Unusually quiet in south philadelphia this year. Organizers of the parade say the Political Climate makes it a no go. Well explain. Maybe we can shed some layers today. Lets turn to meteorologist, david murphy and karen rogers. Good morning. This afternoon we definitely can. Right now maybe some rain gear for some of you on the way out the door. These are light nuisance showers and theyre not everywhere but you can see that down in south jersey through Camden County, Gloucester County and then down in through cumberland and salem counties and very shortly in cape may and atlantic counties you are looking at a couple of light sprinkles and showers a bit of this down through delaware and theres another batch moving through bucks county getting ared to pop back into montgomery and chester counties and theres addition in ally stuff out to the west. I think the last of this probably gets through after the end of the rush hour. Temperatures not as bad this morning as they were yesterday. Were already at 44 degrees in philadelphia. Yesterday we were well down into the 30s t39 degrees in allentown, 43 in cape may and winds not really much of a factor yet either. Just a light breeze so far. Maybe a little bit windier after the sunrise. 42 degrees by 7 oclock and by noon, 49. Those sprinkles and showers done fairly early. Clouds hang with us through midday. Then well start to see some sun reemerge the rest of the afternoon and were going to get milder with a high of 59 degrees at five block down to 54 by 7 oclock. Another shot of cooler air coming in as after all karen it is early spring. Thats arriving tomorrow. Ill have details on that from accuweather coming up. Youre still checking out that accident. Its a big accident causing big problems right now on the schuylkill expressway. Accident is near broad street involving a large box truck facing sideways across the road. What were looking at live is police now blocking off traffic at this point because the schuylkill eastbound is shut down, eastbound traffic shut down between passyunk, this point, passyunk avenue and broad street because of that accident. The action cam headed to the scene right now. If youre in this area you could stick to oregon avenue as your alternate. You cant travel on the schuylkill eastbound as you too it ttry to head towards thet whitman bridge. That big accident involving a box truck, a big problem this morning on the schuylkill. You can stick to oregon avenue. You can get on right now from the platt bridge. You see a live look at the platt bridge. No problems here h you could use that to head to the schuylkill. You can also get on the schuylkill expressway at packer avenue but shut down again between passyunk and broad street. The other problems out there. Its our second morning where weve got an issue in Burlington County right on 130 with some and downed wires. This time its northbound which is burlington pikeapproacy midcounty toll plaza the ez your second morning in a row. You can takelanes but the expres lanes while midcounty tolls you cant do that for the next three weekshea deadly shooting. The victim was found near ge line kneel section. The 23yearold man had been shot in the head. Ng for the chatter could. We will have a live report in the next half hour. Parahed two people to the top following a appened on Christopher Columbus boulevard just before 2 00 am driver was drunk. For more than a decade philof a festive Cinco De Mayo cefor this year has been pd off. Organizers fear attendees aould be immigration agents. . End net reyes is live in south philadelphia with the full story. Jeanette. Reporter well, matt and tam organizers say it was a difficult decision to cancel this event but they voted unanimously to do so. Fear was a big factor but they say it was mostly a precautionary measure. Hundreds take part every year wearing elaborate headdresses and colorful masks. Since 2006, south philadelphiaians have grown accustomed to the parade every year but this year a palpable fear is forcing organizers to scrap festivities altogether. We know pretty much that ice theyre driving around. Reporter organizers say there were concerns that the event could attract Immigration Enforcement action. We didnt think it would happen necessarily but we didnt want to risk it. The fear is maybe, you know, the people come from other like other cities from the United States to come to participate here, maybe on the way they get stopped and they asked for any, you know, like legal papers and, you know, they dont have it. Reporter mayor jim kenneys office called the into us to cancel devastating and reassured the Hispanic Community saying in part i want our immigrant community to know we want them here. We remain committed to being a Fourth Amendment city and protecting these values. This would have been the events 11th year. Organizers say they hope to be back next year. Reporting live in south philadelphia ojeanette reyes channel6 action news. Thank you for that jeanette. New this morning, Atlantic CityPolice Department is chasing this suspect who you see in these surveillance pictures. They say he stabbed a Convenience Store clerk on sunday at a store in the 1400 block of atlantic avenue. It happened after the clerk tried to fight him off. They think the same man robbed a store in the 1300 block of pacific avenue on friday. If you take a look at these pictures and think you know that person, contact police. And the week got off to a terrible start for a philadelphia jeweler. Robbers staged an elaborate heist and made off with more than a Million Dollars in stolen jewels. It happened early monday morning at the kim thanh Jewelry Store on whitaker avenue in lawncrest. Police say the suspects cut the wires to disable phones internet and Security Systems and then broke in through the roof of a neighboring store. They were then able to smash through the wall to get into the Jewelry Store and police say this same store was just burglarized