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rain, he'll always be happy. >> tonight's shane montgomery's parents free lay their son to rest after a five-week search ends. now that the young man's body was found if in the schuylkill river. saturday night the big story is tragic conclusion to local mystery that lingers since thanksgiving day. a college student simply disappeared. plenty of questions and tonight the search for shane is over. "action news" reporter skep live in manayunk with full details. kenith. >> walter those close to the investigation say there appears to be no foul play to shane montgomery's body. >> green ribbon and flyers have been a fixture during the search for shane montgomery. now shane has been found. his body discovered fully clothed in the schuylkill river saturday just before noon. his cellphone still on him. his grieving roxboro parents
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were there. >> today we have done what we promised found and brought shane home. we want to thank everyone for their support and prayers and love and ask they continue to pray for our family at this trying sdmrim shane disappeared nearly 40 days ago after a night out with friends thanksgiving morning last seen leaving kildare's closing time and stumbling across this bridge. last month differs located shane's keys in the water. saturday they found him a half mile away. ten feet from banks of schuylkill behind manayunk brewing company near main street and sheer's lane. >> where he was was waste deep center of river there's holes 8 10 foot deep mostly 6 7 foot deep not deep, moving current. >> loved ones, pastor and employees of the brewing company watched as differs worked. >> the base is set up on our deck. we became family with his
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family. it broke us all down. we was all out back when they brought shane out. it's a sad situation. >> the search is over and the investigation into how shane died is just beginning. there's no signs of foul play to his body. those that followed details of the search came to the river with questions. >> where would he have gone what happened to him? it's the big question what happened? >> even though this part of the river waser is.ed differs say this was a tedious process walter. also tonight we have learned an autopsy is being conducted by the medical examiner to try to determine the cause of shane's death. reporting live in manyunk along the schuylkill river, ken, "channel 6 action news." >> thank you, kenneth. >> the. >> the search for shane montgomery search for the volunteer mission. parishioners felt the bittersweet minimum of closure and grief after the news broke.
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>> i thank god because i've been praying every day you know for him that they would find him for the parents. >> he's home with god. he's home with his family and god. >> and of course our coverage of the story continues on-line at 6abc.com. there you could read about the timeline of search and community effort to find shayna long with any information about vigils being organized in the days to come. >> all right. moving on to the accuweather forecast. a cold dark nasty night. it is one still across the delaware valley. meteorologist hel melissa magee joins us at the big board with what we can expect? sounded like opening of new book you're reading. cold dark and stormy. we're tracking wet weather overhead. we track stormtracker 6 double scan radar. things are filling in across the region on 95 corridor from trenton philadelphia wilmington. deal with pockets of moderate and heavy rainfall long the i 5
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corridor. we'll show what you is going on. so far in philadelphia we picked up about little more than quarter's worm of rainfall. it looks like that moisture will continue the rest of the overnight hours and for that matter into the second half of the weekend. the other part of the story is that while we're tracking low level moisture overhead visibility is down. down to two miles in philadelphia and half mile in poconos and down to three miles in wilmington and two miles in allentown. give yourself extra time if you do late-night traveling and looks like this moisture continues as we get into sunday. still talking about what's ahead as we get into the day tomorrow. rain and areas of fog will continue. it stays unsettles and wor tracking rising temperatures despite the moisture overhead. record warmth on the way. we'll look at that in the full and exclusive accuweather forecast. >> investigators say a man from pennsauken killed his girlfriend
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and her father. the woman was riding a car with her father near baird boulevard when 23-year-old marcus johnson pulled alongside them and opened firech the woman's injured father drove directly to cooper. she is critical and her father stable. they found johnson after he ran a red light. when police tried to pull him over they led on a chase to khooper where we fatally shot himself. >> police are investigating a shooting this morning that ended with victim seriously injured. it all happened after 5 p.m. mount ephraim avenue division street. someone shot the man repeatedly in the chest. he was rushed to cooper university hospital. no arrests tonight and no word on possible motive. >> in west philadelphia a limo driver was shot this death behind the wheel of his vehicle after 7:00 tonight and police think he was killed by passenger. the 25-year-old man was found slumped over in driver's seat of silver chrysler belonging to la
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premiera company. investigators say the shooter and second man robbed a driver of cash and cell phones. the victim's name was not released by investigators. >> three people had been injured and eight families left without a place to live after fire in southwest philadelphia. chopper6hd was over the scene there at 68 near wood land avenue 9:15 last night and a 70-year-old man and younger woman were forced to jump to safety. red cross is providing food shelter and clothing to 8 people that lived here. no world how the whole thing started. >> pennsylvania state police are on the lookout for two men that escaped if a prison in berks county. timothy earl hos setler and raymond martinez the pair set off a fire alarm warnersville community correctional center last night. they escaped during ensuing confusion and made off in silver colored mini van. one was behind bars for theft
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and one for burglary. nip with information about the case is asked to call pennsylvania state police. >> dozens of people from all ages joined in on a nationwide movement today. the race for justice kicked off in philadelphia. the peaceful rally was organized in support of black lives matter movement. >> more than a dozen teenagers were stars tonight. they were primpied and pam terd at the fringe arts theater. 18 teenagers many on autistic spectrum were there to celebrate world premiere of new album they produced. on-line sales benefit the non-profit friendship circle and charitable project involving xheelon music school of philadelphia. >> soul survivor. a girl survived a plane crash.
