>> here's my microphone. and llamas on the lam. we'll show you how this and llamas on the lam. we'll show you how this low-speed change ended, y with murder >> this is just the latest location the 1800 block of north street in the spring garden section of philadelphia.

this is where a woman was maceed, assaulted and robbed today. and police think she is only latest victim of a pack of serial bandits. thursday night aunt big story on "action news" tonight is policeman hunt now in high gear trying to track down four or more individuals who have been preying on victims in the same neighborhood. "action news" reporter sharee williams is live at 18 and north street. sharee what kind of information do police have that this point. jim, sources tell me that they have now identified who the suspects are that they actually have names at this point. and as you mentioned, about the assault that happened today, jim, it happened here this up block on 1800 session and just down the street one block away here in the 1900 block where police executed a search warrant tonight and they went inside of a home telling me they were looking for evidence connected to the crimes. >> it was the first time i saw

or heard it yeah. it's not good obviously. >> reporter: philadelphia police surrounding a home tonight near 19 and north street as they try and track down suspects behind a string of recent strong-armed robberies in the area. >> i'm concerned because i'm out all the time. i generally feel safe in this area. >> reporter: detectives say in the last three weeks spring garden was target of six different robberies an a gun they say was flashed into two incidents and investigators believe a group of teenagers could be behind it all. the latest attack happened today in broad daylight here in 1800 block of north street. police say a woman was maceed. but in a headlock and then robbed. >> my hope is they'll catch these kids soon and that the woman victimized will recover quickly and fully. >> reporter: just last any teens in question were captured on surveillance north and fairmont

avenue. police say the teens had just attacked a 13-year-old boy from behind and robbed him of his cellphone. >> kind of concerned for safety of women and i hope something can be done. >> reporter: and as you just heard residents wanting this group of teenagers to be disciplined and off the streets again police tell me that they are making progress and that they did at this time have names it's just a matter of following through on the investigation. we're live in spring garden. sharee williams, "channel 6 action news," jim. >> thank you, sharee. police are searching for someone who took off from the scene of this crash in the holmesburg section of philadelphia. it happened tonight. investigators say a 23-year-old man was driving a stolen jeep when he lost control at 8:45. he plowed into several parked vehicles stanton wood and leon street before the jeep fledch the driver was trapped 15 minute and type aria torresdale in

serious condition and passenger in the jeep took off running. >> and now to bethlehem, pennsylvania where a teenager was shot in the backside. it happened 6:30 in 3600 block of south street and teenager was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. police have not yet made any arrests. one of the area's best known and most highly regarded high schools is trying to cope with ugly incident tonight. somebody wrote a vile racial slur on bathroom wall at radnor high school. dann cuellar has details. >> reporter: school district officials say the discovery was made yesterday in one of the school's bathrooms. despicable and graphic message read kill all the n's. students and parents we spoke with were very upset someone would write that at radnor a place providing it snaevl being diverse. >> it's black history month and afeking my prince pl pal mr.

mr. skullingger and general school society. >> radnor is pretty -- we have a lot of good people. for this to happen -- i know i expect bad people but deposit expect this kind of situation to go as far. >> high school principal mark shellingger said he was planning to address it at an assembly this afternoon and e-mail stated in part radnor high school and district as a whole condemn any and all messages that promote hate and intolerance. i'll reiterate messages of this sort is intolerable and will not be tolerated. >> people from different cultures come here and i guess we have a similar incident last year i think it was same kind of insult. >> graffiti was photographed and erased and bill calarulo says police were not notified to investigate what could be a hate crime. a school district official says he does not know why police were

not investigated but said we will investigate fully and contact police if necessary some parents were concerned about the racist graffiti. >> it's not good it's important to talk to students and get them informed about these things and how bad these things are. >> some students say actions of what could be one student could tarnish image of one school because they say it is a great school. radnor, dann cuellar, "channel 6 action news." >> and anonymous western official has confirmed identity of jihady john. we have become all too familiar with the executioner starting with execution of james foleyhe. no one answered at the modest home he lived.

