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>>> "action news", delaware valley's leading news program, with meteorologist melissa magee, jeff skversky, sarah bloomquist and walter perez. >>> dozens are killed in a explosion, ripped through a park filled with families in pakistan. >>> plus easter is celebrated by christians all around the world and, of course, that includes the delaware valley. >>> but the big story on a "action news" is return of the villanova wildcats, team arrived this afternoon to a cheering crowd fresh off their big win against kansas last night. their next stop the final four. "action news" reporter trish hartman has more. >> reporter: buses pulled up and the fans came running. >> wow, wow. >> reporter: one by one players stepped foot on campus after a nail biting win over kansas earning them a trip to the final four in houston. >> oh, my god i was physically ill. you know, it was amazing. there is just so much fun. >> reporter: coach jay wright says it had has been a long trip away from villanova. >> we were trying up on lancaster avenue and we said it is so nice to be home. >> reporter: he says he knows his p

meteorologist, melissa magee, will have all the details for us. >>> and bed bugs are found in one philadelphia school and the school district is getting heat from parents for not canceling classes. >>> now the details, march madness is underway in the delaware valley and villanova is getting set to play in the first round of the naacp and temple plays later today and st. joes hits the court tonight. jeff skversky is live in brooklyn with all the excitement surrounding our home town teams. >> reporter: the party is in full swing at villanova, at the student center, things are in full swing, they have prizes and pizza and balloons and everyone here is cheering for villanova. but they say it's a great time for basketball here in philadelphia. ♪ ♪ march madness is here and of course the excitement is in the air. >> it's electric, and everybody is talking about it and everybody is supporting their team and they have their shirts on and everybody is ready to go and for a win tonight. temple students loaded on to buses to cheer on their team. >> we'll be loud and cheering as loud as possible and be l

meteorologist melissa magee. not too bad with a little bit of rain earlier on this week. >> grab rain gear and umbrellas for commute early tomorrow morning but after that, the week it is pretty mild for mid-march. >> good. >> we will show you what is going on, storm tracker six live double scan radar. you can see we have some precipitation right now, across philadelphia, across our northwestern suburbs as well but you will notice a batch of moisture to the south, press nothing to wilmington, vineland, through dover as well with moderate pockets of rainfall. we will go tighter on that in just a moment but first across philadelphia and immediate suburbs you can see light rain showers along that i-95 corridor through jenkintown, norristown, lansdale, green lane, and pottstown as well but now we will focus down to the south, across south jersey and millville, along route 47, traveling southbound, in cape may, also to the west, and fortecue. we are also dealing with moisture for smyrna, route 300 down into dover and u

>>> "action news", delaware valley's leading news program with meteorologist melissa magee, jeff skversky, sarah bloomquist and walter perez. >>> sunday night, a shooting on the pennsylvania turnpike, leaves three people dead and president obama arrives in cuba for a historic visit. but the big story on "action news" is snow for parts of the region. some flurries are falling right now in some areas. taking a live look in center city right now, dark, dreary out there at a the moment. sun, light rain falling at the moment. but change over to snow a little bit later and that could accumulate enough to make for a slow early morning commute. meteorologist melissa magee is at the big board with the first check of the accu weather forecast, melissa. >> for the first day of spring we are tracking that snow and it looks like what you will find depend on your location at least the amount. we have a winter weather advisory east of philadelphia a, where ocean, southern burlington, and atlantic counties. the advisory goes up at 7:00 this evening lasting through 6:00 a a.m. on monday because we will tr

from sky 6 hd this afternoon and you see brightness beginning to appear there and meteorologist, melissa magee, is enjoying time outside and now brings the accuweather forecast. no jacket required melissa. temperatures are quite mild despite the clouds and the moisture we are tracking across the region. here is stormtracker 6 live double scan you'll notice light rain across philadelphia and some back towards berks be lancaster counties. we'll go in tighter on street level be light rain south of philadelphia but a heavier pocket of rain along the new jersey turnpike if you travel westbound west of the browns mills that is down into medford lakes and berlin. the moisture thanks to a frontal boundary moving on through is coming in from a west-east direction and will depart later on today. winds are starting to pick up. they are sustained to 14 miles per hour in philadelphia, and 12 in lancaster and 12 miles per hour in sea isle city and coming in from the southwesterly direction and because of that temperatures are quite mild. 68 in philadelphia, and 67 in reading and 68 in dover, a touch cooler

