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a controversial arrest. >> and a field trip ends before it begins when a packed school bus crashes on the schuylkill expressway. and a spring data feels more like fall. we have rain moving in including delaware and the jersey shore sky 6 hd is looking live in delaware and cape may right now. it's a damp cool day with temperatures well below what they should be. for more on that, david murphy is live at the big board. >> we have showers creeping into the west and affecting south jersey, this current view is similar to future tracker 6, right now everything just below the pennsylvania turnpike and break away showers to the north of turnpike, from philadelphia south, this is scattered fairly
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light precipitation and nuisance stuff for the most part and cells affecting south jersey and parts of delaware for now light nuisance stuff slowing you down on the roadways we have a lot to get lieu before we are at the other side of this mtd iter erthere is an area of low pressure guiding this over the region and the low is leaving the coast south of north carolina and the heavier rain is farther to the south as well. but we see the residual northern participation. and areas in darker shades of grown is north enough to affect the southern half of delaware and cape may county later on. temperatures that is the other part of the story cool and cloudy and damp and 57 degrees right now in philadelphia, we
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were not expecting to get into the 50s and that is the way things are working out. fairly even temperatures and the clouds with the rain falling, as we look at the rest of the way cloudy damp and cool and 63 and well below the average high of 75 and tonight's low of 51 is below average we'll have more on that in the seven day. >> thank you david. of course stay ahead of changes as we approach the holiday weekend by checking 6abc.com/weather, you can find live storm tracker 6 radar and the seven-day forecast through memorial day 18 weapons are in the wrong hands for a delaware burglary four men broke into the shop and stolele firearms and now police are looking for two specific vehicles in connection with the case.
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katherine scott is live now on mcdade boulevard. >> reporter: we have pictures of the vehicles and police want to you see them. the men got through this front window and it's boarded upright now and there is security fencing at the store and it's possible that the men were inside of the store because they knew how to disengage the fencing. >> i got a call that someone broke in. >> he rushed to his gun shop at mcdade boulevard. this is the site he was met with security fencing smashed back and 18 guns gone. >> a lot of damage and i don't know what happened. >> collingdale police were on the xeeb investigating and police believe that three to four men were involvedp they came in two vehicles it shows
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two men smashing in the front window and then leaving and then coming back and going through. >> at least three go through the store and smash all the koupters and you can see them taking things. >> they were if the store no more than 90 seconds they took revolvers and automatic guns. >> they all have a big cable through them and they were not able to cut the cable they didn't have enough time. >> the vehicles were seen fleeing the scene this light colored general motors sedan was seen blowing the light and this partial plate yz it'srgent these men are caught. >> there are surveillance cameras inside of the store but that has not been released. police want to hear from you if
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you can identify the men or the vehicles they were driving, we posted pictures at our website at 6abc.com. >> katherine thank you. a field trip to the philadelphia zoo never happened for a group of preschoolers because a bus crashed into a barrier on the schuylkill expressway this morning, only one eastbound lane was getting by as firefighters responded to the accident approaching girard avenue, they helped the kids and chaperones off the bus on to the side of the highway, the children are from hope church school and are on a new bus on the scene and taken to childrens hospital for an evaluation. we are learning how amtrak engineer brandon bostian spent the day of the train derail many, the shift was fwrouling that day and his rest break was shortened because equipment problems caused a delay from
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washington, he only had an hour to rest and eat before the train returned to new york and crashed in port richmond his schedule met federal safety regulations when he talked to investigators he did not report feeling fatigued and they are determining when his cell phone was used on the day of the crash, his attorney says he did not use it while at the controls. >> now to an update from the delaware newsroom a woman fell victim to gun fire, while walking on madison street a bullet grazed her head and ran to the west center community center and was air-lifted to the hospital and several vehicles were struck by bullets and investigators are trying to identify the shooter. a man was shot and then hit by an on coming car and he collapsed with gunshot wounds on
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park side after few. he was taken into custody and tested for dui. it also struck a nissan but the couple inside was not hurt. this is why the pennsylvania turnpike was closed at the beginning of the rush hour today a trash truck burst into flames this morning in charles township, they shut down all the westbound lanes. firefighters extinguished the flames. new graduates at rutgers camden got a special and unique gift, at their commencement ceremony this morning. >> this is how your story ends. ♪♪ >> that is new jersey rocker, john bonn bon jovi singing his new
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song reunion for the first time he wrote the song for the graduates, it marked the first time he ever sang is publically. >> that is pretty cool. sounds like david murphy. >> i have to listen again zbh still to come here on "action news," the high school yearbook mugshot that has students and parents outraged and a murder mystery at the nation's capital, lease identified the man accused of killing a family inside of their home.
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don't wait. call now. police have identified the man suspected of killing a family in d.c. he is wanted on first degree murder. he is suspected of killing a couple and their 10-year-old son and housekeeper. coming up at 12:30 we'll explain how a pizza delivery helped to identify the suspect. isis is in control of a famous historical site in syria. the world heritage site is known
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for its 2,000-year-old col on aids. they will display other priceless artifacts in neighboring iraq. >> an employee of the u.s. state department is accused of hacking the accounts of hundreds of college age women. he used his computer in london to break into accounts on icloud instagram and facebook and stole embarrassing photos and used them to blackmail them for more explicit images. he was arrested at the airport. crews cleaned up more than 6,000 gallons of oil off the coast of california, what is only a fraction of the mess left behind and more than 100,000 balance gallons of oil may have leaked out to sea. we'll have more on the cleanup in the next half hour. a father of four in southern
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california says he was the victim of excessive police force, justin palmer says he was charging his electric car in a park when police approached him saying the park was closed and according to palmer he said the park was open and he said he was too afraid to retrieve is from his car. >> i was handcuffed and he swept my legs underneath me and i landed on my head. >> in a video shot after the arrest she saw at least one punch thrown, palmer spent the night in jail and a city attorney says will not face charges and the naacp is asking for an investigation. one high school is facing a firestorm for posting a former swim coach's mugshot in the
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yearbook. he was arrested on child abduction charges it included his photo and a par graph about the investigation, and then a picture of the alumni who was killed by isis, they said they made light of it by including it alongside school fairs. the school has not commented on the controversy. a diet technique that could backfire the calorie cutting that could lead to more belly fat.
