tv Action News ABC September 26, 2014 4:30am-5:01am EDT
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>> we are following several breaking and developing stories on this friday september 26a gas station pump erupts in flames leaving a woman badly burned. a live report is coming up. >> the fbi believes they have identified the mass man seen in the chilling isis execution videos. >> a presurgery pep talk by a football player from our area gives his little girl hope and spreads across social network like wildfire.
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>> starting with the deadly crash on the blue route it happened on the northbound lanes plymouth township at 4:00 a.m. a box truck and a car collided between exits 16 and 18. one person was killed another person was injured. expect delays as the investigation continues. right now the northbound side at that location is closed, the southbound side is getting by, we'll continue to follow this story during our newscast and especially during traffic. >> we'll keep an eye on that and for now, let's go over to david murphy for what to expect this friday and the weekend. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, guys, we are looking at cloud cover escaping the region overnight. we're looking at a sunny start and we may see the redevelopment of a couple of additional clouds starting out cool. heading out the door.
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56 degrees in philadelphia. 46234 allentown. 53 in reading. 54 in millville. 58 in sea isle city. not much wind out there. so the strong, gusty winds we had yesterday are out of the picture. as we head out the door to catch the school bulls to get the commute going, 54 by 6:00. 59 by 8:00 a.m. if you're heading out to lunch, sun and clouds, 76 by 3, the high of 77 around 4:00 p.m. again, shades weather as you head out on the highway. we're looking at a great weekend and chains next week. i'll set you up for that weekend and everything else on the seven day. >> thank you, david. breaking right now a fire damaged one of the cape may lewes overnight. the fire broke out before
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3:00 p.m. two crew members were on board at the time. both were able to get off safely no passengers were on board. coast guard water boats along with fire crews along with lower township and ocean city are working to get the fire contained. we have a crew heading to the scene, stay with "action news" as we work to get you new video and all the latest information that's just ahead. a woman was badly burned during a freak accident at a gas station. katherine scott is joining us live from port richmond in philadelphia with the details. good morning, katherine. >> reporter: good morning, tam, that woman remains in the hospital with third degree burns. we are told she is expected to survive. her baby was rescued and not injured. you can see that the cars have been towed at this gas station, but you can see the pump which has been tipped over and remains on its side on the ground.
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it happened at 11:30 at this sunoco at somerset and aramingo in port richmond. a mother was pumping gas when a car smashed into a pump and knocked it over and started the fire. there was an infant in the car that was hit. rescue crews smashed out the back window and pulled the baby from the car. the mother sustained serious burns and was taken to the hospital. we're hearing the driver of the striking vehicle told police she had accidentally hit the gas pedal instead of the break and that's when she lurched and hit the tank and remained on the scene. one man heard the crash down the street. >> i heard the pump hit the ground hard. i hear accidents all the time. but that was an odd accident to hear that heavy of a thing to hit the ground. >> reporter: at this point it's too early to tell if any charges will be filed.