accu weather forecast, with meteorologist, i cannot speak today but meteorologist melissa magee. are looking forward to the weekend. with this forecast beginning of the workweek looks great. >> monday looks like a nice day. >> it does. >> it looks like it gets better throughout the rest of the week, yes. >> yes. >> just a little tickle. >> storm tracker six live double scan radar it is dry, no issues with precipitation right now. in fact we're looking dry, mild as we go throughout the next several days. we will show you picture outside, action cam was outside earlier today, there at rittenhouse square in center city. we had mostly cloudy sky early this morning. we're tracking weak disturbance all of last night, did not have any moisture associated with it. so clouds, this morning, and, gave way to sunshine this afternoon and temperatures responded nicely. pretty close to average. our high today in philadelphia, 47 degrees. normal for this time of the year is 49. record by the way is 71 setback in 1935. 70-degree numbers will not be out of the question as we head into this week ah

meteorologist, melissa magee, is at the big board with more on what to expect. >> reporter: hi there rick, the hard to believe we are tracking snow into the weekend especially with temperature so mild. 59 in philadelphia and 61 in allentown and 51 in the poconos. but in the weekend get ready for a cooling trend. wednesday was a beautiful day. yesterday maxing out at 63 and today we call for a high in the city of 62, we are down to 4 tomorrow and 38 as we get into sunday, so with the temperatures lowering, there is the possibility of snow as it's nor'easter works its way into the region. as we go throughout the day on sunday. future tracker 6 showing you 8:00 in the morning, you have snow and philadelphia points to the north and west and areas in south jersey and delaware, so really overnight saturday and into the day on sunday on the first day of spring by the way we are track something snow. the northwest suburbs it looks to be wet snow along the i-95 corridor, it looks to be wet snow and mixing as well. across central delaware and south jersey, raw rain to evening wet snow. but ove

meteorologist melissa a magee is tracking the system and joins us live from the big board with more, melissa a a. >> yeah, sarah we are tracking two pieces of energy working their way in the delaware and lehigh valleys. storm tracker six live double scan radar is showing you we have light rain falling. for bulk of the day it has been falling to the south of philadelphia right through south jersey into delaware. notice mixing going on for from wilmington and chester county, pennsylvania. initially we were thinking we were going to track one piece out the to the west and another area of low pressure that would merge and form a coast aal storm but that idea is falling apart. what we have overhead right now is a a little bit of moisture moving across the region. that will shift to the north and east throughout the early evening hours and then we're tracking an area of low pressure off the coast that will work its way to the north and east as we get in the second half of our weekend, on sunday. models are trending that this area of low pressure will move further east which will low snowfal

. >>> now to meteorologist melissa magee in for cecily tynan with the first look at that all importanteekend forecast. hi, melissa. >> hi, monica. we have a couple changes on the way as we head into our weekend but still a very comfortable friday evening. a big change, though, from what we had yesterday. saying goodbye to the 80's. yesterday we had a record high of 82 in philadelphia and today we max out at 69. so, yes, relatively cooler but still above the average of 51 by a good 18 degrees. so, when you look at the 24 hour temperature change across the region it's 10 degrees cooler in the city than it was the same time yesterday. 16 degrees cooler in allentown and 11 degrees cooler in atlantic city than it was just 24 hours ago. we've got you covered if you're out on the town tonight. 58 degrees at 7:00 p.m. it's mostly clear at 8 o'clock. we'll drop down into the lower 50's at 9 p.m. staying into the lower 50's at 10 o'clock tonight and in the upper 40's at 11:00 p.m. underneath a mostly clear sky so conditions will be cooling down relatively quickly. here's what we can expect as we

