Pond in new yorks central park. Lets first up hear about your accuweather. Youre going to like whats coming at the end of the week and also your traffic. Go, to david and karen. Good morning. A little bit colder out there this morning but even today isnt bad. Tam is right, though, it gets a lot better as we go into tomorrow and then thursday and friday. Sunshine possible early. Clouds are going to begin to overtake us from the west and i think overall we are going for a partly sunny kind of sky cover with more clouds later in the day than what youll see early and it is colder. We talked about this yesterday. 34 degrees right now in philadelphia. And below freezing in allentown and reading. 32 the freezing mark on the nose in trenton. 31 in millville. 36 in wilmington and 40 degrees in cape may. Not a lot of wind out there. Everybody experiencing single digit winds and we expect today to be not all that breezy. As we roll through the day, 34 degrees still cold by 7 oclock. And then 46 and chilly by noon. Jackets still required today. By 3 oclock, a high of 53, a little cooler than yesterday. Not much wind and then partly sunny and 50 degrees by 5 oclock. Maybe a few more clouds digging in by 5 oclock. By 7 oclock, mostly cloudy and 47. Could be a little spotty sprinkle overnight but i dont think most of you are growing to have to worry about. The warm air is coming back karen. More on that coming up in just a couple minutes from accuweather. All right, dave. Lets hit the roads get this day started. Were looking outside live on the schuylkill expressway here at city avenue and the construction has cleared. No delays. Overhead lights out once again so watch for a dark ride in parts on the schuylkill expressway. Vine street expressway and we could see westbound is reopened. Eastbound it looks like theyve reopened these lanes as well. The construction was shutting it down a little bit ago but the ramps and lanes in the process of getting back opened. Lets look at the maps. Blue route schuylkill i95 pretty good shape. We have an accident though involving a deer in cheltenham so be careful for crews on the scene on brookside road right at manor road and a water main break happening in newark delaware. It happened last night but still restricting traffic on route 72 southbound near bellevue road. So if youre in this area stick to 896 as your alternate. One more live look. Area bridges in great shape. Westbound traffic just a few cars up and about headed towards the city and moving just fine, matt. Thank you, karen. Breaking news, it was a lie. Police had been searching for a missing fouryearold since last night. Now they tell usman has admitted to making up an elaborate story about a child kidnapping and a carjacking. Action News ReporterAnnie Mccormick is live at northwest detectives where, annie, the details just didnt add up. Reporter and matt, thats right, they say that the man made the entire story up. They think possibly Mental Health issues could be into play but thats all something theyre going to investigate. However that man could face charges now. This is video from the scene. The police say the initial reports of the incident came in around 10 15 last night along the 4600 block of sydenham street in logan. A pizza delivery man said he was carjacked by two armed men. 20 minutes later police found the car at north 16th and saint paul street in tioganicetown. Officers from the 35th and 39th set up a grid search looking for a child the delivery man claimed was in the car. Police put up their chopper and officers searched with k9s but the mans story kept changing and investigators knew something right in the end there is no child missing and in fact they do not believe any crime happened at all. Police say theyre still investigating because the man could face charges possibly a charge of making a false police report. However, investigators will gather up their investigation and that will be decided by the district attorneys officers. For now reporting live outside of northwest detectives, Annie Mccormick channel6 action news. Okay, annie, thank you for that. It is 5 04 and for app second time in recent days, a woman has been kidnapped and robbed in northern delaware and there are concerns that the same assemblyman behind mane attacks. It happened at the arundel apartments. She was sexually assaulted inside her apartment and driven to atms to get money. They heard the same details from a woman in a separate case at the top of the hill naps wilmington on february 13th. If you have information youre asked to contact New Castle County police. Two teens are charged in the stabbing deaths of two disabled brothers. According to investigators 18yearold joshua proper and 19yearold juan cristomunoz broke into the lancaster home sunday morning. The two reportedly demanded money from the victims before stabbing them multiple times killing one of them with a large sword. Both victims were in their 60s. Their caretaker was able to escape and call for help. Police arrested the suspects inside the home and found several knives in their possession. New this morning ta multi alarm blaze injured a firefighter and left two families homeless in allentown. Crews were called to the home on the 800 block of north maxwell drive at 10 oclock last night. A neighboring home was also damaged by smoke. Officials say the firefighters injuries are minor. No