50 is the number in quakertown and warrington. 47 in martins creek. 43 in pottstown coatsville, 50. Oxford, 52. Chester and center city coming in at 45. Glassboro, 42. Woodbine 46. Avalon and atlantic city, 50 degrees smyrna, delaware. 50 degrees, satellite and radar we have a mostly cloudy sky were starting to notice the breaks now. Far western suburbs that will be the trend over the next several hours, well get rid of the cloud cover and see the return of sunshine. Beautiful looking day, the union at ppl park they will be doing battle 61 degrees will be the temperature around start time. 58 degrees by the 90th minutele all in all its a nice day coming off a miserable lousy week. Sunday looks nice, as well. In the long range we have sunshine returning warmer temperatures, more rain is in the sevenday forecast ill have the timing for you with the seven day in ten minutes. Eva . An update on a Development Broad street is closed in East Oak Lane following a two car crash involving a pedestrian. Two cars collided on the 6500 block of broad street. One car hit a pedestrian that man and the driver were taken to the hospital. The pedestrian is in critical condition. Broad street north is closed while police investigate. New this morning, an suv rolled over on the schuylkill expressway near city avenue. Police say the driver was drunk. Action news was there always Pennsylvania State troopers recovered a flask of alcohol from the suv. The driver is okay, but he faces a dui charge. A long Time Employee of the Delaware County das office is facing a number of charges for allegedly stealing 100,000. Mary lynch turned herself into authorities yesterday. Chad perdelli has the details. This is a case of betrayal. Reporter Delaware County District Attorney said long time financial administrator mary lynch stole 100,000 over two years. She used more than half the money to buy tickets to concerts and sporting events. These are photos from her Facebook Page that and i woulded in the investigation. The d. A. Said lynch didnt go for the cheap seats. She sat in the front row of the flyers game. The flyers tickets were purchased on stub hub. The tickets each was approximately 600. Reporter lynch was a 29 year employee of the District Attorney generals office. She has admitted stealing the proceeds from the forefitted accounts. A search of her home uncovered bob will i dylan and taylor swift concert tickets and 60,000 in cash which she claims is her boyfriend. The audit failed to uncover alleged crimes. Youre only as good as the information provided. Mary unfortunately is providing them with that information so she is manipulating it. Reporter mary lynch has since been fired finishes convicted shell lose other pension and have to repay all the money. In media, chad perdelli which i will. A north jersey teacher is in trouble this morning after she asked her third grade students to write get well letters to convicted cop killer mumia abu jamal. Marilyn zuniga has been suspended without pay. The 60yearold inmate is serving a life sentence for killing Philadelphia Police officer Daniel Faulkner back in 1981. Former fbi director louis freeh wants an outside judge to hear the defamation lawsuit. Spanier accused free of bias in the way he handled the sandusky scandal. Warrants have been served at the offices of kathleen kane, she has been accuseed of violating secrecy laws by leaking the name of a political foe. President obama is expected to meet with raul castro which is seen as a major step toward reestablishing will i wantic will i will i diplomatic relations. A former officer of the secret service put on leave his security clearance suspended after being slapped with felony charges. Arthur baldwin is cooled of accused of breaking into an apartment in washington. The incidents are the latest in a string of embarrassments for the agency. Hillary Rodham Clinton is expected to make an announcement for a run for the white house. Shell make it official with a posting on social media. Business owners in Burlington County are upset about plans to improve a railroad bridge. They also the construction is driving customers away. Nora muchanic explains. Reporter marn highway was closed back on march 23. Merchant saying have the road blocked for three weeks is killing business. Huge impact. Reporter kelly has owned this restaurant for 28 years since conrail began replacing the bridge over mason creek business has nose dived 40 . People are not coming. Reporter if they are not here. I dont have business. If it wasnt for my regulars, i would lock the door. Reporter kellys husband said huge trucks are turning around on the property knocking down posts and tearing up the parking lot. I blocked it can cones so the trucks go through the cones and they trush crush the always fault. Its worse up at the Country Store where 80 of their business has disappeared. Were. 99. Our super is 2. 