underneath. "action news" reporter, sarah bloomquist, is live at the zoo tonight. and sarah, you have the details. >> well jim, that's right. police tell "action news" the 57-year-old mechanic killed when the heavy-duty golf cart he was working on fell on top of themselves. he was pronounced dead at the hospital. and police on the scene in a maintenance area at the back of the zoo. the police say the mechanic working on the 9-foot golf cart this morning. a mechanical jack failed and the golf cart fell on his chest. no witnesses and no other workers around at the time. the mechanic laid there for an unknown amount of time until he was discovered after he failed to respond to his radio when other workers tries to contact him. pronounced dead at 11:43 a.m. the zoo will bring in grief

counselors to help them deal with a co-worker well known and well-liked. >> a great guy and we all really liked him. i was loved by many and definitely something that will hit a lot of people really hard. >> this mechanic worked here at the philadelphia zoo since march of 2000. this did happen in an area that was not accessible to the public. behind the scenes as they say. again, there were no witnesses. live at the zoo, sarah bloomquist channel 6 "action news." >> thank you, sarah. and medics took five students to children's hospital late today after an accident involving a school bus in south philadelphia. chopper 6 hd flew over the intersection at 15th and passyunk at 4:30 this afternoon. they say a white pick up truck rear-ended the bus. actions learned of 28 students from an islamic academy were on board. the treated students complained of pain, but they say the injuries are minor. prosecutors dropped rape

charges against a philadelphia police officer once hailed a hero. richard decoatsworth arrested in may, 2013. the 28-year-old accused of drugging and raping two women and forcing them into prostitution. earlier this year decoatsworth accepted a plea deal but withdraw the plea. prosecutors say they dropped the charges after an intense follow-up investigation. today decoatsworth walked out of court a freeman -- free man after a year in jail. and he did not comment but his mother broke down in tears. >> god is great. god is amazing. [crying] thank you jesus. >> decoatsworth was honored by the white house after he was shot in the face while on duty in 2007. decoatsworth still faces legal action related to an alleged domestic incident involving his girlfriend. former sportscaster, don

tollefson, today admitted to scamming hundreds of people with fake travel packages. he led guilty in doylestown, selling his victim tickets to out of town eagles game and the super bowl in the name of charity. victims are seeks $317,000 in restitution. tollefson will be sentenced in 60 days. the search continues for the gunman who committed the execution-style murder of a 42-year-old woman saturday night in the strawberry mansion section of philadelphia. and kenneth moton live at police headquarters. do the police have any leads here? >> well jim, if they have any leads they are definitely not giving us those details this evening. but an update, the homicide detectives say the killings were caught on camera. this afternoon the homicide detectives back at the scene of an execution-style murder on the 3200 block of moore street in strawberry mansion.

it was a possible hit. the victim the police say was a 42-year-old mother, katherine barry. >> was she targeted? >> absolutely she was. we don't know why but she was absolutely targeted and we're asking for the public's help. >> the captain clark says around 10:00 saturday night barry walking home with her 13-year-old doubter and dog. they just returned from the store. a man walked up and opened fire. after police scoured the area looking for clues they found r surveillance video of the killing. >> you see them walking up the streets and out of the shadow as male described as a black male in early 50s, heavy set with like a gray beard pulled out a gun and walks right up to here and fires about nine or ten shots right at her, striking her several times and killing her. >> barry's horrified teenage daughter was not physically injured but witnessed her mother's murder. >> absolute tragedy. the mother gunned down in front of the daughter. the daughter was the one who

called 911 and got the police out there. very traumatizing for her. >> the police are looking for tips as they try to figure out why this more was killed. we're also working to find out more about this victim, katherine barry. we have the latest tonight on "action news." reporting live from philadelphia police head quarterers this evenings. jim? >> thank you, kenneth. an arson task force now vest gating the deadly fire of the cooper university health system c.e.o. john sheridan and his wife, joyce, found dead in a burned-out bedroom in the township home he remember yesterday morning. autopsy results are expected tomorrow. sheridan led cooper health for the last ten years much his wife was a retired school teacher. fire gutted a montgomery county home in pennsylvania early this morning. firefighters called to the 700 block of eastland circle after 3:00 a.m. flames were shooting through the roof when crews arrived.

