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ending. >> now a man that beat an elderly man for his lottery tickets is going to prison. and the water main break at ucla, we are live with the latest. >> and now vera coking has been fighting donald trump for the past 40 years, along south columbia place that sits in the shadow of the kags even. after years of going back and forth the battle is coming to annd. nora muchanic has the story ton. >> it was a classic david versus goliath story. pitting the homeowner against doneal trump. he wants to buy the building to expand his casino but vera coking wouldn't sell. >> i am trying to get a piece of it. >> because she fought so hard to keep it and trump fought so hard
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to buy it and she put her foot down unwon. >> but as fortunes turn so does the fate of the boarding house. vera is 91 and moved to california, instead of cashing in on seven figures, the family is putting up for auction. >> it's in bads condition. so i think she should have took the offer. >> you should sell it, when have you something worth a dollar and you get offered 20, it's stupid not to sell. >> but another of the cab drivers at a stop says that coking told him it was never about money. >> she doesn't want nobody to kick her out of her house, she doesn't need the money. >> the vacant building is $995,000 and the starting bid is $199,000 there is some that
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think she should have cashed in. >> we all wish trump was knocking on the doors offering something to us. >> she had it and let it go. >> one building next door sold for $2 million to trump. a philadelphia man that attacked a 75-year-old man for his lot lytic et sds going to prison. joseph smith spends 4 to 8 years behind bars, and he walked up to an elderly man for tickets, he attacked and punched the man and stole his money and smith was arrested after attacking a second person in the area. former coatesville detective gerald pauling was sentenced to 20 years in prison for stealing from his department. he took thousands from the evidence room and from the
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police athletic league. while he was serving as treasurer. pauling has to pay $70,000 in fines. a major cleanup operation is underway at ucla after a busted 30 inch water main shot a guiser of water in the air. hundreds of thousands of gallons inundated the campus and streets, check that out. the pauling pavilion and other buildings were flooded. students took it in stride and had fun as students will do. kirk hawkins is live. >> reporter: there are detours and closures in places where in is cleanup still underway. officials say it do take 24 hours before this neighborhood and the ucla neighborhood returns back to normal. >> the streets of los angeles transformed into a raging river.
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>> the sinkhole is getting bigger and bigger and only getting worse. >> the 30 inch water main broke and sent 10 million gallons worth of water on to the campus at 35,000 gallons per minute all of this at the height of a historic california drought. >> it's like a flash flood, you never know what will happen. the basketball pauly pavilion was just renovated for millions of dollars and now they are assessing the damage after working around the clock to protect the court. the flood of water trapped hundreds of cars in ucla's junds ground parking lots and firefighter his to rescue five people and outside the campus resembled a water park and this woman towing a friend down the sidewalk. the quality of water coming out
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of these pipes is something we have never seen on the campus. >> now, fixing the location of that leak is a very complex operation and the water main break happened where two large pipes came together. live in los angeles, kirk hawkins, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you for that report tonight. overseas now new developments in the ebola outbreak in africa, two peace corps volunteers are in isolation after having contact wtd man that died from the disease. neither is showing symptoms but they are withdrawing volunteers from liberia and sierra leone are pulling out. >> he told me that he wants
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everyone to understand that he knew when he went to liberia, that there were many diseases for which there are no cures. >> an american that died of ebola while working in liberia, he contracted it while caring for his sister there. world news with diane sawyer will have more on ebola, and what officials are doing to keep it from spreading to the u.s. a patient thief targeted a woman having dinner with friends in a kensington restaurant and it was all caught on tape. this is surveillance video from the tap bar and grill on north 2nd street, it was on july 19th when the suspect walked in and cased the area and chose a victim and then the man carefully grabbed her purse from the back of the chair and then
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waited another few minutes and stuffed the bag under his shirt and walked off. residents are warned to keep an eye out after a kitten tested positive for rabies, it was found at 70 and east mill road, 13 people and three cats an i dog are exposed to the infected feline. anybody bit by animal in the last month are encouraged to call the number on your screen. and from our new jersey newsroom, good news for shore drivers, the new jersey turnpike was awarded $40 million contract to wired enpart of the garden state parkway between galloway and egg harbor township. they expected to be done by august of 2017. wednesday night and an
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update for the highways and by ways. matt pellman is here. >> we could use a third lane, on the pennsylvania turnpike westbound side. they are blocked up ahead because of an overturned accident, two lanes by downingtown are absolutely parked, it's accident is two miles west of here, on the westbound side of the pennsylvania turnpike, i would not get farther west than valley forge and stick with the delays on the 202 south on the bypass west and 222, but that is not where you want to find yourself this afternoon. mlk blocked because of a downed tree and the kelly and schuylkill are alternates. 95 southbound by allegheny, a motorcycle crash taking out a lane and new hope, a crash with a dump truck towing construction equipment. street road is an possible
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alternate. three medical choppers are called to the scene of the accident. it turned into a busy, nasty afternoon out there. more to come on "action news" tonight. something was cooking in this montgomery county neighborhood, and it landed two young intruders in hot water. we'll explain. cecily tynan is live at the philadelphia zoo for you with this week's outdoor -- uh-oh, natural exhibit. really very interesting. >> we have fiona, an african bull dog who drinks a lot of water. we are talking about animals with healthy appetites, and they are ambush predators, they wait for their food to come and then they jump out and get it. i'll be feeding the west low land gorillas.
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>> is she african or european? >> ha, ha, ha. ducis rogers has the eagles including a live report, and highlights in sports when "action news" comes right back.
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new jersey governor, christie,sy putting pressure on lawmakers for the state's bail system. the changes would give judges discretion to keep those considered dangerous behind bars and release minor offenders even if they cannot afford bail. >> how do we continue to allow a system to exist that fails our poor and fails those that pose no risk to the communities because we allow dangerous people to walk free because they can afford to. >> christy called a special legislation session to push lawmakers to act. two juveniles are facing criminal charges for whipping up a batch of brownies laced with marijuana. it happened in collegeville last week while the owner wrsotirb ap
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