"action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with rick williams, sara bloomquist, and meteorologist, david murphy.

good afternoon in the news this noon, a search for a bandit that stole up to $100,000 from a new jersey bank. and a philadelphia police captain is hurt in a hit and run, the details on an accident on a busy highway. >> but the big story is the deep freeze, and several deaths in our region are being blamed on the extreme cold. that is five people and a 66-year-old allentown man who wandered away from home and died of hyperthermia today. sky 6 hd is looking live at penn's landing, windchill advisories are in effect across the region and temperatures plunge close to zero by tomorrow morning. eva pilgram is live outside but first lets get the latest from meteorologist, david murphy, over at the big board. >> the temperature is not treating us kindly this noon 23

in philadelphia and we'll probably hold there for the next several hours 19 in wilmington and 17 in allentown and there say wind coming down from the northwest and that knocks the windchills down across the region feels like 2 if philadelphia and 2 below zero in reading and trenton. you get the idea, everybody suffering and windchill advisory are in effect, as we get past dark and into tomorrow morning, windchills are a factor and temperatures drop even lower and we wind up with windchill values to 15 below zero to 25 below zero. i'm setting this up showing you the colder air to the north and west, this is the direction of the wind off the great lakes and we are dishing these colder numbers down into the region as we step into tomorrow morning today's high probably stops

around 20 where we are now. if we hit 1 tomorrow morning that will hit the record low set in the state in 1979. as we take a look at the windchill danger this evening with gusts up to 35 miles per hour and dropping temperatures you wind up with windchills below zero and maybe even 15 below, you combine the wind and you get the severe windchills and frostbite is an issue as we go into tomorrow morning. temperatures are not treating us kindly for february this is the calendar of the days we registered so far, only three days in the month of february are above average, save this one february 7th we were at average and some of these days 28 degrees below average last monday and these two days will knock us down overall. we are 7.7 degrees below average hour by hour this month.

and when we come back we'll look at when this ends and then some wintry mix precipitation for saturday afternoon and saturday night. that is ahead on future tracker 6. lets switch live now to "action news" reporter eva pilgram in south philadelphia where something very tempting for people waiting outside in the cold today. >> reporter: well rick, you can see the wind blowing my jacket this isn't a fashion statement the wind is popping up my collar for me and the wind is brutally cold but even this cold weather could not keep one philly man from coming out early. bright and early before the sun had risen. >> colder than cold. >> this phillies fan was up and ready to buy his tickets. >> i've got my hands in my poekts. i should have brought my tickets. >> so cold they opened the doors early to let him wait inside but over in the market there was no

getting away from the cold. >> we are doing this forever, you know third generation working outside. >> very two pairs of pants and three t-shirts and a pair of dickys and a thermal on. >> the only thing that keeps our customers away is ice. >> no fire cans to help cut the cold it's quieter than normal when the thermostat drops this low the produce stands can't open. >> nobody wants to buy frozen produce. >> want to explain to you guys how cold it is i made the not so bright mistake of not bringing a hat we have been out here five minutes tops and it's painfully cold to those parts of your body exposed to the weather, make sure to cover up what you can and put a hat on and wear the gloves and just be

ready, because the wind is going to hit you. we are live in south philadelphia eva pilgram, channel 6 "action news." >> good advice eva, thank you. meanwhile, stick with 6abc.com/weather, we have both the hourly and seven-day forecast so you can be prepared no matter how cold it gets. >> firefighters are on the scene of a three alarm blaze in millville, new jersey chopper 6 hd was over the burning home on the 300 block of g street it started just after 10:00 a.m., and we don't know if anyone was hurt or what may have sparked the blaze. >> woe are keeping an eye on the situation. >> a philadelphia police captain is recovering following a hit and run on i-95, the vehicle was hit by another car on allegheny avenue this morning the captain was taken to the hospital to be treatmented for injuries and the car that hit him left the scene.

>> police are trying to figure out what led to a collision in delaware county on the blue route, one car went up the on ramp, and one person was pronounced dead on the screen and police closed the ramp to 476 north and traffic was backed up to i-95. well, today is the tenth anniversary of the disappearance of a philadelphia couple and the fbi now says they are convinced that danielle and richard were the victims of a professional hit. they were last seen leaving a bar on february 19th 2005. this morning police and the fbi held a joint news conference on the case and david henry was there and will have a live report with reaction from the victim's families coming up later on "action news" at 12:30 the murder trial opened today for a woman accused of

performing deadly cosmetic surge, police say that paj winslow injected her buttocks and crazy glue, winslow has pled not guilty and opening statements began this morning. investigators are blaming contaminated instruments for infecting at least seven patients in los angeles. it may have contributed to two deaths at ronald reagan medical center. karen travers is following the story live now from washington. >> reporter: this outbreak has medical outbreaks very concerned. officials at ucla say they cleaned the scopes according to the standards set by the manufacturer but they say if the scopes are not cleaned properly

