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person could possibly be an ebola patient. at this point we know he is 33-year-old craig allen spencer, in guinea, africa, working with doctors without boarders, treats patients affected with ebola, he returned last friday, and his flitd path was from guinea to brussels and into jfk new york. he was transported from his upper manhattan apartment just before noon, from an especially train trained hazmat unit. precautions were taken on that front and take and to bellevue hospital in manhattan, that is where he is being evaluated and treated. we received a statement this afternoon, this statement reading in part, this coming from doctors without boarders,
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at this stage there is no confirmation that the individual contracted ebola, doctors without borders is in the interest of public safety and we immediately notetived the new york city department of health and hygiene who is directly managing the individual's care. we could know as early as tonight if this doctor has a confirmed case of ebola, 12 hours is the time span it takes and officials are working to trace all the people that this doctor had been in contact with. just to be sure, they want you know know that is part of the information they are gathering at this hour. in other news tonight, another night of clashes between protesters and police in missouri that led to a handful of arrests there. this after the leaks autopsy report of michael brown, it
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shows that he was shot six times including a hand wound that happened at close range, that wound could support police officer's darren wilson's claim that he tried to grab his gun, but attorneys for the brown family have a different take. >> it shows mike as a person who is probably fighting for his life. trying to get free, from what ever grip this officer has on him. and i draw that conclusion not blindly, but when he got free, he fled. >> a grand jury is expected to decide by mid-november whether officer wilson will face criminal charges, the justice charges are investigating for possible civil rights violations, a mural dedicated to michael brown used to sit in downtown trenton is taken down due to potential fears of violence there. nora muchanic has the story. >> reporter: this is the image
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of michael brown, it's teen shot by police in ferguson, missouri s. painted on a security game in east trenton, with the caption, sagging pants is not probable cause. >> regardless of what happen that day, if this spurred up a healthy debate about what is right and what is wrong, the only way we get past that is to talk about it. >> the mural is located in the business district and they had it painted over after police raised concerns, this is a high crime area, and the scene of a double shooting on columbus day and the cops think it sends the wrong message. >> you immediate think the police are wrong and the police are bad and that is not what we want to convey, we want to convey the police are here for us and to work with us. >> the group called the sage coalition, are not surprised it
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was painted over, they expect it and michael brown's controversial shooting to spark conversation. >> we knew it would get people talking. >> do i think it should have come down? no. maybe a conversation about it. >> it's us against that mentality. we are trying to get beyond that and we are trying to find solutions to do it. he plans to repaint the mural at an artie -- event. delaware state police are investigating after the body of a young man was found in a wooded area, a passer by called police after spotting the body on ricky boulevard this morning everyone a 19-year-old is positively identified but they are not releasing the name yet and police do not believe foul play is a factor in the death. a mystery in south jersey, a
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man was found shot in the back outside of chalet apartments. the motive is unclear. berks county seniors are urged to be on alert for a convicted burglar who is back on the prowl. carlos reyes signed himself out of the correctional center yesterday and he reportedly went to an assisted living center posing as a worker trying to get into patient's rooms. authorities are looking for a man that stalked and robbed two women, this is a video of the suspect from october 12th, police say he followed the victims on the 1,000 block of oregon avenue and when the women passed the suspect walking up behind them with a gun in his
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hand and one woman threw cash in the man and grabbed him that allowed her friend to escape and the thief ran off to 12th street. if you recognize him you are asked to call police right away. authorities want to you take a close look at this man, he is called a person of interest in an apartment burglary that happened over the summer, it's from july 25th in carlyle street in the point breeze section, if you know anything about the man please call police. a crash in the lehigh valley, killed a beloved activists. leroy burton tested positive for hiv 20 years an and since then he spoke out to stop the stigma of aids. it's a nonprofit dedicated to aids prevention and awareness. he served as a firefighter and previously as a soldier in the army. police are investigating a spree of criminal mischief, a
