this thing is raging on the 200 block of smith school road. it started around 8:30 tonight. skyfox over the inferno. crews still do not have this under control. so far though fire dispatch is report nothing injuries to any people or animals. we of course will stay on top this and bring you the latest updates as they come into the newsroom. another big story we are tracking tonight. chaos on the streets of north philadelphia. four people shot. two of the victims dead at the scene. the others taken to the hospital and tonight whoever pulled that trigger is still out there. thanks for joining us i'm iain page. >> i'm dawn timmeney. the shooting happened at the end of the school day while children were coming home. let's get out to fox 29's sean wilson live outside of police headquarters for more. >> reporter: i talked to man who lives on corner between a school and the neighborhood where that shooting happened. he is a father and let me tell you i could honestly feel that man's pain and don't night. that concern is growing because the gunmen are still out there. >> my kids had to cowell to actually one passed bodies on the ground. >> reporter: edward smallwood lives on the 1100 block of west styles street in north philly. where someone fired nearly two dozen shots shooting four people. two of them are dead. >> my mind is just like everywhere right now, you know what i mean, have i kids in the house. four of them, you know what i mean? three minutes earlier maybe they could have been shot. >> reporter: dozens of police responded to the seen at harrison plaza public housing around 3:30 this afternoon. they transported three of the victims to the hospital. police say one victim drove himself there. >> we had four individuals standing there. we believe some someone came east from this location and started firing. one shooter maybe two. >> reporter: homicide captain james clark says the victims are all men between the ages of 24 and 30. two were pronounced dead at the hospital. two others remained in critical but stable condition late this evening. pill bottles were scattered near the area cordoned off by crime scene tape but police con firm if they had anything to do witness shooting. council president darrell clark was also at the scene. >> our numbers are trending down, um, but all it takes is a very violent week or two and it's been a pretty violent week over the last several days. >> reporter: smallwood watched from his back door pointerring out there's a school across the street and kids were coming home as this happened. >> no one thinks of that, man. we need to get this together. what are we doing? how far are we getting with this? serious seriously. >> reporter: and police believe shooters got away in a small gray suv they believe was park nearby. tonight they have not recovered either gun used in the shooting. dawn. >> thanks, shawnette. now to story you will only see on fox tonight. an 80-year-old mugging victim tucking to fox 29 about bold m mugging a tack all caught on individual i don't. with no regard for her age or gender. a man on bicycle sped by and stole her purse. >> then she went down. but she is not out. tonight she's talking hoping that the bad guy gets caught. she did talk with our dave schratwieser live in hunting park tonight, dave. >> reporter: iain, 80-year-old elizabethville lard was less than 100 feet from her front doorstep when she was attacked and robbed. cameras caught the whole thing on tape as the thief made off with her purse. tonight she says she gave chase for about a block before she gave up. >> he saw me coming, i guess report roar surveillance cameras were rolling as 80-year-old elizabethville lard was walking home from a local store. sudden al man on bike attacked and robbed her. >> he came over and with that bike and knocked me down. report roar elizabeth says the bicycle bandit took off with her purse containing $200 in cash. her checkbook, her id, two phones and her heart medication. >> i'm chasing him to sixth street. i chased him but i couldn't catch him. >> reporter: it happened in the 500 block of hunting park avenue. elizabeth had just stop at the imperial garden take out restaurant and was heading for home. >> for this coward to approach her that way and take what she had, that's despicable. >> this is busy street with lots of traffic. people walk back and forth to the local supermarket and stores here. carmen fernandez had just left the store monday night when she heard about the robbery. >> it scares me. you know -- >> i notice you keep your purse protected very well. >> yes. i do. >> i worry. i'm always paying attention. even though i wear headphones i still pay attention to my surroundings. >> reporter: as for the robbery suspect elizabeth says, he belongs behind bars. >> i ain't going to lie to you. if i'd had a gun i'd shot him. i would have shot him in the head so help me god. >> reporter: now elizabeth was not seriously hurt. she had to close her checking account, replace her heart medication and those two cell phones. if you have any information on that suspect, you can call east detectives. dawn? >> all right, dave, thank you. a north philadelphia community comes together tonight to remember a man who's life was tragically cut short from gun violence. the crowd here is honoring 37-year-old darrell mitchell. police say someone shot him over and over again on the i wasn't 800 block of north taney street. his dog was also shot. so far no arrests. >> montgomery county judge considering whether bill cosby's