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it's the next phase for dzhokhar tsarnaev jurors have started hearing arguments on whether the boston marathon bomber should live or die. and teens learn about impaired driving just before prom season. and the power is still out for people in wayne county due to an underground explosion. here is video sparked by the blast of underground wires you can see the poof of flames and it knocked out power and is still out now. david henry is live now with the details. >> reporter: well, it will be a while yet peco is trying to assess the situation and trying to figure out what caused the explosion last night tonight was a close call for folks dining outside and inside the nearby restaurants and shops.

>> oh, my god, i thought my one employee was -- i didn't know if i would look and see him dead. >> frank was inside of his pizza parlor and said there was problems with the electricity all day and were concerned when sickening fumes came from the manhole outside. and then an "action news" viewer caught the explosion on video. outdoor diners were saved only by an iron fence that deflected the manhole cover. >> the windows came flying in and tables and chairs came flying and lights came off the wall. nobody got hurt, luckily. there were people in the window eating earlier, it as like people had just got out of there. >> peco doesn't know what caused the explosion, possibly expanding air inside of the cake

installation, and smoke began pouring from the manhole midmorning, frustrating for shop owners who lost their power. >> my salon power is off. >> most of it is in the area, and it will be a while before they will reopen. >> we cannot get in today there is damage inside of the building and once the township gets in we'll have the engineer doing the assessment and doing repairs to the building. peco says it will be late this afternoon before all the repairs are made and power restored to the buildings, this remains a major disruption to what is a bustling business district. >> thank you. penndot had an emergency of its own overnight when an

electrical fire was sparked into montgomery county inside of its district 6 building in king of prussia the fire ignited inside of an electrical cabinet on the second floor. >> it looks like electrical damage and it's somewhat severe the preliminary diagnose is electrical damage. it did not spread and stayed with the electrical cabinet. >> there was a to hour delay for employees to report this morning. finally the rain has moved out making way for nice sunshine this afternoon. some had to deal with the remnants of storm during the morning commute, the action cam was on columbus boulevard in penn's landing where minor flooding blocked the road, a police officer blocked the road, to keep people from driving flew it. now david murphy is here with more. >> that can be a hazard when you

get ponding like that. we had abbreviated downpours and rain in the rush hour and some of that left over ponding, love to show you the radar is high and dry now, as you look at satellite high on storm tracker, it's clear and the area of low pressure and cold front is well off the coast and the breeze you feel out there from the west is drawing drier air in and evaporating the cloud cover and giving us a dry afternoon, there are high pop-up clouds out there but generally better than when we started out there. it's a good looking day from start to finish. if you were around this morning the wind and rain started to disperse and my twitter follower in chester county a wall of a rainbow coming over her neighborhood in . a day and a half of storminess.

62 in wilmington and 62 in allentown and cool side but seasonable. the breezes are blowing in from the west and they have picked up from the morning commute, an 18 miles per hour breeze right now coming in from philadelphia 15 in allentown and millville 18 everyone winds in the teens and combine with it temperatures in the 60s and you need a sweatshirt and jacket for a while. 66 is today's high it's the average high for this date. the overnight low for this date below average. we have a change tomorrow and showers in the forecast and we'll show them to you on future tracker 6. >> a car crash snarled the morning commute in camden today, it happened at lyndon and 10th streets. a white van and a smaller car collided. traffic was backed up in the area as the investigation was on going. >> vice president joe biden is

coming to philadelphia and is expected to speak about energy at peco headquarters joining him is earnest modeis seen to the left of biden there though are set to arrive at 307b8 and market at 2:30. a woman accused of abandoning her quad son is waiting extradition to philadelphia. she was moved from a hospital to a jail. she went there according to police to visit her boyfriend after she left her son in the woods in philadelphia. she remains in custody under fugitive of justice charges. well, the sentencing phase is underway for convicted boston marathon bombing suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev the jury will soon decide if he will spend the rest of his life in prison or sentenced to death. marcy gonzales has more.

>> reporter: back in the courtroom today a battle for convicted bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev the jury that found him guilty on all charges are seated again for the penalty phase of the trial. some are calling on the government to take the death penalty off the table. there are many that fear a death sentence could lead to years of appeals. >> part of us getting on with our lives is this ending and it's not going to end when it keeps getting drawn out like this. a sentiment shared by the family of 8-year-old martin richard, who was killed in the attacks. >> as long as the defendant is in the spotlight we live a story told on his terms not ours. >> the defense will use that.

>> the defense says it will help their case as they try to humanize the defendant saying he was influenced by his older brother, to avoid the ultimate punishment death. federal officials say that dzhokhar tsarnaev is not expected to take the stand. mary gonzales, channel 6 "action news." >> tonight "action news" anchor, jim gardner, has a one-on-one interview with the philadelphia archdiocese. archbishop chaput talks to him about the pope's visit and the meeting of families and the pressure that the church is under to make social change, the jim gardner one-on-one interview starts tonight at 6:00. the efforts to save the bayville dinosaur in ocean

county, new jersey are moving forward they had a positive meeting of the owners of the land where virginia the dinosaur currently sits on the landmark was built until the 1930s and is need of a major makeover plans call for moving the dinosaur to a new site land now owned by the berkeley township historical society. but it's not known if the property owner will let virginia be reloebted. the family of freddie gray wants to know what happened when he died after being arrested a week ago in baltimore. and this man makes off with groceries woutd a car and still make a fast exit. and david murphy is back wlt cooler but sunnier accuweather forecast.

