to philadelphia today. calling on republicans to help him enact what he calls change. his spokesperson says that trump was in awe of the presidential aircraft but his arrival was against the backdrop of protest and considerable controversy over his immigration action and the president of mexico and the statements about the t word. torture. john rawlins live in center city today. john let me ask you about jump's speech at the loews hotel. he made a statement about philadelphia's murder rate and that is getting immediate attention. >> it is indeed we should make the point that protesters behind us here they returned to 13th

and market on the other side of a metal barrier, on the other side scores of police officers at this point. everything louder and more vocal than ever, getting to the speech and the statement about the murder rate, you can easy say a lot of folks didn't see it coming. >> about 20 minutes into his speech after mr. trump talked about obama care and trade. he said the following. >> here in philadelphia -- the murder rate has been steady -- let me just -- terribly increasing and then you look at chicago, what is going on in chicago? >> according to the city's crime statistics, philadelphia's homicide rate has gone up and down but trending lower over the decade but the year to date homicide has spiked this year. mayor kenney called his statements false and an insult

to the men and women of philadelphia police, they worked tirelessly with great -- vowed to withhold some federal funds with sanctuary cities like philadelphia. >> it's time to help americans protect their jobs and their hopes and dreams for a much better future. congress passed these laws to serve our citizens and it's about times those laws are properly enforced. >> so a fundamental difference between city hall in philadelphia and the occupant of the white house in washington. as for the murder statistics if folks are interested go to 6abc.com and we have a link with the actual stats and take a look at them yourself and figure out what you believe as far as what is true and not true concerning

the statistics. >> thank you john that as president trump touched down in philadelphia word came that mexico's president canceled his trip to washington next week. trump claimed that he and the president mutually agreed to cancel the meeting but this afternoon white house news press secretary sean spicer is calling for a 20% tax from mexico to pay for the border wall and spicer later said the tax is just one idea. lets go back to center city and chad pradelli. trump's visit marked by protest you have that part of the story. >> they have arrived once again the second wave of protesters arrived and they are making their voices heard. some of the signs are not suitable for air but i'll show

you the scene earlier this evening. -- >> yes, this group of protesters have been zigzags around center city and splittering off keeping police officers on their toes. the protest began at rittenhouse square with a rally and came here to the loews hotel. this is the second of two rallies today. this is the scene at thomas paine plaza earlier this morning and this afternoon as a few thousand protesters gathered once again to make their voices heard. chief among them is the possible repeal of obama care. people confined to wheelchairs, marched around city hall and made their way around the loews hotel. i am speaking with police all afternoon and this evening. police tell me these protesters

are well behaved. there is an altercation outside of senator toomey's office but for the most part they are well behaved and at last check there are no arrests. live in center city, chad pradelli, channel 6 "action news.." >> president trump was not the only world leader in philadelphia and british prime minister theresa may addressed lawmaker at the republican policy retreat this afternoon. and may will meet with president trump in washington today. the first foreign leader with a face-to-face meeting with president trump. >> and world news tonight with david muir has more on the developments and news from the trump administration today. that is next at 6:30 right here on channel 6. philadelphia city council was back in session today following their winter recess. and council president, darryl clark introduced a resolution calling for fiscal stability

hearings they would address federal funning cuts. >> i take him at his word and i take the individuals in harrisburg at their word. there is a likelihood we'll have significant fiscal challenges as we move ahead and we need to prepare. >> clark says that the city of philadelphia also stands to lose funding and funding from the state because of the growing budget deficit. >> a federal investigation into the deadly train derailment last year in chester. reveals the engineer tested positive for drugs, the ntsb says that the engineer has marijuana and opioids in his system following the april 3rd crash, the ntsb found communication led to the crash ta killed a backhoe operator and supervisor they were struck by the train working on the tracks.

