Sophia haines. Confessing to suffocating the children with a bed sheet. This is the last person i would think would do Something Like this to my son, to her daughter. He last saw her last week, she was a doting mother who didnt drink, smoke or suffer from mental conditions. Why she would take the life of her children is baffling. Always how is the baby . How is the kids . I dont see how anybody could have seen this coming. They were so sweet. I cant believe it. Yesterday afternoon haines called her relative in florida, and said come home now, when the relative arrive, she saw haines crying and the two children unresponsive on the bed. Haines was taken into custody and arrested and gave police no explanation for her actions. I cannot wrap my mind around it. We are not naming the 3yearold daughter or the father of that child has not been notified. Police tell me he is in jamaica and they are having a difficult time reaching him. Chad thanks. New at 4 00, president obama officially endorsed Hillary Clinton for the race for president. And plans to cometain with her next week in wisconsin. They released a three minute long video of the president announcing his support. He touts her qualifications. I know how hard this job can be and i know how good hillary can be at it. And i dont know anyone so qualified to hold this office. This came hours after president obama hosts Bernie Sanders at the white house. He plans to stay in through the washington, d. C. Primary next week. Time for a check of the accuweather forecast. Comfortable out there and warm in the sun and a cool breeze, we head outside, cecily tynan is in for adam with the forecast. The a Beautiful Day and loads of sunshine and temperatures on the cool side and you can see by my hair its windy out here. Philadelphia 75 degrees and reading 73 and millville 77 and allentown 70 and cool in the poconos only 61 degrees. And we have got winds pretty strong right now out of the west northwest. Philadelphia clocking in at 24 Miles Per HourAtlantic City airport 29 and lancaster gusty with wind gusts now up to 33 Miles Per Hour. We have got a bit of a wind tunnel effect from low pressure from Northern New England tw the Tennessee Valley and in between the two we have strong winds and sinking air and not a cloud in the sky and that will remain the case overnight. Your evening planner is looking nice, take a light jacket if you head out 7 00, 72, 9 00, 68 degrees and 11 00, 63, and diminishing winds. If you miss the summertime warm and and humidity i have more of that coming up in the full accuweather forecast. Thank you. A deadly fire broke out in the Early Morning hours in the grays ferry section of philadelphia. And this afternoon officials are still working to determine the cause. Those flames started around 2 00 this morning at this two story home on taylor street. Near 50 firefighters and medics responded and found an elderly man trapped inside. That man a world war ii veteran in his 90s, was in the second floor bedroom. According to neighbors he was missing a leg and relied on a wheelchair and a walker and did not make it out. Later they removed his charred wheelchair from the home. Neighbors next door said they made it out just in time with their children. I heard noise like knocking on my door. Like banging next door and i opened my window and all the smoke was coming in and i just rushed everybody out of the house. They did make it out okay, philadelphia fire commissioner, adam teal, says despite the efforts of his stoppeders, the outcome was still tragic for the elderly resident whose name is not released. They are working on the cause and the deadly fire is under investigation this afternoon. Philadelphia City Council Continues to debate the sugary drink tax and today the new policy moved one step closer to a decisive vote. John rawlins is live at city hall with details where the money would go if it passed. Reporter hi sharrie the proposed tax is in the pipeline, council will consider it next week or likely to consider it next week. There are changes, but you are right we have a better idea how the money will be spent. What is on the table is no longer a 3 cent per ounce tax, its shorten to 1. 5 cent tax. The only thing you can get away with not paying tax on is water. And milk and water. Diet soda will be taxed an additional 2. 07 per 12 pack. People with the economic needs, will say the heck with it and chase them out of the city. Not to move out of the city but to shop out of the city. The surprise for many is that millions raised by the proposed tax will not go to the kids programs but the general funds, which is shrinking. I dont think we are against fortifying the fund balance but we were never told that that was part of this soda package. If passed the controversial soda package will raise 409 million over five years, how will it be spent . 200 million will go to prek that will produce 650 new positions and recs and libraries, 49 million, 81 million for other programs and the fund balance, 24 million and 40 additional park and rec workers will apparently cost taxpayers 14 million. Over the five year period half the money will go to prek and 9 to Community Rec centers. Our tax money at work. Yes john, this tax a big talker here and across the nation. Fedex is building a new facility that will be its largest hub in america and doing it here in pennsylvania. Fedex says she will build their new facility on 260 acres of land it bought from the lehigh north hamilton airport authority. Workers will break ground later this month. The hub is expected to open in 2018 and when it does it will process 75,000 packages an hour and means 600 new jobs in the first three years. Thursday afternoon, time to get a check on your ride home. Lets go live to matt pellman in the traffic center. Reporter i would like to ship out the delays this afternoon but they are with us unfortunately. This one is always with us, the roosevelt blvd e pension, coming off the schuylkill it got to an