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over, a jury found dzhokhar tsarnaev guilty of all charges in the boston marathon bombing. one after the other they came -- all guilty verdicts including counts of conspiracy and deadly use of a weapon of mass destruction. 17 of the 30 counts are punishable by the death penalty. three people were killed and 264 were injured when two bombs exploded at the finish line of the boston marathon in 2013. a survivor had this reaction. >> we are obviously grateful for the outcome today not a happy occasion but it's something we can put one more step behind us it's difficult but we have got and through it with each other. >> there is no specific word when the penalty phase will begin but word is it could be as early as next week, dzhokhar tsarnaev will get life in jail or death.
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world news with david muir will have more at 6:30 after our broadcast. police have arrested a photographer and d.j. for multiple counties of pornography and upskirt pictures. david henry is live now tell us about 28-year-old daniel milowicki. >> he has been a high-profile, public entertainer here in the westchester area here for many years and detectives say he led a disturbing secret life and is now in jail. >> this is the classic sexual predator the one your mother warned you about when you were a kid. >> he is all over youtube promoting his djing and state police say they found a much
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different side to milowicki at his home in west bradford they found what appeared to be a begin. the investigation began when a 21-year-old woman said that milowicki lured her to his home and sexually assaulted her and video taped her and then tried to blackmail her. >> we tried his home and his parents home but got no response. police have filed hundreds of charges against him but worry there are many more victims out there. >> he had two facebook pages and a website and they identify him
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photographing kids parties and school parties his whole job, his persona is built around giving him access to his targets. >> milowicki is arraigned on the charges, $250000 but was freed after his father posted 10%. david henry, channel 6 "action news." corbin is charged with aggravated assault after police say he shot his father while driving along the schuylkill expressway, the incident happened last night at 5:45 in the westbound lanes of conshohocken. police say that the 22-year-old was driving in the backseat of the car driven by his father eldwin corbin. they were driving him to a treatment center for drug and alcohol issues. he is held on $500,000 cash
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bail. a $10,000 reward is offered in the abduction and assault of a jewelry store worker in center city philadelphia the mayor's office has put up the reward for the arrest and conviction of the suspects. police say that three men forced the victim into a van in the parking garage at 7th street and chestnut she was beaten and forced to turn over bank codes and was left in a cemetery in darby bureau. philadelphia mayoral candidate liz abraham was back on the cam explain trail following her fainting spell. she was out to prove her old nickname still applies, one tough cookie. >> indeed jim, lynn abraham says her problem was dehydration, and she was back today pronouncing herself fit and ready to
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proceed. >> late today lynn abraham out in the cold damp air greeting rush hour commuters, showing philadelphia voters she is healthy and well. she had a fainting spell during it's debate was an aberration. >> i didn't drink enough water that was it and my blood pressure dropped and that was it but i'm fine. >> she was examined by the doctor and took part in a candidate forum and will not reduce her campaign one bit. >> i think that character counts for a lot in a mayor, i don't believe that any of these candidates would stoop to that. >> the strongest rivals will not raise the age issue. >> it clearly would not have gotten the coverage it did
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because it's live coverage but she is as good as she has her about. >> she can do it. it's not about abraham's physical health. >> state senator williams declined to talk on the clash with the state board of edgics saying that he accepted excess contributions and took money from his senate account to his mayoral campaign. he has came to a settlement and put back the money. "the campaign at all times has attempted to follow the law and be open and transparent we have a difference with the board of edgics on accountant rules" we see the primarily battle for the democratic nomination beginning to draw constant attention and the pressure is starting to build. live in center city, vernon odom, channel 6 "action news."
