recycling plant a live look from the ground and a number of detectives left the scene and officers remain here taking statements with employees here in camden, two tractor trailers are here dropping off recycling as we speak some work is back to normal here. here is a look from chopper 6 hd we are told that the discovery was made at 3:00 p.m. today by one of employees here but we are waiting to find out a number of details like where in the facility they made that discovery. we are told that the discoveries of a fetus and they are unable to determine how old it is but in a case like this they have to rely on the medical examiner and the autopsy that will be performed to find out the manner and cause of death was in this situation. now back out here live again like you said there are still

workers walking around here and we saw another police officer working inside of there. officials with the camden county prosecutors office are waiting to understand the details about exactly how that worker did make the discovery, we are told that a recycling plant like this, there say processing center and a conveyer belt when the recycling comes in it's sorted and it's not clear if that is within they made the discovery or the trash bins that are in there. like we said detectives just left the scene here, six or seven of them, they have a lot of work to do and relying on the medical examiners autopsy that is expected to be completed soon. >> thank you annie now to the arrest of a montgomery county man on counts of child sexual abuse, they learned of the alleged abuse after a hid and camera is discovered in the

man's home. this is kevin levity from limerick township. and there could be more victims. chad pradelli is live with more. >> reporter: rick, this began as an invasion of privacy case but quickly turned into a sexual abuse case according to authorities, this is the criminal complaint details dozens of counts many of which are too graphic for broadcasts kevin reby secretly installed a camera in a limerick home and recorded relatives and guests in various states of undress he uploaded the images to a computer and viewed them at north place. >> the idea it was placed inside of a bathroom where people expect they have a private moment there is particularly trouble some.

the video camera was found by a juvenile victim and that launched an investigation and then there was allegations of sexual abuse dating back to within she was 8 or 9. >> this girl kept things secret and after the first arrest she found the ability to speak up about what happened to her. in all 41 videos were recovered 34 containing partially nude or nude victims reby positioned the camera in different positions and authorities believe there are more victims. >> i hope if there are other victims out there if they are listening to this or watching or reading about it find the kournl to come forward and report it. >> reby remains behind bars. i'm chad pradelli channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. a construction worker had to

be rescued at a work site when he got trapped in a trench. it happened on somerdale avenue and the worker got stuck under dirt and they freed him and he was taken to the hospital with a broken leg. an off-duty police officer fired his gun at a man trying to rob him but the suspect got away, officials say it happened overnight just after the officer got home and was walking his dog, vernon odom is live anow where it happened. >> reporter: good evening the suspect that does erupted live remains at large at this hour. he is described as an african-american male in a dark hoody. this is the 1600 block ofmal vrn avenue last night moments after shots rang out after midnight. another resident home from work

was walking his dog when a man in a hoody announced a robbery and then the tables were turned and the dog walker was a police officer that just finished his shift. the officer was able to pull his handgun and able to discharge several rounds at the suspect. >> it was this area here and he was walking his dog and i heard the shot and i was not sure if he got hit but he fell to the ground and his dog got loose the officer hit several parked cars and fled on foot and vanished. >> hospitals are checked with negative results nobody showed up at our hospitals with any type of gunshot wounds. >> heard the gunshots ring out and i didn't want to go to the window six to eight shots. this is reminiscence of james --

he was confronted by three suspects and shot to death. >> police say they confessed and are awaiting trial in the botched robbery. >> it makes me nervous, i have a dog and walk my dog in the evenings, so i'm always watchful to what is going on but you never know. >> at this hour, police have no firm leads whatsoever. they can use all the help and tip calls they can get. >> live many winfield "action news." the story that had everyone talking last week, i thought i was going to die those are the words of a baggage handler, trapped in the cargo hold of a moving airplane fell asleep on the job and the plan took off with him on it. the plane was forced to make an emergency landing and now he tells his side of the story.

