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marathon negotiations with iran and the u.s. and other world powers. the tentative agreement on iran's agreement is set up so it cannot lead to atomic weapons, the deal should be completed in three months there will be more on these developing stories on world news with david muir. >> back here charges are filed against a man shot and wounded by police after he attacked both parents with a knife. it happened in hamilton township, that is where we find nora muchanic who is live with the latest on the story. >> reporter: hi there rick sean clyde is charged with aggravated assault attempted murder and weapons charges on a brutal attack on his parents yesterday. one of the members of the shooting investigation team described the team inside as something out of a horror movie as they review the circumstances
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that led police to fire on clyde they are also looking into what triggered his violence attack. >> police were called to the village apartments on wednesday after getting a 911 call from a neighbor and when they responded they found 36-year-old sean clyde in the kitchen on top of his father william, stabbing him repeatedly with a steak knife. >> we ordered the individual to drop the knife and the individual continued to stab the other gentlemen in the apartment and the officers used the appropriate amount of force and two officers opened fire on clyde to stop the attack. his father is in critical condition with stab wounds to the neck head and back, clyde's mother bonnie was also stabbed and she was treated and released. normally outside back and forth to the dumpster. outside of the scene they
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described sean clyde this way. >> a little odd. >> odd in what way? >> in the way he acted. >> he don't seem right no. >> ann who lives a few doors away from the scene doesn't know clyde but have seen him swiping newspapers from the porch. >> they say he is not right he doesn't look right. >> hamilton police say the officers were justified in opening fire on clyde and saved his father and mother from furnish injury. >> it's unsettling, not something that happens here, it's a quiet neighborhood. not something you would expect. >> now sean clyde is held on a half million dollars bail and is under police guard at the hospital, he has a history a documented history of mental illness and the two officers involved are on administrative duty live in hamilton channel
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6 "action news." >> a 16-year-old surrendered to police in connection with a sucker punch attack captured on a surveillance video take a look, it happened on the platform of 15th and market. minutes before cameras showed a verbal altercation, right here between the suspect and blue hoody, and the 16-year-old victim on the left the man was knocked unconscious and remains in the hospital with a broken jaw. >> new jersey senator, robert menendez entered a not guilty plea he is charged with accepting gifts and contributions from a friend in exchange for political favors. >> bob menendez issued a not guilty plea to bribery conspiracy and fraud. >> his friend and co-defendant
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also pleaded not guilty today. prosecutors alleged he gave him lavish gifts and cash worth more than a million dollars, in exchange he lobbied for his friend and sought visa's for had many brazilian girlfriends. >> these alligations are false and i am confident they will be proven false and i look forward to doing so in court. >> today he ripped the federal government calling the fbi raid overzellous and he has won plenty of political corruption cases before. prosecutors at the justice dep often get it wrong these charges are the latest mistakes. >> the case boils down to the relationship between menendez they claim they schemed to rip off the government and he lobbied medicare to reimburse the eye surgeon to the tune of
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$2 million. >> this was a real friendship and not a corrupt relationship and because senator menendez were proper this case too will become another of those mistaken cases that should never have been brought. >> dr. mel gin's bond is set, and the only body that menendez faces the promise that he show up at his next court case. both passports are confiscated. senator menendez has his own official passport and he is allowed to travel internationally on official senate business. all right back here philadelphia police have made an arrest in a string of airbag thefts in the city police have connected ricky sanchez of west kensington to six thefts in northeast philadelphia they happened in september of last
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year and the airbags are stolen from honda vehicles and they are sold to repair shops for $50 to $200. the u.s. coast guard is investigating cargo on a ship that ran aground on the delaware river. it's anchored now in paulsboro, "action news" obtained video of the ship as it headed to the shore yoed it hit the bottom right there and quickly came to a halt stirring up plenty of mud fortunately nobody on board was hurt. on a happier note, turning to the forecast it's a picture perfect day. we are feeling warmer temperatures, earlier in rittenhouse square we saw people enjoying their lunches. there was a breeze. meteorologist cecily tynan is also enjoying the conditions
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outdoors. we love this cecily. >> i went for a hike with my family and dogs and a lot of people were doing the same. one of those days you want to get outside. today is the first time we had 60 degree weather with sunshine the three previous times we had a lot of clouds and showers, but a good amount of sunshine today with winds out of the south 65 degrees, the same in new york city 72 in washington d.c. and if you look to the west though pittsburgh, 58 degrees quite a bid cooler and that is because there are showers on the western half of pennsylvania and a few beginning to move in lancaster county, and that comes with the warmer air that is moving in and tomorrow is warmer than today. however, a wider view showing there say cold front moving across the ohio valley then is causing severe weather in kentucky and that front will slowly be pushing to the east.
