Up and rain coming. We have clouds building during the morning. Well probably see some sun and eventually clouds get thicker and and some of that rain you see down to the southwest will start to filter into the region this afternoon. 35 degrees currently in philadelphia, 34 wilmington. Still have a couple of spots close enough to the freezing mark where you have to be careful of some of that refreezing of the melting snow. Probably not as widespread today but something to keep in mind. Reminder melting refreezing icy patches not only on side streets but also on sidewalks. As we take a look at where things are going today 35 degrees so you need a coat early on. 38 by 8 oclock. By noon 48 and by 3 oclock 53 degrees. A little bit shy of where we wound up yesterday and during the afternoon hours and in through the evening well see periods of rain arriving. Matt pelman roads dry for now. Yeah, just at few slippery patches out there like you said but not a big problem. If we dont know thousand deal with a few slippery patches by now well i dont think theres much hope for us. 95 in Delaware County southbound side approaching the exit for highland avenue we have a disabled truck with plenty of flares to warn you about that that disabled truck. Stay to your left as you come south of the blue route and head down towards the state line. Not causing a big delay at this point. Also dealing with a report of a crash in west vincent Chester County. Its along four i one conestoga road at Saint Matthews road a favorite of mr. Odonnell and myself out there in Chester County. In bucks county still working thon water main break in middletown township blocking off big oak road between woodburn road and chance reroad. Stay on langhorne yardly road as your alternate as they continue that emergency utility work but no issues so far this morning along 95 headed towards the scudder falls bridge. The black horse pike shut down at evesham avenue. Its a crash that brought down a utility pole there. Atlantic avenue or maybe the route 30, the white horse pike are possible alternates. Tam. Okay, thank you matt. An amtrak train bound for philadelphia never made it here. Instead, it slammed into a tractortrailer stuck on the tracks in North Carolina. This is the third serious train crash in less than two months. Action News Reporter john rawlins is live now at 30th street station. Hes got more on the investigation and new reaction from passengers. Good morning john. Reporter good morning tam. Well get to that investigation or elements of that investigation in a moment. First were hearing from passengers who arrived here at 30th street station. They were bussed from North Carolina to washington, d. C. In washington they were put on another amtrak train and they arrived late last night. My gosh its been some experience. I mean, we were just falling asleep comfortably on amtrak which ive been riding on for about 20 years and all of a sudden you hear a squeak and then just a crash and i got thrown forward a little bit and its like nobody knows whats happening. Oh, my god. Oh my god oh reporter nora travis describing the impact from inside the train when this amtrak locomotive sliced through an oversized tractortrailer stalled on the tracks near halifax, North Carolina. Travis one of several passengers from the ill fated train arriving at 30th street late last night. Jackman was in the fourth car. Hes from malvern. It was just a big jolt. Right before the impact we sort of heard the brakes sort of squealing and then once we hit, of course, then it was a thrust, you know, great momentum so it was pretty scary. Reporter well, the investigation into how this happened is going to be an interesting one. Apparently the oversized tractortrailer reportedly had trouble navigating a left hand turn onto those tracks. It was large modular building Something Like 160 feet, the combination of tractor and trailer in this particular case. It was apparently under active escort by police t a critical question is going to be were the police in contact with amtrak dispatch at the time. Could they have radioed ahead to tell the train that they had a problem at the crossing. All of that is unclear at this point. Live at 30th street station john rawlins, channel6 action news. Back to you all. Okay, john, thank you. These are the dramatic moments as Philadelphia Police carried a shooting victim into a squad car to rush him to the hospital. He did not survive. Chopper 6 was over the scene of this deadly double shooting in north philadelphia. It happened on the 1200 block of rush street yesterday afternoon. The second victim is in critical condition. No word yet on suspects or a motive. Police in camden are looking for the man involved in a luring attempt that happened over the weekend. Three girls were approached while walking on the 700 block of ferry avenue on saturday. The man demanded they get into his car. The girls refused and threatened to call police before the man drove away. The bearded suspect was driving a late model four door dodge wagon and had new jersey plates c6 6chh. And a family is asking for help finding a missing woman from Montgomery County. 