and accuweather is tracking a nor'easter that could bring us messy weather, next >> i did not alter the ball in any way. those are the words of new england patriots quarterback tom brady. brady answered questions from the media today and insists that he has no explanation to how the

footballs his team used on offense to reach the super bowl became under inflated. it is thursday night. and the big story on "action news" tonight is the latest on deflate-gate. we have now heard from the quarterback and heard from the coach and we really don't know anything more about who or what was responsible than we did before. "action news" reporter sharee bill yumz has all the details tonight. >> and we're learning, jim, that tom brady actually had a closed door meeting with his teammates. tonight he is out front. today he was out front. brady and belichick faced reporters for the first time on this swriling scandal. both denied any wrong doing. the super bowl just days away. patriots though being asked if they cheated. >> number 12 usually under sensor. but tonight tom brady is under fire. >> everyone is trying to figure out what happened. >> brady bombarded with questions about espn report that 11 of 12 balls he used to beat

indianapolis colts were under inflated two pounds per square inch by nfl standards and he was asked directly if he was a cheater. >> i don't believe so. i feel like i played within the rules and i would never do anything to break the rules. >> espn sports science found under inflated ball is easier to grip and catch especially in foul warm. and the balls used in sunday's game were approved by officials more than two hours before kickoff. experts say the only time the balls could have been tampered with were minutes before the game or on the sideline. >> i did not alter the ball in any way. >> brady explained pregame ritual. >> you go through the process of breaking balls in and getting comfortable with them. i choose the balls because i want to use them fort game and then that's what i expect to go out on the playing field. >> patriots have been tangled in scandals before and in 2007 the nfl fined head coach bill belichick 500,000 and took away

draft picks as punishment for videotaping opponent sideline signals during a game. as for the latest controversy belichick maintains he was unaware of the deflate-gate. >> i was shocked to learn of the news reports about the footballs. i had no knowledge whatsoever of the situation. >> the nfl says it's investigating these deflate-gate acquisitions and brady told reporters today no one from the league contacted him and that, jim, is raising more questions. if someone is found to tamper with the balls it could come with 25,000 fine. of course even more could also come after that. >> lots of questions. very few answers at this point. >> at this point not many. >> thank you sharee. >> we have a developing story out of newcastle county where a pedestrian was truck by four different vehicles none of which stopped. this happened i-495 edgemoor at 8:00 tonight and the

investigation has shut down or did shut down the northbound lanes from philadelphia pike to edgemoor road. the road reopened weapon the past 45 minutes. state police have not identified the victim who was killed or why that person was out on the highway in the first place. >> accuweather is tracking nor'easter set to arrive rite on schedule for the weekend and at this time tomorrow night many of us will be seeing our first flakes of snow from this wet and windy and cold system. meteorologist cecily tynan joypsz us from the "action news" big board with latest open the storm track. if we get snow cecily how long should it last. >> just a few hours really in the overnight hours tomorrow night, by day break a rainy vept for philadelphia. stromtrackerer 6 live showing moisture gathering across the gulf. this could create severe weather in parts of georgia, northern florida. you'll notice there's no frozen

precipitation here. but as it moves in tomorrow night we do have some cold air at the onset. so future tracker actually speeding up the system and looks like moisture will move in from the south 9:00 tomorrow night. this time tomorrow nights it's snowing. from philadelphia and areas south. however, it quickly pulls in warm air from the ocean and it will be changing over to rain before day break on saturday morning. so this is what to expect with the new timeline. tomorrow night that moisture arriving from the south to the north between 9:00 and midnight and again at first comes in as snow. however as it gets steadier and heavier between 2:00 in the morning and 8:00 in the morning it changes over to rain from noon 3 is when it will be exiting and parts of our viewing area will see more snow than other parts. i'll run it all down with a map coming up in the full accuweather 7-day forecast, jim. >> of course you can stay on top of changing weather situation on

