Mark lee his lawyer a former federal Prosecutor Says fattah is not guilty and the two former aides are out to save their own necks and their lack of credibility he says will be revealed here. Brian, at this hour an fbi agent remains on the witness stand presenting various documents related to the case. The key government witnesses will not take the stand for quite some time down the road. This trial is expected to last about two months. Live at the federal courthouse in center city, im vernon odom, channel6 action news. All right, vernon thank you. We have breaking news right now out of Gloucester County. This is the scene in Franklin Township in the 400 block of harding highway where firefighters are responding to an active fire right now. This is apparently a chicken coop burning also on route 40 again in Franklin Township. Apparently 911 calls were coming in, reports of a brush fire in the area. When crews arrived they discovered it was a chicken coop. No word at this point if any animals have been injured as a result but we just lost the shot. Well continue to update you as news breaks on that. A former professor at the university of pennsylvania who was convicted of killing his exwife was denied parole today. Rafael rabb lost his bid for Early Release in norristown. He killed his exwife ellen rabb inside their king of prussia home back in 2006. Now that the parole bordenave his request, the Montgomery County d. A. s office says robb will likely serve the rest of his 10 year sentence. One person is dead after a car caught fire on a south jersey highway today and police are still trying to figure out how it all happened. Chopper6 was over route 55 in Franklin Township where police say a car caught fire just before 8 oclock this morning. Police say they showed up to find the car in flames and the driver had already passed away. They have not told us the have ick tims name. They also say there are no obvious signs that this car was in an accident prior. Rescue crews had to help out today in Delaware County after police found a car in the water there. Chopper6 was over Stevens Drive in tinicum township where a car went into darby creek. Police say the driver was on i95 when he went off the road and into the water. Hes in the hospital and is expected to make it. Police have not told us his name, either. Lot of sunshine out there and if you stand in the sunshine, you feel the warmth but once youre out of it because its windy, also. Yeah. Lets head outside to meteorologist adam joseph. Hi adam. It is windy but at least its sunny but weve recovered quite nicely especially after those cold morning lows. As we take a look at the numbers where we started this morning, record tieing in allentown, 37 degrees, same for trenton at 40. A record in millville. It dropped just above the Freezing Point 30s for wilmington lancaster and reading. In philadelphia we pretty much bottomed out around 42 degrees, 2 degrees above our record. But were 65 right now, again, if youre in the sun it feels pretty nice but the breeze continues to kick up. 54 right now in buffalo and you can see 60s from washington richmond down to charleston, west virginia. It is clear now but there are clouds building in parts of the Western Areas of virginia, west virginia, ohio and tennessee valley. A frontal boundary will spill clouds our way overnight and will bring us a round of showers as we go foo tuesday, so damp dreary tomorrow but it does turn beautiful for the end of the week before the weekend turns very unsettled as its looking right now. Well talk about more rain coming in with that accuweather forecast in just a little bit. All right, adam, thank you. A Fallen Philadelphia Police officer got a memorable and meaningful honor today. President obama posthumously awarded the medal of valor to robert wilson, iii. John rawlins live. Reporter somber moments in the east room today of the white house. Robert wilson, iii was the first Philadelphia Police officer to receive this National Award when he was killed in action last year he was 30 years old, the father of two. May god bless you and your families, may god bless our fallen heroes. May god bless the United States of america. Reporter at the white house the president awarded the Public Safety officer medal of valor to 12 officers deputies and agents who survived dangerous encounters. One however was given posthumously to philadelphia Sergeant Robert wilson, iii. On a day in 2015 wilson was inside this game stop store when two Armed Robbers entered. Two men opened fire in a video store where Sergeant Wilson was buying his son a birthday present. To his family who is here, his grandmother constance, his brother and sister, please know how deeply sorry we are for your loss. Reporter Constance Wilson received the medal from the president who then embraced her. At the time of his death officials said by not moving for cover in the gun battle he drew the fire away from customers and staff huddled behind the counter. Following todays ceremony in washington Constance Wilson reflected on the past 14 months. Like it just happened today. We always think about him. We cry and all but big hole was put in my heart when he lost his life but he loved his job and he did what he was trained to do. Reporter well, the gun battle was very intense but apparently fairly short. Only about 30 seconds. Officer wilson was outnumbered two to one. He was hit multiple times. Live in the sat center john rawlins channel6 action news. Alicia. Powerful tribute a hero. John thank you. Well, at least 5,000 students filed into Franklin Field today for the university of pennsylvanias 260th commencement and they heard a pretty inspiring message from the man