he's been known to britainish intelligence for five years. >> one of three men charged with plotting to help isis spent time in dover, delaware. he may have done business with 30-year-old habiba he operate aid mobile phone repair kiosk at dover mall. investigators say he had a kitchen wear kiosk at unidentified mall. the government says habibov codefendants were planning to join isis in syria and allegedly offered to kill president obama, police officers and fbi facts they could not make it to syria. criminal complaint said he bought plane tickets for ak publics and an islamic scholar who knows him explains him as lost. >> couple friends i remember warning him about his thoughts and his understanding of islam and understanding of islamic you

principles. >> habibov lived in this complex in dover delaware in august he left and shut down shop at dover mall. habibov operated kiosks at malls up and down the east coast. agents arrested him outside jacksonville yesterday. it looks like department of homeland security will get funding before friday midnight deadline. house republicans have raised white flag in their efforts to link saving department from shut down to scuttling president obama new immigration policy. >> the woman on trial for murder in philadelphia known as black adam took stand today in own defense. pag winslot is charged in death of 20-year-old british dancer. investigators say claudia atarotini died after receiving illegal silicone buttocks injection and it was done in a hotel near philadelphia airport in 2011.

winslot claims she's given thousands of injections and told the jury "hi no idea there was danger " i never realize today could cause death. everybody loved what i was doing including lots of celebrities. if convicted she faces 40 years in jail. from our new jersey newsroom latest attempt to sell former revel casino set a potential snag. acr energy partners which owns casino power plant wants to block sale to florida developer fwlen strawb. acr says latest sale contract would leave nothing for most creditors and cause power supplier 32 million. >> have you seen the low-speed chase everybody was talking about this afternoon. two llamas on the lam dashing through traffic near phoenix and escaping long arm of the law. baby and mama llama drama played out on live television during

lunch hour in arizona and hoordz of people tried to coral the creatures themselves without success. they seemed to be playing a game of catch me if you comeimal until rodeo skills lassoed the lamaze. the mother llama was still in a huff as owner explained how they got away. >> we took them to elder home here and were letting them show off and pet them and one of the ones broke loose and chased. >> here's a photographer of the llamas used for therapy visit before they made their break and surprisingly bucks county is a hot bed for raising llamas in this area and we'll hear from a bucks county farmer in just a few moments. still to come on "action news" tonight, federal internet regulations are approved and what they mean for you. plus alicia vitarelli gets a tour of the set of how to get away with murder from one of its

stars and he's from delaware county. >> and scientists uncover a cancer fighting side effect of stat indrugs. >> and starting weekend with record cold and ending with messy wintry mix. details in the foul accuweather forecast. >> flyers few spots out of forecast. >> flyers few spots out of playoff spot and they're taking

federal communications commission is track cracking down ounn't net providers. today fcc voted to impose new rules preventing companies like comcast and verizon from creating what they call fast lanes for content providers that pay more. this is called net neutrality. anybody providing broad band connection to home or phone must

fact public interest and industry officials and congressional republicans were against this move and say it could eventually cause users more money and broad band industry is expected to sue. for second time two years the pennsylvania house has approved a plan to sell off state liquor system. t the move would close most state stores and sell licenses for retail staivrz wine and liquor. even though the house signed off the bill has little chance of becoming law. even if it gets through the senate which it did not last year. govern nor tom wolf is opposed to it. >> undergraduate tuition is going up at the university of pennsylvania. school officials say students will pay 3.9% more for tuition, room and board and fees. total is $36526. but, penn stoz offset costs it is increasing amount of financial aid available record

