tuesday night. the big story on "action news" tonight is breaking news from township. where we have learned that seven people arrested today before and after a police chase are members of a notorious gang. this is the way it looked after police finally forced a black suv to stop on the schuylkill expressway with four suspects inside. one actually jumped into the schuylkill river, but tonight seven suspects are in custody including three that were apprehended at the beginning of this open said at route 202. lets go live to christie aleto. you have this latest information. >> reporter: that is right jim. it all starts when two firefighters spots members altering license tags on a vehicle, when police arrived

that is when the chase began. >> they found the folks trying to alter the license plate on the vehicle tried to flea. three of them ran through the parking lot and they took them into custody and there was a larger vehicle, a larger black suv that fled the parking lot as the officers were arriving and impacted one of our vehicles coming into the lot attempting to block them and then proceeded on to 202 northbound and to 76. >> reporter: that is when state police assisted. they stopped the suv when it rammed into one of their cruisers. one suspect jumped into the river and is now at a local hospital. chopper 6 hd was over the schuylkill follow that high speed chase and police found a number of items in one of the

suspect's cars having to do with identity theft. we have developing news from the philadelphia eagles. yes, they have come to an agreement on a two year contract with sam bradford. sports director, ducis rogers is here. the quarterback question is apparently resolved. >> it's not the long-term deal that sam and his agent probably wanted but not bad for a quarterback that started all 16 game in only two years. $46 million for two years and $26 million in guaranteed money. bradford indicated he wanted to come back and up until 4:00 p.m. they had the threat of the franchise tag on their side and that would have cost them $20 million for one season and eaten up far too much salary cap

space. the eagles probably realized that bradford was the best available quarterback out there. >> thank you. philadelphia police busted up a dock figting ring this afternoon and police converged on north lee street in philadelphia for the purpose of serving a warrant and "action news" reporter chad pradelli is live at that location. what are the details there? >> reporter: yes jim. the police and the spca remain on lee street, they conducted a search of this home. 2857 an hour or two ago. inside detectives found an elaborate cockfighting operation, there was a ring in the basement and they took out 36 birds, 14 of which investigators say are fighting birds in fighting condition with their chests shave and ready for battle. investigators stumbled along this investigation, they saw

birds outside and got a search warrant and that is when they went inside and found this elaborate cockfighting operation. >> was there a lot of money to be made here? >> quite a money to be made. it doesn't usually rise to the level of dogs but comes close especially with an operation like this. these are quality fighting birds. if i had to guess a lot of these were probably imported from puerto rico. >> reporter: and the spca tells me that i man and woman and small child live in the home. and investigators are questioning the two adults to see who is responsible for this operation. as for the birds, the 14 fighting condition birds will have to be put down and the others will be taken to a farm. live in north philadelphia, chad pradelli, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. the case against bill cosby in montgomery county is on hold.

today the pennsylvania supreme court delayed the march 8th preliminary hearing. the court is still trying to decide whether or not to grant cosby's appeal and dismiss the case all together. former temple employee, andrea constand says she was drugged and sexual assaulted at cosby's moment in 2004. it's super tuesday, the largest single voting against ahead of the presidential election. voters in 12 states are choosing presidential candidates today. people in the territory of american samoa are casting ballots in the democratic race and expectations are that donald trump will have a big night indeed. ted cruz probably has to win his home state of texas. this is cruz voting for texas. marco rubio has his best chance in minnesota and on the democratic side hillary clinton is favored in most of the states

tonight and bernie sanders expected to win his home state of vermont where cameras caught him voting today. >> 6 abc and abc have you covered today. we'll have updates throughout the night as new results come in. at 10:00 tonight, abc news airs an election special, super tuesday your voice your vote 2016. we'll also have a complete wrap on "action news" at 11:00 and live streaming coverage on 6abc.com and that begins at 7:00. and voters in the delaware valley head to the polls beginning next month. pennsylvania and delaware both hold their primaries on tuesday april 26th and new jersey presidential primary is tuesday june 7th. philadelphia police released new video today of a violent weekend attack at a septa station in kensington. the stabbing happened inside of an elevator early saturday

morning. police say a man pulled a knife and demanded money from a woman. we will not show you the actual stabbing. the woman fell to the floor and the suspect ran off. she was treated at episcopal hospital and is listed in stable condition. police are still searching for the suspect. a former comcast executive plead guilty to using his cell phone to take inappropriate photographs of female passengers while riding on septa trains. michael tye was sentenced to two years probation be new under go sexual evaluation and he is banned from driving septa's r 5 train. and federal investigators are looking into a deadly workplace accidents that happened in the holmesburg section of philadelphia. it happened at 7:30 at the waste management facility. this was the 5200 block of bly

