People really watched the debates and we had debate watch parties and it was involved for the students on campus and now we finally got to inauguration and well see how it plays out the next four years. Its a windy day here at the capital and we spotted rays of sunshine but hopes that the weather cooperates but at this point rain is in the forecast. From washington, d. C. , Sharrie Williams, channel 6 action news. Many people from the tell wear and Lehigh Valley is getting ready to head south for the inauguration and the womens march the following day. Gray hall caught up with some of them live in south philadelphia with more. Reporter good evening to you monica with can tell you that thousands are headed to d. C. For the inauguration and some are supporting the new president and others will be there in opposition. Im going to be there for the swearing in and im going to be dancing at the inaugural ball nobody is ruining that for me. Helen is working with the Republican Party for 40 years, friday she planned to attend her first inaugural event when donald trump is sworn in. People are upset of the electoral system rather than the popular vote but we had this since the country began. She few she would have plenty of company as she cheers on the incoming president but others like alexandra hacker, who doesnt back the Administration Good that is why we want to be there and say we are hear, you are going to listen to us and every step of the way well question you and hold you accountable. Jessica is one of the philadelphia organizers for the womens march on washington and expected a group of over 400 to travel to d. C. This is only the beginning to what we hope will be an impactful strong movement. She understands that the protests slated for the day after the inauguration will not change the Election Results but she and thousands of others hopes that the president elect and his administration will hear their voices. Womens rights are human rights and affects all of us no matter the race, background, gender identity. Reporter all right back out live. All roads heading to washington, d. C. And statewide for that womens march about 240 buses headed to the inauguration and some 12,000 individuals say they will be there for that march. Live in southWest Philadelphia, gray hall, channel 6 action news. Thank you. Be sure to stay with action news for continuing coverage of trumps inauguration and brian taff and Sharrie Williams will cover the events for us for the swearing in and ceremonies to follow. And 6abc. Com will have expanded coverage several live feeds from washington and well post photos throughout the day for you, wherever you are you can see the historic days actions at 6abc. Com and the 6 abc fuse app. Now for an action news exclusive. For the first time we hear from the center city man whose life was forever changed in november when he checked his mail and one of the packages exploded leaving him disfigured. Chad pradelli has the story. Reporter in our exclusive sit down interview jim appeared relaxed and able to laugh at times about the mail package that blew apart his hand but he wants to know who did it and why. I came up to get a driven of water when i came up to get a drink of water. Jim grabbed what he thought was the mail order prescriptions and went to the stove to open them under the light when a really bright flash of white light and the sound. The blast would forever change his life and the manhunt for this man continues. A person of interest that federal and city investigators say dropped off the package and they dont know why or if he acted alone. I sat down with the police if philadelphia as he pleads for the publics help. We have not seen too in devices like this constructed the way it was. A fair level of sophistication. You with hear more about the sit down interview coming up on action news live at 11 00. In center city chad pradelli, channel 6 action news. The Philadelphia Department of license and inspections found several violations while conducting an inspection where a customer was robbed at gun point. A broken gate at the marine club, action news found both of them were not secured following the crime sunday morning, officialeds say they hired a guard for the building until the locks are fixed. And police are looking for men that broke into local businesses. Three burglaries were reported in the last two weeks of december along long lane. Police are not releasing the names of businesses to protect them from future crimes. Patco says that january snow storm is the reason their trains are overcrowded and skipping stations. They say that the snow followed up a string of cold temperatures caused engine failures and even electrical shortages. In the last 10 days patco had to repla replace 25 motors and have to replace 25 more. And a dog is being called a hero after waking up his family after a fire broke out in a West Philadelphia home. And it started at 3 30 and caused significant damage. Sara bloomquist is outside of the home on north alden street. The lomax family has a long way to go to get things back to normal but they are so glad to be alive and safe and sound. They have a yearold mixed breed dog jack to thank for that. This is jack in care of the red paw emergency relief team. That cares for pets whose families are displaced. Their family is out of the home after a fire that broke out. The lomax family may not have known if it wasnt for jack. It was 3 30 in the morning, i was getting ready to go to sleep and i heard loud screaming saying get up, get up and everybody get out. This is the scorch second floor bedroom where the fire broke out. Jack was in the bedroom