charged with the rape of a 26-year-old doctor inside of her apartment on spruce early saturday morning. >> we got this guy off the street. can you rest easy today. >> here on the crime scene residents expressed relief after hearing about the arrest. >> i am super glad to hear of his arrest. what a shame, i can't believe it around a neighborhood like this, it's good to hear they were able to catch the man so quickly, garcia was arrested at the rest ran on board street where i worked in the kitchen, police say he is this man on surveillance approaching the victim as she walked home from a bar at 1:20 a.m., she was forced to her apartment and beaten and raped repeatedly, on saturday a ping from the stolen phone led detectives to the area of southeast 8 and and moore. where garcia shared a row home

with other illegal imgrathtds. >> there was a short period of time where the victim's phone gave us an indication of the neighborhood. >> reporter: now, investigators say that garcia has confessed to the crime and they also did recover the iphone and the victim's keys. garcia has to prior criminal history in the city of philadelphia along with rape he is charged with kidnapping, robbery and other offenses. i'm sara bloomquist, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. we alerted you to garcia's arrest first on the 6 abc news app, you will find up to the minute updates on this story as well as surveillance video and pictures released. now, to some breaking news we are following, chopper 6 hd

over the scene here, we are learning that police reportedly stopped a septa bus at cotman avenue after someone fitting the trips of a bank robbery suspect was believed to be on the bus, this is the live scene from the scene and philadelphia police are investigating a reported bank robbery in northeast philadelphia, the robbery reportedly happening at roosevelt boulevard at the wells fargo branch. it's a busy scene and it is believe that a possible suspect was on this septa bus. he reportedly took an undetermined amount of money, a heavy police presence as police try to sort it out. as we get more information we'll bring it to you. a unite the methodist pastor defrocked for performancing his son's gay marriage ceremony.

they overturned the measure against frank schafer, he thanked all the church members that rallied around him after this ordeal. >> i feel like dancing and rejoicing, this is a big day, it means so much to me. >> the bishop of the church of eastern pennsylvania conference says show will allow schafer to return to service. about a dozen customers can not heat water or cook. their gas service is cut for a unique reason, a broken main under 56th and woodland got into the gas main, they are slowly vacuuming out the water but it's a slow process and they found that some water got to the gas meters and to the appliances. >> a man got in trouble for putting items in the middle 6 of a busy road near his home.

he says he was trying to keep people from speeding, and now faces jail time. walter perez is live now where it all unfolded. >> reporter: most of us are on the back roads, seeing the homemade signs urging people to slow down, this is what happened here but the suspect's efforts took an unusual turn. >> they admit that speeding is an issue on this 25 miles per hour stretch. >> there are a lot of kids around here and if one comes out behind the car, there is no way you can stop in time doing the speeds they do here. >> but bruce mckeegan when too far in his efforts to get people to slow down. he started tossing household items in the road and leaving them there. >> toys and baseball bats and a

generator. with a string hanging out of it. >> to make it look like a bomb. >> but neighbors called 911 after he piles up wood and set them ablaze and created two fires on the roadways, he reportedly told them he was trying to create a fake crash scene to trick drivers into slowing down. he was charged with reckless endangerment and creating a hazard. >> i am baffled about it. >> now, the responding officers made the arrest citing the fires in particular, calling it a clear hazardous to motorists and mckeegan is held on 2000 dollars bail. newcastle township police are looking for men? these foltz owes, he allegedly

used a 76-day-old person's credit card to make purchases at the christiana mall and other retailers, he goes by the name dimit dimitri. montgomery county is building on the successful big brothers, big sisters program to help juvenile offenders, and back on track, preparing kids from ages 10 to 15. they will do fun activities together several times a month, giving the young people a positive role model and advocate. >> the team considers everything from geography and personalities and common interests and expressed preferences to make the strongest match possible and set the relationships up for success. so far the back on track pilot program has 100% success rate

with none of the participants returning back to the justice system. >> there were traffic delays on city avenue today as crews worked to repair potholes, crews were out jack hammering from belmont avenue, it caused delays on the schuylkill, and penndot has to do the work during the day so crews can work during the day light. all paving work should be done at night and should be complete bid mid-july. >> time now for the "action news" traffic report, lets swing it live to matt pellman in the traffic center with the tuesday night report. >> good evening sharrie and nice to see you monica. not nice to see this. the blue route 476 at a stand still from past the mid county tolls to this point at ridge pike all the way down to villanova, the overturned vehicle crash now is gone, so all three southbound lanes are

reopen, but you saw what the traffic looked like, speeds in the teens on the southbound side of the blue route and upper moreland they are fighting a house fire, and eastern road gets you around it. speeds on the schuylkill teens and 20s, and crash on 95 northbound is now on the shoulder and camden county along 130 and federal street. and the wilmington-newark regional rail line has a 10 to 15 minute delays this afternoon because of amtrak signal problems. >> all right we'll see you in the next half hour. it's a place of healing and happiness in chester coin, but now a unique barn is in jeopardy of closing down, it's helping children with disabilities for years and john rawlins has the story. >> reporter: something you done see every day, kids painting

miniature horses, this is part of air therapeutic program for children interacting with animals. >> they will feed and brush and walk the animals and exercise the animals. >> they have been running this since 2006 now a zoning dispute threatens to end it by september. a neighbor complained about the noise and traffic and they found code violations in the barn, most are fixed but not the handy capped ramps and exits. >> we can't go out to funders in a four or five-month period to raise the $80,000 to $100,000 that it would cost. the group can only hold one fundraiser at the barn once a year because the neighbors complained about multd pel events. >> a lot of cars and activity, and so forth and so on and the compromise the board reached was

to permit one fundraiser. >> the nonprofit says that they hope the township supervisors will give it more time. >> if we can't get the extension and the time to raise the money, i don't see us running beyond september. >> there is no formal request to run beyond the september deadline. now the summer camp at the barn continues and it could take 12 months or more to raise the funds and complete the upgrades there. >> and much more to come on "action news" tonight. 3-d technology is now helping the fight against breast cancer, reporter and registered nurse, ali gormans the details next in health check. we have sunshine and low humidity but that changes tonight. we'll talk about the return of the muggies along with downpours in the accuweather forecast. >> plus, kfc is now investigating one family's claim that this girl was asked to

leave a restaurant, was it all a lie? we have the details of the controversy next. >> those stories and more.

