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WPVI Action News 1130PM January 31, 2016

A decade cole hamels will not be in a phillies uniform when pitchers and catchers report to clearwater for spring training, in about two and a half weeks. But cole, he still cares about this city. The despite being trade i had to texas in july hamels has in the completely left philadelphia behind. Hamels is hosting a pitching clinic this weekend for kids the a mapel zone Sports Institute in garnett valley. Cole says he still misses playing here. It is tough to know, you know, i dont get to play at Citizens Bank park in front of those fans but our foundation will still have a presence here. This is something that means a lot to us to be here as long as we have, and we dont take that for granted. It is, were able to accomplish these great endeavors because of the support. So we just want to let them necessity you guys are supporting us and we will keep supporting you. Great to see cole back helping out some kid in the area those kid will miss him on the mound this year at Citizens Bank park. Still weird seeing home in the texas uniform. Absolutely. Action news at the 11 30 is next. You have been hearing about the iowa caucus. Coming up we will explain what they are and what they mean. Do you ever wonder where moon came from . Scientists say we have new evidence suggesting it is the beginnings that were violent, that and more when action news comes right back. Heres is what happening on action news at 11 30. Iowa caucus, explained. We will go behind the scenes at the nations first vote for the president ial nomination, to find out how it works and why it is so important. Plus, important deadline to pass along if you are planning to get Health Care Coverage under the Affordable Care act. Selfie that simply is out of this world. Look at how mars rover is spending its time, on the red planet. But first tonight more on those recaptured prison escapees in california. After a manhunt that less ted a week involving a swat teams it ended up being a concerned citizen who helped police make an arrest. We will get the the store friday lauren lister. Reporter off the street and back in custody the remaining two california escaped inmates jose nairi and jonathan chew captured today in San Francisco. The entire state can breathe sigh of relief. Reporter this may have been a key moment in the investigation, less than 24 hours earlier, the the first fugitive, shown here caught on camera calmy surrendering in santa ana after a week on the run. We have got friend. He wants to make sure he can get caught. Reporter investigators believe he was in charge of the transportation and stole the white van trio used to get the away. That same van, spotted in a San Francisco whole food parking lot this morning. A man a alerted some Park District Police Officers who quickly investigated. Officers a approached the van, as jose nairi fled on food. Unaudible. Officers discover the other escapee, jonathan tu hiding in the van. Reporter now they are working on transferring them back to Orange County and learning more about how they escape in the first mace. Police believe that nairi may have been tasked with getting information, somehow coaxing his jailhouse english teacher to give him more than language lessons. In it, on paper that showed an i am page of the entire central jail complex as she played a significant role in the planning. Reporter fortyfour yearold woman, now is under arrest for, suspicion of contributing to the mens an s scape. Soon all three inmates will be back behind bars at the the very jail they escape. Sheriff telling us they will be kept in a different manner and area then before making it clear they will not be held together. Lauren lister for abc news, santa ana, california. Health Officials Say there are now, 36 confirmed cases of the the zika virus right here in the u. S. And that includes four pregnant woman. In brazil where the virus may have originated governmental troops are going door to door to track mosquitoes believed to be spreading the virus. Currently there is no vaccine, so eliminating mosquito breeding areas has become the first line of defense. More than 4,000 cases of the virus, have been diagnosed, in brazil. Well, time is running out to sign up for Health Insurance this year under the the Affordable Care act. Tomorrow is the last chance to sign up for coverage, that will take effect in march. If you are eligible and you do not sign up, you may be subject to a 700dollar fine on your next years tax bill. The government hopes to sign up about 10 million people. Children from across delaware showed up to a makeshift doctorss office for an important check up to day. A program called heart in the game offered free heart screenings at Du Pont Middle School right the there in wilmington. Children and their parents also received some training and performing cpr. Hundreds of middle schooler spent their day competing in the city design competition. Our action cam stopped by Carol High School in radnor for the the future city competition. Students from 40 schools, presented their ideas to revolutionize, Solid Waste Management the systems in the future. And hundreds of young people from camden along with their families attended a huge fair today to learn more about their options for public schools. Superintendent raymond, was there to welcome everybody. It is all part of the new camden enrollment program, giving families their choice oven role in any of the cities 35 schools. In north philadelphia, kindergarteners and their parents were shopping for schools as well. For the the first time great philly schools. Org hosted a fair for parents to give them a better understanding of public, private, and Charter School officials for their kids. A similar fair will be held next month in west philadelphia. Hundreds of local kid are making moves to make sure that their lives remain in