And predatory sadistic violence. Upper darby police superintendant, Mike Chitwood says the 36yearold likely knew her killer, there was no signs of forced entry and the killer locked the door with a key before leaving. Looks like there are several wounds to the head, neck and face. Could be strangulation but we dont have all of those results in yet. A coworker and friend responded to the new orleans apartment complex after benson failed to show up for work yesterday. As the police combed the streets for clues, neighbors were in fear. We have never had a problem here ever and now i dont know what im going to do. Benson was last seen outside of the apartment on tuesday night but apparently texted her mom yesterday morning. Police believe she was killed a short time later. We are checking everything out. There is no estranged husband but there is other people in their life we are checking into. At least check police say an autopsy was being performed and they are hoping to find out whether benson was sexually assaulted. Im chad pradelli, channel 6 action news. Thank you. Radnor Township Police are urging residents to check their bank statements, authorities found a skimming device on the drivethru atm on East Lancaster avenue and police set up surveillance and yesterday they arrested two men that came back to retrieve the device. Investigators say that the suspects stole at least 150,000 by installing skimmers at banks from maryland to new york. It is not all basketball and School Spirit these days on the Villanova University campus. There is word tonight that a villanova professor is charged with 415 counts of child pornography. Gray hall is live at the campus tonight. Reporter well jim, we can tell you tonight that the teacher is off the job and locked up in jail. The university released a statement in part saying they are horrified of the behavior of the individual involved. A big shock to the villanova campus after 60yearold professor Christopher Haas is charged with possession of child pornography. He had over 400 photographs of child pornography. Villanova Authorities Say that earlier this month Online Security systems alerted them that haas was using an on campus compute to access the sexually explicit material and they notified police and haas was arrested. Students were stunned to hear the news. That is not the kind of thing i would find characteristic of what we stand for. Haass attorney spoke briefly, he is add and sorry to be in this position and sorry for the up vert. And the professor is under investigation for the u. S. Department of Homeland Security dating back to 2012 for accessing child pornography at home. He is released of his teaching duties and cannot have contact with students or be on campus. Agents when to haass home but were not told what the agents were investigating, they found out about the child porn allegations after reporting what will was happening at villanova last week. They were not aware of the prior investigation but wishes they would have known. Especially behavior this serious we want to know about it as an institution but we have to respect the limitations of an ongoing sensitive Law Enforcement investigation. Reporter and we have learned that haas is teaching at villanova since 1988 and bail is set at 15 million. Live outside of the campus of villanova, gray hall, channel 6 action news. Thank you. Most members of the Villanova Community are wrapped up in basketball fever, this was the team coming off the court today at practice in houston and the wildcats are in texas preparing for their semi final game against oklahoma saturday night. John rawlins even though the game is in houston john, preparations are underway in radnor. Reporter that is correct jim. Among the issues scammed this could be summed up as post game security. Sometimes after a major sporting event some fans get carried away and do dumb things, the university of Radnor Police are in concert urging fans to think before they act and the understanding being if they dont then the police may have to act. Its kind of villanovas front door, busy route 30, but in 1985 when nova clinched the National Title it was ground zero for an estimated 10,000 fans who snarled traffic. The dynamic changed very quickly and if you were trapped in a car and people were running all over its a dangerous situation. One that the university hopes to avoid and the University Planning to use food and d. J. s to encourage fans to party here in the center of campus away from traffic. And jay wright is sending a message urging students to celebrate responsibility. And they will beef up staffing for an Operation Center to be set up in this room and authorities will monitor social media and videos. They have live cct and if something develops they can respond. This is something they dont want to see develop. Situations have gotten out of hand at other universities. Dubbed sports riots. Fires set and cars overturned. They plan to watch and listen and move only in necessary. If things are out of hand well take appropriate actions to make sure it remains safe. One of the lieutenants biggest concerns is fans supervisor lent or otherwise get out in the traffic at route 30, that happened in 1985, it happened to a lesser extent in 09 and a dangerous situation and a bad mix and one authorities hope to avoid. Thank you john. We want to see how you were seeing on nova nation. Please join the action send us your pictures on social media using 6abcaction. Delaware county has a new strategy in the war on heroin and the county launched a Recovery Specialist Program today. Two trained specialists will reach out to Drug Overdose survivors to help them seek treatment. Since 2014 