♪ . ♪ . ♪ . atlantic ci action news with meteorologist melissa magee, jeff skversky and walter perez. ♪ saturday night i'm walter perez. spring like temperatures finally arrive. and a deadly shooting in broad daylight in the middle of downtown wilmington. but the big story on action news is a day of protest here and

across the nation. supporters of president trump gathered in several cities today. day after the president suffered a stunning legislature defeat on healthcare. alongside the rallies were hundreding opposed to the president as well and his policies. bob brooks is live in center city with the story. bob? >> reporter: walter, both sides here out in full force today in philadelphia. pro trump and protesters against. and there was a lot of passion and that's what democracy is all about. things may have turn violent in philadelphia but it didn't because of the great work of our police force. today started out as a pro trump rally on independence mall >> i wanted to lend support for our country and president. >> reporter: heard from numerous speakers. and participated in patriotic songs, tension got turned up.

mass protest groups igniting flares and smoke, burning things on the road: according to the trump rally, plan was to march from the mall to the art museum steps but was asked by the police to cancel the march for fear the violence. he arrived. >> we were asked by the chief of police to leave because of the fact of the violence. worried and concerned about men, women and children. i can understand that. >> reporter: as a result, the protesters matched down in fact street. trying to block the cameras, once they reached logan square, chaos erupted. some members of the trump rally decided to march. some as well. the protesters. the two groups were set to clash. but never really were able to. the philadelphia police department won their stars

today. the police were always one step ahead to insure safety. plus both group were able to march. keeping things in order today was not easy and at times seemed like it was on the breaking point. >> things never got violent because of the men and women in blue. that's the real story today. that certainly was the story and after all of that that you saw, there only two citations were handed out. and again just an amazing job by the philadelphia police department. reporting live at independence mall, bob brooks, channel 6 action news. those rallies come day after the failure of the republican attempt to pass a healthcare reform bill is despite a 44 member majority in the house. today, the gop is regrouping and president trump is tweeting before heading out to play golf this morning, the president fired off this to tweet reiterating his belief that obamacare will quote explode and promming that a new healthcare plan will eventually emerge. yesterday, house >> congress wasn't ready.

you saw it. with 100% of house democrats every single one and a handful of republicans actually standing in the way of president trump's plan to repeal and replace obamacare. >> lawmakers are moving on. they say they will soon begin work on tax reform. world news saturday will have the latest on the healthcare bill defeats and what's next for the president's agenda coming up at 6:30 after action news. moving on to the accu weather forecast. it felt like spring today. and even even though it was cloudy, the warmth was appreciated by most of us. meteorologist melissa magee is here with the first check of the accu weather forecast. you're welcome. today walter we went from are spring straight into summer in some locations today. atlantic city at the airport, the high temperature 81. that's a new record high today. millville 80. dover coming in at 79. philadelphia 77. typically we should be in the upper 50's this time of year.

well above that west chester coming in at 75. outside tonight we got quiet temperature contrast right now. 50's along the coas 62 in philadelphia. 73 in lancaster, 66 down in dover. numbers are all over the place. because we're tracking a cold front currently slipping down to the south. here's satellite 6 along with action radar. the frontal boundary draped across the region. we're dealing with prescription in spots. here's storm tracker 6 live radar street level, rain moving into areas of south jersey, browns mills, metro lakes to glassboro to hammonton and we expect this activity to continue on and off. rain light in spots and turning cooler behind us as we get to the second half of the weekend and staying even as we get into next week, details walter coming up after the forecast. >> thank you, melissa.

let's move on to jim chirico live in center city with more on the warm weather. jeff? >> it's still nice out here, even though it has cooled down a bit since the rain moved through. here in rittenhouse square folks spent the day enjoying the outdoor, some are eating outside trying to enjoy the last of final few hours this beautiful spring day. even with ugly signs of winter lingering. folks in philadelphia headed outdoors to relish the warm weather >> we got barbecue chicken legs. >> reporter: this family spent the day cooking up an outdoor feast after a long winter indoors. >> tired of being in the house. come outside enjoy the air, enjoy good old barbecue with friends. >> the day was perfect to do just would you anything. from laying low to flying high. >> it's beautiful. >> only thing i can say, i slipped out to get out of here. >> r found many dining

