"action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with rick williams, sara bloomquist, and meteorologist, david murphy.

in the news police make an arrest after a train collision. the charges one man is faces. and an accident with a bus carrying special needs children causes delays on the roosevelt boulevard. yesterday's blast injured yesterday's people and one remains in critical condition. just a short time ago we got a close-up look at the home that blew up. it happened within the crews were looking for a gas leak causing an evacuation for dozens of homes. annie mccormick spend the day in the neighborhood. new jersey natural gas repaired the gas leak, and now they go door-to-door to turn the gas back on at homes.

this neighborhood is working to get back to normal after an explosion yesterday. new jersey natural gas crews working overnight into the morning went door-to-door in the cedar run section of the township to restore gas. >> we didn't have gas in the afternoon and we got it between 12:00 p.m. and 4:00 a.m. >> they used fire wood to stay warm last night and this morning they are waiting for their gas to come back on and barricades near the scene changed their morning routine. >> the school had to change the bus stop, it's a hard time for the buses to come down, we moved up the block and that is not bad at all. >> nearly 24 hours after the explosion we were able to see the aftermath up close 15 of them were injured. emt's firefighters and gas crews. some people were without gas and some were without electricity

some were allowed back in last night and gas crews were back in the area looking for a gas leak after neighbors reported a foul smell, in fact this dash-cam video, from a squad car shows how close they were. >> they had the area secured before the blast that made the difference it could have been worse. >> oak avenue was closed most of the night and this morning as crews repaired the break and the roadway above it and now it's reopen and traffic will be able to go through. annie mccormick channel 6 "action news." >> we are updating this story since it happened at 6abc.com. right now we have video from the action cam and from chopper 6 hd, and more than a dozen photos of that devastating blast from yesterday. you can find it there now at 6abc.com. philadelphia police have shut down a number of streets surrounding yesterday's three-alarm fire in kensington.

jasper street is closed at york and front due to icing and water as it froze up as crews battled the blaze. firefighters had a tough time because many nearby firefighters were frozen solid. the cause of the blaze remains under investigation. >> returning to accuweather we are getting a break with temperatures finally go above freezing sun skies, and it feels milder compared to what we have been dealing with all winter long but as always another change is heading our way. lets head to the "action news" big board and david murphy. >> you just showed us on sky 6 we are looking at a nice bright morning and now clouds are showing up on visible satellite and we expect a fair amount of

sunshine this afternoon. yesterday was raw we wound up at 25 but already today we are up to 36 degrees, already improve 10 degrees. 35 in wilmington and 36 in millville. breezy out there and not too bad compared to the last couple of days. we'll go for a high of 39 and we could hit 40 that is below average but better than yesterday. 23 overnight, and at this point we are used to it aren't we we had only 32 hours total we spent above the freezing mark and temperatures are below freezing 90% of the today. the next issue for us is coming to us from the southwest you can see a rain-snow event as it encounters cooler air in place in our neck of the woods tomorrow morning we'll get the leading edge of that. the bulk is at the southern tier

near the carolinas and we'll pick up some more around the afternoon. road crews are taking advantage of the above freezing weather they are making emergency repairs today to a large pothole in newark delaware the westbound side of the cleveland lane is closed and work crews tried to fix the crater between wilbur street and they are expecting significant travel delays in that area. hundreds of students went home earlier because of a water main break at neshaminy high school, everybody was dismissed at 10:00 and the water service was shut off as crews made repairs, there was no flooding or repairs made to the actual school. now a school bus crash on the roosevelt boulevard, this morning 10 special needs students were on the bus nobody was hurt but as a precaution,

the students were taken to the nurse to be checked out when they arrived at the school this moning. 3-year-old elinor trotta is back at home with her mother of an amber alert track ed her to massachusetts. her father, michael trotta waived extradition. trotta fled to see relatives in spencer, massachusetts, that is where he was captured by a fbi s.w.a.t. team. >> it was not fair to her he was talking about doing something to harm the baby and himself. >> trotta had a razor knife and was tiring to kill himself at the time of his arrest. but he said he never meant to

harm his daughter. an appeal is expected from the exmarine, convicted of killing two men eddie ray was convicted yesterday. >> we the jury find the defend eddie ray routh guilty of capital murder. >> it took the jury less than three hours to come to that decision. not buying the decision that he was to meantly ill to know right from wrong. >> don't think he is insane at all, i think he played the system. the jury basing the decision on the apology played in court. >> i am sorry for what i have done. >> as well as the emotional testimony. >> who were you married to prior to february 2nd 2013?