and it was a trying day in montgomery county. an enormous sinkhole hoped up and threatened to swallow up the street and everything on. a different story today. live at the scene is gray hall. >> reporter: well, jim it's clear that a lot of progress is made here and the hole is pretty much covered in and the water service is restored and what is not clear is what caused the ground to collapse. john has lived in this glen side neighborhood for over 30 years and has never seen anything like what he saw wednesday morning, the earth caved in and the large sinkhole formed just doors from his home. >> 30 to 35 feet deep that is enough to swallow the whole house. >> a day later it's a much different picture evidence that crews were working around the clock to fill in the hole. by mid-day thursday most of the massive crater is filled with cement and stone to stabilize

the area. there was a water main break and they condition confirm that it was the reason nor the ground collapsing. >> they are investigating the exact cause. >> i think we are all right but still scary. >> water service is restored to the 60 to 65 people that lost service and the two homes most impacted by the sinkhole are inhappenitiable and one was unoccupied and for sale. the sink hole was all covered in and even when it is it is the talk of the town for a while. >> i'm amazing that they got this thing filled inasmuch as they did. >> that was a gigantic hole. >> no injuries were reported and important to note all the homes impacted by the water main break must boil their water until at least saturday when aqua is expected to give the all clear. live in glen side, gray hall,

channel 6 "action news." mercer county has a new prosecutor. at the steinhart high school in hamilton. he is acting prosecutor since 2015, some priorities include working with families of homicide victims andding heroin awareness programs. and coming up he finally decided to retire at the age of 93. >> i'm nora muchanic in ortely beach where a massive operation is underway to replace the dune that was destroyed during the nor'easter. >> we have two days if the mid-50s feeling like march but get ready for cooler air along with a couple of opportunities for a touch of snow. i'll explain in the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast. >> the flyers try to keep it going. ducis rogers has the story when "action news" continues tonight.

authorities in buck county rescued a worker that got stuck in a hole this afternoon. it happened at the excavation site on radcliffe street at 12:30, the 49-year-old worker was trapped for 30 min, the victim was taken to the hospital to be checked out. officials from toms river say it will take a week and thousands of truck loads of sand to stabilize the dunes in ortely beach. the dunes were all but obliterated in this week's for easter.

nora muchanic has that story. >> reporter: these are the first of up to 2,000 truck loads of sand being dumped in ortely beach that had 85% to 90% of its dunes destroyed on monday's nor'easter ate away the dune all the way back to the boardwalk leaving this section of toms river vulnerable to flooding. >> if we don't do this quickly and there is another storm, the next storm will be in the street i'm afraid. >> the township is bringing in sand to create a temporary dune a half mile long, it's needed because the entire beach front in ortely looks like this. >> i lost my house in sandy and now this again. they need to do something permanent about this, condition do this every year. >> it's a half million dollars to replace the sand and beach crossovers damaged in the storm. >> devastating for this to happen again in ortely. they were wiped out one before.

the army corps of engineers is set to begin a project this spring, north of silver beach another section of toms river that suffered serious dune damage but the mayor thinks that ortely beach is where it should begin. >> every time there is a nor'easter or god forbid we get another sandy i don't even want to think about it. >> the wall will be a big hem when that is done. >> we have all the homes and beaches here in jersey is the life blood of the state the tourism is so important. >> and that is why the mayor says the trucks will line up and dumb sand until the dune is repaired at least temporary ily nora muchanic channel 6 "action news." >> we were at a special retirement party in upper darby. rose parise has been the tax collector for the district for

over 40 years and now she puts away her calculator for good. she game her career in 1958 and then moved to the district in 1990 and from all of us at "action news" rose congratulations on your well deserved retirement.

better play. >> they need to string together several wins in a row to get back on track. the flyers that stumbled through the holidays host toronto tonight and the flyers look like a different team a complete team over last night's win against the ranger. >> a good job the last two nights being able to come back in brooklyn and regulation here against the team we are trying to catch as well and that is big. we have to put the standing

watch on the back burner and focus on our results. villanova has to get over the recent loss to marquette they host number 12 virginia. and josh hart show a calming force. jeff skversky goes one-on-one with him. >> villanova may be the number one ranked team in the country still feeling the pain of their second loss of the season, they want to step up their game. when you listen to you talk it sounds 2-19 the way you talk. why is that? >> we don't want to be complacent about where we are. big first if the big east or defending national championship. >> josh hart believes that nova has the heart a champion.

