of homes on the 6700 block of church lane,ality 2:00 p.m. inside of this block two men armed with a stick and guns ran up to the man and demanded cash. >> it was an easy walk in the park or so a 68-year-old man thought when he went for a walk, investigators say a man was on a path when the masks men put toy guns in his face and unfortunately for them the man had a real weapon and opened fire and killed one of the robbers. >> i'm glad they shot him. this is a dangerous park, my neighbor was robbed in the park and they almost killed him. >> after he ran into the park and spotted the suspected robber dead. >> i knew he was dead and he wasn't moving and i called 911. >> upper darby police say that

the robber was still wearing the mask and had the toy gun by his foot and searched the area for the other robber. >> they tried to rob the wrong guy, period. >> police superintendant chitwood says the victim was rushed to the hospital with chest pains. >> i talked to him in the hospital he was shook up and upset but at the end of the day he is alive. >> this is a live look at the scene, police say that that 68-year-old victim had a concealed weapons permit and he is from west philadelphia but we are trying to confirm, the attempted robber shot and killed has not been identified. we expect an update in minutes, stay with "action news" and we'll have an update right here. kenneth moton channel 6 "action news." >> thank you kenneth. in the news one person is dead and a firefighter and three other people were hurt in a

massive fire at an apartment building in norristown. people were rescued from inside and outside. sara bloomquist is live with more. >> reporter: you can see behind me swede street is back open to traffic, building specters have been here on the scene throughout the afternoon trying to figure out how much the building has to be demolished. the front is intact but the structural integrity in the back of the building is compromised. meanwhile the red cross is helping families forced to flee when the building erupted overnight. >> fors were called out at 1:00 this morning and found the blaze burning on every floor on the 600 block of swede street in the heart of norristown. >> initially when fire crew as rived multiple people were trapped in the building and fire from the basement to floor five.

>> this shows firefighters helping a woman down a ladder. one was carried out of the burning building but died at the hospital two others suffered minor medical emergencies and treated for a cut to the hand. >> shortly after 2:00 a.m. fire officials called a fourth alarm firefighters from around the area responded to assist. linda lives next door to the apartments and she awoke to -- >> firefighters banging on the door and they said get out now. >> those forced out of their homes were put on septa buses and transported to a temporary shelter to norristown high school. >> we'll be there to care for their needs. >> fire officials believe the blaze started in the basement possibly within something flammable went down the trash shoot.

sprinklers and smoke alarms activated but were ineffective. >> we had a lot of things to do in a short amount of time. >> now, the red cross expects to be assisting 15 people tonight and they are working to decide whether or not to close the temporary shelter and put them up in local hotels the district attorneys office and police department and fire department are all involved in the investigation into this fire and the coroner's office did not release the name of the person that died in the blaze. i'm sara bloomquist, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you sara. investigators are trying to track down the source of an odor inside of a wal-mart store that sickened people in afternoon. on warwick road in delaware shortly after 1:00. seven people felt sick and they were evaluated at the scene and crews checked the stores several times and found no excess

readings of carbon monoxide or any other gases. a delaware county couple whose infant daughter was mauled by their pet ferret were back in court today. they are charged with child en endangerment. their 1-year-old daughter's face was partly bitten off by the ferrets last month. the child survived but the other children are in foster care. friends of the couple say they are not bad parents. >> essentially these parents are concerned responsible parents and make due with what they have been i spoke to the pediatrician on how well they tried to take care of these children. >> today's hearing was continued until next month and the judge ordered the couple to undergo psychiatric evaluations. it's warmer today than it

has been but don't get used to it because the cold is returning. cecily tynan joins us outside of our studios with more on the frigid temperatures and the snow showers. >> the bigger deal is the tumbling temperatures tomorrow and a few areas could get snow showers. but today what a beautiful day the high in philadelphia 47 degrees with a lot of sunshine, the warm of the day since january 5th when we hit 50 degrees and even now it's pretty mild, however things will be changing, stormtracker 6 live double scan showing that stripe of snow in the midwest, that is an arctic front that usualers in cold air and a lot of that moisture will be falling apart.