kfc says two investigations showed that a girl was not asked to leave. but they say that they were asked to leave because her face that was injured in a pit bull attack was scaring the other customers and caused a worldwide outrage. kfc offered medical bills and the company says they will still donate the money. health check tonight, there is evidence that new 3-d technology could help detebt breast cancer and it's available at some of our local hospitals. ali gorman is at the "action news" big board with this information. >> reporter: adding imaging to mammograms was approved three years ago, they say it does make

a big difference when it comes to detecting breast cancer early and now they are proving the benefits. jennifer is no stranger to breast cancer and her mother and younger sister were both diagnosed and successfully treated for the disease. but -- >> when it actually happens to you, it's a little different, scarier, definitely scarier. >> she was diagnosed last march, a small tumor 8 millimeterers was detected by a 3-d mammogram and now the technology is used at several local hospitals, dr. sara at lutheran hospital in illinois, says they studied 2 and 3-d mammograms from patients across the country. >> we found that the evasive

cancers, the ones that can kill, were more in the 3-d mammogram. and they found fewer false positives with the 3-d images, watch this standard 2 dimensional mammogram and then look at it in 3-d. >> it has irregular borders in the upper part of the breast, it's a typical cancer, hidden on the 2 d mammogram and well seen in the 3-d. >> i believe that the 3-d mammography is what caught my cancer early and allowing me to live my life the way i want to. >> the full study is established in the journal of american medici medicine, they still want more evidence that it makes a difference. if you are a woman 40 or over, with a family history, ask your

doctor about this option, we have links to help you find local centers with it at 6abc.com. >> thank you ali. >> well, hats off to nurses at childrens hospital of philadelphia for again winning national praise, chop received third magnum commendation. and it's based on patient care and outcomes over four years and chop won did by the way in 2004 and 2008. congratulations.

new jersey governor, chris christie has extended the life of a legal rule to extend property taxes. until december 2017, it has bipartisan support since the three years since it went into affect, property taxes have grown at the lowest rate in 20 years. a man is suing british airwaves since he ended up away from his destination. he booked a flight for granada,

spain but he wasn't sure until he was on the plane until he realized he was going to granada. good news for recent college grad, a new study says that all of your hard work is worth it. those with bachelors or associates degrees earn more money over their lifetime than those that skip college, the research was conducted by the federal reserve bank of new york, analysts found that a person with a bachelors degree can expect to earn 1.2 million dollars more between the ables of 22 and 64.

a check of the forecast, the accuweather forecast, adam joseph is at the "action news" big board. hi adam. >> a nice start to the week, hi sharrie and welcome back monica. 80 in reading and 81 in wilmington but right along the shore the sea breeze has kicked in with the wind coming off the ocean, it's mild at 74 degrees, that is why the air temperatures

are cooler at the shore compared to 10 degreed warmer once you travel 10 miles inland. they are starting to come back up in the 40s and 50s over the last few days, 57 in trenton and 57 in philadelphia, if you look to the west, and to the south there, you can see west of that arc, we are at 67 in wilmington and 61 in dover and wilmington and it's turning more uncomfortable out and that means more water vapor in the atmosphere and that will lead to downpours in the area late tomorrow night, how it feels tomorrow, area wide, the dew points are at least 70 degrees, it will feel oppressive tomorrow, and that factors in for the heat index, mainly in the low 90s tomorrow, satellite and radar, all the weather right now is moving in an arc from the ohio tennessee valley into northern new england and that is the general trend of where the

at atmospheric energy is riding with this system and all the severe weather, the good news for us is staying to the north here, and anywhere from pittsburgh to binghamton to burlington and we are quiet and maybe a scattered shower, much of the day tomorrow, at 5:00 you can see it's generally dry with the heavy action being up over the poconos into northern new england and as we go into the midnight hour, some of the downpours come through and a clap of thunder or two, you can see on the radar it's generally green and thankfully the severe weather is off to the north, the future rainfall totals are a half inch, you could get a quick inch or two in the region and the heart of the system, 1 to 2 inches of rain, tomorrow temperatures 88 degrees and humid again and late in the evening overnight, is the best opportunity for downpours that

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"action news" continues with adam joseph, jaime apody, rick williams and monica malpass.with hello rick is off and sharrie williams joins us. here is what is happening on "action news." a battle between republicans and democrats is heating up as new jersey approaches crunch time to balance the budget. and a woman sees children playing with water guns and decides to pull out a real gun. >> and the man swims away but a little water could not stop police. and a battle is gearing up to stop new jersey's plan, and the democrats are pushing for tax hikes, even if they pass a budget in time, governor

christie will likely veto it. nora muchanic is live at the state house in trenton, what did lawmakers have to say today. >> republicans and democrats are still opposed in how to fill a huge hole in next year's budget. the legislature is moving towards raising taxes in a controversial package but that is something that governor christie will never go for. revolutiona revolutionary reenacters marched in trenton. they want to balance next year's state budget by raising taxes on millions and businesses. >> nobody runs around looking to raise taxes, it's the last thing you want to do. >> by sending this message that our answer to everything is