29 were doing anything we can to stay afloat. Reporter is it working . Not really. Reporter Business Owners have complained to Burlington County freeholders who told them to document any damage to the property. Conrail said its not responsible for the Truck Drivers who refuse to ignore the road closed sign. Normally this would be packed at lunchtime. A lot of us used to come here all the time for lunch. Reporter but now . No, its too hard to get here. Reporter conrail sailed it will be closed for two weeks after that, until the bridge job can be completed. Nora muchanic channel 6 action news. Awarning for drivers emergency roadwork is underway. Some streets will have to be milled and overlaid. 1 . 5 million has been set aside for paving camming den county roads before the spring construction season begins. Mayor nutter is rolling up his sleeves for a Little Spring cleaning, you can help, too. The mayor is taking part in the 8th philly spring cleanup. The Community Service project takes place at hundreds of locations across the city. Theres much more to come on action news saturday morning, latenight cravings may become more convenient. Well tell you about the new service taco bell is considering. People in the lonestar state will spend their weekend cleaning up after a twist left homes mangled. Reporter were improving in the weather department, clouds racing out to sea, lots of sunshine and milder temperatures this afternoon. Ill have the details from accuweather when i see you again in a few minutes. Ive got a todo list and five acres of fresh air. Top three tools hammer screwdriver, front loader. Happiness is a driveover mower deck. A john deere dealer can teach tractors to anybody. In the right hands, an imatch quickhitch could probably cure most of the worlds problems. Thats how we run, and nothing runs like a deere. See your john deere dealer for great deere season savings on the one family subcompact tractors. A tornado caused this damage in texas the ef1 twister ripped up homes in pallsville. The National Weather service is in through communities to see if tornados are responsible there. This is a huge stretch texas to the upper midwest. Reporter chicago saw and ef3 and ef4. We missed out on the severe element of this storm system. But we didnt mills out on the drizzle mills miss out on the drizzle and the clouds. But well take that instead of the tornados. We have improving weather. This morning this weekend will be salute splendid. 51 degrees, do you want, 38. Wind out of the west southwest 1 miles per 11 Miles Per Hour. Atlantic city were seeing a good overcast thats racing out to see. Temperatures Holding Steady near 50 degrees, the winds are light out of the South Southwest a4 Miles Per Hour. The winds will pick up later this afternoon. The fact that we have a gusty breeze will make it feel like the 50s but better than its been over the last several times e last several days, trenton 50 millville 42. Winds speeds in the process of shifting out of the northwest. Thats a chilly breeze later this afternoon. Wind speeds 12 Miles Per Hour in the philadelphia. 13 in the poconos and 6 in reading. Satellite and radar showing the last cloud cover pushing through the western suburbs once that clears the coast, High Pressure moves in from the west, that brings a nice weekend overall. The wider view not much going on at all. High pressure is racing east. Forecast shows today winds out of the northwest. It will be a breezy day but well see the return of sunshine. Temperatures near 60. 61, 62. Sunday, with the high slowly working out to sea winds shift out of the northwest today tomorrow the southwest that means milder air starts working in, youll see that reflected on future tracker in just a second. Later this afternoon clear skies, west northwestly breezes 65 degrees, tomorrow the winds shift and well be closer to 70. 62 degrees is the forecasterred high for forecasted high for philadelphia. Reading, 58, cape may 67 degrees. Phillies taking on the nationals enjoyable weather for the baseball game. It will be chilly, but its a whole lot better than the last several games. First pitch 58 degrees, 9th inning 52 degrees. A light jacket, better than the 40s weve been dealing with. Sunny and mild sunday, 6 degrees, lots of sunshine, monday, 672. Morning showers tuesday as the frontal system approaches the area that2, Tuesday Morning hours 68. Wednesday, 67 and thursday, 67, friday showers 68 degrees. Its better than the last week. Its starting to look more than we want. Reporter the only thing im worried about is pollen. I think will get bad over the next couple of weeks. If you have allergies take the allergy meld now. The sounds of the Silver Screen came to life on the Center City Stage last night. Sound tracks from hollywoods biggest blockbusters, compositions included sound of music and many more. No. Not possible. Were the settles when we go on vacation, its hard to find, like, those little activities that are kind of fun and educational. I think with williamsburg, you have all of that educational part rolled into the fun. Its already here. This is probably the most fun ive had all summer. Rise and shine on this wonderful saturday, sky6 live hd taking a live look on our Temple University camera looking into center city for us, look at that beautiful shot, as the sun is trying to peek up this morning. 