>> if it was not for him i don't think we would have the same

outcome. this man is a hero. >> dedetective james sloane was talking about dwayne fletcher. he witnessed the abduction sunday night of carlesha freeland gaither and immediately called police. if not for that call, free land gaither may be a face on a flier, another missing person. thursday nightsh the big story on "action news" tonight is the emergence of a hero in this kidnapping case and philadelphia police are quick to give him credit. >> if he did not make the phone call or did not wait all we had was cellphone in the middle of the street and missing person report. and you have nothing. "action news" reporter eva pilgrim is live at the kidnapping scene in germantown. eva you talked to fletcher tonight. what's his talk on the praise he's getting from police? >> reporter: well, jim, phelpser says he was doing what anyone that situation would do. he deposit know the woman screaming for help but says he could not ignore her cries.

>> these chilling imamounts unfolded before dwayne fletcher's eyes. >> when she was screaming for help it seemed like she was calling for me nobody else was out here nobody eliminates was out here it felt like everything was like i'm like man, man, >> fletcher was walking on opposite sides of carlesha. >> i mack a left on crozer and when i get to the mile of the block i hear scream and i see him m m amounts tussling. >> he called police when he ran to the scuffle. >> he was already by the car when i got closer and i hear bang open the window i thought it was gun shots. i backed up when i backed up a couple second later he -- i saw cellphone and i see a blade on the ground. >> the memory of what happened haunted fletcher he took to face back begging for the public's

help sag i don't know her but she screamed help i tried and failed and i can can't sleep. his immediate calls helped track her down and reunite her with her family. it was the right thing to do. >> if it was one of my family members you don't know how many victims this guy got you know some type of people in the meeting sick. >> now police say they think fletcher stevshs a reward for his role in solving this case. germantown, eva pilgrim, "action news," jim. >> thank you, eva. let's switch live to "action news" dann cuellar who is outside carlesha's aunt's house where we believe she is with the rest of her -- tonight. it was also a case of pril grant police work. that's right, jim, and this is also a story about a very smart, core age us victim that left clues for police to find her an

a very dogged detective james sloane who never gave up believing they were bring her home. he describes the moment when he called relatives to differ on the status. >> she answered the phone and i said why do you sound gloomy. i said we found your sister and she's of a. >> the surveillance footage has been seen around the woorld. we're learning how authorities were able to find her and her abductor. the 2-year-old nurse deliberately dropped her cellphone at the scene to let everyone know she was gone. >> she left it there for us to find. >> then used a ma'amer he she found in the back of his car to smash a rear window and hit him in the ed. he was able to subsigh her. authorities gave barnes the atm and pin number hopi.g it woul

>> there was a gps in the car in case he defaulted on loan. federal agents tracked the car to parking not jess up, maryland and saw two people sitting in back at devlin exited to drive away agents moved in arresting hip and finding carlesha injured and alive. detect activities sloane drove her parents to the hospital room in maryland. >> she was upset i told her i was looking for her and she started crying. her mom hugged her and father embraced her and touching moment, touching moment. >> today carlesha's grandmother spoke exclusively to "abc news". >> we're doing fine. we're very tired. we just want to get ob with our lives. we're just happy she's home and she's resting and you know we want to move on. >> barnes as has a history of terrorizing women and there's questions what he was doing on the streets to begin with. >> bottom line he's not getting outside of custody whenever

direction he goes. 'tis last moment of freedom was his last night. federal authorities say delvin barnes has confessed to kidnapping and is charged federally he should arrive in virginia to face charges there in another case. live in north philadelphia, i'm dann cuellar, "channel 6 action news." >> thank you, dann. police described barnes as predator of women. "action news" covered his arrests when he was arrested for assaulting his family in northeast philadelphia. pennsylvania parole board denied his requests for early release four times saying he was risk to community and lacked remorse. gut he was granted erltly release one year ago. and tonight we heard from barnes' former father in law. >> well he's still walking a round ft. streets. he has no business walking around in the streets you know? if he has the same he's supposed

