freezing rain. future tracker 6 showing around 11:00 tonight, this is when we'll see the freezing rain breaking out in the far north and west counties and the lehigh valley and the poconos. notice the streamlines out of the south, that is the wind direction that shows the temperatures actually will be warming in the overnight hours. we have a winter weather advisory posted at 6:00, it's in the effect until 10:00 for upper montgomery county and bucks counties, and by then, temperatures at the surface is above freezing and areas up to the north, berks county and lehigh valley and the poconos, winter weather advisory for light freezing rain stays in effect until 2:00 in the morning. and everyone will be well above freezing by tomorrow morning. areas north of the pennsylvania turnpike this is where we have the brief freezing rain the key times between 9:00 and 1:00 in the morning and after that it changes all over to rain and the i-95 metro area, no icing this

is a rain event and temperatures warm overnight to 40 degrees, we are looking at a .25 inch of rain in the wee hours of the morning and get ready for a big warm-up and i'll talk about that in the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast. >> thank you. on this note the "action news" morning team is tracking this wintry system throughout the evening and into the morning, get the latest from accuweather along with traffic updates and the news from overnight starting tomorrow morning at 4:30. new at 5:00 tonight. wilmington police have identified the man shot and killed yesterday inside of the store he owned. tonight the gunman is still on the loose. vernon odom spoke to customers that knew the store owner well. vernon odom is live with more on the investigation. >> good evening monica, as usual the wilmington, delaware police are tight-lipped, because of the homicide investigation, asking

for the help tonight to nail the killer in a robbery that clearly went bad. >> i'm shocked and angry. i'm sick of it all. shooting people unnecessarily. doing stupid sufficient. >> wanda johnson mourns the murder of a long time neighborhood store operator and spending time at the shrine that grew overnight. for years he was a merchant at this corner. was shot and killed inside yesterday afternoon by a gunman that remains at large during an apparent robbery attempt. >> a nice guy and neighborhood guy, no problems with me, a shame that happened to him. everyone loved him and knew him. >> the kids went there all the time you know. he didn't seem to bother anybody and wasn't nasty to anyone. a sad thing that happened. >> a $17 ho170$1700 reward is or

key information in this murder. >> i'm not surprised about any senseless murder. as i was walking down i see on the next corners, bottles and teddy bears out. someone was murdered. not surprised here. >> rick, again a $10,000 reward posted for information and arrest and conviction in this murder case. i'm vernon odom, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. philadelphia police are hope that surveillance video will lead them to the people behind two violent robberies that happened two blocks apart. first an 18-year-old girl was attacked by a masked group of men, shortly after getting off the bus in frankford this morning. and a man was ambush bid a similar group. he spoke to us but did not want

to appear on camera. >> i said give me everything and hit me with a shotgun in the face and throw me on the floor and take everything. when they were going to leave they shot me. >> both victims were taken to the hospital and both are expected to be okay. police believe the cases are connected. in west philadelphia police are trying to figure out who shot and killed a man that ent screened in a robbery on the 1500 block of girard avenue, barry jones was inside of an apartment with a friend when someone stormed in trying to rob the woman. jones went to stop the suspect and he was shot and killed. >> a man arrested in georgia in delaware county made his first appearance in court today. only "action news" was there as rodney shelton was brought into the courtroom. they say he killed thomas childs in 2015, childs was working at a

truck dryer it happened when shelt on was trying to rob childs. police want your help tracking down this man. look carefully, he is accused of robbing four fast food restaurants in philadelphia. it shows the man breaking into the restaurants through the drive-thru windows and he was able to steal cash from the burker king on christmas eve and less than a week later he targeted three other stores including the same burger king again but this time unsuccessfully. if you have information call philadelphia police. the wilmington firefighters union is speaking out against the new role for the city's former fire chief. anthony good. name aid senior firefighter after the mayor announced a new chief last week. that means goodell gibl to retire in object will get his full pension. the firefighters association calls it unconsciousable.