what is happening a coastal low is forming and robbing the front of moisture than low pressure is heading out to sea and some areas could get snow showers mainly north of philadelphia and this shows it's not a big snow event, they are scattered and brief and all the main roads are well treated. anybody that gets the snow shower will have reduced visibility and could be a few slick spots on the secondary road but this is the bigger effect of the front. the windchills tomorrow afternoon, 13 degrees in philadelphia. it is going to feel more than 30 degrees colder tomorrow afternoon than it does now. 8 in reading and 10 in trenton i'll let you know how long the cold air sticks around and track snow for the end of the weekend coming up in the accuweather forecast. >> thank you cecily whenever winter weather hits, go to our website at 6abc.com/weather, we

have your hourly and seven-day forecast along with the latest call from our team of meteorologists. also with the chance of some snow showers, the "action news" morning team is getting an early start. matt tam, david and karen will be on air at 4:00 a.m. with the latest forecast and traffic conditions. speaking of traffic lets see how it is looking for the commute home. to matt pellman to see what's up? >> tricky in spots. the schuylkill expressway in king of prussia, westbound side traffic still squeezing by the tractor trailer for the moment, we heard they may have to block the whole thing when they upright the truck, and by the way it was carrying girl scout cookies, yes believe it or not. approaching mall boulevard is the scene, the shoulder is seeing by and jammed solid from gulph mills to this point past the turnpike tolls if you are

trying to get to the turnpike bail on the northbound side of 476 and trying to get to the chester county burbs head to south 30 villanova and head west to chester county. and in norristown everything is reopen, swede and marshall and area streets. and a crash in olney on f street near the boulevard and a wreck here from mercer county into buck county on 95 southbound, at the moment they have all the southbound lanes of 95 closed coming into pennsylvania from mercer county. use route 1 as an alternate. >> thank you sir. much more to come on "action news" tonight. as the measles outbreak continues the concern moves from kids to adults what you can do if are you worried about being protected against the disease. and federal investigators get a look at the wreckage between a commuter train and a

suv in new york. what they are looking for at the scene to determine what happened. >> and meteorologist, cecily tynan is back with the full accuweather forecast.

federal investigators are examining the burnt out wreckage of yesterday's collision between a train and an suv. the fast moving train carrying nearly 700 people on board slammed into an suv that was stuck on the trucks it struck a fire so intense. it struck the commuter train one of the busiest rail lines in the country they are trying to determine the speed or whistle or horn or brakes worked. they said today they will examine the train's black box style recorders for more answers. >> our sole purpose for being

here is to offer recommendations to hopefully keep this from happening again. >> the same rail line is under scrutiny for a string of crashes, the most recent one that happened in 2013. and then heart stopping images of a trans asia plan, it barely missed a skyscraper before crash landing in taiwan. it is focusing on safety challenges that come with these fast growing asian airlines. a dash board camera captured the moment that the flight clipped the bridge before landing in the shallow river 58 were on board and 26 were confirmed dead, but there are survivors this is the second fatal crash in a year for trans asia, the last incident happened in july, this comes a month after an air asia plane crashed into the java sea

killing all 162 people on board. coming up in our next half hour what happened after liftoff that led to the plan's crash we'll have more details on the pilots experience. >> thanks sharrie. health check everybody wants to decrease their risk of cancer but people don't know what is putting them at risk. ali gorman is here now to fill us in. >> we are talking about the risks we know about there is often a disconnect about what the public thinks and what science says, we see that with cancer, the cancer institute says that people blame factors that they can't control like pollution and food additives even though none of them are proven factors, but most of it is in our hands people know tobacco and too much sun and obesity and eating too much processed meat and too few fruits and vegetables increase

the odds for cancer. and as the debate continues for vaccines and measles, some adults worry if they are protected. if are you 52 or over you probably had the measles, widespread use of the vaccine did not start in the 1960s, some people that were born in the 1960s may need a booster, there is no harm in getting a booster, and the cdc recommends college students and health care workers and people that travel overseas get a booster and you can join us on friday with a facebook chat with a local pediatrician. >> and scientists at the university of south florida created new technology to assure that the fish you buy is the real deal, their invention is a sensor that tells us if the fish matches the label and that 40%

to 60% of fish don't match the label. in florida inferior fish is often passed off as a grouper. >> can you take this to a warehouse a fish house with a high percentage of -- all types of seafood, the system was developed to detect red tide and now it's geared toward supermarkets. there is another new entry into an urgent care scene they were ready to open their clinic, and they acquired the complain to compete against walgreens and cvs, there are 14 clinics operating in the area including one in the city of philadelphia.

