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good afternoon rick and sara are off and i'm matt o'donnell, a traffic trouble spot is now clear but it was a tough go for drivers into philadelphia this morning and new information on the assault in the poconos that left a woman with a black eye. but the big story on "action news" is breaking news, one person is dead of four others are injured after an apartment fire in delaware. the flames broke out along the 600 block of capital trail in delaware just over an hour ago at 10:30 this morning, this is video just coming in you see heavy smoke coming from several windows from this apartment building called the possum park apartments one person is dead and several others including firefighters are injured. our david henry is there at the scene and will have a live report coming up late under this broadcast.

now to accuweather and a day of big transition chilly to warm and humid back to pleasant. sky 6 hd taking a live look at cape may, new jersey not much of a beach day quite foggy there, prepare for temperatures to soar to 70 degrees and the chance of skies opening up today especially in south jersey. melissa magee is here with a preview. >> we are tracking the potential of strong to potential storms that roll through noolt afternoon and evening hours as you can see on stormtracker 6 live double scan things are dry and quiet there is low level moisture and are you dealing with mist and drizzle and cloudy conditions outside. we'll widen out the picture and here is what we are tracking on stormtracker 6 live double scan 3-d, this is the frontal boundary working its way east ward, the same system responsible for the severe

weather and deadly tornado across areas in illinois. this makes its way eastward into the afternoon and evening hours in a much weaker fashion future tracker 6 showing you as we go through the afternoon hours, 4:00 in the afternoon you can see spotty showers a lot of that conservation in the southern fip of our viewing area and washington, d.c. and portions of virginia, as far as what we can expect today the storm prediction center at a low chance of finding severe wraernl from atlantic city and wilmington and points to the south right through delaware we could find winds in these locations up to 60 miles per hour. and a chance of finding small hail and that is south of the city across south jerseyth delaware. we'll outline and go through what to expect for the rest of today. tracking areas of fog and visibility is down to a mile and a half in the city and late day sunshine that gets our temperatures close to 70 in the city later today and milder

temperatures and we are tracking the evening showers and storms from a west-east direction coming up we'll take a closer look at storm tracker 6. and let you know if this mores out for the weekend. speaking of the weekend make sure your plans are not ruined by april showers by going to 6abc.com/weather get the latest forecast from our team of meteorologists. while our area braces for a wet end of the week, cleanup is underway of thousands of miles of the u.s. from illinois to texas where storms ripped through last night at least one person is dead and the search is on for anyone else that may be buried in the rubble. we turn to lana zach live in new york. >> reporter: hello that is right, search and rescue are on their third sweep hoping to find anyone else trapped underneath the debris.

>> this morning the people of dekalb county 60 miles west of chicago are searching through the rubble. there is at least one fatality and one injured in the town of fairdale. >> at this time we do have unaccounted people. >> abc's alex perez was there. >> reporter: most of the 50 homes here in the town of fairdale look like this structure completely destroyed. >> the sheriff continues to head up search efforts even as the storm his home. >> my house is gone. >> torns are popping up in illinois iowa and ohio. >> oh my god. this is violent. you guys it's right there, right there. oh my gosh. look there goes cars, i saw

headlights go flying, we need to go and see if everybody is lrtd. the destruction was really truly terrible today the survivors are trying to salvage what they can and find the pieces of their lives in all of this debris. live in new york, lana zach, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. an overturned tractor trailer caused major problems for the drivers on the ben franklin bridge this morning, the semi tipped over on to its side at 5:00 a.m. snarling traffic heading into philadelphia for the evening rush and the action cam was there as the crews uprighted the truck and hours later the bridge is now clear. a driver lost control along kelly drive at boathouse row and the car ended up on its roof, this happened at 4:30 and the car landed across the road on the jogging path and the driver was able to get out without help. the medics helped the person out at the scene.

police need your help tracking down a gunman that opened fire at a car, at martha street in the port richmond section. the driver honked at someone in the middle of the street who happeneded to be armed and subsequently fired at the driver, no one was hurt. a short time later the suspect was seen making his get away through the grocery store the suspect's name may be william and he has a skull tattoo on his right hand, anybody that knows him is asked to call philadelphia police. from our new jersey newsroom, police need your help finding this man suspected of vandalizing properties around the city, that he sprayed graffiti one week ago including at the trans town station. if you know who this is call burlington county police. philabundance got a big

boost from acme markets and 6 abc today. we helped deliver a check of $60,000 to acme markets. the most successful food drive in 6 abc history and they delivered 100,000 pounds of food during the campaign. general manager, bernie prazenica was on hand to celebrate. our food drive generated 80000 meals for those in need in the tri-state area. still to come, united airlines under fire from the faa, a close look at the airline's practices in the air and on the ground. >> plus -- >> don't go into the lane. don't go into the lane a scare for drivers on a busy road in california. this woman walked along the interstate. "action news" will be back.

