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garage on 8th and chestnut. they hope that someone recognizes the burgundy ford econo line. >> they have pictures but can't see the license plate they need help from the public. you can imagine the terror this woman experienced she was told over and over again this is the day you are going to die. she left her job at 8th and chestnut and entered this parking garage the beginning of a horrendous nightmare. >> she has been through nothing short of torture. >> the 53-year-old victim can be seen on surveillance entering the parking garage saturday afternoon she was dragged into this van by three men who drove her to the roof, they put a hood over her face and tie wrapped her and tasered her and they wanted the codes and alarm
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systems to the jewelry store. >> she had the keys but didn't know the code but they continued to beat kick and stun her with a taser, after a half hour the van can be seen leaving the garage and another surveillance camera picked it up on chestnut street they drove the victim to a wooded area near a cemetery in darby and dropped her off and picked her up 15 minutes later this time using shackles on her ankles, along the way they used the victim's card to gas up at a wawa and used it at an atm, the victim stumbled out of the woods and was rescued but someone driving by. detectives were back at the crime scene collecting evidence and the victim is recovering
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from multiple injuries. >> she is holding up well for what she has been through and i just watched her husband touch her shoulder and she shrank back in pain. >> reporter: police believe the smudge on the side is washable and there to obscure the name of the business if you have seen that van they want to hear from you right away. david henry channel 6 "action news." >> thank you david. we hope have you enjoyed the warm weather because the next few days are anything but. this is a live picture from a new sky 6 camera at temple university. we have a cold front coming through with wet weather, meteorologist, cecily tynan has the latest from double scan radar. >> double scan is dealing with showers and keeping the umbrellas close the next two days, you may want to find the
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winter coats there is a cold front over us now, a back door cold front down from a current high of 69 being a little bit humid today the winds are out of the northeast, areas to the north temperatures are in the 40s but that is where we will drop tonight and that is where we are staying over the next few days future tracker showing 8:00 tomorrow morning, occasional showers with winds out of the northeast, temperatures in the 40s, and they may actually drop a little bit in time for the morning commute, i'll have more details and when we climb out this have damp, cool pattern in the accuweather forecast. >> you can keep up with the on and off showers by checking in with 6abc.com/weather and find the hour by hour forecast along with the accuweather forecast seven-day forecast and the latest video reports from our team of meteorologists. last night at 11:00 we told
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you about a shooting victim found inside of a vehicle on ridge pike in plymouth township we learned that the actual shooting took place in norristown and police are tracking down the gunman walter perez is live in norristown police tonight. walter? >> a lot of questions remain unanswered in this case and what investigator dozen know is that last night someone walked up to a vehicle here in norristown and opened fire. >> it was around 9:00 last night when neighbors along the 1200 block of locust street in norristown heard commotion outside. >> got out of bed, i didn't think it was bullets. it sounded like firecrackers. >> but it was indeed the sound of gun fire, seconds later a car pulled up at the lukoil in plymouth meeting. the clerk saw someone was badly wounded and called 911 the
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victim was taken to the hospital and died sometime later this is particularly upsetting because of how quiet this neighborhood has been. >> it's always a crackpot that decides to do something dumb. >> i don't feel safe. it makes me question whether i should be living around here. it makes me want to move out of this area. >> reporter: the victim's identity identity has not yesterday been released. anybody with information is asked to call norristown police walter perez channel 6 "action news." philadelphia police are looking for 16-year-old christina hough she was last seen at 5:00 sunday evening at 17th and south hough and her 14-year-old brother left a family members home to visit with friends on south street she and her brother somehow got separated and she has not been
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seen since. >> it is finally a done deal for revel, the sale of the former casino to glen straub was completed shortly after noon today, stroub played $82 million for a casino that cost $2.4 billion to build. it's part of his larger $500 million investment in numerous projects in atlantic city. the plan called project phoenix includes purchasing showboat and developing the former airport and building two marinas and an equestrian complex and water parks. in gers, new brunswick, it's all about the university's decision to ban parties at fraternities. >> 40% of students at rutgers