to get with my daughter from easton this will happen to these two young ladies. >> a month before carlesha's abduction they accused barnes of kidnapping a 16-year-old girl if richmond, virginia. he hit her with a shovel and dumped her in the truping of a car sexually assaulted her and doused her with bleevrp and gasoline. she suffered third degree burns. investigators played a key role in identifying barnes as the suspect in carlesha's kidnapping. and now we want to show you video we just received of barnes arriving in charles city county virginia just a few moments ago where the wheels of justice will begin it turn that richmond, virginia crime. gust told you -- i have a 16-year-old girl richmond and shovel dumping it in a car and sexually assaulting and dousing

her with bleach and gasoline those are the charges that delvin barnes will now face in children children. philadelphia is second in line. first it's vir sir he has arrived there just moments ago. >> 6abc.com is could be continuing coverage of kidnapping rescue where you can learn more about how police track the suspect down and his extensive criminal hist reand ever growing slide show of photographs. >> now, this is one of the most heinous crimes in anybody's memory around this area. a 3-year-old chester county boy was strung up by his feet. beaten, tortured and murdered. chester county da called it american horror story. and "action news" reporter sharee williams is live in the satellite center with that story. >> sharee. >> it started with the three-year-old saving savings and it escalated to intentional pane and tourment.

the mom and her boyfriend were out having piece aand shopping all while thl 3-year-old boy was dying. >> they killed a child under the age of 12. and tortured. we will seek a death penalty in this case. >> it's the worst child abuse case chester county has said it seeped in recent time. scotty was beaten repeatedly until knocked open conscious. it happened at the scotty's only mother and both are now facing first degree murder charges. >> he was tied to a chair and beaten. he was died upside down by his feet and beaten. >> the little boy was beaten with his homemade whip a metal curtain road and aluminum siding accord to investigators and his head allegedly slammed into a wall numerous times. the abuse happened here aconsidereding to detectives inside the family's trailner

west callan township. >> he had bruises on top of bruces. >> they just moved here in october. living in the trailer were six people. gary, his patient -- scotty and 6-year-old ryan. then fellembaum's wife. the final straw came never 4 when scotty became so beaten he was not bleeding. it was his mother that called 911. >> our ers and nurses saw terrible things and when they saw his body they wept. >> i promise you this, though the heavens may fall, justice will be done to these defendan s defendants. >> detectives say scotty's brother, ryan, was abused and tonight ryan is with other family members and is said to be

doing fine. live in the satellite center, khar he williams. "channel 6 action news." >> thank you, sharee. septa will vote whorpt to accept the contract and local 34 had threatened to strike and leadership struck a deal last friday including wage increases of 5% over two years and without any terms the union considers concessions on pensions or medical benefits. >> there was an extra special delivery at corzer-chester hospital a few days ago. a set of twins, two little boys that were a gift of love, as well as a gift of life. and candace is -- froze her embryos after giing nosed with cancer. when she and her husband had trouble conceding her cousin offered to became a surrogate. they were born on tuesday, tomorrow they go home. >> still to come on "action news" tonight a dramatic endsp >> still to come on "action news" tonight a dramatic endsp to police chase.

>> get on the ground now. >> this all started can carjacking of news van and photographer was holing when it happened and ruling on same-sex marriage that could see the issue back to the stream court. >> low pressure that brought us rain today pulling away it's not done quite yet. i'll mraip in the -- >> more fallout today from data breach that affected millions and what the retailer says about what else was stolen and we sit down with expert for tips on keeping your private information safe. my special report is m coming up. >> flyers rematch against panthers in less than a week's time. that and more when "action news" time. that and more when "action news" continues hey dad, what's that?

