angry complaints about septa service. septa got a tip call he was on board the 23, and while he sleeps, the sergeant evacuated the bystanders, and moved in on ronald graham who proved to be unarmed that day. all of septa's uniformed officers are now outfitted with body cameras, this is his body cam view of the same arrest. >> this will show and put the police in a great light and shine the light on the police that are not acting properly. it's a great tool for policing. >> reporter: rick and monica i'll be back later with more on this subject. ronald graham remains in custody, the main charges he faces is attempted murder. i'm vernon odom, channel 6 "action news." turning now to the

accuweather forecast, right now spotty storms are popping up across the region part of an unsettled week of weather that could bring snow to our area. that is right snow by the end of the weekend. >> that is spring time of course. cecily tynan is watching stormtracker 6 live double scan right now. >> that is right we have spring snow on the way on sunday and this evening instability showers popping up, this wide view on stormtracker 6 live double scan showing it's all the way from d.c. up into new england and the ohio valley, but not as intense at last night, last night we had 200 lightning strikes and now down to 25, not all that intense but they contain heavy rain. zooming in we have one cell heading off the coast no lightning strikes but heavy rain with this and a cell over mercer county and this was pretty

intense over berks county and now rain east of yardley crossing route 31 to 206 right now. yes, it's an unsettled week and it's not over yet. temperatures show it's mild on this st. patrick's day 63 degrees, don't get used to it i'm tracking colder air arriving by the weekend, tonight evening showers, nothing all that severe and the winds of change pulling down the cold air and yes sunday the first day of spring, i'm tracking a spring nor'easter and i'll have more details on that coming up in the full forecast. >> east ser the following weekend oh nor'easter? check back in later. with the rain moving through and a chance of rain on the way keep accuweather with you getting information from double scan live radar around the clock at 6abc.com/weather. philadelphia city officials have a clear idea on what caused a partial building collapse in

old city today. demolition crews were working here at ray when a piece of concrete fell to the ground and hit lamp posts and that school bus, the driver was the only one on at the time. he had just dropped off a load of fifth graders. >> glass all over the cities and windows broken and stones flying in. some were flying across the steering wheel while i was getsing out of the way. >> the investigation is still underquay and they are relying on surveillance cameras for probe. officials in salem county are figuring out how a truck lost control and slam nood a house early this morning. viewer video shows the fiery moments that followed the crash, it happened at 5:30 a.m. along dunlap avenue. the truck broke a gas line causing the fire and a husband and wife were asleep at the

time. the woman says her husband, who is a retired firefighter and credits his skills with saving her life. both got out okay as did the driver of that truck. a northampton man is accused of killing a toddler by fracturing her skull. gary foley jr. called 911 and told police the little girl was choking on a piece of hot dog but an autopsy revealed a skull fracture and they ruled it a homicide. the girl's mother was not there at the time but they say that foley moved in the week before after the couple met online. the couple live there had with three other children and they described conditions in the home as deplorable. >> dirty dishes on the counter and tabletop and garbage piled up with bugs crawling on the counter top and table and the

house had no running water and there was no electric in the house and the source of heat was space heaters. >> she has $150,000 bail. and they don't believe foley will get any bail. secretary of state, john kerry, says isis is committing genocide in the middle east. the first time he use that word. after the house passed a resolution to use the term. >> they are genocidal by self proclamation by ideology and by actions in what it says and what it believes and what is does. the entire world view is based on eliminating those that do not prescribe to its per verse ideology. >> the last time genocide was declared was in 2004.

merrick garland met with democrats today as they look to place him in the vacant supreme court seat. >> they called to law makers to turn to other issues. and there is more on the fight over the next supreme court justice coming up at 5:30. a popular mens store is closing its doors after six decades and the man that runs the shop is expected to go out with a big bang of bargains. >> subtle he is not. >> it fits you better, lets take a look. >> abe mendel has been selling clothes at the iconic philadelphia store a man's image for six decades.

