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washington, d.c., a man was arrested one block from the white house today after secret service officers found a rifle and 40 rounds of ammunition and a knife in his car. he is a 41-year-old man from davenport, iowa, he was now the hurting anyone but his behavior was deemed suspicious. we'll bring you updated on air and online at 6abc.com. passengers traveling through philadelphia international airport may have to add extra time to their journey because dozens of baggage handlers are walking off the job tomorrow morning. wages and unsafe working conditions are their completes. vernon odom is here with more from philadelphia international airport. >> reporter: good evening, just how much service will be disrupted is unsure at this hour but there has to be some degree
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of impact. unrest has exited for years. >> you won't see the baggage handlers that will strike tomorrow, they work underground. it's a one-day strike to protest poverty wages and conditions that are dangerous. 125 workers employed a company, prime flight. >> it's a facility owned by the people of philadelphia. >> the union is trying to organize these handlers at east coast airport included philadelphia, jfk and newark. back in may, philadelphia's voters okayed a ballot question to raise the minimum wage for employees to $10.88 an hour and most workers say they have not
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seen it. >> workers average from $7 to $9 an hour and most without benefits, they are working for the sub-contractors of the airlines, they are not receiving the training they believe they need and are being exposed to dangerous situations without training. >> a designated spokesperson from prime flight is not available despite calls from "action news." live at philadelphia international airport vernon odom, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you vernon the action news morning team will have updated information on the sky cap strike and now it is impacting conditions at the airport. joan matt, tam david and karen to learn everything you need to know before you head out. in other news business owners are picking up the pieces after a raging fire destroyed businesses at the columbus farmers market.
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10 of the 65 inside shops were destroyed in the four alarm blaze yesterday. the outdoor vending area and produce and seafood markets will reopen tomorrow but for many shop keepers the future is uncertain. >> we are waiting to find out what the next step is, we have not experienced anything like this before. it's all new to us. >> i want to cry and i want to go in and see it. obviously it happened at the same time and it's one of the big of the days, investigators are trying to figure out how the fire started. >> and now a fire that we brought to you first yesterday. a man stealing a package off an upper darby front porch holding a baby is now arrested. brown saw himself on tv and shaved his head in the hopes of avoiding capture but he didn't.
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the child he is holding is his 1-year-old daughter, brown is now charged with theft and they have also recovered some of the stolen toys. and former nfl players were in a philadelphia courtroom asking a judge to improve an estimated $1 billion deal. it would settle lawsuits accusing the nfl for hiding what they knew about concussions, it expected 6,000 players to develop alzheimer's or dementia in the coming year. breaking news can happen any time and can you be part of the breaking news team. email us your tips or photos to breaki breakingnews@6abc.com. once again 6 abc is partnering with fill bundance to help feed families. we are hosting a holiday food
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drive so our viewers can connect share and give and every little bit helps, sara bloomquist is in the call to action center with more. >> philabundance is this region's large of the hunger relief organization providing meals for thousands around the delaware valley at risk for hunger and food insecurity. many of them seniors and many of them children. we are taking your donations at 1-877-940-6222. and we have special guests with us this evening. taking your phone calls, including eagles offensive lineman, todd herremans, thank you for being here, you are injured but able to lift the phone and take donations, what are you hearing from the callers and why was it important to be here? >> the cause is remarkable, there are so many people you don't realize because you have a meal on your plate every day and
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they don't know where their next meal is coming up and if are you fortunate enough to be in a situation like we are, i think it doesn't hurt at all to share the wealth and help those people out not just how but all year round. i love to be here to help out and listen to the callers, each of them have a story to tell and each of them are so generous and want to call in to help. we have temple men's basketball coach fran, wave your hand. there he is. and way over here sebastian le toux from the philadelphia union. you may be able to talk to one of them if you call tonight. the number is 1-877-940-6222. or log on to 6abc.com, just click on connect, share and give to give your donation tonight to
