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>> while eagles rookies were practicing this weekend linebacker emmanuel acho was in virginia at the prom. i know what you're thinking isn't he old for the prom. he agreed to go when virginia high schooler hannah dell mont a after she asked him on twitter. her invite was retweeted 10,000 times. he had sich good time he started singing ed sheeran song to his date ♪ date ♪
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>> what do you think. not bad, not bad. all right. [ applause ] i hate to rag on mom with this being mother's day and all ricky fouler's mom left flare's championship early she figured he is not going to win has not in three years went to airport, khengd into flight. bad idea. no love for mom but the score. loves ricky fouler all over the bag in the fifth major. he comes back with five shot deficit and playoff with sergio garcia. mom gets the call rushes back to see the finish. sudden death on 17. putt to win it at the player's championship that's mom going up and down give your kid a hug there you go first win in 69 starts. how about that. >> to clear it up the shorter lady was the mom. >> that's right.
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>> thank you. >> much more in the next half hour of "action news" tonight it was not wind and rain that battered parts of country one state had a blizzard to contend with. >> it was a special day for mate rearch from montgomery county surrounded by her family. very big family. we'll drop in with a 92-year-old woman. that and more when "action news" comes right
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>> sunday night. here's what's happening on "action news" 11:30 mary lee great white shark, still headed up the jersey shore. now she's away actually. where she's headed tonight. >> this is not lambeau field in december these crews are clearing snow for a major league baseball game today. >> and a local family with lots of love to go around. how a woman with 56 grandchildren and 54 great grandchildren celebrated mother's day. >> first delaware county woman taking issue with the way a local cemetery is maintaining grounds. she went to put flowers on grandmother's grave today and found an overgrown mess. chad pradelli has the story from sharon hill. >> reporter: mrs. thompson feels
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mount lawn cemetery is disrespecting dead. weeds and grass are knee high. >> this is another grave. >> her grandmother monthsy mrunt was buried here several decades ago. they could not afford a grave stone so they come once a month to put flowers down. month after month it gets more difficult to find her burial plot. >> you walk up here and fall in holes and people are out here with own lawn mowers and cleaning off the graves theirself. everyone is complaining and nothing is getting done. >> a few stabs from glount's grave site is this piles and piles of trash. over there, there are a few old mattresses and this is surely an ugly sight. >> my heart goes out to them. >> len lives along the cemetery he mows many sites along the back fence. he felt was right thing to do. >> i'm sorry everybody deserves
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better than this no matter where you're murryed in this world. >> they have not returned phone calls and for now thompson and her family will have to look at this when they visit the resting place of monthsy glount. >> what are they telling you. >> nothing they don't have the money. they cannot afford to hire anyone now. the only landscapeers they get don't have insurance. therefore they can't afford them. it's a run around all the time. >> chad pradelli, "channel 6 action news." >> from our delaware newsroom a house fire in kent county ended with one person killed and five others injured it happened 10:30 this morning reynolds flowed fred rica. crews arrived to find several people escaped the nraemz and each uvr suffered various injuries. a swrik tim was trappeded in. >> in southwest philadelphia two jumped have a third story window this morning to escape from a fire there on the 5700
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block of dray aetion avenue the fire broke out after 10:30 this morning and both victims were taken to presbyterian hospital and no word on their conditions tonight or how the fire startd gloucester county new jersey officials say it was the smoke detector that saved lives of three people inside a burning home in glasboro. the people who lived there were able to escape uninjured. no word yet on a cause of this fire either. >> philadelphia police want to know who pulled the triingner another shooting. this one in port richmond. it happened after midnight in the 1200 block of atlantic street officers heard gun shots and rushed to the the scene and they spot id aman running away. victim was found lying outside a passenger side of vehicle with gun shot wound to head. he was taken to temple university hospital and pronounced dead. an update to a story we first brought you last night. investigators tell "action news" death of a 65-year-old man near the rehab facility where he was living is not suspicious.
