hostages he is muhammad emwazi, born in kuwait and raised in london he was describe by someone that knew him as kind and even humble. marcy gonzales joins us with the latest. >> reporter: we were able to identify him by his voice one described him as intelligent quiet and sadistic. unmasking a barbaric murderer, jihadi john shown in hostage videos identified today. he is believed to be in his mid-20s, he is a nate of of kuwait, a college graduate that grew up in this neighborhood in west london. >> a beautiful young man it's hard to imagine the trajectory. >> those that knew him said

before he left for syria he later joined isis, he grew frustrated with the english government. m i-5 questioned him and even tried to recruit him. >> they have pictures of him and finger prints and they were watching him what happened? did he fall off the radar. they knew what was behind the mask for months but is still not commenting. >> as the hunt continues the family of one of his victims, american journalist steven - is confident he will be caught. >> we are told that british authorities wanted to keep it a

secret hoping he would eventually call home and they would be able to track him. rick back to you. >> marcy thank you. >> there is more on the identify of that isis terrorist coming up on world news with david muir. >> turning to the forecast whether you saw snow today depends on where you live. south jersey was one part that saw snow. here in malaga there was snow on the ground. >> it was the snowy morning for parts of new jersey and delaware, carrie sent this in this is the river in the background there and more snow the more snow the farther south you are, malaga 1.5 inches and

estelle manor 3.5 and cape may the jackpot zone, reporting 5.4 inches of snow and we saw flurries here in philadelphia smyrna 2 inches, and dover 2.3 and kent county reporting more than 4 inches of snow. this was a southern event and satellite 6 along with action radar showing that that snow has moved off and if you look to the west though we still have a lot of clouds an upper level disturbances moving through and tonight and tomorrow and a few flurries and behind that, we have a broad area of high pressure and that is arctic highs, that will also bring with it a fresh shot of very cold air, as we end the week and as we end the month of february. this is the air mass heading our way bismark, north dakota rapid city it's 9 and des moines it's 10 degrees, that air mass is pulling our way and i'll talk

about that cool chill for the weekend and a messy start to next week coming up in the full accuweather forecast. >> thank you cecily lets switch to correspondent, nora muchanic she is at the shore. >> it wasn't a big storm but the shore took the brunt of it we are on the boardwalk of atlantic city right now take a look snow along the edges but they plowed out the middle of it absolutely clean. we visited several counties today, here is what the snow looked like. >> summer would be nice but not winter would be better. >> that is how tom was looking at it today as he shoveled the sidewalk outside of the starbucks in ocean city. with several inches of snow and covering cars too people were digging out and the manual labor involved was okay for some. >> the snow storm was not that bad, this time we had last week was worse and this one is okay.

>> these men were shoveling out the parking lot at the shifting sands motel at ninth and ocean thinking about sun and not snow, we are holding our own and getting things ready and we look forward to seeing everyone in the spring. >> that is when the ocean city boardwalk will be active again today it looked like a ghost town wildwood was coated in several inches of snow and the colorful beach balls were topped in white and the dude at the splash zone has a white coating too. >> more than expected i like it but i'm tired of the cold, by the end of february we all have cabin fever. >> plows were cleavering streets and parking lots. >> very easy, very light snow, makes it a pleasure to do some plowing, atlantic city schools were dismissed early and that kept the crossing guard busy. very windy out here today.

slippery out here today. >> some sunshine. >> i think we'll all be glad when this is over with. can you wait for it soon before we know it we'll have sunshine and you can sit on a bench and there won't be snow here it will just be great at the shore. nora muchanic channel 6 "action news," back to you guys. >> thank you nora, the 6 abc storm tracker app has you covered this winter from live radar showing you the panel of the snow to the latest hourly and seven-day forecast. padge winslow, the woman that calls herself the black madam took thewitin'tstant in her own defense, she is accused of killing a young woman after injecting her with silicone during an illegal procedure. vernon odom is live now in center city with winslow's testimony. >> reporter: padge winslow, a.k.a. the black madam spent two and a half hours on the witness

