Invested in hunting park reduced crime. This is not just feel good stuff, this is real stuff in the community that gives people the opportunity to recreate children in a positive way and keep them away from trouble. Reporter sharrie this town meeting is set to begin at 6 30 here at Vare Rec Center in grays ferry. Vernon odom reporting live from grays ferry. Vernon thank you. Weve got breaking news route now. The Philadelphia Department of Public Health has identified the first case of zika virus in a city resident. Ali gorman is live following this story. She joins us live from the big board with the details. Reporter sharrie it was expected that we would see more travel related cases of zikn united states. In this case it is woman over 60 years old who recently traveled to the caribbean. Now, 80 percent of cases of the mosquito borne illness come with no symptoms or mild symptoms. This local case seems to follow that. Were told the woman was not hospitalized and is recovering without complications. The main concern with zika is for pregnant women the virus is probably linked to a serious birt birth defect now because of that its recommended pregnant women do the in visit aers where zika is spreading. The Health Commissioner was reiterating that message. And telling other philadelphia if you plan on traveling to areas affected by zika take precautions to avoid being bitten. That includes using wear long sleeves and insect repellant. The mosquitos that carry psych virus bite during the day. You can call the Philadelphia Health department if you have any other questions about zika virus. Sharrie, back over to you. Okay, i know its a situation well keep our eyes on. Ali thank you. From our delaware news room now police have identified the father killed by a hit and run driver in hockessin last night. Est gators say 34yearold Jeremiah Mccarthy known as jerry to his family was struck by a vehicle as he tried to walk across lancaster pike. Police say so far they do not have enough evidence to determine the make or model of the striking vehicle. They along with mccarthys loved ones are pleading for information. Would just want them to tell the truth and be honest for jerry, for us and for themselves. An autopsy will determine exactly how mccarthy died and if he was possibly hit by more than one vehicle. A new jersey mother has admitted to killing her newborn daughter. 23yearold hyphernkemberly pleaded guilty. She doused her on fire. She was originally charged with murder but agreed to plead to lesser charge in a deal with prosecutors. They will recommend a 30 year sentence at a hearing in april. Prosecutors in easton announce new charges today against a man who gave a woman a deadly dose of heroin. They say theyre charging that man in her death as a way to crack down on the heroin problem thats been getting worse in that area. Action newss walter perez live in easton with the details on this case today. Walter. Reporter hi, brian, Northampton County d. A. John morganelli announced details about the pending case he hopes to ensure one local drug dealer goes back to the streets. Jason laduca was already facing serious charges linked to the death of a 27yearold woman from bethlehem township much hes accused of providing injecting the methamphetamine that resulted in the death of rachel neducu. He had been charged with aggravated assault and Reckless Endangerment butt the da upgraded the charges to include Drug Delivery resulting in. Did this. That charge carries a maximum 40 year prison term. He says theres been a local spike in heroin and meth cases in his county and his decision to amend the charges against laduka will hopefully send a message to the dealers and drug abusers in this region. Well continue to be tough on these cases. We have to put an end to the fact that the drug deliveries are resulting in people driving in our streets near Northampton County and across pennsylvania. Reporter morganelli announced the formation of a task force to hopefully better educate young people about the physical and legal consequences of taking illicit drugs. Laduka remains behind bars on 1 million bail. Reporting live from easton, walter perez channel6 action news. Walter chang you. Time for a check of the accuweather forecast. Mix of sun, clouds and occasional showers out there today. Meteorologist adam Joseph Standing by with sunshine now adam. Yeah, that sunshine in control this afternoon. After that ribbon of rain that passed through early in the morning and those temperatures have skyrocketed this afternoon. In fact our high today so far 64 degrees in philadelphia for those leap day, the last day of february. 60 in new york city, 64 in washington. Even to the north not bad, buffalo 55 degrees and binghamton on the verge of 50. So, another 60 plus degree day in philadelphia. Weve had a record amount of 60 or better days in the city of philadelphia for what we call the meteorological winter, those are the months of december, january and february. Weve had 22 days of 60 or above this year and that smashes the old record of 16 back in 20012002 and in fact, 10 of those 22 days came within the last 10 days. As we look at satellite and radar, were looking at that brief area of rain that passed through early this morning. That front is now off the coast. Weve dried out, the sunshine has returned and that accuweather forecast will talk about march entering in like a lamb tomorrow, midweek rain rights after it and maybe some late week snow showers. Well talk about the big changes all this week coming up sharrie in that full accuweather forecast. Well see you when you come back inside adam. Temple University Says