Through the cracks. That johnson cleared all federal and state background checks, grateful that our residents alerted us to the behave of this former ploy and we could work quickly to report the allegations investigate the matter and terminate her plo employment. Earlier this month Police Arrested nina scott, a teacher at the school for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a 16yearold student. Detectives say in is no link between the two cases. Reporter and back out live, we can tell that you police have execute aid warrant to search johnsons phone to make sure she did not text pictures or videos to student. She is out waiting for a court date and does not have a prior criminal record. Thank you. Police in wilmington are investigating a robbery and atemmed Sexual Assault of a runner and investigators a that a 28yearold woman was running when a man came up behind her and pushed her to the grown and the attacker tried to sexually assault her and she fought him off. The numbers are in for the first month of the citys saug ari drink tax and the city of philadelphia collected more in beverage tax revenue than it first thought. A total of 5. 7 million. Live at the shoprite at roosevelt boulevard in northeast philadelphia, reporter john rawlins. The city said a couple of days ago the number was 2. 3 million. How are they explaining the huge jump . Curious jim. There is one school of thought that the lower figure was a low ball estimate to prevent any possible embarrassment. The mayor was asked about the larger number and what it suggested to him. He said it suggested that people are complying with the law and the world did not come to an end and most focused on the critics of the tax. Soda tax revenue, this is such crap. They have been misleading people since the very beginning of this whole debate. Despite robust tax receipts, the blunt words aimed at critics saying its driving consumers away from philadelphia. That jeff brown the owner of six Shoprite Stores that the tax hurt sales that workers hours have been cut. The mayor was skeptical. I dont believe him. Dont buy it. Fear mongering from the get go. Last week it was reported that canada dry sales down 45 and layoffs coming in march. The guys that own the Soda Companies are billionaires. There are no billionaires at local 830 but workers. He speaks for the members and some are looking for a sec job to make ends meet. My guys paychecks are diminished from 50 to 70 of their take home pay. They are already seeing that . They are already seeing that. The drop in sales will be temporary the consumers going to the burbs to avoid that tax will get bored and return. Chips i will buy but soda i will not buy, i will not pay the tax. I just will not pay it. The goal is to raise 91 million for this first year for a variety of issues, including the expansion of prek in philadelphia and it faces a legal challenge by the Beverage Industry and the next is Commonwealth Court in april. John rawlins, channel 6 action news. Thank you. There are beg problems in smyrna delaware a mass resignation has taken place at the site of this months deadly prison take over. And 29 members either quit out right or have given their notice. Several guards testified at a Senate Hearing and said the prison is understaffed and disorganized and dangerous. The two day prison siege began february 1st when they took four Staff Members hostage, one was killed and another injured. Two homeownerses woke up to a messy situation this morning. Contractors working for the Water Department forgot to remove a temporary plug in the sewer after completing work yesterday leading to the discharge of sewage in two homes. They responded to clean the sewage and sanitize the affected homes. As we reported the Trump Administration has revoked an obama era directive that directed Public Schools to allow children to use bathrooms of their chosen jenner and now its up to states and local School Districts. What about the Philadelphia School district . What will its policy be . Sara bloomquist has the diffnative answer tonight. The School District of philadelphia has a policy in place adopted by the School Reform commission in summer allowing the students to use the bathroom of their choice. Superintendant, william hite said the totally is not change. We are proud of that policy and provide safe and supportive environments for all children. In a late night announcement the white house announced the revoking of guidelines by president obama allowing students to use the bathroom of their choice. This is not best dealt with at the federal level. Mayor kenney condemned the action and a member of his commission of lgbt affairs. This targets transgender people but the whole Lgbt Community needs to stand up and fight this. And parents were concerned about the roll back of transgender protections and said their policy will stan. I believe there will be court cases out of this and a Supreme Court case and in the meantime youll fine most schools around here wont pay any attention to that. Parents here is a the concern is the first step if rescinding other lgbt rights, the impact will not be felt immediately because the judge temporarily blocked obamas directive. And world news tonight with david muir has more on the reversal of guidelines on transgender bathrooms. That