the government ordered such surveillance. >> i am rick williams in for brian taff. police released new surveillance video is that shows the main suspect clear as day and they believe he robbed two food trucks by gun point in two hours. john rawlins, joins us live with more. >> reporter: well, food trucks have become a fixture in parts of our city here. and one man with a gun robbed two trucks, one here near drexel and the other a mile away. and police have released tg i identify that>> the police want was 6:25 monday evening and arrives as a passengtheblacs ja

a sweatshirt possibly a red bud da on it. >> the customer left and he jumped into the door and came with a gun and said, i'm knotting going to use the word he used but give we all your money. he had one hand on the gun and taking out the money. >> after that the armed robber casually walks back to the car but not before the camera catches a cl san lunch truck at 35th and lancaster. >> again, one man, one gun and tworus were robbed monday evening before the storm moved into the philadelphia area, police are hoping to find that suspect. if you want a closer look at that go to our website,

6abc.com. live in university city, john rawlins, channel 6 "action news." >> okay john thank you. >> well, driver across the region are dealing with therm r side streets are challenging with the ice. and they are urging residents to be patient and there are more than 2000 miles of street to deal with after a storm. and chopper 6 hd flew over the beaches today. more than 60 municipalities have beach or dune erosion. today the dep tells "action news" that most of the damage is minor and there is moderate damage in north wildwood and atlantic city and northern ocean county. >> time for a check of the accuweather forecast on a tuesday afternoon. >> lets head outside to adam

joseph with a c of the forecast for today. >> more melting today in the direct sunshine, as temperatures broke above the freezing point. wind gusts of 35 miles per hour and now sustained at 18 miles per hour from the northwesterly direction and 22 in buffalo and new york city. and teens for richmond. and 33 in washington, and 16 binghamton and 19 in buffalo, so the winter chill continues in many areas that have the snow and ice pam on the ground. as we head into the evening hours, right around freezing at 7:00 and dropping below that as the sunsets, things will freeze over once again and temperatures in the 20s by 11:00 and with our low going down to 22 by tomorrow morning. so slow melting as we go through the upcoming weekend and a chilly weekend. we are tracking rain and snow

showers over a good chunk of the weekend. i'll have the details if the full accuweather forecast. >> visit 6abc.com throughout the day, for the accuweather forecast and check our series of traffic cameras and live radar and be sure to interact with ou today. katherine scott has details from the defendant's trip to the courthouse today in cane. >> 52-year-old sara gable of folcroft appeared in court today. she waived her pre hearing and left without commented. this video shows gableushing d girl dow at day care and has since lost her job. she workere since l pa background check, and administrators installed a

camera on the stairwell and 45 minutes later they captured this video, as for 4-year-old allaya humphrey their attorney says she has been struggling. >> she is terrified at common lik says there is a long ahead for her and her family. >> she is under psychiatric care and out of school this year and the family has to resatisfies where things are and their lives are in turmoil. and a condition was set in record to sara gables bail and a prosecutor asked she not work with children and that she has no plans to and expect add peer in court on april 12th. cutting edge dna testing could help local police help solve more crimes, members of the bensalem police department is the first to this technology in combination with their local dna data base,

called rapid hit i.d. and can identify the suspect in real time. police say it will allow them to remove criminals from the streets immediately recenting more crimes. it is go time. the villanova wildcats are marching towards what they hope is a repeat. on campus, students are buzzing in buffalo new york, and they hope to beat the underdog mount st. mary's tonight. and they will unveil the villanova mentality shirts, the fresh new big east championship was unveiled at the university's book store today and students piled in to scoop them up as they cheer on their wildcats. jeff skversky is traveling with the team in buffalo ahead of tonight's team and super fans and one family tied to a

wildcats win. >> reporter: a lot of villanova fans up here of course a super excited about their team as they begin the title defense as they open against mount st. marys. the weather home is terrible and the up here terrible but some villanova fans would not miss this game for the world. there is lots of love for jay wright and villanova here in buffalo. everyone wants a shot with the guy who hit the shot. chris jenkins is among the fan favorites. >> go nova. the biggest nova fan may be the smallest, 11-month-old mark ramirez who was born just before the semi final win against oklahoma. >> we thought we would get get out of the hospital we were shouting so much. we were so excited. >> the whole weekend was

