Showers by afternoon. It will be chilly and raw. Temperatures will be close to 70 degrees for this time of the year for highs. Now were stuck in the low to mid 40s. Allentown, 44. Philadelphia, 47. Close to 50 across south jersey and delaware. Forecast for today, call from accuweather, rain to showers, high of 56 degrees, 1 00 p. M. Temperature 53. 3 00 p. M. , 355. By 5 00 p. M. , 56 degrees and keep those umbrellas close to you this week because every single day theres a chance of a couple of showers, ill break it down with future tracker 6 and show you the sevenday forecast. As chris mentioned its a chilly, soggy day for a run, but the blue cross broad street run is off despite the weather. The soaking conditions will keep everyone from overheating. Chopper 6 hd is overbroad street as we get a live glimpse. Lets go to Katherine Scott she has been keeping our eye on the runners all morning long and keeping her eye on the runners from broad and washington. Reporter the runners have been coming a lot of crowd members cheering on the runner as they make their way down broad street. We happen to be standing by the runners, here they are. Look at whos with us, members of the 6abc team. Say hello everybody if youre thirsty this is the place to go. We are ready to provide hydration to anybody who needs it. Whew whew were seeing competitors coming through. The first competitors started coming through around 8 30. As they have been coming by you can hear their soggy sneakers hitting the pavement as they make their way down broad street. Already have a winner, bb bb mucuri if i know ran a five minute mile. This race is always rain or shine. Unfortunately this year theres less answer a shine less of a shine, organizers added extra tents and crews cleared the drains to prevent extra flooding. How you feeling today . Feeling good, not loving the weather. Reporter how does the weather factor in. Does this change how operate and how you prepare for it . Absolutely. Well be wet. Reporter but youre doing it. Yes. Reporter why are you running in we raised money for the American Cancer Society our miles have meaning because we raise money to help Cancer Patients throughout the county. Reporter and back here live at broad and washington, you can see all the runners coming down broad street thousands of them braving the elements getting out here, they trained for this, they are not going to let this rain stop them. Now, the crowds may be a little thinner than usual, you know what, despite the rain weve seen so many people come out and cheer on their fremedz friends and complete strangers because this is philadelphia and they look forward to this every year and the rain is not going to stop them. Katherine Scott Channel 6 action news. Its a rain never hurt anyone. Thank you so much, there are a number of detours in place due to the broad street run. Theres dozens of bus routes including the route 16 that were forced to take different routes. Express trains are for for travo the rails at the Olney Transportation Center and fern rock. Theres detours at 6abc. Com. Some people are waking up this morning to find their cars were towed from broad street. A fleet of city trucks cleared vehicles at broad and hunting park avenue in nicetown. The cars needed to be out of the way for the 40,000 runners taking part in the ten miler. The cars were taken to the Philadelphia Parking Authority parking lot. The family of amy joynerfrancis will receive visitors as they mourn the teenager who lost her life after a beating at school. The 16yearold died april 21. People who knew and loved her may offer their condolence at the st. Paul united American Methodist Church on north Market Street in wilmington. Amy joynerfrancis was assaulted at Howard High School of technology. Three female students were suspended after the fight. Charges have not been announced. Police say they are working on the investigation. Closing arguments are expected to happen in the murder trial of a 20yearold who was accused in the death of Millersville University freshman carlie hall. The 18yearold was found dead in her dorm 2015. Friday an expert will testify that she died of a massive nose bleed do to a previous fracture of her eye socket that flooded her lungs. People in camden took to the streets to call for peace. The peace in the streets march was held yesterday. Marchers carried a casket to represent those killed in the city of camden this year. 7 people lost their lives to violence in april alone. Members of two rail union have rejected a tentative deal that averted new Jersey Transit strike. Union representing conductors and locomotive engineers to not ratify the union contract. They will return to the bargaining table with nj transit. Its not clear when it will happen. They reached a deal in march 24 hours before the strike deadline. Chris christie faces a time limit on gender equality legislation that will require employers who pay work workers who do a similar job equally regardless of their sex. One called on state contractors to report wage data which christie called burdensome, the other allowed statue of limitation with pay restrictions to start with each pay record. The penn relays set a new world record. She is 100 years old, she felt so good after the race she did