hahnemann university hospital is launching a new program for transgender patients, the philadelphia hospital announced it's new gender affirmation program today. hahnemann calls it a first for an academic medical center in the region. >> businesses in philadelphia's gayberhood are asked to undergo training now for -- people of color are experiencing discrimination. it will be testing bars in this neighborhood to see if people are treated differently. leaders also say they're consider yanking funding from any agency that doesn't follow the city's fair practices ordinance. >> anyone in new jersey who denise access to a service dog could soon be fined. cherry hill high school student. the charlie's law bill would create a $250 fine for not allowing someone with a service dog in a business or other place. >> up next we continue to track the nor'easter dropping heavy winds, rain and flooding on our area. tonight this is the look of the roads in sussex county delaware. >> there's more rain coming in there later tonight. how long the storm's going to last and what you can expect when you wake up to

a miewrlg -- miewrlg -- mural in center city has been damaged by high winds at the had hahnemann university hospital. some of the mural would be seen flapping in the wind. no word on the total extent of damage to the vehicles. >>> peco is reporting more than 67,000 people in the dark, more than 4300 in delaware county. 1400 in chester county. pse&g 1,000 without power. ppl has 556 people without electricity. atlantic city electric 1747 in the dark at this hour. delmarva says more than 1300 are without power this afternoon. >>> as the nor'easter pushes through, the power of storm tracker 6 live double scan radar is just a tap, swipe or mass click away. it's among a host of recourses available 24 hours, 7 days a week at 6abc.com/weather. don't forget you can follow our meteorologists on facebook and twitter to keep up with the latest storm updates. >>> drivers failed their first morning -- faced their first morning commute without the turnpike connector bridge. the span remains closed because of a fractured beam. it is expected to be shut down for a while. an engineer inspecting the bridge on friday f

. >> the winds also tor a muriel right oft side of hahnemann university hospital. it all played out in a parking lot at broad and race street. no one was hurt. workers spent hours ripping off pies of the muriel that were left danging. >>> this is a look at our cape may camera there. you see some wet drops on the lens there but behind that you can see the waves, you can see the -- this is going to get worst as the high tied comes in. nbc10 sidney long is joining us live. >> we can see how windy it is out there. >> reporter: i can tell you we've covered some ground today between brigantine, ventnor and atlantic city. this is the worst. the rain is really pelting us now as is the storm surge that is coming over the bulkhead. that's main avenue. this is gram mercy. when we first arrived just about an hour ago the water was not completely covering this street but now it is. you can see the cars with the water, the flood waters here in the street up to their tires. some cars here braving to get through this. another woman wasn't going to be able to move her car and all o

hahnemann university hospital in philadelphia has launched a gender reassignment surgery program forransgender individual. happies partnering with plastic surgeon doctor kathy rumor, the program will offer several types of surgery for patients that were transition ing, hahnemann is first academic medical center in philadelphia to offer such a program. >>> eating burnt toast potatoes or other food, even frenchfries could be a cancer risk. british food san tarred agency or fsa, say when starchy food are roasted, fried or grilled for too long at high temperatures they produce a certain chemicals and they say research shows chemicals can increase risk of cancer. that is in an has. but so far we have not seen increased risk linked to human , more study needed. >>> coming up at 5:30 no laughing matter, there is a saturday night live writer who targeted donald trump's youngest son at ten now in a whole lot of trouble what are you doing up? mom said i could have a midnight snack. it's not even midnight, it's ten forty-three. well, let's have a ten forty-three snack. quietly, though. okay. ye

the chunk of the independence starts here mural collapsed onto the cars parked at the hahnemann university hospital feinstein lot. nobody was injured. in aston a tree came down on a house in the 200000 block of beatrice lane. officials speculate the wind may have brought the tree down. and we've been making our way around throughout the afternoon. it truly is miserable driving rain, high winds at times and it is very cold, chilly making it that much more miserable but as you just saw it's causing serious problems around the region. stay safe i if you're headed out this evening. live in nicetown, i'm sarah bloomquist channel6 "action news." >> sarah thank you. >>> the shore is also seeing a lot of wind damage and we're about to hit high tide which is raising concerns about flooding in low lying areas. "action news" reporter bob brooks is live in ocean city with a look at conditions there. bob. >> reporter: well, sharrie, if people down here don't have to go outside i definitely wouldn't. right now the wind gusts we're being told by officials are topping out at almost 60 miles an hour, as far as that