its seeing a huge spike in the number of applications this year. The school says 32,600 students are applied to come to temple this fall. Thats up 15 percent from last year and the deadline hasnt even arrived yet. Last year temple had 30,000 applicants which set a record. Some University Officials are crediting the success of temples Football Team for the increased interest in the school. Makes sense. Makes a lot of sense. Good for them. Time now for a check of the action news traffic report today. All right, lets go live to matt pelman in the action news traffic center. Happy monday matt. A lot of people want to get in the owls nest and who cant blame them. Proud owl right here. Were live along 422 this afternoon where we start this leap day afternoon with some big problems. The eastbound lanes are shut down approaching keim street because of an accident. Here in the pottstown area. All traffic detoured off. Stick with 724 or local through pottstown along high street. 422 eastbound blocked approaching keim street because of a crash this afternoon. Outside live in northeast philadelphia this is i95, the typical afternoon backup just starting to form here in the northbound lanes headed toward the work zone at cottman avenue. Not awful but already about a 10 minute delay on that northbound travel time. In Mercer County on 195 eastbound past Hamilton Square road watch out for a crash slowing us down a bit there. In pemberton township Burlington County a wreck along lakehurst road at firehouse today. All day today weve seen delays on septas Lansdale Doylestown and Thorndale PaoliRegional Rail lines. Lansdale doylestown 20 minutes behind. Septa trolleys because of a combination of track work and an earlier disabled trolley. Lets grab the ipad to the commuter report on this monday afternoon. Lombard street in philadelphia close to the schuylkill expressway has an object on the road. Watch out for that and well check it again, brian and sharrie, coming up in the next half hour. Soming for everybody. Yup. Generous guy. Thank you. Still ahead donald trump is playing defense today. How hes responding to the criticism after he failed to reject an endorsement from the ku klux klan. And an american soldier comes out of the shadows to receive the ultimate honor, the member of the Seal Team Six recognized for his heroism today at the white house. And wrapping up a year on the space station. Weve got details on one americans voyage home after 365 days in space. And we want to tell you about a special web chat that were hosting right now. A doctor from coop are University Hospital is taking questions about cardiovascular disease nd how it affects men and women differently. Head to our web site, 6abc. Com to join the conversation. Donald trump continues to draw sharp criticism following an interview in which he refused to rebuke the ku klux klan. Mitt romney tweeted this today calling trumps remarks disqualifying and disgusting. He went on to say trumps codling of repugnant bigotry is not character of america. Trump was asked weather when he would rebuke his endorsement by the kkk. He declined to do that. Today he suggested he didnt hear the question. Rival marco rubio called that absurd. I dont care how bad the earpiece is ku klux klan comes pretty clearly and refuses to criticize it. Campaign spokesman noted that trump had previously disavenue vowed the kkk and its former leader david duke. Trump repeatd that today. It is the nations highest military honor and today president barack obama awarded it to a navy s. E. A. L. From ohio. The president hailed edward byers as special breed of warrior as he presented him with the medal of honor. He participated in a daring 2012 raid that rescued an american hostage in afghanistan. Dr. Dillard joseph was abducted along with his driver and afghan interpreter. Byers and fellow members of the navy s. E. A. L. Team six went in for the rescue. Byers protected the doctor from bullets and even exposed himself to enemy fire to help get him out safely. Now the president describes byers as a true hero a humble consummate quiet professional who was born brave. Whenever americans are taken hostage in the world we move heaven and earth to bring them home safe. We send some thunder and some lightning, our special operator forces, folks liked byers. Byers, a husband and a father has completed 11 overseas deployments nine combat tours and he has received the purple heart twice. He is the the first living active duty member of the navy to receive the medal of honor in four decades and as president obama described him today, the thunder and the lightning. Congratulations to imhad. Well earned. Yeah, well deserved absolutely. Meantime after 365 days, astronaut scott kelly is spending his final day in space right now. Kelly and russian cosmonaut have been test subjects. When they get back scientists will study them to find out how living in space affects the human body. Nasa is trying to make sure astronauts can handle a trip to mars. Kelly has now spent the most cumulative time in space of any american living in history. All right. Now a look at todays closing numbers as the dow is down 123 points. Nasdaq falling 32 and a half points, the s p 500 off just about 16 points on the day so a rough start to the work week. Tonight at 11 oclock if you save your loose change to cash in later, weve got a special report you need to watch. Investigative gave reporter Wendy Saltzman has a preview. Reporter its supposed to make counting change convenient and easy but are you getting back all the money youre putting in . Its not like it was a dollar off or a couple dollars off, 44 is pretty