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activities alleged killer of pennsylvania state trooper added to the list today and that gives fbi more resources to hunt him down and dramatically increases amount of reward money. it's thursday night. and the big story on "action news" tonight sin ten receive search for eric freen the total amount of reward money is now up to 175,000. presidential he allegedly shot and killed corporal brian dixon last friday in ambush that wounded another trooper as well. tonight police shut done a number of roads in barrett township where freen's parents live 20 miles from blooming grove where the law mep were shot outside their barracks. this is video of state police driving through the woods in scranton area tonight as search involves hundreds of federal and state agents. sharee williams all this is happening hours after corporal dixon's funeral today. >> yes this franticer is search underway, jim, there were some
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solemn and quiet moments for a man that lived a life of service. brian dix don't was laid to rest today. friends and colleagues described him as a man tat loved his if many family and job as one person put it he was no ordinary trooper in perfect step officers took great care as they attended to one of their own, corporal brian dixon a pennsylvania state trooper and former marine thousands will wear the uniform and line the streets of scranton to say good-bye and salute their fallen sglornl brian died with christ and rose with him to new life may he now share eternal glory. >> he was making a shift change when he was ambushed and his killer has yept to be captured. >> we gamer here in sorrow, disbelief and anger, but most importantly we gamer here in faith.
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the singular question manry are asking is why. >> there were moments of sadness. today's mass focused not on how dickson died but how he lived. >> you would be hard pressed to find one word to describe him a quick look through websters describes one to describe him to a t. impeccable. >> dignitaries came to pay their respect as family and friends reflected on sickton as character dedicated husband and father too young to fully understand one of his sons looked on broudly wearing his father's trooper hat. >> the words protect and serve are not just words to us. they're who we are. they mean everything to us. and he was the epitome of that. >> a very moving tribute state
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officials say dig sop's name will be 9 1 listed on memorial killed in the line of duty. >> sharee thank you. >> breaking news out of florida tonight where eight people are dead in a murder-suicide. it happened in the town of bell 30 miles west of gainsville. police say a grandfather shot his adult daughter and six of his grandchildren. the young victims range in age from 10 years old to infant just 3 months old. gilchrist county said he spoke to 911 and then turn the gun on himself. >> the subject later committed suicide. deputyties searched residents which revealed multiple victims with apparent gun shot wounds in the residents. >> spirit has a criminal historych the one good piece of news so far some people in the home were found alive.
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. home depot confirmed tonight the second largest credit card breach in american history and sophisticated hackers sold 56 million -- stole 56 million credit card acts. your card may be come mighted if you shopped between april and september. there is no evidence debit pips were taken. home depot.com was not hacked. investigators say the cyber crooks created suggestimized software different than used in target breach. that affected 40 million cards. home depot says it eliminated the mallish us bug and deployed enhanced encryption and more secure payment terminals called chip and pin systems that don't require swiping will be installed by end of the year. it is also offering free credit monitoring to affect the customers. philadelphia police continue to investigate the alleged gay bashing incident in center city philadelphia last thursday night as they talked to possible
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suspect. "action news" reporter eva pilgrim is live at central detective headquarters tonight. eva what's the latest here. >> jim, two more people from that surveillance video came here to central detectives with their lawyer to talk with police tonight. this as they're now pushed for federal investigators to get involved and pennsylvania law to change sources say the group's story so far this had nothing to do with sexual orientation despite the home owe phobic slurs used and they claim alleged victim and another person bumped into each other 16 and chancellor last thursday night and one of the victims got physical with a woman in the group and that's when one of the men punches one of the victims and fight broke out and attack outraged city and raised concern about the law. >> if the state of pennsylvania will not protect these two gentleman because of their sexual orientation the federal government has a responsibility to protect sglem jim kenny draft
