delaware valley's leading news program with meteorologist melissa magee jeff skversky and walter perez. i'm walter perez, policeelp hit-and-run driver who left a woman seriously injured. hundreds of people ends up asking questions for a photo after a local congressman is a no show at a town hall. but the big story severe moving through the region.

the skies turned dark and opened up around dinnertime and now we can say good-bye to spring like temperatures at least for now. melissa magee join us with a first check of forecast. melissa, it was nice while it lasted. >> reporter: we're starting to see the beginning of change take place, here's storm tracker 6 on double scan radar, you can see the showers and storms scattered about the delaware and lehigh valley we have the moisture and alongside a line of activity moving into areas in south jersey. there's a severe thunderstorm warning that has been issued it staying until 6:15 this evening, for cumberland, burlington, cape may atlantic county. this will stay up winds moving to the northwest about 60 miles an hour. reported with this from egg harbor, ocean city, sea aisle and stone harbor, we'll track the activity on storm tracker 6. you can see if you're traveling

between medford lake and surf city and route 72, there's a of her burst. also down into sea aisle city. things are starting to calm down in philadelphia as the storms continue to press on off to the north and east, to the severe thunderstorm watch stays up for a good change, of our region, has expired for the majority of our northwest suburbs it's along the i95 corridor and into south jersey until 9:00 p.m. tonight, damaging winds, the possibility of hail and some strong downpours. here's future track 6. we're tracking the moisture that moves off to the east, by 8:00, 9:we're starting to clear on and then there's a bit of a reality check. dangerous lightening, gusts up to 60 miles per hour up to half inch of rain and temperatures cool down dramatically as we get to sunday.

details with the accu weather forecast janet reyes has been watcing the storm as us live. >> reporter: right now, we'rege drizzle. we had such a downpour not too long ago. you can see a puddle like this and most other places it could have been a problem for drivers to who weren't careful. the day started off with blue skies and some clouds, but in a matter of minutes, this turned into this. rain and gusty winds and ominous temperatures remain mild but heavy rain fell. over at philadelphia internatio this severe weather forced a ground stop from the faa which impacted airports across the midatlantic. at 5:00 p.m., officials is who described the weather as having a significant impact on had

flight operation reported and average delay ofwo hours. drivers filling up at this wawa in oaks tried their best to stay dry, most told us it's much better than snow >> i'll take this. >> really? >> what don't you like about the snow? >> stays longer. >> it's beautiful out for a ride this morning and enjoy while i could. i love this weather. i'll take this over snow every tim time. >> reporter: i got to tell you this isn't too bad compared to the snow. that ground stop was lift to do the airport minutes ago. you are seeing delays coming into the airport and departure flights while you're still seeing a little over an hour delay. make sure you check your airline carrier to make sure that they're not going to miss your flight or at least get out too early. reporting live, jeaneatte reyes channel 6. >> better than snow for sure. meanwhile, pictures of storm damage are coming in and looks like lancaster county was hit

especially hard. check out this picture of a trampoline in a tree after high winds blew in. and this one also where you can see the roof has been sheared off a building. you can find the seven-day forecast and the live look at storm tracker 6 double scan radar any time of day or right there on our website just go to 6abc.com/weather. moving on to other news. police until are searching for the driver who struck and seriously injured a woman in the feltonville section of the city this morning. bob brooks is at the scene with to. >> reporter: after 1:20 this morning, neighbors say they heard impact. >> i heard a boom and crash >> that was a woman being hit by a car. philadelphia police say she was tossed through the air, suffered numerous injury. detectives say they're on the hunt for a white nissan carraway broken headlight. the hit-and-run happened right at says the intersection of wyoming and lawrence street in the feltonville section. >> you can hear neighbors discuss they say this was an accident waiting to happen.

>> around here it's dangerous, because in the street. >> reporter: they can't understand how someone could be so coward's to hit a woman and never stop to help. >> somebody nobody should hit nobody and run. >> reporter: police say the victim is going to pull through. as for the vehicle, they believe it's a white nissan, please keep an eye out for it. it will have damage. reporting in north philadelphia, bob brooks, channel 6 action news police in philadelphia are searching and trying to find out who shot a man 12 times outside of a bar this morning in north philadelphia. it happened at about 2:30 a.m. on the 800 block of east allegheny. investigators say two men got into some kind of altercation outside the bar that ended with one pulling out a gun. the victim survived the shooting and is being treated at a local hospital. in berks county, a reading police officer shot and killed a man in his 60's who they say pointed a gun at them. this happened last night at about 9:00 p.m. on south 12th street.

