With a chance of some heavy downpours. Were timing it all out for you. Matt pelman joins us and karen is in for david. Shes testing things out for us outside. Good morning. Yeah and its windy out here right now and a chilly damp wind at that. We had a band of rain that moved through the sitting now hitting reading. We can see this on storm tracker6 live double scan. If youre in south jersey, in philadelphia youre dry even now in trenton but you can see that rain hitting pottstown on 422. Its north of malvern and norristown and willow grove right now. In doylestown youre wet, in new hope and north of trenton right now. That was just band number one. Well see more bands of rain kind of pulling in off the ocean so these bands that you see are lifting out to the northwest. That heavier rain is still down to the south. Thats going to hit us a little later this morning. So, 53 degrees right now in philadelphia. Feels windy and damp and chilly. 54 in allentown. 53 right now in millville and temperatures really arent budging. Were staying in the 50s today. At 7 00 a. M. , 53 degrees. I think the shrug of steadier rain happens late this morning through the evening hours so noon, 3 00 5 oclock and temperatures will dip a little bit in the afternoon when that heavy rain is coming down. Youll stay in the 50s today. At 5 oclock still raining pretty hard in spots and 58. At 7 oclock, it will be 58 and it might be breaking back up to periods of rain so rainy with a chilly wind, a high of 58. Ill time this out with future tracker and we will talk about when we finally see the sun again and ill see if i could fix my hair before we do that. Back to you, matt. Seems like the results of your test might be that its not the best morning to be hanging out outside but good morning to you anyway. Also not the best morning to go for a drive around the art museum because yes, karen, more closures did take effect overnight here by eakins oval. This is where Spring Garden street mlk drive the ben franklin parkway come together by the art museum. What we have seen are a few cars this morning coming off of Spring Garden coming off of mlk drive heading toward 24th street and the vine expressway. You can still do that during the heart of the morning rush today and tomorrow. End of the week you wont even be able to do that. What is blocked this morning are both drives of the parkway, kelly drive on the backside of the art museum at fairmount, numbered streets, et cetera. Katherine is going to have more coming up on all that in just a minute. Otherwise roads are wet. Weve seen a bunch of accidents like one on 95 southbound side in south philadelphia just off the girard point bridge. Left lane is out of commission. Police and penndot are on the scene and it is a slow go as you head southbound toward the airport. Just to the north of that, were still watching a massive water main break in southWest Philadelphia. Action cam is on the scene here at the intersection of 58th and chester close to Francis Myers park. They still havent turned off the water. Police are out here but the water is still bubbling up from the ground. Several blocks away streets are closed so i would try and stay many block blocks away if you can. Fiftyfourth and woodland some possible alternates. Fiftyeighth and chester is this intersection were looking at in southWest Philadelphia. Back out here with one more accident in burlington county, its 130 southbound at neck road. Some congestion there as a result. Matt. Thank you, matt. The nfl draft is on thursday. The city of philadelphia has spent months preparing to showcase itself to football fans across the world. Now it is time to kick off draft week. Action News Reporter Katherine Scott who is our number one pick out of Harvard University joins us live from the parkway to help us do that. Hey, katherine. Reporter hey, matt, i think you can probably do better but as far as whats happening here today, the work continues along the parkway. It is a Community Kickoff. Now, the Community Kickoff for the draft isnt taking place here its actually taking place in society hill but you can see that they are in full swing getting ready for the draft on thursday. Roads are closed here. There are a lot of traffic restrictions. You do want to avoid this area, if you can. You can see theres so many tents, lots of equipment, the fencing set up. The big stage is over on eakins oval up the street here from where we are but the inner and outer lanes of the ben franklin parkway are closed. As work continues here today over at star garden park in society hill there will be time for play. Its the nfl draft Community Kickoff and ron jaworski the mayor School District superintendent and representatives from the nfl will be there. Little bit of found get this week going. After the press conference the nfl is going to host a flag football clinic for fruits mccall elementary and middle School Weather permitting but on the parkway here this massive setup will continue today. Of course its in the final stretch after weeks of work. The community has been watching