to the candidates belief that everybody has unique divine gifts to heal the word. kasich is now third in a three way race for the nomination. >> can't we just get along and respect one another's differences, and let me just say on the environment. i'm the only one that said yes i do think human beings affect climate. >> he is strongly against abortion and against marijuana and unlike donald trump, kasich backs a pathway to citizenship for illegals. >> americans will have to be there, you know why? because nobody else will do this. >> he preached domesticship to

minorities. >> i do not believe it's morale for the mentally ill to be sleeping under a bridge. >> i was actually a donald trump supporter coming in, it's an unpopular opinion and i and joyed john kasich's opinions. >> i faces a legal challenge getting on the ballot. a supporter sued saying kasich did not have enough signatures. >> john kasich will be on the ballot and april 26th. >> are you coverage with that? >> yes, i'm buying him a cheesesteak when he comes to philadelphia. >> we reached out to the other side to see if they would reduce their challenge or withdraw their challenge, since rubio is no longer a candidate. pennsylvania is an important state for mr. kasich if he is to have any chance wrestling away the gop nod from either mr.

trump or mr. cruz at the convention. live in villanova, john rawlins, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. the next republican presidential debate has been canceled. it was set to take place after frontrunner said he was skipping the event saying quote, he had enough debates. kasich said he would not debate without trump. and trump meantime picks up three states while democratic frontrunner won four and missouri is still too close to call on both sides of the race and voters in the tri-state area, have a while to wait to cast their ballots. primaries in delaware take place on april 26th and new jersey on june 7th. president obama nominated merrick garland to the supreme

court to fill the seat of antonin scalia. >> it's the greatest gift i have ever received except and there is another caveat the birth of our daughters jessie and becky. >> the president called garland a bipartisan choice and called on the senate to call hearings and vote. instead of tying the nomination to election year politics. >> to suggest that someone as qualified as respected as merrick garland does not even deserve a hearing or an up or down vote to join an institution of our supreme court when two-thirds of americans believe otherwise, that would be unprecedented. i ask that they confirm merrick garland now to the supreme court. >> but today senate majority leader mitch mcconnell should not be filled until a new president is elected and

garland's nomination will not be credited. republicans say that in an election year the people should have a voice in filling the vacancy. much to be seen here. but a special day for garland. >> alicia thank you. philadelphia police are investigating an assault on a woman. the victim was said to be waiting for a bus when a man grabbed her and tried to pull her into pennypack park. vernon odom joined us with the latest on this investigation. >> reporter: good afternoon. police are investigating and looking hard into this case, i'm standing at a septa stop at frankford right adjacent to pennypack park, police say there is no clear pattern of recent sexual assaults around here. >> police say it happened around 10:00 saturday night at the entrance of pennypack park, a 30-year-old woman just left work and was waiting for septa to

arrive when she was sexually assaulted by a man in his late teens or 20s, she said he approached and asked for the time and tried to grab her and drag her into the park and she was fondled and she struggled and he eventually fleed. >> she struggled and was able to break free of this male, with that he flees the location. >> this is a busy septa stop during the morning and evening hours, but late at night it could be a scary place. they say they would not walk alone in broad daylight. >> scary, i would not walk up here by myself. >> even in the daytime? >> yes, even in the daytime. >> this took place late at night on the weekend. >> i would not be out here. >> my heart goes out here, i don't like to travel alone by myself either anymore.

i accompany her everywhere she goes, the neighborhood is going downhill. >> reporter: brian this area is not far from holmesburg prison. the police could use any tips. health department officials are holding a meeting this evening after a philadelphia high school student died of bacterial meningitis, he was a freshman at the engineering high school in philadelphia. jonathan briggs says they are following the health department regulations to make sure everybody is safe. bacterial meningitis spreads through close contact but still people are worried. >> bodily fluids, exchanged. he could have sneezed and everything, i feel bad for the parents, there are hundreds of

kids at risk and i think they should have shut the school down and had it sanitized. >> grief counselors are on hand at the school today and the meeting gets underway today at 6:00. a traffic problem is snarling traffic on i-95, chopper 6 hd was over the scene an hour ago and you can see a burned out vehicle off to the side of the southbound lanes of cotman avenue, it's not clear what caused the vehicle to go up in flames and only one lane is getting by while crews work to clear the scene. autumn marisa will have more on the fire in our traffic report in a couple of moments. >> but a first check of the accuweather forecast and a brief return to spring like warmth. meteorologist, adam joseph, standing outside where the sun is shining. >> reporter: we have a mixture of sun and clouds and the temperatures really warmed this afternoon as we look at the present numbers. sitting at 71 and 73 in