stand saying she had no malice towarded the woman that died following one of her butt injections. >> she describe herself as a body sculpture on the witness stand and told the court she was doing butt injections since the mid-90s. she is charged here with murdering 20-year-old british actress claudia, by injecting her with industrial silicone at this hotel four years ago, winslow says she was pay thousands for doing her high grade butt injections. >> it became my whole things they called me the fairy god mom. she learned about butt injections from a new york nurse that assisted her in getting a sex change operation back in south america in 1994. she did a lot without negative

results i didn't know it could cause death everyone loved what i was doing including lots of celebrities. the evidence shows they purchased 83 gallons of industrial silicone enough to fill 23,000 syringes the black madam could get up to 40 years in prison if convicted here. >> winslow is due back on the witness stand for more direct and cross-examination from the prosecution team. that could be withering. vernon odom, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. meantime service has been restored to septa's warminster's rail line because of downed wires, hundreds of people were on a train in rosalind when service was suspended. crews worked to repair the power line and the rail car.

time now to get a chip kelly on the commute home this thursday lets go live to matt pellman in the traffic seasoner. >> we are recovering on the rails and the roads this thursday. >> we have big earlier problems one a crash on the vine street expressway long gone now but delays, normal afternoon delays at this point. this is what normal looks like all backed up approaching 676 and normal is 19 miles per hour eastbound by girard avenue and have speeds in the teens on 95 and pennsauken the crash along 70 at the westbound split is reopen there. and a couple of buck county accidents, one in bensalem at street road to 95 northbound, you can see the right lane is blocked and they are getting ready to tow away one vehicle in the class.

also, i want to warn you about a new construction project startd this week it begins each evening at 6:00 and goes until the next morning they closed joshua road near the philadelphia cricket club, so flower town or malitia hill is possible alternates. we'll check it again in the next half hour. >> thank you. much more to come on "action news" tonight. airline pilots are warned after making mistakes that could have cost lives. and two quick footed llamas dash out of a community sending neighbors and social media into a friendsy. you've probably picked "five things" a million times without breaking a sweat. no problem.

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and one in alabama didn't realize that the plane was too low. >> back here in philadelphia, education advocates when to the state capital with a strong message for lawmakers the action cam was in philadelphia this morning as the group boarded a bus to harrisburg, there they joined demonstrators across the state to call for public education funding, the group wants lawmakers to reverse school budget cuts made by tom corbett. and new jersey has more than 100 new corrections officers class 233 graduate the this morning in trenton and friends and family were on hand to celebrate the day, lieutenant governor and the states corrections commissioner were also there to congratulate the group. turn to health check tonight, delaware officials say that the pace of new flu cases continues to drop but not the pace of flu related deaths new ones were reportd this week

bringing the number to 26 deaths the health chief says that the a strain causing this year's epidemic is particularly deadly to seen yorz and people with chronic conditions, almost as deadly as the 2009-2010 years when the swine flu was in action. mitch zeller the agency's tobacco chief says effortses are underway to place controls on e-cigarettes and huka and cigars that are unregulated now. >> all tobacco products cause some level of harm and its not right from a health perspective to put them in a market place where it's buyer beware where there is not a regulator standing between the products and their claims and the consume consumers. >> cigar ruse is rising among kids and adults but cigarettes

are going down. now a new ad campaign showing young people the real cost of smoking tobacco. and children in camden get extra hugs, kids at the school made heart hug pillows like these for young patients all the materials were donated. and in the past these pillows have gone to hospitals in philadelphia or delaware but this year the children wanted to help out their on neighborhood. some philadelphia high schoolers put their culinary skills to the test and they whipped up their tastiest sandwich for this year's competition they only had 30 minutes to prepare their dishes and the winning dish will be added to menus across the philadelphia school district. >> looks tasty. >> still to come tonight, a well known chain restaurant is closing its doors in atlantic city and marijuana is legal in our nation's capital but with

some restrictions, we'll explain when we come back.

