others. >> when you talk about a guardian angel, you could not find a better one than the one that is right here today. >> what you're watching is final farewell for someone who truly earn the title of being one of philadelphia's finest. love ones, friend and collogueness blue gathered by the thousands at the palestra to say their final good bye to the officer killed, doing the job that he loved. saturday night i'm walter perez. the big story on "action news" is heart breaking funeral for robert wilson the their. today wilson was posthumously promoted to sergeant days after he was shot and killed protecting customers inside a video game store. booth the time honored end it was guarantied that his legacy will last a lifetime. "action news" reporter annie mccormack was at the funeral and has the details. >> ♪♪ >> reporter: sergeant robert wilson the third died a hero but will always than men for that smile. >> that smile everybody knows that smile. i can go on and on about the stories we had about the smile. >> reporter: his pavesser damon stevenson for the emotions as he work his way to the microphone. march 5th the nine year veteran and father of two went in the north fill game stop in uniform when two armed gunman attempted to rob the store and opened fire. wilson took both of them on saving customer's lives. >> i have been in policing for 46 years and i have never witnessed an act of bravery like i saw that day. >> reporter: topo lease brass watched surveillance video capturing the murder. >> it is something that is haunting and it is painful but at the the same time there is pride, pride that we walked alongside of a man that had the kind of courage and determination that robert francis wilson the third had. >> reporter: commissioner ramsey and mayor michael nutter recounted wilson's final moments in the emergency room. >> i saw his heartbeating. he for the. valiantly. just as he for the in that store when two cowards came upon him. >> reporter: and made the decision in the only to posthumously promote wilson to sergeant but to award him the medal of honor and valor and effectively immediately rename medal of valor after robert wilson the third. police officers from across the country came out to the funeral today. they said it was important to show their support for philadelphia's finest. >> to see everybody come out and honor him all of the cops, all of the community, i just want to thank everyone for paying their respects to robert wilson. >> reporter: in university city annie mccormack for channel six "action news". we stream the viewing and funeral for sergeant wilson live this morning on six abc.com. our coverage continues there right the now with details from today's tribute video reports from our coverage and a collection of photos from the funeral procession and both viewings. we invite you to check it out at six abc.com. new at the 11:00 southbound 495 is opened. three vehicles crashed just near lieutenant 13. it started when a vehicle wifed to avoid debris on the interstate and then struck a barrier. a second driver swiped that car and then a limo crashed into them. seven people were taken to the hospital. we're toll all injuries are minor. also new a man has been taken to the hospital after he was hit by a car this evening in the parking lot of a liquor store in wilmington. the it happened on the 3800 block of lancaster pike at about 8:30. investigators say the the victim had just gotten out of the car when the driver of the car suddenly accelerated striking him. the driver has been since arrested under suspicion of dui. the victim remains hospitalized in stable condition. in south philadelphia two women were hurt after a car crash near fifth and bainbridge. they were trapped inside of a car after it flipped over and hit a building at 8:30 tonight. crews were able to get both women out. one was taken to jefferson hospital with neck and back pain. the other was taken to hahnemann hospital and her condition remains unknown at this time. well, two buildings collapse today in philadelphia over the span of just a few hours. tonight both collapses are being investigated. the first happened in the city's kensington section at 4:30a m with someone inside. the second in the city's mantua section occurred at four hours later. "action news" reporter dann cuellar is live in mantua with the details, hi there, dann. >> reporter: how are you doing, walter this home here in the 600 block of union is second to collapse within a 24 hour period. it collapsed around 8:30 this morning. fortunately officials say the building was vacant and there were no injuries but that was not the case in kensington where a home owner was seriously injured when his home collapsed with him in it. it was around 4:30 this morning while he was in the bathroom. this dramatic footage was captured by an "action news" viewer moments after the house collapsed in the 2700 block of emerald. >> out of no where we just hear boom. and then i woke up. my brother