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creating dangerous conditions, weaving through traffic and tearing up playgrounds. >> dann cuellar is live now where he spoke with some of the bikers. >> across the city it's a crazy way on the roadways, this is about 100 men on atvs and dirt bikes from south broad to here on broad and stenton boulevard. this to honor a fellow dirt biker who was gunned down last week. across the city about 100 men sped through the city causing havoc, they rode on the sidewalk and blue red lights, they had to set route they rode on one street and then another. it was in memory of this map,
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tyrell cairo, he achieved local fame for performing stunts on his dirt bike and putting them on youtube. >> everybody loved him all over the world. i'm showing my bro love, he went out with a bang. >> tiler was gunned down while sitting in a car at 1:30 in the afternoon on the 2100 block of south 60th, police say he was shot nine times in the back, chest and neck. his funeral was held at broad and lombard, some saw him as an urban legend, they rode haphazardly. police are mindful that they were paying tribute for the funeral, but now they are making a push to get them off the streets because of the hazardous
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nature. >> dan thank you. police swarmed the area around the clothing bin after a citing of suspected cop killer, eric frein, he remains on the run, a sighting yesterday near the post office prompted the school district at pocono mountain to close today. we are following the developments at 6abc.com, as the search for eric frein continues, you can see the interview with a woman that may have come face-to-face with a cop killer and who had police swarm his home amid the manhunt. it's all there right now at 6abc.com. >> authorities on montgomery county are investigating shots fired on the glen side section of upper dublin. sara bloomquist joins us live on chelsea avenue with that story. >> rick, upper dublin championship, police were surprised when the phone calls
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came from from the housing complex, they fired several shots across the courtyard and into the sides of a couple of homes, but the violence has the neighborhood on edge, upper dublin township police searched looking for shell casings in a north manor home this afternoon. they found shell casings under the grass and leaves, and they discovered bullet holes in at least two homes. a bullet came flying into the kitchen, and she was not hurt. this is a quiet housing complex, violence doesn't happen here. >> our kids will be home soon, i don't know things like that going on. >> luckily the children that live in this complex were away at school when the gun fire broke out at 12:45, police believe the suspect was standing alongside homes firing 7 to 9
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times across the open courtyard into a group of people on the other side. police are convinced that anybody that would pull a trigger here is from the outside. >> definitely an outsider or we would know more information. >> crazy, we have kids and it's suppose to be a family oriented neighborhood. >> stuff like this does go on in this neighborhood period or on the street. >> nobody was injured and police are trying to identify the gunman and determine the motive. live in upper dublin, i'm sara bloomquist, channel 6 "action news." >> rick -- >> thank you. the teenager accused of leading the so-called main line drug ring plead guilty to five counts today. he left court in norristown, and he 25-year-old neil scott are accused of trying to take over the drug trade at local high schools and colleges, a
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tonightal of seven people were arrested back in april. at sentencing brooks faces 9 to 17 months behind bars. it was a day in court today for the two philadelphia men charged in the deadly carjacking and crash that took the life of a mother tonight three children that were simply standing on the corner at the time selling fruit. david ryfiled this report. 24-year-old cornelius crawford showed no emotion witnesses described the horrific events. this car crashed into a mother and her children killing them. it was too much for the relatives of the victims that sobbed throughout the hearing. terrance moore lost his 7-year-old son. >> i want the death penalty for both of them. >> but that won't be possible.
