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WPVI Action News Weekend 6PM April 2, 2017

Block of north penn street. Crew as arrived, to get fire under control. They found victim inside the apartments where the fire was located. There is no word on what cause that had fire. And now to a shooting in broad daylight on the wilmington street. That is right, gunman fired dozens of round in the 30 yearold man december spite that he survived. Action News Reporter bob brooks is live at the scene with the details, bob . Reporter well, sarah and walter i just spoke with the man here who says he has lived here 55 years. A shoot has never happened during that time period but today that has all changed. Behind me you can see right on the roadway, east lawn avenue you can see some marks made by police. Toy day, almost 30 of those circles you had are seeing had to be drawn. In the word of one neighbor it seemed like bullets would never stop. About 15 or 20 times. Reporter ten or 20 times. Yeah. Around 1 00 broad daylight 400 block of east lawn avenue in wilmington turned no a fire range. Very disappointing. It is like a retirement neighborhood a lot of older people around here. Reporter road covered with shell casings and evidence markers, 28 to be exact. It is heart breaking how their current neighborhood was concerned upside down with violence. It is surprising because stuff like that dont happen. It is quiet on east lawn. So i lived here all my life. Reporter there is no word on how exactly this happened but we are hearing one man who was shot even worse, and neighbors, say they think it was a man who was mentally challenge. So you think it was a man who might be mentally impaired to some degree. Yes. I do know is there a mentally challenged man that lives on this block. Reporter victim was shot in the back and leg. He was rushed to the hospital but his condition is you been known. His neighbor hope he make a speedy recovery and returns home soon. My hearties broken. I just hope he is okay. Reporter here at sidewalk you can see circles, painted on here by police. It is all over the block here, walter. Some pretty scary stuff. Reporting live from wilmington , bob brooks, channel six action news, walter. Thanks, bob. Developing news from Hamilton Township, new jersey where all eastbound lanes of the Atlantic City expressway have been shut down. Lets look live at the scene here and detours in place, this stems from an accident that occurred at 1 00 p. M. In the eastbound lanes near the Hamilton Township exit. A tanker truck overturned, forcing the officials to declare a hazmat situation, although, we have not yet been notified about the content of the tanker. The lanes will remain shut down and traffic will be diverted, until the scene is cleaned up, no word at this hour how long that might take. A 22year old woman was killed this morning during a car crash in roxborough. Just after 12 30 when a driver of the car in which she was riding hit a deer on hagys mill road month. Man was ejected from the vehicle. The car then slammed in the utility pole which came crashing down on the car slicing tonight half. Woman was pronounced dead at the scene. Driver of the car was taken to einstein hospital with non life threatening injuries. Fire fighters in reading, spent much of the day to day battling a three alarm fire in an abandon warehouse. The fire broke out around 9 00 0 block of south 11th street. Police evacuated nearby residents for a time. Fire fighters were able to get the fire under control but they are still on the scene putting out hot spots. Atf is on the scene and it us unclear why at this time n1 was injured. Family of four is without a place to live tonight after a fast moving, fire, destroyed their home in kensington overnight. The blaze, started just after midnight, at the house on the 3100 block of waymouth street. It took crews about 20 minutes to get it under control, and luckily the family escaped unharmed. We are not sure what spark the fire. Police in philadelphia are investigating a deadly shooting this morning on roosevelt boulevard. Victim was driving his car while someone pulled alongside of him and simply opened fire. Action News Reporter Trish Hartman has details. Yeah, it is just disturbing i got kid. We have kid all around this block. Reporter People Living in the area of somerdale avenue and roosevelt boulevard were disturbed to learn that a 39 yearold man was shot and killed, while driving a car around 6 00 a. M. Sunday according to police. I heard shots. I was in the porch and looked out window. Reporter a neighbor who does not want to be identified says five gunshots rang out and a white vehicle drove away from the intersection. And the car turned the corner. I turnout the light to tell you the truth. It had to be that car. Reporter Police Say Victim was stopped at the light on the somerdale and southbound side of the boulevard when a white cadillac pulled up to the drivers side. Multiple shots were fired wounding the victim in the head and neck. And after the shots were fired , police say that the cadillac fled, south, and the victim swerved, straight across the boulevard, crashing in the fence along outer lanes and was pronounced dead at the scene. Parts of the boulevard were shut down for several hours, while police investigated and news of what happened, started to spread. This woman is in the process of moving out of her home on somerdale saying after five years the neighborhood has gotten too dangerous for her family. The kid cannot even sit out here, you know, hang out or go down the street, to the park, it is just too