>> does the team have what it takes to win a title? >> we do but we have to get better. we have all the pieces and tale talent. i think we can but does that mean we will? no. >> he is up for player of the year but that is not his number one priority. it's winning another championship and hanging another banner in the rafters. i would love to win player of the year. we are focused on making sure we win and are where we should be at the end of the year. that could be average 10 points by the end of the year. >> and the wildcats have never lost a game when hart scores 20 or month points. jeff skversky, channel 6 "action news." tiger wood is back on the pga tour after a more than 500 day absence the opening round the farmers insurance round, last four holes, bogie, bogie,

bogie and double bogie and falling apart. an all williams grand slam final. venus won in the semi final and serena won in straight sets, the ninth time they meet in a grab slam final. sports and pol techs sometimes they mix. look at this sign he claims voter fraud on joel embiid's behalf to be an all-star starter. had it just been the fans embiid will be a starter and now he will find out if he is an all-star reserve. >> nothing about starting a massive investigation or alternative facts. cecily tynan with the accuweather forecast.

week ahead from accuweather and cecily tynan. >> we are cooling things down and stormtracker 6 live double scan showing after the morning showers we have dried out and even seeing a bit of sunshine, this photo was tweeted from me from gig -- how do you pronounce that? gig? the a gorgeous shot from ocean city. the rays, sun beamed out there. the clouds and sun battled it out and it was mild.

this january running 5.5 degrees above north carolina -- normal. we had eight straight months of above normal temperatures. temperatures slide back to seasonal levels over the weekend. 47 degrees down from the high of 55, 15 degrees above normal and allentown and reading 44 and atlantic city airport 46 and trenton 45 degrees. the wind advisory has expired but we have strong wind gusts, wind gusts in philadelphia 29 miles per hour and 70 miles per hour in wilmington out of the west the westerly flow is pulling towncal air and 12 to 22 miles per hour. satellite 6 along with action radar showing the cold front moved through with the scattered showers and moved off, and up around buffalo the lake-effect snow machine is on. 1 to 3 feet of snow is expected

there. and here partly cloudy and dry, but normal low it 26, still above normal. philadelphia 34 and allentown 33 and cape may 37 and wilmington 34. we keep the wins overnight so future tracker 6 showing the way it feels tomorrow morning you step outside at 8:00 and windchills are in the 20s and windchills in the 30s, and saturday again windchills dropping down into the 20s. and we get a pattern change, currently we have the jet stream still up to the west so we are getting the wins out of southwest bringing supthe warm air, as we head through the weekend and next week the jet stream is dipping down to the south and that pulls down wins from the northwest and temperatures at or above normal. and monday morning and wednesday we have a possible of perhaps a touch of snow. not looking to be a big storm at it point. the exclusive accuweather

seven-day forecast brisk and cooler and saturday seasonably cooler and 42 degrees and increasing clouds on sunday and cold front sunday night into monday morning and that could come with flurries and the high on monday only 36 degrees. tuesday as we end the month of january, partly sunny and 39. and wednesday mostly cloudy and i'm tracking a clipper, that could bring us snow showers. the big question is how much moisture does it contain? when do we get the snow and is it early and it sticks or late and it would melt and that is up in the air and thursday grown hog day, mixture of sun and clouds high of 36 degrees, finally starting to feel like winter again. big doings on campus, rowan held a big grab opening to reveal the new edition to its

college of engineering. they cut the ribbon this afternoon including a first floor lab that opens to the outdoors and an entire wing to allow students to focus on fields like alternative energy and administrators hope the new facility helps to educate the next generation of engineers at rowan university. "action news" continues at 10:00 on phl 17 with brian taff, sharrie williams, and ducis rogers and please join us for "action news" at 11:00 on channel 6. for cecily tynan, ducis rogers and the entire "action news" team i'm jim gardner we hope you'll join us at 11:00.

tonight, the war over the wall. the white house meeting called off. mexico's president will not visit. addressing the people of mexico. not long after what president trump told us, and tonight, the president doubling down. also tonight, the shakeup at the state department. at least six senior members out. and that moment during our exclusive at the white house. president trump on getting the nuclear codes. >> does it keep you up at night? in other news, the takedown. the mother who called police for her with her son. instead, getting tackled and arrested herself. the new images revealed. your money tonight. tax season is here, and the money left unclaimed. tonight, three important tips that could get you a bigger refund. and america strong. the father and daughter watched more than 100 million times. ♪