testimony from a civil case deposition can be used in his sexual assault trial. prosecutors and the defense argued their case during a pretrial hearing today in norristown. that decade old deposition includes cosby's damming confessions about sex and drugs. cosby is accused of drugging and molesting a former temple university employee at his home in 2004. the trial beginning today for three teenaged girls charged in connection with deadly bathroom fight. prosecutors say it was last year wilmington, delaware, it led to the death of 16-year-old emmy joyner francis the trial is expected to last two weeks. on your radar tonight get those windshield wipers ready. the rain is back. you need that umbrella as well. it's raining as we take live look over south philadelphia. it's only going come down harder though as the night goes on. the big question, kathy, will it be another sloppy morning rush. >> um-hmm. it certainly will be. we're talking about very heavy rain during the overnight. and into the early morning hours. so the very early part of that morning rush will we'll be seeing red heavy rain indeed. the center of our area of low pressure is in the midwest but all this shower activity and storms are moving toward the northeast. so as we look at our radar on ultimate doppler, heavier rain moving into central delaware where you see the bright yellow and even into cumberland county in new jersey. so it's all moving up from the southwest and once it moves in, it means hours of rain. there's a flood watch in effect through tomorrow evening for the poconos, northampton county in the lehigh valley and also mercer county including trenton into central and north jersey for about one to 2-inches of rain. now, overnight tonight, moderate to heavy rain right into the early morning hours. isolated thunderstorms you may hear a few rumbles of thunder. and winds gusting between 30 and 40 miles an hour. so wind driven rain a lot of shaking going on during the overnight and another round of rain coming our way possibly tomorrow afternoon. we'll talk more about that coming up later in the broadcast but for now we'll send it back to you. >> kathy thank you start your day with the good daytime beginning at 4am. sue serio will be tracking that rain and bob kelly will have eye on any problems on the reds. >> search is on for bold robber feltonville sandwich shop. police just released this surveillance video. a masked man stormed into he will punta goes behind the counter and points a gun at the employee and demands cash. this happened last monday night. philadelphia police are searching for group of teenaged boys accused of abducting and sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl. while fight ending the a attackers is a top priority it's not the only issue. boys assaulted the girl at abandoned home in hunting park last night. neighbors say it was sealed up but it still had openings. licenses and and inspections says homeowners are responsible for sealing up vacant properties. so if you see a home like this, call 311 to report it. eleventh person has died from subway explosion in st. petersburg, russia. more than 40 others were injured in the blast hours after the blast. police found and dive fused another device at another st. petersburg station. right now police suspect a lone suicide bomber could be behind the attack. but no one has claimed responsibility for the violence meanwhile russian president vladimir putin laid flowers at a memorial fort victims after the attack. the president was already visiting st. petersburg at the time of the explosion. the aclu is stepping in to a berks county school district battle over where a transgender student can use locker or bathrooms on campus. the group filed a motion today to defense the boyertown area school district and its policy which allows transgender students to use locker and restrooms of their choice. district was sued last month by two conservative groups on behalf of another family in the district saying that the policy violates other students privacy rights. now to south jersey, where there were two suspicious acts reported in less than 24 hours. one this time last night. the other just this afternoon. >> strangers drove up to children approaching them while they were walking. it all happened in black wooder, camden county and that's where we find fox 29's chris o'connell live with the very latest. chris? >> reporter: i tell you iain and dawn it doesn't get much creepier than this. a guy in a white van coming up to children here in gloucester township asking them if they need a ride home. it's not only happened once, but twice in the last two days. here are the details. the latest incident happening this afternoon on the corner of fairmount avenue and estelle avenue here in blackwood where is a 12-year-old boy says a man in a white van approached him. the boy didn't say anythig, but that boy took off. police actually say that van reversed towards the boy before taking off. now, just 16 hours earlier, this is just about this time last night, about a mile away, 17-year-old girl was walking near the attorney of black horse pike and prospect avenue when a man in a white window less van honked his horn, pulled over and asked her if she needed a ride home. well the girl ran home. she was alarmed enough to call police. parents in the township very concerned. >> just scary. just to know that that is local here in this area especially like a good enabled. i mean we're right down the street from the police. the