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survivor after a mraep crash in kentucky. the girl's parents her sister and cousin were all killed. 7-year-old sailor walked a mile without shoes in near freezing temperatures to find help. she knocked open first house she found. larry was stunned when he opened the door. >> i opened the door there was a little girl 7 years old bloody and she told me her parents were dead. and she had been in a plane crash. >> how about that? the girl was rushed to the hospital, treated and released today. federal investigators have been called in to examine the crash sitech the plane did report engine trouble before it lost contact with air traffic control. >> a major discovery in the wreck aming of air flight 8501. four massive objects were found by sonar on the ocean floor. biggest piece 59 feet long and 18 feet wide believe to be part of a jet's body. strong current and high surf
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prevented differs from entering water to get a visual on the object. they'll be able to recover the remains they hope of 162 passengers and crew who were on board and expect edly still inside the cabin. only 30 bodies were recovered so far. >> earlier today in montgomery bm alabama a war hero was laid to rest 730 years after declared missing in action . >> the remains of payton mathis junior were identified this past november. the world war ii pilot dits appeared after app engine failed. his surviving family members say this was truly unexpected blessing. mathis was laid to rest with full military honors. a son who lost be loved father is coming to you for help in finding a hit-and-run driver. here's rick williams with tonight's crime fighter's report. >> reporter: the start of new year is not easy for the family
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of patrick coil senior. it's been two years since the 50-year-old was struck and killed trying to cross city avenue near precedential boulevard in wynnefield heights section. it happened 2:30 a.m., tuesday january 1, 2013678 the driver fled the scene. >> coil's son described him as the life of the party. >> fun guy. easy going. just helped out loved helping people. and just good sechs humor. >> witnesses of the accident only gave mroos a vague description of the vehicle saying it was gold or silver four door sedan. sit sdin crime commission is offering a $6,000 reward. that reward will go to 234eu7b with information that leads to arrest and conviction of the person responsible. anonymous tips can be given at 215-546-tips. for "crime fighters" i'm rick
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>> that's why she's here, meteorologist melissa magee. >> we had wintry precipitation north and west of town and that changed over to rain. it was a brief period. this morning. temperatures rising during the overnight hours and with that temperatures in the 60s tomorrow. stormtracker 6 live double scan radar showing we have moisture filling in across the delaware and lehigh valleys. pockets to moderate and heavy rainfall moving in. from trenton down subject to willow grove and norristown and north of media we have moisture on the move. some of that looks to be heavy at times as we go through the overnight hours. another pocket of showers even some heavy rainfall moving across areas in south jersey to south of medford lakes moving to glassboro hammonton. mays landing and millville. expect moisture to connecticut tin. we're tracking
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continue. a shot at penn's landingthon day. we have lots of clouds around. visibility reduced. down to 2 miles in philadelphia. give yourself time if you step out late tonight. high temperature today in philadelphia climbed up to 38. 3 shy of the average. average this time of year is 41. record setback in 2006. we may go higher throughout the day on monday. 42 in philadelphia. high today upper 30s these numbers are rising due to south easterly wind developing. trenton 40. beach haven 49, 50 boardwalk and sea isle city and lancaster stuck at 36. here's satellite 6 and action radar. tracking warm front moving through right now. this front continues to lift north. mixed precipitation and frozen precip in areas of upstate new
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york and areas of new england. areas of pressure in the he ovally. that moves through as we go through the day on sunday. future tracker 6 has you covered. we have moisture overhead. 7:00 in the morning as you wake up cloudy. things start to fire up once again from poconos down to lancaster and as we go throughout noon tomorrow there could be pockets where you're not going to find a whole lot of precipitation until that front moves through sunday evening and sunday night. showers really starting to be confined across areas in south jersey all the way down to delaware as we get to sunday night and behind that colder air will arrive. but in the near term we're tracking storm system coming west. high temperature in philadelphia 66. the other part of the story tomorrow near records. record 68 setback in 1950. checking out for on and off rain and rain continues three-quarters inch to inch followed by cold.