two months ago. Happening today, voters in pennsylvanias 197th House District in north philadelphia are heading to the polls. It is for a special election to fill the seat of Leslie Acosta who resigned over an embezzlement scheme. Llewes sin today little is the own orange line republican on the ballot o democrats have endorsed Emilio Vasquez as ally write in. Might have a republican can in a heavily democrat area. Well see by the end of the day. By the end of the day will we have more holes in the yard where you can see the grass, no more ice. I think thats definitely the today us in some neighborhoods well see that snow continue to melt today. Right now weve got a little bit of rain out there. You can see it kind of speckled through the region and. Dropping down out of the northwest and well take a closer look at that in and a couple of seconds. Lets get you outside. We have cloud cover over the ben franklin bridge. Not particularly low cloud cover. And couple of sprinkles and showers around probably through the morning commute. Checking out those northern suburbs you can see how doylestown just about ready to pick up a little bit of this light nuisance rain. Theres also some of it it looks like its going to be clearing allentown before too much longer. Reading also in the process of drying out although there are some wet roads there and as we start this up, you can see how it is coming in from the west and pretty quickly shooting down toward the southeast. Philadelphia down here probably picks up a little bit of that over the next 30 minutes or so. Farther south we go into parts of south jersey and you can seal that route 55, the a. C. Expressway kicking up a little bit of this light nuisance rain. The lighter shades of green hardly anything at all. Looks like theres a little bit along i95 south of media as well and farther south we go into cape may, Atlantic City, little bit of a heavier cell clearing Atlantic City shortly and again, this is probably going to be out of here after about the end of the rush hour. Temperatures are and treating us better this morning. 39 degrees in allentown today. We were below freezing at this time yesterday. The 44 degrees in philadelphia. 42 in wilmington. 44 in millville and future tracker6 shows you that even though the morning looks fairly cloudy with a couple sprinkles and showers once we get past about 12 or one ooh. this afternoon were expecting the return of a decent amount avenue sunshine and the temperatures late today will zoom up there, too. Up in the Lehigh Valley well go to 55 degrees, well above average for this time of year, up in the Lehigh Valley. And at the shore an above average high later on of 54, clouds giving way to some sun, milder conditions and in philadelphia, a high up close to 60. Well call it 59. Youll probably have to wait until about 4 30 or 5 00 this afternoon to get there. Clouds mixing with some eventual sunshine and winds remaining on the the light side today. Overnight tonight we have a big change. Some colder wind is going to start to build in out of the northwest. 35 is the overnight low. Brisk and colder and tomorrow does look colder with a high of . You have the 41 but wind chills in the 20s with those strong blustery winds. Your exclusive accuweather 7day forecast were going for a high today of 59 degrees, clouds to sun, pretty nice later in the afternoon. Windy and cooler tomorrow, though, 41. Feeling like its in the 20s. And still sunny and chilly on thursday with a high of 46. On friday, sun giving way to clouds, a high of 53. A late shower is possible. But then saturday ahead of a and approaching cold front we get into that warm sector of the storm system and we zoom all the way up top 70 with no worse than partly sunny skies. Thats going to be a Beautiful Day on saturday. Then the cold front arrives on sunday bringing with it clouds periods of rain and ally cooer high of just 53. Looks like were back into the upper 40s on monday. Saturday is a day to plan for, though. Yes. Most of it. Thank you david. It is 5 10 and a multimillion dollar Apartment Building was decimated but the destruction from the eight alarm fire didnt end there. A texas man faces a prison term for assault with a Deadly Weapon. The weapon was a tweet. Karen. Police on the scene blocking part of the schuylkill eastbound. Weve got new video to show you the accident scene when we come right back. Horns on their helmets. Ostriches dont really stick their heads in the sand. A peanut is not a nut. And a real john deere is actually real affordable. You learn something new everyday. The surprisingly affordable john deere e series tractors. Now you can own americas tractor for just 99 a month. Learn more at your john deere dealer. Welcome back. Taking a live look of the gorgeous commodore barry. 5 13, up to 44 degrees. Early stuff going on today, karen. Yeah, you know, you think you wake up this early, you could get to work nice and easily. Not the case right now. Schuylkill expressway eastbound you see police on the scene and they are currently blocking off traffic. It is shut down between passyunk and broad street. The weve got new video just in from the action cam. You can see the accident itself and theres the box truck involved and you can see all the front end damage right now. Was facing sideways across the roadway. Looks like they do have a tow truck on the scene and you see it kind of looks like its smashed into that fence there on the schuylkill eastbound in south philadelphia this accident happened with that truck at broad street right now. Someone is not getting their bread in time. You can see the tow truck is on the scene trying to deal with this but in the meantime theyve had to shut down the schuylkill expressway eastbound while they get ready to tow away that vehicle between passyunk and broad street. So, if youre in this area, you could stick to oregon avenue instead. You can use the you can use the platt bridge to get