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>> now we'veot an interest thisand the entire international commity has got an ninth this but this has bubbled over from being a regional issue to a glo one,nd a globalthreat. >>s repr the black box, ifit is indd in the hands of sl,teorjoconserrussia f center, sharrie williams channel six "actio news". >> thanks, sharrie. >>these are thece amsterdam, waiting wo about nes,shock of learning thef the plane,he agony oiting for al coirmaon. in ukraii k of pfond peoe placed flowers, and lit candles at a makeshift memorial outside the up embassy. on the other end of the doomed flight the heart break at the airport in kuala lumpur, among relatives who have been waiting for the plane's arrival. philadelphia has strong
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russian and ukraine community, and "action news" reporter dann cuellar has been in touch with both tonight, and dann is now live on the ben franklin parkway, dann? >> reporter: jim, both russian and ukraine americans see the downing of the jet liner as a terrible tragedy. that much both sides agree on but incident has quickly become, a conflict between russia and ukraine with some on each side, blaming the other for what happened. >> ♪ >> reporter: tonight in jenkintown ukrainian philadelphia radio began its weekly program with the ukraine national anthem blaming russia for downing of the malaysia yet liner and vowing to fight for freedom. >> russia threatens ukraine with nuclear war in case ukraine would plan to return the peninsula crimea. the ukrainian army readies itself for the lasso fence i have against the next separatist. >> reporter: among number of ukraine americans we spoke with their is in doubt pro russian ukraine rebels and or
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russian soldiers for blame for downing of the million ways a airways flight 17. >> they are vicious. they are not our good neighbors. they are not good neighbors at all. we have nothing to do with them. >> reporter: among russian americans we spoke with at bell's mark in the northeast. >> unaudible. >> reporter: do you believe it was russians. >> i don't believe that. >> reporter: what do you believe. >> i believe it was an accident. >> reporter: but then there was william gamble. who do you think shot the the plane down. >> president putin. >> reporter: do you think that. >> it is in my mind. >> reporter: you had are russian. >> yes. >> reporter: tonight there is in question in that the tragedy regardless of who is to blame has rekindled deep animosity which has routes in the ukraine russian conflict that pits neighbor against neighbors and now innocent bystanders may have fallen victim. >> the people flying in that plane today whether they are from the netter land, whether they are from the uk or whatever country they are from or whether it is americans, they were going on vacation. they had in choice. >> reporter: leo a professor
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of eastern european studies at lasalle university says maybe now the world will pay attention to is what going on over there so good may come of it, but now the the world will focus on this. and they will say stop, you cannot do this. >> reporter: incident may have happened half a world away but tomorrow here on the parkway in center city there will be, it will be a vocal point of the mass demonstration, a number of ukraine an organizations, planning to protest, and rally denouncing the downing of the jet liner and condemning those responsible. we are live on the parkway, dann cuellar for channel six "action news". >> thanks, dann. our coverage of the crash of the malaysia flight 17 continues on the six abc news app. we will alert to you new developments as this story, continues to unfold, and there is a lot have of unfolding yet to do. we have posting new photographs and videos from the scene. you can down load the app free for apple and an tried
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devices. this is a live picture of gaza city, the sunnies coming up, it is dawn, it is, 6:08 and all is now, quiet, but israeli rockies have been pounding target in the relentless assault overnight. conflict between israel and hamas has rocketed to a new level by hitting the ground. thousands of israeli troops crossed the border in to the gaza strip at 10:00 p.m. local team. the ground forces are being accompanied by what is described, asthmas i have air support, and naval forces and intelligence. israeli officials say their prime targets are the tunnel networks that hamas has built and which it uses to infiltrate israel. move comes after israeli defense forces captured 13 hamas militants who were using tunnels to try to launch an attack inside israel earlier today. the israel wants to destroy hamas weapons arsenal and rocket firing abilities. an official with the gaza
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security operation, says that israeli tank shells have been pummeling all of gaza's border areas. we ask you to stay with "action news" and abc news for the latest on both of these major international stories, night line will have the latest, live reporting from overseas, coming up at 2:35 tonight. the president was keeping tabs on the two crisis today, while he was visiting wilmington, delaware. with the closed i495 bridge behind him president obama announced a new program to improve roads and bridge west more private investment. obama said that the congressional in action particularly on a permanent fix to the highway trust fund is allowing the the number of projects to mount. >> we've got $2 trillion worth of deferred maintenance in this country in road, bridges and sewer systems and water mains and we could put a lot of people back to work right now getting that done. >> president obama said u.s.
