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WPVI Action News Weekend 7AM May 1, 2016

Virginias and the carolinas. Weve zoomed into philadelphia, you can see the darker shades of green. Theres the steadier rain falling west to east. Every now and then we see the yellows and oranges popping up indicating an heavier downpour. Wherever you are in the Delaware Valley making it into the city for the broad street run. Take your time. If youre preparing for the race, i was talking to adam and cecily. No cotton anywhere because it causes blisters. Tight light layers, these are adams feet, you can see he has the mesh part of his shoes duct taped as we could to prevent all the water from getting into the shoes which would cause blisters. Forecast for today, raw, chilly and damp, steady rains throughout the morning, 7 to 11 00 a. M. 49 degrees by 7 00 a. M. 52 degrees by 11 00 a. M. Occasionally the rain will be on the heavier side. When i come back in just a few minutes well talk about more chances of rain in the sevenday forecast. Almost everyday has a chance of rain, we clear about a week from now. All right, chris, thank you. Remember you can get the sevenday forecast and check Storm Tracker 6 live at any time 6abc. Com weather. 7 02, they need training for the day for months, thousands of runners get ready to hit broad street for the ten mile run. Its show time in front of thousands of cheering fans. The 37th annual broad street run steps off near Central High School in the olney section of philadelphia. Action news reporter, Katherine Scott is out there in the rain live right there at the starting line. Whats it feel like katherine . Reporter it feels damp, gray and nydia. You want to bring an umbrella to the rails. Were starting to see runner show up, they have their ponchos on, you can see them at the starting line getting ready to step off in about an hours time. People wanted to get here early and warmed up. Up to 40,000 runners expected all sorts of levels. The race is rain or shine. This year its going to be rainy. Rails organizer programmed for it, they added more tents along the route and they will have extra heat blanks at the finish line. Runners have trained for this, they are not going to let the rain stop them. Reporter how you feeling 0 today . Feeling good, not loving the weather but we trained for it and well do it. Reporter how does the weather affect you . Well be wet, and cranky. Reporter but youre doing it . Why is it so important you run today . We are running with determination today. We raised money for the American Cancer Society and our miles have more meaning because we raised money to help Cancer Patients throughout the county. Reporter and back here live at fisher and broad street its the starting line for the blue cross broad street run that steps off in less an an hour from now, you can see the crowds are starting to build here. Some of these are seasoned runners they are trying to beat times, others are happy to be taking part in the race, either way it will be an exciting day, be sure to come out and bring your umbrella and raincoat you can stand along broad street and cheer everyone on today. Youll be in good company because crowds are expected. Grave and nydia. Looks like everybody is prepared we see rain ponchos out there. Heres what you need to know about septa. Route 16 bus is detoured. Dozens of other bus routes will be detoured in halfhour. Express lines are stopping at the Olney Transportation Center and fern rock transportation center. Its all posted at 6abc. Com. 7 05 tracking other stories of the morning. A Memorial Service will be held for the wilmington teenager who was beaten inside a bathroom at her high school. 16yearold amy joynerfrancis who you see here died april 25th. Friend and family can pay their respects at st. Pauls American Methodist Church in wilmington. Amy joynerfrancis was assaulted at Howard High School of technology. 