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WPVI Action News At 530 AM April 19, 2016

Thats about 5 degrees better than we were this time yesterday. 52 in allentown, 50 in reading, 54 out the door in trenton currently, down to 49 in wilmington and 43 in millville new jersey. On the bus stop this morning partly cloudy a bit cool, 52 degrees by 6 oclock but by 8 oclock well be all the way up to about 61. Yesterday we went to 80. Wont quite be some warm today but partly sunny skies breezy and not too shabby. 74 by 3 oclock and im going for a high of 75 at about 4 oclock this afternoon. Maybe even a little bit after that. Pollen count is high so beware pollen sufferers or allergy sufferers. Well have a cool dow for tomorrow and rain toward the end of the week. That is all on the sevenday forecast in just a couple of minutes. David i have some goodies on the traffic front as well. The only problem is none of them are too good. 95 Police Activity by woodhaven road. Luckily that has cleared. As you head northbound past academy at woodhaven everything is reopened. Headed southbound no morning delays. Vine street expressway reopened. Overnight construction has wrapped up so traffic is moving again in each direction but crews come back tonight at 11 oclock. Youve got four nights this week when they are completely shutting down the vine between schuylkill and broad street. On the big picture still have that Police Activity in Port Richmond this morning along frankford near came bree he ya. Probably want to steer clear of that. Theyre working on that overnight fire location in the overbrook section near 53rd and media. Also until 6 30 watch out for paving crews along the kelly drive. I think the mlk the west river drive will be a better bet through the early part of the morning. Overnight construction in bucks county along county line road and street road has cleared out. Everything reopened on both of those routes. Down in Hamilton Township Atlantic County still have downed wires along 50 southbound just south of the a. C. Expressway. Traffic is squeezing by on the shoulder. Head to cologne avenue as an alternate on this tuesday morning. Matt. Passersby spot a woman walking down the street with her threat slashed. Action News Reporter Annie Mccormick is live outside Temple University hospital where that victim is right now. Annie. Reporter. Reporter and poy that the victim was taken to Temple University hospital alive. They say that she is in Critical Condition and currently she is in surgery. Now, bystanders and police say that her throat was slashed 12inches across. Well, this is video from the scene. This all happened around 3 a. M. This morning according to police. Bystanders actually saw the woman walking in the 2000 block of stella street and ran to help. There was a 75foot blood trail. When Police Arrived the victim collapsed on the ground. She had a piece of denim wrapped around her neck she was bleeding profusely from her neck and these two witnesses rendered assistance to her and put a fresh cloth around her neck and thats when she collapsed. Collapsed. Reporter and east detectives are handling this case. Theyre interviewing people, some of those bystanders that were there when the woman did collapse. Theyre also checking for Surveillance Footage in this area. At this point they dont even have an identity on this woman. Shes in Critical Condition here at Temple University hospital and she is in surgery as well. For now were live in north philadelphia, Annie Mccormick channel6 action news. Back to you. Thank you, annie. More breaking news here. Crews in cumberland county, new jersey, are battling a three alarm fire. It is burning at a former commercial building in bridgeton. The heavy response had the action cam held back if the scene which is on the 100 block of grove street. The building used to be a chicken Processing Plant and it has since been abandoned a somber morning for new jersey students who lost their crossing guard to deadly crash. Chopper6 over route 129 and little bore street in trenton. The victim stop sign still lay beside the red pickup truck. The driver struck and killed the crossing guard. Witnesses believe that speeding is to blame. Just flying down the street. They hit him with no brakes and oh, my god it was terrible. The first that you know i heard was that loud noise, a big bang and it sounded like a truck accident and when i ran around i noticed that the red truck hit him, must have knocked him like 200 feet cause he was crossing right there. I had just got done talking to him and ended up way down there. The truck driver was put into a police car but at last check had not been charged. The crossing guards name has not yet been released. And colleagues surrounded officer Jim Mccullough as the Police Officer drove away flashing the cameras a thumbs up sign. The philadelphia officer was shot in the leg sunday night while chasing a robbery suspect. The alleged gunman Scott Griffin is behind bars. He and his alleged accomplice are awaiting arraignment. Griffin had been arrested 14 times and had just been in court last week. 5 36 and happening today, the new york primary. It is one of the biggest prizes in the president ial race. The frontrunners Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump are leading in the polls in a state where both have strong connections. Clintons campaign