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WPVI Action News At 600 AM March 11, 2015

Of genius or preposterous. Lets check in with dave murphy for accuweather and karen rogers is taking a look at your traffic. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. And its still chilly outside but not as bad as its been recently. Take a look at Storm Tracker 6 live double scan. Weve had app couple sprinkles lingering stuff from that rain that came through. Most of its off the coast right now. Dont be surprised if you get a little drizzle drop on your windshield here or there. Looks like the last of the rain is pretty much drying out at this point. Out to the west of us east of pittsburgh you see a little break in the clouds. Well see some sunshine return as we go through the day. 44 one timely, cool enough for coats. 38 degrees in allentown. 44 wilmington, 44 trenton. 49 degrees in wildwood. These numbers a lot better than weve been a lot of recent mornings. As we go through the afternoon it looks like its going to be very comfortable later. 45 by 8 oclock but by noon 57 and by 3 oclock thats your forecast high, 61 degrees today with some sun returning and still close to 60 by 6 oclock. Karen rogers no refreezing of that melted snow like weve had the last couple mornings, temperatures just didnt get anywhere close to freezing overnight. So nice to be able to say that for a change, right. Were moving in a good direction. That doesnt mean the roads arent damp and a touch of fog. Slow it down as youre heading out. Looking live in Delaware County this is i95 at 291. Traffic moving fine but the ramp from 95 to 291 are closed and thats because weve got 291 eastbound at bartram avenue closed. Theyve shut that down for emergency construction. Its going to last two weeks. Stick to i95 northbound instead. Lets take you over to hilltown township bucks county. Our accident here cleared. It was an accident involving a deer and with roads being a little damp and visibility a little bit reduced in some areas you need to be careful of deer out there. Live on the ben franklin bridge looking good. Not too much fog. Really not seeing an issue with that here. Thats westbound traffic coming into the city and moving all right. Weve got malfunctioning traffic lights that are an issue in pennsauken. They shut down 30 westbound white horse pike westbound blocked right at the airport circle. Stick to Federal Street to get around that. Thank you karen. An Army Helicopter has crashed in the Florida Panhandle and no one is saying where the members of the crew might be. It happened last night during a Training Exercise at eggy englund air force base. Rescuers are searching for seven march reins and four soldiers the. Their status at this hour is missing. Debris from the blackhawk chopper like the one seen here was discovered at 2 00 a. M. We have just learned that the chopper did not issue a distress call. Stay with action news and 6abc. Com for updates. Turning to coach chip kelly swapped quarterbacks with the rams. The trade isnt the first and likely wont be the last. Action News Reporter Annie Mccormack is live outside the linc in south philadelphia. Good morning. Reporter good morning, matt. What will wednesday bring . Is there a method to this madness that chip kelly has or is he really just the smartest guy in the room . At this point a lot of fans are weighing in some of them saying they dont want all these changes. They dont want to lose their favorite players. Other fans saying maybe at the end of the football season next year, chip kelly will be the one laughing because maybe the eagles will get a win. Heres the latest bombshell. Nick foles traded for a quarterback from the saint louis rams. Thats going to be a big bombshell. A lot of people hearing thats the latest one but of course some favorites have already left Todd Herremans shady mccoy and theres already an impact by the logo, the fan gear that theyre seeing at modells. Theyre seeing a shady jersey go from 100 bucks to just 30 bucks. Of course we checked in with eagles fans to hear what they think. Its exciting. Ill say that. Ive never been this excited for the season in march. I think a couple of the moves are questionable. I think shady had a tough year this year but i think foles was his man. It was a tough trade. But he knows what hes doing chip. Reporter and again, nick foles traded for sam bradford. A lot of eagles saying theyre going welcome him with open arms along with all of the other new eagles that are coming our way and some fans sticking to their guns saying they dont want to see all these changes. Maybe well see a win at the end of this season and also this is the first time that the eagles have gotten this much buzz in march. For now reporting live outside of the linc, annie mccormick, channel6 action news. Lots of new new new jerseys to buy. A philadelphia man accused of leaving his sevenyearold son al flown car while he gambled for three hours at a bucks county casino. 