extra bad start and heavier than normal delays because of henry avenue being closed and its still closed this afternoon for the falls shut down in both directions because of the downed trees at queen lane at the reservoir, stick with the crowd at the heart of east falls. There on the schuylkill westbound you are treated to just 11 Miles Per Hour. That could be better, and in whitpain township, a crash closing down norristown road, stay on township line to get around that. And Chester County crawl is on this afternoon. On the 30 bypass, westbound from past 100 to this point at 340, an accident with fire crews on the scene taking out the right lane is the reason. On the garden state parkway, heading southbound extra emergency construction is taking out one of the two lanes there for about the next hour. Lets grab the ipad and do the commuter report on this thursday almost friday, an accident at 38 by kennelworth avenue. Matt, thank you. Still ahead. The latest on the investigation into a deadly terror attack in israel. And new developments in the controversial stanford rape case why the man at the center of the case may not spend time in jail as everybody thought. And family and friends gathered to say goodbye to muhammad ali, how people are trying to profit off the plan to honor the champ. And another edition of down at the shore. Melissa magee is down in avalon for Restaurant Week. She is working it. Reporter yes, im working it brian and sharrie, this week its all about food im in the kitchen with chef sorrano, we are cooking up something good for Restaurant Week, the delicious sampling of all the food you can eat and the all important accuweather forecast, chef get to it, we have table 27 and need Atlantic Salmon israel is taking a series of steps today responding to and retaliating for an attack that killed four people in tel aviv. Prime minister netanyahu has deployed hundreds of troops to the west bank and imposed sweeping restrictions on the movement. And it was carried out by two palestinians in a crowded tourist district. It was among the deadliest attacks in a nine month wave of violence. The stanford student sentenced to 6 months in jail is expected to be released. He is expected to be released in september after three months. His original punishment has prompted outrage for many that say the jail time is too short. Some members of stanfords senior class are planning a demonstration before sundays graduation ceremony. Today friends and fans joined in prayer to honor the life of a champion. To celebrate his muslim faith they held a traditional service. Thousands packed the Exposition Center as they chanted and prayed as his body was brought in. Tomorrow an inter Faith Memorial Service will be held one week after the 74yearold icon lost his fight to parkinsons disease. A sendoff that ali himself planned. Including World Leaders and celebrities and the fans. 16,000 ticket were made available and the public waited in line and claimed them all in minutes. And the ali family is upset to find out the tickets are being scalped online for hundreds of dollars. Scalping is illegal, we have a team working with these websites to shut that down. The procession tomorrow will head down muhammad ali boulevard and pass his childhood home and then end at the cemetery will he will be laid to rest. Pall bearers include will smith who played ali in the story of his life. Fewer americans applied for unemployment benefits. Weekly applications dropped by 4,000, despite a sluggish economy american employers are not laying people off. This is the 66th straight weeks that jobless claims are below 300,000. The longest streak since 1970. The numbers show that more americans have job security. The closing numbers on wall street, the numbers are down, dow off 20 points and the nasdaq falling 16 points and the s p 500 off about 3. 5 points on the day. Shaping up to be a windy day as we check the accuweather forecast. Cecily tynan is in for adam joseph with the details. Reporter storm free today i spent the day clearing out my yard from tree branches and sticks blown down from yesterday. We are seeing a lot of this. The platt memorial bridge, blue skies and sunshine and you can see how sky 6 hd is doing moving and shaking thanks to the gusty winds, wind gusts up to 30 Miles Per Hour at times. It feels a little bit like spring or fall. 75 in philadelphia and the normal high for this time of year is 81. Allentown 70, and Cape May Point 74 and wilmington currently 73 degrees. Dew points though, this is really unusual for this time of the year, we have a bone dry air mass, when you get dew points below 60 degrees its dry and we have dew points in some areas in the 30s. That is part of the reason why we cant get clouded bubbling up in the atmosphere in the afternoon. The dew point will stay on the low side again tomorrow. The dew point of 43 degrees, that will spike on saturday, and saturday becoming more humid a dew point of 64 before a cold front moves through and the dew points drop as we head towards monday and then begin to peak by the middle of next week. Ups and downs as far as humidity. Not a long stretch of humid air not a long stretch of dry air either though. Satellite 6 along with action radar this is showing the system controlling our weather and High Pressure is moving in and low pressure over canada though, creating the wind tunnel effect and that comes over us tonight and the winds are diminishing. 