president and new treasurer after the swearing in ceremonies tonight and action news reporter jeannette reyes outside of the grand opera house in the city of pop, jeannette. >> reporter: jim several newly elected leaders were sworn in and half of the city council and mayor and celebrations won't last long the real work begins tomorrow on the mind of residents is the alarming crime rate and how these newly elected leaders plan on dealing with it. escorted by four council members new wilmington mayor was greeted with loud applause and standing ovation just before taking his office and the swearing in ceremony was at the grand opera house on market street downtown wilmington and spoke about the city's troubling crime rate just before the ceremony began. >> we in our state and other states around the country we neglected under studies for december decades and now reaping what we sow. >> reporter: tied the record high of 28 setback in 2010. >> it's a problem and you have to take care of the under lying crime and we keep looking to police officers to solve all our crime problems we will never get i

reporting in south hampton jeannette reyes channel six action news. >>> quite a story there.ccuweather forecast cecily tynan. >> our days will be getting a little bit brighter over the next two days and still have lingering showers and we are showing this is really the last batch of it that is moving in right now. most of it is light but if you look at that yellow ban really stretching from the pennsylvania turnpike crossing route 1 on to i-95 that is a heavier downpour and moving to philadelphia and should be here within the next 15-20 minutes and more showers across lancaster, gradually as we head through the day tomorrow we will begin to dry the atmosphere out and right now you can see the temperatures are well above freezing here, philadelphia 43 degrees, allentown, 38, wilmington 44, cape may 44 and temperatures essentially holding steady overnight, the problem is the fog. visibility in some areas really low millville atlantic city airport a half mile, philadelphia under a mile, mount pocono three tenths of a mile and the fog will be lingering into your morning commit an

devastated their apartment complex and broke out background 10:00 last night and action news reporter jeannette reyess live at the scene with details, jeannette. >> reporter: walter more than 24 hours later the area here is really buzzing with dozens of crew workers, gas company crew workers but one thing you won't find is residents about 75 of them have been displaced and look behind me all that is left of the apartment building is the shell of it and we talked to one resident who said he saved a few lives and another who said all of this could have been prevented. >> i literally ran into the fire to bang on doors, my neighbors were asleep. >> reporter: just past 10 saturday night and he was running door to door trying to wake his sleeping neighbors who were unaware of a fire that was quickly sweeping through building 72 at the lake view apartment complex. >> i heard two little girls screaming and a police officer went up stairs and he came out with them. >> reporter: the terrified girls were rescued from a second floor room now unrecognizable was the fire leaving behind just a charred frame. >> i d