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good afternoon, sara bloomquist is off and in the news an elderly woman goes mszing on christmas, what we know about the grandmother last seen in montgomery county and two workers are hurt during a pizza store robbery, details on this heist caught on camera in philadelphia. >> and the big story say hit and run that leave a woman dead on her 90th birthday, police say that a vehicle slammed into her home in buck county early this morning, the driver left the scene and the woman later died. john rawlins live now with more. >> reporter: a sad bizarre story, these tire tracks on the lawn tell much of it, you can see where a vehicle jumped the curve and plowed into that house, that is where the 93-year-old was asleep and her son caring for her picks up the

story. all of a sudden the whole house shook. just shook. i said what is going on here? and i saw a screaming truck goes away from me. >> ron was in the front bedroom and he ran to the back bedroom where his mother, jenny was. >> and i go back there and there was a dresser ready to fall on top of her and the cold air was coming in the wall, i picked her up and put her into my bedroom, the next room over and there was warmth in there. >> jenny was frail and only 58 pounds and in hospice care and he moved her bedroom in the warmer room. and he thinks that this hastened her passing. >> today was jenny russo's 93rd birthday, the petite woman that

raised children in this house passed away. >> as for the hit and run driver? >> who does this, hit and stop okay but hit and run, what if there say baby behind the wall in the crib, hit and run and boom. what about that? >> this is the house, badly damaged and it's boarded up, bristol township is looking for the hit and run vehicle, believed to be a red full size truck ark full size pickup truck, it left a piece of its bumper here and paint, we have evidence, there is considerable damage to the truck. >> john thank you. we have breaking news to pass along to you now from levittown, buck county, chopper 6 is over a house fire here, it was reported just a few moments

ago, you can see a number of fire crews on the scene and we are told that the fire is under control and they are still here trying to make sure no hot spots are reignited and they are making sure everyone is okay. fire crews are on the scene and the investigation is on the way into what ignited this house fire here. candy road in levittown, buck county. we'll bring you more information and load you know if anyone was hurt. in the news we have happy foltz owes into the news of two septa police officers visiting the newborn baby they helped to deliver last evening on the frankford l. cameras were rolling as the officers guided the mom to be through her delivery. a truly unforgettable christmas night for passengers and the two

men that delivered the holiday miracle. >> i have two kids and my wife is pregnant again and get in there and help. that is what we do. >> the umbilical cord was wrapped around the neck a little bit but other than that, a healthy baby boy. >> the little boy is named chris after christmas. >> hundreds of people are headed back to the mall today, credited the second busy most shopping day of the year behind super saturday. the cherry hill mall welcomed people who were returning gifts and post deals of course. they expect $65 billion worth of returns and exchanges today. katherine scott will have a full report at 12:30. the weather is cooperating for everyone that is out and about today.

there is bright sunshine in wilmington and conditions are staying mild this noon, for the latest, lets go to our meteorologist, karen rogers, in for david murphy. how was your christmas? >> great thank you, wonderful. nice to be outside today, gorgeous day, bright sunshine and blue skies and a breeze and temperatures are above where we would normally see, 43 currently in martins creek and quakertown and 46 in pottstown and 45 in coatesville and 45 in kennett square and center city, we started off this morning on the cold side with windchills in the 20s and we rebounded nicely and 47 in browns mills and hammonton 48 and 48 in dover delaware. look going out there today. normally a high in the low 40s, we are above that and climbing further from here. satellite 6 along with action radar showing we have clear skies and high pressure is in

control and clouds up to our north and some streaming into our northwest. bright sunshine through the day today. here is what to expect. by 2:00, 49 degrees and 5:00 p.m. 50 and 6:00 p.m. 45 and by 10:00 getting cooler under mostly clear skies and 41. woe have gorgeous sunshine today and half of your weekend is looking good. details on that coming up in the seven-day forecast. we'll tell you which half to worry about coming up. we'll talk about which half coming up. and the changing weather situation with 6abc.com, both the hourly and seven-day forecast and the latest video from our "action news" meteorologist. >> in other news, police are looking for two pizza shop robbers that struck in philadelphia. the men struck two employees in the little caesars store on west