fortunately nobody was hurt. investigators have yet to determine a cause. leaders from delaware have tapped federal resources for information and strategy on how to reduce violence. senator chris coons and williams said they were collected to take part in the violence redunction network. and they hope to have a safety plan and camden was also selected for the program. tonight at 11:00, continuing our one-on-one series, this time with one of the most extraordinary people i have met in a long time. the music director of the philadelphia orchestra. ♪

>> he began his third season of the orchestra, three years after the orchestra came out of bankruptcy. and he is leading them before words head of states like the u.n. like he did thursday night, or on a triumphant tour of china and japan like last spring. philadelphia is reclaiming its spot as one of the world's great orchestras. but is it underappreciated right here at home? >> my view of the situation is snow that it is underappreciated, it is more that it is taken for granted and it's very different. everybody is proud of the orchestra, but many people still think yes, we have it and it's great, yet we don't visit it. if you ask people from paris, do they go and visit the louvre, they don't. of course we are from paris but

we don't, but we are proud to have the louvre and it is something for tearists. and it is not exactly the same here, i am not sake it is just for tourists, but something that is beautiful, it is normal, it is human. sometimes it is beautiful and in our backyard and we stop seeing it. and it is our job to reconnect by just giving it a different twist, especially send a message to the entire community saying yes, it is your orchestra. you just need no excel writ -- accelerate a little more. >> and evening mic'ing him to hear his interactions with the musicians. it is immediate why they like and respect him so much. ♪ >> and we have more from our one-on-one interview with yfrmgdz annick

with him again. >> and taking to the streets to protest living conditions. and reaction from the eagles the day after their first loss of the season. jeff skversky with that story coming up. stormtracker live double scan, a band of showers is moving through but tracking more wet weather on the way. letting you know when in the accuweather forecast. and those stories and much more when "action news" continues tonight. ♪ this flu season... remember this. your immune system doesn't work the way it did when rock was young. so we made fluzone high-dose vaccine...

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>> there are some very discontented tenants of the

junior citizens high-rise, and they took the streets to air their complaints. amy buckman was there. [chanting] >> several dozen senior citizens blocked washington avenue between third and fourth streets this morning to protest what they say is bad management at the courtyard at riverview. the senior citizen apartment building subsidized by the philadelphia housing authorities, but owned and managed by the michaels organization out of new jersey. they say the manager is disrespectful not responding to maintenance. >> i have been here 15 years and my rugs have not been cleaned or washed or nothing. they are stuck to the floor and they won't fix it. >> putting out senior citizens $2 short for rent. >> the elevator often out of

order. >> and the final straw friday when the manager locked them out of the common social room. they tried to speak with her about the residents complaints. >> this is channel 6. can we talk with you, sir, about some of the complaints that the seniors have? we came out to the offices of the michaels organization which runs the building. a spokeswoman told me she was aware of tenants complaints but referred to them as a personnel issue she was not able to discuss with us on camera. in an email they say the company is planning to meet with residents soon to discuss concerns. adding the broken elevator is under contract to are repaired. residents who request the common room be unlocked for their use, and any evictions are processed by an attorney following the letter of the law. in south philadelphia, amy buckman for channel 6 "action news." two south jersey colleges expanded partnership to help

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>> perhaps because the eagles won their first three games, and the way they did it pushed some of their major flaws under the radar a little bit, but now though have to address them. >> they have to address them. not a lot of time, st. louis on sunday. they have to figure it out. the eagles only 22 yards rushing, 22, that's it. the worst performance in the nfl this season. but eagles' coach, chip kelly is not pointing the finger at lashawn mccoy or sproles, plus the offensive line. they got whooped up front against san fran, therefore the running game nowhere to be found. on the chart other playing field. and mccoy with the worst game as a starter. and struggled the last games. and no touchdowns against san

fran and washington. and no, the ball carrier doesn't want to carry on a conversation about it either. >> i don't want to talk about that. do you have any questions? it doesn't matter if i am th them -- healthy or not we have to win games. >> and the ball carrier, knowing what we have to do in the game, whether we hand it to lesean or chris or darren or whoever in that situation. help on the way, the eagles get johnson back sunday against st. louis. hopefully he can open us running lanes. the former first-round pick suspended the first four games for using a banned substance. and johnson watched the loss last night with a bunch of the banged up linemen, and he met with chip kelly in the morning. >> he looked -- it is just thes unknown. we haven't seen him in weeks. where's he at? how does he toss-up things? how quickly does he get back

