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i'm rick williams. the big story on "action news" tonight is the underground attack prompting concerns overrider safety. "action news" reporter kenneth moton has exclusive details and joins us live from center city kenneth. >> reporter: well, rick investigators say the the victim and that group of teenagers had words on the el. the argument continued when they stepped off the train at 15th and market street. the man tried to walk away but that didn't stop the the violent attack. the thinks 15th and market platform camera that captured the attack of the 60 year-old something rider on the market frankford line on monday. septa isn't ready to release the video just yet but it shows a group of eight young males and female exit a westbound el train with the victim around 3:00 p.m. they surroundedded him before one of the males delivered a sucker punch so hard it laid the man out cold. >> everybody just had to be together and we will not put it up with it. >> these are kids. >> reporter: this temple university student does not want to be identified saw the

group take off after the attack. >> i heard two girls walking by saying he will learn next time. then i saw a guy laying on the platform with blood all around his head. >> i don't know what his background is or why he was riding on the train but what i can tell is that he didn't know the punch was coming. >> reporter: just a week ago "action news" aired this disturbing surveillance video of the sun way platform assault at broad and locust. police say teenagers jumped a 15 year-old boy on march 19th around 4:30 p.m. investigators say id's have been made and they are close to an arrest. >> we tell folks when they see an argument starting we'd love to know bit. call 911, call the septa a police radio. we have officers all over the system especially during school dismissal time. it is our heavier deployment. >> reporter: rider sean samuels say he avoid the trains during that time and it should not that be way. >> i just try to stay away as much as possible. if you have a lot of kids in

one surrounding, it can get pretty ugly. >> reporter: septa says the victim from today's attack was rushed from here to hahnemann where he underwent a cat scan forehead injuries. trenton police are looking to down load video from that train cash to get a better look the at teens involved. reporting live tonight, kenneth moton for channel six "action news". developing right now, developing news from west philadelphia this evening, a four year-old boy has been shot while standing in front of his house, talking to friends. police are on the scene along 100 block of north voder street gathering evidence ape trying to figure out a motive. >> a male appeared from behind the park car and just started firing shots into the crowd of these four or five, 14 years old boys and girls. >> at the this point they don't even necessity if the teenage boy was the intendedded target. he was struck in the left foot and is now in stable condition being treated at penn

presbyterian hospital. as for the the shooter ballistics has revealed that the gunman fired at least six hots from a large caliber semiautomatic weapon. he remains on the loose tonight. a deadly fire in darby township chopper six over the scene here as flames and billowing smoke engulfed this home on west jackson street. fire fighters spent several minutes trying to save the home as well as the person who lived here but they could not. "action news" reporter dann cuellar is live from the scene tonight with more on the victim who is well men in that community, dann? that is right rick. right now personnel from the delaware county medical examiner's office has arrived on the scene to pick up the body of a highly regarded man, duke freeman, a man in his 80's a lot of sadness and grief tonight in darby township and word that freeman may have been working on a heater shortly before the fire broke out. chopper 6hd was over the scene as fire raged in the 1,000

block of west jackson in darby township. fire chief says flames spread quickly through the home and fire fighters work to pull it out. >> you can see at the time the flames and smoke overwhelmed us where we had to retreat and fight from the distance just to make sure that everything surrounded wasn't exposed to also the the fire. the it was a battle. >> reporter: four homes were evacuated out of concerns there may be a gas leak. it took fire fighters 20 in minute to bring the fire under control but it would be sometime later before they would find the bod irv duke freeman in the basement of the home. by all accounts the elderly gentlemen was well liked. >> mr. duke was a wonderful person. he would do anything for anybody in the community, you know, he is one of those once if you needed help he will be right there to help you. he was loved, he is loved by everybody. >> at one time when i was a youngster he actually raised me. i played in the band and stayed down here and grew up

with his children. i dated one of his daughters. it was a large family, a family in the community as he was. >> everybody loves him. everybody in this community knew him, you know what i mean. he was the the best. he would do anything anything for anybody out of the kindness of his heart. >> ironically enough body was found by chief tyrone fitzgerald, the the fire chief, who was raised by duke freeman back when he was around six or seven years old for a couple of years. sadness, lot of sadness here in darby township tonight. we're live here in darby township i'm dann cuellar for channel six "action news" good all right dann thank you. on the weather front a quick clipper system is bearing down on us tonight and don't be surprised if you see wet flakes mixed in tomorrow in parts of the the tri-state area meteorologist cecily tynan is tracking it all live with double scan radar, hi cecily. >> hi rick march came in like a lion and going out like a