everything going up over the last few weeks. Some more enthusiastic about it than others but the big day, of course, is on thursday. Were live along the parkway, Katherine Scott, channel6 action news. Thank you, katherine. Our coverage continues at 6abc. Com nfl draft or you can access it through our mobile sites. You can get on the iphone or android devices. You can also take a look at the history of the draft in philadelphia. It is 6 05 and new this morning, an 87yearold is in Critical Condition injured in a house fire in wilmington. The delaware state marshall is now trying to figure out what caused the fire in the first place. Flames startd the shootinged shooting from the home just after 10 00 on the unit block of belmont drive. Firefighters were able to pull the victim out of the home. He was later taken to crozer medical center. An elderly couple in West Philadelphia got some violent treatment from a man who stalked them all the way home and then robbed them. Police have released Surveillance Video. 86yearold William Ravenell says the man followed him from the store to his home near 60th and market streets. He says the same man then barged into his home and attacked him and his 83yearold wife. The suspect took off with 60 worth of lottery tickets. Were going to have much more on this story coming up in a live report. President trump prepares to mark 100 days in office this weekend and there may be a little less concern this morning that the milestone could coincide with a u. S. Government shutdown. The president is backing off his demand that that funding for a wall on the Mexican Border must be included in the funding bill needed to prevent a government shutdown. Congress has to pass that bill by the end of this week before the government runs out of money on saturday. President trump says funding for that wall can be resolved later in september. The entire u. S. Senate will visit the white house tomorrow to be briefed on north korea. There have been reports overnight that north korea conducted a large live fire drill that involved up to 400 artillery pieces. It happened after a u. S. Submarine pulled into a south korean port. South korea fears the north could mark todays 85th anniversary of the Korean Peoples Army by holding another missile test. General motor center city getting no relief from the Supreme Court. Maribel aber is live at the nasdaq in times square with more on that and other stories. Goodgood morning, maribel. Reporter hey, good morning tam. General motor loss have to face lawsuits tied to its ignition switch defect after the Supreme Court declined to consider an appeal from gm. The argue maker argued its bankruptcy created a new company and claims from before that could not be filed. The decision by the Supreme Court could expose gop new liabilities for the defect that killed at least 124 people. Stocks rallied yesterday following the results of the french president ial vote. Right now futures pointing to a higher open. Reports on new home sales and home prices are due out later today. Thats the latest in biz. From nasdaq back over to you matt and tam. Hope you brought your umbrellaella. Rihanna would be proud of of us. I didnt bring my umbrella. Youre just like my kids. I dont mind getting wet. Thats good. I dont want to stand out there for hours. You might do that if you dont have your umbrella. Now that we have that debate done, lets take a look at storm tracker6 live double scan. Youre right not everybody uses umbrellas anymore. We can see this band of rain that has lifted north of the city. Ive got our street level view up showing us that youre dry now in coatesville in downtown ing town, its in pottstown, quakertown youre about to get wet doylestown youre wet and new hope. Thats band number one moving through. Lets go outside right now and show you what it looks like and yeah, lots of low clouds. Hard to even see the center city skyline there, isnt it . And we have rain that has moved through the city so all your roads are wet. Not currently raining in the city at the moment. The temperature is 53 degrees and temperatures staying in the 50s today. Kind of a nasty day. The dewpoint 51 degrees tthe pressure is falling. The winds out of the northeast sustained currently at 17 miles an hour but we could see gusts up to 35 today and the ocean 52. Satellite6 and action radar showing these rounds of rain and theyre kind of moving in from these bands off the coastline. Thats why theyre lifting up to the north and west. The actual area of low pressure is still down to the south and there you see it kind of sitting and spinning in the atmosphere and just allowing all of this rain to move through. See that heavier rain still down to the south. Thats going to hit us late this morning. So, heres what you can expect today at 8 00 a. M. , 54 degrees. Some rain around, some showers, lots of clouds here or there. By 10 00 a. M. , 57. The steadiest rain comes at some point late Morning Hours into the afternoon hours. So, by lunchtime, raining steadily 57. Temperatures dip a little bit with that heavy