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embid played together in high school. >> i try to be smart with my size and iq that gives me great edge and i use that to my advantage. >> nba draft late next month. still to come in sports catching one zach attorneys talk quarterbacks and you won't believe what these baseball teams do to kill time during rain delay.
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>> some like it and some don't. what do you make of eagles. all the off season moves and all
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changes receiver to running back zach ertz emerging star tight end is in favor of catching pass from sam bradford. >> honestly i'm happy what we did at qb position. nick foles and i were close friends and teammates and bringing in sam bradford and sanchez back will help our team a lot. >> arena league football. soul in jacksonville. busting a move. soul playing from behind the entire way. joe hills to to look alike for jacksonville. scores. final second, down 8 fourth and three. out of time. soul lose first game 55-47, fall 7-1. >> phils and d-backs chilled out during the rain delay and college fwhaibl louisiana, these two teams crowd around home plate to play a thrilling game of rock, paper scissors. oh yeah, they're having a great time. louisiana, lafayette, beat monroe in rock, paper scissors.
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>> and you no you know. >> who knew a game could be so thrilling. >> okay. thank you, jeff. >> "action news" at 11:30 cams up next. amazing video from scene of collision involving a freight train and bus. we'll tell you what happened. and something you may have thought you would never see. former republican precedential candidate mitt romney climbs into the ring with five time heavy weight champ evander holy field. those stories and more when "action news" comes right back.
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saturday night, i'm walter perez here's what's happening at 11:30. u.s. soldiers take on isis at the heart of syria. what made thid so important. >> jam-packed celebration for one of philadelphia's be loved neighborhoods with food, festivities and fun. and mitt romney trades a tie for boxing trunks as he steps into the ring with five time heavy weight champion we'll tell you why he decided to trade fists with evander holyfield. >> first tonight a man from south philadelphia won big at sugarhouse casino early this morning and within an hour a pocketing big prize held up at gunpoint. lady luck was on his side thanks
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to one big mistake by the thiefch the sorry has a happening ending, vernon odom explains. >> 5:00 this morning the south philadelphia man took a taxi home from sugarhouse casino with overnight earnings which police say totaled roughly $1,000. the cab dropped him off at his home and a masked gunman period. out of nor. >> get on the ground or i'll kill you. >> you complied of course. >> i put my hands up and actually laid in my neighbor's -- she has got a bed of rocks next to her there was a flower pot there pull the pot over your head don't look at me or i'll put a bull net your head. he reached in any pockets and took vring i had. i called the cops and i had 50 cents nrevt my pocket. >> the victim called police and they were able to track pings on his stolen iphone. the chased robber on robbers through south philadelphia right back to the casino. with a sure one of the rocks spotted the winner and followed
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him home. they fled on foot into the casino before being caught in a men's room. the victim was able toy i.d. one of the bandits. >> he actually caught them there at the casino went back and id'd him. >> two suspect being held by police tonight in connection with armed robbery plot that unfolded in the predawn hours here that casino. ironically it ended up here with capture by police some hours later. in fishtown, vernon odom "channel 6 action news." >> moving on now to latest on deadly amtrak derailment. federal officials want amtrak to begin using a speed restriction system in the area where the crash occurred. spvkly it's a component called automatic train control system. it works by automatically notifying the engineer if train is going above the speed limit and applies brakes if engineer does not respond.