20yearold Deidre Magolon hasnt been seen since she left her Upper Providence home friday. She left in her sisters car but that vehicle was found abandoned on route 4 22 in upper merion. Police are following leads that magolon may have hitchhiked after experience something car trouble. Developing from the overnight the u. S. Ambassador to south korea is out of the hospital having recovered from that violent knife attack last week. Action News Reporter erin ohearn is live at the big board with more. Erin. Reporter matt, the good news is that the ambassador was well enough to hold a brief press conference in which he announced he felt pretty darn good. Mark lippert was slashed in the face and arm during a Breakfast Forum in seoul last thursday and needed surgery. The alleged attacker is a antiu. S. Activist who was previously convicted of hurling a piece of concrete at the japanese ambassador in seoul back in 2010. Lippert received a visit from the president of south korea and had undergone surgery at the same hospital. Im walking talking holding my baby. You know, hugging my wife. So im i just feel really good. I got a shrill rehab left to do on the arm, the face feels really good but thanks to the great medical professionals i feel, like i said, pretty darn good. Reporter his spirit seemed to be good as well. Im sure his family is thankful. He expect to return to work very soon and make a full recovery. Tam, back to you. Thank you erin. The jury now has the case in the shooting of a Philadelphia Police officer. Prosecutors say eric torres shot officer Edward Davies during a struggle inside a corner store in the feltonville section of the city back in august of 2013. Officer davies survived and testified about the incident. Hes still recovering from his wounds. Torres is charged with attempted murder but his defense argues the shooting was actually an accident that happened during the struggle. Happening today, the nfls Free Agency Period begins at 4 00 p. M. Our Sister Network espn says frank gore might be backing out of a deal with philadelphia. The agent for the 49ers running back all but acknowledged over the weekend that his client was coming to philadelphia. Gore would have been lesean mccoys replacement. Espn now says the Indianapolis Colts are now looking at gore. The eagles are set to officially sign free agent cornerback Byron Maxwell today. Its 4 38 and coming up, more new stories you didnt see last night 678 officials down south are dealing with another policeinvolved shooting and this time the victim was naked. Police in texas were quite surprised when they found this shiny yellow but damaged sports car left abandoned on the side of the road. David. Chilly out there this morning so bundle the kids up fairly well. This afternoon maybe one of those yellow rain slickers and an umbrella because it could be raining on the way home from school. Details coming up in that accuweather 7day. A massive icicle was so huge it totaled cars after falling from the side of a boston building. The frozen pillar of ice start to do melt yesterday when temperatures warmed into the 40s. Melting chunks broke off crushing roofs and smashing through windshields of cars in the parking lot below. Boy, those are gone. Hope they had good insurance. Fortunately, no one was hurt. We have our own melting issues around here. All this snow may be gone in a matter of a couple days. Yeah, maybe even faster than that. A lot of it is disappearing at this point which is good because we have a little bit of rain can coming today. If there was a lot of snow plus rain there would be flooding. Doesnt look like thats going to be the case. We have no precipitation this morning. Taking a look outside and we may even see some breaks of sunshine during the morning over the airport and elsewhere around the region but then clouds get thicker and during the afternoon as youll see were going to start to get wet. Temperatures 35 degrees currently in philadelphia. Winds are calm. There are some areas where the temperatures little closer to the freezing mark so you do want to look out for icy patches on sidewalks and side streets. Future tracker 6 showing you while there could be early sunshine today by noon looks like clouds will be filling in rather well and basically cloudy skies. Then during the afternoon maybe by 3 or 4 oclock according to the latest model runs youll start to see rain beginning to move in through the western suburbs and by the rush hour and beyond were all going to be wet with periods of off and on rain. Some of this could be a little bit on the steady side. And then we continue up to 11 oclock. Adam and cecily will have more to show you on channel 17 and here on 6abc, again a couple of steadier cells possible but it does look like it all dries out overnight so that in time for wednesday morning we are dry. And everybody looking at probably less than an inch the way things are going now. This is one model projection with. 92inches in philadelphia. Generally were going to go for about a half inch to an inch of rain out of this system. Ahead of this the temperatures are going to climb. 