and fog and drizzle beyond that steadier rain. we continue to see the fog and drizzle through the overnight hours. for the last two days, philadelphia picks up .75 inch of rain and less than a .5 inch in the lehigh valley. and a half inch for wilmington and atlantic city 1.25 inch of rain monday into tuesday. as we look at the evening planner here, little changes temperature-wise, we stay around 44 degree mark between 44 degree mark. the low temperature tonight only going down to 43 we won't see a drop in temperature tonight. and to the south and west. we are warming before the cold air comes in so we warm up and then temperatures will crash at the end of the week. in the accuweather forecast mild and windy and arctic air to follow with a front here on thursday and sharrie we are tracking light snow the first

round of it this season for the majority of us for the friday morning rush hour. coming up in the full accuweather forecast. >> be sure to check in often at 6abc.com/weather from hourly forecasts to stormtracker 6 live double scan you'll be prepared for whatever comes, stay connected with our team of meteorologists as well by following them on twitter and facebook for updates. "action news" has bran new details about the violent confrontation between a teenager and police officer during a street brawl, the teen is released from custody without being charged and sara bloomquist just talked to the girl in the video, she is live in southwest philadelphia with her story and reaction from police today. >> reporter: internal affairs is looking into the incident involving the police officer, all charges against the girl you see in the video were dropped and she has been released from

police custody and she did speak with us this afternoon about what happened from her perspective. >> the melee was captured on cell phone video yesterday afternoon. police arrived to find a large group of teens fighting in the street. you see a 12th district officer and a teen separated from the group. she contains she was trying to help her friend's mother, and the officer was trying to push her back. >> she was dragging me by the hair season punching me in the face. >> douglas captured the cell phone video and found what he was witnessing confusing because he thought that pendleton was trying to back away. >> the little girl was saying don't touch me, you don't have to touch me. and she jumped on top of her and started punching her. >> and that she was refusing the commands and the teen knocked

the glasses off the face and the officer's tactics is now under review. >> something could have been done differently, not illegal but a tactical thing and a decision that is made is in a split second. >> i'm glad it was caught on video because i would have been charged and in a youth center or something. >> pendleton was originally charged with assault on a police officer. but the district attorney refuses to approve the charge and the video and witness statements indicate that pendleton never intentionally tried to harm the police officer who did report minor injuries in the scuffle. sara bloomquist, channel 6 "action news." >> dramatic video nonetheless. >> a local father killed an intruder during a violent home

invasion while his wife and young daughters were upstairs. two men barged into the frankford home last night and shot the 26-year-old homeowner twice and he pulled his own gun and shot one of his attackers in the head. bob brooks has new details about this investigation and an update on the homeowners condition coming up at 4:30 today. new charges are filed in connection to an assault at a high school that happened in october. and the victim is now facing charges. walter perez is live outside of saucon valley high school with the story. >> reporter: hey sharrie "action news" brought you the story when an african-american student was charged with assaulting a white student. the da confirmed the motive behind the assault, a different picture of this case surfaced. >> this is the kind of conduct that cannot be accepted in our

society and hopefully they can move forward. >> he is talking about a racist video shot by a white student at saucon county high school. the video is of a 16-year-old african-american classmate who didn't know he was being filmed. a few days later the african-american student assaulted the white student at first african-american student was the only one charged in the case but announced today that the 14-year-old white student faces charges including ethnic intimidation and harassment of a minor. he hopes this sends a message. >> we cannot harass students based on their race or ethnicity or characteristics think may have. and they will be in court. >> reporter: we'll have much

more on no story coming up on "action news" at 5:00 including reactions from the students at the high school and the sentence the da is hoping for in this case. reporting live walter perez channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. a football hazing incident at conestoga high school will be resolved in juvenile court. when a younger player claimed three older players violated him with a broom stick in the locker room. but after further investigation by the chester county district attorney's office it was learn that the younger player was not violated with the broom stick, he was assigned cleanup duty and refused that and the other three boys are accused of pushing the other player and briefly holding him down and one boy poked him in the leg with the broom stick.

