couple was attacked at chancellor. >> one to two suspects quickly were identified. just based on looking at them from their facebook profile to their age on the surveillance camera. >> the video was tweeted and it was taken minutes before the men were jumped at 10:45, this group of 15 people came on on the two money, ages 27 and 28 and investigators said that homophobic comments were made before the two were violently beaten and someone took a cell phone and wallet. then this picture surfaces. >> there was a tweet with a picture of the whole party, the people from the video and friends. >> quickly the restaurant was identified and a facebook search of who checked into that

restaurant on that night started matching pictures to the video. they learned that this night started as a get together from old high school friends in buck county. not far from where the attack took place. not everyone in this picture were involved in the attack but some of the suspected attackers are in this picture and people in the city are outraged by the crime. >> they should be able to go without anywhere they want to go without having problems or issues. >> the faster the news moves the more people affected by it and they will take action and make sure justice happens. >> now, pennsylvania did pass a hate crime law in 2002. that covered the lgbt community but the state supreme court struck that down based on a tech quality. legislation was reintroduced in 2009 but it failed to make it out of committee. we are live in spring garden,

eva pilgram, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. our coverage of the attack continues on 6abc.com. there you can see the surveillance video released by police along with individual pictures of those being sought, you can also find ways to can't philadelphia police if you have any information. this was the scene of a tragic accident this morning at 42nd and locust in west philadelphia. an 8-year-old girl fell out of a ninth floor window and doctors at childrens hospital declared her dead on arrival. "action news" reporter was live at the scene of the girl's fall, sara how did it happen? >> they investigated today and determined it was a tragic accident. the 8-year-old girl opened the screen of the bedroom window in the ninth floor apartment she shared with her 11-year-old sister and father. she was looking out the window and fell to her death. >> investigators spent the

morning investigating the window where an 8-year-old girl fell from the window. the screams of her 11-year-old sister could be heard throughout the apartment building. >> she ran screaming through the building, it's a tragedy. >> the 8 and 11-year-old sisters shared the bedroom while their father slept in the living room. they believe the screen was down when the children went to sleep and they believe the 8-year-old lifted up to look outside. it's unclear if the sister witnessed the fall but her screamed alerted the father. >> the father runs downstairs and picks the child up and awaits police, and we tried to get her to the hospital but the injuries were devastating. >> the child was pronounced dead at the hospital, the screen did have locks and the 8-year-old was able to open it up on her

own, they said perhaps building management should make sure the windows are more secure. >> i think the apartment -- to p prevent these disasters. >> we reached out to management and they had windows with screens and locks and this appears to be a terrible accident. live in west philadelphia, sara bloomquist, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. pennsylvania state police had a direct message today for eric frein. he is the fugitive wanted for gunning down a state trooper. in the event you are listening to this broadcast on a portable radio while couring in a cool damp hiding place, i want you to know one thing, eric we are

coming for you. >> the hunt continues tonight, he gunned down brian dickson and wounded another trooper. he may have a mohawk style haircut, they showed the 31-year-old dressed in military type clothe, he belonged to a military type unit that trained like european soldiers. they are urging caution tonight and a viewing for corporal dickson is underway right now. after a crash on i-95 in delaware county, the accident happened at 11:20 in the southbound lanes of bartram avenue, the officer was extricated from the cruiser be taken to crozier hospital with

non-life-threatening injuries. meanwhile, the crozer-chester medical center is staring at the possibility of a nursing strike. 600 nurses are threatening to walk off the job this coming sunday, vernon odom is live at the scene of contract negotiations, the concord inn in glen mills, vernon what is the latest? >> reporter: sources tell me there were minor progress but no major breakthroughs, the expectations are that the talks will break off shortly tonight and it appears that 600 crozier nurses will walk off the job on sunday. crozier chester medical center is bracing for a strike by its nurses, to maintain the level of care they have signed a -- for a three day lockout to punished

the rank and file. these strike breakers have a shady record. >> they claimed they had to sign a five-day deal to land top knox replacements. the union and hospital management are in contract talks since april and progress has been slow, the union says the hospital is badly understaffed for years and they push for pay cuts and benefit give backs. >> some things suffer a little bit. a patient may have to wait an extra 10 mines to half hour to get what they need. >> how can you say a patient can get the same amount of care within a nurse has nine patients as opposed to five patients.

