"action news" continues with this fall surprise, this is morgan town, pennsylvania, they are snow flurries, the first of our season. >> the snow and rain will be around for much of the evening. lets head to cecily tynan with the latest from double scan radar. >> don't be surprised if you are watching "action news" the past couple of days, i was talking about this and a cold front is coming in and it bring a shot of even colder air tomorrow. it's picking up moisture and we have the green and rain showers we have the snow showers beginning to develop across mainly our north and west suburbs, this was sent in by kim from boyer town, pennsylvania,

we are getting the grassy coating, the non-paved surfaces and the snow is accumulating just a coating, stormtracker 6 live double scan showing right now rain showers in philadelphia however west of the northeast extension of the turnpike we are looking at the snow, hamburg and reading and oxford and coatesville, this line will begin to sweep to the east as we head through the evening hours and the cold air moves in. i'll talk more about the timing of the system and what is to follow behind it in the full accuweather forecast. >> thank you, in the meantime it's the question on everybody's mine, will it be as bad of a winter as last year or will it be better. and cecily has it's answers tonight in her winter outlook on "action news" at 11:00. it started with a call of an apparent home invasion and two trenton police officers had no idea this call would nearly cost

them their lives. it happened in wilsonville at 8:00 a.m., the suspect started firing. david ry -- david henry has more. >> reporter: they are relieved that the officers are okay and still investigating the shooter and possible motives. >> they saw the suspect there and the suspect opened fire and they returned fire, the suspect was shot when they returned fire. the vehicle tells the story, three bullet holes right in front. driver's seat. they were responding to reports of a man with a gun on wilson street. officers say he opened fire as soon as they drove up and a raging gun battle follows. >> i heard 20 shots and i was

sleeping, boom boom boom, boom boom boom, and you know though were heavy gunshots. >> investigators place over a dozen red cones over shell casings that littered the streets and one of the homes, police fanned out down the neighborhood looking for witnesses and surveillance cameras. at this point police have not revealed his identity and they declined to name the two officers involved. the officers are shaken up but okay after being checked out at the hospital. >> any time you are involved in a shooting, you think about your family and your life could have been ended today. >> fortunately the two officers are home safe with their families tonight and police and the county prosecutor are going to update us at a news conference in a few minutes and we'll bring you the latest on "action news" an 6abc.com. live at police headquarters, david henry, channel 6 "action

news." >> thank you david, breaking news can happen any time, if you are there when it happens, be a part of the breaking news team. email your tips and videos to breaking news at 6abc.com. and can't us through our website at 6abc.com/breaking news. authorities say that an mcdonald's employee was stabbed by a customer at grays ferry. at the 2800 block of grays ferry avenue was recorded on tape. the suspect was told that the dining room was closing and he yelled at the worker and followed her outside and as she turned to walk away he stabbed her in the back and the suspect is still out there. two people were taken to the hospital in greenville, delaware, it happened in the area of route 41 and route 100, the driver of the honda suv somehow crossed into on coming

traffic and hit a ford truck and a honda accord. she was taken to christiana hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, the other two drivers were not seriously injured. >> this is 56-year-old john cramer, accused of driving his wife's classic corvette into the delaware river earlier this week. it happened in the tacony section of the philadelphia. cramer is now free on $1500 bail. a delaware man is facing criminal charges for allegedly making mess in his home. his name is alton smith jr., authorities seized weapons and rose is held on $91,000 bond. some philadelphia police officers are getting new bulletproof vests thanks to a

new gift. independence blue cruise announces a $100,000 donation to the police foundation, the largest gift ever to the foundation for body armor. at the action news big board, a scary close call for u-2 front man bono, one of the doors fell off his jet. he is used to flying high but today bono is thankful to be alive after a cargo door on a private leer jet he was traveling on detached from the plane falling some 8,000 feet from the ground and sending the luggage flying out. they were almost at the end of a two hour flight from dublin to berlin. believe is or not the pilots do not know that the door ripped off until they landed. there was a noticeable sound but the jet was not affected by how it was flying so everyone on

board thought it was turbulence, bono went on to shake hands with government officials within they got on the ground in berlin. more on the scare in the sky, can you watch that on world news after "action news" at 6:00. the passyunk bridge is now the robert c. donatucci bridge. maria donatucci held a ceremony today in philadelphia. the bridge that crosses the schuylkill river is named in honor of her late hospital, he was a state representative from 1980 until his death in 2010, her husband would be touched to foe he was remembered in the city where he grew up and raised his family. the new rothman rink, the rothman institute ice rink in dillworth park is about to open. there is a preview reception and the rink will open tomorrow.

