Then all we hear is were on lockdown nobody can get in or out. We had to stay in our classroom. We couldnt lock out. We had to stay in the class we were in and we couldnt move that much. We just had to sit down and stay calm. Reporter crime scene investigators continue to collect evidence from the sidewalk here in the grass area and this Public Housing property belonging to pha. Again four and people shot two dead two critical at this hour. Live here in north philadelphia, im dann cuellar channel6 action news. Dann thank you. Police are conducting a desperate search for three teenagers who sexually assaulted a 13yearold girl. This happened yesterday on the 1300 block of west butler street in the hunting park section of philadelphia. The teens forced the girl into a vacant house late in the afternoon and attacked her inside. Action News Reporter bob brooks make that Sarah Bloomquist, sorry, sarah, is now live at the Police Special victims unit with the full story. Sarah. Reporter and jim, were getting few details from Philadelphia Police on the status of this investigation. As far as we know at this hour, they continue to look for three young men wanted for abducting and sexually assaulting a 13yearold girl. Its just terrible. I only have one word its terrible. Reporter neighbors here in this hunting park neighborhood are hoping to hear word of arrest in the abduction and Sexual Assault of a 13yearold girl last evening. People are just scared. People dont know what these kids are capable of nowadays and i dont blame them. Reporter were police say around 5 oclock, the victim was walking in the area of the 1300 block of west butler street. Three boys approached her and took her to an abandoned house where they sexually assaulted her. Shes 13. She dont really know much you know what im saying so now she exposed to something she probably didnt know about. Reporter neighbors said unsecured abandoned properties have become hot spots for criminal activity but that alone does not explain the suspects actions. I dont know what to say about kids these days, i really dont know. Keep up with your children the best you can. Got to be involved. Got to be involved. Reporter some wondered if somebody might have witnessed at the very least the abduction but did not call police. I cant help but wonder who was around and why they would allow it to happen because i personally think that theres always someone around that sees it and decides to turn the other turn the other cheek. Reporter Philadelphia Police would still like to hear from any witnesses. If you have any information, contact the special victims unit. Live in hunting park, im Sarah Bloomquist channel6 action news. Jim. Thank you, sarah. More alleged teenaged crime. Two teenagers charged with murdering a 13yearold boy during an argument in tioganicetown. Khisser davispapther died after he was shot inside a takeout restaurant on west hunting park of a march tenth. Today police announced the arrest of 19yearold Tymear Johnson who is accused of pulling the trigger and 18yearold Christopher Sutherland who is also charged with murder and related offenses. Opening statements came today in the trial of three teenagers charged in the Howard High School fight in wilmington, delaware. 16yearold joyner Amy Joyner Francis died after she was attacked in a school bathroom. An autopsy found that she had a preexisting heart condition and that she died of sudden cardiac arrest triggered by the fight. One of her alleged tormenters is charged with criminally negligent homicide. Two others are charged with conspiracy. Bill cosbys Defense Attorneys are trying to block his old testimony from being heard at his upcoming Sexual Assault trial in norristown. At a hearing today, the judge was asked to ban the decades old testimony in which cosby admitted giving quaaludes to women before sex. The defense says the testimony is irrelevant because the drug was banned years before the alleged assault at the center of this case. The the judge is still weighing that request and did not issue a ruling yet today. Bill murphy the latest democrat to file a petition necessary to run for new jersey governor. Today is the deadline for the democratic and republican candidates to file those petitions. Murphy is facing a number of challengers on the democratic side. Including former u. S. Treasury official jim johnson, state senator raymond lezniak and state assemblymen john wisniewski. The primary is set for the sixth of june. Were three and a half weeks away from the nfl draft in philadelphia. But preparations are moving into high gear. Action News Reporter john rawlins is live on the steps of the art museum which will become the focus of the football world on april 27th. Good evening, john. Reporter good evening, jim. Well, folks were thinking about running the steps tonight they can forget about it. Work has begun. Fences are up on a project thats expected to attract 200,000 people. In hard hats workers swarming the Art Museum Steps setting the underpinnings of what will be a temporary structure part of a and outdoor theater to house the draft. Drone6 showing trucked in materials waiting to be part of the nfl showcase the city says will generate nearly 7 million in state and local taxes. But to do that will require a four phase lane and street closing plan that starts weeks before the threeday events april 27th kickoff. Some neighbors dreading parking restrictions on pennsylvania avenue that will isnt that right a couple days. Three full blocks of parking is going to be closed down on wednesday for that period of time. The people who park in those spots, where are they