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tomorrow the focus on the severe weather will remain in the tennessee valley with the possibility of damaging winds and hail, closer to home we'll have on and off showers, can you leave the sun glass at home tomorrow and grab the umbrella periods of showers on and off through the day and periods of steadier rain and then temperatures should hit 70 degrees for the first time this year but it doesn't last long, for the holiday weekend, temperatures cool off dramatically it will be dry but we are tracking rain next week. we'll talk about that in the full accuweather forecast. >> nice to hang out here for a while. >> well, christians around the region are observing holy thursday today. archbishop charles chaput led the mass, holy thursday say time when christians commemorate the last supper of jesus christ with the apostles all the breests were invited to the mass to review their priestly promises.
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time for a check of our "action news" traffic report. matt pellman is in the traffic center. >> i'm doing great how can you not be? so many people want to be out and about sampling the delish weather conditions, but they are running into problems as they try to head home. a new one with a downed pole in buck county the right lane is blocked. because of the accident that just happened, the left lane is getting by. and speaking of slowly, not so pleasant speeds on the portions of 95 just 14 miles per hour northbound at the betsy ross bridge, 14 on the schuylkill westbound on city avenue one is here in abington near the fair way, a crash involving a motorcycle in chester county at oak born road, and in chester county, lenape road closes be
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street road gets you through that tomorrow afternoon. and a pair of accidents to watch out for in newark one at library avenue and one in old baltimore pike at pleasant valley road, a lot going on we'll check it again in the next half hour. more to come on "action news" tonight at 5:00, another key piece of evidence is found at the crash site of the germanwings flight that went down in the french alps. and it is world autism awareness day, coming up in health check ali gorman tells us when signs that disorder is spotted in children. and the mysteries surrounding autism.
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this afternoon the scull flipped over and this rescue operation appears to be successful tonight. in other news investigator found a tablet inside of a home of the copilot, andreas lubitz and that he may have been trying to crash the plane for days, he researched suicide methods as well as cockpit door security measure, the second black box was recovered revealing more about the tragic crash we'll have more coming up on "action news" at 5:30. time for health check now a new study finds no connection between the rising suicide rate and deployment. ali gorman joins us now with more. >> the rate of suicide doubles
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in 2005, this one covers 2001 to 2007 and so far it's the largest report only a slightly higher rate deployed to iraq and afghanistan, who those that did no got to that area, and those with a higher suicide rate were doubles for those that completed a four year enlistment. and suicide was more prevalent with the army and marines than the navy and air force but this is not the last word many want more studies on the problem and look into the impact of combat. and researches continue to test immuneal therapy with cancer this time melanoma it's training the body's own immune system to kill cancer cells they took melanoma tumors from
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patients and developed vaccines given back to patients it's a good response but too soon to tell if this will help in the long run so those studies continue and you may have noticed many of us were wearing blue today in honor of autism awareness day the goal is to raise awareness in the lives of kids and adults on the autism spectrum according to the cdc, one in 68 children have one form of autism, signs are spotted in the first three years and early intervention is vital. researchers are getting closer to specific treatments and focuses on genetic clues that lead to autism in some cases and not in others. >> we need to understand what is happening in the genes and how do they affect brain development and once they get there what are possible treatments.