53 degrees hello milder temperatures. 6 20 right now. Do you have to pay you uncle sam this year, if so, it may help to ease the pain to know that the obamas are paying. The obamas grossed over 496,000. The president s salary 395,000. They paid over 390,000 in federal income taxes. They donated to different charities and pay 24,000 in state taxes to illinois. The obamas home state. Good news for College Students trying to earn a degree. Tuition will not go up at the Pennsylvania State owned schools. This decision affects about 112,000 students who attend 14 state owned universities. Tuition for instate students is 6,800 a year. The federal government is minting a pretty penny off air travelers who forget to pick up loose change in a rush to get through security lines. Many take the coins out of their pockets to go through metal detecter he is. All this led up to 674,000. A jump of 37,000 from before. If you have a hunger for taco bell you may not have to make a run for the the border. The fast food ceo said they will be trying to out some form of delivery. He said its the number one request for customers but its still being hashed out. They are expanding into catering and it is could be expanded in time for football season. Reporter welcome back, everyone, 6 24 saturday morning why has it been so miserable the last exfdz. Couple of days days. The back door cold front bent that allowed the cold air to seep into the delaware the winds shifted out of the northeast and we got the ocean breeze. Its a back door cold front. The pattern become stagnant, so the chilly air stayed in police, so there was nothing to shove this along, this was our weather, wednesday thursday, actually it arrived tuesday afternoon. Finally yesterday evening a pretty good cold front came through and it took the frontal system which was sitting here, the stalled out front and kicked it out to sea. Its clearing everything out. What you will notice today instead of shades of gray and gloom and drizzle youll see sunshine and blue skies. Eva . In sports, the phillies come back to beat washington jeff skeverski has that and a goalie controversy. Reporter phillies are among the worst hitting teams in baseball so Ryan Sandberg switching thing up. Ryan howard off to a slow start started on the bench in favor of ruff. The nats wasting no time getting their first hit. Phils down 10. Thats all williams allows in 6 innings. Hernandez pinch hitting in the right, one run in, here comes sam ron else safe. Phillies take a 21 lead. Rbi single. Gallon galvis is the best hitler on the team, phillies go on to win 41 in front of the smallest crowd ever at Citizens Bank park. Flyers manager said he will decidedly the coachs fate after the game today. Go figure we have a goalie controversy in time, its not a flyers goalie having problems its a drama in goal for the union. High stake keeper in the game is out in favor of John John Mccarthy from la salle. He will make his union game debut. A lot of energy and people tell me to enjoy the game. Thats what i plan to do is enjoy the game. The union will look for that first win mccarthy will have 200 friends and family on hand. Coverage starts today at 3 30. Later tonight sixers are in chicago without nerlens noel with a sprained right ankle. Thats sports, im jeff skeverski have a good day it was a pairing of fashion and food in Chestnut Hill last night. The Chestnut Hill Business District hosted the second fashion food at the fair a way. Jamie apody was the emcee. The features sample alsos for restaurants and bars and local discounts. We have much more coming up on action news, stay with us, well be right back. Brazen brutal attack, Philadelphia Police need your help tracking down a group that viciously attacked a homeless man at a gas station. A tiny illinois town destroyed by dangerous tornados tries to piece together whats left of the community. Here at home well enjoy a beautiful weekend, chris sowers is here with a look at the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. I feel like we deserve it. Reporter i feel like were in the doghouse with Mother Nature for something. I dont know what we did. We didnt get it yesterday it came so late in the day. Reporter just a fewpses. We have patchy drizzle and fog settling in wednesday and thursday, now things are clearing out as the cold front has swept through and shifted the winds. That was key as we flip it over to the numbers here, the winds were coming in off the ocean. Thats what locked the cloud cover in, unfortunately the pattern was stagnant and not moving. We saw cloudy skies tuesday through yesterday evening. Now were seeing clouds