Shows siminger backing away as mcgovernor initiated the attack. She says her client a disabled navy veteran was simply trying to defend himself. This is not the case of a deranged person committing a stabbing but its an unfortunate situation and its clear that my client was not the initial aggressor. This case will be held over for trial. Reporting live from center city, walter perez, channel 6 action news. Camden county prosecutors released a 911 call a woman made when her aunt hit a pedestrian and kept driving. I was in a car and i wasnt driving and my aunts was driving and hit someone. They hit someone like a person . Yes. Or a vehicle . A person. 40yearold susan highland is charged in the death of 16yearold turner, walking in pennsauken monday night. The student was on his way home from visiting his girlfriend when he was hit and highland was capture aid short time after the 911 call and faces a number of charges. Turning to accuweather now and the warmup heading our way to end the week. A live look outside this afternoon, sky 6 showing the Commodore Barry bridge and blue skies out thereafter a couple of blustery days the wins are calming down and highs in the 70s coming our way tomorrow. Meteorologist, cecily tynan, standing by outside with a first look at the accuweather forecast. Reporter it is a good one for the next day or two or day and a half. We have plenty of sunshine now and temperatures are where they should be this time of year. 58 in philadelphia but you can see there is much warmer air waiting in the wings, washington 62 and richmond 66 and south of that temperatures are in the 70s and tomorrow well have strong winds out of the southwest pulling up that warm air and its going to be warm on friday as well. And tonight temperatures really not dropping nearly as much as last night. Last night temperatures were in the 20s and 30s and overnight tonight temperatures dropped down into the 40s. A pretty good launching pad for temperatures in the 70s tomorrow afternoon however double scan live radar showing there is a pretty intense storm system that is causing Severe Weather in parts of the midwest or deep south and that low pressure will move to the north and what that will do is drag a cold front through and create a rainy friday and then a big change in temperatures for the weekend, feeling like winter for sunday. Ill talk about that coming up in the full accuweather forecast. Back to you. Thank you cecily. Final four frenzy is taking over the main line and the whole Delaware Valley for that matter. The team left for Houston Texas looking for a championship. The book store was packed with fans hoping to get their hands on final four gear and everyone says this weekend is as big as it gets for nova nation. Look how excited you are for final four . I cant explain it i dont know what to say. I autumn marisa amped go cats. This is their fifth appearance in the final four, the last time they were this close was 2009 and they made the championship game one in the 70s and once in the 80s, this is the scene they hope to replicate, a championship parade. Something the cats did only one time in 1985. Action news sports reporter, jaime apody is live on villanovas campus with more on the huge sendoff there. Reporter brian and monica, i was with the team in 2009 and i dont remember anything like it was today. Its quiet behind me now its hard to believe the scene out here earlier. These folks at nova nation, ready to party like its 1985. Check it out. What a scene it was outside of the davis center and the pavilion, nova nation out in force, and a sea of humanity decked out in blue and white. After that what happened earlier in the day, the seniors realized it was their final practice at the daniel accepter. They bent down to kiss the v at the center of the court and that sent coach jay wright over the top. The seniors are incredible people and i love the pride they take in this program and when those guys when they kissed the court today that just said it all to me. Reporter ive been covering villanova and jay wright for ten years, i dont remember him getting quite that caught up in the emotion of this, not quite like that. Maybe Something Special is about to happen. Villanova is headed to the final four and well be with you the entire way. Well have more updates the rest of night in sports, live at Villanova University where they are off to the final four. Special team and a special coach thank you. As the wildcats gear up for the big game this weekend, we want to see how you are cheering on nova nation, join the action by sending pictures to 6abcaction and like our facebook page, facebook. Com 6abcactionnews to cheer on villanova. And action news as you said will be with the wildcats every step of the way both Jeff Skversky and Alicia Vitarelli are headed to houston and jeffs live reports start tomorrow here on action news. And join the action News Sports Team for a special preview of saturdays final four showdown, well break down the matchup. Its called march to the championship and airs friday night live at 7 30 here on 6 abc. To other news. The Drug Enforcement administration has an plane and the problem is it cant fly. A new Justice Department report says that the department of defense and dea has except 40 million theres on this atr 42500 and was intended for drug operations in afghanistan and is inoperatable since 2012. The da will use it in latin america because it no longer has operations in afghanistan. Two prominent senators are urging counter parts to hold hearing on the Supreme Court nominee. Together the men pressed for hearings on merrick garland, president obamas choice to replace the late justice, antonin scalia. Among the grave and sequenceal votes you cast are for the Supreme Court. Its my hope that all 100 