behind the hottest show on broadway. This years speaker was lynn man well miranda the Pulitzer Prize tony and grammy Award Winning composer best known for hamilton. The groundbreaking hip hop musical about the nations founding father. Now during his address, he apologized for the fact that the show never mentions pennsylvania or philadelphia by name but he did take a moment to list many of our citys contributions to america. You are known as the birthplace of louisa may allicott rocky balboa, boys to men, betsy ross, will smith, isaac asimov, tina fey, cheesesteaks and you can have scrapple, soft pretzels and wawa hoagies whenever you want. You win, philly. [laughter] how do you like that . I think they should add that to the show by the way. Miranda of one of eight people to receive an honorary degree. He was not the only famous face in the crowd. Vice President Joe Biden came to see his granddaughter naomi receive her diploma. Love that speech. Love that show, too. Alicia thank you. Philadelphia 76ers rolled out a new look for their jerseys. Theyll be wearing advertisements ob their jerseys. Yes, the stub hub logo will appear on the shoulder starting the season after next. Makes the sixers the first team in the four major north American Sports leagues to have sponsorships on their jerseys. Its already a common practice in several other leagues Like Major League soccer and the wnba. Now coming to the nba. Yes. Time for the action news traffic report. Matt pelman standing by in the action News Traffic Center with a first look today. Hey, matt. Afternoon commute not a slam dunk so far. Weve got complications and you heard from alicia that the Vice President was in town today. His motorcade just went through on the schuylkill expressway. So, they had all the westbound lanes blocked for a time between this point at 30th street station on out toward the roosevelt boulevard and as the traffic was stopped, this vehicle broke down here in the westbound left lane. So police are now assisting but you can see it is taking out the left lane. Stay to the right as you head west on the schuylkill expressway. Then farther west another complication another broken down vehicle by 202 in king of prussia blocking one of the express lanes there but you can see the slower speeds at this point are on the eastbound side of the schuylkill as you come off 202 and do that infamous merge, other people coming away from pennsylvania turnpike it always clogs up in that neck of the wood. Can coming into pennsylvania from new jersey, problems on the scudder falls bridge this afternoon here along 95 southbound. Its an accident taking out the right lane right on the bridge so everyone is funneling into that left lane and things are slow going coming out of Mercer County as a result. And in Gloucester County still have a crash on 55 northbound side past deptford so speeds there are in the 20s. Also still have the shuttle buses running today on acs rail line. The njt ac rail line. Stick were one of the other lines instead and the cynwyd line suspended because of issues there. Well check it again, brian and sharrie, coming up in the next half hour. All right. Shaping up to be busy. Yes. Still ahead a strike involving local Union Workers has now been going on for more than a month and the white house is getting involved. Plus, vacation turned into a nightmare when a woman goes missing on a cruise ship. What seven crews are saying about what happened. And theyre the best and brightest students from high schools across the area. Today they came together in one place for a big honor for their work. Well take you to this years best of class ceremony next. He could install your ceiling fan. Ce said he couldnt. And that one time ron said another chili dog was a good idea. Yeah, it wasnt. So when ron said youd never afford a john deere tractor, you knew better. Now ron does too. The e series. Legendary john deere quality. Unexpected low price. E series compact tractors come with an industrybest, sixyear, nocost powertrain warranty. The u. S. Coast guard has suspended its search for a cruise ship passenger who apparently went overboard. The carnival liberty returned to port today without stephanie he gro berg. She boarded for a four day trip to mexico. Surveillance video shows her sitting on a deck railing and then falling into the gulf of mexico a day after leaving texas. The 33yearold was reported missing hours later. Word of her disappearance was extremely upsetting to the other passengers. Everybody on the ship, everybody was really, really sad about it. And people were crying. I know that we were crying in our room. It was just really devastating to hear. The coast guard scoured 4300 square miles before calling off the search. Federal investigators are in south texas working to determine what caused a charter bus to crash. Eight people were killed and 44 others were injured when the bus rolled over on saturday. Today the bus driver was released from the hospital and was interviewed by investigators. The ntsb says they plan on filing their report in the upcoming two weeks. The Obama Administration is stepping in now to help negotiate an end to the verizon strike. U. S. Labor secretary thomas perez says Union Leaders have agreed to return to the bargaining table tomorrow with verizon executives. Workers walked off the job more than a month ago back on april 13th. They have been working without a contract since august. The union turned down verizons last offer of a seven and a half percent raise and protection from layoffs. A look at todays closing numbers and we start with the dow up significantly today, 175 points. The nasdaq up 58 points. The s p 500 also up just about 20 