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WPVI Action News At 1230 PM April 1, 2016

Chad pradelli is live with more. Reporter we are not naming the suspect because she has not yet been formerly charged but is expected here in District Court in the next hour or two. [ inaudible ]. Mother and son reunited it was an emotional gathering inside of the Upper Merion Police department after this woman apparently kidnapped ca cash i would like to thank god for allowing my baby to come back and give a special thanks to the upper meran township Police Department season everyone on social media, who help med get by mayby back. Everybody is happy, the public and everybody and everybody got involved and we thank the Police Officers and all of them for doing their job. Investigators say the suspect struck up a conversation with the mother in the mall, the suspect took the child when the mother became distracted with her other children in the food court. Police check Surveillance Video which captured the suspect talking to another woman before the abduction be that woman helped them identify the suspect. And that with the suspects relatives coming forward led them to this home where he was found unharmed with the suspect. It was a hard night. A hard bad night and this is real hard for someone to go through. The suspects were telling relatives and her boyfriend that she was pregnant for months and recently had a baby shower and recently had the child in the hospital where the baby remained. Its unclear if the suspect was ever pregnant or why she felt compelled to kidnap the problem. The lady may have a problem. She may have a mental problem or might have had a child or lost a child or something. There is something wrong. Reporter and the mother of the suspects boyfriend tells action news she didnt believe the suspect was pregnant at all. The suspect would take herself to doctors appointments alone and told relatives that she drove herself to the hospital when she had the child. Chad pradelli, channel 6 action news. Thank you. We have been updating the story on 6abc. Com for you with the latest information on the kidnapping investigation as it comes in and there youll find the video of the mother as she spoke out for the first time follow that ordeal and photos from the moment that baby was reunited with his family members. One person died following an Early Morning crash in Montgomery County and chopper 6 hd was over head when it happened at 5 00 this morning at welsh road. No one else was hurt. Most days the warriors watch riders take to the roads to take a veteran home or honor a fallen trooper and today they ride for one of their own. Friends and family gathered to remember tom obrien today. At least once a week he drove into a motorcade honoring a veteran or raising money. Last week he was killed driving to a troop homecoming in Haddon Heights and today his fellow warriors right for him. Gray skies and a chance for heavy storms to pop up today. Lets look at sky 6 hd, our Temple University camera shows a gloomy scene and an umbrella is a must have accessory today. Melissa magee is here with more from accuweather. It doesnt look widespread across the area, youll find scattered showers and a rumble of thunder this afternoon into the evening hours. Here is stormtracker 6 live double scan its quiet right now and cloudy and gloomy and a couple of spotty showers in berks and lehigh counties north and west of the i95 corridor, here is the big picture on stormtracker 6 live double scan 3d, we have the cold front stretched out through the central portion of our state and this works its way eastward through the rest of the afternoon hours and ahead of that we are tracking and tapping into the southerly wind. 69 in philadelphia and 70 for reading and 67 down in dover, and 68 in trenton and at the coast in beach haven, coming in at 58. Well track the precipitation for you, future tracker 6 showing you at 5 30 this evening, a scattering of showers and a rumble of thunder moving on through with the cold front and sunshine throughout the day and that helps to stabilize the area and leads to a gusty thunderstorm. A gusty thunderstorm is likely here on the friday afternoon and gloomy on saturday, and a touch on the cooler side and a high wind watch for sunday with gusts of 50 Miles Per Hour. That means windchills will be in the 20s and into the 30s. Well talk about the details coming up with the full and exclusive accuweather forecast. Thank you. And keep track of any changes in the forecast all weekend long with 6abc. Com weather and check out live Storm Tracker radar and of course follow our team of meteorologists on facebook, twitter and other platforms. The villanova wildcats play in the final four tomorrow in houston and 700 lucky students won a lottery to be there for all the excitement. They boarded buses and headed to the airport. Gray hall has more on that from the campus. Reporter hi monica, how can you not be excited when your school is headed to the final four. They left holding up signs like this one, lets go nova. And we are all hoping for a big win tomorrow. Its a field trip like no other, these excited villanova students are headed to Houston Texas to cheer on the wildcats in the ncaa final four. Its a big game and i think its going be tight and a struggle, i can see it going either way but im hoping for a win and i think the wildcats with pull it out. They are each carrying students and they are cheering all the way. Its awesome on campus, just being around and everyone is freaking out and people on campus and the book store line out the door. My friends from home are asking me are you going . And its awesome. The first time im in the student section and not the band section. I