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philabundance. >> thank you sara. time for a check of traffic out there to see how things are rolling along. matt, maybe avoid 202 perhaps? >> you are good. you don't want to avoid 202, first sun glare and then a disabled vehicle and now a crash. you can see police on the scene and overall southbound traffic is heavy approaching 29 on down to 401 through the work zone, not far from 202, another water main break closing down old eagle school road. and stick with 202 through whitpain because butler pike is closed because of the downed pole. this is 95 our normal northbound backup at the vine street expressway, and i wanted to warn
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you that this ramp from the northbound lanes of vine will close at 5:00 tomorrow morning, they will send you north to girard to flip to get to 95 south, you may want to bail at columbus boulevard instead. construction is the reason for that. >> thank you. still ahead on "action news," the eagles are hard at work ironing out the mistakes, getting pumped for their chance at redemption against the titans. jaime apody has sports. and melissa magee is live in glen mills with this week's outdoor adventure. >> reporter: hi rick and monica, here in glen mills it's about westchester local. we are giving you so many fun historical facts, all around the westchester railroad line and they go back to the 1800s, we are at the original ticket booth here but watch the fun is about the festivities as we get into the holiday season.
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and our 6 abc holiday food drive benefiting philabundance is going on right now. we have lots of volunteers to take your donation on the phone, call 1-877-940-6222 through 6:30 tonight about another hour or make a pledge through the link on our website at 6abc.com. >> and turning now to sport, the eagles are hoping to bounce back against the titans this sunday. jaime apody is live now in the sports center with more. >> despite their performance against the packers last week, they have confidence going in one because the packers are not the titans and they feel the mistakes are fixable. and they were out in the cold
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hoping to get rid of the disappointment from the blowout loss in green bay, the good thing says coach kelly is their ability to let thing go. >> your attention has to move on to your next opponent whether you win or lose. they have been that way all year long. >> we'll go out there and take care of business, one thing we do exceptionally well is make corrections and learn from them and move on. we are talking tennessee now. >> surprising news from the flyers, claude giroux will take part in the pregame skate in madison square garden. flares comes off two losses and it's delgado's first game back after being with the rangers, he has to harbor some resentment for them trading him away. >> i'm sure once i walk in for the game it will bring back a
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lot of memories, but as i said it's another game for us, i don't want to look at it too much, and get caught up in the moment, it's a big game and we need these two points. >> tonight be the night for the sixers, hosting the celtics. it will be extra special for them and the childhood friended will be in the starting lineup for the first time. now they just got to get the w. >> we are all itching for a win and we know it won't come easy. nobody is going to roll over and let us win, we just have to keep playing together and pushing it and doing the right things. how about this, phoenix suns guard, bledsoe, thinks that kentucky college's number one team could beat the sixers. ouch. and head coach al bagnoli will
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coach his last game. >> and six undefeated seasons, it's hard to say good-bye and the all time winner at penn it's hard to hold back the tears. >> i tried to do it right and with a little bit of class, and hopefully people somewhat enjoyed the product and enjoyed in some of the successes and things that we had. it's been great. >> and a great career for al. >> thank you. it's all about family, giving thanks and career making moments tonight and wednesday's prime time right here on 6 abc, it all starts with an all new middle and a new goldberg and then and all new modern family. >> cut the wings of the bird and put it in the roasting pan. >> as you wish my crumpet, i'm
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cooking thanksgiving this year, a huge trust for claire to let me do this. i have my secret ni jell alawsuit claire though she has another plan in the works, find out what it is all about on an all new modern family at 9:00. >> me first! hey, hey, now stop! this is my mama. all right? mama! shake shake shake shake up your look! >> i'm liking this show for the first season, drey welcomes his mother to the house for thanksgiving and he is trying to make everybody happy. see how he handles it on an all
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new blackish at 9:30. >> the nominees for entertainer of the year are, miranda lambert, keith wheeler, luke brian -- >> well country music's biggest night comes to nashville, the stakes are big, are raina and luke's battle for cma awards, who will win and what is the fallout because there will be some. an all new nashville at 10:00. it all starts at 8:00 with the middle and then the goldbergs and then modern family and blackish at 9:30 and then nashville followed by "action news" at 11:00. you can follow us on twitter just tag all your responses with #~ channel 6 "action news."