avenue. authorities say a forklift operator was crushed when a 1,000 ton bail of waste fell on him. coworkers tried to revive the 42-year-old who died of his injuries, osha is on the case. a south philadelphia school received a $300,000 grant today. city leaders presented the collect to administrators at newman goretti high school this morning. the grant came from the philadelphia partnership great school fund to help create better educational opportunities for students. coming up on "action news" tonight, spring training play is now underway and we'll tell you how the phillies faired in their great fruit league opener. the philadelphia zoo is closed for spring cleaning. we'll have the efforts coming up. i'm tracking this storm system that brings a round of rain overnight and a taste of winter for the rest of the week.

and ducis rogers has more on the deal to keep quarterback, sam bradford in philadelphia.

we have been following this fire this afternoon. as you can see, the blaze is getting worse not better. new jersey forestry firefighters are at the blaze in millville at estelle manor road. the fire has been burning since 3:30 this afternoon and there is

no cause at this time. but it is dry out there. philadelphia mayor jim kenney led a ground breaking ceremony for a new shopping center in north philadelphia. the 7500 square foot supermarket and shopping center is on allegheny avenue. it will create 140 permanent jobs after construction. and plaza allegheny is expected to open this fall. smyrna showed off their new horse stables today. the stables are on the grounds on the department of corrections central violation of probation center. offenders that are housed there will be given job training opportunities to care for the horses. the philadelphia zoo is open 360 days a we but not today.

the zoo is bringing a big spring cleaning and "action news" reporter katherine scott was there. >> reporter: the kids were at the zoo but only those that work here. it was closed one day as 150 staff members fanned out for a zoo wide cleanup. >> we could have called it a zoo-per tuesday. we are getting ready for our guests this spring. >> cleaning and shoveling, over at kids zoo-u. the goats are saying why am i here i would like to help. if they were in the yard all the wheelbarrows would be tipped over. just this past sunday more than 10,000 visitors came out to enjoy the mild day and as the temperatured get higher, so do

the attendance. it allows the guests opportunity to do the larger projected without getting in the visitors way. >> this day allows us to both have a team building event and get the zoo in shipshape for our season. we are mulching beds and giving our parking garage a good scrub down and replenishing soil in the red hog yard. >> everybody participated in zoo wide preparedness drills, another thing difficult to do when there are visitors on campus. >> imagine severe weather or a chemical spill on the rail line, we have to evacuate is the zoo, with the zoo empty we can practice that experience for the entire staff. >> tomorrow it's back to business as usual with the zoo opening at 9:30. katherine scott, channel 6 "action news."

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he may not be the long term quarterback for this team but

the next couple of years sam bradford is the guy. >> it's a tryout for him but an expensive tryout. call it a marriage of convenience. the eagles needed him and he needs the birds. the eagles and sam bradford agreed on a two year deal. espn reports it's worth $37 million and $26 million guaranteed. he could have waited to test the free agent market next week but that is projected to be soft and for the eagles too there is not match out there. he reach a passing record and that was only done in 14 games, he started off slowly but was more efficient in the second half of the season. it feels like we have been waiting months for baseball and we have been on a fast. grab a bib, at least spring training baseball is back. a funny moment before the opener. freddy galvis parked too close to the stadium and miguel franco

cracked his car windshield with a home run. bases loads in the third and a double and two runs come in. and the phils get on the board in the bottom half of the inning, ruiz fighting behind the plate and the phils get two runs back 2-2. and that is a solo homer and phils trail 4-3. more scoring in the fifth and it's by toronto. he drives in five runs in the afternoon. you get the second runner at the plate and the phils lose this one 5-3. >> villanova plays host to villanova, the first game since the cats fell from number one to number three. two major story lines play out. first win would give the cats the big east regular season

title and for seniors this is their last game at the pavilion, this is a special place for them. >> i'm not a sentimental person but i appreciate everyone that comes out and watches the game and for people that come to my games for my years at the pavilion. >> it's a great experience to come down the stairs one last time but it's something i can't really relish because we have a game to play. >> i know for the seniors it's the last day in here and it's emotional and emotional for me to see them walk off the court for the last time. mets spring training turn nood a circus literally. johan showed up riding a horse. he arrives every day in exotic

cars but this one has the most horse power of all. >> cecily tynan has the accuweather forecast when we continue in just a moment. 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. (husband) we're out of 2%!

