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WPVI Action News At 4PM March 7, 2016

Reporter and the victim is in serious condition right now here at Temple University hospital. If you know who that man is in that video, call police. Live outside of Temple University hospital, chad pradelli channel6 action news. All right, chad, thank you. Chester county man accused of sexually assaulting a child is back in custody after he allegedly went to his victims house and started shooting at him. Douglas cohen was arrested on child sexual abuse charges but was released on 25,000 bail. He went back to the victims home and fired a gun six times. The victim another child and their father were all inside at the time. No one was hurt. Cohen is charged with attempted murder and several other offenses. Prosecutors are upset that cohen was granted bail in the first place. Action newss Sarah Bloomquist will have more on that in a live report tonight at 5 00. A Delaware County emt is accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a 15yearold junior firefighter. Mel sis la givens turned herself in today in collingdale. Police say she had a relationship with the teenager that involved trading naked pictures. It lasted several months. Given center city married to the chief of that department. Meantime police have arrested more than a dozen men in Atlantic City for allegedly using the internet to distribute cocaine. The Attorney Generals Office says operations skin deep broke up a drug ring involving these men. Christopher castelluzzo, luke atwell and aldo lapaix they arrested Thomas Bullock wrench minute white and thomas white. They also seize the more than a Million Dollars in cash. Today pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf signed an executive order to raise the minimum wage for people who work for the state of pennsylvania. That means all Government Employees and anyone who works on a job thats been contracted by the state will now make 10. 15 an hour. Thats an increase of three dollars an hour for those workers. This is all part of world jobs that Pay Initiative while hes touting the benefits of his executive action the governor has also been pushing the legislature to increase the minimum wage to at least 10 for everyone who works in the state of pennsylvania not just for the state. Thats 1. 2 million workers. He says its not just valuable for them but for their employers, too. It boosts morale when you pay a fair wage. It also improves productivity. It reduces turnover and when you have reduction in turnover you also have a reduction in the costs associated with high turnover of training, of getting people acclimated to your business. Association its a smart move for businesses but its also a smart move so far the Republican Controlled Legislature has refused to consider wolfs request to increase the minimum wage for all workers in the state but right now its still 7. 25 an hour for them but if you work for the state today its up to 10. 15 an hour. Pretty happy about that you guys. Big changes. Well see if theres any pushback on this initiative t alicia thank you. Time for a check of the accuweather forecast. Beautiful out there. Going to get nicer. Meteorologist adam Joseph Standing by with the accuweather details. Yeah, we have jumped into spring and today could in fact be one of the cooler days of the work week. We have climbed up since the weekend. It was 42 on saturday, 47 yesterday. Today so far 61 degrees, 11 degrees above that normal of 50. So, let the warmup begin. And as we look at the numbers across the eastern half of the can country, 62 in chicago, 75 in saint louis, 72 in memphis, near 80 in omaha. Dallas new orleans also coming in to the middle 70s. High pressure is to our south and that will be the heat pump this week. You see clouds in the ohio and Tennessee Valley. That is a warm front that will drift through during the overnight hours tonight so well have high clouds arriving late tonight and on tuesday but we are tracking a stretch of 70s, records likely more than just one day and no cold air in sight when you look at that sevenday forecast. Well chat about all those beautiful numbers if youre done with winter coming up in that full accuweather forecast when i i guess come back inside. Come on inside, adam. Well see you in a little bit. Yeah. Funeral arrangements set for former first Lady Nancy Reagan began. The Reagan Library announced the details one day after her death at age 94. A closed ceremony will take place on friday. Thats expected to have about 1,000 people in attendance but many more expected to pay tribute as reagan lies in public repose on wednesday and thursday of this week. Today president obama reflector on the one chance he had to meet her calling her both charming and gracious. Septa is making plans to expand its service through montgomery county. And today the public has a chance to weigh in on that plan. Vernon odom is covering the story live for us now in king of prussia with the details and what it could mean for the western suburbs. Vernon. Reporter it could mean a great deal, sharrie. Good evening. It is called the king of prussia rail project. Its a billion dollars septa plan to expand High Speed Rail Service all the way out here to king of prussia. Tonight begins the series of three public hearings on this matter. This one at the radisson hotel. The king of prussia mall is the biggest employment engine here west of philadelphia. For nondrivers, it is accessible only by bus. Septas high speedline stops in norristown. A good distance away. Septas moving full speed ahead on extending the high speedline out to king of prussia where they believe they would pick up an additional 9,000 riders a day coming to and from homes in the city and other suburbs. I think it would be a lot more convenient because its taking me two hours to get out here on the bus as opposed to the train which would probably take about 45, cut that time in half. All the workers out here would love a train to