Workers are now combing through the rubble looking for a cause, the cause of which is under investigation at this hour. Just after 6 00 this morning a horrific fast moving fire erupted in this pitman avenue home in collingdale and a neighbor immediately called 911. The female that called heard two bangs and we are not going with explosions we are not sure. She looked out the window and and called 911. They believe the man was trapped in the inferno unable t get out of the house. And it took firefighters one hour and 20 mines to get under control. And one neighbor new the fire victim for 20 years. He was a mail man. Never bothered anybody and live as loan andguy. That is can does he have fami . He has a daughter but i dont know where she is. The daughter is notified we are holding the name of the deceased at this point at the request of the Police Department that daughter is on her way here from north jersey. Service on the septa trolley line that runs out of 69th street was for a time disrupted this morning during the fire fight but that is now restored. Vernon odom, channel 6 action news reporting live from collingdale. Okay, vernon, thank you. Sts twoed duringe invasion of the felt section of is happened at 4 00 along the20. A gunman broke into a basement unit and beat a man inside and d then the suspect went to asecon pistol whippedn the scene and the suspect shot at him on the street and he was not hit. This ac cluesive video shows the vehicle leaving the area at a high rate of speed and crashing into vehicles. A woman was hity a car in philadelphias hunting park section overnight and the driver did not stop to help her. This was the scene at hunting park and polanski avenue. The victim injured her arm and is being treated at the hospital and investigators are working with her to get a trips of the car tha billy graham one of the most famous christian evangelists died at his home at 99. Here is more on the look back at Billy Grahams life and legacy. Thousands of you that god is speaking to. For more than half a century billy graham brought the word of god to millions and his message was clear. Choose jesus christ as your lord and savior. He preached in 85 countries on every continent. I dont know your background it makes no difference. He became a fixture in the white house since 1950 and known as the president s preacher and graham touched millions and the remembrances are pouring in. Former president , jimmy carter, says h had an influence on my own spiritual life. And even if his catholic households there was respects and admiration for billy graham and his work to bring people to god. President trump tweets there was no one like him and missed by christians and all religions a special man. The message does not change. The leader is the transformation of human nature to make us love instead of hate. Graham remained nonpartisan meeting with democrat and republican president s alike with a message to unify. He wants to be remembered as a faithful servant to god. Happening now, students from the parkland, florida, high school where 17 people were killed in a shooting rampage are in the States Capital to demand change and a day full of meetings with the leaders in tallahassee. They are pushing to ban the assault style rifle used to kill the students and teachers one week ago today. And they traveled to the the state capital by bus yesterday. And they were greeted by fellow students and reported they were up until almost 5 00 a. M. Preparing their remarks for their meeting with lawmakers. A live picture now to tallahassee. You see a large group ofdemonst. Adults and students on the capital steps trying to get their message across. The podium has two hashtags, never again. And hear the bills. Well have more from the massive rally for change coming up today on action news at 4 00. Now, to your accuweather forecast. We are in for another day of record warmth, we broke a february temperature record yesterday and on tap to do it again today. Sky 6 hd showing you penns landing and the ben franklin bridge, and tshirts and even shorts weather out there today. Get out and enjoy it because rain and cooler air will be back. As david says its february. He is outside on the terrace enjoying it while he can. Here is something you dont see, your meteorologist standing without a suit jacket in february in philadelphia. Rain on radar with cloud cover out to the west. Clouds are evident but a lot of blue showing through and bright. And the rain to the west will be here and probably not until late this afternoon with the bulk this evening. 