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>> this was dramatic finale for bizarre encounter for a camera man in australia. it started when a biker flagged down the camera man saying he sa all theed a woman and wanted to turn himself in then changed his mind and up jumped behind the wheel of the van and pulled out a gun. he drove off. his big get away ended with big crash. carjacker was arrested. >> home depot is revealing tonight hackers stole 53 million e-mail addresses the company had on file. of course this is in addition to the 56 million debit and cretid cards between april and september both thefts came during the same data breach using customized malware they installed for anti-virus protection. no passwords or other sensitive personal information were compromised. however, hackers are likely to

use 5 million addresses to show victims spam and don't click links this them. home depot says it secured payment systems and will offer free credit monitoring to affected customers all of this begs a question can anything be done to protect digital identity. brian taff is at the big board with advice. >> as we speak tonight there's no guarantee, no magic gave of want that shores up your dim tall computerty and protect private data if you're willing to work at it you can take stopz not become the next victim. november 2013 target announced data theft affected millions and

neem man marcus and home depot and acme. all work of digital sabotageers. >> they need only be successful once to turn your life upside down. whether simply shopping or innocently playing an on-line game askself described gamer dennis dozer. >> they changed with what they knew and once they got to that they got to all my other accounts. >> dep us lives much of his life on-line meaning a lot of information about him is out there. once he was hacked data thieves were able to takeover his cellphone and forward calls and did same with e-mail and from there gained access to all his on-line accounts. >> they would go to sites and click forgot password, forget password and they wept through everything. >> so jack tamarcio former sent

of homeland security it requires something more than common sense. it requires real work. ask this basic question. to whom aim sand handing over this information. >> vendors that you know and trust that had some profile in marketplace. >> simply put bigger retailers and reputable web sites can employ bigger defenses and second don't pick one schemingly secure password or pin and think it's a safe, smart to do. >> it's a dumb thing to do. you should have different passwords and also change your password with some frequency and regularity. >> every three months while cumbersome is ideal that includes passwords you might not think of like cellphone carrier, itunes or am zone act and your e-mail. also, consider getting a new debit card every so often, getting new card numbers once in

a while is what tomarcio calls good cyber hygiene and keeps us one step ahead of the digital guys. >> when a defense is enacted, the bad guys find or try to find a way to get around the defense. >> and until a truly secure system to prongt yourself is invented this is constant job and kind of a pain frank limit if you're willing to spend 12 bucks a month you can pay credit monitoring service to keep tabs on things check your credit and bank account statements weekly and back to the tip of getting new credit and debit card once in a while if you plan to do a lot of holiday shopping as many of you do plan it and when the season is over cut it up and good a new one. that goes a long way. >> good advice one thing he said is so true using a lot of different passwords and keeping track of them and in a safe place. people don't do that. >> that's the hardest part

remembering them. >> thanks, brian. >> thanks, jim. >> breaking a trend of victories for gay marriage. cincinnati upheld laws banning same-sex marriages in four states. ruling covers ohio, michigan, tennessee and tennessee and this in federal courts makes it more likely it will be taken up by u.s. supreme court. >> they don't call it windy city for nothing. this plane name strong answering toll avoid crosswinds. this pilot put the plane open the run way the airport had numerous cancellations and delays. >> you said okay. >> i want to see that again. >> winds at o'hare, 40 miles an hour gusts. >> yeah. coming here tomorrow. >> that could cause a lot of problems. stormtracker 6 live double cap showing most of the region cleared out of showers and we

still have showers hanging on at the coast, sea isle city and atlantic city and garden state parkway right rain smyrna and dell ford and we will be drying out in the overnight hours. problem tonight in some areas we're dealing with dense fog. reading report visibility .5 miles and 2.5 in trenton and overnight the winds pick up this should be clearing out the fog. as we head through the every night hours. currently 52. allentown 48, millville 52 wilmington 51 with clouds and showers today never made it out of mid 50s. 56 was the high today. it was chilly, raw, rainy day. and satellite 6 and action ray dpar showing the low pressure that caused rain it's off the coast of massachusetts but it's deepening it's strengthening and

