>> today we have done what we promised, we have found and brought shane home. a truly saddeneding to the

search for shane montgomery. his family confirms a body discovered today in the schuylkill river is that of the missing college student. saturday night, i'm walter perez and the big story on "action news" is ending the shane montgomery family dreaded the mostch the missing college student's body was found by differs today less than a mile from where he was last scene. "action news" reporter annie mccormick has been gathering reaction to the tragic development. we begin with ken live at the scene, kenneth. >> reporter: walter, right now the body of shane montgomery is at the medical sent to determine the cause of death. we don't know the condition of his body but we know how he was found behind manayunk brewing company. on this stretch of the schuylkill river in manayunk a discovery many in this community thought was inevitable and never wanted to see. saturday drivers pull the body of missing 20-year-old west chester senior shane montgomery from the waters. >> that's why we do this.

to find family's loved ones and bring them back. >> he was found garden state underwater recovery unit 11:30 a.m. near main street and sheers lane. his family and their pastor watched from the business. differs told us the young man was on the bottom of the river about ten feet from the shore. >> where he was was about waist deep center of river there's holes 8 10 foot deep for the most part it's 6, 7 foot. >> it's been nearly 0 days since shane disappeared wednesday morning after a night out with friends. he was last seep as kill dare's pub. the search has been exhaustive and teams of differs in the waters for weeks and fbi working with philadelphia police. breaks came when his keys were found before christmas in the water and days gr that investigators saw surveillance of him stumbling across this bridge towards the water at killdare's. they felt invested in the search

like so many. >> the base is set up on our deck. we became family with his family during the whole situation it broke us all down we were all out back when they brought him in. >> shape has been found. there's still major there's still major. >> was he thrown in the water? did he fall in? >> and that is all under investigation by philadelphia police tonight. the differs who found shane's keys were the same ones that discovered his body today in an area that was searched before. again the me is trying to determine the cause of death. walter. reporting live in manayunk this evening, kenneth moton, "channel 6 action news." >> all right. kenneth. thank you for the report. our coverage continues with annie mccormick live we church with friends and support rerz keeping friends and family in their thoughts tonight. any. >> reporter: and walter, during shane's disappearance the family

gave up green ribbons which was his favorite color. this christmas tree is covered in the ribbons and green lights. it's one show of support from the church and also from the community who today says they're heartbroken along with his family. today we have done what we have promised we have found and brought shane home. >> shane montgomery's parents fought tears to say thank you shortly after volunteer differs discovered their 21-year-old son. >> we want to thank everyone for their support and prayers and love and ask they continue to pray for our family at this trying time. >> the people of manyunk and shane's native roxboro put flyers in shop windows and substituted annual tree lighting for candlelight vigil during the west chester university student's disappearances. a reward grew to more than $60,000 with the help of local businesses and his parish, st. john the baptist, became ground zero for volunteer search and rescue operations out of the

basement. >> he is home with god. he is home with his family. >> some parishioners entering saturday evening mass just learning the news. >> we thank god we've been praying every day they would find him for the parents. >> shane's uncle at the river during today's discovery sharing mixed emotions following tonight's mass. >> there was that moment you kind of hoped it was not shane. and that it was something else. and but at the same time, he's in god's hands and he'll never feel pain and never feel rain and he'll always be happy. and his mom today going on to thank a long list of people including philadelphia police spvkly marine unit northwest detectives and this volunteer search and rescue team. now, at this point, we're told no funeral arrangements have been made. for now, reporting live in manayunk, annie mccormick,

"channel 6 action news." >> thank you. our coverage continues on owe line at 6abc.com. there you can find and read our timeline of the search and community's effort to find shane and vigils in the days to come and his impending funeral. turning now to the accuweather forecast its with a dreary day. plenty of rain. sleet as well. in center city if you were outside you didn't have an umbrella chances are you were having a bad day. tomorrow a dramatic change is coming our way. meteorologist melissa magee joins us at the big board with the first check of the ak raw uweather forecast. >> we were checking the moisture overhead. it started out with sleep. even in philadelphia mixed precipitation north and west. as you can see on stormtracker 6 double scan radar the winter weather advisory in the northwest suburbs expired and all light in nature rain. you noticed 95 corridor trenton

to philadelphia we're picking up light moisture and areas norm and west of town, mall verp, doylestown and quaker up to will continue through the rest of the evening hours. rainfall quarter inch for atlantic city, millville .16 and poconos .16" and reading and poconos .16" and reading .owe 9". and lots of low clouds and visibility. we're down to 1.7 miles in philadelphia and half mile in poconos and down to miles in allentown. give yourself extra fix you valve or are out and about this evening. talking about what is ahead. off and on rain showers follow fort rest of saturday. still soggy come tomorrow. each though we have moisture we're tracking and it stays unsettled sunday temperatures rise. record warmth sunday. we go through all of those numbers in the accuweather forecast. >> thank you melissa. stay on top of changing situation with 6abc.com.