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live in port richmond, katherine scott channel 6 "action news." >> and new from the overnight. detectives who were investigating a baby's death in the city's oxford circle section have determined it was a tragic accident. officers say a 14-month-old girl drown in a bathtub last night. she was bathing with her 2-year-old brother in the home. the parents were home at the time, but they were in an adjacent room. >> a van ran into a home in new castle county delaware and now the inspectors say the home is unsafe to occupy. take a look at the shocked homeowner arriving late torched the entire left front corner of her claymont home rimmed away. the action cam was at the scene. police say the van left the road at 5:20, smashed through the fence and went heir born and plowed into the home. investigators say the driver jumped out of the van and made a run for it. state troopers arrested him not
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far from the scene. he is charged with driving under the influence. >> developing now fbi believes it now knows the identity of the isis killer seen in the horrifying internet videos. international efforts are now on finding him and rooting out isis in the middle east. taman bradley has the latest from washington. >> reporter: this morning, the fbi believe the investigators have identified the masked man in the isis videos. officials refused to name the suspect, but vowed to bring him to justice. he is speaking with what sounds like a british act sent. authorities are using voice and facial analysis and studying the desert backdrop. computer videos are using to construct a composite of the man's face. officials believe the man is somewhere in syria, so finding him could be difficult. >> i think it's going to be in
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the short term maybe extremely difficult to locate him, until we degrade their operations a little further. >> reporter: meanwhile, in the persian gulf u.s. ships and war planes continue pounding isis targets dropping 240 bombs in just three days, they are taking aim at the isis stronghold and they are trying to stop the oil business by destroying refineries that pumped millions a day. >> they won't be pumping any refind oil out petroleum anytime soon. >> reporter: great britain could be conducting airstrikes, the house of commons has a vote scheduled today. taman bradley. >> a cincinnati tackle with local ties is joinings daughter in taking on a huge opponent off
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the field. his daughter had cancer surgery at children's hospital. the surge region removed the entire tumor. still sailed the best news he has gotten in a long time. >> i'm going to ask you again, are you ready for today? >> that's the video posted of his daughter before yesterday's surgery. a still is a camden native and went to highly in wilmington. his daughter has undergone several rounds with chemo with her battle with cancer. he has been promoted to the active squad. he has been posting instagram pictures to updates followers how he is keeping her spirits high. the team is donating all proceeds to help fight pediatric
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cancer. we have a link at 6abc.com. i'll share a link to his instagram page on my instagram page matt od 6abc. >> here's stories you didn't see last night. police and protesters clash hours after the police chief issued an apology to the familiful michael brown. details emerge in the ray rice scandal. details ahead. >> reporter: we'll start out with jackets, stirts in the afternoon -- t-shirts in the afternoon. we'll be back with the afternoon call and more importantly you're weekend set up. it's coming up.
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gloorl i got a question. it seemed a little foggy when i came in, is that widespread. >> reporter: patchy fog northern and western suburbs, mainly. >> that's where i was. >> reporter: maybe south jersey, too, the certain concern is north and west. as we look outside, no precip left over from yesterday. as we take another look outside, sky 6 at the airport, no weather-related problems. doesn't look like we got any fog at the airport. that's good. just patchy stuff.
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56 degrees in philadelphia. cool, winds light out of the north at 5. the winds are not the problem they were yesterday. i'm bringing in all always on seven day on the left hand portion of the screen for those of you who watch in hd. we have patchy fog north and west, later in the day we could have more clouds digging in, general it looks like a pretty day from start to finish. 56 by 11:00. high of 77 probably around 3:30 or 4 this afternoon. we'll be inching our way back into more comfortable territory in the afternoon hours. in the lehigh valley, 76. 77 in reading, nice warm numbers down to i-95. the closer you get to the coast, the cooler it gets down the shore. phillies are home again for the last weekend of the season. braves in town, mainly clear, cooling down, 71 the first
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pitch, 64 in the 9th inning. i'm going to go down with some of my friends and it's a night where you will want to bring a jacket as the game goes on. high pressure builds in around the high, bringing us up to 1 degrees, pretty much the same story for sunday. a very nice weekend. if you're heading to the poconos for nascar car racing, big racing underway, 76 degrees for the practice rounds. saturday, sunny and nice, 80 degrees, more sunshine, 81 degrees in the poconos for the big race on sunday. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast we'll go for a high of 77. partly sunny overall, nice, tomorrow, 81 and 82 sunday, a great weekend to do whatever you want to do. fan appreciation day at the phillies is sunday, actually. monday, 80 degrees, sun and clouds, we have the chance of a late or nighttime shower and then tuesday and wednesday look mostly cloudy and tuesday we could see a couple of more showers around. this doesn't look like any
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inundating rainfall. it inches back up as we head toward thursday, 76 degrees is the high on thursday, i've got the union logo on the wrong day, it's thursday that they play at home. >> thursday, got it, david. thank you. new on "action news," police and protesters in ferguson, missouri engaged in an uneasy standoff overnight in front of the city police department. it happened after authorities arrested several people. the arrest took place after police chief thomas jackson addressed the crowd. earlier in the day, department apologized for the department's actions following the shooting of 18-year-old michael brown. a traffic stop led to gunfire when a driver reached back in his car for his lbs and and -- for his los license and e officer faces jail time. at that dash cam video prompted
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prosecutors to file federal charges against the police officer. 31-year-old said he stopped the victim over a seat belt violation, the victim survived a gunshot wound to the hip. he was fired from the job and faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of assault and battery. >> time to take a look at business on this friday morning, we could be in for a great stocking suffer intitlement we get into the holiday -- by the time we get into the holiday season. gas could be $3 a gallon. some stations in south jersey are below $3 when it comes to gas. a new report says new jersey's unfunded health benefit and pension liabilities will be costly draining money from the budget.