outside wherethers exercised. while it began raining by late afternoon it didn't put a damper on this sou they're just glad it's not snow. >> we are happy. i know it's cloudy and raining but we, decided to marry that day, so beautiful. we are happy. married. >> reporter: and back out here looking at folks enjoying dinner on the sidewalk in rittenhouse square. it's hard to believe that big winter storm was just last week. folks here hoping that mother nature doesn't have anymore big surprises waiting in the wings for us. reporting live in rittenhouse square, jeff chirico, channel 6 action news. >> we don't like weather surprises. moving on to breaking news. out of medford burlington county you're looking a the viewer video of a fire burned through two town home invasion on wynnewood court after 4:30.

firefighters got the flames under control about 30 minutes ago. officials believe a backyard grill may be to blame but the fire is still under investigation, no reported injuries at this time. scare for a family in cobbs creek when a 6-year-old went missing, the child trevor montgomery was last seen in his bedroom about 9:30 last night. when his family went to check on him this morning about 8:00, he was not there. disappearance sparked a frantic search but we're happy to report he was found safe right around 1:00 this afternoon. but the details surrounding his disappearance remain unknown. pedestrian was seriously injured in drexel hill this morning after being struck by a car about 8:00 a.m. on state road. the driver stopped at the scene, no word if charges will be filed. police in philadelphia are investigating a deadly shooting in the city's summer dale section. happened on tvictim was rushed o

einstein where he died a short time later. investigators not revealed a possible motive and no arrests have been made. from our delaware newsroom, police in wilmington are investigating a deadly shooting there. it happened at about 12:30 this afternoon right in the downtown area in front of the popular lid dia's restaurant. someone shot a man in the head there. the victim was rushed to hospital where he died. no arrests have been made. from our new jersey newsroom, police in hamilton township are piecing together a home invasion, before 2:30 this morning at a home in marian court, three masked men armed with handguns burst into the house. the men bound a man an wanly pistol whipping the man, they got away with jewelry and several handgun, a 14 was inside the home at the time but not injured. dozens of people slept on cardboard boxes in center city to raise money for the covenant house. in the courtyard of the friend center of the 1500 block of

cherry street. a spokesperson said each person got sponsors to donate money to their night sleeping in a cardboard box. more than $130,000 was raised. volunteers in haddonfield spent the saturday chipping in for the less fortunate. several hundred show at the school to pack meals. organizers hope to pack 300,000 meals. they will be donated to a group call feed my starving children. much more to come on action news. family and friends say good-bye to the late joanie sledge in north philadelphia. his father was a hero. a police officer who died in the line of duty before he was even born. today, brad fox junior received a very, very special welcome during an event honoring his dad. flyers take on the blue jacketses in a must win game, almost. jeff skversky has sports when

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♪ friends family and fans of joanie sledge gathered inside the i van list church to bid farewell to a singer. the philadelphia native was one of the founding members of sister sledge known for the breakthrough platinum album we're family. joanie was found dead on march 10th. she was only 60 years old. police lace up you their sneakers in bucks county this morning >> action news was in warminster in the 5 krun, 1 k walk is took off. he was killed in the line of duty five years ago. the crowd sang happy birthday to

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jeff skversky has a check on sports >> it's cracking, there's a giant big crack, there's nothing the flyers can do. they can only hurt themselves, a must win you think in fact, in the flyers don't win, they will fall eight points out with two weeks to go. two teams are chasing for the final playoff spot. they're trying to save the season against the forminger goalie early second bobrovsky stone walls jake vorachek then remain scoreless until later the second. talk about nothing bouncing their way. what happened? take another look. alexander flexes it against michael neuvirth. they're throwing everything at the bob.

