>> thursday nights and the big story on "action news" tonit is new video of a take down, an arre and drug store robby and

assault of police officer. live at runameadecvs on black horse pike an off duty cop made sure the suspect did not get far. >>h right, jim, it's not every day you hear a story like this but it happened here at this cvs pharmacy and off duty officer and his son happened to be shoppi here when things got crazy and they jumped into action. it was all cd on surveillae tape. >> i'll tell you, when it was going on it was happening. and reay 't think too mubt it. >> sergeant dan murry and son bri say it was 8:30 when they went into cvs to buy shampoo and vitamins they see a man wearing a mk and customers yell stop hihs a thief. >> i d him. >> the drama was captured on surveillance at the doorway of the pharmacy.

>> he started to resist i got mad and lost it he was trying to fight with my dodd dad. i jumped in and we had him on the ground five seconds. >> it was pretty crazy. >> the us is secretary is 27-year-oldth p. donahue he up pharmacist at knifepoint demanding e oxycontin he had $11,000 worth of pills. oun fd officers took donahue into custody. for sergeant murry another day on the job even when off duty. >> i'm eye trained police officerd how every police officr ld. my son and the other private citizen wept above and beyond. theid and they helped me stop this crime. >> let me guess what do you want to be when you grow up? >> well i was thinking about being a cop, we'll see. >> so happy ending during the as for the spn suspect matth p. donahue he's at camden cou jail on $100,000

bail. awaiting arraignment scheduled for next week. we're live in runnemede new jersey, da cuellar, "channel 6 thank you, dann a robber who held up a phone store in wissanoming on the run tonight. p called to metro pcs store cony street 6:30 tonight wis tell police the armed man walked in and demand money and robber ran off with a few hundred dollars. police are investigating whetr tonight's roer is connected to the holdup of another metro pcs store on castor avenue last nigh and a 30s in critical condition after a shooting in camden. i erupted on the 700 block of therman street 7:00. medics rushed him to cooper university hl police don't ve a suspect or motive that > chester cou couple accus of torturing a 3-year-old y to death went before a judge today.

gary felenbaum and jillian tait waived right to preliminary hearing and the couple isdh murs son scoy mcmillan. he was whipped, tied up and beaten to death inside a hobl home in west callen township. formal arraignment is set for december 31. the bucks countsy district atto ss a sex tape involvg minors may be a case of incest. school officls say several stud were caught watchi the video involving a roosevelt middle school student. police confiscated several phon to determine the or of the video. a new law makes it illegal for ns to send and receive nude images. the da says this case may rise to a much more serious level of child pornography. >> reaction continues to president o historic mood to normize relings with cuba. this was havana today where

there's cautious optimism this will be good for cuba ecolly and politically. e reaction is split. pope francis helped guide the u.s. and cuba through year and a half of secret talks making direct appes to president obama and raul castro. plans to normalize relations with cuba could cast light on case of fugitive joanne questionsmae of killing a state trooper after a traffic stop on the new jersey turnpike in 1973. she escad from prison and plead to cuba where fidel castro graphed her asylum. she's on fbi most wanted list with $2 million waiting for information leading to her > a five-alarm fire any queens, new york was under control tonh and blaze erupted 4:30, fourth floor of apartment bg more than 200 firefighte responded to the scenech the fire impacted subway

traffic on elevated line. there was only one minor injury reported. the cause of the blaze is still > boston bombing suspect dzhokh tsarnaev appeared in court today for a brief pretrial hearing. h lawyer told the judge he s to file a motion to delay the trial. jury selection is expected to begin on january 5. but it was outside the courtroom that saw the most trauma. a survivor of the bombg confronted two women who say tsarnaev is innocent. mark truckreel angrily held up his prosthetic leg in protest. >> the movie the interview now that sony pictures cancelled release many outraged lum fairyes in hollywood are denoupsing the decision caughting it assault on creative expression. government hacking of sony pictures and threats against theaters sin deed the work of north korea.

film depicted assassination of north korea president and in a strong statement jimmy kimmel called the cancellation "unamerican act of cowardness that validat terrorist actions and sets a per fewing precedent." dow jones had biggen three years surging more than 3 0 0 points to end the day. the federal reserve indicated it is in no rush to raise interest rates. o up 421 points today or 2.4%. that is the l 1-day gain since decemr 2011. nasdaq and s&p also finished on very positive notes today. it appears that the taj l in atlantic city is getting a temporary reprieve but only that at least for now. billionae investor carl icon is throwing casino 20 million lifeline to keep it open during pt proceedings. this comes on heels of crushing

dispointsmt today when talks to keep the slots humming permanently collapsed. the award of philadelphia secd s being appead in a pennsylvania supreme court.y developer bart n de license and filed appeal as did owners of sugarhouse casino. regulate ared license to live casino hotel to be built near the south philadelphia ium complex. blatstein ed on the grounds one of the owners of the whipping bid also operates parks casino in bens. . hundds of students staged a die-in outside of the school ar tonightch theelphia students p grand jury decisions not to indiet officers in furgeson and new york city. demonstrates also said they gathered to speak out against