the new congress was sworn into office. it started with an about face with regards how congress handled ethics investigation, the original plan was to weaken the office of congressional edge ethics investigation and put the lawmakers themselves in charge of that group. president-elect donald trump was on board with the reversal at least the timing. with all that congress has to work on do they have to make the weakening of the congressional watch dog their number one act and priority. >> on day one republicans are vowing swift action on obama care and repealing taxes. >> he has a clear message for capitol hill it's time to get to work and keep our word to the american people. >> reporter: the goal they say is to tee up several measures for trump's inauguration on january 20th, and a few notables

that will be in attendance as donald trump is sworn in as the president of the united states. they will be there bill clinton and hillary clinton, as will president and mrs. bush. and a man will face a judge for the first time tomorrow. police found jeremiah monell yesterday hiding in the woods off highway 322 in atlantic county, on the run since december 18th when he allegedly killed tara o'shea in commercial township. his son was home at the time and ran to get help from his mom's friends and they called 911 and realized that o'shea had been murdered. >> my wife's best friends son came into my house and said his mom is dead. >> passed in her sleep? >> oh my god murdered.

we need police right now. >> monell's first hearing is scheduled for tomorrow at the cumberland county courthouse. we are learning more about the man that kill aid pennsylvania state trooper over the weekend in huntington county. that jason robeson sent a text to his son's mother confessing what he had done. he was violating a protective order and his mother allegedly witnessed the crime and was killed by other officers at a nearly mobile home a short time later. a damp day as we get a look at the "action news" traffic report. >> gina is in for matt pellman. >> yesterday things were nice and clear but not today. lets look at the big picture and show you what is happening. 95 and 43 we'll take that, but the rest of the roadways, 9 on the schuylkill that is westbound approaching city avenue and just

expect the delays on the schuylkill because we have an accidents out there, 5 miles per hour we have a disabled tractor trailer on the eastbound side of the schuylkill expressway and police on the scene and flares out. but look at what is most important, your travel time, typically 15 minutes to travel between the blue route to the vine and now just an hour if you have to travel out with this being out here expect more time needed and the roosevelt boulevard the southbound side could be slow approaching 76 and northbound not too bad. pottstown we have an accident on industrial highway at washington street, and we do have fire and police directing traffic with that. something to keep in mind. and staying in montgomery county, in lower providence, a crash involving an overturned vehicle with lawrence and mary bell road. >> thanks gina. still ahead a major change of

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more heavy rain is moving across the south after a dozen reported tornadoes tore through towns in georgia, mississippi and alabama. the severe weather is being blamed for at least five deaths. four people died when a tree crash nood their trailer home in rehoboth, alabama splitting it in two. and heavy rains stranded drivers in the town of jackson. >> a fine example as to why not the out because if we have a

vehicle sub merged in water at this time. >> fast moving floodwaters also kill aid 70-year-old man in the florida panhandle. the drainage system could not keep up with the 11 inches of rain. in turkey today authorities are on an all out search for this man. the gunman they say is behind the attack if istanbul that killed 39 people. they released this video of the suspect as he walks through one of istanbul's most popular tourist spots. it's a cell phone video, not sure if it was taken before or after the attack. and eight others are detained in connection with the massacre that isis claimed responsibility for, two of them were detained at istanbul's main airport as police searched their cell phones and luggage before being taken to police headquarters and border crossings remain on high alert and anyone resembling the

wanted gunman will be stopped and questioned by police. >> now ford is adding new jobs here in the united states and abandoning a major project abroad. the company announced today that they are canceling plans to build a new $1.6 billion factory in mexico. instead it is investing $700 million into a michigan plant where it will add 700 jobs. ceo mark fields says that the move is partly in reaction to the new administration heading to washington. >> first we do what is right for our business and this makes sense and we look at all factors, include what we true vue as a more positive u.s. manufacturing environment under president-elect trump. >> the michigan plant will focus on building new electric and self driving vehicles. one thing to note here, ford will shift production of the focus to mexico despite pressure from the president-elect.

