Todays temperatures are just what the doctor ordered. If its a pickup game everyone was outside. Trying to soak up the sun. The big story on Central New York record breaking temperatures in our region. And doesnt feel like february and more like what we feel at the ent of the may. Some areas in the mid to upper 70s and even higher, what better way to spend a sunny way on the top of a mountain of ice and snow. Look agent Spring Mountain through the sky 6 cameras. Folks are taking advantage of comfortable conditions and fresh powder. We sent cecily tynan outside to tell us how long it will last. This is the end of it and big changes tonight. Usually in february im out here talking about the cold and snow. Not today. We didnt just break records we shattered them. The record 72 set back in 1930. This was the warmest day in february in 88 years. Mest febru ever recorded in philadelphia. And it was even warmer in other parts of our region. Allentown 81 and lancaster 81 degrees and they had more wind ahead of the cold front and temperatures were slightly higher there. And wilmington 78 and trenton 78 and atlanta see airport 76 and cape may its wind off the bay a lot colder and 60. And the poconos where the snow is melting quickly reached a record high of 70. But there is much colder air waiting in the wings, a cold front west of our region right now and goes from temperatures in the 70s to temperatures in the 30s and 40s. We have a 30 degree drop heading into tomorrow. And it comes with rain as well. Double scan live showing a few broken lines of some showers. Even embedded thunderstorms and that is tracking when you move in during the dinner hour. If you want to do grilling you want to do it quickly. A line of gutty showers with a few embedded rumbles of thunder. Temperatures fall into the 40s and rainy damp and raw for the start of the day. And we stay that way for a few days and well talk about that in the full accuweather forecast. Thank you. Lets switch live to sara bloomquist inside of the Morris Arboretum in chestnut hill. We like the weather but may not be good for plants and flours that are not suppose to sprout yet. With the record warm day you may notice the daffodils popping up in your neighborhood. Its normal to get the taste of spring and they will probably be just fine. There are others that will not be happy if we get another cold snap or get some snow. Visitors came out for a walk ain peek at state your on this urn usually warm february day. They found flowers peeks out of the ground. The flowers are peeking out and they will be in for a surprise. Snow drops are the dominant flower around and yellow winter, three good colors a nice sign of spring on the way. We asked the director of the arboretum if there is a cause of concern . There is not much you can do. Tulips and daffodils are tough and they evolve to withstand the ups and downs, things like magnolia trees are not out yet but if the warm weather persists and turns cold as it did last year. The emerging flowers can be damaged. Are you not imagining it flowers are blooming earlier than can throw things off. Its problematic, they may bloom earlier that the pollinators have not arrived yet. You can be losing some of the activities that plants depend upon. Some here today tell us they are worried here about that. The warm weather doesnt feel quite right. It concerns me a lot we need the winter and we need it for our souls to rest and need it for our plants to rest. So yes, i enjoy it. But it also scares me. So again the flowers are blooming now. Daffodils and crocuses and snow drops they develop overtime to withstand the cold temperatures, after a day like this. Maybe we should ask how will we endure the return to colder temperatures. Live in chestnut hill. Sara bloomquist, channel 6 action news. Get the latest on the big warm up and when it ends and check stormtracker 6 live double scan live any time on your phone or tablet. The 6 abc happen is a Free Download for your mobile device. In other news, his dynamic personality is movie star looks and christian believed made him followers for a half century. Billy graham passed away at the age of 99. John rawlins is live now with more on his history in our area. Mr. Graham came to pennsylvania a number of times. He was in philadelphia twice in 1992 and 57 years ago in 1961 in both cases they had multinight revivals called crusades, reportedly big crowds turned out to see the celebrated preacher. Jesus christ as your lord and master and savior. Billy graham used television and stadium base revivals to call people to the Christian Church and the farm boy became a counselor to president s and a big deal to americans facing a cold war and social change. To try to get a sense of the closest equivalent in society you would have to look for someone like oprah winfrey. A pro presser of studies, he described his abilities. The combination of personal charisma. And ability to connect with people oneonone with. Grahams revival message simple come down from your seat and accept christ. Reverend kay Marshall Williams of the Nazarene Baptist Church says he was a uniter not a divider. He removed a rope during a revive ale that separated blacks from whites. Billy went down and pulled the rope and allowed everyone to sit together and took a stand at a time when that was not popular. That action earned graham death threats. He took a stand. And two crew aids in philadelphia one in 1961 and the other in 1992 when he preached at the old veteran stadium over five nights. That vet stadium crusade was televised and drew 200,000. And it went on for a number of weeks, reportedly 600,000 people turned out to the various revivals. Live in villanova, john rawlins, channel 6 action news. Thank you. Read more about the life of reverend billy graham at 6abc. Com. See social media reaction to his passing and photos of grahams visits to philadelphia through the years. Action news has obtained exclusive video of a car that may be involved in a violent home invasion. Look at the car there, speeding away backyards and hitting several parked cars on roosevelt boulevard boulevard. It could be the gunman that broke into a home and pistol whipped two people today. And the man apparently went to a second floor apartment and pistol whipped a woman and afterward the pan assaults ran from the scene and the the suspect shot at him on the street but missed. A woman was hit by a car in philadelphias hunting park section overnight and the driver did not stop to help her. This is the scene at hunting park and polanski avenue. The victim injured her arm and is being treated at the hospital and working with her to get a description of the car that hit her. Philadelphia police are looking for two men that pull of an Armed Robbery after posing as a pizza deliveryman. They released this video of the crime unfolding on february 5th, one day earlier the suspect faked