Could come in march. The guys that own the Soda Companies are billionaires. The mayor is in dispute with jeff brown a shoprite operator who reportedly said that his firm had to cut employee hours because of lost revenues. Dont buy it. I think they are fear mongering from the get go. There are no billionaires in teamster locate at 830, but they work to deliver beverages, danny grace speaks for his members. My guys paychecks are diminished 50 to 70 of their take home pay. They are already seeing that. Any drop in sales they say would be temporary. The consumers going to the burbs to avoid the tax will get tired and return. Chips ill buy. I will not buy the said a. I will not pay the tax. I will not pay it. He will go to bensalem to buy soda and other sweetened beverages. The tax opponents were defeated in the common court of pleas. John thank you. A former Main Line School staffer is facing sex charges tonight. Accused of showing racy photos and sexual video of herself to young students. Maya johnson worked atville able school in radnor township. That she showed video and pick tears of her performing a sex act and another teacher nina scott was arrested last month for carrying on a sexual relationship with a 16yearold student. Police say that the two cases are not connected. Turning to accuweather the taste of spring we are getting and what should be the dead of winter is incredible. Some parts of our area hit record highs today and it is just going to get warmer tomorrow. Meteorologist, cecily tynan, live outside with more on the forecast. Incredible cecily. Its strange to be standing out here with shortsleeves in may. Philadelphia not a record here, 73, the record high is 75 and allentown hit a record of 71 and wilmington 73 and Atlantic City airport record of 72 and record high in dover 74, and the bad news for the ski resorts in the poconos, they hit a record high of 63 degrees and that warmup continues especially due to the fact that tonight it wont get cold at all. Temperatures hold in the 60s through 9 00 and then dropping down into the 50s. Partly cloudy and the overnight low of 56 degrees, 10 Degrees Higher than our average high for this time of year. So we have a pretty high launching pad for temperatures tomorrow. And if you look at the eastern half of the country you can see we have plenty of warmth, atlanta, we are almost the same temperature of 74 and memphis 77 and you look up at bismark, north dakota, 29 degrees cooler air arrives for the second half of the weekend. Today 73 and saturday one degree warmer and sunday 27 degrees colder than today and it will feel even cooler when you factor in the windchills. Ill talk about that and the timing of the weekend rain to bring in the change in the full accuweather forecast. Thank you cecily. Philadelphia city Officials Say that President Trumps actions on transgender students will not affect school policies. Overnight the white house reversed the guidelines put in place under the Obama Administration and Public Schools are no longer required to allow transgender students to use the bathroom of their choice. A policy that philadelphia adopted included that protection and superintendant, william hite says it will stay that way. Its important to assure our young people are safe and respected. And regardless of their identity, their gender identification, we are going to make sure they have what they need in order to be educated. Meanwhile, the Trump Administration actions is getting backlash from around the country. Well have more on the nationwide fallout coming up at 5 30. Secretary of state, Rex Tillerson and Homeland Security secretary john kelly are in mexico meeting with officials. Mexico expressed anger over President Trumps assertions that that country will pay for a wall along the border and mexican officials intend to ask questions about President Trumps immigration plan. Well, today former employees for the delaware correctional system were given a chance to discussion conditions in the prisons, the workers were invited to speak at a hearing after a min mate takeover at the Vaughn Center earlier this month that left one officer dead. Some issues included understaffing and Poor Organization and short comings that create dangerous safety conditions for the employees. Three philadelphia firefighters lost their lives battling a 12 alarm fire in center city. Adam teal spoke with the spire it broke out on the 22nd floor in 1991. And firefightered david holcom and Phyllis Mcallister and Dave Chappelle were killed. A man said his laptop employeded in his kitchen almost burning his house down. And it may be related to a recall he knew nothing about. Flames were coming from the middle so all four batteries must have popped at the same time. This is what is left of bobs laptop after it burst into flames inside of his phoenixville home yesterday afternoon. Unplugged it and grabbed it here and ran and threw it into the sink and put the water on. The fire continued to burn on the counter top engulfing important paperwork including insurance claims from a car accident and melted the medicatio medications. The flames were high and it was all over the walls here and this blanket here where the dogs are and the dogs could have been injured. He quickly doused the flames, and fears his house could have burned down and Hewlett Packard issued a recall for ion lithium batteries in june and again in january. This is part of the, they will replace the laptop and pay for