washington and 80s for southern and central parts of washington and virginia, and a bit cooler in buffalo just 58 degrees. we are tracking a brief front with showers and thunderstorms developing in the north and west of our area. most of the activity is to the north but some of us especially philadelphia to it's north will get a quick hitting downpour or thunderstorm. we had a rumble of thunder in the last 15 minutes in downtown reading and that moving south of fleet wood and crossing over route 100 as it moves over the northeast extension and anybody is fair game over the next few hours. we'll talk about it staying mild in the day tomorrow and then a strong cold front comes through on friday and yes we are talking about the possibility of some spring snow on the first day of spring. which is sunday, we'll talk about the big turn around in these warm temperatures coming up in a little bit. >> a bit ironic spring and snow.

the first day of spring. >> it happens. >> yes, thank you. as the potential for rain hangs out stay with 6abc.com/weather, rely on the power of stormtracker 6 live double scan radar to keep ahead of any changes. all right march madness is in full swing. teams from villanova and st. joes left today and temple is ready to take off. >> reporter: they have ready to go, for basketball fans it's the most wonderful time of the year. i want to introduce you to some of my closest friends here -- [ cheers and applause ] >> the 10th seeded owls take on

at brooklyn. up on hawk hill the st. joe's basketball team had an informal practice, and head coach phil martelli says as his team prepares for the first round of the dance, they are basking in the glow of winning the big ten championship. >> we took the championship trophy to the cafeteria for a half hour and there must have been 600 or 700 students that took a picture with the trophy. >> they wish the game was not so far away. since they can't make it to spokane, being here today is a must. >> when they do something important i want to be there and show the support, that is what being a hawk is all about. >> and much of the same at is the villanova university campus. jay wright and the wildcats have a much shorter trip to brooklyn

where they play unc ashville. over the years coach wright has taken several teams to the naacp tournament but he says it's something that never grows old. >> i still have chills and you have to kind of pinch yourself and say i am so lucky to be a part of this. >> all right back out live, plenty of people making the trip to brock lynn where nova plays first and then temple plays and most of us will watch st. joe's on tv. let the madness begin, walter perez, channel 6 "action news." >> hey that puts us in the mood we are ready for a game. >> madness is very much underway right now. walter thank you. >> it's time now for the "action news" traffic report. lets get you over to autumn marisa in for matt pellman. a busy afternoon out there. >> hi brian and sharrie, i

mentioned the van fire on cotman avenue in the southbound lanes of 95, the van has been moved off to the side of the road and it was engulfed in flames during the 3:00 hour and police and firefighters are on the scene. you see the long line of delay, a half hour from wood hache ento the vine. and the northbound lane there's say gaper delay there as well. and dipping to the teens on the schuylkill expressway nice and slow on the westbound lanes. here we are at 30th street station, these are eastbound lanes, and westbound traffic and again just a slow ride overall out there. 42 freeway southbound we have an accident route 130 blocking the center lane, keep that in mind in new jersey, and 32 bypass, and 30 bypass, reedsville road and 32, there was an overturned tractor trailer but it is reopened. but looking at one of the bigger

delays, the boulevard nice and slow volume if you make your way over the twin bridges, you'll tap your brakes through broad street now. the ben franklin bridge, nice out there, a beautiful day, taking a look at all the other bridges they are nice and clear too. we'll bring you normal update in the next half hour. >> thank you. still much more ahead on "action news" at 4:00, the commute in the nation's capital has been brought to a total stand still after the city's metro system was shut down today. >> and a happy homecoming from more than 100 local troops, they are hope after nearly a year abroad.