overhead. Off to the west were starting to pick up sunshine. That will be the trend this afternoon. Milder temperatures in the 40s and 50s. Later this afternoon well shoot into the 60s. The only downfall is this well have a breeze out of the northwest. Even not high is expected to reach somewhere around 62 or 63. Stack on top of that a 23mile an hour wind out of the northwest it will feel like the mid 50s. A chilly breeze, but that will die down quickly the first thing tomorrow morning. Sunday looks beautiful. The weekend yourself looks nice. The Severe Weather with this system yesterday stayed to the south across the delmarva. They picked up thunderstorms down there south of ocean city maryland. You can see how things are clearing out now. The return of sunshine, milder temperatures, windy at times, we can handle that. 62 degrees thats the forecasted high. Eva . Thanks, chris. Philadelphia police need your help tracking down the people involved in a brutal attack at a gas station. Police have Surveillance Video that shows 7 people viciously attacking a homeless man. Two women are in custody this morning. The search continues for the others involved. Dann cuellar has the details. Reporter police say this began earlier when a 10yearold boy went home and told his mom that a homeless man hit him over who was going to pump gas over spare change. The police say there was no evidence that the 51yearold ever hit the kid. The mother and a group of people went back to the station and pummeled the guy. A Honda Odyssey pulls up, seven people jump out of the van and brutally attack the man. The boys mother repeatedly struck the man on the head with a rocking chair leg until it broke. Others struck him with hammers and objects. Before they left one of the women took the boy over to the victim to see what they did to him. Were not sure hell make it or not. Reporter one of the assailants accidently maced one of her cohorts and decided to drive to einstein to have their eyes flushed. They were not banking on the police being there working on the case. These scridz were involved in the individuals were involved in the assault on the male. Reporter we took the video back to the gas station to see if people could identify the others. Oh,man thats messed up. Theres seven people. He has a hammer. Thats messed up. Thats unimaginable. Thats crazy its sad. Unfortunately thats become a way of things in the ghetto. Of thats how we doing now. Theres no respect for people. Thats messed up, man. Reporter now, police have recovered the carr in question. They have questioned others hoping to learn the identities of the five others involved. Police thing they may be relatives or friends. If you have information on their identities call police. At northwest detectives, dann cuellar channel 6 action news. Three people all minors have been arrested in the brutal beating of two new jersey sisters that was caught on tape. We first showed you this video on wednesday of the attack at trentons greg grant park. One of the teenage victims had to get a dozen stitches. Three people, two teenage girls and 12yearold boy have been arrested an charged in the attack. Officials have identified others in the video and expect to make more arrests. Philadelphia police are investigating an incident involving one of their own a Police Cruiser hit a 4yearold boy in the mayfair section. This happened at 8 00 p. M. Last night on the 6300 block of leonard street. The boy is being treated at st. Christophers hospital for children. Residents of fairdale, i illinois will return home after a tornado took everything they owned. The tornado was a half mile wide and stayed on the ground for 15 to 20 Miles Per Hour. The survivors are telling their stories. Our neighbor across the way from us, too his house was hardly at all damaged. Were looking at more, you look over there theres nothing. This is leveled. As i opened the door to the back of the house, it was as if somebody had a giant vacuum cleaner and trying to as you can the air out took my breath away i slammed the door and took off into the basement. The massive tornado that pummeled the town spun off into two tornados. They traveled across at least 50 Miles Per Hour. Delaware fire officials are still looking into what sparked a deadly blaze in newark. It happened at the possum Park Apartments at old capitol trail. One woman was found dead after being trapped inside. One woman was hurt who broke both ankle also jumping from the building. The City Administration is fining the revel because it has no electricity. The problem is the fire supression systems are not working which is a safety violation. This stems from from a contract fight between revels new other than and the old power plant. Straub said they are working to get portable generators to the site and power back online. Until then they will be find 5,000 a day. There were plenty 67 theatrics in colwyn township. Kenneth moten has more on the political firestorm. Reporter