points to start the work week. Tonight on action news at 11 00 a big boom in construction can sometimes leave a big mess behind. Investigative reporter went see saltzman found that not every contractor is playing by the rules. Heres a preview of her special report. Reporter junk garbage and debris cluttering our streets and where you live, a blight to our community. Action news investigates the hot spots where vacant lots are becoming Illegal Dumping grounds and youre paying to clean it up. It costs the streets departments 3 million a yearism from bricks to concrete and even bags filled with every day crash. Youre saying this isnt common. Not at all for us no. Reporter were tracking down those dumpers caught on camera. The neighbors complain this brick. Did you drop this brick off at this lot. Yes, guy drop some brick, too. In wheelbarrow he bring. Reporter dont miss my exclusive investigation Illegal Dumping grounds on action news tonight at 11 0 11 00. All right, talk about a bright future. When it comes to High School Seniors you might call them the cream of the crop or as we like to call them, the best of the class. These are the more than 200 valedictorians from all across the delaware valley, all gathered together here. They have soared to the heads of their classes all across the tristate area and today as we have for more than 30 years, 6abc has brought them together for a very special event. Todays best of the class took place at the Adventure Aquarium in camden, new jersey. They will spend they have been spending the day networking getting Career Coaching attending workshops all to begin their very promising futures and make no mistake, they know their paths may cross again in the future so theyre also checking out their competitors in a friendly way. You see your competition and you see like you can better competition and how its going to better yourself and others around you. Smart people here going to really Great Schools and you learn a lot from them and what theyve done and we talked about the extracurriculars we do and its really insightful to learn. Reporter our best of the Class Special will air right here on 6abcs saturday june 11th at 7 oclock and its hosted by none other than these best of our class here, Sharrie Williams and brian taff. They tell me these students are nothing short of brilliant so there you go, you got to tune in on june 11th to meet all of them, more than 200 valedictorians. Had to be some experience you guys. Yes, just to be in the room with all those smart young kids. It does make you reevaluate everything youve done with your life. These kids are incredible. We were proud to be there this morning. Its a great way to highlight who they are and their accomplishments. A great 6abc tradition for many years that continues once again. Alicia, thanks for the shoutout too. Time for the accuweather forecast. I can tell you from having been outside today taping that its awfully windy adam. Yes, and that wind has been around for a good 24 hours now but that wind protected us last night from seeing frost because it mixed up the atmosphere but that wind shaking the camera still just a little bit. Sky6 live overlooking center city. Weve got a lot of blue upstairs, a lot of sunshine in control and you know what, those temperatures have been bouncing all around here the last three days. Saturday it was 76 degrees. Yesterday our high only in the upper 50s. Today back up to around 65 degrees. The normal now is 74, so what we felt on saturday is a little more typical than the last 48 hours. In fact, days with High Temperatures in the 50s for philadelphia, weve had six so far this month going halfway through the month. We havent had that many days stuck in the 50s for highs since 1978 and temperatures right now are averaging close to 4 degrees below normal. Presently its 65 for allentown, reading, lancaster. Those areas started in the 30s this morning, so a pretty decent recovery. 64 in millville so pretty uniform everywhere even at the shore with those winds out of the north and west. In fact, still gusting right now to 30 miles an hour in philadelphia, 26 in millville, near 30 at the Atlantic City airport and 25 for reading as well as lancaster. As we look at satellite and radar, Crystal Clear sky right now but clouds are increasing to the south and west. This is ahead of a frontal boundary that will be pushing in from the south late tonight in the form of clouds and then eventually some rain tomorrow. So, lows tonight will be a good 10 or so degrees warmer than last night. 46 in the lehigh valley, 48 in wilmington. 51 philadelphia. 50 for dover and its due in part because of those clouds coming in acting like an atmospheric blanket its a dry start to your Tuesday Morning rush hour. The clouds are here so not dealing with sun glare but the showers will increase during the morning into the early afternoon hours at 1 30 as some of these showers pass by, not a lot of heavy rain but another cloudy, dreary, damp day. In fact as we look at that four day at 4 00 forecast tomorrows temperature 62 degrees as showers develop. Early showers on wednesday will give way to a brighter afternoon, 66 degrees and the end of the week is a winner. Sunny, nice both thursday and friday with temperatures right where they should be 72 to 74 degrees. But then major changes arrive here in time for the weekend. Well talk about just what were expecting with that sevenday in the next half hour. All right. We expect nothing less than major change. Adam thank you. Up next here today police need your help tracking down the women who stole hundreds of dollars in groceries from a local store. 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