sesame street live let's dance playing liacouras center april 14th through 17th tickets on sale now! "action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with rick williams, sara bloomquist, and meteorologist, david murphy. good afternoon, in the news grief counselors are at a philadelphia high school following the death of a student. plus, thousands of new jersey children are being tested for led poisoning after high levels were detected in drinking water. but the big story is breaking news president obama announced his supreme court nominee. >> that is right federal appeals court merrick garland, is his choice to replace antonin

scalia, but there is a big political fight ahead. we turn now to the capitol for more. >> reporter: good afternoon the president's pick was not a surprise, judge garland was on the short list for consideration, and has faced the senate scrutiny before and now they say voters should have a vote in the matter. with that announcement a political showdown begins. president obama's nominee, 63-year-old merrick garland is the d.c. circuit court of appeals judge. >> he earned a track record as building a consensus as a judge that follows the law. >> there is no higher public service than serving as a member of the the supreme court.

>> president obama says that he is imminently qualified but republicans will block the nomination regardless. >> this vacancy will not be filld this year but look forward to the american people deciding who they want to make this appointment through their own votes. >> a promise that senate majority leader mitch mcconnell made in less than an hour after justice scalia's death was announced and then announced they would not even hold a hearing for the nominee. today they are optimistic about the pick. >> i think he is exceptionally qualified and will cause republicans to change course. >> and president obama is ratcheting up the pressure to e relent. >> the republican party has created a task force to block the nominee. democrats are responding with a coordinated effort of their own

to get public support on their side in this battle. abc news at the supreme court, back to you. >> thank you. now to the latest from the campaign trail. hillary clinton and donald trump both have wins in the primary contest last night. clinton took ohio and florida and illinois and that widens her lead against bernie sanders and donald trump is building his momentum with wins in illinois and florida and indiana. trump and clinton have narrow leads in missouri but the races in both parties are still too close to call. >> meanwhile trump was denied victory in ohio by home state governor, john kasich and is now holding a rally. >> reporter: john kasich was born in pennsylvania but is a

two term governor in ohio. he is the favorite gop son in ohio. the room is behind me here at this time and the governor is due here momentarily. the room was packed an hour before kasich was due to arrive. anyone arriving after 11:15 will watch on a video feed in an overflow room. the governor is off his state win in ohio last night. many like people here are against abortion and he back a pathway to citizenship and is against donald trump's plan for massive deportation. >> from the beginning he said he would not get into the muddy politics and i respect that. i think he has done a great job of focusing on the positives on where he can take this country

as opposed to bee littling other people. >> the other candidates are more extreme and i think that kasich is a more old fashion conservative side that appeals to students. >> kasich is trying to get on the ballot. but kasich's attorneys predict the challenge will fail. >> the court will never get to the merits of this, john kasich will be on the ballot on april 26th. >> are you confident? >> yes, i am buying him a cheesesteak when he comes to philadelphia. >> governor kasich is not here quite yet. that is otter lawrence, his specialty is election law and we reached out to the attorney for the other side. challenging mr. kasich's eligibility here if pennsylvania, to see if they plan to continue the lawsuit or

drop it at this time now that rubio has left the playing field. >> thank you. voters in the tri-state area have a while to wait to cast their ballots, the primaries in both pennsylvania and delaware take place tuesday april 26th and new jersey voter goes to the polls on june 7th. if you woke up in a fog you werer not alone. sky 6 hd looking live at a cloudy center city skyline, peeks of sunshine throughout the day and mostly a curtain of clouds tell the tale here. let get the latest from meteorologist, david murphy, outside on the terrace, at least we are on the mild side. >> it's a comfortable afternoon building across the region and then the sun burned through and now the clouds have swept over southeastern pennsylvania, and the majority of the state of knowledge, the farm south you go through delaware and south

jersey the better chance you get of seeing full sunshine right now. as we go through the day we are on the lookout for showers from the west to creep through and not a lot of that, and clouds getting thicker as the boundary of rain getting thicker, feeling comfortable on the terrace, 59 almost 60 in allentown and 60 on the nose in trenton and temperatures at the who cooler 56 in cape may. and wind only 6 miles per hour in philadelphia gently dropping down from the east-northeast and most areas are looking at single digit winds and we are looking at nice temperatures the rest of the afternoon. i expect we'll get up to 66 for a high and hovering in the mid-60s trait through 4:00 or owe and low 60s by 6:00 and the evening hours back into the 50s. if you are plans to head out tonight you'll need a jacket. but i'm fine in a suit jacket now, no other jackets necessary. when we come back we'll let you

know about the st. patrick's day forecast, will we get rain or will it stay mild. and a cool down for the weekend and perhaps some snow sunday night. >> thank you david. a fire investigation is underway in chester county, the two alarm blaze broke out this morning here in west town township. the flames consumed a home on the 100 block of south chester road, it took more than an hour to bring it under control. counselors are on hand after a tragedy loss to the student body. a student died from bacterial meningitis, letters went to parents telling them how to cope and how to stop the risk of infection. >> very a concern but you know i just told my daughter just you know, play it by ear and hopefully they have done everything they can do to you know make sure the environment

is safe for the students as well as the staff. >> department officials say that the only people that should have concerns are people that have close contact with the student and those that live in the same house. still to come thousands of children in the state's biggest city new jersey will be tested for led poisoning. and the transit system is at a stand still in the nation's capital. the reason for the shut down when we come right back.