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growing wine grapes it takes place at the tropicana and runs through tomorrow. and what does it mean when your body craves different types of foods from sweets to chocolate is it psychological or is your body trying to send you a different message. >> there is definitely something called nutrient deficient cravings for sure. find out tonight the surprising solution for some cravings local experts decode your food cravings only on "action news" at 11:00. today is national signing day when student athletes announce their choices for college, at roman catholic high school, three football player as nouned where they were going john cheney heading to

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time for accuweather at the

"action news" big board cecily tynan is here and if you liked the warmth wow you you'll have a real turn about tomorrow. >> what if we can string a bunch of days like this together. it was beautiful. looking at the center city skyline, some clouds are rolling in 47 degrees was the high and the warmest day in about a month, philadelphia holding on at 45 degrees, and wilmington 45 and wildwood, you notice cooler with winds out of the south and the ocean temperatures 38 degrees and cooler in wildwood and 39 degrees, cooler in allentown where they have a deeper snow pack, the current temperature is 33 degrees, snow pack is deep across the midwest, we are missing out in chicago and they have 12 inches of snow on the ground and the great lakes more than 18 irnlgnches a foot

in boston and maine more than 18 inches of snow on the ground and tomorrow we'll miss out as well. but we are not missing the cold. charleston, west virginia, 51 degrees, but 1,000 miles away, international falls 3 degrees below zero and tomorrow the winds gust to 30 miles per hour. and satellite 6 along with action radar showing here is the front, the arctic front that is falling apart as it moves into our region the best chance of seeing snow showers north and west of philadelphia can you see scattered snow showers across parts of northern berks county and the lehigh valley and the poconoss and then as the cold wind kicks up by the afternoon i would not be surprised to see a few light

snow showers in the afternoon as well as the cold air begins to reach the surface how much snow in philadelphia tomorrow morning probably nothing the models show you the rpm up to .3 inch and most of those snow showers are missing us to the north and evaporating and the air will get very cold, the call from accuweather the clouds roll in and not nearly as cold as the past few nights allentown 27 and wilmington 32 the five day at 5:00 the arctic front moves through and windy and temperatures fall, and 33 degrees and temperatures drop into the 20s, bright sunshine on friday and chilly 31 degrees and mostly cloudy and 42 and sunday light rain and snow arriving in the afternoon, 38 degrees this could be a long duration event and a wintry mix continues into monday and we'll talk about that in the full accuweather forecast. >> say good-bye to temperatures

in the mid-40s. it's nice while it lasted. much more to come on "action news" at 5:30.

"action news" continues. >> hello again, here is what is happening on "action news" tonight. the man in these surveillance pictures are playing a danger were you game by using fake explosives to rob two area banks and a trans asia flight crashed after takeoff and the last moments were captured on video and an overturned tractor trailer caused tie-ups on the schuylkill and matt pellman has an update coming up. philadelphia police are hot on the trail of police for a suspect using fake explosive devices, it looks like a real grenade and he use its to get money this time at the susquehanna bank in rittenhouse square. and it's not the first time he used this tactic. vernon odom has more now tonight. >> reporter: so far monica this

bank robber is using fake props and has success in the rittenhouse square area, and now federal agents have his picture and his luck could run out soon. just before 5:00 last night this susquehanna bank branch at rittenhouse square the bandit struck and now they have pictures to help them. >> he walked into the susquehanna branch with what appeared to be a hand grenade and presented a note and left with cash. >> his grenade was found in a plastic bag on the 200 block of fitzwater. they conclude that this bank robber uses different types of devices to intimidate employees.

>> a few weeks ago we believe that the suspect went into a bank on the 1600 block of walnut and had a box that had wires coming out of it. >> the police bomb squad found that both devices were phoneys, the fbi will not reveal how much money the robber has pock theed since his first heist. last night take police say was less than $2000 in what they call bait money he is in his early 40s, 6 feet tall and medium build and black knit cap and dark glasses and dark overcoat and blue jeans and black gloves. >> we hope someone will call in a tip. >> bait money as i understand from one law enforcement official could mean several things a parcel of money with a minimal amount of cash to get the robber to run away, some with gpi and gps devices and

some with marked bills to try to trace the money and see where it pops up somewhere and one other matter i mention the gps but they want to follow the bills through the markings and through the possible dye packs that they need in these bags as well. will someone call into the fbi with a tip? when will this person surface again and could he possibly horrifically be carrying a real explosive device? thank you vernon. authorities are looking for a brazen thief that targeted three fast food restaurants across the city, this video is from the dunkin' donuts from december 14th, the suspect allegedly told the clerk to empty the register or you will get shot. on january 20th the same man walked into the mcdonald's here on caster avenue to get money he flashed a gun and when a

