his eldest daughter, caitlyn -- >> greeted the kids in the morning coming off the boss. talked to them during the day. he was in the hallways. he really loved teaching and working with kids. and he was wonderful at it. >> reporter: the new superintendent had three grown daughters and a painful divorce behind him. he never let it distract from his primary role dad. megan is his oldest child. >> he liked to have one. he would dance crazy with us. pick us up in the air and slide us between his legs and throw us up. >> reporter: the old family snapshots. hiking in hawaii disney world, all the christmases seemed to show a dad over the moon with his three girls. caitlyn was a star volleyball player and all-american, and knew without a doubt when her father was in the stands on game days. you could hear him? >> i could. yeah. everyone could. >> reporter: her dad was in a long-term relationship with a single mom named kimberly roush. >> he had three daughters, and his two boys. and a lot of our time was spent being involved in their sporting events. >> reporter: they'd been on a

thanks so much caitlyn. we're continuing to follow some breaking news this morning and showing you the pictures of that earthquake that took place in in a pal. the number tragically in ts to rise. offices now confirm at least 718 people are dead. they have reports that that number could be more than double after we get all the additional information. after a powerful earthquake shook the him lay and country of in a pallidussing hundreds were brought to hospitals after the magnitude 7.9 quake rock the capital city of cat man do. we're continuing to see some of the pictures. these are from sky news.com. houses collapsing, buildings collapsing and obviously devastated individuals just trying to figure out exactly what's going on and what's the next step. we'll continue to show you these pictures. we'll continue to bring new information. hopefully at some point there is some sort of good news, but right now everything seems to be tragic and devastating. all right. it is 9:03. new this morning we are saying goodb

all right, caitlyn, a beautiful day no matter where you are.ere in our pocono mountains, absolutely gorgeous, down the the shore. we actually have a weather question. let's see what this person wants to know. is it going to be hot outside? well, i couldn't really hear anything, but it looked like these kids were having a lot of fun it looks like at a pool. we certainly felt like summer with temperatures into the low 80s. we reached 81 in philadelphia. that was yesterday. much l cooler for today. we still got high pressure in place. it's moving out. clouds are moving in out ahead of the storm system down towards our southwest. a the look of heavy rain, showers and thunderstorms and severe weather possible again for parts of the tennessee valley and the gulf coast states. as this moves into our area, showers arrive by day break and it could be some pretty heavy rain tomorrow morning. but today for sunday it's still a pretty decent day. sun giving way for more clouds today, not as bright as yesterday. by early tomorrow morning here comes the rain,

caitlyn. >> that's right, kids and pets. national pet day we're still celebrating with your pictures all morning long. look at this cute one. it looks like maybe outside of the art museum, love him so much. thank you so much for showing your pictures. s that ease from gary. a perfect day to go out and walk the dog, maybe take him to the dog park because we're finally seeing some peter weather out there. after three days of being stuck in the gray skies we are at least seeing some sunshine. temperatures are on the cool and breezy side. 55-degrees at first pitch, clear with a cool breeze and it's going to probably stay chilly as we go into the overnight hours. that's what we're seeing right now. let me walk over to my computer where nothing is ever queued up in time for me and we'll see you even better weather as we head into the rest of the weekend. for saturday, 62, sunny and breezy. 67 on sunday with plenty of sunshine, less wind. i think tomorrow is even nicer. we'll have real spring feel on monday. 70-degrees. showers ret

caitlyn is off, but we do have a treat for you. we do have our dominica in, but first we have this question. i want go outside? is it warm. >> yes, it actually is. temperatures weren't bad, and it's even better for definitely we have a fantastic easter forecast ahid. a little chilly. right now. you will need coat forth next couple of hours. 46 in philadelphia. all that wind that we had yesterday, it did die down, but we're going to see the winds pick up once again this afternoon. the main theme today will warmer, but still breezy did i. a system out to our northwest could bring a chance for a few scattered this afternoon out through the lehigh pocono area. other than that it's dry for us and the temperatures are looking pretty good. here's your easter looking forecast as we go through the day. temperatures will warm up in the 60s. we'll have a high today of 64-degrees with those winds picking up by the afternoon. back to you. >> thanks so much. new in your news this morning, right now, new jersey police are searching for a philadel

when the tide went out, researchers like caitlyn brown of the marine mammal center dug in through blubbercle tissue and went deeper looking for a cause of death, maybe a trend. >> we're assessing for things like hemorrhage, trama, bruising, we're assessing the bone structure, making sure the bones are in the natural possession and want to get into the interior organs. >> we did have a sperm whale a couple years ago in 2008 that had 500 pounds of fishing net in the stomach. >> reporter: today no clear answers so far. the crowd grew, climbed, watched, speculated. >> you know i remember the one that was like 20, 30 years ago. >> reporter: now this one. an event so unusual now the the happy occasion circling but a 49-foot long reminder that there is so much more out there, another world just offshore. in pacificia wayne freedman abc 7 news. >>> and the last dead sperm whale in the bay area was found seven years ago. a necropsy revealed it died from swallowing more than 450 pounds of trash. some garage is on display at the marine mammal center to remind visitors to keep trash out of the oceans