$206 million nearly after of pen undergraduates receive need-based grants. >> we were as captivated today as anybody with the llamas on the loose. but, did you know, that bucks county is a local hot bed of llama farms. the u.s. department of agriculture latest livestock census says bucks koptsy is home to 111 llamas the most in fps, delaware and south jersey. "action news" visited aurora alpaca and llama harm in otsville today to get perspective on whilely camel cuz sglin it's surprising we had animals that will leave them out here to grays and they like to stay home. they really are home bodies and don't generally runaway. it's unusual i think they got spooked or something. rangleing a llama is not as easy as it appears. >> and we know that's true having seen what went on today near phoenix ardz arizona.

cindy has eric says people trying to chase a llama from behind will lose that foot race. she says animals can be several hundred pound and they don't get spooked by cars but they hate being chased. >> you might have just watched tonight's explosive finale of hit show how to get away with murder. did you nowak tore that plays sam keiting is from havber town, delaware county and not only that tom verica dreingts and produces episodes of scandal. "action news" reporter alicia vitarelli got to visit him on the set. >> welcome to the oval office. >> it's after dark this production lot in loss ankle less and tom is still hard at work a thursday night triple threat directing and producing scandal by day and starring in how to get away with murder at night. >> we're in shonda land. >> where all the magic happens. >> talk about magic of shond arhymes the character sam

keiting was dead episode one and been in the whole season. >> you're not really ever dead. >> days of scandal are jam packed with pro and post production. >> this is white house floor plan. >> he's able to get done in long day's work because both shows share the same line. >> if we're doing light heing setup i'll run to scandal and check in and see what's going on. >> he is so busy he looks forward to playing dead. >> i actually found i'm kind of peaceful because one time i can lay down and not have to deal with all the meeting and crap and one time i actually fell asleep which was funny. >> get out of the tub. >> i'm begging you -- >> he calls chance to star along two time oscar nominee viola davis a chance in a lifetime. >> davis says she was completely he harm in ordered with our city when here shooting pilot. >> it has a great life and rich culture. >> the havsh town native is

acting for decades and late night host jimmy kimmel dug this up of him busting a move on local show dancing on air. >> i tried to keep that inle skeleton quite sometime. >> even though living in la two decades he's a major phillies sports fan and feeling is mutual. >> you have flyers here. >> yeah great fans of the show which i thought somebody was playing me. rj up burger and clad giroux they came to visit and i walked them around and i couldn't believe how much they know about the show. >> he roots for every single home team and he's big on twitter. tweet with him and cast members of both show every thursday nights here on 6abc. alicia vitarelli, "channel 6 action news." >> on health check tonight a commonly prescribed medication for high cholesterol hey have important secondary benefit. british researchers are saying

it may protect them from liver cancer. stat inusers may have lower rate of liver cancer and nor lily. >> it was a night of fun and hard health air whatness. heart instew tut hosted the paint of town red event. women got to shop dozens of local boutiques and vendors while mingling with language gnaw heart specialists tonightch the hope is women took message of heart healthy living. >> jersey shore dmovrd white tonight. several inches fell this morning. "action news" stopped in atlantic city and people were busy shoveling sidewalks while plows cleared streets everybody we talked to said they cannot wait for spring with good reason. the good news it's 2 days to go. >> we should have count sgloun speed that up a little bit. >> unfortunately it will feel like winter fire while.

cape may 5.5" of snow this morning. >> we had a trace if philadelphia. >> stormtracker 6 live double scan showing snow is out of here. just a few flurries norm of lancaster. what's moving in is cold air. rights now not bad in philadelphia. 27 down from high of 32. and allentown 20. beach haven 23. millville dropped down to 16. reading 23. wilmington currently 27. satellite 6 and action radar showing fast moving system that brought snow to parts of delaware and southern new jersey that moved off. if you look west though still clouds and still few snow showers there's upper level disturbance moving through tomorrow and that brings us a lot of clouds. we have a couple flurries and brief snow shower possible and it will be easier morning commute and bus stop tomorrow morning than was this morning for parts of new jersey and delaware. koudy and cold with stray flurry of 6:00, 21 by 8:00 and 23 tomorrow afternoon high little

