Have flood advisories into the evening for street flooding and im tracking the return of cold air and feels like winter and then our weather pattern makes a big shift. Well talk about that coming up in the full accuweather forecast. All right cecily thank you. We are tracking damage the storm left behind. This is greenville, delaware where a tree fell on a car with two people inside. It happened on the 1,000 block of barley mill road and it appears that both people in the car will be okay. A Lancaster County couple accused of illegal giving their young daughters to another man for money enter pleas in court. She plead guilty today and her husband pled no contest. Apparently the couple fell on hard times after breaking off from the amish final and they said they handed over their children to lee kaplan in exchange for financial help. Kaplans trial is expect to begin next month. A sudden about face on capitol hill. Deaf devon nunez is stepping aside after weeks of refusing to recuse himself. Reporter good evening. House speaker paul ryan, says the current ethics probe for nunez is a distraction into the investigation into russia. But believes that nunez should stay in his position as commit echairman. Sent out a statement and my statement will stand. Devon nunez, the House Committee chairman today leaving the capital soon after bowing out. This comes weeks afternoon nunez refused to recuse himself from the investigation into the 2016 election. And blaming politically motivated accusations from left wing groups saying that the charges are false. Devon nunez earned my trust over the years for his work that the Intelligence Community does to keep americans safe. And questions of impartiality. He said he received information showing the trump team was incidentally caught up intelligence, he showed it to the president instead of the Bipartisan Committee he led and now they are investigating nunez for possibly obtaining classified material and his step ago side allows for a fresh start. The investigation is of such critical importance we need to get fully back on track. Reporter the Trump Administration now says they wont comment on the decisions that the House Intel Committee makes. Reporting live in new york, stephanie ramos, channel 6 action news. Thank you. Also in washington, Senate Republicans invoked the socalled Nuclear Option. Making way for Neil Gorsuchs asenshun to the Supreme Court. They call it a turning point in the history of the senate. Back here a newest to beef up gun safety in philadelphia. Today the Sheriffs Department and city council announced a new effort to get more gun locks on firearms in the city. Vernon odom has the story from north philadelphia. Got a gun you get a lock. Philadelphia sheriff shows off a gun lock one of the thousands available free through the fifth floor office at city hall and to be distributed on the streets this summer by town watch outfits, this gives us an opportunity to travel through the summer through the neighborhoods and with the citizens and working through the residents of the city and get them out and possibly save more lives. All you have to do is lock the gun so it cannot be used. It cannot be used. Hundreds of shots are fired in the city each year because of temporary anger or guns falling into the hands of children and the hope is this can cut down on this senseless carnage. The individuals that lost their lives as a result of getting access to weapons last year. One is too many. The gun locks are covered steal cables that thread through the pistol chamber and prevent the weapon from firing. The grand child is all over your house while are you at the coffee table and watching television. It makes you think or wonder is my gun safe . The free gun lock Program Begins right away and full details available on the sheriffs website. Im vernon odom channel 6 action news. A section Near Railroad tracks in kensington is known as a camp for homeless heroin addicts. Now city officials are asking and taking a serious step to try to clean that up. Gurney street below the train tracks are covered in drug needles, and trash. And its technically owned by conrail and today the city issued them a violation notice saying if they dont clean up the area and fix the broken fences the city will file a lawsuit. We thought we were making progress with conrail but there seems to be a hesitation on their part but the only way is to take this action and wind up in front of a judge. We need to get the addicts off the street and intotreme. I go through all the streets of kensington we want them to get into treatment. We dont have enough beds and turned down because they dont have an i. D. Conrail issues a statement saying in part, its committed to working with the city to address the Opioid Crisis by finding a comprehensive solution, and they recently cut off dialog concerning the issue. April 6th marks the 100 anniversary of the u. S. s entry into world war one. They took part in an event to commemorate the day and met at the war memorial and remembered the sacrifices made by New Jerseyans 100 years ago. And tep septa is urging phillies fans to ditch their tokens and and get a key card a way to get on and off the broad street line, septa says that most of the turn styles have been replaced already that means those with token and cash have to wait in line before boarding and as an added incentive anyone that adds 10 theres to their septa account in center city gets a phillies themed prize. And speaking of traveling, lets get a check of the traffic report on a thursday night. Matt pellets man lets see whats up. A rough day on the roads and rails but we are starting to dry out and plenty of traffic in south philadelphia along