>> willa junior, america's most infamous baggage handler that forced a 747 to make an emergency landing. >> back in the cargo i was exhausted and i dozed off, he woke up when a bag fell on his head. >> pitch black all i could haefr was the engine going and it felt like the plane was going up and i was like this is not happening, i thought it was a joke. >> he grabbed his cell phone and he tried his company and they thought he was a prank caller and then tried 911. but the call cut out. so he started banging away at the ceiling so loud passengers could hear it in the cabin above him and willa thought he might die in there. >> texted i love you to my mom because i thought i was going to

die. >> but how did he fall asleep in the first place. willa is very vague about that. >> when we first started the job we took naps. >> he is still employed by the company but expects that might change. he is sorry for the trouble he caused especially the passengers that were delayed. >> don't doze off on the plan, even though the job was hard and stressful. learn from my mistake. >> officials say that junior was never in danger and it's baggage area is pressurized and temperature controlled. but this baggage handler woke up fearing for his life. a scary situation. coming up tonight a situation exposed theft at a local food pantry. >> i'm investigate he reporter wendy saltzman this man was

suppose to help feed the needy and instead he was feeding himself. >> if he was there for the needy people he would not steal from them. >> he stocked his truck with canned food and other supplies when our cameras were rolling, see what happens when we catch him red handed. hear what the charity says about his grocery grab. don't miss my investigation coming up on "action news" at 11:00. >> time for a check of the "action news" traffic report for a thursday night. >> lets check it out with matt pellman. >> running going on in university city with the penn relays and traffic is not running smoothly on the schuylkill expressway, those relays combined with the end of the phillies game gave us heavy westbound delays, we are stopped at the moment to gladwyne and 38 minutes on the westbound travel time that is three times what it ideally should be.

the platt bridge it extra heavy to 26th street. on the downside there say crash and you may be better off at the girard point bridge just slightly better in that direction. in media we are watching a crash on state road at the 101 trolley station a wreck in hockessin, on valley road, one on evesham township at kettle run road. and ngt's river line and patco is running on its track work schedule and expect half hour delays because of debris on the tracks. we'll check it again coming up in the next half hour. >> see you again, thank you matt. taking a spin in the city is now easier mayor nutter took the wraps off ofindigo the

program is in the works for years now with 2,000 bikes it's easy accessible and a healthy way to get around. >> former cia director, david petraeus hears his fate for leaking classified information. and the winter chill has returned and freeze warnings for tonight and how low temperatures drop and within we warm up again in the accuweather forecast. >> a reminder when you see severe weather and breaking news we want you to join the action, email your photos and videos to 6abc.com or use the #6abcaction on social media.

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former director david petraeus is extended to two years probation and an a $100,000 fine. he plead guilty to an unauthorized removal of classified material. officials from the cdc are on their way to lancaster ohio to investigate an outbreak of botulism the outbreak is

believed to have started at a pot luck dinner. >> health officials in ohio are going through dumpsters now to try to find the contaminated food botulism say rare bacteria but can cause serious problems such as paralysis and death. as a food born illness it's rare and linked to foods that are home canned. health officials stress that proper home canning methods have to be proper and boiling foods will kill the bacteria. they are sending anti-toxic medications to ohio. we have more tonight on the dangerous synthetic marijuana that sent people to the hospitals in the lehigh valley and the nation's poison control center put out an alert on the problem. they have 19 calls from january

21st for people with bad reactions, alabama had 317 calls in 18 days think the drug is not really marijuana but chemicals sprayed on plant material and so far the doctors are not sure what the chemicals are that are causing the bad reactions knowledge is reporting a big spike in bad reactions and the drugs are different than marijuana and very dangerous. back over to you. >> thank you ali. a group of high school girls had a special visit this morning from one of our own from "action news" sharrie williams was a guest speaker at liberty charter, she shared her story of becoming a news jurn journalist and they got to ask sharrie questions and get advice on life.

