the post looked dangerous to some but the investigation is revealing now that it may not be what it first seemed. it is monday afternoon. i'm brian taff. >> and i'm sharrie williams. the confusion over a high schooler's instagram image and the antiviolence campaign it's connected to is our story today. john rawlins live at the upper perkiomen school district. >> reporter: tense moments today. no classes today for 3800 plus students. driving the situation an overnight complaint of what was thought to be an online threat against some of those students but that now appears to have been a misunderstanding. a confusing morning all of the upper perkiomen schools closed, a vague statement on the district web site cited students and staff safety and a police investigation. this high school junior said there wasn't much additional information. >> just said the threat because that's what i knew of then. i didn't know it was a misunderstanding yet. >> reporter: the concern a social media posting

containing a link to this recently published public service video that was actually developed to help people spot the warning signs of a.m. potential school shooter. in a pivotal scene there is a gym full of kids in the background a door opens, a person is seen readying a rifle as the students flee. the social posting contained caption and feedback that alarmed some as a threat against the uner perk district. state police were called overnight. by midday investigators concluded the poster had not intended to threaten anyone. quite the on that it. >> the person is cooperating along with the parents. wait looks like was an unintended posting or an intentional post thawing taken out taken -- that was taken out of context. the subject was trying to post part avid yo' on sandy hook promise.org. >> reporter: so a misunderstanding. there is a sensitivity at this district concerning gun violence owing to a 1990's incident when a student

brought a gun to school and fatally shot another student. so for now classes are to resume tomorrow. some extra activities, some extracurricular activities i should say actually resumed today. live in pennsburg, john rawlins channel6 "action news." brian. >> disconcerting sign of the times john. thank you. as many as nine deaths may be linked to a deadly batch of heroin. six overdoses happened last night many in the kensington section of the city. the victims were found just a few blocks away from each other. the overdoses started sometime in the evening with the latest around 8:00 p.m. on east indiana avenue. coming up at 4:30 wendy saltzman talks ton officials about what they're doing to counteract drug epidemic. >> they snuck up on an employee terrorized her at gunpoint noun they're on the run. upper darby police are asking for help finding two armed robbery suspects.

the man and woman targeted a laundromat on marshall road early this morning. bob brooks is live outside that that business with video of the crime. bob. >> reporter: sharrie, i don't know how you can do this to somebody. as we're about to see in this surveillance video this is some really scary stuff but first this is a laundromat where it happened t and w coin. the employee inside she was alone and roughed up pretty bad. it's 4:00 a.m. the employee of the t and w laundromat in upper darby is hard at work vacuuming lint out from the drivers. here come two suspects. the employee is held up at gun down. >> how they didn't kill that lady is beyond me. >> reporter: michael chitwood says there's only one way to describe these two. >> urban terrorists. they got ski masks on, some type of camouflage. >> reporter: we can see the victim is knocked to the ground a gun is jammed into her side. customers here are sickened by what we showed them. >> she's a sweet lady, very

sweet. kind. >> she real nice. i ain't think nobody would do that to her. >> reporter: now you can see in the video the victim was taken back here into the boiler room. the cops say that the message from the suspect was if you say anything, we'll kill you. in the boiler room her shoes are stripped and she's held down by the suspect way gun. more video shows us the accomplice went into the officers. police believe this suspect is a woman. she takes $200 cash and roughly $400 in coins. but before she gets away she spills quarters all over the floor and takes her gloves off to pick they up. chitwood is hopeful for fingerprints. >> good old fashioned police work. >> reporter: you can see the suspects are armed and dangerous and that's why you're being asked to help get them off the streets. >> they got a mask on. they got hoodies on. we need the public's help. somebody knows who they are. >> reporter: we hope someone out there does know something about this and they call the police.