rain at 3 oclock, 55. At 6 oclock, still rain in parts of the region and 58 degrees. So, periods of rain today. Future tracker6 showing some of that steady rain null from the south. This is at lunchtime at noon and we see these pockets of heavy rain with yellow and orange and then it lifts straight through 3 30 in the afternoon when some of the kids are coming home you see some heavy rain coming in off the ocean. At 7 30 and i know the phils play tonight were still going to have rain in spots. It may be more back to periods of rain at that point instead of the steadiest rain so you want to watch before you head out. In the overnight hours just some showers into tomorrow morning, maybe a little bit of drizzle and lots of clouds. But it gets out of here in time for thursday which is day one of the nfl draft. So on thursday were going have clouds and sunshine and very warm temperatures. A high of 80 degrees at 4 oclock well be sitting at 79 degrees. So things change with some pretty good timing i think. Heres your exclusive accuweather seven day. Periods of rain today and a chilly northeasterly wind 58 for your high. Tomorrow we start with a little morning drizzle, some clouds, 68 degrees for your high by days end maybe it too too tries to brighten a bit. Thursday 80 degrees for your high. Friday partly sunny 84. How about saturday . Chasing that record high of 90 set back in 1974. Well have a high of 89 degrees. Sunday its warm, its humid, 86, chance for a shower or a thunderstorm it stays warm, 80 degrees, chance for a shower or a thunderstorm so were starting off with a soaking, ending up with summerlike weather. Just got to wait it out but today is a wet one. Accuweather is bringing the copper tone. Right. Yet another scam snaking is its way through the socials. Facebook users need to be aware. A 50 coupon has been popping up on news feeds. The coupon happens to be worthless. Also, its nacho type of promposal. Doritos helps a teen get a date t now the company is sending them off in style. Matt. Tam, we had a broken down vehicle for just a few minutes here on the ramp from columbus boulevard, delaware avenue. Go north on 95. They just got it towed out of the way. Do not fear, there are plenty of other problems including a crash elsewhere on 95. Well talk about it when action news continues on this tuesday morning. Hes hiding a card its time for you and your boys to get out of town. laughing left foot. Right foot. Left foot. Stop. Twitch your eyes so they think youre crazy. If you walk the walk you talk the talk. Its what you do. If you want to save fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance you switch to geico. Hide the eyes. Its what you do. Show em real slow. Welcome back. Taking a live look here. Sort of a hazy cloudy penns landing. We are dealing with some rain and it is a cold one today, the high is only going to get up to 58 degrees. Today in history with matt pelman. Yes. We get music now matt. Oh, i like it. Yeah, keep that coming. Little background music. Its National Zucchini bread day today. A little too healthy for me. National telephone day t give somebody a call. National hug a plumber day because they do good work and deserve it and its national dna day when we celebrate the discovery and understanding of dna. But these days im giving you a dna, a do not attempt to drive around the Art Museum Area. It is a mess because of all the new closures that went into place overnight in preparation for the nfl draft. And we didnt have this closure for awhile but now here it is. Its the ramp from the westbound side of the vine street expressway to 27 twenty twond street. They just set up the crews out here blocking off that ramp so you cant get to the parkway from the westbound side of the vine now, which is good because the parkway is closed in both directions, both drives all the numbered streets around there are also blocked, kelly drive is blocked on the backside of the art museum. Mlk drive is opened at the moment. You can get to 24th street and the vine from mlk. Over the next few days this will put a lot of extra traffic on north broad, ridge avenue maybe some people stay on the other side of the river. Expect extra traffic on belmont, on lancaster avenue, girard avenue. Its just kind of going to be a mess as everybody tries to get around the Art Museum Area which is pretty much completely shut down. On the big picture were watching this. Big water main break in southWest Philadelphia this morning here at the intersection of 58th and chester. They still havent turned off the water. Theres water everywhere. Its a mess. Fiftyfourth and woodland would be some alternates. And were watching this, a crash along 95 southbound side just off the girard point bridge. Its knock, out the left lane as you can see. So slowing as you said southbound toward the airport. One more starting today wissahickon avenue closing in tioganicetown for Water Department work beginning at 9 00 this morning lasting several months. Fox street the way to go around that if youre a northbound driver. Matt. Thank you, matt. A