philadelphia police officer sammy sanchez says his son who has autism was largely non-verbal until heogram on the ipad. >> my son went from being none in verbal to 30 to 40 percent one word syllables to actually speaking in sentences. >> reporter: seeing how much it helped his son officer sanchez wanted to make sure other children benefited too. through his bowling for ipads program this year, he raised $15,000, to donate ipads to 76 children at different philadelphia schools. >> and you're a parent and you have things going on with your children and you you don't understand what really is going on. i think it is awesome because my son only thing that helped him to learn and to eat, and then is your computer. >> it is a great way of communicating their needs, and, for answering questions, academically, interact with all of the children. >> reporter: sanchez it is his small contributions, gesture helping out 76 children, communicate in a way best for them, so they, themselves, can continue to contribute to this world, more and more every day. reporting from feltonville, ra local hell s

philadelphia police officers sammy sanchez raised thousands of dollars in order to make the donations possible. >> these happy, smiling people here are people of the faces with autism. the pain, on this man's face, apparently a parent who just wants the best of his son. >> this is my football, baseball player and all of the dreams that i had and then i found out, i learn what autism was all about. >> reporter: autism effects people differently but tends to include trouble with social interaction and verbal and non-verbal communication. philadelphia police officer sammy sanchez says his son, who has had autism, was largely non-verbal until using the program, on the ipad. >> my son went from being non-verbal to 30 or 4 percent saying one ward syllables to actually speaking a sentence. >> reporter: seeing how much it helped his son officer sanchez, wanted to make sure that other children benefited too. through his bowling for ipad program he raised $15,000 to donate ipads to 76 children at different philadelphia schools. >> when you are a parent and you have things going on with your chi

officer sammy sanchez spent last few months raising more than $15,000 for that new technology. news" was on hand this morning when he presented the ipads to 76 kids who attend various schools across philadelphia. that is one greates great testao the philadelphia police department. >> let's talk about a changing accuweather forecast. cecily tynan in. things up and down. >> we hit 80 degrees. now we've got strong storms moving in. storm tracker6 live double scan slowing a pretty intense band of thunderstorms working through our northwest suburbs and in fact the national weather service has now issued a severe thunderstorm warning for parts of montgomery, bucks, hunterdon county for the potential for quarter size hail and wind gusts up to 60 miles per hour. that warning is in effect until 6:15 so i want to show you the area we're talking about the warning. this is really with the leading edge of the thunderstorms. it's crossing 309 right now it's moving east-northeast at about 50 miles per hour so moving pretty quickly so dublin bedminster dan borrow in the track of the storm. thi

officer sammy sanchez spent the last few months raising more than $15,000 for this new technology. was there this morning when he presented the ipads to 76 children who attend various schools across philadelphia. >> well, it is a freebie friday so find out where you can pick up a fun craft for your kids to do this weekend. >> and stepping outside sky6 hd looking live at cape may as the ocean roars in. meteorologist cecily tynan has the exclusive accuweather 7-day forecast next. >> meteorologist cecily tynan along with a word for your weekend weather. >> it's pretty amazing because you step outside now, it's about 80 degrees. >> wonderful. >> it's sunny and you feel like you've turned the dorn spring. >> yeah. >> and then not so fast. winter is coming back this weekend. storm tracker6 live double scan showing that we do have some downpours, some thunderstorms breaking out in parts of our viewing area. i've been tracking this one cell through berks county. this is now rolling through macungie. no lightning strikes with it but this is just a heavy downpour getting ready to cross the p