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more problems for mcdonald's the fast food giant plans to close 1900 of the restaurants this year, the news comes after the golden arches reported a profit loss for the first three months of the year and is fighting back with the pay hike for the workers and

able all day breakfast menu. a city councilman is planning a new plan for the streets of philadelphia councilman mark squila wants to impose a fee of 5 cents on plastic bag. >> we have complaints from the residents for litter they come into the store and they throw the bag on the street when they come out and it adds to the blight of the city. >> city council tried to ban plastic bales back in 2006 and 2009 but it did not work. >> jackson joined "habitat for humanity" to build seven new houses in the community habitat will provide zero interest 20

year loan for qualifying loans for $96,000 each. families trying to pick their school in camden have an easy way to compare schools now they handed out new school information cards like these to parents, the cards are a valuable resource to make sure that the schools fit a child's need easier and meet a school's guide on web page, they enjoyed dancing today the anniversary of israel's independence children partied at the gym here and had a barbecue, it's a way to honor the state of israel and never forget the sacrifices of those that fought for freedom.

time for accuweather at the "action news" big board meteorologist cecily tynan is here and as promised we went back a season. >> double scan live is showing we have a few showers around and one band working through chester county and parts of salem and gloucester county it's all migrating up to the north and east. it's really light rain and there is another band that extends from burlington county to northern atlantic and ocean

county and route 9 right now and that is moving to the north and east. what happened to april? today's high in philadelphia 52 degrees, that is 17 degrees below normal and 52 is the average high for the middle of march, when we are in fact still in winter and right now temperatures are dropping down into the 40s, philadelphia 49 and allentown 44 and reading 43 and trenton 46 and millville 52 degrees and sea isle city 52 degrees it feels colder thanks to the wind gusts winds gusting 31 miles per hour, and 30 in allentown and wilmington the winds gusting up to 23 miles per hour. satellite 6 along with action radar showing the reason why there is low pressure spinning here west of maine you can see snow associated with that and that is pulling down cold air and it's self-destructing sunshine any sun that heats the

earth causes it to bubble up and a few wet snowflakes in the northern and western suburbs mixing in with the rain. the big news weather-wise is the cold, temperatures dropping within 2 to 3 degrees of the record low and philadelphia 36 degrees is the low and allentown 30 and reading 31 and millville 32 and with many areas dropping at or below freezing if you started planting a good idea to cover up the plants, if you have the potted plants bring them inside. if there say freeze warning for chester or upper bucks all areas north and west, the freeze watch extends into south jersey basically everywhere, except for cape may county and delaware county and the state of delaware either under a freeze warning or freeze watch, i would not be surprised if tomorrow night we have the same thing 55 degrees

and saturday up to 60 and high clouds and sunday rain south of philadelphia, and partly sunny and 60 and warm it up to 62 did lots of clouds and tuesday milder and 66 despite the weather, adam joseph is out at haverford reserve and making friends and getting exercise. >> a lot of exercise, you know what not only do you have the freedom playground on the reserve you have the baseball diamond behind me here, the haverford school for saintal wishs the soccer fields here and a lot to do. did you bring hot chocolate for everyone? >> no, i'm sorry. >> oh. who wants to race down the slide. good job! everyone is a winner? lets go to the dog park. >> yeah sure. >> we are going to the dog park down the hill there you going to race me down, we'll see you guys in a little bit with the

seven day. >> the most exercise he got all week. quick break and "action news" continues in just a moment.

"action news" continues with

meteorologist adam joseph jaime apody rick williams and monica malpass. >> hello again here is what is happening on "action news" tonight. a u.s. drone strike targeting al qaeda results in the death of two hostages including an american, we'll have a live update. three philadelphia police officers find themselves on the other side of the law accused in three separate crimes, and drivers slapped with a parking ticket have an easier way to settle their fines. >> president obama takes full responsibility for a full counter terrorism operation that killed an american hostage. the january drone strike was on a suspected al qaeda compound. warren winestein from rockville maryland and italian hostage were also inside and died in the blast and two other americas