park. like, kids come out all the ti time. >> it's heart working because you think about your kids every second of the day, and unfortunately you can't be there every second of the day for them whether you're at work or they're at school, things just happen and out of your control. >> reporter: here's the description in the first case. he's being described as white male, mid 30s black hooded sweatshirt is the identifying marks his left tooth appeared to be crooked or -- there wasn't a blemish or a mole on the right side of his chin. and he has a raspy voice. now, here is the interesting part. police say although the vehicles are the same, these happened win 16 hours of one another. they do not believe these incidents are connected. but they are asking anyone with any information on these incidents or it's happened to them please call gloucester township police. >> thanks, chris. stat trooper hurt in serious crash in new jersey this happened about 3:30 this afternoon on under state 78 in warren township. took emergency crews more than half an hour to get the trooper out of the car before he was then flown to a hospital. the extent of his injuries is not known at this time. authorities have not yet released the trooper's name. ♪ wow! did you see that, a whole roof just ripped off of a building. that same weather system is coming here. is your roof ready? >> talk about close call. see that lady? she got trapped in her own garage. >> former police officer hunts down the guy he says cheated him out of the tickets to wrestle mania. first lady melania trump's official portrait. she looks great but that's not what is catching everyone's eye. ♪ ♪ we continue to follow breaking news out of bucks county tonight. a barn is a ball of flames in per cass siege this is raging on the 200 block of smith school road. it start aid round 8:30 tonight. skyfox is over the inferno. crews do not yet have this fire under control, but so far fire dispatch is reporting no injuries to people or animals. we of course will stay on top of this and bring you more information as soon as we get it into the newsroom. you know what they say about april showers. after this week we should be well on our way to a lot of may flowers. >> let's hope. the same system making its way to the delaware valley is responsible though for death and construction in the south. sake a look across the south trees uprooted, roofs are torn off and people's homes are flooded. >> could be days before the extent of that damage is fully known. look at the power of this storm roof just rips off a fire station much this is in carrollton, georgia. not far from atlanta. no one was hurt thankfully. people in the area are sure this was tornado but the national weather service still has to check that out. the storms are being blamed for the death of a mother and a child in louisiana when a tornado flipped their trailer. this system again is heading our way. but we're not expecting storms this violent. the governor of mississippi has confirmed the deaths of two people after a powerful line of storms moved that was that sta state. 60 people evacuated from this apartment complex last night when the waters rushed in. the national weather service says the weather is improveing but flooding remains a big concern. the man accused of killing a pennsylvania state trooper and critically injuring a second one will go on trial tomorrow. today a judge ruled that prosecutors could use eric frein's video taped confession as evidence. frein could face the death sentence to he's convicted of killing corporal byron dixon shooting trooper alex douglas. >> two suspects charged in the shooting death avenue 13-year-old shot last month as he ordered take our food at a restaurant in hunting park. police say 19-year-old tamir johnson was the shooter. they also charged with 18-year-old christopher sutherland in the death of cass zero davis. surveillance video helped them identify the suspects. the father of a two-year-old quakertown boy who accidentally shot himself to death with ace dad's gun is sentenced to jail time. twenty seven-year-old mike hal wiley pleaded guilty today in bucks county court and sentenced to almost one to almost two years in jail. prosecutors say wiley left a loaded handgun in a bedroom where the child had gone to watch winnie the pooh last september. wiley's attorney says his client is already serving a live sentence and will never recover emotionally. in north philadelphia, school goes on lock down as police search for a killer. investigators say a 52-year-old man was shot and killed in the 2300 block of harold street. morning. about 11:30 this- he was shot once in the chest. police temporarily placed saint martin did he parry school in lock down while they sevenned for the shooter but he's still on the loose tonight. step got good news tonight. it says there have been less injuries and complaints from interactions with transit officers and the public. the transit authority found that out during an audit of their new body camera program and they found a 20% decrease in injuries to suspects. a 30% decrease in officer injuries. septa says the body cameras could be responsible whether a change the behavior of officers or discouraged people from mak making false charges. today supreme court nominee neil gorsuch has cleared the first hurdle to get to the supreme court. but several more stand in his ways. the democrats. in response senate republicans are threatening to nuke nuclear against democrats pre paying to filibuster the