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snukka. a judge said he's not competent to stand trial. the former star was accused of killing his girlfriend in in known 83. >> i'm jessica dean >> i'm ukee washington. alexandria hoff is in the satellite center. >> reporter: if a judge did not grant this dismissal based on his client's ability to stand trial. he would have then pushed for a violation of due process based on how long it took for charges to come forward. in the 70's, jimmy super fly snukks entered the world federation. he was entered into the wwe hall of fame, a career largely uninterrupted by the 1983 death of his then girlfriend an apology argentino >> the family has been notified boy his arrest.
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>> reporter: 32 years after his death, james snukka was indicted for his murder >> his attorney would have disputed allegations that her death was a result of domestic violence but due to snukka doctor's he has just months to live the case has been dismissed >> it's a disappointing day for victims of domestic violence. >> investigative reporter has been following argentino's death more than 30 years. >> justice delayed is justice denied. unfortunately, the family of nancy is not getting the closure they deserve. >> reporter: while he disagrees over the death, both agree that if this case were to be successfully tried, it should have been back in 1983.
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>> it came about, let's see if we can dig up an old case >> i believe he got away with minimum involuntary manslaughter. >> three years after nancy's death, a civil lawsuit determined that he was liable to pay $500000 to her family. family has maintained they were never paid. alexandria hoff cbs3. crews battle add fire. the flames roared through the greenhouse in lower millford township. no one was hurt. cause is still under investigation. a philadelphia police officer was pulled off the street after of after social media. charges have been dropped against the teen and the officer is under investigation for her conduct. eyewitnesses captured the scene new year's day when police
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responded to a brawl involving 30, 40 people on south 54th street in west philadelphia. the female officer is seen repeatedly punching the girl. the girl initially admitted fault in a statement but is now denying she ever hit the officer. >> what she could have done was at least tell me to back up first. she put her hands on me and told me to back up >> she was refusing the commands of a police officer out there and kept trying to push her back to tell her do get out of harm's way and move back and you can clearly see she wasn't trying to arrest her. she wouldn't done that >> the officer has been taken offer the street pending a an investigation. an alleged betrayal trust. a delaware county politician is charged with assaulting a 103-year-old woman. david spunt is live with more on the disturbing allegations. >> reporter: the allegations are
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disturbing. he was an elected official here in delaware county for 30 plus years. tonight his out on bail. authorities say he committed this act not once, twice, but three times and those authorities say there's more evidence coming down the pipeline. william spinningler was a popular elected official more than throw decades. he's accused of indecent assault with a 103-year-old woman at this wayne nurses home >> it's a terrible thing. it's horrible. when you have an incident like this occur to one 103 years old. >> reporter: even though he left public office two years ago, he felt compelled to address the allegations on camera >> based on probable cause in the warrant we acted accordingly and and that the charges are justified in that warrant.
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>> reporter: authorities, 75 spingler, put his hands under a blanket. it happened on december 15th, and authorities say he came back two more times and did the same thing >> we couldn't wait any long. we had to take action. i'd like to commend the detectives and the lieutenant that oversaw the investigation. >> reporter: radnor township police superintendent say they have more evidence they want the district attorney to review. i asked about the evidence but authorities would not give me information. he's out on $10,000 bail. he'll be in court thursday morning here in delaware county. i reached out to him for comment my calls were not returned. >> david, thank you. we're getting a new look at
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the gunman in the new years eve attack. days before the night club attack. turkey have not released his name. turkey police now detained 16 people who may have helped the killer in his attack. on capitol hill, the 115th congress was sworn in today. the new congress woman made history. she was sworn in as the first woman and african-american to serving delaware in congress. pennsylvania senator bob casey and pat toomey were among the lawmakers. after they were sworn in, they got right to worth. 17 days now until inauguration day and today we learned george w. bush will attend the swearing in ceremony january 20th. his father, george h bush will
