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we do business where you do business. ♪ ♪ >> not only have the sixers lost joel embid but they lost their mojo dropping seven of their last eight games. the future is bright. ben simmons, can't wait to see him next season. rooky of the year, scores 16. jalil okafor, up six, falls apart in the forth. sixers lose, 112-100. kicking to soccer. union down one, 73rd minute, c.j., where's the goalie. union finishes in a 2-2 draw to start the year. >> we are playing against the
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best team in the eastern conference, right? it's a good benc benchmark for . it's a fearless group. we are exciting to watch. >> he looks cold. these guys look warm. baseball phillies, strikes out four. also looking hot, emmet trying to make the team, major league debut in april, he's making a strong case to make the team over 400 as the phillies win 8-2. he's a wild card for a roster spot. >> our top stories, coming up.
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>> "action news" continues. >> saturday night. i'm walter perez. here's what's happening on "action news" at 11:30. a little girl was killed when a hover board caught fire. a firefighter responding to the blaze was killed in a car crash. >> police in philadelphia are asking for help and trying to solve a "cold case" from nearly a century ago. and it was opening day at the
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flower show. the splendor of holland. the bitter cold is back and with a few days to spring, we are staring at the possibility of a significant snow fall next week. meteorologist melissa magee is here. walter, one ingredient you need for a snowstorm is cold air. currently, 27 in the city. same in millville, 12 in the poconos and 28 in dover. windchills at this hour in the teens, 15 philadelphia, 19 cape may, 13 in lancaster and three below zero in the poconos. reminder before you go to bed tonight we are springing forward. daylight saving time will begin sunday, so move the clocks ahead one hour. fast forward to monday night into tuesday, early next week a
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winter storm watch posted by the national weather service, the significant snow fall likely across the region. radar 3d showing you a piece of energy we are tracking early next week getting into shape out of british columbia to the pacific northwest. this is the piece we need to create the storm and cause it to blossom across the eastern seaboard. noon on sunday, sun to increasing clouds. tuesday, 6:00 in the morning, snow breaking out across the area with mixed precipitation across south jersey and delaware. as we track the nor'easter threat, heavy snow is likely. the tract determines the snow fall and amount of snow we see. strong winds and beach erosion on the way.
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details in the seven-day forecast. >> thank you, melissa. >> we are not the only ones dealing with winter related headaches tonight. in washington state a giant snow slide stranded 42 high school students at a campsite. the students may be stuck there until monday. >> there were kids that needed medication and only packed a certain amount. i guess they are helicoptering it in. >> closer to home, icy roads triggered a pileup in allentown. overnight in boston, an alaska airline deicer truck clipped one of the airplane wings. >> with snow in the forecast, be sure to stay with "6abc".com/weather over the next few days. you will have storm tracker live and the latest on what is coming
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your way. we invite you to follow our meteorologists on facebook and twitter. from the delaware news room, police are investigating a fatal crash in mill creek. investigatinvestigators say a co turn when it slammed into another vehicle. the 66-year-old driver of the first car was pronounced dead at the scene. the other driver was taken to christiana hospital threatening injuries. >> there was a l line honor the long marshall. e headed church of st. mark for the funeral of herod whitey schwartz, a historian and photographer who spent 56 years as a member of the south firefighterring community. ied thursday at the age of
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80. moving on to the deadly fire that was started by a hover board plugged in and charging. a three-year-old girl was killed when the house went up in flames. we have the latest on the investigation. >> we have calls with kids trapped on the third floor. >> the fire in hairsberg killing one child and injuring two others. >> giant flames consume the row home. a father, clearly panicked, his three children insid jumped froo others pulled out by firefighters. this video shows the moment the hover board battery exploded
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huge flames ripping through the home north of chicago. >> i thought there is a good likelihood we'll lose both of our children today. >> this baby stroller burning at the mall. >> for no reason it just exploided. >> the hover boards now under recall. >> we learned a firefighter was hit by a stolen vehicle last night while on the way to the scene of the fire has passed away. the 21 year veteran was on the way to get gear to fight the fire. police arrested a 19-year-old woman. >> a magician was performing a stunt last night upside down in a straight jacket when witnesses
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say he passed out. >> angel has performed the stunt countless times. close calls can be part of the profession. two years ago he saved a man from a water tank. last year david blaine team today catch a bullet with his mouth and resulted in injury. >> we get a look at the bright blooms. and later, police in philadelphia are taking another look and hope you can help. that and more when "action news" comes right back. ♪ ♪
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>> the philadelphia flower show opened to the public today for all of us to enjoy springtime beauty. this year's show showed the beauty of holland. this year's show is awash in windmills, wooden shoes and signature tulips of the dutch landscape. the flower show runs through the 19th. outside, a different story. time for a look at the forecast with melissa magee. it's been so mild this winter. >> it has. we have cold air in place. monday night into tuesday, tracking the nor'easter. i'll show you what's going on