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fbi is looking into records of projectile strike the plane before it derailed. a septa train was hit by something shattering a window. this was the call from tanzit about that incident. >> an unknown object made contact with the train heart ising the windshield. we do not have a update or injuries because they're prohibited from making communication with the engineer while he's still on the rail. but it say train that has had foreign or unknown object that made contact shattering windshield. >> eight people died and more than 200 were injured on tuesday when northeast regional train 188 jumped the track. >> jaw-dropping video of freight train slam into a passenger bus in georgia has been released. before you see this you should know everyone is expected to be okay. >> impact knocked the
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bus driver from his seat as you can see there and another angle shows passengers scrambling and tripping over one another to escape. autopsy five made it off the bus before collision and one man knocked to the ground by the door was hit by spinning bus. that passenger was most seriously injured and amazingly though that 65-year-old victim is the only one still in the hospital and he is expected to be make a full recovery. >> the driver was placed on leave, though, pending results of investigation into how the bus became stuck on the tracks. >> overseas now u.s. commandoes landed deep inside syria and killed a senior isis leader before dawn today in dramatic fire fight that ended with hand to hand combat. soldiers took out a man who knows a lot about how isis raises money and then captured his wife who could provide critical intelligence. abc terri moran has more. >> reporter: the daring raid happened overnight. elite delta force troops taking off from iraq aboard black open
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helicopters headed deep to syria. their mission cap tour and inter rate abu sayeh a key isis leader top money man in cham of the black market oil and gas sales. >> this is not just another person. their revenue streams are extremely important for their survival. >> counter terrorism official says sayef is expected to be isis leader who had given cayla miller killed in syria as forced bride or slave. on the ground at sayef's house a fierce fire fight. using women and children as human shields the pentagon says. delta force commandoes pushing forward at times combat was so close it was hand to hand fighting. sayyah killed in the fire fight along with dozen isis fighters and his wife captured and kept for questioning.
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and computers seized. all in all a significant success. >> it should have a large psychological impact on isis we can do raids anywhere we want tone take out key lead wherz we want done do it. >> isis is making gains on battle fields in iraq and syria and this raid will not reverse the gaindz but might make isis leaders sleepless easy at night. terri moran. "abc news," london. it was graduation day at st. joseph's university at the 164 commencement ceremonies took place outside on mcguire campus on city avenue. nearly 2400 degrees were be stroked upon doctoral, graduate and undergraduate students. philadelphia mayor nutter served as keynote speaker for under grads receiving diplomas. in dell dem county it was also graduation day at newman university. hundreds received their diplomas on the south lawn of campusness
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aston. congratulations to the class of 2015.. >> and today was a great day for celebration. that's exactly what they did. in bucks county, pa and hunterdon county, new jersey as well. this is annual gay pride parade new hope and lambertville. marching bands, organization and every day folks strutted stuff down main street this afternoon. this parade is part of pride week which runs through tomorrow. >> and it's called philadelphia's biggest block party it's annual italian market festival in south philly. with some of the best food on earth there were live bands. fun for kids and half ball tournament. festival continues tomorrow with car show and procession of saints. >> still to come on "action news" tonight former precedential candidate mitt romney climbs into ring with one of the toughest pox boxingers ever. what evander holyfield had to say about mitt romney boxing skills. >> and best nation athletes
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comes for one of rowing's biggest event. >> and showers moving on out. it stays warm and humid for second half of the weekend. details coming up with the accuweather forecast.
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>> time for a check of the accuweather forecast with meteorologist melissa magee. >> and it's still warm. still sticky out, walter, showers we had earlier tonight moving out and things refire as we get to tomorrow afternoon. it's unwith of those sticky, summerlike patterns overhead. stormtracker 6 live double scan radar showing you we have a little moisture rights now across the atlantic and cape may counties and a lot of that moving out south and east and stays pretty quiet during the overnight hours. but once again with this air mass overhead, it is more than likely that we will have some activity refire on sunday. we'll show you picture outside. sky6 live in hd outside looking at the enter city sky line. mostly cloudy. dry and quiet in philadelphia where we picked up three tenths
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of inch of moisture and more rain and popup thunderstorms tomorrow. 6 4 slatington. 65 fleetwood and 67 new holland and center city and chestier at this hour and upper 60s. levittown 68. 70 hammonton and same for woodbine along the coast in surf city 63. as you move to hockessin 67. 69 smyrna and dover. here's satellite 6 and a action radar mostly cloudy and we're tracking frontal bountdry. warm fronts left lifting norm w warm front north of us we tap into all that warmth and humidity that comes in from southwest direction and with that overhead we also have threatp popup showers and thunderstorms. so it looks like this will be the case as we get into sunday setup. jet stream dips north of our region and allows temperatures to climb well above average. once again up to 80s. average this time of year is 74. we'll be above that tomorrow afternoon and spotty thunderstorm is also likely with
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building heat and humidity. one good news piece of good news for you is pollen count is on the medium side as we get into sunday. if you've been sneezing and wheezing this time of year you get a moderate break tomorrow before the pollen count climbs back up to high levels as we get to monday, tuesday and wednesday. and philadelphia union are at home tomorrow. taking on d.c. united at 7:00. it's mostly cloudy. again humid with popup thunderstorm likely especially as we get to average hours. start of game temperature around 78. once we get to 90th minutes down to 75. here's the exclusive accuweather 7-day forecast. humid tomorrow. high temperature 38. monday not as warm and 79. tuesday another frontal boundary moves on through so threat of showers and storms overhead 84. after that wednesday pleasant, sunny and nice, 76. 74 on thursday and underneath mostly sunny sky.