to the schuylkill. You can get on at packer avenue but its shut down between passyunk and broad street with that big accident involving that truck. Looking at the big picture not seeing any other issues on the blue route, schuylkill or i95. Taking a live look outside, this is the blue route right here. Looking pretty good at the schuylkill with no problems heading onto the blue route and issues there. In new jersey weve got one issue on route 130. Second morning that were dealing with some downed wires northbound here approaching new albany road. Storm tracker6 live double scan showing we do have some showers moving through the area. Getting some light rain here or there. The roads are kind of wet. Its not going to last all day, though. Were going to start with lots of clouds its currently 44 but, hey, first full day of spring. Headed up which h close to 60. Lots of clouds, some sunshine. The after into and is dry, matt. , whoing forward to it. Thank you, karen. Firefighters in kansas describe this scene as a war zone. It took them hours to get the fires under control in Overland Park yesterday. The fire started in a multimillion dollar apartment complex under construction and grew to eight alarms. The flames hopped skipped and jumped from house to house throughout the neighborhood. Incredibly, though, no one was seriously hurt. Two Lancaster County children severely burned after drinking what they thought was apple juice have been released from the hospital. The 10yearold boy and the fouryearold girl were served the juice at star buffet and grille in east lampeter township earlier this month but department of agriculture indicate the store because the juice was not the cause of the injuries. Authorities are closed the restaurant citing possible Building Code violations. A maryland man charged with aggravated assault with a Deadly Weapon all because of a tweet. Police say john are. Avello tweeted an mate predominant strobe images top eichenwald with the message you deserve a seizure for your post. Eichenwald is epileptic and the tweets did indeed trigger a seizure. Federal authorities previously charged him with federal cyber stalking for the tweets but the state of texas has added the charge of aggravated assault. Flyers begin a four game road trip starting in winnipeg tonight. Theyre seven tints out of the final playoff spot because toronto won last night. It is 5 16 and a former football star reveals his private health battle. And hes now blaming it on the game itself. This may bring back memories of last weeks snowfall around here. This is from montreal canada. Nearly two dozen people were stuck o and that bus and realized their only option was to move it themselves. After they freed the first bus a second one got stuck. They spent 45 minutes trying to move that one. Even borrowing a shovel and salt from a security guard. You know what, there was too much ice and snow to get to the gym but theyre good, they got it in. I know, right. They got a workout and then some, right. Yeah. Lets see whats going on on the roads. What a mess this morning. The schuylkill expressway eastbound continues to be shut down between passyunk and the broad street because of that accident involving a box truck facing sideways on the road. Theyve got a tow truck on the scene but its not cleared just yet. You can stick to oregon avenue to get around it. You can get on the schuylkill at packer but not passyunk to broad street. It remains shut down. Heres i95 at cottman. Southbound traffic on your right headed towards center city. Moving nicely but, dave, roads are a little bit wet out there. And in some spots they are. A couple nuisance sprinkles and showers coming through. Otherwise mainly cloudy and chilly on the bus stop but not as cold as yesterday with temperatures in the low 40s. As we roll through the day, any rain ends fairly quickly this morning. I think by the end of the rush hour in most cases and then by noon, 49 degrees, still rather cloudy. We are going to see the return of some sunshine later today, though and we get a high of 59 degrees by 5 oclock. So it will be milder later today than it was yesterday. And at the airport all green aircraft. Doesnt look like we have any major rain situations in any of our big travel destinations, matt and tam. He can o, thank you you okay, thank you david. It could take a patient only a few days to get hooked on a pain medication. Researchers found that people who use a prescription opioid for just one day had a 6 percent chance of is it ill using that drug a year later. That jumped to 13 percent when the prescription was written out for eight or more days. New jersey has one of the strictest laws that limits pain killer prescriptions to just five days. And football fans have been offering love and support after former profession in ally Football PlayerDwight Howard announced he has been diagnosed with als known as lou gehrigs disease. The former 49ers receiver whose most famous moment is known as the catch. Said he got the diagnosis after visiting six neurologists and three and specialists. Howard who is 60 years old says he suspects playing football has caused his disease. Several beachgoers helped First Responders rescue a dolphin that became beached along the jersey shore. It happened at the 15th street beach in North Wildwood yesterday. North wildwood recreation and tourism released video of rescuers helping the dolphin return to deeper waters. Two other dolphins were stuck in a sand bar about 100 yards from shore. They managed to free themselves. The all of the dolphins seem to be okay once they were freed. 5 22 now. Up next in the morning buzz, this viral video has people crying foul but this chicken that seems to be the size of a to do lower, it is not your imagination. This is real. Like a person in there. Yeah. The u. S. Government is banning all electronics except cell phones on certain planes. 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