has declared the democratic race virtually over but rival Bernie Sanders is is hoping for an upset today. A win in new york is crucial for trump he hopes to grab enough delegates before the convention. John kasich hopes to pick up a few delegates and ted cruz has been stumping in maryland. The race for the white house turns to pennsylvania next. Bernie sanders will be in State College today. Hillary clinton makes a stop in philadelphias Northern Liberties section tomorrow. Ted cruz will be in philadelphia tonight. John kasich visits pittsburgh today, then heads to delaware and chester counties on thursday. The pennsylvania primary is on tuesday of next week. New jersey officials are going back to court today. They will try to convince a judge to freeze atlantic citys spending until the city hands over the millions of dollars it still owes the school system. The state Education Department is suing the nearly broke gambling resort. It wants the city to turn over tax money it collected on behalf of the schools. Atlantic city made a partial payment to the City School District back on friday but the state wants the remaining 4. 2 million. And there is word that a compromise is in the works to bail out atlantic city. Senate president Steve Sweeney and Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto discussed plans over the weekend. Sweeney wants the city to take over the citys finances. Governor christie has endorsed that plan but prieto remains opposedly. The flyers are on the brink of elimination from the stanley cup playoffs after scoring early in the game. They lost and boy did they, six to one. And they were not helped out by the hometown crowd who turned a fan give away to an embarrassing spectacle and penalty. Action news Sports Reporter Jeff Skversky has more from south philadelphia. Reporter the night starter off with a bang. It was an emotional tribute for flyers owner ed snider. Then they score in the first minute. This place was electric. But it falls apart in embarrassing fashion. On top of the fact that the flyers have been outscored in this series by 10 goals flyers fans started throwing the wrist band give away onto the isolate in the third period. It was so out of hand flyers and capitals players were both yelling at flyers fans urging them to stop throwing throws wristband. Even the public address announcer lou nolan was telling flyers fans to show some class. The flyers were penalized by the refs and now they face elimination in game four. Were looking for a good start and play hard as a team and its not its obviously not the result that we were looking for and its pretty frustrating. We know where we are at this point in the year. Were fighting for our lives and we got to play obviously some very desperate hockey. Not out of control but desperate. Reporter the flyers face elimination in game four wednesday night here in south philadelphia, the last and only time theyve overcome a threenothing playoff hole six years ago against the boston bruins. Will they do it again . The flyers have a lot to figure out. With the flyers, Jeff Skversky, channel6 action news. I hate when they bring up that ridiculous story about santa claus. But they will. Those things bring it up again and again. Feed into the image. Not kidding. Well see what happens in game four. Maybe we can get the fans in a better mood. Storm tracker6 live double scan right now and we have no precipitation out there as we take a look outside, we have some clouds out there. Its not totally bright blue sky like we had yesterday. Theres a fair amount of clear space over the Commodore Barry bridge over the delaware river. Love this picture and we are going to see at least some sunshine and probably a fair amount of it early based on this picture. Temperature currently is 55 degrees, a little better than it was yesterday. By this time yesterday we were sliding into the upper 40s see little better and winds once again light for now at 5 miles per hour. Satellite shows you how those clouds have spilled down out of the north overnight along with the approach of a frontal boundary. There are some breaks in the clouds obviously and overall well go partly sunny skies today. Its going to be mild again, too, not quite as warm as yesterday but not bad. 61 degrees by 8 oclock. Upper 60s by 10 oclock. Thats a pretty quick mr. To 67. And by noon, 70. 74 by 3 oclock and well get our high of 75 degrees right in there around 4 00 or maybe 4 30 this afternoon before we start to turn it around and slide a bit. High temperatures late this afternoon up in allentown hitting 70 briefly. 71 in reading. 72 in trenton. 74 in wilmington. And 72 in millville. Down the shore, low to mid 60s, so it will be cooler along the coast once again. If youre headed to the phillies and mets tonight, we got Vince Velasquez on the mound and he has been unhittable practically this year. Partly cloudy breezy 67 degrees for first pitch. 