what this will do is set up scenario similar to the past sunday. low pressure north and east. high pressure budding in from west this creates wind tunnel affect. wind gusts near 40 miles an hour and 54 degrees will feel like temperatures are in the 40s. definitely bundle up. morning sunshine give them a lot into the afternoon. heading to the weekend it's the eastern sea board and brings us sunshine early on the day on saturday and more clouds moving in ahead of the front and it will be chilly on saturday high of 50. and behind that front we actually have warmer air moving in fort second half of the weekend. day planner tomorrow, wake up, a good amount of sunshine. winds beginning to pick up at 7:00, 47, and by 1:00, 57, we the afternoon the clouds roll in possibility of isolated snow shower. should not -- isolated shower and by 5:00, 51. so the exclusive accuweather 7 day forecast gusty winds if it's

good luck in your neighborhood hood and high of 5 4 saturday chilly, morning sunshine, afternoon called clouds and to and sunny looking good. 57 degrees. good amount of sunshine. clouds, healeding into monday beautiful warm. 61 degrees. loads of sunshine. eagles game at the livrn temperatures into the 40s by end of game and you want to bundle up and tuesday for veteran's day, mild, 65 degrees. but temperatures then begin to crash. down to 55 degrees on wednesday. thursday, high 45 degrees and looks like it could be cold are by the end of next week. a little preyou have of winter. >> thank you, cecily. >> well, very special greedings tonight at the annual bark and wine event. hundreds of animal loves and there dogs and gaz gats and last year's event said they would

>> flyers trying to take

advantage of home ice. ducis rogers. >> this was a fun twoun watch. flyers and panthers met five days ago and flyers roingt that by single goal and tonight is a different night and result is far different as well. first period. michael dell glad" uses referee as a screen. 2-0. third period. giroux and jake vorachek on the rush. and rest of the night belongs to steve may sop. he makes 34 saves. mayor son had 35 saves the other nights. flyers take it 4-1. >> we're ready to make ground in the standings. we need to take advantage of it. and the only time you can play consecutive game at home, you can build momentum and we have to make the most of it. >> to eagles having experienced backup quarterback is no longer luxury in nfl but necessity.

mark sanchez makes first start monday night against panthers and his teammates rave of understanding of offense and preparation regardless of whether he is starting or not. sanchez told us it is not his first rodeo. >> i played monday night before and started a bunch of games. i've been on this stage this national stage in college, in the pros. and we got a heck of a team. it's not look i have to go invept something out. there there's -- we have maclin, ertz, celek, coop, jordan, interchangeable linemen that can block and running backs to take pressure off quarterback. so this will be fun. more eagles coverage ahead. we'll here what ron jaworksi thinks about

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>> there's been a lot of talk about mark sanchez and nick foles. we check in with ron jaworksi. jaws said sanchez is capable quarterback and says fans should temper their expectations. >> i have no idea why the fans think they're getting joe nemeth. it's mind boggling nick foles is a good quarterback and still quarterback of this team. where is this guy released by one be a super star in the next. i don't see. it for some reason fans like change. i don't like change. i like things consistent and same old quarterback line him up every week.

>> we're teaming one phl17 to bring you eagles carolina game. we'll have a special count down and kickoff followed by the game itself monday night 8 p.m. on phl17. that's sports. >> jaws. "jimmy kimmel live" next on channel 6 followed by "nightline". guests geena davees and music from starship and it doesn't get much better than that. "action news" continues at 4:30 with matt o'donnell, meteorologist -- what am i doing. >> david murphy. >> oh, i forgot. >> tamala edwards and, of course, karen rogers with traffic. for cecily tynan, -- that put me right over the edge -- cecily tynan, ducis rogers and the entire "action news" team i'm tynan, ducis rogers and the entire "action news" team i'm jim gardner, have a good

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