>> wall street kicking off 2017 on a strong note. all three indexes up. the dow up 119 points. the nasdaq up 46 points and the s&p 500 rising exactly 19 points on the day. well, tuition to public colleges to new york could be free if governor andrew couple cuomo has his way. they want it free for families that earn less than 25,000 there's a year, and they must be new york residents. he says it's not an option anymore but a necessity. >> college is a mandatory step if you want to be a success. and the way this society said we'll pay for high school, because you need high school, this society should say we'll pay for college, because you need college to be successful. >> well, that program if passed would start as early as this

fall and requires approval from state lawmakers, free tuition is something that bernie sanders pushed for last year. >> one again back in the spotlight. time now for a check of the accuweather forecast. >> back if the spotlight, adam joseph. a dreary spotlight. >> not much light here as we look at sky 6 hd in wilmington, delaware, you can see a foggy scene here anything but clear and the visibilities are dropping here this evening, wilmington at 2 miles the same for philadelphia and 5 mile visibility for allentown and atlantic city airport a half mile visibility due to the low clouds and all the moisture we saw over the last couple of days. and despite that it feels chilly as you step out and temperature as above normal. and relatively speaking the warm ground after cold air last week adding to the fog. as we look at stormtracker 6

live double scan the steady rain, it's up into new england and we just have the low clouds and drizzle that is lingering. our normal high for this time of year is 40 degrees, right now sitting at 47 so 7 degrees above normal it just feels cool because of how damp it is. 50 millville and 51 at the atlantic city airport and 41 in reading and the lehigh valley at 42 degrees, there is that slug of rain that spiralled through with the low pressure and it's lifting to the north and it will be some time before we can clear ourselves from the west here. tonight the clouds hang on and so do the areas of fog and drizzle. 42 in trenton and 43 in philadelphia and millville. temperatures are not going to drop oversunlight tonight. and they will pretty much stay steady into the overnight hours. then the temperatures will climb here tomorrow afternoon. we are looking at middle 50s for highs as we get into wednesday, sunshine will break back out and

the winds will turn gusty in the afternoon. maybe topping off at speeds of 30 and 40 miles per hour. and even 7:00 tomorrow night our normal high for this time of year at 40. the next change comes very late thursday into friday morning. an arctic front comments through and brings cold air and links with a system to see snow showers developing in southern areas near midnight on thursday and for the friday morning rush hour, this is at 8:30 there will be a period of light snow passing through and bad timing for the rush hour and the heaviest of it will be to the south and east and not to the north and west. but as we look at philadelphia specifically here for how much the models are thinking not a lot between a half inch and inch, it's the timing not the amount for the friday morning rush. as we look at the four day at 4:00 forecast. milder with an afternoon gusty breeze developing and 55 for a

high and arctic air pushes in thursday and it's dry with 36 degrees and the morning round of light snow philly south and east and we'll watch the coast for another system here on saturday of 32 degrees, definitely getting cold and for the first round of light snow coming in we'll watch friday morning. >> as long as the sunshine comes back. >> tomorrow it will be back. >> thank you matt. still ahead road projects in south jersey are not just a convenience for drivers, some business owners say they are being force to close. hear from one of them coming up next. it is the absolutely heart stopping video going viral. one twin saving his 2-year-old brother after he was trapped underneath a dresser. the story in big talkers. now through january 10th. ikea

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section of they ransacked the registers at the store on bustleton avenue. one used a hammer to smash the cash drawers and the other grab the armfuls of cigarettes and they threatened a worker in the process but nobody was hurt in the ordeal. >> in wilmington a thief wearing camouflage pants robbed a bank and they released these surveillance pictures hoping to identify the man and passed the teller a note at 8:30 this morning demanding cash and the employee complied and the man was last seen leaving the branch on the 500 block of delaware avenue heading west. a tribute to history and a pivotal battle that took place in knowledge hundreds of year ago. marine captain thomas o'neil took to trenton as the heels march. they walked from the old trenton barracks to old princeton

