year in camden and the surrounding area. and a camden county police officer is one of 40 arrests announced this morning. live outside of the office of the camden county prosecutors is "action news" reporter, vernon odom. >> reporter: tonight one camden county police detective are furious about this development, how the young officer got through the screening process despite her marriage to an accused drug dealer. >> ashley bailey is accused of being a key dealer in a huge crack cocaine and heroin drug ring. >> accessing police reports to try to glean intelligence from her relatives and coconfederates in the conspiracy and running tags and things of that nature.

>> local police and the fbi made 40 arrests including eric ing m ingram, whose brother is the coconspirator that triggered the far reaching probe. >> it all began when the camden county police department alerted my office and the state police that the officer's husband was an alleged member of this network. prosecutors say that the drug trafficking network that operated here on the busy mount ephraim avenue across the south jersey suburbs. police have seized 8,000 bags of heroin and 5,000 bags of crack and 10 pounds of marijuana and guns. they say that police officer bailey tipped off the drug

organization of key investigations. >> jim at age 28 officer bailey if convicted could face up to 30 years in prison, far more than the alleged higher ups in this drug conspiracy. live in camden, new jersey, vernon odom, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. nasa has begun its investigation into last night's catastrophic launch of an unmanned rocket in virginia, the rocket built and owned by orbital science corporation exploded 6 seconds after leaving the launch pad. it was taking supplies and experiments to the international space station. >> part of that cargo was an spearments from the ocean city high school. >> john rawlins live tonight. what kinds of reaction have you

heard today. >> reporter: a range of emotion as far as today is concerned, relieve that nobody was hurt or killed last night. as for last night, a range of emotions as well. a roller coaster ride from euphoria during the count down to absolute terror a few minutes later. >> they told reporter there's was a sense of excitement as they counted down to liftoff. >> three, two, one! >> when the count down happened we were all so excited and it started to move up! >> oh my god! >> at first it appears so right and then it turned so wrong, a brilliant flash and then a massive sound wave rocked the students and teachers a mile and a half from the launch site.

>> everybody sat with their jaws dropped. i was terrified and scared. i don't know what i thought, i was in shock. >> the student's first concern, the fire ball could kill ground crews. >> we were terrified we thought we watched people die before our eyes. >> the rocket and the pay load incinerated including a small plastic tube like this one containing the team's experiment. insides was a bit of lettuce and the e. coli bacteria. knowledge that some day could help keep astronauts healthy during long voyages. >> so that nasa can create antibiotics with the changed conditions in space. >> one unexpected lesson from last night. >> our students are learning that the world of science are full of twists and turns, the lines between success and disappointment could sometimes be blurred.

>> well, a team of six and their facul faculty advisers invested a year in this project, if they can duplicate this experiment and they believe they can, it will have priority placement in the next rocket that goes to the international space station. the district attorney filed voluntarily plan slaughter charges again the man that killed his daughter's boyfriend. charles jordan shot mark carrion in the head. the father initially told investigators he thought he was an intruder, but the charges against jordan indicate that he provoked him before the shooting and he is out on bail tonight. >> talks continue between septa and twu local 224 and the talks have taken on a greater sense of urgency now that the union is

armed with a strike authorization from the rank and file. sara bloomquist is live now with more. is there progress tonight? >> reporter: actually there is, a source here at the windham hotel told "action news" that progress was made in the talks and they are getting close, that is good news for people who rely on accept to to get where they need to go. union representatives return to the bargaining table in afternoon since the union unanimously voted to authorize a strike back on sunday. union leadership promised not to strike this week and give kmutders 24 hour notice but with friday fast approaching and election day on tuesday, commuters want this resolved. >> yes, i need my job and i need

to work and i am carless, i need septa. >> it's a big concern yes. >> the 4700 workers in septa's biggest union are working without a contract for the past sex seven months. riders said they are thinking ahead considered a strike and how they will get around if they are stranded at home. >> i don't drive, i would be a prisoner. us seniors have to get out. >> have to walk. >> far? >> yeah. >> now union leadership has said they will continue talks through the week and reassess this situation on friday, if they need to get that far a source with negotiations says progress was made and they are close to a