a chester county horse is recovering after getting stuck in an icy pond this morning. police were called to the scene in mount vernon at 11:00 a.m. they had to use a pick axe to get ricky ricardo the horse to safety. >> reporter: next to me is ricky ricardo himself and his owner kim. letting us come in and do the live report. it looks like ricky will be okay. butter earlier today he gave everyone quite the scare. >> they are using sledge hammers and axes and anything they can to get ricky ricardo out of pond. kim says her owe horse was in the pond for more than an hour. they tied ropes to his halter

and using a tractor to pull him. at that point ricky ricardo nearly threw in the towel. >> ricky is just a little over a year old and it's tis curious nature that got him into the mess. >> he was a curious baby and wanted to check if the ice was thick enough and it wasn't for him. >> the ice gave way and simmons was out on a ride with another horse when her daughter called. >> she said the year ling is in the middle of the pond. >> as a baby he was very calm. >> she added that the east white land department did an incredible job with the rescue and he is expected to be okay. >> he is doing fine. >> now it's all about warming back up after what could have been a disaster. and to help speed that process up. he got a special treat. >> gave him a hot bread to warm

the insides. >> is it always a hot bran mash? or a special treat? >> a little special treat. >> another live look here at ricky again. kim tells us he is going to be okay and seems unphased by the whole thing, everyone here hopes he learned his lesson and doesn't go out on the pond again. >> lets hope so, he is not going to be a skater. >> for now reporting live in malvern, bob brooks, channel 6 "action news." >> he wants to talk on the microphone. >> and maybe sing a song. time for a check of the "action news" traffic report. lets take it live to matt pellman in the traffic center. no horsing around matt. >> monica, we are heading home on the westbound side of 422 saying giddy up and ending our tuesday night. nice sound effects, slow go on the westbound side of 202 on out to past oaks, not far off a crash in upper merion at gulf

road and norristown one on dekalb street at schuylkill can avenue over the river. and farther up 202 on the doylestown road portion, a wreck at county line road at the pep boys and the normal fare 8 miles per hour on the schuylkill by south street and slow speeds along 95 many of them in the teens and looking at speeds in the low 20s on the garden state parkway as you head northbound, a wreck approaching the ac expressway causing restrictions in the work zone. so slow going in ocean city there on the parkway this evening. we'll check it again in the next half hour. >> thanks matt. more ahead on "action news" at 5:00. a tense day on capitol hill as hearings begin for donald trump's top picks and protesters that caused disturbance after disturbance as senator jeff

sessions defended himself before lawmakers. >> and the job that one utah couple posted an ad online for and got thousands of responses, some are calling it an opportunity of a lifetime. and live to the academy of natural sciences at the university of pennsylvania. moderating a conversation with governor tom wolf, he is speaking to the chamber of commerce for philadelphia. and we are streaming it live at 6abc.com.

breaking news out of south carolina. a jury just sentenced dillon roof the convicted gunman in the charleston church shooting to death. he showed no remorse for shooting nine parishioners in 2015. they were all african-americans, he said he quote, had to do it. roof wants to start a race war he said. >> right now thousands of people are lined up to see president obama's final speech as commander and chief in person. the president returns to his home town of chicago for a farewell address. is he expected to address the economy and health care and many

that waited into line are eager to hear how he will close out his time in office. >> the speech is going to be phenomenal and we are looking for hope and inspiration and inspire us to keep this country moving forward. >> tickets were handed out for free but some have taken to selling them online, they are going for as much as $5,000. watch the address here on 6 abc at 9:00 and we'll stream it live online at 6abc.com. capitol hill says the federal health insurance program is failing because of poor enrollment, but a new report show that millions are signing up despite the fact that it could be repealed. ali gorman is here with more. >> 11.5 million got insurance through the market place, that is 290 more than at the same time last year. there are still three weeks left

in open enrollment. despite complaints, officials don't seem deterred by higher premiums and fewer options. sign-ups by younger, healthier adults have gone up. in pennsylvania, 413,000 people are enrolled for 2017. and some states a big share of subscribers have opioid addictions and want the health insurance to get treatment. and. a health -- vaccines, he is a vaccine sceptic and that donald trump asked him to chair a commission on vaccines, because he believes that it's contributing to autism. they met today in new york. and in other news, americans are cutting back on sugar in their diets by using artificial