already woke up. he was like what happened. i was like i don't know. >> i told my husband and said i thinker cemetery in lansdowne's house blew up. we came out looking. we were all screaming eric eric. >> reporter: the footage show eric carol the home owner trying to climb out of the debris but his sister says he was partially paralyzed on the right side even before the collapse and was having difficulty getting out. >> thank god he is alive. thank god he is alive. that is it. >> it is like he has nine lives anyway. he has been through everything. >> reporter: relatives say carol recently lost his mother, best friend and aunt all within the last few months. now they say he not only lost his house but he is in the hospital with a broken back and will to have undergo surgery tomorrow. they say the the city had recently warned him his home was in imminent danger on have collapse and needed to get out. >> his house has been falling down since i was little. it has been tipped to the side. like everybody has been trying to tell him that the the house is going to fall down. >> reporter: looking at debris neighbors said it looks like a bomb felon carol's home and they are amazed he is alive at all. >> he has somebody watching him because he should have been dead. >> reporter: relatives say that there is a 50/50 chance that eric carol will be able to walk again. or he could be paralyzed for the rest of his life. the right now they are just hoping and praying for the the best. we're live from man to dann cuellar for channel six "action news". >> thanks, dann. replica of the memorial set on the sight of the building collapse in center sit friday two years ago is now in place. design team assembled the mod toll make final adjustments before the the memorial was built. the the memorial and future park will honor six people killed when the the salvation army thrift store there collapsed. the project cost of the park along with the endowment for maintenance stand at 1.3 million-dollar, half of which has already been raised. welshing time for a check of the accu weather forecast, after a dryer daze coming up and damp dreary saturday we are getting ready for week ahead. we are going live outside to sky six in high definition showing you atlantic city, new jersey. good news this latest weekend weather event only brought you rain, but no snow but it wases one wet miserable day. meteorologist melissa magee joins us from the "action news" big board with the very latest from accu weather. >> it is another indication we are turning the corner and we're getting closer and closer to our spring season. we have just some rain. wet weather we had overhead today. storm tracker six double scan radar is showing you that moisture to the east of the 95 corridor moving across area of south jersey. looking at rainfall totals in millville 1.31 inches of rain. the prices corner in new castle county delaware 1.28. inch and a quarter in atlantic city. philadelphia 1.03. about an inch of rainfall there in allentown. the big story right now is that the visibility is poor. many locations down to half mile in reading. down to a mile and a half in allentown. down to .3 in lancaster. up to 6 miles in philadelphia temperatures are in the 40's a lot of low level moisture a how extra time if you are out and about tonight. we're tracking spotty showers that will continue to exit to our east. areas of patchy fog will be a concern throughout the the the overnight hours. it will turn winnie. a few sun breaks on the the way for sunday. those details walter, coming up with the accu weather forecast. >> thanks, melissa. as weather warms up and road start to crack, "action news" is on pothole patrol. we cannot do it without you. join us by helping us fine the worst potholes around the area. the is there plenty of them. send us your pictures and videos. use the hash tag six abc action on twitter, instagram or vine, or e-mail us at join the action, at six abc.com. viewer video just into "action news" shows us a stubborn fire, crews for the for half an hour this evening in philadelphia. fire started at about 8:30 p.m. on jackson street in philadelphia's torresdale section. no injuries were reported here. emergency crews on the scene of a house fire today in trenton, had a deal with an unspectacle evening. a car was towed away after the the driver crashed into an emergency vehicle and injured a police officer. this is he will hearst avenue. a 16 year-old driver actually tried to runaway but was quickly captured. meanwhile fire fighters said their job was a bit tougher because person living there was a a horder. the the clutter inside the home fueled the flames, putting crews in danger. >> our biggest concern is fire fighter safety. sometimes in these conditions the the items shift around and it can knock over a hose line and blinding smoke fire fighters can get lost and disoriented. >> fire fighters got the upper hand in 40 minutes. so far no word on how the whole thing started. much