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not be attending. mr. bush will join bill clinton and carter at the inauguration. hillary clinton will also be attending. the president-elect nominated robert white heiser. he served under ronald reagan. president-elect continues to. >> trump singled out gm, he told the company to make its cars in the u.s. or pay big border tax. ford appears to be listening. the company made a decision to invest in michigan and not mexico. it was president-elect's
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some have gone as far as calling him phony capitolism. our experts say that doesn't appear to be the case but he does question whether the antics on twitter will improve the economy. after scrapping plans ford founded it would invest 700 million into michigan creating 700 new job >> any time we can keep jobs >> ford says it made the decision in part because of the policies outlined by donald trump who shaped the company for shipping jobs overseas. he said terrorists if they don't manufacture in the u.s. >> he's a sharp and shrewd businessman. >> regardless of who's ingaiting
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the change, it's a good thing >> what appears in the beginning is not necessarily what happens in the end >> we saw that with the carrier incident. >> reporter: he said trump deal with carrier and furnace manufacturer produced only half the jobs promised and was largely subsidized. >> what happens a year from now is the state of indiana going to subsidize the jobs? you have to look at long-term growth not just the headline of these jobs are going to be in the united states. >> we'll have a lot of work to do to pars, from narrative >> it keeps them in trump good
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graces. the move will likely see the move as patriotic. >> joe biden confirmed his post white house plans he will work at the university of pennsylvania. the vice president preside over the mock swearing in ceremony for senators and their families at the capitol. he told a guest at the ceremony he will work on foreign policy issues at penn and continue his continuance moon shot research initiative through an entity called the biden trust. his comments were picked up by an open microphone. delaware wilmington's new mayor took over tonight. he was sworn in as mayor. the businessman. 12 city council members, seven of whom newly elected were sworn in. >> straight ahead at 11:00. charles manson out of prison. >> find out why the convicted
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mass murder was moved the heart stopping video of a dresser toppling over. they're ok but it's an important reminder to all parents. a professional baby proofer. >> this is the storm that just does not want to leave. we've had rain all day. city hall some more on the way tonight. this will be followed by a brutal blast of cold air. how cold it will get. which part of our area may see snow. janet jackson is celebrating the birth of her first child. we're learning about her bundle
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harmed. the da and the players' attorney say both sides are satisfied with the outcome of the case. it's video that is hard to watch. a home security camera records as a 100 pound dresser comes crashing down. toddlers were playing in their bedroom when things went wrong. you see him he was pinned underneath, luckily he was able to push the dresser moving it enough for his twin to wig ill free. the boys' parents didn't hear the commotion and only realized what they had been through once they watched the video. it was sold at an ikea store. >> on our meteorologist katie fehlinger has it secured.
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we introduced her to professional baby furnish from kid protect. >> in a piece like this, a good bit of the weight is in the drawers. imagine the drawers being pulled out and the center of gravity going from here to here. >> dressers and bookcases of any height as well as unmounted tvs need safety straps. just about any piece of furniture can be tip-proof in just a few minutes. ikea released a statement. it's the best way to prevent a tip over is to anchor products to the wall. they've included restraints for decades and while wall tas is an part of the instructions. two men broke no a jewelry store during new years eve festivities and made off with $6 million in jewelry.
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three men made their mutual while police were otherwise preoccupied. they used sledge hammers. investigators are trying to figure out if it was an inside job. mass murderer charles manson is reportedly hospitalized cork to the los angeles times. he was taken from prison to a hospital and is seriously ill. the 82-year-old is serving nine life sentences for the 1969 manson family murders of actors sharon tate and others. days after someone altered the hollywood sign to read holly reid officials are considering a security boost. a guard and a tower protect the sign. officials would like to know how a person managed to get past that security system. they will be meeting this week to figure out how to improve security janet jackson is a new mom at 50. a representative for jabots confirms she gave birth to a boy named esa.