nomination when it goes to a vote before the full senate. now republicans are considering the so-called nuclear option. that would change senate rules to allow for simple majority vote of 51 to break a filibust filibuster. current rules require 60 senators for confirmation. senator chris kuhns of delaware is one of the democrats oppose gorsuch's confirmation. >> after reviewing judge gorsu gorsuch's record, after meeting with him twice, after participating in four days of very well run senate due did you cher committee hearings summiting written questions and getting feedback from thousands i will not support judgeded tha- gorsuch's nomination in the judiciary committee today. >> democrats are angry in part because republican leaders blocked former president obama's supreme court nominee merrick garland from ever having a hearing. >> tonight we're getting a look at the first official portrait of first lady melania trauma much the picture was taken in the white house residence last month. a lot of people on social media can't help but point out that giant rock on the first lady's finger. that is a 25-carat diamond that president trump gave her on her tenth anniversary. a chilling confession tonight from south jersey teenager. 17-year-old santos cologne, jr., pleaded guilty as an adult plotting to kill pope francis when he was in philadelphia. prosecutors say the lindenwold teen's plot involved using a sniper to shoot the pope during mass and setting off explosive devices nearby. he's now facing up to 15 years in prison. we know now the identity of a man killed in drive by shooting in crescentville. police say 39-year-old donte valentine was waiting at the light on somerdale avenue in the boulevard yesterday morning when someone drove up beside him and opened fire. the victim attempted to drive off but crashed. police still don't have suspect and they're not sure if he was targeted. former physicalled district attorney lynne abraham is suing to get rid of her successor. abraham along the philadelphia attorney sued da seth williams asking a judge to force him out of office. last month, williams was indicted on federal corruption charges. williams has given up his law license but so far he has not stepped down. talk about a close call. see that lady? she got trapped in her own garage. move over, mr. coffee. there's a new kitchen appliance that can brew beer. >> and a kangaroo that went viral last week he's back in the headlines but it isn't good ne news. >> ♪ now with tomorrow's traffic here's bob kelly. good evening, everybody. getting ready for delays beginning tonight all this week actually on i-95 southbound they're going to be doing work between bartrum avenue and philly international airport. also working for the gang out in downingtown. both directions on the 30 bypass new project that begins tomorrow between route 10 all the way down to route 202. and then, yo, south philly columbus boulevard the ramp to head north on i-95 will be closed during the day all this week. we'll check the jam cams. sue has got forecast. we'll see you bright and early tomorrow morning starting at 4am. phone rings "hello?" 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[laughter] keep on scratchin'. >> now to latest on breaking news out of bucks county tonight. a barn is really a ball of flames in perkasie. this thing is raging on the 200 block of smith school road. it started burning around 8:30 tonight. skyfox is flying over this inferno. crews do not have this thing under control as of yet. so far fire dispatch is telling us there are no injuries to any people or animals. we are keeping an eye online of storms that are making they are way towards the delaware val physical you've got an early morning flight you better check in with your airline before heading to the airport. smoke and fire shoot out of a hole home in north philadelphia this afternoon. firefighters racing to the 3100 block of north eighth street. crews were able to get it under control soon after. fortunately no one was hurt. no word on exactly what caused that fire. >> incredible ending to a story we first told you beseech several months ago about audubon, camden county it all started with this man. class of 1938 he lost a ring during world war ii while stationed in the south pacific decades later a farmer in new guinea found it while digging in the soil and return it to school. the school is giving that farmer a school rink to thank him. the whole thing is remarkable. >> it's just an amazing way to finish the story. when you think about a ring lost in world war ii, coming back to new jersey here. the amaz amazing sequence of evs that allowed it to happen and to have the generosity of the had you ever been jones to replace the ring so the gentleman who found it wore warred. >> farmers gold ring has the year 2013 on it because that's the year he found it. >> it is a first for the philadelphia fire department today. they just promoted theirs pfeffer woman to batallion chief. fire commissioner adam thiel swore in captain lynn do lang today. the first person male or female to rise through the ranks as both a paramedic and a firefighter. long joined the fire department as a paramedic back in 1990 and 14 years ago at the age of 39 well she decided to become a firefighter. she says it took a lot of hard work to get where she is today. >> i'm so excited. i'm proud to be able to be a representative of all the women in the fire department because i may be the first female batallion chief i doubt i'll be last. also