contract. sara bloomquist, channel 6 "action news." politics now with just six days until election day, a new 6 abc franklin and marshall poll shows a lopsided race for governor in pennsylvania, the new numbers out today shows the democratic challenger, tom wolf, has a 13 point lead over incumbent, tom corbett, 43% of voters say they will vote for wolf to corbett's 40%. only one in three believe that corbett performed well enough to deserve re-election. >> candidates for delaware's seat debated in wilmington, and senator chris couns is running for a second term and he squared off against kevin wade and green party candidate, andrew groff. couns holding a double digit lead in this race. abington health and jefferson health are one step

closer to merging. top officials from both health systems traded baseball caps at a news conference today. they got down to business and signed a letter of intent to create the largest health system in the region as measured by hospital beds. an agreement is expected in 120 days and if the merger is approved it will be finalized next year. commune leaders broke ground at bensalem high school for renovations and a new edition, the project will cost $78 million. the library and cafeteria and gymnasium will be approved and could take three years to complete. coming up on "action news" tonight, hurricane sandy two years later, governor chris christie meets with residents and business owners still struggling to make a come back. and for shock, 30 seconds the

incredible basketball feat that up staged the real game. temperatures dropped 16 degrees in four hours this afternoon and they continue to drop to the 30s to the north and west. a chilly change in the last half of the week. those stories and more when "action news" continues tonight.

it was two years ago today that hurricane sandy slammed into the eastern seaboard and devastated portions of jersey

shore, all told sandy was responsible for 182 deaths in new york and knowledge and cost $65 billion in damage. toms river was one of the ocean county communes that got clobbered by the storm and chris christie is marking the anniversary in toms river today. nora muchanic was there. >> it seems longer than two years ago to me, it seems like a long time we have been at this. >> reporter: governor christie spent time at the dover marina, it was under water in the storm and lost everything and they are struggle everything to come back since. >> it's a long time getting back to where we are now and we have put it behind us and the biggest hurdle now is getting our customers back. >> a group criticized governor christie for the long delays and red tape, that left some storm victims waiting for grants.

>> it's a fight for two years, the flood insurance or the dca with the grant moneys. >> i have moved 12 times in the last two years, i don't have money to rebuild and ask questions later. >> there are 1200 homeowners that are homeless in toms river shameful. >> 365,000 homes destroyed in one day, and for those that are not back in their home yet, i understand that they are frustrated but we can only go as fast as we can go. the governor acknowledges problems but the grant process for sandy victims have improved and it will take years to fix what sandy did but the job will get done. nora muchanic, channel 6 "action news." >> our coverage of the hurricane sandy anniversary continues on 6abc.com, we have a feature showing areas hit by sandy both before and after the storm.

a collection of photographs of the destruction left by sandy, find it all on 6abc.com. supporters of cheney university in delaware county filed a lawsuit against the commonwealth of pennsylvania alleging discrimination. it accuses the state of not living up to promises it made to help improve the infrastructure of the school. cheney is a historically black institution, one of 14 state schools, supporters say the institution, one of 14 state schools, supporters say the enrollment has what's the truth on taxes? factcheck.org says it's tom corbett who's being dishonest. they say tom wolf has a plan to reduce income taxes for the middle class and cut local property taxes. and tom corbett? it's corbett who slashed education by a billion dollars... ...and now almost 80% of school districts plan to raise property taxes. and it's corbett who's increasing gas taxes by 28 cents a gallon.

tom corbett. desperate and dishonest.

sixers tip it off for another season tonight on the road. >> the lowest payroll in the nba, the only thing they are competing for is the first overall pick. sixers fans will get their first

look at nerlins noel. what can we expect from this team? >> we have to grow some people and bite our lip with some of them from time to time and you'll see turnovers from time to time but it will be exciting and it will be up and down the floor and exciting because they will play with a pride that we hope our fans are proud of, despite what our resume say and at times what our record says. >> most guys that tear their biceps have season ending injury but todd herriman is trying to tough it out for the game on sunday. it's a familiar nest for some of the birds and jaime apody has more. >> the cardinals game a distant memory as the eagles try to two step their bay back into the win column. >> we have to get serious for another road game, it's a tough atmosphere again.

>> they feel at home, six current eagles played for the texans at one time or another. >> we have key players on our team here in philly that played in houston. >> ryan played his first six years and when to two pro bowls as a texan. >> a lot of my former teammates are still there, good to see those guys, obviously i have a lot of fun playing in the stadi stadium, playing in a different team he wears his heart for houston on his leg. yes, that is a texan tattoo, because the texans were my favorite team and i mean i grew up on pretty much any houston team i loved. >> there is plenty of room for something eagles.