morgan stanley is agreed to pay a $2 million settlement for their role in the 2008 financial

crisis they accused the banking giant for packing bad loans in mortgage backed securities, and other banks, include citigroup agreed to similar settlements banks that paid $130 million in fines and settlements related to the mortgage melt down. internet providers have tougher rules to follow and the internet commission agreed to strict new regulations on providers like verizon and at&t and they voted 3-2 favoring rules in enforcing net neutrality. that is the idea that service providers should not intensely block or slow down web traffic creating paid fast lanes on the internet. atlantic city's hard rock cafe filed a notice of closure heart night. the taj mahal is struggling to bring in revenue and the hard

rock will close april 22nd 73 people will be out of work. our own karen rogers helped the gloucester county high school celebrate journalism week and she also got a look at kdtv the school's video club, it allows students to shoot and edit their own informational programs. >> pretty cool. up next on "action news," we'll check the forecast and looking outside sky 6 hd, a few skiers enjoying the slopes at spring mountain.

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time for accuweather at the "action news" big board cecily tynan is here and snow at the jersey shore and who got the most? cape may got the most as far as snow, 5.4 inches of snow, taking a look at sky 6 hd the snow coated the sidewalks and the beach and the roads are looking pretty good out there but we have cold air moving inlets talk about the good news. ten days daylight savings time begins and spring 22 days and phillies opening day 39 days away. things are look going as we head through march and april and the short-term though we have cold air moving in 31 down from the high of 32 and wilmington 32 right now and millville 31 and

trenton currently 28 degrees tonight will be a typically cold night lots of clouds perhaps a flurry here or there. and allentown 10 and millville 15 and reading dropping down to 14 degrees, satellite 6 along with action radar showing the system that brought the morning snow to parts of delaware and south jersey that moved off but if you notice there is a lot of cloud cover and snow showers out to the west. there is an upper level disturb an swinging through tonight and tomorrow than keeps the clouds in place tomorrow morning at 7:30 lots of clouds and in the afternoon don't be surprised if you see flurries or snow showers by 3:00 they should not amount to much and behind the system high pressure moves in for the start of the weekend and that brings plenty of cold air, the five-day at 5:00, tomorrow plenty of clouds and cold with flurries and the high 30 degrees and saturday the high pressure is right over us plenty of sunshine but it's arctic high that means it will be a very

cold day the high 28 degrees and look here this little number, start of saturday 9 degrees in philadelphia. it's definitely going to be very cold. on sunday the first day of march after we end february the fifth coldest february on record temperature as above freezing we bump it up to 34 degrees and start the day with sunshine but the clouds roll in ahead a storm system that likely brings us a light wintry mix early monmorning likely before dawn and that could cause problems for the monday morning commute and the afternoon looks dry and 42 degrees, we have a bigger storm moving in on tuesday and wednesday, and primarily a rain event, the problem though is that it could start as a mixture of some snow and sleet and could be icing tuesday afternoon for the afternoon commute and then the change over to rain, the high 39 degrees really a messy start to the work week, when do we clear things up?

adam joseph has the answer coming up in the full accuweather forecast. >> all right. thank you. much more to come in our next half our at 5:00, a silent night in philadelphia prompts a passionate response from police commissioner ramsey and we have the details coming up. >> those stories plus eagles players have news in sports.

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"action news" continues, with meteorologist, adam joseph jaime apody rick williams and monica malpass. hello again a new jersey based moving company at the center of a "action news" investigation is ordered to pay up. wendy saltzman has the details. >> and the mummers kicks off a tradition in manayunk and two llamas on the lamb on an arizona city street, dodging captors and captivating on lookers. >> and now more to a hidden