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b.b. gun is being used in these cases, 10 homes and five cars will their homes damaged by bb pellets, on willow run and marshall and stanton andle the trailer park. time for an update on the commute home on a thursday night. matt pellman is in the traffic center. >> it's almost friday and rick has not made fun of my vest yet today. just some thick afternoon traffic but overall not bad. construction on route 22 near trooper road. they are doing that each night. and a crash at cow path road and a wreck in middletown township in buck county near woodburn
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road by the 7-eleven and a crash involving a pedestrian in runnemede, between the black horse pike and evesham road. and in delaware, travel times are on time along 95 but look for more construction ton on the ramps that connect it to the concord pike, several are shut down for overnight construction starting at 9:00. >> i was going to say save the vest for last. >> still to come on "action news" thursday, new information on the case filed by former baltimore raven, ray rice, how it involves nfl commissioner, roger goodell. and news on honey boo boo, and one of the show's main characters, we'll explain. >> the rain is in new and and the winds are whipping to the west and brighter skies in the accuweather forecast. >> okay adam, it's thursday nitd
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and that means more suspense and more intrigue and romance on
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nfl commissioner roger
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goodell will have to testify under only for ray rice's appeal hearing, they made the ruling forcing goodell to testify. he is suing the nfl for wrongful termination, and the two game suspension should have been the only league penalty, rice was suspended indefinitely when the video of that incident became public. the prep mode now for the eagles, against the cardinals this weekend. jeff skversky is live. >> what a game it will be, chip kelly's eagles one of the highest scoring teams in the nfl, but nobody is worse at scoring touch downs in the red zone, the birds are breaking through the red zone only 40% of the time.
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nick foles says it's his fault because he touches the ball 90% of the time. he would stack up this eagles team with the best of them. >> from a chemistry standpoint we are very good. and you know, that really matters but we have to take is it week by week and we have to continue to improve. we are 5-1 right now. that doesn't guarantee us anything. there will be a lot of brotherly love in arizona or maybe not, eagles line backer will go up against his younger brother, who is also a line backer and talking trash this week. >> i hope this gets to the eagles media, we played basketball at the house, one-on-one, i would be up 9-3, and put the ball down and walk inside. >> i would play when i was 6 or 7 years old, he is still harping
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on his past victories old times. >> he doesn't plan to get up this week. >> you can't hit the reset, it's a real live bullet. >> arizona's team is the best at stopping the run but will the eagles have all the ammo, darren sproles is still nursing his knee injury, he is easily the mvp of this season so far. >> darren sproles is a warrior, not just an outstanding running back that can catch the football on the back field, he is an outstanding return man and that is important longing at the next ten games and the playoffs. we want him health, he is a warrior and wants to play ball. the players matt trick late to him. he loves football and loves
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being around the guys and that shows. that is the culture that chip kelly is developing. >> our eagles coverage continues on game day kickoff sunday morning at 11:30 and then we kickoff everything on game day final on "action news" at 11:00. flyers with a complete day off after their big win, with the pittsburgh penguins, flyers just two wins and flyers just two wins back in the division, too bad they can't play all of their games in pittsburgh, they won 10 of their last 12 games in. the flyers put it away with three goals in the third. sizemore agrees to a one year deal worth $2 million. and players can start filing for free agency after the world series. hunter pence has been winning,
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but last night the royals rallied and went on to win game two, tying the series 1-1. royals won nine of their last playoff games in game three. back to the studio. >> thanks jeff. meantime, it's nearly friday, it's an all new tgit. sharrie williams is live at the big board with more. she'll tell you don't go anywhere thursday nights. >> technically i'm here working but i try to keep my eye on the television, i get it in, tensions are rising across the tgit tv shows, and an occasional romance of course. it kicks off tonight on "grey's anatomy." >> i never should have let you dictate a procedure i don't believe in.
