pockets of yellow on most of our roadways in the heart of the delaware valley with steady rain and with leaves on the roads, it can clog the drains. anywhere from the blue route to 202 and 422 and the new jersey turnpike, these bands of rain are working northwest to the southeast. it won't be for a few hours before we can shut the faucet off. as we look at the water vapor that is 10,000 feet in the atmosphere, where you see the green all of that moist sewer coming in from the atlantic and feeding in with humid air and just to the west we have a cold front and can you see how quick the atmosphere drys out as we get into the middle part of the evening hours. 72 in raleigh and you look to the west you see the west the temperatures drop from the 50s to 40s into the 30s, so post

front as it passes through tonight, we'll see a big drop in temperature at the end of the week, the rain ends at 7:00 to 10:00 from the west to the east and winds turn from the northwest at speeds of 10 to 20 miles per hour tonight so it's fairly breezy and seasonable for tomorrow afternoon with high temperatures only in the 50s. we'll show you the exclusive accuweather forecast coming into the weekend coming up in just a bit. >> thank you. as the rain continues, stay on top of the latest adjustments to the forecast at 6abc.com/weather, count on stormtracker 6 live double scan to give you real time views of what is coming in the next hour and the next few minutes. the house of representatives voted today for new screening procedures for refugees, the bill would put restrictions on syrian and iraqi refugees and require fbi checks from migrants

from the refugees. but enough democrats supported is so the house could -- meanwhile the man that planned the attacks in paris is dead. french investigators reveal that abdelhamid abaauoud was killed during a raid yesterday as they continue to track suspects that could be planning an attack again. marcy gonzales is live with more. >> reporter: those that were detained are still being interrogated as we learn more about the ring leader that police tracked down into the suburbs of paris. >> his body found in the rubble of this raid -- riddled with bullets and shrapnel investigators could only identify him with his

fingerprints, they say that the mastermind, abdelhamid abaauoud, is dead. he was also suspected of the attempted attack on a french train. and they say this cell was planning another attack. >> the counter terrorism officials in france are worried about other attacks that might be planned and that is the number one priority for them. >> reporter: french police shown here training for a possible chemical attack and france's prime minister say that attack is very real. >> there is a risk of biological and chemical weapons, police are soifrping for to suspects for carrying out the attacks last friday, include this disturbing video. diners in this cafe ducking for cover, the man taking aim at one woman when his gun seems to jam,

that bomb and everyone surviving as he runs out. they are looking for him and others in the attack as they conducted more raids in belgium taking nine more into custody. meanwhile, 6abc.com has the latest on the paris attacks, can you read about the raids and learn more about the victims of that tragedy. >> protesters are staging a sit-in at princeton university. members of the black justice league and their supporters are camped out at the hall, they want the ivy league school to remove the name of former university and president, woodrow wilson. nora muchanic will have a live report with more on this coming up at 5:00. police are investigating a

post office robbery in philadelphia, they say this is not the first time someone has hit the same office this year. eva pilgram, she is live at the scene on caster avenue with the details. >> reporter: well sharrie, this most office here on caster avenue was hit by a gunman looking for money for the second time in three months and once again authorities are asking for your help to solve this crime. this post office on the 6300 block was closed unexpectedly today. >> come in and rob a post office how much money could you possibly get, you know you'll get caught, it's a federal crime. that shows how desperate people are around here. a masked gunman in a green hoody and black pants came into the post demanding money. >> the most they will get is money, maybe money orders or stamps. robbing it comes with a

mandatory federal prison time if they are caught. this is the second time this post office was hit. back in august a gunman walked off with cash and for businesses nearby these recent holdups are making them pause with concern scary, have you to worry about going to make a bank drop and if someone is waiting for you or casing you, all of that stuff you have to think about now. >> reporter: if you have any information about this robbery, you are asked to call the postal inspection service. we are live in northeast philadelphia, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. sheer at the big board now center city is going high tech, no more digging for quarters are looking for your credit card to verify, the meter up app launched today along with a catchy jingle. ♪ ♪

