25 miles from paris near charles de gaulle airport. killed were said and cherif kouachi. one hostage they held today was freed unharmed. but in almost the same moment police used explosives to storm a kosher market in a neighborhood where another militant was holding hostages. this is a jewish neighborhood and the president of france called this a blatant antisemitic act. french forces killed amedy coulibaly but his accomplice wife managed to escape. while 11 civilians got out four hostages were found dead. coulibaly said he was working in coordination with the kouachi brothers and al-qaeda in yemen released a statement that it directioned the deadly attack wednesday on charlie

hebdo that killed 12 people: let's go "action news" reporter chad pradelli live at the police academy in northeast philadelphia. chad, safe to say when something like this happens in western europe, major american cities react by increasing vigilance. >> reporter: you're right, jim. behind me is the philadelphia police department's homeland security unit's headquarters and police brass here tell me they are always on high alert but tonight we are learning that the fbi has sent out a bulletin to 18,000 plus law enforcement agencies across the country warning that isis and al-qaeda are urging fighters to attack the west. the attacks in paris may seem geographically distant but they resonate here in the united states. >> the other side has to get it right just once. we have to get it right every single day when we're trying to stop them. >> reporter: ed turzanski professor at lasalle

university. he calls the paris attacks coordinated resourced and planned. >> al-qaeda continues to remake itself and these -- this attack on charlie hebdo this appears to have been directed by al-qaeda. >> i always say there i live in a professional state of paranoia. >> reporter: he says there's no intelligence that would cause concern locally but overseas attacks like in paris create concern of a copycat crime. >> they are more interested in the notoriety than the commitment the true commitment to any ideology. >> reporter: one of the two parisian attacks happened at a jewish grocery store. four hostages were killed can. the jewish federation of philadelphia says there has to be a united voice condemn the crimes. >> i think that the numbers of people who are violently speaking out isn't just the problem.

it's that there aren't enough people educating and embracing tolerance. >> reporter: and law enforcement say one of the keys to preventing an attack locally is if you see or hear something say something whether it be amongst familiar or friends in public or at a religious institution. i'm live in northeast philadelphia, chad pradelli channel6 "action news." >> thank you chad. this is a live picture at love park in center city philadelphia. the french consulate general in philadelphia organized this rally in honor of the victims in france. the rally now just getting under way. "action news" had updates about today's standoffs on all of our platforms including our facebook page and to make sure you're getting breaking news on your facebook time line, just go to facebook.com/6abcaction news and click the like button. world news tonight will have more on the link between the hostage takers and a look at the sleeper terror cell that likely helped the suspects

plan their attack. that is coming up tonight at 6:30 right after "action news." the mystery continues tonight over the disappearance of 26-year-old erica crippen crosby of mount laurel, new jersey. the mother of two children has been missing since december 30th when she was last seen with her husband at a restaurant in cherry hill. "action news" reporter david henry is live outside crosby's home on the 5200 block of aberdeen drive. david. >> reporter: jim erica's family and friends plan to gather here at her home this evening to launch a search party their own. she has not been seen since december 30th just before new year's eve and now her husband, kyle crosby, has also apparently disappeared. >> sleeping with the enemy. seriously that's what i call it. how can you make her disappear. >> reporter: erica's family is convinced she's been killed. the police are now looking for her and for her husband. he was last seen here at the

home they shared with her two daughters last wednesday night when erica's family reported her missing. they were both last seen together at this pub in cherry hill the night of december 30th. erica's family and friends say she and kyle had a stormy relationship. >> she asked me what you do as a married woman you stick by your husband and that's -- that's the advice i gave her to stick by your husband. >> reporter: erica's last facebook post was december 30th. previously she posted something new every day. kyle's last post was on january 2nd when he seemed desperate to find a babysitter for the girls. erica's family says she would never take off and leave her children behind without a word. police are now looking for erica and her car a cranbury red ford taurus with primer paint on the front passenger door and fender. her family says the car was parked outside her house when police came to investigate wednesday night. now it's gone. and so is kyle.