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meteorologist melissa a magee with the first look at your forecast, melissa a. >> we are certainly tracking change is a cross the delaware and lehigh valleys. here's storm tracker six double scan radar. you can see the rain. we will go in tighter on street level and focus on some of that steady heavier pockets of precipitation at this her right long i-95 corridor from trenton, philadelphia a, wilmington and areas of south jersey on route 49 or along the atlantic city expressway. also for our neighbors north and west of town right along i-76 between honey brook and downingtown pike, as well. the numbers are certainly responding, with that southeasterly wind currently coming in, it is cooler, 52 in philadelphia a, at this hour. fifty-seven in the poconos. forty-eight in cape may. fifty in lancaster. we will talk about what we can expect as we go throughout the rest of tonight and start of our workweek but steady rain will continue tonight and right through the overnight hours. we will be slow going for the commute tomorrow morning and much cooler day, with temperatures only in the upper 40's,

meteorologist melissa magee is in for cecily tonight and she's outside with a first look at the forecast hi, melissa. >> hi, rick. yeah as you mentioned a nice recovery after some early morning snow showers but we had a bit of a cool stretch over the weekend. on saturday a high of just 47, yesterday 43, today we're coming in at 50 degrees below, below the normal of 54 for this time of year and the cooler numbers did trigger some snow across the region early today. a touch of snow that philadelphia, just a trace but some locations across portions of new jersey picked up a little more than 2-inches of snowfall. you can see there on satellite6 along with action radar, the early morning snow already starting to depart and we did have plenty of sunshine for the bulk of our day but we are starting to watch some instability clouds that are moving on through as we go throughout the rest of the evening hours. so, looking ahead, it is chilly tonight but, hey, a nice rebound on the way. 70's by the middle half of our work week and it does look to be nice as we get into easter weekend. we'll take a

>>> "action news", delaware valley's leading news program, with meteorologist melissa a magee, jeff skversky and walter perez. >>> it was a nail biter to the very end but when it was all over, villanova toppled top seeded kansas. the wildcats tonight go to the final four for the first time since 2009. saturday night, i'm walter perez the big story on "action news" is a huge win by villanova wildcats. if you caught last few minutes of that game you are probably still catching your breath. kansas went down swinging with last minute mistakes by jay hawks gave nova the edge they needed. sports director ducis rodgers has highlights. ducis this was one heck of a game. >> i'm still catching my breath, walter. what a game indeed. villanova had not been tested to this point in the tournament. tonight cats and they pass that had test to reach their first final four in seven years. nova facing top overall seed kansas in louisville. first half josh hart with the steel. the cats forced kansas into 16 turnovers, 23-16 nova. later in the half chris jenkins is deadly from out there. cats up 32-25 at half ti

. >> meteorologist melissa magee has been tracking the chance of snow all day for us. she's live at the big board with the latest. hi, melissa. >> hi monica, hi rick. essential hard to believe that we are tracking snow especially with temperatures so mild ahead of this system. in order to produce snowfall we have to talk about cold air. here's satellite6 along with action radar. there's a frontal boundary, a cold front we're tracking and we did have some sunshine earlier today, sun giving way to increasing clouds and there could be a spotty shower from time to time as we go throughout the rest of tonight but in the wake of this frontal boundary dipping down to our south and east, numbers are falling off fairly quickly. to our north it's 37 in syracuse. 35 in bangor maine and 26 degrees in caribou but to the south of that still 63 in philadelphia and 61 degrees in baltimore. so, this front will shift on off to our south and east as we go throughout the rest of tonight and into our weekend so that will establish relatively colder air across the region. now we'll talk abou

accuweather says the weekend ahead is a nice one, melissa magee is outside on the terrace with the details. >> yes, rick we are finding more in the way of sunshine this afternoon. after a fairly cloudy start across the delaware and lehigh valley valleys. numbers now are in the r. 65 in philadelphia and 70 in wilmington and 56 in allentown and 60 for trenton and 68 in atlantic city. right now in philadelphia it's 13 degrees cooler than it was the same time yesterday but yesterday we had record highs in the 80s. not going to climb that high today. satellite 6 along with action radar showing you that front we had across the region that did trigger sprinkles and showers this morning. clouds are breaking out for more in the way of sunshine as we go through the rest of our afternoon. the call from accuweather breezy and cooler, we are maxing out in the 60s, with gusts of up to 30 miles per hour. but 60 is well above the average of 51. nice change on the way as we head into the weekend. it looks to be quiet across much of the region and in fact we call for a high of 64, that is 13 degrees above n