it was a tough week and then theres the one that paula brown had. She walked out of the borough hall unsure finishes still manager. She locked herself up after political gamesmanship after a council meeting. There is only one employee left in the building. Mayor michael blue who stands with brown said he is considering declaring a state of emergency. People elected us to do a job, not to see the burrow borough get sinked again. Reporter 2004, the mayor of darby borough locked herself in the office during a fight with the towns police chief. Brown said she is protecting financial records she alleged past and present Council Members have misused taxpayer dollars. She accused the leader of the council for extortion. Things in colwyn has got to change. The state said two things cut spending ascertain stop the nonsense at the meeting. Thats what were trying to do. Reporter Delaware County detectives seized boxes of financial records. District attorney jack what what i whalan said they are under investigation. Brown has a message for the d. A. Hurry up and do what needs to be done. Reporter colwyn will have a closed door extensive session to discuss the manager position, brown said shell be there and here taking care of business. Kenneth moten channel 6 action news. Some of the candidates for mayor philadelphia melt with parents in center city yesterday, the Candidates Forum was held at the Fox Chase Elementary School on lawn street. Five of the 6 candidates attended. They discussed School Funding policing strategy and balancing diverse housing demands. Dangerous dancing well have a preview of a new film that depicts the true story of a dancer who fights against his countrys strict moral code. A bolder creates big problems after it rolls on to a highway in ohio. Action news saturday morning continues in just a moment. Crews in ohio have a giant task on their hands this weekend. We are working to move this massive bolder, the size of a house and weighing 1500 tons. The bolder came crashing down during a rock slide yesterday. It is blocking the westbound rains. The state department of transportation issued an american an emergency dislairgs to get it moved. Crews plan to move it through the weekend. Reporter were down in cape may. The skies are brighter than they were all week. Monday was nice, temperatures in the 70s blue skies sunshine, from tuesday on were stuck in the clouds. Well enjoy the sunshine and milder temperatures. Storm tracker 6 live double scan, Crystal Clear the cold front swept through it will take the cloud cover with it. Monday 70 degrees, tuesday temperatures not bad clouds, 69. Here we go, back door cold front came in. Temperatures below normal. 44 43, we shot up to 57 degrees as the frontal system shifted south. Were in the process of getting rid of the clouds. Temperature, 51 his dewpoint, 38. The winds out of west southwest at 11. Pressure reading steady. Chester, center city, 46, glassboro, 42. Agenda beach 48. Smyrna, 49. Avalon and on the boardwalk in atlantic city, temperatures are close to 50 degrees. The normal low which curse around which occurs 7 00 a. M. Is 51 in the city. High pressure moves in from the midwest that will clear things out nicely, it will provide us with a good seven of weather. Today and monday, lots of sunshine. A little bit breezy, if there was a complaint it would be the wind out of the northwest at 15 to 25 Miles Per Hour. Temperatures climbing into the low 60s. With the breeze it will feel like the 50s tomorrow the winds relax. Warmer sunshine. Tomorrow, temperatures close to 70 degrees. Monday were actually in the 70s, monday is a real nice day ahead of this frontal system here winds out of the Southwest Well hold the showers off until Tuesday Morning. Future tracker 6 mostly sunny skies, clouds from time to time. Same deal for sunday, actually sunday i dont know if youll see clouds, lots of sun from start to finish. Here comes monday well start out with the sun increase the clouds. They will lower and thicken. Monday into Tuesday Morning, we have showers and they will be out of here at 9 00 a. M. , well see sunshine tuesday. Sunny and breeze, 62 will feel like the mid 50s thanks to the wind. The exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast, sunny and mild sunday, 68 degrees, monday is not bad. 72. The showers move in for Tuesday Morning showers with the cold front, otherwise clouds breaking for sunshine were up to 68 degrees. Normally we should be afternoon of 2. Wednesday, sun and clouds, 67. Thursday, 67. Friday clouds, 68 degrees. Next weekend the early call looks okay. The weather is turning a corner here. I see a trend the upper 60s. Reporter its about time. Young men and women in West Philadelphia will have a night to remember. State representative hosted a prom suit and gown give way. The students received information on prom safety. The give away continues flue the weekend. Good morning, sky6 live hd our Temple University camera taking