the family is convinced he knows what happened to erica. >> you going go, leave the country and give us a call back and just say look, here's her body and that's all we want. we'll leave you alone and we'll let the cops do whatever. nobody want retaliation or anything, just give us our loved one. you may not love her but we know what love is. >> reporter: here you see erica's family and friends now gathering outside her home here in mount laurel. planning their search party. that will include her seven-year-old daughter. i talked to kyle crosby's mother. she says she has not heard from him since last friday but she says if she does get a call from him she will call the police. live in mount laurel, david henry, channel6 "action news." jim. >> thank you david. there will be no charges against the police officer who struck and killed a 10-year-old boy with his squad car in franklin township last month. the gloucester county prosecutor's office said the officer's actions were not criminal.

he was one of three patrolmen heading to a a nonemergency call when he hit 10 year old matthew mccloskey. the boy died in the crash on december 28th. the funeral for shane montgomery was held in manayunk today. mourners gathered at saint john the baptist church to say their final goodbyes to the 21-year-old college student. he went missing thanksgiving morning. his body was found in the schuylkill river last weekend. his death an accident according to police. montgomery was buried at calvary cemetery in west conshohocken today. there is more tonight about the 40-year-old woman from voorhees, new jersey, who died from the flu earlier this week. "action news" reporter vernon odom that is a story. >> reporter: this was nicole born of voorhees a poster model of good health at the age of 40 but the mother of two suddenly passed away on sunday after being rushed to the hospital two days earlier. the cause doctors say the influenza a virus h3n2 the

most common virus circulating this season. the a strain is associated with higher rates of severe illness and death but born's death is highly unusual. 90 percent of the flu related deaths in the united states occur in those over 65 not an active person like born who loved fishing and was an accomplished athlete from high school through college. >> typically somebody like this, this would be an uncommon but again not an unheard of event. >> reporter: doctor says in cases like born's it's usually pneumonia on top of the flu that brings on death rather than the flu by itself. born's family says her entire household came down with the flu around christmastime but the devoted mother and wife concentrated on taking care of her family instead of herselfly. >> that's the most common complication of the flu is a pneumonia that happens once you've had the flu and then can get a pneumonia on top of that and some of those pneumonias can be very severe and even fatal. >> reporter: nicole born's family tells me she did not get a standard flu shot for this season.

her funeral set for tomorrow morning in berlin. in voorhees, new jersey, vernon odom, channel6 "action news. >> one of maryland's top episcopal bishops will be charged in the hit and run crash that killed new jersey native tom palermo. the 41-year-old father was originally from riverton, burlington county. he died two weeks ago when a car slammed into his bicycle in baltimore. police say bishop heather cook was behind the wheel and prosecutors alleged today that she was drunk and texting when she hit palermo. cook is the second highest leader of the episcopal diocese of maryland. she faces charges of vehicular manslaughter and drunk driving. west chester police think this man broke into another man's home and sexually assaulted him in the middle of the night. investigators today released a surveillance picture of the intruder. he forced his way into the vices apartment on the 700 block of walnut street on december 28th. police say the two men did not know each other.

they are still trying to identify the suspect. coming up on "action news" tonight, pennsylvania attorney general kathleen kane responds after a grand jury recommends criminal charges against her. and a philadelphia eagle is going to the high school prom. we'll hear from emanuel acho on his big date. cecily. >> we climbed above freezing for the first time since monday afternoon. we're heading back into the deep freeze overnight though. details on track of a potentially messy start to your work week in the accuweather forecast. >> those stories and much more when "action news" continues tonight.

