next, toomey moved to hong kong to work with wealthy chinese investors. in the senate, it's no surprise toomey's been siding with wall street. voting to allow banks to continue making the risky investments that wrecked our economy. afscme people is responsible for the content of this ad. >>> "action news" continues with monica malpass and adam joseph. >> hello again, here is what is happening on "action news" tonight. the primaries continue as oregon and kentucky cast their vote for the democratic and republican favorites. >>> a home own apparently opens fire on a burglar in his yard. >>> and eagles quarterback sam bradford talks publically for the first time. ducis rogers is coming up with sports. >>> now to the latest in the 2016 race for the white house. voters in two states are going to the polls. presumptive republican nominee, donald trump started with a win, the result of guam's march primary granted him 9 delegates and he needs 100 more to officially clinch the nomination. what is at stake tonight, democrats in kentucky are choosing from hillary c

next, toomey moved to hong kong to work with wealthy chinese investors. in the senate, it's no surprise toomey's been siding with wall street. voting to allow banks to continue making the risky investments that wrecked our economy. afscme people is responsible for the content of this ad. >>> back we go to the philadelphia international airport zoo. cecily tynan is hanging out with some very tall friends tonight. >> thank you cecily. this is amazing. i am here with kristin and a family of giraffes, and we are feeding stella here. i want to show you the tongue. now she will go. come here stella. people think of the giraffes as super tall. >> males are 17 to 18 feet. >> look at this tongue. they can just flip it, it's powerful. >> it's 18 inches long it's like a purplish color. this is a close up view. >> males and females both have them. so technically they are not horns. they have a special name for them. >> they are amazing. >> their necks are so long but they have the same amount of vertebrae as we do. >> yes seven like we do but they are much bigger. >>

next, toomey moved to hong kong to work with wealthy chinese investors. in the senate, it's no surprise toomey's been siding with wall street. voting to allow banks to continue making the risky investments that wrecked our economy. afscme people is responsible for the content of this ad. >>> time for a check of accuweather at the "action news" big board. melissa magee has the forecast. we saw sunshine today which was finally pretty nice. >> each and every day is getting better and better rick and monica. as you mentioned more sun is coming out as we go throughout the day on thursday. here is stormtracker 6 live double scan radar, you can see that the showers we had to the north and west are starting to break apart. we go tighter to street level on storm tracker 6, in landsdale the sprinkles are moving east and up to the north in doylestown and new hope. the showers are thinning out. and temperatures outside are not bad, warmer in philadelphia than the same time yesterday. 68 degrees in the city and 67 in wilmington. up in allentown 65 and at the coast in

next, toomey moved to hong kong to work with wealthy chinese investors. in the senate, it's no surprise toomey's been siding with wall street. voting to allow banks to continue making the risky investments that wrecked our economy. afscme people is responsible for the content of this ad. >>> "action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with ducis rogers, meteorologist cecily tynan, and jim gardner. >>> thursday night and new jersey lawmakers approve finance bills to help atlantic city and a philadelphia police officer is injured in a crash in german town. but the big story on "action news" tonight, anxious moments for students from a bucks county school. more than a dozen students needed hospital treatment because of heat related illness. they are from penn middle school. and they were at a trenton thunder baseball game. ali gorman is at the hospital in langhorne. nora muchanic is live. >> reporter: it was suppose to be a fun day at the ballpark but the heat was too much to handle for the students. it was the end of the day trip for sixth graders

it's the second asian tour and they begin in hong kong and head to beijing and taiwan. >>> the villanova wildcats basketball team got an honor today in philadelphia. he was invited to city hall to (them with an official proclamation, coach jay wright was there, and senior daniel there and they were proud. >>> a check of accuweather forecast coming up. and looking live at the ben franklin bridge where we have blue skies, we hope you enjoy the day. cecily tynan has the exclusive accuweather forecast. ♪ ♪ ♪ that's life. you diet. you exercise. and if you still need help lowering your blood sugar... ...this is jardiance. along with diet and exercise... jardiance works around the clock... to lower blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. this can help you lower blood sugar and a1c. and although it's not for weight loss or lowering systolic blood pressure, jardiance could help with both. jardiance can cause serious side effects including dehydration. this may cause you to feel dizzy, faint, or lightheaded, or weak upon standing. ketoacidosis is a serious side effect that can be life-t