for your efforts if it does lead to an arrest you can receive a $2,500 cash reward. reporting live in upper darby bob brooks channel6 "action news." brian. >> bob thank you. new castle county police think they have now solved a cold case dating back to 2012. kevin miller is accused of murdering germ jeremiah macdonald. there were no leads in this case until detectives went to reinterview witnesses. a grand jury heard the case and agreed to bring first degree murder charges against mill earl. miller is already in jail now being held on unrelated charges. >> ♪ >> now to the latest on the transition to donald trump's administration and announcements of new cabinet positions and in trump fashion one of those announcements came via twitter. crumb took to social media with news of the appointment of his former rival dr. benn carson as secretary of housing and urban development. he wrote that carson is "passionate about

strengthening communities and families within those communities. but mr. trump still has several cabinet positions left to fill. we'll get to that in a moment but first today the president-elect met with former vice president al gore to discuss climate change. mr. gore spoke briefly after the meeting. >> i found it an extremely interesting conversation and to be continued and i'm just going leave it at that. thank you. >> reporter: meanwhile there are still some spots that remain unfilled and one of them secretary of state and the short list has now expanded to at least nine. the list includes rex tiller son ceo of exxon mobile. joe manchin jon huntsman a former ambassador chain nan even retired admiral james stavridis. the new names join tennessee senator corker general david

petraeus and rudy giuliani along with mitt romney. today we're also told that three other possible contenders joined this list of nine making it up to a list of 12. we're told that we should know donald trump's final choice by the end of the week so we'll keep our eyes opened for that sharrie. >> more than a few to consider. the push for presidential respect count is focused today on the state of pennsylvania. green party presidential candidate jill stein has filed on 11th hour lawsuit in federal court to force a retally of the votes in the keystone state. the recount would be of the paper ballots and an examination of the electronic voting machines. stein is hinging the lawsuit on constitutional arguments including a claim that the state's voting process is unfair. president-elect donald trump has called stein's efforts a "scam." >> the today began for many of us with rain but gave way to afternoon sunshine as we get a first check of the accuweather forecast.

>> let's head outside to meteorologist adam joseph. hey, adam. >> more sun or more rain. >> i'm thinking sun. >> yeah, of course. >> no, more rain. 50-50 shot you guys had. as we take a look right now yes we are breaking apart that cloud cover but we speed back time on satellite and radar 2:30 this morning when we saw wet snow in those northern and western suburbs suburbs with rain from most of the area then it quickly moved on early this morning and there you can see by 4 o'clock this afternoon a lot of breaks in the cloud cover with that sunshine returning right before the sun sets but some areas saw their first accumulation of snow early this morning up in the lehigh valley. allentown a trace. hough's church in berks county just over an inch palmer ton there blue mountain right around an inch bush kill township 1.5-inches and northampton county and mount pocono 2-inches of snow earlier today. temperatures are right around 50 degrees right now. we have a little breeze out of the northwest adding a bit of a chill to the air with high

pressure overohio and cooler temperatures near buffalo and binghamton but as we look at storm tracker6 live double scan we are dry right now but you can see a whole lot of moisture down to the south moving to the north and east. sharrie i'll let you know when that batch of rain moves back in and how much to expect in that full accuweather forecast. >> all right, you said we had a 50-50 shot. rain up firms. adam thanks. you can keep track of the changes in the forecast with 6abc.com/weather where you can check out the latest conditions across the area with storm tracker6 and be sure to connect with our accuweather team on facebook and twitter. >> a school bus was involved in a crash that blocked traffic on the schuylkill expressway this morning. it was around 6:30 when the bus and two other cars collided on the -- in the eastbound lanes near south street. no children were on board the bus at the time but the driver was being checked for injuries. crews were able to get to the scene and get it cleaned up just about 10 o'clock this morning. >> let's see how things are moving now as we get a check of the "action news" traffic report. >> yeah, always better to have the wet roads behind us. matt pelman standing by in the

"action news" traffic center with an upit. >> drying out quite nicely and we like that but doesn't matter brian and sharrie. we still have some really slow speeds, a whole bunch of red zones. 15 miles per hour on northbound 95 just north of the betsy ross bridge. over on the schuylkill just 12 on the eastbound side by girard. only five on the westbound side there by south street and the sun glare quite different from what we had this morning but sun glare is playing an issue a part this afternoon. this is 95 southbound side. you're rideing into that sunshine here by ridley park and so it is a little bit of an extra slow go from 420 on down to 320. live look in center city at the vine street expressway, stacked up near both directions by the schuylkill expressway. this is just normal afternoon volume it looks like this most afternoons. overnights this week once again it will close, the vine will be shut down at 11 o'clock for construction just in case you were wondering. live look in east falls this is the roosevelt boulevard extension northbound