56 in philadelphia and allentown likely dropping down into the 40s and 47 degrees and trenton 52 and wilmington 54 degrees, a great night for sleeping and the get away forecast for your friday doesnt get much better than this. Down the shore enjoy it, 74 degrees and philadelphia 78 with loads of sunshine, breezy but not as windy as today. The poconos mostly sunny with a high of 72 degrees. Future tracker 6 is showing a sneak peek into the weekend and saturday we wake up with loads of sunshine and then an approaching cold front bringing us a broken line of strong to severe thunderstorms. The latest shows it moving towards philadelphia at 5 30, we have time to fine tune the forecast, the four day at 4 00, showing tomorrow enjoy it, get outside and there is plenty of sunshine and low humidity again and a high of 78 degrees. Saturday feeling more like summer, its warm and more humid with a high of 84 degrees, late day and evening gusty thunderstorms, behind that system on sunday its very warm, 89 degrees and windy again and monday temperatures drop down into the upper 70s. 79 degrees and plenty of sunshine and ill let you know if the cool down continues into next week coming up in the full accuweather forecast. All in all a nice looking weekend. Well do thank you cecily. Coming up at 4 30, a bear on the loose forces local schools to change their end of year plans. And up next, local police pull off a massive drug bust after two years undercover, the dozens of suspects involved and the person that police is looking for right now. And stepping up your smart phone photos in time for summer vacation. Well tell you about the best lens for your budget in whats the deal. Super poligrip is part of my life now. Police have arrested more than 30 people and are looking for more suspects after a huge drug bust in berks county. This is a result of after a two year investigation. Police were focused on one suspect but found an entire network. They raided 12 homes and found cocaine, heroin, marijuana cash and guns. They say 16 of the suspects were involved in stealing the drugs and 26 others were buyers. We are details on the suspects including their mugshots now at 6abc. Com. Philadelphia police are looking for the man that broke a window at the district attorneys office, they gave us Surveillance Video of the incidence at south penn square yesterday morning. He then ran off. Police want anyone with information about the crime to please call them. At least one person was injured in a crash in West Philadelphia this morning. Chopper 6 hd was over the scene at 58th street and florence avenue. The crash happened at 6 30 a. M. One when up on to the sidewalk. Crews had to cut one person out of their car and we are working on the names of those involved and how badly they are hurt. A french court convicted uber and two executives of deceptive practices but gave out light punishments. Its still lower than what Traditional Taxi Services were asking for. The court did not hand out any prison time. Its almost time for the annual gary papa run, and once again this year we are asking for your help. Jaime apody was on the show this morning. Including a 5k, 10 k and a walk. Its its 14th year of the walk that honors garys memory. If you would like to donate go to 6abc. Com. People that are looking for jobs got a chance to meet facetoface with potential employers. The action cam was at a job favor at the plaza in all fields including hospitality and service jobs. And up next here on Action News Police issue a warning as a bear is spotted wondering through Chester County communities. We are live with the details. Im nydia han forget about buying a fancy camera for your upcoming vacation, there are lens that go right on your smart phone. Coming up in whats the deal . Action news continues. Hello again, 4 30 and action news continues as a delaware teacher learns he will spend years behind bars for having a sexual relationship with a student. And philadelphia leaders are working to keep residents safer this time focusing on the citys fire escape. And a routine traffic stop takes an unexpected return for the better. A womans reaction when she realizes why she is being pulled over in big talkers today. And bear sightings have people on edge in Chester County tonight. Police are sounding the alarm and at least one area school is extra vith lengths. Gray hall is live in exton where the bear was recently spotted. Reporter hi brian, that bear has not been spotted today in this area, but those recent sightings are enough to put nerves on edge and make people gentleman cautious. People in exton county are on bear control. Scary. If the bear comes up to me what will i do . Quietly walk to a neighbors house and tell them to let me in. This bear was spotted at the oakland corporate center. They posted the video on their Facebook Page and warned people to be on alert. While it is still on the run they will use extra caution when going out. I like to run the roads in Chester County, i think ill take it inside or in a more populated area for now. We found this area empty, they are keeping all Outdoor Activities inside as a precaution. This sts is the first time for us. Its one thing to study a bear but another thing to see a bear walking by your school. Parents and staff are alerted about the bear sighting and she says its being used as a teachable moment. We have taken all we can to make the situation something bearable. There is speculation that the bear is the same one seen in this home video taken days ago by an action news viewer in phoenixville. Until the bear is trapped, people say they will stay on alert. My sister lives in new jersey and teases me that we live in penciltucky. She is having a ball with this information. The Game Commission says that its likely that that black bear moved on, they have set up traps and if you see a bear dont approach it, contact them and they will handle the rest. Live in exton, gay hall, channel 6 action news. Thank you. A former delaware teacher will spend the next seven years in prison for having a sexual relationship with a 17yearold. A judge handed down richard howls sentence this morning. Back in february he plead guilty to sexually abusing a female student. It happened when he was a teacher in camden, wyoming in court today howell apologized for his actions. Philadelphia police are looking for three men accused of an armed robbery, the trio confronted the victims outside of ontario and arbor streets. They forced the victim to lie on the ground and robbed them o