Go undetected for quite a while. He took the batteries here to Green Recycling in philadelphia, he would get roughly 30 a battery, he was paid 122,000 by this scrap yard. They cracked the case after the detective called Green Recycling on a hunch. The owner of green dog told the detective that he purchased loads of batteries and he gave them a name and the Police Quickly had their suspect. You think the scrap yard knew what was going on here. Its hard to say but when you purchase that many storm surge batteries its hard not to notice. Police say that the suspect is cooperating and we are not naming him because he has not yet been formerly charged. Almost all the alleged thefts occurred outside of upper merion so the authorities are hopeful that the state or federal investigators will take over the case, there are 40 to 50 degrees affected by this. Police tell me that many of the cell phone carriers were unaware, sprint was hit hardest and that company is now doing an audit of its batteries. Chad pradelli channel 6 action news. Thanks chad. Police in Delaware County are looking for three suspects in an Early Morning gunshot robbery, it happened at the suburban armory gun shop here in collingdale. According to police the suspects pull the front window out of the store and stole 19 weapons, the suspects and their get away cars were spotted on several cameras before and after that heist. Sara bloomquist will have details on this coming up in a live report at 6 00. Turning to the forecast its a cool and rainy day for part of our region its not a drenching rain but lets check with cecily tynan to get the latest from accuweather. No sneezing out there. My allergies feel better and everything looking greener with the rain we are getting and not everyone is seeing the rain and double scan live showing this is a matter of location north and west of the i95 corridor, barely a sprinkle but south and east you are dealing with a steady rain most of the day. Zooming in philadelphia on the edge now we have the rain falling for about the next 20 minutes its all moving to the east of the new jersey turnpike glassboro light rain and the steadiest rain is in Cape May County where we have pockets of yl oh just beginning to move offshore we have several hours of the rain continuing down the shore before it moves off at midnight. As far as the amounts these are just a drop in the bucket. Philadelphia. 12 and mown holly the same and millville and dover a. 25 inch and well add to that over the evening hours the areas that did not see rain at all the most concern about the drought, the new Drought Monitor came out today and the Lehigh Valley and berks county under a moderate drought and areas northern and west of philadelphia now abnormally dry and this is the area that did not see any rain at all. With the rain the temperatures are on the cool side, philadelphia 51 degrees right now and you need a jacket and wilmington 50 and Sea Isle City 55 and allentown 60 and reading 58 degrees, im tracking a major warmup as we head through the Holiday Weekend. Thank you cecily. Stay ahead of changes in the weather by checking 6abc. Com weather you can fine live Storm Tracker 6 radar and the forecast and the latest from our team of meteorologists. There is a concern about violence in one wilmington neighborhood and more needs to be done to keep residents safe after a woman was shot in broad daylight yesterday a few weeks after another woman was murdered. Eva pilgram is live outside tonight. Eva . Monica two shootings at the same intersection two weeks apart and the victims are related. Cousins, Community Leaders are saying enough is enough and they are calling for a change. This condition be happening, yesterday afternoon another shooting at sixth and madison, this time a bullet grazed a 42yearold womans head and she went into the Community Center for help and security cameras recorded the whole thing. It happened in broad daylight a Day Care Center on the corner, the little ones want to play in the pretty playground they have over there congo out and play. They had to duck on the floor. Three weeks ago another shooting at the same intersection, this one a homicide, pinkston was arrested and charged with the deng of artise brown they think she was an innocent victim in the wrong place at the wrong time. The two shootings are not related even though the two victims are family and police plan to increase patrols in the city. That has been a keg for a long long time. City councilman mike brown doesnt know what the answer is to make the violence stop but its time for city leaders to have a real conversation. I know we cant police our way out of this, we need jobs. Wilmington had a Record Number of homicides last year 28 and so far this year there have been 11. City council is suptoes to vote on a budget tonight and we are told there are hard questions about how Public Safety dollars are being spent. Eva pilgram, channel 6 action news. Thank you. The government is taking a more active role in the massive recall of cars with potentially explosive airbags made by takata fors the first time in its history the Highway Administration started the Legal Process asking for input on how to get replacement inflaters. They inflate with too many force sending shrapnel into drivers and passengers. It has caused five deaths in the u. S. A group of preschoolers crashed on the way to school on the eastbound lanes of schuylkill expressway near the girard avenue exit today the bus hit a barrier at 10 00 this morning, the school bus was full of children from the Hope Church School going to the zoo and nobody was hurt and no word tonight what caused the bus to crash. Chopper 6 hd over the pennsylvania turnpike in Chester County after a trash truck caught on fire during the morning rush and this happened in the westbound lanes of 29 and downingtown. The fire caused a 3. 