lion. the not the way it is supposed to work out. the that is the year we have been having. double scan live shows us the the reason. we have low pressure. this is a clipper. fast moving. it is diving to the south. what this will do is bring us wet weather. it will keep us on the cold site of the storm. that is why we could see wet snow flakes mixing in. good news for your morning commute the the moisture is not here just yet. morning rush hour is looking good. mixture of sun and cloud. it will be dry. easenablely cool at 6:00 o'clock 38 degrees. by 8:00 o'clock 40 degrees. but the moisture is here by lunchtime. it continues until about 8:00 o'clock in the evening and we're talking about generally a light rain. a quarter inch to a third of an inch. however northwestern suburbs some wet snow flakes will be in mix nothing perhaps even making it to the philadelphia area by the afternoon and we are looking at in the poconos hey, spring season may last longer, one to 2 inches of wet snow. i'll talk about the big temperature changes behind this system coming up with the

full accu weather forecast, rick. >> we will talk later, thank you. small group of student walk out of the north pen high school today in montgomery county because of an investigation in the nude photo scandal. officials say boys at the school were posting the pictures of the female classmates. north penn's principal issued a video statement saying he would meet with any concerned students. he also said investigations like this one take time to complete and it won't be instant answers to the questions that many have have. a deadly industrial accident at the the sunoco marcus hook refinery, a worker was killed this have afternoon. the company sent its deep sympathies to the family and friend of the contractor who died at around 2:30 but did not identify the victim or say what led to the deadly incident. investigators are bidding a case begins girlfriend of the murdered darby township police officer mark hudson. he was shot and killed by his own service revolver at his home on saturday.

tiana finch was only other person there at the time. for now she's charged with making terroristic threats possession of an instrument of crime, and simple assault. the 27 year-old woman is in jail being held on 250 you this dollars bail. it was sentencing day for bensalem man who stabbed a police officer while on the run from prison last summer. a judge event isensed matthew miller to as much as 31 years behind bars for the the vicious attack last june. the investigators say officer michael michael jacinsky, during an attempt add rest he stabbed hiller in the summer and stole his police car. he was not harm thanks to his vest. mumia abu-jamal is in intensive care tonight at a hospital in pottsville pennsylvania. the 60 year-old inmate was rushed there from prison but there is no word on the cause of his illness. in fact his lawyer says that prison officials won't even tell him why. and this news comes on the

same day of a federal hearing over a new pennsylvania law which was passed in reaction to abu-jamal. back in october abu-jamal gave a recorded commence amount dress to a college in vermont. supported by officer daniel faulkner's widow then governor tom corbett signed legislation allowing crime victims to seek injunction toss keep offenders from perpetuating their mental anguish but abu-jamal and others sued on free speech grounds. a 9.3 million-dollar paving project is underway tonight in philadelphia crews began tearing up parts of the richmond street here in the port richmond section. milling and paving work will go from 7:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. to 4h p.m. flaw mid-april but in total this project will cover 14 miles have of road resurfacing through the city including parts of the passyunk avenue, robert avenue, rhawn street b street, grant avenue, and frankford avenue. and if your neighborhood needs new paving to fix all of

those potholes we are inviting you to join the action. e-mail us pictures and locations of the worst offend tears join the action at six abc.com. or use the the hash tag, six abc action on social media. parents and camden gathered this afternoon to rally for better education. over 2500 parents have signed on to the effort called great camden schools demand for choice and change now. they are fighting for improvement in the educational environment conducive to learning and establishing a culture filled with innovation at all levels. well, the little girl who stole everyone's heart last week after causing so many peoples hearts to skip a beat got a big payday today. four year-old annabel ridgeway left her tacony home at 3:00 a.m. friday in search of a slushy. septa surveillance shows her boarding a bus alongside a good samaritan while the bus driver called police. an hour later she was reunited with her very shock parents but all little annabel was

concerned with was still getting that slushy. today the icy company hand delivered her wish in the comfort and safety of annabel's home. >> which one of these do you want. >> this one. >> blue one. >> yes, i like blue. >> good for you. >> there you go. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> annabel's parents told "action news" how grateful they are for kindness of strangers during their little girl's adventure and they have also change their locks. still to come on "action news" tonight security scare at the the national security agency. we will explain how cross dressers got into a deadly confrontation at within of america's top spying sites. also the the lawyer says today's verdict sent a message that the security guard cannot cower in the face of chaos. we will tell butt tense of millions of dollars awarded over deadly shooting at the north philadelphia kraft plant. plus is the the old saying an apple a day keeping the doctor away actually rotten

advice cecily. >> we may be tracking rotten weather tomorrow with rain and wet snow but later in the week temperatures climbing in the 60's a i will have tea tails in the accu weather seven day forecast. >> all right cecily. our any eagle about to arrive in the nest ducis rodgers has the late mess ports when "action news" at 11:00 comes right back.