senators will take our responsibility under the constitution seriously and all hundred will do their job. So far republican senators have refused to hold hearings for garland and at least 15 republican senators are willing to meet with him but are opposed to holding hearings. Senator casey spent the day for the historic celebration, the 19th amendment that gave women the right to vote turned 100 years old making philadelphia the host of the centennial celebration and it will bring thousands of visitors and an economic boost to the city. Time now for a check of the action news traffic report. Lets go live to matt pellman. Reporter we just may have thousands of visitors on the schuylkill expressway and some unhappy visitors and speeds are really slow especially the eastbound side from city avenue to point at Spring Garden and the vine street expressway and the jam continues across town on the eastbound side of the vine to 95 northbound where you are looking at speeds of 10 and 11 Miles Per Hour. Not just normal afternoon volume but and earlier crash at girard avenue. We still have the downed wires in College Villa long main street and 5th avenue. The fire and police are helping you around that intersection. And a crash at east rockville at 3 mile road. And dont forget down in Port Republic southbound on route 9 the brush fire. Well check it again coming up in the next half hour. Thank you. More ahead on action news at 5 00, new video gives us a birds eye view of a massive fire that damaged five homes in brooklyn. And a procedure the first of its kind, why a liver transplant was so tricky and doctors managed to find a way around it. So how old is the second most famous groundhog in pennsylvania . I dont have enough fingers ben ok gus, make a wish that was some blowout. Thanks, so are these wow, the new blowout instant games from the pennsylvania lottery, with over 225 million in prizes. Did someone say blowout . keep on scratchin this is drone video from a fast moving fire, a six alarm blaze in brooklyn. 11 people were hurt when the roofs of five buildings burned last night. Firefighters worked the fire and fought the winds before getting it under control. Wall street led today, the dow jones jumped nearly 100 points after opening and stocks closed higher again. And the dow gained 84 points and the nasdaq finishing up just about 23 and the s p 500 rose just about 9 points on the day. Belgium Officials Say that a laptop found near the hideout of the suspects contain the images of the Prime Ministers Office and residence. Meantime officials in france say a french man arrested last week was accused of plotting an imminent terrorist attack. He is believed to have traveled to syria in 2014 and 15 and made several trips between belgium and france. On health check at 5 00, a pair of medical firsts, the first live trance plants from a hiv positive donor to an hiv recipient. Health reporter and registered nurse, ali gorman joins us with more detales. Up until 2013 this practice was banned. Now with the ban lifted. Hiv positive patients can become donor, and this can help to save others living with hiv. Doctors at john hopkins announced two successful transplant surgeries, a liver and kidney taken from a hiv positive deceased donor and given to two hiv positive patients, the patients are remaining anonymous but we are told they are desperately waiting for the organs. Doctors say that allowing the patients to become donors is a game changer. For patients today for those living with hiv its an exciting time because now instead of having a very high risk of death on the waiting list, every potential hiv donor is a potential life saved. Many advances have been made in treating hiv, its gone from a death sentence to a manageable illness. Morris murray has been living with hiv for more than 25 years but he says when he needed a liver transplant years ago he almost died waiting, i finally got one from a hiv negative donor but if he had been allowed to receive an hiv positive order orr began he would not have waited so long and is glad the ban has been lifted. We have to Work Together to saul so all of us can live longer and healthier lives. He is encouraging people to be donors. Register to be a donor, there is no greater gift than the gift of life. Both recipients are doing well and they and the medical team is thanking everyone involved especially the donor and her family. To be clear hiv positive organs can only be given to hiv positive recipients. Thank you ali. Coming up budding entrepreneurs in buck county have a new space. And Vice President joe biden is once again teaming up with lady gaga. When action news returns. A little child with big dreams. Dwight evans. First a community activist. A legislator at 25. Always looking out for us. He worked to create a thriving commercial district. And hes brought new Grocery Stores to underserved areas. Dwight evans is committed to revitalizing neighborhoods in all of philadelphia. Hell be a block by block congressman for us. Im dwight evans and im proud to approve this message. When it comes to the fithings you love,. You want more. Love romance . Get lost in every embrace. Into sports . Follow every pitch, every play and every win. Change the way you experience tv with x1 from xfinity. There is a new place for new entrepreneurs to work on ideas in buck county at Buck County Community College in bucks county. They can do research and get their businesses off the ground. Well, a group of Young Elementary School students knows what it takes to run a major city. Mayor jim kenney had career day in south philadelphia and spoke with the second grade class here, he told the students where he grew up about his education and how he got to be mayor. 