Everyone in the delaware valley, even parts of southern new jersey in a severe thunderstorm watch until 8 oclock meaning the potential is there for the storms to remain severe as they push from west to east and really what to expect here this evening, those temperatures are so mild in the upper 70s to 80s, fueling these storms so as they pass through, that humidity definitely going to help keep those storms on the strong side with those dewpoints coming in in the mid and upper 60s. We will talk about a big change, though, coming in for the weekend alicia. I think youre going the like your saturday and sunday forecast coming up in a little bit. Adam before you make plans this weekend be sure to visit 6abc. Com weather. Use storm tracker6 live radar to track any wet weather and get expert insights from accuweather. A Chester County mom facing drug charges made her first appearance in court today. Prosecutors say she injected heroin into her own daughter and a 16yearold boy. Action News Reporter david henry now live in honeybrook with video youll only see right here on action news today. David. Reporter yeah, brian, west caln police are still looking for Jessica Riffeys boyfriend who remains on the run this afternoon. She was in court this morning where she gave up her right to a preliminary hearing. Jessica, do you have anything to say for yourself . No, i do not. Reporter 34yearold Jessica Riffey had a right to hear the case against her in open court but declined. She was then sent back to prison unable to come up with 50,000 bail. Riffey was arrested last thursday for allegedly injecting heroin into her 14yearold daughter and a 16yearold boy. The police went to the house when a family friend became concerned about the girls welfare. I got the call as a well being check and went there and saw the situation and deemed it was necessary to get the children out. Reporter investigators found deplorable Living Conditions at the house. They say the two teens told them what had been going on. Police say riffeys boyfriend, Jamison Burns supplied the heroin. Court documents say he supplied the needles and was there when riffey injected the teens. Burn is on the run and the police are hoping he turns himself in soon. Riffey was interviewed by west caln police. They say she waived her miranda rights and admitted to injecting the children with heroin, a drug that has become a scourge in the suburbs. Its out there. Its everywhere. Its not just where people say in the city or its everywhere. Its a horrific drug and its destroying a lot of families. Reporter and to start a child that young on it. Very scary. Reporter riffey is back in prison this afternoon on 50,000 bail. Having waived her right to a preliminary hearing she now goes straight to trial. Live in west caln township, david henry, channel6 action news. Brian. Unbelievable stuff, david. Thanks very much. Philadelphia police are looking for two suspects they say held up a chinese takeout restaurant in the citys tioganicetown section. Newly released Surveillance Video shows how the crime played out on monday night. Investigators say two men were inside the restaurant when one of them left and came back with a gun. He then pointed that gun at customers demanding their belongings. Police say the duo got away with an iphone a wallet and a segway howeve hoverboard. Dozens of the can mrs. In center city have water as a broken water main got repaired. The line both around sith street near south street. Crews are still on the scene trying to fix everything. Action News ReporterTrish Hartman is live with an update for us and trish, while the water was out certainly some headaches there. Reporter thats right, alicia. We learned within about 30 minutes from the department that all customers now have their water back on. The road is still opened up though from there repairs that took the majority of the day. There were about 50 Power Outages earlier today. Peak so says all of those customers were back on line around 12 30 but for many of the businesses on fifth street near the break it meant a day of business lost. We filled up everything. Reporter ron brett sprung into action. When i heard it was my block i flew out of bed so quickly to get dressed and call my girls, tell them the water main broke. Reporter despite her efforts,. No water. Reporter she says the Health Department came and told her without Running Water she had to close for the day. I got one more delivery to do before i go home and that will be the way it will end today and then i come back in here sunday and pray for the best. Reporter Officials Say the break happened just before midnight and the cause is unknown. Michael harris from the south street headhouse Business District spent part of his day checking in with businesses affected by the break. The good news is that the Water Department is here working on it and its not a widespread effect. Its limited to this block it looks like at the moment. Reporter now, Officials Say this block of fifth street from south lombard will likely remain closed for another hour or two while crews repair the roads so theyre encouraging drivers to avoid this area if possible. Live on south street, Trish Hartman. Brian. It happened again today, a Philadelphia School locked down because of reports of a gun. It happened at Lincoln High School in the northeast this morning. Witnesses said they saw a man on a bike outside the school with what appeared to be a gun. Well, that was enough to prompt a