>> you get one-on-one. you won't find that elsewhere. >> besides the great customer service, people love the store because of the variety. maybe you want something colorful like this jacket but on the conservative side and opt for a plain black suit. >> i train my employee once in a while to argue with customers if they are in something that doesn't enhance their looks. if it doesn't fit them right we with the first ones to tell them. >> and then a blowout sale. >> this is where i get most of my formal ware and now they are going to close. >> at 75 dr. abe says his retirement is overdue and the care in which many man used to take in the way they dress is over. >> only the old timers like

myself still care. >> it's an ego thing. >> with dr. abe's generation it's an employee thing, so dr. abe is shopping for a smaller space. i am giving them back the service for all the years they have given me. >> cheers abe and to all of his customers abe says -- >> after 60 years come on down -- >> channel 6 "action news." >> a legend. >> a real staple. time for a check of the "action news" traffic report thursday night. autumn marisa is in for matt pellman is in our traffic center on a thursday night almost friday. >> hi rick and monica, the luck has run out on the roads, this is 95 the northbound lanes at 452, we have an accident taking out the right hand lane and we saw an ambulance and a fire truck pull away. but there is still many emergency vehicles out there at this time.

and you can see the long line and delay into delaware now. this is the vine street expressway an accident here taking out the right hand lane and those are the westbound lanes making your way up to the schuylkill expressway, moving along and telling you about ray street, it's closed because of the building collapse earlier, sixth street to forest street is closed. we'll be back in the next half hour. >> thank you. more ahead on "action news" at 5:00, a new standard for cars in the u.s., what auto makered say they will put on every american car by 2022 in an attempt to make roaded safer around the country. and on capitol hill, a situation that boiled over the flint water crisis today. katie: the u.s. has added 14 million new jobs

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a congressional hearing on the flint we're crisis turned contentious when lawmakers put blame on state and government

officials. today her resignation was called for for water piped in flint. >> you had the authority and the backing of the federal government and you did not act when you had the chance and you should do the courageous thing and you too should step down. >> governor schneider also came under fire saying he ignored warnings. and now the dow average is in the green wiping out one of the worst yearly starts to the market history. industrial companies led the rally on wall street prompting a big surge this afternoon and oil closed $40 a barrel the highest price it had in months and the dow rose155 points. and automatic braking will

be standard in cars by 2022, they use cameras and radar and other sensors to automatically stop or slow a vehicle if the driver does not react quickly enough. the national highway administration says that the technology could cut the number of rear end crashes in the u.s. in half. the subway system serving the nation's capital is back in operation after a 29 hour shut down. it was ordered so that workers could inspect 600 power cables throughout the system. they said an electrical fire on the tracks monday raised serious safety concerns, the inspections found 26 areas of concern requiring replacement or repair. time for health check, for some people shingles could cause lasting pain or discomfort. ali gorman is joining us at the big board with more details. >> reporter: hi, yes one in every three americans will get

shingles, it happens most commonly in men and women 50 or older, some can be mild and some can be very painful, doctors are testing a new drug designed to short circuit the virus. stephanie mess didn't neat fireworks last fourth of july, she had enough from shingles. it was painful and then' itchy burning rash and then severe pain. >> it feels like someone is squeezing your muscles from the inside out and it's relentless, you count the minutes until you can take your next dose of pain medication. >> it happens when the chicken pox virus laying dormant since childhood coming back. it can appear at any time but mostly in the upper body. he is one of four local doctors

involved in a nationwide trial testing a drug called fv 100, like other shingles medications it can shorten the length and severity of the pain and rash, but what make its different is? >> after three months of the original outbreak, a lot of patients experience pain and disability and this decreases the probability of that happening. >> the trial medication is taken over the course of a week. >> stephanie wishes it could have been available for her and hope its works for others. >> anything that may have shortened or decreases the effects. >> to take part in the study you need to be at least 50 years old or older and can't the study site within three days of the signs of the rash and you cannot have had the shingles vaccine. and we have more information on the study and study sites on 6abc.com/health check.

>> thank you ali. police in iowa are hoping to track down the owner of this wedding dress that they say a tornado actually carried over state lines, a newspaper delivery man found the dress in a box on capitol hill. they believe it blue over a river from illinois and they are amazing that the dress stayed in the box and survived without a scratch. more to come on "action news" tonight, a big honor for one philadelphia middle schooler and her efforts to help fire prevention.

well, the ceremony honored irish immigrants on st. patrick's day here on penn's landing. mayor jim kenney is irish himself and was there to pay homage to the history the irish played in the history of the city. how about that? irish eyes are also smiling as senior citizens planted peas for st. patrick's day.

they held their second annual saint pat's peas day party and they got a package of green peas to plant. this is traditionally considered the start of the planting season nationwide. people can now pay court costs and fines owed to the state of delaware with kiosks. they were installed today set up in the dmv's in wilmington and georgetown, the systems were operated by touch play, they can be used to pay child support. the philadelphia middle schooler got a big honor from fire commissioner derek sawyer, amy mccaffrey won the fire department's essay contest. she beat out other entries from students across the city and today commissioner sawyer paid a special visit to abby's school

to talk about fire prevention and present her with the special award in person. >> very nice. coming up the accuweather forecast. >> a life look at sky 6 hd looking at the ben franklin bridge on a thursday night. cecily tynan has the accuweather forecast.

