Into southern new jersey. And also into ocean county. We had one for the Lehigh Valley that has expired but into the evening please watch some of that extra water on the roadway and severe thunderstorm watch until 5 00 and not much in the way of Severe Weather and watch the ponding on the roadways and streaks and streams are running very high so avoid them. Tell the kids if they head out everything is exiting here within the next hour or two. Well talk about a dreary friday and a nicer weekend ahead. Can you get the latest Severe Weather updates with the 6 abc app. With the hourly and sevenday forecasts just a tap away and use stormtracker 6 live double scan radar to keep an eye on all storms. The 6 abc app a Free Download. The parent as accused of gifting their Young Children to a bucks county man entered pleas today. Lee kaplan saw the girls as his wives and is accused of sexually assaulting them. John rawlins has more on this case. Reporter this was during a pretrial hearing. A hearing on a number of pretrial motions from suppressing dna evidence and trying to get a change of venue when two of the codefendants the parents changed their pleas, the mom pleaded guilty to endangering the welfare of her children. The facts that were illicited was that she allowed her children to remain in a household run by lee kaplan where it was obvious he was having sexual relationships with them. In a surprise move her husband pleaded no contest. They are the examish couple that lived in this home and were accused of gifting their 14yearold daughter to a bucks county man named, lee kaplan and then lee fathered a child with the underage girl. And they lived with kaplan in his feasterville home. Hes Attorney Says that kaplan was able to convince the couple he spoke with divine authority. He convinced the parents it was not just right, but godly to give him their children in any manner that he wished. To use any way he wished. Yes, i have never heard of manipulation on that scale before. He says that civila will testify to the truth of what happened if she is called in the kaplan trial. The trial is due to begin on may 30th. John rawlins, channel 6 action news. Okay, thank you. Well, a north Philadelphia Community is pleading for answers, following mondays deadly gun battle on west styles street. Three men died in a hail of gun fire in broad daylight and the shooters are still on the loose. Today concerned residents and leaders and police gathered to call on anyone that knows anything to come forward. Gray hall will have more from the Community Meeting coming up at 4 30. We have developing news this afternoon and the strong signal from the white house that a military strike against syria could be coming. Secretary of state, Rex Tillerson made a brief statement, that there is no doubt that syrian president assad was behind the chemical attack that killed scores of innocent people women and children among them. And they are considering all options. Its a serious matter and requires a serious response. President trump addressed the situation aboard air force one only that something should happen. A stark contrast to the trump mainsations days ago saying that the Syrian People should decide assads fate in the the united states. And President Trump is kicking off a two day summit in south florida where he meets with the chinese president. The two leaders are holding talks at trumps maralago resort. They arrived separately this afternoon. A talk of south korea and trade on the menu and trump bashed china accusing the chinese of unfair trade practices and President Trump tweet that the meeting would be a difficult one. Meanwhile, the Top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee is anounced he would step aside in the probe against russia meddling in the election. He called the allegations false and politically cly motivated. Well, a major homecoming celebration for philadelphias own dawn staly, she is head coach of the South Carolina basketball team. They gathered to sell bait her teams first ever ncaa championship. Reporter hi sharrie thank is where it all started. 30 years after Winning Public league championship, dawn staley returns to dobbins where it all started. She gets a heros homecoming after winning her latest championship. The National Championship as head coach of South Carolina. With the final four net wrapped around her neck, what she calls a netless, dobbins and the city of philadelphia honored 1988 grad dawn staley, days after winning her first National Championship for South Carolina. The people of north philly and the people that support you, they paint the picture. And this is a beautiful picture to come back and share in the special moment. Staley is showered with love and gifts, eagles receiver Alshon Jeffrey gives her custom jerseys. And also on hand former temple coach johnny and mayor jim kenney. The number of great players that this school has turned out, and with dawn, coach staley, winning a National Championship is awesome. She did more for Womens Basketball that anyone i can think of. For someone to be successful it take a lot of hands and you