sweeteners instead. it went up 50% between 2009 and 2012 and in kidded the consumption doubled. eating less added sugar is a step in the right direction, but moving to diet foods and sodas may not lead to healthier eating. it's good to slowly reduce the amount of sugary drinks and replace it with water, fruits and vegetables. that doesn't mean no sugar just less sugar. >> that say relief. appreciate yas it. in other news, a utah couple got quite the response after offering to pay someone to travel the world with them. just one catch. they have to help watch their three young children. they wanted to live out their dream, selling their house and heading overseas, but as they started planning, they realized how much work it is to tote

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centers nationwide by the end of the year. today was the very first one. the nasdaq hit a high after a choppy day for u.s. markets. investors appeared cautious with less than two weeks to go until the transition of power in washington. the s&p 500 remained unchanged. a buck county company has given up cold ease, financially strapped pro base labs has sold it for 15 million there's. best known for the epi pen is taking over the business. sixers players served coffee today in center city. dunkin' donuts is a new partner with the sixers. and they will play the knicks tomorrow night in south philadelphia. serving up in snacks into coming up we'll check the forecast for

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cecily tynan is standing by we are getting a brief break from the wintery weather tomorrow. >> temperatures should be up into the 50s and 60s on thursday. and we are live on sky 6 hd taking a look overlooking reading from the pagoda, this is one of the areas that could get freezing rain as we transition to some of the warmer air but today finally we climbed out of the deep freeze, at 1:00 today we climbed above freezing but from 6:00 thursday evening through noon today, temperatures were below freezing that is 114 hours and that is part of the problem, the ground surface is so cold even when air temperatures rise above freezing the rain is falling on a cold surface and that causes the freezing rain. allentown 33 degrees right now and again, the surface is very cold. that is the area that could see the freezing rain. philadelphia 36 right now and cape may 38 degrees with a wind

right now out of the south pulling up the warmer air. satellite 6 along with action radar showing the area of precipitation i am looking at is through ohio. this is what will be moving through overnight as it does we get the winds out of the south and temperatures are rising so philadelphia this is just a rain event, future tracker showing the timing around 9:00 this is when we begin to see some of that brief freezing rain across our far north and west counties and moves through in the wee hours in the morning and 11:00 still the freezing rain, chico you are the best. thank you. getting all choked up about that. much better, by 11:00 still the freezing rain across the lehigh valley and berks county and the main area of precipitation moved through and temperatures in the 40s and the exception the poconos still freezing rain by the morning commute we are looking at lingering low clouds and temperatures in the 40s. temperatures tomorrow morning

about 30 degrees warmer than this morning. 45 degrees at 7:00, should make it up to 50 degrees by 1:00 with peeks of sunshine. the five-day at 5:00 showing milder and peeks of sunshine in the afternoon and 51 degrees another round of rain and tomorrow night it's very early thursday morning with a warm front, look at this air behind this warm front, 62 degrees, and then temperatures drop friday turning colder and 49 degrees, saturday the chance of light snow northern of philadelphia around i-95 a wintry mix, 35 and bump back up to 40 degrees on sunday. adam will let you know if the warm-up continues into next week coming up with the full accuweather forecast. >> thank you cecily. more "action news." we'll be right back.

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crash into a new jersey grocery store and blue lines are popping up between the double yellow traffic lines to support law enforcement but now the federal government says it has to stop. >> now the details, some of the most important hearings of the year are taking place in the senate in the nation's capital first was jeff sessions but it was marred by out bursts from protesters and they had to pause while the protesters were escorted out and they question the officials about the russian hack that took part during the presidential election. >> lana zach is following all the developments. >> reporter: this was fbi director james comey's first public appearance since reopening the clinton emails before the election. that topic came up with senators that were sometimes frustrated