brief lockdown there but the allclear has since been given. One man was taken in for questioning but police have not yet said if they recovered a gun there. And weve got developing news right now. Action news getting new details about a shooting at Texas SouthernUniversity Near houston. Authorities say one person is dead, another hurt in that incident that happened at a Student Housing complex right on the edge of campus. Police do have a possible suspect in custody. But are not releasing any other details on that situation right now. And that shooting this afternoon came on the heels of another one early this morning at north Arizona University and on the very same day that president barack obama is honoring the victims killed in last weeks campus shooting. Thats right. The president is in roseburg oregon where he plans to meet with the families of the nine people gunned down at Umpqua Community college. Bazi kanani live in washington now with more on whats become a renewed debate bazi about gun control. Reporter good afternoon brian and alicia. A group of protesters gathered at the airport in roseburg opposing the president s agenda on gun control but the white house says he is there today to comfort not campaign. As president obama arrived in oregon this afternoon, the white house says he will be solely focused on the traumatized survivors and grieving families he is there to meet privately. Those mourning the nine killed in last weeks massacre at a Community College but just hours before his trip,. Four people possibly shot. Reporter an emergency call at another college campus, one dead, three others wounded in a shooting overnight near a dorm at northern Arizona University in flagstaff. This is not going to be a normal day at nau. Our hearts are heavy. Reporter police say the 18yearold gunman a freshman who is now in custody opened fire as a fight escalated. Two separate student groups got into the a confrontation. The confrontation turned physical. Reporter while president obama is not expected to discuss gun control in oregon his staff is looking into whether he can use executive actions to expand background checks without waiting for a Republican Controlled Congress to act. Most republican president ial candidates say the focus should be on mental health. Today dr. Benn carson is defending his recent suggestion that part of the solution to Mass Shootings could be more guns. Do we need have a mechanism in schools or other places where you can defend yourself . Should we have trained people there . I have no objection to that at all. Reporter so far this year there have been at least 10 school shootings. In Arizona Police have not yet said what led to the deadly fight. In washington, bazi kanani, channel6 action news. Brian, alicia. All right, bazi thanks very much. And it is time now for a check of the action news traffic report today. Lets go live to matt pelman in the action News Traffic Center on a friday. Been a long time coming, hasnt it . Yes, and its finally upon us. Now we just have to get through a few storms on the way home. Get out now if you can. At this point roads are dry, brian and alicia, theyre just really clogged as you can see. As we look live at 95 a little bit shaky with the camera but here by allegheny avenue we had accidents on both sides of the fence along 95 by the betsy ross bridge, both crashes are now gone. But they kind of got us off to a bad start this afternoon. So you can see the delays are definitely out there along 95. Also still have a crash in the southbound lanes just past the airport. But they just got that pushed off to the left shoulder. As trish told us the water break still on south street. Avoid third or seventh and expect slowing. Also the house fire that were watching in nicetown along elser street, and of course its a friday afternoon on the schuylkill expressway. What would friday on 76 be without a lot of speeds in the teens. Had a couple earlier issues in Camden County in pennsauken, a pole was down along 130, had a truck that broke down along 70 westbound. Both of those issues now cleared out of the way but theres still a crash to avoid in pine hill along cross keys road at ne new freedom road and dont forget patco is running on a special schedule again today and thats because of track work. Lets grab the ipad do the commuter report on this friday afternoon. One of our friends using the waze app laser suit, i think i might like to have a laser suit, i dont know what that would be like found on object on the road on 95 southbound in the area of girard. Speeds in the 20s there. No shortage of slow speeds on this friday afternoon. Well check it again, brian and alicia, in the next half hour. Between laser suit and hoverboard it would be so exciting. Im in. You could cruise over the traffic. Love it. Matt thanks very much. Still ahead on action news today protecting your private information. The new changes youll soon notice on healthcare. Gov. Plans are being finalized for this weekends columbus day parade. Hear from the famous grand marshal whose musical career spans generations. Coming up later a big statement against bullying. Local students take time to literally lay down their message. House republicans huddled on capitol hill today to plan their next move after announcement that through threw there party in chaos yesterday. Kevin mccarthy unexpectedly took himself out of contention to replace john boehner as house speaker. Republicans are not so subtly asking representative