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Double scan radar lets get right to meteorologist cecily tynan, cecily. Reporter jim, storms are rolling in after a quiet evening. We have this whole complex ahead of the cold front has slowly been moving to the east. That tornado watch that was set to expire at 10 00 oclock has been extended until midnight as we get those stronger storms in. I want to show you a live skies six view from wilmington right now and the rain is falling heavily at times and we have been watching a a lot of lightening strikes with the cell that is moving through will in mink ton all pushing up to the north and east right now. Closer up on live double scan showing this is a cell over wilmington that has reports of pea sized hail. Moving toward the the north east at 30 miles an hour. Rolling a crowning i95 corridor. Fourteen lightening strikes in the past five minutes. Heres the path of the storm delaware aston bridge tort, chester, ridley park, you are in the path. You will be hearing thunder rolling through. A problem with that particular cell is that it is loaded with moisture. A Flash Flood Warning has been posted for New Castle County delaware until 2 30 in the morning, rain falling at a rate of one to 2 inches a an hour and wilmington received a little more than 2inch these morning. The the ground is saturated. That is why any additional rain will cause flash flooding. This is what to expect overnight. We will see some clusters of thunderstorms, possibly severe with gusty wind and hail, the good news, it does clear out in time for your morning commute. Ill have details on that and track a big chill on the way in the accu weather seven day forecast jim. We want to show you size of the hail coming down, in atlanta, witnesses say that it was the size of golf balls. It is just one example of the Severe Weather slamming much of the nation tonight inial bam at wind were so strong a train was blown right off of its tracks. Since the bulk of the rain will be coming overnight we want to you join the Action News Morning Team for the latest updates on the air from 4 30 until 7 00 a. M. Authorities tonight are trying to determine what exactly caused an underground explosion, on a busy commercial street in wayne tonight. It happened right outside a popular restaurant. A action News Reporter Sharrie Williams has details. Reporter employees tell us it started with a loud bang and then followed by smoke and also fire. Taking a look at the scene as it is happening and unfolding Fire Fighters are still trying to be sure that they have everything under control. In the last hour power has been restored to most of the building on north wayne avenue also known as restaurant row but it is still under investigation. If that explosion started from the transformer below ground or faulty wiring below ground. Either way those who heard and saw it, say it was a scary ordeal. I was running out of the front door and it just exploded. I saw flash bang and then im underneath a table. Im freaking out. Reporter Bobby Carfagno was working inside a pizza shop in wayne radnor township when he ran for his life. It hit me first. Then they kind of went backwards. I was underneath the table. Reporter it was the height of the dinner time when an explosion erupted in the 100 block of north wayne avenue. This video captured by a viewer shows the moment of impact with the smoke and fire. It sent customers and employees on the entire block running. I hit the the ground so hard. There was fire and window just exploded on us. It was so scary. I didnt ask any questions. They told me to get out. They wanted to pay for it. I didnt just walk out. Urgency to get out of there so that is what we did. Reporter suburban building on north wayne avenue still does not have power to it. That building, is throughout to be the source of where the explosion happened below ground. So that is why it will be the last building to get power restored to it. Peco is here on the site, also, looking into the matter as well. Were told that there were no injuries involved, in the explosion. In wayne radnor township, Sharrie Williams for channel six action news. Thank you, sharrie. Philadelphia police are left with many Unanswered Questions tonight after finding a womans body in the schuylkill river. Investigators scoured the banks under the passyunk avenue bridge at 6 30 tonight as chopper six hovered overhead. The authorities dont even know the womans race or age let alone what led to her death. A philadelphia woman accused of leaving her quadriplegic son in the wood near the cobbs creek parkway is out of the hospital and in jail tonight. Nia parlor is in custody in montgomery county, maryland. She faces a extradition hearing tomorrow. For now shes in custody on fugitive of Justice Charges more charges will come once she gets back to philadelphia. So, tim tebow is now a Philadelphia Eagle and as you might imagine word of his signing today prompted a full range of reactions. As News Reporter Kenneth Moton sampled many of them tonight at chicky and petes in south philadelphia. Reporter we got more than 24 hours for the news to really settle in and eagles fans, they are still scratching their head but we found quite a few starting to embrace these confusing off season picks. Love it, hate it, or just plane dumbfounded tebow talk has taken over eagles nation. Just dont think he has the ability. If belichick could not make him a quarterback be in could make him a quarterback. I love it. It is a story on resiliency. Reporter that is the official pick, qb tim tebow signing the with the eagles for a one year deal monday. That signature tebowing, and in the form of the philly soft pretzel. Sports bars like chickie and petes buzzing and sports radio callers, sounding off. You bring him in if he shows you something great. If the not you