try and get that one out of your head. that is catchy. you heard them, the app will remind you when your time is running out and gives you the option to do so without going back to your car and it can help you remember exactly where you parked. philadelphia mayor elect was on hand for today's launch as was the director of the parking authority. >> we want to make it easier to come to philadelphia and for entertainment and the hospitals and effect about philadelphia and try the best we cannot to make it a bad experience by getting a parking ticket. >> the app is running in four pilot zones for now, it will be available at 6,000 kiosks and meters, meter up is the app to get. and it comes with the catchy song too. >> a peter, paul, and mary thing

going. and hopefully no more parking tickets. >> they are pesky and annoying. it's time now for the "action news" traffic report, lets go live to matt pellman with a decidedly down beat jingle over there. >> the ticket to an easy trip home is plenty of time. you'll need it if you take to the roads or rails, we start with problems on the rails and often times we think slippery tracks is the culprit for the regional rails and this afternoon it's switching problems that are giving us up to half hour delays on the wilmington line and the airport line was suspended for a bit, it's running again now, half hour delays on the three lines as you head home on this thursday afternoon. my good buddy sent me this shot, tractor trailer in conshohocken, from the schuylkill blue route to 476 southbound and lets look

at the live look and tow trucks are on the scene and traffic is squeezing by on the ramp from the schuylkill to the blue route eastbound. as you come on to king of prussia it's a parking lot from this part of the blue route, may want to stay on the pennsylvania turnpike if are you heading down to villanova. but speaking of the turnpike, a couple of accidents, on the northeast extension past quakertown an accidents taking out the right lane and a wreck eastbound approaching morgantown in the left lane. we have the delays here on the roosevelt boulevard already this afternoon, southbound comes the traffic on the boulevard schuylkill northbound taillights up towards broad street, and approaching 295, a crash in the work zone here just got pushed off to the side, lets grab the ipad and do the commuter record on this thursday almost friday

afternoon. delays there as you head northbound by the betsy ross bridge, some say a complete stand still in that area. we'll check it again in the next hov our. >> thank you. still ahead here today, a national pitch man turned federal prisoner, former subway pitch man, jared fogle learns his punishment after admitting to having sex with children. and we learn why protesters protested today at philadelphia international airport and what they want to happen next.

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jared fogle the disgraced former head of subway is headed to a federal prison. a judge sentencing him to 8 years behind bar, he plead guilty to child pornography and

crossing state lines to have sex with underage prostitutes. he had pornography produced by his agency's former director. the judge today saying that fogle was fortunate to land his lucrative deal with subway after losing weight in college and that she was disappointed in him. the 38-year-old father of two saying quote, i so regret i let so many of you down, i want to redeem my life and become a good, decent person and i want to rebuild my life. on top of his sentence, fogle was ordered to pay a $175,000 fine. >> quite the turn around for him. alicia thank you. workers at philadelphia international airport hit the picket lines today to demand better pay and health care, the action cam was there as service employees braved the rain to make their demands and they were

joined in the afternoon by mayor elect jim kenney and the rally started before sunrise and was part of a national demonstration, "action news" reporter, katherine scott was there. >> reporter: baggage handlers and cabin cleaners and others were walking the picket line at philadelphia international airport they are all employed by three airline contract services. be what they say are unfair labor practices and low pay. >> they protested here before but what makes today different is that this the first time that the strike is coordinated with four other cities and it's one of the busiest travel weeks in the year. >> these families are traveling to see their families and these brothers and sisters here can barely afford to feed their

families. >> they are struggling to survive on low wages and little to no health care, some were promised wages months ago that they never received. >> we can't believe we have to legislate respect in philadelphia. >> this makes sense to pay you right. we have a worldwide issue. at our airports. and we need a solid team on the ground that doesn't have to worry about just making ends meet. >> reporter: and they want to unionize, former wheelchair associatie believes he was fire for picketing. now to a look at the closing numbers, numbers falling down 4.5 points and the nasdaq off 1.5 and the s&p down 2 points on the day.