time now for accuweather and cecily tynan is here at the big board. a few twists and turns in there. >> but for tonight st. patrick's day night. some green on the radar, appropriate for st. patrick's day, but not a lot of action, just some light scattered showers, most of them across south jersey and mays landing and another area towards elmer and middletown, delaware, you'll get scattered showers. but just garden variety showers and now the sun is setting they get fewer and far between. nicole postd this on my facebook page, if you look closely you can see the double rainbow there she got the entire arc the temperatures today not too bad yesterday made it up into the 70s not quite as warm in the 60s

for highs. wilmington 60 and allentown 57 and the average high for this time of year is 53 degrees, once again a mild day, temperatures tonight dropping into the 40s but allentown and lancaster, into the upper 30s and philadelphia 44 and cape may 46 and trenton 42. looking to be a pretty decent day tomorrow. windy and a cold front moves through. temperatures again relatively mild. allentown 56 and cape may 58 and trenton 58 degrees, that cold front will usher in cold air and future tracker showing two low pressures will form and really intensify off the coast of cape hatteras and what this does is push in moisture and this is 8:30 in the morning and you see there is mixing and rain in

south jersey and delaware. and north and west of i-95, it likely will be all snow. what you can expect for the first day of spring. it won't look like it in the northwest suburbs, wet snow through the day, i-95 metro area, mainly wet snow and mixing in with rain and central delaware, and south jersey a raw rain all day but once the sunsets, you'll get the transition to wet snow in the evening and we'll talk about the potential for snowfall accumulation coming up in the full accuweather forecast. 61 degrees and saturday the high only 48 and sunday feeling like winter and the first day of spring, 38 degrees with the spring nor'easter and temperatures slowly rebound, tuesday 48 degrees and we'll talk about totals coming up in a few minutes with adam joseph. >> thank you. still to come in the next half our of "action news" at 5:00. we'll have a live report from brooklyn as march madness is

underway.

here is what is happening on "action news" tonight. democrats are moving ahead with the supreme court nomination of merrick garland. >> friends are helping a woman tie the knot before cancer claims her mother's life. i'm have her inspiring story. let march madness begin, temple and villanova is getting ready for their first round games. and president obama's supreme court nominee, merrick garland is moving forward with his nomination despite republicans vow to block it. >> reporter: good evening rick, judge garland will meet with some republican senators when they meet in a couple of weeks and they hope hearings will

follow. >> chief judge merrick garland's first stop on capitol hill a meeting with democratic senator patrick leahy. >> there is no reason why this couldn't in normal course could easily be done by memorial day. >> another show of supon the steps of supreme court where democratic senators gather to press their point. >> the republicans in the senate need to do their job. >> they insist he deserves hearings and a timely vote. harry reid lashes out at his republican counterpart for refusing to even meet with him. >> he is leading them over the cliff and they will rue the day, but republican leaders remain united in opposition. >> there is simply too much at stake to leave the decision in the hands of a president who is

headed out the door. >> republicans insist that vot r ers should have a say when they elect the next president and now pushing back against merrick's reputation at a moderate and calling him a volunteer work on presidential campaigns more than 20 years ago. and democrats are decrying a suggestion by senator jeff flake that they may go ahead and confirm garland only if hillary clinton is confirmed only from preventing her from picking a nominee. delaware senator chris couns a member of the judiciary committee, and says she are showing a new level -- >> he nominated a consensus candidate that previously won a bipartisan confirmation by the

d.c. circuit. >> senator couns says that the committee is to meet with him and give him a hearing. now to the 2016 race for the white house, it's two days since the missouri primary, still neither side declared a winner, the delegates will be divided by percentage of the vote earned by donald trump, ted cruz and john kasich. representatives of both political parties say that the vote was still too close to call. republican speaker of the house is making it clear, he will not run for president. ryan admitted he told house speaker john boehner to knock it off when he suggested that he should be the nominee if there is no winner in the convention.