>> crozier chester says there is no staffing problem here. >> crozier staffs above national levels and sometimes in the top third nationwide based on national models. >> no new bargaining sessions have been scheduled so far and it's up to a mediator to bring the sides back to the table, that may not happen for weeks. live in -- thank you vernon. effortses are underway in camden to reduce youth violence, may dana redd, along with federal officials discussed the initiatives this morning at the hd wilson school to bring the issue of youth and gang violence as well as the spot light to prevent the problems, atlantic city's mayor was the featured speaker at the delaware county press club in media.

don guardian talked about the challenges in his town, after the closing of four casinos leaving workers without jobs. the mercer county -- 23 officers underwent 21 weeks of extensive training and they will join the ranks of a number of different police agencies. coming up on "action news" tonight. we'll show you the exciting new feature on chopper 6 and how you can control the cameras on board. that is right. the eagles get to work preparing for desean jackson's washington red skins. another chilly night and temperatures drop back into the 50s and the summer feeling will return i'll load you know in accuweather. >> those stories and more when "action news" continues tonight.

a suspect held up a grocery store with a banana. it happened in southwest philadelphia, from the surveillance video you can see the suspect grab a banana and stuff it into his sweatshirt and approached the counter and demanded money and cigarettes. the suspect escaped on a bicycle. we have been showing you our new camera, chopper 6 360.

brian taff has more at the big board. >> there is where we move the camera around for the last few weeks, you can see the delaware river starting today and you can be in control too. can you have the phone connected to the chopper, your iphone and ipad all connected. >> you can move your finger up and down over the air and over the big stories on your computer go to 6abc.com/chopper 6, use your mouse to swing the camera in whichever direction you want. when using your phone and tablet, and the link is right there at 6abc.com/chopper 6, once you have that, go straight

to the live video, and you are in control use yging your finger to move it around. incredibly cool and easy. and you can see that if you move the ipad left and right, you move the camera, you watch it at the big board. you can use your finger moving it left and right and zooming if in and zooming it out. it's just awesome. we have posted the instructions again at 6abc.com/chopper 6 and when chopper 6 is in the air, we'll let you know so you can enjoy the ride and the view from chopper 6 360. brian taff, channel 6 "action news." and brian we can see your house from here. six east coast governors issued

a challenge for a popular grocery chain and they delivered. shop-rites partners in caring used the day to raise funds for the local food banks. uncle sam was a bagger at this local store.

bad week -- the eagles are 2-0 and neither nick foles or shady mccoy has played to their potential. darren sproles was named player of the week and the birds are back on the field preparing for their battle, this is not eagles red skins, it's eagles-desean jackson it's not just another match-up. >> it's strange, we played together for five years, but one thing we have to understood it's eagles versus the red skins and not desean versus jeremy or

anything else. >> he took to twitter to say quote, i expect to play. >> as far as the emotions on the game, obviously being in philadelphia, my years playing there and accomplished some things to start my career, it was a huge time of my life and a huge part of my nfl career, so obviously it's going to be a huge game for myself and something i always looked forward to ever since things went down the way it went down. >> check out eagles kickoff at 11:30 a.m. and after major backlash from charities and sponsors, the vikings changed course and banned adrian peterson from all

practices and games. he will remain on leave with his regular salary until this is resolve. the next date is october 8th but a trial to take a year and it's a sad saga, and it was brought up during shady mccoy's press conference. >> i don't want to get into that and i have my own personal feelings, and i don't know the exact details. i see people comment about different things before they know what is going on. >> and coalles will go on the mound in his home town. the phils fell to the padres last night, the most losses since mark lighter lost that many. joe west suspended for one

