delaware county community. it has seen one leader refuse to leave the office and the mayor considering a state of emergency. that's >> it was a brazen and savage attack. police want you to look at this surveillance video of 7 people storming out of a van and attacking a homeless man at a gas station.

it happened in the olney section of philadelphia and police are still trying to track down five suspects. >> friday night and the big story on "action news" tonight is the latest on a brutal gas station attack. while two women are in custody three women and two men are still at large. and "action news" reporter dann cuellar is live at northwest detectives and dann, you have the full story. >> that's right, jim, police say this all began earlier when a 10-year-old went home and told his mom a homeless man at the gas station hit him as they argued over who would pump customer's gas over spare change. surveillance shows no evidence the 51-year-old ever hit the kid the mother and her group went back in the station and pummeled the guy. >> police say it was tuesday night around 7:00 a homeless man standing outside a sunoco station in the 5300 block of north fifth and honda odyssey pulls up 7 people jump out of the man and andly attack the man. they punch and kick him

pummeling him to the ground. the boy's mother repeatedly struck the man open the head it rocking chair leg until it broke. as he lay on the ground others struck him with hammers and others and laid unconscious bleeding from the head. from they left the boy they took the boy over to the victim to show them what they did to him. >> they're not sure he'll make it or not it's traumatic. >> one of the assailants shar ina akeem maceed one of her cohorts and drove to einstein to have her eyes flushed. they were not banking on police who had seen the video being there working on the case. >> further investigation revealed these individuals were involved in the assault on this man. >> arrested were gilliland and joakiem of lawrence avenue we took the video back to the gas station to see if people could identify the others. >> oh, man, that's messed up. >> oh, man that's -- >> oh, man. >> 7 people.

>> look at that lady mzamane a hammer. >> that's messed up. i can't even -- that's unimaginable. that's crazy. >> sad. >> no respect for nobody. >> unfortunately that's becoming a way of things in the get owe that's how we do it now. no respect for people. that's messed up man. >>reporter: now, police have recovered the car in question. tonight they were questioning others hoping to learn identities of five others involved. police think they may be relatives or friends. if you have information on the whereabouts you're asked to call police. we're live in northwest detectives, i'm dann cuellar "channel 6 action news." >> thank you dann. we know these videos are often difficult to watch. but we also know that airing them works. viewers like you were able to identify several additional suspects from this attack on two trenton teenage therz week. police tell "action news" they were able to arrest 3 more people a 15-year-old girl, 13-year-old girl and 1-year-old

boy. they expect even more arrests and tips identified several more additional people of interest. >> philadelphia police investigating an incidents involving one of their own tonight. a police cruiser struck a 4-year-old boy in mayfair. this happened 8:00 in the 6300 block of leonard treated. the young boy is being treated at st. christopher's hospital. >> tonight, a long time employee of the delaware county d.a. is under arrest for allegedly stealing $100,000 from the office. "action news" reporter chad pradelli is live outside the delaware county courthouse in media. chad. >>reporter: jim the da learned of alleged theft a couple months ago. today mary lynch turned her saevrl in to face a slew of felony charges and that 100,000 tally you talked about the da expects that to go much higher. >> this is a case of be travel. >> reporter: delaware county district attorney says jack whalen and long time financial

administration mayor lunch stole over 100,000 and spent money on tickets and sporting aevents. those are photos from the face back page that aided in investigation. the da says lynch didn't go for the cheap seats. >> she sat in the front row of the flyers game. and those flyers tickets were purchased on stubhub. and on stubhub i believe the purchase price of those flyers tickets each was approximately $600. >> ranch was 29 year employee of the das office and money allegedly stolen was not taxpayer dollars but rather forfeited funds basically money seesed from drug dealers and used to help pay for law enforcement. the da says she forged and altered documents to conceal her crimes. >> she has admitted stealing the proceeds from the forfeited account. >> investigators say a search of her home uncovered bob dillon and taylor swift concert tickets