damages caused by the fire. If there is a recall and have you that specific battery you should be notified by mail or email. I was not notified of anything. He is urging owners to doublecheck just in case. How many other batteries are out there affected by this that people know nothing about. In phoenixville, annie mccormick, channel 6 action news. Lets go live to matt pellman in the Traffic Center. Cant blame cecily or adam. Weather is cooperating for the ride home, i dont know who im blame maybe you guys, 95 northbound is an absolute mess slow from the bridge to the work zone because of a crash in the work zone off to the side but 10 miles per hour. You may want to stick with the numbers streets or Delaware Avenue instead. A crash at cotman at roland at callaways irish inn. And a water main break in morristown shutting down Church Street and chester avenue is an alternate and a broken down vehicle in cherry hill along 70 eastbound and look out live and see it, sitting there in the left lane east of spring dale road. And in a. C. We are watching a downed pole thanks to an earlier crash and 322 eastbound has the right lane blocked because of that, well check it again in the next half hour. Its your fault. Much more ahead on action news at 5 00. Coming up in sports after rumors that the team could get rid of okafor another big name is headed elsewhere instead. And first new video of a frightening landing in europe. The problem for this plane in the final minutes of flight that made for a scary scene on the runway. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. So we wired the wagners house with 150 meg internet. Which means that in the time it takes mr. Wagner to pour a 20oz. 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Pope francis is out spoken about hypocritical catholics, telling mass goers to practice what their religion preaches. Mixed news on the flu front. Delaware Health Officials report two more flu related deaths both in elderly people. Babies and adults are hit harder in cases 24 years and younger and the flu epidemic peaked with it dropping last week. If you have itchy eyes and runny nose it may be early allergies. It triggered an early season and the consistently warmer temperatures have tricked trees and shrubs in parts of the country into budding than sent pollen to aprillike levels. Patients normally dont come in with symptoms until midmarch and doctors say that they doubt that and early start will mean an early end to spring allergies. People suffering are already starting to suffer and feeling miserable and will feel miserable through the spring because that is right around the corner. Sorry about that folks if you use medication to control the allegations start to take it now it needs to build up in your system for when trees start to pump out the pollen. The more fruits and vegetables you eat the longer your life. The team in london calculate that eating 10 portions a day could prevent nearly 8 million premature deaths a day. One portion is a half cup and a salad could easily be four portions and they identified specific foods, for cancer eat more green or yellow vegetables and kale and cauliflower and to cut your heart risk apples, pairs and citrus fruits and salads and leafy greens and vegetables. The oscars are just days away and preparations are well underway, hollywood boulevard got more glammous, the red carpet was rolled out and serving as the backdrop for sundays big show. We know what the outside will look like the inside is kept under wraps, the look of the oscar stage is not revealed until show time. And the telecasters are promitioning there is something for everyone. For us the show is a celebration of movies and movies are for everyone. If you are a winner and you have your 45 seconds from the moment you stand up you are free to discussion whatever is in your heart. We are your home for oscar sunday. Action news will be on an hour earlier at 5 00 p. M. And oscar cover average starts at 6 00 including the preshow from the red carpet. It begins at 8 30 followed by action news. Coming up tonight on 6 abc the two hour Season Finale on how to g how to get away with murder at 9 00 and then an investigation on Human Trafficking and prostitution, chad pradelli has the preview. They appear to be dens of prostitution in suburban neighborhoods and many go unsuspected for years and we found suspected operations hiding in blaine sight and we found a website dedicated to reviewing the sex parlors. And now a Main Line Police department has launched a raid in an effort to stop alleged prostitution and shut down the business. Well take you inside of our investigation tonight on channel 6 action news at 11 00. The dow jones posted the 10th Straight Record close today following remarks by the treasury secretary steven mnuchin. The nasdaq was down 25 and the s p closed nearly even. Girls that want to go into business got a helping hand in chester, pennsylvania. Widener university he held a workshop for 13 Area High School girls at their business of administration. And to show them Career Opportunities and the academic load and what its like for students. There is another workshop tomorrow. And they honored heroic women today as part of the celebration. Music dance and posttory is part of the proceedings and remembering the courageous contributions of women during the civil rights era. Bringing in performers like the Hope Church School choir and Council Members read quotes from women that