57 in the ninth inning one of those nights where you bring along a jacket and maybe you add layers as the game goes on and those temperatures slide. High pressure in control tomorrow so it wont be as breezy. It will be a little bit cooler beneath that high. Lots of sun. A high of only 70 degrees tomorrow but thats still a very pleasant wednesday and then later in the week we get some rain arriving. By the way, the pollen count is still pretty high the next several days but it does drop on friday and that is the day where we expect some rain to mix in. Your exclusive accuweather 7day, today beautiful, 75 degrees, partly sunny and breezy. Sunny and a bit cooler tomorrow with that high of 70. And then we bounce back up to 74 on thursday with sun mixing with a few more clouds. Now, thursday night there could be a couple of showers building in and then on friday, its warm with a high of 77 as we await the arrival of passover at sundown but through the day there will be a spotty shower and maybe even a rumble of thunder. Then saturday it looks like were dry in the morning. By the time you wake up. Cloudy skies give way to some sun during the day and we get a high of 69 degrees. Should be great for the union game at 4 oclock. Thats a 6abc game of course and then mostly sunny and 69 degrees on sunday. And monday mostly cloudy and cool with a shower. All right, thank you, david. It is 5 42. Coming up the search is on for a killer who murdered a mother of three in a dallas area church. Police say the killer may have been caught on camera. A volcano in mexico erupts into a fiery show. Matt. That bridge inspectors are coming to the schuylkill during the midday today. Here in the westbound lanes on the blue route well see delays and construction crew will be out on the blue route itself. Well tell you whats going on there after the break. Well tell you about a woman from iowa going to social media to try to track down her birth mother. Shes getting a lot of shares. Well see what comes of it next on action news. Modres the cost of living the pay stays the same. 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Its 59 degrees and were getting up to about 74 degrees today. Not as high as yesterday but still good. 75 well take it. Lets go over to matt pelman. Good morning. Bicycle day today, sounds like a perfect day to go out and ride on the bike. That way you miss all the traffic troubles, too and you miss all the construction crews that are going to be out during the midday today. Lets talk about some of them matt and tam as we head to the burbs early this morning. This is the blue route 476 at the media swarthmore interchange the exit for Baltimore Pike. Right now everything is moving fine in each direction but just like yesterday, the line painting crews are going to be out and about painting those little white lines along the blue route again today. Now, i give you the heads up about this because i dont want you to be driving down the blue route crossing over between the lanes crossing over wet paint and then getting that all over your car so just heads up watch outer for those crews and watch out for the possibility of wet paint along the blue route really the whole way between 95 and the midcounty tolls. Elsewhere in delco, here along 322 its going to be the pothole patchers that are out during the midday 9 00 until 3 00 basically the whole way between Baltimore Pike and 95 so you might want to stay over on 452 or even 202 instead of 322 conchester highway. Meanwhile water main work warren avenue closing during the mid days. Joining the party 252 leopard road down to just one lane 9 00 until 3 00 through the and of the month because of water main installation. Elsewhere in Valley Forge National park 252 still closed through the end of july. Pot house road also shut down as of friday. The problem here is the alternate to pot house road is route 23 he where theyre now doing midday water main, what as well so really whichever way you turn here in this area of Chester County youre hitting construction and for that i do apologize but i dont make the rules. Over in mount laurel hartford road still have sewer main work going on. Briggs roads or larchmont boulevard are some alternates. Matt. Thank you, matt. New on Action News Police in texas release Surveillance Video of the man who they say killed a Fitness Instructor inside a church. Video shows the man dressed in swat gear Walking Around the Creek Side Church in midlothian. Police believe hes the man who murdered missy bevers. She was preparing for class at a church. Some of her clients found her body. Police found broken glass in the church but didnt notice anything missing. Were just now learning that an american is among more than 400 People Killed in that devastating earthquake in ecuador. But theres still stories of survival coming from that rubble. Rescuers pulled out three people buried alive more than 32 hours later. Over in japan the weekends twin quakes there triggered a mudslide where crews are still now searching for the missing. The death toll there has risen to at least 45. Thousands of evacuees are sleeping outdoors due to the ongoing aftershocks. And there are incredible new images out of mexico this morning where a government web cam is recording a volcanic eruption. Ash is blowing over the major city of puebla directly to the east. The citys airport is closed and officials are urging people to wear masks in order to avoid inhaling the fine grit that is now covered houses and cars. The first family has a dinner date with the royals. President obama travels to Windsor Castle on friday for Queen Elizabeths 90th birthday. He and First Lady Michelle Obama will then join the duke and duchess of cambridge plus prince harry for dinner at kensington palace. 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