substantial. Reporter armed with rolled coin we test out several machines to see how often we get shortchanged plus we tag along with inspectors to check out the accuracy of some coin counting kiosks. See the results of our investigation only on action news tonight at 11 00. Time now for a check of the accuweather forecast as we look to stretch out what was a beautiful weekend. Yes, it was. We want more of it. Lets head to meteorologist adam joseph. You want more. Deliver. You give someone a more sell and they want something gigantic. As we take a look at sky6 live in chester the camera still bouncing quite a bit over the Commodore Barry bridge. You can see the Delaware River it is a little bit of a chop to it as well as those winds have been pretty fierce and they have been since yesterday and will ease a lib as we go into the overnight hours but overall a Crystal Clear sky after starting with a few showers early this morning and this is leap day february 29th and as you take a look at why we have leap day every four years, it in fact takes 365 and a quarter days for earth to circle do the orbit around the sun so every four years you have to add an extra day to the calendar in order to keep everything in sync. Otherwise if you didnt all the season would start to jumble and you would be way off say 100 to 200, 300 years so this is one of those leap days if today is your birthday happy birthday. Well see you in four years with your next one. As we look at the temperature, 59 degrees currently in philadelphia, down from a high of 64. Dewpoint 32 degrees. Theres that westerly wind sustained at 26, gusting over 30 miles an hour. Wind chill right now is pretty much the same because once youre over 50 degrees you dont calculate a wind chill and the from esche shoe your 29. 80 and that is on the rise. As we look at some of the numbers 54 in allentown, 52 in reading with that bright sunshine. 58 in wilmington. 62 millville and dover and right around 60 degrees across many of the shore towns. But that wind definitely still driving out of the westerly direction. 37 miles an hour in the last hour in wilmington, 30 miles an hour in millville clocking in over 30 allentown, reading and pretty close to that in trenton. As we look at satellite and radar, little front came through early this morning. That was some of those showers that is way to the east now and if you take a look at the lower 48, it is pretty quiet at this time and the Northern Plains theres some rain and snow showers and thats our next system. Well be tracking it late tuesday night early on wednesday morning but for tonight its clear, just a few clouds and a tad above normal. 39 philadelphia, 32 allentown and near 40 down to the south. As we look at those temperatures for tomorrow, pretty similar as we head into the month of march, bright and mild, 60 tomorrow in philadelphia, 57 millville near 60 in wilmington. Mid50s to the north and west with that wind out of the southeast much lighter six to 12 miles an hour. Then on wednesday well be track something gusty showers in the morning with temperatures with a high of the day near 50 plus degrees. This is 7 30 and then as you get into the afternoon on wednesday as the the front continues to push to the east we drain colder winds in. By wednesday afternoon only 40 in allentown, 44 philadelphia, so wednesdays one of those upside down days with a morning high turns into more of the afternoon and evening low for the day. As we look at that four day at 4 00 forecast for tomorrow, it comes in like a lamb for the new month with a temperature of 60 degrees and just a few high clouds. Predawn well see some rain here wednesday. Most of it could be out of here by seven or 8 oclock in the morning. Very windy early in the day and then those temperatures falling in the afternoon and then we quickly cloud it up here on thursday, a high of just 39 degrees. And there will be a weak system passing by to our south that could bring a couple of morning snow showers on friday with your High Temperature coming in at 39 so not a lot of sun the rest of the week once you get past tomorrow and then that snow on friday is not a big deal but we may see a few snowflakes for the first week of march. Go figure after these 60s. Thats right. Im saying, such a tease. All right. Adam thanks very much. And still ahead here on a monday afternoon a new food truck is coming to philadelphia but this one is unlike anything youve seen before. Why archbishop Charles Chaput is on hand to give it his blessing. Mayor jim kenney has a plan to tax soda in the city of philadelphia. Well have a live report on the proposal that hell lay out later this week. Ibs infer tilt thyroid or hormonal issues fatigue even unexplained weight gain. Sound familiar . Coming up ill explore a new trend in medicine where doctors are playing detective and getting to the core of your health and we want to tell you about a special Facebook Chat going on right now. Speaking of health were hosting a discussion at this very moment about hidden Food Allergies especially related to ibs. You can get involved at 6abc. Com as well as at 6abc action News Facebook page. The doctor is in the house. The chat is running through 5 30. To stay on a diet. 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No one was injured. Police want to hear from anyone with any information about this crime. A good one here. A philadelphia charity is getting help to better serve the homeless in the community. Saint johns hospice now has a new truck to help pick up donated food. Children from saint marys choir performed and arch business charles sap pew dedicated that truck. Saint johns hospice provi