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and they are home. how is this for a homecoming arrival. it was a heart warming hero's welcome in cherry hill. as more than 120 soldiers

returned home from deployment. friends and family members greeted the members of the new jersey army national guard military police company with big cheers, bigger hugs and lots of happy tears. the reunion happened at the national guard armory on grove street this morning. these soldiers spent the last year in guantanamo bay, cuba with detention operations and they are home. and we can't get enough of the hugs with the little ones. >> a lot of happy families there. thank you. all right problems continue to mount for volkswagon and a german court says that 70 lawsuits have been filed by investorser including a suit by 300 investors around the world, it seeks more than $3 billion for losses that investors say

they suffered. they admitted to installing software on diesel vehicles in order to cheat on admissions tests. green arrows across the board, the dow up 74 and the nasdaq up 35 and the s&p up 11 points on the day. amazon is looking to patent technology allowing shoppers to pay with selfies, they are more secure and less awkward and customers could take a picture or short video themselves to authenticate payment. and they say their facial recognition software would make sure it's the actual customer and not hackers, they are not saying when or if this technology will be available. >> interesting there. in washington, d.c. commuters are beginning what will likely be a long ride home after the entire metro system was shut down today. traffic was heavy this morning

as those that normally use the subway were forced to drive to work. the nation's second busiest transit system was brought to a halt for an area wide safety inspection. they are walking 100 miles of underground track checking power cables for potential issues, it's expected to be back online by 5:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. time for the accuweather forecast, though it's beautiful out today, we heard the word snow in the forecast. >> we did. we'll let adam explain the rest. >> reporter: hey last year on the first day of spring we had close to 4 inches of snow in philadelphia so it could be a repeat performance, as of now no snow we are tracking a few showers and thunderstorms, one in chester county, but first in the eastern corner of berks county near bally and route 100 moving to the north and east,

and 8 lightning strikes with this heading towards east greenville and finland 4:24 and a small little area but a heavy downpour and a few dangerous lightning strikes passing by and one past downingtown approaching westchester at 4:25 and mill town at 4:30, and frazier at 4:30 as well. as it goes along 430 and heads to the northeast with brief heavy rain and three lightning strikes in the last 15 minutes. these showers and thunderstorms will be scattered around in the evening hours. we are in the warming phase, today so far we have jumped up to 71 degrees with the normal being 53 so yesterday it felt cool but that is where we should sit this time of year typically. as we look at official numbers, 68 in allentown and 61 in allentown and shore and southern areas coming in off the water

and dover and cape may 52 degrees, a little boundary is passing through right now sparking a few right now, with scattered storms around and behind it we clear through the remainder of the overnight hours, again there are scattered showers and downpours and that clap of thunder, that continues through the 11:00 hour and then things continue to pass through the north and east. the rest of overnight hours, temperatures above normal. 47 in philadelphia and upper 30s to the north and west. and the early thundershower and downpour and then most of the overnight is partly cloudy and tomorrow for st. patrick's day a bit of the luck of the irish here if you like the warmth, temperature going into the middle 60s, sun and clouds and there could be again a scattered thunderstorm or shower in the early afternoon hours. your four day at 4:00, after a warm day in the morning and brief shower in the afternoon, blustery and cooler with another

cold front, that will spark a mid-day shower or so. and it cools to 46 and sunny on saturday and chilly day but then we go to 42 on sunday with the possibility of that spring snow, with a coastal storm. hi sharrie what's up? this is your big moment. show it off. >> finally i have something to say. thank you adam. adam is apparently done. coming up tonight at 11:00, our wendy saltzman is teaming up with abc news for an in-depth investigation into emergency air flights. >> an emergency airtrans port could be the ride that saves your life but some were left with sticker shock after they received unexpected medical bills. >> i was struck down $54,000 and whatever dollars. >> that is why we have insurance, you don't go after

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firefighters are chester county had their hands full fighting this smokey blaze, chopper 6 hd was over chester road in west town township, crew as rived to find heavy smoke and fire shooting through the roof and it took about an hour to get this under control and officials said it was electrical in nature and was ruled an accident. female voters received an encouraging message from the first female mayor of new jersey today. she spoke about the importance stridize women have made and reflected on her journey to becoming an elected official.

and wants the girls to know there is no limits on what they can accomplish. >> have you to overcome some obstacles to achieve your goals but if this day and age, women can be anything they choose to be and hopefully being an example of that as the first female mayor will compel to be involved in political office. >> a positive message, the republican mayor was reelected in november to four more years in office. next on "action news" a horse is being nursed back to health after being pelted by more than 100 paint balls, we have more on the horse's prognosis coming up. and they repeatedly slapped a classmate when he was on the bus and now the district is dishing out a punishment. more on the bullying ahead.