>> oh yeah. >> sounds unsure, jaime apody, channel 6 "action news." >> a texans tattoo, all right. >> lets face it, college kids need money and how about this one college student, owl you had to do for $10,000 was make a free throw and a half quarter shot, check it out. and a lay-up. wow at brian college in tennessee, he wins $10,000 in tuition money, how about that

shot? and again and again and again. >> thank you jeff. adam joseph is here with the accuweather forecast when we continue in just a moment. this is ceo tom macarthur's world.

in macarthur's world, he opposes new laws to ensure women receive equal pay for equal work. and macarthur opposes a woman's right to choose

backed by a group that would outlaw abortion even for rape and incest. for us in the real world, aimee belgard. aimee will fight for equal pay and protect a woman's right to choose. aimee belgard's on our side. i'm aimee belgard and i approve this message. get ready for some great fall and winter-like weather. >> it will feel more like december, especially the second half of the weekend. big changes coming, stormtracker 6 live double scan will show any showers that passed through philadelphia around 4:00 are pretty much off the shore and all in all a much better looking

live double scan. we take a live look from sky 6 hd in center city, looking west the clouds are breaking up with the glow along the horizon, a beautiful shot here with the cloud deck over the city as a cold front pushes off the coast. temperatures are falling fast and for halloween, no tricks just treats this year. the temperatures this afternoon 70 at 1:00 for the high temperature and just four hours later we dropped 16 degrees to 54, a true fall front that blasted through and not much in the way of precipitation and here is your halloween forecast, mostly cloudy and dry for the trick or treaters and 55 when they head out and 50 at 7:00, you may want to put long johns underneath the costume to keep them comfort. 53 in allentown and already in the 40s in the poconos.

there is a ribbon of moisture that passes through and it evaporated into southern new jersey and delaware, the clearing line quickly from the west and the clear sky overnight tonight, the temperatures are allowed to drop in the northern western suburbs and the 40s for the rest of us. high pressure is on thursday means sun and clouds and cooler with temperatures below the normal at 60 degrees, the high starts to fade on halloween, and we'll watch energy from the north and west diving in from canada, it's potent energy and the high only in the upper 50s, it's a damp and dreary start to the weekend and a new month for november, the energy that comes in from central parts of canada will be potent and that will develop a store off the coast but it's too late to bring us

anything but light rain showers around the region in the afternoon. if you want to see snow, have you to driveway to the appalachians, the mountains of virginia and west virginia and all the way up into maine where they could be hammered by heavy snow. clearing skies and turning chilly in the suburbs and 47 degrees for center city. the your exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, partly sunny tomorrow and chilly and quiet for halloween and turns windy on saturday and a lot of clouds and showers around at 52 chilly degrees, especially with the rain, we turn the clocks back an hour and gain an hour sleep over the weekend and then on sunday, sunny and windy though with a high of just 49, and windchills in the morning in the 30s and not as cool come monday and 55 for election day, looking dry and looking good, and back to normal on wednesday 64, and

sunset on sunday is 5:00. just to remind you. you don't have to send us confused and angry emails and tweets, we know we messed up pictures on the graphic before with the result of the latest 6 abc poll, in the race for governor of pennsylvania, this is now the way it should have lost. tom wolf, the man on the left with 53% of likely voters and tom corbett, the man on the right with 40% of likely voters, wolf does have a decisive lead going into the last weekend of the campaign and election day is tuesday. abc's world news tonight with david muir is next on channel 6. "action news" continues on phl 17, and please join us for "action news" on channel 6 at 11:00. for the entire "action news" team i'm jim gardner, we hope

you'll join us at 11:00. 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. i'm manan trivedi, and i approve this message.

welcome to "world news tonight." the new images. the fire in the sky. the rocket explosion. that mission for nasa. $200 million lost. and what we've learned about the soviet engines inside. from the '60s. then, the river of fire. we take you up in the chopper tonight, over that 2,000-degree lava. can they save anything? what they're doing to the telephone poles. unscripted. governor chris christie lashing out at that man with a message, right there in front of him. >> sit down and shut up. >> how this ended. the hidden camera and the cat calls caught on tape. what happens to this woman as she simply walks down the street? it's sparking all sorts of outrage tonight. and the u.p.s. guy. that's a $12,000 package. what happened to handle with care?