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crawford and his alleged accomplice 19-year-old jonathan rosa, are charged with four counts of second degree murder, that is a mandatory sentence of life without parole. and the real estate agent was on a sales call when the two men jumped in the car and they took turns forcing her to perform a sex act on them. >> crawford's lawyer jumped on her saying she did not mention the sexual assault when she originally talked to police. >> he did not sexually assault her and he does not want to be known as that. >> she is an innocent victim brutally assaulted and punched in the face multiple times, and sexually assaulted by two
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individuals, she did not want to talk about this ever. >> they are ordered to stand trial on all charges against them. at the criminal justice center, david henry, channel 6 "action news." the owner of chickie and petes offering a $5,000 reward to find two armed robbers that terrorized employees at his drexel hit restaurant, the bandits enerred the store before opening on monday and they ordered the manager and employees into the freezer, police superintendant, michael chitwood believes it was an inside job. >> explained this, these guys are true urban terrorists and these people are very, very lucky that nobody got hurt. >> chitwood says a third man was waiting in a silver or white get away vehicle out sood of the restaurant. and the robbers got away with
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$16,000 and the manager's wedding rings and purse. a woman was hurt at a septa station, but it was not a train that hit her but a car that was crossing the tracks, she was rushed to the hospital but no information on her condition has been released. the west septa train line was suspected for hours. pennsylvania supreme court has suspended one of its own for participation in a state government porn scandal. justice shamus mcafterry -- that he sent or received hundreds of emails containing porn or explicit content, it involved employees of the district attorney's office, and they called it a lapse in judgment and a board has been called in. still to come on "action news" tonight, jim gardner spoke
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with malala yousafzai who is in philadelphia to accept the liberty medal. hear from the incredible human rights activist next. >> and we'll go to the constitution center for a preview of tonight's ceremony. and jaime apody has sports coming up. cecily? >> stormtracker 6 live double scan is showing showers coming in tonight along with cooler air, i'll have the details in the accuweather forecast.
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prize winner will accept the liberty medal tonight, malala yousafzai has a story of triumph. sharrie williams is live now with a preview from the constitution center. >> reporter: i'm on the front lawn of the constitution center where the prestigious award will be given tonight. about 1400 guests are here for the (ation. one of the large of the ever. people are filing in for the event that starts within the next hour. we saw the pennsylvania girls choir doing their rehearsals, they are doing the popular song, "brave," very fitting for tonight. seat assignments are placed and crews are putting the lights and
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cameras on the event, that will be streamed live at 6abc.com. security is tight both inside and out of the venue, with local authorities here and this year the recipient is malala yousafzai, the 17-year-old has an incredible story of survival and inspiration. jim gardner sat down with malala just hours ago and he asked her how she felt being honored in philadelphia? >> for america independence may be such a long thing, and it happened such a long time ago, but in pakistan it was 1947, quite recently, i think for us independence matters a lot and when it comes to women's rights in that case, i strongly support independence and i believe that women should be allowed to be free and to have the freedom and choice and freedom to do what they want as men have.
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>> an amazing young lady, just 17 years old, we look forward to hearing more from her tonight, an interesting note about this year's presentation, for the first time the ncc is using a tent and they wanted to shake things up, they are on the lawn and there is a stellar lineup, one of original little rock nine and taney dragon's pitcher, mo'ne davis will be reciting one of malala's readings. sharrie williams, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. as sharrie mentioned we'll stream the ceremony in its entirety at 7:00 at 6abc.com,
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and can you see it here on channel 6 on november 9th that starts at 9:00 p.m. and jim gardner just finished interviewing malala yousafzai, and can you see that tomorrow on "action news" at 11:00. in other news, the black clergy of the philadelphia region came together for a discussion on justice, their goal is to discuss an action plan on how races are treatmented within the justice system. nadal served as the key note ♪
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limited role after a double hernia surgery, might he play next week against the texans, and he could be back sunday but that is not set in stone. how about darren sproles, is he back at practice after that acl strain. will he be good to go on sunday? >> i feel good. but that is up to the coach. >> i think everybody wanted to make sure darren want hurt and he is outside practicing, it wasn't a serious injury and looked worse than it was. this is a tight team, a put together team and they don't want anybody to be injured. >> he is a resilient guy and he has taken some hits in his career and it's great to have him back out there. >> now foles need him to be at
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his full speed to take the pressure off of him. >> great memories in the state of arizona, it will be fun, friends and family, but it's business, they are a very good team, and they played extremely well last year when we played them and they are move talented. >> they finally got one, and the flyers got a break against the black hawks tonight and their standout corey crawford is out and the flyers need all the help they can get after their slow start and facing a chicago team that has a point in all four of its games. and hopefully the power play can be a weapon tonight. >> we have to get our power play going, and hopefully we can draw some penalties on them. our pk has been great for the last four years, and we are