fought for civil rights during the 1960s. They had a free tour to learn about africanamerican history in Atlantic City. The time for change walking tour was made possible by a grant from stockton university. It was made the two hour event began at the historic Saint James Church and ended in front of boardwalk hall. Nice, still ahead on action news at 5 00, a check of the forecast for you. Looking live at sky 6 hd showing you Philadelphia International airport on a thursday night. Meteorologist, cecily tynan, has yourc fiveday forecast. Time for accuweather at the action news big board. Cecily tynan is here to tell us about the stunning weather we love this. This time of year typically we show viewer photos doing fun things, like sled in the snow. Not like this. Michelle posted this on my facebook page. I asked everybody to show us how they were taking advantage of this spring like weather. She was golfing with letter son and temperatures were soaring into the 70s. 70 degrees now shy of our high today of 73. Allentown record of 71 and wilmington 67 and trenton 70. Notice the beaches with the wind off the ocean the ocean temperature now 44 and cape may cooler 51 degrees. Satellite 6 along with action radar showing lots of sunshine this afternoon after a day when we started with the dense fog again that will happen tomorrow. And a wider view showing that there is a powerful storm system this low near wichita, will lift up to the great lakes and as it does, areas in the cold sector of the storm are going to get a lot of snow. Actually some blizzard warnings expected and a pretty substantial swath of snow, several inches north of omaha and green bay. And temperatures in the 70s. For two more days. And overnight lows not even our formal high for this time of year. Only 56 in philadelphia and 52 degrees in wilmington and trenton. And patchy shower possible northwest of philadelphia but the main problem tonight will be the potential for some dense fog developing again. Future tracker 6 showing 11 00 tonight again some showers are possible. Mainly across northern Lehigh Valley and the poconos and it clouds up with low clouds and fog for the morning commute and just like today. By the afternoon the clouds give way to sunshine and temperatures back up to near record warmth, philadelphia i think we have a good shot of a record high of 75 degrees, the old record 74 set back in 1985, elsewhere the records are higher than the forecast temperatures, trenton will be close they calling for a high of 73, the record is 74, the fiveday at 5 00 showing a spring like day, 75 degrees and morning fog and afternoon sunshine and saturday one more day in the 70s. 74 degrees, late in the day some rain and perhaps some gusty february thunderstorms rare with a cold front behind that system 46 on sunday and windchills in the 30s cold if you head to any oscar parties and then back up to 54 degrees and tuesday rain and 60 and the start of march will be warmer than that details in the sevenday forecast. Two more daze and temperatures in the 70s. Quick break and more news when we come back. Action news continues with meteorologist, adam joseph, jaime apody, Rick Williams and Monica Malpass. Hello again, here is what is happening on action news thursday night. President trumps move to scrap federal transgender bathroom guidelines is causing mixed emotions tonight. And homeowners get an unwelcome surprise a minivan in the middle of their living room. And fifth graders at a Marlton Elementary School are showing empathy by making blankets for patients at chop. Now the details transgender bathrooms are in the National Cross hairs tonight. President trump is pushing to reverse president obamas directives telling Public Schools to allow them. Maggie is live in washington, d. C. With more. Reporter good evening, the president s decision to roll back that protection for students immediately sparked a response. This isnt about the law. And this isnt about an interpretation of the law, this is about being cruel to children. Immediately backlash from lgbt civil Rights Groups over President Trump decision to role back president obama era federal guidelines to allow Public School students to use the bathroom of their choice. This was a huge example of the Obama Administrations overreach. Using the action conference to make their case. And he is even leaving bathrooms alone, that is a nice refreshing thing. But its a state issue. And transgender students are not willing to take the risk. You leave the decision of civil rights up to states, for a long time people dont have civil rights. Transgender teen sued his school board for not letting him use the boys room. And no person should feel like they are unsafe and cant use the bathroom while trying to get an education. Another voice is asking for answers. Jackie who sang at President Trumps inauguration whose sister is transgender, tweets you gave me the honor to sing at your inauguration please give me and my exist hon toward talk about transgender rights. Today white house spokesperson sean spicer says that that is because the Trump Administration rushed it and did not follow the proper procedure. Hillary clinton will speak at a st. Patricks day event at her father as home town. The speaker for the dinner march 17th, clinton largely kept out of the public eye and will make several speeches in the coming month including a commencement event at her alma mater. Wellsy college. And well have more on world news tonig