visit 6abc.com/weather both the hourly and 7-day for cost and latest video from "action news" meteorologist and collection of weather related photos and videos. >> a man is dead and woman critically injured after a bizarre chain of events in camden county that started as domestic incident 4:00 in pensauken where female victim was shot and her father rushed her to cooper hospital. police stopped the suspected gunman after he ran a read light. he led police ton a chase to cooper hospital and committed suicide before police could make the arrest. >> a heavily armed man held police at bay 8 hours overnight in levittown. last night a woman went to police to say her uncle lawrence ruse went to kill someone was the mother dies. her uncle had dozens of guns, investigators went to the home and found roose in the home

refusing to come outside. swat teams took him into custody. his 90-year-old mother inside the home was taken to a local hospitaling to checked out as a precaution. >> police in philadelphia are investigating a murder on a playground in strawberry mansion late last night. it happened 11:30, 29 and chomers avenue a man was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head. no word on possible motive. few hours later the action cam was on the scene of another shooting outside fishtown gold club on girard avenue. a fist fight ended in gunfire. two men were taken to the hospital in stable condition. three were injured and eight families left without a place to live after a fire in southwest philadelphia. chopper6hd over the scene at 68 near woodland avenue 9:15 last knight. a 70-year-old man and younger woman wore forced to jump to safety. red cross is providing shelter

food and clothing to 28 people that lives there. no word how it startd hundreds of local high school students are plotting their path to college. they hosted philadelphia conference today. they have a chance to learn of the application process and better understand options for financial aid. more to come on "action news" a 7-year-old girl escapes unharmed from a plane crash that took lives of four members of their family. hear from a man whose home they walked to looking for help. >>en a shakeup in the eagles front office ends with chip kelly wielding more power within the organization. ducis rogers tells us what that means for the team when "action news" comes right back

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>> the second of two nypd officers killed in the line of duty two weeks ago is being

remembered today. officers and public officials gaermed for wake for wenjian gaermed for wake for wenjian liu. his funeral is tomorrow. >> airasia flight 501, four massive objects were spotted by sonar on ocean floor the biggest piece 59 feet long and 18 feet wide believed to be part of the engine or jet's body. strong current and high surf prevented differ there's entering water and getting a visual on the object. they believe they will be able to recovery mains of many 162 passengers and crew on board and expect edly still inside the cabin. only 30 bodies were recovered to far. >> a 7-year-old girl is sole survivor of deadly plane crash in kentucky. the girl's parents sister and cousin were all killed. she somehow made it out of the wreckage and walked a mile

without shoes in near freezing temperatures to find help. she knocked open the first house she found and larry wilkins was stunned when he opened the door. >> there is a little girl 7 years old crying not mad lip quivering good bloody, bloody nose and arms and legs were scratched up real bad. and she told me that her mom and dad was dead. >> how about that. the girl was rushed to the hospital treated and released today federal vaeingttors were called in to examine the crash site. they reported engine trouble with air awe traffic control. >> eagles head coach gets new power. ducis is up next with the answer when "action news" comes right

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>> checking in with sports with jeff. this is important news for change in the front office. >> the buck stops weapon chip kelly all on him. chip in charge. eagles hope this is not a sitcom but the power to give oversight he and they feel he needs to bring the franchise a super bowl title. it gives kelly full control of the personnel department. that used to be general manager howie roseman's territory. he gets a bump to football operations and no longer will oversee the draft or player acquisitions. eagles were quick top point out this was not a power struggle between howie roseman and kelly. this is not a one man operation it will take a team effort to develop best football players and put the best team on the

field each week and take all of us working together. eagles offensive coordinate nateer would like to get back into head coaching he interviewed with oakland raiders. before birds two years ago he was head coach of cleveland browns. >> nfl wildcard weekend is underway. 7 wins hosting the cardinals. life is not fair. cardinals starred third string art quarterback ryan lingly. arizona has a 1 point lead. we're about to start the 3rd quarter. cardinals have 65 total yards of offense thus far. villanova has been on a roll. the 13-0 record matches best start in school history and cats ranked sixth in the nation that is what makes what happened today mind boggling on the road seton hall jay wright looking for a win and cats offer to a terrible start. down 17-3 six minutes in. 'nova fights back second half.

