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WPVI Action News At 600 AM March 18, 2015

Blowing. 29 degrees in allentown, 27 in reading, run in wilmington and in trenton and 33 in wildwood. And when you factor in the wind dropping down out of the northwest it feels like its in the 20s and teens across the region. A wind chill of 27 right now in philadelphia so bun dim. Its a cold test on the way to school this morning, kids. 34 degrees on your Storm Tracker 6 app right now. By 8 00 were liable to dip to about 31. By noon back to 38 and well spend the afternoon in the 40s. 45 by 3 oclock. Well probably get up to, ooh man, about 45, 46 for a high and that will be around for clock this afternoon. Karen, we do have the chance of a wintry mix on friday. Its a light march snowfall. Just as we get ready for the arrival of spring. Ill have details coming up in that sevenday. All right dave. I want to give you the latest with this accident. Its right on the roosevelt boulevard southbound near ridge avenue. We can see a must be of emergency workers. Looked like we had more arrive at the scene. This is southbound traffic jammed at this point. Youll hit this if youre heading towards the schuylkill on the boulevard southbound so give yourself some extra time and stay to the left cause youve got that right lane blocked through that area. On the big picture we see that accident on the schuylkill, on the boulevard near the schuylkill were looking about 48 miles an hour, 50 miles an hour. Still not bad. Were going to see that slow down soon but it hasnt started just yet and about 46 miles an hour on i95 southbound near girard. Big construction project we have been talking about continues in haverford. That paving project on township line road between 9 00 and 4 00 p. M. So it hasnt started yet but i know everyone especially here in the studio who has been hitting that have been talking about the big delays. Watch for that from 9 00 a. M. To 4 00 p. M. A much needed project to repave that roadway if youre in cherry hill we have route 70 a lane blocked in each direction right now. Its such a busy highway to have a lane blocked in each direction and the problem is the sinkhole. The latest sewer collapse. Westbound 70 at cuthbert boulevard and were still dealing with that large sinkhole on eastbound 70 at springdale. In both cases matt weve got the right lane blocked. Thanks karen. A fast moving house fire injured three people in mercer county, new jersey overnight. The fire broke out on the unit block of carolyn drive in Hopewell Township at 1 00 a. M. Crews had to rescue one person from the roof. Investigators say the fire started in the basement and took crews just over a half hour to et cetera good the fire under control. So far no word o on a cause. Happening today students from Wyncote Academy will return to class in a new building while investigators continue to look for the person who intentionally set fire to the Montgomery County School Leaving it destroyed. Action News Reporter Annie Mccormick is live outside their temporary home in melrose park. Good morning annie. Reporter good morning matt and in just a few short hours those students at Wyncote Academy will finally get back to learning. Here on the campus of Gratz College. They will be at a temporary site until they can get back up on their feet but they still have a long road to go. Matt, take a look at this video. This is video from the fire that did devastate their school. Thats a Stone Building built in 1885 now completely destroyed. Now, Wyncote Academy has been a school since 1973. They have about 65 students enrolled. Its described as a school for students that dont necessarily fit in other school areas. But its a very successful school. They have a lot of kids that go to college and as you can see there, they have spent the past couple of days making sure that the building here on Gratz Colleges campus is equipped and will be ready for them when they come back to classes today but still heavy on their hearts and on their minds is why somebody may have set fire to their school since right now it is being investigated as a case of arson. Who would want to hurt kids . Who would want to hurt a school . I mean, no. Reporter and back out here live you can see that thats a small sign right there but definitely a warm welcome to the students of Wyncote Academy who are expected to start classes here today at 8 00 a. M. But again still a long road ahead. This is just temporary housing for them. They still have a lot to figure out as for what theyre going to do moving forward. Reporting live on the campus of Gratz College Annie Mccormick channel6 action news. Matt and tam. Annie thank you. Philadelphia homicide detectives have a new lead in the murder of a man who was walking his dog in overbrook last week. Theyre looking to for three men in connection with the death of 51yearold james stuhlman. He was shot on the 6600 block of woodcrest. The potential break comes as stuhlmans friends and family came together to attend his viewing last night in havertown. An air force veteran with ties to south jersey is due in court this morning on charges of trying to join isis. Tairod pugh is said to be arraigned in brooklyn. The feds say he traveled from egypt to turkey in january in an attempt to cross the border into syria and join isis. They say he converted to us flam 1998 and became increasingly radical in his beliefs. Pugh lived in a former boarding home in bridgeton Cumberland County as recently as last spring and worked as an Aircraft Mechanic for a company in millville. A Letter Center to the white house has tentatively tested positive for cyanide. The letter arrived on monday. Officials have taken it to another facility for more testing. The secret service is not saying where the letter came from from. Studies have shown many people pay more monthly on childcare than mortgages. A study shows how lopsided it can be for parents to do well by their children. Maribel aber has the latest. This is pretty shocking. Reporter good morning, tam. The study showing parents are sacrificing Financial Security to help pay for college for their children. 