32yearold brian bolds had nothing to say as he was carted off to his bail hearing. A passerby contacted Police Yesterday after seeing bolds sevenyearold in a car parked at the parx casino screaming for help. Police took the boy to the Police Station and then went looking for the dad. We then monitored him on parx security cameras playing blackjack for the next three hours. He never made any attempt to go to the vehicle. At one point a decision was made around 6 30 p. M. To go in with our detectives and the state police to apprehend mr. Bolds. The child is now with his mother. Police have dealt with several cases of people leaving their children alone in cars while they gamble inside parx. Its now 6 06 and changes are coming to a berks county facility that has been the site of several recent prison breaks. The state has decided to move all parole violators out of the wernersville correction center. The 35 inmates will be housed in york county. Officials with the department of corrections said they made this decision in the interest of public safety. A father in the poconos faces child abuse charges. Police say juan vasquez beat this three month old son so badly that the little boy stopped breathing. Doctors caring for the baby says he has brain and head injuries. Theres no word yet on the infants current condition. We have more news on what the government has been doing to try to hack into your stuff. Stacey delikat is in for maribel aber and has our market watch report live at the nasdaq in times square. Good morning, statements good morning, matt. The cia teamed up with the Justice Department to develop technology to spy on cell phones in the u. S. Now the wall street journal reports that the spy agency helped develop a device called the dirt box that was used on especially equipped planes. Once airborne the dirt box was able to scan data from thousands of cell phones. The cia worked with the u. S. Marshall service which is an agency of the Justice Department to develop the technology. Meantime commercial air travel is predicted to hit a seven year high this spring. Trade Group Airlines for america predicts 2. 2 Million People a day will fly in march and april. Thats about a 2 jump over last year. The group credits higher employment and a jump in personal income for the rise in fliers. Checking the markets on wall street it was the worst one day point drop for the dow since october as investors worried about the impact of a potential Interest Rate hike. Right now though futures are pointing to a hire open. Matt and tam back to you. Thanks stacy. Thanks. Lets talk about the accuweather. Yeah. We had fog earlier its kind of breaking up right now. Lancaster county still a bit of an issue. Storm tracker 6 live double scan shows you most of our rain from yesterday is gone. Might be a little sprinkle on your windshield here or there. Radar basically drive. As we take a look outside we have sky 6 looking at the platt Memorial Bridge in south philadelphia and most of your Road Conditions in pretty good shape. Other than the potholes weve had spring up all over the place. 36 degrees in allentown right now but in philadelphia 44. And in fact most of our neighborhoods are starting out in the 40s. So milder this morning than weve been in quite some time. Satellite showing you most of the rain gone. Theres still a little bit of shower activity south on i95 moving into southern delaware and parts of south jersey might get clipped with that. But this is all going to be less of an issue over the next hour or two. And then out to the west we do have some breaks in the cloud cover and we are looking at an increase in sunshine as we go through the day. Clouds and sun today in allentown 54 degrees is your high. You were stuck in the 40s yesterday so it will be milder today. Down the shore about the same as yesterday. Mid50s overall clouds giving way to some sun. Pleasant though, certainly and in philadelphia, we do see a bump in the numbers today. We were in the 50s yesterday but today were going for a high of 61 and depending on whether or not we get a whole lot of sunshine this afternoon, we might even get a little higher than that. The more sun you see the higher that number is going to go. Either way its going to be mild. Winds out of the southwest at eight to 16 miles per hour. Heres how were going get there today. Were going to be at 45 degrees by 8 oclock. But then 54, so almost a 10degree bump by 11 oclock. And then 60 by 2 oclock. With that high of 61 around 3 00 and still close to 60 by 5 oclock. So a nice afternoon out there and i got some drivers tips for you. Of course you want to avoid those potholes because they havent gotten around to patching all of those yet. My advice lower the windows when youre out driving this afternoon and just enjoy it. I got a chance to do a little of that on the way home from work on tuesday, so it was really refreshing. Tomorrow gets a little bit cooler 51 degrees is your high with High Pressure building down out of canada and circulating air down out of the north a bit more and then on friday well be on the lookout for this rain down to the south. It will be inching its way in our direction and getting us wet probably friday night. Your exclusive accuweather seven days, very mild today, 61 degrees, a really gorgeous afternoon. Tomorrow a bit cooler, 51 degrees is your high. Lot of sunshine, though. And then 50 on friday with cloudy skies and that late day or evening rain arriving and that will continue into saturday. By the way, in the Lehigh Valley there could be a little sleet mixing in at times on friday night. Thats something well keep our eyes on probably not a super big deal. Then on saturday it looks cloudy and kind of damp. We get up close to 60 for a high. Well go 58 but there will be some drizzle and occasional showers around. Gets better on sunday, though. Clouds and sun on sunday. Were cooling down to 52 with a little bit of a breeze and just a spotty shower around but it will be a better day overall i think. And then mondays dry. Tuesday Saint Patricks day looks a little damp with some showers. Yeah, irish potatoes will be moist. Correct. Thanks, david. 