for more on that lets head to melissa magee tracking the weather at the big board. >> reporter: hey there, we are tracking showers on this friday. it's good friday across the delaware and lehigh valleys, the moisture is moving through and light to moderate pockets of rain in surf city, and cape may, we go tighter to areas north and west along the 95 corridor, it's pressing out of philadelphia and into cherry hill and woodbury and gibbsboro and route 55 in new jersey you'll notice the showers moving in. so the showers are starting to dissipate from a west-east direction this afternoon. despite the showers we have a southwesterly wind and temperatures are responding nicely. 68 in philadelphia and average for us this year is 56, and 67 in reading and 61 in the poconos, the coast in cape may 53 and 67 out to the west in dover. so the early afternoon and evening commute showing you not bad, the clouds and moisture overhead right now but we'll clear out this afternoon. 70 at 4:00 p.m., and 67 at 5:00 p.m., we drop down to 64 early this evening at 6:00 p.m. but still sunny and bright conditions

meteorologist melissa magee is live at the "action news" big board with the first check of the accu weather forecast, hi there, melissa. >> hi there walter, we have changes on the way for second half of the weekend but certainly not a bad start. a tiny tum from what we had a across our region yesterday. yesterday a high of 69. today we maxed out at 61. that is still a good 10 degrees above our average of 51 this time of the the year. outside tonight, we are where we were normally should be. fifty-one in philadelphia for a daytime high. forty-seven in allentown, lehigh valley. forty-seven in cape may. 48 degrees in lancaster. here is the change, storm tracker six live double scan radar 3-d showing you high pressure over our region and it is starting to move east. it is losing its grip across the delaware and lehigh valleys. all of this moisture out across ohio valley and tennessee river valley will work its way from the southwest to northeast direction with the frontal boundary that will be lifting northward as we go throughout the day tomorrow, and even as we get in the start of the workwee

meteorologist melissa magee is at the "action news" big board with the first check of the accu weather forecast, melissa a. >> sarah, how much snow you see will depend on where you live. we will talk about what is going on. we have a winter weather advisory mainly across three counties in south jersey. it is for ocean, southern burlington and atlantic counties. this will stay up until 6:00 in the morning because for these locations we are expecting some steady, and some light snow, mainly east of philadelphia. here's storm tracker six live double scan radar. the notice light snow, pressing into the delaware and lehigh valleys a long that i-95 corridor even into berks, lehigh, lancaster and chester counties out to the west. tighter on street level with storm tracker six you will notice the snow along that i-95 corridor but just to the east of medicine forward lakes and south of sea isle city we are dealing with some sea side heights i should say. we are dealing with pockets of intensity picking up a cross the region and expect this to continue as we go throughout the overnight hours. fu

. >>> "action news", delaware valley's leading news program with meteorologist melissa a magee, jeff skversky, sarah bloomquist and walter perez. >>> it is a chilly night the outside there with temperatures calling for wind breaker. the rain held off for easter sunday but we may not be so lucky tomorrow. sunday night, sarah's off, the big story on "action news" is a damp start to your monday morning commute. heading back to work or school tomorrow you might want to bring an umbrella meteorologist melissa a magee is live at the accu weather big board with the first check of the forecast. >> if you bring the umbrella you will only need it for first half of the day. we will talk about the specifics, moisture that moves through overnight but overnight outside in philadelphia, 47 degrees after a high today of 60. fifty for reading and lancaster. forty-five at the north of our region up in the poconos. 47 degrees in cape may. here's what is going on satellite six with action radar a fair amount of cloud cover a cross the region today. cloud are continuing to build up and thicken in the reg

"action news", delaware valley's leading news program, with meteorologist melissa magee, jeff skversky and walter perez. >>> saturday night i'm walter perez. the big story on "action news" is breaking news from delaware county. police officer from chester was shot following a chase with two armed suspects. one of the suspects is now dead this all happened at 4:00 f the parker and union streets. "action news" reporter jeff chirico is live at the scene with the very latest, jeff? >> reporter: well, walter there is a lot going on here at the scene, right the now, there are a crowd of people, standing behind me, watching, as police, processed the crime scene, police we're told, were in pursuit of suspects and apparently that pursuit ended here. after that pursuit ended, a gun battle ensued, shots fired, and leaving one officer in critical condition, and we believe one suspect in critical condition, however, from what we can tell on the scene, there are also, at least one, deceased individual, that we believe would be a suspect. now six abc, "action news", obtained exclusive video of this s

