People killed when three rivers overflow in the nations columbia. But the big story on action news is a home collapse in southwest philadelphia with a man inside. Neighbors say they could hear his cries for help from beneath the rubble. Bob brooks is live at the scene with the the full story. Bob . Walter, it is a miracle that this man is still alive. Im going to step out of the way and show everybody. That is debris from the entire house that came down and somehow this man survived. I heard it. I laying on the sofa. Watching tv when i heard it. Its scared heck out of me. Reporter what she heard was this house crashing down in southwest philadelphia. It happened just around 2 30 a. M. Overnight t it wasnt just anne that heard it. Everyone did. I heard boom. Reporter there was man inside. He was being crushed by the rubble the home collapsed on him. Fire Officials Say when crews got here, the house was flattened. At any began their initial assessment and thats when they heard the man and started the rescue you could hear him hollering. Reporter for help . Yes. Reporter from video captured by our crew overnight, we see the man pulled out and rushed to the hospital. No word yet on his condition. Kathy sanders lives next door to the home that fell, she says the victim is a homeless man. Hes a squatter. He went in there, they usually come in like sometimes 1 00 at night and he was sleeping in there. Were told this section of row homes were in the process of demolition. They were tearing them down. Reporter many say theyre not surprised its happened and that its a miracle this man inside wasnt killed. They had these houses were unsafe. Home was always a mess they should have been torn down a long time ago. Reporter whether or not this man was squatting or not. No one deserves to have to go through that again. This is the scene and the thousands that chris may crumbling down. No official cause for why this house collapsed. Details were working to get. Reporting in southwest philadelphia bob brooks channel 6 action news. Officials in Delaware County are investigating the death of a man inside his home in chester. He was severely overweight and may have been a hoarder and they led to issues removing the body, dan cuellar is live at the scene with details. Reporter Officials Say he was an hoarder and it took them an hour to get the 500 pound man out of the house because there was so much stuff. The scene in the 200 block of west 22nd, police were called to the home of a man identified by neighbors as 63yearold jim scanly. Neighbors report they have not seen or heard from him in day ive been calling him and his phone was turned off how long about a week. I knew that something was the matter with him. Reporter this Afternoon Police broke the door open and found scanly dead in an upstairs bedroom. Officials say there was so much stuff in the house, it took them over an hour to clear a pathway to retract him in from the building. He struggledith obesity and diabetes many mic fam too here. So keeping in touch with them i know is it was a little bit of a toll, a little taxing that was my best friend and im going to miss him a lot. We used to sit outside, he used to make me laugh every day. Reporter now, the medical examiner has not determined the cause of death or how long scan link had been dead. At last word, officials were trying to reach relatives who live in the york pennsylvania area. Live in chester, dan cuellar channel 6 action news. A 14yearold was killed and two people were injured during an atv crash this none burlington county. It happened about 3 00 p. M. Off new road and patty bitter colder road in tabernacle. They were riding the atv off road when it overturned no word on the extent of the injuries. Two people injured when car lost control and slammed into a building on broad street today in north philadelphia. It happened at about 1 00 p. M. Both the driver and the passenger were injured and are now being treated for nonlifethreatening injuries. Investigators are still trying to figure out why the driver lost control of in this case a wild scene outside of a bar in north philadelphia. Early this morning, when a shootout ended with one person killed and another injured. Started about 2 00 this morning, when a fight broke out at a night club in the 3,000 block of north 22 street. Two men opened fire and then to a two security guards from the club opened fire. When it was over, a 22yearold man was shot once in the head and died. A 23yearold man was shot once in the leg. Still not clear who shot whom so far no arrests. The Temple University Football Team and philadelphia firefighters went door to door in north philadelphia installing smoke alarms and homes, players and firefighters worked in the area around 16th and tioga in addition to providing valuable resource they had a chance to spend time with young centers. The nfl draft right here in philadelphia, but crews started getting ready to welcome the tens of thousands expected to show up. They began installing giant banners near city hall and dilworth, its just the first of many changes you can expect to see around town over the coming weeks. Is city estimates the draft will draw 200 sports fans. Moving on to the accu Weather Forecast. It was great but a local lot better than yesterday. Second half promises to be better. Melissa magee is here with the first check of the accu Weather Forecast. We had can gradualimproveme. We picked up more than an inch of cloud cover overhead with a few sunny breaks, coming in at 52 in the city, chilly in the poconos, 36, 49 in reading. At the coast in beach haven end 50, 50 in front, in dover, coming in at 52. Heres satellite 6 along with action rad the storm that produced snow. Very late season snow across sections of new england, that is moving to the north and east. We got a mostly cloudy sky with the northwest wind, clouds will start to break and clear as we go through the overnight hour, if youre on the town on saturday, 7 00 p. M. That temperature coming in at 51, pretty cloudy, 49 at 8 00, will be in the upper 40s at 9 00 and 10 00 with late night clearing, 45 is the number at 11 00 p. M. Well get into the clearing overnight when the sun returns on sunday as you sunshine making a come back as we get into the second half of the weekend. Were tracking more rain