53 percent of parents polled said they would rather tap into their Retirement Savings than have their kids take out student loans. But that might not actually be the best strategy given that boomers will need to rely more on their own savings than previous generations. That survey was conducted by t row price. Blue cross latest Healthcare Company to be hacked. It was the victim of a cyber attack that may have exposed data of 11 million customers. The hackers may have gained access to claims data including clinical information, Bank Accounts and Social Security numbers. About 6 million of the people affected are residents of washington state. The rest are scattered across the u. S. Kraft is recalling six and a half million boxes of mac and cheese. The company says some of the mac and cheese may contain bits of metal. The Company Knows of eight instances of people finding the metal but is not aware of anyone being hurt. The 7. 25ounce boxes were sold in the u. S. Puerto rico and caribbean. Customers can return the mac and cheese for a full refund. Stocks finished lower. Right now futures pointing to a higher open. Investors will be watching for the fed statement on the economy this afternoon and news of a potential hike in interrates. Thats the latest in Business News from the Nasdaq Market site. Back to you matt and tam. Thanks maribel. See you tomorrow. Lets talk about what youve got to talk about. Yesterday it was nice. We were mild. Got a little chillier. Certainly windy in the afternoon and now that cooler air has entrenched itself across the region. Nothing showing on Storm Tracker which is news. As we take a look outside the camera jiggling around a little bit because we have a bit of wind blowing. The wind died down a bit overnight. It will be picking up again after we get a little past sunrise cold. 34 degrees at the airport in philadelphia, just 29 up in allentown now and reading is all the way down to 27. 31 in trenton, 31 in wilmington, 30 millville so a lot of numbers a little below the freezing mark. Winds are a factor. Still coming down out of the northwest not all that strong, 9 Miles Per Hour in philadelphia right now, 13 in allentown, 12 in wilmington but this is Strong Enough to give you wind chills making it feel like its in the 20s this morning. Satellite shows you not a lot of cloud cover around and we do expect a mainly Sunny Afternoon with perhaps a few occasional clouds later in the day. Lots of sun overall. Still windy and cooler than yesterday. Yesterday we got up into the mid 60s across much of the region. 45 degrees is todays high though, with winds northwest at 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour. So still a blustery day out there. And still below freezing in philadelphia at 8 oclock. I think well dip to about 31 then back to 36 by 11 oclock. If youre running errands or doing optional travel outside later today you might want to wait until the afternoon versus the morning. 43 degrees is your 2 oclock temperature. Youll hit a high of 45 probably around 4 00 and then were back to 44 by 5 oclock. Up in allentown, its going to be a cool day with winds blowing, 39 degrees, a pretty day, though, with a fair a sunshine. Down the shore a little bit on the milder side as we will get past that 39 and shoot on up to 44 for a high. Lots of sun and windy conditions there. And of course in philadelphia we mentioned that weve got that high of 45 today. Tomorrow about 46 degrees, High Pressure will ensure sunshine early but then some high clouds will begin to move in during the afternoon from a system down to the south that is going to be the source of some wet snow and rain for the region on friday. Now future tracker 6 shows you a dry morning commute on friday. I will tell that you some models over the last 24 hours have actually had precip here in time for the morning commute. But in any event when it does get here its mainly some wet snow to the north mainly rain to the south and philadelphia at times will mix in between and the whole thing gets out of here in the evening. What are we expecting out of this . I think there will be some wet snow and then eventually changing to some rain in the i95 core do. All rain down south side and mainly wet snow up north. Anywhere from maybe a one to two accumulation, maybe a little bit more in some spots. The thing about this is its a march snowfall alate march snowfall and that tends to make roads just wet and accumulate mainly on grassy surfaces and maybe car tops. 45 windy and chilly today. Lots of sun. 46 tomorrow, sun giving way to clouds and then friday a wet snow rain event 39 degrees is your high and that precipitation pretty much with us through the day and into the early evening. Spring arrives at 6 45 in the evening on friday. The Union Playing at home shortly after that. And then the system is gone in the first full day of spring looks nice, 55 degrees on saturday. But back to the 40s on sunday. Eh. [laughter] see what happens. Thanks, david. 