6abc.com/weather and future tracker maps show the path of the coming storm and you can always get the latest hourly and 7-day accuweather forecastch the site ajust to fit your cellphone, tablets or laptop screen. >> a philadelphia teenager is recovering at home after she says she was attacked on the route 15 septa trolley yesterday morning. 17-year-old shay we're only using her first name tells "action news" she got on a crowded trolley at broad and girard to head to school. and she says her book bag kept hitting the man next to her. he became so angry he threatened her. shay says the man clenched his fists and she knew she had to act. >> i hit him, he hit me. at like the same time. he mit me three or four times in my face. >> he's a creep. open a bus. full of kids. ft. book bags are hitting understand you're on a bus full of kids you know? it happens. >> shay suffered a broken nose and bruises. septa is trying to retrieve

better surveillance video to try to identify the suspect. >> a big fire at a bucks county mansion is at the center of alleged insurance fraud scheme tonightch the plays was actually one of three fires to hit the same home in buckingham township. a total of five people were charged. and had been released on bail. "action news" reporter dann cuellar has the story tonight. >> hello? when we went look for comment there was no answer at the call box outside of mantion of carl and claire risaldi on stony creek road buckingham. >> call ended try again later. >> the grand jury probe stems from a fire at the mansion october 22 of 2013 back then the fire chief told me it was third fire at the mansion in four--year period. >> what's going on? >> i don't know. >> the other fires were they accidental? >> they were undetermined. >> aig insurance firm paid out in excess of 20 million in connection with the three fires

and risaldis according to investigators were seeking 20 million for the 20 is fire. claire had accused volunteer firefighters who respond todd plays of stealing jewelry reportedly worth millions while in the home and grand jury found allegations to be false isaldi had questionable insurance claims fort last 20 to 30 years. >> i feel vindicated we spend the last 14 months under cloud of suspicion. i have a great dedicated group of guys here. >> in addition to claire and tom the attorney general charge add adult daughter carla risaldi adult son and his wife sheila and private investigator mark goldman and richard holestone who found they engaged in wide ranging multi-million dollar scheme to defraud aig and using proceeds as source of ongoing funding for excessively extravagant lifestyle. for their part the volunteer

firefighters were feeling good about being cleared of wrong doing. >> i knew sooner or later we would be vindicated because nobody tooing anything out of the house but we went through the ordeal sglat caused which include prominent republican fund riser and former bucks county prosecutor and former deputy sheriff and former spokesman of the pennsylvania turnpike all turned themselves in and were released after posting bail. in buckingham township, bucks county, dann cuellar "channel 6 action news". and a former philadelphia homicide detective has been arraigned tonight and is expected to post bail. ronald dove was arrested today on charges of obstruction. evidence tampering and flight and conspiracy. charges say he hit his girlfriend erica sanchez for weeks in a hotel in upstate new york. his colleagues were serving for sanchez for murder of her former husband. district attorney seth williams said today that he checked in with supervisor after the killing and but failed to

mention that he was with the prime suspect. >> and the ref rant al sharpton is getting involved in the deadly police shooting in bridgeton new jersey. his national action network said today it is joining other activists groups demanding new jersey attorney general takeover the case from cumberland count county. prosecutor jeep per web mccray recuseed herself because she know ones of the officers that hot and willed 36-year-old jerome reed. but the county insists it will conduct a fair and impartial investigation on its own. citizens' rights were main topic of frank discussion at temple university tonight. national bar association created a town hall meeting called know your rights because it could save your life. there's some response to the michael brown and eric garner gand jury decisions. a panel of attorneys and deputy police commissioner richard ross answered questions about a variety of legal situations.

>> new jersey governor chris christie appointed emergency manage to get atlantic city finances under control. and nobody is saying this will be easy. and of course, atlantic city has lost four casinos over the last year. and now the city's debt has soared. and today christie presented over another at laptic city summit where he did leave the door open for the city to file for bankruptcy. and but hoping to avoid that he appointed corporate finance consultant kevin lavin to observe broad powers over city finances and all operations. and appointed as advisor was kevin orr who helped guide detroit through the financial crisis and said bankruptcy is something they will decide in due course. it is a less joan learned. philadelphia school reform commission cannot uni laterally cancel the teacher union contract as it did in of coursech that legal ruling came from commonwealth court. src ordered unionizeed vendors