come out here yes. Reporter so you von to take that long bus ride. I didnt feel septa is starting on the sell this new train route they want to build more lines on. The purple line on the map comes off the norristown high hh speedline come downs pecos right of way then into the turnpikes right of way, comes along the backside mall with two stops at the mall and then comes north onto first avenue and right through the business park. Reporter septa hopes he to Start Construction in 2020. With the new rail line up and running in 23. Weve tried to route the extension in a way that we stay within mainly public rights of way. But there is a small section along the turnpike where we do back up top a residential area. Were within the turnpikes right of way. Were working with them to secure access to that right of way but we are still adjacent to residential areas. Reporter one possible key hitch to all of this is of course how to pay for it. Septa is hoping to get a half billion dollars in federal funding but thats only half the bit. Live in king of prussia, im vernon odom channel6 action news. Vern thanks very much. Stick wind gust mass nj transit and is meeting to avoid the first strike in 30 years. Unions representing more than 4,000 rail workers have authorized a walkout. They could walk off the job at midnight on sunday if a deal is not reached before then. Buses light rail and patco would cross other ny transit rail tickets if that strike were to happen. It is time now for the first check of the action news traffic report on a monday. Lets head over to matt pelman standing by in the action News Traffic Center with an upday. Hey, matt. We have a bunch of people meeting out here this afternoon on the roosevelt boulevard extension as they do so many afternoons in the typical northbound jam that we always see coming off the schuylkill through this point at wissahickon on up to proud street. Just volume here but north of here on the boulevard northbound past grant theres a crash in the outer drive and if youre coming southbound at cottman you have one, too, accident there in the outer drive as well. Watching a crash earlier this afternoon in limerick township along ridge pike at louis road. Upper providence township a wreck on 422 westbound abapproaching royersford. Speeds are not impacted a whole lot at this point. Upper providence township Delaware County theres also a crash along rose tree road at 252 right by the route one media bypass. Things starting to o slow on the blue route northbound by macdade just 14 miles an hour. Crossing the river into south jersey a couple problems early this afternoon. Theres a crash on 295 northbound approaching the black horse pike. Mostly on the shoulder but still speeds coming north of westville are just in the teens. Some earlier debris on 42 northbound by 130 has cleared out. Were trying to recover there. Seeing delays on the wilmington newark Regional Rail line this afternoon. 20 minutes because of amtrak signal problems. Hope you had a nice weekend and potholes, potholes, theyre popping up everywhere. Theres one on the ben franklin parkway outer drive. Watch out for that as you travel past the barnes foundation. And well check it again, brian and sharrie, coming up in the next half hour. Those holes can be difficult to escape this time of year. All right, matt, thank you. Still ahead its a busy week in the race for the white house. What analysts say the candidates need as we move towards the next round of primaries. And Peyton Manning says goodbye. Details on the super bowl champions decision to walk away from the nfl. Plus, dozens of local airmen can come home from a deployment overseas. Well take you to their hero s welcome as they see their friends and family for the first time in months. I do everything on the internet. But its kind of slow. My friends said i should get fios because its the fastest. I just downloaded 600 photos in 60 seconds. Thats seriously better. man were out of 2 . I wonder what else could be better around here . man i heard that. Now get our best offer ever. Super fast 100 meg internet, plus tv phone for just 69. 99 a month online with no annual contract. 100 meg speeds at a price this good . Fios can do that. Cable just cant. Switch to better. Switch to fios it is another jam packed week of primaries in the race for the white house. There are four republican and two democratic contests tomorrow. The big prize is michigan where polls show gop frontrunner donald trump has a double digit lead over ted cruz. Marco rubio is third and john kasich is in fourth. Cruz picked up several key wins over the weekend is closing the delegate gap with trump but analysts say cruz needs this to be a twoman race. I think ted cruz knows that the only way he can beat donald trump is if marco rubio and john kasich drop out. Thats any other going to happen before march 15th when those home states of two people vote. Hillary clinton and Bernie Sanders continue to battle it out on the democratic side. They debated last night in flint, michigan and will take part in a town hall meeting tonight in detroit. Well, it is end of an era in the nfl. Super bowl winning quarterback Peyton Manning said today hes wrapping up his career. Manning was emotional his voice cracking at times as he choked back tears during his press conference in denver. His future has been the source of a lot of speculation since he hoisted that lombardi trophy on february 7th. Today after a storied nearly two decade career in the nfl he put an tend to all the questions. It is something about 18 years, 18 is a good number. And today i retire from pro football. Extraordinary career. Manning has earned five m. V. P. Trope trophies two super bowl championships and retires with dozens of passing records but he also noted today he still owns one record he is not proud of a record 28 interceptions as a rookie. He says every year he pulls for a new rookie to break that one. How about this beautiful shot here in the big board today. It was a heros