county airport. >> but despite today's delightful weather that saw people flock to the park for leisurely outdoor activity tomorrow is an all together different story. we have snow coming and the morning commute could be a real problem. lets get the latest from accuweather and cecily tynan at the big board. >> hard to believe i'm tracking snow on the way when you consider temperatures 65 in philadelphia and down from the high of 68 and there is cold air waiting in the wings, an arctic boundary is moving into the midwest right now and behind that boundary we are snow and rain breaking out. it's not much now and the system is expected to really intensify as it moves in and the big problem future tracker 6 showing the height of the storm will be around our morning commute and this will cause some problems. there are factors to consider.

it's march and it's not january, when it moves in it will be fighting dry air and a lot of that moisture will be lost initially to evaporation and it's grown is warm. three days in a row of temperatures in the 60s and the high march sun angle to fight and we have to consider the melt factor, a lot of this is location and elevation dependant and the national weather service post aid winter weather advisory for all areas northern of philadelphia for the potential of slushy calmlation on roads that could create problems for the morning commute. breaking it down region by region. pennsylvania and turnpike and areas north this is all snow and not rain. roads are slick tomorrow morning. philadelphia i-95 corridor could start briefly as rain but all snow and the main problem in south jersey and delaware a mix of rain and wet snow.

>> thank you. and you won't be surprised to hear that the "action news" morning team will be off to an early start tomorrow to help you navigate the forecasted snow. please join us beginning at 4:00 a.m. for the latest forecast and how it could affect your morning commute. >> we have welcome news for drivers who have been detoured by the closure of the delaware river turnpike bridge. turnpike officials will reopen the span sometime over 10:30 tonight ahead of schedule. last week officials said repairs to be complete bid the end of the april. the 61-year-old span connecting the pennsylvania and new jersey tun pikes was closed since january 20th when workers discovered a fractured beam. and a worker received minor injuries this afternoon. the single engine plane was landing at the the robbinsville

airport and the plane lost control and landed in the woods. the faa is now investigating. more than 100 potential jurors reported to chester county court for the case against erick frein. he is charged with killing a pennsylvania state trooper and critically wounded another in 2014, it was an ambush at the blooming grove barracks in pikes don't and the jury is chosen from our area because of widespread media coverage and nine potential jurors were excused today and opening statements are scheduled for april and expected to last four to five weeks. a fascinating thing they are doing in the 200 block of arch street in philadelphia. they are uncovering and moving recently discovered coffins from an old burial ground. they have to do this relatively quickly because it's the sight

of a new apartment building and "action news" reporter sara bloomquist. what is happening here exactly? >> reporter: jim, the forensic team wrapped up for the day and behind the green construction fence they uncovered a 18th century cemetery and now they are working to excavate and move on study as much as they can quickly and yet carefully. here at 218 arch street in old city a construction project is now an archeological dig with them painstaking to uncover human remains, believed to be buried here centuries ago. one of the goals is to carefully uncover the remains and give them a full analysis to understand who we have here. >> in november a few bones turned up for excavation for who will eventually be this

residential building. and experts from rutgers camden and the motor museum came on site and found entire coffins. >> we find some intact coffins and some remains, the coffins a lot of them are in poor condition. >> and this is once home to the baptist church burial growns established in 1707 and they were suppose to be exhumed and relocated to the cemetery in cobb's creek in the mid 1800s we have already reached out to the friends of mount mariah and they agreed to work with us to reinter the remains. >> working on a tight construction deadline, the developer hopes that the forensic team can complete their work by the end of the weekend. in the meantime the site is draw ago tense from curious passers by just now learning what was beneath.

>> interesting i hope they find out who the families are. and they can pay respects to them. >> i am glad that they are taking the time to sort it out and not just do the next wrong thing. >> pnc properties told us the city doesn't really have regulations when it comes to old cemeteries like this they could have gone on with construction and decided to stop and allow the experts in with respect to those buried here they will go to rutgers camden where they will be cleaned and analyzed and then reinterred. >> thank you. peco has restored power to 900 customers who were still in the dark after tuesday's substation fire. the blaze broke out at the facility in the 2600 block of west westmoreland in philadelphia. at its peak 36,000 customers

were without electricity. tonight we have an update to a story of a daycare center worker appearing to have pushed a 4-year-old girl down the stairs, we saw it on surveillance video and today vernon odom talked to the lawyer hired by the little girl's family. and vernon odom is now live in primos, delaware county where the family lives. >> reporter: good evening jim that video makes your jaw drop, it's awful but tonight the suspect remains free on jail of $25,000 and her lawyer knows that video evidence is devastating. >> this is 4-year-old allaya humphrey seen in this infamous video, she is seen allegedly pushed down the stairwell by her teacher. sara folcroft. and she was immediately fired