obviously think they will win. I am fully supporting this team we are going all the way. The school scored 700 tickets, and students that did not take the buses made their own travel plans. Those that attended more games had a better chance of scooping up one of the prize possessions. They are like 40 tickets, probably the reason im going. The wildcats are on a role taking out team after team and if they beat oklahoma on saturday, its on to the championship and bragging rights and coveted title of number one. They will go all the way and take the championship. No other team can beat us we have the spirit and heart and drive. Go cats. Go cats indeed. The cheering will continue all the way to houston and of course the last time villanova won the big championship was back in 1885, many students hope for a repeat of course, the team has to beat oklahoma tomorrow. Live at villanova. Channel 6 action news. Thank you im a villanova grad too. And look for live reports to continue today with Jeff Skversky and alicia vitarelli. And we have continuing coverage from houston including a special report. Tune in for march to a championship, a sports special at 7 30 here on 6 abc. Over at the action news big board, look at the photos that you, our viewers, have sent in to show your nova spirit. Share your pictures on social media use 6abcaction please keep them coming throughout the teams road to victory. 18 philadelphia letter carriers were recognized this morning for driving more than a million accident free miles. Action news was at the ceremony at the bustleton post office, they were all with the post office more than 30 years and each one received a jacket and plaque welcoming them to the 1 million mile club. Want to thank you for all you do every day, its not easy being out on the streets, in your vehicles and walking with the culture out there today. Everybody is in a hurry. The drivers say they stay safe by driving defensively and turning off their cell phones. Much month ahead on action news at 12 30, caught on camera, the man steals a car left running with a child inside. Hear from the mother who says she made a big mistake and a 14yearold is called a hero for stopping a robber in the act by using football skills. This change in attitude brought to you by escape to margaritaville, the new instant game from the pennsylvania lottery. Featuring a Second Chance trip to the fabulous margaritaville beach resort in hollywood beach, florida. The ultimate paradise getaway, offering relaxation, entertainment and adventure. Incredible dining and more. Escape to margaritaville. Paradise could be yours in an instant. Keep on scratchin an alabama couple that worked as teachers at at same cool are both behind bars facing sex charges. They are accused of having sex with their students and the husband is under arrest for having sex with a female student and his wife was arrested days later for having sex with a male student. Both teachers are been suspended. A Training Exercise turned deadly at a richmond, virginia, Greyhound Bus station. A man opened fire on officers taking part in a drill. Lauren lister has more. Reporter good afternoon. That virginia trooper a former marine killed in the line of duty, his patrol car now on display outside of headquarters, the suspect a man in his 30s from illinois. A stand exercise scouting for suspicious activity but what started as a drill became very real thursday afternoon. Turning deadly. We have an active shooting. At this richmond Greyhound Bus terminal even in 2014 approaches the man at the doors of the station within seconds the man identified as 34yearold james brown, pulled out a handgun opening fire and hitting chad demire several times at close range. This man was like get down, get down, crawl crawl. Two innocent bystanders getting hit by the hail of gun fire. And the suspect dies of his wounds at the hospital. An fbi s. W. A. T. Team comes to the scene and sweeped it to make sure there is no more threat. Trooper dermyer died in the hospital. Trooper dermyer was not wearing a bulletproof vest but that is acceptable for this time of exercise. As for the gunman we are trying to figure out what may have motivated him to pull out a gun and kill that trooper. A texas mother leflt her car running to drop her son off at day care and a thief took advantage. The man in the hood the sweatshirt jumps in the drivers side and takes off and the owner still had a 7yearold daughter in there. I turned around and he was already in the car and taking off. The mother ran out and the girl herself managed to jump out of the speeding car she jumped out and is expected to be okay. A Washington State teenager used his football skills to take down a suspected shoplifter, they found the crooks stealing merchandise and led them on a chase into other stores and was caught at old navy, seconds later the officers jumped in and arrested the suspected thief. Mers plays tackle on his High School Football team. Two teenage girls trapped on a heavy treed cliff in Washington State for two hours were rescued. The girls were playing on a sand bar and they were overcome by strong currents and taken 75 feet downstream. They got stuck when they tried to climb up. 110 people were involved with the rescue and the girls are still shaken up but expected to be okay. Lucky ladies. Still ahead another check of the accuweather forecast. Sky 6 hd showing you Philadelphia International airport with clouds rolling in again. Meteorologist, Melissa Magee, with an update from accuweather when action news comes right back. A little child with big dreams. Dwight evans. First a community activist. A legislator at 25. Always looking out for us. He worked to create a thriving commercial district. And