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WPVI Action News At 4PM March 6, 2017

Surgery. I went up and i was shivering until one of the fire ladies gave me this blanket. I was standing there like this. Reporter he says he had no time to grab anything except his sweatshirt e expects his belongings inside are burned. I lost my car keys, my wallet inside the historic. Reporter if its all in there its probably burned. Yeah probably. Now i have no way of getting home. Fire Officials Say this was a four alarm fire. And right now those who live around here are asked to stay inside. If youre here, youre fine. Just stay in the house, close the windows and eventually this will all go away. You can see out here the. Reporter another live look out here. Again the goal right now is to cool down any hot spots. Now, this is an aquatic center. There are pools here. That means chemicals and chemicals may have been burning but the fire commissioner says a hazmat crew has been sent in. Any threat has been eliminated. Reporting live in northeast philadelphia bob brooks channel6 action news. Monica. Thank you bob. 6abc. Com has coverage of the fire at the aquatic fitness center. You can see photo from the scene videos from chopper6 is that the action cam. President trump signed a new travel banda revised version of that controversial order that was struck down by a federal court. The new order sr narrower in scope and temporarily bars any new visas for citizens of six muslim majority countries. Iraq is no longer on that list. The president signed the order behind closed doors today. It was then publically rolled out by his National Security team. It is the president s solemn duty to protect the american people. And with this order President Trump is exercising his rightful authority to keep our people safe. Now, the new order aims to address the legal issues sparked by his original ban which set off protests across the country. White house officials though say even with the changes the goal of the original order has not changed. That has critics concerned. They say the new order amounts to a dangerous muslim ban but supporters say its a reasonable effort to ensure that our borders are secure. Action News Reporter john rawlins sampled reaction today. Reporter critics who helped organize airport protests like this one against the first travel ban, say this relaunched version might differ in some ways, six not seven nations, no special exceptions for minority religions a 10 day period before it takes but overall the instent to discriminate against muslims. Reinhold again is an attorney. The language has changed. They took out some more overt discriminatory language in the ban but the intent is still the same in my opinion. Reporter the intent. The intent is to preclude muslims from coming into the country. Reporter during the rollout today officials main taint goal of the measure to beef up the vetting from six countries, three of which are state sponsors of terrorism, three whose sovereignty has been compromised by terrorists. To our allies and partners around the world, please understand this order sr part of our ongoing efforts to eliminate vulnerabilities that radical islamist terrorists can and will exploit for destructive ends. Critics contend a widespread blanket ban is not an effective way to try to stop and locate anyone who wants to harm our homeland. Theres ways to identify and address risks and theres no reason not to do that. That doesnt involve banning an entire category of people. Reporter john rawlins channel6 action news. Time right now for a check of the accuweather forecast. Meteorologist adam Joseph Standing by live outside with the details. We have been digging out of that that winter kneeling we had over the weekend. Some. Feeling that we had over the weekend. Temperatures back above. No this past weekend was the coldest in near two months in philadelphia and across the delaware and Lehigh Valleys. On saturday it was just 36 degrees with wind chills in the teens and 20s and on sunday, yesterday, just 38 degrees for a high. Again, the last time we were that cold for daytime highs january 7th and 8th but you can see that southerly wind is starting to take back over. Were 50 degrees in philadelphia, 53 pittsburgh, 50 washington charleston West Virginia and richmond back into the lower 60s. Storm tracker6 live double scan you can see showers working into the western part of pennsylvania and also into West Virginia and the ohio valley. This is all along the warm front that will be pushing through here late tonight, early tomorrow morning, increasing the clouds and the chance for a few spotty showers. So, looking in that accuweather forecast well talk about some of that rain pushing in. Well time it on future tracker for you. Two days in the 60s after the rain passes and then winter will make a harsh return by the end of the week. Well talk about all of that and maybe even the chance for some more snow, monica, in that full accuweather forecast in just a little bit. All right. Thank you so much. A 27yearold man is facing a long list of traffic and drug charges after he crashed his car into a house in upper darby. Chopper6 overhead as Police Responded to the 1200 block of old lane street. A haverford township officer says he saw the driver pull into traffic without stopping. That officer started following the man but the suspect lost control and crashed before the officer could even turn on his lights and siren to pull him over. The driver then ran from the scene. Police quickly caught up with him and arrested him. The search is still on this afternoon for the person who opened fire on two teenaged brothers in southwest philadelphia. Police say they were sitting in a car yesterday afternoon in broad daylight when