coastal storm heading our way. bringing heavy rain and strong winds and snow to our region. and the rain is expected to arrive this afternoon and stay until tomorrow. john rawlins is live at the jersey shore where they are expecting beach erosion and possible flooding. david murphy is live now with the latest. not bad out there now but the change is coming. clouds are building and still fairly bright. look at satellite and radar and rain is beginning to approach the region and a thin band tha afternoon and the bulk of the rain farther to the west and south getting its act together and late this afternoon and this evening. is when you see the stuff move in. beginning to build gh tide and and the lunar high tide is in play and the lunar and saturday evening high tide. down the shore coast at flood watch minor to moderate flooding

and the back bays and how intense that system is when it starts to form off the coast. flood watches are in effect tonight and into friday night. this is basically from philadelphia to points north and over to the east. upper level support for heavier rain is really in these areas to the north and east and the south and west. although everybody will get rain and we have the high wind warning it has popped up to a warning from reading to philadelphia. wilmington and all of south jersey and the state of delaware. it's still a watch in areas to the areas north and east to lancaster but i think this will all go to a warning by tomorrow. 50 miles per hour gusts are possible and higher than that at the shore. and winter storm watch is in effect and early rain in the poconos and it turns over to snow and a sharp gradient and cutoff for where it is snowing and the poconos will get the bull's-eye 4 to 8 inches of snow

up there. and owner snow could coat the grass. and what comes behind this in the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast. and not bad for now if you want to get out and get things done for the next several hours. lets go to the jersey shore where businesses and residents are expecting flooding at the jersey shore. and john rawlins is live from ventnor with the latest from there. >> reporter: the forecast is that there could be up to moderate beach erosion here. we shall see, they can be pro caution in their execution. and back bay flooding is expected at least in those areas used to that problem but for now it's still quiet here. >> wide expanses of beach with the gray wintry atlantic breaking on the shore.

and a sedate warm noon hour a good day for a bike ride or walk the beach. but a coastal storm is brewing and the expectation likely whipped by high wind and coastal flooding. for the folks that live here there is a drill to get ready. get items that could be wind driven to a safe place. the greatest impact is from potential flooding and it looks as if the highest tides will be on saturday morning at 9:00 a.m. and we are asking folks to be ready to move vehicles to higher ground. and some of the public works crews are moving sand in front of the dune openings. and if there is a high tide it won't wash through up to the streets. so with forecasts of wind gusts of up to 50 to 60 miles per hour. you can be sure power companies are watching the forecasts for conditions and pseg saying the

storm has a little bit of everything in it. it has adequate stockpiles think transformers and poles and schedule and stand by crews to deal with downed lines and downed trees. everybody is waiting and they are ready. we'll see what happens, live in ventnor, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. as always you can get constant updates on the storm including storm tracker 6 live on your phone or tablet. the 6 abc app is a free download for your mobile device. and "action news" is on early tomorrow morning to help you with what will surely be a messy friday commute. >> in the news a 10-year-old student in gloucester county is arrested and charged after admitting to making threats of school shootings in the district where he lives. the police announced the details of the child's arrest when a

teacher in franklinville got an email overnight saying there would be a shooting at that school today. officials were notified and made the choice to close several schools for the day more threatening emails were sent. as we went along in the investigation we sent subpoenas to the email provider and phone companies and established an address in franklinville. myself and other detectives and other officers when out to the residence in franklinville and took into custody a 10-year-old student of this school district. >> the 10-year-old remains in police custody and will receive a psychiatric evaluation. russia's president, vladimir putin, unveiled a new array of nuclear weapons that he claims are invincible and will responsible to any threats from the west.

abc reports now from london. >> reporter: it's a massive show of force. new nuclear weapons capable of striking anywhere. these nuclear power cruise missiles have unlimited range. so says vladimir putin just a few weeks before he is expected to be reelected for a fourth term and any attack on russia allies would constitute an attack on russia itself. and an immediate response would be expected. >> putin was using the speech to put out reasons he should remain many power. and a way of putting that image to his appeal here. and inside of the hall they applauded him. >> among the new weapons today. an intercontinental ballistic missile and a laser weapon was revealed to an audience of