camera investigation we had last year. moving max is being forced to pay back big bucks to the consumers they defrauded. wendy saltzman broke that story last january. what is good news here for the consumers wendy? >> we got word that moving max settled with the state for a whopping $350,000. they were accused of trumping up bogus charges and holding stuff hostage until people paid and they are banned from doing business in new jersey again. >> this "action news" investigation exposed a moving family's worst nightmare. >> think they are horrible just thieves. >> they say moving max quoted them one price and threatened to drive off with their life's possessions if they didn't cough of more cash. >> we set up hid and cameras and

caught them in the bait and switch scheme. >> why are you giving us one estimate and then multiplying it. >> then the new jersey department of affairs stepped in. >> "action news" was great in bringing this to our attention because of the work of "action news" we brought the owners of this company to justice. >> today the agency announced a $360,000 settlement with the owners, once the goods were on the truck moving max requested more money sometimes a $250 estimate or $400 estimate turned into a $1500 demand. the settlement includes $327,000 in penalties and fees and consumers will get back money for their losses. >> that means full restitution. >> that is not the first time the company was sanctioned by

the state they operated by a different name using the same ruse in 2005. they could ban the onners from ever operating another moving business. >> this is probably the most important part, they cannot do business in the state again. we reached out to moving max today but did not get a response. they cannot pay the hundreds of thousands of dollars in sanctions but the department of consumer affairs have collected the money for restitution. opening statements were made today in a retrial of a priest accused of molesting an alter boy he was accused of assaulting a boy in a rectory bedroom in 1997, they did not reach a verdict and mccormick

was snd suspended from the church since 2011. he denies the alligations. >> authorities are trying to solve the murders of a couple in elkton the couple was found after someone called police reporting a suspicious situation at their home. no word on the names of couple or how they were killed. philadelphia are asking for the public's help in locating a missing teenager she is myesha overton, she was last scene at george washington high school. she has black hair and brown eyes and was last seen wearing a black t-shirt. green coat and school khakis, authorities say that myesha may cause harm to herself. if you know where she is call northeast detectives right away at the number on your screen.

at the "action news" big board this thursday with the latest on a violence night in philadelphia that claimed the lives of three people detectives are investigating three separate shootings that happened across the city in north philadelphia southwest philadelphia and the grays ferry section. all of these incidents happened within 2.5 hours of each other a 35-year-old woman was found dead inside of her car on the 200 block of west westmoreland street. before midnight. the detectives found her with two gunshot wounds and two hours later a man and woman were nearly carjacked near guyer avenue, one of the two suspects fired a weapon and left the male victim with a graze wound to the head and then two 22-year-old man were shot to death in the 2700 block and here is more from police commissioner charles ramsey. >> you have 40 people dead in

philadelphia this year, and 98% or so are african-american, i think there should be in outrage about that. >> detectives are checking surveillance video trying to identify suspects in these three shootings, they are overing a reward for information leading to an arrest. >> children at an allentown elementary school are displaced for to months after a fire, officials say that an electrical fire caused significant damage for the first and second floors of cleveland elementary and fortunately nobody was hurt and the kids are being split between two locations lincoln childhood center for the next eight weeks. >> philadelphia's iconic mummers are gearing up for a new tradition, they will go through the manayunk section to celebrate mardi gras.

they say that this weekend's weather means the best spot is the beginning of the parade. >> they want the complete opposite saturday on new years day they all want to be last and saturday they want to be first. >> the parade was postponed after snow hit the area last saturday it will run until noon but the simone legree brags goes on until 5:00 the activities are family friendly and all proceeds go to the mummers. a buck county library gets a boost today a big check for $2500 was presented to the south hamilton free library here on street road the donation is a gift from a company called always best care senior services, a leading provider of home care. it will be used to refurbish the library the library is hoping to raise close to $600,000 and

today was an important first step. very nice, lets get a check of traffic. lets go to matt pellman with a thursday evening commute. >> i don't have a big check but i have a big delay on the schuylkill expressway, eastbound side it's pretty much normal volume as you come away from 202, past this point at gulph mills and heading towards conshohocken and getting closer to the city past the boulevard to the vine street expressway. if are you hopping off the schuylkill on the roosevelt boulevard, are you locked up from 76 to broad street again with just normal afternoon volume, a crash at american and lehigh at the checkers. in pennsauken, eastbound at 1 remains closed with monday's big tanker trial. now this crash in bristol, buck county at old ford road and rogers road and elsmere, we are