battlefield. the same march by george washington to avoid english troops. captain o'neil is actually a direct decescendescendant. for one south jersey man the new year did not bring an optimistic outlook. john shed owns rocky hill pottery studio at route 518. and it's just past a detour that made his business drop off to a slow drip as part of the bridge closure, one of hundreds of transportation projects delayed as lawmakers fought over funding. >> i have been here since 79. and i have suffered through three floods and made that. that wasn't any problem. but you know you shut a bridge for 6 to 8 months that is too much. >> that bridge was suppose to be

done last august but now work is set to wrap up later this year, but if work continues, shed says that is too little too late and forced to shut down that store and open up somewhere else to be determined. coming up in the next half hour off "action news" at 4:00. bengals pacman jones denies the allegations that he head butted cops and hit a nurse. why he was granted bond but he still has to spend the night in jail. and why workers lined up to cheer as a woman brought home an animal in need.

"action news" continues with meteorologist, adam joseph, alicia vitarelli, sharrie williams and brian taff. >> hello again 4:30 now and "action news" continues with a sugar shocker, researchers found that kids are taking a lot more sweets than you may think. it's a frightening scene for any parent to watch, thankfully these twins boys are okay and their viral dresser falling incident is giving everyone a safety reminder. and space heaters can pose a danger but newer designs were put to the test and consumer reports approved. but first we have breaking news out of lehigh valley. charges against former pro

wrestlers jimmy super fly stucka has been dropped. the 73-year-old was facinging this murder for the 1983 death of his then girlfriend. and the judge that dismissed the charges did not reveal why he made this decision and a judge ruled that snucka was incompetent to go to trial. a homeowner shot and killed one of two men that broke into his home. the 27-year-old man says he was protecting his wife and two daughters when he opened fire after he was shot himself. bob brooks live now along pratt street in frankford. >> reporter: sharrie, police tell us that this was a man fighting for his life and the lives of his young family. it happens just behind me here at their home. on pratt street, we are told that two suspects knocked on the door and barged in and opened

fire. >> police stel us that the shatters glass and blood and crime scene is an as a result of a man fighting for his life. a 27-year-old named ruben and his wife 24 years old and four daughters were getting ready for bed. >> the mother brought the four girls, they were all female, the children, upstairs and was putting them to bed and there was a knock on the door. the young father answered and the neighbor we spoke to then says that chaos erupted. >> detectives say that waiting at the door were two suspects waiting and they opened fire on the 27-year-old. >> he was shot twice one in the mouth and left leg and the victim also have a gun and shot back killing one of the s&p suspects. >> he was laying unconscious bleeding from the head.

and the neighbors watchd this unfold in disbelief. he came crawling to the front steps and the officers assisted him and this appears to be a home invasion robbery and the 27-year-old likely won't be robbed. the victim's wife and children hid upstairs and were physically unharmed. >> now why this happened, police say that is under investigation work are told that marijuana was found inside of the home in several small baggies. as for that young father he was rushed to the hospital he is in bad shape but expected to survive his injuries and as always if you know anything about this, immediately call the philadelphia police. reporting live in frankford, bob brooked, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. a 14-year-old girl in new jersey was seriously hurt when she was hit by a car crossing the road to get to her school bus if upper township at 7:00 this morning. police say that the girl was hit at route 9 and ocean avenue.

their investigation found a 17-year-old male driving the car did not stop even though the school bus had the stop sign out and red lights were flashing and the girl is hospitalized. >> a man that robbed a bank in northeast philadelphia is on the run but police hope that a surveillance photo will lead to his arrest. investigators say that the suspect showed the teller a note demanding money and got away with an unknown amount of cash. here is the photo, anyone with information is asked to call police. >> newcastle county's new executive took the oath of office. matthew meyer was sworn in at the pal center. meyer is an attorney and former teacher and promises honesty and

