Tonight. The nearby saint malaki school was on lockdown for a time. Police were searching the area for video and fearing retaliatory violence. They were all friends buddies and all four are well known to police and come in cant with us on many occurrences. And police have not locked down a motive for the executions. A fourth victim remains hospitalized in critical condition. Police say there is a history of gans violence in this part of town, it would be over a war of drug turf or something as insults on social media. In broad daylight 24 rounds fired it could hit an innocent kid or person. We feed the help we can get to get these individuals off the street. Reporter rick an antiviolence vigil is expected to begin at 11th and styles in about a half hour. Vernon odom, channel 6 action news. Thank you. In other news tonight the trial of eric frein the man accused of ambushing two Pennsylvania State troopers underway. Frein opened fire on douglas and dickson last late year. Douglas was wounded and dickson died frein led police on a weeks long manhunt before being arrested in an airplane hangar. Police have charged a 17yearold with assault and Reckless Endangerment and theft in connection with the armed robberies in philadelphia. According to officials. Ma king stewart played all in the same area. Nobody was hurt until a confrontation last thursday on north 59 and street. That is when run of the robbery suspects was shot in the arm. Police are investigating stewarts connection to other incidents in the area as well. The nfl draft is still more than three weeks away but with the league set to take over the ben franklin parkway restrictions in the area begin tonight. Beginning at 12 01 a. M. There is no parking on the south side of the 2400 block of pennsylvania avenue, that lasts until monday may 8th, the first road closures begin next monday when parts of Spring Garden streets and lanes of the parkway shuts down and begins in full on thursday, april 27th, we have all the information on the closures on our website at 6abc. Com. Protesters lined the streets outside of senator pat toomeys office to oppose the nomination of neil gorsuch. They called on toomey to vote against the nuclear option, that refers to a plan by republicans to change the rules ensuring the nomination and confirmation of gorsuch. As of this afternoon 44 senators say they will oppose gorsuch as a pick for the high courts. The irs is making a big change that could impact you. The agency is handing over the Debt Collection work to private firms and the firms may call you demanding payment. A practice long deemed a scam by the government. Stephanie ramos is live tonight with what you need to look out for. Rick, for years the irs will never call a taxpayer and demand payment. But now that they have out sources that is exactly what is going to happen. The reason for this call is that the irs is file august lawsuit against you. Millions of americans heard that threat from scammers claiming to be from the irs. For years the irs warned against callers demanding money saying that the irs does not do that. If you are at all behind on your taxes, the irs will have a private company call you starting this spring. Its part of a new program where debt collectors are hired by the irs to chase down long overdue taxes that the irs just cant get to. And they have no choice, a new law enacted by congress requires the irs hire debt collector to help pay for new roads but the new contracts could cause a spike in scam calls, here is how to make sure you are not being scammed when this Program Kicks in. The irs will cant you multiple times in writing before you are ever called by contractors and wont hear from a collector until the you have multiple years of overdue taxes and all payments are made to the irs and not the contracted company. If you get the call from the irs and a really aggressive threatening sounding kind of thing, hang up. If you are not sure, if you have any unpaid accounts with the irs visit irs. Gov and plug in your information and if not call. Five of pennsylvanias state owned universities are put on notice layoffs and program cuts could be ahead. Notifications have gone out at california, cheney and ed enborrow universities. Walter perez is live at Cheney University. Many students here are quick to tell us how proud they are to attend a school that is historic and significant as cheney is. And their hope is that whatever change is made will hopefully secure the schools future for generations to come. Founded in 1837 the oldest Historic Black University in the country. Students here is a that their pride in the schools past is eclipsed by the concerns over cheneys future. I want to stay here and graduate from here. I want them to get everything together. The concern is over the recent announcement that layoffs and program cuts are passable beginning in september of 2018 at five of pennsylvanias 14 state owned universities. The cuts are linked in overall dip in student enrollment within Pennsylvania State schools. At Cheney University enrollment dropped 53 since 2010 on a brighter note the possible changes could include new programs in emerging fields along with reductions in established programs wayning in paplarity. And many students say that cuts and layoffs make