without the route 100 bridge closed indefinitely and 141 a better bet. >> have a nice evening. >> thank you you too. still ahead on "action news" washington, d.c. becomes the latest place to legalize marijuana. and two llamas go on an adventure on an arizona street. and temperatures in the lower 48 you would be hard pressed to think that march is to days away and more record lows are on the way. and tension is building and stories are building and doubts are crumbling, tonight is the to hour season finale of "how to get away with murder."

here is something you don't see every day two llamas leading police on a chase in arizona, it was part of a mobile petting zoo but it when awry and the animals ran away. eventually one llama was lassoed

in the parking lot and the next was lasz owed on frontage road and got him. local possibles say the animals are safely back with their owners now have some fun watch the llamas viral run from police. it's at 6abc.com. residents at washington, d.c. can now legally carry and grow marijuana that is after a voter approved initiative took effect today. but it's not legal to buy or sell marijuana or smoke it publically. the new law could be blocked by congress, d.c.'s mayor received two letters warning him of repercussions and they are handing out business cards detailing what is legal and what is not. >> a federal judge is paving the way for adrian peterson to possibly be reinstated by the nfl. peterson was suspended last year

after pleading guilty to a child abuse case, they argued that nfl commission under, roger goodell when above and beyond his authority by issuing his punishment. he is likely to appeal the decision. time now to check out what is going on and we want to see in the sports world what is cooking. word is the eagles may cut ties with a long time player. jaime apody has more. >> hello guy we knew there would be changes either cap casualties and today the first big name veteran to be affected. they are expecting to release todd herriman the versatile guard the long of the tenured player along with trent coles. herremans has been injury prone and missed the last tonight games last season. the phillies are likely in for a

rough season in the win-loss column but they will look good doing it espn has the second best looking uniform in the bigs. bitle was selected in 2010 but the german town product had a lot of awful years he got whooping cough and got hit in the head in a major hail storm in reading and had a concussion that affected his performance on the mound. >> it was not so much scary but frustrating, not feeling myself and not knowing why. some days i felt good and some days i didn't and i needed to rehab. jeff skversky will have more on jessie bitle and his difficult season last year and what he opens to accomplish in 2015. phillies announced a name of a wall of fame, a name that

could bring back happier memory memories. pat burrell. it's hard to believe his double led to the winning run in the world series he hit 20 or more homers in eight consecutive seasons. >> i think he was a big part of our team and i think that people in philadelphia they were excited about him his whole career and they stuck with him even when sometimes he would hit some slumps and not do so good and he became a big leader on our team. flyers could get big names back. goalie steve mason is expected back against the rangers on friday but tonight they take on toronto, it's a special night for rob zef he gets to start in net in a building just south of his home town he grew up a die

hard maple leafs fan. >> just to be able to get to the league, this is a bonus i never had this planned out in my mind but now that i'm here it's a special feeling. >> michael carter williams hugging a guy that he says wanted to keep him. brett brown and mcw still confused about the trade that sent him to milwaukee. it was weird to see him make his bucks debut against the sixers. helped his new team crush his old one 104-88. still wonder about that trade. doesn't make much sense. >> we are all still wondering. what a big night in prime time here on 6 abc tonight is the two hour finale of how to get away with murder, of course it's set here in philadelphia hopefully the question of who actually killed lila stanguard will be answered. it starts at 9:00 p.m.