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she postponed her tour last year so she could start planning her family a new ranking is out. it ranks how miserable winter is. re >> the study looked at weather patterns. the worse belongs to minnesota beat out alaska. the worst, hawaii. pennsylvania came in 23rd followed by new jersey at 24th, delaware was 26. so far this winter, we've been nice there in the middle. >> sure does. >> gold star. >> hello >> we're we are in january. if you're a snow lover, we had at least a listening of pictureesque. i have a feeling we'll get that. we may see flakes as soon as friday. we have a system that could be bringing ace chance to see light
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snow. doesn't look like anything big. but the cold air is coming in and with the return to cold comes better chances to see a little snow. here's a look outside right now. it's foggy in the city of philadelphia. can't see the tops of the buildings, low cloud and fog. trying to pull you have the palmyra cove nature park camera and it's fogged in. you can see how foggy it is. you can't even see across the river. it is a sheet of fog. please be safe going over the bridges it is going to be foggy out there. stormscan 3 we got another round of showers moving through. here is the first batch. about an hours ago. moving out. the heavy rain we saw has changed to snow over portion of northern new england. that will eventually get here overnight. this system does not want to quit but it will move out and then we talk about a cool-down.
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44 degrees in philly. it's 45 in millville, not too bad certainly not cold enough to worry about any icing which is good news because it's wet out there. the roads still wet. we got a lot of puddles and another around the scattered showers moving through during the overnight hours tonight. we'll start tomorrow with clouds and some patchy fog in the morning, first part of the commute doesn't look great. we start to see sunshine with the sun comes an increase in wind by tomorrow afternoon and evening. winds will gust over 30 miles per hour. it will be a blustery afternoon. this is 7:00 p.m. winds still gusting over 30 miles per hour and that will continue to tomorrow night. thursday into friday, friday morning light snow over the southern tier of pennsylvania. this could briefly ramp off the coast friday morning and bring better chance to the shore points and delaware beaches maybe an inch or so. that, will the best spot to get
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accumulating snow. as far as future snow, less than an inch that's the light blue shading a little bit of a ramp, you re-up there along the coast. we unleash another arctic blast for the weekend with highs below freezing turning partly sunny sunday with windchills and morning lows in teens this weekend. tomorrow we're going to feel 54 degrees. that's almost 15 degrees above average. then the bottom starts to fall out. chilly thursday, light snow friday. then cold but generally dry saturday right through monday. >> here it comes. ok. thanks, kate. >> pat gallen joins us. >> i know ukee was all over this, the sixers will claw their way back. could embiid and the boys
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if i told you the sixers led by as many as 26 points you'd that this they cruised to an easy victory against the timber wolves. a blowout became a nail by thor. joel embiid tried to put them on their backs. that bucket right there gave them a little bit of breathing room up eight. plus two tickets to the gun show. we're not done, up three, they forget about ricky rubio and he knocks down a trip total tie it remaining. i can't believe it. we'll just go to over time. that's the finish. he missed eight three pointers but knocks down the most important shot, sixers hold on 93-91. >> we have to execute down the stretch and execute the defensive plan throughout the game.
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that's what we did. throughout this game, they made a run and we were able to withstand that and came down to execute toward the end. >> we got to do a better job. come back and do, and we got to win. >> pick up the court and get the ice ready as the flyers take on the rangers on national tv. the puck will drop at 8:00. the flyers need a win since the run of ten straight 54s the orange and black lost six of september of and their win came in a shoot-out. steve mason says they need to weather the storm >> it's a matter of sticking with it. we're going through a tough stretch. tough part of the season, just a matter of not getting discouraged and keep pushed forward >> michael is back. >> we haven't heard from him
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public until months. how with roseman will address the media tomorrow after a seven and nine season, the eagles gm will take the podium around 10:00 a.m. if this guy gets in front of a mic, brian dawkins is one of named selected which does include terrell owns. st. joe's. the first game they will play without newkirk. it got ugly hawks got up one. jarred terrell. the rams would shoot 16 of 30 from beyond the arc st. joe's lose my 30. not good. >> coach don't like that. >> not at all. >> thank you. the card that
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selfie generation take photo, there's a car of the future. chrysler's new concept car includes an interior camera for the selfies. that's not all. the car boasts the minivan is self driving. facial and voice regular in addition technology and the audio zone allows them to listen to their own music. kate? a frigid winter weekend is on the way. temperatures at or below freezing saturday and sunday, little blustery on sunday, one thing to watch on saturday is the system moves off the coast could clip the shore points. you definitely will need
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