tonight at sec in light of recent church shootings, people are left with security at places of worship. here is investigative reporter, wendy saltzman with a special report. >> packing at the pulpit, some pastors say they need a gun on the job. >> there is nothing use with the righteous use of force to a good end. >> preaching protecting themselves in their house of worship. >> we are defenseless, a gun free zone, a target for criminals. >> we are sitting down with pastors that are refuting critics that say it doesn't christian to carry. don't miss the special investigation on "action news" at 11:00. >> a sign of the times no doubt. >> time for the accuweather forecast. adam joseph is standing by with when the rain gets out of here. >> it will end from 7:00 until

11:00 and right now we are socked in with that steady and in fact pockets of heavy rain especially in and around center city and the heart of the delaware valley, the bright colors of the yellows working from the south to the north at the schuylkill expressway and the conshohocken curve and lancaster avenue being inundated with moderate rainfall and that is montgomery county and heading towards buck county and even to the south we see the pipeline of moisture. getting a little bit of a break in wilmington and on either side of the city, to the north and west in new jersey, having some of those yellow pockets popping up with brief areas of moderate to heavy rainfall. a very slow go out there this evening. as we take a look at the rainfall totals so far, it's not too impressive thus far but we bump these numbers up with rain developing, a quarter inch in philadelphia so far, just shy of

a half inch in allentown and pretty much the same in trenton and atlantic city .15 of an inch. from the southeast it's bringing in warm air. 67 in dover and trenton and wilmington 63 presently. and you see the pocket of rain developing to the north and notice how quickly the atmosphere drys to the west of washington and baltimore, the clouds quickly fall apart once the rain stops. there is a very sharp cold front here and the southerly winds and the dew points now in the mid-atlantic to upper 50s to mid-60s, it's slightly humid adding to the rain and behind the front the dew points slam down into the 30s and 40s and that is an indication that we will dry the atmosphere out quickly. the rain is shutting off and heavy at times east of center

city and we speed up to 11:00 and the rain exits the coast and we clear the atmosphere out in philadelphia and trenton and by tomorrow's rush hour at 7:30, sunshine is here to greet us all at the end of the week and it remains the dominant feature tomorrow, however even with the full sun we'll have a strong northwesterly wind, high temperatures in the mid-50s, which is seasonable for this time of year, specifically 53 inal ep town, dover and cape may 54 and 55, the four day at 4:00 forecast, sunny and breezy and 55 degrees, seasonable here on your saturday with a few high clouds and a little less wind at 54 and the wind really cranks up again on sunday as we have another front sweep through, 50 for a high temperature with windchills much of the day in the 40s on sunday and then the coldest day so far, this fall season on monday, sun and clouds

we are only hitting 46 degrees for a high temperature. we have a really important seven day to show you in the next half hour, including the travel day next wednesday. and your next look at thanksgiving coming up. >> outdoor football games too. adam thank you. still ahead a presidential candidate comes to town for a campaign stop in philadelphia. >> and more trouble for a school district, middle school students caught drinking at school. he lost his wife in the terror attacks in paris, a man that pens a letter in the face of hate, the ultimate expression of love and hope. coming up.

a restaurant in overbrook park is reopen after fire damaged the building, the flames started at 11:30 at applebees on

11 and street. the flames were shooting through the roof when the firefighters got there. lni did inspect that building and ruled it was safe. presidential candidate, carly fiorina helped to kick off a business conference at the college of philadelphia today. at the keystone conference of business and policy, fiorina pushed for a policy of the range act, making it first approved by the congress and president and sounded the call to simplify the tax code. the keystone conference runs through tomorrow. a bucks county community is losing one of its grocery stores today, the super fresh in knew hope will shut its doors for good at 6:00 tonight, parent company a&p filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in july and this calls for the closing of some stores, and super fresh is one

of the stores set to go to auction. and an early thanksgiving feast was the reward for a group of senior citizens, and they were nominated for community service awards, in hunting park, state represent leslie acosta was there. 50 local students got help in paying for college, this luncheon was held at delaware community college in media today to celebrate scholarships for students in the stem program, standing for science, technology, engineering and math and peco awards scholarships during the banquet to help the students pay for their education. coming up we'll show you what is left of the front bringing so much rain to our region. and preblack friday shopping tips. and we are entering the season for buying electronics,

consumer reports advise on where to shop for the best selection and service and where to shop for the best price.