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half million-dollar, that is what a philadelphia jury is awarding to the families of two women, who were killed by a crazed co-worker at old kraft foot plant on the boulevard in northeast philadelphia back in september 2010, yvonne hiller brought a 357 magnum into the plant shortly after being suspended for making violent threats. she claimed other employees were poisoning her with toxic

chemicals. she went on a shooting spree killing 36 year-old le tanya brown and tanya wilson. the lawyers for victim's families says unarmed guard working for u.s. security a associate failed to protect their loved ones and that one of the guard ran away and hid in the boiler room and neither of them warned employees or kraft management but they did call 911. u.s. security associate is vowing a appeal of the punitive damage is a ward saying the guard made reasonable decisions and acted with courage in the face of a direct threat to their own lives. well the investigation continues tonight into that deadly shooting outside of the national security agency headquarters. two men dressed a as women tried to crash through the front gate this morning but they were stopped by armed a nsa officers. "action news" reporter sharrie williams has been following the bizarre incident and is live from the satellite center with the very latest tonight, sharrie. >> reporter: these men were in a stolen suv and apparently

driving erratically right at these nsa officers and that is when the guard opened fire. terrorism is not the leading theory tonight a wild night, gone wrong, is. dramatic scene on the ground of the national security agency, and it all played out in broad daylight. just after 9:00 a.m. two men inside of this stolen dark colored suv a approached the main nsa entrance and according to an nsa statement ignored guard's order to stop. they made it past the first gate and then barricades were immediately raised. that is when nsa police and patrol truck opened fire, killing one of the men and critically injuring the second. the the suv then collided with the a patrol truck injuring one of the officers. >> cpr in progress with one. >> reporter: when dust settled authorities discovered the men were wearing wigs and female clothing. one of the wigs still on the ground long after the shooting. the two reportedly had been on a joy ride.

preliminary information shows the two men were partying in an area hotel with a third individual when they took that individual's car without permission. it is unclear how or why they ended up, the entrance of the nsa. we are still waiting for officials to release the name of the man who was killed, however, we do have the name of the man who was injured. we are told it is 20 year-old kevin fleming, of baltimore. live from the satellite center sharrie williams for channel six "action news", rick. >> sharrie, thank you. there has been instant backlash against indiana's new religious freedom law. it would free people and companies to choose whom they do business with based on their personal religious beliefs. critics say it will open the door to discrimination against gays and lesbians. more than a dozen other states have similar lawness place. health check tonight the pro verb an apple a daze keeps doctorate away may in the necessarily be true. new research found daily apple

eaters had just as many doctor visits as those who did not. however, the findings don't mean apples aren't good for you but it taste more than one kind of food to make a healthy diet. mcdonald's will reportedly start testing all day breakfast next month. it is only at certain locations though, that might make fans of the morning meal happy because right now the fast food chain cuts off breakfast at precisely 10:30 a.m. mcdonald's has claim before that that the hold up is simply logistics, is there not enough room on the grills to cook lunch and breakfast foods at the same time. egg mcmuffin for lunch. >> yes. >> you have a whooper of a forecast. oh, wrong restaurant. >> that isberg are king. >> nice try. >> storm tracker six, i don't have any fast food puns. i cannot think that quickly. storm tracker six live double scan showing most of our region is rain free, however i want to draw your attention

up to the poconos where we have snow showers moving through mount pocono, lake harmony and more on the waste tomorrow perhaps extending the ski season a little bit longer. lets go to where sky six was earlier this evening as the sun was setting. this is time lapse over atlantic city. thinks the has clear sunset of march. by sunset tomorrow night we will be dealing with cloud and showers. temperatures dropping in the 40's. 47 degrees currently in philadelphia down from a high of 57. allentown 49. reading 46. millville 40. wilmington 48. sea isle city currently 46 degrees. the satellite six with action radar showing a few sprinkles and snow showers up to the north, upper level disturbance moving through. this will move through overnight and skies will be partly cloudy and then we will wait for next system to arrive moving in by midday tomorrow. future tracker showing morning rush hour clear. good amount of sunshine for about an hour, hour and a half before the cloud roll in.