going to park. Reporter parking and road restrictions at parkway events hold down visits to nearby museums. This time the academy of Natural Sciences has an idea. Free general admission during the draft. Hoping that people that are here for the draft with their families will come and visit our dinosaurs. Reporter and if they come in nfl team gear theyll get a dollar discount to see the live frog exhibit. In nearby fairmount, mixed feelings about mega parkway events. At the bishops collar pub. People stop in so for us it generally tends to be a better thing. It is an inconvenience as far as the street boeing closed off the parkway being closed off for the neighborhood. Reporter Joe Nicholson loves his neighborhood. He thinks big events on the parkway can be a good thing but street closings and parking issues i think i feel that sometimes too much avenue good thing can be too much of a good thing so youve got to get things in balance. Reporter well, some in fairmount think that maybe its time for city hall to consider holding mega events elsewhere in the city. One suggestion here, the nfl draft might have been a good fit for south philadelphia in and around the linc, plenty of parking and a subway station. All made as a sign of share the wealth suggestions. John rawlins channel6 action news. Our coverage continues at 6abc. Com nfl draft. There we have a list of road closures and transit changes for the event along with a preview of the parkways transformation. You can also take a look at the history of the draft in philadelphia. Philadelphia School Superintendent william hite took a sledgehammer to Murrell Dobbins high school today. It is getting an extreme makeover. Dobbins high school will undergo 39 million in renovations. It will include a cyber cafe Fitness Center and dozens of classrooms will get new lighting paint and new furnishings. And coming up on action news tonight a Burlington County middle school remembers a student killed in an atv crash over the weekend. Two women made History Today in the philadelphia fire department. Cecily. Storm system bringing Severe Weather to the southeast will bring us rain and thunderstorms overnight. Ill have details on when and where the heaviest will fall. And what it means for your morning commute in the accuweather 7day forecast. Ducis rodgers with the latest on the phillies opener. That and more when action news continues tonight. Schoolmate have been leaving mementos and items of remembrance at the locker of 14yearold Nykolai Cunningham today. He was the student from Southampton Middle School killed in an atv accident over the weekend. New jersey correspondent Nora Muchanic has the full story. Just kind of a character at times. Reporter Southampton School officials are fondly remembering 14yearold Nykolai Cunningham an eighth grader who was killed saturday afternoon in an a the. V accident while riding with two friends. Nick was a spirited energetic student, very always had a smile on his face, very popular well liked by his peers. Reporter she was evident at the memorial set up by his locker today where friends and classmates left messages for nick adopted by his family from ukraine. A team of crisis counselors because brought into Southampton Middle School to help children deal with their grief. In addition to the memorial on nicks locker at school, flowers have been placed here on remote patti bowker road. This marks the scene of the crash. We waved and they were not raising. They were just driving by. Reporter gail corey had seen nick and two of his classmates on their atvs less than five minutes before the crash. When she looked down the road again she could see one of two vehicles on its side. She called 911 for help. One of the young men told was that the young driver that was killed hydroplaned and when he hydroplaned he lost control and turned and thats when he fell out. Reporter contrary to some reports corey says two of the boys did have helmets, cunningham did not. One of the boys is still hospitalized after surgery on a broken arm. Nick cunninghams family declined to comment today. Funeral arrangements have not been announced. In southampton, im Nora Muchanic channel6 action news. Students in west chester saw the potentially tragic consequences of drunk driving. Police staged a fake deadly car accident outside the high school today. The teenagers watched as their classmates pretend be to the seriously injured or dead. The school organized the mock crash to show the dangers of drinking and driving before prom season. Two women made History Today in the philadelphia fire department. Linda long was promoted to be the citys first female fire battalion chief and crystal yates became the first africanamerican woman to serve as chief of paramedic services. Yates long and 22 other candidates were sworn in to their new ranks at the fire academy in northeast philadelphia. [applause] i am so excited and proud to be able to be a representative of all the women in the fire department. cause i may be the first female bat at a i battalion chief but i doubt ill be the last. There has been a deliberate effort to recruit women firefighters and paramedics. Opening day for your philadelphia phillies. Just one game but so far looking pretty good, jim. Good. Well take it. Opening day should be a national holiday. In that regard happy new year. Phillies open the regular season with the reds in 14 that was last in runs scored last season. Phils bats are showing some life. This is the firings game first game of a three game seven. Phillies strike first in the first inning with the first batter. Thats Cesar Hernandez leading off the game