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have been pulled out of service after inspectors found a crack in a load bearing beam and that will mean fewer cars on the line starting with tomorrow's morning rush. sunday night and the big story on action news is another septa problem with potential to impact many commuters. may remember back this july a defect for septa to pull 100 from the regional line and now it's the frankford l. >> we are in upper dar by with more on the problem, christie. >> reporter: sarah riders say it's more headaches and septa will add more buses for the commuters they are bracing for the rush. starting monday there will be fewer rail cars on septa's market frankford line. >> frustrating but not unexpected any more, you know it's like what is next. >> reporter: word is spreading fast among loyal septa riders. >> that is usually how it is with septa isn't it.

>> no way, i have to get to work everyday. >> reporter: over the weekend cracks in what is called the body bolster or support beam were discovered in two cars prompting the agency to remove other cars that showed signs bearing similar issues. septa was not available for comment late sunday but a spokesman tells action news they expect 40 cars to be off line starting monday morning that is down from 144 needed during peak hours and joe from the transport workers union spoke to us by phone, how dangerous would it be to have a crack in the main load bearing beam? >> it couldn't be worse, it's the part of the car that is the most important part of the car that keeps the wheels to the body and the wheels on the track. >> reporter: last summer septa pulled one-third of the fleet after a structural defect was discovered and septa says they will have additional buses to supplement the cars on the train. riders worry about their

commute. >> less cars and more people. >> leave a couple hours earlier. >> reporter: is that frustrating for you? >> yes, definitely and my job doesn't care if i'm late or anything you got to be there you got to be there. >> reporter: septa says it's unclear just how long these rail cars will be out of service and are asking commuters to give themselves extra time to get to their destinations tomorrow reporting live in upper dar by christie lleto action news. >> a lot of people effected by that thank you christie and tune into action news starting at 4:30 tomorrow morning for the latest traffic and transit and how septa service adjustments will effect your commute. an amber alert for a missing person from columbia county pennsylvania a picture of alexis weber the two-year-old was in a 2005 yellow ford convertible mustang when somebody stole it around 7:00 tonight. alexix is three feet tall, 30 pounds and wearing a polka dot

and the plate is hw91367 if you have any information dial 911. from delaware newsroom a dramatic chase and crash in wilmington, an suv sideways between a home and a tree right there shortly before 6:00 police were chasing the driver when speeds became excessive the chase was called off. a few blocks later the driver lost control landing right outside the home on clayton street and the impact of the crash ruptured a gas line forcing evacuation of several homes there and driver suffered minor injuries and taken to the hospital and no word why the suspect was being chased in the first place. police in montgomery county are searching for a second car in connection with a fatal crash yesterday and witnesses tell police that a black dodge challenger was racing a 2007 bmw on eastbound route 422 then the bmw slammed in a tree and two passengers died and the driver is in critical condition.

police say the challenger had fog lights and delaware plates and believed the dodge stopped briefly at the crash scene but then drove away. the search is on to find the killer of a well-known civic activist in philadelphia. 65-year-old winnie harris was found friday night suffering gunshot wounds to the stamp and action in the green program and planted thousands of trees in west philadelphia. >> shocked, i was just so unexpected and winnie was such a dear and lovable person and she gave so much to this community that you wonder how in the world could this ever have happened. >> reporter: neighbors say they heard a woman screams and gunshots the night before harris was discovered and police are asking anyone with information to please give them a call. today marks a painful anniversary for a family from norristown a year ago they lost their 12-year-old son in a house fire the family of sanford the third gathered to remember the

little boy who died trying to save his dad, the youngster known as man man was concerned about his dad who recently had hip replacement surgery and why he ran back inside the burning home. man man didn't know that his father had already jumped out of a window. >> tomorrow is my promise so this was something i never expected in this lifetime because we as parents our children are supposed to bury us not us bury our children. >> reporter: man man's family says he was a great kid and very smart and could strike up a conversation with just about anybody. the corrections officer who was killed during a prison uprising last week will be laid to rest this week, a private viewing for steven floyd will be held on friday evening and funeral services will take place at delaware state university in dover on saturday morning. floyd was killed when prisoners at the correctional center in smyrna took four people hostage and the grandfather is being hailed a hero for saving the lives of some of his fellow