making history is paramedic crystal yates she became the first african-american female services chief. congratulations. >> it is all too common problem you think you're getting tickets to couldn't set or sporting events on craigslist and the tickets well they turn out to be fake. that is exactly what happened to a man in florida this weekend when he tried to get into wrestle mania. >> as this former cop was not going to get hosed and walk away. it turns out he ended up with the last laugh. >> pro wrestling's biggest show of the year thrilled. >> it was something i was looking forward. >> while david cook sat outside. hit with his big get disappointment of the year. >> they opened the gates. we go in. all of a sudden the ticket is not working. >> reporter: the stadium flagged his a fake and gave him this photo copy. he thought he was getting a great deal. a $2,000 ring side seat he spotted online for 900 bucks. >> so i said okay. you know, i can if you still have them i'll meet you for them. you know. go from there. >> reporter: he says he met the suspect in parking lot excited about as a former cop he was suspicious. >> he showed me the ticket. i look at it. i said to him, just so you know it bet not be fake. because if it is i will find y you. >> reporter: well it was. >> but just in case something like this would happen, on his way out of that parking lot, david snapped a picture of his seller. this picture they took straight to the cops and to every parking lot attendant he could find. >> the one guy said, he looks familiar. >> and soon enough surprise, he found his guy. >> that's him. >> he grabbed the closest cop and they arrested gordon cross. orlando police says he had seven more fakes on him and was ready to sell. >> cross went before a judge today charged with possession of fake tickets and scheming to defraud. pay back for david who's disappointed at missing out but glad he made good on his promi promise. >> i flat out told the guy, if it's fake, i will find you. >> he told him as you heard. cross went before a judge and charged with possession of fake tickets as well as scheming to defraud. a woman so stuck in a grow restore parking lot she had to be rescued. a gas station owner comes to work and find his vat off lot tickets gone. he didn't take him long to figure out what happened. >> move over mr. coffee. there's a kitchen appliance to brew beer. >> make sure you... ♪ make sure you got that umbrella ready. the rain is falling again in old city. it's only going to come down harder. we'll check back in with kathy orr in just a bit. in your money, how would you like to brew your own beer at home? brewing your own beer can be difficult and it could lead to results but one new company is aiming to change that. launched by kick starter campaign the peco brew a home place simplifies the whole process. they got it's start in washington and ceo bill mitchell says anyone can use it. >> these devices all allow you to brew your own beer, and start without any knowledge of brewi brewing. work with some of these great beer less tease peace from all of our partners. these partner brewers breweries from around the world and then build on that knowledge and start experimenting potentially craft totaling your own custom beers. >> the peco brew is available on an early bird kick starter special for $279. big announcement tonight from target. it's opening a new store in northern liberties. target making the announcement today. the new store will be on sixth and spring garden it will be smaller though than those stores in the suburbs much this one target says tailored to specific meet the needs of people in the city set to open in july of 2018. ♪ >> a woman so stuck in grocery store parking lot she had to be rescued. and kathy, you're not going to believe this. but my umbrella broke. >> no! >> oh, no, dawn because we are getting a one-two punch. first, the heavy rain that's coming now, the second coming later this week. i'll show you when. >> and usual rescue for first responders in california. a woman got stoke in clothing donation bin. shopper passing by noticed the woman unconscious and call 911. we don't know how long the woman may have been there. we also don't know the woman's condition. ♪ >> kensington is often in the news for drugs and violence, but each day our bill anderson looks for the light, ton night he found it right on the main shopping strip of kensington. >> new storefront is opening programs that will literately brighten the neighborhood for goodness sake. >> art has changed my life. i was once on drugs. i was once a gang member. >> reporter: it work for alvin and many others can opening a storefront community facility focusing on artwork to improve kensington. >> it's all about perception. when you get off the el the first thing you see if it's a vacant storefront, you're going to make that immediate judgment call about the community if it's an mazing mural art space with artists and people in it. mack this community is something that i didn't think it was. >> reporter: most stories done on kensington are related to drug use or violence. but a mural arts of philadelphia program called the porch light just opened a hub on kensington avenue and they're trying to change the stereo typical view of the neighbor. >> we're going to be creating murals out of this space. and other public art projects. we're also going to be providing social services, behavioral health services, and other types of programming. >> reporter: newest hub opened after