On wednesday. Double scan live showing this is the system, this is low pressure that will really form blizzard conditions across the upper midwest as that low pressure trex to the great lakes and what that will do is bring us some rain on wednesday and record warmth, so a flood watch has been posted wednesday at noon until thursday at 5 oclock. Well talk about how much rain to expect and record warm temperatures in the full accuweather forecast. Guys. Cecily see you in a little bit. Thank you. After months of campaigning the president ial hopefuls first test is upon us. Were less than three hours now and countering until the Iowa Caucuses and candidates have beeny have been crisscrossing the hawk eye state all day long to rally every last vote they can. Tonight all eyes are on iowa then as voters there get the nations first say in who should be the next president of the United States. Action news anchor Rick Williams is live in des moines for us at the caucus media hub and he has more on todays rush for support. Hi, rick. Reporter hi, monica, hi brian. Thats right. Thank you. We are live once again from the media center where well watch the results can come in tonight 7 oclock central time when the caucus officially gets under way. We expect to start seeing numbers a couple hours later at 9 oclock. Speaking of numbers, lets take a look at these latest figures from the Quinnipiac University poll just released this morning concerning tonights iowa caucus. It shows that donald trump has a healthy sevenpoint lead over ted cruz and marco rubio is back in third place. On the democratic side, this is new tonight, Bernie Sanders holds a 3pointer lea threepoir Hillary Clinton. And that is why Hillary Clinton is making a last minute push to get her supporters out in force. After all, she came in as ah surprising third place in the 2008 iowa caucus. This morning she and daughter chelsea stopped off at a bakery to encourage voters to get out tonight. She has a caucus viewing event this evening which shes hoping will become a Victory Party as well. Bernie sanders on the other hand had no scheduled events today just a watch party this evening. Reporter donald trump is not taking his lead for granted. He was back out this morning in waterloo his wife and daughter joining him on the stage and weve just learned his children are expected to appear at various caucus locations tonight as well. This is our final stop on caucus day. Reporter ted cruz had a couple of stops today. His goal also to get supporters to the caucuses tonight. By the way, these last minute stops of course wrap up what has been hundreds of days of campaigning throughout the hawk eye state and get this . Collectively the candidates have made some 1300 stops in iowa leading up to tonights caucus. Of course, they will now sit back, wait and watch the results come in and so will we. And coming up on action news tonight at 6 oclock well tell you why this folksy little caucus here is really a big time high tech affair. Back to you guys. See you at 6 00. Sounds gm thank you so much. Ricks reports from des moines continue all night long right here on action news. Well also have realtime updates from iowa on 6abc. Com as well as tonight on action news at 11 00. Today the ntsb released its complete findings on last years deadly amtrak derailment in port richmond. It included more than 2,000 pages of information photos and video. Investigators said they took a close look at the locomotive the tracks and the signals and found no evidence of a failur failure. John rawlins has been combing through the data dam hell have more on what investigators found regarding Brandon Bostian the man behind the controls on that train coming up at 6 oclock. Meanwhile were getting new information on another scare for train passengers as they were traveling through philadelphia. Something hit a window on an amtrak acela train bound from washington to new york not far frofarfrom the site of last yeas derailment. Investigators say it might have been a rock that caused that damage. Reporter thats right, brian, amtrak just told us that the damage is consistent way rock hitting the window of acela express train 2222 last evening. That train passed through 30th street station en route to new york last night. We talked to two passengers who were in that very train car. They describe for us what they heard and saw when the window of the train car shattered. All of a sudden there was a really loud boom. Reporter Taylor Lawrence of brooklyn posted these photos on social media last night moments after something hit the window of the amtrak acela train car she was riding in smashing the glass. When it hit, it was sort of a it almost sounded like somebody had slammed down a tray table really hard or dropped a stack of books. It wasnt really clear what it was or where it came from. Reporter the train with 201 passengers on board was traveling from washington to new york when a projectile hit the glass just before 7 00 last evening. Nobody was hurt. At the time, the train was traveling through bridesburg, close to where the amtrak train derailed in may killing eight. Reginald osbourne of harlem is the man in this photo. He was sitting right next to the broken window. It cracked it. It didnt shatter it but you could see where it was just like it left an imprint of like a bullet. Reporter amtrak told us today that the train car windows are reinforced to meet the specifications of the federal Railroad Administrations regulations. At 30th street station today, riders said they consider the train safe and such incidents are not something that will keep them from riding the rails. You really can cant live your life worried about such things and the probability of things happening like that tend to be so small, i do feel very safe. That are things that