to pay the cost saying it would cost millions a year. changes like that need to be negotiated. not imposed. and without the cost savings the school district is now warning of another chance for another round ever layoffs. septa approved union new union contracts today and the deal affects 330 bus and trolley operations in the suburban victory division. that goes out 69th street transportation center and also covers 400 teamsters working in various clerical positions. transit agency says positions will last 2 years 7 months with five% wage increase over the contract. >> a standle involving a top commandser of guantanamo bays and midsts tierious death has ties to our area and investigators figure out what sparked a massive new jersey

apartment fire and why a walmart shopper was arrested trying to arrest a man with a gun cecily. >> it's a good model consensus early saturday morning philadelphia will see 1 to 2" of snow before the changeover to rain and parts of our viewing area more snow. other parts less. i'll break it all down for you in the accuweather 7-day forecast. >> and on "healthcheck" the thing you want in your neighborhood that correlates it a longer life. and ducis rodgers with more on deflate-gate when "action news" continues tonight.

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>> authorities determined the massive apartment fire in northern new jersey began doesn'tly. crews working on plumbing sparked the fire last night. hundreds battled the flames for

several hours and went door to door to evacuate more that 500 residents and only four people including two firefighters were hurt. >> the scandle rocking navy basic quan ton mow tonight has a connection to this area. navy captain in charge stripped of command after officials discovered he was allegedly having an affair and husband of alleged lover was found dead in the waters off the base on january 11. christopher terr was born in philadelphia and grew up in montgomery county graduating from north penn high school in the 90s before joining marines. he was most recently working at guantanamos a civilian manager. his death is still shrouded in mystery. there was no immediate indication of suicide and it has not been ruled out. gi rebels back by iran now controlled capitol of sinae in yemen and forced president of

yemen backed by u.s. to resign. none of this is good news for washington and tonight they're reducing number of american personnel at the u.s. embassy and they're avoiding using the word evacuation. they're mourning in saudi arabia tonight. 90 king of dula died. important alli of the united states and was steadfastly committed to countser influence of rival iran. abdulla is succeeded by his half brother who is 79. >> house of representatives moved to expand abortion restrictions. they took part in the annual washington march and the house forbid several found for most abortion coveragech the bill would also block tax credits for many people and employers who buy abortion coverage narrow bama care. the bill faces uncertain fate in the senate and would be vetoed by president obama if it ever

reaches his desk. >> a florida man is in trouble with the law seemingly for trying to do good. he spot aid man with a gun walmart parking lot on tuesday and followed him into the store. hillsboro county share ivz say 43-year-old michael foster tackle the armed shopper from behind putting him in a choke hold and yelling watch out he has a gun. tunz out the shopper had a concealed weapons permit meaning he was carrying a weapon into the store legally. and now foster is under arrest charged with battery . >> the first rule of real estate is location location, location. on tonight's "healthcheck" it turns out the same advice could apply to exercise. researchers found that people who live closest to parks, gimz and other exercise facilities tends to be less overweight and more likely to liver beyond the age of 75 coach potatoes

complain -- that idea is half baked. the study determined three and four americans live less than a mile from a park or jim. >> the latest information from accuweather and nor'easter coming our way. >> jim location is key with this storm too if you want to see more snow you have to go further north. for a good part of viewing area it will be more wet than white as it moves in. stormtracker 6 showing dry conditions tonight temperatures dropping 37 degrees currently in philadelphia. 41 was our high today. 1 degree above normal. allentown 30. wilmington 35. reading 3 2. millville 29 and trenton 29. so typically school. satellite 6 and action radar showing thin clouds around. a lot breaking up in the overnight hours. thicker clouds move in late in the afternoon ahead of this.