emotional. >> when it comes to good weekends, you have your fourth child and villanova going to the national championship it doesn't han that. we are big timenova! >> i am very excited. >> who is going to win? >> villanova. >> of course right? >> yes. >> and with his little good luck charm dean is hoping he brings good luck again this year as they hope to repeat as chasmp starting tonight against st. marys. >> it's great to have the nova nation come out and support. especially with the weather conditions. >> anyone that comes up here for the game say fan man. we appreciate it. >> lets go nova! >> i love that family. and villanova needs all the

cheering they can get up here, they are trying to be the third team in 43 years to win back to back titles, it's not easy. it starts tonight in buffalo. jeff skversky, channel 6 "action news." >> okay thank you. all right time now for the "action news" traffic report. >> lets go live to matt pellman. a thursday afternoon almost friday. the weekend looking good. >> so close we can taste it, it looks good around tuesday and now looking really, really good. afternoon not looking as good as that. but i suppose it could be worse. 95 northbound side valium is back this afternoon and we are dealing with the stipcal delay from washington avenue to the vine on up to the work zone as girard. 13 miles per hour there and 7 on the westbound schuylkill around university avenue and farther west 6 miles per hour near city avenue. the volume is back and expect it in center city as people head to

the flower show. a fire her in lower moreland, that is all blocked off, county line is a possible alternate. but 12 miles per hour in that area. a mess around lower moreland. and a crash on the northeast extension that cleared out and we start better now that the accident is gone but auto fuel spill in gloucester county. and route 3 is blocked ride now and crews are on the scene cleaning up the spill and on the scene in berlin, an accident had the white horse block at egg harbor road. that has reopened. and upper merion watching a minor crash at hill top circle. look for slick spots this afternoon. we'll check it again in the next half hour. >> still ahead on "action news,"

tourists sent running for their lives what led to an explosion on mount etna. and a woman jumps outs of the car to escape her kidnapper. and a recall affecting nearly 1 million car owners. when "action news" comes right back.

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police in alabama say 21-year-old woman jumped out of the trunk of her car he is kaep an alleged kidnapper, she was forced into the trunk her own vehicle and the suspect took money out of the atm using the victim's card. the victim ran into the store for help. and tourists and scientists had to run for their loves on

cecily's mount etna, they were watching the volcano erupt when it hit the snow and triggered an explosion. five people were hurt. a woman says she was running down the mountain dodging burning boulders. everyone is expected to be okay. an explosion at a french office at the international monument fund injured one person today. investigators say that an employee opened a letter that contained explosive material and the letter exploded and the employee was hit by shrapnel. it came as the greek anarchist group -- claimed responsibility for sending a letter bomb yesterday. >> a look at president trump' $1.1 trillion budget plan, the

blue print for the america first plan, it increases military funding and eliminated government jobs and programs. this would increase defense spending by $54 billion but at the same time it would cut spending at the deparen% and fo spending by 38% amidst other things and cuts could be ahead agency including services like n meals and wheels and democrats are decrying the proposed cuts but the white house says that the blue print reflects his campaign promises. >> i am encouraged by the notion we are rebuilding our military, we are all worried about that n fixing. >> this budget is a slap in the face of the future. the blue pr the request for a $1.5 billion

payment for a border wall despite campaign promises that mexico would pay for it. and medicare and superstorm sandy are untouched but it's only a blue print and they are expected to release the budget in may. well, the white house is no doubt trying to figure out the next course of action after the president's newly revised travel ban suffered a round of set backs, judges in maryland blocked the order today using the president's own words that the traffic ban discriminates against muslims, while the white house has no comment against the retraining orders, the justice department will continue to defend the ban. well, nearly a million hyundai vehicles are recalled because the front seat belts could fail in a crash, the safety alert includes sonata mid