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what a surprise! you know what else is a surprise? shingles. and how it can hit you out of nowhere. i know. i had it. c'mon let's sit down and talk about it. and did you know that one in three people will get shingles? (all) no. that's why i'm reminding people if you had chickenpox then the shingles virus is already inside you. (all) oooh. who's had chickenpox? scoot over. and look that nasty rash can pop up anywhere and the pain can be even worse than it looks. talk to your doctor or pharmacist. about a vaccine that can help prevent shingles. back to winter time. cecily tynan and accuweather. >> today was nice. the past three days have been so nice. >> but back to winter. >> reality check for the next few days. stormtracker 6 live double scan showing dry weather today just a great day to get outside and the action cam in fairmount park. look who we saw? i think it was punxsutawney phil

basking in the sunlight saying i told you so. the past three days felt like spring. three days in a row making it up to 64 degrees, that is 16 degrees above normal. but the party is going be ending for the next few days. this is what we are dealing with. you'll need a winter coat with windchills in the 30s and even 20s in the suburbs, the poconos tomorrow afternoon windchills only in the teens and friday tracking a system that will bring us a touch of snow. good consensus that we are not talking about a lot of snow. a coating to 2.5 inches of snow. since it's march we have the high sun angle and it will melt quickly. right now quiet and mild. 54 degrees in philadelphia, the same in allentown and 55 in reading and notice though as you move farther to the south with

the winds off the ocean, cooler along the coast and wildwood 47 and beach haven 45 and atlantic city airport 49 degrees and tonight it clouds up and rain is on the way. satellite 6 along with action radar showing this is a pretty fast moving storm system bringing heavy snow to detroit. that low pressure moves up over canada, what we get is a cold front moving through this happens late at night when most people are sleeping. at 11:00 tonight on the air showers are breaking out in the far north suburbs, lehigh valley and berks county and the poconos and this whole system swings through in the wee hours of the morning, don't be surprised if you hear a rumble of thunder, a squall line with gusty thunderstorms, this system moves out quickly and by 6:30 the rain is gone and the clouds are gone and a good amount of sunshine and this is when we deal with the gusty winds and falling temperatures. tomorrow wind gusts up to 40 miles per hour so that high of

47 is going feel more like 32 degrees with the windchills and on thursday, this weak high pressure builds in slightly for the morning and then the clouds take over with a high of 39 degrees and that system brings us snow late thursday night into friday morning. what are we talking about? generally a coating to 2 inches, mainly on grassy surfaces but this is arriving early in the morning and it could be slippery and could cause delays. and then the temperature recovers as we head through the weekend. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast gusty winds and chilly behind the overnight rain, a high of 47 degrees and windchills 32 and thursday clouds thicken and 39 degrees and thursday night into friday morning, light snow should be all gone by the afternoon with a high of 39 degrees and heading into the weekend kind of unsettled and clouds on saturday with a high of 39 degrees and possibility of morning flurries

and then 48, look what happens next week, monday 56 degrees and tuesday 64 and it looked like by wednesday we could hit 70 degrees for the first time this year. we hit 65 once in january and once in february. but 70 by wednesday, we can make it through the rest of the week, next week is looking nice. the philly pops have a busy year ahead. ♪ ♪ today the pops announced its schedule for the 2016-2017 season, with a performance at the cleft club in atlantic city. they pay tribute to elvis, the beatles and ella fitzgerald. abc world news tonight is next on channel 6 and "action news" continues at 10:00 on phl 17 with brian taff, sharrie williams, adam joseph and ducis rogers. and then please join us at 11:00

here on channel 6. the action news troubleshooters are getting results and once again tackling a case that serves as a good lesson ahead of swim season. >> reporter: before you join a swim club we have a warning, this viewer has been waiting 12 years to get back hundreds of dollars her former swim club owes her. >> and every year they tell me i'm this number on the list. >> plus another incorrect medical bill. for cecily tynan and ducis rogers i'm jim gardner we hope you'll join us for "action news" at 11:00. your daughter wants to stay organic.

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breaking news tonight. the first major clues coming in right now. the super tuesday showdown. as we come on the air, the first exit polls are in. what the voters are saying. what's driving them at the polls. can donald trump be stopped? the high stakes battle across a dozen states. trump and his 11th hour pitch. >> i can do practically anything. >> marco rubio and ted cruz, battling to take trump cown. >> donald trump will be an embarrassment to america. >> donald trump could be a disaster. and hillary clinton tonight, and her pivot to the national race. how she would take on trump and the republicans. >> they're now running their campaigns based on insults. long lines at this hour. will there be record-setting turnout? and scout vocould voters be sen clinton and trump on a collision course this november?