officers. a federal judge will hear arguments tomorrow from the trump administration on why the travel ban should be reinstated, this morning a federal appeals court rejected a request to restore the ban so for now the doors to the u.s. are open, legal arguments over the ban are certain to get to the u.s. supreme court and mike pence is defending his boss. >> the early days of this administration will be described in the history book as days of action. >> the interview with bill o' riley raises eyebrows and gop leaders condemned mr. trump's commence and the u.s. is not far from russia because it has killers like president vladimir putin and grave danger to its neighbors and putin will destroy nato. forced to go back to syria last weekend when the travel ban went in effect are flying back to the u.s. tonight to join their family if allentown and

flew to philadelphia last weekend just as president trump's executive order went in even and now it would seem they are finally going to make it back to their new home in the lehigh valley and jeannette reyes is live in the center with details. >> reporter: the sarmad assali family is on the way to the u.s. as we speak and this is the second time they have taken the 18 hour trip. it's not the way we do things in america. >> reporter: one week after being sent back to syria after hours of landing in the u.s. with valid visas the sarmad assali family is once again on a plane headed to john f. kennedy airport in new york city. >> had to go back to the home and fortunately they had not sold it and wait and damascus right now is not a safe place. >> reporter: the sarmad assali family living in allentown spent thousands of dollars for each of their six relatives and filled out piles of paperwork after 13 years the wait was finally over precisely at president donald trump's controversial travel ban

was put in effect. >> immigration attorney i've never had someone get on a plane legally and then be illegal by presidential decree when they got off the plane. >> reporter: attorney joseph along with governor tom wolf and charles almost immediately jumped into action. >> i tell you charlie dent is a fantastic legislator because he recognizes the value of doing things the right way. >> reporter: his work is still not done. a mother flying in from iran was also promptly sent back last weekend, her two daughters are attending school in philadelphia. >> rejection of the mother in that case has really caused a lot of upset for them and frankly a lot of apprehension for them as to whether they want to come. >> reporter: for what lies ahead no attorney, judge or even the president knows for sure though a long legal battle can be expected. >> the most important thing that we can be doing is preserving

our governmental system which means preserving checks and balances and not giving too much weight or too much power in any one body. >> reporter: and the sarmad assali family is set to arrive past 9:00 tomorrow morning in new york city. reporting live in the south center jeannette reyes channel six action news. >> thank you a senate vote is scheduled tuesday on president trump's controversial choice for education secretary, today a media dozens of people rallied to urge pat toomey to vote no on betsy devos and she is a billionaire donor to the republican party and protesters say she is not qualified and seeking to dismantle public education and senator toomey said he will support her and several republican senators said they will vote against her. moving on to the accuweather forecast and there was a little warmer today than yesterday and the temperatures will climb even higher during the workweek and metrologist melissa magee has the first check of the accuweather forecast melissa.

>> walter certainly it wasn't a bad day across delaware and lehigh and the high is 43 and 1 degree where we should be this time of year, across the mitt atlantic numbers are 20, 30 and 37 philadelphia, 29 in buffalo, 44 degrees in roanoake virginia and the wind chill is a factor and 31 factoring the wind and feeling 19 in buffalo, 29 the current wind chill in pittsburgh and 38 in charleston west virginia. here is satellite six along with action radar we have a partly cloudy sky across the region but it will be turning clear as we go throughout the overnight hours and we have a disturbance that is moving on off to the east and high pressure clear skies over the ohio valley that works its way eastward for the start of the workweek on monday. so we will wake up with plenty of sunshine for us, the high tomorrow coming in the middle and upper 40s with 7:00 a.m. chilly 32, 43 at 1:00 p.m. tomorrow maxing in the upper 40s and back down to 43 underneath a

mostly cloudy sky at 7:00 p.m. so it's milder on monday but a bit of a pattern change headed our way and gets warm and wet adds we tuesday and wednesday and behind that sharply colder later this week and take a closer look for an exclusive accuweather forecast and send it back to you. thank you a fire broke out this afternoon in atlantic county new jersey and crews arrived at this home on 300 road in buena-vista township and found a home totally engulfed in flames and no reason why it started. six months after a murder of a jogger in new york city police finally made an arrest and nypd says why she was targeted. donated part of her liver to save the life of a little girl she cares for and hear from the baby sitter why she made the decision. tom brady and the patriots take home another championship in the very first superbowl time after the greatest come back in

superbowl history and jeff skversky has highlights when action news comes right back.