a pizza delivery to the back door of a store called the best of both worlds and came back the next day and demanded money from the back door. And on a mission to avoid fire deaths in the fox chase section of philadelphia. Firefighters went to homes along the 7600 block of marie road to install free smoke detectors on saturday a fire kill aid woman and injured two firefighters. If you know someone that need a smoke alarm. Are you urged to cant philly 311. Students across the country and those from Parkland High School where 17 people were killed in the the shooting rampage all held rallies today demanding change. Hundreds challenged from florida to the state Capital Building in tallahassee meeting with the lawmakers, urging them to make tougher gun laws and voiced concerns that the republican controlled chamber refused to take up a measure that would have banned assault rifles and large capacity magazines and in delaware kids at Friends School walked out of class to honor the victims of parkland and held a victim of silence that lasted 1 minutes one for every life lost. And they would like to see more redescriptions on who could buy a gun plus a ban on assault style weapons. They are not used in hunting. They are only meant for killing. And i think that is terrible. And i dont think there should be any reason that children should be able to get their hands on it. And i think we need to find a way to stop that. Casey said he was surprised and delighted to see how much students chose to take part today. Time for a check of the action news traffic report wednesday night. Lets go live to matt pellman in the Traffic Center to see whats up. In honor of temperatures in the 70s today. Let take a live look at i76 the schuylkill expressway where speeds on the eastbound side are nowhere near the 70s. Its jammed packed at montgomery drive underneath 30th street station where there was an accident that just cleared and you are looking at speeds of 11 Miles Per Hour coming into center city or south philadelphia for the villanova basketball game this evening. Stick with river drives and a crash northbound somer dale. And that is cleared out and watching a fire location in upper darby west of 69th street at brief avenue and stay up on haverford avenue rather than Westchester Pike its a mess because of the fire. Watching a motorcycle crash in bucks county this afternoon along dark hollow, stick with bristol road instead and the debris spill in Mercer County on 295 southbound is cleaned up as you come out of trenton. Matt, see you then thank you. Be sure to wake up with the Action News Morning Team to get a great head start. Join matt, tam david and karen for the latest look at the skies starting at 4 00 a. M. And they are taking the fight against opioid addiction to the next level and they voiced opposition to the companies that make the drugs. Its uniquely filed under racketeering statues, that they operated an operation that shipped highly addictive opioi d opioids. Health check tonight a warning is out for a controversial herbal supplement. Ali gorman is at the big board with the story tonight. Hi guys, the cdc believes that 28 salmonella cases in 20 states are due to an herbal supplement that some use as pain medication and 11 people are hospitalized due to the medication and that is a plan crushed and used in powders and tea. And two of the people are in pennsylvania. The cdc thinks that more people may be affected and have not reported it. Earlier this month. The fda warns against using it at all. 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A change is on the way lets go to the Weather Center a great shot from linda from spring city it shows the blue skies and shows its clouds building if the distance ahead of the cold front bringing us a big change and if you look at the trees. You can see this is a sign that this is still winter and no leaves are budding on the trees yet and the temperatures feel like late spring. 73 in philadelphia and little bit on the humid side. Dew point 60 unusual for february and winds from the south sound west pulling up the warm air and pressure is still high as High Pressure continues to work off the eastern seaboard. Currently in allentown 78 and reading and lancaster 79 and trenton 75 and the cool spot with the wind off the bay cape may only 57. I want to show you what until today were the all time warmest days ever recorded in february. Now, ill show you what we hit today. Philadelphia 2 degrees shy of our all time february record. Wilmington tying that, allentown reading and trenton the warmest days ever recorded and allentown and reading making it up into the low 80s. A change in february. The blue days afternoon highs below normal and red above normal. The last two weeks we had a surge of warmth so so far about 5. 5 degrees above normal and likely this will be the top 10 warmest februarys on record. Last year we were 8. 5 degrees above normal the warmest february on record. This is the system just the radar showing the scattered showers developing out to our north and west. With a cold front and hitting in the philadelphia region by 8 00. Gusty showers and embedded thunderstorms washing out over south jersey at 11 00. This front stalls and waves of low pressure stalls and that brings us a raw, rainy day tomorrow. And Storm Tracker showing us at 6 30 in the morning and hitting the high of 49 degrees and could be a few sleet pellets mixing in in the northwestern suburbs. The fiveday at 5 00. Raw and rainy 49 is the high hit that early and temperatures drop. And friday the same 46 degrees and periods of light rain and drizzle and we made a change to saturday. And saturday is mostly cloudy and dry. 59 degrees before rain moves in for the first half of the day on sunday. 66. And dry it out on monday and 56. And will we stay dry . Well talk about that in the accuweather forecast. All right well take a break and more action news coming up in the next half hour. [narrator] look around. If our world isnt stuck in the past, why is Higher Education . We say if theres a better path, you should take it. And when there isnt, well, you know where im going with that. Dont do things by the book if the book cant keep up. Take your page from one that hasnt been written. We took two renowned universities, including a premier medical school, and created a Single University that defies convention. 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And record breaking warmth descends on the area surprisingly high temperatures and what is to come in the accuweather forecast. Now the details, students in florida and many places throughout the nation walked out of class today to push for gun laws and more security in schools as the survivors of the parkland shooting gop to tallahassee calling for change and they say the fight wont end there. Tara joins us from washington. Reporter students around the country