word on a cause. President trump is scheduled is to visit the africanamerican history museum. President trump introduced general h. R. Mcmaster yesterday. Mcmaster is from the philadelphia area and is a well known and highly respected military strategist serving as an commander in both iraq wars. He replaces Lieutenant GeneralMichael Flynn who was fired last week. President trump is also expected to meet with Vice President mike pence today. Pence was in brussels yesterday and smoke at nato headquarters. Reassured the European Union of president trumps commitment to the nato military alliance. European leaders are worried because of president trumps critical statements on nato during the campaign. Happening today, get your resume ready. Theres a massive job fair in king of prussia. The event will run from 11 oclock this morning until 2 oclock this afternoon at the Crown Plaza Hotel valley forge. Organization say there is a broad range of employers and some of them are looking to hire on the spot. The career fair is free for job seekers and weve posted a registration link on 6abc. Com. So, david, if you take away later in the week, today would be pretty nice. Yeah, absolutely. Wed be happy with today and we should be. Well be happier with whats coming next. Storm tracker6 live double scan shows us that we are dry. Taking a look outside we have clear skies over the battleship new jersey, some clouds rolling in from the west and will eventually transition to more of a sun and clouds mix but tranquil out there right now, not much wind. The main change that we have this morning versus yesterday morning is that it is colder and we were expecting this. Were down to 34 degrees for example, in philadelphia. 36 in wilmington, 31 degrees below the freezing mark in allentown and 29 in reading. Remember yesterday we had numbers in the 40s and we really did zoom up by noon we were already in the low 50s. Got to a high of 57. Wont be quite that mild today. Theres the cloud cover out to the west. I know it looks kind of daunting but there actually are some holes in the clouds and i think overall were looking at a clouds and sun mix. Maybe even squeezing in some bright sunshine earl before those clouds come in. In the lehigh valley, partly sunny and cool, 50 degrees is your high, a little cooler than yesterday but thats still above average and all Things Considered not a bad day. Especially when you realize that theres not much wind out there adding to the chilly feel. Not much wind at the shore today, partly sunny, 50 degrees is the high. And then in philadelphia winds only running about six to 12 miles per hour. Thats not bad. Partly sunny overall with clouds increasing as the day goes on. Cool but pretty nice with a high of 53 degrees, still well above the average high which is in the mid 40s this time of year. Mostly cloudy overnight then. There is the chance of a spotty shower. I dont think most of you are going to have to worry about that and if you see it, it should be light and quick. 42 is the overnight low so when you get up tomorrow morning it wont be as cold as it is right now across the region. And then the warm air comes back. Tomorrow will be into the 60s and after that thursday, friday maybe even saturday weve got a frontal boundary off to the west thats going to be slowly pushing in our direction and thats going to give that flow of air coming up the coast a lot of time to just keep pumping warmer air in and on thursday and friday we think both days were probably getting into the 70s both days could feature record highs in some neighborhoods, for example, on thursday, 75 in philadelphia is the record, all of these other areas in the low to mid 70s and all of these records could be challenged on thursday and some more falling on friday. Wow. Your exclusive accuweather 7day, 53 today, partly sunny overall with clouds getting thicker. Clouds to sun on wednesday, 63, not bad and then 74 on on thursday, near record high there and very warm again on friday with a high of 75 and that would break the old record of 74. Well be in record territory both days. On saturday a high up to 69 although there will be the chance of a shower or thunderstorm around steadiest rain probably in the afternoon. Then on sunday breezy and cooler back down to 50 degrees and 48 on monday. Okay, thank you, david. Yeah. It is 5 10 and a Police Department comes to the rescue when an Elementary School student has a math problem. And passersby help pull several teens from icy water in new yorks central park. Bad behavior helped make the ice give way. And a couple in connecticut says theyre being victimized a second time. Find out why they are being fined even though somebody else wrote something hateful on their home. Were looking live right now on the ramp from the schuylkill to the vine. You can see construction has cleared, all lanes opened looking good. Well take you to morrisville bucks county check the roads there coming up. Welcome back. Youre taking a live look here down the shore into atlantic city. You know what, get out the shorts and the sunglasses. By the end of the week, you may want to be out on the boardwalk. All right. So, karen, people are rushing back onto the roads cause today is the day after the holiday, right . Yeah, so people coming back to work right now and weve got a problem just coming in, just happened a second ago. Not seeing emergency