that joined al qaeda also died. karen travers live with more. >> good evening rick, a somber president obama apologized today to the families of the two hostages killed in the american air strike the cia was watching this compound for what the president said was hundreds of hours targeting operatives and they didn't believe there was civilians inside. president obama called it a tragedy. and said he takes full responsibility. >> it is a cruel and bitter truth that in the fog of war generally and the fight against terrorists specifically, mistakes sometimes deadly mistakes can occur. >> two hostages held by al qaeda accidentally killed in a january 14 and, cia drone strike they

were targeting al qaeda operatives. >> based on the intelligence we obtained at the time includes hundreds of hours of surveillance we believed this was an al qaeda compound and no civilians were present. >> two al qaeda members were killed farouk a leader was taken out and in a separate operation, adam gadahn, a california native that served as a spokesman for the group. gadahn and farouk were not the intended targets. >> these two al qaeda leaders were frequently an al qaeda compound that was identified by the united states. >> the u.s. had indications that and non-combatives were at the target locations but there was high confidence this month that they were killed. >> winestein and his family said that the people that took his

captive are ultimately responsible for his death. the white house said the u.s. government provided compensation for the winestein and laporto families. we are learning about the major security lapse of the home of former president, george h.w. bush, the alarm stopped working in september 2013 and it was not fixed for more than a year and a secret service expert warned that the system was likely to fail and they opted not to fix it but to assign an additional agent to patrol the property instead. david muir will have more on the homeland security report as well as the targeting of al qaeda you can watch all of that on "action news" at 6:00. >> animal cruelty, theft and perjury those are some of the

charges that three police officers are facing in connection with three separate cases, roger walton is accused of keeping his severery injured dog in a damp and moldy rescues the animal was in such bad shape he had to be euthanized and the other officer made false statements on paperwork and occurred while on the narcotics strike force and finally 9 year veteran, christopher jackson is an accused of stealing a witness's cell phone while taking him to be interest viewed. walton resigned yesterday. in mount laurel, a fox captured in the area of bury port way has tested positive for rabies the health department is issuing a warning to resident there's if any family members or pets were bitten or scratched by

strays it's important they be vaccinated immediately. we are less than a month from the philadelphia mayoral primary the six candidates are pushing forward and tonight we are profiling the candidates and the plans for the city's future. vernon odom is here with more on jim kenny. >> lets get out and get to work. >> after deciding late to throw his hand in the ring, is he moving fast and gathering up major endorsements at a rapid pace from unions and commune groups and what is considered a major coup from black officials from north western wards, on the issue of improving schools, he believes in governor tom wolf and the progressive line. >> universal pre-k for all and achievers and ingrating the schools and making them community spaces and places for people to go and get services.

>> kinney believes he will address the town's poverty. we have a 16% poverty rate getting people coming out of incarceration, it's $40,000 a year to keep them locked up. >> dpuring his more than 20 years on city council, he ambulanced the budget and looked at taxes every spring. >> people say they are going to cut the wage tax, be prepared to have a city with little services and people are not happy with that either. >> now that police brutality and excessive force is a major issue how would kenny confront that issue? >> we have problems with the relationship between our african-american communities and the police. >> now do you do that? >> you train. >> he says that commissioner ramsey says, if he wants the job

if not he will promote from within. >> when it comes to keeping public secure the police department is secure. >> jim kinney has won races before and the last two mayors have come from the ranks of district councilmen to win the brass ring. vernon odom, 6 abc. >> again we are profiling all six candidates running for the democratic nomination for mayor. the primary is coming up on may 19th. drexel university is apologizing to hundreds of students for emails promising them admission even those their applications were rejected. it was intended to remind students about an applied deadline and they included a

congratulatory note. it went out to 495 students that were denied admission or didn't finish their applications. the philadelphia parking authority rolled out a new app to pay your parking tickets from your smart phone. it's an ease we way to pay outstanding parking tickets and users can sign up for alerts and any other tickets. it's only available on iphones but officials will roll out to androids the next few months. >> now the man that never gets the parking ticket. matt pellman in the "action news" traffic center with an update. >> we won't talk about that. we'll talk about the parked traffic and we have plenty of it in the afternoon rick and monica, we are parked here now on the tacony palmyra bridge meaning the bridge was up and on its way back down now and traffic is stopped on both sides, i'll expect an opening on