legislatures in moscow. >> weapons which putin claims renders useless america and others -- >> and russia is -- on the nuclear weapons and committed like the u.s. by reducing the number of nuclear warheads by this year. but that looks invicingly uncertain. >> this morning pennsylvania state attorney, josh shapiro announced multiple arrests in connection with a pawnshop theft ring and details the results of the year long investigation at a news conference. and the owner of two stores, levitt town quick trading post and morrisville pawn. were charged with scheming to buy and resell nearly $700,000 worth of stolen merchandise from thieves known as boosters. the boosters were also charged

in connection with the ring and that the defendants stole the items and sold them to pawnshops to feed their heroin and opioid addiction. and coming up the 90th annual oscars is this sunday and hosted by jimmy kimmel and promises surprises during the show. we'll hear from jimmy next. >> and something that is entertaining theater goers. hear from the stars of the show that was nominated for tonys ten times.

the 90 and academy awards is sunday and the host of the show jimmy kimmel is letting us in on what to expect. >> there will be a big unscripted surprise in the show. that is basically all i can tell you. will it take a lot of time?

i hope so. i'm trying to make this the longest oscar show ever. >> oscar host, jimmy kimmel, says we are in for surprises during the sunday telecast and has comedy bits ready to go and is happy with things so far. >> does the academy have veto power of any joke you want to tell. >> they are good about that kind of thing. they don't mess with my jokes, but a big comedy bit they want to know who is part of it and how it works, but jokes no, that is up to me. >> jimmy had several oscar nominees on his late night talk show and what he and others may talk about on oscar stage. >> there is time for serious moments and i think that if someone feels strongly and passionately about a subject that they should take 30 seconds and talk about it. >> last year the world was talking about the best picture

faux pas involving the wrong envelope. >> what did you learn last year that will make you better this year? >> i learned that we should have one set of envelopes. >> jimmy told me he'll know within 30 second ises of taking the oscar stage if he is in trouble or if gotting to be a great night. we'll find out sunday here on abc. watch the oscars live sunday night at 8:00 only here on 6 abc. and tune in early for red carpet coverage. that starts at 5:30. the ten time tony nominated musical something rotten is making the philadelphia premier at the academy of music and the stars play a married couple on the show. they are married in real life as well. it's a funny, funny show is. >> it is guys. it's moments like this that

work. and a couple on and off stage and both from philadelphia. right now they bring the acclaimed broad kay show here to their home crowd. >> trying to protect me ♪ >> can we please change the subject ♪ >> it's a really funny musical comedy telling the story of two brothers both playwrights trying to compete against william shakespear writing the first musical. this brought robby and maggie together and they got engage the at the forest theater at years ago and says it's so good to be home. the view from the stage of the academy of music and here and sleeping in their own beds at their house in south philly and

performing on stage at the academy. >> it was kind of emotional i never performed on that stage, so to finally be standing there and looking out was really special. >> her family gets to come see her and her mom gets to come and see her perform on the stage she brought her to. >> how amazing it that. they call themselves philly dealers. they are from here and back here. and pushing for shows to come back to their home town. and tour guides for their fellow cast members. the show also stars adam passcal who plays shakespeare. >> thank you alicia. well, it was a special treat for kids in wilmington this morning, they got to see a new blockbuster film black panther

for free. "action news" was at penn cinema as 200 students arrived to see the film from marvel universe. the third grouping of kids that got to see the black panther for free.

mr. brown can move, green eggs and ham. and the tooth book some of the most popular dr. seuss books are on display for this celebration of read across america. in gloucester county. kids in second grade dressed the part for the kickoff ais assembly for the yearly event calling for every child to celebrate reading on march 2nd. the birthday of the beloved childrens author, dr. seuss. >> and david is back with a check of the accuweather forecast. and the rain moves in and the worst of it tomorrow. >> oh the places we can go. >> are you dr. seuss?

stormtracker 6 live double scan we have some moisture popping up in dover. and cape may maybe a sprinkle. this season particularly heavy precipitation yet and just an early band. the bulk of the rain coming in later today and tonight. as we look outside clouds are building all day and stays that way at the airport. probably no problems flying in and out of philadelphia and even the evening the onset of the initial rain is not all that bad. winds pick up tomorrow though. and at times there will be heavy rain than gives you more of a flying issue. 53 degrees in philadelphia and dry winds ethat strong. there is the thin band of rain and more pronounced rain to the south and west and as we get later into the afternoon and evening we are likely to see more of that. today's forecast, 47 by 8:00. 55 degrees by noon. and your high this afternoon 58 degrees and we expect that rain to gradually built in. again, later in the afternoon and evening. high temperatures today looks like a lot of us are up in the