jared avenue on monday night. the workers were punched and kicked after they said they did not have the code for the safe. they took money from the registers and headed north on west girard avenue. a montgomery county family is desperately searching for their 94-year-old grandmother, stella was last seen yesterday, she was suppose to drive to a relatives house in gilbertville to celebration christmas but never showed up. police think she is driving a dark blue honda accord like this one. montgomery county police are asking anybody with information to give them a call right away. the new york city police department is on high alert this afternoon, after new threats of violence against its officers, abc news correspondent has the

latest now from washington, d.c. >> today new york city police are investigating what appears to be a disturbing new trend, a wave of what appears to be serious threats against police officers. authorities are looking into 40 cases of people threatening more violence since two officers were killed in cold blood last weekend. many of the threats turned out to be empty but there have been at least six arrests. in one case a man was overheard at a bank saying they should have killed two white cops not a hispanic and asian and was overheard saying he would kill a white cop before christmas. across the country demonstrators angry about police shootings of black men did not rest for the holidays. >> police were out in force in the suburbs of missouri, and there were protests in cleveland

ohio and in oakland, california, protesters clashed with police. owens was killed by a police officer near the park in october. >> our holidays will never be the same again, we were sitting having a dinner, there was an empty chair. back in new york people continue to pay their respects at the corner where the officers were gunned down. >> why? why is this happening? how do you explain this to your children? >> ramos's wake is tomorrow and some 20,000 officers are expected to attend his funeral in brooklyn. >> members of the law enforcement community can travel to the slain officer's funeral for free with jetblue, the airline is offering to cover the flights of any officer that wants to attend the service for officer ramos in new york. and they are working with another airline to bring family

members from china for officer lui when plans for his funeral is finalized. and coming up how the movie, "the interview" faired after being released. and a prank on the garden state parkway, the story behind this altered exit sign.

thousands of people spend their christmas day seeing the movie that sparked an international incident with north korea. ♪ proud to me an american >> earlier this week sony pictures reversed course and decided to release "the interview" to 300 theaters, tickets sold quickly and many saw it as their patriotic duty to see it. >> i went to see it as quickly as i could to show my support. >> i thought first amendment rights, i'm coming. >> seth rogen so she showed up

local theater to say thank you because without them it never would have been shown. >> and meantime, a hacker group calling themselves lizard squad is taking credit for the disruption for sony place and xxts box networks on christmas day. they are working to fix the problem but did not say what caused it. >> strangers have come together to raise a half million dollars of a family of a maryland woman who was killed within a jet crashed into her home. she and her two young sons died when the jet hit their suburban d.c. home. mary group up in brick township, new jersey and graduated from rowan university in new jersey. a friend of the family also collected hundreds of gifts and thousands of dollars worth of

gift cards for the family. former president, george h.w. bush, remains in a texas area hospital this noon, a family spokesperson says that the 90-year-old is in good spirits, he was transferred is there on tuesday with shortness of breath. a 13-year-old dog is prove that cats are not the only ones with nine lives, sam survived a 15 story tumble from one of the tallest apartment buildings in sacramento, the dog is partially blind and his owner thinks he got confused and fell off the balcony somehow and fell into the hot tub there and the water broke his fall and saved his life. >> he hit it almost dead center and started to swim, to try to find himself out and got his way to the steps and pulled himself out. >> well, sam is still recovering

from bruising and fractured ribs, the animal hospital says he will be home before the weekend is over. >> one driver with a sense of humor and an affinity for a classic movie pulled off a prank. someone changed the exit sign from clark and westfield to say clark griswold, states police photos of the sign posted on social media are in fact real. the turnpike authorities has already cleaned it up, the letters were just added using tape and were easy to remove.

well, the numbers are trickling in today and it appears we had one of the best holiday shopping seasons in yours. people were in the mood to spend with the best sales growth since 2011, analysts say that a better economy and cheaper gas prices allowed people to open up their wallets. and if you got a gift card for christmas wal-mart is giving you a way to use it. they will exchange the card for a wal-mart cord, it will be worth 97% of your original card.

