s on front street in florence. the rain storm yesterday took a huge bite out of landscape and now the house is imperviously close to the edge of a ravine. nora muchanic is live at the scene. nora what are officials doing to avoid thiscal ty. >> the o'dell family is waiting to hear what they have to say because if officials cannot figure out how to fix this, they and a neighbor may be forced to leave their homes. >> it's a significant amount of loss here. >> reporter: christopher and janet have watched as their house and a next door neighbor's house is close to collapse. it has taken fence and grown and soon their home. >> they have asked from florence

township and burlington county and were turned away, township crews responded when torrential rain and shored off a storm pipe that was leaking into the ravine. this is the first time we see the pipe there and the water coming out like a fire hose. >> they say this may be contributing to the collapse but the county insurance carrier denied the claim and they are working with local officials to find a cause and remedy. >> we have no long that has been open or at what point that the drain they put in there failed. the township sealed off the pipe at the street and erected fencing around the home. >> you do not want to believe that this is actually happening.

>> begun geoengineers will inspect the ravine to see if it's in danger of furnish collapse or if these homeowners living on the edge will need to move out. that is the latest from florence nora muchanic channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. an out of control school bus nearly crashed in mount laurel this afternoon. there were 12 students from springfield school on board but the only person hurt was the driver and his injuries were minor. he said he experienced a medical emergency before the accident. a woman accused of abandoning her quadriplegic son is coming back to face charges. police say that palmer left the 20-year-old disabled man in the cobb's creek woods within she

went to visit her boyfriend in maryland. she waived extradition today and officials have not given a timeline for her return and her son remains in the hospital. tonight 38-year-old omar lewis of darby say suspect in the southwest philadelphia murder but is still at large police believe he strangled 26-year-old andrea roberts at her home on willows avenue. her body was found on april 6th investigators since named lewis a suspect. if you know where he is you are urged to call philadelphia police. we learned much move about the underground explosion in wayne radnor township. peco was aware of the foul smelling fumes coming up from a manhole earlier in the day. david henry is live with the update. >> reporter: apparently smolders a long time before it blew, peco

is on the scene trying to find a cause and they will be out here all night trying to fix it. last night a manhole cover blew and went flying as a series of three explosions rocked restaurant row in downtown wayne. >> you felt it in the ground and heard it. it was extremely loud. it rocks everything. the patio outside of the great american pub was crowded with diners when this happened. cell phone video captured one of three explosions that rocked the area and sent this manhole flying, luckily it was deflected by this iron fence. my daughter and son were freaking out it was terrifying. >> carly and her family just left the table like this one when the explosion erupted. it was a close call that left them badly shake and. we all snuggled in bed and the what if's could drive you crazy

we are all safe and sound and nobody was injured. the piece apart lore owner says it was a close call but nobody got hurt. my salon is closed off and the electrical panels all blown out in my shop. >> peco crews spent the day digging up the street to fine the cause and that closed down a big section of the business district and no lunch time crowds at places like christophers. >> how are the tips today. terrible. >> a little below zero, that is about it. doesn't work well for me today. >> no alfresco dining today but the local barber improvised to stay in business. >> are you advertising alfresco

haircuts. >> whatever works. >> anything to maintain the cash flow eight buildings are still without power and peco is working through the night to find the cause and fix what happened out here. they are hoping to restore full power by tomorrow morning. live in wayne david henry channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. vice president joe biden toured peco headquarters in center city philadelphia, and looking to see what they are doing to modernize the way they use electricity they received a grab to develop new technologies like smart meters so customers can monitor their usage. the white house introduced a four year energy plan to find new ways to ensure a steady supply of safe energy. the philadelphia commission established a report on ways to replace their leaky and aged

pipeline, and it includes rate increases. >> 1,900 mile of philadelphia's gas works are at risk of crumbling or leaking we spoke to a state official that came short of calling the situation dangerous but he did say something needed to be done soon. >> philadelphia has a problem. >> they are degrading and it's a concern he is talking about the 3,000 miles of pgw's underground pipes, 60% of it is classified as at risk. because the infrastructure is old and antiquated. 50% of the pipeline in the state is in philadelphia and we are dealing with trends that are concerning. >> the most concerning trend is the rise in numbers of leaks and