customer walked up behind him, there was a third location and he hit a burg king at caster avenue on january 4th. delaware authorities are investigating the death of a 4-year-old child tonight. they learn that this man dan graftin is facing charges to another person and a child. his girlfriend's child was rushed to the hospital from his home in norwood yesterday. the child was pronounced dead. the d.a.'s office may upgrade charges against graftin pending the outcome of an autopsy. >> from the delaware newsroom, this is 26-year-old dover resident, brendan smith authorities when to his house for a child abuse investigation and found his 2-month-old son with severe injuries, smith allegedly told authorities he shook his son several times over the past few months because he would not stop crying and the

baby was flown to the hospital in serious condition smith meantime is held on $3000 bail. chopper 6 hd was in philadelphia's mt. airy section as firefighters tackled a blaze inside of an apartment building here, it broke out on the only floor, on the 67 hundred block. fire crews knocked out windows to get rid of the smoke and it took 20 minutes to put out the flames. fortunately nobody was hurt. two former philadelphia police officers are going to prison for allegedly stealing money and drugs while on duty, the judge sentences jonathan garcia to 17 years and his partner will spend five years behind bars, both are convict bted of pocketing heroin and money from an informant. authorities in the taiwan

capital of taipei have raised the wreckage from flight 8501, in the hopes of finding survivors, it crashed after takeoff with 58 people on board and the final moments were captured on video. john is live with the latest from los angeles. >> reporter: in the case of this deadly crash the evidence so far suggesting this pilot had little time to save this plane. these are the last few seconds of trans asia flight 259. this dash-cam video catching the plane dipping its left wing during the deadly decent reece cue workers used deflatable boats to rescue people. it went through a safety check on january 26th authorities say

the flight was headed to nearby islands and gained attitude but not speed and crashed after takeoff and the pilot quickly radios that it lost an engine. >> an airplane is a metallic egg shell, if you smack a bridge with it it will break apart and do terrible damage to anybody in the back part of the airplane. >> this is the second crash for air asia this year the black box is now recovered. >> as for the pilot officials say he had more than 4400 hours of flying time and the copilot more than 6,000 hours for channel 6 "action news," back to you. >> thank you for that report. the "action news" facebook page posted the amazing video of this plane crash and the details on the search for survivors this morning. to make sure you get breaking

news and videos you need to like our facebook page go to facebook.com/6 abcactionnews and click the like button. now a check of the traffic with matt pellman. >> i am surprised you were here, i thought you were along the schuylkill expressway trying to get the boxes of girl scout cookies from this overturned truck, the truck flipped over a few hours ago and boeng lanes are blocked and just the shoulder squeezing by west of 76, we go to the next camera shot the jam starts at 202 not a huge jam but a jam nonetheless if they have to block all the lanes bail for the blue route and go north to the turnpike or south to route 30 and run that out to chester county. another crash in the work zone

in pottstown on the ram to 422 eastbound and a wreck coming in from new jersey into buck county at the scutter falls bridge has cleared. and bad news in bellmawr a new backup on 42 from 41 to 295, because of a new crash there taking out a lane. overall we don't like what is going on. >> to say the least. all right still ahead on "action news," families that lose their pets in delaware have a better chance of finding them. >> and several local athletes decide where they will play and learn following high school. jaime apody has more on national signing day coming up in sports. >> rick, today 45 degrees this afternoon and hit 47 for a brief period of time making it the warmest day in a month. but we are tracking arctic air. okay and it's an all new wednesday prime time lineup all of your favorite shows are back

with new episodes and we'll meet a new family joining in on all the fun. i'll have the details when "action news" comes rights back.

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launched the new program to help find dogs to find their way home, to alert owners that might be searching for their pets. it's a good way to get out the word. >> a lot of people know each others dogs even you and you drive around and see this sign, you say i know such and such lost their dog let me give them a call and they can contact us and get the animals returned to their rightful owners, they specified the dog's breed and a number to call to claim the lost pets. time for sports and it's a big day for local athletes looking ahead to college. jaime apody is live here with more. >> it's the day that pays off

for colleges it's college signing day. james franklin thrilled about i new nittany lions we are thrilled about the way this played out. a lot went into it by our support staff and players and for the most part we did a nice job, among our area, johnson paul is going and he has been dreaming of this moment for a long time. >> i was looking forward to this since eighth grade year, i was praying being able to make the right decision and get to this point, it's a relief and i know my journey just began and i'm soaking it all in. >> at glassboro high school jonathan signed up to be his

buddy's teammate at penn state and his brother a running back at rutgers, he is 5, signing his letter too. penn state comes to play temple on december 25th and owls welcomed 19th new athletes running back t.j. simmons from lake lakeland, the first four star recruit had offers from penn state and ohio state and penn state, he is the highest ranked owl's recruit in history, why not up a coach said. >> temple university and temple football is well respected, we are not a tier two program we are a program that people see on tv and go to bowl games and beat