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tomorrow 66. we're tracking rain. much colder monday, high of 39. tuesday afternoon snow showers with clipper system high of 30. 31 wednesday. 23 degrees only on thursday walter. so get ready for the chill that is coming eventually. >> don't say snow. >> i won't say it out loud. >> good. >> brides against breast cancer tour stopped in essington today. dresses were available at deep discounts clarion hotel. proceeds go to familys with loved ones fighting cancer. brides to be says this event is win win for everyone. >> i think women like the idea of incorporating philanthropy in their special day and shop in great environment and know their dress purchase is helping people. >> last year this charity raised more than $1 million. >> up next on "action news" ducis rogers has sports. flyers finish up a long road trip tonight in new jersey and looks like they're more than ready to come home.
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difference verizon fios makes. the numbers don't lie. in customer satisfaction studies, fios is rated #1 in internet speed and reliability, and hd picture quality. so join the millions who enjoy the difference fios makes. get a fios triple play online at an amazing price guaranteed for two whole years. plus now get $400 bonus with a two year agreement. call the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 800.974.6006 tty/v >> from delaware newsroom some of wilmington's finest took on the police department in friendly game of hockey. hubd reds paid to check out all the action. all the money raced is donated to andrew mc dunna b positive
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foundation benefiting children with cancer. >> time for a check on sports. ducis rogers is here for jeff. and flyers action. >> flyers action flyers news no claude giroux tonight. flyers sit their captain after suffering a cut to his lower leg in the last game. not sure his presence would have helped on the ice. helped on the icezach renaldo got busy and mike doing the same. that's not fighting ray emorry in net. missing some key plays. end of the first period. flyers give up another one. jaiinger former flier 3-0 after one. jaiinger how about this hat creek in second period. oldest player in nfl history to do so. flyers lose five in a row and finish road trip at 3-5. sixers wrapping up as well.
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and 1st quarter they caught lob city. deandre jordan two point lead early. still the first. noel sixers still trail by five. big highlight here. sam son gets up and gets down. sixers trail by 12 points now in the 2nd quarter. >> eagles made big news yesterday with restructuring of football operations department. basically chip kelly now runs the show. he'll be charge -- in charm of all personnel decisions including nfl draft. he'll hire someone to real estate place tom gamble who left earlier in the week.and call it sour grapes i'm sure eagles sat home watching nfc wild car thinking we could beat i'mer of those two teams. despite rain and temps in the
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30s. fazi whitaker takes from cram newton. 39 yard touch down. carolina leads 20-14. arizona 77 yards of offense. lowest total in nfl playoff game. panthers win 27-15. afc wild guard game, pittsburgh tonight steelers and ravens it's a final. ravens lose 30 -- win 30-17 the final. ravens face patriots next saturday. >> still ahead in sports. busy day in college basketball. see how villanova takes advantage of the season.
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(vo) at jennie-o, we heard of a place in iowa where every thursday people ride ten miles for tacos. we thought we'd show up and surprise them with a better kind of taco, made with jennie-o ground turkey, cooked thoroughly to 165. (mom) i'd feed my kids turkey tacos over regular tacos any day. (woman) i think that they're light and they're just fresh tasting. (vo) it's time for a better taco. (kid) the tacos tonight were pretty much perfect. (vo) make the switch. look for jennie-o ground turkey at a store near you.
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