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aid letter to federal investigators today and said sexual orientation may not fall understate hate crime law but does under federal law. >> we have responsibility to send a strong message this is not tolerated anywhere, anywhere in this country let alone the birth place of dem of course. >> i his friend started a petition on-line hoping to push pennsylvania lawmakers to push state law to recognize a task on sexual orientation as a hate crime good we spoke with a friend of the victim tonight. the victim tonight -- they she they are not smd by the group's stories and remain hopeful the gruj will be cleared and justice will come. investigate towards tell us this process will take time and they want to speak with everyone involved in this situation. before any arrests are made. we are live here at central detectives in spring garden, eva pilgrim, "channel 6 action news," jim. >> thank you, eva. mees are looking for the man that walked into south
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philadelphia employment agency this morning and stabbed a woman numerous times. the woman worked at trinity staffing near broad and rittner. police say the man asked caroline franklin about work and then stabbed her. took her purse and fled. and franklin is listed in stable but critical condition. police are not saying whether the attack was random. meanwhile philadelphia police has updated its list of most wanted violent fugitives and you can help track them down. we have posted mug shot gallery 6abc.com with information on their crimes. some date back to 1999. other warrants have just been issued. rewards are available and so you can find out more at 6abc.com. >> tonight in philadelphia citizens spoke out against sale of bb guns to children and damage it can do and the need to make the rules about it tougher. and "action news" reporter dann cuellar has that story. >> from the good size crowd at st. paul baptist church it was
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evident issue of bb guns sold was a major concern especially when they look ha like this one. >> the guns they are selling look like the real guns. >> it was back september 1 we aired video that had gone viral on social media in which kids with bb guns purchased them at a point breeze corner store. >> the store in question stopped selling guns after story aired and residents say other stores continue to sell to kids which is against city ordinance. >> if we sold -- >> the problem with ordinance it only calls for small fine to any store owner selling to minors and nobody is checking to make sure stores are aware of the evidence. >> we should not be selling these types of doyz for young people trying to train them in how to handle a gun at such a young age. >> they fear a kid will pull it on a police officer and officer shoots him thinking it was a
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real gun. >> it's not a south philadelphia problem or philadelphia problem this is atlantic city problem, new jersey problem, new york problem. >> there seems to be consensus city ordinance should be made tougher on selling bb guns to minors. >> this issue here trust me let somebody get kid and all of a sudden it will be important. it's important now. >> reporter: some residents were challenging other council members to be involved in the issue and be proactive not reactive and put teeth in the ordinance before a terrible tram di happens. i'm dann cuellar, chapel 6abc news. >> by vote 14-2 city council today decriminalizeed use of small amounts of marijuana. council vote nod law the book that makes ten pi for possession of 30 grams of marijuana jution under an ounce. 25 and no jail time compare to parking ticket. those caught smoking marijuana in public will be find 100 or
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nine hours of community service and the law is scheduled to take effect october 20. >> and the school reform commission met tonight and agreed to sell off 11 school buildings the disstringt had already closed. they include old germantown high school which went to concordia group for 6.8 million dollars and obach high school in south philadelphia which was sold to scanapeco development for 2.1 million dollars and philadelphia housing authority purchased four properties for a total of 3 million tlarz. united states senate has joined house in approving president obama's plan to take on isis the vote was 78-22 with majorities of both parties voting in favor of allowing u.s. military to train an equipped syrian rebels for war against islamic state. speaking from white house president obama said he believes the nation is strongest when the president and congress work
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together. >> we're about four hours away from learning fate of scotland. they are counting the ballots at 32 ream nal centers tonight after an enormous turnouts you to vote on scotland's proposed independence from great britain and fist of those centers is the central district of quakmenshire reported 56 to 34 to so no independence. still to come on "action news" tonight the federal government plan to go after dangerous drug resistant bacteria and cabin pressure we'll hear from passengers aboard the smoke filled plane about the frightening ordeal as oxygen oxygens drop. go-go gijet the montgomery county dog that ended up near portland now they're getting her home. >> temperatures drop to the 40s