top 25 teams and our players go to the nfl and people have interest. >> also heading is jake robinson from hamilton. and six members of the back to back championship team signed at the next level including john runyon jr. and villanova takes on marquette tonight, seventh ranked wildcats have to get past them. >> in all of their losses they lost by 3 or less, they are in every game and play with incredible tenacity. that is what we have to overcome, we don't want to match it we want to overcome. wright was on hand to watch his buddy, herb magee to become the second coach in ncaa history to pick up his 1000th win a last

minute shot and wilmington gets the up set and now he has to wait until saturday to hit the magical mark again. >> a bummer over there. he'll do it eventually. monica back to you. >> meantime the laughs and drama returns with all new episodes in abc prime time ton a new family is joining in the fun and a new show joins in the fun. >> "the middle" kicks off and then we meet the wong family of the series premier "fresh off the boat" it centers on eddie the family moves from washington, d.c. to a new life in orlando. >> i threw my lunch away. >> you love my food. >> i need white people lunch, that gets me a seat at the table and then you get a chance to represent. >> it's suppose to be pretty

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might want to take your heavy coat tomorrow things are changing fast. >> the arctic air is here and everything is good around here. nothing is going on now and again as we get into the weekend, we'll see more moisture pushing our way. we'll talk about the nice jump in temperature from yesterday where we hit 30 degrees in philadelphia, windchills in the teens and 20s today we hit 47 degrees, 5 degrees above normal and 47 for philadelphia the warmest day we have seen in a month. 42 right now trenton and 42

millville and wilmington, colder to the north and 33 allentown and 30 in mount pocono. and the arctic front is over cincinnati and all the moisture to the south moving to the panhandle of florida, they stay separate and the southern energy develops well out to sea and that low robs a lot of moisture from the arctic front that passes through tomorrow morning, a couple of snow showers from the poconos to allentown to lancaster and reading, because that storm is developing and kind of stealing its thunder, from this particular front watch what happens with the snow showers and it evaporates as it pushes through here tomorrow. cloudy through 10:30 and wilmington all points to the south, then we release the clouds to the south and sunshine returning tomorrow afternoon and the arctic air floods back in we could see snow showers tomorrow afternoon and not everyone will see them. it's because of that cold air

and strong winds pushing back in dropping it's temperatures throughout the day and 33 degrees and falling to 30 at 10:00 and 28 at 10:00 and 24 degrees at 4:00 tomorrow afternoon and then the winds as they howl, 25 to 35 miles per hour tomorrow afternoon and evening windchills tomorrow 9 in philadelphia and 12 in wilmington so yes, make sure you have all the winter gear ready as you head out the door tomorrow morning. and then on sunday we talk about the possibility of a light mix and that looks to be the case, cold high to the north and warmth to the south and a stalled boundary for the two and waves of low pressure is developing and weak waves and looking at light precipitation and depending where you are with that front light rain showers and light snow showers, as we look at the exclusive accuweather forecast, temperatures fall and turns

windy at 33 degrees, and chilly at 31 and we bounce back to the 40s on saturday with a healthy amounts of cloud cover and on sunday, the boundary stalls and we see a light mix to the north and light rain in the city of philadelphia the wintry mix continues on monday at 32 and a few flurries left over on tuesday and the sun returns at 37 a week from now on wednesday. the arctic air comes in and by the beginning of the weekend. get a little break. >> thank you adam. more news when we come right back.

right now jim gardner and the "action news" team is standing by with these stories. they are investigating a shooting after a would be victim turns the table on two robbers. >> also, a philadelphia man sues the tsa after being detained by

agents for more than 20 hours, that is coming up next at 6:00. for cecily tynan jaime apody monica malpass and the entire "action news" team i'm rick williams have a nice evening.

"action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with ducis rogers meteorologist, cecily tynan, and jim gardner. wednesday night and jim kenny announces his run for philadelphia mayor and a driver strike a trenton police officer during an investigation, but the big story on "action news" is an attempted robbery that ended in

gun fire, it happened this afternoon in cobb's creek park and the gun fire did not come from a bandit but from the victim and one of the alleged thieves dead. kenneth moton is live in the 6700 block of church lane. >> reporter: new at this hour, we learned that the suspected robber was a teenager upper darby police cleared the scene and this happened three hours ago across the street from this row of homes. >> it was a walk through cobb's creek park on a warmer day when two suspected robbers targeted the wrong man, people run across here and rob something and run across west philly and it's dangerous, they should have all of this clean. >> two masked men ran up with a stick and what appeared to be real guns the