reflect and your past is right there before you. So whats next for dawn staley who has done it all. As you can see from the mural here at dobbins, she says she is greedy and wants to win another National Championship. Th the three time olympic Gold Medalist will coach the womens olympic team in 2020 and add a few more things to her mural here at dobbins. Jeff skversky, channel 6 action news. They better keep the paint handy, she has a lot more honors to come. All right jeff thank you. Lets get a check of the action news traffic report, lets go live to matt pellman. If you are greedy for traffic troubles, we are giving abundantly. A whole potpourri of problems, one is a jackknifed truck, its blocking the ramp from the blew route to go east on the schuylkill expressway and the trucks are ahead and cleanup crews are on the scene. And it doesnt look like the ramp will be open soon. If this is normally your ramp go to the blue ridge pike or villanova. And no shortage of slow speed as long the schuylkill. And a crash past the girard point bridge. And this morning we had five separate accidents here on the vine street expressway westbound approaching the schuylkill. This afternoon no accidents here on the vine but plenty of volume and plenty of wet conditions. And plenty of issues in new jersey, a crash on 295 southbound past the black horse pike and the crash on the southbound turnpike in mount laurel exit 4, and flooding past exit 3 on the black horse pike taking out a lane. And Gloucester County more water and flooding, an overturned tractor trailer approaching exit 12, single digit speeds there. Lets go the commuter report, in Lehigh Valley, a wreck at 209 southbound side heading to 708 just 6 Miles Per Hour toward that scene. Well check it again if the next half hour. Thank you. Still ahead on action news at 4 00, the latest from capitol hill where republican senators invoked the Nuclear Option as they tried to get neil gorsuch on the Supreme Court. And mayor kenney and other leaders are laying out a list of demands or threatening legal action. And a look at closing numbers from wall street Award Winning interface. Award winning design. Award winning engine. The volvo xc90. The most awarded luxury suv of the century. The volvo xc90. 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Don rickles was best known for bringing insult comedy into the mainstream and making everyone laugh. His publicist says he suffered kidney failure and died at his home. He was a frequent guest on jimmy kimmel live. And he headlined casinos in las vegas and Atlantic City. A legend of his business was 90 years old. In washington today, President Trumps Supreme Court nominee will in fact face a confirmation vote tomorrow. Senate republicans invoked the Nuclear Option rewriting the chamber rules to allow neil gorsuch to ascend to the Supreme Court. They voted 5545 to block judge gorsuch to move forward and he would have needed 60 votes and they republicans voted to eliminate the 60 vote threshold allowing them to proceed with a simple majority. They fear the longterm implications of this, and call their opposition a double standard. Im sure we will continue to debate what got us here. I know that in 20 or 30 or 40 years well sadly point to today as a turning point in the history of the senate and the Supreme Court. There cannot be two sets of standards. One for the nominees of democratic president s and another for the nominee of republican president s. What senator mcconnell is referring to is a similar situation in 2013 where the Nuclear Option was used for president obama nominees and low herb judish nominees. The threshold was lowering but unlike today the minimum number for Supreme Court nominees went unchanged. The vote for gorsuch comes tomorrow. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is naming changes because of two new Jersey Transit accidents in to weeks. Both happened at penn station on amtraks northeast corridor and now the governor has directed nj transit to stop the payment its normally makes to amtrak to use the rail line, he wants the funds withheld until the investigators can verify that the northeast corridor is in good repair. They want people to use the key card tickets to get to the stadium faster and to load a minimum of 10 on their accounts. Those that do so today will get a phillies rally towel or a large decal. A large fan decal. The septa card is reloadable and takes the place of tokens. And Bucks County CommunityCollege Hosted their career fair. To interview employees and a variety of businesses were on hand and they were looking to fill immediate openings. A School Chapel underwent years of restoration and officially dedicated this morning. Crucifix and restored portrait was on hand at Girls High School in center city. A number of alums and Community Members donated money and a gift from mary macke cane helped to complete this beautiful revitalization. Its a wet messy day. That did not make it better. Adam joseph says more to go and then good stuff after that adam. The sun is starting to break back out in southern areas, and you see that edge where you