"action news" continues with meteorologist, adam joseph, sharrie williams, and brian taff. it's 4:30 and "action news" continues with the little girl cited for drinking hard liquor inside of their lehigh valley

middle school. and terror on tape, a woman spared from death and a young waitress's act of compassion, we'll show you this frightening surveillance video. and an update on a custody battle over a child never born, a california ruled that a cancer survivor's frozen embryos must be decide ending her fight to become a mother. >> we begin with the wet accuweather forecast, from center city to the airport, sky 6 hd is showing rain and future tracker 6 that rain will be with us for a couple more hours. lets get the update from adam joseph. >> we have on and off drizzle and light rain through the day but it has intensified in the delaware valley and that is not good timing for the evening rush hour, you see the bright colors on double scan that means more

intention rain and the hardest part at stenton avenue and bustleton avenue, being inundated with rainfall, and that extends to willow grove and buck county, and very wet conditions as we look to the north there in parts of the southern part of the lehigh valley and buck county and quakertown and 309 and perkasie and the northeast extension dealing with some moderate pockets of rain and that will continue over the next few hours, we have reduced visibility as well. down to a mile and a half and down to two miles in many locations, the best visibility is down in dover where it is sitting at 6 miles. future tracker at 7:00 tonight, that is when the rain pushes off the coast. that is when we see the skies clear out. once the rain ends the skies will clear quickly tonight and

the winds kick up for the enof week, coming up the coldest air so far this fall season sharrie and give you the preview on thanksgiving seven day. the heaviest rain is expected to move through the next few hours and that could have an impact on the evening commute, matt pellman will be here in a few minutes with an update on the commute. and now the house voted to pause the program for the syrian refugees, republicans are demanding a beefed up security process but the white house has vowed to veto it. megan hughes is live with more on this controversy. >> reporter: the white house all along says that this bill is a none starter but today house republicans and dozens of democrats voted for it in the

name of security. yeas are 239. and the house passed a pause, thousands of syrian and iraqi refugees will be shut out of the country, while they develop a program to certify they are not threats. >> don't you think that common sense deck tats we should take a pause and get it right. >> jay johnson says the vetting process takes two years. >> we are talking about a class of people that are predominantly women and children. >> more than 3,000 syrian refugees already live in the u.s. and 30 governors say they will not allow them into their state. and compared them to dogs, and terrorists to rabid dogs. >> if there is a rabid dog running around in your neighborhood you won't assume

something good about the dog and you will put your children out of the way. >> and they expressed disbelief at the language being used. >> i mistakenly thought that signs like irish need not apply and no jews or blacks. were relics from the past but apparently not. >> on the senate side democrats are proposing changes that allows many europeans to enter the united states without a visa, six of the attackers are thought to be european. >> thank you that vote came hours after the world got a first look inside of one of the terror targets in paris. daily mail.com obtained this video surveillance from a cafe. multiple angles shows splashing glass and diners running for

cover and a terrorist circled in red is seen raising his rifle at a victim off camera and a wounded woman burst through the door and throws herself behind the bar and a waitress, jasmine shields her covering her head but the most extrary moment happened outside watch as the gunman spots a diner hiding under the table. the woman heard the gun click, that was the weapon apparently jamming sending him running back to his car, the woman and her friend used that tun to escape with their lives incredibly no one at that cafe was killed here. world news tonight with david muir will have more on the search for the gunman seen in the surveillance video, as well as the latest on increased

security here in the united states. >> there has been another troubling incident in the allentown middle school, two girls are cited for drinking alcohol in their middle school. they were caught with the alcohol at trexler middle school yesterday, each consumed a small amount of the liquor brought from one of the girl's home, just weeks ago a teacher was hurt trying to break up a fight at the very same school and four police officers were injured after nearby allen high school shortly before that. a former secret service officer appeared in court today. lee robert moore is charged with trying to solicit a delaware girl for sex, he surrendered following an online sting and police say he admitted to sending one of those messages while on duty at the white