cooler than today, 30. more clouds than sunshine and isolated snow shower possible and then this high pressure will be building in for the first half of weekend. what this will do is bring us loads of sunshine on saturday. beautiful day to look at when you're inside looking out the window. you step outside it will be cold. 28 degrees. calm winds saturday morningment record lows are once again in jeopardy. all the records here first four setback in 19 34 and i think we could tie or break records. 9 record low in philadelphia for saturday morning. 3 reading. 1 trenton. atlantic city airport the record low 2 and for folks going skiing that record low of 15 below zero setback in 1907 in poconos. i think that will hold and and temperatures drop 5 to 7 below zero in poconos on saturday morning. then just how cold this month of february? looks like we end month more than 10 degrees colder than normal.

that makes this the fifth coldest february on record in philadelphia and twelfth coldest month overall since recordkeeping began back in 187. think our heating wills will reflect this unfortunately. so the sklus of accuweather forecast cold lot of clouds, few flurries and isolated snow showers tomorrow. 30 the high and saturday loads of sunshine and temperatures colder, 8. sunday, we bump up to 34 for first day of march. clouds roll in and late sunday night very early monday morning little wintry mix. doesn't look like a lot of precipitation but could cause problems for monday morning commute. by afternoon. sunshine returns, 42. don't get used to it. another storm system moves in tuesday afternoon. starting as bit of wintry mix for evening commute. then mainly rainy vept. 39 high tuesday. wednesday, very wet with high of 50 and thursday lots of clouds. high of 40. we start the weekend very cold. and we end it with that messy

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for a point or two. >> players playing musical goalies mainly due to injuries. tonight in toronto musical goalies because of ineffectiveness. giving up two goals on eight shots tyler here and coach seen enough and he is out and steve mason back from injury is in. second shot mason faces off stick of dion fanu goes in. power play goal. third period. flyers on come back. now 3-1. braden shen on the power play. flyers do lose this game 3 24eu6 the final. biddle was once a top prospect in the fill liz. he had a saturdayer on and off the field.

jeff skversky reports from clearwater. >> mt. airy native jessie biddle wants to throw away what was worst year of his life. last may former first round draft pick was dmawingts nasty hail storm in reading and even biddle cannot believe what happened as he retails the story. >> my front windshield was about to cave in and dpropt and exploded and glass got everywhere anechoic not see anything and i had to get out of the car i could not drive it it stopped working. and soy ran to find coverage and while running i got really seriously blasted in the back of the head by hail stone. >> where did it hit you can you show us? >> about the back of my head here. >> he was bleeding and suffered a concussion and he was eager to bounce back on the bounds. in this aa start in the incident he went 0-5, 9.82 era and phillies decided to give him mental break and sent him here to clearwater. >> 2014 was tough. there war a lot of times i got

smacked begun the wall and held down. and i just you know i was struggling to find air. but i feel very good and i feel like i came out on top. >> biddle also suffered squad and elbow issues this winter and now he says here in camp he feels strong and healthy as ever. bid sl expected to start the season in aa reading. in clearwater, jeff skversky, "channel 6 action news." >> pat burial contributions to 08 world series run will not be forgotten he will be on wall of fame july 31 and become 37th member of the club and we have eagles news for you after the member of the club and we have eagles news for you after the braeng

>> football is a young man game and todd o longer young. he and trent cole are old easton the team. the move will create $.8 million in salary cap space. no hiccup the that out to be temple motto. the goal is to get into ncaa tournament. owls in transition. two hookup here.

fiveth straight home win for owls. they take it 56-54. drexel hosting delaware. pal anderson with the steal. delaware wins 58-44. >> thank you, duce sglis "jimmy kimmel live" followed by "nightline". jimmy's guest vie ol adavis us and music from liz working. >> "action news" continues at 4:30 with tamala edwards, matt o'donnell, meteorologist david murphy and karen rogers with traffic. now for cecily tynan, ducis rogers, the entire "action news" now for cecily tynan, ducis rogers, the entire "action news" team, i'm jim gardner, good dick

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