prank in southWest Philadelphia resulted in a 17yearold being critically injured and his friend being placed under arrest. Police say a 16yearold went to his friends home on the 5300 block of lindbergh boulevard yesterday morning to wake him up for school, something hes done before but yesterday police say the teen decided to point a gun at his friends face as a joke. The 17yearold woke up startled, smacked the gun away and that caused it to go off. The bullet struck his eye and then became lodged in his throat. That victim remains in the hospital. A quick thinking firefighter in tennessee helped to save an infant from a burning building. The fire broke out in the back stairwell of an Apartment Building in knoxville on sunday morning. Senior firefighter beau merit looked up to see a man holding his two month old baby boy out of a third floor window. So, i said drop him. Ill catch him. He trusted me for some reason. By far the scariest thing ive ever done. My heart is racing just thinking about it. Little josiah still asleep there is okay. Two people were injured in the fire. In todays tech bytes a new warning about a scam on facebook. It shows up on feeds as a 50 mother mothers day coupon at lowes but when you click on it it takes you to a fake lowes web site which lowes says is that designed to steal your personal information. The companys advice avoid the coupon altogether. A major milestone for linked in. The social network is clipping of claiming half a billion users. Microsoft bought it last year and has improved its mobile and desktop versions among other upgrades. Futuristic new flying machine is taking to the skies. The kitty hawk its a flying car they say and it just made its debut on youtube. 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Lets work the chest and booty. Lets get right to work. Grab a set of weights or Water Bottles place them in your hands pushing the hips all the way up to the top floating those arms. Squeeze the arms up as you press the hips. Then drop. Pressing the hips and squeezing the arms. Three sets of 15. You will feel it in the chest, you will feel it in the glutes. And dont stop until you feel that burn. Thats a good one. That is a good one. Oh. Thats not going to do it. [laughter] its weighted though. You can get on the floor and do the whole thing. Feeling the burn already. You got some great guns matt. [laughter] we have this crash on 202 at route 29 southbound side pushed off to the side now. You might remember the vehicle was facing sideways. Thats the case no longer. Penndot is there helping out. New crash by the Public Service this is a facility along old york road 611 at church road. And dont forget the 13 trolley is shuttle busing because of that huge water main break at 58th and chester. Also new schedules now in effect on the regional rails and patco. Karen. We have a narrow band of rain that has moved through philadelphia heading toward the Lehigh Valley. The next round of steady rain is still well down to our south but look at all that rain theyre getting in raleigh. Thats headed in our direction for late this morning into the afternoon and evening hours. So today its periods of rain, its a raw chilly wind out of the northeast gusting at times to 35 miles an hour. We stay in the 50s. At 7 00 a. M. , lots of clouds, there could be some showers in spots but its really late this morning into the Late Afternoon hours where that shrug of steady rain cups down. Noon 57 dipping to 55 another 3 oclock back up to 58 at 5 00. 7 oclock still some rain in spots and 58 degrees. Kind of a nasty day, matt. Thank you, karen. The phillies begin a three game set with the marlins tonight. Vince velasquez will take the mound. Make sure you watch our draft preview party. Well break down the options with their 14th pick and showcase some local prospects tomorrow night on at 7 30 on 6abc. A teen hoop clearly loves doritos chips loves them more. Impressed with his prom the company sent a helicopter take him and his date to the big dance in style. Last month shayden asked his best friends little sister to be his day. He was wearing a doritos shirt that said i know im not nacho. Doritos arranged for the couple and carlys brother and his date to all get a ride on the companys helicopter. This is so cool. Such a cool experience. Especially to do it with her though. Like to be able to have her this happy its all i wanted. The company also gave carly a years worth of free doritos. Nice gesture. Yes. 6 27. Two days are left until the nfl draft. Were live along the busy ben franklin parkway with how the city is kicking things off. And breaking right now, water rushes down roads in southWest Philadelphia. Were helping you get around the messy water main break. Thats up next. Horns on their helmets. Ostriches dont really stick their heads in the sand. A peanut is not a nut. And a real john deere is actually real affordable. You learn something new everyday. The surprisingly affordable john deere e series tractors. Now you can own americas tractor for just 99 a month. Learn more at your john deere dealer. Now on action news the blitz is on before the nfl draft. Were live along the parkway where the final preps are now under way. A korean war veteran comes under attack. Philadelphia Police Release new video in their search for the attacker. Steady rain will be moving in for the second half of your morning commute. You can see the green all around us. It is going to be stick around all day long. Good morning. 