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are part of greek life, that is why they moved to ban parties at soreorityies and frats for the rest of the year. >> think it's a bad idea, everybody enjoy its whether you are in greek life or not. >> i don't think everybody should be held responsibility for the few. >> people have been dying, literally and i don't think parties are worth it. in fact 19-year-old kaitlyn kovachs died of alcohol poisoning at a party in september. a severely drunk student had to be hospitalized. rutgers takes seriously the commitment to a healthy and safe environment. we have dance marathon one of the greek communities and fundraisers of the year, it's a very much social drinking environment they are doing the community service to make it look like they are doing good
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things, when in reality they are drinking a lot. >> several students subjected that they have not stopped children from drink they will do is somewhere off campus and not a sorority house. >> if it's not a lettered house it's not affiliated with the university. it will be there. >> it's going to be happening? >> of course. >> greek organizations can hold parties off campus where third parties can serve alcohol, fraternities and sororities that defy the ban will face consequences. drexel university is investigating a law professor who mistakenly sent an email to students that contained a link to pornographic websites. >> it wrote this article on writing will be interesting for all of you. drexel issued a statement saying that the university takes this
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alligation seriously and is investigating the matter. coming up on "action news" free college tuition is available to hundreds of philadelphia students we'll have details on the program and who will be eligible. coming up. >> and a day off for the phillies after a dismal day, reaction from the team after the start of the season, cecily tynan returns with the seven day accuweather forecast. those stories and more when "action news" continues tonight.
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philadelphia that they making sure all students can start their college ed saying. sara bloomquist is live now. tell us about the 50th scholars program. >> reporter: each year at the community college of philadelphia thousands apply and meet the academic standards and they get some financial aid and it's still not enough and now they are joining a nationwide trend to make tuition free to students that quality if i. >> yin has the grades and will qualify for financial aid but still can't afford the fees. >> i can't take the loans out and pay back so much money. >> they are offering motivated students like yin ways to cover tuition by bridging the gap.
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>> we saw an inordinate amount of students not being able to finish their registration because they could not meet the gap because of what they were able to afford tuition and fees cost $5550 a year students owe more annually and 450 students will qualify to receive the money in the first year of the program, they must be is graduate of philadelphia high schools and among other requirements enroll full-time and get involved in one extracurricular activity. >> we are trying to meet the needs of those that need the financial help and be successful. >> apply don't let anything like money keep you from doing what you need to do pursue what
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you want and opportunities are there, they always are. >> the time to apply is now studentses must file their federal student aid form by june 1st. the college fund will fund this through an endowment and private fundraising, they want to expand to eventually to include the cost of books. >> thank you. more education news here, a charter school in camden is making room for hundreds of new students, city and school officials broke ground today on an addition on the campus on north 9 and street. they currently serve 250 students and now the new building will offer seven and grade for a total of 750 students. the diocese of trenton are honoring those that put their lives on the line every day the blue mass pays tribute to law
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the schedule always seems to do this, opening day and then a day off. >> usually you wouldn't want. phillies lose today. normally you don't need a day of rest. after a debut has was disappointing after the already low expectations, cole hamels gave up four home runs, that tie a career for him. he needed 100 pitches to get out of the fifth inning but there is one member of the clubhouse that sees the glass half full. >> it's not how you start it's how you finish. >> when you win the championship you say it's a
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terrible start to the season burright now it's just take a deep breath. >> win the championship hey you never know. jimmy rollins wants to do that in l.a. two for four including the tie breaking home run in the only that gave them the win over the padre he even got a curtain call for that. >> i saw opening day for dodgers, it was special and i have my family here a lot of them and they finally get to see their boy play a little closer to home. >> how weird is it to see him in blue. >> the eagles signing e.j. biggers to a one year deal, he plays mostly corner but can also play safety. they also signed wide receive err for a one year contract three