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>> many events were held today for the cause and will continue throughout the month of april. back over to you. >> thank you. officials cut the ribbon today on a new state of the art facility to treat folks that suffer brain trauma this is in mount laurel, it auto loz the organization to serve adults with various brain injuries including people with alzheimer's and people with ms. and help with veterans.
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the bankruptcy judge aproffered the sale of revel casino to polo north. it came on the fifth attempt to sell the casino whether tenants can remain there will be worked outside of bankruptcy court. americans purchased vacations homes last year compared to 2013, according to a report from the association of realtors, it found that that the
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highest level of home purchases since 2003 and the people looking for a home is not surprisingly the beach. mayor michael nutter did the honors cutting the ribbon at the tasker village apartments located in the point breeze section of philadelphia the 28 unit s units can an estate travel credit paid for the renovations.
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all right time for accuweather at the "action news" big board it doesn't get better than this. >> what a day people are out enjoying it rick. did i see you running? i want some proof of that. stormtracker 6 live double scan showing that we do have sprinkles right now in northern lancaster and northern berks they are lifting up to the north and we have winds to the south and that is what is really bumping up the temperatures inland. so far the high is 66 trenton 64 we were talking about this yesterday, we have the winds off the ocean and the ocean
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temperature is cold, so the breeze is cold. temperatures along the shore points in the upper 40s to 50 degrees, it's quite breezy and winds 21 miles per hour and 22 in dover it will be windy again tomorrow and it's going to be even warmer but not a bright and sunny day. satellite 6 along with action radar showing high pressure moving off the eastern seaboard we have a warm front bringing some scattered showers across centsral pennsylvania and then a trailing cold front causing severe weather in kentucky that whole system will move our way tomorrow tonight we get in the warm sector of the storm, temperatures are really not dropping off much, breezy and mild, increasing clouds 51 to 54 degrees, with showers developing late tonight, and future tracker showing umbrellas on hand tomorrow we'll see periods of off and on rain, noticeably warm and clouds are
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in place and showers moving in from the west and throughout the day we'll see occasional showers and philadelphia with areas up to the north with temperatures in the 60s and friday night is when the cold front approaches and that will bring us some heavier downpours at 11:00 some heavy downpours especially across the lehigh valley. and we clear out as we head through saturday. good friday and warm, 70 degrees, and occasional showers and especially friday night. as passover begins at sun down any clouds in the morning gives way to mostly sunny skies and windy and cooler and easter sunday looking pretty nice and a mixture of sun and clouds and 59 degrees, for the home opener 67 degrees we run out of luck and clouds and showers moving in and it's a great evening to head to the playground that is what adam joseph has done at
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johnson's farm in medford, new jersey. don't hurt yourself! >> it this for adults just kids? >> no! >> one nice day everyone comes out and enjoys it. are you guys having fun? >> yes! >> we when on an easter egg hunt, did you find the eggs? >> yes! >> i have been seen the easter bunny, do you know where he is? >> yes! >> he has cookies we have to decorate. >> tell him i said held okay a good friend of mine. >> much move ahead in our next half hour at 5:00. a philadelphia mother's legal nightmare of a gun she brought for protection is finally over. also the pope is upstaged by this precocious toddler.