house, they were in court this afternoon as he waived the preliminary hearing, last week he waived his hearing on state charges, his attorney plans to request that he be released to the custody of his family at his maryland home, a new city law is asking philadelphia business to change the names of the restrooms, now they will have to have gender neutral signs outside of single bathrooms, mayor nutter signed the legislation and he says the change is a step forward in the commitment to equality, all signs must be changed by january 20th. a weekend of running is coming up in philadelphia, thousands of people set to go the distance in a marathon, a half marathon and an 8-k including a doctor that battle against cancer and won.

monica malpass is here with more. >> that is right dr. michael ross of the rothman institute learned he had stage four colon cancer, and attacked it head-on, he made running as part of his recovery and chose an aggressive treatment and had two operations and is now cancer free, coming up in health check, how both his loved ones and colleagues came together to support him for this weekend's upcoming run. sharrie see you then. >> pretty inspiring, see you then. the 12th annual conference for women is wrapping up today. our own monica malpass spoke at the conference and jessica alba interviewing legend gloria stein man is one of the many featured

panelists, earlier in the morning tamala edwards and soccer star, carly lloyd took part in the discussion. well, the effort to fight hunger in our area got more muscle today, bank of america employees packed up food boxes from an assembly line, this goes to help those in need and they are in partnership with philabundance, bank of america presented a check for more than $25,000 to philabundance. >> still ahead here today a powerful expression of love in the face of hate. you won't want to miss the words that a new widower had for the terrorists that killed his wife. if you plan on buying electronics this friday, we break down where to shop and how to get the best price, her battle to become a mother, why a judge ordered this infertile

woman's frozen embryos to be destroyed. >> and adam joseph returns with the wet forecast of course from accuweather when "action news" at 4:00 continues.

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his wife in the deadly attacks in paris, he posted a poignant message for the killers on facebook, with the title, i will not succumb to hate. his wife helene and son were among those killed. he wrote this letter to the terrorists, saying you want me to be afraid, you lost, he will raise his 17-month-old son to be free of hate and that little boy is very much missing his mother. >> he cries and we cry together, we don't pretend that we are not sad or devastated. no, we are, but we stand. >> they stand, he ends his note by saying we are only two, my son and me and we are stronger than all the armies in the world. >> what a beautiful note there. now to a followup on a store dwri we brought you here on big

talker, a divorced couple in california battling over the fate of their five frozen embryos, a judge deciding they must be discarded and destroyed. this is one of many cases deciding the life of the frozen embryos, the 45-year-old breast cancer survivor says this is her last chance of having a biological child but the judge sided with the ex-husband, they signed a consent form to destroy them if they got divorced and finley held her to the contract afraid she would go after child support and she has time to appeal this one. maybe we have not heard the end of it sfoo finally, if you ever wanted freckles, you may be in luck, social media is abuzz with a product that allows you to

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don't be jealous of these drivers stuck in delays on both sides of 676, the rain is coming down and visibility is down and speeds are way down across town on the vine street expressway, and a big crash on the kelly drive at brewery hill, where the bridge is overtop, the mlk may be a better bet. manhole fire in university city at market and preston, and springfield township, delco, look for a crash at westfield road at baltimore pike thank is the schuylkill expressway eastbound traffic bumper to bum perfect at 202 on to the blue route, our jackknife trick or treat on the ramp to the eastbound blue route southbound has cleared out. the northeast extension past quakertown that crash is on the shoulder and still slow, milford township, a crash at mill hill road at john fry highway. and a crash at keystone drive

and church road gets you around it. and a crash cleared at 41 by grace lutheran church and highway one in christiana is out of the way but speeds in the 20s and half hour delays at the regional lines. and we'll check it again coming up in the next half hour. >> thank you matt. meteorologist, adam joseph, standing by with the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, including thanksgiving day.