are just out of everyones control so hopefully people understand that and dont cause too much of a fuss. Reporter now, the passengers who were on the train last night told us the conductors on board explained to them that this does happen from time to time, that things are thrown at passing trains. Acela 2222 stopped at the metro park station for about a half an hour after the incident. There was a quick inspection and it moved on to penn station where it arrived around 8 oclock last night. Again no, one was injured. Live at 30th street station, im Sarah Bloomquist channel6 action news. Thank you sarah. Few at 5 00 a former philadelphia funeral director found with 3d composing bodies sitting in her garage is now facing more charges tonight. Action news first told you about her back in august. Today slaw charged with more counts including theft and deception. Dailys funeral director license has been revoked by the way. And also new at 5 00 from our new jersey news room a corrections officer at the Camden County jail is facing serious charges after he allegedly kicked and stomped an inmate. Officials say surveillance shows 43yearold john sti there. Sman going on the attack. Hes also accused of lying on the incident report. Hes free on 50,000 bail. The Service EmployeesInternational Union held a rally to endorse Katie Mcginty for United States senate. They gathered at love park to say mcginty is right for the job baseless on the side of working families. Mcginty has gotten support from pennsylvania governor tom wolf. Two others are fighting to go up against senator pat toomey. Mayor Michael Nutter has yet another new job just one month out of office. Nutter will join cnn as a commentator according to the Networks Media correspondent. In the past month, nutter has also taken a teaching job at new Yorks Columbia University and an advisor role at the u. S. Department of homeland security. All right. Time right now for a check of the action news traffic report monday night. All right, rain complicating things outer there. Matt pelman standing by in the action News Traffic Center with an update. Hey, matt. Definitely a little bit of a soggy commute on this monday afternoon, start avenue new month as well and the brand shrine knee new month not going so well on a couple of front. The falls bridge shut down, the first day of about two months of the closure. City avenue bridge and roosevelt boulevard twin bridges are going to take extra traffic. Expect that if youre traveling in that area and expect speeds in the teens if youre traveling home this afternoon on 422 westbound just 18 Miles Per Hour as you round that saint gabriels curve, 17 as you pass oaks. Its an accident on route 29 talking out the left lane contribute to go what would be normal afternoon volume. Crash on route two kirkwood highway at Delaware Park drive. Id stay on seven, bear corbett road to get around that. In Pennsville Salem county wires came down following a crash so 130 northbound is shut down. If you want to stay over on 295, its wet but no delays at this point. Well check it again, monica and brian, in the next half hour. All right, matt, thank you. Weve got much more to come right here on action news at 5 00 tonight with all eyes on iowa this evening, were taking you inside the caucus process ahead at 5 30 action news breaks down what youll see on television tonight and how it translates into support tour can candidates. But first, strong words from the world Health Officers about the spread of the zika virus. Ali gorman explains about this International Emergency thats now in effect when action news comes right back. Listen up im here to get the lady of the house back on her feet. And give her the strength and energy to stay healthy. Whos with me . yay the complete balanced nutrition of great tasting ensure. With 9 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. Ensure. Take life in we are watching a developing story tonight and Global Concerns about the mosquito borne zika virus took a step forward today. The World Health Organization declared it a an International Emergency. Ali gorman live at the big board to explain this move and what it means ali. Guys, this is the agencys highest alert levelly we dont have the science to prove zika virus causes birth defects and temporary paralysis but theres enough of a red flag. Officials say the virus spreading in south america could pose a threat to other regions. This declaration will bring more resources to help contain it. We are dealing with a disease that we have no information about. A little more than a year latin america has gone from its first zika case to thousands of them and in brazil more than 4,000 babies have been born with micro cephaly abnormally small heads. Doctors dont have proof deek pa is the cause but its an sos to free up money to prove those lynx and fund the effort to stop the outbreak. Its designed speed up research into possible treatments and vaccines. The effort now is on controlling the type of mosquito which carries the virus. Right now the species isnt in our area but some have turned up in Southern California and gulf states. So far they dont carry the virus. This is the World Health Organizations fourth global emergency. The last was in 2014 for ebola virus. One was also called for a polio outbreak in africa and asia the same year. And the first was in 2009 for the h1n1 flu pandemic. Public Health Officials in our area will Start Testing movin mosquitoes in the springtime. Theres new information tonight about those three dangerous inmates captured in california. Authorities say the trio planned it for six months and they did have help. They allegedly abducted a taxi driver to flee from Orange County 350 miles to Northern California. On the way Authorities Say inmate hussein nahyer repulled a gun on