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>> thank you. the 25th street vie conduct many the project is scheduled to begin in the next month or two. as with a tragic accident in the school parking lot. when a woman was killed by her own car. walter perez explains. >> it's truly a tragedy. >> they are talking about the freak accident that took the life of bus driver, bonnie jean novak, she finished her shift and had gotten into her late model volkswagon, it was giving her trouble and she got out and
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left the car in neutral but the parking lot is sloped. >> the vehicle was coasting through the lot and the vehicle was trying to stop the vehicle and it made her fall underneath or in between the vehicles. >> novak slipped trying to stop the vehicle from the outside because it was her head that became trapped between the bumpers of her vehicle and the vehicle she collided into it. they say that novak was a kind hearted person and was a good friend to coworkers. >> watching our drivers come together and grieve together and share stories and celebrate her, it's been really impactful. >> we had four or five drivers that didn't come to work today counselors are on site and they have been here since 6:00 this morning, all eastern schools are open on delay today her family is notified and funeral
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arrangements are pending. walter perez channel 6 "action news." and still to come on "action news" tonight chester county high school students are getting ready to take on the world in an international physics competition and the phillies look to move past a dismal opening day. >> it's going to be cool and damp for the phillies tonight and then i'm tracking stormy changes by the end of the week i'll explain in the accuweather forecast. those stories and more when "action news" continues tonight.
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an overturned dump truck caused quite the mess in delaware county on gradiville road in glen mills. when it flipped it took down electrical wires and crews were able to restore power by 10:00 a.m. and nobody was hurt. stockton college is a step closer to opening a college near the showboat casino. the city council is meeting to designate the site as a redevelopment zone and that would prohibit it from being used as a casino again. last week developer glen straub bought the building from stockton for $8 million more. new tonight at 6:00 some young championship scientists from chester county, are about to have an experience of a lifetime. they are not going to disney
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world but to thailand. eva pilgram has thar story. >> when you walk down the hallway it sloshes a bit but you don't want it to spill. >> finding the answers is never as easy as finding the problem. >> we are suppose figure outs why things happen. >> they are trying to answer 17 questions as part of the young physicists tournament. it's the physicists world cup the u.s. has not been represented since 2007. mr. jennings their teacher found out about the competition after the organization followed him on twitter you can see an opportunity and try to take it and if you work hard enough you can make it happen. many other countries have special funding and classrooms for these competitions, but
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these students are doing their work in their own free time with the tools they can find. >> we have phone each other for a while and we are coming and doing research but its like we are hanging out. >> even if you are not right it helps you learn more. >> thailand isn't a hop skip and a jump and we decided as a team and school district that any student that qualified academically to go to this competition should be able to go not just those that could afford it. >> like every other problem they are working for fine the solution for this one as well. they start aid go fund me page to make sure everybody could go and pay for the experiments. >> we are a big team. >> and they have big dreams they hope will pay off with big rewards. eva pilgram, channel 6 "action news."
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on the field with the red sox tonight, cold and wet but the bats are going to be hot. hopefully the bats are hot darren rough in the lineup as they try to get more than two hits. they say it's only one game, and it's a good thing or bad thing hopefully game two is more competitive. lets go live to jaime apody. hopefully they can forget that opener jaime. >> well jeff considering they are only expected to win 67 of them it could be a bad thing, remember hanley ramirez who hit two home runs on opening day is he 10 for 25 off harangue and he will have to deal with the elements, it's football weather
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down here, it's 30 degrees colder than monday drizzly and windy and miserable. no fun at all but it will be fun to see what harangue does, you figure there is plenty of pressure on their number two guys shoulders. >> i see him to throw strikes and make the opposition earn what they get and get help from the defense behind them. but he is a veteran guy and seems to be real composed. >> does he have weight on his shoulders? >> there is a reason he is a 13 year vet, the first time is he in this situation, he will probably go to the memory bank and he get a chance to win. >> now if are you coming down to brave the elements tonight, are you in luck and you get the opening night t-shirts they are giving them away to every fan in attendance and i'll put mine on right now because i can take all
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the layers i can get. jaime apody channel 6 "action news" jeff back to you. >> get that red sox fan get him out of that shot. it looks like the sixers season is about to come full season they are trying to avoid losing seven straight. and they face washington, the start to the union season is a nightmare, and now the highest paid goalie has been benched and emboley not even with the team right now and the former la salle star john mccarthy will start the game next friday. >> he didn't seem like himself like the goaltender winning us games in the preseason single-handedly, i think the confidence was gone in him. >> hopefully he get its back. tiger woods has not played golf in to months, how he is
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getting ready? playing with little kids. playing with his two kids perhaps sam has a futon the lpg tour the shot comes from the oldest though jack nicholas off the tee shot, 130 yard as way, you know where it's going -- get in the hole, the 75-year-old nicholas with the ace he still has it jack in a preround interview said he was going to hit a hole in one, and there you go. some students in montgomery county are running around the school yard with new sneakers tomorrow. they received the free shoes courtesy of expo logic a business in east norton part of a program called step up. the ceo says he donated the shoes to give back to the local community.
