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WPVI Action News At 4PM May 3, 2016

Binghamton and some sunshine in southern virginia responding into the lower 70s. What to expect here as we look ahead. The pattern stays unsettled. Little if any sunshine and temperatures remaining below average, well let you know how long this lasts. Can it last through the upcoming weekend on mothers day well let you know in a bit. 6abc. Com weather has everything you need as our stretch of rainy, damp weather continues, street level forecast from stormtracker 6 live double scan gives you a clear picture of what is happening now. And the wet weather may have caused the facade of a home to fall off in the lawndale section of philadelphia and there was a person inside when all of this happened. John rawlins live. Reporter i dont think anyone wants to jump to conclusions but given the springs wet weather and given the water infiltration one of the things that lni looks at is the weather when the facade fails. According to the person inside here it was a quiet morning. I was sitting in the kitchen. Jocelyns morning changed quickly with a clacking sound. I heard crack crack. I said what is it . It was the sound of the heavy stone facade literally tumbling down and ripping out windows and he see that going boom from the top. I said what . I walk outside and when i come out and come in here this part was down. No one was hurt after First Responders departed lni arrived. Residents on both sides have to move out for now. This particular homes front wall had been repaired in the past because of prior settlement issues. Two blocks away a blue tarp, a similar collapse of a stone fronted twin collapsed just last month. Back here live to lake shore where the collapse was this morning. Both families dealing with their insurance companies. They need to stabilize the structures and are told by lni, they have to make a decision as to whether the structure needs to be repaired or demolished. The remains of a catholic saint is moving from bucks county to philadelphia. The sisters will sell their historic mother house that holds st. Catherine drexel. She used the money to build the estate in 1891, the nuns that live there will find new homes and st. Catherines remains will be moved to the cathedral of saints peter and paul. A life saving drug that can reverse and overdose is now available to everyone in every acme pharmacy in pennsylvania without a prescription. Officials in Delaware County call the decision to make narcan widely available a matter of life or death. They say the nasal spray has saved 26,000 people who have overdosed on opioids or pain killers. Two dose ez will cost you 150 and some insurance policies will cover it, but the person that needs the narcan must be with you in order to submit the claim. It does not come without controversy but the District Attorney says the goal is simple. To keep them alive. Keep your loved ones alive and your child alive. And from there you get them into treatment. If its not available or the Police Officer is not carrying the drug. 89 people die every single day of an overdose here in the u. S. And pennsylvania is among the highest incidence areas for abuse and overdose in the country. We should tell you that the headquarters for adapt pharmacy is located here in pennsylvania. A major announcement. Thank you alicia. Jury selection continues for the second day in the federal corruption trial of chaka fattah. The 59yearold is accused of accepting bribes and misusing Campaign Funds and federal grants. He calls it a witch hunt and Opening Statements will not happen for another two weeks come may 16th. Its primary day in indiana where the frontrunners have a chance to move close toward their magic number of delegates. Including one candidate linking another to the jfk assassination. Just when we thought the republican race could not get any stranger. It has gone to a whole new level as voter goes to the polls here. Donald trump and ted cruz are involved in an all out verbal battle. Unparalleled attacks between candidates on this possible make or break primary day. Indiana is becoming important. Its called importantville. I love it. Trump ahead in the polls today going after ted cruz, on fox and friends citing a National Inquirer story accusing cruzs father of being linked to john f. Kennedys assassin. His father was with lee harvey oswald. My dad killed jfk and he is secretly elvis. Cruz denying the claims and unloading on the frontrunner. He say pathological liar, a bully. Sanders adding to the criticism. I think you know donald trump lives in his own world. Sanders needs to win 92 of all the remaining delegates to claim the nomination he is hopeful with polls in the Hoosier State showing him close behind and the front runner facing protests defend these comments at a cnn town hall. We are going to put a lot of coal miners and companies out of business. Dont know how to explain it except it was totally out of context from what i meant. Clinton is now focused on moving on to the general election. Meanwhile, all the candidates say regardless of what happens here they are staying in this race. We are live in indianapolis, channel 6 action news. Thank you. Of course stick with 6 abc all night long as results come in from indiana. Well have complete coverage on 6abc. Com and follow us on facebook and twitter and instagram for real time updates. Brand new at 4 00, we learn that philadelphia has a plan to replace the lights on boathouse row. Just in time for the Democratic National convention, parks and rec leaders say that they want to make the landmark look its best when they flock to philadelphia for the Democratic Convention in july and they will spend 30,000 to replace the lights. The lights were last replaced in 2005. Such a beautiful thing to see at night. Love that. Its time now for the action news traffic report. Lets go live to matt pellman in the traffic center. I have lights for you, brake lights, a whole lot of them on 95 southbound. As you try to come south of the airport through this point that