we begin at 4:30 with breaking news, more on the tragic death on an officer that died in friendly fire outside of princes george's county police station in maryland. now another officer deliberately aimed his gun at colson mistaking him for a suspect because he was wearing plain clothes at the time and 22-year-old michael ford opened fire on police with the

intention of committing suicide by cop. and his two brothers are charged with driving him to the police station and recording the whole ordeal on a cell phone. and now the case of animal abuse, the animal was found riddled with more than 100 paint balls, leaving her coat covered in different colors, trish hartman is live in kennett square with more on the horse's injuries. >> reporter: well sharrie, lily the horse is undergoing treatment here at penn vet's center, she is undergoing surgery tomorrow and authorities continue to search for the people accused of shooting the horse with 130 paint balls. lily named after the easter flower was found monday afternoon abandoned covered in paint marks and welts. >> you see something like that,

it's quite stunning -- >> because you never seen a horse look like that. >> the woman that found her runs omega horse rescue and sought treatment at the center. >> when she came in she was very thin and debilitated and very old. and had all the horrible marks all over her body. >> lily will have surgery tomorrow to remove a diseased eye left untreated. >> we'll remove the eye to make her more comfortable, that eye is no use to her and she will be a better horse without it. >> the rehab is likely tens of thousands of dollars, because doctors don't know what lily was exposed to she is in isolation for now. >> it's costly to have a horse here especially in the isolation unit but we need to protect the other horses here in the hospital. but it is very expensive.

>> reporter: now a $1,000 reward is offered for information leading to an arrest and conviction in this case of animal cruelty, and omega horse is taking donations for lily's care. we are live in kennett square, trish hartman, channel 6 "action news." >> excellent veterinarians there. we have new information on a story we first told you about yesterday at 4:30, the chester upland school district says they suspended a student seen bullying a classmate on board of a school bus, it shows rahim caldwell be slapped in the face repeatedly and the district says they will not tolerate bullying. rahim is being transferred to a new school. his mom was heart broken to know her fourth grader was bullied like that for months. three vehicles crashed in front of a wilmington firehouse, three cars collided and hit a

parked box truck shortly before 5:00 a.m. fire crews pulled a person out of one of those vehicles and the crash blocked the entrance to fire station six. they carried their equipment to help the victims. hazmat crews quickly got a leak at a fuel company under control this morning. there was report of smoke. an active radiator in port richmond, philadelphia. it turned out to be liquid nitrogen. governor jack markell started an initial state in the first state. >> they want to live downtown and work downtown and have things to do downtown and have fun and we want the delaware downtown is participating like downtowns across the country. >> the downtown development program is such a huge success in wilmington and dover and

seaford it's now expanding to other cities. so far $10 million in grant money is used to revitalize the downtown including a parking garage in wilmington. meteorologist, adam joseph, joins us now. a beautiful day today but are you tracking changes later in the week. >> right now thunderstorms are passing through as we take a live look at sky 6 hd at the darkening sky over center city and the shine is fading in locations, 71 degrees right now and the dew point is up at 50 to help support some of that lightning and thunder as we look at the southerly winds at miles per hour. the first storm approaching and should move north and west of philadelphia although center city will get a little wet, the heaviest rain moving north and westchester and heading to berwyn and wayne and broomall, and no lightning left in that

particular storm but it's heavy rain and we have lightning with the cell now in quakertown. bedminster at 4:47 and oxville at 4:49. as it moves to the north and east at 30 miles per hour. no severe storms but heavy rain and again flashes of lightning and thunder, slowing some traffic down on the roadways, especially there around 309. we'll chat about the bigger changes going into the weekend with the possible snow, we'll talk about that setup in the seven day. >> adam thanks. >> the philadelphia prison system announced a new class of corrections officers, the 43 new graduates were sworn into a career of public service at the main branch of the free library of philadelphia. along with the cadets a number of other correction staff members received promotions today as well. the march of dimes is honoring

people building a healthy future for our babies, the building and construction awards lunch enwas held at the pennsylvania convention center, jim kenney received the humanity award for promoting economic development. a local leader called in help for his fight against bullying. monica malpass is live now with details on this. >> reporter: that is right, d.a. seth williams led a campaign against bullying in philadelphia for the last three years, and the action cam was there in south philadelphia for his special event. coming up tonight at 5:00, the local star power he called on to help promote his message of tolerance. and another zika scare in the caribbean, ali gorman tells us where the latest case was found and now a new warning to travelers here in the u.s. and it comes before spring break. more coming your way on "action news" at 5:00. >> see you then monica thank