38 degrees by 8 oclock but by 11 oclock 47 degrees and by 2 oclock 52 degrees right around 2 00 in the western suburbs we might to start to see rain. 53 is the high at 3 oclock. 51 at 5 oclock. High temperatures, only 46 in allentown, 47 reading, 53 in philadelphia and a 56 in atlantic city. As we take a look at your exclusive accuweather 7day today the rain arrives in the afternoon, continues off and on through the evening, a high of 53 but then its gone in time for wednesday and wednesday we start out cloudy, it does look like well see some sun come back into play during the afternoon and now looks like we have a shot of shooting all the way up to 63 degrees tomorrow. That will feel really nice. I was driving with the car windows down yesterday on the way home from work for the first time in forever and i think we get to do it again on wednesday. Turning cooler then on thursday but not too bad 51 degrees. And friday cloudy skies with another round of late rain and a high of just 46 degrees. Now, that saturday rain probably lingers into the morning. Could be a spotty shower holding into the afternoon as well but we do bounce back to a high of 50. And then partly sunny and nice on sunday, 52. And monday back up to the mid50s. Again, overall pretty nice numbers compared tour whats not too far behind us. Getting set for spring. Thanks, david. Yeah. New on action news here police in georgia shot and killed a naked man. Our sister station in atlanta obtained exclusive video of the unclothed man hanging from a balcony and Walking Around before police arrived. Now, some witnesses and the chief of the Dekalb County police say the man was aggressive and lunged at the officer. The man who was shot was black and the officer is a white male. The police chief says he wants a transparent investigation given other officer involved shootings across the country. Also new someone left a yellow lamborghini on the side of a texas highway. It is now sitting in the Dallas Police impound lot. Police found the italian luxury sports car on the shoulder of the dallas north toll way. The driver apparently hit a retaining wall, then decided to just leave the car there. Lamborghinis begin at about 200,000 in price. Wow. Time now to take a first look at business and were starting off looking at two Fast Food Companies and some changes theyre making to the menu. First up, burger king has dropped soda from the menu for kids. It says soda will no longer be merchandised as part of what you can choose as the meal package. Instead children will be offered just milk chocolate milk or juice. Mcdonalds they plan to roll out kale as an ingredient in the restaurant. Sources tell abc news that the Popular Health food will be introduced at some point in the not too distant future. Wonder how theyll prepare it. Stocks were higher on monday. But right now its looking like futures are pointing to a lower open. And there has been so much talk about the apple watch they finally showed it off and they said that its going to come out at the end of april. Youll be able to use it to make calls check your email, make wireless payments. Now, theres going to be a flanch prices. You can get i guess the rock bottom boring model for 349 or you can go luxury and get the 10,000 gold edition. You didnt mention whether or not it tells time. Who cares about that. You can make calls, you can check your email. Its a watch. 4 47 now. More stories you didnt see last night are coming up including video of a brazen attempt to snatch a toddler from a playground in the u. S. Northwest. Thats later. And a Delaware County girl is preparing her chops for the big stage. Details on the special honors for her when action news continues. Others. Now, americans everywhere are discovering that. Spoon after spoon. Dish after dish. Time, after time, after time again. Deliciously creamy galbani ricotta inspires meals, and moments, that are simply better. Mmm, galbani sfx kiss . Italys favorite cheese brand. Now, americas number one ricotta. Hey everyone, its 4 50 on this tuesday. Live look at the delaware river. Remember with Daylight Saving time the sun is coming up later. Wont rise until 7 20 a. M. But it will set later at 7 02 p. M. Lots of time the play in the afternoon. Lets go on over to matt pelman and take a look at your roads. Good morning. And it certainly was nice leaving here last evening and still having some sunshine out there. I didnt know what to do with myself. But, it means we do deal with the darkness a little bit later in the morning and its still definitely dark out there right now matt and tam. This is the scene along 95 right by the vine street expressway. The good news is the overnight construction here in the southbound lanes between the vine and penns landing is out of the way so everything reopened. Farther south in delco at the ramp to highland avenue we still have that disabled tractortrailer and theres an overturned truck in west vincent Chester County this morning blocking 401 at Saint Matthews road there by the united church. Maybe stay up on horseshoe trail as an alternate. Lots of overnight construction along 422 westbound between 100 