workers on the scene yet. This is the ramp from the blue route northbound to the schuylkill remembered and were watching here in West Conshohocken we have an accident involving an overturned truck thats out there partially blocking the ramp so just happened a minute ago, an overturned truck on the ramp from the blue route northbound to the schuylkill westbound so watch for that one just coming in to us right now. Also here brookside road at manor road. Weve got an accident here in cheltenhving a deer and over in newark its a water main break from last night thats still causing some restrictions right now on route 72 that southbound here in delaware near bellevue road. So stick to 896 as your alternate. If youre in new jersey in East Greenwich township construction here on the turnpike southbound approaching exit two blocking the right lane until 6 oclock so that will be going on a little longer. And over here on the waze app i found love ssw1 in haverford avenue i didnt find love but love found a pothole here and haverford avenue i found my love a long time ago but at any rate watch for that pothole on haverford avenue. 34 degrees right now in philadelphia, 31 in allentown, 31 in millville, so its a chilly start but a nice finish, a high of 53 keeping with those temperatures above average under partly sunny skies. Matt. Karen, if you truly love that pothole you got to set it free. [laughter] strangers jumped into an icy fond new yorks central park saving seven teens a witness says the group of boys went onto the ice last night started taking pictures and began jumping on the ice. Two people nearby saw the teens fall in. They were able to pull each of them from the water just before First Responders arrived. The teens respect expected to be okay and are pretty lucky given what they were doing on the ice. We learned overnight that four americans were killed when a plane crashed into a Shopping Center in australia. The crash h shortly after the charter plane took off from an airport near melbourne. The crash happened an hour befo the mall was set to open so luckily no people were inside. The four americans were all passengers. The pilot was also killed. An interracial couple in connecticut says its bad enough that their home was vandalized by app racial slur but worse, they say is that the city is fining them for not cleaning it up. The slur was spray painted on the couples garage door over Martin Luther king jr. Weekend more than a month a. Heather and lexine charles say their home has been vandalized multiple times. They say this time they decided to leave up the hateful display as a prod to police to investigate the problem more seriously. Racism is alive here in outer loop neighborhood. Id like to find out who did it because it las to stop. It has to stop. The city of stanford has issued the couple a blight citation which carries a 100 daily fine. Police also say they have put muscle into the investigation but can only do so much with no witnesses. The phillies are about to enter their second week of spring training, their first exhibition contest is slated for thursday. There is a familiar face at camp this year, former closer brad lidge is working with the pitching staff as a special instructor proving that the bridge too lidge is no bridge too far. Well see if he can teach them to make sure that the lights are on this the final goodbye for the giant panda bao bao. Find out how you can watch her journey to china. Provproof that it is more difficult to diet on your own. A easy strategy to help keep the weight off. National zoo in d. C. Packing up its threeyearold panda cub bao bao and sending her off to china. Thousands of well wishers have gone to the smithsonian zoo to see the panda one last time. There has been a longstanding agreement that all pandas born at the zoo are sent back to china for breeding. Fans will be able to watch her departure on the zoos Facebook Page hope she takes a bowbow on the way out. We have an overturned tractortrailer here on the ramp from the blue route northbound to the schuylkill westbound. Hard to see it so dark its kind of up on the middle of your screen. You can kind of see those flashing lights. Doesnt really look like police are on the scene i dont think just yet. No emergency crews on the scene just yet. At this point the ramp is still opened. They may need to block it when they show up to help this guy. An overturned tractortrailer in West Conshohocken. Lets switch to the roosevelt boulevard extension at ridge avenue. No problems between Oxford Circle and the schuylkill. Thats southbound traffic moving pretty nicely towards the blue route. Its a winter coat morning. Yesterday we could probably get away with more of a jacket or sweatshirt but today app winter coat a better idea. 34 degrees by 7 oclock. If youre going to the market you might want to wait until later in the day. By noon up to 46. Not a lot of wind today, clouds increasing as the day goes on and by 3 oclock we get up to 53, not quite as mild as yesterday but still not bad for this time of year. 5 oclock still 50, still not bad and by 7 oclock 47 degrees. If youre flying out of it looks like all green aircraft on the big board and the only precipitation we have right now is in chicago and with a temperature of 56, that is rain and not snow, tam. Okay, thank you david. 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