violence in all forms. homeless advocates gathered in th park outside city hall totmbse died this ye with names of lives lost and other held ht in their honor. statistics show there's 6,000 homeless them philadelphia and an average of 45 die every year. homeless memorial day is national event aimed at bring ago tension to the homeless crisis. >> it may not be nice to fool mother natu but just this once, it was okay for one military man to fool his mother. and what a surprise it was. "action newssh is there wi t story. >> this surprise was one of a kind. y for yourself in a moment. it has been a full year since private first class jake henery saw his home. he's used to be in a oun form and tonight he went undercover as a bird for unforgettable

i've never been gone a year before. > henery is home for the li and no one knows about it just yet. henery a combat engineer was deployed during christmas of 201 and his orders to middle east were cancell and he's been stationed at fort riley kansas ever since. philadelphia is here to surpre his mom. >> no o knows i'm here right now. som mom will probably cry. it will be fun. >> to pull off the big surprise henery came to red robin snraws trevose near his mother's home. he'll dress up like red, the mascot, and go out to his mother's table where she's dinner. so is time to suit up. first pants and one-piece body suit and then make sure it is zipped up nice and tight and then the bright yellow shirt, big red sneakers and the gloves and last but not least the birkhead then it's off to greet

folks having dinner with one special cusme in mind the mascot begins to pick on her. she plays along as a good sport unl the big reveal. >> mom and son together again this mom is filled with joy. >> it's everything we're altogether. and when he not here we're not together. so i'm so happy. >> thiier happy to see his family and wow his mom. >> i think it went pretty damn well. e cried. so we did good. >> he got her pretty good. henery will be home for 18 days and plenty of time to spends with family and friends. he also brought some soldiers with him who could not get to their families for the holidays. and jim, he tells me the very first thing he did when he got back to the delaware valley went to a wawa. >> there you go. >> classic right? >> thank you sharee great

story. l to come on "action newht a dog that went missing in north carolina ends up in chester and we have reaction from its owner down south. plus, their duty is to protect. also provided. philadelphices take youngsts . >> we reached a cool high of 31. plenty of chilly air through the weekend and i'm tracking a warm-up and it will come the a cost. i'm explaine accuweather > and jeff skversky with the i'm explaine accuweather > and jeff skversky with the flyers panthers watch-up e"aneno

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>> we're starting to piece together how max the dog grot high point north carolina to streets of pennsylvania. go live toe "action news" reporter annie mccormick who is at the philadelphia animal hospital in southwest

philel. any, you have answers. >> reporter: and jim, we actually jc a phone ca from "action news" viewer who saw max on "action news." he tells us its with a relative whoked up max roaming streets of north carolina and brought him to delaware county where today he got out. only max probably knows details of his journey and now owners down south are glad he's coming home. happy, healthy and far from home. 3 1/2 year max's discovery is ma of a christmas miracle. >> i think he's real lucky considering go home. >> delaware county animal control officer lisa stewart says kids found him in chester and bro him to eddy stone c a microchip revealed his in philadelphia animal c north carolina not sure how he got here. >> fr high point north carolina specifically his

journey spaed offer a month's time. harris the owner said she and her daughter did not believe the call. we rehed her by phone. said there's no way you you could have my dog my dog is missg in north carolina. but we have your dog. >> they sent a picture and she knew. ut a doubt he's my buddy sleeps on my bed every night. >> normally it would take a week to get him home. his owner wants him home in time for christmas. >> i want him home. it's just the best christmas. i don't have words to describe. it i have a christmas bonus today to be honest with you and that's going right back out the door to pay to get max home and pay fovet bill and pay to have him import boarded tonight but i don't care. >> clearly a dog who likes to run, jim, that viewer that called says they're happy that max is going to his real home. for now rep live in

southwest philadelphia, annie mccormick, "channel 6 action ," jim. >> thank you, annie. > family of missing northeast philadelphia man desperate for answers. 69-year-old maglia last sn sunday night driving castor avenue. gmc was found abandod and torched in north s family says he has healtpr any a west philadelphia woman pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment in connection with deh of her 11-year-old daughter inil the 2-year-old sop of tiffany goldwire pickedp a loaded revolver in the home and cy shot his sister jamaris stevens. goldmeier was not in the room at the timeti and faces 8 to 17 years in prison. >> two philadelphia businees chipped in to help raise money for family of fallen firefighter joyce craig. gloss night club in hunting park

ed up with punch line apparel to hold a fish fry tonnd proceeds benefit a fund for cais's two children a 1-year-old s and 16-month-old c died while battling a fire in west oak lane last week. philadelphia police oers t 24th disstrict had a chance see what it feels like to be i aclause tonight. offics took dozens of neighborhc to target to pick up early christmas presentsch the store donated 40, 50-dollar gift cards to the children in e communicate. oh, draidle, draidle, draidle, draidle, i made it out of clay. >> it was fun for the whole family at this han calf celebratn in cherry hill tonight. e children had a chance to spend their -- spin their new draidls and adults got a chance to see old friends and make new ones and for the grand finale they lit a giant manorah