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officers are suspended after a suspect died in their custody. video shows gray being put in an ambulance and he died a week later of a severe spinal injury. they do not show how they died. and the police say their cameras do not give conclusive answers. >> they are responsible because it happened in their custody under extraordinary suspicious circumstances. >> the six officers are off the job pending an investigation. a tree planted in a park in ferguson, missouri to honor slain teenager michael brown was torn down and replaced within hours. police say someone chopped the tree down on sunday and there is no leads on who is responsible

and brown was killed by police officer darren wilson in august setting off months of protests. a female police officer accused of shooting an unarmed man is expected to dolphin county court this afternoon. in an effort to keep the video from being released to the public, lisa merkel is accused in the death of david masuk police say she chased him and tased him and shot him twice in the back. >> they say the shooting was justified because she did not know if he was reaching for a weapon. >> the case relies on the video it is and i expect it to be the corner stone of the prosecution. >> merle has waived her right to a preliminary hearing.

in western pennsylvania police are looking for a shoplift their made off with her goods using a shopping cart and tupperware. "action news" captured her making her get away from a wal-mart, everything looked normal she was pushing her cart and took groceries section bisection and then put items into tupperware container, and bypassed the line and used the shopping cart as her get away car. coming up a popular ice-cream maker issued a vol teary recall of its products. what prompted blue bell to make the move. and mammograms what they are saying about this potentially life saving procedure.

blue bell creameries are expanding their recall because of listeria contamination. it extends to all of their products, ice-cream frozen yogurt and sherbert. kraft will spot using artficial colors this their macaroni and cheese. they are trying to simplify food

labels on groceries. a government study finds that women should be getting potentially life saving mammograms at age 50 they say at 40 it's of little benefit and a personal choice. there is no proof that the new 3-d mammograms are better or if women need extra testing to find hidden tumors. now lets check in with alicia vitarelli with a live look ahead. >> coming up today on "action news" at 4:00, it was a pretty scary incident for hey man walking his dog in north jersey, we'll tell you about the animal encounter on the street that has the entire community on alert. and one of the best things you can eat after hitting the gym

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sunshine out there. >> maybe jacket weather stormtracker 6 live double scan shows us we are dry though after all the rain yesterday morning and then thunderstorms last night and then another round of rain this morning, nice to be on the other side of that. it's a cool picture, the rainbow did form in the region and a lot of you saw that and it includes stephanie bryant in our ops room she handles all the sky 6 images and she took the image you can see the rainbow crossing philadelphia as the rain moved out. a couple of highlights, bright and breezy today maybe jacket weather but feeling good overall and looking great tomorrow showers move into play and i'll have that on future tracker 6 in a second. 64 right now and winds out of the west-southwest at 18 miles per hour, and bright and breezy out there there again are the winds rolling in from the west and 15 miles per hour breeze from allentown and 20s on the

map and the only one i have got is in lancaster, a 20 to 25 miles per hour breeze is what can you expect. we have the dry air rushing in behind it and that evaporated our early morning cloud cover and this is high enough to allow sunshine in for the rest of the day. if you plan on heading to the playground playground, 1:00, 65 and bright and breezy and if are you bringing the little ones with you make sure they have a sweatshirt and cute things. and a jacket too. a little hello kitty. rick you know all about that. 66 in millville and about the same down the shore, so everybody is enjoying highs in the mid-60s and seasonable weather out there, as we roll through the rest of the afternoon, here is the 66 high at 3:00, by ac in the mid-60s and at 7:00 we see the numbers dip back down into the 50s and 54 ton and 48 is your overnight

low, if you are headed to the ball game it's dry and on the breezy side and cool by the ninth inning i can see us down into the mid-50s. so do be sure to wear a couple of layers i know you have the phillies jacket and jersey maybe you'll want a sweatshirt on too. temperatures like this i like a hood especially for a breeze. tomorrow we start out for a chance of light sprinkles around and through the morning a light shower or two, but the best chance of steadier rain is at 2:00 and between 4:00 and 5:00 and 6:00, a chance of brief steadier shower activity and it looks like it dies down later in the evening, not raining all the time and cloudy and damp. your exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, a high of 66 think the average high, and showers at times like you saw on future tracker 6 and tomorrow

the same at 65 we enter a school dry period 50s on thursday and friday and partly sunny on sunday and back up to 60 there and we climb the ladder on monday and mid-60s by the middle of next week again. >> thank you david there is more ahead in the next half our of "action news" at noon, the aging infrastructure of the gas works is the focus of a just released report also a teenager's life saving 911 calling, he is talking about making during a fire that threatened his sister's lives.

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walter perez is live with more. >> reporter: hi rick, the public utility commissions reports a budge of ways that pgw can speed up and that includes raising rates for its customers that is not to say that pgw customers will foot the entire bill but the city owned utility borrow some of the money and curb the payments that pgw makes to the city each and every year, the goal of course is to replace the gas mains that rank amongst the oldest in the country and avoid leaks and explosions like the one occurred where a 12 inch main was leaking at torresdale. pgw says it's time to upgrade the system. >> when it was installed. cast iron and other materials uncoated steel used in the 60s, was state of the ar