dramatic turning of the page between the united states and cuba, a prisoner swap between the two currents are signalling a plan, that for the first time since the cuban revolution in 1961 it would likely see the opening of embassies in each country and an easing of economic restrictions that the u.s. has in place against cuba. and it would need congressional approv approval. the trigger was the release of american, alan gross, today who spent five years in a cuban prison. the u.s. is returning three prisoners held in prison here. after the bay of pigs fiasco and the cuban missile crisis it led to years of isolation. >> this 50 years have shown that

isolation has not worked. it's time for a new approach. neither the americans or cuban people are served by a rigid policy that took place before most of us were born. >> now demeanor is live in old city philadelphia, needless to say this move will cause passionate response both pro and con. >> very passionate response jim, it's hard for most cuban americans to believe this moment has come and some shun opening relations with a dictator. but the only ones suffering forever the past 50 years were the people of cube a. we are trying to starve cuba in submission, and the only people starving is the people not the leaders. >> forever richard lagrin, after

he fled to this country with his parents, he saw his own father murdered by cuban extremists right in front of him when he was just 6 years old. >> it's it's release of political prisoners and tomorrow maybe it's an openness towards dissenting voices and free speech and free press, this is the beginning and then george hernandez whose family fled cuba in the 1960s. and he got to spoke to pope francis. >> we spoke about him going there and he wants to go and plans to go and cuba should end the embargo. >> and i consider myself cuban by osmosis. >> an argentinian by birth he lived in cuba and married a cuba and is chef at cuba libra in old

city. >> i app happy for them, my life will not change their life is changing, we are influencing millions of people's lives, that is what is important. >> admittedly there is a lot to sort through as the president said earlier but for cubans that support this move it's a new day for them and for relatives and friends back in cuba. in our area police converged on the fells school in northeast philadelphia and allegedly arrested a 17-year-old. >> the 18-year-old was a student at samuel fells high school and "action news" learned its not the first gun scare here on this

campus this week. >> they told us on the loud speaker there would be a lockdown and they made us wait a whole hour and a half, to tell us it was pretty serious, we'll be in here for a while. >> some students and teachers were on the laptop looking at stuff reported on the internet. >> this morning a student saw another student with a gun and they showed a picture to administrators and they locked down the school. >> s.w.a.t. came in and looked in everybody's bags. >> the school was locked down monday afternoon and no gun was foun found. an 18 was taken into -- there were no bullets in the gun. we have metal detectors in the school but there are ways to get in the school beyond the front

door with the metal detectors are. there is metal detecters and there is surveillance. they are reviewing the video of the entrance and exit. >> for students and parents a second lock down this week is concerning. >> parents need to know what their children are doing and carrying to school and doing in school. >> a lockdown procedure is great but it won't stop a bullet from coming through the wall. >> detectives will trying to figure out where the teen got the gun, on top of the criminal charges the student is now facing, school officials are saying he will likely face expulsion from school. eva pilgram, channel 6 "action news." jim? >> thank you eva, police in bensalem, buck county, are investigating a tragic accident this morning, a 16-year-old girl was struck and killed by an suv

after crossing the street to get to her school bus, the 18-year-old driver of the striking suv is in custody at that hour. walter perez is live now in bensalem and bridge road where a vigil is underway. >> reporter: that is right, here is a live look at the vigil at the corner where the accident happened. witnesses tell police that the lights were flashing and the security arm was extended but now an 18-year-old is accused of ignoring or not seeing the warnings and killing a 16-year-old girl in the process. >> people that loved 16-year-old minet zeka -- >> i loved her and she was too young. >> "action news" was there when members of her family gathered at the very spot she was killed. it was here at 6:45 this morning

when the bensalem high school sophomore was crossing when she was hit getting her bus, the man driving this suv hit the victim before coming to a stop. formal charges have not been filed at least not yet. >> don't know what he was thinking, disregarding a school bus there is no explanation or excuse for that, if charges are warranted, he will pay the price. >> the school superintendant says that the district will consider making changes to this bus stop in the wake of this tragedy. >> some things we are looking at is changing bus routes and we look at that regularly, safety is our number one concern danielle says it was zeka that likely saved her last year from