you can watch it live tomorrow at noon, 6 abc is the official media sponsor of the ice rink at dillworth park. lets see if traffic is fun, matt pellman is in the traffic center tonight. >> we prefer the ice rink sorry. >> luckily we are not dealing with an ice rink on the roadways, some wet roadways a little slippery but not messy. here we had a crash, it's dry underneath as you can see under the schuylkill expressway, had a crash in the left lane eastbound and just cleared out and extra heavy conditions from the city to city avenue to this point at 30th street. we see a number of accidents, sounds bad at 113 at college avenue and the fire and police helping you around that. and eastbound at morgan town taking out the left lane and slowing there as well. a bad one in evesham township

closing route 70 stay on evesboro road instead. njt river line running on the saturday level and septa's cynwyd line not running the rest of the day and shuttle buses running instead. >> thank you. still on "action news" it sounds like a story out of an animated film, but we'll tell you what is true and lurking around disney paris. and cecily tynan has a wintry forecast for us. >> we have snow showers in parts of our region that moves to the east overnight and details on what to expect and the cold air to follow and another storm system next week. it's thursday than means all new drama in prime time, including a bombshell on philadelphia based "how to get away with murder" i'll have a sneak peek when "action news" comes rights back.

this tiger cub is on loose in disney land paris. it is nighttime in france, helicopters equipped with heat sensor cameras be the ground search resumes in the morning, a

nearby big cat park says all of its animals are accounted for and they are slated to neutralize the animal and residents are told to stay inside. they are worried it could eventually get hungry. the birds are preparing for the packers this sunday and jaime apody is in the sport center with more. another big game coming up? >> a statement game. the chance to see if the eagles are for real. a win against the 6-3 packers that won three straight at lambeau field would deget maze them for sure. coach kelly says that mccoy is doing a good job and blocks just aren't there, shady claims he cares more about the wins than the stats.

>> i think individual goals are second, winning games and being a successful team is all that really matters at the end of the day, sure i would like it different, every player would like it different, the main focus, what matters the most is that we win it. >> winning is more important, he take its personal that we don't run the ball well, but that is more on us than him. >> mark sanchez looked up to the challenge on monday and according to our analyst, ron jaworsky, sanchez was pretty impressive. >> the number one thing you want to look for is comfort. is he comfortable in this offense? and he was, we saw it in the preseason and against the texans a few weeks ago and he looked comfortable in the offense but not as accurate as he would like

to be or more he is going to be as he plays. but you have to be happy. >> the 0-7 sixers are finally looking for their first win. michael carter williams will make his debut after offseason shoulder surgery, he will be joined by his friend nerlins noel. a long time coming for the rookie of the year and he can not wait. >> i'm really excited. the biggest thing is we are getting back with our teammates, the with the rest of our teammates, what is the most exciting thing for me we get to get back on the court. >> he is 14 pounds heavier, he has to deal with that too. the speed of the game, there is conditioning issues but he has done everything we asked of him.

penn state against temple is our biggest lopsided instate rivalry and the nittany lions have a better record. but this is a different temple team and penn state coach franklin is aware of this. >> i never heard of 17 recovered fumbles and six defensive touch downs and three special team touch downs, they have nine none offensive touch downs that is an impressive number. >> could this be the year for temple, it will be fun to watch. it might be chilly outside but things are heating up on thursday prime time here on 6 abc. it all kicks off with an all new "grey's anatomy" at 8:00. >> no, no, i'm sorry, no no. i need a different doctor, she