taillights starting to become locked up coming off the schuylkill on up to broad street. and we're getting reports of a crash on the pennsylvania turnpike. this is eastbound by mid-county 476 but at this point speeds are in the mid 60's so we're really not complaining about that. let's grab the ipad do the commuter report on this monday afternoon. hope you enjoyed your weekend. crash coming in to us in willingboro along 130 northbound. major accident in burlington township. we'll check it again brian and sharrie in the next half hour. >> matt sounds good. still ahead on "action news," carry on luggage is poised to put a dent in travelers' wallets. we'll reveal which air shrine putting a price on overhead bin space. >> plus, safety first. local families get life saving tips about protecting your children and young children in the car. >> then we head to oakland california for the very latest on that deadly warehouse fire. hear from investigators there on the scene next. >> ♪

>> ♪ >> in oakland california this afternoon the search for more victims of this raging deadly warehouse fire is now on hold. so far 36 people have now been confirmed dead but the search for more has been put on hold. at least for now because one wall within that warehouse is now leaning inward and the building is no longer stable posing a hazard to rescue crews. authorities expect the number of victims to rise when that century assumes later today. the fire erupted during a dance party late friday night. authorities also believe they have located the sections of the building where the fire started but still the cause remains unknown. >> we've got some areas where this steel is actually twitted and wrapped in the back of the building. we can see fire spread and atf

on your local investigators feel very strong that they have identified the section of the building that is the area of origin. >> if i were officials say they've searched 70 percent of the building and expect to recover even more bodies. so far 11 of those victims again, the number standing at 36, have been identified. >> all right, just an awful scene. alicia thank you. we are now awaiting the first court hearing for the man charged in a bizarre shooting case in that watched. edgar welch went there to investigate fake news that circulated online and has been widely debunked suggesting that hillary clinton and her campaign chief ran a child sex ring out of that restaurant. welch did not shoot anyone but responding officers did see several weapons they say were in his possession at the time. >> the leader of the standing rock sioux trial is commend, the obama administration today

after the construction of a controversial oil pipeline was denied. the army corps of engineers denied a permit top extend the pipeline. that happened yesterday. the tribe believes the pipeline threatens drinking water and cultural sites. those in favor of the pipeline are now turning to supporter and president-elect donald trump to reverse the decision once he takes office. to wall street. stocks continue to roar the dow up more than 45 points today closing at a new intra day high. the dow closing at 19,216. the nasdaq is up more than 53 points and the s & p 500 closing up nearly 13 points today. >> well you might not like this. it's been the only freeway to get your luggage to your destination but now your carry on could cost you. united airlines is about start charging for that overhead bin space. now the fee is part of a new inexpensive basic economy

ticket option. new york senator charles schumer says the overhead space is the last sacred convenience of air travel. he's calling on united to stop "nickel and timing its customers." amazon is working on the grocery store of the future and it works without checkout lines or even money. it's called amazon go. shoppers can scan their amazon app when they walk into the store sensors register items you pick up and automatically put them in your cart within the app. the store is stocking staples like bread and mel, and meals that are easy to grab on the go and then again you just walk out of the store. right now employees in seattle are testing this out and it is expected to open to the public in early 2017. cool stuff there. most of the delaware valley saw rain overnight into this morning but there was snow in the lehigh valley. this is wait looked like in south whiteland and salisbury townships a-thin layer of snow blanketing the ground sticking

to trees and cars and making for a rather pretty sight 19 even though it might be unwelcome for some of you. >> i'm asking is it real. >> it's real. >> you know. >> believe it. >> oh, gosh. all right. with that, let's talk about accuweather. >> all right. our fact checker on that snow adam joseph standing by with details. hey, my friend. >> it is december and it didn't last long association it's -- so it's a little ease into the winter season for parts of the level. parts of berks county higher terrain did that see a little bit of snow early this morning but right now you see a little glow along the horizon as the sun is about to set breaking apart some of that cloud cover but you know what, this is right on par for when you typically see your first snowfall. we take a look at a 30 year average. in allentown it's usually december 6th. that's tomorrow so perfect timing there but for philadelphia and wilmington, our first snow is usually not for another week and a half or so and it's even later than that in that atlantic city. pretty much near christmas is when the shore sees its first