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owe. you said we were going back to winter like weather and we are back in winner like weather. >> it's cold and dreary and one more day of this and then things begin to change. stormtracker 6 live double scan showing philadelphia right now we have a mist and a pocket of shower activity newtown and moving through doylestown and lifting to the north but there is more on the way so keep the umbrella on hand this evening, and keep the winter coat the accuweather highlights show we are 30 degrees cooler than
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monday, it was sunny and 75 and yesterday 69 degrees and today 31 degrees cooler the high is 41 degrees, that is the average high for the middle of february, not early april felt like winter when you consider the winds, winds out of the northeast combined with the temperatures show that we are talking windchills, windchill 43 degrees in philadelphia and 30 in trenton and feels like 31 at the boardwalk in atlantic city. big problem also likely fog visibility now not all that bad 3 miles in allentown and 2.5 in wilmington and we'll stay with the clouds tonight and tomorrow and the visibility will likely drop and dense fog could be a big problem for the friday morning commute. temperatures show what a difference with the wind flow with the winds from the northeast, north of this low pressure pulls in the cool, damp
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air, virginia right now 65 degrees, and temperatures to the south, we get a taste of that on friday, until then it's damp and dreary and satellite 6 along with action radar showing this batch of showers moving through central pennsylvania moving in tonight south of philadelphia future tracker showing at 11:30 temperatures of 30s and 40s, and south of philadelphia tomorrow is not a lot of activity and we'll get that misting with the winds out of the northeast future tracker showing at 8:00, pretty dense cloud cover and temperatures in the low 30s and upper 40s, we struggle to make it up into the mid-40s nearly a carbon copy of today with clouds and showers that winds out of the northeast big changes though on friday friday a warm front lifts north and we get into the warm sector of the system with the winds from the south, 75 degrees morning fog, some glimpses of sunshine this cold front that is causing
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severe weather in the plains will move through late in the day on friday than will bring us some showers and perhaps some gusty thunderstorms, the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, stuck in the muck one more day tomorrow cloudy and damp and cool with a high of 46 degrees, friday morning fog giving way to limited sunshine and the high surging up to 75 degrees and it looks like the thunderstorms could cause problems for evening commute and future tracker showing a line of gusty thunderstorms moving through by 6:00 on friday night. the good news is that it all clears out in time for the weekend saturday is breezy and cooler and sunday a gorgeous day and 66 and temperatures recover back into the low 70s by early next week with a possibility of showers on wednesday. so cool and damp one more day and the weekend is looking really nice. >> it might as well be spring. >> it is. imagine that. >> next time you visit the philadelphia do you can see the real life animals and ones made
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of unlikely items a new exhibit called unlikely items made from repurposed materials an 8 foot long crocodile made out of chewing gum and a 13 foot gorilla crafted from car doors it debuts saturday and goes through october. "action news" continues at 10:00 on phl 17 with brian taff, shirleen allicot adam joseph and ducis rogers. and then please join us for "action news" at 11:00. right here on channel 6. for cecily tynan jeff skversky and ducis rogers and it's entire "action news" team, i'm jim gardner we hope you join us at 11:00.
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tonight, the breaking developments. the officer charged with murder. this evening, what we've learned about his past after that stunning video. shooting a man who was running away after a routine traffic stop. new questions about the stun gun, was it dropped beside the victim after it was all over? did anyone perform cpr? tonight, the officer behind bars as we learn of two other investigations involving the same cop. also breaking tonight, from boston dzhokhar tsarnaev guilty on all counts. will those same jurors now sentence him to death? the severe storms hitting tomorrow. the tornado watch. the super cell spotted in the last 24 hours. and tonight, the school bus overturned children inside. ginger zee is right here. the heist. dropping down into an elevator shaft to steal hundreds of
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