the taxi driver. Bac duong got into a physical fight with nahyer re. They were at odds over whether to shoot the driver. My yeah reand the third escapee were captured. Also authorities arrested an accused accomplice. We filed charges against one defendant lock what nguyen. The fourth suspect gave them a nye. Nguey. E was not a inmate jail jail worker or visitor. A man in massachusetts may have a guardian angel. He was saved by a nun after he became trapped under a tree. The nun heard the man shouting but realized she couldnt save him herself so she ran back to the abbey and called 911. The man had been pinned under the tree for nearly two hours before firefighters freed him. He said the tree fell on his leg while he was cutting it. The nuns at mount saint marys abbey said the they were glad to help. Philadelphia getting a visit from Caitlyn Jenner weeks after she was parodied by the mummers. Mixed but no means dramatic day on wall street thanks to a drop in oil and photographer in gas prices. Dow finishing down more than 16 points the s p finished down by less than a point. According to the center for Disease Control and prevention its safe to eat at chipotle again. The cdc announced the e. Coli outbreak appears to be over. 50 people across 14 states were sickened. Investigators have not been able to identify the ingredient responsible for the contamination. Yahoo cutting 1600 jobs roughly 15 percent of its work forms the announcement according to the wall street journal will come tomorrow. Several oversees analysis were also close. Yahoos stock has tumbled. State representative and congressional candidate dwight evans got an insides look at how philadbundance is helping provide food to families in the area. Evans toured the Food Warehouse in philadelphia. Hes fighting to end what he calls food deserts and wants to make sure everyone has access to quality quality food. Former olympian and reality tv star Caitlyn Jenner can coming to philadelphia will speak at the university of pennsylvania two weeks from wednesday. Bissinger wrote jenners coming out story for vanity fair last year. Jen inters visit to philadelphia comes weeks after she was parodied by the mummers you may remember. Many called that act offensive prompting city officials to consider changes to next years parade. Still to come right here on action news at 5 00 tonight we get a check of the accuweather forecast. Sky6 hd showing you a wet i95. It is slowing things down. Meteorologist cecily tynan with the exclusive accuweather five day forecast when we come right back. vo if you have type 2 diabetes, you may know what its like to deal with high. And low blood sugar. Januvia sitagliptin is a oncedaily pill that, along with diet and exercise, helps lower blood sugar. Januvia works when your blood sugar is high and works less when your blood sugar is low, because it works by enhancing your bodys own ability to lower blood sugar. Plus januvia, by itself, is not likely to cause weight gain or low blood sugar hypoglycemia . Januvia should not be used in patients with type 1 diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis. Tell your doctor if you have a history of pancreatitis. Serious side effects can happen, including pancreatitis which may be severe and lead to death. Stop taking januvia and call your doctor right away if you have severe pain in your stomach area which may be pancreatitis. Tell your doctor right away and stop taking januvia if you have an allergic reaction that causes swelling of the face, lips, tongue, or throat, or affects your breathing or causes rash or hives. Kidney problems sometimes requiring dialysis have been reported. Some people may develop severe joint pain. Call your doctor if this happens. Using januvia with a sulfonylurea or insulin may cause low blood sugar. To reduce the risk, your doctor may prescribe a lower dose of the sulfonylurea or insulin. Your doctor may do blood tests before and during treatment to check your kidneys. If you have kidney problems a lower dose may be prescribed. Side effects may include upper respiratory tract infection, stuffy or runny nose, sore throat, and headache. For help lowering your blood sugar talk to your doctor about januvia. Time now for accuweather at the action news big board. Meteorologist cecily tynan here. Folks are getting a little bit wet in places. That we have a round of rain moving through right now. Also a weak cold front pushing east so double scan live showing the northwest suburbs right now, the Lehigh Valley and the poconos, northern bucks county, youre beginning to dry out and that round of the steadier rain ive been tracking top of the newscast continues to push to the east moving through burke into gloucester county, medford lakes, berlin. Its just over glassboro right now. Crossing route 55 and this will continue to push to the east and we will be drying out so weve got another about two hours before it clears the coast but right now temperatures on the mild side. 50 degrees in philadelphia. We were up in the upper 50s earlier today. 55 in millville. Even areas to the north where you have a deeper snow pack still in allentown its still relatively mild, 46 degrees and lancaster currently 42 degrees. So, satellite6 along with action radar showing heres the cold front thats pressing through right now thats bringing us kind of an appetizer to the main event. Theres more rain on the way on wednesday and this is all associated with that low pressure that will bring a snowstorm to Rick Williams in iowa and what that will do is press across the great lakes. So well be in the warm sector of that storm so not only will we get a round of heavy rain, well also have record warmth on wednesday. Tonight once the showers move out, it will be cloudy, it will be chilly but temperatures actually above normal for ear