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meteorologist melissa a magee has the first check of the accu weather forecast, melissa. >> certainly something to look forward to for the week ahead. temperatures will be above average. right now we are starting to chill down under mostly clear skies. thirty-five in philadelphia. twenty-eight in allentown. thirty-two in the poconos a long the companyes in wildwood 28. thirty-one for both lancaster and dover. the call from accu weather we have a star lit sky mainly clear. we will drop down to 28 in the suburbs for overnight low and 34 in philadelphia. with that south to southeasterly wind that will remain dominant over the next several days. the it is all about this march warm up. we have a trough of low pressure across west coast there, they are doing cooling conditions and unsettled weather. but we have this ridge along the east coast with high pressure dominating, and it will be nice and warm, and well above where it normally should be for this time of the year. we will talk about the headlines, big warm upcoming our way, temperatures this weekend, 60's and 70's and record are also

. >>> looking live outside now at the ben franklin bridge, meteorologist melissa magee is coming up withexclusive accuweather five day forecast when "action news" comes right back. >> time for accuweather at the "action news" big board tonight. >> all right, meteorologist melissa magee is in for cecily tynan. looking ahead to that holiday forecast, melissa. >> yeah, sharrie and rick and skies are already starting to clear out across the delaware and lehigh valleys so an indication of what's to come for the start of our easter weekend. so far in philadelphia today coming in at 73. 70 in trenton. a little cooler to the north and west. just the lower 60's from allentown down to reading and lancaster because there you are dealing with a northerly wind and that northerly wind will help to dry out the atmosphere but also cool things down. 68 in dover and at the coast at this hour coming in at 67 in atlantic city. here is satellite6 along with action radar. we had some showers around earlier today. those showers are starting to move on off to our east but you notice back to the west some cleari

meteorologist, melissa magee, has your accuweather forecast. fios is not cable. we're wired differently. in the last 10 years our competitors have received a few awards. but we've received a few more, including jd power who ranked us highest in customer satisfaction for the third year in a row. only fios has the fastest internet on the most awarded network. now get super-fast 100 meg internet tv and phone for just $69.99 per month, online. cable can't offer internet speeds this fast at a price this good, only fios can. >>> time for accuweather at the "action news" big board. melissa magee has the forecast for you. >> it looks great outside, rick and monica not a bad day outside. we'll show you the picture outside and show you sky 6 hd, and down at the shore look closely at the boardwalk there are a fair amount of people at the boardwalk but if you look closely it's bouncing and behaving because we have a bit of a wind to contend with. and a bit a breeze getting our numbers slightly above average and 16 miles per hour in atlantic city and 17 miles per hour out to

meteorologist melissa a magee over at the "action news" big board with the the first check of the accu weather forecast. >> we are tracking wet the snow for first day of spring but it looks like old man winter may tip toe out of here come tomorrow because precipitation doesn't look to be like a whole lot across the region. the here's storm tracker six live double scan radar. the light rain showers that were for the most part to the south of the city for majority of the day are starting to move out. we have a little bit of moisture across atlantic city and into cape may. also back to the lancaster county and even some moisture wet snow flakes there in wilmington. big picture showing you we have had one batch of moisture earlier today, this is starting to move off to our east and what we are awaiting is off to our south, there is an area of low pressure well off the coast of the carolinas and this will shift north and east but the computer models have been saying that the storm system is moving further and further east which means as it comes up the eastern seaboard, the snowfall amounts

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we will delve into this question next but first melissa magee next. >> here's the exclusive accu weather seven day forecast, cooler on monday, steady rain in the morning, tapering to showers in the afternoon in at 49. tuesday, an early showers, otherwise turning sunny in at 62. sunny and warm by wednesday up to 73. st. patrick's day on thursday, in at 65. "action news" sports sunday continues with more after this. blank dear fellow citizen, i know how it feels to save for retirement and college - times two. i get that it can be overwhelming, because i'm living it. but i always tell people - saving's not that complicated. you just have to work with what you have. if you have a question about saving, ask me. sincerely, alex payne. fellow dad and fellow citizen. they had a busy week reshaping their roster dead weight gone, contracts gone, they bring in the guard in brandon brooks. they added pieces on defense. mike, are you on board with what howie roseman has been doing. >> howie hero, is what we call him now. the things that they did were amazing. i don't know how it will work out as far