>> i made say decision over a year ago to run for president. if you want to be president you should run for president. >> speaker ryan says it's more likely that the convention in cleveland will be contested. world news tonight with david muir will have more on the presidential election and the battle over the supreme court nomination. in other news tonight, delaware state police believe that drunk driving caused a crash at the toll plaza in newark, he was arrested for allegedly causing this chain reaction involving three other cars. he was heading northbound when he approached the toll booth without slowing down. he is facing dui, marijuana and speeding charges. and in our delaware newsroom. police in dover took this man into custody off gun charges, he

was spotted sitting in a vehicle holding a gun and was pursued into a wooded area on salisbury road and taken into custody. the handgun a loaded barretta was found nearby. is he considered a local fugitive and held on $25,000 bail tonight. a south jersey woman losing her mother to cancer moved heaven and earth so her mom could attend her wedding. nora muchanic has the story. >> reporter: it meant everything to me. i did not want to get married and not have her there. >> it's an image she cannot ignore. erica scrambled to planner wedding quickly and two days later, she and her husband

darryl were married. and her mom was there. >> i am so happy she was there for me. >> it was put together by wedding photographers that heard about her situation, they arranged for a makeup artist, flowers, food and a limo and all of this donated to the myers for free. >> erica says it's suppose to be happy shopping for wedding dresses and shopping for a funeral home at the same time. >> i wanted to make something big and special for their family. >> they gave us a gift that is priceless. >> erica is going to cherish this moment for the rest of her life. that is all she really wanted to have her mother see her get married before she passed away. >> it was because of the kindness of strangers that

erica's mom was there for erica it was a wedding present more precious than any other. >> i will never forget what those people did for me and i have my mom there for me and thank god she made it there for me. it was beautiful from start to finish. i'm nora muchanic, channel 6 "action news." >> how sweet. right now on 6abc.com you can see a wedding album of erica and darryl unforgettable day. as the happy couple shared this experience with hire loved one especially erica's mom, can you see them now too. now for an update on the commute home on a thursday night. autumn marisa in for matt pellman. >> hi monica and rick, we look at the vine street expressway an accident on the right hand laned as you make your way to the airport. a slow go there, and the westbound lanes making your way on to the schuylkill. taking a look at the schuylkill you can see our eastbound is our bigger delay right now around

girard avenue, as you make your way down into the city and the westbound lanes don't look too bad here. moving along we have a few incidents to tell you about. first one 95 northbound at delaware avenue and the second one in dublin route 313 at elephant road and stump road and horsham road another one to report to you. back to you rick and monica. >> thank you autumn. still to come on "action news" thursday night. sea world says they are doing away with their controversial killer whale show. and that is the beginning of big changes ahead. after an early exit the last two years, villanova says they are ready to make a run and that starts with unc ashville on friday, the story coming up on sports. and the temperatures running close to 9 degrees above normal this month, but cold air is moving to the north and this way as moisture comes up from the

south. yes, we are talking about a nor'easter in the accuweather forecast. and tgit fans hold on to your hats. it's the season finale of "how to get away with murder."

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chopper 6 hd live over breaking news of pemberton county, where they say that a serious motorcycle accident was reported moments ago and the accident was on birmingham road and the motorcyclist lost control and crashed. the victim was rushed to the hospital with serious injuries, no word on their identity or condition and a serious accident here in pemberton township and police still on the scene trying to piece it together. and sea borld is partnering with long time critics to end their whale shows. the okrcas will be the last one in captivity. last month the theme park reported a fourth quarter loss of $11 million.

>> whether it's a movie or customers writing us, there is no doubt that mind set has changed. we love them and are trying to do the right thing. >> pita says that sea world's latest moves are not good enough, and says they should not deep their remaining orcas but release them into the wild. jaime apody is here. >> let the games begin today. the greatest sports game of the year but the not. because in philadelphia that is reserved for tomorrow. mayor kenney should declare it a holiday. three local teams play and two at the same site. brooklyn is the place and you'll find temple, villanova and jeff skversky. >> reporter: villanova has not made it out of the opening

weekend the last few years, and they were eliminated earlier despite being a one or two seed. >> we want to win a national championship, how does that start? unc ashville that is how. >> friday's opening round game against unc ashville. they are not using their early exits the last two years as motivation, you have to let it go and focus on last year, a completely different scene and if you think about that in the game, you focus on the first game. >> we don't think about it because like other guys said it's in our past, we have a whole year of something new and we are just focusing on our next game. >> while nova is here before the big dance is unchartered territory for the temple team and senior john is the only owl that played in the naacp before and they are picking his brain heading into their game against iowa. >> i asked him what is the