is next at 6 30 right after action news. A day long Cultural Affairs celebrated black History Month at abington high school. And it featured displays at africanamerican countries and cultural dances. They call themselves the soaring six, the all girl rock team setting an example that science is not just for the boys. And jaime apody with trade news. The sixers made a deal but not the one we thought. Ner little nerlins noel is gone. And we have record highs, two more days of spring like warmth, but colder air is waiting in the wings and will be arriving over the weekend and ahead of it storms are possible. Ill have details on that in the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. Those stories and more when action news continues tonight. This may seem like out of the blue but if you think only boys like to build and play with rockets. You better think again. And girls in philadelphia are disproving that misconception. Katherine scott has the story. They call themselves the soaring six. They are the all gears rocket team out of the Calvary School in northeast philadelphia. Girls have the same amount of power as the guys do and its really inspiring. This is our prototype a its longer. They are working side by side in their lab dedicated to building rockets. Vying for the National Title the mission for the seventh and eighth graders to build a rocket able to hit 700 to 800 feet for a flight duration of 45 seconds and the rocket must separate and computer design and construction trial and error. We keep running flight simulations to the flights over and over again. Changing each maybe the size the tube length and definitely the weight. We have to make sure the fins are very good. Which is why im in charge of making the fins. The students started building the rockets in the six grade and took first last year and are gearing up for nationals. And he sees this as a tremendous educational opportunity. It elicititied an awe factor in them and that translates into the learning. The students are working on the qualifying flights, the top 100 teams make it to nationals in may. It includes High Schoolers from around the country and they faced older teams before and remain undaunted. We went up against High School Teams that honestly did not think we would win this but we did. Aspire to do something and you can. Did you know that one of philadelphias landmark, one Liberty Place is just fine feet tall. The lego version is plain feet tall. This is the first completed landmark for the Lego Land Discovery Center mini philadelphia display. You can see it when it opens at the Plymouth Meeting mall on march 25 and. It took 930 hours to complete. Visitors patients and Staff Members at the Dupont Hospital for children enjoyed a free piano concert today. He performed his musical magic, hospital Officials Say they hope the music helps with healing. That has more ski mountains to choose from than any other in the country. And thats not the only thing you can only find in new york state. You can find it all, only in new york. New york. Its all here. Its only here. Plan your winter getaway at iloveny. Com drama with the philadelphia 76ers, they got rid of a big man but not the one expected. One had to go and in the end it turned out to be nerlins noel and not okafor. He ships to the mavericks for a first round pick and that conditional first round pick is top 18 protected. Jaime apody is live now in camden with the reaction to the deal and none deal. Given the fact that that pick will turn into two second round picks and bogut will not be here next year, and okafor is still here the reaction is not good from fans at all. Look at this video we got earlier. Action news there as noel came back on the court to say goodbye to his teammates and friends, and joel embiid who called him his best friend. He went through most of practice and abruptly removed from court when the trade went down. Embiid is happy for his friend who would get a chance to start in dallas something that was not possible here. But i asked how it felt to pull noel off the court. To walk off an hour and a half later and ask nerlins to come over and see me and take him out of practice. It didnt catch anyone wildly off guard, when it actually happens, there is a human side of this, that is sad. The huge story, despite embiid went through full practice. And team doctors advise he miss the next four games of his bone bruise, sixers target march 3rd. And ripped in the team for not being form coming a few weeks ago. They have them listed day to day and embiid was told he wouldnt miss a few weeks. I wasnt too happy the way it was handled before. The day to day part. And i was told that i was going to miss two or three weeks so i wasnt happy with the way it was handled. A lot of hard feelings today with embiid and fans worry that this team is now tanking given the trade of noel and we find out tomorrow if they fan on letting ben simmons play at all this year. Something brett brown refused to answer today. Jaime apody, channel 6 action news. It turned into a soap opera thank you. To baseball the Phillies Grapefruit League play, they gave us a game any way. Roman quinn hopes to make a team as an outfielder and quinn needs to shorten his swing. And two who three with a solo homer and the phillies win 60. And look