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confidence in our special teams play, it's our five on five we have to work to get better. >> five years ago the phillies clinch aid second straight trip to the world series. game one of this year's fall classic begins in kansas city and the giants looking for their third ring in five years and the royals looking to sweep through the playoffs and they haven't lost yet. they are looking forward to this opportunity after an almost 30-year absence. >> are you fighting to climb the ladder, boom boom boom, this is no difference, this is final. the last big series, and there is two teams left standing and that is special. it's a great match-up between both clubs and i think that both teams are ready for this and it's very exciting. >> the royals first world series appearance in 1980, we remember because it was the phillies first world championship. and today is the 40th
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anniversary of that magical night that was also on a tuesday. i don't really recall it because i was 2, but it was on a tuesday. >> i know that now. thank you jaime. leaders are unpacking the past in sent steer connecting kids to artifacts. they announced a new partnership at the penn museum. a number of charter school seventh graders will be given access here and it will be brought to schools and superintendant, william hite was
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cecily is here now and i may need an accuweather up umbrella. >> i'll sell you one? >> sell? >> stormtracker 6 live double scan showing that most of our region right now is rain free, however the focus of the wet weather has been over ocean county, new jersey, today, and stormtracker 6 live double scan showing we have one clutter over forked river and the garden state parkway and route 9 moving towards seaside heights, no lightning strike as soesh created with this, but heavy rain. >> this is what happened there today. they got heavy downpours, they also had hail across the region,
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and also just shortly after 2:00, this was spotted off the coast of seaside heights, this was posted on the barnegat bay island, you can see the waterspout, there was a cluster of severe weather, and fortun e fortunately nothing severe now but showers are on the way. >> 66 down from the mild high of 70 and allentown 62 and mill very 60 and wilmington 61 degrees, satellite 6 along with action radar showing the low pressure is spinning across northwestern pennsylvania and this will slowly drift over us and offshore and then it stalls there. this will keep us really under the gun for showers as we head through the next 36 hours, future tracker showing around midnight, clouds and showers near trenton and dover and then the atmosphere moistens up in the morning. a good batch of showers in philadelphia and south jersey, and heading through the
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afternoon, not a washout, it's cloudy and cool with scattered showers around 4:00, and you can see how we keep this trend of the rain moving in from the atlantic at 11:00 wednesday night and thursday morning, there is low pressure cut off from the jet stream and there is one reason it can't move on we have blocking high pressure to the north and it's stalled and periods of rain looking at a half inch to inch of rain and inch closer to the coast and it's a cool day tomorrow, the high only 59 degrees, thursday the low pressure begins to depart and it's windy and wind gusts up to 30 miles per hour and it will feel cooler than 57 degrees when you get the winds shifting from the northwest we'll see peeks of sunshine. next 12 hours, spotty showers and temperatures mild for october, 47 in the suburbs and' for center city and the
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exclusive accuweather forecast, cloudy and periods of rain tomorrow and a cool 59 degrees and wednesday morning showers and windy, 57 degrees but by friday, breaks of sunshine and 54 and looks to be a gorgeous weekend, saturday partly sunny and 67 and bright sunshine and breezy and 66 and we bump it up to 67, and you want temperatures in the 70s, they return on tuesday with a high of 71 degrees, i'll have an update on the timing of the showers tonight at 11:00. >> cecily thank you. finally tonight, temple university students got to see our 6 abc team in action, the future broadcasters visited our station to see the day to day operations of a news station firsthand, they got to sit down and pick the brains of our producers and meteorologists, they got to see the many opportunities that the news industry has to offer. world news tonight with david muir is next on channel 6.
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and "action news" continues at 10:00 on phl 17 and join us for "action news" at 11:00 here on 10:00 on phl 17 and join us for "action news" at 11:00 here on channel 6. at the bottom in job creation. massive cuts to education. and higher property taxes. under governor corbett, pennsylvania's been heading in the wrong direction. there's been no leadership and no vision. that's gotta change. as your governor, i will lead. and we'll move pennsylvania forward. we'll restore manufacturing jobs. close corporate tax loopholes. and make the gas companies pay up to fund our schools. after all, it's time to get pennsylvania moving again.
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welcome to "world news tonight." exploding air bags. the urgent recall growing. millions warn their air bags could explode in their front seat like an ied. don't, the 911 call, moments after police say it happened. brian ross investigates. the breaking news. three american girls, high school teenagers, authorities say lured by the internet to join the terror in syria. they had already left the u.s. where authorities found them. caught on tape. the images right from the atm. the woman getting her money out and what happens to her. a lesson for us off. the new warning tonight. a tired nation. is the driver next to you falling asleep? what can happen in a matter of seconds. and, spin the wheel. the price is right moment you have to see to believe. the father, the miracle moment, not once, but twice.