cut him and that is it. Reporter what is coach chip kelly thinking debate tebow has been described as worse quarterback in the league to a clutch player who will rise to the occasion. Will he even make it on to lincoln financial field . Former eagles player ron jaworski told us monday evening with the now five qbs on the roster it will be hard for tebow to get the reps. It is hard for me to imagine he is a better quarterback with all that time away from the game w that being said we know he is a good fit for what chip kelly likes to do on offense. Reporter eagles fans say for now they will be praying or i hud say tebowing for clarity. Ill wait until first preseason game and see is what on the field. I will hold judgment until then. Reporter there has been talk about tebow but no talking from tebow. Most we have gotten was a tebow tweet around the time that the news broke he quoted a bible script tour that says be kind to one another. Reporting from south philadelphia, Kenneth Moton for channel six action news. New Jersey Transit wants to hike fares for the the first time in five years. The wheels on the bus would not keep going round and round on all of the routes. The the plan calls for service cuts. It is all because of the one hundred milliondollar budget short fall. New Jersey Transit it says that it found 40 milliondollar to cut internally but still need to make up another 60 milliondollar. Average fare would be seven to 9 percent. Buses would be eliminated on several south jersey routes such as philadelphia to Six Flags Great Adventure to jackson township. Public hearings will be held next month. Revels new owner glenn straub has has a new ace in the hole in the legal battle to reopen a resort. Federal Bankruptcy Court judge ruled that straub can terminate the leases of the old tenants. Such as hq nightclub and all of the restaurants. That almost certainly means more lawsuit is a head but in new jersey state court. While straub has been given right to cancel contracts he cannery negotiate new leases as philadelphia based garses group says he is doing right now. We enjoy being in Atlantic City as a philadelphia based group and wed like to get open as soon as possible and service our existing customers and develop new customers. Jose garses food empire operated four restaurants. Straubs attorney say developer isnt looking for a complete new set of tenants but rather reasonable changes to the leases. There was more Political Drama tonight in the small boro of colwyn, delaware county. Boro council in met to fill vacancy created when it fired boro manager paula brown last week. Brown attended tonights meeting and continue to accuse council of pocketing boro cash. Brown showed reporters financial document, that she said that she discovered in the dumpster today. Boro officials deny any wrongdoing. In philadelphia the race for mayor turned to technology and entrepreneur ship tonight as part of the philly tech week. During the event at the the free Library Central branch, five of the six Democratic Candidates discussed their ideas for keeping the cities innovative spirit alive. Stem Education Access to the internet and contract negotiations like the impending comcast franchise deal. Vicepresident gentlemen biden will be in philadelphia tomorrow on a visit all about energy. Joining him will be u. S. Secretary of Energy Ernest monise seen to the right of mr. Biden. Administration officials will speak at peco building at 23rd and market in center city. Commuters should expect traffic delays in that area tomorrow. Still to come on action news tonight bird flu is back affecting egg farmers and requiring millions of chickens to be killed. Plus mysterious death in Police Custody causing outrage tonight in baltimore. How did a man end up with a severed spine. Comfort food make over we will explain why kraft is changing recipe for its classic mack and cheese and exactly what they are adding. Gusty thunderstorms are moving in now ill have have details on what to expect overnight, when it moves out and a big chill by the end of the week in the exclusive accu weather seven day forecast. More on the tim tebow deal what does former eagle and now analyst Brian Dawkins have have to say bit . Ducis rodgers with that and more when action news continues tonight. The Baltimore Police department is facing serious questions tonight have after a man died in their custody. Attorney for victims family says young mans spine had been almost completely severed at the neck this cell phone video taken by bystanders, shows officers dragging a screaming, freddie gray, to a police van. He died a week later. Today autopsy results confirmed that gray did suffer a significant injury to his spine. There has been no explanation as to how this happened. What we dont know and what we need to get to is how that injury occurred. We want to get there but we want to do it very carefully very thorough and get to the truth of the matter. Six Police Office are have have been suspended with pay. In texas, two Police Officers didnt hesitate yesterday when they pulled up to the vehicle fire with a driver trapped inside. The officers broke window, grabbed the man and dragged him away from the flames. They and a Good Samaritan were able to get the a man to safety. The driver was seriously hurt but the the officers are being credited with saving his life. More than 5 million hens will have to be euthanized because authorities confirmed that their farm in i was has been infect by the bird flu. This particular farm has 10 percent of iowas egg laying hens and department of agriculture will remove quickly to arrest the spread of the deadly disease. Officials dont think this will cause a spike in egg prices if it stops here. Italian coastguard ship, docked in cecily tonight carrying 27 survivors of this weekends disaster off the coast of libya. 