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and killed out on a jog last summer her family heart broken and vowing vengeance. >> justice will be served. >> the whole entire world knows what a pathetic, puny, weak piece of filth that you are. >> reporter: now six months later police have karina vetrano's killer in custody. >> i'm not going to say it's a good day but we can move forward now. >> reporter: detectives arrested the 20-year-old suspect saturday night and identified lewis just thursday when he gave them a voluntary dna sample. >> you got to remember karina vetrano helpled us identify the person with the dna under her nails and touched dna on her back and more dna on the cell phone. >> reporter: the 30-year-old had been attacked feet from the trail she ran everyday and police say lewis allegedly sexually assaulted her and

strangled her to death. >> lewis was interviewed by detectives and made detailed incriminating statements and admissions. >> reporter: the family had been pushing for allowance of family dna to help track down any relatives of the suspect who had no criminal record. but the dna detectives collected this week was a perfect match, adrian, abc news new york. police in jacksonville florida say a five-year-old girl was killed and her four-year-old brother was wounded when they eight-year-old brother accidentally shot them, the children were home alone in an apartment when the shooting occurred, investigators say the eight-year-old fired a single shot which killed his sister and injured the brother, the mother left them alone to go to the store no charges have been filed so far. iran's nuclear chief says the country will soon have 60% more stockpiled uraniam after a shipment on tuesday and deliver 149 tons of natural uranium in addition to 210 tons iran

purchased last year and low uranium can be used for pour and highly enriched used in nuclear weapons and 2015 iran agreed to curb enrichment in exchange for lifting of sanctions. you can't be in two places at the same time but didn't stop a french presidential candidate from trying his best and john luke held a rally in leon this afternoon at the same time an hologram of him was projected to crowds in paris and rallied support supporters in two cities simultaneously and they were so capitated by the hologra marks they forgot he was not there. the royals took part in a friendly competition in london and harry and the dutchess of cambridge were there and harry was first across the line and joined by more than 100 runners training for the london marathon. to come on action news the gift of life the baby sitter who

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looking at the moon you can see the clouds kind of moving up over the moon, turning clear though as we go throughout the rest of tonight and clear sky makes for chilly conditions as well. currently in philadelphia we are coming in at just 37 after a high today of 43, it's 33 in the poconos, 39 lancaster, 41 reading and allentown at the coast in cape may 35 and 36 and lake hurst and satellite six with action radar disturbance that moved through earlier today and little fanfare and lost energy as it traveled east of the appalachians and were some snow showers and as it departs mostly clear sky and pressure in ohio valley works in our region for the start of our workweek so tomorrow across the delaware and lehigh valleys a nice mixture of sunshine and clouds and average for us this time of year is about 42 degrees so we are in the middle and upper 40s along the i-95 corridor so it is a

mild day, 48 wilmington, 46 philadelphia, 45 reading at the coast in cape may 45 degrees and 49 degrees down in dover. the pattern will be changing as we get into tuesday and wednesday, it will be getting wet but also warmer and it's all because of this area of low pressure across the great lakes with a trailing cold front ahead of that though and happened to the warm southwestly winds so it will be very warm, high temperatures for the month of february this is mild in the 40s and even the lower 60s rainfall anywhere from a quarter to half an inch when all is said and done as this front moves on through the wednesdays will be quite blustery on the backside and future tracker six showing you not tomorrow but tuesday morning overnight monday into tuesday there could be some mixed precipitation across the lehigh valley before you get the change over to rain but by tuesday make sure you have the wet weather gear with you because periods of rain will be with us throughout the day on-and-off and by noon some of which looks to be heavy at times

and even for the evening commute on tuesday we have a little bit of precipitation and it continues on wednesday before things get dramatically colder in the wake. bus stop forecast tomorrow mostly clear address warm and 6, 31 and 32 at 8:00 tomorrow morning and exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast mostly sunny tomorrow, high of 46 and a mix really overnight monday and closer to dawn on tuesday. and periods of rain by tuesday, it will be mild with areas of fog but the high of 54. on wednesday look at the high of 63 degrees with morning showers, temperatures will be falling throughout the day and it gets much colder by thursday. high of 36, sunny and chilly on friday 38 and then we are in the middle and upper 40s as we get into next weekend and reminder coming up, tomorrow night on action news we have the february winter weather outlook it's been mild so far but metrologist cecily tynan looks at the rest of the month and don't want to miss the report. >> includes david murphy seeing

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