round of accumulating snow. 47 right now in the lehigh valley, the same for reading, 48 wilmington, 49 in philadelphia. 48 in millville and these numbers pretty close to normal as well. as we look a little closer you can see those clouds breaking apart but as the clouds begin to break apart more clouds are working in from the south and west so we're being squeeze played by two separate systems so we're kind of in the lull right now and you look to the south and you can see all of this moisture pulling up from the gulf of mexico. low pressure working its way towards new orleans even the panhandle of flash flood we've got a tornado watch box up there. we're not going to see severe weather but we'll get another round of heavy rain pushing our way but for tonight it is quiet partly cloudy, seasonably chilly 29 in the lehigh valley, 33 trenton, run in millville. upper 30's for dover and cape may. future tracker it is dry here tomorrow morning. a lot of clouds again pulling in from the south. even at lunchtime it is dry across much of the area except

far southern zones of new jersey as well as delaware starting to see their first raindrops and then it overspreads the region during the evening rush tomorrow and it could begin as some wet snowflakes in the lehigh valley up into the poconos. poconos could see one to 3 inches tomorrow night if it stays as snow up there but you could see heavy rain all the why into the lehigh valley tomorrow evening and then by wednesday morning, just a few lingering showers as the bulk of the rain moves away. and as we take a look at some of those rainfall totals looking about a quarter inch for reading allentown lancaster and near half a inch for philadelphia all points to the south and east. that many four day at 4:00 forecast tomorrow we start dry. we end with rain pushing in of 47 degrees and then early showers give way to some sun wednesday afternoon, up to 52. and then a lot of clouds again thursday, another fronts arrives with a scattered shower of 45 and the mighty cold air lurks behind that front. it's blustery cold windy maybe a flurry in the air, only 39 on friday with lower wind

chills and we'll talk about a very cold start to the weekend with that seven day in the next half hour. >> i heard alicia back there, ugh. >> adam thanks. up next here on "action news" today, drones take flight in new jersey. see the new uses being discovered for those machines at the state's university. >> new details about what may have caused foam to flow from a peco substation covering a center city street this weekend. >> and just in time for your holiday shopping, if you are sick up showing up at home way missed package slip on your front door wait until you hear the solution one local entrepreneur has come up with in what's the deal.

>> ♪ >> there was a rather unusual sight in the new jersey statehouse today. drones flying around inside a meeting room but this was all serious business. state senate president steve sweeney and several other lawmakers heard about the value of these drones. new jersey's universities in

the forefront of developing new and groundbreaking drone technology. >> today delaware governor jack markell announced $450,000 in new grants for students to earn college credit and work experience while still in high school. the money goes towards the pathways to prosperity program which has grown from about 30 students two years ago to nearly 6,000 students today. the new grants will fund 23 pathway programs in that 16 high schools. child safety was fronts and center as more than 40 families received free car seats today. they were handed out this morning at the please touch museum courtesy of kohl's. the retailer donated more than $330,000 to support injury prevention programs at children's hospital of philadelphia. a local family was also there to talk about how kohl's car seat education helped to save their daughter during a crash. >> k-9 officers in montgomery

county got a chance to give santa their wish lists today. the action cam was at willow grove mall this morning for emergency services appreciation day. any first responder was offered free holiday photo package dan also happened to be pets picture day. the public can take their furry friends to see santa every monday through december 19th. good stuff. >> pets welcome. >> wagging tail right there. this weekend nfl players wore some rather neat cleats. they were custom. perhaps you noticed some of them. more on the positive message behind them in big talkers. >> plus, so-called bad batch of heroin is being blamed for more than a half dozen drug overdose deaths many deaths in philadelphia but the district attorney says it could have been worse. >> and two boxing legends were out of the ring today for a big honor in philadelphia. there's one of them. the other coming up. >> ♪

>> ♪ >> it's 4:30 and "action news" continues with an attack on a septa bus driver in the city's somerdale section. >> plus new details today about what caused a flood of foam to fill a block in center city. >> and a local company is ready to deliver this holiday season. find out how they will that make sure you never miss a delivery in today's what's the deal. >> but first here at 4:30 philadelphia police are investigating nine deaths that may be linked to a deadly batch of heroin.