and arrested by upper darby police and her lawyer spoke with the first time publically today. >> my client is remorseful and thankful that the child was not injured and we will present more about my client and the person she is when we get to court. >> in fact he is already negotiating with the delaware county da and currently none of the charges are felonies including simple assault and endangering it's welfare of a child. >> the tape is upsetting, no two ways about it. but i want to focus on the person that my client is. >> and gable was hired last june with extensive experience in child care and certified by the state with no record of misconduct and they have hired a high powered lawyer to represent them. >> she was a little girl 4 years ole liked going to school and filled with smiles and promise and innocence, and coming home that day, the parentses didn't

get their little girl back. >> spoke way parent with two children in gable's class. >> as a parent i'm concerned. they go to day care but i still ask them every day did anyone do anything to you. they never had a problem with miss sara ever. >> sara gable's first scheduled day in court is march 16th when mumtory's lawyers plan to do with a possible civil suit remains up in the air tonight. i'm vernon odom, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. several dozen people rallied outside of the langhorne office of republican congressman, brian fitzpatrick this afternoon to urge the congressman to vote and save the affordable care act. that is unlikely to happen. the republican drive to repeal the aca better known as obama care, gained some moment up today as two house commit es put in legislation to undue the law

but the replacement plan is having a hard time getting support even among republicans. he is not in favor of repealing obama care until an improved plan is written debated and voted upon. a woman's dying wish is to get to the jersey shore one more time and police on long beach island make it happen. the eagles net a new receiver, the start of free agency and they release a fan favorite. after three days of temperatures stuck in the 60s hard to believe i'm tracking snow tomorrow and a bitter cold weekend and the potential for more significant storm next week. i'll have the details in the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast. >> love the way that sounds, those stories and much more when "action news" continues tonight. hi

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the driver in that car is now facing a $200 ticket while using a cell phone while driving. "action news" took part in a ride along with newcastle police as they launched a crack down on distracted driving. delaware bans the use of a device including your phone while driving. and they dedicated the new east park canoe house along kelly drive. the new home for temple university's crew teams as well as the philadelphia marine unit. officialed unveiled a plaque

dedicated to larry limbquest. who donated money for the building's ref ration. and a woman in south jersey is apparently going to die soon and seems to be at peace with that especially after what she was able to do this past friday. nora muchanic has the story. >> 78-year-old pat kelly of burlington city is in hospice care of a diagnosis of acute leukemia, when her family asked her what she would like to do before she goes she did not hesitate. >> go not shore. >> the family asked the ship bottom for help. they drover down for one last time. >> that i could be there one last time. >> and the ocean. and the sand and that the was my hoorah.

pat's last hoorah included a moment with her granddaughters looking at the water and a photo with family and friends and a prayer circle that officer hollaway joined in on. >> because of his heart, it was like he was part of our family. >> being able to take her out for the ride on the beach it was a life moving experience for me and a check mark in my career for sure. >> it was a blessing because not many people get to live out their last wishes. and she did. time for pat is measured in months perhaps weeks and no one is really sure, but being able to say good-bye to the shore she loves gives her peace. >> that is my place, i'll be there forever. watch out some people may step on me. >> after her death pat kelly says they would love to come

back to the shore once more and would like to have her ashes spread here at the beach. nora muchanic, channel 6 "action news."

howie roseman a busy man. >> and carson wentz is celebrating tonight. they land what is considered the number one free agent receiver, pro bowler, alshon jeffrey agrees to a one year deal with the eagles, a big 6'4" wideout spent five years with the bears and the best run was 2013 and 2014 and jeffrey is now 27 and had a career low two touch downs last season and was suspended four games for performance enhancing drugs and eagles also signed veteran receiver tory smith to a three year deal. only one active receiver averages more yards than smith, who played for chip kelly last

season and smith played in baltimore and local ties to the area his wife was a track star at plymouth white marsh high school. and connor barwyn saving $7.7 million against the cap. the fan favorite spent four seasons here and the best was 2014 with a career-high 4.5 sacks and went to the pro bowl. and he thanks the team and the city on his facebook page, thank you philadelphia from the bottom of my heart for welcoming me and being the amazing city you are. and he was the 10th overall pick ten years ago and former star desean jackson signs with tampa bay. and villanova has a lot to cheer about against st. johns, conference player of the year josh hart, a steal and a spin and what a move in the first. and final seconds of the half