more to come on "action news" tonight, island community in the south pacific are reeling, after they were hit head on by cyclone pam. and now they are asking the the global community for help. shocking statement from pope francis why the the head of the roman catholic church is already talking about retirement, two years after taking over. people of vanuato are cleaning up after cyclone pam delivered quite a blow to the island nation. aid workers there say many homes were damaged or simply blown away after win gusts as strong as 170 miles per hour. the power is still out across much of the country and some areas are still without running are water. officials are now asking the u.n. for help. tonight major flooding concerns are popping up as rivers across the country continue to rise. another storm dumped rain on already saturated areas sparking real concerns across the midwest. abc's rob marsano has the very latest. >> reporter: rushing rivers, jammed with huge chunks of ice, a danger creeping closer and closer flooding out homes in ohio forcing families to evacuate. >> we have to move out. i got the four grand kid and another little girl living with me. >> reporter: all of the accelerated melting is cracking up the ice on area rivers leaving entire neighborhood inundated with the overflow. ice jams keeping all that water from draining out. coastguard ice breakers working in lake erie trying to keep things moving. >> this is worst i haveseen in about five years. >> reporter: in cincinnati water rescues as drivers try to make it through flooded streets, a father and two kid pulled to safety and their car stuck in the water. >> they got lucky. they shouldn't be in there. they should shut this road down. >> reporter: it could get worse. the ohio river isn't expect to crest until sunday morning at the highest parts since the flood of 1997. in minnesota the the lakes are causing problems. >> we wake up to these booms and then it is like was that a gun, lake? it is the the lake. >> reporter: ice, coming up on shore, damaging property. and, rain is creating a different danger. landslide, earlier this week saturated ground gave way in west virginia. >> do you see the power lines. >> reporter: fear that scene could be repeated as the latest storm system moves across the the country. rob marsano abc news, new york. pope francis has been dropping hints he may be eventually retiring rather than serve as pontiff until his death. during his two years as pope francis has done much to breathe new life in the roman catholic church but he is now saying his days may be number in office. >> i have the feeling my pontificate will be brief four or five years or two or three. >> pope francis points to the examples it by his predecessor pope emeritus benedict. benedict became first pontiff in centuries to retire and francis says that should not be the exception. in the meantime philadelphia is preparing for a visit by the pope this coming september for the world meeting of families. time for a check of the accu weather forecast and meteorologist melissa magee and better days ahead. >> we have improvement on the the way. >> couldn't get worse than today. >> we show you storm tracker six live double scan radar. you can see that improvement moving on through. it is mainly south and east of philadelphia. as far as showers are concerned. we are going in tighter on street level with storm tracker six radar. you can see light rainfall, and showers really there in hammington, mays landing down to millville and fortecue and east ward into sea isle city, atlantic city up to surf city. but this moisture is departing from the westerly and easterly direction. overnight we will get more clearing. we will show you the picture outside. action cam is outside. this is a gorgeous shot. you can see in the distance city lights reflecting in the water there if you look up close we have leaves in the trees, and you can see the rain drops, on the leaves, as well. pretty nice shot there on this saturday night a lot of that moisture is starting to move off to our east. the temperatures, however still in the upper 40's, lower 50's. fifty-two in millville. forty-eight in philadelphia. thirty-nine in allentown. lehigh valley. forty-one in the poconos. wildwood 53. lower 50's as well in atlantic city. here's satellite six with action radar. across the region we have pick up and a half inch have of rainfall. that precipitation moves to the north and east. there is however a upper level low that will start to migrate through as we get in the second half of our weekend. if you are north of the city right through the higher terrain with the cool pocket of air aloft there could be a stray shower. otherwise definitely better half of the weekend on the way. area of low pressure departs to the north and east. high pressure works eastward. we have cloud and some sunshine. spotty shower north of the city. high temperature coming in at 51 degrees. we will pick up a tight pressure gradient