much, too much with the shootings, you know, people getting robbed. You are not safe out here. Reporter reporting from feltonville, Trish Hartman for channel six action news. Accu weather now we have enjoyed a beautiful sunday with warm temperatures, and sunny skies, and definitely an improvement over the first half of our weekend. But that rain is expected to make a come back, this week. Meteorologist Melissa Magee joining us now with the first check of your accu Weather Forecast, melissa. Yes, sarah, hopefully you had a chance to enjoy today. We had plenty of sunshine, with a high in philadelphia of 63. Right now we are coming in at 62 in the city, same thing in reading. Sixtytwo in trenton. Fiftysix on the coast in cape may and 54 in the poconos. We do have some changes as we get in the start of our workweek. So if you are stepping out, evening planner is showing you still plenty of sun at 7 00 p. M. Fiftyeight at 8 00 oclock. At 9 00 tonight 56, and remains partly cloudy skies and we will be in the lower 50 s at 10 and 11 00 oclock. Heres Storm Tracker six live double scan radar 3d we have got a lot of moisture out across the Southern Plains n fact, Severe Weather breaking out across this region with tornado warnings, watches and severe thunderstorms posted for the deep south. This area will have low pressure and this system will work eastward in the ohio valley and eventually in the midatlantic region for start of our workweek. Future tracker six shows you by 11 30 tomorrow night we will see that moisture some of which heavy at times, working its way in to the delaware and lehigh valleys. So, weve got april showers, to say the lee, but the parade of storms on the way this week but first batch moves in tomorrow night and into tuesday, and then second batch , thursday into friday, and locally heavier rain is a big concern, the ground is already saturated because of the soaking we have gotten just friday across the region. So an increased flood risk and possibility of strong if not severe storms. We will take a closer look with the full and exclusive accu Weather Forecast, walter. Thanks, melissa. A baby seal was spotted on the beach in cape may this morning but experts say, it is not all together unusual, the animal probably just came a shore to warm up. Action news viewer sent thus video that they shot during this mornings walk. We reached out to the Marine Mammal stranding center and officials there say this is actually normal behavior for babe seals. It tend to come up on the beach to warm up before heading back out to the ocean and were told that is exactly what this little guy did. Maybe wanted salt water taffy. We have an exciting update on the search for a philadelphia man whose message in a bottle washed up in the caribbean. Rick stratton was watching action news at 11 00 last night when he saw our story about clint buffington. In 2002 he found a gator raid bottle with a letter inside that washed up in the british west indies. The letter was quite faded but buffington knew the man who wrote it was named ray, lived in fail and had been traveling on the corn van conquest in 2014. Buffington spent the last year searching for him. Yesterday morning he posted it on the local Facebook Page and it caught our attention. Our story then caught rays attention. The two men, connected this morning. For the first time, it was just so cool. It was like, you know, i keep finding like people who send messages in bottles they are just interesting people. They tend to be adventurous, they tend to be outing, and you know that really rest resonate was me. Hear more from ray the guy who put the message in the bottle tonight on action news at 11 00. Story just keeps going. Through have it. Much more to come on action news tonight women from several different states, joined together to celebrate in montgomery county. We will take to you this unique event. It may be sunday but students at one Wilmington School are working hard on ideas that they hope can change the world. And Jeff Skversky has an update on the flyers goalie Michal Neuvirth who collapsed on the ice during the game when action news comes right back. A new Family Center is opened in bala cynwyd and ready to help neighbors. This afternoon leaders cut ribbon on the barbara and Harvey Brodsky enrichment certainty. It has an indoor playground for children, arts studio and library. They will offer kosher cooking classes and financial counseling. Woman of the baptist, catholic, jewish and muslim faiths came together to celebrate pass over. They shared a sadre meal at congregation beth or in mapel glenn, Delaware County. This is first time they held an event, for all religions and cultures, similar hopes and dreams for their community and Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary recognized life, hoping ace i of the first africanamerican Roman Catholic priest in the you had today. Reverend Augustus Tolton was born in slavery were you not allowed to attend a american seminary. Became a priest in rome, and ministered to catholics there those who attended today, watched a short film on father tollton and discussed reasons ton cab onized. Weekend is not over just yet, still the academy in wilmington was busing with activity. It hosted first ted x conference designed to inspire attendees and share their ideas designed to help the community. Seventeen Area High School students were chosen to give speeches to day although topics were different all fell under the same theme agents of change. Every aspect of the conference was due to run with the little oversight from School Advisors the clippers were work overtime today inside of an unlikely spot, that is because , wax restaurant and sports bar in atco, Camden County hosted a fundraiser for called baldricks foundation. Volunteers young and old shaved their head to help the Childhood Cancer research. 