the bacteria can spread. a warning going out to 180 patients treated at ucla's ronald reagan medical center they may have been exposed to a deadly bacteria. >> its a potent organism that could cause death. >> a super bug called cre, officials at ucla say they are i.d.'d two reuseable scopes that may have spread the bacteria and they removed them. the hospital said in a statement that so far seven patients have tested positive and an internal investigation may have contributed to two deaths. ucla sterilized the scopes to standards. >> if it's not cleaned properly it can spread from one person to

another. >> now the hospital is using a disinfection process that goes beyond standards. >> the death rateses could be as high as 50% and medical experts say that even though the outbreak is concerning not everybody exposed develop an infection. >> many people can have this in their body and it won't cause a problem. >> this is not the first outbreak linked to a scope and despite precautions it won't be the last. karen travers, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. we have breaking news to pass along now. chopper 6 hd over the scene here in southwest philadelphia where a police investigation is underway after a man was shot and killed in the laundry mat here it happened around 11:00 this is 53rd and springfield in southwest philadelphia a man shot and killed in the laundry mat and details are unfolding

and the homicide investigation is underway and we are keeping an eye on the situation and we'll bring you more information from this area in southwest as it becomes available to us. once again a man shot and killed at a laundry mat in this neighborhood. five new charter school applications were approved during a heated hearing last night. protests erupted calling the possibility of more charter schools a disgrace considering the district's financial situation, they rejected 34 and approved five, they will review another round of applications in the fall as required by law. last night on "action news" at 11:00 we mistakenly showed you the wrong power ball drawing we apologize for the error. here are the numbers in the order they were drawn last night. 29, 1, 49 9, 32 and the power

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and i probably wasn't even born yet the last time. >> yes 21 years ago sara, try again. >> she was here twice. >> there you see there is no precipitation out there but could see some flurries this afternoon. as we look outside, we have the action cam in somers point where there was sunshine earlier, nobody is taking the boats out for a while. 23 is the current temperature and winds building from the west at 12 miles per hour and gusting higher than that. along with the temperatures have you to worry about the windchill, 17 in allentown and 19 in wilmington and 20 in a.c. and 18 in wildwood and the numbers not going farther today sitting where they are for the next several hours 2 in philadelphia and that is what it feels like, the farther west you go we have negative numbers, to tell you the truth it doesn't

feel that much different now than when we went on the air this morning. as you take a look at satellite we have cloud cover occasionally sneaking in and it's windy and chilly out there. up in allentown a high of 17 that is right about where are you now and a bitter wind blowing and the windchills make it feel like zero the rest of the afternoon, down the shore 20 is your high and clouds and sun and blustery conditions not far above zero along the beach and 20 is your high temperature this afternoon if philadelphia we are sitting on that right now and stay there for the next several hours, gusty winds are gusting 30 miles per hour giving you the severe windchills. we go down tonight to an overni low of 1, that would tie the record and be the coldest philadelphia number we have on the thermal meetner 21 years,

partly cloudy it's unkfrnlts and flurries around tonight and winds running 20 to 25 miles per hour overnight so still cold, and out to the west a trough of even colder air, 4 degrees in cincinnati and 0 in chicago. and the air from the west is being drawn into the region tonight and into tomorrow. there is your forecast morning, low of 1 degrees, again 1 was the record in 1979 and it's been a while since we have been down in this kind of record territory, 6 in trenton and 5 in wilmington, i don't give those cities much of a chance of getting a record. your exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast today's high is 20 and cold and flurries overnight tonight 1, and tomorrow still frigid and a high of only 15 and 7 for the overnight low, saturday are you in the single digits and then up

to 35 in the afternoon and snow showers come in and then temperatures rise and we expect that to change to rain in the nighttime period on saturday so by the time you get up on sunday it's rain and drizzle and high of 46 and cold again on monday. >> all right david thank you. woman: i was tired of my chronic constipation and the way it made me feel the discomfort the bloating the straining. i'd just felt this way for too long.

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"action news" at 12:30 continues. hello again. here are the stories we are following for you on "action news" at 12:30 another frigid blast is gripping the tri-state area and officials are stressing it's dangerous outside as we prepare for record lows and the deep freeze is bringing travel across the united states to a stand still including problems in our area. and a cocoa plant cleared out in delaware because of fire, what investigators say sparked the flames that forced employees out into the cold. >> we want to go back to our story in philadelphia, where police say a man was shot and killed in a laundry mat this is chopper 6 hd over the scene at 53rd and springfield shortly after it happened. unsure what led up to the shooting and we are monitoring the situation and we'll update when we get more