and roughly $60,000 cash which she claims is her boyfriend's. attorney's general office and private auditor reviews the forfeited account annually and audits failed to uncover the alleged crimes. >> they're only as good as the information provided and mary unfortunately is the person providing them with that information. so she's manipulating it. >> and lynch has been fired and the district attorney says it new internal controls are put in place to make sure it doesn't happen g. live in media, chad pradelli, "channel 6 action news," jim. >> thank you chad, tornado struck with a fury that was not seen since last year. survivor sure schaffers believe the monster twister had winds 200 miles an hour and carved a path 50 miles long yesterday through northern ill: in its wake towns were leveled, two women killed. both in the community of fairfax dale. meteorologist cecily tynan is at the "action news" big board

tonight and cecily was tracking developments and collecting storm chaser video, cecily. >> preliminary investigation shows that this tornado that struck the community of fairfax dale 80 miles west of chicago is ef 4 tornado. second most powerful category. they stayed on ground 50 miles and didn't hop around and winds 180 to 200 miles an hour and path estimated half mile wide. video of it very dramatic. this is what is known as a wedge tornado. the width of it is just as wide as it is tall and with winds like this you really cannot escape the path of the tornado. you can actually tople it over semis as you see there and it can also tople over airplanes and this community only 150 people and damage today shows that about 25% of this town was flattened and when you have winds like that you can not actually escape in a building. winds like that will really

demolish even well made buildings so you have to get underground to escape a tornado like that and unfortunately two people were not able to do that and were killed. i want to show you this was all part of the cold front that swept through here tonight. most areas clouds. we got clipped with thunderstorms in parts of cape may yount i and this now moved off the coast and get ready for a great weekend here. we'll talk about that in the full accuweather forecast. >> thank you cecily. authorities are trying to find out what sparked a deadly plays today in newark, delaware. the fire erupted 10:00 this morning at' up park apartments. one woman was found dead. two other people injured. including a woman that broke both ankles as she jumped from the building. >> power struggle tonight in atlantic city. just days after the revel casino sale was finalized. city administration is now finding the resort because it has no electricity. and the problem, the building's

fire sul suppression systems are not working which is safety violation. this all stems from contract fight between revel's new owner and the old power plant that cut off the juice to the property yesterday afternoon. strawb's company says it's working to get portable generateers to the site and the power back on-line. until then they'll be fined $5,000 a day. >> and after two hung juries sex abuse case against a catholic priest is dropped. philadelphia district attorney's office says it will not retry reverend andrew mccormick for a third time. he was accused of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old alter provide at bridesburg st. join in 1997. archdiocese of philadelphia first suspended mccormick in 2011. >> there is in legal drawm surrounding state attorney general kathleen kane tonight "action news" learned that warrants have been served at kane's offices in norristown and

harrisburg and they're seeking -- grand jury said she should be charged with leaking grand jury information to the news immediate today she was ordered to explain why she fired a prosecuteers in her office. at issue, whether the firing violated his order forbidding her to retalliate against witnesses in the league investigation. the brutal manager of colwyn delaware county left the office for the weekend. but that was a lot more complicated than it sounds by the way that borough manager paula brown given her past it should be no surprise she find herself at center of political fire storm. ken has the story. >> there's a tough workweek and then there's one paula brown had. friday she walked out of colwyn borough hall unsure if still burrow manager. >> i'm still working. >> brown locked her saevrl in the office after political gainsmanship political council

meeting thursday night. >> this is crazy. >> led to four member majority voting to fire her and code enforcement director. which leaves only one employee left in the building. mayor michael blue who stands with brown says he's considering declaring a state of emergency. >> people elected us to did a job. not to see it borough get sinked under again. >> the ement battled borough manager refusal to leave is a tactic she used before. in 2004 mayor of darby borough locked herself in the office during a fight with the police chief this time brown won't exit because of protecting financial efforts. past and present council members misused taxpayer drivers and accused newly elected leader for lesser of extorsion. >> i'm not trying to extort anybody. >> things in colwyn have to change and the state said two things cut spending and stop non-sense at the 3450e9ing and that's what we're trying to do.