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an american college student is sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in north korea for crimes against the state. he was arrested in january and the university of virginia student is accused of trying to steal a propaganda banner from a hotel when he was in north korea on a tour group. he was convicted today during a one hour trial. groups from newark, new jersey will test 1,000 children for led poisoning after finding they have elevated levels of led in their drinking water. they say the levels do not

compare to the crisis in michigan but led is known to severely impact a child's development and younger kids are most at risk and that is why chirp in early childhood programs get the tests first but that is not sitting well with some officials. >> i am concerned about the kids that can actually reach the water fountains in the schools. the toddlers are too short. >> it's unclear how long the children have been exposed to higher levels of led. federal investigators are shedding knew light on the amtrak train derailment in kansas. an engineer said noticed a significant bend in the rail and applied the emergency brake moments before the crash and more than 30 people were injured . hundreds of thousands of commuters in and around the nation's capital had to find a different way to get to work today. the unprecedents shut down of

the washington, d.c. metro brought the system to a stand still and a series of electrical fires on the rails brought on the inspections and connections are being checked throughout the system. it will reopen tomorrow morning as long as it is deemed safe. a homeless man in california will get a $100,000 payout for helping to catch to inmates that escaped from prison in january. a few days later matthew a. chapman spotted the fugitives in san francisco and provided the tip that led to their arrest. he was living in a public park and will now use the money to start a new life. president obama has unveiled his march madness bracket. he told espn he is picking kansas to win it all. that they will beat villanova in the elite eight and edge north

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update into the investigation on the bullying caught on camera, find out how the chester upland school district is responding today. plus, prosecutors are calling it the modern day bank robbery, thieves stealing identities and drowning bank accounts with a single phone call. see you guys at 4:00. >> see you then alicia. your accuweather forecast coming up when we come right back.

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time for the accuweather. cloudy in philadelphia, but it feels comfortable, who cares about the clouds and stormtracker 6 live double scan showing us we are dry and as we take a look outside at the sunshine, the sunshine that sara is talking about in cape may and much of the state of delaware under bright sunshine and in philadelphia we have got a few more clouds that swept through over the last several hours. nice and mild out there, the winds running at 6 miles per hour. one of my favorite numbers of course. especially when are you looking at a light wind, and sitting at

59 in allentown and 60 in lancaster, and one of the cooler starts in lancaster, you rebounded nicely there, and 60234 trenton and millville and down the shore in cape may the cool ocean water chillier and 53 not a bad number for this time of year. future tracker 6 showing you the clouds are having a tendency to stay in place. with sunny break in the afternoon, we are on the lookout in the afternoon and evening for a line or two, and none will last real long in place, and there is that opportunity for a shower late in the afternoon through this afternoon and evening, it looks like most of this stuff is to the east and plans to be out from 10:00 until 11:00 tonight. and it's time to check out cecily in case there are showers left over in your neighborhood during that period.

the lehigh valley, clouds left over but a high of 64 and comfortable conditions in the lehigh valley and the shore cooler next to the cool ocean water. 58 is your high there, and a mix of clouds and sun and light winds across the region including down at the shore. philadelphia a high of 67 this afternoon, clouds mixing with sun and light winds running 6 to 10 miles per hour and the chance of that spotty shower late in the afternoon and evening and it really isn't going to have much impact and on the evening commute you are liable to be dry. 5:00, 6:00 and holding on to the low 60s at 7:00. and somewhere in through here a shower but i don't mean to mislead you but want you to know about shower opportunity. we could see a spotty shower but not for the whole time period. 47 is the evening low and the shower get out of here and partly cloudy skies overnight

and winds on the light side and we roll into st. patrick's day overall it looks good. 46 degrees at 8:00 and 11:00 there are folks strolling around in philadelphia dressed in green and 62 by 2:00 and 58 by 5:00 and 52 by 8:00 and a chance of a shower popping through and a better chance of tomorrow rather than today. during the morning we probably see sun in the afternoon and evening, a spotty chance and as late as 10:30 something down by the shore. clouds increasing a bit and a high of 67 the farther south you are, the better chance of seeing sun and sun to clouds on thursday, and 65 is your mild high and a spotty shower in the afternoon or evening, a couple more showers around and a high of 56. the new model estimates keeping us in the 40s, and sunday it's now cooling down so much in the

afternoon and evening when we get rain it may mix with wet snow from up north, but the high afternoon surfaces maybe on grassy surfaces be not much. >> thank you. a missouri woman has a trash company to thank after workers helped her find her 12.5 carat wedding ring. karl arealize it was gone it was too late and the truck was already heading to the landfill, they convinced the company to divert the truck and allow them to dig for the ring through the trash and they found in in less than a half hour. >> that is something ring, that is probably why they could fine it, it's so big. and amazon is looking into allowing shoppers to pay with a selfie, we'll explain. and excitement for movie

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"action news" at 12:30 continues with rick williams, sara bloomquist and meteorologist, david murphy. hello again, here are the stories we are following on "action news" at 12:30, it's sudden death of a philadelphia high school student left many

saddened and many concerned for their own child. and merrick garland is chosen by president obama to join the supcourt and her job was to attract people to come to philadelphia. and the district attorney says she was a thief and fraud. and now the details, students and staff at one philadelphia school are in mourning after the sudden death a ninth grader, he died yesterday from meningitis, katherine scott has more. >> reporter: the students are organizing way to remember this young man who died at 15 years old from meningitis, he was in school on monday and but yesterday morning he was gone. students at george washington carver high school of engineering and science walked to class today their hearts heavy. a ninth grader at the magnet school in north philadelphia died suddenly yesterday of bacterial meningitis. >> i played ball with h