game for grabbing jonathan papelbon's jersey, papelbon was suspended for seven games and fined for the gestures towards the fans, the ump said there was a better way to handle the situation. >> all right then. thank you jaime apody. >> they celebrated constitution day at the national constitution center. each year they select a student essay about a constitutional hero and they add that to the tree exhibit and this year's essay was written by isabelle, cochran known as nelly bly was an investigative journalist in the 1900

fall weather, here is adam joseph and accuweather. >> fall is taking control of the seven day but there is a behind of summer. a little bit of it before it flips to fall on the calendar, sunshine and a few clouds out there and chopper 6 hd was above center city earlier today over the ben franklin bridge. all looking pretty good and you can see again the lightness to the river where the sun was shining and other spots where the clouds were casting shadows, a frigid morning however over it's weekend it starts to turn a little more summery and that frigid friday morning as we look

at future tracker, a snapshot here, 41 in allentown and 43 in lancaster, could be frost in the poconos at 39 degrees, if are you in southern new jersey and southern parts of delaware, not as chilly as we'll be in the mid-50s to low 60s range. over the weekend, there is heat building now, dodge city, kansas city between 95 and 97 right now. the heat will break off and eventually swing through the mid-atlantic. but for now it's fall-like, 71 in allentown and 71 in trenton and some of the air coming in off the ocean is starting to invade the interior sections of reading, we are warm at 72. there is the cold front we had showers and even snow showers on the u.s.-canadian border yesterday.

this pushes towards us it brings clouds and no precipitation, as we look at the eastern half of the country, the heat is being suppressed to the south and west and the high pressure comes in after the front on friday morning, we are talking about below freezing temperatures with the hard freeze for northern new england and lows in the 20s and 31 in burlington and 61 degrees for us and the high goes to the east of new england and it starts to send the winds off the water, 71 in philadelphia and 50s for highs in new england and in the upcoming weekend another front approaches, before the front passes through it starts to pipe in the southwesterly winds and we head into the upper 70s and low 80s for saturday and sunday. for tonight it's clear and comfortably cool and 46 for center city. your day planner for tomorrow and a decent amount of sun and it's front is passing in the

afternoon as temperatures go into the 50s and middle 7:00. 76 tomorrow and sun and clouds and slightly cooler on friday and not getting out of the 60s in some places in the suburbs and saturday starts dark and it brightens up in the afternoon and eagles for kickoff. 81 degrees and 83 for the fourth quarter, we say good-bye to summer officially, just after 10:00, it's a transition day, 77 and clouds and a brief shower, it's officially fall tuesday, feeling like it at 70 and sunny and cool and rosh hashanah begins at sun down, 71 degrees, as you look at the seven day, there is fall in there, it's last full day leaves on sunday and it will put up a good fight. >> maybe it will make a come

back. >> it has happened. >> finally taken the delaware breast cancer coalition want a particular coalition to focus on their health, they launched a campaign in wilmington encouraging hispanic men and women to recognize and address health concerns, it includes creating family health histories and screening resources and gaining access to health care providers, abc world news tonight is next on channel 6 and "action news" continues at 10:00 on phl 17 with brian taff and shirleen allicot, and ducis rogers. and join us for "action news" at 11:00 here on channel 6. for adam joseph, jaime apody, ducis rogers and the entire "action news" team, we hope you'll join us for "action news" at 11:00.

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welcome to "world news tonight." happening now, the urgent man hunt. the cop killer on the loose, armed and dangerous. schools closed. and the new pictures just coming in, the man in military uniform, now terrorizing communities. we're on the scene. also, breaking tonight, the two nfl stars now benched. the famous player in trouble for disciplining his boy, tonight, sidelined. the teams about-face, their new explanation coming in. and now, that new player, taken off the field, as well. the extreme weather hitting tonight. millions of americans bracing for floods, downed trees, blocking highways. cars crushed. the worst, still on the way. and look at this tonight. caught on camera. the images just surfacing. and officer picking over this driver and the move that comes next, saving the driver's life.