people were killed on new jersey roads an 8 jump and many were caused by distracted driving. We increased our numbers for this month and well go out there and force strict enforcement to stop as many drivers as we can. The goal is to have zero fatalities and hope that the public join them in the effort to crack down on distracted driving. Nora muchanic, channel 6 action news. Time for a check of traffic now thursday night. Matt pellman is back in the Traffic Center with the latest. Rick and monica get out your kayak, we have a lake on 95 by Philadelphia International airport penndot just moved the camera and you may be able to see the lake there. Its taking out the left lane by Philadelphia International airport and penndot crews pulling up to the scene to unclog the drain and you have big puddles here along 95 northbound. There you can see it. Great for a kayak. And another crash in the spot we had five of them this morning. The vine street expressway approaching the schuylkill and the accident is off to the side and eastbound is plenty busy as you head out toward 95 ain wreck at westchester that just cleared out and slow speeds south of the 30 bypass through Chester County. Elsewhere, in new garden township the downed wires blocking the crab house and a crash in mount laurel 30 eastbound near fellowship road in morristown and flooding on the new jersey turnpike southbound and an overturned truck approaching exit 2 and still attracting attention and speeds in the teens to 295 a better bet. And issues on mass transit. A half hour delays on all the Regional Rail lines because of signal issues and the 202 shuttle busing because of high water. Thank you matt. A street in West Philadelphia was renamed this morning to honor a local pastors 60 years of service to the community. 63rd and chestnut and walnut were renamed to reverend shaw way. He served as the pastor of the white wall Baptist Church for six decades. He led the city council in a prayer. Well, april is National Financial literacy month and to celebra sell Citizens Bank is donating to nonprofit organizations in the philadelphia area. And president , Dan Fitzpatrick presented a check to one of the organizations, the Enterprise Center in West Philadelphia. The contribution is part of citizens helping citizens manage money program. Coming up on action news an American Hero laid to rest. Well have details on the funeral of astronaut and former senator, john glenn. And a hiker gets crushed by a falling boulder how firefighters rescued her coming snup as quickly as the storms move out the sun returned in full force and now the clouds are moving back in. A dreary end to the week and a beautiful weekend ahead in the sevenday forecast. Here is more of the flooding we are talking about bought of all the wet weather. Chopper 6 hd over Martin Luther king drive its closed from Strawberry Mansion bridge to montgomery drive because of flooding. A somber day in virginia, as aft night and former start john glenn was interred in arlington cemetery. He was the First American to orbit earth and returned to space in 1988 as a 77yearold astronaut to help signists evaluate space travel and aging and sought the president ial nomination in 1984 and glen was laid to rest with full military honors. Paramedics saved a woman that was crushed by a 1500 pound boulder in colorado. The boulder fell and crushed both of her legs and was pinned for at least an hour before firefighters were able to lift the boulder off of her. Rescuers use the hydraulic equipment to remove it and the woman suffered multiple fractures and they believe that the change this temperatures caused the boulder to suddenly fall. And jaime apody is here now. The phillies home opener is tomorrow and unfortunately the reds left them blue, the rubber match in cincinnati. A few phils fans got to see an impressive debut. His very first at bat with the team gone a 10 lead and that is not a replay. Nova homers again. And then the phillies bullpen imploded and the reds brought in a relief pitcher to bat for another relief pitcher and he hit a home one off him. Phillies fall 74. A bit of a surprise that ryan howard didnt find a job and has one with the braves. Signing a Minor League Deal with the braves, and they already have a first base man. The 37yearold reports to extended spring training as he tries to resurrect his career. Dawn staley back home after cutting down the nets with South Carolina for the ncaa championship. Jeff skversky is live now where it all got started. Reporter the dobbins student body and alumni went nuts when dawn staley walked back in the doors, she was wearing the final four net she cut down in dallas around her net and has barely taken the thing off only to sleep and shower. She told the student body why use the net as inspiration. Here is dawn staley talking to the Womens Basketball team telling them to follow your dreams and follow your heart. Im from north philly just like you. She was given gifts. Including the jeffrey jersey. And they are friends and staley has not forgotten where she comes from, she regularly talks to temple coach, cheney. And she got her start at temple when cheney was still there. Coach cheney and i talk all the time. I have phone calls from him throughout the years and i just write. How much coping wisdom did you give dawn during your days at temple. I dont get credit she works so hard. Reporter well staley had a lot of former temple players on hand for the assembly and celebration at dobbins and some in dallas to watch them celebrate firsthand on sunday when they beat mississippi state. Well have more coming up at 6 00 including hearing from Alshon Jeffrey the new eagle. How exciting. Opening round underway at the masters and Charlie Hoffman leads and the number one ranked golfer never teed off. He withdrew. He injured his back falling down a staircase yesterday and he won the last three tournaments he played. Avoid stairs the day before the match. That is a shame. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. Maybe thats why weve been ranked highest in Customer Satisfaction by jd power 4 years in a row. And now you can love fios too. Get 150 meg internet, tv and phone. All for 79. 