six users died last night awful them within blocks of one another. the d.a. says there could have been more fatal overdoses if emergency personnel did not have that narcan on them. "action news" investigative reporter went sea dee saltzman live today at police headquarters with the latest details on this. wendy. >> reporter: brian, this is the medication the d.a. says is saving lives. it's called narcan but this weekend nine people lost their battle with heroin in what police are saying is one of the deadliest weekends in kensington. >> i call it dope city. >> reporter: needles line the sidewalks of kensington evidence of the epidemic taking over the city streets. >> it's very out of control out here. as you can see our kids is playing out here with needles on the streets and dope bags. >> reporter: now the d.a. is vowing to tackle the problem head on one drug dealer at a time. >> we're going do all that we can with the use of undercover police officers, people that are giving us information to prosecute people that are spreading this poison, this death in our community.

>> reporter: police say six of those deaths happened last night within blocks of one another the victims ages 24 to in their 40's. the lab is sorting to bag geese and evidence left at the scene to see if they can connect the deaths. >> to see whether or not there is something that's laced for it's something that's cut or if it's something in terms of just the purity of it. his office purchased $50,000 of narcan distributed to police. >> to date commissioner ross has trained 996 public police officers in how to inject people that have od'd. >> reporter: now, the police have saved 150 lives using narcan here in philadelphia and that doesn't include ems or emergency personnel. they saved four lives this weekend with the use that of medication. live at police headquarters, i'm wendy saltzman channel6 "action news." brian. >> all right, wendy. of course we'll continue to follow that story. thank you so much. we have got some breaking news this afternoon surrounding the upcoming trial

of comedian bill cosby. a judge has just ruled that many damaging testimony that cosby gave in an accuser's lawsuit can be used at his criminal sex assault trial. the defense insisted cosby only testified after being promised woe not be charged criminally in the andrea constand case. the 79-year-old acknowledged in the 2006 deposition that he had given young women drugs or alcohol before sexual encounters. a judge must still decide if prosecutors can call 13 other accusers. >> philadelphia police are looking for two men who threw powder and a liquid on a septa bus driver. this happened this morning as the driver pulled up to a stop on rising sun and adams avenues in somerdale. police say the men boarded the route k bus, threw the powder and liquid and then ran off. both substances were tested and were found not to be hazardous. the driver was not injured. >> a horse in new jersey has died after being hit by a car

on the atlantic city expressway. state police say it happened around 3 a.m. at milepost 32.1 in hammonton atlantic county. now troopers were able to, corral a second horse. that horse was not injured. just how the horses got onto the expressway is not yet clear this afternoon. we have new information right now about what caused that many foam to fill a block in center city philadelphia. peco says there was an issue of some kind with one of their transformers at the substation near 13th and lombard streets. officials tell us there was no explosion or fire saturday afternoon but a transformer went off line which caused an emergency shutdown and that's why this foam was released. the foam from the fire suppression system is not toxic and firefighters were able to clean it up after a couple of hours but a very curious scene in center city philadelphia over the weekend. >> yeah. >> getting a lot of. >> looks like cancun in philadelphia, a foam party.

>> looks fun but i'm sure it definitely was not. >> meteorologist adam joseph joining us talking the forecast on this monday. you're tracking some rain heading this way. >> a little break right now. more rain comes in here as we end your tuesday tomorrow and then cold to follow so as we take a look at this step by step here in center city a beautiful shot here as you can see a little bit of reds and yellow there is along the horizon even a few bits of orange. 49 degrees the air temperature. winds out of the north-northwest at 9 miles an hour. the dewpoint pretty low at 30 their degrees. all is quiet right now but as we look at storm tracker6 live double scan, low pressure just to the west of new orleans. that low will be tracking to our west which means it brings in somewhat milder air. most of this will be in the form of liquid other than the lehigh valley late tomorrow could be a few wet snowflakes before changing to rain but you could see a good amount of moisture heading in our direction and then after the rain later this week, a lost cold air locked up right now in the northern parts of the rockies.