Delaware County officers have saved 204 people using the heroin antidote drug narcan. Governor Chris Christie again refused to give in to Atlantic City for a lifesaver, christie laid out his view of what he calls outrageous financial decisions. The new plan to delay paying Municipal Workers only delays the inevitable. He says the bipartisan bill he signed off on is the only solution to save Atlantic City. Coming up on action news tonight, Jeff Skversky is live in houston with villanova basketball. Jeff . Reporter jim, everywhere you go there are pictures and murals of the villanova wildcats, its the big stage of the final four, youll hear from jay wright and the wildcats coming up. John kasich is in philadelphia tonight well hear from him coming up. A windy warm end to march, i am tracking warm temperatures and a major cool down over the weekend. A republican race for president is making a stop in philadelphia tonight in the person of ohio governor, john kasich. Reporter good evening jim with the gop race at a boiling pace, Governor John Kasich arrives in town for a closed door fundraiser from his supporters and the fact that he only won his home state of ohio he is banking on a contesting convention with none of the three delegates getting enough to win the nomination. The gop race has caused deep wounds that some believe is unlikely to heal. We have seen a vicious attempt at campaigning with adultery and pictures of the campaigns wives. A poll in pennsylvania shows kasich in second place and trump 34. 5 and kasich with 20 and cruz 18. 5 . Believe we will be able to gather momentum heading into that convention and as it applies to the rules of the convention, there are no rules. The rules committee has not yet met so i believe when the rules committee finally meets, this is a radical idea. They are actually going to try to figure out who can win in the fall. So kasich says he remains optimistic that things will turn around for him now that the race has reached a part of the country that he feels will be more favorable for him and he is banking on a contested convention. Dann cuellar channel 6 action news. Donald trump was in washington for a surprise meeting with gop leaders. Trump tweeted the meeting was nice and is looking forward to bringing the party together. That is a tough task since the republican frontrunner is taking heat on both sides because of his comments on abortion. He said that if abortion is banned women who have abortions should be punished. Meanwhile, ted cruz is fundraising in california while his wife appeared with supporter, carly fiorina. Ive always taken on the status quo. In harrisburg, they didnt like it when i stopped their perks and pushed for reform. As head of pennsylvanias thirdlargest county, i cut out wall street middlemen to protect pensions, stood up for Marriage Equality and protected our environment. Now im fighting for criminal justice reform. Im proud to be backed by president obama and people who care about our families. Im josh shapiro. Ill be an attorney general who always fights for you. Villanova in houston getting ready. So is oklahoma their opponent on saturday, the big thing about reaching goals, you can then reach new ones, the new goal is to get the whole thing. Jeff skversky is live in houston where the two teams will meet on saturday. Reporter hey ducis, villanova head coach, jay wright is trying to use his experience from his 2009 run to help his flares, telling them not to look up to much and get caught in the moment. Just focus on oklahoma. Here is a look at them getting off the court for the first time today. Their first practice out here, getting used to the elevated court and different sight lines, a rare look at the cats shooting promos this is all a big part of the final four and the biggest stage in college basketball. You first step out there you look at the floor and look up, everything is so nice and so easy for to you get distracted. But we just said focus on the little things. Just because we are playing on the biggest stage that doesnt mean villanova basketball goes out the window, we have to do the things that got us here. Who knew villanova would be here. After losing by 23 in december. Good luck against this guy. Buddy hield, he scored the most points in the elite eight. And does not sound impressed by the d. They are not the Toughest Team that faced us all year. Ill keep on being aggressive. You cant stop him but you can try to keep him under control and the other guys under control. You can probably stop him but the other team is so good they would probably kill you. How about buddy hield saying villanova is not the best team, a little Bulletin Board material for the cats going into the semi final on saturday. Jeff skversky, channel 6 action news. Thank you. Please check out our special tomorrow night. March to a championship. Temple head coach will join jeff live to break down the game between villanova and oklahoma here tomorrow night at 7 30 on 6 abc. The flyers seem posed to make the post season and lead detroit about two points. They won last night in a shootout against the capitals last night. Steve mason carried the load check out this gagne won it at the other end and the flyers know at this stage of the season every point counts. We have been putting everything into it here. Night after night and we did that again tonight. And we took everything plus the shootout in order to get the two points and we are in an awfully critical situation now. With wildcat fever gripping the area anything with that blue v on it is flying off the shelves, it was no surprise that this new batch of nova tshirts were going fast. As soon as the tshirts were wheeled on to the