at least on the part of democrats that he would not comment on possible connections between the kremlin and the trump campaign. >> have you ever seen this level of russian interference? >> no, i have not. >> no. >> no. >> the top directors of u.s. intelligence gathered at the senate to answer questions on the russian hacks. >> putin is another a registered democrat or republican. neither party should take this lightly. >> while at another hearing the senate considered jeff sessions for attorney general. the issue of russian hack are a part of that too. >> are you aware that the intelligence concluded that the russians hacked into the dnc. >> i think it's a significant event and penetration throughout

our government by foreign entities. >> senator sessions the first of president-elect donald trump's nominees is one of the more controversial ones. his hearing constantly punctuated by protestered as he was grilled by his fellow senators. >> when mr. trump bragged about how he is grabbed women and so on, you said you don't characterize that as sexual assault, is grabbing a woman without her consent by her genitals sexual assault? >> clearly that would be. >> he was grilled by roe v. wa e wade. and he said he would recuse himself from any investigation into hillary clinton.

channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. president barack obama is set to give his farewell address to the american people tonight. you can watch the president's speech here on "action news" at 9:00 p.m. and streaming it live at 6abc.com. an intense manhunt continues in california for a suspected cop killer wanted for his pregnant girlfriend's killer. and for days after he allegedly called sergeant deborah clayton outside of a wal-mart. she approached him to question him about the death. world news tonight with divide muir will have more on the big stories and more on the congressional hearings on company tal hill. watch it tonight at 6:30. crews are busy making repairs to a giant sinkhole that swallowed two cars in the kensington section of philadelphia. officials think the sinkhole formed when a sewer line failed and caused a water main to burst

along east washington street and a sewer contractor was at the site today and six homes are without water and gas. business was back to normal here at the hughes hughes complex in trenton after a water main break yesterday. it broke four to five feet underground on market street and caused an icy mote around the complex and some reads experiences reduced water pressure at the time. an ex-secret service officer trying to solicit sex has plead guilty. lee moore was arrested in 2015 after sending lewd picture to what he thought was a teenager. the online conversations lasted two months and some happened while moore was on duty at the white house. moore plead guilty to the offensive materials to a minor. a man plead guilty -- half

hitting two pedestrians at 11th and market streets, the women were in the crosswalk and struck by a truck and one woman later died from her injuries, gonzales is facing several charges including homicide by vehicle. it was a close call for a store owner in warren county new jersey. a tractor trailer lost control coming down a hill and crashed into the general store cafe, two people heard the collision and ran to the back of the store to avoid being injured and the truck driver is also okay and engineers are trying to determine if the building is secure. towns in new jersey that tried to honor police by painting a blue line on their streets are actually violating a federal policy, the blue center line was painted to show support for law enforcement. but highway administration officials says that blue lines are meant to mark handy capped parking spaces and all the towns were told to get rid of the blue

paint it's unclear what will happen if they don't. >> traffic is back to normal on kelly drive tonight after backups because of ice on the road. police have to close the roadway in fair mown park because of the slick conditions, from the strawberry mansion bridge to the grand stands and opened a few hours later. lets see how things are rolling on the traffic scene. >> the rides can be treacherous because the water comes down on the rocks and remains froeds frozen on the roadways. the problem on the schuylkill is not ice related but a crash approaching 202 and king of prussia and the good news is it's all off to the side. with the westbound lanes open toward the pennsylvania turnpike the delay is not too bad. the same cannot be said of the vine street expressway packed in both directions and a crash here as well. hard to see, you might be able

to see the flashing lights right there by the ben franklin parkway mostly on the side and west of broad street and eastbound is a solid line across town from the schuylkill to 95. vine does close tonight at 11:00 for overnight construction. so don't say i didn't warn you. problem on the drives is on the lincoln drive. a broken down vehicle north of gypsy lane by the old 92nd preaf sink and one of the lanes blocked. and there say crash on the lawndale section at whitaker to watch out for. and the fire department activity close to rittenhouse along rodman street at 16th. down the shore at the garden state parkway it looks like the crash is off to the side because speeds are back up into the mid-60s and a warning for tonight. like last night in buck county, route 1 the super highway will close. starting at 9:00 watch for the