excitement and energy like? he said it's unreal not like a regular season game or even a game like last week. >> we play the game and we have poise and toughness about us we'll be okay. >> how tough is temple? well most teams are taking a charter bus to the barclay temple takes the subway, yes the new york subway, hopefully they ride home with a win, setting up a potential second round game against their old friend, villanova on sunday. we would all love to see that. live in brooklyn, jeff skversky channel 6 "action news." >> that would be something else. meanwhile st. joe's is out west in spokane, washington awaiting their game against cincinnati and for the seniors they want to enjoy the experience. >> it means everything, this is our last go around and we want to go out fighting and we are playing hard and giving

everything we got and this is what we are here for this is the way we want it. make a run. >> leave it to the phillies to get in the spirit of the holiday, unfortunately the luck of the irish is not on their side. larry bowa and pete mccannon not easy being green. the fifth starter spot he struck out seven in five innings and ryan howard knocked his first home run of the spring off a lefty of all people and tied the game in the fourth but rays hit more home runs and phils fell 6-1. and by the way, the first big upset. yale knocked off baylor. >> love upsets. and abc shows are back with all new shows. building up to tonight's season

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let your eyes decide. flonase. 6>1 changes everything. meteorologist, adam joseph is here warm and snow and we have everything. >> everything going on here in the next week. but when you look at the seven day, 70s will be back after. something for everybody. as we look at double scan live radar we are dealing with a few scattered showers at the present

time. nothing terribly heavy and no thunderstorms and southern new jersey and delaware, and everything is fall ago part especially north and west of philadelphia, and as those downpours and thunderstorms pass through, our social media pages are flooded with pictures of this of rainbows, there is a faint double rainbow here, sent in to my facebook page by tina up in perkasie, you can see how vibrant the primary rainbow is there on the horizon. as we look at the numbers, it cooled off from the 60s, 57 allentown and 60 wilmington and millville. still holding on to the higher numbers in southern areas where they were last to see the showers pass through. as we look at satellite and radar, they are die earnly driven, that means they popped in the afternoon with the high

sung angle and the two combine and once the sunsets we'll shut the showers off. turning clear overnight tonight, temperatures between 39 and 44 degrees and then the setup for tomorrow, another front coming in from the north and this is really the dividing line from the warmth to the south and unseasonably chilly temperatures in canada, as this slides through early in the afternoon we see spotty showers and a strong wind from the north northwest around 15 to 25 miles per hour and still mild at 61 and fresh high pressure comes in from the hudson bay and it turns much colder on saturday with a northerly wind and 48 degrees and the high sets up one part of an ingredient here for that spring nor'easter. because low pressure will be developing down to the south and energy coming in from the gulf of mexico and developing that storm off the carolinas and it comes with quite a bit of moisture here first thing on sunday morning. so it starts right at dawn on

sunday with the latest trends, all the modelled jumped on board showing this particular storm. a wet snow to the north and west. the heavy consistency and rain south and east for most of the day and the location i-95 north and west and the majority accumulating on the none paved surfaces, but once the sunsets it could take on some slush. the lowest percentage for the philadelphia area is a coating to an inch, the best case at this point as we look at the models of seeing 3 to 6 inches of snow 40% chance and 25% chance 6 to 12, it looks to be a moderate size nor'easter on the first day of spring. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast partly sunny and scattered shower of 61 and cooler here and 48 and only 30s here on sunday with the wet snow

mainly melting during the day with mixing rain during the day south and east of philadelphia and changes to all wet snow for everybody monday night and still a chill tuesday and wednesday and thursday turning milder up to 70, the snow will not last long where it does accumulate and we'll have the updates on facebook and twitter and here on channel 6 over the next couple of days. >> remember "action news" is about interaction with you. so follow us on social media for the headlines and breaking news and to communicate with us, on facebook 6 abc "action news" and join us and also be part of "action news." for years, i was a laboratory chemist,

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have caused it. and a local student thought her dad was serving in cuba, see the hugs and happy tears as they surprise her at school. now for jaime apody, monica malpass, cecily tynan i'm rick williams have a good night.

"action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with ducis rogers, meteorologist cecily tynan and jim gardner. thursday night and accuweather is tracking the distinct possibility of snow and the conestoga high school

football team cleans house after a hazing scandal but the big story on "action news" is the partial collapse of a building in old city in philadelphia. this is what it looked like after a portion of a building fell apart at fifth and race. it set off a chain reaction that damaged a school bus, john rawlins is live at the scene tonight, john what happened there this morning. >> this is what we think, this is a big demolition site. according to lni, they think what happened here is that a support column gave way, they are not sure why, that triggered a structureal failure that caused it to fall on the bus. city investigators are trying to figure out why a floor column failed allowing a section of concrete floor to crash down