. >> reporter: we're off to a wet start, melissa magee was talking about this last night. future tracker is showing you what she showed you, and now we have it on radar. fairly steady cells in the western suburbs, more stuff coming out of baltimore maryland and up toward philadelphia. during the morning commute we'll see this and it will taper off to spotty showers throughout the day. 46 in allentown. it's cool out there, we're getting a breeze off the ocean on top of an area of low pressure that's producing these showers that are coming off the ocean today. bus stop forecast cloudy skies, wet conditions, 46 by 6:00. 47 by 8:00 a.m. a jacket required and rain gear. as we roll through the day it stays cloudy and dreary. 47 degrees by 9:00 a.m. 48 by 11:00. i expect the high to be 49 degrees around 1:00 p.m., we start to settle back into the mid 40s by dinnertime. rain in the morning arena showers on and off through the afternoon and evening. i'll show you that on future tracker 6 coming up. karen, tomorrow starts out damp, will we end up dry? >> reporter: you keep working o

melissa magee gives us a kickoff of events. >> article 13 is named after the 13th article in the declaration of human rights by the united nations. >> it states that people have the freedom to cross borders and return home again. >> it's about humanity and people going from country to country. >> they will walk amongst performers and fire and sand and water right here on penn's landing in a space the side of two football fields. >> 20,000 people can wend their way through the performance. >> the artists met with local immigration groups and they told their stories why and how they came to philadelphia and they will be incorporated into this project. >> every member of the city gives local and culturally. >> as each visitor walks along the penn station insulation they tell their own journey. for years, i was a laboratory chemist, developing drugs to fight deadly diseases. as a scientist, i know there's more that washington can do to help families. i'm running for congress to protect planned parenthood funding so more women get cancer screenings and treatment... to pass a ban on fracking in th

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. >> reporter: we're off to a wet start, melissa magee was talking

. >>> now for melissa magee, jeff skversky and walter perez and the entire "action news" team, i'm sarah bloomquist. we will see you right back here at 11:00 o'clock. >> ♪ >>> tonight, a special edition of "world news tonight." remembering nancy reagan. the former first lady, passing away at her home. for president ronald reagan, she was his best supporter. redefining the role of the first lady. her legacy as a powerful force behind the white house. tonight, our team on a first lady who will be remembered. a special edition of "world news tonight" begins now. >> good evening. great to be with you on a sunday night. we begin with a nation remembering a first lady, nancy reagan. dying today in california. she will have a lasting legacy, fiercely loyal to her husband, even during press conferences, known to help her husband with his words. in her later words, after the death of her husband, saying her last good-bye before he was laid to rest. california governor jerry brown ordering flags at half-staff. we begin with matt gutman at the reagan presidential library in california. >> reporter:

. >>> time for a check of the accu weather forecast with meteorologist melissa magee.top talking about what will happen in the week ahead. great. >> very nice warm up on the way, walter, taste of spring but overnight tonight a couple of flurries, snow showers. >> we will survive. >> it is winter's last gasp. >> i hope so. >> here's storm tracker six, live double scan radar. the it is dry. notice precipitation but there could ab up few flurries flying in the overnight hours and we will talk about the details. in the near term we will show you picture outside sky six live in hd. a beautiful shot of the ben franklin bridge on this saturday night. we have partly cloudy to mostly cloudy skies. we will track precipitation that moves through during the overnight hours. we have a high today in philadelphia of 42. 7 degrees off the mark. the currently it is 36 a at this hour. twenty-nine in allentown. twenty-seven in the poconos. thirty-three in dover a long the coast in wildwood, 28. thirty along that i-95 corridor, and north in trenton. here's satellite six with action radar.