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Common side effects of harvoni include tiredness, headache and weakness. Ready to let go of hep c . Ask your hep c specialist about harvoni. Okay. Jeff skversky has a check on sports, flyers on the brink of e limb nation. It has been this way quite sometime the way they were playing but this is really it, tonight. They have minor league goal any net. Do or die for flyers tonight, since boston won today, flares must win, tonight in new york against the rangers where they are officially eliminated, from the playoff race. Anthony stolarz will start in net. Goalie Michal Neuvirth is released after collapsing on the ice last night. Flyers say all of the tests checked out, just okay. So, he was out for quite sometime. Much of the flyers players have been fighting the flu, like steve mason, who is back with the team on the bench tonight in new york. All while they have been trying to fight offe limb nation. You know, i think were pushing hard, playing our game , and we are getting pressed and one of our best assets is our cycle and guys to hold the puck and protect the puck well and i think were doing a great job. We have to keep it up and keep pushing. You never know what can happen well, who knew this could happen, flyers goalie situation over last 24 hours has been out right, crazy. After what happened to neuvirth and mason, flyers called former temple goalie eric samgamesky in an emergency, he was sitting in the stand when neuvirth got hurt. They called and said suit up, just to case. Final second flyers, attempted to put him in the game for Anthony Stolarz but it was an illegal move since it was not a true emergency. Regardless temple grad will never forget this. I was pretty excited when they say i would go in net. It is cool to be out there. It is awesome that they tried. You know, it shows a lot about them trying to get me out there. It means a lot. Quite a story. It wont knock your socks off phillies manager Pete Mackanin believes phillies are good enough to be a, 500 baseball team. Trust the process, right. That would be a 10 game improvement from a year ago. Phillies open up tomorrow in cincinnati, and that is where we will find our phillies as we speak, working out at Great American ballpark tonight. Jeremy hellickson will make his second day start at 4 10. It is almost time to say, lets play ball. I think we should be very capable playing 500 and rest depend on how much the players improve during the course of the season. They have all learned from last year from spring training there was a lot of competition they know there is a lot of kid, that are knocking on the door. We expect to win. We come out, to the ballpark, and, when we step on the field we expect to win. Whatever that is at the end of the year, we will see but we believe in ourselves. We believe we have a winning ballclub. We come out and play like it. Much more with the phillies tonight on action news sports sunday at 11 45. We will talk about the concern over aaron nola and much more. Mike missanelli will join me live in the studio. The sixers are just underway in toronto tonight looking to end their two game losing streak. Sixers forward dario saric will be restricted to 24 minutes because of left heel soreness. Villanovas josh hart does not win player of the year, makes s player of the year goes to frank mason the their. Jay wright also loses out on coach of the year, as final four award brunch today. Finally to the masters. Check out, trever secorsky from west grove, chester county, nine yearold finishing tied for sixth in the drive, chip, putt challenge in august a. He was one of only 80 kid in the entire country to qualify for the event. He had a second best chip score in his age bracket, sik orsky will stick around for the practice round tomorrow at the masters. Wow. What a dream, scenario for a nine yearold. Yes. He will unleash some of his skills. He has a future. Maybe a green jacket. One day. Still to come on action news his big day is a few weeks away so easter bunny has plenty of time to drop by linvilla orchard today. And meteorologist Melissa Magee has the exclusive accu weather seven day forecast but first a preview what is ahead on world news tonight. Walter, sarah great to be with you tonight, coming up on world news deadly tornado emergency, 40 Million People in the path of severe storms. Also that hotel poisoning, a 13 yearold boy pass ago way , were live on the scene with what happened. The thunderbird mission, in the cockpit with some of most fierce warriors in the world, it is all coming up after action news. Thousands took part in the 22nd annual gift of life donor dash on the ben franklin parkway this morning. Donor darbies part of the National Donate life month which is an effort to spread the word, that there is a critical need, for organ and tissue donations. Time for a check of the accu Weather Forecast with meteorologist Melissa Magee. If we say you like nice weather dont get used to it. It will change quickly. Yes. Beautiful a today. Really nice today, sunshine , temperature mild in the 60s. Tomorrow we have a round of rain that will move in late monday night into tuesday. So majority of the day, it is dry, but then were tracking unsettled patterns, guys. Lets show you is what going on outside. St

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