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is already losing its competitive edge to countries which do invest in their infrastructure. coming up on "action news" tonight, a nine vehicle crash involving a philadelphia police cruiser. plus a decision on whether these officers caught on video used excessive force on a teenager's private parts. also a latest on the house collapse in chester county. high temperatures today only in the upper 70's to lower 80's in the region. it will feel like fall tomorrow morning but 90's and humidity will soon return. i'll let you know exactly when in accu weather. consumer reporter nydia han with yogurt testing that revealed a major brand having five times the sugar it claims on the label. plus ducis rodgers with a phillies half season, first half season review and looking ahead to the second half of the season when "action news" continues tonight. chub annie. act active use.
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a house in coatsville, was destroyed late this morning, in an explosion, and collapse. fortunately nobody was hurt. it happened, at 11:30 at walnut the street and south fifth avenue knew. the authorities say utility crews were working in the area at the time, they have not yet confirmed whether that led to the blast. lehigh county authorities are investigating the shooting have of an alleged parking ticket scofflaw, by state constable is today. constables were trying to survey warrant, on the the individual, and whitehall township this morning when's ledgely tried to run them down. they fired at the car and driver identified as kevin mckellers, mckellers is in the hospital tonight, his former girl friend says he is paralyzed. this was the scene late today after a police cruiser was involve in the nine vehicle accident in west philadelphia. police were following a wreck
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less driver when their car hit a park vehicle on north 55th street and that started it. two other civilian drivers were hit and suffered minor injuries, but police officer was transported to the hospital of the university of pennsylvania, he will be okay. a grand jury says that the philadelphia police officers seen in this surveillance video did not use excessive force, when frisking a 16 year-old boy. darren manning claimed that a female officer yanked so hard on his privates that he required surgery, however, the doctor testified that in damage was found, the the incident was recorded on january 7th near 15th and girard. from our delaware news room tonight wilmington mayor dennis williams says he will veto city council's controversial budget cuts that would have eliminated eight positions in the fire department. the vote last week led to a walk out by fire officials, the majority of the lawmakers claim the cuts would not affect response times or reduce public safety, but fire
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department vehemently disagrees so apparently does the mayor. from chopper 6hd you can see a dump truck in the water in lawrence township, new jersey but submerged amid the wreckage there is a car, and the lone victim killed in this accident. the crash happened just before 3:30 this afternoon near the intersection of brunswick avenue and lake driver. authorities have not identified the car's driver, the truck driver is in the hospital. ministers, residents and community leaders, joined in prayer and song tonight, this is in southwest philadelphia to help a neighborhood heel from tragedy. they joined to remember the fire on gesner street nearly two weeks ago which killed four children, and gutted eight row homes. clergy wanted to make sure that those who survived the fire know that they are not forgotten. temple university is raising tuition, the board of trustees has approved a $600 increase for undergraduates beginning this fall. temple says that it averages out to a 3.7 percent hike.