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jaime apody. now the second black box is in the hands of the investigators. and two women with alleged ties to al qaeda are arrested after a bomb plot. now the details, french investigators tonight have important clues from last week's germanwings crash that killed everyone on board. they have the second black box from the plane and the computer from the copilot and it provides chilling new evidence that the crash was a premeditated act. marcy gonzales joins us live tonight. >> investigators feel confident that this was not a spontaneous decision that is something that the copilot was likely thinking about at least for a few days. >> new insight into the
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disturbed mind of copilot believed to have intentionally crashed flight 9525 in the alps last week. investigator searched andreas lubitz's home finding a tablet revealing in the days before the crash he looks up medical treatment methods and ways to carryout suicide and cockpit door measures. and investigators believe that after locking the pilot out of the cockpit, he guided the plane into the side of a mountain. details from the second black box found today buried and charred. the actions of pilots and the controls with the different pilots of plane these are vital in order to find the truth. >> still no explanation why two european publications ended up with video of final moments of the crash and they have found 40
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other cell phones scattered at the scene badly damaged but being analyzed for possible clues. more than 2,000 dna samples were recovered from the scene and many which will be analyzed at a lab to identify the 150 people on board. marcy gonzales channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. two women were alleged ties to islamic extremists are in police custody after police say they were planning to detonate a bomb in new york city. they are both roommates in queens and they were arrested today. the women were arrested after an undercover investigation by fbi agents, over the last 15 months, 18 people have been charged with joining groups in syria or iraq
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or plans to do so. the pennsylvania woman indicted for carrying a gun in atlantic county, allen was arrested on october 1st and she was licensed to carry a gun in pennsylvania and was arrested in a traffic stop on the atlantic city expressway, when she told police she had a gun in her purse. christie's order gives her a full pardon. they have identified the student responsible for putting a noose in a tree on campus the student's name has not been released but he or she is no longer on campus and will be disciplined in line with college rules. investigators are trying to figure out what ignited a deadly hotel fire in los angeles, one person died and 15 were hurt in the blaze at the residential hotel at the harbor guests suffered broken bones and burns in their scramble to get out.
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people were jumping from second story windows when they arrived. one worker died and several were injured when a school building under construction in texas collapsed. it was to be an indoor practice facility near ft. worth at argyle high school. people were trapped when the metal frame gave way. politics ton the six candidates running to win the nomination of mayor for philadelphia are on the campaign trail. we are continuing the profile of the candidates vernon odom has more on candidate milton street. >> running for mayor -- you going to help me out here. >> milton street the former state senator canvassing the street about 100 yards from the
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game stop where the officer was killed last month. >> i'm going to hire people from the community to patrol the community as a network, increased surveillance reduced crime. >> police commissioner ramsey is out when he gets to city hall. >> i would not keep ramsey we need someone from philadelphia, born and raised in philadelphia as for tax reformed street, who went to prison for not paying taxes. as for fixing the needy school district, give up on dramatically trying to increase direct aid from the general assembly. >> are you not going to get white legislators to give you the money to educate our
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children. >> they are getting a share of the the state lottery, that is a way of getting more cash. >> they raise $900 million they give to senior citizens, put something on to the lottery for schools. >> for more than 40 years team milton street is a high-profile figure in town, always there to stir the pot and generate controversy. when he ran for mayor four yours ago, milton street got 36000 votes in the democratic primary, running against michael nutter alone. that is 24% if he can get numbers like that in this crowded field he will be a major factor come may 19th. vernon odom channel 6 "action news." >> once again we are profileing all six candidates running for democrat democratic nomination for mayor. an unusual car fire tangled
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up the commute in delaware county. a brand new suv on a car carrier caught fire in the northbound lanes here near the route 422 exit, no injuries but at least two other vehicles on the car carrier were damaged and traffic slowed both ways as drivers took a look at the blaze. speaking of traffic lets see what is going on right there right now. >> matt pellman what is the latest. >> traffic tied in notes this afternoon as well. on 95 but in the great northeast, you travel in the work zone, as is often the case at cotman avenue that is where the vehicle broke down, the right lane is out of commission and now it's extra heavy heavy all afternoon, now extra heavy off 95 at this point at cotman avenue and a broken down vehicle on the schuylkill, westbound by 30th street station taking out the left lane, looking at 5
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miles per hour, as you travel westbound through passyunk at 30 and street station, and a crash in springfield township bethlehem pike in wissahickon avenue and the westbound traffic, chester county at dogwood lane and they have reopened route 52 construction has wrapped up and clear the construction in newcastle along 141, that was closed for about a week. and a crash along route 9 at william penn court has cleared. >> thank you. more ahead on "action news" tonight, the minister that took his message to the masses changing american religion has passed away. and the phillies wrap up their grapefruit league season andage is having fun and enjoying easter fun in the outdoor adventure today. hi adam. >> reporter: the kids helped me we found the easter bunny didn't
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we? we are at johnson corner farm in medford new jersey, the easter bunny you hide eggs if the field for the kids, they go and find them on the hay ride and you give them a prize too a bag of goodies you got. also here at johnsons corner farm you can get your fresh baked goods for the holiday, i heard are you decorated cookies lets hop in lets decorate cookies. we'll have the accuweather forecast. time to go eat. absolutely. thank you. also the pope shares a spotlight with a precocious toddler.