3 female students were suspended from school, police say they have to if i finish their investigation before they charges are filed. Down south flash flooding has inundated several towns and it has taken a deadly toll a family in texas was devastate the by flash flooding. Abcs Elizabeth Hur has more on the Severe Weather there. Reporter in texas flawed waters so ferocious they literally split the earth apart. Oh, my gosh. Reporter the man who shot this video making it out of his car just in time, the flash flooding turned fatal in palestine, texas when a creek overflowed in the dead of night. You couldnt walk you had to hold one another. Reporter ems timber. Reporter First Responders could not beat the raging waters to the home where linda asbury drowned with her four great grandchildren all under 9 careers old. The water was so high, they went under. There was nothing we could do. She was trying to swim but she had four kids. It was hard to do it by herself. The family reeling from grief. Overnight tornados slashed their way across texas and oklahoma, chris alan rescued his 6 children. We stayed at the school theres a safe room up there, we waited until the storm passed this was what we come back to. Reporter winds tore apart these Stores Leaving owners picking through the wreckage. Flood watches are still in effect. Elizabeth hur abc news new york. Turning to the race for president. Donald trump, ted cruz and Bernie Sanders and hymn Hillary Clinton have stops planned in indiana. Cruz believes the california contest could be the knockout for donald trump. California is likely to decide the entire republican nomination, california is critical. Reporter trump addressed the same convention friday, most of the delegates going to the National Convention in cleveland pledged support for trump. Hillary clinton has a fundraiser planned in michigan. Bernie sanders upset her in michigan in the primary. Sanders is hoping a win for him in indiana slows her momentum. Inside story at 11 30 digs deeper into the pennsylvania race and the result of the pennsylvania primary, watch it on 6abc. 7 08 theres much more to come on action news sunday morning. Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams gets into a fight outside the courtroom. This was for a good cause. Also ahead. Im not sure im using this right. [laughter]. Get ready to laugh, president obama pokes fun at the candidates trying to replace him. Standup comedy from the commanderinchief, just minutes away. This morning millions of dollars are on the line in the powerball drawing, well tell you if anyone struck it rich. Reporter nydia we have a soaker on top for the this sunday, sweep see if it well see if it stays for next week. Details when we come right back. Thanks for coming today. I want each of you to grab a 2x8 and cut it. Youll have 2 saws to choose from. You all chose the best tool for the job. Wouldnt it make sense to make the same choice, when it comes to your truck . all absolutely. This is the 2016 chevy silverado. Nice. A goodlooking pickup. Incredible. I love it. Find your tag and get a total value of 9,000 on this silverado double cab all star. Find new roads at your local chevy dealer. Sunday, 7eleven, 48 degrees, sky6 live hd taking a live look at the center city skyline, weve been telling you, yes it is raining today and it will rain throughout the week. Not a bad day for the broad street run. Get out there and cheer the runners on. Reporter its funny it was warmer on christmas than it is today. April showers bring may flowers, we have to keep thinking that. Theres the view looking over the commodor barry bridge, its a soggy sunday around the delaware and lehigh valley. We have low ceiling and lowlevel clouds and patchy fog. Where youre not picking up a downpour youre seeing showers or patchy drizzle. As we flip it to the radar everybody is seeing the exact same thing. Down the shore, were seeing greens and yellows by tuckahoe thats a good downpour push into ocean city along route 9 and the garden state parkway. Camden county, cherry hill seeing a downpour, gibbstown reporting moderate rain. Pottstown, limerick and frederick, green lane reporting moderate to occasionally heavy rain this morning with reduced visibilities. As we at the set it in motion tu go, west to east its traveling across the tri state. Well see a good soaking rain it will transition over to leftover showers, see how it breaks apart in western ph of pennsylvani. A steady shield early and morning showers tomorrow and sunshine in the afternoon. 39 degrees in fleetwood. Pottstown, 43. Saint davids, 44. Chester, 46. Center city, 48 degrees, its also the number in glass borough and smyrna. Gandys beach, 46. Woodbine 48. Sea isle city, 50 degrees. Heres future tracker 6 well time it out for you, hour by hour we go, 9 00 a. M. , the whole area seeing steady to moderate rain falling. Occasionally it comes down to a heavier clip for some of you. 2 00 p. M. This afternoon its starting to shut off across the western suburbs, but its raining moderately across south jersey and the city of philadelphia. By 3 00 p. M. , 4 00 p. M. In the afternoon, lighter rains for south jersey, mainly cloudy across the western suburbs, but damp with a leftover shower and patchy drizzle. Overnight tonight, well see cloudy skies and patchy drizzle and fog developing, also a couple of leftover showers especially across south jersey and delaware. Bring along the umbrellas, rain early, some of it heavy at times, there will be ponding on roads take it slow today. Also the visibility will be reduced. A lot of times youll see visibility between one and three miles across the area. Leftover afternoon showers, damp and chilly, rainfall totals between half inch with an inch, heavier stuff south of philadelphia. The call from accuweather, morning rain damp and chilly. 