next week. Well take a closer look with one exclusive accu Weather Forecast, walter thank you, melissa finishing touches are going up at the scene to have the American Revolution which are set to open to the public in a few week, two giant 20 by 40 bronze sculpture panels were installed. The sculptures weigh more than 1500 pounds each to depicting iconic. The First Washington crossing the delaware and the declaration of independence. Americas oldest residential street opened for 2017 season today with an allday celebration. Elfreths ally opened the doors. It is located between 2nd and the delaware is the lined with 32 houses. Much more, developing news from columbia several rivers overflowed the banks overnight destroying homes and killing more than 100 people. Details a massive pillow fight breaks out in rittenhouse square, well tell you why. David toppled gli ith. Details in the ncaa tournament as it snaps a winning streak. Jeff skversky has sports when action news comes right back. Tomorrows the day well play something besides video games. Every day is a gift. Especially for people with Heart Failure. But today theres entresto. A breakthrough medicine that can help make more tomorrows possible. Tomorrow, i want to see teddy bait his first hook. In the largest Heart Failure study ever, entresto was proven to help more people stay alive and out of the hospital than a leading Heart Failure medicine. Women who are pregnant must not take entresto. It can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. Dont take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren. While taking an ace or arb medicine, dont take entresto. The most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure, kidney problems, or high potassium in your blood. Tomorrow, im gonna step out with my favorite girl. Ask your doctor about entresto. And help make the gift of tomorrow possible. Columbia with three rivers overflowed into a small town while people slept. Tonight, at least 154 people are dead. That toll is likely to rise. This happened in the town of mccula. It wiped out the fresh water supply of the officials blaming Climate Change and recent torrential rain. World news will have the latest coming up at 6 30 after action news. A stretch of road in montgomery was dedicated today to a fallen war hero. Drivers on with berry road in upper more land will see a large sign dedicating the road to major jenniffjeff, talislowski. Either drink and give to a great cause. Several locations teamed up with the pennsylvania spca as part of giving local benefit days. The locations will donate 20 of customers build to the spca all you have to do is mention the promotion when you pay your bill. The funds will go to the spca life saving mission. With the ncaa basketball final four underway tonight. Special athletes showed up their basketball skills today. The Special Olympics of delaware was holding its annual basketball tournament tipping off this morning in newark. 32 teams from across the state are scheduled to compete over the weekend. Metals and awards will be given out tomorrow. Metals and awards will be given out tomorrow. Disagree. Pennington smart seed. Guaranteed to grow with 30 less water. Reclaim your turf. The start of baseball season is enough to make you run with joy. Hundreds of people ran the 5k Near Citizens Bank park this morning, the annual Phillies Charities 5k. They raise money for a variety of causes, this event has become a sevenyear tradition. Check on sports. Jeff skversky is here and about to strike midnight apparently for the phillies for the flyers it is the beginning of the end for the flyers, theyre seven out and they take the ice with five games to go, this is no april fools day joke. The flyers will be eliminated tonight if they lose in regulation to the devils and if toronto picks up a point. And the flyers had a devil of a time with new jersey. O and three and out scored by 11 and now all but out of the playoffs. Hopefully well get help our focus son taking care of our own backyard, our business and thats what weve done and thats the opportunity we have again today. Flyers center mike getting with the team, the former Union College star won a College Championship in 2014 with shane gostisbehere. He could make his debut tuesday. Its an unreal feeling. How good it feels to be here the final four is underway tonight. Gonsaga and the other semi final, oregon will face North Carolina who has been talking redemption since kris jenkins hit the buzzer beater. Josh hart is at the final four in arizona hes player of the year, josh, who are you picking . Is it the tar heels to win it all after you beat them a year ago . Thats a tough one. I think i think they might, you know, just because how talented they are, how experienced, they were there last year and they were, you know, seconds away from winning. I think they might be my favorite. Good choice, speaking of buzzer beaters. Did you see this last night in the womens final four . Uconn goes down in overtime at the buzzer. Mississippi state with no time left. Uconn loses first game since 2014 wrapping 111 game winning street, mississippi will face South Carolina for the title. The phillies will hit the road for cincinnati opening the 202017 season and matt klentak expects this team to improve after losing 91 games a year ago thats a credit to our coaching staff, were getting after it and busting buts and working hard the phillies and loved ones were in attendance for dallas greens Memorial Service in delaware. He passed away ten days ago to age of 82. Former pitcher dickty noles spoke at the service. In doylestown, during a Memorial Service in the schools jim, petin who died in february won four state championships at cb west this is not the start the union were hoping for, only three games in and off on the wrong foot. Theyre yet to win game but hey, so is dc united. Their opponent tonight our players and staff know the task and we have to get points in the year, because its important you dont want to be the team thats chasing. Its hard league to come from behind and chase. Thats not a situation we want to put ourselves in. Final physical former eagles receiver jason avant officially opens his new Trampoline Park in deptford. Plenty of carson wentz highlights this past season, and hes expecting big thing from the eagles quarterback this upcoming season. Ive never i love his permits and demeanor, his coolness, think about it. Roethlisberger getting older, its going to be Younger Generation and if he has ability and the talent hell be there. Jason avant last year, the guy that would catch just about every single pass. For those who dont know, a really nice guy. Jason avant is a wonderful person. Next in action news meteorologist Melissa Magee has the exclusive accu weather sevenday forecast. First, heres a look at whats coming up on world news saturday. Coming up the numbers are in, the new revelations about the net worth of Donald Trumps senior staff could it cause conflicts of interest . The tense then fatal confrontation between police and a suspect all caught on body cam and the deadly danger at a hotel swimming pool. All coming up after action news. 