you. first responders in gloucester county have a new way of communicating, nine radio towers and 3,000 radios will help them stay in touch and protect the public. the new system is expected to be more reliable and the old one began suffering outages a few years ago when they changed the frequencies for digital television. 12 police officers put their skills to the test in coatesville. teams of k-9s and their handlers competed in the k-9 association trials. to detect explosives and narcotics and human remains, the chester county sheriff's office is the only office with at least one dog in each category. they compete against the best police dogs in the world. >> hard working. >> incredible animals there. a birthday invitation brings a

mother to tears, we bring her post about kindness in big talkers. and it's called a modern day bank robber, a thief in stealing identities and draining accounts with one phone call. we'll tell you how to protect yourself in what's the deal? .

the justice department confirms that one gun at el chapo's hideout is traced back to a failed operation. it's traced back to fast and furious, gun runners were allowed to buy weapons so they could track them with the hopes of disrupting drug smuggling rings. new video shows an elaborate prison escape. two inmates had a helicopter pick them up.

they hijacked the helicopter and three to the jail where they picked the inmates up. their freedom it not last long, they were recaptured a few hours later, the escape happened in 2013 but prosecutors released the video just this week. >> they probably got a different ride back to jail. here is the big board with the big talkers, a story out of canada that is tugging at the heart strings today. let me bring the picture up here for you. a gesture speaking volumes for the mother, she was moved to tears because of a birthday invitation that came in the mail for him. it came for 7-year-old timothy, he was diagnosed with non-verbal autism when he was just 2 years old. carter sat beside timothy at school and always talks about him. adding that maybe timothy can

come early in the day if it's too much with the whole class, let me know so we can make it work. tricia, timothy's mom turned down every single invite until now. because he can get overstimulated. he went and had a blast. he was finally included and mom says she was moved to tears by the words, lets make it work. >> a lot of people really loving that one today. >> and fellow moms believe me when i tell you, this woman is in labor. contractions and all and this picture of her putting on makeup, yes, the makeup artist from new york says she is surprised her pictures are that popular, it's what she does for a living and she was in labor for ten hours, her sister

snapped the pictures and social media is mostly loving them with most people loving them hashtaging them labor goals. the guy on the right is the her hubby stepping in to do some contouring and he was the best labor partner and pretty phenomenal with the brush there. and the most beautiful shot of all. little sophia 8 pounds 18 ounces snuggled by the gorgeous mom with the amazing eyelashes and all. for everybody that has anything negative to say think back to the taylor swift song. >> haters going to hate, shake it off. lets get a check of the roads right now, autumn marisa is in for matt pellman. >> i didn't look that good when i just had my baby. you don't want to see those

pictures. we'll start by look agent 202, we have windshield wiper going in the shot, the headlights going southbound this is 29 in malvern, rain on our roadways now, deep your speeds down a bit if you come into the rain. taking a look across the region, you can see we are in the teens on the schuylkill expressway, the eastbound lanes making your way out of the city, taking a half hour now to go from the vine street expressway to the blue route and an accident pushed off to the side of the road. expect to tap your brakes this there now. this is southbound at cotman avenue, an earlier vehicle fire out the way now, and a disabled vehicle taking out the right hand lane ahead and a 30 minute commute in either direction from woodhaven to the vine or in reverse now. 295 northbound, this is at 206, an accident out there and u.s.

route 1 southbound at habson avenue. a few things on mass transit. the first one paoli thorndale line and chestnut hill all delays at this time. back to you brian and sharrie. >> thank you. coming up meteorologist, adam joseph, tracking rain now and more changes later in the week.

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stormtracker 6 live double scan one that pushes quickly through northern parts of buck county and lightning and torrential rain and hearing thunder and seeing thunder and this is moving through bedminster. and 26 lightning strikes with that. no lightning with this downpour out of chester county pushing into the delaware county and eventually clip conshohocken and the schuylkill and it will be slow going here soon as the heavy rain passes by and we drip into northeast philadelphia and the towns and times here as it passes, heavy torrential rain as it's pocket passes north and east of downtown center city. 66 in allentown and 71 in philadelphia. fairly warm across the area with the exception of the shore, a bit a sea breeze and only in the 50s. a weak front is passing by