it tougher to attract new students to a school located in the rural part of the delaware valley. We are in the middle of nowhere. We need things to do. We have other state schools that got different dormitories in my time of being a student and new athletic buildings and you know we still are stuck with the same old stuff and its not fair. Now to be clear at this point we are talking about possible cuts and playoffs, the notice was put out and discussions can begin on how to minimize or how to avoid the reductions. Walter, thank you. Time now for a check of the action news traffic report tuesday night. Lets swing it over to matt pellman in the traffic center. Traffic troubles for the tuesday trip home cropped up on the walt whitman bridge knowledge bound. The southbound lane as approaching the exit for the bridge, you can see what is happening and the traffic is stacking on the southbound side. And northbound side of 95 heading toward the bridge, that is because there say crash mid span on the bridge heading toward new jersey taking out a lane on 95 and the schuylkill expressway you are a much better bet get into knowledge this afternoon and this one clear right now. Take the ben and the commodore not the walt into new jersey right now. Watching a crash at the park along johnsboro boulevard and one on main street at colonial app avenue. And the crash in delco on Westchester Pike cleared out and watch for one on newport pike. Well check if again in the next half hour. Thank you. Up ahead, horror in syria. After a suspected chemical agent or attack targeted hundreds of people including women and children. And the medical milestone, the kid my transplant celebrated 50 years after it was first performed. Temperatures soared into the 70s despite popup showers and clouds, im tracking bright sunshine tomorrow and thursday the risk of flooding rain and possibly severe storms, ill have details on what to expect in the accuweather forecast when action news returns. If youre looking frien. Hi hi everybody cookie allnew its sesame street live make a new friend playing Liacouras Center this weekend only tickets on sale now liacourascenter dot com dozens of people including ten children have been killed and more than 200 injures in a suspected chemical attack here in northern syria. Air strikes hit earlier in the morning guying off poisonous gas. Caused by exposure to an unknown gas or chemical agent. After the initial strike three more strikes hit the same area but did not result in any gas. Officials in georgia ted today they hope to repair the damaged portion of i85. They say it was started by a man under the bridge and he was arrested. The section is a key link to the citys suburbs and carries 400,000 vehicle a day. Health check tonight President Trump ran intoer Health Care Related problem on capitol hill. This time on the research side. Ali gorman is live at the big board with the detail. Reporter its over funding for Bio Medical Research at the institute of of health. The white house wants to cut it by 18 and lawmakers from both parties are opposed to that. And that its just getting to funding levels it needs and that comes four months after signing the 20 and century cures act. It put money into research not just for them but for the universities and medical Centers Nationwide and that big cuts could slow down advances in medicine. And today researchers are learning more about socalled super abgers these are people over 75 and sharp as a tack. And it shows that super agers lost less brain volume than the average senior and said case did not seem to pay a role. Three out of four were women, and it may be that they had larger brains to begin with but more research is needed. Also, today a father and daughter are celebrating a milestone, a kidney transplant 50 years ago that changed the course of medicine. Ted lombard gave his then 13yearold daughter denise a kidney to save her life. Denise and her twin sister diane had a genetic affect that caused kidney failure. They would not put denise on dialysis because it was too new and risky and her mother convinced them to do a living donor transplant. I lost one daughter. And i didnt want to lose another. Well now transplants including those from living donors are being done every day but the lombards want everyone to consider becoming a living donor. There are 100,000 people on the waiting list right fow a new name is added every 14 minutes, the bomb lards are believed to be the oldest living donor pair in the united states. Back over to you. Isnt that terrific. Thank you ali. The college of new jersey kicked off a huge health fair today at the Student Rec Center its called thrive wellness expo featuring scores of vendors carrying information and wellness activities and some offered free massages to stress filled students, and some were taught how to make smoothies using an exercise glenner. It was neat. It coincides with National Public health week. Coming up how the National Spelling bee is making it harder to win. And the excite can time for a new jersey teenager the decisions she makes after a successful round of college applications. Im pretty excited for you right now. Fast play is the new way to play fast and win instantly from the pennsylvania lottery. Pick a game, get your ticket and see if youve won. I won fast play, please fast play. Play fast. Win instantly. The uncertainties of hep c. Wondering, what if . I let go of all those feelings. Because i am cured with harvoni. 