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they say the man fell into a ravine. it was last night when the staff at main or care health services in west deptford noticed a man missing from his room. a short time later, his body was found. investigators say he was allowed to walk around the grounds and this appears to have been an accident. >> an autopsy is scheduled for tomorrow on the 1-year-old who died after authorities say he was tossed into lehigh by his own mother. the boy died six days after being pulled by the river 700 yards downstream. his mother has since been charged with attempted murder. no word tonight on if charges will be upgraded one of the truly historic churches in delaware valley marked a major milestone today. st. david's in wayne celebrated its 300 anniversary by rededicating the church and they created a time capsule with mess amounts for parishioners in 22
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century. revolutionary war are general anthony wayne. >> cathedral ball silica st. peters and paul hosted a mother's day con sthert afternoon. >> at adult and children's choirs of the cathedral present aid program honoring blessed virgin mary. our own annie mccormick is a member of the inquire and the concert was dedicated through mothers through the archdioceses. >> moms and kids were treated to a cool vitae this afternoon in camden. the police department along with mr. the police department along with mr. softee teamed up to handout free ice cream around town. we caught one tasty initiative at pine point park. no doubt, that ice cream hit the spot of what turned into a spring hot day. >> ited was a mother's day to remember. like many mothers and grandmothers she too was surrounded by large, loving family. >> when we say large we're talking large. "action news" reporter kenneth moton explains. >> every mother's day the
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celebration for margareet kohler whoa goes by peggy. always surrounded by the 92-year-old blue bell woman has 11 children. >> it's that sechs humor and love of family that helped her raise those daughters and sons ranging from ages 49 to 68. and in early 19 40s peggy met william kohler of manyunk and almost did not marry him. she wanted to be a nxt un. >> i wanted to be a nun when i was a junior in high school. he talked me out of it. >> after world war ii the couple had their first child. more kids followed and can you believe t. peggy was an only child. >> i wanted to have a big family. i think it's difficult being an only child. it's lonely. >> peggy got her big family, 11 children, 56 grandchildren and
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64 great grandchildren with two more on the way. four generations and most of them are still living in the philadelphia area. lawyers, educators, real estate developers. one of peggy's sons even took over the family business that well-nope kohler funeral home in roxboro. >> i always hoped for a doctor. but didn't get one. >> aw. >> peggy never miss as i baptism. graduation or birthday party. they keep her active and she feels blessed every holiday and family gathering. >> she's an inspiration. to be the age she is and still going about it every day is unbelievable. >> peggy's husband died in 2008 leaving his wife behind and not alone. when she looks pa back at her incredible life and what was created every day is mother's day. >> it worked out beautifully. >> denkenneth moton "channel 6 action news." >> still to come on "action news" tonight mary lee's journey continues up the coast where the
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great white shark is hanging out tonight. >> first take you to part of the country where it snowed today. well it felt like summer around here. they were involving out in the dakotas, melissa. >> walter we have a dense fog advisory to tell you about across coastal until nming and delaware. we'll let you know if the fog will lift and sun returns for start of workweek. details coming up in the accuweather forecast.
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i'm lynne abraham. when i became philadelphia's da, child victims had to face a judge ...a jury...the public... and testify eye to eye with their attackers. it wasn't right. so i got a constitutional amendment passed allowing children to testify remotely. i'm running for mayor for the same reason -- our children should come first. jim kenney and tony williams are fighting over public schools versus charters. i disagree. we have to improve education for all of our children. >> no need to check the calendar. a blizzard really did hit south dakota. 6" of snow on the ground by 6
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a.m. and most flights cancelled and drivers urged to stay off roads. tornadoes spotted in eastern south dakota today. they were not alone. denver pregame preparation included clearing 4" of snow there. this time lapse video coming up shows the operation. across the denver area the wet heavy wet snow brought down trees and power lines and made mother's day travel a real mess and up to 4 more" are expected tonight in higher elevations. and the results in school districts in colorado have already called off classes and for tomorrow. >> that's bad. >> snow in may is bad. >> it's bad. >> we have heat to contend with. >> i'm fine with that good over the bad. >> it will be foggy tomorrow morning guys that will be the issue as you wake up tomorrow morning. stormtracker 6 double scan radar showing you it's dry right now and moyingts tour is definitely coming in once again from the atlantic and working its way on
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shore. so that's why we've got foggy concerns. outside we go. sky6 live in hd. we are looking at penns landing on this sunday night. we have a partly cloudy sky and clouds continue to build and thickening and fog rolls in later on. as we check out the visibility it's not bad. especially along the 95 corridor. visibility is starting to decrease for atlantic city, millville and wildwood. we're down to 7 miles at this hour. but, that dense fog advisory goes up at midnight lasting through 10 a.m. at this point we are expecting visibility to be quarter of mile or less for south jersey all the way down across areas in delaware as well. so something to keep in mind tomorrow morning and especially for the commute as well. neighborhood numbers north and west of town. still upper 60s tapersville and mild up there and quakertown 70. 7 center city and chester at this hour. down across new jersey, sea isle city chilly 6 in comparison to inland locations.
