out as fear and desperation reigned here in norristown. 12-year-old sanford harling perished in the horrific fire that erupted at his three story twin home this morning just before 9 o'clock. at least four other family members were able to get out alive through windows this witness told me. >> the family was jumping out the like back window. at one point they realized somebody else was in there and they turned to try to run back in and they -- you know, the neighbors were actually pulling them back to keep from coming in because there weren't any cops here. >> reporter: one family member did get back in. sanford harling thought his father was trapped on the second floor. the 12-year-old nicknamed manhattan looked for his dad only to suffer a cruel fate. >> once we got out we thought that her husband, his father was still in there. his father just had hip surgery so he can't move around and man-man ran back in to help his dad.

father end up jumping out the second floor window. man-man got caught up in there. >> reporter: even firefighters were beaten back by flames when they tried the rescue the child. for hours sanford's family stood in the freezing morning air grieving over the loss of the brave little boy who thought his dad was in harm's way. his father is in paoli hospital at this hour suffering from a broken back and like the rest of his family suffering from a broken heart. monica, the family lost all their belongings in this fire this morning. a fund for the family is being organized by community leaders here. live in norristown, i'm vernon odom, channel6 "action news. >> thank you vernon. a delaware county couple was trapped for hours this morning after a tree he landed on top of their home. 77-year-old marjay cooper and her husband alan were asleep when that tree came crashing down on their roof in broomall.

alan survived but his wife did not. gray hall ougray hall our reporl have more on the rush to free the couple and why investigators thing that fell in the first place at 6:00. >> police in delaware county looking for an attempted armed robbery suspect. they branded an urban terrorist. thone employee was shot in the leg on top of tracking down the suspect police are trying to track down or figure out if he's responsible for three nearby holdups in recent weeks. "action news" reporter trish hartman is live at the upper darby police station with the details tonight. trish. >> reporter: that's right, rick. police called -- police chief called the suspect an urban terrorist and a thug today. now detectives hope someone will recognize that man caught on camera. they're investigating to see if last night's holdup is connected to other crimes. neighbors saw the commotion at the 7-eleven on long lane

after 10 o'clock last night. >> maybe something wrong. >> reporter: police say this man walked into the store and showed a small black handgun demanding money. the 31-year-old clerk was by himself at the counter, a coworker was restocking the walk in freezer. >> obviously this guy was staking out the joint because there was nobody in there. not going to go in with a store full of people. just not going to happen that way. >> reporter: when the clerk didn't give up the cash police say the suspect fired hitting the victim in the thigh. the suspect fled without taking anything. the victim was rushed to penn presbyterian hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries. some customers were shocked by the violence in their neighborhood store. >> and they're young 'cause i'm 71 so i know they have to be -- they could be my sons. >> reporter: upper darby police are now investigating if this holdsup is connected to three others in recent weeks. on january 22nd police say this 7-eleven in broomall was robbed at gunpoint by two men. that same night police responded to another armed robbery is it a at a 7-eleven

in tredyffrin township. on january 29th radnor police responded to an armed robbery at this 7-eleven in bryn mawr releasing this surveillance image of the suspect. >> we do all the intelligence sharing and there are similaritiesimilarities that ond think there could be a group out there. while the investigation continues people in this area aren't letting there guard down. >> i live with my mom so i'm definitely going let her know. she always comes here because she takes the buns i bus and its right here. >> reporter: police say that clerk is in good condition. the manager of the 7-eleven tells me this was that victim's first month on the job. if you have any information about the suspect you're asked to contact upper darby police. we're live in upper darby, trish hartman, channel6 "action news." >> thank you, trish. from our new jersey news room tonight, 34-year-old marsha bernard of cherry hill was sen 10d to 21 years in prison for her involvement with an international drug ring. prosecutors say bernard

received large shipments of cocaine through the postal service and other delivery services in new jersey. she then distributed it to other drug traffickers. she was convicted along with one other drug ring's leaders 37-year-old andrew davis of kingston jamaica. davis is due back in court in may. >> the borgata at a cass flow in atlantic city says it will stop making tax payments until the city forks over millions of dollars in tax refunds. atlantic city owes the casino more than $170 million after the borgata at challenged its assessed value. he allowed the borgata to stop making tax payments until the case remains unsolved. >> the garden state took the brunt of the wintry system that moved through our area this morning. the action cam in mount holly today where enough snow fell for folks to have to shovel their sidewalks and brush off their cars here. some towns did get more than 4-inches of snow according to