on top. >> third night of hanukkah. >> it's that time of year. >> startin feel like the holiday seas too. >> startio cool off there. stormtracke6 live double scan showing know rain, no snow out there. so a great night for a holiday celebration. hon calf celebration or to take a look at some christmas lights in media. now, this is marcela lane walk family home and owners tell us that they were inspired by dann cuellar's hen display every year. so they're definitely putting up a lot of lights. that neighborh is flowing. tempes right now really slow to cool off. our high, 41 degrees today. we dropped down to 38. allentown 37, wilmington 37, millville 36. winds died down and we have a breeze 9 miles an hour. that creates a wind chill making if feel like 30 in philadelphia, feels like 28 sea ail sitey and feels like 29 wilmington tone and 27 in beach haven. satellite 6l with action

radar sunshine mainly around philadelphia and areas east this afternoon and clouds really rolled in. but high pressure will build in. this means clo will gradually be breaking up through the o hours and tomorrow pretty nice day. again it feels on the cool side, 41. same as today. but the winds won't be as strong. e better, 33 below average. mixtur clouds and sunshine. heading into saturday. hir builds in bringing us a good amount of sunshine calm down winds and cools us off a little. high of 40. conditions will be dry and we'll see sunshine and thatigre will e i've been talking about for several days way down south and track shi further down south. t will be heading out to sea. it will not bring us any rain. it will not bring us any snow. some people are dreaming of a white christmas. whe christmas mea we have 1" of snow on the ground and it does not happen that often.

historil average over past 30 years gives us typically 7.9% chance of having a white good chance. this year the chance looks lower since i'm tack a storm system that pulls up warm air open christmas eve as well as some rain. so at this point it doesn't look like wel have a white mo though, good amount of sunshine in the skies. planni ot your day, 1:00, 40, 4:00 is 39. partly sunny high of 40. we drop to 40 saturday. bump it back to 44 on sunday. wiptser officially moves in at 6:0 sunday evening and first full day of winter will be on west side. rain in afternoon. high of 46 degrees. on tuesday we warm up to 51 degrees. but it comcl and d wednesday, christmas eve it will be rainy and very windy during the day.

a mild high of 56 degrees. behit system we dry out. christmas day. howling winds could gust up to 40, 50 miles an hour. pretty nice weekend. then it gets somewhat wet and dreary. not what they had in mind for christmas evn day. >> if the track changes by 500 miles could be snow. >> coulda christmas meerk. >> les do it. >> we'll see. >> sapts amaids a stop in camden that made for happy children. cn aquarium hosted toys for camden kids holiday celebration. >> jm a kimle live coming up 11:35 after "action news" here's jim qn with a preview of tonight's show. >> thanks, jim, hello, philadelphia. take a gabber what is up with us after the news. >> that's loud. >> it's bad it was a mistake >> that's loud. >> it's bad it was a mistake should be in my near future.r

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. flyers panthers at the wells fargo septemberer here's je t having a tough time this flyers team. what's going on? any time now, waiting and waiting for flyers to get going. only one neem eastern conference worse and playoff chances getting slimmer by the day. lightsing upin florida after sitti out the last few weeks. otl crashing the net. gets the rebound in front. beats steve mason. first goal against former team. flyers fall behind 1-0. come from behind. behind the neat, when a pass. we're tied at 1. and it stays that way until the sd of extra session dave bowland yeah under his leg. flyers need a goal to stay alive. come on, get in there, no. stoned by roberto. theyicd up a point and lost

last ten shootouts. >> i have an answer to that. k o it. probably a mental thing more than anything. >>le not lost to the redskins in two years and know saturday wou got be a good time for that to change. let's not ta a that. this is a must-win game for the eagles, mark sanchez and the bir trying to block out all confusing scenarios and focus open the redskins. worst thing eagles can do this week is think washington is easy win because they're worst team in nfc east. >> comingo prove a point and i think if we show up sitting on our hands we might get punched in the face. >> it means everything we're playing well and robert griffin looked good last week when he hayed. obviously. we'll get their best shot and they'll get our best shot. >> eagles/redskins saturday.

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for the slam on the baseline. 20 tonight. temple up 21. new kid on the block devon coleman transfer from clemson ng his debut, knocked down nine. wins by 20. in delaware, stepth ranked kansas can next for temple. >> and surprising children with a shoppg spree or city avenue. steerg this kid to the ninja turtle secti cowabunga hof sixers are rewarded with a big win at home. still have n won at home. >> they ck up fans tonight. >> i want that toy. >> you t it. >> finallyo a holiday concert by some very talented youngsters in north philadelphia ♪ this is the gospel choir made up of studes from 4 through 8 grade in ad to holiday songs youngsters dedicated a

special selection to pope francis in advance of his trip to philadelphia next september. >> "jimmy kimmel live" on channel 6 foow by "nightline". "action new c at 4:30 with tama edwards, matt o'donnell, mevy and karen rogerh traffic. for cecily tynan, jeff skversky, ducis rogers, the entire "action for cecily tynan, jeff skversky, ducis rogers, the entire "action odws" team, i'm jim gardner,