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him to begin a journey that would cost him $14,000. lawmen want to find these bandits and find them fast. friday night and the big story on "action news" tonight is a scam that played a senior citizen for a sucker and he's paying a big price. "action news" reporter skep live at cottman and castor in the northeast. >> bensalem investigators were that bank and others getting surveillance of the suspects in this scam. they say the embarrassed victim barely speaks english and thought he could make quick cash. >> these surveillance images of the men bensalem police say kond a northeast philadelphia man out of $14,000. investigators say friday morning the thief who's had african ak saents approached their mark at the wawa on grant avenue. >> basically their story was they felt it was unsafe to put their money in u.s. banking system and they wanted him to

show how easy it was. >> the victim prize for helping $20,000. but first he would need to fork over $14,000 of his own cash. >> if something is too good to be true it's too good to be true. nobody makes $6,000 with a quick turnover of money like that. >> a russian american drove the con-artist and his car to withdraw from different banks first and second first niagara and then fwrov parx casino where the victim got a sizable cash advance on his credit cardch the men made their way down the street and distracted the victim and left him broke in the parking lot of dunkin' donuts escaping in a white mini van. >> my thought is they've done this before and i'm sure there's other victims out there. what we don't want is a victim tomorrow. bensalem police believe the suspect's african accents fake and the kahne the man was using a prop. at the wawa where it all started, customers had a lot to

say about the scam. >> you have to really respect older people and i think it's dishonorable. >> what would i do, they better go find somebody else i'm not the one. that's what i would tell them. >> bensalem police say they were able to get fingerprints and dna from the victim's car and they're hoping to get a hit. can i also tell you tonight, that they want to hear from you if you recognize those four 34e7b men or that white van. reportering in northeast philadelphia, "channel 6 action news." >> thank you kenneth a toddler is in the hospital after falling out of a first floor window in the lawncrest section of philadelphia. the 19-month-old girl has a fractured skull, concussion and head bruises among other injuries. detectives from special victim's unit are investigating this. it happened at 5:30 in the 900 block of bridge streetch the little girl is in stable condition at st. christopher's hospital. a motorcyclist slammed into a pickup truck on i-495 late

tonight seriously injuring two people and that truck driver pulled over to help another motorist whose car was disabled on the shoulder and delaware state police blocked off the southbound lanes of the highway at the state line at 9:30 tonight to investigate the wreck. the search will continue in the morning for a small plane that crashed in the water off the island of jamaica. the plane was carrying a real estate developer and wife from rochester new york headed to naples florida. something wept terribly wrong and the pilot may have lost consciousness during the flight. dann cuellar is live in the satellite center with the details. >> that's right, jim, the pilot twice sought to fly at a lower altitude before he slumped over the controls as the plane flew over four hours before crashing into the sea. >> the plane took off 8:45 a.m. an hour that flight the pilot radios he has a problem.

>> we need to touchdown to 180 we have an indication something is incorrect in the sglaen when asked by air traffic controllers if he wanted to declare an emergency which would have made the request a priority he said no and goes silent and doesn't respond to radio cars. >> do you hear -- >> two fighter jets scrambled to get close spotting the pilot slumped at the controls apparently suffering from a lack of oxygen. >> this was the first time we could see he was breathing. >> they essentially look like they go to sleep. >> the plane later crashes 14 miles off the coast of jamaica. on board layer la larry glacier and his wife jane.

>> we hope everyone will have thoughts and prayers with the glazeers at this difficult time. >> as rare as this is in the air this is the second time this week a pilot has lost conscious ntion and cashld a plane the other was plying over washington and crashed in the atlantic ocean. dann cuellar, "channel 6 action news." nato committed itself to fighting the islamic state. president obama found agreement among ten key allies today meeting at the nato summit in wales that isis is a threat to countries taken will combine a strategy of attacking isis financial resources and hitting them militarily. obama reiterated u.s. ground forces will not be needed to accomplish the goal. pentagon colonoscopy firms a u.s. air strike killed leader of somalia al qaeda linked terrorist group al shabad. it took confirmation to make