the national weather service. now looking live at the ben franklin bridge a beautiful sunset, sun and warmer temperatures helped to melt the snow as the day went on making for rather nice finish to the week i think. meteorologist cecily tynan live outside with the first look at the forecast for you today and through the weekend. cecily. >> hi monica, the best kind of snow. didn't require a lot of shoveling. we had the sun and temperature in the 40's to melt it. storm tracker6 showing that storm continues to bring heavy snow to parts of new england. parts of new england about a foot of snow and lined that some that brushed our system we have this sinking hair. that's what brought us the return of the sunshine. as far as snow amounts, this was pretty much a nuisance event but it came during the morning rush so it did cause some problems. i know my kids were happy to get a two-hour delay. philadelphia 1.2-inches, horsham two and a half, wilmington one and a half, mount holly 3-inches and toms river in that jackpot zone getting 6-inches of that heavy wet snow. so, now temperatures rebounded very nicely. 42 degree he is in philadelphia now, allentown

38. atlantic city airport 38 and wilmington 40. for your friday night if you're out on the town temperatures will be dropping down into the mid 30's by 11 o'clock, so pretty quiet friday night. now after midnight, though, a lot of areas will drop below freezing so do be careful. could be some icy patches late tonight. i'll talk about what to expect for your super bowl weekend and also some snow on the way next week. all those details in the accuweather 7-day forecast. rick. >> all right, sails se cecily su back inside. bob casey met with president obama at the white house to discuss national security. a spokesman for the senator and casey was -- said casey was concerned about local isis threats. a teenager connected to the militant group was arrested in harrisburg last year and just last month a philadelphia police officer was ambushed on the street by an armed man who said he was attacking on behalf of isis. >> new mayor of philadelphia's getting in touch with folks via twitter.

he held his chat through twitter. the #simple ask can kenney this is part of his over to the increase government accessibilities. questions focused on gun violence to what his favorite bands were. one tweet from at jessie rohrer asked about getting rid of plastic bags at grocery stores. >> the city of philadelphia has a new poet laureate. mayor jim kenney appointed yolanda wisher to the position today as the city's third ever poet laureate. she'll speak at different schools and serve as a mentor. wisher's poetry has earned her many accolades and she is a 2015 pugh fellow. you can see wisher delivering her first poem as poet laureate. you can go to our web site at 6abc.com. >> very nice and time right now for check of the "action news" traffic report friday night. >> probably not poetry in motion. >> not tonight. >> okay. but for folks trying to get home for that weekend matt. >> they're trying for sure and

we're all going red today, right rick and monica. so are the drivers on 95. they're getting in the action, they're hitting their red brake lights. we're seeing lots of them here in the southbound lanes between business one and 413. it's because of the emergency pothole repairs that were blocking a lane for about 45 minutes. the crews have pulled away now so both southbound lanes are opened but damage is done. have a police officer trying to head up ahead. i believe there may be something on the shoulder up there. earlier we said maybe use one southbound instead but now we're getting reports of crash over there. so at this point stick with 95 but expect a slow go. in the holmesburg section a crash brought town a traffic signal at frankford and pennypack. first week of closure of the falls bridge now done only eight weeks to go. hope you're getting through that okay. in pennsbury he township a downed tree and wires along parkerville road. on 202 the concorde pike watch out for a water main break by the best western. we'll check it again rick and monica coming up in the next half hour. >> thank you matt. >> sounds good. >> much more still ahead on

"action news" at 5:00 tonight. a deadly crane collapse in the middle of lower manhattan. coming up at 5:30 what investigators are saying caused the heavy piece of equipment to come crashing down on several buildings and two city blocks. >> first new guidelines from the cdc aimed at curbing the spread of zika virus here in the u.s. when "action news" returns tonight. (vo) if you have type 2 diabetes,