50s in southeastern pennsylvania. and mid-50s from dover down to the central part of south jersey and down in cape may, probably 53. a little cooler. 3:30 on future tracker 6 we are looking at rain possible from the early band and additional rain is coming up from the sound and light rain begins to pop non-a slow down feature for your evening commute and later tonight 10:00, 11:00 we start to see heavier bands of rain coming through and that is future tracker's take on 11:00 and we may see this break down in part in the region but enough overnight rain where you can have ponding and puddling and poor drainage flooding in places. and tomorrow's commute you will want to make sure you slow it down and be careful for the issues with the high water here and there. this could change to wet snow

and all the way into south jersey, i expect it to melt as it hits the is surface and the farther north the flushiness on the roads. and the poconos quite a bit of snow there and coating to inch philadelphia south and most of it on the grass. and 2 to 4 inch boundary is also mainly on the grass and maybe slushy roads in through here and the poconos more wet snow and a lot more of a problem. during the day tomorrow in particular the afternoon and at night and into saturday morning. we see the wins build through the day and during the period going as high as 50 to 55 miles per hour gusts and down the shore it can go higher and 55. and broken tree limbs and power outages is also an issue and general debris on roadways, trash can lids and twigs. 58 is today's high and rain gradually arrives nast noon and evening and nevy rain at times

and an accuweather alert because of the blustery wins i showed you and the possible of lingering rain and change over to wet snow. everything but the kitchen sink on friday. 44 is the high and that drops during the afternoon. for the weekend we are dry and on the blustery side saturday and sunday and highs near 46, 47 and bundle up for the evening home opener, lots of new players this year to watch. monday is dry and tuesday some rain. >> thanks, david. you have a few more days to register to win a trip to orlando, florida. today melissa magee takes us for a taste of the dining destinations. >> disney springs opened four new restaurants in 2018 and four more in the works. >> it keeps expanding and growing. >> the edison opened if you years eve. >> when you walk in you kind of go back if time.

>> like a 1920s -- >> the disney story line's an o into a restaurant with a gothic industrial vibe and classic food. the turkey club and sounce burgt if you want to go whole hog -- >> oh my god. >> that is the clothes line bacon, and a craft cocktail program -- cocktail and use the original 1830s recipe. >> i call this my rod. >> and by the day edison is family friendly and at night adults only. variety acts like cabaret style burlesque and hula-hoop artists we have it all. >> and the bottling plant theme. and chef maury motto's first pan asian restaurant. it was one of the winning dishes

on iron chef. fried rice and pickled vegetables and hamachi and a pot heated to 400 degrees. looking for a hardy meal? celebrity chef, art smith homecoming serves up a family style feast. think fried green tomatoes. >> and every place in florida they have smoked fish. biscuits and sweet potatoes. >> excuse me we forgot the church lady devils eggs. >> and this is art's famous chicken dinner. art served as oprah's personal chef and made the chicken dinner for u.s. presidents and the dalai lama. it's filled with bananas and pineapples and filled with cream cheese icing. homecoming has disney's first moon shine bar.

>> when the kids have driven you crazy you come here and have yourself a moon shine flight. >> and the rusty spoon, old historic district kathleen smith parked the farm to table movement 13 years ago. >> these are red devil puffed eggs. this is our version of soup. little neck clams and shrimp and red snapper. >> why the rusty spoon? >> spoon is the utensil for testing. >> and when it comes to dessert try the smores. >> happiness on the plate. >> for fyi philly i'm melissa magee. >> how did she get that gig. >> rick is so jealous. register to win and find the link on the fyi philly page of 6abc.com. you have physical this sunday. we'll be right back.

closing in on 1:00 normal check of t murphy. >> 59 in reading and similar in pennsylvania and down the shore 54 in atlantic city and sea isle city. cloudy skies for now and mild and rain arriving gradually later today and tonight. and heavy tonight. >> that does it for "action news" at noon. for the entire "action news" team i'm rick williams have a nice afternoon we'll see you here later today. you wouldn't accept an incomplete job

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