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WPVI Action News At 1230 PM February 18, 2015

Hospital. They are said to be longterm employees. We are processing the scene and one knife was found. The fatal workplace stabbing happened at 8 00 a. M. , a few hours later crime scene tape flickered in the wind and two yellow markers blew in the wind. Franconia police are leading the investigation and motive is unclear at this point. We are working through a number of things and talking to witnesses and well have that at some point. And the name of that suspect and the victim have not yet been released. Im live in franconia chad pradelli channel 6 action news. Thank you. One man is dead and another man fighting for his life after a double stabbing in the east mown airy section of philadelphia. It happened at 2 00 this morningality the 1600 block and police say that one person, a 29yearold man died at Einstein Medical Center and the second remains in critical condition. We believe both victims as well as the person traitor were all inside of this bar and that is when the argument starts. The attacker is described as a man in his 30s with a full beard and that he took off in a gray buick lasaber. Slightly warmer conditions outside we are experiencing in the region students were bundled up near Drexel University but not as cold as earlier this week, however that is about it change with the arrival of more arctic air unfortunately. David murphy is outside of studios now with the latest from accuweather. We are getting ready for another polar plunge. Yes i wish i wasnt in the shade of the building, take a look at satellite, if you can get out from under the trees and there is sunshine to enjoy and then clouds filter in and well see snow showers that are pushing out of pittsburgh and williamsport. The entire midatlantic region is in the cold zone. 29 in washington and 30 in new york city and teens in upper new york state and 20 in pittsburgh and as the boundary comes through triggering the snow showers tonight the colder air by buffalo and pittsburgh will begin to filter in and youll feel it tomorrow. 30 by 2 00 and well be up to 32 by 4 00, a late day high today might even beat that by a degree or two. And 25 degrees as we head into the 5 00 hour. 17 in detroit and 2 in green bay and we may see morning lows around the 2 degree margin especially friday morning when this cold air comes in and gives us its worst. When i step in side well look at the snow showers coming in tonight and a Second System saturday night. Now is the best time of day to do some errands as we get close to 30 degrees as mild as we are going to get. Before you bundle up check the 6 abc Storm Tracker app both the hourly and sevenday forecast are there for you. With this weather comes ice and on the Delaware River all the ice could be brutal for the local economy, action News Reporter david henry is riding along with the coast guard to make sure it stays clear for cargo, and he is on the delaware right now. The Delaware River is a river of commerce but if this river ices over, all of that commercial activity could come to a stand still. Like the tioga Marine Terminal here, you can see all the ice choking the Delaware River as we look towards the skyline of philadelphia that is why the coast guard is out here every day breaking up the ice. We are on board the capson today, one of two ice breaking tugs working out of philadelphia its their job to keep 140 miles of this river open to navigation, they break up the ice between trenton to the northern and the cnd canal to the south. The crew and captain are heading up river today to trenton and they never know what they will find until they are underway. We are going 11 knots and well hit a chunk and slow down to 9 or 10. You ever worry about the integrity of the hull . Not at all. Its a reenforced hull its quite strong. The ice on the river today ranges from paper thin to 8 inches the capson can break up ice as thick as 18 inches and they found a wide variety out here today and its target practice for the helmsman and they take direct aim at the biggest chunks. This exception of the river includes the busy tioga Marine Terminal, the ocean going freighters that come and go from leer are able to muscle their way through this kind of ice, but barges with their flat fronts can easily bog down in this ice the capson has been doing this for over 50 years now and winter is prime time for the crew. We look forward to the winter every year, and do what this boat is built for. Its what we are out here to do. They are actually having a lot of fun out here doing this stuff but its Serious Business as well. In edition to keeping it open for commercial traffic but the coast guard needs access to this channel to respond to any emergency that could happen out here. Back to you guys. Thank you david. Philadelphia City Council Meeting was held in a different room this morning after a pipe burst drenching council chambers, water soaked the carpeting after a pipe on an upper floor broke they hope the cleanup will by completed by tomorrow. A building now frozen over after a fire on monday will be demolished the building was already demolished by the flames and the weight of the ice could cause it to collapse. Roads around the building could be shut down until any potential danger has passed. Police are searching for a man that held up a 7eleven at gun point in the olney section it happened monday morning at the store of east street you can see the robber walked up to the counter with the gun and the clerk hands over the cash from the drawers and several packs of cigarettes and the robber stuffs it into a plastic bag before taking off. Anybody with information should call philadelphia police. A plan to change the Philadelphia City charter is not sitting well with local leaders a group gathered at city hall to speak out about darryl clarks proposal for planning and development. They argue that council is looking to make changes without input from the planning community. There is a new top dog in town after last nights westminster dog show. The best in show is the beagle the beagle her competitors included a cousin of president obamas dog and a shitzu owned by patty hearst. That is a happy beagle. Coming up at 12 30, the defenses turn in the american sniper trial. Who they will call to the stand to bolster their insanity defense. Plus my son is not an animal but my son is a hero. New developments in a deadly road rain in las vegas, the role that police say that son now played in the events leading up to the deadly shooting and meteorologist, david murphy with your exclusive accuweather forecast. Attorneys for eddie ralph are expected to call menal Health Experts to the stand today. Yesterday his mother testified his son was suicidal after he left the marines, according to her, chris kyle, the inspiration behind the film was helping him with his post Traumatic Stress disorder. They show him acting insane but they contend he knew what he was doing. And now a deadly road rage incident in las vegas. That left a mother dead. Police now say