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70 for glassboro, vineland and bridgeton and 71 smyrna and dover. here's at light 6 and action radar. out to the west we have a lot of active weather n south dakota we were talking about earlier western side of the state blizzard warnings in effect and the eastern side deal with severe weather. that severe weather threat is moving across areas of nebraska and far south as texas and probability of finding severe weather is low tomorrow and it does shift across the great lakes and ohio valley. then there's tropical depression ana winds sustained 30 miles an hour this shifts to north and east and stays well away from coast line for the smart of the workweek. future tracker 6 has you kovrtd. 6:00 in the morning cloudy start. fog along the coast. tracking frontsal boundary working its way east ward and keep in mind tomorrow warm. it will be slightly humid for spring standards. with instability overhead spotty shower is likely especially as
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we go throughout the rests of the afternoon hours. you can see that future tracker 6, 4:00 in the afternoon scattering of showers and popup thunderstorm likely. nothing organized across the region moving on through. but showers are likely as we go throughout the afternoon. and the call from accuweather for the morning rush. morning fog will be around. it's mild start 66 at 6 a.m. and 8 a.m. that number around 71. here's sdlusive accuweather 7-day forecast. morning fog tomorrow. warm day. high of 83. norm threat is out there. same things on tuesday as warm one tuesday 89 record 91 behind that much better less humid wednesday high of 74. 72 open thursday that's a good looking sprping day. on friday, 75. 78 next saturday and as we get to surprised in at 79. in the 80 s tomorrow and tuesday back down to 70s after that. >> okay. melissa. thank you. >> tonight we have update on mary lee the great white shark
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tracked along the jersey coast latest ping on tracking device shows she was half a mile off the long beach island coast this morning before heading out to sea. 3500 pound shark traveled 75 miles over the past few days and based on past travels she could head to cape cod this summer. >> where she was tagged originally. >> eating too much something you ar can lead to weight gain and heart disease. >> ali gorman shows us a new problem that can help. here's a preview. >> the average american is ted to eat 150 pounds of sugar a year. many believe it's addictive. what would happen if you were able to break the sugar addiction. >> over ten days i lost 8 points. >> my first response it wept fantastic i lost 7 pounds. >> i'll have details on one doctor's plan to help you cut out sugar and reset your body on "action news" monday starting at
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when we take these tests we don't actually do anything. we use the tutorials. one of the tutorials showed things like how to change the background color in an online test environment and it takes time away from learning math and science and english and all the things that i really enjoy learning. they can't do as much because they have to administer this test on the computer. and that's really one of the worst parts of the test.
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>> it would have been a great mother as day present considering it's rare and tough to find these days. phillies have not won a series over the mets since last mother's day. phanatic gives mom flowers and he better get phoebe jewelry too, after this. poor phillies fans, mets tough today, curtis grabbederson the big blow. two-run homer in the fifth. phillies lose 7-4. they're 11-21 nobody is worse in baseball. >> phillies starter jerome williams honored breast cancer survivor ronnie stuarty from trap montgomery county williams wished her a happy mother's day
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it's a simple message he would like to say to his own mom who lost her fight with breasts cancer. >> every time phillies pitcher jerome williams takes the mound he makes a pitch pitch to honor his mom. williams is only player in major league baseball to wear a pink glove. it's his tribute to his mom debra that die of breast cancer when he was 19 years old. >> it's a big struggle. she was everything to me. she was my best friend. i could talk to her about anything. i wish my mom was here. i wish you know she could see me play. >> debra never saw her son play in the majors she pass away 2001 when jerome was in minor leagues he believes she has a front row seat every time he puts on the glove that even sports a breast cancer awareness ribbon. >>s as you can see it's all pink and real cool feature about the glove is i have my mom's name on
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inside of the glove. so i know she's on my hand every single time i put this glove on. >> williams says he shiz about his mom open the mound and asks here to lend a hand when i get in trouble. >> when i get in a jam i'm like mom you have to help me get out of jam and i get a ground ball double play. i'm like thanks mom. i hope and pray this shows everybody to get checks. take it seriously. because it took my mom. it took my mom away. with every pitch williams hopes he can save at least one person from being without their mom. yeah, williams will take the mound for phils tomorrow again the pirates with pink glove in hand. if he gets in trouble he'll ask hospital for help. hopefully he can give mom a big win. guys back to you. >> that's a great tribute thank you jeff. >> final a teenager from new
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york had a tough every day choice in life. which i'vely league should i go to. he was action cemented at all eight and divide odd to take talents to yale this par. he was born in nigeria and game to u.s. when 8. he wrote primary college essay about struggle adjusting to new country and culturech the plan is to major in neurobiology or chemistry and plans to become a neurosurgeon. impressive. fyi is next on channel 6. "action news" continues tomorrow morning 4:30 with matt o'donnell, tamala edwards, david murphy and karen rogers. >> now for walter perez, melissa magee, jeff skversky, and the entire "action news" team, i'm sarah bloomquist, have a great night and a great week ahead. >> good night
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>> i'm alicia vitarelli. >> and i'm karen rogers. saturday/tonight on fyi philly. >> we spend a night on the town in media. >> preakness is coming to the piazza for a good cause. >> a new restaurant that's all about waffles and wedges. >> beer week is coming. we tour the tasting possibilities. >> and what happens when a rough looking pup named rough gets a makeover? >> hi everybody and welcome to fyi philly. >> we are at morgan's pier on the delaware river. >> and when this place opens for the season, it's a sure sign of warm weather. >> we'll take a look around in just a few, but first it's time for preakness at the piazza. >> if you can't make it to the actual horse race, this is the next best thing. >> it's fashion, sports and charity all rolled into one
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