a few pushups. Im an example of what you can do for yourself, i think god more my blessing. Her trainer who is her daughter said she works out everyday. She was many highlights in the final day of the 122nd penn relay. A Form University delaware basketball player will be taking part in the Olympic Games. Elaina delldon played from 2009 to 2013. She is the schools first athlete to compete in the Olympic Games for the u. S. 9 08 if you play you probably have heard the Powerball Jackpot is soaring once again, there were no winners in the 314 milliondollar drawing. That makes wednesdays drawing worth 348 million bucks. The numbers were 3, 12, 16, 32, 34, the powerball 14. The power play number 3. You can see wednesdays drawing following accuweather on action news at 11 00 p. M. You did say you would come to work even if you won. Well talk after the break. New thoughts on the Health Benefits of chocolate. What researchers say about the delicacy and how it may help diabetics. Flooding across parts of the south leave families in need of rescue. Taking you outside sky6 live hd overlooking Atlantic City. You can see the rain hitting the camera there. Meteorologist chris sowers says more rain next week as well. We have the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast after the break. Introducing the completely redesigned mercedesbenz ccoupe, with its athletic prowess and sleek new body. It doesnt just raise the bar. It completely crushes it. The allnew cclass coupe. Mercedesbenz. The best or nothing. In texas, 6 people were killed in palestine texas, a woman animal her four great grandchildren died trying to get to safety. 35 homes have major dam because of the flooding there. A family was stranded by floodwaters that surrounded a home in arkansas yesterday. Members of the Volunteer Fire Department used bots to take the boats to take the members to dry land. Every road in the county is covered in water following the storms that passed through there yesterday. Thankfully they got help there. Time for accuweather, wet today and throughout the week. Reporter chance of showers everyday this week. Get used to the gray view here. Thats the view looking live at the ben franklin bridge. Its cloudy out there and the rain is pushing through. Some of it coming down at a good clip him where youre not seeing the rain youre picking up showers and fog. Double scan live is completely clouded over at this point. You can see the precipitation stretching west to east across the area. Were assuming into center city. Theres broad street highway 611. Were showing the darker shades of green and yellow is starting to pop up to the west, haverford avenue and woodland avenue moderate to heavy rain. You pick up the yellows thats a good downpour coming down. You can watch this update in front of you, you can see how this progressing to the east at 15 to 20 miles per hour. Well make another zoom farther to the east on the other side the Delaware River we go, western camden and Gloucester County same thing moderate to heavy rain from mount laurel to berlin, white horse pike, black horse pike, Atlantic City, were seeing ponding on area roads. Take it slow this morning. By afternoon it tapers off to a couple of leftover showers, its creating issues out there early on. So here we go we set it in motion for you, first batch right here, here comes the second round and round number 3 this will work out to sea off the coast of the virginia capes. The next a couple of rounds will make for a dreary finish to to e weekend. High temperatures normally around 70 degrees. Its 39 in fleetwood. 42 in slatington. Pottstown, 43. Saint davids, 43. Chester, 45. Center city, 47. You can thank the easterly breeze, Ocean Temperatures are not low 50s. Anytime you have an easterly wind with a chilly ocean temperature that means chilly air temperatures. 50 in smyrna. Gandys beach and vineland, 47. The yellows representing a heavy rain, darker shades of green a moderate rain. The lighter shades of green thats where we are picking up showers and patchy drizzle. Well advance this. You can see by afternoon, the steadiest pushing off to the east, leftover showers and patchy drizzle lots of clouds throughout the day and patchy fog. Overnight tonight, same thing cloudy conditions and leftover showers and patchy drizzle. Forecast for this afternoon, what you need to know a steady soaking rain early, leftover showers during the afternoon, cloudy and damp, chilly and raw, rainfall totals ranging between half inch to an inch depending on your location. Rain to showers, damp and chilly, 56 degrees is the forecasted high, again, steady during the morning, scattered stuff during the afternoon, hour by hour its a slow climb through the low to mid 50s. Overnight tonight, leftover showers possible. 47 outlying suburbs, 52 center city. Forecast shows chance of showers every day here. Morning showers tomorrow. Otherwise clouds and sunshine 73. Monday is not that bad of a day. Tuesday is cloudy, maybe a few peeks of sunshine, otherwise there could be a spotty shower high of 62. Wednesday clouds and sun, a couple of showers move back in the picture late. Thursday and friday, cloudy and damp with showers or periods of rain. Saturday the return of sunshine but theres always a shower threat and high of 64. Looks like we completely clear not next sunday, but the following monday. A ways to go. Reporter the good news its not every hour of the day. You can always spin it in a good way. Reporter it shifts 50 miles and maybe we see sun. The sound of gospel music filled the air in north philadelphia. This is zion baptist church. This event raised money for the arts fest scheduled for august. 