72 in philadelphia and we tied the record high for the date and other records getting close. The airport in Atlantic City within 1 degree of a record high and probably busting past it. 71 there and 71 in trenton and 74 in reading and 73 in wilmington. Not much of a breeze and its pleasant and 22 in philadelphia and that has dropped off at the top of the hour. Its not bad breeze wise, breezy out there today and balmy weather wre weather, we are going for a record high of 76 degrees and the overnight low still above average, 48 versus the average low of 29. We are getting away with it the next couple of days. This model has us going to 78 i suppose that is not out of the question. Overnight upper to mid40s and tomorrow morning we may get up to 49 but then i see temperatures kind of falling through the day. And its cloudy and damp with some rain in the picture and a lot more dreary and uncomfortable tomorrow than today. Quick change as we head toward the end of the february. As i step inside i hate to do it a bounce back in time for the weekend guys. All right thank you. Much more ahead on action news at 12 30. Local High School Students use their skills to take technical. Well tell you all about it. And we go into the kitchens of the newest spots in our region using organic ingredients frm naples. These pizza shops are offering the real deal. A frightening group of bandits are terrorizing businesses in the houston area. Surveillance shows the armed man jumping through a donut drive through. And even one time shoving a woman to the ground and two of the four suspects are arrested. They are tied to six robberies across the county and some crimes occurring hour as part. And a dedicated High School Team manager had his chance on the court. He suited up and started on senior night. The student has Cerebral Palsy but did not stop him from sinking his first shot right here. [ applause ] when he was little he used to get out and try to play and had crunches and then as he got older he took on a managers position and watch him on this court was really neat. He had a bet on how much shots he would be before he got his basketball. And he got it on his first one and i am proud of him. He plans to study Sports Management when he goes on to college. So nice. A heart breaking plea from a girl in tennessee from the local sheriff asking him to keep her and her classmates safe. They asked david ray for more protection at the school and abigail asks for doors and windows not made of glass and an asking resource officer on site. I am begging you please let us have protection at our schools. I dont want someone coming in and hurting kids. Abigail was scared after the School Shooting in florida. They are looking to see how much it could cost to arm someone in every school in the county. Dogs brick a lots of joy to the lives of their openers but some dogs touch the hearts of total strangers in the form of therapy. David muir tells the group in florida how to send the unique gift of love to those hurting in parkland, florida. They are the team loaded up and ready to go. Hanna, toebias and ruthy in the back there ready to serve another community in need. Part of a fleet of comfort dogs sent to florida. They are tweeting the therapy dogs are on site at the dispatch center to help our dispatchers. They are volunteered with the lutheran k9 church dog ministry. Today we started going to Elementary Schools and we plan to do this all week. The goal the group says is to have boots and paws on the ground of of 24 hours of a tragedy. This 23yearold golden retrevor from illinois is already there. With children as they attend a prayer vigil that is jacob last october in las vegas and in 2016 at the orlando Club Shooting and some dogs made the trip to sandy hook in newtown, connecticut. Even if just for a moment you can smile. In the midst of this awfulness, that is a wonderful thing. High School Students in south jersey honed their golf game this morning part of the technical hosted in sicklerville. The theme is hole in one, months back engineering and Technology Students were challenged to create a device that was mechanically operated. Like to get a mulligan on this temperature. Wouldnt you . You may need to take a flight south to avoid the change. Change is coming. But for now looking great. Stormtracker 6 live double scan showing us we are still dry despite the fact there could be showers and a rumble of thunder today and this evening. As we take a look outside. We have sky 6 hd and well it was not that long ago they had the snow guns going and talking about easy to make snow and keep it on the slopes, it looks like a ski school going on there and people are enjoying the warmth and skiing. Tis the season. 72 is your temperature and winds blustery at times 22 miles per hour. And overall not that bad. And of course its so warm its just a balmy breeze, 72 in philadelphia and 73 in wilmington and 71 if trenton and 71 in allentown and 70 in millville and still cooler down the point of cape may. The cool air is coming up the ocean. That southerly flow for most of us. Its improving things to add more to the High Temperature over the next several hours. Cloud cover is mixing with a fair amount of sun to the west. Falling apart a little bit. And we think that is surviving into the region. Some late this afternoon. Others waiting until the evening. These are the High Temperatures across the region and everywhere you see an asterisk you see a new record to occur and tied the old record in philadelphia at 72. And well 76 the high there. 74 at the airport in Atlantic City. Ties the existing record in trenton and 72 in allentown and 73 today and 74 in wilmington and even if are you not in an area look a a record you are looking warm. The exception is cape may you stop at 60. 