the burlington bristol bridge opening in a few minutes. >> it's been exceptionally busy now with people headed home from the phils game and the penn relays and people were using mlk as an alternate than is stacked headed out of town at the moment. a crash along white marsh at baron hill road and one on main street near broad and horsham at bayberry circle and in gloucester circle a crash at tuckahoe road. rick and monica back over to you. >> all right matt thank you. >> still ahead on "action news," the phillies are hoping for redemption after the marlins loss last night. >> and adam is live. hey adam. >> he is in haverford township. >> we have badges here and you know what, we have a lot of fun

with the kids at the playground and we are in the playground made for dogs here, hey guy, we'll talk more about this playground for the canine fans coming up in the accuweather forecast. they like the cameras as much as the kids sharrie. >> with just two episodes left with the season finale of scandal, things get tense for olivia pope and scandal.

why are dwight evans, marian tasco and so many other leaders backing jim kenney for mayor? because jim kenney's the one they trust. jim kenney's the one with a real record of standing up for public schools and he'll bring philadelphia together. it's kenney who will expand pre-kindergarten... and partner with businesses, community colleges and universities to create jobs. so join leaders we trust in supporting jim kenney the block by block mayor philadelphia needs.

time for sports phillies took on the marlins at citizens bank park. jaime apody is live with more on that. >> it had to happen eventually the first time phillies fueled the starting lineup without one single member of the 2008 world series team. chase utley and carlos ruiz and ryan howard all given the day off. maybe one of them should have played. a single, and still in the fourth martine prado to make it 4-0 and john carlos with a

drive line homer and he was tagged for two runs and the phillies fall 9-1. they lost four serieses in five tries, jeff skversky says much of the reason is their sloppy play. >> phillies are the worst team in baseball they managed one run in the finale against the marlins they are the worst fielding team in baseball too after five more errors in the last two games. >> it's frustrating it really is, we worked at it and fundamental baseball is a priority. making the routine plays hitting the cutoff man is a priority, and it's been the disappointing the last to games. the fundamentals of the game we are not doing good right now. when are you not doing well, those are the things you have to do. maybe win your game, take a deep

breath and try to play relaxed, if you play this game tight are you going to struggle and we have done that at times. >> the phillies are playing a lot of bad baseball and the fans are fed up a lot of empty seats here today, just over 17000 on hand the smallest crowd in the history of citizens bank park. jeff skversky channel 6 "action news." >> 2003 at the vet the last time a phillies was scene by so few fans. >> phillies pete rose will get a taste of summer rose will be allowed to participate in some activities surrounding the all-star game near his home town of cincinnati. he agreed to a lifetime ban in baseball after betting on the team he was managing and he submitted an application for reinstatement in january. and we are one week away from

eagles draft day, will they move up to draft marcus mariota, mansfield said today never say never. they talked about the type of player they are targeting. >> they fit our system and we are looking to acquire those players as many as we can at all different levels. certainly in the first round. >> they plan on making all eight of their picks. sharrie lets send it back to you. >> never boring. >> thursday night than mean a packed lineup on tonight's prime time here on 6 abc, it starts on dramatic fashion with an all new "grey's anatomy" at 8:00 p.m. >> definitely gets your attention and derek is witness

to a horrific crash just feet in front of him he has to count on his training to save lives that may not be all we'll see what happens tonight on grayeys at 8:00. >> make sure the two of you don't work together even though you live together. >> strategy time, melee and fitz has to make adjustments if she has hopes of being elected to the senate. this as olivia and her gladiators take action. that is at 9:00. >> if you think 29 years to life is nothing how would you feel if the case was dismissed. >> you are caving. >> aliyah has organized a march and that may be putting pressure on the d.a. to make a deal on

the all new american crime but barb is refusioning to back down and organized her own march. that is tonight on american crime at 10:00. heart pounding action and suspense as always and drama on tonight's prime time, it starts at 8:00 with "grey's anatomy" and "scandal" at 9:00 and american crime at 10:00. followed by "action news" at 11:00.