welcome in delaware as two groups of airmen arrived home safely to their friends and family. About 60 airmen of the Delaware Air National guard came home to the new castle Air National Guard base to signs, salutes and big hugs and kisses. Daddy , daddy i love you so much. I missed you. I know they missed him, too. You cant beat. That the airmen are just home from a 120 day deployment to the middle east and boy, did they arrive in style in an aircraft called a c130h which they used during their missions. The Group Includes pilot crew and maintenance teams. Airmen say with every mission it gets harder to leave especially the little ones. The work is rewarding. I like i enjoy it. I like what we do and its a good mission. Its just being away from the family is really tough and like i said as they get older it gets harder and harder. While its thrilled to have this group return they say we must remember that fellow delaware National Guard mens and women are still serving overseas. Since last fall more than 300 members have been deployed but today about 60 of them are home and their family and friends could not be happier. Cant get enough of those hugs, sharrie. No, greater reunions there no document. Meantime some members of the air force showed off their musical talents at a Philadelphia School today. A bit of rapping i think here. That full spectrum a small part of the u. S. Air force heritage of america band. All members are on active duty based out of Langley Air Force base in virginia. Well, today they gave a special performance at Edison High School in hunting park as part of an air force recruitment program. And that has to get the teenagers attention i would think. Double threat sing and dance. And rap. I like it. All right, it is time now for the accuweather forecast. Something else we cant get enough of this week. Lets turn it over to meteorologist adam joseph whos got who me . The weather. Oh, what im about to say. Yes. As we take a look right now, live on sky6 from the pagoda cam. Were about to see a warm front pass through from the south and west overnight. Now bringing a few high clouds our way but right now it is beautiful no matter where you are. 64 in the lehigh valley, 65 in reading, 60 wilmington. In fact the warmest numbers are north and west away from that wind that is can kicking in off of the water right now. Notice along the shore youre saying what warmth . It is only in the upper 40s right now your favorite shore town about this time of year inland locations always stay very warm, the shore stays very cold because of that very cold ocean water. As we look at march as a whole, the question right now is, is winter over . More than likely it looks like it is when you look at the long range and when you look at very strong el nino march he imarches in50. Back to the 1950s we looked at three other strong el nino months of march. Those months the snow totals were very low. This year weve had an inch which is above what we saw in the previous years of el nino so one could say weve already had way too much than we should during a strong el nino pattern. As we look at satellite and radar, there are the high clouds coming in from the ohio valley. Some of us north and west could get a brief sprinkle late tonight as that front progresses through. So overnight clouds will be building a little bit later and it does not get very cold tonight. 38 allentown, 39 in reading, 44 philadelphia, 40 in millville and mid 40s down to the south. Future tracker early tomorrow morning some of those high clouds with the front with temperatures already in the 50s to the south, near 50 in philadelphia at 7 00 or 7 30 in the morning. 4 oclock tomorrow afternoon sunshine some high clouds and were right on that verge of 70 degrees across much of the area. Even at the shore tomorrow it will be a little bit cooler than inland but still pretty nice with temperatures near 60 and as we look at future tracker temperatures, well give you one more day here, 76 wednesday at 3 oclock in the afternoon. That meet pump of a high building all of that warmth Tennessee Valley across much of the eastern half of the can country. That four day at 4 00 forecast now dont scratch your eyes. This is correct. First 70s of the year tomorrow at 71 degrees. Record shattering 78 on wednesday. 78 with another record here on thursday and not as warm but still well above average sun and clouds friday with a temperature of 66 degrees. And those 78s are more typical for june around here, not the beginning of march. Well see in the next half hour what happens next week in the seven day. Hopefully weve turned the corner. Yeah, agreed. Thank you. Still ahead a fashion recall involving thousands of pounds of a popular food. And turns out Apple Computers may not be as safe as users think. The malware thats now targeting mac. And talk about a crazy commute. Lets just say if there were kids in the car that parents would have a little explaining to do. Well tell you what stopped traffic on this major highway besides the crash coming up in big talkers. And remember, action news is about interaction with you. Follow us on social media for the latest headlines, accuweather and breaking news and to communicate with us on facebook were 6abc action news. On twitter were at 6abc. Join us and be a part of action news. Police are looking for the man they say beat his girlfriend to death with a hammer in north philadelphia. Investigators say the can couple got into an argument last night at a home on north 17th street. They say that led to the attack. 32yearol32yearold died at te hospital. Theyre still trying to track the boyfriend down right now. Police in wissinoming looking for the man who robbed a dollar store at gun point. He walked into the dollar store on torresdale avenue and locked the door behind him. Then he pulled a gun and went behind the counter. He made the employees give him cash from the register and then ran away. No one was hurt here

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