cannot touch my mother, i need a different doctor right now. >> calm down. >> i want another doctor, she is a drug addict. >> the past comes back to haunt here mother. it's all tonight at 8:00 on "grey's anatomy." >> i'm at least six weeks pregnant. i'll leave. >> no, stay. >> really. i need a witd a witness here to make you are you don't lie to be again. >> analise is not playing around tonight in an all new "how to get away with murder," how his involvement with lila is unraveling but is sam the

killer? and speaking of sam, of course that is analise's husband. he is from hanover county. he sat down with our own alicia vitarelli, asked what it was like to work with oscar nominated viola davis. >> she is fearless and throws herself into it wholeheartedly. and the way we play our marriage and the nuances. she is a tremendous acting partner and i feel very lucky. >> you can watch more of alicia's interview you can check that out. thursday's prime time begins at 8:00 with "grey's anatomy" and then 9:00 scand"scandal" and thw

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welcome back you are taking a live look at the festivities

at franklin square for the annual festival display. we'll have more coming up in our next half hour. isn't that pretty? >> yes, it is, there are signs of holidays and winter and christmas around the corner, especially morgantown. >> wherever you talk about snow you have to get into the holiday spirit. scrooge! stormtracker 6 live double scan -- come on -- showing it's beginning to look a lot like christmas primarily west of route 100 right now, pottstown and coatesville and lancaster all reporting snow showers, notice west of harrisburg, it's drying out before another batch of snow showers move in later tonight and this just extends across the northeast extension

of the pennsylvania turnpike and the poconos getting some snow and they are excited about the snow in the poconos, it's not lasting long and it's melting on the roads. some are not excited but this little girl was excited about the snow, you can see the snow accumulating on the fall follow yannarell that is falling but in philadelphia 41 and millville 43 and sea isle city 44 and 32 in lancaster and 37 in allentown. satellite 6 along with action radar showing lots of clouds through the afternoon and the moisture is developing ahead of a cold front and there is another line of snow showers moving through in the overnight hours, so future tracker showing around 11:00 is the best chance for us seeing some snow showers getting close to philadelphia, and then it sweeps off quickly by about 1:30 a few snow showers

in south jersey, it's out of here before day break and 7:30 we'll be dry and see the sunshine and it's windy and cold and as far as accumulations, we could see a grassy coating in parts of chester county and berks county, and even here it shouldn't be accumulating on the roads, tomorrow the sunshine is back but with this low pressure it really intensifying off the new england coast. it's going to be breezy and that 44 degrees it's cold enough and factor in the winds, windchills in the mid-30s, snow showers in the overnight hours, cool and breezy and 23 degrees in the cooler suburbs and 35 for sensteer and the exclusive accuweather forecast, feeling like winter, 44 degrees and

plenty of sunshine. could have rain by sunday night and monday looking wet with periods of rain and a high of 50 degrees and then we get colder air behind this system windy with a high of 40 degrees and wednesday the afternoon highs done climb out of the 30s and thursday not as chilly with a high of only 43 degrees. hard to believe the high yesterday was 70 degrees. >> we are going to miss it. >> a quick break and more news when we come back.

like it or not the first snowflakes are flying across our region tonight. cecily tynan has the forecast and what to expect tonight. and philadelphia police are investigating the beating death of a 62-year-old woman in her home.

now for meteorologist, cecily tynan, jaime apody, monica malpass i'm rick williams have a nice evening.

is. "action news" delaware valley's leading news program with ducis rogers, cecily tynan and jim gardner. thursday night eric frein faces charges of terrorism and a date is set for the closure of the taj mahal. but the big story on "action news" tonight is the season's first sighting of snow. this is the live picture along the pennsylvania turnpike at the morgan town exit in berks county

and it's a good indication that temperatures are falling fast across the tri-state area, lets get the latest on the first wintry blast from cecily tynan and double scan radar. >> i know are you not happy about this jim, but stormtracker 6 live double scan showing that there is a cold front moving through and it's picking up moisture and not just showing green but the rain showers and the white, the snow showers right now and these are gradually working to the east and stormtracker 6 live double scan showing the bulk of the snow generally along route 100 and areas to the west, coatesville and oxford and pottstown and lancaster, we have snow showers there for the past couple of hours and people are posting photos on my facebook page and a grassy coating in those areas, temperatures are falling quickly, wilmington 39 degrees and sleet reported in