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pennsylvania residents would pay just over $14,000, out of the state students would pay over $24,000. the school says that the to compensate it is also increasing the amount of money available for financial aid. yogurt continues to grow in popularity. sales now top $7 billion a year. a lot of the latest growth is propelled by greek style yogurt. consumer reports just tested two dozen greek yogurt to find the best. re consumer reporter nydia han. urcontinues to grow in now7 billio year. a lot of the latest gr ityle yo consumer r tested moreo tzen grkre. people than e eating yogurt pe yo >> yogurt nutritious socecalckgu has morete rt va ap
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radar that cloud cover pushing north and east. we are clear. we have high pressure moving from the great lakes, this is a very strong high from canada that pushed that fall chill in fact, record low temperatures in the midwest, and the deep south, it is moderated some as it is push to the mid-atlantic but tomorrow another beautiful day a lot of sun. 85 degrees. low humidity. decent amount of sun. then that high swings to the north and east here on saturday and as it starts to push away from the region the wind will return more out of the southeasterly direction. so a lot have high clouds will move in on saturday and it does stay dry, and the humidity also stays low, and temperatures are at 58 degrees. 67 degrees your ocean temperature. it has moved up from 24 hours ago, where it was in the lower
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60's, tomorrow, pleasant 80 degrees. more of the sea breeze for saturday and sunday with temperatures in the up are 70's. high clouds saturday and then a little bit more in the way of sun on sunday. poconos mostly sunny tomorrow, 75, that is it and saturday 76 with a high clouds, abe then a mixture of sun and clouds on sunday of 75 degrees. as we look at the the day planner for tomorrow, 68 at 8:00 o'clock in the morning after being in the 50's for many locations, to start your friday. we will jump in the upper 70's at 11:00 and middle 80's by the afternoon. the exclusive accu weather seven day forecast, we will stay in the middle 80's on saturday. not as bright as friday with that filtered sun through the high cloud cover but still low humidity. easenablely warm here come sunday up to 86. then it turns noticeably more humid on monday, normal temperatures of 87 and then tuesday, wednesday into thursday the heat, oppressive humidity returns with the chance of afternoon and pop up downpours and storms or
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temperatures near the 90's. if you like a little break from the heat and humidity enjoy tomorrow. >> thanks, adam. teams from 18 local companies were competing in the variety of games tonight, "action news" was at wells fargo center for the philadelphia olympics. would than game players had to untank will themselves from a long ribbon but sometimes that >>pewele i pens usands ofthemzza h phewnced.linverall the sees d piz yeah, (s) oh n
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days, but we have not missed brand of baseball phillies have been playing this season. phillies get set to open up unofficial second half of the season in atlanta, they had 42 wins against 53. firm foot hold in last place in the nl east and ten full games out of first place. manager ryne sandberg is not looking for a repeat performance. >> we're inconsistent. we had our highs, our lows, and it was just, we just weren't able to sustain that, really, really put together wins on a regular basis to have have us where we want to be. >> offense has struggled, especially with runners in scoring position. general manager ruben amaro, junior if this keeps up trades will be made. that trade deadline is two weeks from today. >> we have the players that we have right now, and that is what i'm going to work with. as we go forward, if like i said, ruben entertains some conversations or things come his way, he will have those
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conversation is nba summer league may up some like fun. players are in las vegas. sixers are playing their fourth game in five nights, nerlens noel, missed past few games with the ankle injury. back tonight. bucket here. wow live with another ankle injury, retaped but back out there, right now, the bulls lead in the third quarter. still to come after one round of the open championship there are many familiar names at the top of the leader game. jersey shore, it is a bit crowded, families, teenagers,
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and this is who pays the price.
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cliche alert it is not how you start but how you finish. >> cares. >> at the open championship otherwise known as the british open. >> thank you. >> rory mcilroy had a one shot
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lead at six under par but he had big names hot on his tail, and, 21 year-old italian phenom, one shot back. this is his shot on the first hole. now, he is at five under par, and tiger woods, last won open champion ship also men as british open again, jim, on the very course in 2006. official name is the open championship. woods is back. fans got a chance to get up close and personal with the stanley cup today. former flyers player and assistant coach john stevens brought the the cup to sea isle city today. he was assistant coach with the kings who won last month. hundreds came by to snap a photo with the cup. stevens made sea isle city his home in zero on nine. >> it means a lot when you are fortunate enough to win one of the favorite things we do is to share with so many people. we won two years ago and brought it to canada we said then if we were fortunate to win it again we would like to bring it here.
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i finish playing here and coached a long time here. my family grew up here. >> the official name is lord stanley's cup. >> it is not a cup, it is a stanley cup. >> lord stanley cup. >> that is good, it is not the open it is british open. i know it is officially open championship but everybody knows it as the british open. >> let's agree to disagree. >> i cannot settle for that. you've got to see it my way. jimmy jimmy kimmel live on channel six. for the entire "action news" team i'm jim gardner, good elle southjeevy spo lv von e and w, hmmy kick omlaom tre
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>> jimmy: thank you for being here tonight. i appreciate that. it's very nice. there's so much going on today,
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