the positive and productive track. They took part in the the ninth annual check mate violence chess marathon, at temple university. The Program Promotes safe, beneficial out of the will school after School Programs and new Police Commissioner richard ross, they is, even stopped by to check out the intense competition. It is Opening Weekend of the 2016 philadelphia auto show. If you are in the market for a new vehicle or just want to go shopping, the Pennsylvania Convention center is the place to be. Action News Reporter Trish Hartman has more. Reporter monk beautiful bentleys and maseratis of the philadelphia auto she we found a inspiring engineer like a kid in the candy store. My hope and dreams is to work with a car and design a new engine. Reporter still being around cars that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars are intimidating. Are you nervous i will nick the pain. I stay far enough back to make sure. Reporter but with 700 vehicles here at the the Pennsylvania Convention center is there something for almost every price range. Organizers say 94 percent have of last years show goers found the show helpful in choosing their next car. Touch them, feel them, put your family in the suv and see features. You cannot do that like you can at the auto show. Reporter england family from warminster is here to do that. Now that we have three kids we have to stay away from the smaller vehicles and go larger. So yeah we were looking around to see if we see anything like. Reporter trever england has his eyes on the jeeps kid course where he can take the wheel. Driving around and bumping into my sister. Reporter for the big kids. Really good. Reporter the test track lets passengers go off roading indoors. Were riding on many bumps. We went over logs. The the car was bouncing around. And this were just fine with two meals. Paul senior hopped on the Harley Davidson for first time vowing to have one of his own one day. Start saving your pennies now. Right now First College and then harley. Reporter do you want to see something philadelphia . Check out paint john on this jaguar, billy penn on the hood and over here on the door we have the love statue. New is there so much more to see here at the auto show, philadelphia auto show runs through sunday february 7th. Reporting at the Pennsylvania Convention center, Trish Hartman for channel six action news. Much more to come on action news tonight, the the mars rover snaps a selfie. This pick is way more complicated then any other selfie on earth. Plus explaining the quirky process of voting in the i was caucus. How a tie could be broken with even rock, papaciesors, melissa. We had a nice stump to our weekend. Mostly clear tonight. We are in the 40s today. Will 50s make a come back into sunday. Details with the accu Weather Forecast. It seems a selfie crazies now complete thely out of this world. Nasas Curiosity Mars rover snapped this selfie on the red planet the showing off terrain where it has been working for past five months. Selfie is a combination of 57 images taking from the rovers robotic arm. The self portrait shows curiosity at a socalled dune, where it has been digging in the dune collecting samples for lab analysis. Nasa says were learning more about where the moon came from. Evidence comes from rocks brought back by the the apollo astronauts more than 40 years ago. Scientists had a theory that the moon formed after a small planet collided with the earth. They now say crash was a head on collision four and a half billion years ago not a glancing blow as thought. The impact release aid chunk of earth that became a one and only moon. Evident is identical chemical signature, between the the moon roxanne volcanic rocks found in hawaii and arizona. Im glad we werent here for that. Time for a check of the accu Weather Forecast with meteorologist melissa magee. Very nice today, yesterday we had highs in the the lower 40s. The that was once again true today, walter. Do you like 40s, how about the 50s. Yes. Yes. We will show you Storm Tracker six live double scan radar, no issues with precipitation. We had plenty of sunshine earlier today and tonight we have mostly clear sky. We will show you the the picture outside, the action cam was outside earlier tonight, looking from south, philadelphia, at center city sky line, really comfortable as far as temperatures are concerned. Comfortable in the sense that temperatures are right where they should be this time of the year if in the a few above it. Coming in at 35 in philadelphia dew point at 24. Wind south at 6 miles an hour. That will be key as we go throughout the day tomorrow. A southerly wind typically brings in milder if in the warmer era across the delaware and lehigh valleys. A a nice treat on the way as we close out our weekend here. Wind chill not terrible at 30 and pressure is falling. Neighborhood numbers, 27 in martins creek. Thirtythree in warrington. Thirtyfive in center city 306789 for slating ton. New who will an, 34. Kenneth square, at the the freezing mark 3592. Just 29 in hockessin. Down across new jersey, 36 in hammington. Thirtyfive for vineland and bridgeton and along the the coast in sea isle city, 39 but warmer at the boardwalk in at 43. Heres Satellite Six with action radar, partly cloudy, especially for areas north of philadelphia, but overall, it is mostly clear with a few patchy clouds around as we go throughout the overnight hours. High pressure as we go throughout the day tomorrow will slide on off to our east and that will create a bit of the a return flow, meaning we will get that clockwise, wind and era cross this ridge of High Pressure that passes to that southeasterly wind and temperatures will be responding nicely. Future tracker six is showing you 8 00 oclock in the morning on sunday numbers along the i95 corridor will be in the the 30s. Thirty in lancaster. Forty in the poconos. Third 42 along the code in wildwood. Thirtyseven