hes brought new Grocery Stores to underserved areas. Dwight evans is committed to revitalizing neighborhoods in all of philadelphia. Hell be a block by block congressman for us. Im dwight evans and im proud to approve this message. Melissa magee is here for david murphy. We returned the calendar page and we got the april showers instantly. And it will get us cooler into the weekend. Here is stormtracker 6 live double scan you can see for the most part the mostly dry. And even a thunderstorm sparked in south jersey that has since expired and light showers north and west of the i95 corridor as we go into Lehigh Valley county. Chopper 6 hd high above the sky earlier today, you can see there in penns landing looking at the delaware river, a mostly cloudy skies tracking the arrival of a cold front moving through later on into the early evening hours, as it does so be prepared for scattered showers and a rumble of thunder, its quite warm and as we close out the month of march, going down as the fourth warmest in philadelphia history, 72 and above where we should about for this time of year. Its 71 in slatington and 67 in fleet wood and 69 in center city and 69 in kennett square. Down across new jersey, 66 in hammonton and 69 for cinnaminson and 70 for hockessin to smyrna and dover, delaware. Here is satellite 6 along with action radar a couple of showers earlier today and all the showers are starting to move or shore. There is the cold front off to the west. If we have enough sunshine that will help to destabilize the atmosphere, i would not be surprised to see some thunderstorms turn severe. At 3 30 this afternoon, a broken line of scattered activity from the poconos to allentown and reading and lancaster, continues until 6 00 in the evening and we have widely scattered showers and stormed and where they move on through i would not be surprised to see winds of 50 Miles Per Hour and brief and heavy downpours as well. As we get into the weekend, on saturday, the front that moves through later today gets kind of hung up in areas of philadelphia and showers are likely for the city and areas south and east and we go throughout the day on saturday, and look to be dry and into saturday night into sunday we have a clipper system that moves on through. There could be wet snowflakes mixing in with precipitation and i think most spots stay dry, and sets us up for high winds. A going on for the first week of april. Cool air comes on through and sunday a high wind watch that is posted because winds are gusting 50 to 60 Miles Per Hour in the region and goes up until midnight on sunday until noon on monday. Check out the windchill numbers, future tracker 6 showing you by sunday windchills will only be in the middle 20s in the region and teens up into the poconos and it looks like as we go through the afternoon hours on sunday, windchills at best only in the 30s, big changes this weekend. The exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast showing you showers and a rumble of thunder later on today and highs in the 70s and saturday its cooler high up to 62 and late saturday we are tracking the clipper system that moves on through, and gusty winds and chilly, the High Temperature is 47 and dress for windchills in the 20s and 30s, on monday a high to 65 and evening rain is possible and brisk and colder in the wake of that and 46, 53 on wednesday and cloudy and rain around on thursday, a high of just 59. Thank you melissa. Topping our people scene, Justin Timberlake is the target of a Copyright Infringement lawsuit from cirque du soleil, they say the song is in timberlakes dont hold the wall track. They are seeking hundred,000 in damages. Timberlake has not commented. Rescue dogs a family film that features real rescue animals and tells the story about a man and his rescue dog but its the story behind the movie grabbing extra attention. He wanted a movie not just fun for the kids and family but to make money for a cause we love. The movie is released in 22 cities. In philadelphia it plays at River View Plaza on columbus boulevard from now until april 7th and that benefits the city of elderly love rescue. Lets take one last look at that wet weather with melissa. We are tracking showers and thunderstorms through the afternoon hours. Widely scattered and brief heavy downpours are possible and well max out in the 70s. Lancaster 75 and 72 in dover, keep in mind with any thunderstorm that moves on through winds could gust up to 50 Miles Per Hour. That will set us up for a cool weekend and sunday windchills only in the 20s and 30s. Brace yourself for that. Finally at noon an alabama mans proposal to his girlfriend was almost sunk with his best man film can it here. He got down and proposed to sara but he dropped the ring, and it dropped into the bay, he jumped in and the current was strong, so they went back to the Jewelry Store and got a new ring. He is lucky. Stories we are having for you on action news at 4 00, its freebie friday, find out thousand get dessert for free tonight. And a teens video goes viral, when she finds out she got into the college she wants. Its cute. For Melissa Magee and Rick Williams and sara bloomquist im Monica Malpass have a good day and enjoy your weekend. Im chris bosh. When i was sidelined with blood clots in my lung, it was serious. Fortunately, my doctor had a game plan. Treatment with xarelto®. En t and help reduce the risk of dvt and pe blood clots. Xarelto® is also proven to reduce the risk of stroke in people with afib, not caused by a heart valve problem. For people with afib currently well managed on warfarin, theres limited information on how xarelto® and warfarin compare in reducing the risk of stroke. 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