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and 50s last weekend of summer i'm tracking your warm-up. details in the accuweather forecast. >> and ducis rogers with the eagles looking forward to red skindz and you know who. that and more when "action news" skindz and you know who. that and more when "action news" continues tonight
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i'm not saying mark's thrifty. let's just say, i saved him $519, and it certainly didn't go toward that ring. am i right? [ laughs ] [ dance music playing ] so visit progressive.com today. i call this one "the robox." >> this is cellphone video from inside a jetblue flight in trouble. ten minutes into a flight from long beach, call cool it austin, texas today annen join malfunctioned and filled the cab win smoke. >> it was pretty nerve racking and you could not see in front of you and the entire plane filled with smoke right away and lot of loud banging. >> the pilot announced emergency landing and headed back to long beach. the plane landed safely and everybody on board got out on slides. fortunately nobody was seriously
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hurt and calls of malfunction is under investigation. >> gij set going home. montgomery county dog that wound up on west coast is getting a free ride back. we first told you about the cross country canine last night she disappeared in april and good am samaritan found her in suburbs of port land and took her to animal shelter. she he's a microchip imblapt. the story generated so much interest don't orr's came forward to fund all of gijet's care and microchip owner is paying for the trip back to unlting ton valley. >> the president is taking action against urgent threat to america's health and economic well-being. drug resistant super bugs. antibiotic over use has led to
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dire situation where once treatable germs doesn't respond drugs and could be deadly. they are to cot a plan early next year to fight ca potent bacteria. executive order calls for new antibiotic oversight and better tracking of use and development of new drugs. drug resistant bacteria are linked to 23,000 deaths and 2 million ill ns a year with economic impact of 20 billion dollars and called for spa to thin out antibiotic use to grow livestock. thousands are saying i wait for apple newest devices suburban square ardmore 50 people are already on-line. apple store does not even open until 8 a.m. and camp out is expected to grow. apple is expected to sell millions of iphone six and
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iphone six plus phones over the launch weekend and let's go to live picture from center city philadelphia where one hundred people are camped out on the sidewalk street and they'll thereby until the doors open at this apple store less than 9 hours from now. amazon is out with new kindlees today outing new 6" ereader called voyage as thinnest one yet. the company also unveiled a fire hd tablet for kids that includes a year of access kid friendly movies, books and games. and no questions asked type of warrantee and upgraded fire hdx tablet and amazon also caused for many companies announcing surge in holiday hiring that ka cording to applist ups add 95 seasonal jobs. fedex another 50,000, all to deliver those packages. meanwhile brick and morter stores are staffing up to
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compete with on-line retailers. kohls adding 6 7,000 workers and walmart 60,000. expectations of more spending and hiring returning to levels not seen since booming late 1990s. and that is some good economic news tonight. let's get good accuweather news tonight. >> we have a nice looking 7 day forecast. temperatures up and down a little bit heading down tonight getting chilly out there stormtracker 6 live double scan showing dry conditions and we're flavor sky6 taking a look at the center city sky line. we have a overcast skies and lingering clouds leftover from cold front that moved through earlier today and this front bring us kind of a one day blast of chilly air. philadelphia currently 65 degrees and allentown dropped down to 5 reading 57 and wilmington 60 aland millville 65 and dren ton 58. poconos 53 cooler air has not arrived but it will be doing so
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overnight. satellite 6 and action radar showing that cold front just slipped offshore. a few scattered sprinkles across parts of southern maryland and delaware and generally clearing overnight. temperatures drop down to the 40s and 50s and then tomorrow afternoon high 6 degrees below normal than high pressure building down from canada brings us generally winds off the ocean. that pulls in cooler air. there will be chill in the air. 71. partly sunny skies and this high pressure is on the move and on the move to the east as we head to the weekend. what this does sets up return flow winds out of the south, south west warmer on saturday. 78 degrees. lots of clouds in the morning and maybe even a touch of drizzle and sunshine by the afternoon and that flow increases on sunday ahead of cold front and that will bring temperatures into the low 8 0s for last full day of summer. tomorrow morning feeling like fall. kids head to the bus stop. mostly sunny.