with a home run off scott feldman. Later in the inning one of the new faces Michael Saunders smacked a double from the gap. Maikel franco trying to score all the way from first base. Weve got a play at the plate. I thought he was out. But hes safe. Its twonothing. Second inning they keep it going. Freddy galvis no longer a surprise he hit 20 homers last season number one this season. Right now the phillies are leading this game fourone in the sixth. Last night reality smacked the flyers in the face. They will not make the playoffs this season. Flyers officially eliminated with last nights loss to the rangers. They can point to a stretch in late december and january as for the reason why. They dropped 12 of 15 games back then. The captain Claude Giroux though Still Believes in his guys. The attitude of the guys on the team is great. You know, its the character and its were that are a position where were right now cause what we did really harmed by something we have to look out after the season. The sixers are off tonight but one of their players is still winning. Dario saric has won the nbas eastern conference rookie of the month award. He takes the hon no are for the second straight month. In march saric had seven 20point game. Its the first time a team has had two players win the award multiple times in the season. The mens ncaa game tonight. North carolina is slim favorite over gonzaga. Women crowned their champ none last night. South carolina took it all and the gamecocks have a huge philadelphia connection. Jaime apody reports. Reporter last nights ncaa championship win by South Carolina was also one for philadelphia. After all in the end it was dawn staley holding up that trophy. The fact that shes from 25th and diamond and went to dobbins from north philadelphia and talks about it when shes on television its a wonderful thing when one of our own does well and makes us proud. Reporter sure enough, staley took the first chance she got to remember her roots. I got to go all the way back to my temple days. Those are the gooiest that really believed in our vision and we took that vision to South Carolina and that vision was we will be national championsism the north philadelphia native spent eight years serving the sidelines on north broad street before moving on to South Carolina. Temple mens head coach fran dunphy saw this coming. Whatever the it fact is, dawn staleys got it. Its so tremendous to see her success and obviously the success came almost immediately when she went to South Carolina. She was very, very successful here at temple as well. The reality is shes been so successful throughout her life. Reporter here at Dobbins High School where staley was the National Player of the year they have a mural outside the dawn staley gymnasium and they couldnt be more proud of their most famous alum. Shes always been tall in stature but shes biggest in her heart and her personality shes a giant. Reporter with the a National Title even more larger than life than ever. In north philadelphia, jaime apody channel6 action news. Plenty of reason to be proud much thats sports. Thank you ducis. Meteorologist cecily tynan with the accuweather forecast when we continue in just a moment. Hi hey ill take one of those new fast play games. Oh, you ready for a rush . Uh, sure 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 weather i s not good where the phillies are playing today, cincinnati. Is that the system thats coming our way. Thats the same system heading our way. Yeah, grab the umbrella youll need it. Storm tracker6 showing this evening we are dry for the moment so a great day for drone6 to take a flight above fort washington, pennsylvania. This is above Upper Dublin High School where looks like there was a baseball game going on. We started the day with sunshine but clouds rolling in. But a pretty nice day to get out and play some baseball. Temperatures mild. 63 degrees currently down from our high of 68 whichs 9 degrees above normal. Reading 63, allentown 64, not a nice beach day, though. You get that wind off the ocean, the ocean temperature 48, that pulls in a lot of cool air. Cape may currently only 49. Satellite and radar showing this system im tracking, the low pressure, this is what has been bringing the showers across the midwest. Thats lifting up into canada and then its got a trailing cold front. This is the cold front that brought about a dozen tornado reports to georgia and this is the system that will be clipping us overnight. As we zoom in were looking at some rain, perhaps some thunderstorms but that Severe Weather will be missing us to the south. So, future tracker showing around 11 oclock when were on tonight well have some rain around, some areas of some heavy rain south of wilmington. It really fills in overnight around 2 oclock in the morning, dont be surprised if you hear a rumble of thunder with some embedded thunderstorms but this is a pretty progressive system. It moves out pretty quickly. By 7 30 in the morning, just a few leftover showers and we will see some sunshine tomorrow. Well be in the warm sector of the storm so with the sunshine and temperatures in the mid 70s, there will be a scattering of some afternoon thunderstorms. Not everyone will get them. I think we have a better cabs of some of those thunderstorms areas up to the north and future tracker showing how much rain you get really depends on your location. Philadelphia and areas to the south generally around a half inch. You get up to the north around the poconos Mercer County the Lehigh Valley this is where we could receive more than an inch of rain, perhaps two. The National Weather