transparency. and other elected officials will be sworn in later tonight. adam joseph is here talking about the weather outside. >> gloomy. enough. >> it was so beautiful this past weekend but we'll capture some beauty here into wednesday. tomorrow it sounds good. >> as we look live or try to look at the center city skyline here from the temple university camera, low clouds and 47 degrees and lingering drizzle and the light northerly wind at 9 miles per hour creating a windchill of just 43 degrees and you got a drop there on the camera lens as easton. 42 degrees and winds from the northeast at 6. with the damp ground and low clouds, the windchill just 38 degreed and one more stop in atlantic city here, pretty much the same picture as we try to look down at the ground there. some low lying cloud cover there. 46 with the dew point at 46 so when the temperatures and dew

point are the same 100% relative humidity saturation and the windchill is the same with the calm wind. we'll talk about the calm weather on tap at least temporarily tomorrow before a first round of light snow for all of us here. >> thanks adam. the new customed computer is working again after thousands of travelers were delayed by a nationwide outage. people arrived on long international flights to be struck on massive lines at border check points. customs scrambled to process passengers, after the system went down, some of the biggest delays were new york and atlanta. and they handed out water and fans and seven people had to be treated for medical moneys. >> lines were completely chaotic. no system for who got through fast and who spent two hours. >> it was chaos.

>> the cause of the outage is still unknown and custom official dozen not believe it was malicious in nature. an injured spinal cord can lead to a drastic life change and now an experimental new device is giving hope for a more normal lifestyle. rick williams is live with the details on this one. >> that is right. it's called a spinal simulator and being tested out at one of the top hospitals in california. coming up tonight in health check, ali gorman explains how the device retrains the brain helping patients reuse of their body parts. and coming up tonight at 5:00, the new physical fitness test the u.s. army is relying on to make sure recruits are matched up with the right jobs. those stories and more coming up at 5:00. >> well you are just so talented rick. to health check at 4:00,

kids breakfast foods are so sugary, they are getting half of their daily allowance before they ever get to school. they found between the cereals and juices and pastries, kids get more than 11 grams of sugar at breakfast alone. that is 1,000 sugar cubes a year in the morning alone. a lot of sugar. >> makes me think about how much i put in my coffee though. adam pacman jones with the bengals has a history of getting into legal trouble and the latest incident has him spending this night before bars. and she sent out an order for delivery with a side of cold medicine. we'll tell you if it was fulfilled. and adam joseph has more on the sunshine brief though it may be.

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students in at one maryland school were given grief counselors. charlotte zaremba war shot in her ellington city home. her mother heard a scuffle in her bedroom and when she walked in shots were fired by a masked gunman. he shot the mother and then the teen shot himself and died at the hospital. the shooter and victim knew each other other but no evidence that they had any kind of relationship. a cincinnati bengals player is facing several charges and will remain in jail until tomorrow. quarterback, adam pacman jones was arrested at a downtown cincinnati hotel following an alleged fight with a security guard and while being arrested. police say that jones head

butted and kicked at officers that were attempting to place him in a police vehicle and allegedly spit on a jail nurse who was trying to take a blood sample. big talkers now and it's a heart stopping viral video out of utah that has the internet's heart pounding, a 2-year-old boy rescuing his twin brother from a toppled dresser. it happened when brock and brody started to climb the dresser but the dresser falls and trapped little brock and there is brody to save the day, first getting on top of the dresser to as is the situation and then starts to push it from all angles. works this one and then around to the back and then finally frees his little brother. and it's creditable to watch and amazingly brock is okay and the mother never heard cries or sounds from the room but says she has since bolted that

dresser to the wall so it won't happen again. it's really hard to watch and this video was captured on their baby video monitor, a lot of praise for body and questions about the scenario and detailed surrounding it. >> heart stopping to heart warming for at first time all the animals were adopted from an animal shelter from hawaii in the clear the shelter campaign. beauty the dog was the very last one to find a loving home. [ applause ] >> and a big round of applause, volunteers formed a human tunnel to bid their friend good-bye. the first time in hawaiian history, they found tamlies to take them all home. beauty was the one to make history and the woman adopting him looked happy herself. >> and what to do if you are sick and home alone and need