>> pennsylvania attorney general kathleen kane responded. kane said i did nothing illegal. any fair and impair shall review of the facts would conclude that. the charges stem from allegations that kane leaked details of another grand jury investigation to a newspaper. kane says the charges are part of a political attack because of her efforts to clean up harrisburg. new video could help nab the burglar who ransacked a south jersey home. he took credit cards jewelry and an iphone and a laptop from a house on warwick road in haddonfield on january 2nd. surveillance captured the man using the stolen credit cards at a wawa in center city philadelphia. if you recognize him you will urged to call haddonfield police. dozens of people turned out on this cold night to show their support for police officers in abington. the rally took place along old york road.

supporters made signs wore blue and thanked the officers who took part. they encouraged passersby to do the same. the ribbon cutting for this new $85 million justice center in doylestown is set for tomorrow. the facility incorporates updated technology and tighter security. county commissioners voted to build the new justice center four years ago. crews brokeback if july 2011 and it was expected to be finished last summer. judges and employees will move in over the martin luther king holiday weekend. a noted new jersey philanthropist has given a burlington county school a gift that will keep giving for years to come. henry rowan and his wife eleanor have donated $17 million to the doane academy. the rowan family foundation has already invested more than $8 million to the school. doane academy was on the brink of closing 15 years ago but thanks to rowan it's

expanding. and now boasts more than 200 students.

>> counting down to the opportunity to find out who is number one in college football. >> we have a few local ties in this game. eagles coach chip kelly expected to be on hands to watch his former team oregon play for the national championship on monday but he will not be the only one from our area in arlington for the big game. jamie apody has more. >> reporter: when ohio state oregons for the national championship amidst the first year of the college football playoffs the town of voorhees new jersey will have plenty to route root for. >> reporter: eli apple is a former eastern high school star and his mom annie his biggest fan. >> i am completely like all the other moms especially buckeye moms we're extremely excited. it's been an absolutely amazing dream come -- it's been a dream season. >> annie apple is an advocate for change. after spending $15,000 of their own money traveling to

eli's games last year she and other parents along with the help of buckeyes coach irving meyer began pleading with the ncaa for funding for families to see their kids play. >> i have family and friends tell me good effort annie. nothing will be decided until next year 2017. i said god created the earth in six days. the ncaa can make a decision in five. this year they did. >> they will be reimbursed $1,250 per parents for travel cost as new pilot program that will go to the families of men's and women's basketball final four. >> for us as players' families to finally be heard it means the world because when this system was created playoff system we weren't even a priority. nobody thought of us but now they heard us. >> this is the field where eli steady on friday nights. back then his mom never could imagine the journey that would take their familiar onto college football's grandest stage. >> just to watch him living his dream and as a parent be there to just witness it, there's nothing better. >> jamie app body -- apody

channel6 "action news." >> you can see the name monday night on espn. steve mason calls tomorrow's game against boston a must win. if the flyers get a w they'll have to do it without defenseman nick grossman. grossman will miss three weeks with an upper body injury after he was drilled into the boards last night into the first period against washington. without grossman flyers they did just fine in overtime how about jake voracek the nhl scoring leader scores a big win for the flyers. they'll go for three in a row tomorrow afternoon. sixers are in brooklyn tonight at 7:00 andre kirilenko who the sixers traded for last month has been suspended without pay because he has refused to recorder to the sixers. eagles linebacker emanuel acho is going to the high school prom. listen to this. an eagles fan in virginia asked acho on twitter if he would be her date if she got 2,000 retweets. acho said sure, i'll go if you

get 10,000 retweets and a few clicks later sure enough, done. hannah delmonte you have a date. >> it's either going to be extremely awkward or extremely fun. i'm going to try to go for the ladder and try to have fun with it. but i actually didn't go to prom in high school. i went to an all guys school growing up so this will actually be my first prom to go to. >> acho at the age of 24 going his first prom. >> there you go. >> thank you jeff. >> cecily tynan with that accuweather forecast coming up with "action news" continues.

