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crime. >> reporter: rick, the victim remains in critical but stable condition, this is a senseless shooting caught on video. but the victim's family is hopeful it will lead to the gunman. the suspect fired away with little regard for human life. when he stopped and ran off, william lynn was sprawled on the road with a half dozen bullet wounds in him. he remains paralyzed from the waist down. >> this is my husband, i love him, we have to stop with this not wanting to tell. lynn's wife, a police dispatcher, says he was simply going for a sandwich when he was shot. he unknowingly brushed against the gunman inside of this tiny corner store. after lynn walked to his car the
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shooter and his accomplice shouted at him and after that he was shot. >> we lived in the neighborhood for years, everybody there knows my son and my other son and my family. >> police have received a few tips about the shooting but hope that this clear video will help and the tragedy around this senseless shooting will prompt someone to come forward. >> i want my son to get well and he can come out the way he went in. >> and lynn has a lengthy recovery but his wife says he is fighting though doctors are skeptical he will ever walk again. live in university city, chad pradelli, channel 6 "action news" and we have breaking news to pass along tonight. chopper 6 is over the scene in west goshen chester county. an apartment fire and crews are on the scene here trying to combat the flames and bring
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things under control. this is in west goshen chester county. it ignited around 4:15, flames igniting in one of the units in this two story building. it has eight to ten units and again fire units are on the scene trying to bring things under control and we are told now that the fire is under control and the investigation is now underway into exactly what caused it. we are keeping an eye here west goshen, pennsylvania. breaking news from chester county. it was an emotional first day of school for students at council rock south high school today. they resumed classes since three of their classmates were killed in a crash near the poconos. walter perez is live outside of the school in holland, buck county with the story. >> reporter: hi shirleen, it's an emotional night as well.
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as it's first viewing is going on right now just down the road here at the flur funeral home here on holland road, one part of a tough week for this commune. >> it was the first day of classes at counsel rock high school. as students prepare for the new academic year they prepare for something more daunting saying good-bye do three classmates that died in a car accident over the weekend. they are share their memories. >> for the young teenagers they are taking stock of what it means to really be alive and well and looking at their fellow classmates that won't have that opportunity. >> sadness and grief and especially when it's in your own community there. the three rising sophomores died within the suv they were riding in was involved in a one vehicle
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rollover crash in western pennsylvania. a 15-year-old girl from new york was behind the wheel and now she is expected to face a string of charges in juvenile court, the driver another teenage girl from york and a council rock student survived the crash and were released with relatively minor injuries. the reality of this case is getting started and the final farewells were getting started to. >> mark klein says that the district will do everything possible to help family and friends find comfort in this painful process. >> our kids will go through something that we don't know how to manage, three services in three days, we'll support the families as they go through the terrible time. >> and as we mentioned one viewing is going on right down the road here and one is tomorrow and another on friday. more information can be found on our website at 6abc.com.