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teams to have two captains. captain frederick will share the duties with his 8-year-old son jake, he has been part of the ban since he was born. he took over from his father henry back in 1985. if they have weather like this, like today. it would be quite a parade to attend. >> it quite a way away but it looks dry and cold. lets look at stormtracker 6 live double scan around the region, we are looking dry and good, it was cold out there this morning but we are warming us nicely, lets go outside and see what is looks like, sky 6 looking live and we can see the blue skies and hardly a cloud out there. as we look towards pens landing and the ben franklin bridge and clouds look similar, you won't see many clouds out there.

the dew point is down at 29 and the wins are west northwest at 8 miles per hour. and the pressure 30.82 inches, it was cold out there, 27 degrees was the morning low in millville and 34 in philadelphia and the windchill was in the 20s, 29 in allentown 31 in reading and 30 in mt. pocono. we rebounded nicely, normally we say in the low 40s, 47 in the city and 49 in millville and 48 in millville. temperatures running cooler than yesterday but very nice. satellite 6 along with action radar showing hardly a cloud out there. you see the clouds to the north and west and we have high pressure in control and bringing us sunshine out there, looking pretty good, lets look at temperatures throughout the day, 3:00 p.m., 50 degrees, sunshine and a few clouds and we'll dip

slowly after that, by 9:00 p.m. 41 and it will be another cold night ahead, but the afternoons have been nice and that is because of this high pressure, today we have mild conditions with high pressure in control and tomorrow the high shifts to the east and it will get even more mild, you can see the front to the west, not a lot of moisture associated with it but it will come through on wednesday and change things a little bit. the first day of kwanzaa is nice and 50 and sunny and today we stay mild, a high of 52 degrees with sunshine on saturday, on sunday we feature more cloud cover and some rain early on and it doesn't look like a lot of rain and at this point it looks like the morning hours and 50 for your high, we are staying mild and monday it stays colder with a high of 43 degrees, lots of cloud cover on monday and

early showers and even wet snowflakes mixing in with the showers, we'll have to check that for you, on tuesday, partly sunny skies and 42 degrees, we see the temperatures are dipping, we see the 50s and the 40s and the 30s, 37 degrees and wednesday is new years eve and it's 28, cold in the overnight hours as you ring in the new year, partly sunny skies on new years day and 38 degrees, a lot of clouds and sunshine and a cold high of 38. so the seven day is looking kind of cold. >> thank you karen. in other news, a pennsylvania family got three times the surprise when they welcomed triplets on christmas, courtney stash delivered two girls and a boy at hershey medical center, they are ready to go home to meet their older

siblings. we'll take a quick break and more news when we come right back.

"action news" at 12:30 continues with sara bloomquist, rick williams and david murphy. >> hello again, here are the stories we are following for on "action news" at 12:30, an elderly woman dies after a

vehicle slams into her bedroom in buck county. and a woman says her dog help keep her alive. and if you need something new or an exchange, area shoppers are packing stores this day after christmas. but accuweather is promising abundant sun today and a nice way to start the weekend, lets take a live look from the center city skyline from sky 6 hd, lets find out if the nice weather will stick around and check in with karen rogers at the "action news" big board. >> hi rick, it was so cold this morning compared to yesterday morning, we normally see temperatures like this, but some spots were 30 degrees colder, 29 in allentown and 34 in philadelphia and 27 in millville, so temperatures returning back to where they should have been this morning but since then we climbed nicely, a mild afternoon again. 47 in philadelphia and 46 in