restrictions, stick with 95 at that point as an easy alternate. back of to you. >> thank you. for the third straight year temple's online nba program ranks number one. the program at the fox school of business won a perfect score when judged on faculty and student services and technology and they ranked second for the overall online bachelor program. a tea ceremony in university city is helping to mark a milestone. this is the 200th anniversary of the recall stone center on center street. it shows the constant dedication to helping the elderly. >> it's in affect for the year, and people are divided over the sugary drink tax and the mayor has a message for those that are opposed to it. and monica right now we are dry and cloudy but tracking

precipitation to the west on double scan live radar that will bring rain and freezing rain for some of us overnight. we'll have the details in the accuweather forecast. >> sports and jaime apody has more on how the sixers are preparing for tomorrow night's big game and a look at clemson's big win from tomorrow night. you don't let anything keep you sidelined.

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a suspect is in custody after a hostage situation at a credit union in tuscaloosa, alabama. the man went inside and took the employees hostage and then the s.w.a.t. team moved in and captured the gunman. police say the incident started as a bank robbery attempt. 22 states coast-to-coast are living under flood or winter storm alerts and some folks are being rescued from their inundated towns in central and northern california. under a foot of rain that has already come down and six feet of snow is piling up in the sierra mountains and strong winds that hit the rockies. the storm has destroyed an historic drive-thru tree at

yosemite national park, the well known giant sequoia looked like this. it was hollowed out in the 1880s and was shattered when it hit the ground this weekend. they blame rains for toppling the roots of that tree. back here mayor jim kenny continues to advocate for the newly expanded pre-k program, they joined them for snack time and read them a book and some kids are in class for a program that provides quality education to young children for free. the program is paid for by money raised by the sugary beverage tax. >> your life doesn't depend on soda, not like an elismer of life that you need to drink every day. we need to know the importance of taking care of our children

so at some point in time they will be paying purchasers at stores and have a job and a full life. >> the city expects the beverage tax to pump $12 million in pre-k programs this year. time for sports and jaime apody is here and lets talk sixers. >> you trust in the process? you should know by now the process. sometimes the process of joel embiid thinks his team has a chance of making the playoffs. that may be a bit far fetched. winners of three of their last four, the sixers hit the court to get set for the knicks and guess who hit the court too? ben simmons, we caught a glimpse of him in the training room. there working with the one of the scripted plays and brett brown says having him out in uniform gave the team a lift. >> passing the balls and interacting with teammates and

completing plays and interacting with teammates, albeit small it's the first time he has done that. it's great to have him. >> it was great to have the time. coming back. he is great and i can't wait to play with him. >> all the positive comes jahlil okafor taken out of the sixers rotation, the third overall pick has not played at all but he is not giving up and even coming into the facility at night to get extra work in. >> it's one of these situations, right now i'm the person sitting out so obviously with the position i want to be in. but that is what it is right now. and coach brown has been phenomenal with communicating with me and in the long run i'll be fine. the flyers may be in a bit of a free fall but tonight they face the sabers and wayne simmons had a reason to have a

smile on think face, selected to his first nhl all-star team, finally in his ninth system. third in the league with eight power play goals and the game will be played on january 29th in los angeles. >> it's pretty mingful. you look at guys on this team are deserving of being all stars and i'm getting my first opportunity it's special to me, and i want to thank my teammates and everyone in the organization for making this possible. >> after dropping to number three in the top 25 another tough match-up to villanova as they face xavier. did you stay up for the national championship game. i made it to nine minutes to go and missed one of greatest finishes of all times. two and a half minutes to play and the tigers take it down the field with a single second left on the clock.

desean watson found renfro for the score. 35-31 is the final. >> a love my team. i told them tonight the difference in this game would be the love they have for each other, i knew they wouldn't quit and i talked to them about letting the light inside of them always be brighter than the light that is shining on them and if they focused on that they would be okay. >> wow. >> quite a game. >> i knew it would happen when i went to sleep. it's bound to happen. why are some games on so late. >> west coast viewers -- >> i'm just saying. >> all right thank you jaime. a wave good-bye to daddy is not all these little guys got to do as their father set sail overseas. the officer let them use their cruisers pa system to say daddy we love you.