all this moisture really gathering strength energy gulf of mexico mex will become more easter it will not be a big snowstorm for a reason. this is why. we do not have this. arctic high pressure awe, if we want to set one a lot of snow, you have to have this arctic high that brings us a deep layer of very cold air and that high pressure also would slow down the storm. without this once the storm system bombs out or inteps phase quickly it will pull in warm air from the ocean and that low pressure will be booking up the eastern sea board moving 35 mimes an hour. this will be a pretty short storm. about 12 hours and we will be seeing a pretty quick changeover to rain. so future tracker showing 10:00 tomorrow night you see philadelphia and areas west and south will be dealing with the snow. but very quickly before di break this changes over to rain along the entire i-95 corridor and this is even showing we could see mixing of isa cross the

lehigh valley, norp berks county and even up into the poconos early on saturday morning and then it moves out quickly by 1:30 changing over to rain and rain will be moving out by about 3:00 in the afternoon. so, most of this accumulation will happen in the predawn hours. south jersey, delaware, we're looking at coating to inch. and that will all be washed away by the time you wake up. so unless you're up in the middle of night you will not see any snow falling in south jersey and delaware. i-95 corridor the immediate suburbs looking at 1 to 3" of snow and again that's before the changeover to rain and if you want to see the possibility of more than 3" of snow you really have to look well up to the north. north of trenton. northern lehigh valley and eastern poconos. and again even there we're looking at possibility of sleet mixing in. tomorrow is the calm before the messy storm. looking really nice tomorrow 7:00. 28 do be careful could be a

refreeze with moisture that is melted today. by 10:00 33 by 30, 8 degrees and 3 by 4:00, 39. the exclusive accuweather 7-day forecast. friday 40, and saturday 39 and sunday partly sunny 42. if you're bummed about missing snow on saturday we have another chance on monday. 34. and behind that system temperatures cool off tuesday and wednesday afternoon highs only in the 20s. then we build it up to 32 degrees on thursday. this storm system is still developing and we have more information as we head towards the overnight hours and david murphy will have an update on "action news" at 4:30. >> thank you cecily. >> bucks county high schoolers dressed to impress and strutted down the catwalk tonight in fairless hills. pensbury high school students hosted their annual prom fashion expo on campus tonight.

more than 50 students took partch the event raises money to provide formal ware, hair and makeup for senior class students that cannot afford to go to the

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deflate-gate. tom brady and bill belichicksomely said the same things. they have no idea why 11 of a dozen balls they slide in afc championship game were reportedly significant reportedly significantly under inflated. they practiced with them before turning them over to officials on game day. while nfl continues to investigate the patriots deny, deny deny. >> i have never talked to any player staff member about football air pressure. >> i don't know what happened. >> i have no explanation for it. i don't know what happened and really from monday morning i have no idea what happened with the balls. >> chip kelly found a new quarterback coach. eagles hired ryan day played qb at new hampshire when ship chip was a coach there and offensive coordinator at temple.

>> sunday in arizona sproles kelce, mathis, barwin, barky and dorenbos will compete sunday it's work but not really. >> i think you go out there and just try to do your job and you know it will be a little more fun probably. it will be a little more of a lottery thing mopping the teams. >> why you see less of nascar driver jeff gordon after this year and wrap in foil and bake for three minutes. the practical joke that have the sixers

tonight the owls try to get back on track hosting south florida. easy one for fran dumbfy and company.

and part of a 12-5 run puts it out of reach. alls win 7-48. >> calm dr. lanini visiting lasalle in road eye land. martin scores 14. >> jeff gourd an says 2015 will be last year as full time driver. gordon has 92 nascar sprint cup victory third all time behind hall of fame driver richard petty and david pierson. >> sixers may be in midst of terrible surprise but someone on the team knows how to pull off a prank. >> oh, ! >> sixers rookie found his car wrapped in aluminum foil. no one claimed responsibility for the joke. 25 boxes were used. jeff skversky innocent as far as we know was there. >> whose going to get pay back for this. >> first i have to find out who did. it i don't know who did.

it i have to find out and then i'll get back to you on that. >> this was not my work. i need a few more years in the league to do stuff like this. >> pretty funny hu? >> this is hill larious. >> aluminum prices wentz up he should keep that. >> dozens of children hung out with several sixers players while getting a good workout at the roxboro ymca tonight this is first sixers fitness clinic it's designed to show middle school students exercise comes in many forms and can be lots of fun. it's also part of nba annual fit week. "jimmy kimmel live" next on channel 6 followed by night lane. jimmy's guest edward norton and music from the desists and "action news" continues at 4:30 for cecily tynan, ducis rogers and the entire "action news" team i'm jim gardner, good

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