all right now to meteorologist, adam joseph, it's a drenching day and we are not done yet, we have a few hours of steady heavy rainfall and at 7:00 it will end from the west to the east. look at double scan live radar with especially the evening

commute now being socked in from vineland to the north and less intense with the rain to dover and cape may and atlantic city, and vineland, as we close in around center city philadelphia, and the schuylkill expressway it's all in yellow at this point, with the steady moderate rainfall and pockets of moderate rain and chester county and lancaster county and berks county, we lift to the north this is moving to the northwest and southeast, and mercy county, just to the west of trenton and yardley seeing heavy rainfall at the present time, and this continues to race off to the north and east, so much of southern bucks county getting hit by some of this hefty rain, 63 warm degrees now in philadelphia, the same for trenton and allentown and pretty uniform numbers it's on the muggy side with dew points running into the low 60s in much of the area and that is helping to enhance some of the rain, the

cold front is just to the west, you see much of the day today it was sporadic, light drizzle and on and off light showers and then we blossomed the rain at 2:00 this afternoon and this continues over the next couple of hours but look how quickly we dry the atmosphere out. future tracker 6 showing pockets of rain and part of the western area of the lehigh valley and the rain is off to new england and off the jersey coast and it's starting to fall apart especially in pennsylvania and quick clearing and high pressure is in control here at the end of the week and breezy out of the west at 10 to 12 miles per hour and then as this high settles in on saturday, it's bright and seasonable at 54 degrees before the next system races through on saturday and behind that we get a real chill here on sunday with

high pressure coming in from the midwest. your runners forecast it's a big forecast, the rothman 8-k, and a wind of 5 to 10 miles per hour and a temperature of 39 and marathon mostly sunny and windy out of the west, 12 to 25 miles per hour and air temperatures warmer than saturday, between 44 and 47 and if you are head to the linc on sunday, sun and breezy and chilly and 48 degrees and typical football weather and 47 for the fourth quarter, the exclusive accuweather forecast, 55 tomorrow and bright sunshine and a few high clouds on saturday, 54 and less wind and then the winds kick back up only 50 for a high and windchills in the 40s and only 40s for air temperatures on monday despite sunshine so the coldest day so far and then a great spring of

weather next week, tuesday and wednesday, 50 to 54 and the early call for thanksgiving, dry and sunny with a few clouds and mild with temperatures of 58 degrees, perfect for a parade on the parkway on thursday morning. temperatures then will be in the 40s. not too bad. >> pretty good news. adam thank you. >> nydia han has tips on how to get the best deals on electronics coming up next. ♪ this holiday season, my good friend gave to me ♪

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how to shop to get the best price. when wendy got her new television at best buy, she ended up getting $300 off just by asking. >> i never suspected that something would happen in a big store like that, but it was easy. >> consumer reports says don't be afraid to ask. 64% of those that haggled were successful, saving an average of $78, you may want to reach for your key board before your car keys when you head out to shop. people that brought electronics were happy with the price and happy with the time to make the returns. >> the top on leline retailers amazon gets high marks for price and selection. you can get better deals online by price matching and finding coupon codes and it's always

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"action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with jaime apody, meteorologist, cecily tynan, rick williams and monica malpass. it has been a gloomy thursday in our area and the rain continues to fall in many parts of the region tonight, the air is warm though and that won't last long as more seasonable temperatures are coming our way. >> we are looking live at sky 6 hd at philadelphia international airport the runways are soaked and the water is hitting our cameras as you can see. there is a ground stop because of the weather, be sure to check with your airline before you head out. the big story is the wet weather and bringing us a change in time for the weekend starting tomorrow. cecily tynan is live now at the

beg board with the latest from accuweather. >> earlier today the first half of the day, we had the light showers, damp but not that bad, but double scan live showing the heavier steadier rain arrives in time for the commute, in parts of extreme southern new jersey and delaware getting a break in the action, but here in the heart of the delaware valley you can see the pockets of heavier rains and almost every major thoroughfare is affected. route 3 and the blue route and this all is migrating to the northeast and it will be a few more hours before we get out of this air mass, it shows it really well and you see this plume of moisture running up the i-95 dor corridor, that is the cold front across central