size sedans and the hy the seatbelt may fail to hold passengers, hyundai knows of one minor injury so far. they will notify people that need a repair on april 7th. and a bit of a mixed bag and not a lot of movement at the close of the day and the nasdaq up barry a point and the s&p down 4 points today. well, space x had a successful overnight launch, the falcon 9 rocket blasted off from kennedy space center. theriginally planned for tuesday but pushed back becau of high windall is on top of the mind in philadelphia the phillies are welcoming in a new team of voluner

citizen ban , the o bankers, a duties during the 81 games, including protions and helping people find their seats. the bankers program first launch nood 2004 to help improve the fan experience at the ballpark. >> the start of the season just a couple of weeks away. that is why i go. >> time for the accuweather forecast. adam joseph has an update. >> the shore looks nice and there was sunshine but still cold. >> the march winds have not disappointed this month, you see the shake and shiver live on sky 6 hd and the winds finally ease over the weekend as you go into friday, speeds closer towards 9 or 10 miles per hour. gusting to 33 philadelphia and 28 allentown and atlantic city 33 miles per hour. and dover at 36 miles per hour, and it's a straight westerly

wind and that is creating windchills below freezing across the board, most areas in the mid up toer 20s. that is where we stop with how it felt despite air temperatures back above freezing and we are talking about the snow, rain and ice and lets talk about something enlightening here. four days from now, spring will begin and not feel like it, spring begins in four days, 22 days from now it will be the home opener at citizens bank park and we have to wait another 74 days before we hit the sand at the shore and that is when memorial day arrives, satellite and radar quiet across the country right now but as you head toward st. louis arcing into the northern plains and low pressure in the upper plains, this dives our way here late friday night and in throughout the upcoming weekend. 18 allentown and 19 trenton and wilmington and watch for the black ice, anything that didn't melt today quickly refreezes

after sunset and very, very cold once again. your friday is st. patrick's day. got my buddy down there in that part of the screen, the sun giving way to clouds. and the temperatures going back into the lower 40s tomorrow and nice way to end the week and then things change into friday night. that is when the warm front starts to arrive, saturday morning waking up north and west of philadelphia rain to the south and east, and throughout your saturday into the afternoon still light snow showers far northern areas changing over to some light rain showers across the area. your four day at 4:00 forecast not the brightest or best of weekends as we close out the season, 41 tomorrow and rain and snow showers and 45 degrees and all could change to a light period of snow sunday morning before returning sun in the afternoon of 44 and the first day of spring, it's milder at 52

degrees. with some sun giving way to clouds. so again the weekend some rain and snow there. but nothing big at this point. >> all right thank you. still ahead on "action news" at 4:00, a crime of opportunity at a local grocery store how a customer was robbed in the middle of the produce aisle. and coming up in what's the deal, how can you get prom dresses that start at 60% off retail and help women in our dresses that start at 60% off retail and help women in our area at the same time dresses that start at 60% off retaafoot and light-heartedr areai take to the open road. healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. the east and the west are mine. the north and the south are mine.

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police are looking for thieves that took advantage of someone that was grocery shopping. well the thieves stole another customers wallet. straight from the shopping cart in the aisle, this happened in passyunk in south philadelphia last monday. a rally was held in wilmington delaware. demanding protection for immigrants and their families. organizations including the aclu

of delaware and the latin community of delaware to protect them from president trump's policies and issue a judicial arrest warrant for allowing anyone to be detained be protects people in databations from being shared without a judicial order. and the museum of natural history is about to hope a new exhibition, it takes us back 100 years to explore how a single year shaped the america to what it is today. it includes letters and photographs and more and the exhibit will be open tomorrow through july 16th. there is more to come in the next half hour of "action news" at 4:00. a new high tech device was created to keep your phone conversatis private while are you in public. find out how it works in big

talkers. >> i'm nydia han in time for prom season, this dress is new with tags, $529 i'll tell you where i am coming up in what's the deal. [car engine failing to start] [clicking of ignition] uh--