5 mile backup while firefighters cleared it up. And so far no word on what sparked the fire. An action news viewer joined the action with dramatic video of an ups truck fire, Hasan Harrell recorded this on west mermaid lane, the video begins before firefighters arrived at the scene and shows flames shooting from the front end of the truck and crews arrived as the black smoke reached into the sky and the firefighters quickly doused the blaze and there are no reports of injuries. Any time you see breaking news or severe weather, we want you to join the action, jointheaction 6abc. Com or use the 6abcaction on social media. Time for a check of the action news traffic report thursday night. How are we looking matt . Folks heading to the shore already . Getting an early jump sounds like a good thing shall we go . A lot of people joining the action here quite the crowd specially eastbound three times what it ideally should be a crash approaching montgomery and one vehicle and speeds in the teens and less on 95 as you travel northbound, still the traffic light issues at roosevelt at the cotman mall. Word coming in of a crash on the pennsylvania turnpike this afternoon eastbound approaching Fort Washington knocking out the left lane and giving us speeds in the 30s and montco a crash closing moreland avenue and buyberry lane is a good alternate. And a wreck at kings highway near 70 and another crash on 295 southbound on the shoulder but that long stretch where its normally clogged speeds of just 9 Miles Per Hour. Maybe it will get better in the next half hour. Well see you rick and monica. Im sure it will be bad news. City avenue is freshly paves they celebrated the completion of the long await the project between iowa and Brighton Avenue is now like new. Domestic violence charges again former nfl player ray rice are now dismissed. And a man paralyzed by a gunshot more than a decade ago can now shake hands. Ali gorman has more on his new robotic arm next. And meteorologist cecily tynan, with a close her look at the memorial day weekend forecast. A new jersey jump has dismissed domestic vie length charges against ray rice, surveillance cameras caught rice knocking out his then fiance in a Hotel Elevator and knocking her out and that led to an indefinite suspension for rice and he appealed the suspension and won and the judge dropped the charges all together because he completed the pretrial intervention program. Crews in california are working around the clock to clean up a mile long ill spill there, a pipeline broke and spilled oil into the shore and Pacific Ocean up to 5,000 gallons leaked out and now the coast is under a state of emergency and how much Oil Officials think made it out to sea. And health check we are learning more about the possible link between depression and parkinsonss disease. Ali gorman is live at the big board. This is something we talked about after actor, Robin Williams committed suicide last november, it was reported that he battled depression and was in the early stages of parkinsonss when he died. They found that adults with depression develop parkinsons at three times the rate of people that do not suffer depression. Its a nervous system disorder and can affect their gait and speech and cause tremors. If prevention measures are found, this information gives us the type of people to target for the interventions. And this is grabbing his first beer using a robotic arm its controlled by his mind, we have seen Similar Technology but this is controlled by a device implanted in the part of the brain responsible for intuitive thought. The researcher at Southern California say this allows for much smoother mom. P the big memorial day weekend is coming up and a lot of families are hitting the beach or going to a pool and emergency room doctors have a message, they want everyone to be safe and one of the biggest dangers is drowning, kids between the ages of 1 and 4 are most at risk and adults should always be at arms length and older kids need constant supervision by an adult that is not zrabt distracted by a smart phone or texting. Rick and monica back over to you. Thank you. More coming your way on action news. When a moment spontaneously turns romantic why pause to take a pill . And why stop what youre doing to find a bathroom . With cialis for daily use, you dont have to plan around either. Its the only daily tablet approved to treat erectile dysfunction so you can be Ready Anytime the moment is right. Plus cialis treats the frustrating urinary symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently, day or night. 