6 30 on this tuesday april 25th. David is off. We have karen rogers and matt pelman. Good morning. Good morning. We tracked a band of rain as it moved through south jersey into the city and now in the Lehigh Valley. Lets take a look at storm tracker6 live double scan. So you see not a lot of rain happening right now. Going in a little bit tighter we can watch the movement pushing towards the northwest so heading towards allentown. Its now in reading, its just north of pottstown. Its in quakertown on the northeast extension and in flemington in new jersey. So, other than that, no rain at the moment here but satellite6 and action radar showing more coming. We can see some of those showers forming off the coast in cape may. Theyll be all pulling in that heavier rain is still well down to the south. Its late this morning and into the afternoon and early evening hours where we get the steadiest rain but its kind of misty and miserable out here right now. 53 degrees the current temperature. 54 in allentown, 53 in millville. Heres a look at the day. By 7 00 a. M. Its just clouds and by lunchtime were in some heavy rain, 57. The temperatures will dip in the afternoon with that heavy rain to the mid50s then come back up at 5 oclock to about 58 degrees as were going to see some still areas of rain at 7 oclock and 58 so a chilly day, a strong wind and its rainy. Thats lovely. But its dry at the moment in philadelphia if youre heading out right now on the roads, matt. Well take that. Well take any little bit of help you can give us because, yes, the closures are now in place, karen. Welcome to phase four of the nfl draft closures and it is kind of a mess here around the art museum with both drives of the ben franklin parkway blocked off. Whats not blocked at the moment for the morning commute today and tomorrow are Spring Garden street and mlk drive if you want to get to 24th street and the vine expressway right here. You cant get into the oval but if you want to take Spring Garden to the mlk to get to the vine you can do that for this mornings commute and tomorrow mornings commute. Wont be an option thursday and friday. Kelly drive is blocked off on the backside of the art museum at fairmount avenue. Numbered streets shut down. Pennsylvania avenue. Theyre all blocked. And Katherine Scott is going to have more coming up in just a bit. On the big picture slow speeds now on the schuylkill and along 95 in the typical spots. Weve also been watching a water main break in southWest Philadelphia and the water, what, more than two hours later now continues to bubble up out of the ground. Were still waiting on the Water Department to turn it off here at 58th and chester. It is a flooded mess in this area by Francis Myers park. I would stay at least several block block away, 54th and woodland could be some alternates. A crash along 95 southbound side just off the girard point bridge near enterprise avenue. Now pushed to the Left Shoulder but sluggish as you head southbound toward Philadelphia International airport this morning. Tam. All right, thank you, matt. The final road closures for the nfl draft went into effect overnight. You just heard matt talking about some of them between the gridiron and the gridlock theres going to be a lot going on around the ben franklin parkway. So lets get you some details even more on what to expect. Katherine scott is down there at the parkway with the latest on the preps. Good morning, katherine. Reporter good morning, tam, thats right, theres a lot of road restrictions. There already have been and theyve just been rolling them out over the last several weeks. So, this morning there are even more and of course what happened yesterday is that the inner and the outer lanes are now closed of the ben franklin parkway. You can still see some cars might be coming through on the cross streets, were on 22nd street. Occasionally you might see cars passing behind me but theyre just going through on the cross street. The inner lanes are now closed. Of course the outer lanes closed last week. You can see the tents, you can see the equipment, you can see the work continues here. There is going to be a little bit of fun today. The Community Kickoff will take place this afternoon in society hill but in the meantime, the work continues in this final stretch before the draft on thursday. Its massive. I cant believe how big it is. It goes back like five blocks. Reporter the stage is nearly set. The nfl draft begins thursday. Last night at 7 00 the city closed the inner lanes of the ben franklin parkway. The outer lanes were already shut down last week. Workers are in the final stages of preparations and