let head back out to the playground at haverford township. and adam joseph on an outdoor adventure he is on the dog run right now. >> they are running around and staying warm if only i had a coat that thick right now. this is mia and she is relaxing 10 years old and she is beautiful and she is watching all the dogs. you can see the freedom playground, in the background mom is on the cell phone with her. five miles of hiking trails, a great place for everyone of mankind and you dogkind yes.

a lot of clouds around today and wind and showers and snow showers at times and right now you can see in chester county and western delaware county a few sprinkles around as well as burlington county in new jersey. look at the windchills we felt them all day. 52 in atlantic city and 42 in philadelphia and 27 in the poconos, and just 36 degrees right now in the lehigh valley. take ago look at the satellite and radar if you are up early lots of sunshine and no clouds and because the air is so cold and have you the strong april sunshine, it goes to work in the afternoon and erupts the clouds and scattered rain showers and at times in the northern areas mixing with wet snowflakes, it's brisk and cold and temperatures fall apart and record lows, and 30 in the suburbs in center city. a freeze warning for the far north western suburbs, chester

montgomery and bucks and lancaster county a killing freeze is likely by tomorrow morning and that freeze watch that was originally in affect in the blue, that has been canceled for tonight and will go into effect for tomorrow night into saturday morning, we have a couple of nights to watch these temperatures might drop to at or below freezing winds 15 to 25 miles per hour and main low over the tennessee pressure and the high slides off the outer banks of north carolina on saturday and it's a sunny start but high clouds are pulling in as the warm fronts is draped in the western part of the ohio valley and that warm front as we get into sunday that low will ripple along it and brush us to the south. it brings us showers south and west of the philadelphia the second half of the weekend, the exclusive accuweather seven-day

forecast, friday is stays windy and cool and 55 degrees, saturday sun to afternoon clouds, it's cool through the weekend and lots of clouds through sunday and some sun and a shower or two on sunday and then we turn the corner on tuesday, 66 and partly sunny and 68 on wednesday and seasonable on thursday, at 68 degrees so really not a bad change as we get into the middle of next week. this is your beautiful little dog. >> yes. >> what is her name? >> mia. >> you come here every day? >> yes every day. >> it's usually packed. >> and it's cold and dinner time i suppose. >> the other one is running around over there. there you go turn the camera around, something you didn't want to see on tv she is having a blast on tv she is beautiful. guys a really great park to come

and bring your dogs and take a walk if you want and bring the kids to the play grown ground -- and rick real quick i have something for you. you know you are in a dog park you have to clean it up. once are you done account job, help us out, there is quite a bit around here. >> that is one of rick's best -- >> i use it in the office all the time. >> better leave it at that.

breaking news from south philadelphia chopper 6 hd is over the scene of a house fire with a possible life-threatening injury on federal street about 5:15 fire officials were called

here after a small blaze was reported in a two story dwelling and the fire was under control within minutes but a 69-year-old man was pulled from the apartment with no vitals now an investigation is underway as to what happened here and we'll bring you an update as soon as we get. "action news" with jim gardner is next.

"action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with ducis rogers meteorologist, cecily tynan, and jim gardner. thursday night and the big

story on "action news" tonight, a grim discovery at a camden recycling plant a worker found a fetus on the property. live on the 2200 block of mown ephraim, annie mccormick is live. what do you know there now. >> reporter: a disturbing discovery made by one of the employees here in camden the discovery of the dead fetus was made on a conveyer belt as the recycleables were being processed. you can see detectives out on the scene and an employee made the discovery at the end of the plant's first shift found the dead fetus on the conveyer belt when they were being processed. this goes to parts of camden county and parts of gloucester