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joins us on "action news." and it continues with a beloved local school janitor who could be the best janitor in the nation. and a wall of snow comes down on waiting passengers in new york, how about that. >> and nick foles is back on the roster how he feels about working with carson wentz. >> and an icy wet roads hit two days ago and many side streets in philadelphia are covered with snow and ice and gray hall is live in fern rock, gray, the headaches continue in the aftermath of this storm. >> reporter: indeed they do. all thanks to the nor'easter and the big problem like you mentioned the side streets like this one in fern rock. you see here there is a lot of snow and ice, the good news progress is being made. >> it's real hard on the bottom,

not like the regular snow that is soft and can yyou can just m it. it's hard. >> jake spent part of his day in the city's fern rock section do what is a job for many people shoveling and digging out from the the snow. many hope this is the last time they will be doing this. >> i'm a spring person and waiting for spring since november. we ran into lawrence smith going head to head with the ice on the sidewalk, he knew the day was coming this winter just a matter of time. >> plus, the last big blizzard we had was in march. 96. so i wasn't surprised. i was kind of waiting, when is it going to hit us. driving across the city it was evident that many streets were plowed but others like residential side streets in philadelphia are still waiting. >> side streets are always

horrible. ever since i was little, i grew up here and never saw a small street cleared out. they take forever to clear it out. >> the city says keep in mind there are over 200 miles of streets to get to and they urge residents to be safe and patient and they will get to their area. >> i am concerned about people's safety, threer for mauer days it will be gone and it's a mother nature event. >> all right back out live the work continues and if your street has not been plowed. the city urges you to contact 911 and go philly.gov/311. they expect all the streets to be plowed by friday. gray hall, channel 6 "action news." >> all right thank you gray. >> all right time now to talk about the forecast, yes we see

the piles of snow everywhere. >> the problem is it's so parked at this point and it's ice and sleet it take a long time to melt and try to get it up. >> the temperatures are not helping, they are not helping a ton but we are moving in the right direction. look at the 24 hour changes, 11 degrees warmner philadelphia and 13 degrees warmer in allentown and this isn't saying much be were only in the 20s yesterday and we'll take any degree towards the up and not the down, the ben franklin bridge with sunshine and 38 degrees now and winds from the west at 18 and your windchill is 10 degrees colder than the air temperature and speaking of the warmth, we'll go to school and pay attention. the pop quiz. >> when does the normal high in philadelphia reach 70, trying to warm the spirits, may 2nd, 15th and or 30th, tweet me your best guess and the first person to

get it ride will get a shout-out. it's in the month of may that is a clue. >> i think all of the above. depending on your location but philadelphia specific. remember to visit 6abc.com for the latest accuweather forecast, you can check our series of traffic cameras and stormtracker 6 live double scan and follow our team of meteorologists on social media. and philadelphia police have an image of a burglar that broke into a center city apartment and stole a laptop. cameras captured the suspect on south 11th street on march 2nd. police say that the the suspect tampered with the door's lock to get in and nobody was hurt in the burglary and if you recognize the suspect you are asked to call police. >> the district attorney has a

new role to combat drug crime. tom hogan is named the chairman of the drug traffic program, including several counties in the tri-state area and includes local, state and federal agencies, hogan says that he and his team will continue to protect our citizens from drug criminals that would do them harm. and an effort to strengthen communities was announced today. on the table invited people to join in conversations about the communities they live in during the region wide event on may 23rd. on the table philly will have hosts to lead up to the event. and residents can learn more and sign up to host a philly conversation online or join the conversation by using the hashtag, lets talk philly. and washington township in new jersey held the first annual kennedy health care day. more than 20 associates talked

to students interested in working in the health care field. learning about medicine, social work and physical therapy and more. they hope that the event will create mentoring relationships to help guide the students. and watches and rings and even candle sticks is part of valuables laid out today. they want your help to do that. monica malpass is here with more on that. >> there are 50,000 pieces in all trying to return to their owners two months after a montgomery man was arrested for buying the items to sell in his center city shops. the valuables police want to you see in the hopes of closing unsolved burglary cases, new at 5:00 a new lease on life for a new jersey dog after a brush with death overseas how two women from the garden state gave

