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line home invasion and chase. but the big story is the ban of all u.s. flights heading to israel. some u.s. airlines in europe and canada have suspended flights after a rocket landed intel severe today. this after fighting with militants and hamas at gaza. they determined it was too dangerous to fly into tel aviv right now. walter perez is live at the airport. >> reporter: rick, a short time ago, the prime minister appealed directly to secretary of state, kerry, to do what he can to resume flights to israel specifically tel aviv. we spoke to a family who are already on edge. >> emily tries not to worry
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about her son but it's no use, noah is on the tail end of a six week trip. >> this is the end of a long time is he over there, i keep hoping it will go in a different direction towards peace but haven't experienced that yet. >> the faa imposed a 24 hour ban to flights in and out of tel aviv. they canceled flights today and. a delta flight on its way to israel today was diverris after landing near tel aviv. >> sheecently retuned fromiseln
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places down south and the people are struggling to maintain what they like to maintain, their normal, average routine. >> while emily feel a kinship with israel at this point she wants to home. he is having qu rxperience but wsda o t..in, di ranc lngu.s. bm.tomorrow t anhe 6abc.com and posting information on the new canceled flights, we have a link to check every flight out of philadelphia international airport. new at 6:00 police arrested a suspect in an allege road rage stabbing in collingdale, police
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say it happened after 3:00 at the sunoco mini mart, the suspect, stanley williams, was capture aid short time later and the alleged victim suffered stab wounds to the arm and was take andhe hop incondio investigatio into a main line home invasion and kidnapping that results in a police chase in upper merion. police are trying to piece together the violence chain of events. chad pradelli is live with the very latest. >> police know what happened. they just don't know why. whether this couple was targeted. investigators say it was a home invasion kidnapping that ended with a wild foot and vehicle pursuit. it makes me feel sick de. masi
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after a apping his t grabbed a shotgun and then tied uch the woman and kidnapped her fanie and then the suspect stole the couple's carnd drove him to a wawa to withdraw crash d the wonome a called police. >> the officers were looking for the vehicle and found it a few minutes later. driving through the train station parking lot, we believe on the way back to the house. >> a vehicle pursuit ensued and ditch aid vehicle on south gulph road. >> he runs to the back of the property and climbs the fence and the expressway and climbs the barrier wall into the bob white section of philadelphia. >> as they continued to build their case, neighbors watched and tried to make sense of a
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violent crime not often seen in upper merion. >> this is a relatively safe neighborhood and i am concerned about my neighbor. >> the suspect's name is not released but he will be arraigned at 7:30 on a long list of charges. live in upper merion, chad pradelli, channel 6 "action news." philadelphia police are investigating a claim that a woman was sexually assaulted late this morning in logan square, the woman tells police she was attacked near the swan memorial fountain just before noon. he was caught at 16th and arch street earlier, and the woman was take and to the hospital to be treat for a neck injury. and now the hunt is on for the suspect that shot a couple outside of a rite-aid store. authoritied say they were able to identify a suspect that is at large. vernon odom is following the story outside of northeast
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detectives with the latest. >> good evening rick, late this afternoon, police completed a search of the home of the suspect whose name they have given to them by the victims, that is on stevens street here in northeast philadelphia. the victim and suspect was not there and they found no incriminating evidence, but at this hour they are securing an arrest warrant for the suspect. >> despite the surveillance cameras at businesses along the busy 6500 block of caster avenue. police have not been able to get a clear view of the gang-style shooting of a 65-year-old man and his fiance. they were gunned down at 11:30 by a man wielding a high caliber semi automatic. the woman was hit nine times police say, in the abdomen and legs and feet. police say they will both survive. >> they were found on the
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highway, just laying on the highway. the male victim tells police he owes the attacker money and gave the police his name. he is a big time drug dealer and he fled on foot. he is 5'5" tall and they found the gun used in the attempted murder. >> reporter: both victims are in satisfactory condition after undergoing surgery today. live in southeast philadelphia, vernon odom, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. an "action news" investigation caused major delays on 95 north at the princeton exit this afternoon. new jersey state police say that a tow truck carrying a tractor trailer hit the overpass and debris went flying and hit a passing car and the driver was injured and taken to the medical center for treatment.
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they are assessing the damage to the overpass. look at the new crime fighting tools introduced from the pennsylvania state police, to be used for air patrols all across the commonwealth. and still to come on "action news" tonight, jay paterno sues penn state over his firing as an assistant football coach. we hit 88 degrees today but 90s are waiting in the wings, i'm tracking a surge of heat and humidity and storms in the accuweather forecast. >> ducis rogers has sports and much more when "action news" at 6:00 continues in just a moment. how can i avoid maintenance fees?
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the thieves got away withwo boxes containing $180,000. assistant football coach are sughe iverse. they seek a million dollars in damages for b bill o. they s they have been unfairl linked the sandusky scandal making it hard to find comparable coaching jobs. >>hey sy it's common for head coaches toick their own assiants. th crisis in ukraine has hit home for a university students, he is housing his friend in his apartment after fleeing the civil unrest earlier this month. as lisa thomas-laury reports
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it's only a temporary fix. >> i'm going to rstaurant -- >> he is spending er teaching h usingte course, he trans ine omischolar. he is a ncaa division 2 all american breastroker that learned the i web unrest broke out, his father, a surgeon became a target. >> was driv ey caught us and i was told to get out ofow the gr their son, sleeping of their college roommate that happens to be russian and went happening r the summer.