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drexel hosting elon dragones shorted with just three players and roman catholic standout knocks down three. elon wins. that's six straight losses. to the ice, it's almost over. flyers monster road trip will wrap it up tonight in north jersey and the flyers are breathing a deep sigh of relief. claude giroux is okay after suffering a nasty cut against klooip. he had to leave the game. the injury required stitches he's listed as probable for tonight's contest. >> i got luck >> i got lucky and everybody kind of panicked and i didn't help the cause by panicking either. but. >> as for the game flyers lost to the hurricanes.

road trip basketball sixers in la to take on clippers this is end to season long road trip. lost to the suns because they did not show up in the second half. brett brown's squad was out scored 18 points in the third. sixers are now 4-27 open the season. that is the worst record in nba. >> 4-27? >> 4 wins. >> i counted them today. >> it's not good. >> thank you ducis. >> up next on "action news" meteorologist melissa magee has the exclusive accuweather 7-day forecast. stick around.

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east. we did have a winter weather advisory that expired at 6:00 for areas north and west of town. we're just looking at liquid precipitation as well there. trenton philadelphia wilmington south and east south jersey from wrightstown, sea side heights surf city, mays landing we have showers continuing through the evening hours. another batch of precipitation through sunday. we show you the picture outside. action cam was outside earlier today looking up the ben franklin parkway to the philadelphia museum of art. you can see lots of clouds around and lots of fog to continue with as well and that drizzle staying with us as well. make sure you have the wet weather gear this saturday. first weekend of 2015 off to a bit of foggy note. it's 38. high temperature today below average 41 is thank time of year and as you look at numbers. upper 30s to 40s in wilmington and south and east for beach thich sea isle city to dover

temperatures easily in the lower 40s. temperatures are marginal across allentown and lancaster that's why we had sleet and frozen precipitation and as moisture lifts off to north with warm front lifting on offer north we have liquid precipitation northwest suburbs as well. here's satellite 6 and action radar a warm front lifting off north and east and that triggers showers around early today and for the first start of the weekend. off to the west there's an area of low pressure boardingering illinois and indian a the cold front moves ta through throughout the day on monday. future tracker 6 has you covered saturday through the rest of the evening 9:30 tonight showers continue on and off and at midnight wet weather. a lull or break in activity as you wake up tomorrow morning. mid-morning 11:00 in the morning on sunday those showers return. once the cold front moves through we have another line of rain. we're calling for an additional three-quarters inch to inch and

three-quarters worth of precipitation. moisture is moving on through. here's the other story. wet and warm. high temperature tomorrow in philadelphia 66. record 68 setback in 1950. these numbers come crashing for start of the workweek. the accuweather forecast showing you mild tomorrow, up to 66. on and off rain monday, windy, colder, 39. tuesday high of just 30 we're tracking clipper system that will move on through. afternoon snow showers are likely. wednesday, below freezing, 31. just a tweak on thursday, high of 23. ep joy the mild tomorrow and get ready for the chill. >> thank youle world news tonight is next on channel 6. for melissa magee, ducis rogers jeff skversky and the entire "action news" team. i'm walter perez, we'll see you

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welcome to "world news tonight." sole survivor. the small plane crash that killed an entire family except for one little girl. her climb out of the wreckage and trek through the dark woods the man who answered her knock on the door. how did she make it out alive? wicked weather. the arctic blast spreading across the country just as america travels home from the holidays. icy roads, freezing rain and now tornadoes whipping up too. breakthrough. the massive object spotted on the ocean floor. tonight searchers on the hunt for the missing airasia jet say this is what they've been looking for. are they now close to finding the black boxes? and tipping off thieves, the danger of sharing too much online. >> i'm kind of a social media nerd. i'm also kind of a burglar. >>