900 migrants tried to escape from war torn libya drowned when their vessel capsized. Rescue boats rush to three other distress calls on the high seas today, two off libya and third boat that ran a ground near greece. The u. S. S. Theodore roosevelt Aircraft Carrier is steaming toward waters off of yemen setting up a potential confrontation with the iranian navy. Roosevelt and other ships are prepared to intercept any iranian vessel carrying weapons to the the rebels in yemen. The the saudi led air strikes continued to pound the positions, in the capitol city of sona. It has been five years since one of the worst environmental disasters in this country. The explosion aboard bp deep water horizon in the gulf of mexico. 134 million gallons of water spill in the gulf, 11 people were killed. Today the effect is still linger. Marine life hasnt recovered yet and tar balls still dot the beaches. Critics and environmental groups say lessons of the Bp Oil Disaster were short lived. The number of deep water drilling rigs has increased 37 percent in the five years since the spill that is according to the latest industry statistics. A review by the the Associated Press found companies are now drilling in deeper water as well which is far more complicated and therefore riskier. U. S. Chemical safety board says there are still serious even fatal design flaws on many blow out preventers used in the gulf. 30,000 runners ran for dedication in the second Boston Marathon since the terrorist bombings. The weather was cold and damp but emotion where is boston strong. Winner for the men was lolisa of ethiopia, he won two years ago, before the the pipe bombs wreak their havoc. One of the best images of the day two survivors of the bombings crossing the finish line today, one collapsing with emotion, they are two of the 16 bombing victims to lose a leg in the blasts. Another meaningful group ran through philadelphia today. These veterans are on their way from 9 11 memorial in new york to a hospital in atlanta a. It is a symbolic, 911mile run, but vets are raising awareness for rehabilitation for veterans who struggle with ptsd and traumatic brain injuries. They will finish their journey on april 26th. On health check at is 11 00 tonight a Government Task force says is there little benefit to women in their 40s under going routine mammograms but for women in their 50s it should be done every two years. For women with an average risk of breast cancer, the report calculated that for everyone thousand women screened, starting at age 40 instead of 50 could prevent one additional death. But it could lead to 576 more false alarms. However the American Cancer Society has long recommended annual mammograms for women starting a at age 40. Kraft is changing formula of the classic mack and cheese. The company says it is getting rid of the artificial preservative and synthetic food coloring that gives it yellowish orange t int. Instead kraft will replace them with spices, three spices that promises that the mack and cheese will taste the same. Paprika and the other spices will begin in january. It looks good. Yes. All right. Accu Weather Forecast were expecting some serious weather overnight. Some strong storms are moving in. We have a tornado watch in effect until midnight. I think threat of any tornado is really limited but there are strong storms, with gusty wind with lightening and heavy rain moving in. Storm tracker six live double scan showing storms took a while to get here but they are rolling in. We have a couple clusters that im tracking. One is moving in the lehigh valley. This one is moving into some cooler air, so it is beginning to fall apart a bit but lynnport is in the path of the storm, new tripoli Slatington Walnutport and cherry villain, 47 lightening strikes in the the pass 50 minutes. There is a lot of lightening. The other cell that i showed you in the top of the newscast is moving in south jersey and moving north east at 30 miles per hour. It should be moving into center city by 11 30. It is rolling into south jersey as well. Camden will be seeing that by 11 38. A lot of lightening strikes heavy wind and hail earler with that cell. Lets go to where sky six is taking a look at wilmington delaware. We have slowed down the video to show you all of the lightening with this cell. Pretty gusty and also heavy rains. We have that Flash Flood Warning posted for New Castle County delaware until 2 30 in the morning. They have 2 inches of rain this morning. They could get another 2 inches from the storm system. Temperatures still mild, ahead of the cold front. Philadelphia is 68. Millville 62. Wilmington 61. Dover is 70. Cools long the coast with the the wind off the ocean boardwalk in Atlantic City 54 degrees. Future tracker showing we have a bumpy ride for the next few hours, the kid dogs, maybe running into your bed because around 2 30 we will have those thunder with a cluster of the storms moving through but the good news is, it is really out of here for morning commute. This morning with the heavy rain we had a tough commute. By 7 30 tomorrow morning just lingering cloud and maybe a sprinkle in the lehigh rally but those wind turning westerly. That will dry out the air. Morning commute forecast is looking nice, cloud waiting for sunshine, gusty breeze. At 6 00 oclock, 57. By 8 00 oclock, 58 degrees. Tomorrow is the the nicest take of the week, High Pressure building in. It will be mild, mostly sunny but winnie, 68 degrees the the high. The wind west at 12 to 25 miles per hour. Exclusive accu weather seven day forecast, storms out of here tomorrow, mostly sunny breezy mild, 68 degrees. Wednesday, morning looking good with sunshine but cloud roll in during the day. Hours in the afternoon. 