investigators say the man was pointing his rifle at his neighbors having a backyard barbecue apparently angry they re smoking. when police arrived, they asked the suspect to drop the weapon. they say he pointed it at them. officers opened fire and the man was killed. gunman's name not yet been released. hundreds turned out for a town hall meeting in phoenixville with republican congress hasn't ryan costello, but costello was no show. rather than just go home, his constituents asked their questions to a large photograph of the congressman. costello said he had prior commitment. recent town halls like this one across the country had been packed with people and several have become quite rowdy. as a result in some lawmakers avoiding them altogether. the people planned on discussing topics including healthcare, victim of a crime and education from our delaware newsroom an election is being hell for the state is senate seat of bethany hall long who is long.

stephanie hansen, republic john marino. if marino wins it will be the first time republicans controlled the senate in 44 years. that covers middletown, glasgow and southern newark. polls close at 8:00 p.m. democrats have a new p chairman, tom perez won to to beat keith ellison who will now serve as deputy. it was a dramatic vote revealing a democratic party still very much divided both men now say they will work to rebuild state and local democratic organizations and work to reach frustrated independent voters who supported donald trump. world news saturday will have the lat the dnc votes as well as what president trump planned for the weekend coming up at 6:30 after action news a rally in the city's fairmount section to express support for a mural.

it stood at the corner of 17th and mt. vernon nearly 40 years. symbolizes. thousands of puerto ricans. they promised to keep the mural, people who live here say they wanted to make sure the owner knows just how special that mural is. much more to come tonight, former students of an elementary school in montgomery county take a trip down memory lane as they prepare to say good-bye to the building. the flyers and pen begins meet outdoors as the team opens that make the playoffs. jeff skversky as sports when action news comes right back.

inside a school in west philadelphia. representatives from the city and surrounding counties were organizing these gatherishings

to strength he think relationships between the neighborhood and police. it was organized for the raise for peace committee included a conversation about race and policing. today, some students are saying good-bye to their old school building in horsham. the original on maple avenue will close for good when the new building is finished this spring. current and former students, parents and teachers are invited to stop in for one last trip down memory lane, they gathered to check out 50 years worth of photos and memorabilia and even leave a note on the wall. a tradition established today in delaware. glasgow high school hosted the first christina to family resource fare. parents came to learn about local academic programs, recreational activities and ways to keep children busy. more than 50 businesses were there offering free suggestions and information olympic gold metalist laura re hernandez met some young fans the decorated gymist stopped by

the pink invitational. the events raises awareness and money for breast cancer research. cub scouts put their race cars to the test at the sacred heart school in havertown, they built the cars from scratch and congratulations are in order for dander den and his family, their son took only second place. ensure jeff skversky has check on

sports and the flyers meeting buddies from pittsburgh. >> old friends and pittsburgh penguins, the flyers never won an outdoors game but they desperately need this. the flyers are on the outside looking in on the playoffs as they play outside tonight in pittsburgh against the penguins.

the flyers who out of the wild card are desperate for that w. the pressure is on. as flurries are coming down. pregame tonight where the flyers will play in front of largest crowd in team history despite the magnitude of the stadium. flyers arep it simple saying it's a hockey game and they needpoints. >> it doesn't get any better or bigger than this. we all know where we're at. crawl back into this one and washington before, pittsburgh now, we'll be ready for put a good game. >> you know you playing one of the top teams, you know, it's going to be hard. we always play better against teams like that >> home. ly they do that tonight. >> kris jenkins and the villanova seniors are the winningist class in school history and today those seniors playing their final game at the pavilion where they have lost only one. where did the time go? hart, jenkins and company

playing final home game today and they go out in style. jenkins with 15 points despite struggling from three point land. nova blows it open. hart for the slam. 16 for hart. villanova 79-63 with the win, clinching a record four straight regular season big eve title. seniors have never lost back to back games. >> i'm so proud of them, and it's just -- it's senior year. it's talented players and senior relationships. >> are you getting emotional? >> no. give them all the credit raising up. >> chapel trying to end the three-game losing streak and once again a close call for the owling temple down two ten seconds left. chiz austin misses. gets the ball back. we're going to overtime.

