With that melting snow pack and the additional rain falling. Visibilities down to a mile and a half in millville and 5 in reading and 0 in lancaster and 6 miles in philadelphia really slowing the traffic down and trenton, visibility near a quarter mile. From now until 6 00 p. M. We have heavy rain and street flooding and the steady rain ends and showers and overnight we watch the creeks and rivers to see how high they go. We have some projection for the creeks coming up in just a little bit. Thank you. As the wet weather rolls in and the temperatures change, stay with 6abc. Com and the lakeeffectest from accuweather, you can few the latest forecast and radar for yourself. A Police Vehicle taking two people to the hospital ended up crashing. It happened at grays ferry, a nearby officer ended up taking the victims to the hospital. We are working to find out what caused the crash and get more details about the shooting. Bill cosby was back in court today for another long day of testimony in the Sexual Assault case, a judge is still trying to decide if he will stand trial on the charge. John rawlins live now. The prosecution started making their argument that the case should move forward. The two sides going at each other and the prosecution alleges it is illegal because of the promise made by bruce caster decades ago. And some deal that was hatched a decade ago should have no bearing on justice in 2016. Reporter bill cosby is charged with indecently assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004. And they called it illegal because of a promise made a decade ago by then d. A. Bruce caster that the county would not charge cosby in the constand case. He testified yesterday yes he made a pledge and long time cosby attorney, john schmidt was in Court Backing up casters claim and they argued that caster as the d. A. In 2005 did not have the authority to make a binding pledge. We found no support. Caster claims the unusual promise was made in an effort to compel cosby to testify in a civil suit so constand could get some kind of justice and money. And to buy himself out a prosecution is not right but cosby attorney fired back that he made the promise never to prosecute and it is enforceable. And there was a promise made upon which he, cosby, relied and the sovereign must live up to the promise. Reporter well, the d. A. Made a motion to dismiss the defenses efforts to kill this. And the judge took this under advisement and consideration and did not rule on it today and he put it on his case and the judge told the courtroom that he wants to get this hearing finish today even if it has to go into the evening hours. Live at the courthouse in norristown, john rawlins, channel 6 action news. A day far from over thank you john. Meantime, a taxi driver was in a terrifying position today when her cab somehow became stuck on the Railroad Tracks in conshohocken and there was no stopping a septa train barrelling toward it. Annie mccormick has the latest. Reporter this is what a septa train versus a taxi looks like. Its a crumbled piece of metal, after being pushed by the train an entire city block. We heard this huge bump and i thought they ran over a tree or something. This happened on the Manayunk Norristown line in conshohocken. When the passengers realized the train hit a vehicle, many feared the worse but luckily nobody was inside of the taxi. People on board the train complained of minor injuries. If someone was in that vehicle they would be short of dead the way that cab is. Reporter another sign of the impact is pieces of the cab and door and top of it that remain over there. The cab driver says it was here where she got stuck on these tracks and they immediately called 911 and then saw an on coming train coming towards her and the 911 operator said get out of your car and run. The cab driver will receive several citations for her driving according to septa three crew members were on board and they will all undergo medical screening and a full investigation is underway. Turning now to the race for the white house and the republican field of president ial candidates got a lot smaller today. Within the last two hours, Rick Santorum revealed he is ending his bid and he was seen as the dark horse candidate this time around after winning the Iowa Caucuses in 2012. He will endorse another candidate when he makes his announcement later today. And rand paul is suspending his campaign as of today. He finished fifth in mondays iowas caucus, and most polls found him to finish out of the top five in New Hampshire. Paul is still in Campaign Mode running for reelection to the senate this year as well. And meantime the Democratic Candidates will take part in a town hall meeting tonight in New Hampshire. Bernie sanders and Hillary Clinton will not share the stage but answer questions separately. Polls show sanders with a sizable lead in New Hampshire. Action news has special coverage of the New Hampshire primary, Monica Malpass has special reports starting monday here on 6 abc. Home depot is hiring tens of thousands of workers nationally and today we learned that hundreds of those jobs are here in our region. The big box retailer is gearing up for spring. They plan to hire 80,000 people to keep up with the demand and 1500 of those jobs will be right here at home. With home depot looking to fill positions in 33 of their local stores, they range from sales and cashiers and online fulfillment positions. Time now for the action news traffic report. Matt pellman is standing by and rain typically means a slow go. As we look outside on this tuesday at wednesday, its hump day afternoon. We are live along the schuylkill expressway, and this is south street where a fender bender just cleared out. The second accidents of the afternoon on the schuylkill. Both crashes are now