1,000 young scientists from across the region are splitting more than ,000 worth of scholarships and prizes, they are competing at the science fair in oaks today. The sixth through 12th graders were there. Vice President Joe Biden is teaming up with lady gaga to talk about Sexual Assault. The two appeared together in february at the oscars when lady gaga was nominated for her assault about Sexual Assault on College Campuses and biden is Holding Events in pennsylvania and colorado. Coming up on action news at 5 00 well check the accuweather forecast for you. Sky 6 hd taking you to atlantic city, new jersey, a beautiful picture down there and meteorologist, cecily tynan with the exclusive accuweather forecast. All right the time for accuweather at the action news big board. Let swing over to cecily tynan for this great weather we are having. We are going warm things up and see a great amount of sunshine. Looking live at Philadelphia International airport. High thin clouds moving in and sky 6 moving a little bit and winds not as strong as the past few days but we have a bit of a breeze. Philadelphia 58 and allentown 59 and wilmington 54 and the winds are generally from the southeast and philadelphia winds 13 Miles Per Hour and stronger in wildwood and wilmington clocking in at 20 Miles Per Hour. But with the winds shift out of the south that brings us warmer air. Satellite 6 along with action radar showing the big picture, High Pressure off the eastern seaboard and low pressure from the midwest, that moves up over canada and that puts us in a squeeze play that pulls up tremendous winds from the southwest tomorrow. Even tonight it wont get that cold. Temperatures in the 20s and 30s, and tonight dropping down into the 40s under partly cloudy skies and 46 in philadelphia and allentown dropping to a low of 40 degrees and good viewing conditions to see the inter International Space station. What you want to do is look up to the southwest horizon at 8 56 and its visible for four minutes it will arc over you and exit to the eastnortheast at 60 degrees and partly cloudy skies and the fact that the moon is not rising until well after midnight creates pretty good viewing conditions. All of those science nerds like i am will be looking up to the sky tonight. Future tracker showing tomorrow morning wins from the south already 64 degrees by 11 00 and temperatures skyrocket by 5 00 temperatures up into the 70s but it will be gusty and future tracker 6 showing the winds at 5 00 close to 40 Miles Per Hour generally out of the south and friday also windy and friday will be wet. Future tracker 6 showing its wet. But thursday is a dry day and does not arrive until after midnight and showers developing over philadelphia and that will last into the day on friday. It looks like the first half of the day is wetter and then things begin to cool off dramatically over the weekend. The fiveday at 5 00, its going be warm and a windy day and high of 73 degrees, increasing clouds and friday 77 degrees but that comes with showers and perhaps even a thunderstorm as that cold front pulls through, behind that system saturday, a day of transition we step down to 62 degrees and sunday windy and chilly, 47 degrees and windchills in the 20s and 30s. And then monday we rebounced back to 56 degrees and there is a reinforcing shot behind that on tuesday. Adam as more on that in the accuweather forecast. Thank you cecily. More to come in our next half hour of action news at 5 00. Police are looking for the man that held up a 7eleven store not once but twice. Governor Chris Christie announced more support for families in need. And the passenger posing for this bizarre photo while his plane was being hijacked speaks out about why he took a picture. Action news continues with meteorologist, adam joseph, jaime apody, Rick Williams and Monica Malpass. Hello again, here is what is happening on action news tonight. An explosion in bayonne, new jersey, injured four people including two Police Officers. And a man is facing charges after an explosion at a makeshift meth lab. And voters head to the poll in wisconsin in less than a week and controversy continues to surround donald trump. Trump made controversial comments about abortion saying that women that get them should get some sort of punishment, which he moments ago retract. Lauren lister is joining us live from washington, d. C. With more on an eventful day on the campaign trail. Reporter Hillary Clinton coming out tweeting just when you thought it couldnt get worse. March for life saying no prolifer would ever support puppishment of a woman. Its all coming in response to this exchange. Donald trump during a pretrip taped msnbc do you believe in punishment for abortion . The answer is that there has to be some sort of punishment. For the woman . Some form. That i dont know. And trump continues to stand by his man, corey lewandowski. You need someone loyal to the country and to yourselves. He is charged with an altercation with reporter, michelle fields. Video showing lewandowski grabbing her arm at a Florida Campaign event. Afterwards fields showed abc news bruises allegedly caused by lewandowski and now they imply fields was a threat to him. She walked through secret service and she had a pen in her hand. It could have been a knife but it was a pen which could be dangerous. And mrs. Cruz joined her husband at a women for cruise rally. And Hillary Clinton telling her supporters. Just listen to donald trump, he says demeaning and degrading things about women. And donald trump comes out with a statement retracting the statement. The person performing the illegal act would be held responsible not the woman. Be sure to tune in to world news tonight for more on the campaign trail coming up on action news at 6 00. President obama and Vice President joe biden announced their endorsements for the pennsy