99 per month, for the first year with a twoyear agreement. Its the only internet with equal upload and download speeds. Cable only offers upload speeds that are a fraction of the download speeds. Plus get hbo for a year and free multiroom dvr service for two years. And Verizon Wireless customers can stream tv on the fios mobile app, datafree. Get the best. Go to getfios. Com what a difference a few hours can make. The sunshine blasts you and now the clouds and showers moving back in. Kind of all over the place this afternoon. As we look at stormtracker 6 live double scan the heavy torrential downpours and thunderstorms they are long gone and we are dealing with again the lighter showers that are kind of rotating back in with low pressure in fact. We saw the brilliant in northern delaware and west of elphia see the light to steady rain moving in from route 1 lancaster and berks county and along the pennsylvania turnpike westbound but all of this is pivoting to the north and east. And you temporarily dried out north and east of philadelphia getting a little wet in the evening hours. But once the rain came back out i was flooded with pictures of that sun coming back. James sent me this picture from his drone, it was 1,000 feet in the atmosphere taking a look at the storms departing from the philadelphia and a beautiful shot there and many of them were a definitive line of dark clouds to blue skies and the clouds are moving back in. 58 in millville and 57 in philadelphia own in the 40s to the north and west. And just 39 degrees a chilly rain up in the poconos. We take a look at our water vapor imagery. This is in the midlevels of the atmosphere. And you see the bright green on the radar that is tremendous moisture from the clouds that we rung out with the thunderstorms. That is all the vigorous rising air in the storm. We have the rising air with that green blob so to speak. If you want to put it in technical people terms. And you get the sinking air behind it, the dry air pulling in as the storm pulls away and the temporary sunshine that moves in and tonight the clouds are moving back in a few scattered showers 41 to 45 degrees for the overnight low and the winds from the south south west 10 to 20 Miles Per Hour. And we will not be able to shake the clouds here on friday, a lot of clouds and shower for the first pitch 3 05, with the phillies home opener with the Washington Nationals in town and it feels like the 30s at the game with the strong winds gusting to 30 Miles Per Hour tomorrow. And this low slowly drifts by ain dreary end to the week. And even snow showers are possible up in the poconos tomorrow. And then the low moves out and High Pressure on saturday. And this is the very beginning of a long, dry warm stretch that starts on saturday, 58 and still a little on the breezy side the first part of the weekend. The exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast 49 and windy and chilly and showers tomorrow and the sun is back on saturday with the Philadelphia Union in town at 58 and nice and mild on sunday, 68 degrees and add another 10 to that on monday way above normal at the beginning having next week a summer preview tuesday we bust into the lower 80s and a cold front tuesday night and drops the temperatures back to the 70s on wednesday and near normal thursday of 65 degrees. And after some very volatile weather with heavy rain, we are look going in the next seven days. We deserve a nice weekend. We do. Can you get the latest updates any time with the 6 abc app, with the hourly and sevenday forecasts just a tap away and use stormtracker 6 live double scan radar to keep an eye on the storm, the 6 abc app is a Free Download for your mobile device. We have breaking news chopper 6 hd over West Conshohocken where strong winds are blames for ripping the roof off this building this is the Technology Company at 24 union hill road again strong winds damaged the roof severely as you can see. There were workers inside at the time and nobody was injured. That is good news. And significant damage to this business in West Conshohocken. Arrays material technology. I no longer live with the uncertainties of hep c. Wondering, what if . I let go of all those feelings. Because i am cured with harvoni. Harvoni is a revolutionary treatment for the most common type of chronic hepatitis c. Its been prescribed to more than a quarter million people. 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And right now jim gardner and the Action News Team is standing by with more news coming up next at 6 00. For all of us adam joseph, cecily tynan, Rick Williams and the entire Action News Team im Monica Malpass have a good night. Action News Delaware valleys leading news program. With ducis rogers, meteorologist cecily tynan, and jim gardner. Thursday night and the murder trial of eric frein is delayed when is he taken to the hospital and thousands of gun owners have a safe way to store their weapons flee of charge. But the big story on action news is a thoroughly wet thursday in the tristate area. And many streets and low lying areas have fallen victim to flooding and flood watches remain in effect until this evening and this is just into action news, part of Martin Luther king drive has been closed just north of the Strawberry Mansion bridge because of flooding. And southbound traffic is detoured at montgomery avenue. Chopper 6 hd was over the scene just a short time ago. Action news reporter, Annie Mccormick in greenville, delaware. Where strong storms caused significant damage there. Jim, talk about significant damage, the people that were in this vehicle, if you can see it there are okay. Surprisingly, they are lucky to be alive. The entire tree you see there fell on top of the car as it was driving up the road. Take a look at this video, this is video that gives you a closer look at the tree on top of that vehicle. We are told this happened at 4 00 if the afternoon and the car was traveling. And residents say that around that time they heard the strong storms and one of them says that they did hear a thud and the tree did fall on top of that car. And both of the people inside we are told were taken to christan ahospital and they both only have minor injuries and expected to be okay and be released sometime soon. Back out here live, you see again the tree is out here Newcastle County police have

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