sure he did not make the strike. >> after five months of fighting guns fell silent 11:00 in the morning our time. ukraine, rush qua and russian-backed separatetists signed a sees fire agreement. u.s. is skeptical that they will cease to violet sovereign un tixt further tests need to be performed to determine the exact cause of death of joan rivers. she had a heart attack thursday while undergoing a diagnostic endoscopy at a manhattan doctor's office. rivers was taken to the hospital on life support. he never he woke up. her initial autopsy did not reveal wrong doing but it's inconclusive. rivers will be laid to rest in a private service on sunday. advocates for chester youth walked a red carpet of sorts on

the river tonight. mayor john lender hosted the first ever riverfront ramble reception and the cocktail party at chester warch recognized some of the biggest supporters of development programs for local kids and teenagers. and still to come on "action news" tonight a florida company may be willing to place a bet on the shuttered show boat casino while a boardwalk restaurant is suing trump plaza over the imminent closure. plus we are not lying. these are the first cubs born at the zoo this century. and now you can see them for yourself. cecily. >> we have a steamy start to the weekend but this the cold front will bring us a stormy end to the heat and humidity and usher in a fall-like air mass. i'll explain in the accuweather forecast. >> and ducis rogers has an injury report and contributions expected from the rookies and jamie apody with "high school huddle" when "action news" continues tonight. huddle" when "action news" continues tonight. dan cuellar

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>> there are several simultaneous developments on the atlantic city boardwalk toont mid the turmoil of casino shut down. trump plaza is set to close down september 16 and rain forest cafe connected to the property doesn't want to close. its parent company landrys owning the golden snugger filed a lawsuit asking to remain open and operate independently. it's trying to save 200 jobs. meanwhile the european company that runs trump applause aon-line betting operation is giving permission to take bets after september 16 until the casino license is returnederd and possible self show but that shut down sunday.

latitude 360 says it's in negotiations to buy the property. it's proposed 20 million proj wokt not involve gambling. while hands are being played out there's no concern about trump taj mahal and the casino filed financial statements end indicating it can't pay debts on time raising inspector of another brupcy. at this point union says employees have not been given warning of imminent layoffs. philadelphia teachers are preparing their classrooms for the first day of school on monday. and faced with a district financial crisis they have to get creative. here at the them tour sdlool fwhooz cash for art supplies and teacher leslie grace raised $4,000 at donors choose.org to kick start her art program. you can join "action news" monday morning to help get you and the kids out the door for the first day of school in philadelphia and the morning team is on beginning at 43506789

with all the traffic and weather that you need to know and then follow them on twitter for back to school tips with a hash tag 6abc bts. >> favelies enjoying night music beneath the ben franklin bridge tonight. local artist presented by fringe arts drew a devoted crowd to the race street pier for first friday park after dark. >> cats are out of the bag quartet of lion cubs made a due bu today. we've been showing their active since they were born at the philadelphia zoo in june. today they got roomp around sounds with mom. they are first lions born at the philadelphia zoo in 18 years. >> wow. >> there's a reason why lions are so spectacularly popular

around the world and we just saw that. >> quite the draw at the philadelphia zoo. >> got that right. >> weather this weekend. if you like summer you'll love it tomorrow. if you like fall you've love it on sunday and if you like storms you'll love saturday night. we've got something for everyone. sorry about the storms. stormtracker 6 live double scan showing tonight we're storm free. no rain out there. no thunderstorms. the action cam taking a look at penns landing towards the ben franklin bridge and hazy atmosphere because the humidity is just so high and it was a warm day. our morning low, 72 degrees and afternoon high, 89 degrees and about 7 degrees above normal and felt more like 95 when you factored in the humidity. right now in philadelphia it's warm, 7. wilmington 80. allentown and reading 75. millville 7 degrees. and dew points which measure the amount of moisture in the air wherever you have dew points 70 or above that is oppressive.