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well, if you are a parent you probably know this, having a child is expensive and the department of agriculture broke down how much it will cost. they estimated a married couple with two children will spend more than $233,000. and that only covers until the child is 17 years old and breaks down to $14,000 a year and up to a third of costs are for housing alone and after that food and child care is the highest costs for families. unless you are a meteorologist, then anybody's -- >> right. believe me i know what they will cost. breaking it down by the penny. >> lets take the accuweather forecast and break it down. >> a little bit of rain, brief freezing rain north of the pennsylvania turnpike and then the heat is on.

a general thaw for the next couple of days. double scan live radar it's quiet at the present time and clouds up above and we start to see light drizzle and showers developing and that probably won't happen for three to three and a half hours from now off to the west. and that is the zone we are targeting here north of the pennsylvania turnpike. the pockets of cold air lurking with numbers at or above freezing, levittown and center city and chester 36 degrees and new jersey as well as delaware and no problems with icing on any roadways or surfaces, temperatures there above freezing and the numbers will continue to climb a bit overnight. as warm southerly winds take over. satellite and radar dealing with the front to the west. and some of that precipitation a nasty squall line heading to buffalo and snow and sleet possible and then as this progresses to the east. that clips us here in the

overnight hours. we really have to speed up future tracker here until 11:00 tonight. we start to see blue and freezing rain and berks county and north parts of lancaster county and the poconos 28 degrees and icing in those areas late tonight and it lasts maybe an hour or two before it flips over to plain old rain and by 2:30 in the morning 41 in allentown and 41 in reading and mid-40s philadelphia and 50s showing up here along the shore, a quarter inch of rain across the board here. during the overnight hours but gone by the time we wake up tomorrow morning for the rush hour above the normal for this time of year. we are at 41 at 6:00 in the morning and upper 40s to the south. so if you are traveling anywhere around the lehigh valley or again in northern chester or montgomery or buck county, watch for slick spots overnight and the ground is below freezing

despite air temperatures do get above freezing and taking time to warm the ground and temperatures rise and there is no issues for that morning rush hour. in fact tomorrow breaks of sun are developing and much milder and a high temperature 51 degrees. and another warm front coming through tomorrow night and another round of rain wednesday night early thursday morning and then thursday itself a lot of clouds and warm southerly winds, we blow torch the temperatures 22 degrees above normal topping off at 62 but a bit on the windy side. 50s tomorrow and 60s on thursday. both days with clouds and limited sunshine, and another front comes in as it turns coldwer a shower or two of 49 degrees and then the front stalls and the wave of energy rolls through saturday, and cold enough at 35, light snow or a wintry mix and drier sunday and sun and 40 and a lot of clouds monday and tuesday and

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"action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with ducis rogers, meteorologist cecily tynan, and jim gardner. tuesday night and new jersey governor, chris christie delivered his state of the state address and police charge a montgomery county teacher for having a sexual relationship with a student. but the big story on "action news" is a winter weather advisory just gone into effect just a minute ago for areas northern of the pennsylvania turnpike so get ready for the prospect of freezing rain. meteorologist, cecily tynan, is live at the big board with the latest information from accuweather. >> reporter: jim this is all about location, philadelphia it's a rain event and you get to the northern counties this is

where you get the icing, double scan live radar showing flurries that worked through earlier today up in new york, as we widen up the area of precipitation we are tracking is moving out of ohio into western pennsylvania as it does. temperatures are warming and it is going to be a light rain event. and we are not looking at widespread icing and future tracker 6 showing late tonight at 11:00 you see the area of blue, that is the freezing rain working in parts of berks county and the poconos, we have the winter weather advisory in effect at 6:00 and in effect until 10:00 for upper montgomery and buck county and after 10:00 temperatures at the surface should be above freezing but the cold air holds on longer up north. winter weather advisory is in effect until 2:00 in the morning and after 2:00 temperature there's above freezing, breaking it down north of the pennsy