breaks. in 2010, 6200 gas leaks were reported 3,222 of them labeled hazardous and then they rose to 2600, with 4,000 considered hazardous and that brings us to today and the release of a report that gives suggestion to replace the crumbling pipelines, the primary motivation is to avert the explosions like the one that rocked the community around torresdale four years ago. pgw says the next problem is how this plan will affect customer's rates. >> while safety is paramount, we are not overburdening our customers by asking them to contribute to infrastructure. >> pgw was well into the process of replacing the pipes but at

the rate they are going it would take 60 years they want to do it in half of that time and do it as efficiently as possible. reporting live in center city, walter perez channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. a new high tech park bench is able to monitor the air quality in philadelphia, it's situated at independence hall, it takes ozone and weather condition measurements and helps them understand how pollution varies from place to place including independence mall. police look for two rifle toting suspect who robbed a man in his society hill driveway and archbishop chaput talks about hosting the pope in philadelphia. double scan live is showing

showers heading our way and cold enough for snow in minneapolis and that clily air mass is moving our way. >> phillies are back home to host the marlins, ducis rogers with a preview.

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philadelphia police are looking for two men suspected of using a rifle during a robbery in society hill, newly released society hill show the pair in a nightclub on april 10 and they followed the victim out of a parking lot and trailed him to his house on 5th street, when he

exited his vehicle in his garage the robber as approached with what appears to be an ak-47 and took his wallet and iphone and they are working to identify the suspects. now we continue my one-on-one series, bishop chaput. he was installed in 2011, and i talked to him last week at the magnificent cathedral of st. peter and st. paul. >> when you walked into this church what was your reaction? >> i was announced publically i was going to be archbishop here but i was amazed by the beauty and sides of this place and excited to be the bishop here. >> he will be defined by the success of the visit of the pope

and the world meetings of families. >> what do you think the spiritual impact of the pope's visit will be on your archdiocese. >> i know that personally the visit of the pope could be transformative. we will be as energized for the church as the pope has made the church energized by his being the new pope. i think we'll be more confident and more enthusiastic. >> you made substantial progress in reducing the deficit of the archdiocese of philadelphia. i wonder if this will make an impact. >> if it encourages folks to be a more active part of the parishes, maybe open some that are merged because there will be a reason to do it. >> so the bottom line is the more people engaged in the church the better your finance

situation. >> only that, people put their money where their heart is and if not they don't put their money there. >> i think of people attending the ben franklin parkway to attend a mass for the pope, my primary worry is security. >> that is the worry we mean just care for the people that are here and they are comfortable enough not to be at risk in terms of their health or hostility of their neighbor. not just the papal security but the people boston taught us that, there could be deliberate terrorist attacks against crowds, i am worried about that and people responsible for those things in our city and country are worried about that. the pope will receive personal protection from the federal government because he is the head of state. we are confident we will do the job but i think everybody else

that comes have to be careful about their neighbor and have concern about their neighbor so we can have a positive pleasant experience. >> tonight at 11:00 the archbishop's view on controversial issues facing the church. "action news" continues in a moment.

phillies are back off a tough road trip to face the marlins tonight. they have one win on the road trip, and they are in bad shape and they are here to face one of the two teams with less wins than they have. jaime apody is here with more on the struggling phils. >> the phillies are happy to be back home, like you said the marlins they are a team they should match up with, because

they only have three wins but ryan sandberg knows that nothing comes easy this year. >> we played well, except for maybe one we can use the home field as our advantage and the marlins are a team that has talent. so we have to go about our business and do some things better. >> reporter: now there are been bright spots freddy galvis and ashy leads the team with .350 batting. >> the young players are really swinging the bats for us on the road trip so we need them as a group and whole lineup just to swing as a group. >> like chis utley batting .11. and everybody gets these pins,

and fans 14 and under these beautiful phanatic socks. keeping my feet nice and warm. you don't want to miss it. live at citizens bank park ducis back to you. >> that is tremendous jaime thank you. last week a st. joe's basketball player got the phone call of a lifetime. natasha cloud was the second round pick of the mystics, she is going to the wnba. she has final exams before she graduates in may and then off to training camp, her new reality is sinking in ever so slowly. >> that call was my heart sank into my stomach, it's real, i don't think it really hit me yet, still on cloud nine, not a lot of kids get the chance to go and get this opportunity and i'm extremely grateful.