6 11. Following several developing stories including the shoppers who may have been caught in the crossfire of Gang Violence out west. Late breaking confirmation about an Ongoing Investigation into Death Threats against the kennedys. Karen. Looking live on 202 near the schuylkill. Northbound traffic moving nicely into king of prussia. Well have an update on a problem on 95 coming up. If youre losing reception on your cell phone, having trouble sending stuff out maybe because of the sun. Well explain why in tech bites. Major heres our new trainer ensure active heart health. Heart i maximize good stuff like my potassium and phytosterols which may help lower cholesterol. New ensure active heart Health Supports your heart and body so you stay active and strong. Ensure, take life in. No. Not possible. Were the settles when we go on vacation, its hard to find, like, those little activities that are kind of fun and educational. I think with williamsburg, you have all of that educational part rolled into the fun. Its already here. This is probably the most fun ive had all summer. Welcome back. An update on our developing story, the action cam along the 9100 block of academy road in northeast philadelphia taking a look here. I think we can see a continuation of fire hoses there on the scene. Firefighters continue to be there putting out hot spots at rita grace plan nor. A massive four alarm inferno whipped up by the winds. About 100 people are out of their homes. The American Red Cross set up shelter at the Abraham Lincoln high school. We continue to keep a look on the scene and well have resident reaction coming up in our next half hour. Lets turn to traffic and see whats jamming things up, karen. Yeah, this is related to that apartment complex fire that you were talking about. Because of that we have closures with traffic still at this point this morning. The ramp connecting i95 northbound and southbound to academy road, those offramps had been shut down. They just now reopened so heres a life shot. Last time i showed you this we had penndot right here with the arrow boards blocking the ramps. They have stepped aside allowing that traffic to get through on the ramps on i95 northbound and southbound to academy road. At this point Northbound Academy road is still blocked so stick to grant at your alternate but we think maybe theyll be opening that as well since they did open the ramps up. We have an accident in lower moreland township heaton road near republic road. In gloucester township Camden County county house road weve been talking a lot about the huge potholes theyve decided there are just so massive and so many theyre doing a milling and paving project so youll see portions of county house road being blocked at this point and thats due to the milling and paving. It starts today and thats right around the lakeland complex so if youre used to that area in gloucester township youre going to have some delays but its for a good cause but the trouble is officials there in Camden County say this is just the start of many emergency projects. We know that as we have been look out and seeing the roads out there. We have other issues out here. Road closed orvilla road between clymer and independence way. Your alternate is Line Lexington road because of so much structural damage the a bridge in area still causing a problem there. In new jersey 42 northbound traffic at creek road still moving okay. Were not seeing big delays. We have a few accidents on 42 yesterday and this mornings commute there is looking better but it will surely go downhill later and ill be tweeterring it out to you with the 6abc traffic so get latest there. 34 degrees right now in philadelphia, temperatures lot cooler than they were yesterday morning and this afternoons high only 45, tam. Okay, thank you karen. Developing this morning three people are dead and at least four others hurt after a shooting in california. The gunfire rang out just before 9 oclock last night outside of a market in stockton. Police say it appears to have been a drive by shooting in an area known for gang activity. So far no arrests have been made. Now onto a story thats developing overseas. Police in tokyo japan investigating Death Threats against u. S. Ambassador caroline kennedy. Officials day confirm that someone speaking english made the call last month. Police suspect this could be a blackmail attempt. Theres extra concern for u. S. Officials abroad at this moment since an antiamerican activist stabbed the south korea ambassador earlier in the month. The sun can scramble your smartphones today. That tops abcs tech bites. In todays tech bites if your gps is acting up you can now blame the sun. A severe geo magnetic storm disrupting satellite communication and power grids. No radiation danger. Many pictures on social media say it capped off Saint Patricks day with a green aurora. Nintendo proves you should never say never. 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