>> the cold snap has brought the return of ice to the delaware river in trenton. the water is frozen over just like this time last year. when an ice jam caused serious

flooding problems. there are no reported problems so far this year and with that temperature set to get above freezing -- >> we did today. >> we did today. >> that's right. >> we did today. >> felt like a sauna didn't it. >> we still got ice on the delaware. >> and temperatures are heading back to the deep freeze overnight tonight. storm trackerstorm tracker 6 live double scan slowing that after a morning when we had some snow showers working through and some grapple as well, i'll talk about that in a moment we have dried out this evening. grapple. >> grapple. >> yeah, going to lead, you're going learn a new scrabble word tonight. let's go life on sky 6 taking a look spring mountain ski resort and folks doing a little bit of night skiing. ski conditions are great. ski resorts have been making snow all week because temperatures have been brutally cold. monday we hit 50, seems so long ago, tuesday and wednesday the high only 24 degrees. yesterday our high a measly 19 and today we bumped it up to

36 degrees philadelphia, 4 degrees below normal but felt good compared to yesterday. right now still holding at 32. we'll be dropping below freezing the next hour. allentown 26. millville 29. trenton 29. and wilmington 30 degrees. we do have a breeze so wind chills generally in the teens and 20's but the wind chills will really be dropping very quickly in the overnight hours. now, satellite6 along with action radar showing we are clearing out tonight but if you look the first few frames you can see the snow that moved through this morning in addition to the snow, gropple. it looks like dipping dots or tapioca. it's when super cooled water droplets will form over a snowflake. kind of looks like hail. the difference between hail and gropple is that it is very soft. if you try to pick this up ill falls apart. this happens when you have colder air higher in the atmosphere and warmer air at

the surface so we did have some gropple. tomorrow morning the wind chills will be brutal again. we're looking at cape may county southern and central delaware, wind chills in the single digits. philadelphia area interior south jersey, the i-95 corridor looking at wind chills slightly below zero. the northwest suburbs five to 10 degrees below zero and the poconos skiers you may want to find the hand warmers. the wind chill tomorrow morning as low as 15 degrees below zero. so nearly as bitter as yesterday. our high only 22 degrees, blustery. lots of sunshine on sunday it improves with winds out of the southwest, 36 degrees. it will be a dry day but then we come to monday. monday moisture moving in. if it comes in early enough although it will be mainly rain south of philadelphia just to the north we're looking at a wintry mix for your morning commute. eventually changing over some snow across the lehigh valley. this all depends on the timing. i'll have more details on that on "action news" tonight at

11:00. the call for accuweather tomorrow, partly cloudy, it gets colder eight to 14 degrees, wind chills dropping below zero and the exclusive accuweather 7-day forecast sunny but bitter tomorrow and blustery, 22 degrees. we bump it up to 36 degrees on monday. that wintry mix changing over to rain. a messy day. 36 degrees and behind that system it gets cold again on tuesday. 29 degrees. wednesday mostly sunny 34 degrees. thursday we cloud up with a possibility of some rain or snow 37 degrees and friday will be cloudy and cold with a high of 34 degrees. so, if you want to plan some outdoor activities this weekend, sunday will be better than saturday. >> hopefully the gropple will be gone. >> it's melting. >> all right good. finally tonight the new jersey board of public utilities is marking a milestone. more than 90,000 homeowners have now received upgrades to help them stay warm and save money. the crumble family in atlantic city is there latest recipient of the program. for years they were living in

a drafty home with wind and moisture coming through the walls. thanks to the comfort partners program their home is now ready for winter. abc's world news tonight with david muir is next on channel 6. "action news" continues at 10:00 on phl17 with brian taft shirleen allicott adam joseph and ducis rodgers. and please join us for "action news" at 11:00 here on channel 6. cecily tynan jeff skversky, ducis rodgers the entire "action news" team, i'm jim gardner. we hope you'll join us tonight. >> ♪♪ people of the coffee drinking world, dunkin' has a dark roast coffee that's

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on this friday night -- the breaking news. al qaeda now taking credit for the terror in paris. after a dramatic takedown of the terrorists, s.w.a.t. teams storming in to save the hostages. the fear -- the shoppers running for their lives. two separate scenes. the terrorists shot and killed. tonight, the urgent search for this woman. the new images coming in. and the warning this evening -- where they're concerned the next attack could come. also tonight -- the deadly 170-car pile-up in this country. the ice. a terrible scene. and the next system moving in. taken. the 3-year-old girl snatched through her bedroom window. and what her courageous family did next. and caught on tape. what bill cosby said to a woman last night in front of a huge crowd.