buffington spent the last year searching for him. yesterday morning he posted it on the local facebook page and it caught our attention. our story then caught ray's attention. the two men, connected this morning. >> for the first time, it was just so cool. it was like, you know, i keep finding like people who send messages in bottles they are just interesting people. they tend to be adventurous, they tend to be outing, and you know that really rest -- resonate was me. >> hear more from ray the guy who put the message in the bottle tonight on "action news" at 11:00. story just keeps going. >> through have it. >>> much more to come on "action news" tonight women from several different states, joined together to celebrate in montgomery county. we will take to you this unique event. >>> it may be sunday but students at one wilmington school are working hard on ideas that they hope can change the world. >>> and jeff skversky has an update on the flyers goalie michal neuvirth who collapsed on the ice during the game when "action news" come

clint buffington talk about a message in a bottle in the west indies. the writing was faded. clint has been searching for ray who lives in philadelphia and was on board the carnival conquest in may of 2014 >> it's never taken me this long to solve a message in a bottle. >> i watched it fall. adios. two years later, here we are. >> ray reached out to clint. >> that conversation was awesome. talking to ray for the first time was so cool. it was like, you know, i keep finding, like, people who send messages in bottles, they just are interesting people. >> it was exciting. made me feel good. like i was special with a place here. like the lord touched me and said, it's your day. >> and this evening, the new friends skyped. and ray says if clint is ever in philadelphia, he's welcome to stay at his house. we should mention clint's hope is collecting messages in bottles. he has 82 and a website dedicated to that. ray is the 26th person he's

for buffington there's something magical about people whose message in a bottle he found through the years >> i find kind of connected to the people i made contact with them they were super excited i found bottle. it just kind of hooked me. something -- it appealed to me somehow. >> reporter: he has a website dedicated to finding messages in bottles on facebook called message in put a bottle hunter. you can find a link to it on our website at 6 abc.com. >>> message in a bottle. romantic isn't it >> it is. 9:08. sanctions project getting underway. we'll take a look at the multi-million dollar project and a surprise concert and an even more surprising location. we're going to tell you where penn grad john legend stepped at a piano and wowed fans. >>> clean-up continues in the northeast where mother nature does more than a half foot of snow. no snow here, we're looking at the temple university camer has come back is this the year you spend more quality time with your dog? then you belong at bass pro shops for huge savings during our dog days sale. like a 3-pack of playhound dog toys for

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