. >>> time for a check of the accu weather forecast with meteorologist melissa magee. i will tell you what it has not been that bad at all with the rain coming, it is not bad. >> you are right about that. just another sign that spring is right around the corner. >> i cannot wait but this winter wasn't that bad. >> it wasn't just one big snowstorm. >> i remember that well. >> yes. >> we all remember that well. >> yes, from snow to showers, tomorrow, walter, here is storm tracker six live double scan radar. you can see it is dry with no issues with precipitation. by the even of the the day tomorrow we will be tracking some showers, and some steadier rain moving on n we will show you picture outside, sky six live in hd there, in chester, looking at commodore barry bridge. we've got a partly cloudy to mostly cloudy sky across the region and the cloud will build and thicken as we go throughout the overnight hours and in the second half of the weekend on sunday. so right now we're coming in at 51 degrees and believe it or not 51 is our typical daytime high for this time of t

melissa magee gives us a look at the kickoff event. >> article 13 is named after the 13th article in declaration of human rights by the united nations. >> reporter: the article states that people have the freedom to cross borders and return home again. >> this isn't a political story. it's about humanity. it's about as people move from country to country what changes in their lives. >> reporter: visitors will be walking amongst performers, fire sand and water right here on penn's landing in a space the size of two football fields. >> 20,000 people can wind their way through this performance. >> reporter: the artist met with local immigration groups in november. >> they told their stories about why they came to philadelphia, how they came to philadelphia and those stories will be incorporated into this project. >> every neighborhood in the city contributes culturally and social to our fabric of our city and it's nice for people from outside to see that. >> reporter: and as each visitor walks along the penn's landing installation, they will have their very own experience. >> it's reall

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melissa magee will have the final call on "action news" tonight. the trend is it's moving out to sea that's good news. 45 in millville. allentown, 48. overnight tonight, mixture of rain and wet snow developing closer to dawn. overnight lows in the mid 30s. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast shows we clear out nicely next week. 46 degrees. showers today. 39 tomorrow, rain and wet snow. brisk and chilly monday, 48. tuesday, 53. wednesday, 66. thursday and friday look gorgeous at this point at least temperature-wise, 72 and 73 degrees. >>> i'm surprised at old man winter. >> reporter: at least he is giving us a break, because he could have as you canner -- sucker punched me. >>> in "shelter me rescue of the week a second life for a dog. >>> she was the mommy of many, many puppies. she was two hours from being euthanized. >>> i adored carl line. once saved she found her comfort zones now she enjoys her sunglasses and her travels. >>> will he likes to go to the beach. the paws forward foundation started in 2013. we started it for funding for l

but first here's melissa a magee with weather. >> thanks, guys. here's the exclusive accu weather seven day forecast, breezy on monday, clouds and some sun after early morning snow showers, coming in at 50 by the afternoon. milder on tuesday, with plenty of sun, up to 56, even warmer on wednesday, 68, it is warm on thursday with a high of 71, and evening showers likely. forty-six for good friday. "action news", sports sunday continues after the break. i do everything on the internet. but it's kind of slow. my friends said i should get fios because it's the fastest... i just downloaded 600 photos in 60 seconds. that's seriously better. (man) we're out of 2%. i wonder what else could be better around here? (man) i heard that. now get our best offer ever. super fast 100 meg internet, plus tv & phone for just $69.99 a month online with no annual contract. 100 meg speeds at a price this good? fios can do that. cable just can't. switch to better. switch to fios >>> "action news" sports sunday is sponsored by audi, challenge all givens. >> we're back her

. >> meteorologist melissa magee has been watching what's in store for the holiday weekend. a first look at what's coming our way. hi, melissa. >> hi, sharrie. we certainly have a brighter start to our weekend on saturday but as you mentioned a bit of a damp start and we're still tracking a spotty shower well east of philadelphia down in south jersey there in surf city southern ocean county we're starting to watch this activity move out from a west-east direction. it was all part avenue bigger picture with a frontal boundary that moved through earlier today. you could see it on satellite six along with action radar and most of the shower activity is starting to exit to our east. we're starting to carve out some clearing skies there in allentown and the lehigh valley and this will continue to sag off to the south and east with there northerly wind as we go throughout the rest of tonight. despite the clouds and the moisture overhedda was still quite mild coming in at 73 in philadelphia, 70 in trenton, 70 in wilmington but a little cooler to our north and west, 62 in allentown,

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