the excitement is building. Its exciting. Theres a lot going on this weekend. We have the penn relays. We have, you know, the draft obviously. Its pretty cool to see the setup. Reporter but the enthusiasm is not universal as traffic restrictions get tighter and mobility more limited. Barricades and equipment are set up up and down the parkway. Its like so much chaos, so much before its actually happening. Its not fair to the people who live here. I mean they could have done things differently. We had the pope, we had the dnc. We can handle it. It wont be that bad at all. Reporter and back here live along the parkway where you can barely actually see the parkway with all the tents and fences and equipment around. Todays Community Kickoff will take place in society hill. Its over at star garden park. Ron jaworski the mayor and representatives from the nfl will be there and after todays press conference, the nfl will be hosting a flag football clinic for kids at mccall elementary and middle school so a little bit of fun today amid all the work that is going on here along the parkway. We are live along the parkway, Katherine Scott, channel6 action news. Katherine thank you. And stay with action news for complete live coverage of the nfl draft. Our sports and news teams will be broadcasting on the ben franklin parkway. Well also have a team in our studio at the Embassy Suites which will offer you a birds eye view. 6 35 now and testimony is set to resume in the case of the Camden County father charged with killing his toddler son. Prosecutors say david creato jr. Murdered Brendan Creato to keep his teenaged girlfriend from leaving him. Brendan was that found partially submerged in the creek in a wooded area in cooper river park more than a half fly his fathers apartment. A judge barred members of the media from observing the jurys upcoming visit to the crime scene. Creatos lawyer told jurors there is a complete lack of evidence in the case. A korean war veteran fell victim to a desperate krimial willing to follow him from a corner store and attack him in his house all for a few lottery tickets. Jeanette reyes is live at southwest detectives with the full story. Jeanette. Reporter well, matt, the search is on this morning for the man behind this disturbing attack. William ravenell tells police he actually ran into the suspect at the corner store when the suspect asked him for money. He brushed him off but he would run into him a second time. This time in the victims home this Surveillance Video captures the moment a brazen suspect sets his eye on his unsuspecting victim. William ravenell was buying lottery tickets at a Convenience Store along 60th and market. Here you can see the 86yearold walked over to the register, tickets in hand. He has no idea hes being closely watched by the suspect who is patiently waiting outside of the store for him. He would later follow ravenell home where theyd have a violent encounter. He asked me for a couple dollars. I said all right. I came in the house and i brought the the scratch offs, i brought them with me. Then this fellow came in and he got me down. Reporter the 86yearold is ambushed. The suspect repeatedly punches his frail victim in the face and jaw. Ravenells 83yearold wife darts up from the basement. She was going to get some help but he pushed her away. He didnt need to take that kind of force and then go a little step further and grabbed the wife by the throat on thrown her down. Reporter the suspect got away with the tickets. Ravenell says he doesnt know the man but police say he may be a familiar face in the area and someone may have seen him. Im very bitter with him. He has no has no business being on the streets. Reporter and aside from some pain in his jaw ravenell says hes doing okay. Hes a bit shaken up, though. Police say anyone with information please contact them. Reporting live at southwest detectives, jeanette reyes, channel6 action news. Tam. All right, i hope they get some details. Thank you jeanette. New this morning fire gutted an suv in philadelphias hunting park section. The vehicle burst into flames at west venango and north warnock streets around 2 00 this morning. Crews though quickly knocked down the fire. No injuries were reported. Officials have not said if the fire was an accident or if they think it was set on purpose. Meteorologist karen rogers tracking showers out there. Thats right. Lets take a look at storm tracker6 live double scan help you plan this morning. Were dry in philadelphia. In south jersey and delaware at the moment we can see those showers that are off the coast in cape may. Theyre actually pulling in off the coast so theyll be hitting Atlantic City and cape may before you know it. I want to go in closer to the area thats getting some rain right now. Its in reading, in allentown and bethlehem and quakertown driving on the northeast extension youre wet and in milford township but dry currently in philadelphia. Were having rounds of rain today. Lets go outside and show you what it looks like right now. Looking pretty miserable. You know, even