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reporting live from holland, buck county, waller perez, channel 6 "action news." one suspect in the deadly carjacking crash in tioga was arraigned. jonathan rosa is charged with carjacking a woman and killing three children in a crash that happened in july. the mother of the children keesha williams was hurt in the crash and later died. he was in court and asked for forgiveness, cornelius crawford who was behind the wheel is due in court next month. >> a philadelphia community is celebrating after they took on a neighborhood store and apparently won. they demanded the store stop selling b.b. guns, as vernon odom reports, the store's owner took action. >> in point breeze the community has succeeded in getting these guns off the street. these air soft guns that shoot hard plastic balls that look
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like large caliber semi automatic handguns. >> they are toys that police can mistake for a real weapon. if they pull it out the police don't know it's a toy and they are going to shoot and rightfully so. the action cam was there as roughly 100 protesters braved the sweltering heat and the boycott. the owner and several other corner markets agreed to stop selling the guns -- community leaders are asking him to stop selling them for a long time and he finally agreed. >> we'll keep sending in decoys and looking at other locations. many sense the danger that these guns bring. >> they need to get the guns out of the stores because it can be dangerous for a young black man to walk around with a b.b. gun. can you turn it over and it
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looks real and a glock is made out of plastic any way. >> they have eliminated the disaster, which in these days and times can hardly be considered innocent toys. vernon odom, channel 6 "action news." >> the philadelphia school district is celebrating a new report. for the fourth straight year, the violence school incidents have declined. the philadelphia department of education says that not one school in the district will be designated as persistly dangerous for the 2014-2015 school jeer, it's the first time that the district doesn't have any schools listed as persistly dangerous. it happened late this morning along the roosevelt boulevard, according to police arks 66-year-old man was attending to his disabled vehicle and while looking under
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his hood with the flashers on another driver slammed into him. the man was hospitalized with various injuries and another driver a young mother way baby in the backseat suffered a broken leg, no word on charges tonight. in the city's winfield section, one person was injured when a school bus collided with two pickup trucks, it happened on winfield avenue and park side. there was one student on the school bus but the student was not hurt. the cause of crash still under investigation. >> time now for the "action news" traffic report on a wednesday. >> matt pellman is in the traffic center, how is your hump day looking so far? >> we are getting through it at least. rick and shirleen, watch out for the school buses, more and more of them on the road through the month of september and we see plenty of traffic at the ben franklin bridge, our good buddy
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ben, it's the culprit the construction in the westbound lanes coming out of the toll plaza to camden towards center city. and the work zones along 95, the southbound side no blockages and just the construction zones taking a half hour to get from wood haven to the vine and a crash at the betsy ross bridge, taking out a lane contributing to the northbound delay. eastbound past ben salem. that is pushed out of the way. north in middletown township, the broken down train and speeds of 9 miles per hour coming westbound from 202, the culprit there another broken down vehicle now off to the side of trooper road. >> all right thank you matt. more to come on "action news" wednesday night, a michigan man learns his fate for killing an unarmed woman on his porch. hear what he said to the victim's family coming up.
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a michigan man is sentenced to at least 17 years in prison for shooting an unarmed woman on his porch. theodo theodo theodo theodore waifer was shot when he fired through his screen door, the 55-year-old will carry guilt and sorrow for the shooting forever. health check tonight, the latest american affected with ebola is identified even as a missionary nurse that survived the disease spoke for the first time. rick sacravolunteers to go back
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after nancy writebol got sick, she says her care and an her faith and experimental care saved her. she says she was stunned when she learned that what seemed like malaria was ebola. >> and there were mornings i woke up and said i'm alive and there were many times i thought i'm not going to make it anymore. >> officially 1900 people have now died of ebola, but the number is probably much higher than that according to the world health organization. and people and money is needed to tame this epidemic. antibiotics in milk and meat are a hot topic but fruit can also carry them. a girl got itchy, red splotches
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on her skin after a slice of blueberry pie. they had been treated with streptmisin. it shows how the drugs are month more places than we realize. firefighters and personnel got checks from the cooper medical team. cam didn't county has launched a wellness campaign to improve the health of first responders to better protect the safety of the public, and others will get their screenings in the month's ahead., and others will get one philadelphia school expanded for the start of the new school year, at saint barn bass elementary school. the usual?