floor of the campus book store. The shirts saying final four came in with the way they are selling, there is no doubt they will soon be down to the final two. A little child with big dreams. Dwight evans. First a community activist. A legislator at 25. Always looking out for us. He worked to create a thriving commercial district. And hes brought new Grocery Stores to underserved areas. Dwight evans is committed to revitalizing neighborhoods in all of philadelphia. Hell be a block by block congressman for us. Im dwight evans and im proud to approve this message. Some Newcastle CountyPolice Officers added a lesson in la e lattes to the letter of the law. Corporal duffy and Thomas Jackson usually serve as Public Relations officers but they served up the drinks at a cafe in wilmington. It started as a joke. Today they were baristas. At the brouhaha cafe. You know it . I just want to hear you say it. Brouhaha. What about the accuweather forecast. Its going to get unsettled. Rain on the way and really cold air for the second half of the weekend. Stormtracker 6 live double scan showing clouds and no rain here and a few sprinkles near harrisburg and the action cam was taking a look up. Yesterday a good amount of sunshine and today clouds really the rule and despite the clouds, temperatures making it up into the 70s inland and this ends the fourth warmest month of march on record. Temperatures running more than 7 degrees above normal. The warm of the march on record for philadelphia back in 1921 when temperatures were a whopping 9 degrees above normal. Compare this to what it will feel like on sunday. These are the windchills the way it feels at 3 00 sunday afternoon. We have windchill 35 in philadelphia, allentown 29 and the poconos windchills in the teens. So a big change from today. Temperatures today will feel 40 degrees cooler, 72 in philadelphia currently and 71 in allentown and reading and trenton 70 and wilmington 72 with the wind out of the south. Off the ocean the temperature is 51 and cape may is quite a bit cooler 56 degrees. Satellite 6 along with action radar showing that the wins out of the south and the cloud cover all ahead of a cold front and if you look to the west there are a few showers. They are really beginning to fall apart and the main system is still across the midwest. We have low pressure across Lake Michigan and the trailing cold front and this entire complex is moving through tomorrow late in the day. Ahead of it, we get clouds and showers, future tracker 6 showing at 10 00 showers and temperatures warm, not dropping below 60 for the morning and future tracker 6 showing the morning rush hour plenty of clouds and a few spotty showers and then in the afternoon with the cold front getting closer this is when we see thunderstorms developing. A squall line likely moving through late in the afternoon at 4 00 and this could bring thunder and lightning and brief heavy downpours and the best bet will be in the afternoon and we could get wind gusts up to 50 Miles Per Hour and what happens with that system, it really stalls right off the eastern seaboard. Saturday is going to be still somewhat unsettled with lingering showers and especially south and east of philadelphia and the temperature drops down to 62 degrees, that is not bad however there is another front an arctic front a clipper that moves through friday night and maybe a shower or snowflake and behind that system we have the cold air that settles in on sunday and another dose of cold air on the way on tuesday. So the exclusive accuweather forecast tomorrow 77 degrees, a warm day and windy but unsettled with showers and perhaps thunderstorms in the afternoon. Saturday mostly cloudy some lingering showers especially south and east of philadelphia. Not one of the best days, and brightening skies in the afternoon and sunday is when the bottom drops off in temperatures, 47 degrees and windchills own in the 30s and we bump it up to 63 on monday and rain in the afternoon with another cold front, on tuesday even colder than sunday. 45 degrees and high gusty winds and then on monday increasing clouds and 53, we finally make it up to 59 degrees on thursday but that comes with a chance of rain, so the first week of april is going be topsyturvy to say the least. Topsyturvy, we love topsyturvy. Its a Birthday Celebration at the philadelphia zoo. The lions celebrated their 6th and 7th birthday today. They received a lot of presents even a pinata to hope and the pair relaxed a bit on their special day. They are parents to four 1. 5yearold cubs who also live at the zoo. Gorgeous animals. Abc world news tonight with david muir is next on channel 6 and action news continues at 10 00 on phl 17 and please join us for action news at 11 00 here on channel 6. For cecily tynan, ducis rogers and the entire Action News Team im jim gardner we hope youll join us at 11 00. Breaking news tonight. Were on the scene. A deadly shooting at a Greyhound Bus station late today. Several people shot, a state trooper among them. Also breaking, the Severe Weather hitting right now. Tornadoes touching down already. The pounding hail, blinding rain. That whole system moving east. The firestorm growing tonight after what donald trump said about abortion, women and punishment. And tonight, trumps surprise meeting in washington with the head of the republican party. The reserve deputy who said he used his gun by accident, that he thought it was his taser. Tonight, the new video here, and what it might reveal. The horrific moment. The massive collapse. The overpass crashing down on drivers and people below. The urgent rescue effort. And made in america is back tonight. The simple thing sold in your front yard,