will send and sing a national anthem on a very big stage and that is next up. "action news" was there, as alleged baby kidnapper cherie amoore had her first contact with the wheels of justice. they spun hard, and fast, for this three two-year old woman who was remand todd jail, on a

half million-dollar bail. it is friday night, and the big story on "action news" tonight is the latest on the abduction and return of this seven week old baby. tonight, we are hearing from the baby's mother. "action news" reporter dann cuellar is live at the king of prussia mall where the kidnapping happened. dann, you have talk to malika hunter what is she thinking and what is she saying tonight. >> well, jim, malika hunter is telling me she has not been able to sleep since her ordeal. she's still in the state of shock and now fear about taking her children out in public. >> that was like one of the worst nights of my life. one of the worst nights. >> reporter: twenty-five year-old malika hunter describing her horrific nightmare at king of prussia mall where this woman three two-year old cherie amoore of tredyffrin township is accused of kidnapping her seven week old baby ahsir simmons. our cameras was there when hunter was reunited with her unharmed son.

>> crazy. >> he is doing great. he is doing great. he is with a bunch of family, loving arms and we are glad to have him back. >> reporter: amoore, according to court records told investigators she was trying to fill a void after losing her own baby in february, shortly after birth. she told detectives that i held him, and all of those feelings rushed back. i just wanted my baby. it felt like i was holding my son again. it felt so good. i didn't want to lose that feeling. i was crazy. >> so, you come along and take somebody else child to fill your void and leave me try to one is not right. i had to suffer the same but you don't see her out here. they are children. >> i lost my son and i was hurt, and what i never wanted to do was put that hurt on somebody else. so for her to say and use that as an excuse that is not an excuse. >> reporter: malika with another young boy, says her children are her world and while she's grateful to have

ahsir back the ordeal left her deeply scared. >> from this situation i don't want to go outside. i don't want to take my kids. i want to keep my kid in the house. >> reporter: you don't trust anyone. >> i don't trust no one. if i go somewhere my kids are a target now. i don't want to go no where. >> reporter: meanwhile, amoore has been charged with kidnapping and related offences. she's not been able to post her $500,000 bail and is being held at the montgomery county correctional fat it is. we're live from king of prussia, dann cuellar for channel six a "action news". live, dann. we have breaking news tonight. philadelphia fire fighters discovered a woman's body after putting out a fire inside a row home in tioga a nicetown. it a peers to be something, more sinister. authorities are telling "action news" that she was dead, before the blaze break out in the 1900 block of west street. now homicide detectives have

the case, they are not, identifying the victim just yet. chopper six was also over a deadly crash in pennsauken, late tonight where a car struck a pedestrian. it happened at 9:00 o'clock on route 07 near browning road. police are releasing few details, as the investigation is in its early stages. police in camden are trying to track down a man who allegedly shot his mother in the chest, late this afternoon. "action news" reporter jeff chirico is live at cooper university hospital where the mother has died. jeff, you've got the full story. >> reporter: jim, family members kept asking over and over again how could a son do this to his own mother? i spoke with the victim's daughter off daughter a little while ago. she told me she saw her brother pull the trigger a and she wants him caught. as grieving family members gathered at the hospital police conducted an interstate manhunt for the man who allegedly shot his own mom. it happen just after 5:00 p.m.

on the 1100 block of north 18th street. it is unclear what led up to the shooting but neighbor sammer jackson said he raced out identify when he heard a gunshot. >> i saw him running back. i ran outside. >> reporter: neighbors say 38 year-old ira sanchez had been shot in the stomach and satan these steps until paramedics arrived. did youe what happened to pedro. >> i didn't see him. he was long gone. >> reporter: after the shooting witnesses say 20 year-old pedro sanchez who lives here drove off possibly into philadelphia. >> he was always there. i never thought he was that type of person to do what he did to his mom. >> as far as i know him and his mom have been on rocky terms. >> reporter: this woman who has a child with pedro sanchez said she didn't think the strained relationship would end like this. >> i was just out here talking to him. he was telling me how he wanted to look for a job and find a job, how he wanted to visit the my nephew. >> reporter: art the hospital police questioned this woman who claimed to have spoken to the alleged shooter after