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>> senate democrats want president obama to ramp up america's response to the spread of the zika virus. >> that's right. this on the same day the cdc released new guidelines regarding the virus. officials say men who visited an area infected by zika should use condoms if they have sex with a pregnant woman. they also suggested using condoms or abstaining from sex even with women who are not pregnant. in two cases the virus has been transmitted sexually. meanwhile in brazil officials want pregnant women to think twice before kissing anyone. researchers in south america recently found that the zika virus is active in saliva. pregnant women are also advised not to share cutler reglasses or plates with those who have symptoms of zika. today's warning comes amid suspected links between the zika virus and birth defects. >> the country's unemployment rate has dipped to 4.9 percent, that's lowest level in nearly eight years. today's report from the labor

department shows employers added 151,000 jobs last month now technically that is a slow down in hiring at least compared to november and december. experts said today's report though further clouds the country's economic outlook. stocks lost more ground today after that jobs report disappointed investors. all sectors were hit put tech stocks took it the worst. the dow jones dropped more than 211 points nasdaq fell 146 and change. the s & p 500 lost 35 and a half points by the end of trading. >> apple is doing something it's never done before. it will now accept your damaged iphones. they'll accept banged up iphones as a trade in if the person wants to upgrade. until now apple offered credit to iphone owners and only if the device had a intact screen and working buttons. apple hopes with more leeway people will upgrade to new iphones. >> a delaware county school won cash and a pep rally for

having an all pro teacher. david miller teaches at penncrest lie in media. the philadelphia eagles and a paint manufacturer chose miller as its teacher of the year. swoop and the cheerleaders took part in today's prep rally that included all kinds of fun and games in the school's gym. pep crest also got $11,000 for science technology engineering and math initiatives. terrific. >> uh-huh. >> local retired veteran has a surprise of his life today when he was given a like new vehicle. >> i'm serious. >> i'm so serious. >> oh, man. [laughter] (applause). >> take a look. >> martins retired from the u.s. army was presented way fully restored 2004gmc yukon denali. motor car makeovers in blue bell held an on line contest to choose which vet would get the vehicle. martin served from 1979 to 1988. for the past if i years both he and his wife had been battling cancer. >> they all put in their own

time, they have vendors who donate parts and they have all these other people involved who do it all for a charitable type basis and that's what makes it really special. >> the vehicle was donated by someone who wanted to remain anonymous and only asked that it went to a u.s. veteran. >> very nice. >> and still ahead on "action news" at 5:00 a a special needs employee fired from dorney park. the online ranted that went viral and now has the park offering to hire him back. >> super bowl sunday isn't just about the football it's also about the food. ali gorman has a healthy twist on some party favorites when "action news" continues in just a moment.

>> ♪ >> health check tonight. the super bowl just two days away and it's a weekend that's as much about the parties as it is about the game. >> and the munch cheese. average person eats 2400 calories just at a super bowl sunday part. that's lot. there are ways to lessen that damage. health reporter ali gorman here with some alternatives. >> i know rick for some people this is just one day and they like to indulge. but if you are watching your waistline or you don't want to undo all the work you did at the gym then we have some healthy alternate activities. pizza, chicken wings, chips, soda, beer and cookies.

these are just some super bowl snacks that can derail your diet. but court flee rosa owner of family's road drive through in chadds ford shows us some healthier options. >> alternatives are just baked or dehydrated so it's still the foods that you love just prepared differently. >> starting with crunch. instead of chomping on clips go for dried or dehydrated veggies. >> this is a rutabaga, this is turnip, basketball popcorn. >> that's popcorn topped with peanut butter powder. you can also have kale chips with ranch seasoning or brush on malt vinegar. traditional veggies with lum muss or healthy black bean dip with high fiber and protein will also fill you up and eat less later. instead of the ever popular chicken wings, courtney has a different creation. >> we call it when we describe it a healthy chicken wring on a wrap. we have free range grilled chicken hot sauce blue cheese

lettuce onionsy ontopped with a half barbecue chips. >> it's less than 300 calories. you can also try her loaded sweet potato skins. for desert skip the iced brown fleece and chocolate chip cookies. a healthier homemade cookie bite will save you some sugar. >> it's peanut butter, honey,. >> then mix in reeses, chocolate clips or raisins. when it comes to drinks. >> soda can really add up in terms of calorie and sugar. >> courtney says if you want to control the sweet make your own soda with sparkling water and homemade syrup such as ginger or honey peach. or go he for straight sellser is witseltzerwith lemon or lime. we have recipes on 6abc.com. i have samples for monica. >> thank you. >> i have some cookie bites. >> wait a minute. >> for rick i have some kale chips. >> i think you'll love those. go for it. i want to watch. >> i'll try anything once.