gone and the delay certainly isnt and you are crawling along from city avenue to this point on south street. And in delco a crash just cleared here at the end of the ramp at chichester avenue in the southbound lanes and traffic now moving in both directions but with the wet conditions we have seen a bunch of accidents, have to take it easy if are you heading out this afternoon, this is 95 northbound approaching the off ramp and its extra slow coming north of washington avenue and we have a bunch of accidents this afternoon on the pennsylvania turnpike. Lancaster avenue the eastbound lanes are shut down, use 322 or 30 as alternates. A crash involving a pedestrian in cheltenham on glen side avenue and there is always a downed tree in bucks county blocking durham road. Lets grab the ipad and do the commuter report on this hump day afternoon. Someone talk about a vehicle fire on the blue route but the traffic is jammed in that area. Well check it again in the next half however. Still ahead on a wednesday, the water crisis in michigan Takes Center Stage in congress and there was fireworks as angry lawmakers demanded answers. Plus, how do you punish a man that is in jail for the rest of his life. As an escaped prisoner that set off a manhunt in upstate new york comes back to court. And one of the biggest financial crimes of all time and features a local actress, well introduce you to the woman in tonights special, mad off. A congressional hearing over the flint water crisis turned into an angry blame game, angry officials fought over who is responsible. The epa said that Michigan State leaders ignored advice to treat the citys water after taking it from the flint river. Congressman Elijah Cummings was outraged when he saw the led in the water. We are not defending anybody we are the last line of defense, if we dont do it nobody is going to do it. Flints state appointmented manager says he was unable to attend the hearing. And michigans governor Rick Schneider was not called to testify today. A convicted killer says he is sorry for the fear he caused when he broke out of a new york prison last year. David sweat apologized at a sentencing today. He was already behind bars for life but a judge gave him additional time, and they killed the other inmate that escaped with him and sweat was ordered to pay 80,000 in restitution. And looking at closing numbers, the dow up 283 points and the nasdaq down 13 and the s p 500 up 9. 5 points on the day. The toyota is discontinuing the zion after years of slumping sales, they aimed it at younger drivers and sales dropped after the recession started in 08 and never recovered. Most of the cars on the skyon brand will be tonight on abc Richard Dreyfus steps into the role of bernie madoff, and one of his costars a Delaware County actress that getting a real inside look at how the ponzi scheme plays out. Its interesting playing a real character, being someone that is alive. And that someone is Bernie Madoffs secretary, annette bon joran oh. And there was just one little problem. When i realized the real annette bon joran oh. And i said i am a foot and a half taller than this woman and they said i dont care. She is from howard beach, new york. Just lightning the screw you attitude. If susan looks familiar, she has been on other tv shows. What do you think i am . Cecily tynan. Annette is behind bars in federal prison so susans information came from Court Documents that offered a glimpse into the inner workings. The 19th floor is where they did legitimate stuff and the 17th floor, was the mysterious dealings. Nobody but nobody comes down here without my permission. You needed a key card to get in and it was hush hush. That is how the ponzi scheme continued. But no matter how you feel be prepared. You feel yourself feeling sorry for him knowing what he did, you wonder how can i feel sorry for this guy . Its the premiere of original movie madoff and stay tuned for a special report. Action news reporter, chad pradelli, sits down with local victims of madoffs ponzi scheme how did they get involved and did they get answers on how it all happened. Some fascinating stuff buckle down starting at 8 00 p. M. I read just about every book published on this, because i condition get enough of it. Look forward to watching this thanks alicia. Time for a check of the accuweather forecast. Lets head to adam joseph with the latest on the forecast. We see pockets of moderate to medium rainfall, west of philadelphia we start to break some of the rain up as the heaviest is now pushing to the east and we close in closer to double scan live radar along 206 north of trenton and pennington a wall of heavy rain and it is brief as it passes through, and doyles toub and quakertown and the northeast extension to the Lehigh Valley. And around center city philadelphia, light showers here it was heavy 45 minutes ago and a break through parts of Delaware County and coatesville and Chester County and Lancaster County a little yellow popping at times, but the heavy rain is ending from the west to the southeast. Salem, fortescue and dover, you can see flair ups of the intense rain heading into new jersey. All roads are extremely wet but the good news here is that most of the heavy rain is subsiding into the second part of the evening rush and evening hours. High temperatures today we hit a record tying high in philadelphia of 62 degrees, record tying in the poconos of 52 degrees, 55 in allentown and 60 in millville and 60 at the shore, and that is really doing a number on the snow pack north and west. And that is why we see so much fog where you see the snow because that snow is melting and you have the warm temperatures in addition to the rain than is leading to ponding on the roadways as well. As you look at snow and rain a ribbon of moisture down i95, and it stalled off the coast and a break here tomorrow and a wave of low pressure will development off this boundary and pull precipitation into eastern areas on friday morning but the evening rain tapers to on and off showers overnight. 