>> it's a great thought to get paid to play this game that i love and my parents were paying for it. >> one week working on college and the next second getting paid to play baseball.

vain gone and shouldn't be back for a while. >> until tomorrow afternoon. some showers and thunderstorms, and then we dry things out. stormtracker 6 live double scan it's free of any rain.

the rain moved out early this morning, and there is enough lingering showers though that our temple university sky 6, captured this picture, look at that the rainbow over the city of philadelphia and i had a lot of people sharing photos of rainbows from their neighborhoods on my facebook and twitter accounts. a sign of the day. the accuweather highlights show we are out of a soggy stretch of weather and i am tracking much cooler air on the way april showers though we have a lot of them, the past 36 hours between yesterday's super soaker in the morning and the thunderstorms overnight, close to 3 inches of rain and april typically we get 3.5 inches of rain and the first 19 days of april though, only .75 inch, we went from below normal rainfall to below normal in the span of 36 miles per hours temperatures in the 60s and seasonable.

however if you look at the great lakes 30s and 40s in international falls. this is moving our way and afternoon highs stuck in the 50s and overnight lows in the 30s and 40s, don't put away the sweaters quite yet. the winds are bringing us comfortable conditions 66 is our high average for this time of year. nice to be normal sometimes. wilmington 64 and finally a land breeze and not a sea breeze temperature as long the beaches just as mild as inland. the boardwalk 63. satellite 6 along with action radar showing north of the great lakes, that swirl is vortex a low pressure that is sitting there for several days, this brings us showers and thunderstorms and then behind that it pulls down cold air near green bay they are actually seeing snow showers, tonight a quiet night and any clouds clear

out once the sunsets and it diminishes and patchy fog in the atmosphere, 48 is the low in philadelphia and 44 in millville and allentown 39 and reading a cool night. the morning rush hour looks fine sportily sunny skies in the lehigh valley a cold front brings us a round of showers and thunderstorms around 4:00 moving across the i-95 corridor and that will bring in the cool air ahead of it a transition day 65 degrees for the high and afternoon showers could contain gusty winds and even some pea size hail especially south of philadelphia. so the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, some gusty afternoon showers and thunderstorms 65 degrees is the high tomorrow but on thursday breezy and cool and only 56 degrees, it stays breezy and on the chilly side for april, and on friday 56 and the weekend the good news is it's dry and cool. saturday 59 degrees and partly

sunny with a high of 60 monday mostly sunny and 62 and tuesday increasing clouds and a few late day showers on tuesday with a high of 5262 degrees. thank you cecily. abc world news tonight with david muir is next on channel 6. "action news" continues at 10:00 on phl 17 with brian taff, shirleen allicot adam joseph and ducis rogers and join us for "action news" at 11:00 on channel 6. for cecily tynan and ducis rogers and the entire "action news" team i'm jim gardner we hope you'll join us at 11:00.

the breaking news tonight. the justice department now revealing it will open an investigation in the death of a suspect, his spine nearly severed. they want to know what happened during this arrest. and what played out inside that police van. also tonight, the deadly stun gun mixup. the new outrage tonight after the volunteer deputy pleads not guilty today and then leaves on vacation for the bahamas. breaking now, the cruise ship nightmare. 2,500 passengers trapped in a ferocious storm. it is churning at this hour. the new test that shows if you have higher risk for breast cancer or ovarian cancer. the popular apps on your phone, recording your conversations? the moment our reporter's photo is taken straight from her phone. and diane sawyer is back tonight with "america strong."