[laughter] >> those are good. >> don't eat my cookies. thank you ali. we'll take a break and be right back. >> wait a minute. you give me that. d 26 vitamins . ensure. take life in!

>> time for that all important accuweather forecast and the "action news" big board to check out your weekend. >> yes, cecily checking out some of the skiing lined. that slope looks familiar to

you. >> really? where is it. >> the bunny slope. >> spring mountain, it is spring mountain. whenever we get snow here people think about skiing and the ski resort spring mountain looking pretty busy and i'll be at camelback on sunday watch my son ski. i'm trying to get rick to go skiing. come on. >> sure. >> i'll pay your lift ticket. >> okay. >> wow. >> right now wind speeds show you that it is breezy out there. 21 miles per hour in philadelphia. 16 in allentown, 20 in wilmington, so the temperature combined with the wind make the wind chill generally around 30 degrees. 33 in philadelphia, 29 in allentown, 31 in atlantic city airport and 30 in wilmington. tonight once the sun sets, the winds will diminish and we do have clearing skies. satellite6 along with action radar showing that storm system that provided us that glancing blow moving outer to sea. we have high pressure building in from the west. what that will do is bring us a really nice looking first weekend of february. tonight temperatures dropping below freezing so do be

careful. any wet roads that haven't been blown dry that are untreated will be icing over. 28 degrees in philadelphia, 20 in allentown, 28 in atlantic city and wilmington 24 degrees and future tracker showing for your saturday looking really nice. temperatures just slightly above normal. good amount of sunshine at 4 o'clock, 43 degrees in philadelphia. we will see some high thin clouds late in the day but they do not contain any moisture so it will be a dry super bowl weekend here. so, the five day forecast, the five day at 5:00 showing tomorrow sun with a few high thin clouds late in the day. the high 45 degrees. average high for this time of the year is 42. so, slightly above normal and then temperatures really get mild on sunday. again, we'll have some high thin clouds. i think we'll see more clouds on sunday than saturday but it's a bit of a trade-off because it's also going to be slightly warmer with a high up to 50 degrees. then on monday mixture of clouds and sun. the clouds building late in the day. 44 degrees and monday through tuesday expecting a period of snow.

a lot of people have been asking me about this system. doesn't look to be a monster storm but it looks like we will get some either light to moderate snow from this. we'll talk more about the atmosphere setup for this snow event in the accuweather 7-day forecast. the high 39 degrees and wednesday kind of gloomy rather cloudy little bit on the cool side with a high of 39. again we will talk more about the chance of snow on tuesday coming up in the full accuweather 7-day forecast. but the weekend is looking great. rick, come skiing with me. >> you'll pay my lift ticket. >> i'll pay your lift ticket. >> and you'll feed me. >> i'll buy you a burger. [laughter] >> thank you, cecily. >> all right. much more still to come in our next half hour of "action news" at 5:00 imi' 5:00. i'm thinking about it. what investors saying about how an explosive device actually got on board. >> plus a little girl's quick actions ended up saving her mom's life in philadelphia. we'll have her incredible story. those stories and more when "action news" comes right back.

>> ♪ "action news" continues with meteorologist adam joseph, jaime apody, rick williams and monica malpass. >> ♪ >> hello again and here's what's happening on "action news" tonight. heart stopping moments along several city blocks in new

york when a 200-foot crane crashed to the street today trapping people in their cars. the democratic presidential candidates spar over the issues in their first one-on-one debate ahead. plus, a story that's going viral tonight. a young man whip special needs who spent more than a decade working at dorney park is told not to come back. we will have his story. >> but first it happened without warning during a snow squall in lower manhattan today. a massive construction crane suddenly toppled over onto the street below crush several cars and ultimately killing a man and injuring two others. authorities say workers were in the process of securing the 200-foot boom crane when a gust of wind pushed it over. it happened during the morning rush near worth and church streets in the tribeca neighborhood. among the victims a 38-year-old man who was killed while sitting in his car. we get more from rob nelson a reporter from our sister station wabc. >> reporter: this video obtained by tmz shows the dramatic seconds right after