right now yellowstone national park just 7 degrees above zero. that is not a wimp. even casper coming in at 18. we'll talk about the timing of the rain as well as that cold air coming up in that full accuweather 7-day. >> okay. bundle up. >> yup. >> thanks adam. >> all righty. >> a new look could be coming to philadelphia's chinatown. the wells fargo regional foundation announced a $100,000 grant to help revitalize the neighborhood. the philadelphia chinatown development corporation has now hired a planning and urban design firm to come up with some ideas. they hope to have a finalized plan by next fall. the benefits of vertical farming were pitched to a philadelphia city council committee today. vertical farming proposes using sky scrapes or smaller buildings to grow crops. the commerce and economic development committee heard how it can be a good way to use vacant building space and also help create jobs. but critics say it's too

costly to light, heat and perform potential vertical farming spots. >> philadelphia mayor jim kenney presented one city icon to another today. >> ring the bell. [applause] >> boxing great and philadelphia native bernard hopkins rang a ceremonial liberty bell today, a gift from the mayor in advance of hopkins' final professional fight. hopkins was joined by fellow boxing legends oscar de la hoya in north philadelphia today. hopkins final fight is set for december 17th. >> well a-philadelphia jazz musician had to leave the limelight and spend weeks in the hospital because of app serious medical condition and now he's sharing his story to help other people avoid the same problem. "action news" anchor monica malpass is live in the news room to explain his story. hey, monica. >> hi, that's right, sharrie. jeff brad slaw is a jazz

tromboneist. brad slaw was diagnosis wade common illness he blames on having an unhealthy diet on the road. now after a lengthy recovery he's explaining the changes that he made to get healthy again and what others can do to cut their risk of having this happen. we'll have that story and much more coming your way on "action news" at 5:00 and that's in a little bit. we'll see you then. >> see you in about 27 minutes or. >> oh thank you brian. >> art therapy project being found in a unique mural in belvidere new castle county. more than 100 delaware students used specialized art commitment development helps people with physical and intellectual challenges to paint. some students use starches while others rolled out the designs on their the mural in the absaloma jones community centers gymnasium. >> pretty: a father convicted in the death of his son is sentenced today. we have details. >> police say they have captured a serial kidnapper. find out how police in ohio finally arrested the suspect months later.

>> this one raise something controversy. a christmas themed board game. in it, santa and jesus go head to head. today at 4:00 how the game works and why some want the game banned. >> ♪ >> plus, meteorologist adam joseph back with that full accuweather forecast. more on the blast of cold air he's been talking about. "action news" at 4:00 continues next. >> ♪

>> a georgia man convicted of intentionally leaving his one-year-old son die in a hot suv has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. last mol 36-year-old justin ross harris was convicted of malice murder and other charges in connection with the june 20's 14 death of his son, cooper. cooper died after sitting in the back seat of the vehicle for about seven hours on a day when temperatures reached in the high 80's. investigators say harris wanted to escape the responsibilities of his family

life. >> firefighters and emergency responders were very busy this weekend rescuing people from flooded roads in parts of the gulf coast, texas city got more than a foot of rain in just a matter of days. and in san antonio the rivers rose very quickly stranding drivers throughout the city. the weather also caused a massive sinkhole to open up last night. two people had to be rescued after their cars were submerged. police in ohio say they have arrested a suspect the serial kidnapper 29-year-old justin christian. police say the investigation began last february when a man tried to pull a 10-year-old girl through her bedroom window. the second case involved the abduction a six-year-old girl from her home in cleveland in may. police are now warning parents that christian may have used social media to target his victims. they say dna linked christian to one of the locations. >> well, mysterious looking blue line clouds are appearing over antarctica.

nasa scientists say they have been seeing these blue clouds and they've seen them before but they are showing up a lot earlier than expected. well, they are made up of ice crystals. that's why they glow a bright blue when they reflect against the sunlight. they are also the earth's highest clouds floating 50 miles above the ground. >> pretty. big talkers now and you may have noticed something colorful pacific charitable happening on the fields. it's called the my cause, my cleats initiative and more than 500 players got involved. pittsburgh steeler and penn state alum jesse james saluted his alma mater with on that cleats, the 46 hour dance marathon held at penn state in that february as you know. benefits pediatric cancer research and #ftk on his

cleats there is the hashtag they use for thon for the kids. now, to a controversial new board game that's causing a holiday uproar. some are feverishly buying it, others are trying to get it pulled calling it blasphemous. it's called santa versus jesus and teams go head to head to try determine who rules christmas. it's the brainchild of two british actors who brought it to the market after a wildly successful crowdfunding campaign. teams perform christmas themed challenges to rack up the most quote believers "as a series of challenges and cards that come along with it. while it has been selling at rapid clip some reviews on amazon are calling it disrespectful, disgusting and say that it "trivializes christian belief and equates them both as fictional characters." either way it's got a lot of people talking and certainly one of our big talkers today.