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old. pope francis continued his holy tradition today in rome he visited the main prison complex, he washed the feet of six men and six women and asked to be cleaned of his scenes. >> one child crawled on to the alter steps and laid down. jeff skversky has the latest on the phillies in the sports center. >> the phillies are on their way home after finishing spring training lets hope they don't bring this baseball home with them. phillies finish up at the worst hitting team in the league. the phanatic is dancing to that and jerome williams can't be thrilled with this, he allowed 14 earned runs including six runs today against tampa if baseball doesn't work out maybe
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they can work at hooters. hair air ahe will not be waiting tables he goes yard, the second of the spring the phanatic love it but ugly finish, they lose 10-1 out scored by 55 runs down there the worst in baseball they come home with one win in their last nine games but the manager is trying to stay positive. >> we work well as a group and a change in philosophies and we'll see results, one thing that was big was the number of strikeouts or the lower number of strikeouts in spring training all in all we are healthy and going into opening day and that is always a good thing since the eagles landed sam bradford he is rehabbing from two torn acl's in his left knee, chip kelly is not the only one that believes he will bounce back in
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2015. we caught up with his coach that helped him be rookie of the year in 2010. he says he has the act to take the eagles to the super bowl. >> the work ethic part is not the problem, football and his performance is important to sam he has a lot of pride in him. it comes down to one thing will he stay healthy. >> more coming up at 6:00 and why he says that bradford can be a pain once in a while. the flyers will miss the playoffs for the second time in three years what if after watching this team play against pittsburgh they won 7 straight against pittsburgh and then they scored four unanswered goals on the road, they are great against playoff bound teams lately it's
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hard to figure out. >> i don't know how to explain it obviously they have two of the top players in the world any time you have a chance to face a team like it's a challenge for everyone. it's one of those games it's nice to get results. it's fun. and villanova guard dillon enis is leaving the school to become a true point guard elsewhere. in other news tonight, the pennsylvania spca is back in action after being forced to shut down because of a rash of respiratory illnesses in its facility. the cats were healthy and microchiped and ready to go to a new forever home. >> still ahead on "action news." the wraps come off fast wheels at the franklin institute. it's not just for philadelphia streets. >> wow. lets take a look outside at sky
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today where youngsters were having a ball on the play equipment, and it was a great day for dog walking and one gentlemen was trying his hand at fishing fishing, all there to enjoy the sunshine. he didn't care if they were biting or not. >> probably didn't have any bait. >> adam joseph is enjoying the spring day as well. perfect pick adam. he is fishing for treats. >> with all of that exercise we were doing outside, we were running and hopping like a bunny we came inside the easter bunny is here at johnson's farm, you can meet him here and he can teach you how to drive a tractor as well and show you how to decorate your easter cookies, from 10:00 until 4:00 they look just as good on the cookie as the hands and lips.