nothing, bobrovsky they traded away, single handedly shuts them out. flyers lose 1-0. it's their 10th straight loss in columbus. here's where things stand in the wild card standings. six out but it will become eight. the flyers shot of making the playoffs down to 0.5%. the season ends two weeks from tomorrow, eight games to go. the sixers don't believe joel embiid's recovery from knee surgery will be as much of a process as the rehab on his foot. let's home so, embiid is expected to resume basketball activities over the summer. >> he's gone through a lot. for him, where my first thoughts go. obviously to the organization. but to joel embiid, the way he's dealt with a lot of adversity. and we all look far to having a

really successful summer. you know, still a ways away, i'll be giving timelines later but it's just wonderful news for the city of philadelphia and for joel embiid. >> it's not that serious. jo jo done for the to season, dario saric is making a strong case for rookie of the year, saric drops a career who 32 last night in the win over the bulls, double digits in 22 straight games, last to do that, allen iverson, back at it tomorrow in indiana. of all of the number one season the ncaa tournament, sadly villanova, the only team not playing in the elite eight this week. they just beaten wisconsin who knows what would have happened. speaking of wisconsin. did you see this last night in the were sweet 16. he forces overtime against florida with a 2.1 seconds left.

buckle up. in over time. team that knocked off nova gets knocked off themselves at the buzzer. chris cheesa. florida will play south carolina for the right to go to the final four. themes next week, spring training in clearwater behind the phillies, the coach and staff 10 fronts officers are planning to meet tomorrow to narrow down the roster in 25 before monday's opening day next monday. the phillies are in for the myers against the red sox former philly kyle kendricks allows two earned run, andrew gets them on the board, how about this to tie it up. chris coughlin pops it up to left e drops it i works. finish in a thrilling 3-3 tie. high school hoops, beating up strong vincent of erie

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accu weather forecast. >> did you like today >> loved it except for the overcast conditions >> it won't repeat tomorrow. it's going to be cooler tomorrow walter and a couple showers. we'll show you here's storm tracker 6 live radar, we're tracking a little bit of precipitation, we had light rain and showers because of a back-door cold front moving through. now that activity coming out of philadelphia, pressing into south jersey. even into delaware. we'll go in tighter on street level. as you move eastward into medford lakes, chadds ford moderate rainfall moving into glassboro, it's a cold front slipping on through and the temperatures short lived because they will not be around as we get into sunday. we'll show you the picture

outside. the action cam was outside earlier, there at university city, a lot of folks walking around enjoying the warmth we had earlier and things are starting to change. right now in philadelphia, it is 60 degrees after a high today of 77, so we're still well above average. 73 in lancaster. atlantic city had a record high of 81. right now, with the cold front coming on through, it's 58. 56 in cape may, 66 down in dover and 68 degrees in wilmington. the 24 hour temperature change starting to vary a little bit as the cooler air makes progress to the south. so it's 20 agrees warmer in millville but you notice in philadelphia, it's three degrees warmer, so that cooler air is shunting southward as we go throughout the rest of the evening none tonight. here's action radar you can see the fronts, and it's dipping down to the south and that's why we have those showers overhead. high pressure to the north but a cool canadian high moves on through and because of that, it will be much colder. you going to notice a big difference come tomorrow.

the next 12 hour, lots of clouds, a touch of rain overhead. we'll bottom out at 42 in the suburbs, 44 in philadelphia for the overnight low. here's the setup for sunday, high pressure moves southward sink that is cold front back down as well. high temperature in the 40's for put the majority of the day. we're a good 20 to 30 degrees cooler tomorrow. then we were today with the easterly wind at seven to 14 miles per hour. here's future track 6. 8:00 sitting at 60 in philadelphia, 58 in reading, 43 in the poconos, watch the time stamp and look at the numbers come down, 11:00 p.m. 48 in the city, 51 in wilmington, 49 in dover as you wake up tomorrow morning, 8:30, 9:00, numbers will be in the upper 30's lower 40's with the stiff northeasterly winds, cooler air arriving as we get to sunday. here's the exclusive accu weather seven-day forecast. still cloudy, 49 degrees, big difference in temperature, early rain on monday, then warmer,

high temperature up to 65. mostly cloudy on tuesday, but we're staying on with the late day shower or a thunderstorm coming on in, a high temperature of 72. on wednesday, we're mild with limited sunshine, a high of 65. thursday, sun and clouds, high of 59, periods of rain next friday, 56, on saturday, clouds and some sun, high temperature coming in at 60. temperatures were good but we come tumbling down as we come to sunday. world news saturday is next and don't miss action news at 10:00 and 11:00. for skversky, melissa magee and the entire action news team, i'm walter perez. we'll see you back here at 11:00.

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