56 degrees, softball games, tballgames probably canceled today. Winds out of the north at 5 to 15 miles per hour. The broad street run, damp and raw the whole way through. 7 00 a. M. , 49. 8 00 a. M. , 49. 11, 352. 52. Overnight tonight, 52 for center city. 48 degrees for outlying suburbs. The monday morning, damp, we dry out by the afternoon. Tuesday, spotty showers, this is not a rain day, a shower or two throughout the day. Wednesday, showers developing later on, 64. Thursday and friday thats when we could get into a steadier period of rain with a cut off low off the coast. Damp and cool thursday, 63. Friday, breezy and damp, leftover showers and steadier period of rain and 63. Saturday theres a chance of shower or two, 64. Next sunday theres a chance of showers, monday we clear everything out and it looks like full sun. A good time to get all your indoor projects done. 7 16 a group of West Philadelphia students will sweat it out in the broad street run, the Global Leadership Academy Charter school organized a special workout to prepare you l the students are first time runners. They hope it will inspire the students to be life long runners. We look at olney, the race starts at 8 00 a. M. Chris sowers says prepare for rain. Theres folks in their ponchos and umbrellas, they have been prepare forego for this all preparing for this all morning long, well see you this after the break. Dear fellow citizen, time spent with my son really makes me appreciate the now. But i also have to plan for my familys future. And that means taking on debt. In a smart way. Like my mortgage its working for me. And if he needs a college loan down the road, thatll be worth it too. Its all about having a strategy, that fits your life. So, if you have a question about how to make debt work for you, ask me. Sincerely, brandon heaven fellow dad and fellow citizen. Scooter was crushed beneath a duck boat ride in boston. A man riding the scooter with the woman suffered minor injuries. There were 30 passengers on board the duck boat at the time of the incident. Nobody was hurt. The investigation into prince death is focusing on a walgreens near the music ledges home. Investigator executed a search warrant to find out the medications he was prescribed. Theres questions whole inherent his 300 milliondollar estate. He has 6 potential heirs and another heir thats coming up in the next halfhour. Sandusky is taking a request for a new trial to court tomorrow. His attorney will argue that grand jury leaks tainted the first trial. Last week a judge through out the most serious charges against three former penn state administrators accused of covering up sanduskys abuse. Theres evidence that eating red vegetables may reduce the risk for process at a time cancer. Red pigment in tomatoes and watermelon is linked to lower risk for prostate cancer. Eating red vegetables with healthy fat, Like Olive Oil can be especially helpful. P . P . O . Gv reporter welcome back everyone, 7 22 sunday morning, forecast for today looks damp and chilly. Rain and showers, leftover showers after lunchtime. Damp and chilly, 56 degrees. Why is it so damp and here lately and continues to be so across the Delaware Valley. Monday and tuesday, crowd standing, temperatures in the 70s and 80s. And a back door front came in from the virginias and carolinas, weve seen a series of low pressure systems run that front out to sea. Each one bringing increasing clouds and showers and thunderstorms. Thats been the pattern since wednesday. That will happen this week that pattern will break apart. Well see a cut off low drop in from canada and sit over top of us. The problem with the low is, its not going to able to move because the jet stream will shift up to the north, everything will start flowing across the u. S. canadian border, leaving this low pressure behind. That will sit over top of us. Maybe well see clearing tomorrow afternoon tuesday is a cloudy day, maybe a spotty shower or two. Wednesday, thursday, friday, this guy takes over and more rain is in the sevenday forecast. Hopefully when that gets out of here, the second half of next day week that will calm down. The Powerball Jackpot is soaring once again. Therein no winners in the drawing last night. 