>> yup, generating a lot of buzz understand police department alicia thanks very much. time for another check on the roads tonight. >> matt stand buying with the update to get us home. hey, matt. >> that might be selling at a rapid clip but rapid clip is not what we're looking at here brian and sharrie on the big picture this afternoon. that some really slow speeds own though we don't have a ton of accidents we're still looking at 15 miles per hour on the schuylkill eastbound by girard, just 14 on the westbound side by south street and we do have a broken down vehicle so let's get in and watch that. it's here on the ramp from the eastbound side of the vine street expressway, 676, 295 northbound one of our busiest ramps in the afternoon. now luckily the broken down suv is pretty much off to the side but people are having to merge to get around it. so we're watching that in center city. we also have been watching a crash in abington township along mount carmel avenue ated edgar ton township. hatfield township by clemons memorial park and some pretty

big issues up in the lehigh valley this afternoon. westbound lanes of 222 are blocked off as you come away from allentown and head toward upper macungie and route 100. if you want to stay up on 22, that's busy with the detouring traffic but that is opened. it's 222 westbound side that is blocked right now because of that many crash. also have a crash in burlington township to watch out for along 130 close to van sciver parkway there by the beneficial bank, just 14 miles per hour as a result of that accident scene. and we had some earlier issues on the norristown high speedline. they've been resolved but some delays now on the market frankford subway because of mechanical problems. we'll check it again brian and sharrie, coming up in the 5 o'clock hour. >> all right, see you then. thanks my friend. started out rainy rather gloomy but found in a pretty pretty -- turned into a pretty nice day. >> a live look at the philadelphia international airport. the sun setting. meteorologist adam joseph coming up with some exclusive accuweather 7-day forecast next. >> ♪

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on car insurance, you switch to geico. growwwlph. it's what you do. oh that is good crispy duck. >> a lot of us spent this weekend getting ready for christmas decorating the tree and the the house and all that stuff. that's good because you say pretty soon it's going start feeling like that. >> i put them up in november and don't turn them until this time of year because your hands are freezing. when you see that seven-day forecast it's going to feel like winter by the end of the week. storm tracker6 live double scan, no precipitation. we're catching a bit of break after this morning's rain and of course some of that snow up in the lehigh valley, in the poconos but by tomorrow morning we're going to watch rain starting to push up from the south once again. 49 right now in philadelphia, 47 allentown, the same for reading, upper 40's for wilmington, millville, cape may, 48 degrees and the ocean down to 49. we look to the south 'cause

that's where the next system is arriving. you can see actually a tornado watch box in effect right now for the panhandle of florida. all this precipitation working to the north and east and it will start to arrive in southern areas late in the morning tomorrow and then work its way through philadelphia, points north as we get into tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow evening. so, for tonight it's a quiet night. seasonably chilly, 30 to 35 so right around that freezing point with winds switching from the northwest to the north and east, five to 10 miles an hour. early tomorrow morning is a trial rush so no problems for your tuesday morning rush hour. that's pretty easy to handle with clouds coming from the south. there you start to see some of those showers at lunchtime, dover, southern parts of cape may. then again it spills right into the lehigh valley, mid to late tomorrow afternoon it could be cold enough at the onset for places like allentown, lehigh tunnel up to the poconos to start as a little wet snow before it flips to rain for the lehigh valley and it's rain heavy at times here on tuesday evening. there you can see some pockets