the animal hope and a home. >> all right see you at 5:00. >> cleaning up a school is a big job but something has got to do it, one local janitor is so good he is chosen for a national contest. they had an assembly in bucks county to anounounce that ted ia finalist for janitor of the year. he worked there for 45 years and not just a custodian but works as a maintenance mechanic, everyone calls ted an awesome guy. head to our website at 6abc.com if you would like to vote for ted as a finalist for census janitor of the year. >> he has my vote. you know that nick foles is returning to the eagles with a two year deal and today the quarterback spoke about being back in philadelphia. follow foles had his best year

with the eagles and went to the pro bowl. last season feels was a backup for the chiefs but wants to continue to grow as a player here in philadelphia. >> this was a great opportunity to come back here and be part of this organization. you know with a quarterback like carson, i was once the young quarterback here, and to help him continue to grow and excel, he is a talented quarterback and individual -- >> jaime apody will have more from nick foles coming up in sports on "action news" at 5:00. >> another familiar face back in the fold. still to come on "action news" at 4:00, there was so much snow people were knocked over, hear what amtrak says about the snowy train stop that went viral. and siblings took to social media with the hope that someone would adopt them so they wouldn't have to be split up.

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how about this for a massive snow shower. amtrak commuters waiting at the ryan cliff station in new york got hit with a huge wave of snow from the approaching train, it covers commuters standing on the platform. witnesses say that some people were knocked to the ground but amtrak says the train was traveling at the authorized speed and the company is grateful that nobody was hurt. dozens of tourists in spain had to be air-lifted to safety following a scary malfunction to a set of cable cars in the mountains, most of the tourists were thousands of feet above sea level when their cable cars stopped working in midair and three helicopters were brought in to move people from the cable cars to nearby shelters, a total of 111 people were forced to stay there on top of the highest

mountain in spain this will they were rescued from the shelters. no injuries were reported. >> a michigan father had the first operation to amputate his feet and hands and losing them in a rare case of strep infection. he had pain in the abdomen, but doctors could not tell what it was, they redistributed his blood supply sacrificing his hands and feet. >> life will be different but not necessarily bad. we'll try to figure it out and figure it out for our kids. >> after a rash appeared on breen's chest they remembered their son had been sick.

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turns anything into a lego friendly surface, they crowd funded for the lego tape that they call loops. the anive strip with bumps on one side and you can build around corners and curves. this idea has the internet reliving its childhood and people saying where do i final that. >> if you ever tried to have a private conversation at a public place and found it awkward, there is a new device saying can you have your privacy nobody will hear you but you may look uncomfortable orb awkward. it's called hush me, a sort of high tech muzzle an accuoustic

deinvite for mobile phones you close the device around your face and talk into the built your microphone or walk into the private room to chat or get this thing, it's the brain child from a ukrainian engineer and costs $200 or less when it hits the market. >> now if you have a chatty cubicle mate at the office maybe share this story. you're welcome. >> you look like hannibal lecter there. >> a device for everyone -- >> falling ice caused closures along parts of market street a short time ago it's around the 1200 block of market street and the area was closed so no one would get hurt but it has since reported open at this point. >> during the rush hour of course, matt pellman is in the traffic center with an update on

that, and busy areas tonight. falling from the lowes hotel, it caused the mess yesterday and today we are seeing gridlock in and around center city. chopper 6 hd high in the sky over south broad street over pen square close to the kimmel center the avenue of the arts, the northbound traffic along south broad street all locked up toward city hall, not only the earlier closure of market street but people heading to the flower show that has us really gridlocked here in center city by the double tree hotel. you see the people waiting to get through the lights and up toward city hall along south broad street. lets hit the maps, ice in center city and villanova, sounds like salt down there and that situation is being remedied as we speak and plenty of slow

speeds as people head to work and 12 miles per hour on the westbound schuylkill by the boulevard. just normal afternoon volume and lots of people out and about on this thursday, we have abnormalities some issues a fire situation shutting down huntington pike. now there is a crash at the td bank at red lion, road blocking tillman, and stay on cedar crest, in green witch gloucester xoint to go south on 2935, if you try to get to 295 southbound do so via harmony road as an alternate. we'll check it again in the 5:00 hour. >> thank you. we'll take a quick break and get another check of the forecast when "action news" continues in a moment.