i95, northbound side backed up substantially from the walt whitman to the work zone at jared avenue and a ton of suburban issues, including this one new garden Chester County and downed wires and jammed in both directions headed to the closure point at the hill top crab shack and newark road can get you around the closure. And a crash on the Commodore Barry bridge bridge headed into pennsylvania and slowing into new jersey as well. And the commodore is probably not your best bet, use the walt whitman instead. And the issues on the knowledge turnpike south of exit 4 flooding in the left lane and farther south in Gloucester County more flooding and speeds of 12 Miles Per Hour and 295 southbound a better bet. Well check it again if the next half hour. Thank you. More ahead on action news at 5 00, a crack down on distracted driving in new jersey. New at 5 00, what could soon arrive at your front door if are you caught doing anything but driving behind the wheel. Plus, a potential break through through with children affected by autism. When action news at 5 00 continues. Vanessa i got hurt and was given painkillers. By the time the drugs ran out, i was addicted. It happened so fast. I ended up on the streets, where the drugs are cheaper and easier to get. I was a full blown heroin addict, selling my soul to get high. When i realized i needed help i didnt know where to go. But i got help and you can too. Youre not alone. Help is within reach. Call 844 reach nj or visit reachnj. Gov. The road to recovery starts now. Leave it to the pros . I am a pro. I made this lawn from seed pride, and less water than youd think. To those whod say the grass is greener on the other side. I politely disagree. Pennington smart seed. Guaranteed to grow with 30 less water. Reclaim your turf. 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 he was phone at mr. Warmth and the merchant of venom. Tonight fanned reason the country are mourning the loss of an immediatic icon, don rickles, he was best known for his scathing standup comedy and frequents casinos in Atlantic City and his wife, barbara, is a philadelphia native. He suffered from kidney failure and died at his home this morning. Don rickles the legend was 90 years old. Secretary of state, Rex Tillerson says that president beshir assad should no longer have a role in governing the syrian people. He spoke out two days after the suspected chemical attack that killed at least 72 people including babies and children. Tillerson says that there is no doubt that assads government was behind the attack. And the u. S. Is evaluating an appropriate response. And thousands of people are gathering in moscow today at the cathedral for the metro attack. They laid out flowers and read the names of the victims out led. The top investigative body says more people are arrested in connection with the suicide bombing and 13 passengers were killed. Health check tonight umbilical cord blood stem cells, used in different diseases including cancers and blood disorders. And one trial suggests they may help kids with autism. Reporter its a small test but getting a lot of attention. Doctor says that stem cells from the childs own umbilical cord blood could lessen the symptoms of autism. Gracie gregory is one of 25 children on the autism spectrum that received stem cells from her own core blood. The core blood the babies blood left over in the placeent aor after birth, after the baby is born and contains lots of different kinds of cells. The hope is that the cells will help to rebuild connections in the brain. In their study 70 of the children including gracie, who had the treatment when she was 5 saw improvement. Before the study autism affected probably 75 of our day. And now autism maybe affects 10 of our day. Was it the stem cells . All we know is that something happened to her. Whether it was the stem cells or a natural progression at this point, she got better. She became more socially connected and affection nate. It super charged her learning curve. It was a small study only 25 kids but the rye searchers started to plan a larger study. In other health news we are learning about the dangers of ohio dating and a study shows people overweight and that Heart Disease losing and then gaining weight back may be more harmful than not gaining weight. The fluctuations are dangerous for your heart and so is carrying extra weight. It shows how vital it is to lose weight in a slow and healthy weight and to maintain the healthy weight. Thank you ali. Well there was an emotional display of hope at the hospital of university of pennsylvania this afternoon, a parade of transplant patients held their own math walk they are either recovering from a bone Marrow Transplant or waiting for a donor and their way of celebrate the match walk and run through philadelphia this weekend. Many patients cannot be out in public because of their fragile immune systems. We celebrate them. Still to come on action news at 5 00, a big honor for the Philadelphia Please Touch Museum and the jobs that amazon plans to add nationwide. Well tell you about it when action news comes right back. Amazon is adding 30,000 parttime positions to its workforce in the u. S. Most are in one of amazons warehouses located around the country and 5,000 of them will be created in the Virtual Customer Service programs, home based employees that work 20 hours a week will be eligible for benefits. This weeks after they announced a plan to create 100,000 fulltime jobs in the u. S. By the end of 2018. The please touch museum and the Franklin Institute. The usas ten best rank the the please touch museum ranked sixth for engaging and interactive experience for kids and adults. The Franklin Institute scored sixth. What is it like to be a doctor that is what Montgomery County students got to find out today. They went through surgeral rotations and radiology and more and today the Community College in pottstown. This is the first year of a three year bridge to employment program. Police and first sponsors are getting special training to help folks with autism and other intellectual disabilitieies the hosted this session with police and taught police how to deescalate a crisis and what condition the person may have been how to keep the person safe. April is Autism Awareness month. Still to come on action news at 5 00. A check of the forecast for you. Lets take auto live outside a gorgeous shot from the sky 6 hd camera at the ben franklin bridge. A big contrast from today. Cecily tynan has the accuweather forecast next. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. Maybe thats why weve been ranked highest in Customer Satisfaction by jd power 4 years in a row. And now you can love fios too. Get 150 meg internet, tv and phone. All for 79. 99 per month, for the first year with a twoyear agreement. Its the only internet with equal upload and download speeds. Cable only offers upload speeds that are a fraction of the download speeds. Plus get hbo for a year and free multiroom dvr service for two years. And Verizon Wireless customers can stream tv on the fios mobile app, datafree. Get the best. Go to getfios. Com time for accuweather at the action news big board. Is tcecily tynan has the accuwer forecast. Wewer getting ready to build an arc earlier. We had the gusty thunderstorms and double scan live showing the area of clearing now and i want to flip over double scan and this shows rainfall amounts we did have the training effect with storms. They rode up through south jersey and areas north and we got a quick 2 inches of rain and the rain was falling at 4 inches per hour but moving quickly and that is why we are looking at localized flooding. Temperatures were climbing and stuck in the 40s with the rain. 40 in allentown and philadelphia 57 and Atlantic City airport 60 and 60 degrees in dover. So satellite and radar showing it did rain today tonight was coming down heavily, we had the gusty thunderstorms and now you can see the area of clearing. However, if you look over maryland another batch of showers are rotating in during the evening hours, well see a few more rain showers around but nothing as intense as earlier this afternoon. So tonight a possible shower and partly cloudy and the winds are picking up 45 degrees in philadelphia and allentown 14 and wilmington 43 and cape may 46 degrees. Future tracker 6 showing 9 00 tonight perhaps a few scattered showers and otherwise partly cloudy and dont get used to the clear skies, the clouds come in tomorr tomorrow. The snow snow showers up across the poconos, and 3 00 in the afternoon, when the phillies home opener starts its cloudy with a few spotty showers around and i think theyll get the game in no problem. But if you head there dress for winter. Well have sustained winds at 22 Miles Per Hour. However, wind gusts of up to 40 Miles Per Hour. And the windchill will make it feel like 40 degrees tomorrow. The afternoon high only 49 degrees, really a taste of winter. 12 degrees below average and if you look at these numbers they are only here for one day. Well begin to turn around the temperatures as we head through the weekend and early next week. The fiveday at 5 00. Tomorrow a nasty day, windy and damp and chilly. 49 degrees, but look at the temperatures how they rise. 58 saturday and 68 sunday and monday 78 and tuesday first day this year of temperatures in the 80s. 81 and will the 80 degree weather stick around . Adam has that coming up. Action news continues with meteorologist, adam joseph, jaime apody, Rick Williams and Monica Malpass. Hello again, here is what it happening on action news tonight. Nuclear option used. The details on the senates decision to trigger the option to break a filibuster on president Trumps Supreme Court pick and the man on capitol hill is leading the investigation into the russian meddling into the u. S. Election stepped aside. You see someone reading email or texting while driving police wand you to call ~ 77 to report it. And the socalled Nuclear Option changing the rules to confirm the Supreme Court nominees. That clears the path for judge Neil Gorsuchs nomination. Reporter monica, good evening. For millions of americans, had is what the election was all about. The next seat on the Supreme Court. And for senators here on capitol hill. They are turning it into an all out battle. The vote is 55. 45 nays. On consideration the motion is agreed to. With that republicans have gone nuclear. Senate majority leader celebrating as the nomination of judge neil gorsuch goes forward and much of the chamber remains serious understanding the consequence of what just happened and from now on it tak takes 51 senators to confirm the pick without a single democrat voting yes. In a post Nuclear World if the hands are in the same party there is no incentive to speak to the senate majority. That say recipe for more conflict. But republicans are blaming the democrats for forcing their hand. Calling their filibuster of neil gorsuch. Unprecedented in the history off our senate and out of proportion for the qualified judge before us and reminding democrats they went nuclear in 2013 and democrats changed the rules for lower courts and made a point to hold the Supreme Court to a higher bar. What mix mcconnell did field was wrong and portends contentious days in the future. The mood on capitol hill remains tense and the back and forth drama continues, we are expecting the final vote on judge gor