42 in allentown and warm overnight in millville with a temperature of 50 degrees. The runoff will pull into the rivers and streams. These are forecasted crests, only these four. They are expecting to get close to flood stage but just below. Theneshaminy, perkiomen, schuylkill and brandywine. Again norristown minor a foot above the flood stage and by 1 00 in the afternoon tomorrow, expect it to go back to below its flood stage. As we look at future tracker 6 tomorrow morning sunshine is breaking out and temperatures in the 40s and 50s to the south and sun and clouds and mild day tomorrow with temperatures near 50 degrees and then well watch that wave of energy, this is 5 00 in the morning on friday, so the morning rush on friday, there could be a brush of either wet snow mixing with rain especially philadelphia to the east along the shore, something we are watching popping up on the models. We look at the four day at 4 00, breezy and mild and 52 degrees, and friday we watch for the period of maybe morning wet snow in eastern areas. Right now west of philadelphia it is dry friday and no matter where you are sunshine returns and 44 degrees and saturday into sunday looking good and sunshine and clouds and well above average with temperatures in the 50s. We have the sevenday forecast for you guys coming up in the next hour. Coming up president obama does something he has never done during his entire time in office. And a group of vandals cause major damage on a local College Campus and police want your help to track them down. And coming up in big talkers that looked good and youll be happy to know its part of a diet. How pizza helped this guy lose 101 pounds. Police are looking for a people that vandalized the building on Temple Universitys campus, they gave us this Surveillance Video showing the group as they broke in on january 9th, the group of boys got in the building and spray painted floors and walls and broke mirrors and computer monitors, police want anyone that recognizes this group to please contact them. The Democratic NationalConvention Committee is kicking off a series of workshops to help Small Business owners, it was held at the kimal center, they are joining forces with google to boost their profits from the Democratic Convention from july 5th until the 28th if you miss its workshop more will be announced. A camden city postal worker got special recognition, christopher mcgraph joined thousands of employees that have driven more than 1 million accident free miles. He received his award during a ceremony at the carrier annex on mown ephraim avenue and he did it by using turn signal tales and by turning off the cell phone while driving. 50 students were welcomed to Temple UniversityBusiness School this morning. It featured candidates from 29 countries and many were joined by their families today. Some students in may fair are learning about life as a reporter, our own Trish Hartman spoke to students at blessed Trinity Catholic school today and answered their questions and talks about the different type of stories she covered including the blizzard of 2016. There is still more ahead on action news at 4 00, it may not be a real emergency but a utah Police Officers act of kindness saved the day. More on this video coming up in big talkers. And anyone thinking of tying the knot we have expert tips before picking your wedding location. Well show you how to save big in what is the deal today. Nd its a pizza diet success story. Yes, you really can eat one of americas Favorite Foods without packing on the pounds, the secret recipe revealed coming up in big talkers. First at 4 30, flooding concerns are impacting much of our area now. Sky 6 hd giving us a live look at the ben franklin bridge as the heavy rain moves through the day and for the evening commute. Lets head over to adam joseph at the big board. We complicate things further and the snow pack is leading to reducedib reduced visibility because of fog and we are starting to break the precipitation up north and west of philadelphia and the heaviest rain over there now sliding to the south and well see the trend continue as we go through the evening hours. In fact as we take a closer look at double can live radar, you see the holes developing after most of the atmospheres energy is pushing to the east or breaking things up and dealing with light showers during that evening commute in and around many of those major thoroughfares moving out of the city of philadelphia and double scan to the south in new jersey and delaware you see yellows in fortescue and dover and millville, those move from the southwest to the north and east. And we put that in and show you its north of hammonton and now its ending in the Lehigh Valley and approaching pottstown and well watch that progress over the next couple of hours from the west to the east. As we take a live look at cam pel Back Mountain they had record tying highs, the fog is there 51 degrees with winds out of the south at 14 miles per hour. Quakertown an inch of rain and reading. 84 and near a half inch in wilmington and philadelphia and the same for trenton, thankfully we are not seeing extremely high totals to add to major or moderate concerns, but that flood watch will continue until 5 00 p. M. On thursday even though the rain is ending this evening especially areas northern and west of pennsylvania, well watch the smaller streams and creeks and rivers. But at this point most of them expected to crest below flood stage that is good news there. Well talk about this system and maybe some wet snow for some early on friday m