paul ryan of wisconsin to run. He, though publically has not vowed that he will said he is considering it and initially was not interested. Many of his colleagues are trying to convince him. I did everything except carry his gym bag this morning trying get him to do it. The fact is paul ryan is the right man right now. Other contends include congressman Daniel Webster of florida, boehner said today he is intender on Holding Elections at the end of this month. So the clock is ticking. The Obama Administration has added more Privacy Protection to the healthcare. Gov site. This year theres a new privacy manager that lets consumers opt out of embedded connections to Third Party Advertising and social media sites. The new Health Insurance signup season begins on november 1st. Take a look at this. Closing numbers on this friday not a bad way to end the back to green arrow, the dow up 34, the nasdaq up just about 20, the s p up marginally about a point and a half on the day. At t is now letting customers make calls over the internet. The change which started today will only help people who have an iphone 6 or into your version. At t says phones will automatically switch to a wifi connection for calls and texts if cell signals are low or unavailable. Now it does not require a separate app but do you have to have ios9. At the mobile and sprinter rolled out similar features a few years ago. This sunday south philadelphia will be beaming with italian pride for the citys annual columbus day parade and today in City Council Chambers an official proclamation to declare this entire week as Christopher ColumbusItalian American heritage week. To celebrate this special grand marshall you see him right there, Frankie Avalon. The crooner and young heart throb was born Francis Thomas avalon in south philadelphia born at ninth and heart to. Hes famous for his hits such as why and venus and his Beach Party Films alongside annette funicello. Avalon says coming home for this historic event is a gift. How does it feel to come back and be the grand marshal . What, are you kidding . I mean, i would stand on broad and porter over vicks drugstore and kind of watch the parade go basement now to be the grand marshal, it is an honor and thanks to this guy right here. And frankie will join me for this weekends columbus day parade live at 1 oclock this sunday afternoon right here on 6abc and brian, always an honor for me to address city council as well on behalf of 6abc and our involvement in this parade on sunday so were looking forward to it. Doesnt Frankie Avalon looks great. Looks incredible. Ageless. I was going say the same thing. Geeter with the heater looking pretty good. A parade made its way around Fairmount Park this morning. Got to love it. Musical group of mummers taking a lead. More than 500 seniors took time to be active this morning sporting bright orange tshirts. They all went for a mile long walk at boathouse row. The seniors strut health event also had some free screenings and Healthy Cooking demonstrations. Philadelphia corporation for aging and the citys parks and Rec Department sponsored todays activity there. Good thing they did it this morning because the sweater about to take a turn. It was great this morning, but, yes, clouds building, storms moving in. Adam joseph tracking all of it now standing by with the details. Some of those storms in the western suburbs are on the severe side right now but a good chunk of the area it is still pretty nice out there. Its sunny, warm, its humid. Philadelphia down to the south. Were watching a cold front arrive clashing with that heat and humidity. In fact Severe Thunderstorm Warning in effect until 4 45 anywhere where you see the orange. Now extending into northern central parts of Chester County, near west Chester Exeter exton, that is, honeybrook and then over into all of Lancaster County and the southern part of berks county and reading. This particular warning is meaning some business because when you take a look at the radar you can see this bright color of red from reading along i176 stretching down to honeybrook and its bowing out a little bit. 93 lightning strikes in the last 15 minutes and as this is pushing to the east at about 45 miles an hour releasing winds at the surface near 65 miles an hour, aiming just south of reading, birdsboro pottstown, elverson and eventually phoenixville and exton watch this storm as it pushes to the east. We lift to the north and into the Lehigh Valley. There originally was a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for parts of this area nearly a town but the warning has expired and the storms are weakening. 22 lightning strikes here but some very heavy rain entering the Lehigh Valley now in downtown allentown, kutztown, macungie, northern parts of even bucks county and Montgomery County will get some of this really heavy rain really for about an hour, hour and a half and then it will pass to the south and to the east. As we look at a severe thunderstorm watch, a watch means the potential is there for storms to turn severe. The warning means Severe Weather has been reported. This until 8 oclock for a good chunk of the viewing area with the exception of southern parts of new jersey and far southern parts of delaware. Again, that until 8 oclock tonight. As we take a look at some of the wind gusts, again, where were not seeing the storms youre not reporting much of a wind gust. Its 21 miles an hour in trenton right now but you can see in Lancaster