someone fired a barrage of bullets. One of the brothers did not survive. Fake members have identified the victims as 16yearold zibrii and 19yearold sibrii davis. Police say it happened around 2 30 yesterday afternoon on the 8100 block of lions avenue. They say the gunman who was driving a dark vehicle opened fire on the white Hyundai Sonata with the brothers still inside. Sibrii was hit several times in the torso and was pronounced dead at the hospital a short time later. A bullet struck his brother, zibrii on the side of his face. He remains in Critical Condition at the Childrens Hospital of philadelphia. Investigators believe the brothers drove off to avoid the gunfire but then struck a pole instead. Sources tell action news that the shooter did have a brief conversation with the siblings before firing his weapon. Investigators are now working this case. They are talking to neighbors scanning Surveillance Video and trying to hunt down just whoever is responsible for this. One brother, dead this afternoon, the other critically injured. Monica. All right, thank you. Convicted sex offender Jerry Sandusky is now in a medium security prison in western pennsylvania. The former penn state assistant football coach was moved from a maximum security facility. Hes now at State Correctional Institution somerset, thats 70 miles southeast pittsburgh. A corrections spokeswoman says up moves are not uncommon. Sandusky is serving 30 to 60 years for his 2012 conviction for molesting several boys. Hundreds had of local nurses and technicians were off the job for a second day today. Its part of a two day planned strike at Delaware County Memorial Hospital in drexel hill. Action news was there this morning as workers were once again on the picket line. Theyre protesting what they say are unfair labor practices and stalled bargaining. Officials with the owner, Prospect Medical holdings say staffing sat or above the national average. Well have much more on this stand just in a live report at 4 30 today. Time for a check of the action news traffic report on a monday. Hope things are off to a good start. Matt pelman standing by in the action News Traffic Center with a first look. Hey, matt. Hey, guys. Traffic is at above average perhaps in some spots already this afternoon. Other spots its just a few dustups that we have going on like near morrisville bucks county. This is the ramp from pennsylvania avenue to go south on the super highway, route one and were going to get a real closeup shot of this Police Officer out here blocking off the southbound onramp to route one. Thats because theres an accident on one itself. I think well see that in just a second, yeah, taking out the right lane here so this is just after you come off the trentonmorrisville bridge into pennsylvania which a lot of people are doing these days because of the continued closure of the pennsylvanianew jersey turnpike connector bridge. Association already extra busy here. Now theres a crash southbound one at pennsylvania avenue in morrisville. 95 scudder falls bridge maybe your best bet this afternoon. In hatboro an accidentology moreland avenue at butternut drive. One in Upper Providence by springford Area High School along louis road at spring street. No big issues so far along 422 but on the other area highways like 95 and the schuylkill speeds are starting to slow. Lets check this red zone. V56 eastbound starting to bang past the schuylkill out to 95 and we started the afternoon with a bad crash in New Castle County along highway one northbound. Luckily that is cleared out of the way. Well check it again brian and monica in the next half hour. Thank you. Still ahead on action news today the Supreme Court side steps a decision on transgender bathrooms. Well explain the case and the impact this may have on others. Plus, a man fired for drinking on the job allegedly tries to kill his boss and the whole encounter is caught on camera. See what saved the supervisors life coming up. The Supreme Court is handing a transgender teens case back to a lower Court Without reaching a decision. The decision voids the Appeals Courts original ruling that sided with virginia student gavin grimm. The 17yearold was born female and identifies as male. He was denied access to the boys bathroom and was fighting his schools policy. Last mol, the Trump Administration withdrew a policy enacted under the Obama Administration which allowed students to use the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity, not with their birth certificate. Well, now the Appeals Court has to decide whether federal law treats gender identity discrimination the same as sex discrimination. The case had been scheduled for argument in the Supreme Court later this month but now it heads back to a lower not cot in virginia. Monica. Police in florida arrested man they say tried to kill his boss after he got fired for drinking on the job. Surveillance cameras captured the entire attack. Police say osorio reyes first tried to stab his boss but he fought him off with a rock. Reyes ran mendez over in his truck. Amazingly a fences saved him and then reyes made one last attempt. To run him over again a second time as hes dragging the complete fence behind his pickup truck. How is the victim. Hes fine. He didnt even call the police. After all that, mendez the boss did not press charges. Reyes is in jail on charges of attempted murder. New homeowners in texas made an unwelcome discovery, human remains in an attic wall when they moved saturday. Police believe the remains may be that of the homes former owner hoop went missing at least two years ago. Right now investigators dont know if the person was killed or tripped and fell into that space. Now a look at the closing numbers on wall street. Down this monday afternoon the dow