>> he is punishing him. >> he is an idiot for not fire that lawyer. >> analise is playing a dangerous game in the first part of a two part finale. how is she taking the fall for sam's murder. and we'll also have to see what led up to lila's murder and if sam really did it speaking of sam, the man that plays the flanderring husband, he is a native of havertown, beside being on screen for murder, he is a producer and director for "scandal" he is the triple

threat for thursday night tv and he sat down with alicia vitarelli and showed how he gets it all done in a days work, they also tweet with viewers on thursday night and he says that is a special key to their success. >> at home, any person on a thursday night tweeting with kerry washington. >> it is you wrote a letter and hoped you got a signed autograph picture back, it's incredible the access you can have. >> can you see the interview on "action news" at 11:00 following the two hour season finale on "how to get away with murder" join in on the fun on twitter, the stars tweet and tom will be tweeting and viola davis are tweeting live, use the #~ 6 abc and #~ how to get away wa murder. i know grandma's house isn't the most

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meteorologist, adam joseph is here now letting us know what to expect into the weekend. >> a new month same old forecast. >> kind of the same. we have a little improvement into the beginning of next week but it remains on the stormy side as we get into march double scan live all is quiet after the morning snow in

southern areas where we received as much as 5.5 inches of snow in parts of cape may county and one area that didn't see much snow, was reading, we are taking a live look, take a look a little optimism here, a break of sunshine in that western horizon there and you can still see the white and snow covering the higher hills in berks county. reading 28 degrees, still cold and 25 in allentown and 28 in trenton and 31 in philadelphia and today again we had temperatures close to 16 degrees below normal for the end of february. there is the storm it was a fast mover and ate its wheaties and it was zipping along. the clouds lagging behind and the clouds remain thick overnight tonight until thick high pressure comes in from the west late tomorrow night into the day on saturday. and tomorrow limited sunshine and an isolated shower passing

through in the snow variety as we have atmospheric energy rippling through and the high is great because it brings a lot of sunshine and it's descending and squashing the clouds here and only 28 degree a calm wind and very cold for your last day of february in fact, just how cold will february go down into the history books? well we are projecting it to be 10 10.2 degrees below normal for the month and that makes it the fifth coldest in history. and it could go down as the 12th coldest month ever since records started in 1872, so an impressively cold month. 20s at the shore and could be floating flurries around but don't get worried. not going to amount to anything.

the exclusive accuweather forecast a couple of flurries tomorrow afternoon and a snow shower and breaks of sun and 38 degrees and arctic air pulls back in and saturday morning record lows being broken again the third time in a week and a half around here, with a high of just 28 clouds thicken up on sunday and suntd night early monday morning a system coming through and it could throw sleet and freezing rain our way before a bigger storm arrives tuesday afternoon and through the day on wednesday and mild air punctures in with this storm and could start with a mix in the afternoon and changing to a heavy rain tuesday into wednesday with a high of 50 degrees. >> that is more like it. >> down to 40 after that. >> we'll take anything. >> our first 5 on the board. >> when wintry weather hits, keep an eye on stormtracker 6 live double scan, we also have your hourly and seven-day forecast along with the latest call from the team of meteorologists, right here on

"action news."

new information about the local ties one of the men arrested for trying to join up with isis. and downed wires caused problems for travellers on septa's warminster line for much of the day. we'll have those stories next. for adam joseph sharrie williams and rick williams i'm monica malpass have a great night.

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with ducis rogers, meteorologist, cecily tynan and jim gardner. thursday night the liquor privatization bill passes in the pennsylvania house and several inches of snow fall on south jersey this morning, but the big story tonight is more on the arrests of three alleged isis wannabes, authorities say that one suspect lived in dover, delaware, until august of last year. david henry is live at the federal building in philadelphia. what have we learned about this man? >> well, investigators say that the money man behind this scheme is a man you may have done business with at a local shopping mall, this criminal complaint spells it out and we are learning more about the alleged islamist among us. he could have passed for any

young man at the shopping fall. he operated a cell phone repair kiosk and a kitchen gadget kiosk. this video is from a jihadist website that they allegedly visited frequently, they offered to kill president barack obama and police officers and fbi agents if they couldn't make it to syria. the complaint says that hababba bought plane tickets for the other two. >> i talked to him about his understand of islam and islamic principles. >> the fbi investigation began last august that is when he abruptly left the