this towering crane which stood nearly 600 feet in the air and weighed more than 300 tons came crashing to the ground on worth street in tribeca just before 8:30 this morning. >> because then the crane was being lowered into the secure position and a construction workers were blocking offer the area the danger to people on the street was lessened and thank god we didn't have more injuries and we didn't lose more people. >> reporter: the crane which has been used to move ac units on top of this building at 60 hudson street suddenly collapsed crushing cars and swiping four buildings on its way down. stunned residents thought it was a bomb or even an earthquake. >> it's too much construction going on in manhattan at the same time and the department buildings cannot keep up. and cannot make everyone safe. >> reporter: this footage shows the hole left behind when a piece of equipment similar to a wrecking ball crashed into a nearby building literally landing on someone's desk. the extensive wreckage now lies several blocks along

worth street. >> crane toppled, flipped over. we had a wrecking ball that has gone through the roof at 2257 worth street. >> reporter: because of high winds this morning crews were in the midst of trying put this crane in a secure position when the tragedy struck. the massive investigation forced evacuations of local commercial buildings and also impacted subways, buses and streets. it also forced officials to investigate gas leaks and the structural integrity of nearby buildings. >> fdny and cop ed have been sweeping all the related buildings along worn street constantly. so far they have not detected the type of gas levels that give them additional fear of any further problems. but they are literally sweeping them every 15 minutes to check gas levels. >> reporter: mayor deblasio says this is worst crane accident in the city since 2008. the crane had been inspected

yesterday morning. reporting from lower manhattan rob nelson, channel6 "action news." >> here at the big board now we are just four days from the new hampshire primary and candidates on both sides are pulling no punches. democrats bernie sanders and hillary clinton went head to head as you know last night in an average of some polls taken by real clear politics.com shows sander way sizable lead with 55 percent support. hillary clinton at 37.7 and she's struggling to try to break that into a smaller amount. hillary clinton and sanders squared out of in their first one-on-one debate and neither side held back when it came to proving to voters that they are progressive. >> that's why i am laying out a specific agenda there will make progress, get more jobs with rising incomes, get us to universal healthcare coverage. >> so to my mind what we have got to do is wage a political revolution where millions of

people have given up on the political process, stand up and fight back. >> both sides also sparred he over experience and dealing with foreign affairs particularly the threat from isis. >> secretary clinton who was secretary of state for four years has more experience, that is not arguable but experience is not the only point. judgment is. >> when it comes to judgment, having run a hard race against senator obama at the time he turned to me to be secretary of state. and when it comes to the biggest counter terrorism issues that we face in this administration, namely whether or not to go after bin laden i was at that table. i was exercising my judgment. >> meantime a different polling national poll shows the race between sanders and clinton is also neck and neck in that case. now, on the republican side, the late of the poll here again an average from real clear politics.com shows donald trump continues to lead

the pack although this is a slightly smaller number, 31.1 percent down from what he had just yesterday in new hampshire's republican. marco rubio about half that at 15 percent, ted cruz and a new battle for him with john kasich both of them coming in at 11 percent plus a change a little bit. the candidates crisscross the state meantime today trying to hold some other events and to shore up their voters. new hampshire's secretary of state says he's expecting record voter turnout next tuesday. new jersey governor chris christie picked up a big endorsement meantime today. fellow republican massachusetts governor charlie baker says christie has shown a proven ability to work across the political aisle. baker says he was moved to endorse christie in part because he did not feel that either of the top republican candidates donald trump and ted cruz had the ability to forge a consensus. now tomorrow night the top seven republican candidates who are remaining will square offer in the final debate before the new hampshire primary right here on 6abc.