>> chris kyle. >> kyle and his wife were the subject of the movie american sniper, which one juror watched before the trial. he said the blockbuster movie did not influence his decision. >> i just looked at him as a person and tried to make reasonable judgment. >> the final chapter of the saga is now written. >> we have waited two years for god to get justice for us on behalf of our son. >> routh will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole. >> routh had no reaction when the decision was read and the defense says they plan to appeal. opening statements are underway in the trial of a man who is accused of trying to kill

a police officer. eric torres is accused in the shooting of officer davies it happened during a traffic stop in 2013, davies spend more than a month in the hospital recovering. the speed limit is going up on i-95 in delaware drivers will be able to go 65 miles per hour rather than 55 miles per hour at the split from wilmington the the delaware state line. the new limit is in line with how fast drivers are traveling on the driveway they believe it will make the road safer it is set to take effect in may or june. southwest is allowing planes to fly that skipped inspections. and meteorologist david murphy, is back with a closer look at the accuweather forecast. when "action news" at noon

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the federal government is allowing southwest airlines to fly planes that missed inspections. they grounded 80 flights after finding out that their backup

rudder systems were not checked and now the faa says they can continue flying unless the inspections are done in five days. the pickup truck driver involved in yesterday's crash of a metro rail in california has been charged with felony hit and run, authorities say that jose sanchez mistook the train tracks for a highway and tried to turn on to them. and then his truck at the xoon and was found a mile away. more than a dozen people your hurt when that train crashed into the vehicle. incredible surveillance video from boston arks driver lucky to be alive after launching his truck off an elevated section of the highway, the truck lands on the lower level of the highway and he remembers hitting a snow bank

and state police determined he was driving drunk the man admitted he was exhausted and had a few drinks after shoveling snow. >> i had a few drinks that night, in combination with everything else, it definitely didn't help. >> authorities say the drive ever has a history of driving infractions and his license has since been revoked. four students from a prestigious new england college are arrested following an alleged overdose. police have been collecting evidence on campus to trace the batch that was likely laced with chemicals, four students were arrest of the one from california two from maryland and one from brazil and the students were suspended from the university. a truck carrying $1 million worth of marijuana led police to

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meteorologist, david murphy is here now with a check of accuweather and a reprieve from the bitter cold. >> i wish this was it but we go right back down tomorrow. stormtracker 6 live double scan shows you we are dry and as we look outside at the action cam down the shore still ice on the back bays, can you call that number for boat rides but i don't think you'll get one today. we are looking better than yesterday despite the ice and the fact that we are in the 30s. 36 degrees and a dew point of 12, wind north-northwest at 6 miles per hour and the pressure is rising that is what the rr means. 31 in allentown and 32 in reading and 35 in wilmington and

36 in wildwood new jersey satellite shows you how a few more clouds fill in over the last hour or so they are high and thin and sparse enough where we get some in between, we'll be partly sunny this afternoon. a cool high of 33 in allentown, and down the shore a high around 40 degrees this afternoon and on the breezy side but not as cold and all together more comfortable than the last couple of days and in philadelphia we go for a high of 39 and partly cloudy and winds southwest at 10 to 20 miles per hour, 20 is the overnight low and the winds will die down a bit and it will be cold and that sets us up for a colder day tomorrow. for the evening commute, temperatures fall like they usually do breezy from 38 to 4:00 to the freezing mark, and 7:00 to the 20 degree low from there. by tomorrow morning, by 4:00 or

5:00, in dover there is a pretty good likelihood that that early in the morning you'll see light snow move in this is from a southern system to the south and we get a brush from this in the morning. the latest couple of model runs subject that for a time tomorrow perhaps by 7:00 or 8:00 we could see light snuff pass up through philadelphia and bucks and montgomery county before it lightens up by 11:00. and the whole thing is probably over by about 1:00, we'll be looking at a coating to inch of snow from areas close to philadelphia, south into cape may county and 1 to 2 by the shore. 38 is the high and tomorrow cloudy and colder a high of 30 and snow ending at lunch time. cold on friday and saturday with highs around 30 sunday we have a sun to clouds mix, a high of 36 and by nighttime there

could be rain. some of that extended in monmorning and tuesday north chance of rain, either tuesday night or wednesday and that one looks like mainly rain and more precipitation overall. >> maybe march should be less severe than february. david thank you. more ahead in our next half hour at noon, including details in a major suburban drug bust and joe biden is laughing off a video that when viral on social media.

"action news" at 12:30 continues with rick williams sara bloomquist and meteorologist, david murphy. hello again here are the stories we are following at 12:30, new video from the gas explosion that leveled a home in ocean county. nora muchanic has the closest look yesterday coming up. and a slight break from below freezing temperatures but not for long, david murphy has the exclusive accuweather forecast. and later new jersey rocker jon bon jovi giving back to his home state for a good cause. and an up close look at yesterday's gas explosion in stafford township ocean county. 12 people were hurt and one person remains in critical condition. one minute the house is fine and then the next it's reduced to

pieces flying all through the air. nora muchanic is live now from stafford township with a new look at that damage. >> reporter: hi there sara, oak avenue was reopened this morning and we are getting our first up close look at this and from the damage here you can get a sense of how monumental this was a guest house blew at 10:00 yesterday morning and gas crews were in the area at the time investigating reports of a gas odor and what is still standing is just the foundation, everything else is blown to bits. the area is littered with splintered wood and broken glass and installation and all the things that make a house i have seen toy fire trucks and couches and even cue balls homes near the blast site are damaged. it appears that number 55 ma