65 degrees. That is a cold front. That cold front packs a punch. Behind it on thursday a cool breeze, high only 57 degrees cloud, limiting sunshine. Friday we will drop another degree the the high home 57 and heading in the weekend it will be a dry weekend. The wont be anything like last saturday. Last saturday was 81. This coming saturday 59 degrees. The on sunday partly sun which a temperature of 60 and monday, sun mixing with cloud and 62 degrees. David murphy will be tracking storms as they move out beginning at 4 30 tomorrow morning. It took a while to move in so they will take a while to move out. It looked like black friday today at target stores throughout the country. These women waited in long lines to be the first in line when their doors opened. The reason you might ask . Roll out of the Lily Pulitzer addresses, shoes and hardware and housewares. But many came up empty handed. Stores sold out in just minutes. On line shoppers didnt fair much better. Web traffic was so heavy target had to shut down its site for a time just to keep up. Youre not going to tell your dad about the time my hamster had babies in the backseat, are you . thats just normal wear and tear, dude. vo subaru has the highest resale value of any brand. According to kelley blue book. And mitch. Love. Its what makes a subaru a subaru. Your buddy ron once said he could install your ceiling fan. He couldnt. And that one time ron said another chili dog was a good idea. Yeah, it wasnt. So when ron said youd never afford a john deere tractor, you knew better. Now ron does too. Introducing the e series. Legendary john deere quality. Unexpected low price. Drive one of the e series tractors during a drive green event at your john deere dealer. So we have to pay tribute to one more Boston Marathoner tonight, this is jamie shore, who just happens to produce action news at 6 00 oclock. She runs marathons like most of us walk to the corner store. She finish today in 3 26 27. She is both boston strong and a philadelphias gem. Good for her. She has to be nice to me for two days. Just two days. We have to put Ducis Rodgers on the record, will tim tebow be on the roster, when the eagles open up the regular season. Who knows. No, no. Make a prediction now. Ims not certain he makes the roster. Your answer is no good my answer is no. But you never know, especially when chip kelly is involve. In the press release eagles call tim tebow a quarterback. How they plan to use him is anyones guess. Eagles have five quarterback on the roster. He signed a one year deal worth league minimum. He a has in the played in the regular season game since 2012. He had a good run in denver year before when he led broncos to the playoffs. Former eagles star Brian Dawkins played with tebow in denver. He is, a midnight oil type of guy. Whatever it takes after practice throwing, running all those things. But football parties where he struggles. It the is one thing to be taught something in the classroom but another thing to take it with you on the feel. That is where tim has struggled. Now maybe chip is saying, you know what i just want to kick the tires. The by can play. He has been one of the best College Quarterbacks of all time in the similar system. Tebow has quite a few connections with the new teammates. While at university of florida one of his receivers was rye liz cooper. The his roommate, tebow. Won Heisman Trophy in 2007 but in 20 on will he finish third to oklahomas sam bradford and tebow played with mark sanchez in new york while both were with the jets. Nfl makes draft all about the big names, first rounders from the big schools but there are hundreds of stories of athletes from Small Schools trying to live out a dream. Philadelphias native Rasheed Bailey scored 19 touchdowns for Delaware Valley college in doylestown. Receiver and roxborough high graduate is expect to be a late round pick. The last week coach kelly and pat shurmur brought bail any for a work out. It is humbling, like a dream, it is like you are looking to wake up but you are already up. And to work out with the team that you grew up watching, walking in that hallway and you are like im here but you still got to do more. I mean i still have a lot to prove even though i was walking through those hallways. Still ahead phillies say it is waste too early to panic plus we will check with dom brown on the rehab assignment lehigh valley. And just like that the snow is gone. And parkas become jackets. And sweaters go down for a long nap. And off you go. And your backyard gets a whole lot bigger. And youre running. And climbing. And your gear gets lighter and trimmer, and fitter and smarter. And now every frozen second spent willing this day to come is just a warm fading memory. The phillies had the night off, tomorrow they will begin a home seer wits the marlins. One and six road trip they just completed have left them with a fournine record. You know it is not to fester, way too early to start panicking and doing all that kind of stuff. It is just a slow start. We have to take it one day at a time. We are losing because of one inning. We can get rid of that we would be all right. I think we are fine. Our spirits are high. We are all coming in here and Getting Better and playing hard. Phillies outfielder dom brownies making his thirdly high valley start. Brownies coming off an achilles ten on injury. He goes one for five, lehigh loses four three in 15 innings. One other nfl note, the schedule comes out tomorrow night. Jimmy kimmel live next on channel six followed by night line. Funny how every night we have eagles news. Yes. Jimmys guest tonight is john stamos, Michael Jordan and music from matt and kim. For the entire Action News Team im jim gardner good night. Dicky from hollywood its Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight, john stamos from fantastic four, michael b. Jordan and music from matt and kim with cleto and the cletones and now, heres jimmy kimmel [ cheers and applause ] jimmy th