this same location. >> i was here and almost got hit, i didn't see that the car didn't stop and i walked out and she literally pulled me back by my jacket, wait don't go, the car whizzed by, and i wish i was there to help her like she was there to help me, and i wasn't. >> back out live at the scene, the 18-year-old student is a student at the high school and the counselors are available for classmates grieving the loss of their friend. walter perez, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you walter. two men tried to rip off target by sawing their way inside the store on roosevelt boulevard in northeast philadelphia, security officers spotted the burglars inside this morning, they got in by cutting a large hole through the backfire door, police finally found men stacked on top of each other in the ventilation unit on

the roof. they were both arrested and investigators are trying to determine if they are linked to other burglaries at other targets stores in the last month. a montgomery county doctor is arrests for allegedly running a pill mill from his office in media. chad pradelli is live now in media. >> reporter: jim, the arrest of dr. lawrence wean culminates an investigation, they made the bust it was recently created to deal with the addiction crisis in the county. >> this is nothing more than a pill mill. >> delaware county detectives raided the doctor's practice in baltimore pike. they called it a junky jackpot for the addicts.

they would walk in and walk out with a prescription. in one instance district attorney jack whalen asked the officer what he would prescribe? >> no examination, not even his vital signs were taken during these office visits. >> as dr. wean was taken to be charged with narcotic abuse charges, he denied the allegations. >> this is all wrong. all wrong. >> these are people with serious drug addictions, do you feel responsible at all? >> no, i'm a good doc and i take care of people. >> it's unclear how long the investigation has been underway but dr. wean is the recipient of scathing reviews many of which detail the alleged operation, in one a person writes, if you come in for pain management, he

demands $300 for oxycodone and he only takes cash. doctors are suppose to save lives not ruin them. >> kids are becoming addicted and are dying as a result. >> bail for dr. wean was set at $500,000, and at last check he did not post bond. live in media, chad pradelli, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you chad. coming up new information about mass murderer, bradley stone, what we learned today about his death. and a look at the crime fighting tool giving police a different view of the evidence. >> well, the winds of change are blowing and pulling in a much colder air mass by your morning. i'll have all the details in the accuweather forecast. >> and ducis rogers has an eagles-red skins preview.

there is new information tonight in the investigation into the montgomery county murder spree that claimed the lives of six people, "action news" learn that authorities don't know how bradley stone died. it was first thoutd that he died from a cutting or slashing wound and now it turns out he just had a small injury to his leg but they found two medicine botdles near his body and a powderly substance on an energy drink can and toxicology tests are pending, next to him was found a machete and double edged axe.

the wilmington police department are showing off their crime fighting tool. a drone to capture video and audio from crime scenes, it was not previously available to prosecutors at trial. >> it gives us a dimension and perspective was not available to the jury. >> the drone can deploy in less than 5 minutes and it cost the department less than $2,000 and requires 8 to 10 hours of training before an officer can use it. governor elect, tom wolf, says the state has a big problem. a $2 billion deficit that is getting bigger every day. he held a news conference at the center city library today. he says the state is spending more than they are taking in and fixing the problem could require innovative solutions.

>> the house and senate we all know there is a problem. that could make us do better things. i'm not sure the doom and gloom should be the expectation. >> wolf takes office in a little more than a month.

rg 3, desean jackson, big names on the horizon for the eagles. >> a game that the eagles need to win. 8.5 points is how much they are favored by, that is not as reassuring as they should be. the eagles have not looked good the last two weeks but the red skins have not looked good at all. >> the last time they faced the red skins seemed 100 years ago but it was only 18 weeks. the birds are trying to extend their season and the red skins

finishing theirs out. >> we are looking at it as a playoff game, if we don't win we have little chance of going to the playoffs. >> if we lose one, we may not go to the playoffs. >> and it will give desean jackson a chance to spoil his old team's playoff hopes, he says that jeremy maclin is all thief got. >> you don't take offense to that? >> i could careless, that stuff gets you in college and high school, but one you get to the nfl, we all play for the same thing, the lombardi. >> this is the jackpot i know from four years ago, come on jackpot, throw me the ball. >> something to have fun with.