6 11 now. Developing a fire bomb investigation in philadelphia. And now he says hes sorry. A College Student expelled over a racist chant speaks out. Karen. Looking live here on the boulevard at fox street and were drying out. Traffics moving pretty well right here. Were going to talk about some other problems and look live outside and see if we see that fog coming up. And a car goes for a spin in San Francisco which is news because no one was in it. Next in tech bites. Picking three things is easy. You. Pick three. Annnnnd. Thats pretty much it. So the Pennsylvania Lottery changed the name of the daily number to pick 3. Its that easy to play. Pick 3. Easy to play. Simple to say. Dunkins new vanilla coffee creamer really tastes like it has more vanilla flavor. How is that even possible . Boom [ laughter ] oh, its possible. Introducing dunkins new coffee creamer. Extra vanilla flavor you can really taste. It doesnt get much easier than picking two things. You pick two, and. Youre basically done. Thats why the Pennsylvania Lottery created pick 2. Just pick two numbers. Done. Pick 2. Easy to play. Simple to say. Welcome back. Taking a live look here down the shore into Atlantic City and boy is it going to feel great if you happen to be down there today. Right now its 47 degrees and the temperatures are just rising. Lets take the Atlantic City expressway up and see whats going on there karen. Yeah, youre going to make a pit stop in winslow because we have a new accident. This is in winslow township in Camden County, route 73 right at cooper folly road, watch for this accident coming into to us right now. Roads are a little damp. No big weather impact affecting your roads. We have mall malfunctioning traffic lights in pennsauken. On the big picture weve got a new issue in Nicetown Tioga section here, wayne avenue near berkeley street a downed overhead street light causing a little bit of an issue so use some caution in that area. Also in tinicum township in Delaware County 291 eastbound closed at bartram avenue. Doing emergency construction. Will it last for a couple weeks. Stick to ive night. Northbound. Speeds on the blue route and the schuylkill mostly in the 50s. I95 just noticing a 26 miles an hour starting to get kind of slow here. Southbound near girard 24 miles an hour near cottman so kind of those first signs of morning slowing out there. Looking outside live, traffic moving okay, roads a little bit wet in this area but no big problem on doylestown road at county line road. We can take a look at Storm Tracker 6 live double scan and see not a lot of rain. Its mostly left of the region but we have a little bit of drizzle to the northwest and down near dover youve got a light shower. Roads starting to dry out. Visibility has been a bit of an issue. Its improved at Philadelphia International airport. Now 7mile visibility. Still just half a mile in trenton, thats been kind of the bad spot most of the morning and 1. 5mile visibility in lancaster so youre seeing a touch that of fog, tam. Okay, thank you karen. Developing this morning Philadelphia Police say they have one person in custody after someone fire bombed a home in the juniata park section of the city. This happened around 1 30 this morning in the 3900 block of palmetto street. Witnesses say a suspect then ran northbound on luzerne street. Fire crews quickly put out a small fire that was in the rear of the house. Firefighters found a suspicious device and thats what prompted them to Contact Police and the fire marshal. No one was hurt. And the university of oklahomas president has expelled two students over a racist chant seen on video at a fraternity event. The two students have been identified as levi petit and carter rite. Wright said saturdays incident was likely fueled by alcohol but thats not an excuse. Petits family put out a statement as well. They say their son made a horrible mistake. The entire fraternity has been kicked off campus. Android programmers have increased anotherlipop. 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Police left with the clue at the scene of a house fire that made it almost too easy who their prime arson suspect should be. David. We have coats on the kids. Dont go overboard on the extra gear. Most of us are in the 40s and this afternoon nice and mild. Your day planner forecast and your airport call coming up next. Introducing light fit protein shakes the new way to help make temptations shrink away. With 12 grams of protein, 5 grams of fiber and 0 fat. New light fit protein shakes. Taste the power of satisfaction. Introducing new flonase allergy relief nasal spray, now available over the counter in full prescription strength. When we breathe in allergens our bodies react by overproducing six key inflammatory substances that cause our symptoms. The leading allergy pill only controls one, flonase controls six. And six is greater than one. Flonase the 24 hour relief that outperforms the 1 allergy pill. So go ahead , inhale life. New flonase. Six is greater than one. This changes everything. Today marks four years since that devastating earthquake and tsunami disaster in japan. New video shows a ceremony held in tokyo this morning. The magnitude 9. 0 earthquake and resulting tsunami killed nearly 19,000 people. It also badly damaged Nuclear Power planter. 230,000 evacuees are still at this state out of their homes. Wow. Hard images to see. Lets take a look outside right now and show you what it looks like right now. This is the vine street expressway at eighth street. We are drying out. Talked about some of those showers that moved through the area and looking pretty good right now. Lets take you over here to rockledge Montgomery County huntington pike, 232 at penn avenue, weve got a probl

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