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401-ks took a body blow yesterday. stocks got slammed the dow diving 260 points, right now the futures are pointing to a lower open. now, some analysts are blaming apple for the losses on wall street. apple stock took a hit own thursday, the company said they fixed the bug in the 908s update. steve jobs had a problem with a rollout. theynow they say this is a testr tim cook. >> we have more stories you didn't see last night coming up him two women opened their rental truck to get their luggage and they were greeted by
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>> him welcome back to our breaking right now we have a fatal accident scene on the blue route this is plymouth township montgomery county as we are looking live, blue route northbound closed between the schuylkill and ridge pike. this accident happened at 2:30 a.m.l and ridge pike. still an issue. you can see the number of police and emergency workers on the scene. the accident involving a box truck and does an right here -- sedan right here. switching from the ramp ton on the schuylkill to the blue route. you can take the pennsylvania turnpike, or main street in norristown or fayette street in conshohocken we have the blue route closed between the schuylkill and ridge pike, matt. >> let's head to the big board at 43:52 and talk about your
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flying forecast. first of all there are runs at philadelphia international airport, whoever drew this made the delaware look like a at her her -- at her -- if you have a flight, look out for potential delays when flight traffic gets busy. florida, thundershower activity is possible, you could see a delay. in the midwest, minneapolis, st. paul, chicago and detroit seeing fog, as well. we could see delays out there, later on it should clear out, it should be a-okay if you're flying out there this afternoon. finally out here in the western part of the united states, you could see thundershower activity, reminder friday the busiest day for flights than any other day in the week, you'll see more folks to talk to and enjoy conversations with at the
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airport today. tam back to you. >> reporter: there are new allegation also in the ray rice case that contradict the claims by roger goodell. a law enforcement official said he sent the entire video of rice knocking out his now wife. he said it to security commissioner, miller. goodell said nobody saw it until september 8. law enforcement official said he can't confirm that miller saw the "d" vd. he said he attached the note ray rice elevator video you have to see it, it's terrible. he got an 12 second voice mail at the nfl office saying you're right, it's terrible. it's not clear the identity of the woman. >> two women who drove a rented car from boston to maine brought along an unexpected guest.
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they checked in at the port inn at kenny bunk. they opened the trunk and discovered a python. they transported the snake to the maine warden service. nobody knows how it got into the rental car. hopefully they intend to adopt the pet to someone who cares for snakes. >> a kid pulse up a hand stand while train surfing in boston. >>
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>> new this morning, police in nora muchanic are catching more than chris. the officer was keeping an eyee on surveillance station saturday when he spotted something in the port, he saw something walking across the lot through cages and the gate. there's no way in and out of that secured area without an open gate and alarm sounding. police say they have heard strange noises. >> derek jeter played his home game as new york yankee. he returned the compliment he hit a walk off base hit in the bottom of the 9th inning giving the yankees a 6-5 win over the orioles.
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pumpkin's back! pumpkin is back at dunkin' donuts. enjoy all your pumpkin-y favorites like the new pumpkin creme brulee latte. >> good morning, it is 5:00 a.m. on this friday, september 26. breaking right now. >> part of the busy blue route in montgomery county is shut down as police investigate a deadly crash. >> a smoking house fire turns deadly in delaware county. >> and filling up a gas tank turns into a life-threatening situation for a woman overnight. >> let's take a look at weather with david murphy and karen rogers has the
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