he is laughing about it. we are good friends, no joke. i'm trying to do something to get guys laughing and loosen up a bit and get us winning. >> that would win everyone over. >> there is no trent cole for saturday's game, he had injury for a broken bone in his hand, there is no word yet when cole will return, expect to see brandon graham fill in for cole. a rough season in d.c., the red skins lost six straight games so they could easily give up but rg 3 says that is not the case. >> we have to create positive momentum going into the offseason, they have a lot riding on this game, and we have to match that intensity and be physical. >> it would be easier if they

did just lay down. >> both eagles game day kickoff comes at 2:00 p.m. and 11:35 that night mike and i are back to wrap it all up.

if you want it to feel more like winter, just wait a day or two. >> it's moving in tomorrow, stormtracker 6 live double scan, showing we have rain free conditions tonight and we

actually saw sunshine today. here is proof the action cam is looking at villanova and the clouds are breaking for peeks of blue here and there and sunshine east of philadelphia and more clouds up to the north and west and we'll see a good amount of sunshine for the next couple of days, temperatures will be dropping and the accuweather highlights, i hope you enjoyed it, two days in the 50s and today we matched that and that is 9 degrees above normal since december first. now things change for the morning commute. at 7:30 windchills will be in the 20s, this is the time to find the winter jacket, the scarf and gloves and it will feel like winter tomorrow. its 47 in allentown and 43 and in trn ton and wilmington 44 degrees, it's breezy out there

and the current windchill feels like 40 in philadelphia and 39 in millville and 40 in sea isle city and 30 in lancaster and 35 in reading and allentown. satellite 6 along with action radar showing the snow across northern maine, that is low pressure spinning. the temperatures will be a seasonal 44 degrees, factor in the winds, windchills in the afternoon will be in the mid-30s, it's going to be a cool and blustery day. heading into friday low pressure builds in and sunshine and seasonable. with the high pressure getting closer to us, the winds will not be a factor until friday. friday is looking nice, the same time on friday, low pressure is developing across texas and gathering moisture from the gulf of mexico. and this low pressure is tracking east and i want to show

you future tracker at noon on saturday, you can see clouds on saturday extending to our region, this has real trouble moving to the north. yesterday's track has the pressure moving off the carolina coast and moving to the north and east than would bring us a brush of light precipitation however the trend with today's computer model keeps the storm system to the south and that brings us a little bit of cloud cover and that brings us a dry weekend so as long as the computer model trend stays to the south, this storm system is missing us and we'll have a dry weekend. stay tuned for accuweather tonight at 11:00. lots of clouds tonight and it gets colder, and at exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, partly sunny skies and windchills in the 40s and a few clouds and 43 degrees, heading into saturday, the storm system stays to the south and a few

clouds and a high of 40, sunday partly cloudy and 44 degrees, when winter arrives at 6:03 in the evening, the first full day of winter it's cloudy with showers and 46 and tuesday clouds and drizzle and the storm system cutting up the great lakes and that would bring us not snow but rain and wind, 54 degrees for the high, if are you dreaming of a white christmas, keep dreaming. >> not in 2014. >> thank you cecily. abc world news tonight is next on channel 6, and "action news" continues on phl 17 with brian taff, and adam joseph and ducis rogers, and please join us for "action news" here on channel 6 at 11:00. i'm jim gardner we hope you'll join us at 11:00.

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welcome to "world news tonight." and the breaking news. u.s., cuba, the historic breakthrough. tonight, our exclusive one-on-one with president obama. the secret talks. the pope's intervention. the american hostage, arriving home. we ask, will the president go to cuba? also breaking tonight, the fbi now closing in on those threats to americans headed to movie theaters. what we just learned about who could be behind it. and pulling the plug on that movie. the air scare. new images of the panic, the terror on board, as an american airlines flight hits severe turbulence. and the flu hitting hard. which parts of the country most at risk tonight? and dr. besser on why the flu vaccine might not work.