afternoon. Were you watching this morning. We had this truck that overturned into the woods at 3 00, they are still trying to get the truck pulled out of the woods near the delaware state line. The left lane is squeezing by and creating a parking lot as you come south of the airport to this point near chichester, 52 minutes on the southbound travel time should ideally be 8. Stay local on 291 or 13 or route 1 and going to new jersey and use 295 southbound, 95 southbound in Delaware County is not where you want to be. Late running eastbound construction near girard and its clearing out of the way and leaving us with the backlog from conshohocken on in towards center city. A crash on the roosevelt boulevard southbound at f street causing slowing in addition to the lights are you dealing with that crash. And a crash in Montgomery Township along the 202 parkway. Milk truck off the road and 2020 parkway is shut down. Lets grab the ipad and do the commuter report, complete stand still on 95 southbound in Delaware County as they try to pull the tractor trailer out of the woods. 95 is not where you want to be. Well check it again coming up in the next half hour. Sounds good matt. Still ahead, he is called the most hated man in america, why the former drug company ceo was in court today. Plus, this video is simply stunning, a family drops its children from the window of a burning building but thanks to u. S. Soldiers on the ground everyone walked away without a scratch. Hear the story of this rescue coming up. And a big change for beach tag, the jersey shore town rolling out a high tech way to get your hands on the summer staple. Dear fellow citizen, time spent with my son really makes me appreciate the now. But i also have to plan for my familys future. And that means taking on debt. In a smart way. Like my mortgage its working for me. And if he needs a college loan down the road, thatll be worth it too. Its all about having a strategy, that fits your life. So, if you have a question about how to make debt work for you, ask me. Sincerely, brandon heaven fellow dad and fellow citizen. About how to make debt work for you, ask me. At giant, shoppers low prices by the thousands, plus a thousand more that just dropped. All these low prices what are you trying to do, get me to feed the whole neighborhood . No. Just trying to save you a whole lot of bread. [ laughter ] thousands of blue tags, thousands of low prices. My giant. Im terhe is. At golf. But id like to keep being terrible at golf for as long as i can. New patented ensure enlive has hmb plus 20 grams of protein to help rebuild muscle. For the strength and energy to do what you love. New ensure enlive. Always be you. About 45,000 students had another unscheduled day off in detroit today because their teachers staged a massive sickout. They appear to not be paid by the district so they called out sick and they closed for the second straight day. Michigan state lawmakers are considering the plan to pay off the district enormous debt. There is morer trouble for the former drug company ceo, Martin Shkreli was in a brooklyn courtroom for a hearing on securities fraud charges. Unrelated to the drug price controversy and he will likely face an additional indictment to be revealed at his next hearing in june. Shkreli has proclaimed his innocence. Johnson johnson lost no lawsuit surrounding his talcum power. They are ordered to pay 7. 2 million to a woman that says that the talcum caused her to get ovarian cancer. In february another jury awarded 72 million to the family of a woman that made similar claims. To wall street today. A down day across the board, do you down 142 and nasdaq down 42 points and the s p down almost 14 points on the day. The action news troubleshooters are on the case of a 15,000 medical big mistake. Nydia han has a report. This is the first bill, 2100. Correct. And then it shot up to 16,000. Three weeks later yes. On ton of battling a brain tumor, dominic found himself battling his hospital over an unexpected bill. The troubleshooters find out why he got the bill and we get real results for him. Find out how you can get help. An action news troubleshooter tonight on channel 6 action news at 11 00. Here is the big board. This is video out of south korea, this sends your heart right to your throat. A woman dropping her children one by one from the fourth story of a burning building. There were u. S. Service members below and they quickly caught the children 1, 3, and 5. The crowd is gasping and screaming as each child is caught safely. Amazingly they all survived without a scratch. How rescue the military here is the beautiful video we love to see after all of this, the family from nigeria got a chance to meet the soldiers that saved their lives, they happened to be in the right place at the right time and they were just doing their jobs. The Service Members said they got the blankets from a nearby store which willingly handed them over for the pretty incredible rescue. Everybody working together to save the three kids and their mom. Thank goodness for a good endsing to that story. Three new jersey towns are going high tech to sell beach tags, Sea Isle City and longport and ventnor are rolling out an app to buy beach tags and you can buy them on the spot, rather than leave the beach if they dont have them. You know what that feels like. Sea isle city says they brought in more than a Million Dollars for beach tag sales. I hope you enjoyed that video, because its going to be sometime before we see. As we get a check of the accuweather forecast. Lets head over to adam joseph. Gloomy skies right now, we are not thinking of the shore or the beach and how chilly out there. The platt bridge is moving nicely, dry roadways as of right now compared to this morning. A better commute weather wise and you notice the green really vibrant at this point after all the rain we have had and many of the gardens, are the only ones truly enjoying this string of wet weather, but it is needed rainfall. The entire month of april we only saw 1. 