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with storm tracker 6. it's dry now but it's cold outside. bundle up. sky 6 live i d. as we l outside from the temple university camera at city hall, we have mostly clear skies with a lot of radiationaloong taking place. extra layers are needed out on the town tonight. temperatures 27. the dewpoint at three. winds at 15 miles per hour, the ocean temperature at 42-degrees. numbers north and west of town, 16 at tannersville. 27 center city. lower 20s oxford and pottstown at 20. 24-degrees in brownses mills. dover at 28. here's satellite 6 with action radar, mostly clear skies across
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the area. winds are not as blustery as they were earlier today. that's part of the reason it was frigid across the area. over the next 12 hour, mostly clear, dropping to 1 the suburbs 20-degrees in philadelphia. l numbers6:00 tomorrow evening , ch through tuesday. future tracker 6 showi monday, sun giving way to increasing clouds. late month night into stews, t ,
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we determine mixing. we have mixed precipitation with this model across south jersey to the south of dover, all snow for other locations. the key points, heavy snow accumulation is possible along the track of the low. how much marine influence will we see? ocean temperatures in the 40s, so there could be micking a mixe coast. however you slice it, it's windy and there is likelihood of beach erosion because of the nor'easter. sunny and breezy. monday, increasing clouds and 38. tuesday, tracking the nor'easter
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with the potential of snowstorms across the area, a high of 36. 34 with left over showers wednesday, walter. chilly as we get to the end of next week. >> keep our fingers cross. authorities in montgomery county hope a reward will bring an end to a "cold case." here's rick williams with the report. >> it's been 23 years since the murder of julie. this is november 8th, 1993, the 18-year-old took a train to landsdale. she called her father for a ride home. he arrived 30 minutes later, but she was gone. >> this is every parent's nightmare. they tried to pick up their daughter from the train station. she wasn't there. >> one month later, her body was found in the back area of the train station.
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>> this is the case we have kept working. you hear about "cold cases." this is a case we have actively worked on all of these years. >> there is a $10,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of the person responsible. call the citizens crime commission 215546 tips. all calls remain anonymous. >> we spoke with people and are running out each of the leads on this. we hope if someone publichas soe to the puzzle we are putting together, that someone will be able to help bring closure to this family. >> rick williams, "action news."
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>> villanova is headed into the ncaa tournament on a run. nova wins with another big game by who else but josh hart. hart and company dreaming about another championship. tonight in a conference championship title game against creighton, 17 turnovers in the first. this is probably their best defensive game all year. offensively, they look great too. josh hart takes home the tournament mvp award, nova wins 74-60. they have likely locked up the number one seed in the ncaa. >> we have been getting better every year, every game. when i have the confidence in them, they have trust in me to play. this is as much a trophy for all of my teammates as it is for me.
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>> selection sunday is tomorrow 6789 nova finds out if it will be number one seed. >> flyers on thin ice and it's starting to crack. they dropped ten of the last 15 games. bad luck, bad breaks first period. brady schenn kicks it in. the play is dead because they intended to blow the whistle. fast toward to th forward to th6 seconds left, off blande brandon manning's stick. they lose 2-1. they believe they can turn the page monday against tp columbus blue jackets. >> we'll come back from it. that's what we do.
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we have a game monday night. tomorrow is a day off. we have to get rest and go back at it. we have a long important stretch in front of us. >> ben simmons running around pregame. simmons and joel embid. embid loves it. he won't lose this, sixers lose by a dozen, seven of eight. sixers stay in los angeles to play the lakers tomorrow night. back to you. >> a woman from florida searching for her biological family for a decade got the surprise of her life last week. she discovered she had a sibling two weeks ago after signing up for ancestry dot com but she
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didn't know her sister had flown in from pennsylvania and was waiting outside. >> i'm down to meet my sister who was put up for adoption at birth. i want to meet her. i want to know her -- get to know her. the sisters both adopted at birth hugging for the first time. after catching up and developing a relationship, they plan to find their bu biological mother. >> castle is next on channel6. "action news" continues tomorrow morning at 6:00. i'm walter perez. see you tomorrow, and remember to put your clock forward one hour. ♪ ♪
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(panting) (grunts) (continues panting) (grunts) (pants) (tires squeal) (engine revs) (sizzles) you're cooking. this must be a dream or perhaps a nightmare. i choose to take the higher ground and ignore that. breakfast is served. these are my patented special pancakes that i make for alexis. well, not so special. i learned how to prepare it for her this past year. oh. (mouth full) so the student becomes... the failed student, the dropout. you fed her this? mother... you are forever forbidden from practicing the art of pan-cake-do. where did i go wrong? where do i begin? but alexis isn't even here. why are you making these? (sighs)

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