all right we are hoping for spring to actually feel like spring when it gets here. >> dr. doolittle -- we have a question about warmth. >> we take a look, i put this question up earlier in the newscast. you had time to ponder this. when is the first time philadelphia typically hits 70, may 2nd, 15th and 30th, on twitter it took a long time. >> i'm c. >> i'm going to go in the mid may 15th. >> you like everyone else, both of you on twitter didn't get it right. may 2nd. it's a trick early in may. time trekin was the first one to get it right. and in fact you picked sharrie the 30th of may, the normal high

is 78 degrees. >> even better. exactly. we hit the 70 early on in the month of may. it is anything but that, you cut the numbers in half 39 in philadelphia and 38 in wilmington and the win drives the numbers down by 10 degrees, it feels like below freezing across the board especially in the shade and open area where the wind can funnel right through. satellite 6 along with action radar a few clouds fueling apart with the wind coming in off the great lakes and if you fly into the great lakes a front from st. louis that is drifting towards us and that will eventually dive through here during the day on saturday. but for tonight it's clear and cold and 18 to 22 degrees, winds ease a bit from 8 to 16 miles

per hour. tomorrow st. patrick's day not bad and sunshine and late clouds developing and light winds as well. 38 allentown and 41 trenton and 45 in millville, still well off the normal and everything is relative right now, feeling better than the 20s yesterday. as we speed up time, just after midnight on friday, just when the sun starts to approach and saturday morning a period of light snow and showers north and west of philadelphia, rain down to the south and east and as the atmosphere warms a bit as the energy rides through the region and feeds the coastal storm saturday afternoon it is just rain showers across most of the area and the snow showers confined off to the north and thenning is to watch as the energy comes through on saturday, it is going to develop a storm out over the open waters of the atlantic and how close

does it get that is the question into sunday morning and could bring a band of light snow wrapping around sunday morn from a coating to 12 inches, the coastal communities would feel theest effect of this. rain and snow showers on saturday, not a great day of 45 and there could be the period of light snow on sunday with returning sun 45 and some 50s for the first day or two of spring and then we drop off against wednesday and thursday 12 degrees below normal. >> oh. >> a huge sigh in here. >> what a roller coaster ride. >> we had spring the last two months. >> want it now. >> i'm ready for summer. thanks adam. coming up what's the deal when we come back. horns on their helmets.

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"action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with jaime apody, meteorologist, cecily tynan, rick williams and monica malpass. i had the same feeling that i had last year going into the tournament that i have right now. >> i am so excited, i have faith in them that we could get

another championship. >> here we go again. villanova's march to a repeat starts in the matter of hours, nova nation hope for a good start on a tough road to another national championship. tonight's match-up is tonight between the villanova wildcats and the mount st. marys mountaineers. we have live team coverage tonight and we'll get more from jeff skversky in buffalo in just a moment. but first to reporter, sara bloomquist live on the villanova campus. >> hi there rick and monica, the wildcats play in just about two hours and students expect to fill the tables to watch together for much of the day on campus, they have give-aways and an exciting time to be atville november, as the wildcats make the send run for a national championship. march mad ness has begun here at the connelly center students

gather to compare their brackets and get ready to see their wildcats in round one tonight. >> it's amazing they have all of this stuff going on at the connelly center, i just ordered food it's all good. >> have you a little scare because you want the same feeling again and you don't want it to ends and it's a lot of pressure, i guess. >> he made it! >> the same feeling of winning a national championship like last year, students range from totally confident and cautiously optimistic that nova can do it again. we only lost ash. and daniel. but as far as the corof the team go they are there. everyone is