7 inch of rain for the entire month. Over the last two days. We have picked up close to the same amount and saw the entire month of april. And we are pretty dry, year to date an inch and a half below normal but well pick up more the rest of the week. Cool 55 in allentown. 58 in wilmington and 58 in dover. Low 50s at the shore and at the shore we are dealing with a little low lying clouds and fog. Toms river 1. 7 mile visibility. And despite the clouds are lingering, the visibility is good here from philadelphia, millville, dover and reading as well as trenton. We look at the radar and satellite, the morning rain quickly pushed away for the shore and some breaks trying to push to the south and west and because of the breaks near washington and baltimore, south of hagerstown, some showers and downpours have popped back up and we see them sliding to the east and south and we see popup showers tonight and cloudy and damp with patchy fog. 51 in philadelphia and 48 degrees in trenton. As we look at future tracker 63 00 in the morning trying to pivot more energy through you see rain kick up here in the Early Morning hours of wednesday, for the rush tomorrow morning, scattered showers around and not an all day washout. Hanging tough. And some scattered showers around and that continues into the afternoon and by the afternoon at 4 30, hopefully a lot of that will start to lift to the north and we see more breaks in the spotty rainfall as we get into the latter part of your wednesday, the four day at 4 00 forecast, the Cool Conditions continue here into wednesday and the on and off showers, 59 degrees and temperatures still remaining below normal. Cloudy again with some scattered showers on thursday 62. And friday with low pressure still nearby, you can see more intensity in the rain here as we end the week of 60 degrees and saturday clouds still will dominate maybe some peeks of sun, we are trying to take out the showers by saturday at 71 degrees. There could be a couple around and well have the mothers day forecast coming up to see if we can get some sun for mom. A nice gift that would be. Still ahead at 9 00 they thought it was a water rescue but turned out to be evidence in a crime. What they found at at bottom of a local lake. And a bargain for brides from venues to flowers, dozens of tips and how to save money on every aspect of your wedding. If you have ever been the parents of a crying baby, they are trying to evoke sympathy for those traveling with their little ones. Police say that two cousins that were shot this morning in south philadelphia were selling drugs on the street. This happened just before success a. M. At broad and somerset. Police say that a 16yearold boy was shot four times and a 20yearold woman was shot in the back. And both ran several blocks and called 911 and medics rushed them to the hospital and they are expected to survive. It appears a car pulled out a lake in new jersey was stolen. Rescue teams came out to north lake road and birch field drive in mount laurel last night after reports that a car was under water. Dive teams found the vehicle and crews were able to pull it out of the lake. Police have not said who they are looking for in connection with the car theft. Local survivors of the holocaust connected with each other out of wynnewood today. It was hosted by the Jewish Family Services at cafe europe. Hundreds of Holocaust Survivors and friends and families danced the traditional hora and got a special performance from kindergartners Early Childhood center. Dr. Sumner talked to students at the henry h. Houston school. Dr. Houston atestifieded middle cool there, its part of doctors back to school day and talked about her job in Family Medicine and what other doctors do. Delawares beer s. Wine and spirits trail is growing and now includes two dozen Craft Beverage makers its not a trail but a website listing the breweries and cideries and there are new additions announced today by governor jack markell, an app being released this summer traces the trail if you want to see the brew makers. Check it out on the app. Verizon workers are still on the pick set line as the company and union try to agree on a contract deal. Vernon odom has the latest in a live report. Im nydia han and have i all kinds of secrets and tips to save on your wedding, c. Action news continues. Hello again 4 30 and action news continues with a search for a prisoner that is suppose to be behind bars. And a Delaware School could be forced to come up with a new nickname. Plus, jetblue turns the table on a plane full of passengers getting them to celebrate the crying babies on board and all in the name of mothers day. How the company pulled up their viral experiment coming up in big talkers. But first at 4 30, three weeks and counting, verizon workers are still on strike and this past weekend they lost their Health Insurance benefits. Its the latest developments in the tug of war with Telecom Giants and union workers. Vernon odom is live outside of the sheridan at 17th and vine where contract negotiations are underway. Reporter sharrie, good evening, i have spoken to both sides and there is no indications of any progress at all. The contracts expired way back in august of last year. For these Striking Verizon workers tomorrow marks three weeks since they walked off the job and the employees here are among 40,000 employees from new england and new york down to the Midatlantic States that had their Health Benefits cut off over the weekend. They are trying to take all of our benefits and take our pension and go after retirees and trying to take our medical benefits as well. They have the advertisement out that we make 130,000 a year and we dont make that. Verizon says they made their laugh best final offer and it has been rejected. They say not wages but rather job security. Thousands of jobs have been lost to contracting out and overseas low wage countries. We want the jobs brought back in the work generated in this state and other states to stay in state. Negotiators remain in center city. They say we offered 7. 5 pay raises and

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