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. And is proven to cure up to 99 of patients who have had no prior treatment with 12 weeks. Certain patients can be cured with just 8 weeks of harvoni. Before starting harvoni, your doctor will test to see if youve ever had hepatitis b, which may flare up and cause serious liver problems during and after harvoni treatment. Tell your doctor if youve ever had hepatitis b, a liver transplant, other liver or kidney problems, hiv or any other medical conditions and about all the medicines you take including herbal supplements. Taking amiodarone with harvoni can cause a serious slowing of your heart rate. Cominclude tiredness, headache and weakness. Ask your hep c specialist about harvoni. We can tell you this was not an april fools day joke. It was a massive pillow fight at washington square. People of all ages took part in this organized pillow fight in honor of national pillow fight day. Not surprisingly nobody was injured. Time for check of the accu Weather Forecast with Melissa Magee and today was cloudy but way better yesterday was pretty awful. Just awful we had torrential rain, all of the moisture moving off to the north and east and more sun returning as we get into sunday. Heres Storm Tracker 6 live radar, you can see without tracking precipitation, well show you the picture outside. The action cam was outside earlier on north broad looking at center city to see the gray sky overhead and bundled up in the appropriate gear. Temperatures were slightly cooler than average but all in all, a nice recovery from what we had across the region yesterday. The high in philadelphia, six degrees shy of normal. We came in at 53. Average for us this time of year 59. 81 sent back in 1978. Believe it or not february the month of february was actually warmer than the month of march with march monthly temperature coming in at 42. 1. This is a rarity for philadelphia and this is the first below average temperature since last may. Were going backwards as far as the month is concerned. Well have to wait and see what the month of april has in store. Right now its 52 in philadelphia. 36 in the poconos, 50 in lancaster 49 in reading, 48 in allentown, the coast in cape may 50, 50 in trenton. Satellite 6 along with action radar, we got a fair amount of cloud cover. That was the storm that did trigger all of that rain across the region yesterday and some very late season snow. High across interior portions of new england. We got a mostly cloudy sky but with a northwest wind and that down east of the ap play shuns, things will start to clear out in the next 12 hours mostly cloudy early then will clear later this evening, drop down 35. And the suburbs and 40 in philadelphia for the overnight low. The setup for the second half of our weekend on sunday weve got the area of low pressure well off to the north and east, High Pressure over the ohio valley works its way into midatlantic. Bright and beautiful. Mild by the afternoon. High temperature coming in at 61 degrees with lows of sunshine to enjoy. Changes are coming as we get to early next week. Future tracker 6 showing monday night were dry, but as we get to late monday into tuesday, were tracking more precipitation as a parade of storms moves in for the first week of april. You can see by tuesday morning, 6 00, we do have rain that will be in and out of and this is just the first in a series of storms that will set up as we get into next week. Heres the exclusive sevenday forecast. Tomorrow, plenty of sunshine by the afternoon, breezy and milder. High temperature up to 61. Average for this time of year is 59. Tomorrow will be a nice looking day. On monday, start increasing clouds with a High Temperature of 63. Then tracking the rain thats closer to the midnight hour monday and continues on and off on tuesday. Otherwise tuesdays high coming in at 69. Were going to break on wednesday with High Pressure in control with sunshine and clouds, High Temperature coming in at 66. Then another batch of moisture moves in on thursday, a high of 66, really late thursday in friday, weve got the early rain that were tracking the high of 60 with the phillies Season Opener next friday, its baseball season and saturday clouds and sun, a High Temperature coming in at 59 degrees. Definitely a better day as we get into tomorrow and april showers bring may flowers there you have it. Thank you, melissa, world news saturday is next. Then were back here again on 6 abc at 11 00. For Melissa Magee, Jeff Skversky and the entire action news team, im walter perez. See you back at 11 00. Hey, ready for the big meeting . Yeah. Uh, hello . A meeting . Its a big one. Too bad. We are double booked diarrhea and abdominal pain. Why dont you start without me . Oh. Yeah. 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The possible conflicts of interest surrounding what may be the wealthiest west wing in american history. Deadly force. The body cam footage. A dramatic confrontation between police and a suspect. The chase, then the takedown. Hotel poisoning. An entire building evacuated. Children passing out at the pool. Rushed to the hospital. Did a Carbon Monoxide leak spark this deadly danger . Flooding disaster. A water avalanche crashing into a city in the middle of the night. Rivers of mud and debris killing more than 150 people. Hundreds more missing. And tonight, the death toll rising. Plus, buzzer beater
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