world news anchor david muir and this week co-anchor martha raddatz will moderate. you can see that live at 8:00 p.m. tomorrow night right here on 6abc. and i'll be headed to new hampshire this weekend to cover the first presidential primary for you and you can look for my live reports from manchester new hampshire starting sunday night on "action news." rick. >> all right, monica, thank you. wiki leak founder julian assange says he feels vindicated after a you'd nations panel ruled his detainment unlawful. he talked to his supporters. assange has been at the embassy since 2000 level when he sought temporary asylum there. investigators in sweden want to talk to him about a rape allegation and the uk says it is legally bound to extradite him if he levers the e embassy. investigators suspect the explosion on tuesday was caused by a small ied hidden in a laptop. and they believe the bomber

was seated near where the hole was blown and was sucked out of the plane. officials -- government officials in somali say the attack was orchestrated by the al-qaeda affiliate el shabab. world news tonight will have more on that and the race as we head into new hampshire. you can watch it tonight at 6:30. >> police searching for the man who robbed a gas station in plymouth meeting. officers released this surveillance video from inside the american gasoline station on east ridge pike. police say during the robbery tuesday night the man showed the clerk a gun and ordered that person to open the cash register. the suspect was able to grab some money and run away. firefighters investigating how an early morning blaze started here in camden. the fire damaged two homes in the 400 block of lansdowne avenue. one house was occupied. the other vacant. fortunately everyone made it out safely. the red cross is now helping a

family of four with shelter and other needs. and when breaking news or weather events happen in your neighborhood, join the action. just e-mail us your photos and videos to join the action as 6abc.com or use the #6abcaction on social media. >> police officer was not injured after being involved in a minor crash in pemberton, new jersey. the accident happened about 10 o'clock this morning here on the 200 block of pemberton-browns mills road. the officer was conducting traffic around a downed tree when the police car was rear ended by a black sedan. there were no serious injuries to the officer or the other driver. but there was damage to both vehicles. the accident remains under investigation. an investigation is under way tonight after a fire broke out at john bartram high school in southwest philadelphia. this viewer video shows smoke coming out of the window at the school in the middle of your screen there. students were evacuated as a precaution. and this is what it looked like when chopper6 was over the scene just before 1:00 this afternoon.

investigators are still trying to figure out how the blaze started. >> time to get a check of that traffic situation on a friday night evening rush hour. >> busy friday night. matt pelman how are we looking. >> it's the kickoff to the super bowl again and we're doing so with some big backups in bucks county rick and monica like this one on 95 southbound side, the pothole patching crews just went through here again in the southbound lanes by 413. they seem to have moved on now but not before causing an accident and causing some big delays with speeds in the low 20's. so, for awhile i was saying use the super highway southbound one instead but then there was a crash over there. there's still some debris, some glass on the road southbound by neshaminy. at this point maybe 13 southbound would be your best bet. in center city plenty of autos on the vine street expressway this afternoon in both directions and it's going stay busy on the vine and the local streets all weekends as the auto show wraps up on sunday. getting word of a bad crash in east brandywine head on, someone trapped in the wreckage along creek road near dowel and forge road. good spot to avoid.

on 202 in chester county a slow crawl on the southbound side but the earlier crash by 30 has cleared. rick and monica, have a good weekend. >> you do the same. >> thank you. >> thanks matt. >> still ahead on "action news" a story from the lehigh valley that has sparked outrage on social media. a young man who has special needs and worked for more than 10 years at dorney park is told not to come back. you will hear from him coming up. >> also a local principal makes good on a deal she made with her students and cuts off most of her hair. we'll tell you why everyone is smiling tonight. adam. >> rick we started with snow this morning ending with sunshine and the weekend looking really nice but we'll track a little more snow to come next week in in accuweather 7-day forecast. >> little more, he said little more. >> always a little with weatherman. >> those stories and much more when "action news" at 5:00 continues tonight. >> ♪