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japanese airbag maker takata, is trying to speed up repairs of airbags they will boost up production of replacement parts and they are more likely to explode in human environments, so vehicles in states with high humidity will be repaired first. you can find out more by going to our website at 6abc.com. there is new evidence that a common diet technique could backfire researchers foub that skipping meals could lead to
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more belly fat. some were allowed to snack throughout the day and some were restricted to one meal every 24 hours, the restricted group lost weight and later gained it and the extreme diet changed the way they stored sugar turning it into fatty tissue in their midsection. in today's art of aging report tamala edwards is showing us how to cope when a loved one loses their memory. >> at the skilled nursing facility in the square, put on eyeglasses that mimic cataracts and shoes that replicate arm rights their challenge to kmoet
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five simple tasks in ten minutes, a virtual tour of dementia. >> i can't imagine doing that for 24 hours. just the 10 minutes i experienced it was difficult extremely difficult. the average person taking the dementia can finish no more than two of the five assignments it has opened people's eyes to the disease by giving them more empathy and more patience if they have a loved one with dementia and they hope they will become better care givers and changing their outlook on how they speak and understand why certain tasks can't be done. >> this will make me appreciate what he is going through each and every day. >> i suggest that every person who has a family member affected go through this experience, it's
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mind boggling the water marks offers the virtual tour to the community and they are preparing to launch an alzheimer's supas well. tamala edwards, channel 6 "action news." >> the "action news" team is out working on news stories for tonight beginning at 9:00. here is alicia vitarelli in our newsroom with a preview. >> it may not feel like summer today but we are celebrating the unofficial start of the season in wildwood this afternoon meteorologist melissa magee is heading down to the shore for the first report of the season and coming up an indiana mother says when her son came home with a permission slip, she was stunned by what she saw. why the! was trying to make the teen able girls wear t-shirts over their swimsuits. and don't forget you can take us
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there's only one invokana®. ask your doctor about it by name. david here now with a check of the accuweather forecast, on this nice october day. >> really it is cool out there. we finally have the green stuff on radar i know how much you like that. >> oh that green stuff? >> it's rain rick, but just nuisance stuff, the roadways are a bit wet and it's not inundating rain, just a shade of yellow here and there as we go out wider we'll go in down to
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the south it's the heart of south jersey and delaware that are picking up the heaviest rainfall and there is a lot more of the darker shade of green just to the west of salem new jersey, and i can see more of that steadier stuff clipping south jersey as well. we'll leave you with the wide view and this is not heavy rain but you will want to slow it down. cloudy skies ahead of the rain, at logan circle you can see the gray clouds that came in quickly 57 if your current temperature, winds from the soung southeast at 3 miles per hour not windy but col a little bit like october sara, 54 in wilmington and upper 50s in sea isle city and a.c., at 3:00 future tracker has us damp from philadelphia south and i'll still allow for a little of this
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popping north of the city by 3:00, 3:30, the best chance of steadier rain is to the soung and closer to the southern system causing all of this today, the farther north the better chance of staying dry, by 6:00 we see the steadier stuff breaking apart and it's possible that adam on channel 17 and cecily here, will have stuff to show but it will be light if you have plans tonight or if you want to see if your lawn is getting a drink, our double scan technology will give you the best view you of that light stuff. a word to the wise if you are droifing this afternoon i know this is light to moderate rain, but light rain mixing with the oil on the roads could make for more slippery spots than if you have heavier rain. in allentown mainly cloudy and a light shower around and most
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of the your rain down the shore it's steady for periods of the afternoon and evening and 62 is the high there and philadelphia a high of 63 and cloudy skies and showers off and on the rest of the afternoon probably tapering off after dinner tonight. your exclusive accuweather forecast, cloudy and damp and 63 and things try out and tomorrow breezy and milder and sun coming back and a high of 74 and sunny and nice and a high of 69 on saturday and 60 at the shore and 80 on sunday and turning warmer and monday memorial day, 85 degrees and more humid and clouds and sun mixing and probably somewhere in the mid-70s down the shore. i wouldn't cancel my plans because i think the spotty storm tracker 6 activity we'll see. >> i was planning to come to work so i shouldn't cancel that? >> no i tonight want to be here
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"action news" at 12:30 continues, with rick williams, sara bloomquist and meteorologist, david murphy. hello between, here are the stories we are following for you at 12:30 now, new details about the quadruple homicide and arson at a mansion in washington d.c. police have a suspect they are looking for and the search
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expanded in new york city. and new developments in the ray rice case why a judge dismissed the domestic violence charges. part of the area is seeing rain all right from our temple university sky 6 hd camera pretty gray out there david murphy is live outside with the details. >> the umbrella is up i had to dust this off. look at stormtracker 6 live double scan not exactly a drefrming rainfall just light nuisance rain maybe steadier in areas south of philadelphia southern newcastle county and salem and cumberland county new jersey. just enough to slow you down. if you are north of pennsylvania turnpike
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