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between ukraine and russia, i was born in the ussr and we used to have one big country and there was no ukraine or russia or anything else, we were all the same. for asylum in the united states and they are tying to help. >> we are working in the westchester community to get them accommodations for when shark's roommates come back to college. to find out more how can you help shark and his family, go to 6abc.com. lisa thomas-laury, channel 6 "action news." new jersey governor, chris christie is touring the jersey shore with his no pain, no gain talks, in long beach township, he warned that the state's promised pension and benefits for sec toward workers are becoming unattainable. the unions plan to file legal papers in the coming months to force the governor to make a
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full payment this fiscal year. he cut the payment for 2014 and 2015 when the state's revenue came in lower than expect in april. pitchers of water were used to demonstrate a new paving surface in april. they toured the brand new employee parking lot at the plant, the surface is permable that passes through the soil, it's part of the clean city storm water management plan. wilmington hospital dedicated its brand new ate atrium today. it boasts a fountain and lush garden beds and a park like setting to greet patients and their families. they will have expanded the hospital by 37,000 square feet and from our delaware newsroom, voices for the voiceless is a
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it's not just a sedan. it's a subaru. time for sports and ducis rogers is here, looking to get one in the win column here. but the season has not been canceled. the phil play on against the joins, ryan howard is in his customary cleanup spot. ryan howard is batting .236. but he will not be benched by
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san burg. >> he is making better can't and one swing of the bat could be great. that is what imwaiting for. cliff lee pitched in front a crowd, a crowd of major league scouts. lee is traded four times in his career and this is nothing new for him. >> i never cared about that. still don't. i don't know how many scouts were here and i don't care about the rumors, i just want to help the team win, i could careless about the scouts in the stands and trade rumors don't mean anything to me. meanwhile john mayberry jr. is on the 15-day dl. while ryan sand burg has a rough day leading the phillies, it's nothing compared to brown.
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but he says the potential is there. >> we are growing our own and raising our own children. >> brett brown feels part coach and part father and told me his kids are a good three to five years away to win on a regular basis. >> i would be lying if i said it wasn't hard, it's very hard but i find great sort of comfort in the excitement of what i know is being built. their pick at three may not hit the floor this year because of a foot injury. >> i hope when you study and see where we are going, that the disappointment of losses will be trumped by the weight of the direction. >> look at nerlines noel.
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>> he recently turned 20 and has not played a lot of basketball, but he played in high school and then to college for one year and now to the nba,ly help him grow. >> you notice a theme, growth. >> feel like if we are all again big boys and honest, this program isn't there right now, we have to look inside and fix what we have been can control and at some point we'll be there. >> it's refreshing to get a coach that is frank and honest like that. >> yes it is. sugarhouse casino broke ground on a $164 million expansion project, the expansion to the delaware river front property includes a poker room, restaurants and event space and more parking, with that comes 400 more jobs and 1600
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construction jobs.
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meteorologist, cecily tynan is back inside now, with a look at that somewhat steamy forecast. it will get hot and humid and really clear out the air. one day we can handle it. one day rick it's okay. >> oh all right. i can handle it. >> stormtracker 6 live double scan showing we have dry air, you used to run there all the time. valley forge national historical park, seeing a mixture of clouds and sunshine today.
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definitely on the warm and muggy side. currently in philadelphia it's 86 degrees down from the high of 88 and millville 80 and wilmington 82 and trenton 85 degrees, cooler along the shore temperatures in the mid-70s. and the ocean temperature is 74 degrees, satellite 6 along with action radar showing the big weather changer is a cold front right now not a lot of activity associated with this, this is picking up moisture and giving us showers and thunderstorms but ahead of it, a surge of hot air 93 degrees it feels close toward 100, take it easy future tracker showing at 4:00 we begin to see scattered thunderstorms bubbling up in our far north and west suburbs, the lehigh valley and berks county and lancaster. moving to the east at 7:00. closer to philadelphia moving into south jersey, late tomorrow
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night, if you are at the beach, some storms are looking to get there and be a nice beach day. it will be muggy there and by 3:00, 83, the shore the last place to get the storms tomorrow, but also the last place to clear out on thursday, it's not looking to be a nice beach day, tropical depression number two, this is dry air though, tropical depressions and storms need moist air to blossom and this is running into all of this dry air and it's getting choked and likely will not become a tropical storm, and it will be bertha. but it will die out. overnight low, 68 to 73. and the heat is on, 93 degrees tomorrow and the heat index, the way it feels closer to 100 with late day and evening
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thunderstorms, thursday thundershowers and late sunshine as we clear from the north to the south, and i want to show you future tracker though, at 5:00 we still see moisture hanging along the coast. this system will be slow to clear. it gets out of here on friday, 84 degrees, loads of sunshine and low humidity and great weather for the union game and saturday looking nice, humidity still will be moderate, 88 degrees and sunday is when the oppressive humidity returns, 87 degrees with it a possible of late day thunderstorms, it looks look a better chance of thunderstorms on monday and 85 and tuesday we clear out at 83 degrees, impressive tomorrow and stormy and friday the pick of the week. >> thank you cecily. >> finally tonight, the baby boom continues at "action news," meet juliet eva heller, the latest production for producer
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janet -- jennifer heller. juliet and mom and dad are all doing great. congratulations to the family. >> "action news" continues tonight at 10:00 with brian taff, shirleen allicot, ducis rogers and adam joseph and join us for "action news" at 11:00
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welcome to "world news." tonight, flight alert. all usairlines told to stop their flights to israel. one plane diverted mid fight after a rocket breaches the iron dome. new evidence about the final seconds for all those passengers on malaysian flight 17. and the big mystery. who scaled the brooklyn bridge, stole the american flag and put these up instead?
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a good evening to you on this tuesday night. and as we come on the air. every usair line in this nation has been put on notice. do not fly into israel's biggest city for the next 24 hours. this is an extraordinary warning, something the faa

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