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upper 7 0s with refreshing air mass friday with plenty of sunshine and saturday, clouds and sun high temperature of 77 degrees. we're looking good for second half of next week, walter. >> grass needs rain. >> yes we do need it. >> thank you melissa. it's billed as worl's largest high school regatta. the regatta went off today schuylkill near kelly drive. it's been annual tradition since 1927. here's something we never thought we would see former republican precedential candidate mitt romney facing offer with five time evander holyfield salt lake city friday. >> ladies and gentlemen introducing mitt "the cloud" introducing, mitt "the cloud" romney. >> they jabbed and weaved and romney hit holy field to the ground there he was playing and kidding around. in second round he ran from the fists and threw in the town.
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holy field won by tko. this exhibition was held for a great cause raised money for charity vision organization that provides needed eye surgeries for people who could not otherwise afford
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. >> fullys going on for four in a row first time since last august. can they keep it going. manager ryne sandberg making all the right moves now tonight against arizona ry-no giving the high five sign. solo shot out of here. phils take 1-0 lead and tack on three more in third ryan howard swipinging hot bat. end of april, deep to right rbi double. freddy gal vis scores. -0 phils two batters later chase utley chases home another run with bases loaded. there you go. utley with two hits, two runs batted in tonight. he's on base three times. phillies go on to win 7-5 won four in a row for the first time since last august. >> i like what i've seen you know it's coming from different
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guys and it's more con singt up and down the lineup and warmer weather having some bats under the belt whatever it might be timing seems good now with certain guys getting hot and then others joining in so i think it snow bald with momentum on off side of things. >> fill liz going for sweep tomorrow first of season we'll see if they can get it. flyers yet to score a new coach a pier to be waiting for detroit free agent coach mike bad cook and whether or not he wants to leave the red wings. winningest dmoch detroit history he hopes to make up his mind middle next week. badcook said his head is spinning with multiple offers. >> flyers have done a little more -- have been done for a
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little more than month. lund quest quiingt and rangers keep winning. game one eastern conference finals. dominick moore off his leg and in. rangers win 2-1. nascar all-star race tonight in charlotte. brad kesloski coming out of pit road going too fast 8 miles an hour over speed limit and sent to back and cost him $1 million. imagine that ticket on i-95. den any hamlin goes on to win taking home a cool 1 million. how about that? what a race tonight down in charlotte. nascar is in dover end of month followed by ride up to poconos first week of june. walter, back to you. >> very cool. , jeff. finally tonight a fun day at the zoo. elmwood park zoo held day of kindness safari. they were given a chance to take part in festivities.
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horseback riding or feeding giraffes. others helped take care of animals in the barn yard. helping out and being kind can be lots of fun. "castle" is next on channel 6 and "action news" continues 6:00 tomorrow morning with eva pilgrim, nydia han and chris ments for melissa magee, nydia han, i'm walter perez, oui seal you back here
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