sparking these scattered downpours and thunderstorms, after it passes by these could happen from now up until 11:00 tonight. it will turn dry after midnight for everyone and pretty pleasant with temperatures between 38 and 47 with the wind shifting from the southeast to a more westerly direction. as we go through the day on thursday, pretty nice as well. 65 degrees and partly sunny and rather unsettled so there could be a pop-up shower or downpour during the afternoon hours tomorrow, and then another area of low pressure goes into new england and a cold front passes through here in the mid-day hours of friday, we call it a sun sandwich and we start with sun and send with sun with a temperature of 55 and after the front sinks to the south canadian high pressure comes in to bring cooler air in from the north and this could help create a snow maker here the second half of the weekend. it is a possible spring snow

storm, right now the track is unvariable and developing a nor'easter from the south and temperatures are cold enough for all areas from i-95 to new england, a moisture rich storm and the question is how close to the coast does it develop and most models bring in some kind of snow here for most of us on sunday. the exclusive accuweather forecast 65 degrees and breezy with a brief shower tomorrow and blustery with the mid-day shower and 55 and sunny and saturday is a great day at 46 and high of 4-with the snow possibly starting sometime in the early afternoon hours continuing into sun night with temperatures right around freezing sunday night and monday brisk stays chilly at 48 and we climb the ladder back up with sun and clouds tuesday and wednesday as we go close to 60 degrees, if we see snow the good thing this time of year it doesn't last long. i'm looking at the optimistic

side of this. >> thank you. up next on "action news" today. thieves found a new way to steal your identity. we'll explain their simple scheme.

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teller. >> what transactions did you want to go over sir, he calls to access several. i would like to know how much i have in my accounts please. >> have you 14,327. >> bank tellers have access to confidential data. they say that bad tellers are often part of larger identity theft rings. they are selling that to individuals on the outside and they take the information and turn it into credit cards or checks. this woman says that someone stole thousands of dollars from her accounts just weeks before the biggest day of her life. >> we were working for about a year to save up cash to pay for our entire wedding and it was gone. she had no idea a bank teller stole her identity along with 28 other companies. chase told her a former employee may have accessed your account

information without authorization and gave it to someone outside of chase. chase tells abc as soon as we discovered this we immediately called the authorities fired the employee and reimbursed the customers, we have sorry and angry this happened. >> but not all banks aggressively fight and report these crimes. >> if it's not reported to law enforcement it's an invitation for the criminal to keep the money and move on to the next bank. >> the american bankers association says that banks uses many safe guards including sophisticated software to monitor access of customer's accounts and so that customers are protected against fraud they cover any loss, but they remind you keep an eye on those statements, make sure everything that is there is what you have been doing with your own account. >> always a good practice. thank you. finally at 4:00 the franklin

institute is getting a look at the science festival. the explosive trash can salute is one of 70 different events. that is pretty awesome -- that is held at penn's landing at the chestnut street bridge, the festival itself kicks off april 22nd. >> nothing bore being that. >> nope. that will do it for "action news" at 4:00, for brian taff and adam joseph i'm sharrie williams, join me along with brian and adam tonight and every night for a full hour of "action news" at 10:00 on phl 17. now here are rick williams and monica malpass with a look next at "action news" at 5:00. coming up next tonight, a philadelphia high school student was remembered today after he suddenly died from an infection and we are live from the supreme court. and the political face-off brewing over the confirmation

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cecily tynan, rick williams and monica malpass. good evening as we look live from sky 6 hd over a cloudy center city skyline, we begin with breaking news in the weather department, scattered thunderstorms are moving into the area at this hour. lightning has been reported for some folks, we are going to cecily tynan with the latest. >> we heard a rumble of thunder outside of our studio, double scan live showing what is going on a frontal boundary moving through and this stretches from our area up through new york state in through canada, the past 15 minutes, 200 lightning strikes in this view, that being said we are in the tail end of that. we have a couple of scattered storms that are not severe and it's kind of a bad time and this shows the heavy rain is right over the schuylkill expressway by the conshohocken curve through king of prussia.

one lightning strike moving east-northeast and elkins park and fox chase and frankford all in the path of this little cell moving through and farther up to the north we have a pretty intense cell right over 202 heading towards doylestown and 611 and another cell that just moved to the east of 611 and this view has 35 lightning strikes, this shows that this system does have some dynamics with it. part of the reason why, it's warm out there and slightly humid, it feels like spring, 71 in philadelphia and richmond, virginia, 83, don't get used to these temperatures they will drop for the weekend, it stayed mild tomorrow and friday another cold front that could bring showers and behind the system the coastal storm i am talking about could bring spring snow,