>> there was an uproar on social media over a recent decision not to reliar a employee at dorney park in lehigh county. 30-year-old chris emery has work at dorn flee for the past few summers. the park put a new interview process in place this week and

last week he was told he didn't do well enough fortner view to be rehired a fellow dorney employee and friend of christian posted washed on facebook and it got everyone talking. >> i just don't want to work at dorney. i'm more interested in going to play the games because some kids make fun of me at the dorney park. >> dorney park's general manager released a statement which said in part when i became aware of this situation i requested that we immediately reach out to him and his family to let them know that we would happily welcome chris back for a 13th season. but chris has refused. >> a second grader in cheltenham township was recognized in front of her entire school for possibly saving her mom's life. on december 29th little eight-year-old jayla martin called 911 after her mother became very sick. emergency responders said during the call jayla was composed and very helpful and one of the officers who responded was so impressed he said the young girl should be recognized and that's what happened today at myers

elementary. jayla's mother was there as well of course. >> so, i'm very proud of her. i don't think i could ever express to her how proud i am of her. it would have been a totally different outcome if she wouldn't have called 911. >> surprised, proud, happy. (applause). >> lieutenant jessica barto described her actions as nothing short of amazing. she talked to students about the importance of 911 calls. a very sweet little girl. >> wow. all right. time for sports. jamie is here. one of the most biggest anticipated events of the year that's the wing bowl. >> different bowl. >> your menu ready. >> it is ready. >> mine is not. i can't cook. >> okay. >> we know there. >> i'll be at all for takeout. super bowl sunday right around the corner. today is super bowl friday. the panthers and broncos preparing for super bowl 50.

there are so many story lines. charismatic cam newton, peyton manning likely playing in his final nfl game. two quarterbacks if two stages of their careers both gunning for that trophy. >> grateful for the opportunity and looking ford ward to finishing week with a couple of good practices. >> we've been in this moment before but as an organization we have yet to win a super bowl so if we win it it would mean a lot to so many people. >> the flyers may be playing good lock key but their playoff chances took a big hit today when we sean couturier yeah will miss four weeks. claude giroux made it four to one in the second and after the flyers lead was cut to one in the third wayne simmonds

put it away. flyerjeff skversky caught up with dave o. >> we play a real good team tomorrow. we turn the page and go to work tomorrow. >> things are looking up for temple football these days. sunday they will have a former player brandon mcmanus kicking in the super bowl and earlier this week matt rhule landed a great recruiting class. 26 new student athletes will head to north broad street. surely persuaded by the record setting season. plunk them quarterback anthony russo from archbishop wood. the kid threw for 35 touchdowns last year. he won two steatite tells atwood. he thinks that makes him the perfect fit for the owls. >> coach rhule and this recruiting class he key recruit add lot of people that

are used to winning. that's his mentality. you got to want to win. having guys in our class that are winners and all they want to do is win that's going to help us out as a program. >> jeff skversky has much more with anthony russo the new temple quarterback at 6:00. in this town as chip kelly once said, the most important bowl next to the super bowl is the wing bowl. and today the annual display of debauchery commenced in all of its saucy glory. for the second time in three years molly skylar took the crownly she downed 429 wings in about a half hour. 33 pounds of chicken. one quarter of her weight. 77,650 calories worth. >> yikes. >> i'm ecstatic. this is awesome. this is the best day of my life. this is so cool. >> also rick and monica, a new record was broken. >> okay. >> seven eaters were disqualified today one for cheating, six for throwing up. >> lovely. okay. that might be tmi. >> dennis rodman was there,

too. >> he was there, too. >> i provide all the wing bowl stats. >> thank you. >> thank you. tasty. quick break. more news when we come back. stay with us. >> okay. i do everything on the internet. but it's kind of slow. my friends say i should get fios because it's the fastest. i just downloaded 600 photos in 60 seconds. that's seriously better. we're out of 2%! i wonder what else could be better around here? i heard that. switching to better internet is now easier than ever. only fios has the fastest internet available, with uploads up to 5x faster than cable. get 100 meg upload and download speeds plus tv and phone for just $69.99 a month online with no annual contract. switch to better. switch to fios. call the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 800.974.6006 tty/v