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good idea for light jackets and if they'll wear them 6:00 and by:00, 59. definitely a chill in the air. and day planner showing a good amount of sunshine for the day tomorrow at 8:00 again 59 by 11:00 and 67 you make it into 70s 2:00. and don't get much further, 5:00, 71 degrees, 77 is average high this time of year. so the exclusive accuweather 7-day forecast feeling like fall tomorrow and good at of sunshine an high of 71. our last weekend of summer though we get a quick warm-up on saturday. 78 degrees. great weather for union game and summer finale on sunday 83 degrees. if you head to eagles game you don't to bundle up. it will feel like summer. monday, breezy and cooler, 73 and monday night overrulely at 10:29 this is when the sun's raise are right over the equator and that is autumnal equinox
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known as beginning of fall and tuesday first day of fall it will be pleasantly cool. 71. wednesday a chill in the air, 70. dry start rosh hashanah and first day sunny and dry, 72. so summer finale sunday 3. the rest of the 7-day temperatures will be in the 70s. >> thank you, cecily. >> one of the contestants on new season of dancing with the stars was in philadelphia tonight. pbs talk show host and arthur katherine smiley made an appearance at the philadelphia free like treer promote his book and his pro partner joined him on stage. environmentalier in the day smiley and burgess had to sneak in rehearsal time to get ready for the cha cha routine. being on the show and six week book tour around the country is tough. >> i only have a week to get this thing together. i have to squeeze in between book signings and poor shauna
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has to be dragged across the country everywhere i go. >> his book is titled death of king the real story of doctor march tin luther king's final year cap them on "dancing with the stars" every monday n your windows don't need a facelift. just a new wardrobe. take them shopping during blinds to go's 60th anniversary sale going on now. buy one get second at half price. blinds to go is 60. boy, time goes fast. and so will this sale. blinds to go blinds for life.
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buy one, get a second at half price. blinds to go blinds for life. >> fans are assuming desean jackson will play. not so sglern no he's been banged up banged up in victory over jacksonville. he wants to play but there's no certainly he will play. washington receiver missed second straight practice today with shoulder injury and coach said today status depends on range of motion and how much pain he's able tone dur. eagles offense is not falling apart in jackson's absence as some may have expected sunday's game is eagles first within the division and shaping up to be a tough one redskins scored 4 17 points against jags and own number one defense in nfl in terms of yards allowed. >> every time a team plays us we got to expect a little bit of
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everything. i think because we move so fast we can keep a lot of guys basic and so once they decide to commit to something that's what they roll with. we don't know what that s they have shown man and zone. i'm trying to be prepared for everything. >> they look good as far as running the ball they did a really good job. their offensive line big offensive line they'reage let sglik we have sunday's show down covered from start to finish and check out eagles game day kickoff 11:30 a.m. with mike quick and myself and we'll wrap it up on eagles game day final 11:35 on 6abc. >> and baseball now phillies are mathematically emented from playoff contention last night and realistically related from playoff contention in june. ryne sandberg zero pull didn't get birthday off today. happy birthday skipper 55 years old. kyle kendrick through the first
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inning unscathed and second upping is different matter. solo homer 1-0 padres. and dom brown gets fourth back in the upping and game tide 1. 2-1 san diego smith with rbi seasoningle right now phillies trail 4-1 year we're in bottom of 7th inning. >> a flier faces cold reality. kimmo timonen talks about t
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>> early last month kimmo timonen was diagnosed with blood clots in legs and lungs and today he discussed his future. he said it's a long shot he'll play again and remains hopeful he'll see how his body responds. at 9 years old there's no thing such as hockey immortality. >> it has not hit me hard yet but as hockey starts and guys step on the ice and competition starts i probably feel different. but i'm okay now. . his teammates will be open the ice tomorrow. >> an event in fairmont park tonight raised money to help children with developmental disabilities. this was the fall benefit reception for ramsey education development institute and non-profit organization not only provides therapeutic services to children but also support and education to parents.
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and "action news'" monica malpass served as emcee tonight. "jimmy kimmel live" followed by by "nightline". "action news" continues at 4:30 with tamala edwards, matt o'donnell, karen rogers with traffic and for cecily tynan, o'donnell, karen rogers with traffic and for cecily tynan, ducis rogers and the entire "action news" team i'm jim gardner, good night. 4
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