fleeing the scene. family members are calling on sanchez to turn himself in before the -- anyone else is hurt. >> i'm afraid by him shooting his mother in the stomach, and cops have a weapon they might shoot him on sight without asking questions first. >> reporter: yeah, now repeated calls to the camden county prosecutor's office have not been return. however we know police here in camden and philadelphia a are searching for him right now. we are live from camden, jeff chirico for channel six "action news". thanks, jeff. philadelphia police car, ran into a three-year old boy along broad street this evening, send ago this boy to the hospital. it happened at broad and fairmount at 5:00 o'clock tonight. authorities say that the officer had been responding to an emergency call, when he the teenager was taken to hahnemann in stable condition. it is going to be a turbulent accu weather weekend in the tri-state area. many portions of the region got hit with heavy showers, even thunderstorms late today and tonight, like here in

center city. the next couple of days will see a bit of everything including some rain, and how long winds. let's get the latest from double scan radar and cecily tynan. >> jim, it will be a wild ride, today we hit 80 degrees with loads of sunshine. then we had those storms roll through. double scan live is showing that the storms have moved off shore. we have a few scattered showers across parts of delaware right now but a wider view is showing that there is another low pressure system that will ride up along the front and that will bring up some more wet weather, during the day tomorrow. it looks like the bulk of it will happen, the first half of the day and most of it will be around philadelphia and area south and east, 10:00 o'clock tomorrow morning you can see some showers, rolling across south jersey and delaware. then we will see some breaks of sunshine late in the day, however, is there an arctic front waiting in the wings. that rolls rolls through late on saturday night, and then that brings us some big changes for the second half of the weekend.

looking ahead, weekend starts wet with some showers tomorrow, and then powerful wind, 50 to 60 miles per hour, so we're going to a high of 80 today. wind chills on 20's and 30's on sunday, and then this is not the only cold wet ther, for the next week. i'll talk all about that coming up with the full accu weather seven day forecast, jim. >> all right, cecily. while this weekend's cold will be annoying for us, millions of americans are in the path of destructive storms. clean up is scattered across eight states, that is after at least 12 tornadoes were reported. and walter robbins air force base near atlanta, cameras capture the debris inside. the threat of severe weather continues from louisiana to north carolina tonight. tomorrow night, 6:08 is when villanova and oklahoma will take to the hard court in houston to try to advance to the finals of the ncaa

championships on monday night. "action news" reporter alycia vitarelli is in with villanova, which is alycia's alma matter. alycia lots of stories to tell on this eve of the big game. >> reporter: yes, jim that is right. right now one of my fellow wildcats, junior at villanova university, is inside, the team hotel, which by the way, is also the hotel of all of the basketball hall of famers. she's rehearse go to sing the national anthem, tonight. it is the chance of a lifetime. >> ♪ that our flag was still there. ♪ >> reporter: moments before tip off a very special group will hit the hardwood. >> it is myself accompanied with a student athlete from each of the other final four schools. women's volleyball player from oak, mens soccer from unc and mens track and field from syracuse. >> reporter: representing villanova carli crispin, who

has been singing her entire life, and she's also a member of the villanova women's basketball team. you sing and play basketball. you are the perfect fit. >> would i like to think so but i have been very blessed with the opportunity to play basketball for villanova and the ability to sing and i'm happy to combine two of my passions. >> reporter: when the wildcats take center court a villanova fixture will be also there cheering them on as sort of the spiritual advisor. >> we're all praying for saturday night. we're all praying for tomorrow night. >> exactly. you know, obviously we like to win. we know everybody wants to win. we want to see them do their best. >> reporter: father rob has been the wildcats team priest for past 12 years. he is also a villanova alumni class of 87. >> i was a sophomore when lightening trucks the first time and they won in 1985. >> reporter: maybe you are good luck charm. >> i don't know about that. >> reporter: while the father is proud so is chris jenkins father, calvin. >> extremely proud, very

proud, of what christmas accomplished. >> reporter: did you know when he was growing up, did you sense that there was greatness there. >> chris was always a good kid. at letcally, great character kid. i thought he would be a football player. i thought he would be a football player. he was always bigger than the other kids. >> reporter: and around town right now he is a pretty big star. chris and his fellow wildcats will hit hardwood tomorrow night a lot of people in this town say they will win this game, tomorrow. you know what people have have different superstitions. they wear same t-shirt, same hat, jim, i still got my old school ring right there see if that does anything for wildcats tomorrow. we will be here cheering them on. live from houston, alycia vitarelli for channel six "action news". >> thanks, alycia. alycia, we want to see how you are cheering on the wildcats this weekend. so please share your favorite photographs and videos with us using #six abc action.