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look at this one, look at those hands. how do you clean all of that up? >> baby wipes. lots of them. >> she lightnings it as you can see. the big kids are over here decorating the cookies. >> i like decorating cookies but i want to eat it right now. >> can i taste it? good job. a great day to be outdoors finally temperatures in the 60s, 65 in philadelphia and reading at 64 and millville 60 and much cooler at the shore. sea isle city just 48 degrees with the wind off the water, satellite and radar a warm front in pennsylvania it will clip the northern parts of area and the lehigh valley and severe weather breaking out and we time it with future tracker unfortunately, the sunshine pushing off the coast here tomorrow 10:00 in the morning,
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mostly cloudy and showers especially west of philadelphia, and temperatures near 60 more in the way of showers north of trenton and the lehigh valley and by 11:00 tomorrow night that is when the cold front approaches, and widespread downpours and the rumble of thunder with the heaviest to the north of philadelphia what to expect for your friday a quarter to .75 inch of rain and the steadiest is in the evening and the overnight hours and a rumble of thunder and a strong wind gust and then happy passover at 7:27, cloudy and warm with a couple of showers around and temperature of 66 degrees and on sunday your sunrise service for easter 39 degrees, it's going to be sunny first thing in the morning and then in the afternoon temperatures between 53 and 59 degrees, as we look at the exclusive accuweather forecast, warm with showers tomorrow on and off and light during the day
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and steadier with a high of 70 degrees winds gust to 40 miles per hour with sunshine 53 but feeling like it's only going to be if the 40s, as we get into easter sunday and sun and clouds and 59 and nice for the phillies home opener here and monday 67 degrees and then things go downhill again tuesday, wednesday into thursday and on and off showers with temperatures near 60 degrees. all right you can come here, go on an easter egg hunt like earlier. did you guys go on the easter egg hunt? did you find all the eggs? what did the easter bunny give you? >> candy. >> will they be up all night? >> all night. >> can i help you out one thing here and one thing there.
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mm that is pretty good. lots going on at johnsons farm, they have a lot of great treats for passover and easter sunday i have not met the easter bunny yet, can i help you drive the tractor. what do you think of all the kids? what do you think guys? no? yeah? they are too busy eating their cookies already rick and monica have a good weekend. lets go out in the field and find your eggs? >> looks like fun. this way no that way no this way. >> thank you adam. stay on top of changes in the weather by checking 6abc.com is it weather and there you will find live storm tracker 6 radar and the latest from our team of meteorologists. check it out. still ahead tonight, a sneak peek at one of cars at the running of the indy 500. we'll be right back.
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people outside of the franklin institute got up close with this race car they unveiled their entry for the running of the big race this will be at the bic brard while in philadelphia visiting and promoting science and technology careers. how cool is that. >> that car is too slow for you monica. right now coming up next at 6:00, a done deal for revel details of the approved sale of the casino in a live report. and philadelphia police make an arrest in the theft of airbags in the city. we'll tell you about that. those stories are coming up for adam joseph cecily tynan sharrie williams i'm monica malpass have a great night.
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"action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with ducis rogers meteorologist, cecily tynan, and jim gardner. thursday night and jim is off and i'm rick williams in the news airport workers rally for higher wages and senator robert menendez appears in court on corruption charges, but the big story is the done deal for the shuttered revel casino in atlantic city. the judge finally approved the $82 million sale of the casino to florida developer glen straub after months of on again
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off again bids. wendy saltzman covered the hearing and is live in camden with the full story. >> reporter: rick the sale came through at the 11th hour after multiple delays and several bids fell through, attorneys wrapped up with the judge after narrowly winning her approval of the sale, polo north of florida made an $82 million bid to purchase the bankrupt casino originally built for $2.4 billion and was only open for two year, that offer was made in september and after seven months of wrangling the judge hoped that there would be a better and higher offer by today but there was not. developer glen straub put that money in escrow and he plans to close tomorrow and get to the business of opening the property, being vague he
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