into things? where he be a health standpoint? >> and don't tell them it is the preseason, fired up sake the play was unacceptable and perhaps playing a little better in new york. no giroux, but g may play tomorrow. and carter williams not 100% ready, the rookie of the year recovering from shoulder surgery. and noel is it ready after sitting out last year. and the sixers appear to be a few years out from being a playoff contender. >> i can't sit here and look at too far in the future. i know it may seem that's where the hope is, in the future, and a lot of people are focused on that, but we won't get to that future if we don't know what we need to go through now. so i think that's what i'm really focused on. taking one day at a time. getting better and better so when that future does come that

we're ready to play with the best teams in the league. time for the phillie's to rebuilt. where do you start with them? done for the season. and now the manager will have to determine how to rebuild the third highest payroll in baseball. changes are coming. >> things are going to be different. how much, we don't know that. we can try to answer that question, but we will find a way. pretty good at it in the past when we needed it, but we'll find a way. >> who stays, who goes. jimmy rollins will be back, a no-trade. and maybe howard or cole hamels. and former phillie dalton mitt the gfl -- golf club.

it brought many to the annual event supporting his foundation for supports for those battling brain tumors and brain injuries. and he underwent

>> the wee k ahead from accuweather and cecily tynan. >> jim, not quite as bright and sunny and warm as over the weekend. it's monday. a little bit rainy. stormtracker live double scan showing we are looking at generally light rain. along the i-95 corridor we have a very thin band of light rain. it is just beginning to move into philadelphia right now, willow grove, jenkintown. moving south of wilmington to

newark, delaware. the heaviest of the rain, and still it is not that heavy, but the steadiest i should say moving into south jersey mere millville, dover, middletown. hammington getting rain in the next 15 minutes. it is with a short wave moving to the south and it dropped the temperatures. the weekend didn't feel like the first weekend of fall, feeling like summer. saturday 84 degrees. yesterday bumped it up to 86. today 10 degrees wocooler, 73. still above normal. and millville also the rain-cooled 69. and allentown a little warmer not getting the rain up there now, 73 degrees. reading 74, and sea isle city currently 70 degrees. and satellite 6 and action radar showing the big picture. a weak disturbance moving off the georgia coast. this is shifting to the east and it is bringing us clouds and

light showers. tomorrow the system will roll off the coast, and another one begins to drop in from the great lakes. still a little unsettled, but a lot brighter than today. mixture of sun and clouds, 79 degrees. a warm day. still a chance after few spotty showers in the afternoon. i think most of the region though rain-free. wednesday, the low pressure moves down to the south and it will bring up a lot of clouds with scattered showers. a little cooler, but temperatures on the mild side. 75 degrees. futuretracker showing the best chance of showers in the afternoon-evening hours around 5:30. and not everyone getting them, but a few can have brief, heavy downpours. the call from accuweather tonight, a few showers this evening and pretty mild for this time of the year. overnight low 56 in the cooler suburbs, 62 degrees for center city under mostly cloud cry -- cloudy skies. the forecast still on the warm side tomorrow. 79 degrees, mixture of sun and

clouds and possible showers in the afternoon. wednesday, break of sunshine but clouds generally the rule, high of 75 degrees. wednesday march -- afternoon blossoming of showers. thursday, put away umbrellas and take out sunglasses. brighter and beautiful afternoon. thursday the nicest day of the week. great weather for the union game. friday starting with sunshine. clouds build in the afternoon with a high of 75 degrees. and friday night into saturday morning, getting another round of rain. it looks to be about a quarter inch to a half inch, but a fast-moving system. by saturday afternoon the sunshine will be back. it will be seasonable. 72 degrees. but this is a cold front moving through and it is pretty potent. behind the system sunday, mainly for the eagles game real football weather. plenty of sunshine, on the cool side with a high of only 68 degrees.

monday, partly sunny. and unsettled all week long. sunday complaining the past weekend wasn't summer weather, sunday definitely feeling like fall. >> it is sweater weather, thank you. soccer career for athletes. local students joined the union defender for a few drills at ppl park tonight. and they organized this soccer clinic, looking to get kid moving and combat childhood obesity. and "world news with david muir" next on channel 6. and "action news" continues at 10:00 on phl 17 with brian taff, shirleen allicot, adam joseph and ducis rodgers. and then please join us for "action news" at 11 on channel 6 for cecily tynan, jeff skversky, ducis rodgers and the entire "action news" team, i'm jim gardner. we hope you'll join us at 11:00. ♪

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