the new kensington cdc applied and the owner of the building who runs a market next door offered up the space. they wanted something else positive on the block. after challenging artists alvin toll one of the artist who's will be teaching to show me his skills i also challenge the belief that bringing access to art will change a neighborhood. >> in this enabled a lot of people call eight forgot tepp neighbor. >> reporter: why do all of this here. >> it's easy to go into community that's already beautiful and already established. but to come into a community of this -- this is why we are here. this is what mural arts basis its foundation on to beautify. to heal. >> reporter: it's obvious talking to everyone involved with the porch light hub that they do believe in kensington and the residents in a way we don't often see. they want to change the story line. >> there are folks that are doing such great work on their blocks, neighbor to neighbor, you know, every day kind of shifting the story. >> ♪ >> reporter: as alvin connelled with the challenge to show me the neighborhood through his eyes and our segment theme i went outside and briefly saw both sides of what inspired the hub. >> five seconds out the door, i was approached by an older woman asking for food that she clearly needed. but one minute later, she also showed the appreciation that came from someone listening and offering even temporary help. >> these are the people that the kensington porch light hub hopes to inspire. >> those that feel as though they're useless. worthless. we make that change with inside a person, one person at a time. one mural at a time and one community at a time. >> it remains to be seen a mural arts hub filled with art classes and supportive services can inspire change in enabled this group. these organizations are not buying the negative stereotype as alvin's drawing revealed they still see more for kensington for goodness sake. i'll bill anderson. >> ♪ in sara sarasota florida a s station owner was stunned to find $2,400 of scratch off lottery tickets missing. >> it turns out it wasn't even the biggest surprise. once the owner of the shell station check surveillance cameras it was one of his own employees. the camera shows her scratching away for six straight hours at times she even ignores customers owner says she rang up the winning tickets and trashed the losing ones. >> i never thought she would do such a thing. you know what i mean? usually flying i have issues i have issues somebody stealing cash money. but this one she was different. she was wasting $2,000 on cash off tickets not even paying for it and whatever wins taking money. >> the employee has not been arrested burt police are continuing to investigate. the kangaroo in detroit 231st told you about last week hopped back into the news. this time though there's controversy after an appearance on stage at a comedy show. owner of the exotic zoo where the kangaroo lives is under fire for bringing the animal on stage at that show. >> as fox's erika erickson shows us it's growing -- the outrage is growing among animal rights groups. >> reporter: it's this cell phone video posted on youtube that's upsetting so many animals lovers monday. the video shot at joe lewis arena shows kangaroo on stage a comedy show. >> i felt sorry for the kangar kangaroo. he looked scared. he was trying to move away. >> the kangaroo and his handler who runs a company called exotic zoo in detroit seen recently on fox two after millions watched the snap chat of stacks walking the kangaroo on detroit street. >> the idea of putting a kangaroo on leash, um, in my opinion that's frankly cruel. >> and since then, this. comedian mick epps seep dancing on stage witness kangaroo apologizing stacks attorney tells fox two monday the allegations of animal abuse are arbitrary and reckless adding quote countless schools, institutions and businesses have requested their exhibitions. the contention without merit as by definition the exotic zoo is a zoo and licensed. >> he's misleading the public when he says he's properly licensed there's no state licensing for this. it only 12 of the 100 animals that he has are regulated by the us state. >> animal activist couldn't sleep last night thinking about the kangaroo and other animals in stack's care. filing complaints against stacks in the past. she says in 2014 stacks had a dangerous lizard out in the open at the pet expo a little child walking up to the lizard there wasn't no barriers and i thought this is a concern. >> soar dell calling police and filing a complaint with the detroit animal control. >> then someone else contacted me and said the lizard just tumbled to the floor and is bleeding. >> reporter: we're told usda is investigating she hopes this is the last time she'll have to file a complaint against him. >> she's not to use him. i think he's misleading and doing it for profiti don't think he's using good judgment in how he handles the animals. >> erika erickson, fox two news. >> now for another check of what's on your radar tonight. no real problems look as we take a live look at allentown. the rain there could start any time. meteorologist kathy orr has got your forecast in 15 seconds. >> the rain is spreading from the southwest into the northeastern part of our region. allentown light rain but the heavier rain is through central and northern parts of delaware. near new castle through dover and crossing over the bay. we'll see rounds of heavy rain during the late night overnight period into early tomorrow morning. right now some rain outside our studios here in old city philadelphia. 