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Com it was a day for celebrations at the Atlantic City airport as the new Charter Service got off the ground this morning, plenty of festivities on hand here as the new airline called choice air launched their flights south to nashville choice air will offer an affordable nonstop flights twice a week miami and nashville are the only destinations but other cities could be added soon if business really takes off. A special exhibit is going up on the ben franklin parkway, mayor Michael Nutter welcomed a manufacturing known for all things like making the here ors at the palace of versailles and the statue of liberty, they are taking the traveling exhibit around the world and philadelphia is their only north american stop, from may 30th to june 6th. Time for accuweather meteorologist, cecily tynan is here and its rainy and raw. And that is what we needed we needed the rain from areas south and east and double scan live showing that the rain has now moved out of philadelphia and its still across south jersey and parts of delaware right now and we do have pockets of the steadier rain and one right north of route 70 near browns mills and another one to the northern and east of georgetown over the new jersey turnpike, this is all continuing to push to the east and it will gradually be clearing out from the coast after midnight tonight and then its going to be much nicer tomorrow. Temperatures though today definitely raw and cool, philadelphia 51 degrees and average high for this time of year in the mid70s, wilmington 50 and Sea Isle City 51 degrees and the areas not getting rain, allentown milder at 60 and reading 58 degrees. Stormtracker 6 live double scan showing the system responsible for todays rain shows low pressure to the south and moving off the coast of North Carolina and this is causing a line of severe storms and even tornado warnings and severe thunderstorm warnings in effect that and will continue to move north and east and as it does the drier air will move in during the overnight hours as we head through late tonight some rain is just lingering along the coast and nothing more than a sprinkle and look at the overnight hours by tomorrow morning 7 30 in the morning, not only is the rain out of here the clouds are out of here as well and loads of sunshine and its a nice kickoff to the Holiday Weekend, your friday get away for tomorrow philadelphia breezy and warmer 76 degrees and down the shore mostly sunny and 76 degrees and the poconos condition rule out the possibility of a spotty afternoon shower with a temperature of 64 degrees, if you are heading to the shore or to the bay the temperatures in the water a little bit chilly and the ocean temperature 59 degrees and it warmed up into the upper 60s to 70 in the bay, the fiveday at 5 00, breezy and warmer and mostly sunny and a reenforcing shot of cooler air on saturday 70 and loads of sunshine and sun more in the way of clouds and a nice day with a high of 80 and here comes the summer like heat and humidity on memorial day tuesday could hit 90 for the first time this year and the possibility of a thunderstorm. But if you are down the shore like meteorologist, Melissa Magee, the place to be indoors in wildwood. What are you doing there melissa . Reporter well im trying to fly a kite, its hard to do it inside but we are gearing up for the International Kite festival that kicks off tomorrow and goes through the weekend. Well have all the hot happenings down the shore. Look at this check this out. Go fly a kite. Well have all the details when action news returns. I tell that to rick all the time. Ill take your advice. State and local police converge on a Berks County High School and well tell you why. And a big step forward for a famed National Organization and its policy towards gays. And a policy in new jersey honoring the brave men and women that lost their lives touring the line of tooty. Action news continues with meteorologist, Adam Joseph Jaime apody Rick Williams and monica malpass. Hello again on action news tonight its a race against time along the california coast after an oil pipeline spewed oil into the ocean threatening wildlife and shore communities. Two thieves use disguises and guns to rob a local business and it was all captured on surveillance video. And it may not feel like it we are just days away from the Summer Season unofficially we are down the shore with all the memorial day weekend events. And the developing news, Just Announced into the baltimore death of freddie gray. All six officers have been indicted by the grand jury, they include Second Degree murder and involuntarily manslaughter. Mosby says his neck was broken because he was shackled and put in the wagon head first. Well follow this story and bring you updates as we get them. Environmental cleanup crews are working around the clock to contain a Massive Oil Spill along the coast. A pipeline ruptured spilling smelly, stinky crude north of Santa Barbara its impacting nine miles of surf, sand and wildlife. Reporter the cleanup effort along along Santa Barbara beach is growing. We continue to boom and clean up oil in all sensitive environmental areas, of,000 gallons has been removed. With a total of up to 105,000 gallons of oil spilled the work is far from over, every day that goes by the effects are taking a toll on wildlife. These include lobsters and kelp bass. And the history of the ruptured pipelines owner planes all america, they have 175 maintenance and safety violations since 2006. And a spokesperson walked away from reporters and governor jerry brown declared a state of emergency. Its terrible we came for our anniversary and we come every year and now we are being told to leave. Cleaning up the effects of the oil spill will take a long time. Campgrounds and beaches are closed until at least next thursday. Well containing Massive Oil Spills like the one in california is the focus of a