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. Looking at south philadelphia and, of course, the broad street run. The 6abc action news watering station is right here. 9 19, 47 degrees, congratulations to a two winners of the broad street run. The man had a 4 minute 52 00 second pace. Cesily tynan finished the race in five hours. Congratulations to all of you. Healthcheck this morning, a little bit of chocolate may help lower your insulin resistance. Researchers in the uknalyzed people and they improve liver enzyme levels. Its important to note, the difference between chocolate made from natural cocoa and processed chocolate. Researcher haves a test to detect alzheimers disease than quicker before. Researchers had 71 people navigate a maze on computer, they found those with alzheimers struggling with the maze those predetermined for the purpose of the disease had a difficult time, but eventually navigated the raise, a test of action navigational skills may help detect the disease earlier. 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Everyone, 9 24 sunday morning, forecast for today a soaking rain this morning giving way to leftover showers by afternoon, damp an chilly, high of 56 degrees, heres why its been so wet lately. The city of philadelphia is sitting on the x, we had a stalled out frontal system that continues to sit there. Its like a train on the track, we get an area of low pressure riding along the front. Each and every one brings a round of showers or heavy rain to the area. Weve seen this since wednesday. This will work east and out to sea. What happens by the latter stages of this week from wednesday on, philadelphia again, once that pulls away well get an upper level low that will drop down from canada it will sit and spin, it will bring waves of moisture back off the ocean. The jet stream or the main flow is down here, theres nothing to push this guy along. Thats why wednesday, thursday, and friday could be wet with showers and or a period of rain. Rain rain go away. 9 25 is the time. 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Reporter you may want to send mom flowers a few days early to save more. Captain America Civil War is a hit over seas, although the latest marvel film wont hit america until friday. The super hero flick brought in 15 million on its first day alone in 15 countries including south korea and the philippines and france. Analysts say it puts it on track to growth 200 million. Captain America Civil War is from disney, the Parent Company of 6abc. Theres much more to come on monday morning edition sunday morning edition of action. Comedian and chief, well look at the president at the correspondents dinner. Well have a look at the run along broad street and meteorologist chris sowers will have an update on the very soggy sunday when action news continues. So glad you stayed with us sunday morning, ten miles straight down broad street. Tens of thousands of runners taking part in this years race. Well have an update at the sidelines. Officials in pennsylvania are looking for what caused a pipeline schoation explosion that destroyed a home. Soak, soaking sunday, is there any relief in sight . Dont ask me. Chris sowers has more. Reporter i want to share this with you, i think we have the most Athletic Team in the entire country. Im getting text messages, cecily finished in an hour and five minutes and 57 seconds they say coming a year off her knee surgery. Adam he finished in 1 hour and 6 minutes and 44 seconds, our weather producer, paul finished in one had your hour 15 minutes, a full minute and half better than the last time he ran two years ago. Wow, congratulations. Reporter they have done a great job good for them. Lets talk weather, lets get you outside and show you the view here, looking live on sky6 live hd, Philadelphia International airport, note the fog thats starting to settle in. Low level clouds, its damp and careery morning around the Delaware Valley. Double scan showing all the moisture thats pushing through. Some of it is heavy indicated by the darker shades of green and yellow and oranges and reds to the south across the virginias and the carolinas. All this has to sweep through before we can clear out. Unfortunately it doesnt look like that will happen until tomorrow. Its a soggy finish to the weekend. Heres the schuylkill expressway, 676 heading westbound you can see all the heavy rain falling across the area. Darby, ridley park and Newton Square all seeing a moderate to occasionally heavy rain out there. 47, its chilly and raw. Millville, 49. 43 in reading, 40 in the poconos. So forecast for today, cloudy and damp with a steady rain this morning scattered showers, leftover showers this afternoon, temperatures climbing through the 50s. Guys . Okay, chris, thank you so much. The 37th annual broad street run is underway right now. We have a winner in t