we will have continuing coverage from texas, throughout the weekend, and jeff skversky will have a report on the player's preparations coming up later in this broadcast. in other news, hundreds turned out to help a hero in center city philadelphia a tonight. the fundraiser is sponsored by fraternal order of police to support officer jesse hartnett. hartnett's arm was shattered by gunfire when he was attacked by a gunman in january. many of those in attendance showed their solidarity with hartnett, by wearing t-shirts, bearing his name. a south jersey man is being held on $300,000 for allegedly slitting his wife's throat after a car crash. prosecutors say that 37 year-old quenton fortune was in the passenger seat during the crash last night on route 130 north at chester avenue in delran, and investigators say avenue murdered his 54 year-old wife cynthia, fortune unsuccessfully tried to carjack two other vehicles. he was found at route 130

diner covered in what appeared to be blood and dressed only in a t-shirt, underwear, and sneakers. coming up on "action news" tonight the republican presidential race descend on pennsylvania, and an officer shoots another cop during a drug bust. we will hear the panic set in when he realizes what he had just done. aim's jeff skversky with the villanova wildcats at the final four. they are practicing, and they are eyeing another championship, we will hear from the wildcats coming up in sports. well, we have near record warmth today, is there plenty of cold air up across can inadequacies, we will tap into that twice over the next few days, all of the details from the accu weather seven day forecast. and how recently retired member of the "action news" family is giving back to his community tonight. that and more when "action news" comes right back. for years, i was a laboratory chemist,

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detective, jacob grant. >> put your hand where i can see you. >> this was last year and almost all of his vital organs but he managed to survive. city of albuquerque just settled with him for six and a half million-dollar to pay his medical expenses for life, as for the lieutenant, he admits a planning briefing before the drug bustt. he is now off the force but district attorney is deciding when will face criminal charges. president obama told a nuclear security sum tonight washington today that terrorist are trying to get their hand on a nuclear bomb. obama said that will change our world. those are his words. obama also took the opportunity to lash out at donald trump saying that quote there is a a whole lot of things that trump just doesn't understand.

trump said this week that japan and south korea should consider building their own nuclear weapons. donald trump had no public appearances today but john kasich, and ted cruz focused on the state of pennsylvania. pennsylvania's primary is april 26th, and kasich told the town hall meeting that he is the only republican who can beat hillary clinton in the fall. ted cruz made his first campaign visit to pennsylvania today, in camp hill. he told the pennsylvania leadership conference that pennsylvanians can expect more jobs and better pay, if he was elected president. meanwhile hillary clinton was stumping for support in syracuse kicking off her campaign for the new york primary. she talk about her eight years as a senator from new york, and said that she wants to put that experience to work for both new york state and the rest of the america. bernie sanders was in wisconsin today where he once again, blasted clinton for taking campaign money from lobbyist, working for the oil

and gas industry. labor news tonight, unemployment is up a tenth of a point to 5 percent. that despite u.s. employers creating 215,000 jobs last month. it is because more people actually started looking for work. that is good news, and analyst say it was actually a sign of confidence in the job market. let's get a very confident forecast from accu weather and cecily tynan. >> confident and complicated, that is for sure. temperatures in the 80's with sunshine for a while. storm tracker six live double scan is showing that the thunderstorms we had earlier this evening have rolled off, just a shower left over, new castle county but certainly some great photos. i wanted to thank all of the "action news" viewers for posting photos like this on my facebook page and twitter account. this is from ray, from chalfont and you can see, the dark clouds, you can see the rain shaft and you can see the cloud to cloud lightening. we had quite a bit of lightening ahead of the cold

front that will bring us slightly cooler air tomorrow but real cool down arrives on sunday. but today's high 80 degrees. that is 21 degrees above normal. only 1 degree shy of a record high. even tonight temperatures still mild, average high for this time of the year is 59. we are at 67 degrees at 11:00 in philadelphia. sixty-five in allentown and trenton. dover seven two and cape may currently at 64 degrees. satellite six along with action radar is showing that front has just moved through, right off the eastern seaboard. what will happies the front is like a train track. low pressure will ride along that front and will bring that front closer west, it will retro grade and that will bring more showers tomorrow. future tracker showing at 5:00 f the showers confined along the coast and then fills in around lunchtime. got news is later in the afternoon we will begin to clear, from the west to the east, some peaks of sunshine, temperatures around 60 degrees