temple about to win it. up three, no time left. malik morgan three, ties it and sends it to double overtime where the force is with the owls. obyone, the slam, temple wins 86-76 in double overtime. slow start for to st. joe's on the road in st. louis, hawks there to score a basket until seven and a half minutes into the game. helps overcome it early. chris closer from the corner. three for the philly native st. joe's up one in the second half. sixers are in new york against the knicks going for the fifth win, dario sarge is back in the starting lineup. averaging more than 20's points per game over this span down to clearwater. the fanatic, no he doesn't like to sing. he does what else? shoots you with a super soaker. take that to the yankees.

it's two homers. including in the sixth, the ball gets kicked by the center fielder, tyler wayne trieds at the ball was stopped so he kick i did it. inside the park homeowner. second of the game. next, reeves hopkins, taking tile around, gone phillies go on to win 6-5, first win. >> we'll take every win we can get. thank you. a national charitable was honored for its work helping mothers and children's be, kellogg foundation accepted the spirit of mother hood award. it's hosted by the maternity care coalition and action news anchor tam will edwards was proud to serve as master of ceremonies. up next, meteorologist melissa magee has the exclusive

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s dozens of people taking a dip in the ocean during the polar bear plunge. some wore costumes others went traditional. proceeds from today's swim goes to a number of great causes including the philadelphia police fallen heros fund. a check of the forecast with melissa magee.

you can tell already the divers >> the front is coming on through, showers and storms coming through. there was a tornado warning in lancaster counties in 2:30 in the afternoon and sewn quite active on the radar. we'll show you what's going on on storm tracker 6 double scan radar. we still have the activity scattered about the the delaware and lehigh valleys mainly along the i95 corridor in the areas to the east. we're going tighter. you can see along the i95 corridor in philadelphia tracking showers and storms on eastward into trenton and mercer county also into bellmawr and ocean county and seaside heights along route 72 on west wood into medford lakes. another area where we are tracking storm showers and storms. the severe thunderstorm warning expired. but you can see the weather. we've got wind reported some of

these storms as high as 60 miles per hour. and also reports of penny size hail. we will be tracking the activity through the early evening hours and the clearing comes and it's back to reality as we get into the second half of our weekend on sunday. some reports to share with you, millerville and lancaster county, trees reported to be knocked down when we had the tornado warning, in reading, 60 miles per hour winds report to do the airport in berks county, mannheim back over to lancaster county, inch of hail, manayunk penny size hail reported and has noberg winds as high at 60. in berks county. all of this partly due to the strong showers and storms and also the mind weather. reading, your high today, 75, dover had a high of 75. allentown a record high today, 74. philadelphia lasting out at 73. average for this time of year is 46. well above the norm today. atlantic city a touch cooler but

nice and comfortable at 65. currently at this hour it's 55 in philadelphia. we're starting to find the cooler air invade. you can see where the cold front is lining up to the east of trenton west of atlantic city and into cape may where temperatures in the upper 40's and 50's. here is satellite six along with action radar, a the line the of activity is we're still under a watch until 9:00 tonight. then as the fronts slides off to the east, that clearing skies but colder air arrives as we get into sunday. next 12 hours, tracking early storm and turning colder bottom out at 32 in suburbs and 36 in philadelphia for overnight low. we'll track it for you. a lot of storms shifting over to the east of the i95 corridor but heavy pockets to the south and atlantic city and wildwood.

by 10:30 you can see the colder air arrives, snow showers falling in on the back side for areas in the poconos and the northern lehigh valley valley area with that northwestly wind. sunday a different story, sunny and cooler and more seasonal. 46 degrees as high pressure settles to our south tomorrow. 47 in wilmington, 44 lancaster for the high. cape may 44 tomorrow. 46 degrees in trenton for the 70's. certainly aren't lasting as we get into sunday. back to reality tomorrow, winter returns, gusts up to 30 miles per hour, it will be cooler with windchills in the 20's and 30's by tomorrow afternoon. here's the exclusive forecast. sunny and cooler for high temperature of 46, cloudy on monday and milder at 57 for the high. tuesday and wednesday, periods of rain at times with temperatures in the 60's. wednesday or thursday it windy with temperatures falling at 56,

40's as we get into next friday and saturday >> we're not explanation complaining, still not bad a special lady is celebrating her 103rd birthday in new jersey, she was surrounded by friends and family during a party. children and grandchildren brought hugs and kisses along with a cake and flowers right there to the royal gate nursing home in trenton. all of us here at action news -- in etty a happy birthday. world news tonight is next on channel 6 and don't miss action at 10:00 and we're back here again at 6 abc at 11:00. >> for melissa magee, jeff skversky, and the entire team, i'm walter perez. we'll see you back here at 11:00. (announcer vo) when you have type 2 diabetes

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