dew point in wilmington is 76 degrees. that's a tropical air mass. we don't get points higher than that in the delaware and lehigh valleys and things will change over the weekend. satellite 6 and action radar showing see that line of showers and thunderstorms this is the heat and humidity buster and this is what will be rolling through tomorrow night. so future tracker showing most of the daylight hours will be dry around 3:00, could have a few popup in the lehigh valley and then around 600 we'll liarly get a prefrontal band of storms arriving on the i-95 corridor an actual cold front moves through later tonight with another around of showers and thunderstorms out of here in the wee hours of surprised morning and behind this system we get a breath of fresh air. 90, high humidity. on sunday, winds out of the north, low humidity, return of sunshine, gradually through the day and afternoon high of 69

degrees. it's going to feel like fall on sunday. if you are down the shore tomorrow will feel like summer. warm, humid, 5. ocean temperature 79. sunday, cooler and pleasant, 78. the poconos a good chance of very strong storms tomorrow afternoon. 78 degrees and then sunday mostly sunny and nice day in the poconos with eye of 71 degrees. so the exclusive accuweather 7-day forecast, hazy, hot and humid tomorrow, 90 degrees. late thunderstorms and then on surprised much more comfortable, 79. so the home-opener for eagles at the linc looking nice. kickoff temperature 76. and by the end of the game 78 partly sunny skies with a breeze out of the north. monday, still on the cool side, 78 degrees. on tuesday, increase in clouds and possibility of showers especially east of philadelphia and on wednesday, we bring back humidity not really the heat 7 with possibility of showers and it looks like somewhat upsetled

thursday and friday with more showers possible, 82 thursday and friday and 78 degrees. hot on saturday but surprised really perfect timing for the eagles game. it will feel nice. >> thank you, cecily. we want to tell about you changes coming to 6abc lineup starting monday and "action news" at noon goes to an hour long broadcast beginning monday right here on 6abc and more news and weather from noon until 1, five was a week. and "action news" is followed by the chew which will remain in its 1 p.m. time slot and then it's game show block beginning 2:00, "who wants to be a millionaire" has a new host terri cruz. daytime jeopardy comes on 2:30 and general hospital returns to long running time slot 3 p.m. followed by "action news" at long running time slot 3 p.m. followed by "action news" at 4:00.

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jefferson hospital. 6abc president and general manager barny prazenica were there for a very important cause tonight. two days or a day and a half away from the season opener. it's finally almost here the injury report is relatively clean headed to opener on sunday with jacksonville and rookie receiver huff and tobin are listed as out and the time to hit tackling dummys in each other is over. the hitting, counts now. eagles expect to get contributions from rookie class like receiver matthews. he views that no different than the veterans. >> curfew on the draft class for the off season program they were philadelphia eagles the first day they stepped on the field as they were now. >> it is a good feeling. definitely something i dreamed about dallas preseason games got me ready for it.

it won't be too shabby. i'll go out and play my game. >> we invut you to call mike quick and myself for agolees game day kickoff as we preview this contest. we'll wrap it up with eagles game day final sunday. >> tonight against the nats a different story, williams does not have his best stop. first inning adam la roach tagged him for a two-run homer and williams gives up five runs and -- phils down 7-4 in the ninth. carlos ruiz not ready to give up. two-run homer to pull the phils within one to an 0-2 pitch 7-4. ben hev veer. he's got one homener entire career came earlier this career. this is -- refer ear solo shot

ties game at 7. he leaves with .3 15 batting average. phils take the lead in the 11th. >> penn state new football head coach james franklin will make a home day debut against ak lynn. if you can believe it this will be the first game at beaver stadium as a fan or coach you. >> rivrt one out there and the walk there will be juice and excitement there. i think when you first come out of the tunnel and run on the field the first 30 seconds will be a moment of magnitude of it, but after that it will be all into the game. >> you can see penn state and akron tomorrow here on 6abc. >> thank you, ducis, jockeys which way. okay, we'll do it here. jockeys and raiders are getting ready for wacky races this weekend. it is one of the more bizarre

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