>> friday morning delaware county detectives seized more boxes. he's aware of many issues of cole whip and they're still under investigation. brown as a hess message for the da. >> please hurry up and do what needs to be done. >> monday, council is expected to have closed or executive session to discuss the borough manager position. brown says not only will she be there but she'll work here this weekend taking care of business. reporting in colwyn kenneth moton "channel 6 action news." >> the campaign for mayor of philadelphia came to northeast tonight. candidate forum was held at the fox chase elementary school on rhawn street. five of the six democrats attended and did sole republican melissa bailey. big issues tonight school funding, policing strategy and diverse housing demand. koling up new cases of contagious disease discovered at

a local school district and slow speed achase with violent carjacker behind the wheel of a cab. and plus the honors handed out six years after the deadly attack at fort hood. we'll explain why it took so long for them to receive their medals cecily. >> we've been stuck in cloudy, cool weather the last few days and tracking return of sun sheen and big warm-up. i'll have the details in the accuweather forecast. >> and jeff skversky with some interesting statistics about tonight's phillies game. at citizens bank park. when "action news" continues tonight

>> 20-year-old john t booker junior was arrested for allegedly planing a suicide attack at fort riley kansas. authorities say the plan was meant to show support of isis and booker believed the attack

was justified and the quran says killen mys wherever they are. today in texas, survivors of fort hood massacre were honored with purple heart six years after deadly rampage and following long fight over military policy whether their injuries qualified for medals. the 2009 shooting spree where army psychiatrist nadal hasan opened fire on unarmed soldiers was classified as workplace violence not terrorism and congress pass aid law to change eligibility standards and award the purple theert 1 victims killed and 31 injured. >> in southern california today ten sheriff deputies placed on leave after captured on camera punching and kicking a suspect. it happened yesterday in san bernadino county when deputies tried to serve a search warrant he drove off and stole a horse

and led officer on a 2 1/2 hour chase and the officers rhawnched and civil right investigation. >> it was a chase in south los angeles. the driver behind the wheel of bright green taxi. at one point snopd tracks bypassing train this was no laughing matter because the suspects was a carjacker that had stolen the cab at gun point. they used armored vehicles to spint tax question and block it in. the suspect gave up without a fight under aim of heavy gun fire. >> prestage a historic day in relations with cuba. president owe am ais expected to meet with raul castro major step towards reestablishing diplomatic relations. the u.s. has to remove cuba from list of terror sponsoring

nations. >> radnor township school district now reported 8 cases of whooping cough in the past two months. 7 came from the high school and other from radnor, middle school. officials say they stepped up daily cleaning and disinfecting in an attempt to block any further sprayed of the disease. >> on campus of mount s joseph university in ohio a family and friends gathered to remember life of determined and brave young woman. campus community held a prayer vigil today in memory of lauren hill who died this morning from a rare form of brain cancer. hill's spirit touched the nation when she fulfilled a dream of playing college basketball despite her illness. lauren hill was 19 years old. >> more area families in need will have food for tables thanks to again rossty of view he'sers. acme on city aevd presented philabundance with a 65,000

check. it was raised during the hol di food driver. brpy prazenica was on hand tonight with other executives to successfully celebrate the most productive drive in 9 years of this partnership. good news there. >> we have to beat it next year. >> absolutely the goal is always higher. >> cecily tynan with the accuweather forecast. >> her forecast is finally clearing in and out time for weekend. stormtracker 6 live double scan showing we're dry out there. notice batch of showers off the costs of new jersey. we did have a line of storms move through cape may county 1/2 hours ago with that cold front that swept through that was the only area seeing storms. let's go live on sky6 now taking a look at the ben franklin bridge. we have clouds upstairs and clouds send out and clear out as we head through the overnight hours. currently in philadelphia, 55. allentown 49. reading 506789 millville 55. wilmington 53. sea isle city 57 and trenton 54.