with his sleeping granddaughter, autumn and her daughter. It was ashley screaming for everybody to wake up. And jake woke her. Was laying down and he started to get really antsy and was just not trying to warn me the bed caught on fire. And i had to run out and get help with my daughter still in the room and the dog was on the bed protecting my daughter from the flames. Ashleys screams woke the four other adults and two other children ages 6 and 9 letting them escape safely. They were able to get everyone out of the house and call the Fire Department and saved the lives and helped to stop the spread of the fire. They new that jack was special and attached to little autumn. Yes i would call jack a hero. Yes i would call him a hero. He knew something was up. Now one cat was rescued unfortunately a second cat pet died in the fire and the lomaxs have no insurance so they are figuring out how to rebuild and bring jack home. Thank you sara. Coming up on action news tonight, Temple University honors a broadcasting pioneer with a long lasting tribute and a new report puts philadelphia on a most and wanted list saying its the most rat infested city. We are finally drying things out and tracking the return of sunshine tomorrow and the next rain is developing to the southwest and there is an another stronger storm waiting in the wings. Ill have all the details of what to expect in the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. And ducis rogers has a preview of tonights sixers game when action news continues after this. New year, time to get rid of stuff. Simplify, declutter, unplug, purge, or even quit cold turkey. I raise turkeys without growthpromoting antibiotics, hormones, or steroids. If youre looking for little ways to simplify life, feeling good about what your family eats is a Pretty Simple place to start. My name is tammy plumlee, and i raise honest, simple turkey for shady brook farms. A big change is in the works at Temple University. Its renaming the school of media and communications in honor of a broadcasting pioneer. Katherine scott has the story. Reporter for decaded lou klein has made his mark on the broadcasting industry and today Temple University announced their school of media and communication will take his name. A tribute students say is fitting. Anyone that has watched tv in the past 65 years have been influenced by him. The lou klein tv communication not only honors his tv career but to the the university. After 30 years of teaching and the multimilliondollar donation from the kleins. The seven digit contributions from lewis. And he has molded the lives of faculty and students and sent untold students into the television industry. Klein was one of channel 6s earliest employees and produced all kinds of shows including bandstand that went on to be american bandstand with dick clark and captain noah and his magical art. And 6 abc general manager, Bernie Prazenica spoke of kleins work and the impact here on on a person level. I was a student here back at temple in the late 70s and was instrumental helping me find my way in my career and i have always looked towards him for advise. Klein a penn graduate began teaching tv courses in 1952, Program Director in when launched the action news format. And today lou klein is in florida receiving an awart from the Television Executives which he cofounded. Philadelphia is now number one on a list that no city wants to be on. Having the most rats. According to bloomberg one of the 25 biggest cities philadelphia tops the list with the most householded reporting evidence of rats and mice and d. C. And new york and boston are next on the list. Philadelphia ranks way down on number 13 for cockroaches. Ducis is here with sports a tough game tonight sixers and raptors. Well find out what the sixers are all about. They come in with the second best records, the sixers are not slouches they are a team that the entire nba may start tacking seriously. I think the league is taking notice the sixers won six of eight and have done so against formidable opponents and on the play of rookie joel embiid. Let look at embiid warming up just a few minutes ago. He was questionable tonight suffering from flu like symptoms he will play and start a good thing for the sixers given that embiid is averaging 20 point a game and 8 points a game given he is only playing 25 minutes a game. I asked brett brown earlier this hour if he is happy that embiid is available tonight so he can see his entire squad in action against one of the toughest tests in the nba raptors. I think the timing of us playing good basketball and the timing of us coming into the gym and playing the Second Best Team in the east is excellent. I told our guys this today im excited to watch you guys play and its completely true. Its more than just a coach talking about it, for those reasons im excited to watch our guys have the opportunity to play against a really good team. Here is a really good player that will look familiar to a lot of us. Former villanova basketball star, kyle lowry now an nba all start with the raptors he is thrilled to see the sixers playing so well but also added they have their work cut out for them tonight. And said it with a smile on his face. And tj mcconnell will play despite the sprains wrist. All right jaime thank you. We wait patiently for spring training, pitchers and catchers report february 13th. They recently agreed to terms with michael saunders, he made the al allstar Team Last Year and brought in howie kendrick. We were last in the world in scoring runs i think that howie den direction will help us in that respect and the saunders deal give us another