next, toomey moved to hong kong to work with wealthy chinese investors. in the senate, it's no surprise toomey's been siding with wall street. voting to allow banks to continue making the risky investments that wrecked our economy. afscme people is responsible for the content of this ad. youthat's why you drink ensure. sidelined. with 9 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. for the strength and energy to get back to doing... ...what you love. ensure. always be you. >>> we have an update on the breaking news situation in philadelphia. that there was a situation on the market l at 15th and market. police confirm that a person was on tracks was hit and killed by a train 40 minutes ago, that is affecting rail traffic in both directions. a shuttle is being used from 30th. >>> all right in the meantime, jaime is here with sports and eagles news tonight. >> eagles back to work. fletcher cox is not. the big guy still holing out waiting for a big payday. carson wentz throwing a nice long ball and sam bradford was off his game actually but it's early on in

next, toomey moved to hong kong to work with wealthy chinese investors. in the senate, it's no surprise toomey's been siding with wall street. voting to allow banks to continue making the risky investments that wrecked our economy. afscme people is responsible for the content of this ad. >>> trenton is considering expanding their light rail system into the downtown area. they release said the finding of an economic study finding benefits of extending the line to job and wage growth. the $500 million rail project extended the downtown with the trenton transit center. >> think about the job creation it does for this region as a whole and economic drivers that really brings to this whole region. i think it's a win win. >> they say they'll share the study's funding with lawmakers to get the funding needed to make the extension possible. >>> and now adam and accuweather will cut us a break for a full 24 hours. >> one day around here. the second half of the weekend looking better but more rain to go through the rest of the week. looking at double scan live rada

next, toomey moved to hong kong to work with wealthy chinese investors. in the senate, it's no surprise toomey's been siding with wall street. voting to allow banks to continue making the risky investments that wrecked our economy. afscme people is responsible for the content of this ad. >> ♪ >> health check tonight, it is fitness friday an local trainer has a special workout to help you get ready for the beach. >> health reporter and registered nurse ali gorman joins us at the big board with more on that. >> rick you'll like this. the overall message is you don't have to do anything drastic to see results. doing small consistent changes can get you closer to a beach body in time for the summer season. beach season is coming soon. to get ready fitness trainer carly reuben stein has created a beach ball workout. >> the first exercise sit against the wall. >> she takes me and marisa rosenthal through the four moves. the first a wall squat. while also squeezing the beach ball. >> tuck firming into the beach ball. press it up and bring it in. >> your weight

next, toomey moved to hong kong to work with wealthy chinese investors. in the senate, it's no surprise toomey's been siding with wall street. voting to allow banks to continue making the risky investments that wrecked our economy. afscme people is responsible for the content of this ad. >> the sun was center stage today for a cosmic show. check this out. mercury passing in front of the sun. you can see mercury right there appearing a little black dot to folks who had a solar telescope. if you missed it mark your calendar there it goes again. the next transit is in the year 2019. after that though it will not happen again until 2032. >> you sure it wasn't a fly on the camera. [laughter] >> smallest mercury -- meteorologist cecily tynan is here now with kind of a change in the forecast. >> talking about mercury passing in front of the sun, we've got clouds passing in front of the sun right now. >> again. >> yeah. we had sunshine for about 24 hours. >> great. >> that's it. so, storm tracker6 live double scan slowin showing that we hava spotty shower near do

next, toomey moved to hong kong to work with wealthy chinese investors. in the senate, it's no surprise toomey's been siding with wall street. voting to allow banks to continue making the risky investments that wrecked our economy. afscme people is responsible for the content of this ad. >> that's our own cecily tynan helping to rescue a baby screech owl. she was on a trail run morning this morning when she spotted it. cecily stepped in to he had picked up the owl in a shirt and took it to the schuylkill wildlife rehabilitation center. >> and he's going to be okay. >> owl update yeah they said that the owl was really dehydrated. they think the mom was killed by a fox or something so it's with a whole bunch of little baby owls getting iv fluids and hopefully in august will be released back into the wild. >> was his little wing broken. >> no, nothing broken. it was just really dehydrated. it needed nutrition right away. hopefully we will be back there in august with an update when it's released in the wild. very exciting. i if the it on my facebook page and

next, toomey moved to hong kong to work with wealthy chinese investors. in the senate, it's no surprise toomey's been siding with wall street. voting to allow banks to continue making the risky investments that wrecked our economy. afscme people is responsible for the content of this ad. (applause). >> septa is digging in for a makeover of the 61st and pine bus loop hub in cobbs creek. the $1.8 million project will add a shelter for passengers and improve access for the day. new bike racks lighting and landscaping will also be put in. the project is expected to be finished by next spring. the route 42 bus will serve 61st and pine during construction. >>> one choir lending a land to a choir in need. "action news" was in overbrook as haverford middle school's seventh heaven ensemble came bearing gifts. they gave $5,000 in instruments to edward heston elementary's choir. left ton elementary's music program has struggled. haverford just won a competition and put their winnings to use helping the choir. >> play is foster parent month. today the city honored th