outside your window, does it look like outdoor hockey weather . The flyers and penguins are suppose to may outdoors in pittsburgh on saturday. They hit the practice ice and are licking their wounds after the 41 loss to the capitals last night. Temperatures are expected to be if the upper 50s and flyers know the conditions will be far from ideal. The games i played before outdoor the ice is not the greatest and you try to keep it simple out there. Might be a little slushy out there. A little slushy thank you ducis. A day for birthday celebrations at the philadelphia zoo, amanny the baby gorilla is 6 months old and zoo officialed threw a big party in her enclosure. She likely didnt know what the fuss was about and still prefers to stick close to her mom. And the lemur quintuplet celebrated their birthday, they turned one year old today. This race is consequential. Its all about being able to look your kid in the eye. And say, honey, its gonna be okay. And this woman understands it in her gut. She gets it. Stephanie hansen understands what people need. This election is very, very important to middle class people to live the life they deserve. Dont ask yourself the morning after the election why didnt i vote . We are talking about the lemurs the black and white lemurs celebrating their birthday at the zoo and i read four names, they are lemur quadruplets. That is true. Maybe another will come next year. Or four more whatever. Great day to be at the zoo. We had temperatures in the 70s feeling like may and this date 30 years ago. You were here talking about a snow storm. I dont remember. The big snow storm. We have had a lot. I want to show you this video, the snow storm of 1987, philadelphia officially 7 inches of snow and more elsewhere. Coatesville 2 feet of snow. What a difference 30 years makes. Stormtracker 6 live double scan showing no snow out there and a few sprinkles north of harrisburg and a few of those could make it into northern berks county and northern poconos tonight. The big story is this, the temperatures a lot of warm air in fact. Wherever you see the asterisk, those are either record highs tied or set today. Six of them allentown 71 and Atlantic City 72 and dover 74 and the poconos bad news for the ski resorts, a record high of 63 and philadelphia 73, 2 degrees shy of the record high. This is future tracker 6 showing 6 00 saturday evening ahead of a cold front, well have a round of showers perhaps even a rare february thunderstorm. Late in the afternoon and early evening that is when the cold front and that will end this spring time in february. Sunday is going to feel like winter again. Right now 67 degrees in philadelphia and reading and allentown 68, millville 61 and the wind off the ocean and quite a bit cooler in cape may, and 10 degrees colder in the poconos and currently 59. We started day in the dense fog and the afternoon sunshine again tomorrow morning. Well have fog developing and temperatures are going to be remarkably warm for february. The normal high is 46 and the overlows are warmer than that. 54 for sent steer and a high launching pad for temperatures tomorrow. It looks like philadelphia. A lot of 70s along the shore, temperatures in the 50s. So this warmth continues tomorrow and may like temperatures in the 70s, and sun is when temperatures will only be in the 40s and factor in the winds, windchills are in the 30s. The exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast 75 tomorrow and 64 on saturday. Late day rain and thunderstorms, 46 on sunday, and windchills in the 30s but then temperatures climb again, 54 monday and tuesday rain, and 60. And wednesday the start of march coming in like a lamb instead of a lion. And thursday breezy and cooler and a high of 54 and the timing of saturdays rain on action news tonight at 11 00. Abcs world news tonight with david muir is next on channel 6. And action news continues at 10 00 on phl 17. And chad pradelli has the results of an investigation for alleged prostitution and human trafficking. They appear to be dens of prostitution in suburban neighborhoods and many go unsuspected for years and we found suspected operations hiding in plain sight and uncovered a website for reviewing sex parlors, action news is investigating the operations and now a Main Line Police department launched a raid in and effort to stop the alleged prostitution and shut down the business. Well take you inside of our investigation tonight on channel 6 action news at 11 00. And for cecily tynan and ducis rogers and the entire Action News Team im jim gardner we hope youll join us for action news at 11 00. Tonight, President Trump calls it a military operation on the border. The immigration crackdown. But his own Homeland Security secretary, general john kelly says thats not the case. The white house late today is asked, is this a military operation . Protests erupt after an offduty officer fires his gun. Young people running for cover. The new images here. Do they offer more to the story . The runway scare. The passenger plane coming in for a landing. The landing gear fails. The female jogger killed near her mothers home. What the dna reveals. Authorities asking for your help. And the major storm hitting tonight from 60 and 70degree temperatures to a blizzard. The nightmare commute tomorrow for millions