with one area of low pressure departing and that high coming in. future tracker win gusts showing you at 7:00 in the morning we could have wind from 25 miles an hour in philadelphia, to up to 36 miles an hour, in the poconos. and then as we go throughout the afternoon hours and that area of low pressure gets close to our region in the upper levels of the at a months fear we could have wind gusting from 34 miles an hour in philadelphia, to up to 38 miles an hour along the the coast, there in wildwood. so the call from accu weather for rest of tonight lots of cloud around. big issue for rest of tonight and during the first half of the early overnight hours patchy areas of fog, we will drop down to 42 in the city to 38 degrees in the suburbs. and here's the exclusive accu weather seven day forecast improvement on the way, sunny breaks too. high temperature tomorrow come in at 51 degrees. windy. wind from 30 to 35 miles an hour. on monday, high temperature up to 58, nice and mild, some spots could climb in the lower 60's by then. tuesday it is cooler day by st. patrick's day n at 50 degrees. the showers around from time to time as well. in the wake of that front on wednesday, chilly and windy in at 44 degrees. thursday, sun and clouds, 45 and then friday, it is mostly cloud which a high of 48 but spring arrives on friday vernal equinox begins at 6:45 in the evening and temperatures will be in the upper 40's by then, so not bad. >> sound good, thanks. still to come on "action news" tonight, temple is on the bubble, selection sunday less than a day away. today steaks were high as they faced larry brown's team. jeff skversky has next up in sports. but now tonight's pur ball numbers. we thought our cable internet was fast. but, our uploads are half the speed of our downloads so our internet is really half-fast. so half-fast. someone did a half-fast job posting our vacation pics. when i post my slow jams, i'm a little half fast totally half fast stop living with half fast internet. only verizon fios comes with speedmatch - uploads as fast as downloads. and the fastest wi-fi available from any provider. call the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 800.974.6006 tty/v okay. jeff sky verse ski has a check of sports and is there no way nova ace not a number one seed. >> we will find out for sure tomorrow but this team could be better than 85 team that won the whole thing. >> i think they could good will this be the the best team in villanova history. they won 32 games including 15 straight. both school record. if you are questioning whether or not, they deserve that number one seed, in the ncaa tournament, welshing watch this. it is all nova all night long, in the big east tournament title game against xavier. first half josh heart heart and soul of this team, for three. nova up 14. thanks to the tournament mvp. second half darren hillard, yes, 39 percent from deep for villanova. later in the second ryan archie arcidiacono nova wins by 17. the cats win the big east championship for second time in school history. nova is hoping they will be dancing as a number one seed now, so jay wright, do you deserve one. >> i think we do. i do. i'm not good at picking those seed but winning the big east i think should do it for you. >> we love being here at madison square garden and nova nation, thanks for coming out to the garden nova nation. >> and temple is crossing their fingers lose to go 20th ranked smu doesn't rain on their parade. will cuppings with the basket and foul. temple up by ten. larry brown will like the look at this. marcus kennedy, two of his 17. then door slams shut on temple. team goes down 59-56. hoping for that 23-ten record is good enough for fran dunphy and the selection committee tomorrow. flyers forward rj umberger's miserable season comes to an end today. umberger will have surgery on his right hip and abdominal muscles. but at least today begins detroit, the flyers did not miss a beat without him. first period mark street shoot, only to be deflect by brayden schenn. he gets credit for the the goal. remember this goal remember this, to the second here comes schenn again. on the rebound, scores. that is number two for schenn. the flyers have a two goal lead. eleven seconds in the third schenn ties it from jay voracek and hot trick for schenn but flyers fans as they throw hats on the ice that very second it is announced schenn did not deflect the first goal. instead it goes to wayne simmonds. no hat trick. what about all of these hats? here's schenn after the flyers seven-2w. >> well, what a trick that was. there is a lot of hats on the ice. i was talking to someone in the first interest in mission, you know i tipped it, and he tipped it afterward. he is not trying to chisel that one. lou was late to the mike. costing people their hats. >> and little bit of money too. flyers in ottawa tomorrow night. still to come in sports sixers face a familiar face, they try to win their 16th game. we will be right back.