professional look. In general i think that we may not go from a to z and get into the world series but a to f or a to g. We are going start making our move toward more wins. Finally tonight there is sports and then there is sportsmanship. This may be the best thing you see all day. David richards, from brick, new jersey, david has down syndrome. His opponent allowed david to pin him and didnt make it easy for him but in a sign of sportsmanship he allowed the young man to experience the thrill of victory for the first time. Didnt care about his record allowed the young man to win. Very nice thank you ducis. Cecily tynan has your forecast next. What do doctors from leading Cancer Centers in the country have in common . Many of them now call Cancer Treatment centers of america in philadelphia home. Expert medicine works here. Find out why at cancercenter. Com eastern Cancer Treatment centers of america. Going to be very nice tomorrow and a lot of sunshine it sounds like. The pick of the week sunshine bring it on back. Stormtracker 6 live double scan showing we still have clouds in place and at least we are not picking up any echos on the radar. We have gotten rid of the drizzle and gotten rid of the fog and actually parts of south jersey and delaware some beautiful sunsets tonight. Michelle posted this on my facebook page. This is from Red Bank Battlefield in national park, new jersey. The clouds are breaking for a red sunset and the sun is now setting at 5 04, and our days are getting longer and our day is warming up. If you look at the calendar the red are the days with the above average and the blue below average. Only 6 cool days, january running 3 degrees above average and well add to that through the week. Tomorrow will be relatively warm, temperatures running 15 degree as above normal and we see the return of sunshine so take advantage of it, spectacular thursday at 7 00, 39 degrees and lurch time we should be breaking into the 50s with mostly sunny skies and should be beautiful. Right now 47 in philadelphia down from our high of 49 and even with all the clouds, allentown 43 and cape may 46 and dover relatively warm at 50 degrees and trenton 43, satellite 6 along with action radar showing we are in between systems right now, had a bit of a disturbance, a short wave moved through this morning and brought drizzle and fog and that moved off and clearing skies and our clouds thin out over the overnight hours, the next system is beginning to develop across louisiana and that brings us rain late on friday. Tonight the cloud deck breaking up not too chilly for this time of year. 32 in the suburbs and 38 for center city and the normal low for this time of year is 25, well above that. And for your thursday mostly sunny skies and again temperatures running 15 degrees above average. 55 in philadelphia feeling like spring and allentown 50 and cape may 48 and wilmington 50 degrees, future tracker 6 showing timing out fridays rain the morning should be fine, actually 7 00 in the morning likely well see sunshine and then it clouds up as we head through the day. And by the Late Afternoon commute well have rain pushing in and you see how even across the poconos the all rain, we are looking at pretty light rain into the evening generally. 25 inch of rain or less and heavier rain into the weekend and early next week. The exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast bright sunshine and beautiful tomorrow and dont get used to it, a high of 55 degrees, on friday the showers roll in during the afternoon and continuing into the evening, 48 degrees and saturday looks pretty decent and i think well have a lot of clouds but a few breaks of sunshine in the afternoon. 55 degrees and the next storm system this is an intention one, this pushes in on sunday. Rain develops in the afternoon with a high of 50 degrees and the rain intensifying on monday and wind gust up to 40 to 50 Miles Per Hour and a soaking rain 1 to 2 inches and perhaps coastal flooding really a nasty day on monday. 52 degrees and tuesday is transition day and rain in the morning and gradual clearing with a high of 55 and wednesday we dry out again partly sunny with a high of 56 degrees. Temperatures remain on the mild side and tomorrow again finally some sunshine just not lasting very long. Thank you. Finally tonight students at the university of delaware get an opportunity to be part of a Ground Breaking project, the school teamed up with literature to preserve a collect of photographs showing expeditions to the arctic and folk yous on explorers in the 19 and century and they belong to the Explorers Club in new york city and they will digitize them and post them online for everyone to see. World news with david muir is next on channel 6. And then join us for action news at 11 00. For cecily tynan and ducis rogers, jim gardner and the entire Action News Team im Monica Malpass have a good night. We hope to see you right here at 11 00. Tonight, a former president and first lady both hospitalized. Former president george h. W. Bush in intensive care. His wife, barbara also in the hospital. We have news on their conditions. Mr. Trumps pick for health and Human Services on the hoet seat. The fiery back and forth. His trump for epa is asked, does he believe Climate Change is a hoax . And his pick for education, and a controversial answer about guns in schools. Two days to go. The president elect with his speech. How long is it . What is the tone and will he speak to a divided america . And the boycott. At least 60 democrats now saying they wont go. And president obama tonight defending his move on chelsea manning. The emergency rescues coming in