74 is your temperature at 4 00 this afternoon. Coming down from the high of 76. By 8 00 down to the mid60s and low 60s by 10 00 and temperatures leveling off and a chance of shower or rumble of thunder moving in later, future tracker 6 showing at 4 00 there could be action popping up and the main rain is later in the evening hours and 8 00 you see it barrelling down into the northern and western suburbs. And perhaps a rumble of thunder in there and by 11 00 it begins to fall apart and makes its way down to the coast at midnight. Tomorrow a big change and frontal boundary to the south and to the northern and a much cooler air mass. 39 degrees is the high and dreary and rain at times and future tracker 6 could be around at the morning commute when we are on the air early tomorrow after 4 00. 11 30 it gets off the coast by the time the evening commute rolled around and here is the seven day, a record high of 76 and similar to yesterday and warmer late today and tonight a shower. Tomorrow cooler and damp, 49 degrees with the high in the morning and temperatures slowly falling during the day and friday is another cloudy and damp one periods of rain and 46 and back up to 59 for a high on saturday and 63 on sunday. And there is probably some weekend rain and the bulk of it on saturday night in through sunday morning. But just about any time you can get a spritz. Thank you. Well, there are a few new pizza spots popping up around philadelphia. From traditional roman style pizza, there is enough to fill your eyes and stomach. Alicia vitarelli does this at lunch time. A delicious details at lunch time. Lets file this one under dream assignment. We hit up four new pizza spots around town for slices of all shapes and sizes and start with one that comes straight from italy. Its a family owned pizza place that hails from rome. The first here in philadelphia e. They have a passion for tradition roman style pizza italian street food. We are excited about this one in honor of the eagles, pesto and arugula and sun dried tomatoes. And used flour imported from italy. And it goes through a 48 process and then cook it in our one of a kind pizza oven we imported from rome it comes out delicious and airy and digestible. That could be an exception for the carbonara pizza they serve for breakfast. Egg, peck reno cheese and bacon. And they join in the roman style pizza trend. We have a variety of 14 different trays every day. Coowner, francisco is the son of a diplomat and trained at romes National School of pizza. We have the from delab low here. And its thinly sliced on top of a white based mozzarella found in every pizzeria in rome. One of my favorites. The eggplant apartment. We created it off of world peace and family style food brings people together. It offers knee politan style pizza and cooked in ovens brought over from naples. It give its character. Ingredients are made at the restaurant. Our house made mozzarella and house made ricotta made fresh every day. This is our rita and marks made with vegan farm cheese and vegan mozzarella. Its the protect ter of cecily. Its people that come here week after week. The off shoot of the owners of joes pizza. My husband bought joes pizza 30 years ago and we are celebrating 30 years of pizza in philadelphia. They say they perfected the art of dough making. We let our dough rise for three days. And the pizza has creamy american cheese and caramelized onions and ribeye steak. And traditional pies out of the wood fire oven. We want the quality to be top notch. Anybody can eat a whole pizza. Easily. Catch us this saturday night and every saturday at 7 00 on fyi philly here on 6 abc. While we were rolling the story i ordered you guys a few pies for lunch. Sure you did. Im about to get crusty if you dont stop playing what does that mean . Not a good thing. David wants to get outside today. Lets get a final check of the accuweather forecast. In the northern and western suburbs beautiful and if you like a break from winter you get a few days of it and sun and records to fall and 72s and 73s and sun in the Center Portion of the region. Because we are looking at a lot of 70s there as well. Cooler down the shore. Im officially going for a high of 76 degrees this afternoon and we could go higher than. Unbelievable. Thanks david. Uber is launching a new service here in philadelphia. It could dra commuters looking for a cheap alternative to public transportation. And in whats the deal with subscription boxes being increasingly popular we compare the options bringing baby supplies to familys doorsteps. Coming up today at 4 00. That will do it for action news at 4 00. Dont forget to join us for action news at 4 00, 5 00 and 6 00. For sara bloomquist and david murphy have a wonderful afternoon. Well see you later today here. Announcer turn it up. Things are getting rowdy in here, because weve got an hour of the best of the west. The request line is open as michael whips up the dish you asked for. Then, cowgirl carla rustles up the kitchen tips you cant live without. Plus, special guests Buddy Valastro and gail simmons judge round two of our best chef on the block competition. Who will come out on top . Find out, right now on the chew. [ cheers and applause ] good afternoon and welcome to the chew. 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