but not bad. then another cold front moves through around midnight on sunday with another round of showers, perhaps, some snow in the poconos and what this will do is unleash some wicked wind. we're looking at wind gusts, 50 to 60 miles per hour, from midnight, on saturday, until noon time on sunday. so a high wind watch has been posted. wind like that are enough to bring down, some trees, some power lines, could be some power outages and certainly create a wintry feel to the air. future tracker is showing six credit 30 on sunday morning we're looking at wind chills in the teens and 20's. so it will be joining a lot of runners at caesar rodney half marathon in wilmington on sunday morning. definitely want to dress for the weather. by the afternoon we're looking at wind chills no better than the 30's. a big change from today's high of 80. the exclusive accu weather seven day forecast very unsettled tomorrow with showers and especially first half of the day and then

mostly cloudy. temperature not bad. 62 degrees. on sunday it will be cold with wicked wind, 47 degrees, wind chills in the the 20's and 30's. the on monday a quick rebound 65 degrees, our next cold front brings another round of rain and this drops temperatures to 45 degrees, on tuesday, and then look at that, low, tuesday night, 26 degrees, so a hard freeze, by wednesday morning, wednesday plenty of sunshine but still chilly, 49 on thursday. rain with thunderstorms. fifty-nine. and friday mostly cloudy, 56 degrees, that hard freeze could be a big problem for some farmers especially across south jersey and, of course, chris sowers will be tracking showers on "action news" at 5:30. >> cecily, thank you. >> radnor high school scholarship fund mark 50 years of helping students tonight and we spotted a familiar face at the event tonight. former "action news" reporter, the goat t david henry hosted the celebration. david is a radnor high school

graduate spending some of his retirement time giving back to the community. tonight's event honors the schools scholarship program as well as activities. dad were showing off their moves tonight at the schuylkill elementary school in phoenixville, for the dad/daughter dance. young ladies were looking great as they danced the nana, two of our favorite dads were there with their daughters as well, news director tom davis, and photographer mike mccloskey. >> ♪ >> students from krista ray philadelphia high school performed at the crystal tea room in center city. during a gala to celebrate the schools first graduating class, it is in the city's logan section and opened up its doors in 2012, every member of the senior class has been accepted into a four year college or university.

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>> at this point camera three. >> let's go. >> villanova. >> eighty-eight-77. >> wow. >> a lot of points. >> yes. >> at this point, there is little left to do but play a game. villanova and oklahoma at practice. they have watched countless hours of game film and they have done every interview imaginable. jeff skversky has a preview from houston. >> reporter: thirty-one year ago today villanova won their 1985 championship and here they are back in the final four, oh, so close to another championship. they are just, two wins away and they can taste another title. >> that 85 team is so special, at villanova, so magical. i almost, there is a side of me i don't want to mess with that but would i like to see it for our guys. >> reporter: as special as 1985 team is this group of villanova players could go down as the best. these cats are a win away from the most wins in school history, and in their sight as well, ending the city of philadelphia's championship

drought. >> for city, i think it would be great. i think, you know, our professional teams are in the doing too hot and i think that if we could do that, i think that would be, a great, bring great pride to the city. >> reporter: villanova is shooting for the stars, they are dreaming of cutting down the net but first they have to get by oklahoma tomorrow to get to their third title game in school history on monday to even have a shot. >> it would be crazy. >> yes. >> you grow up watching, and you know, you hear about them and wish i had a moment on the court and cutting down the net and having the confetti flying on you, and that is something that, you definitely want to have a feeling of. >> reporter: it is biggest stage in college basketball but villanova insists they are not caught up in the hype that surround the final four, they are focused on beating oklahoma and eventually cutting down these nets here in houston. with the villanova a wildcats, jeff skversky for channel six a "action news".

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innings, gives up one run, striking out five. fourth inning, miguel franco, he swings hard. watch where this one land. upper deck. his ninth home run of the spring. he is dialed in. two batters later ryan howard facing a lefty. you bet. phillies lose this 18-seven. the soul open up the season on the road at cleveland, big play comes on defense in the second quarter. dwayne who will an kicks it off, takes it for 33-yard. the soul win, 69-41. that is sports. jimmy kimmel live next on channel six followed by night line. "action news" continues at 5:30 a.m. for cecily tynan, ducis rodgers and the entire "action news" team, i'm jim gardner. have a good night and great weekend. >> ♪

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