that her son may have played a bigger part in that shooting. Candace gibson has more. This morning we are hearing for the first time from the son and daughter of tammy myers the mom gunned down after a road rage incident. She was protecting me that night and she did everything and was teaching me how to drive. And now a drastically different account. After myers was shot in the head after giving her daughter a driving lesson in this parking lot. Homicide detectives now say that myers encountered a speeding gray sedan with one person inside. Her daughter reached over and honked the corn and the other driver gets angry and pulled in front of the pairs vehicle and stopped and confronted myers who allegedly doesnt say anything back. Las vegas police say the 44yearold was not followed home immediately but instead got her son and a handgun and went looking for the suspect. Her 22yearold son came out of house and got in the car and was armed with a firearm and went in search with that person that mrs. Myers was involved with. They spot the suspects vehicle nearby and then returns home that is when the suspects vehicle followed them back into their culdesac exchanging gun fire with myers son brandon at the vigil. Her husband calling his son brave. My son is a hero in my book. Dr. Seuss is coming back to bookshelves across the country, back in 2013, a box was found in the authors home after his death, inside was found a complete book and artwork, its entitled what pet should i get . There are over 50 million dr. Seuss books sold worldwide. Some youngsters in havertown spend the morning celebrating mardi gras. The children here at Trinity Lutheran Church Dressed up and danced and some wore masks and others had beaded necklaces and other activities like a spatula relay and a coin toss. And wine doesnt have to go in your glass but it can also go in your face. Melissa magee has an fyi for you on a spa treatment that promises to slow the aging process. Its called vino therapy and medical aesthetician Monica Fowler says it protects your skin including from the self in inflicted ones but with a little tlc can you get some of your bounce back. We want to treat it with kitten gloves but what better way to do that but with vino, the wine is mixed with extract and honey and other food oils. It sounds delicious. It is others are the vino peel and the vino lift. Others are like i want to look my best and dont want the surgery or down time. They combine it with radio frequency to make it tighter. Youll feel heat. Who knew a little wine could do the trick . Think we can drink some too. We could try. A multimilliondollar push for a priceless reward the big bucks spent by hollywood this year in pursuit of an oscar. And a twist for abcs modern family for next weeks episode. Take a look at this a tennessee transportation worker is a nearmiss on an interstate. The car is out of control on the median that is cleaning up from another crash on the highway, a dashcam caught the man moving just in time before the truck slid into on coming traffic. Wow. David is here with a closer look at the forecast. Not bad out there now. We have a lot of sunshine and not much wind, temperatures climb to 30 stormtracker 6 live double scan right now nothing going on although tonight the radar will be picking up snow showers and well have to slow down a bit if we encounter those. Sunshine at the airport on sky 6 hd and clouds coming in from the west and so far so good in terms of the sky cover 29 in philadelphia and the dew point way down at 2 and winds are calm through most of the region and we are not expecting winds to be all that strong and cloud cover out by pittsburgh this morning has come fairly close to places like harrisburg and getting close to our western suburbs, but well start to see more clouds as we go through the next few hours. 29 is the high in reading and 32 in philadelphia and trenton and wilmington will wind up in the mid30s and 32 at the shore. 31 by 3 30 and then dip to 30 by 5 00 and 24 by 9 00, and by 9 00 we may see snow showers creep through, here are the snow showers on future tracker 6 ill point out to you we have to wait until after the evening rush hour to worry about this, and its not like everybody will get hammered and many of you will not see anything. If you get caught under one of these, even a little accumulation is enough to get you slipping and sliding and we are only getting a coating i can see a couple of spots go a half inch to inch, whole thing is done by midnight or 1 00 in the morning and then another plunge starting tomorrow todays high is 32 and on thursday, we are only at 19 and friday 18 because that arctic boundary is pushing through producing the boundary on future tracker and winds from the northwest and real cold air coming down from canada it wont take much to plunge that in. Normal high is 34 degrees on thursday and friday and the worst portion of this is into friday morning, right now we are forecasting a morning low of 1 degree. That means when you get up early in the morning on friday philadelphia is 1 and some suburbs below 1 and the record is 1 in 1979 and this is the coldest we have been around here in 21 years. Deep arctic air thursday night into friday morning. An evening snow shower is part of the package tonight and you want to slow down and where you see it is the high and 19 on thursday and a blast of arctic air and 1 is the low and 1 is the high on friday and a 4 degree high going into scan we bounce back to the mid30s, into the evening we are on the lookout for snow and could be small accumulations saturday night, keep your on eye that and temperatures rise overnight and we change to rain and cloudy and periods of rain and a high of 49 and not bad i wish i could tell you it will stay there but its not back to the freezing mark on monday. Thank you david. We appreciate that. Topping our people scene at 12 30, modern familys episode focuses on a macbook, it was shot using apples iphone 6 and ipads it follows claire at an airport trying to reach her daughter haley in 2010, the show grew criticism for airing the episode during apples launch. 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Sunshine now and clouds creep in from the west later on well call the afternoon increasing clouds and cold in the northern and western suburbs, most spots in the upper 20s and a couple of places getting up to 30 and close to the freezing mark or so and down the shore might get to the mid30s, not a lot of wind and increasing clouds and colder stuff tomorrow. Thank you david a look at stories coming up later today at 4 00, a hollywood mom issues an ultimative to her family what kristin bell is requiring her family to do before they holder baby. It turns out its not the first time the vp has got and touchy feely in public. Well show you other memorable moments. Now for david murphy Rick Williams and the entire action news team, im sara bloomquist have a great afternoon. Announcer today on the chew wish you could ditch this Winter Weather with a oneway ticket to paradise . 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