of some yellows and oranges and then still continuing tuesday night and breaking apart by wednesday morning with app couple of leftover showers in southern new jersey and eventually some clouds breaking for some sun on wednesday afternoon. association really what to expect here tuesday afternoon evening into very early on wednesday morning, that rain arriving southwest to northeast. could briefly have some wet snowflakes mixing in up towards the lehigh valley. there's a very soggy slow evening rush hour on tuesday and we're seeing about a half an inch of rain in total and then behind that, you can see cold air kind of bottled up right now western canada, fairbanks, alaska, 24 degrees below zero. this will break its way into the lower 48 and make a aim towards us by the end of the week. so, the exclusive accuweather 7-day forecast 40's tomorrow with that late rain developing, some sun popping out late on wednesday afternoon at 52. last clouds with a cold front that will bring in that colder

air with the showers thursday, 45 and then friday morning to start, going to work and school 7:00 a.m. wind chills in the teens around here so quite a shock to the system here with highs only at 39 friday afternoon. wind chill stays in the 20's saturday at 37 for high but it's dry and then clouds thicken up sunday 42 and a lot of clouds, maybe a shower around here monday of 46 degrees. so, we're going to see rain and then thereafter first real blast of winter coming in, wind chills in the teens by friday. >> kind of a blech forecast. >> it's december. >> just my opinion. >> telling you how he feels about it. >> just saying. >> there is a new delivery service that works around your schedule. >> see how a local company is that able to conveniently deliver your online orders. that's coming up in what's the deal.

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>> reporter: he says it's perfect for people who. >> don't have a doorman do last online shopping maybe an amazon prime subscription not home during the day. >> reporter: he doesn't see him several as a competitor to services like the u.s. postal service fedex or ups rather a partner to increase efficiency. >> with us the ups person can show up and literally drop off 50 packages to us and not have to worry if a person home or not. >> reporter: with the holiday shopping season in full swing. >> it's absolutely great. >> reporter: and after the holidays, fish box will even do your returns for you. >> we now offer a package pickup service where we'll come pick it unand return it for you so you don't have to make the trip to the mailbox store. >> reporter: right now fish box services the philadelphia area but napoleon is opening a new center in the bell have a l.a. vista center of philadelphia in february so he intend to expand his reach and if you are home and you don't hear the bell when the fish box delivery person comes, they will call you or text you

top let you know that they are outside. so no, way of ever missing a box ever again but again it's a subscription service. check out his pricing plans right now on 6abc.com. >> all right. alicia, thank you. he's been traveling the country looking to spread unity with a simple gesture. ken is hoping to make change one hug at a time. the young activist is heading up the free hugs project and today he was on the campus of widener university in chester. and he was literally as you see hugging strangers as he walked around. the university invited him as part avenue series it launched after the divisive presidential campaign. the goal is to help students and staff express their thoughts while showing mutual respect for one another. >> spreading happiness one person at a time. >> there it is. >> good guy. >> that will do it for "action news" at 4:00. for sharrie williams alicia vitarelli and adam joseph i'm brian taff. hope you'll join me along with sharrie adam and ducis rodgers tonight and every night for a

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>> ♪ >> just doing her job at a local laundromat when two criminals barged in and robbed place at gunpoint. police are searching for two people who threatened this woman's life dark holdup in delaware county. the big story on "action news" is the terrifying confrontation caught on camera in an upper darby business. >> "action news" reporter bob brooks is following the search for both suspects and he joins us live at the scene tonight with the latest. bob. >> reporter: rick and monica, how you can do this to somebody is beyond me. when we see this video, this is some really scary stuff. we're going to look at it in just a minute.

before we do the scene right there behind me t and w laundromat. in the words of the police it's a miracle this victim wasn't killed in there. it's 4:00 a.m. this morning and she's alone at work inside the t and w laundromat in upper darby. police say at this moment the employee is vacuuming lints out of the drivers her back is turned and she can't hear when two suspects armed with a gun come barging in. she's choked the gun aimed to her head. >> the victim never saw it. they were on top of her before she realized they were there. >> reporter: customers can't believe what we showed them. >> terrible. >> reporter: the employee well known here. >> she's a very sweet lady. she's knocked to the ground the gun jammed into her side. >> she's scared to death. she's scared to report it to the police. >> reporter: the victim was taken back here into the boiler room. the cops say the message from the suspect was if you say anything, we'll kill you. in that boiler room the suspect continues to rough her up. more video shows us the