falling 51 points and change back below 21,000t the nasdaq off 21 and half points, s p 500 falling as well just about eight points on the day. General motors is laying off 1100 workers in michigan and taking the jobs elsewhere. Gm says the cuts are coming to the plant in lance sing because its moving the productions of the gmc acadia suv to tennessee. Now if the Lansing Plant will stay opened working and two other suvs. Workers last day on the job will be mid may. Meanwhile gm is adding 800 jobs to that tennessee plant. The first ever house built with a 3d printer. A Russian Company says its the only one to accomplish a feat like this. It took only 24 hours to pour the concrete for that 1100 square foot home. The Company Calls itself the first to develop a huge mobile printer used for construction. It wants to change the way people think about construction and help people in underprivileged areas. Pretty incredible stuff. Very innovative. Time. For a check of that accuweather forecast. Lets do it. Adam Joseph Standing by with what were looking at this week and some snow adam. Possibly by the end of the week and now in the foreseeable future between now and thursday were talking about above normal temperatures once again. Taking a live look at Spring Mountain on sky6 right now you can see the snow machine gun right here, its actually turning the turbines in there not making any snow, way too warm but they did crank out a bunch of manmade snow as you can see over the weekend covering the slopes up once again. But right now were 50 in philadelphia, 50 allentown. That warmer air is beginning to push back in p lower 40s along the shore so temperatures should be in the upper 40s this time of year so pretty much sitting exactly where we should be. A lot of sun early on in the dane you saw those high clouds coming in and at times starting to take over the sky especially to the north and west of philadelphia. And you go towards State College and all points to the west. That is where some light showers are beginning to break out in the form of a warm front. Were not tracking any heavy rain to come in throughout the day on tuesday but we are tracking a little bit of wet weather. So, for tonight, some showers develop but very late tonight. Closer to midnight up in the Lehigh Valley and not in southern areas until early tomorrow morning. But its a warmer night overall compared to the last few nights. 35 allentown, 39 in wilmington, 40 philadelphia and the same thing for dover. As we look at future tracker6 at 1 oclock in the morning, a few showers reading allentown, maybe the higher terrain north of the lehigh tunnel you mix in a flake or two with this but overall it is cloudy elsewhere and as we go into the Early Morning hours of tuesday to start off the workday, the school day, some wet roads north and west of philadelphia, closer to the front drier as you can see to the south and east and then as we get into the afternoon hours tomorrow southern areas may not on see some of these showers by the afternoon. You may try to get a break of sun but the clouds will really dominate here but the showers are long gone so its really first thing tomorrow morning and as we look at the day planner southsouthwesterly winds eight to 16 miles an hour. After that morning round of showers especially in pennsylvania, those temperatures go well into the lower 60s here tomorrow afternoon despite the lack of sunshine and then late in the day and late in the evening hours there could be a second line coming in with some heavier downpours with an actual cold front. So as we look at that four day at 4 00 forecast, tomorrow 63 degrees. Morning showers and then breezy and a lot of clouds. Maybe a glimmer of sun here and there. Then on wednesday, there could be an overnight thunderstorm tuesday night, wednesday. Wednesday itself turning sunny, windy, warm, 63. Looks great thursday, a touch cooler at 54 degrees then colder air floods back in on friday. We could have some wet snow mixing with rain early on friday morning. Models kind of all over the place as to who sees it, how much. But as you can see temperatures at 41 and then another bitter cold weekend on tap. Well show you that seven day in the next half hour which also could feature more snow as well. All right. Getting a little in at the end here. Im telling you, march is just unpredictable. That too. Some of the areas top young chefs getting a chance to learn from their colleagues. Rising stars came together for the philly chef conference. The two day event was hosted by Drexel Universitys Center for hospitality and sport management. Industry pros had a chance to discuss ideas techniques and keep issues that they are facing. Teams of cancer experts are leading a renewed fight against colon cancer in our area tonight. Experts from 20 organization including doctors and the politicians came to Md Anderson Cancer Center today in camden. They are pledging support for the national 80 percent Screening Campaign to get eight out of 10 adults screened by next year. That effort, by the way, could save 200,000 lives. An ambitious but important effort. Nfl fans get ready. Well explain how you can get an inside look at the draft as they get ready to set up camp in philadelphia. Right here. A Birthday Celebration for the ages. Action news in salem county as Friends Family and this birthday girl celebrate her 105th. Wow. And does this look like your play room . Or maybe your living room if youre like us. Coming up in whats the deal, well break down the ways you can tackle Spring Cleaning with kids. Afoot and lighthearted i take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. The east and the west are mine. The north and the south are mine. All seems beauti

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