though we dont have any actual rain there, its just misting and you kind of get in sense, we have low clouds, mist, periods of rain a chilly wind. Weve had some better days. Look at that temperature right now. Sitting at 53 degrees. The dewpoint 51. The pressure is falling. The winds are out of the eastnortheast sustained at 15 but we could see gusts up to 35 miles an hour today. Even more so along the coastline. The ocean temperature is 52. Heres satellite6 and action radar and you can see this rain in motion, these rounds of rain kind of pulling in off the ocean wrapping around an area of low pressure. So you can see the neck band thats down to our south. That will be crossing through the area. I think the steadiest rain, though, thats that rain thats still well down to the south. Ive got a better view of this. Right around this area of low pressure. See that circulation . Watch right there. Okay, so thats the rain wrapping around it and when this heavy rain hits us, that will be the steadier slug of rain that we get late this morning into the early afternoon hours so periods of rain today, a nasty day. A chilly wind. Highs staying in the 50s. Were in the 50s now. Were not budging out of the 50s. By 8 00 a. M. 54. At that point clouds with some showers. By 10 00 a. M. , 57. I think sometime late morning into the afternoon and evening thats when that steadier rain comes in. Raining pretty good at noon at 57. At 3 00 p. M. Temperatures dipping a little bit, 55. Back up to 58 at 6 oclock and i think future tracker gives you a good perspective of this. This model shows at 11 30 most of the area coming in with rain especially south of the city and pulling through the area at 4 oclock you see some areas of heavy rain moving in as well with these periods of rain. By 7 30 and i know the phils play tonight tit looks like some of that steadier rain lifting out but well still be in and out of some rain. Kind of get the showers through. Tomorrow morning kind of drizzly and not as bad but starting off tomorrow damp. By thursday nfl draft things are great. We have clouds and sunshine and very warm temperatures, a high of 80. Well be about 79 at 4 oclock. So, hang in there. We will see the sunshine again. Your exclusive accuweather 7day, periods of rain today and a chilly wind. 58 for your high. Looks like the steadiest might be late morning into the afternoon hours. Wednesday, maybe some morning drizzle and low clouds, 68. By thursday, turning warmer, 80 degrees and partly sunny. Friday partly sunny, 84. Saturday chasing a record r89 degrees. Normally we would be in the upper 60s. 89 degrees chasing that record high of 90 set back in 1974. Sunday its not only warm its humid, 86, chance for a shower or a thunderstorm. Monday stays warm, 80, chance for a shower or thunderstorm so not only warm but turning more humid by the end of the seven day. Not today. We got the rain out there. All right, thank you, karen its now 6 42 and when we come back, foiled by a fitbit. An accused killer might lose his case because of what investigators found on his wifes fitness tracker. A heartwarming message spreading to police stations across the country. Matt. In the height of the wetness here along 202 in malvern matt a vehicle lost control, was facing sideways. Now were drying out and the accident is pushed off to the side here by 29. Still were tapping the brakes as we head down toward exton this morning. Were tapping the brakes on 95 and were dealing with a lot of closures because of the draft. Well talk about whats new this morning when action news continues on this tuesday. 6 45, tuesday morning. Good morning everyone, i95 there. Little rain drop there on the camera. Some of us seeing some rain right now and more of us will see it later on. 53 degrees right now getting up to only 58. So, lets head on over to matt pelman. A wet morning usually means trouble on the roads. Good morning. Raindrops look a little bit like the tears coming from the eyes of the drivers this morning and probably the rest of this week. It is kind of going to be a mess with the big events that are going on in town and as if we needed it, we are expecting extra traffic on the highways around here like the vine street expressway and the schuylkill expressway as people avoid the whole area around the art museum. This morning like normal you see plenty of westbound traffic here on the vine heading towards 76 and the off ramp from the westbound side of 22nd street is now closed. One of a number of new closures that took effect overnight in preparation for the draft. Now both drives of the parkway are blocked in both directions. Kelly drive is blocked on the backside of the art museum at fairmount avenue. And most of the time the mlk drive and Spring Garden street are blocked but for the morning commutes today and tomorrow you can use those two to get to 24th street and the vine street expressway there on the west side of the oval. So i would also expect extra traffic for the next few days along broad street, along ridge avenue, even on the west side of the river along