53 with the southerly wind in the city. 51 in the poconos. 52 in dover and 52 degrees in wildwood. we will watch hour by hour as that heavy rain moves through the region with the heaviest between about now and four, 5:0. by the 6:00 o'clock hour, we have spotty showers and then as we go through the day the sun will be peeking out. temperatures will be soaring into the 70s. if we see enough sunshine another round during the afternoon of pop-up showers. maybe even a few rumbles of thunder and then everything sweeps on by and clears out. so we have a cold front that will be creating that during the late afternoon. winds out of the south will increase to 37 miles an hour early in the morning as well. when we have heavy rain. millville gusting to arthritic. wildwood 38. and then during the day in the wake of the front, we'll see those winds shift to the west still by 7:00 p.m. gusting from 20 to 25 miles an hour. then those winds local diminish out of the northwest by wednesday morning. as far as accumulation of rain, about half an inch to an inch in the philadelphia area. but as you go through the lehigh val and the poconos we can even see up to twenty four there is. that's where flood watch is. overnight temperatures in the 50's. it will be comfortable temperature wise during the day tomorrow, some spotty showers in the afternoon after that early morning rain. temperatures soaring to 74 degrees. on your seven day forecast from the weather authority the best day of the week is wednesday. sunny and warm, 70. thursday some showers in the morning. some afternoon thunderstorms. friday the phils home opener. some showers and then for the rest of the weekend into next week it looks great. with temperatures going from the 50s to the 60s to the 70s, sean? kathy, the phillies are in first place in the nl east. >> i don't care that's only been one game it's still counts. phillies kicking off opening day with a bang. cesar hernandez does something that hasn't been done since 1938. opening day in baseball. coming up next in sports. ♪ phillies are undie feeted on top of the nl east. yeah, that's the beauty of opening day. that's the beauty of a new year. everyone starts off on the same level and everyone has a shot to win it all. that's what philly fans want. we're excited. my excitement went through the roof op the very first at bat. top of the first look at this. cesar her nap dez with the lead off homer. that's the first opening day lead off homer for the phillies since 1938. of the phillies starting off great. then in the second it's freddie galvis way team shot of his own. the phillies take a three-zero lead in the second it's all good right now. jeremy hellickson he pitched but he wanted to take matter noose his own hands. look at that. after the dive, he gets a triple and guess what, that's the first rbi triple for a phillies pitcher for actually any pitcher on opening day since 1963. hellickson gets the win and the phils go out on top four-three. pitcher perfect start for the phillies but it's going to be if you have year in the nl east. nationals and mets are both teams that were c go to the world series both teams that are really really great. both in action today. mets taking on -- basis loaded in the seventh lucas clears it hits a shot over the center fielder's head and the mets will go on to win easily six-zero. nationals at home against the marlins. bryce harper that guy is not human much this is what he does. a deep shot 403 feet. the nationals will go on to win four-two. opening day had a couldn't of ton the great great defensive plays. manny machado in the hot corner diving for the stop and then the arm to just throw it over and get that out. that was the oriole blue jays game and the twins royals game byron bucks in sent field lays out for the great grab. a lot of great plays on defense on opening day. today the nfl has announced that the lead league will not got to the 20 unwin eight oh limb 96 in south korea. they made this decision because the olympics interrupts the nhl season. but the players are not very happy and some may even decide to leave their team's mid seasons. don't be surprised. a little ncaa news georgetown is hiring patrick ewing as their next head coach. this thing has been a long time coming. he's been trying to get head coaching gig forever. i mean forever. he finally gets his shot and it's at his alma mater. >> shout out to patrick ewing. i covered him when he was in charlotte when i was in charlotte also and he's a great guy. >> yeah. knows a lot about the game. he's been trying to get this shot for ten years now. good for him. i hope he brings georgetown back to the team they used to be. >> good for him. >> that will do it for to us tonight at 10:00 o'clock. iain page has what's coming up at 11:00. >> the city of philadelphia spending almost million dollars to repair a skinny one block street. is it worth the cost when there are so many other streets that need patching up and your wake up weather and seven day forecast in the first five months. we'll see you in a few minutes. don't go anywhere. careful joe, they've got you outnumbered. the dinosaurs' extinction... don't listen to them. not appropriate. now i'm mashing these potatoes with my stick of butter... why don't you sit over here. something for everyone is awesome. find your awesome with the xfinity stream app. more to stream to 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