early in the afternoon around 2:30 you will see rain here but far northwestern suburbs that purple that is wet snow mixing in, and it will continue through the afternoon and then by 9:30 in the evening, everything is tapering off. so, as far as temperature wise tomorrow, we're looking at another chilly day. 52 degrees, 5 degrees cooler then today for philadelphia allentown likely will not climb out of the 40's 44 degrees with that wet snow flakes activity, reading 45, millville 55 dover though quite a bit warmer with a high of 60. so location means a lot tomorrow. wednesday that low pressure is out of there high pressure build in for the first day of april. loads of sunshine. it will be on the chilly side 567892 degrees. that is 7 degrees below average. it will feel cooler with a wind out of the northwest but then that high pressure moves to the east and that will bring us dramatic warm up for thursday and friday. so the the exclusive accu

weather seven day forecast afternoon and evening rain, mixing with wind and snow. one to 2 inches possible in the poconos. 52 degrees the high. same temperature on wednesday but as we start april, loads of sunshine. thursday is probably the nicest day of the week. much warmer. 65 degrees. good friday will be warm but showers on occasion. 68 degrees. pass over begins at sundown and then behind that system on saturday a few more showers and we will try to clear 52 degrees, easter sunday is looking dry but mostly sunny and chill which a temperature of 54 degrees. you may want a coat with your easter dress. machine clouds increase with a high of 57 degrees and david murphy will have an update on the rain a snow coming on "action news" beginning at 4:30. >> i will wear a nice easter bonnet. >> take a picture. >> thanks, cecily. small town of pennington new jersey in mercer county has been singled out as best place to raise a family in the

garden state. ranking was done by new jersey family magazine in the april addition. it described pennington as a perfect quaint small town with a farmland feel. the magazine pointed out quality have of schools, tax rates, household income and access to highways to name a few. pennington is less than within square miles but residents say it is full of appeal and new jersey family magazine certainly agrees.

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cowboys player to the nest, dues is he's the latest. >> they will take whatever they can get at this point especially a this position. eagles are bringing in wide receiver miles austin for a meet and breathe tomorrow. if all goes well and he passes a physical, reports say they will sign him to a one year deal. austin spent last year in cleveland. he missed 12 games due to a kidney injury. the 30 year-old spent first seven years with the cowboys. his best season came in 2009 when he caught 11 touchdowns. he has in the caught more than seven in a season ever since. eagles lock up demeco ryans for a bit longer. they signed him to a one year extension. he is new signed through 2016 season. ryans missed half of last season with a torn a chillies tendon. sixers and lakers met tonight. they were 37 and a half games out of first place. lakers had this them beat at 40 and a half games out. fan appreciation night franklin dishing out 50-inch

tv's. dishing out an asses to nerlens noel. sixers trailed by three. to the fourth thomas robinson 13 off the bench. we're tied at 81. the guard drives two of his 17. sixers up two late. but we will get to overtime. in overtime nerlens dominating the lane. nineteen points. fourteen board. game tied at 111. wayne ellington creates to find jordan clarkson underneath. that is the game winner. sixers lose 113-111. >> i feel good. it is march 30th and we're playing games like this. regardless of not making the playoffs. we're playing hard. that is all you can ask for at this point. we have made stride with the new guys we have had. i think we are a close group that goes out here and plays together. i'm real proud of that. still ahead hear what the flyers are saying about missing the post season. the plus ryne sandberg has choice word for how the fill

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unacceptable in all faces, those were ryne sandberg's words for phillies 18-four loss to the pirates today n case you think i misspoke that was 18-four. zach eflen young arm phillies got in the gym i rollins trade is roughed up a bet by the pirates. scott harrington the the first batter he faces he gives up three hits in three innings. two home runs. he allowed four runs. trash talking leads to a whole lot of nothing. that is what baseball players do. have after eflen this was his first game against major league hitters. >> i had the jitters a little bit. i had so much pumping through me. my main focus was to try to stay calm. you cannot pitch every day.

you have to learn from it. flyers mathematically eliminated from playoff contention over the weekend. there are six game left that the league forces them to play. flyers know they only have themselves to blame. >> to be honest i don't think this year we were having that many good games to make the playoffs. like i said we didn't start well. we were chasing. we played well again. then we had too many slumps. >> another lost season. the that is sports. jimmy kim ill he will live is next followed by night line. "action news" continue at 4:30 a.m. with tamala edward, pot matt o'donnell meteorologist david murphy and karen rodgers with traffic. for meteorologist cecily tynan, jim gardner, ducis rodgers, i'm rick williams. have a good night. we will see you right here, tomorrow. >> ♪♪

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