3, 12, 16, 32, 34, the powerball 14, the power play 3. You can see the winning numbers on action news at 11 00 p. M. After accuweather. Folks your time 7 24. In sports, the weather is not so hot, but the phillies are. Heres ducis rogers. Reporter good morning, dont sleep on the phillies even the rest of baseball has. Phils and indians last night the phils enter the game with a four game win streak. First inning little Freddie Galvis with a man on. Its a 2run homer his third of the year. The phillies lead 20. Defense in the second inning perez thinks he has a single, hernandez has other ideas. Fast forward to the 7th. Game tied at 3, galvis again. That brings in the go ahead run at 43. 9th inning phils clinging to the 100 lead, gomez, two men on, borgis grabs it. The phils win 8 out of their last 9. Nfl draft wrapped up last night. The eagles pick up 6 more players, wendal smallwood comes with baggage, away as arrested for influencing a witness in a murder case. Those charges were dropped. I was young and hanging out with the with the wrong people. I wasnt involved no evidence, it came out to be true, all the stuff was cleared, im learning from the situation and trying to move forward and become a better man. We do research on these guys, but we dont want to throw away guys because they had one no, i didnt, in this case five or six years ago, this was somebody we did our homework on and we felt comfortable bringing to philadelphia. Here the picks from saturday, they focused on defense. Blake kelpis is a quarterback from all burn. Despite his departure from the birds, the birds take a player from oregon. Reporter we made an aggressive move getting carson, we felt focused about the job we had to do. We had to hit on some guys for us, we have to come out with this with contributors at some level weather thats day one or two years from now. Thats a look at sports this morning, im ducis rogers you have yourself a terrific weekend. All right youre going to love this story, among the penn relay world class runners, a competitor who turned 100. Ida finished the 100meter dash 1 17. Thats a new record for her age group. She felt so good she did a few push yups. Yups push ups. Im an example of what you can do for yourself. Reporter her trainer who happens to be her daughter said ida works out everyday on the exercise bike and with her race she was one of the many highlights to the penn relays. Miss ida at 100 i youre looking good. What is your secret. Congratulations to you. Thats one of the pest stories of the week. 7 28 we have more action news just ahead. Well see you after the break. Looking live from our Temple University camera, it is not the nicest of weekends, the soaking begin today, it could be a while before the clouds go away. The weather wont stop one of the largest races of its kind. Were 30 minutes away from the start of the broad street run. Meteorologist chris sowers joins us with a look at the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. Chris were telling the folks a live picture of the action cam in olney, the folks have their ponchos and umbrellas. Whose fault is all that rain . Reporter im just the messenger. The heaviest rain is right over the starting line right now. The good news within another hour or so, that pushes east, maybe things will let up a little bit, so the race will be a little bit more more enjoyable. Thats what it looks like in the meantime, low level clouds you can see the rain coming down at a good clip here. Shield of moisture from new jersey through harrisburg and central pennsylvania. Every now and then we see the darker shades of green and yellow start popping up. Were zoom into center city, this is broad street right here, the heaviest is falling over the starting line indicated by the yellows and the oranges here, haverford avenue all this area seeing heavy rain at this point. Heres our scale. Its right in the middle. You dont usually see these whites unless youre dealing with thunderstorms. Were not seeing convective activity. You see the heavy over walt whitman bridge. Im talking to adam and cecily, they are running the race, so is our weather producer paul, no cotton, doesnt matter do not wear cotton, it causes problems when it gets wet. She is wearing a water resistant hat to keep the water out of her eyes. Adam duct taped his shoes to avoid getting the water in his shoes during race here. Thats a good idea. Ho

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