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games left in this disastrous season for the flyers a team that needs just one point to clinch a playoff spot, they are playing out the string, they don't like this notion that they are just playing spoilers. >> that is not the reason why we come here every day and work hard. it's for other things we are focusing ourselves and there is nothing else to focus on but play good hockey and good defense and play for a prize tiger woods tees off at the master and there are more questions than ever before, he is ranked 111th this year, he hasn't won a green jacket since 2005. the odds of winning this one is 40-1, but he is up for the challenge. >> i'm excited to be back playing at this level i feel like my game is finally ready to
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compete at this level, the highest level and i'm excited to be here, there is no other tournament in the world like this. it's a rematch tonight between uconn and notre dame for the womens championship. if the huskies wins it will be the tenth all time for the husky's geno auriemma. >> everybody wants the game time to come and there is no more to prepare for, there is no more film to watch and no more practices to go to. right now it's just about playing the game. >> the only other coach with ten is ucla's john wooden. >> and happy 35th birthday. >> thank you. >> teenagers and adults in delaware are getting a lesson in financial literacy, wilmington city council and the literary
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rain and heavier moving out of i-95 towards chester and mount laurel showing pockets of heavy precipitation and another zoom showing south jersey really kind of stuck in the showers on and off throughout the day and it's a steady light rain in atlantic city and egg harbor and hammonton and the lower bank currently. we had a nice spring stretch but it is over. temperatures of 61 degrees is the normal high and yesterday 75 and still made is it to 69 today. say good-bye to that for a while. future tracker showing the next to days, a quarter inch of rain to .75 inch of rain not a heavy, steady soaking but occasional showers and drizzle right through thursday night. right now temperatures depend on where you are dover is still mild and 63 degrees and mt.
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pocono is 35 degrees and allentown 51 and winds out of the northeast tomorrow and tonight temperatures will be falling into the 40s, the chances of seeing sunshine over the next couple of days are slim and lots of cloud cover are associated with the cold front the back door front moving down from the north tonight plenty of clouds and drizzle and it turns chilly 42 in philadelphia and 40 in allentown and 45 in cape may and reading 41 degrees the next two days we are stuck with temperatures in the 40s, this back door cold front is down to the south with low pressure riding along it and that provides moisture to the north and winds from the northeast, earl april feeling like february. a one day surge of mild air with temperatures back up into the
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70s, so the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, a chill why breeze tomorrow with oceanly light rain and drizzle, the high only 47 degrees, on thursday we keep that air mass right over us winds out of the northeast occasional light showers on and off through the day, temperatures stuck in the 40s, 46 degrees. and on friday with the warm front lifting up we get winds from the southwest you like yesterday's weather you'll like friday, 75 but it's not all day, a cold front moving through the west will bring us more clouds and afternoon showers and thunderstorms could be gusty and behind that system the rain moves out in time for saturday morning, it's bright and on the breezy side fortuneon game with a high of 63 degrees, sunday the winds are calmer so sunday really the pick of the weekend, loads of sunshine and 66 and on monday we bump it up to 68 degrees and increasing clouds and tuesday the same temperature with the possibility of some
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rain so the bad news is it's gloomy the next to days but the good news is we get it done in time for the weekend. we have breaking news ton, trouble on the schuylkill expressway you'll see a massive backup right now that is westbound, because there has been a report of a shooting on the expressway. near madison ford road in west conshohocken and that has shut down the westbound side of the expressway eastbound is moving easily not westbound as police in the area are investigating a shooting on the expressway, reports of a shooting near madison ford road. world news is next on channel 6, please join us for "action news" at 11:00 for cecily tynan ducis rogers jaime apody the entire "action news" team, i'm jim gardner, weapon hope you'll joined us at 11:00. hx
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breaking news tonight. abc news obtaining video in a stunning new case. we have just learned a police officer will be charged with murder after being caught on camera. the officer in south carolina firing at a man running away. authorities say it started with a routine traffic stop. steve osunsami is there tonight with what police have just revealed. the plane crash. seven dead flying back after the march madness final. among the dead, a coach. the power out ablgs all over washington, d.c. lights out near the white house, the capitol. even where oprah winfrey was speeblging. the severe storms hitting at this hour after tornado warnings late today. millions in the path. ginger zee is right here. and no laughing matter. the famous scene from "i love lucy." and
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