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50 minutes left or you can make a pledge through the link on our website at 6abc.com. time now to head back out to a chilly, melissa magee, live at the westchester railroad with our outdoor adventure. hello melissa. >> reporter: hi there monica and rick. we are inside the train, inside the locomotive, this is the most important part of the train and it takes people on the wonderful excursion ride from glen mills to westchester. they may trust me to drive this thing. we'll see how it goes. it's a chilly one and temperatures in the 30s with a high of 33 in the city and currently 31 and trenton 28 and millville 31, as you move into allentown a temperature of 26,
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it feels like just 22 in the city and 19 in the teens, allentown and trenton, wilmington the current windchill in at 23, here is satellite 6 along with action radar, we have mostly clear skies across most of the region and there is a little bit of cloud cover in areas in the ohio valley and back through areas in the western sections of pennsylvania. and that will be around as we get into the rest of the evening and it will clear out tomorrow morning, here is the setup, it's sunny and not as cold, the cold front moves through mid-day and with that moving on through the winds will pick up on the backside and the lake-effect snow kicks up for areas down wind of the lakes, in the southeastern sections of buffalo new york, they got hammered with snow and they are getting round two tomorrow. high temperatures in our region, 45 degrees and no snow in our forecast. friday it's brisk and cold, with
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high pressure over the ohio valley and winds 12 to 20 miles per hour with the high temperature of 36 degrees, the call from ac weather for the rest of ton, not as cold and late day clouds moving in but they will move out tomorrow morning irk the overnight low drops down to 30 and 23 in the suburbs with the southwesterly wind at 12 to 16 miles per hour. here is the forecast, on thursday, it's much warmer relatively speaking the high temperature is 45 and that is 9 degrees below average, and on friday brisk and cold and high of 36 and windchills however in the 20s, saturday still chilly with a high temperature of 42, plenty of sun and sunday mild and evening rain around and it looks like most of the day is dry, are you okay if are you participating in the half or full marathon and even okay for the eagles game at the linc at 1:00. showers continue on monday with a high of 68 degrees which on
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tuesday we start to clear out and a high of 60 and wednesday back below normal with the high temperature of 48 degrees, so we are back on the locomotive and this is where you have a lot of fun, we are talking about the santa express that starts a little after thanksgiving, it's after thanksgiving weekend and it goes through christmas. so there is a lot of fun to have, you go up and down westchester to glen mills and you can see interesting things, and it's a pleasant ride with the family, i am in the locomotive, they will trust me to move this thing back up to where we need to be, i have the brake and first i need to ring the bell. >> all aboard! >> here we go. >> going back to westchester. releasing the brake and rick and monica, pull the throttle and we
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right now jim gardner and the "action news" team is standing by at 6:00, we learned the identities of victims killed in the pileup this morning. and workers are rallying trying to save their jobs and volunteers ready to take your donations on the 6 abc holiday food drive, call the number on your screen, 1-877-940-6222 or
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but the big story is the latest on a grinding crash that killed two people in berks county. police say that the driver of a 18 wheeler fell asleep and plowed into a line of cars stopped at a red light. it happened on it 222 in maiden creek township. the driver of the truck, steven bernay is charged with a host of crimes. walter perez has all the details. >> reporter: the scene was ababsolutely horrific. the two people have been identified. once again as you mentioned, the driver of the big rig according to investigators fell asleep behind the wheel. >> i have been here for years and this is the worst i have seen. >> the person
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