in lakehurst. Fortyone in atlantic city. I will advance this as we get into 2 00 oclock tomorrow afternoon with the southeasterly win. Fifty in philadelphia 52 in allentown, lehigh valley. Fortyeight in the poconos. Remember, average for thus time of the year is about 41. So we will be well above the narc by then. Fiftysix in wildwood. Fiftyfive in dover, by 2 00 p. M. Tomorrow. So we will talk about what we can expect . Slow snow melt on the the way sunday with the milder temperatures and then slow snow melt is what we will see this time of the year. Temperatures in the the 40s and 50s by tomorrow afternoon. We will get warmer as we get into the rose of next week and we are tracking rain by wednesday. By then we could have have an issue with localized flooding. The exclusive accu weather seven day forecast showing you not bad tomorrow, enjoy it. Sunshine, cloud, milder day at 50. Morning fog is likely by monies specially with the warmer temperatures and that snow pack on the ground, otherwise, warm by the afternoon in at 56. By monday afternoon there will be a threat of some showers around and a weak disturbance off to the north. In the wake of that it gets cooler on tuesday foreground hog day, high up to 49. On wednesday a high of 63, the record is 62. What were tracking soaking rain which could bring areas of flooding, thursday, sunny and cooler, 48. Fortytwo on friday. And 44 as we get into next saturday, walter, 63. Youll like it. I will. In iowa, where cows out number people, they are getting held i for a night in the national the spotlight. First in the nation votes for the president ial nomination will be cast on monday, and it is a quirky, old school process. Abc silvia vega has more from des moines. Reporter the hawk eye state where politicians come to flip pork chops, pose with the cow made of butter, take a kid for a spin in their chopper d we mention the pork chop. So many pork chop. Pork chop on the stick. Reporter enough to make a politician scream. When it all comes to a head at those caucuses. We came to Drake University near the caucus expert, to ask that burning question. What the heck is a caucus. It is complicated. They gave us a demonstration. For the the democrats, groups of iowa residents the georgia tore choose delegates to choose their party nominee. One side tried to convince the the other to join their team or break a tie with food or rock, papaciesors. It is one possibility. Reporter republicans have have it easier, they will write down a candidates name on the slip of paper and it is done f it does sound like a song and dance, well, is there a caucus musical. Reporter but just remember iowa launched president ial runs for jimmy carter, two george bushs and barack obama and come monday they just may launch the next leader of the free world. That was sylvia vega reporting. Much more action news ahead including sports. Sixers take warriors down to the wire. Quite a game. Jeff skversky has that and much more when action news comes right back. It would be a golden moment, in what has been another painful season. The sixers could just take down golden state, the the nba champs. Not many giving sixers a shot tonight but they make a splash, against the splash brothers. Steph curry the leading scorer in the nba and lead ago tracks at wells fargo center. Curry, two of his 23. Sixers down bias many as 24. Looking like a blow out, until this. What a finish. Down by six, 38 seconds left, isaiah cannon bam, a fourpoint play, the three and the foul. They are up by two. Then the steel, how about ish smith, we are tied at 22 seconds left. Place is going nuts. Warriors get the ball back. In time left. Harrison barnes. Ahh. Sixers lose by three. Close but in cigar tonight against the defending champions. They are the the defending champions for a reason. They made the plays down the stretch. We did a good job tonight. We kept pushing. But they are defending champions for a reason. It showed we have no let down, in back down and i give us a lot of credit. Were obviously disappointed to not come away with the win. It would have been great to pull it out. Well, new eagles coach Doug Pederson may be keeping a close eye on the quarterbacks at senior bowl this weekend, if he needs a linebacker he may in the have to have look very far. Temple linebacker tyler, a rising star, he puts on a strong showing the at the senior bowl. He lead all players intact else, perhaps to have a project mid round pick from temple is improving his stock. Among players north dakota state quarterback carson wentz who passed for 50yard but in touchdowns today. South beat the the north. College hoops, lasalle well, they are a hot mess. They have won one game. Today in the second half jordan price for three. Lasalle down by four, with eight to go. But they scored only two points, the the rose of the the way, over the the final eight minutes. Are you kidding me . Lasalle loses 6944. They have dropped 13 of their last 14 games. Ivy league ball penn playing brown, final seconds, down three, sam jones can tie it in the corner. Get in there. No. Penn loses by six. They fall to six11. As bad as penn, lasalle has been, drexel has been worse. That fan doesnt seem to mine. Today against hofstra, tevan allen scores 33. It is still not enough. Drexel loses by six, they have won only three games all year, and also delaware loses in overtime, to towson. Finally Claude Giroux, the flyers lone representative at nhl allstar weekend in nashville. Tonight the flyers captain showing off his skills, in the skills competition, Claude Giroux right on in the accuracy shooting competition. G getting some ahs and ohs as he makes his way through the obstacle course. In the shootout in the break away, nice, backhanded. G will be part of the allstar game tomorrow. They will feature some three on three hockey, just like they play in the regular season, in overt

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