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in busy newark delaware all the fire equipment is there in front of the possum park apartments. firefighters say they met heavy smoke and flames when they arrived on the scene a three story brick apartment building burning and the fire started in the basement and during all of this the woman had to jump out of a third floor apartment on to the ground below she was taken away on a stretcher she was one of two people that was injured a woman that lives on the third floor apartment apparently died in the flames that is apparently where it all started. two firefighters suffered minor injuries out here and we are told that they are okay having been treated for those injuries and still an active scene as fire investigators continue to pop up what happened here, and how the fire got started and some of the fire equipment is pulled out and the fire was under control in a half hour but

not before the one woman perished in the flames and the others were injured. we are trying to gather more information here and we'll get it to you as we get it. >> matt, thank you. >> don't go into the lane. don't go into the lane! >> that was the scene in california as panicked bystanders pleaded this woman to stop walking in the middle of the freeway, police say she was drinking and driving when her car stalled on interstate 15 yesterday so she walked across several lanes to ask someone for jumper cables as cars sped by and swerved to avoid her and her abandoned boulevard. bystanders helped her to avoid accidents. >> i don't know he escaped or the driver escaped or how she escaped. >> highway patrol officers event

lull eye will arrested the woman on drinking and driving charges, no one was hurt. the woman that is believed to already be the frontrunner for president is expected to announce her presidency no two days sources close to hillary clinton say it will come from a social media release on sunday. the former secretary of state is expected to travel to iowa next week where the next caucuses happen next week for the white house. the faa is scrutinizing pilot campaigns the memos and airlines to employees. citing major safety lapses all of which are preventible. there are 12 apparent violations in 13 months indicating a systematic hazard. >> whether or not they have a system that will catch it in time is what is important and

that is the way it worked this time. >> they assure the safety of their passengers and provided a full outline of their corrective actions to the faa. president obama is in panama for the summit of the americas, last night he met with ceo's and other leaders ahead of the summit opening today. this is the first time all the heads of the countries in the western hemisphere will attend the summit. there is word that president obama could encounter cuban president, raul castro. the head of the world's biggest social media company interrupted one of the meeting. mark zuckerberg walked into a meeting with the president of panama and they quickly escorted

him away, he seeked to expand internet access across the world. a warning for parents about your childrens lunch boxes and tax day is just five days away, hear why you are so lindh if you haven't filed yet.

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found in soil and it can be found on fruits and vegetables but there was another nasty surprise. >> they have as much bacteria as you expect to find in a train station toilet and the fact that your food is sitting in there, it's gross. >> four lunch boxes had staff bacteria that can affect cuts. can you use a disinfecting or bleach wipe and letting the lunch box air dry overnight. the "action news" is working on news stories you will see beginning at 4:00 and a freebie friday featuring everything from ice-cream to ohh massages. and why a denver area high school is removing a series of posters that were aimed at inspiring minority students and from one school controversy to this one a third grade teacher

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fashion, we are tracking the potential of strong showers and storms south of the city, stormtracker 6 live double scan radar, it's still dry and quiet dry in the sense we are not tracking any severe storms yet but a lot of low level moisture and mist and drizzle and cloudy conditions, the action cam was outside earlier today looking down the ben franklin parkway on this friday we have a mostly cloudy skies and visibility is down to a mile and a half at the airport and delays up to 75 minutes at philadelphia international airport and go slow if you are out and about on the roads. 46 in the city and dew point 45 that lets you know the air is quite saturated and we have low level moisture and awaiting the arrival of the frontal boundary that moves in tonight into the evening hours the pressure is

29.91, and the temperatures this afternoon, the upper 40s and lower 50s starting to creep up to the south and' in millville and to the north and west. 46 in land caffer and 45 in allentown and the lehigh valley. we are start to see an increase with the southerly winds as the temperatures climb to the 50s to our south. here is the problem however, a thick layer over head, the visibility is strong down to a mile in allentown and a mile and a half in trenton 5 miles at landcaster lancaster, stormtracker 6 live double scan showing this frontal boundary moving in from a west-east direction. this was responsible for at least one deadly tornado yesterday in illinois. you can see it's moving into a somewhat stable air mass compared to what is out to the

west. future tracker 6 showing you 2:30 in the afternoon patchy clouds and pockets of sunshine and it's approaching from the poconos into lancaster county and mostly cloudy and area locations where you could find pockets of sunshine but for the most part the severe weather threat across south jersey and delaware, that is where the storm prediction center put us in a low chance of finding strong to severe showers and storms the biggest threat is gusty winds and the possibility of small hail, 9:3 this evening the precipitation is wiping off from a northeast direction and high pressure works its way eastward and sunny and breezy and high temperature tomorrow coming in at 64 here is the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, warmer today and thunderstorms in the afternoon and evening hours the best bet is to the south of the city, high of 76 in philadelphia and

tomorrow 64 degrees and sunny and breezy and sunday 66 and sunny and nice and monday breezy and warm up to 73 degrees 70 on tuesday and clousds and sunshine and midweek we are looking good with a high of 70 pleasant on thursday 69 we are tracking the storms and have the weather gear with you. >> i like the trend. >> yes 70s this week. there is more ahead in the next half hour of "action news" at noon, including the coverage of a breaking story in delaware the smokey apartment fire that left one person dead and four others hurt including firefighters and a brazen theft caught on camera police in new york city say the suspect is one of their own. those stories and more after the break.

"action news" at 12:30 continues with rick williams sara bloomquist and meteorologist, david murphy. hello again i'm matt o'donnell, here are the stories we are following at 12:30 police in the poconos hopes that this picture leads to an arrest. and firefighters are battling an early morning blaze in the frankford section and more dash-cam video for the police shooting in south carolina. and first at 12:30 we get a

closer look at the did have station in illinois where at least two tornadoes touched down hard hit dekalb county found a 67-year-old dead in her home and several others were hurt, the main goal now is to search through the debris and make sure every resident is accounted for, six in all were affected and the devastation is widespread. >> the damage is significant, the houses that are affected are severely affected. they are gone for the most part or uninhabitable. there doesn't appear to be houses with minor damages. governor, bruce rauner will be surveying the damage today. that system is weakening and will bring bad weather here. here is a look at sky 6 hd at philadelphia international airport, melissa magee is here with more on what to expect