chris jienkins at the buzzer. the big smooth does it again. 108 points and they win by 41. >> the maturity of the seniors to know in a st. johns played a good game and if we don't come in to play they get us and the leadership from our seniors was awesome. >> temple is one and done in their tournament against east carolina, with the charles charles barkleyesque moves and they fall. finish 16-16 and la salle falls behind jamison by as many as 19 and make a late second half run and jack gibbs scores 18 on la salle and they end the season 16-16. big game forever the flyers, three points out of the final playoff spot and play toronto

one of the teams they are chasing in the hunt. and the phillies face the be blue jays. and the leader in homers, t be blue jays. and the leader in homers, they lose 6-4 and sixers in action in portland and jahlil okafor is expected to return and start. coming up cecily tynan with the accuweather forecast we have snow over the horizon when we continue in just a moments.

we have a lot of warm weather and it's daylight savings weekend why do we have

to deal with this? >> we are ready for spring and spring arrives in 12 days and next week could be the cold efgt snowiest seven days of the entire winter so -- >> andowie- >> you have been warned. >> this is all your fault. >> this is mother nature and i'm just forecasting it. tonight we don't have anything to worry about in the short-term showers northern of the poconos it's warm out there. three days of temperatures in the 70s. 65 riglt. now down from the hig of 68 the average high for april 27th, millville 62 and the same in trenton and wilmington and cape may 54 and even mild in the p woonry currently 41 degrees, satellite sheriff showing high pressure is in control showing united states the bright blue skies and sunshine today. however, there is a system waiting in the wings, acrry s te midwest there is not much to show, an arctic boundary

intensifying with a wave of low pressure and the cold air moves in first and then the moisture follows and that means we are looking at snow tomorrow looking hereorning.orrow so tonight, right now in the 60s and temperatures dropping pretty quickly when we get past midnight and notice tomorrow morning this is physical we are above freezing and it can snow above freezing and it's hard to stick and areas to the north it's colder and that is the main concern. 3:30 in the morning and the snow is developing in the p woonry d the lehigh valley and northern berks county as it first moves into philadelphia at 5:it's, before sunrise cou 12 begin briefly as some rain and then the cold air taking over by 8:00. and i s snowing aeverry s our viewing area even by 8:00 the snow reaching the coast, this is when we are dealing with the high march sun angle and in the after with the cold air we could deal with snow squalls during

the evening commute. the steadiest snow betweenwarmf and 9fly0 tomorrow morning, tha is bad timing in the heart of the morning commute and the main problem for philadevalhia is lo visibility. it's a heavy wet snow with marginal temperatures, north and west of philadevalhia though, nd this is where the snow likely will stick on the roads and could cause some icy slick conditions. this is the map that everyone waits for the snowfall map, philadelphia areas to the south, and philadelphia probably a slushy inch on surfaces, philadelphtions a cthoting to a inch. nearby suburbs 1 to 3 inches and then northern bers and lehigh valley and the poconos. great news for the ski resorts, 3 tolv inches of snow falling during the morning all before noon. so the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast morning snow and afternoon snow squalls and it's windy and cold and 41 degrees and temperatures stuck in the 3out t and windchills thh only in the teens in the

afternoon on saturday, even though we given day liglt. savings time and the cold air is still in place on monday. 38 drst rees and still looking the potential for a powerful nor'easter to develop on tuesday, 36 drst rees and temperatures are slowly climbing and still cold on thursday with a high of 10 drst rees below normal. tuesday a lot of people asking me about it. riglt. now the intensity and i s track still up in the air and it looks like a coastal storm will develop and when does it devel. 3, and where does it head that will determine if we get heavy snow or rain. i'll keep you pry ted . wor 12 news tonight is next on channel 6 and "action news" continues at 10:00 on phl 17 with brian pff, sharrie williams and ducis rogers and please join us for "action n co" at 11fly0. for "action news" i'm jim gardner we'll see you at 11:0sha

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tonight, breaking news as we come on the air. the ax attack inside a crowded strain station. police sweeping in. several injuries report. a suspect under arrest. the unfolding scene in germany. also, behind closed doors, the fbi director on capitol hill answering questions. was trump tower wiretapped before the election? what our team has learned so far. bracing for a major storm tonight. the morning commute. rain, ice, snow, after high winds turning deadly,and a ground stop for a time at a new york airport. the new and emotional plea tonight. a grandfather coming forward after two teens are killed in the woods. one of them capturing evidence on her smartphone in the moments before. and the hostage standoff inside a bank. new video tonight as th