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And the latest drop puts auto sales down from 2 from the Previous Year and coming off a record setting year and it may be impossible to continue raising the bar and one auto company on the rise is tesla, they surpassed ford in market value and analysts say it could soon beat out General Motors and tesla is attracted to investors because of high growth potential. The scripts National Spelling bee make it hard to end up in a tie. It ended in a tie the past three years even after the final round was made harder with harder words and now they take a written tie breaking test and if more than one person make its the final round the score will be announced. And only if they tie on the test will cowinners be announced. A girl in new jersey was accepted in all eight ivy league schools. She got into harvard, yale, u penn and brown and princeton. And has not decide wrd to dieded where to go. None of the schools say they give merit scholarships so im pray that they give me some Financial Aid or some money, you know shout out to all of those schools, please give me something. Mom and dad say they are leaving the decision on where she goes up to her. What a bright young lady. Congratulations. Still to come on action news at 5 00, a check of the forecast for you tuesday night. Sky 6 hd showing you cape may new jersey, gorgeous tonight. Meteorologist, cecily tynan with the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast when action news comes right back. Only at my giant. Is it keeps the food out. For me before those little pieces would get in between my dentures and my gum and it was uncomfortable. Just a few dabs is clinically proven to seal out more food particles. Super poligrip is part of my life now. Fill your basket with easter only at my giant. Time for a check of the accuweather forecast at the action news big board. Cecily tynan has a check of the forecast tonight. Some spring like conditions today. Temperatures in the 70s and sky conditions its been a bit of a battle between the sunshine and the clouds, sky 6 hd taking a look at the ben franklin bridge and seeing a pretty good veil of dark cumulous clouds we have showers moving through and melissa was tracking them in the last hour and double scan live shows they pushed up to the north and east and well be clearing things out through the evening hours. Getting rid of the clouds, temperaturewise the average high is 60. 72 right now in philadelphia. And wilmington 78 and 75 and dover 72 and the cool spot in trenton a front hanging on there currently own 61 degrees. Satellite and radar showing High Pressure is building up briefly over the great lakes. The skinny High Pressure that moves over us late tonight. However, there is another storm system waiting in the wings than brings us the potential for localize the flooding and possible severe storms on thursday. And temperatures are mild for this time of year. 52 in philadelphia tonight and allentown 46 and wilmington 50 and Atlantic City 52 and cape may 52 degrees respect the day planner showing tomorrow try to get outside at some point during the day carve out some time to enjoy the weather and full sunshine at 8 00 already 56 and by 11 00 reaching the average high of 60 making it up to 70 by 5 00 and 8 00 clouds begin to move in ahead of our next storm system and future tracker 6 showing us that this next system could bring rocky weather on thursday. It brings a squall line developing at 10 30 in the morning with downpours and damaging winds and that likely will continue in the afternoon and the Severe Storm Prediction Center puts the greatest risk of Severe Weather south of philadelphia. And even in philadelphia we are under the marginal risk and the biggest threat is the potential for damaging wind. Tomorrow a beauty mostly sunny and mild and 70 degrees and tomorrow 63 degrees and the possibility of severe storms and friday the phillies home opener, and chilly and the possibility of scattered showers 53 degrees and gets brighter on saturday 57 and sunday 66 and would you believe we have a shot near 80 degrees next week, melissa will talk about that in the exday forecast. I will running on that day yes. To the icecream store. She knows me. More ahead in the next half hour of action news. A new yorker saw someone in trouble and did not hesitate to act. And his heroics were captured on cell phone video and well show you it to you. And the purpose to make sure those in need you can care for because of generous people in the public, and Dallas Cowboys quarterback, tony romo is giving up the game for another career. 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. The Trump Administration continues to dispute and down play revelations that russia interfered in last years elections. Now new accusations again the Obama Administration. A frightening discovery in a delaware pond has people looking for answers and emergency repairs has people prompting to close this bridge. And allies of President Trump are jumping on a report alleging the Administration Says that nothing illega