cold medicine. >> well, in london you place an order of fish and chips and ask for the pills. fish and chip shop got the unusual request. would you please stop in the drug store and get me these cold and flu tablets. only ordering food so i can get the tablets, i'm dying sick. they obliged snapping the picture before getting the food to her and the fish and chips obviously. shocked to see such a strange request but they admired her skill to get what she needed and offered her a free meal when she was feeling better. you have to admit it's clever, you are at home and need the cold medication, who has a car and is driving around the city right now? the fish and chips guy. >> i like the fish and chips i'd

take those. >> a generous driver there. alicia thank you. let get a check of the roads right now. gina again is in for matt. >> we start with a lot of traffic as we get back into the work schedule and traffic add it'ses, schuylkill expressway we are seeing 8 miles per hour that is on the westbound side approaching city avenue. although i have good news, we'll get owe that but 95, 54 miles per hour and 29 on the vine street expressway and a 76ers game at 7:00 p.m. the early accident on the schuylkill on the eastbound side has since cleared out it was an overturned tractor trailer and the cleared. and 64 minutes to travel through the blue route and the vine. it will take you time, usually 15 minutes, you'll want to give yourself time and traveling out on the westbound side. lets draw your attention to an accident in pottstown on

industrial highway, that could be a set back for you and lower providence township another issue, this is on buck walter road and merrybell road an overturned vehicle, that is a set back and one more downed poles in buckingham on york road and sugar bottom road. more time needed there. >> thank you. well, one way a zoo can make sure they are not missing animals is to count them. that is just what they do once a year at the london zoo. with clip boards in hand, zoo workers tally up the 750 species, sometimes up close and personal. they count every mammal, fish, and it's tedious but an important job, one week to cleat. and we have no idea what that one is. by peggy lee playing ]

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meteorologist, adam joseph, joining us now you promised sunshine. >> i did? >> you did. >> i wrote it down. >> 4:00 today. >> it will be back tomorrow and a little more for the upcoming weekend. as you take a look double scan live radar the rain is out of here but low clouds and fog and drizzle is lingering and that remains the case throughout the evening and overnight hours and it's not until mid to late tomorrow morn that we try to break the sunshine through the cloud cover. right now 51 at the atlantic see airport. and 50 millville and 47 in philadelphia and cooler to the north with the northeastly wind. despite the numbers running 5 to 10 degrees above normal. definitely feels damp and chilly with the wind out of the northeast. and the visibilities are down across the board about a mile and a half and 2 miles in reading and allentown and same for trenton and millville and

the poconos at 3 miles. we look at satellite and radar the area of rain is pushing to the northern and east and you see the area of low pressure right here working to the south and that brought in the northeasterly wind. that is moving away and you see to the west there is time before we can completely rid ourselves from the cloud cover and drizzle. for tonight, the same for areas of fog, 38 in the suburbs and 48 for center city. and a light variable wind between 5 and 10 miles per hour. and the temperatures not going to drop off tonight. there is no threat of freezing when you are talking about roadways and bridges and overpasses and car windshields. tonight and tomorrow partly sunny here and the sun breaks back out. the only thing in the afternoon the wind is picking up at 40 miles per hour and the numbers are not bad. 55 in philadelphia and millville and same for atlantic city, and 50 in the lehigh valley and bigger changes on the horizon, take a look at the temperatures

in the northern plains right now, this is not windchills in the single digits, bismark right now, 3 below zero as the arctic front arrives here thursday night at 11:00, a ribbon of moisture moving to the south and it work as long this boundary and scrapes our southern boundaries, it will occur here late thursday night at 8:00 a.m. a period of light snow breaking out here after midnight thursday friday morning's rush hour and temperatures in the 20s and everything sticks on untreated surfaces so high impact on the morning rush. a coating to inch of snow and the heaviest in southern new jersey and delaware and lighter in the lehigh valley. and watch out for the morning rush on friday. allow a lot of extra time. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast milder enjoy tomorrow with the sun 55 degrees, brisk and cloudy and cold and dry thursday at 36. the morning round of light snow here on friday. and the snow should be done by 8:00 in the morning with