a live look for us now the sun is up, chris sowers says the temperature for the week milder than weve seen recently. Justen bieber has an summons issued in argentina. He could face 6 years if convicted. A tear jerker, and ai female takes over and dancer taps his away around his restricted homeland. Matt odonnell has a preview. Reporter heres what to see new at the box office this weekend. The longest ride is based on on the notebook by nicholas sparks. [cheers and applause]. Keep it. Film centers around the love story of luke and see pheaa. A Champion Bull rider and graduating college student. Sophia is hoping to embark on her dream job. They make an unsected and fateful connection with an older man. Scifi thriller. Hello im kalib. Hello kalib. Do you have a name . Yes. Ava. Please to meet you ava. Im pleased to meet you too. A Computer Programmer wins a chance to take part in a Artificial Intelligence experiment. He spends a week in the home for the ceo of the company he works for. As he becomes more involved he realizes it is not as it seems. Desert dancer is based on on the story of a gifted dancer. My teacher hates me. If they catch you dancing, they will do worse than this. But why . Because they say dancing is forbidden. If youre going to do it do it somewhere safe. Reporter the story tells the story about a young girl who is a gifted dancer, but his creativity is stifled by his homeland iran. He risks his life to perform in the diserpt. Make sure you silence the phone before the feature presentation begins, im Matt Odonnell channel 6 action news. Find out how much your car is worth at webuyanycar. Com have a day to remember. Its easy with a free Red Velvet Cake with a 10 piece meal or larger. Reporter welcome back everyone time 6 54 saturday morning, the headlines like this well see the return of sunshine warmer temperatures today and tomorrow, we climb into the 60s, we could have lateweek rain that moves into the area, but slim chance right now. The patterns like this. High pressure is in control. When the High Pressure slides in the air sinks. Its hard to get any clouds. The high will move west to east across the viewing area over the next three days. That means youll see a lot of sunshine over the next 72 hours, improving situation on the weather front. Forecast for today, blue skies clouds 9 00 a. M. 55. Lunchtime, 58. By afternoon were camping out in the low 60s. Accuweather shooting for a high of 62. Keep in mind there will be a breeze from time to time it will feel like the 6 50s. 62 better than the will last couple of days. Are you bolder with the paint on your walls . Jazz it up. Designers from live well show you how to create more for less. Reporter if you loosh the look of if you love the look of exposed brick but dont like the price tag check this out. These brick panels they come in 8 by 4 shoots and easy to work with. Reporter were going with a turquoise blue color. We need to cover the red. Well bring in a pop of color with this turquoise blue. We want to avoid with spray paint bighes. Use a jigsaw or hand saw to cut it like the one we have here. Wow that was easy. Reporter bringing in a mason to install brick would have run a minimum of two grand. He but we knocked it off for 50 bucks. For more budgetfriendly ideas go to live well. Com and tune into knock it off sunday night its nights at 7 00 p. M. More area families in need will have food on the table thanks to the generosity of our viewers, the acme presented 65,000dollar check. Bernie prazenica was on hand as a partner in the drive for this partnership. By wearing especially tinted gun glasses may help you get more shut eye those stories and more when action news continues in just a moment. [leaves rustling] are you day dreaming . Hmm . Yeah. About a luxury tree house . Mmm hmm. With lookout decks for star gazing . Yeah. Cool wait. How. . Youve got the new instant game from the pennsylvania lottery. Oh yeah the wizard of oz with top prizes of 300,000. Theres a full moon tonight [male announcer] want to see your dreams come to life . You could scratch your way to instant winning. The pennsylvania lottery. Bring your dreams to life. Guilt or guilt or good morning 7 00 a. M. Saturday, april 11. Historic meeting president obama comes facetoface with cubas raul castro. Plus sprucing up the city where you can join other volunteers and mayor nutter to give the city of philadelphia a Little Spring cleaning today. Speaking of spring, meteorologist is outside with a look at the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. Feeling like spring. Reporter it feels 100 times better already than the last several days as weve been stuck in the gray and gloom. Temperatureses in the 40s, we should be in the low 60s. Wednesday and thursday, the temperatures were in the low to mid 40s. Today we start to see improvements. 454 in pottstown. Coatsville, 52. 48 in saint davids. Chester and at this
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