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right now, get free lenses with a complete pair purchase for caring for you, and your eyes, just got a little easier. kids 14 and under. this is genuine eye care right in your neighborhood. this is pearle vision. purdue food says they are cutting back on antibiotics in their meat. they stopped used it in their chicken hatcheries, to curb the
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unnecessary use of it in -- purdue only used animal antibioticses to control illnesses in its flocks. cvs has stopped selling tobacco products, amonth ahead of the previously par getted date of october 1st. it will have the new name cvs health. the chain will now offer nicotine gum and other products that help people quit smoking where it once sold cigarettes. from our delaware newsroom, residents came out today to protest the kind of music being played on one music station, the rage against the ratchet group for kiss 101 ptd 7, they said that the music being played was promoting sex and violence and drugs. >> it's disrespectful and demeaning to our community as a black community and it affects
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america's community, we are trying to get radio to get a balance to pull the music out during the times the children are listening. >> the spokesperson for the radio station says she bring wilmington the songs they want to hear from the top artists and they follow government regulations. from the new jersey newsroom, corey booker has formerly launched his re-election campaign, he spoke to a score of reporters in blackwood and says he is working with both parties on issues for federal funding on programs. jeff bell is unwillinging to work with democrats and we asked bell for comments and he says that booker is too focused on the power structure and not focusing on the issues of every day new jerseyans. >> there is more to come onning a tonight. looking live from sky 6 hd from
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>> it's lasting two days and the heat and humidity is returning for a couple of days and it felt good. 82 in philadelphia. the current temperature and the average high is 82. still on the warm side, it feels nice, allentown 83 and millville 82, and cooler on the beaches at 78 degrees, compared to this time yesterday. 10 degrees cooler in philadelphia and 9 degrees cooler in wilmington but feels cooler because yesterday we had dew points in the 70s and it was oppressive but most of the area has dew points below 60, and when you get that this time of year it's very comfortable, it's a dry air mass, a great day to get outdoors, satellite 6 along with action radar showing the cold front that swept through has strong thunderstorms and is now stalled down to the south, this is what will bring us cloud cover, you can see how north and
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west of our area the clouds are clear and that will happen in the overnight hours. clouds will clear out and this will lead the way for a comfortable night. future tracker showing tomorrow morning, you wake up at 7:30 in the morning, lots of sunshine and a few areas of patchy fog, heading into the afternoon, a few clouds bubbling up and a quiet day with low humidity and on friday though things begin to change, this brings us a change of heat and humidity and future tracker showing us it brings pop-up thunderstorms in the afternoon hours with the higher humidity and this could have heavier downpours and a cold front came through and it's somewhat unsettled with the potential for thunderstorms, the call from accuweather for tonight, great night for sleeping and comfortable and clear humidity and overnight low, 67 down to 60 in millville and 64 in wilmington and
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allentown down to 56 degrees, the five-day at 5:00, another nice day lots of sunshine and warm and low humidity with a high of 88 degrees, it gets hot and humid and the possible of pop-up thunderstorms and saturday hot and humid and 92 degrees, late day and afternoon thunderstorms and in the evening, cool down 79 degrees and 78 on monday, will the cool weather last longer in the accuweather forecast. >> thank you. there is more to come on the next half hour of "action news" at 5:00. authorities say they have caught up with vandals that caused damage to an athletic field. drug dealers are now sitting in a jail cell after a sweep.
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"action news" this evening. a second american journalist is confirmed murdered by the terrorist group, isis. and president obama is vowing swift action. and a woman wanted for stealing a pair of shoes at a payless. and now the details, president obama is vowing a strong assault on isis in response to the killing of american journalist, steven sotloff. they have confirmed the video of sotloff's beheading is authentic. the murder came to weeks after the beheading of another american journalist, james foley, karen travers is live in washington, d.c., with the latest. >> reporter: good evening shirleen, a second american brutally killed by isis has put pressure on president obama to go after the extremist group.
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he says the u.s. will not be intimidated by isis's threats, but did not give a timeline. >> president obama delivered a blunt warning today in eastern europe. >> our objective is clear, and that is to degrade and destroy. >> and vice president, biden when further in new hampshire. >> we'll follow them through the gates of hell for justice. >> but what the americans will do for justice, on that president obama is vague. >> this is not a one week or one month or six week proposition. >> isis is believed to be holding two more american hostages and they are scrambling to identify the man seen in these two videos, that shows the executions of steven sotloff and james foley.
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