>> the gym of phoenix hill elementary school in springfield turned into a hair salon this afternoon. principal madeline o'dowd

challenged students to raise money for the runner bash that's an event honoring an area teach here died from cancer. the principal let one of the teachers chop off most of her hair. the hair will go for wigs for kids. a fun time had by all today in springfield. >> very nice. meteorologist adam joseph here to tell us if the snow is out of here at least for now. >> it is out of here. the sunshine is back just in time for rick's birthday weekend. >> 29 again and again. >> i think it's what two times. >> carry the one -- >> high math. >> by the time we get done with this three minute weather cast we'll know the answer. take a look at double scan live raid today. really not much happening after this morning's wet snow that passed through. we ended the day very quiet and a little on the cooler side. i mean, temperatures were above normal this afternoon but those wind chills stayed in the 30's. our high came in at 2 o'clock or 2:01 this afternoon at 44 degrees. the low this morning pretty mild. that's why we had that very wet snow that melted on the

pavement. the low was only 37 degrees. the normal low should be right around 26 this time of year and the record low in 1918, 2 degrees below zero. right now wind chills still below freezing across much of the area, the exception philadelphia and wildwood coming in a little bit above that and in the poconos a biting wind where it only feels like 16. high pressure is now in control and you can see much of the lower 48 pretty quiet. the only place still seeing some of that snow he is in eastern new england, northern new england. even boston beginning to clear out now with that snowfall and we saw a lot of sunshine return this afternoon. in fact that sunshine will stick around here both saturday and sunday, just a few high clouds tomorrow, a little more in the way of high clouds on sunday but temperatures feeling pretty good. 45 degrees on saturday. and then on sunday, we will top off at 50 degrees for the first weekend of february. then beyond that, at the end of the weekend here on sunday at 4:30 p.m. we're looking at

a snapshot of about 18,000 feet above our heads. this is where the atmosphere starts to pull storms together. there will be this large area of energy down to the south and this will develop a massive storm east of the carolinas and this will head out to sea. what this will do is set up the atmosphere for a failure so to speak. as that heads away, the atmosphere is overworked so as another round of energy comes in on tuesday from the north and west you can see this area of red, as that passes by, it will try to develop a coastal storm but there's really nothing there for it to really bomb out. so, as it pulls through, we will get some energy and a little bit of snow but not a big storm as it's looking right now for tuesday. so, this is what we know and breaking it down monday night and tuesday not major storm. it will be rather disorganized. a light to moderate snow is expected and again it looks to be that very wet consistency like we had this morning so that means low snow ratios and

can't pile up all that much. as we look at the exclusive accuweather 7-day forecast sun and a few clouds saturday 45. beautiful for super bowl sunday. still mild on monday, 44 degrees with sun and clouds. that period of snow here on tuesday is likely but again there's that temperature up close to 40 degrees during that event and then staying at 40 with a lot of clouds on wednesday and then colder air eventually pulls in at the end of next week. i will call it blustery with temperatures around freezing with wind chills in the 20's so the weekend enjoy. >> enjoy. >> that's my present to you. >> that's nice. >> i didn't have to do anything. >> we're going to break. we'll be right back.

>> jim gardner and the "action news" team standing by with these stories and much more next at 6 o'clock. a freak accident claims the life of a woman who was in the bedroom of her home in broomall. >> a 12-year-old boy from norristown hailed a hero tonight after dying trying to save his dad. we'll have those stories and more coming up. for adam joseph cecily tynan

jaime apody rick williams the entire "action news" team. i'm monica malpass. have a good night and a good weekend. >> good night.

>> ♪ >> "action news." delaware valley's leading news program. with ducis rodgers, meteorologist cecily tynan and jim gardner. >> ♪ >> friday night the pennsylvania supreme court rules on the status of attorney general kathleen kane's law license and an iconic piece of trenton history comes down today. but the big story on "action news" tonight is tragedy in the form of a fallen tree. the 200 block of james road in broomall was the scene where a huge tree crashed onto the

roof of a house and ended up killing a 77-year-old woman. "action news" reporter gray hall is live at the scene. gray, you've got the details. >> reporter: right, jim, horrific and heartbreaking time for the family as you mentioned that 77-year-old woman lost her life in her home right behind me. her 79-year-old husband right now, he's recovering in the hospital and dealing with the loss of his wife. >> i was absolutely in shock. really good, good people. >> reporter: friday morning this broomall neighborhood was gripped with tragedy. a tree collapsed on this home trapping an elderly couple. sadly one of them did not make it out alive. family and friends are heartbroken. >> it's going to take awhile to get -- wrap around -- wrap my head around this. the victims have been identified as 79-year-old alan cooper and 77-year-old wife marjay. >> it's a freak accident. most people walking around