this say cold front but there's really no cold air behind it. temperatures actually will be warmer tomorrow than today. thanks in part to the fact we see a good amount of sunshine. visibility though right now we have some patchy fog. allentown reporting 2 1/2 miles visibility lancaster two miles and philadelphia five miles. fog not that strong and with winds picking up tonight any fog will be dispurseing. satellite 6 and action radar showing a line of thunderstorms that clipped cape may. fortunately well i guess it was not fortunate if you were hoping for sunny, nice, warm weather today but the fact it was cool that really kept any thunderstorms from moving into our region. this is the same system that caused deadly tornado in illinois last night. tomorrow, nothing but sunshine. maybe a few clouds early in the day. 8:00 50. by 11:00, 56, 2:00, 59 and by 5:00 61. temperatures about where they should be this time of year and

6 degrees lot of sunshine. it will be on the breezy side. and winds out of northwest 12 to 25 miles an hour. remember last saturday show, wind giingts up to 45 miles an hour. won't be quite as windy as last weekend. high pressure building rights over us on sunday. the pick of the weekend baby blue sky. loads of sunshine. warmer and less wind with high up to 6le. we deserve this weekend. the exclusive accuweather 7-day forecast saturday great weather during the day phillies at night. sunny and breezy during the day 62. surprised pick of weekend 68. loads of sunshine. monday we warm-up more. beautiful monday. 73. mostly sunny. on tuesday, our luck runs out for one day of soaking rain with high of 67 degrees. but sunshine is back with a mixture of clouds on wednesday. 70 for the high. thursday also looking good. partly sunny 70.

and friday, clouds, 70. cloud out of here. temperatures where they should be this time of year and beautiful weekend. >> good one. >> you too. >> sounds of silver screen dime life on center city philadelphia stage tonight. ♪a little disney music there and philly pops performed sound tracks for hollywood biggest

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masters after two rounds doesn't belong to jack nicholas or arnold palmer an tiger woods bibut a 21-year-old kid who should be a senior in college now. tiger looks getterburg the second round in augusta on 7 for birdie. you know where it's going. tiger 2 under after two in time for 19 place. twelve shots behind leader. if you remember in 1997 when tiger won his first masters at 21 he looked a lot like this jordan spieth with 15 birdie so far. spieth is 14 under lowest score at the masters after two rounds. what does he have to stay as introduced at his press conference. >> he now as record for lowest first 36 holes in master's tournament history. wow like to give a few comments. [ laughter ]. >> it's really cool. it's cool. >> it's cool. can a 21-year-old say it better.

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>> well go figure we have a goalie controversy in town. believe it or not it's not a flyers goalie having problems but trauma in goal for the union. highest paid keeper in the game out in favor of john mccarthy who started north catholic high and lasalle. he'll make his debut tomorrow how about this last year this time he was watching from the sglandz it's indescribable. a lot of energy and good positive vibes from people telling me to really enjoy the game and that's what i plan to do enjoy the game and do whatever it takes to win. >> mccarthy has 200 family and friends on hand since he bought up all the tickets.

you can watch the game 6abc tomorrow and coverage starts 3:30 union looking for first w. hope nrully the local kid can help them do it. >> family pairing fashion and food in chestnut hill. chestnut hill business district posted second fashion and food at the fairway and jamie apody emceed the event and enjoyed a little food as well. event featured sample from chestnut hill restaurants and special discounts for local chefs. >> "jimmy kimmel live" next on channel 6 followed by "nightline". "action news" continues at 5:30 a.m. for cecily tynan, jeff skversky, ducis rogers and the entire "action news" team, i'm jim gardner have a good night and great weekend.

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