have the rain, to where you have clouds and sunshine is now working through philadelphia and lancaster and north of vineland and the heaviest stuff is moving north and east and the worst of the storms are passing by most of our area. We have heavy hitters here north of surf city across the garden state parkway as you head north into ocean county and Monmouth County and belmar, a lot of lightning there and Medford Lakes and the new jersey turnpike a lot of rainfall there. And then down into camden Gloucester County. But philadelphia are about to see the last of the rain drops fall and the same in the northwestern suburbs and you see the leading edge of drier air and puncturing into wilmington. And well flip the double scan live radar and show you how much rain has fallen so far today. There was a strike from elmer and woodbury and center city and north of jenkintown an inch and a half to two plus inches of rain during the day today. Some true gully washers and if you were driving around in it, you know at times you had to really slow down or even pull over. 55 degrees in millville. And 56 in philadelphia and 55 in wilmington. These are the warmest temperatures so far today as low pressure is down to the south trying to pull in the warmer air but a chilly rain to the north and west only in the 40s for the Lehigh Valley. And first batch of rain was early in the morning and then the heavy batch came in late morning into the afternoon and you see the drying to the south and a little bit of lingering showers to washington. Could be a scattered shower in the overnights tonight and mainly mostly cloudy and beginning the drying out process and winds kickle up 10 to 20 Miles Per Hour. And temperatures in the 40s overnight tonight. And drying across the area and breaks in the clouds and could be a lingering shower in southern areas and off to the north and but as we get into friday morning the clouds quickly come back in after sunset a few spitting showers to the north and west and even snowflakes north of the Lehigh Valley tunnel during the day tomorrow for the first pitch of the home opener, a dreary afternoon cloudy and cold and windy with scattered clouds around and look at the wins here tomorrow. They are out of the westsouthwestly direction sustained in the 20s throughout the afternoon and if you are sitting at the ballpark expect gusts to 40 Miles Per Hour. And again bring some rain gear as well. As we look at the four day at 4 00, temperatures in the 40s tomorrow and windchills only in the 30s. And then on saturday. This is the Silver Lining here the weekend looks great sunny and 58 degrees and still a bit breezy on saturday for the Philadelphia Union and then we lose the wind on sunday nice and mild and soaring 10 degrees on sunday and what the heck, lets add another 10 degrees on monday much warmer with sun and a few clouds, 78 degrees, patientsover begins at sun down and you want it warmer than that. 88 are you pressing your luck. We are gaining 10 degrees every hour in the four day. And i can do better for you in the next half hour. Really . Really. Next on action news a new effort to clean up a section of philadelphias known to be frequented by heroin addicts. The details about the orders and threats of legal action. And Convenience Store outrage caught on camera, like a flip of a switch a customer loses his cool over a bag of m ms. The rational on this. And what sent a Police Officer running and well tell you it was not someone running way knife or gun. Have you to see the video coming up. Philadelphia leaders are taking new action to clean up a section of kensington. Known as the camp for heroin addicted. This stretch of gurney street below the csx train tracks is covered with a half million hypodermic needles and all kinds of trash and they notified the owner, conrail, and told to fix broken fences to keep addicted out and remove garbage. I cannot justify using city dollars to clean private property. Well hold them to it. Conrail has 30 days to respond to the citations and if the company refuses to do so, the city will take legal action and conrail says it remains committed to addressing philadelphias opioid crisis. Students and faculty at Temple University practices for emergency situations, everybody sheltered in place for the hazmat drill today when the siren sounded. The director of emergency management, sara powell says that most people are used to evacuation drills but people dont know what to do when staying inside is the safest option. Two row homes were damage Fire Department an overfight fire that broke out the winfield section of philadelphia. Crews were called to diamond street as flames engulfed the first and second floors of a house and the fire spread to a neighboring unit. Everyone inside is able to get out safely. No word on what caused the fire. A local pastor that served the community for decades, reverend dr. William shaw was at Philadelphia Chamber as long with his wife and congregation, he led the White Rock Baptist Church for 60 years and to celebrate that 53rd street between chestnut and walnut street is named after him. There is more