belmont, along lancaster, girard as people try and steer clear of the Art Museum Area which, again, is pretty much completely shut down. On the big picture plenty of slowing now speeds in the teens along 95 southbound. Have that crash near enterprise avenue thats off to the side and were watching this. Big water main break in southWest Philadelphia this morning. Water crews are now on the scene but the water is still bubbling up here at 58th and chester. You want to stay far away. Fiftyfourth and woodland could be good alternates. Dont forget about the construction now mid days. This is going on in lower merion belmont avenue closed by West Laurel Hill cemetery. Stick with 76 or 23 instead. And in cheltenham townstheres t church road. Matt. Thank you, matt. The state of arkansas completed the nations first double execution in 17 years overnight. Jack jones and Marcel Williams were both convicted murderers and were executed by lethal injection. Attorneys for williams convinced a judge to briefly delay his punishment in a concern over how jones execution was carried out. Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson set an aggressive schedule for death sentences because the States Supply of a lethal injection drug is set to expire at the end of the month. A fitbit fitness tracker is a key piece of evidence in a connecticut murder case. Man is charged with killing his wife connie in december of 2015. Court papers released show from connies fitbit it records things like motion and heart rate and her fitbit disproves richards time line of when he says a home intruder killed his wife. Police also point out that richard had a pregnant mistress. Well be right back. Just a couple things going on around here. Just a few. Our plates are full and then weve got all the normal nonsense as well like here on 422 eastbound side now plenty slow from past 29 collegeville on into route 23. Getting word of a new crash not too far away along linfield trap road at main street and the 13 trolley, thats still not running because of that huge water main break at 58th and chester. Youre on the buses instead and of course there are plenty of septa bus detours as we get ready for the big nfl draft. Karen. Its chilly and misty out there but not a lot of actual rain. Its raining in allentown and north of reading the the moment. A few more cells trying to pop up through south jersey coming in off the coast but he see all this moisture down to the south. That steadier slug of rain hits us late morning into the afternoon and evening hours. So by 7 00 a. M. , just lots of clouds, 53 in philly. By noon, 57. Its raining pretty good through the afternoon. Temperatures staying in the 50s all day and with a chilly gusty wind really feeling nasty. At 5 oclock 58. Still periods of rain at 7 oclock tonight. Matt pelman tells us its national hug a plumber day so i tweeted this picture. Im ready to hug a plumber but if you can, take me a picture hugging a plumber send it to me. I tweeted out a hug to my plumber. Hearts of plumbing. Theyve shown up when weve been in trouble. A stuffed moose from Montgomery County has made its way to ohio. Mr. Moosey is with the kenzie brownolice department. Gave the toy to i do, too. Towamencin Police Officer james gibbous during a traffic stop in december. The child said she wanted the officer to have it to help keep him safe. Gibbous then shared it with other police and fire departments. Mr. Moosey has made its way to illinois new jersey New Hampshire and massachusetts and New Hampshire. Were out ink,nk not ink. Printing doesnt have to be painful. Now, during hp savings month at staples, get up to 180 off hp printers. Top stories at 6 view. An 87yearold man was critically injured in a house fire in wilmington. Firefighters pulled the victim from the home on the unit block of belmont drive. No word on what caused the fire. Philadelphia police are looking for this man who they say stalked an elderly korean war veteran and then attacked him and his wife in their home and the attacker only stole the mans lottery tickets. The final road closures went into effect ahead of the nfl draft on thursday night. The ben franklin parkway is closed between 20th street and the eakins oval. With all those new closures extra people are headed for the schuylkill. Now theres a broken down truck on the eastbound side of montgomery drive in the right lane. Still have that huge water main break in southWest Philadelphia. Water still bubbling up from the ground at 58th and chester. The 13 trolley is running with detours and shuttle buses. Karen. Water is coming from the sky, too its kind of misty cloudy with a chilly wind. You see that first band of rain that moved through philly up in the Lehigh Valley now. The next band is approaching cape may a it will be periods of rain today, that heavy rain you see down to the south doesnt hit us until late this morning into the evening hours. By 8 00 a. M. , lots of clouds, 54. By 11 00 a. M. , 57. By 2 oclock, raining pretty good, your high is 58. 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