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this is my service and my nick u. he told her. >> alex and arizona go head to head over a complicated case on a newborn an an all new gray's. they are taking a deeper look into their struggling marriage. it starts at 8:00. >> i need you to find out what happened to jake. >> yeah is missing, i tracked him to the white house. >> you are asking me for a favor live? >> oh my my how the tables have turned. abby is now calling the shots at the white house but an even bigger question, where is jake and cyrus falls deeper into his affair with michael and fitz is unstoppable when it comes to finding outs how his son died. that is an all new "scandal" at
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9:00. >> every juror you let in the box can decide your client's fate. >> they are talking jury selection on tonight's how to get away with murder. she is defending a minor that fatally shot her police officer father. and they are talking about the relationship with lila, the murdered coed. taking a look at the lineup. 8:00 we have "grey's anatomy" followed by "scandal" at 9:00 and then "how to get away with murder" followed by "action news" at 11:00. don't forget many stars of tgit and members of "action news" tweet live with the shows, use the #~ tgit and #~ 6 abc as well. go to facebook and like the 6
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adam joseph is here now and we are looking past tomorrow. which is friday. into the weekend because the weekend is looking good. >> the weekend is looking spectacular. and brighter days ahead. looking at double scan live, we are bright being things up by getting the colors off the scan. some showers in western berks county but overall the clouds are still around and a few pops of blue before the sunsets, philadelphia winds gusts, 35 miles per hour and peaking at 35 in the lehigh valley and trn ton and lan city airport coming in at 28 miles per hour. not only do we have the rain, the clouds and wind, and very chilly temperatures, we are stuck in the 50s the last few days, 58 degrees and today 57 and the high temperature, 57 is where we are sitting right now. the same for wilmington and dover, double nickels on the
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board for reading and trenton as well as beach haven, and the boardwalk coming in at 55 degrees, big swirling low pressure here, off of boston and cape cod, bringing the atlantic moisture in from boston and to vermont and to parts of maine, six inches of rain, and a half inch to inch, still dealing with clouds for the western side of the low, we'll slowly migrate away for the canadian mar ty tyne -- it is warmer and saturday we bump it up to 67 and mostly sunny and beautiful and approaching front late in the day on saturday and that drives stronger winds in for the second half of the weekend. tonight clouds are breaking up and on the breezy side and seasonal temperatures 44 to 48 and the day planner for the end of the week, as we round out the
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end of the work and school week, the sun is trying to take control and it will throughout the day, 61 at 3:00 and 66 by 4:00, the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, it's breezy and warmer friday, saturday into sunday however on sunday we'll be wind whipped again and the winds start to jump up into the mid to upper 20 miles per hour range. but just a few clouds monday it's night and 65 degrees and then we go to the 70s come tuesday and wednesday. wednesday over ten degrees above normal ahead of a cold front bringing us a shower wednesday evening and temperatures drop on thursday to 66 degrees, so we'll get warm next week into the 70s but signs show for next weekend in november do be a whole big different story, we'll talk about that tomorrow.whole big >> thank you. >> well, tlc is reassessing its
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series honey boo boo, after a stunny report that june shannon is dating a convicted child molester, the molester served time for an
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young food growers in philadelphia had help continuing their work, wbc high school, one of only two agriculturely based high schools in the country, got a visit. they make up the largest chapter of the future farmers of america in the country. to support their work, the fmc corpse adopted them and gave them a check for supplies and more. >> very nice. jim gardner is standing by with this story and more. a bucks county football season
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is canceled amid hazing allegations. for jaime apody, adam ryan costello went into politics. in 2001, doctor manan trivedi joined the marines. trivedi served as a battlefield surgeon in iraq. costello served himself by voting to raise his own pay. and while trivedi cared for patients in pennsylvania, costello gave millions in government contracts to his campaign contributors -even as he cut funding for child abuse prevention. in congress, only trivedi will do what's right for you.
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i'm manan trivedi, and i approve this message. "action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with ducis rogers, meteorologist cecily tynan, and jim gardner. it is thursday night and the big story on "action news" tonight is breaking news from new york city, where a doctor is currently be evaluated as a possible victim of ebola. the 33-year-old doctor craig
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allen spencer is at bellevue hospital that is designated as a facility for isolation, identification and treatment of the ebola virus, results of tests should come within the next 12 hours, the doctor recently returned from guinea and voluntarily quarantined himself in his apartment on 47th street in manhattan, he developed fever and symptoms and notified authorities, of course world news tonight with david muir will have more on this case next on channel 6. on the day before the annual rivalry game with central bucks east, central bucks west suspended the football season and suspended the coaching staff after a hazing incident. dann cuellar is live now. >> reporter: yes its a bombshell, shock and extreme disappointment amongt