returning sun of 35 degrees, we'll watch the coast for a second storm to develop and it looks to stay off our coast at 32, and 10 degrees below normal sunday and only 29 for the high on monday. with sunshine and then a big recovery tuesday back up to 40 degrees. or a round of arctic air with a little bit of snow at this point guys. >> thank you adam. up next in what's the teal we are talking about the safety of space heaters, alicia vitarelli has the results from the experts at consumer reports so you don't create a fire hazard trying to stay warm this winter. >> and "action news" is all about interacting with you, followous on social media forehead lines and breaking news and to communicate with us, on facebook, facebook.com/6abcactionnews. coming.

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well, the cold weather is coming and going and for some it could be dangerous. 40% of home heating fires are caused by space heaters. experts at consumer reports tested heaters to find out which ones both warm you up and do so safely. >> if you need a little extra warmth to get you through the winter considering a space heater, consumer reports test aid variety of shapes and sizes from personal size heaters to larger units. >> we test the heaters to see how fast they warm a room and how well they spot heat an individual. >> this mannequin is equipped with sensors to see how much warmth the heater can provide through spot heating. consumer reports says that for a little more money you can get one that is slightly larger but still very portable.

it recommends this 70 one from comfort zone and space heaters could be a fire hazard they looked at how safe each one is. and they measured the suffer as temperature of each heat toward see if it gets too hot to the touch. most cases they are cool but if you have pets or children stay away from heaters with metal surfaces and large areas that are easy to contact. >> this test mimics something flammable coming into can't with a space heater. >> keep it three feet away from flammable objects and never use an extension cord. look for a space heater with a tip over switch that turns it off if it's turned over and the sensor that shuts it off if it gets too hot. and if you would like a larger space heater, try this life smart for $100. and keep if mind that larger space heaters don't necessarily

offer more heat than the smaller ones but they are meant to say if one place and good option for a permanent heatner a larger room. >> thank you. finally at 4:00 for many of you this is the first day back to work for the new year and let this next little boy serve as an inspiration for a positive mind. this is little julian that is convinced he has the jedi force. the raising of his hand and force of his mind the doors open magically, his mom is aware they are automatic doors for for julian the force is with this young man. he is on to it already. that will do it for "action news" at 4:00. for brian taff, and alicia vitarelli join me along with brian and ducis rogers tonight and every night for a full hour of "action news" at 10:00 on ph almost 17.

>> now here are rick williams and monica malpass with a look ahead at 5:00. >> coming up at 5:00 a new twist in a hazing case at this chester county high school. what the victim is now saying about the incident nearly a year after three teens were charged with assault and conspiracy. plus the search is on for a gunman that opened fire in a packed nightclub celebrating the new year. and after dozens of complaints about the danger of e-cigarettes. those stories and more coming your way on "action news" at 5:00.

"action news" delaware valley's leading news program. were jaime apody, meteorologist cecily tynan and monica malpass. looking live right now outside over a dreary depend landing after a wet start to the new year the rain is starting to let up and if you haven't gotten outside yet tomorrow is the day to do it. check this out we'll get sun and highs in the mid-50s. how about that. tuesday night the big sorry is the accuweather forecast. >> lets check in with cecily tynan at the big board for what is in store for the rest of the week.

>> it's nice to see sunshine after two days of rain. double scan live radar showing the second round of rain the steadiest now is lifting up over new england and showers are spiraling out from the west through the overnight hours, we'll have a few more areas of some drizzle but the past two days, the rain adding up to a pretty decent soaking, philadelphia close to .75 inch and allentown about a.50 inch and wilmington an inch and atlantic city more than an inch of rain. tomorrow temperatures will be in the mid-50s and tonight the evening planner showing that temperatures really not dropping much. nearly stationary, lots of clouds and again some areas of drizzle and once again some fog developing overnight low down to 43 degrees, temperatures well above freezing this shows you temperatures across the eastern half of the nation, tomorrow we'll be in the mid-50s and this little slice of nice. if you look across the northern