and stow. I would still avoid. That theyre running a little late there. Maybe use 724 instead. Prepping for a burlington bristol bridge opening very shortly. Maybe head up to the turnpike connector bridge as your alternate and in gloucester township Camden County the black horse pike is closed this morning at evesham road, 544, thats a crash and downed pole. Atlantic avenue or route 30 the white horse pike some alternates. Also have the typical overnight work zone there along the black horse pike near nicholson road and 130 giving us restrictions until 6 oclock. Lacy township watch out for a crash on the garden state parkway southbound approaching forked river taking out the left lane. Tam. Thank you matt. A letter written by michelangelo is missing and the vatican is trying to recover it. Nearly 20 years ago the vatican received a letter demanding the ransom for the note. The letter is written and signed by the artist and that makes it quite rare. A murder mystery continues to deepen after a show dog was poisoned at one of britains premiere events. Jagger collapsed at his home shortly after returning home from a dog show. A vet found pieces of tainted meet in the threeyearold iris certs stomach. Another breeder said their dog became ill after competing. A Delaware County singer is compared to compete at the world famous apollo theater. And you hear and see why. 21yearold cheyenne merit of East Lansdowne recent won the amateur night comet toy. She was able to qualify for the winners elimination competition. The singer is taking advantage of the spotlight. Before i just kind of tried to humble myself and take advantage of the experience and kind of just embrace every moment. Mer merit heads back to the apollo tomorrow. Good luck. Were metaphorically doing that for her here. Good luck. It is now 4 53. All new in the next half hour of action news, a Childs Birthday Party at an ohio chucky cheese turned into an all out brawl. Well tell you what may have started an altercation with the adults. A Sportswear Company has apologized for stamping a zest washing instructions on new sports jersey that would be considered quite offensive to a lot of people. Ooh new on action news an attempted child kidnapping in Washington State was caught on tape. Security cameras were rolling as the man took off down the street clutching a toddler that he just snatched up from a park. The toddlers two young siblings yelled and others pursued the abductor. The kidnapper dropped the baby in a lot and ran away. The baby was not hurt. Police have not yet arrest they had kidnapper. We are learning more about what might have caused last weeks snowy runway accident at La Guardia Airport in new york city. Sources say investigators suspect the jets breaking system had trouble. The pilots reported having problems with the device on the wings that slow the jet down. The delta flight from atlanta to la guardia skidded off an icy runway noon a fence back on thursday. This is brand new. Sports teams new jersey is causing an uproar. It is for an indonesia soccer team. Take a look at the label. It has washing instructions saying give this to your woman. Its her job. The company apologized for that on sunday which happened to be International Womens day. The tag looks similar to one from a uk company in 2012. That one had two options. Machine wash warm or give it to a woman. They might want to add on there be ready to wear it as a tourniquet when she gets a look t it is 4 57. Explosions rock a Montgomery County neighborhood as a three alarm fire ravages a landscaping business. Plus outrage at the university of oklahoma. Members of a fraternity that gained National Attention for a video filled with racist chants ordered to leave by tonight. Action news continues. [bell rings] [prof. Burke] at farmers,we make you smarter about your insurance,because what you dont know can hurt you. What if you didnt know that taking pictures of your belongings helps when you have a claim . [photographer] nice [prof. Burke] or that farmers offers a policy that will replace your car with a new one if its totaled within the first two model years. [girl screams] no [prof. Burke]and that parking near a street lamp deters thieves . The more you know,the better you can plan for whats ahead. Talk to farmers and get smarter about your insurance. We are farmers bum pa dum bum bum bum bum action news. Delaware valleys leading news program. With matt odonnell, tamala edwards, karen rogers and meteorologist, david murphy. Hey everyone, its 5 oclock on this tuesday march tenth. We have news you didnt see last night. Action news catches up with local survivors of that amtrak train derailment. Firefighters battle a three alarm inferno at a Montgomery County business. It was an emotional evening as hundreds turned out to remember a slain Philadelphia Police officer. And were looking out for some rain later. Lets get details with david and matt who is filling in for karen. Good morning. Right now cloud cover getting a little bit more prominent on satellite. We have some breaks in the clouds and its possible that
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