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and then sexually assaulted her and they believe the suspect is the same as an assault back in march. chad pradelli is live at special victims in hunting park. you have all the details. >> reporter: jim investigators believe that the two crimes are linked for several reasons, both happened inside of a home in the early morning hours the suspect demanded money and more importantly, he was wearing orange or red gloves in both attacks, the suspect was hanging out in a shower before the row home before the sexual assault yesterday morning. the masked intruder gained access through an unlocked door, after her roommate left for a brief period, they waited until she was asleep and entered the victim's room. immediately put his hand over her mouth and quieted her. >> after taking money he raped
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her and took her identification and warned her not to tell police and fled in her car that was recovered a few blocks away. >> he grabbed me by the hair and throat and i thought he would kill me. >> this woman who lives in the same neighborhood describes a similar incident and she was able to give police this composite sketch and she says he came in through an unlocked window and confronted her and her two children. >> he choked her and placed the children in an adjacent room to keep them from intervening, he demanded money and tried to sexually assault the victim but the woman and one of her sons fought back and he fled. >> don't want this to happen to any woman and i am in fear and hope they catch him soon. >> police are warning residents
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in that neighborhood to lock their doors and windows and be on alert. i'm live in hunting park, chad pradelli, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. cape may county prosecutors have charged 19 juveniles and one adult and it involves students at cape may regional high school. investigators say that a female student alerted school officials last month that naked photographs of a friend were being texted to students they said that numerous nude and partially nude photographs were being sent by tax and social media and they were charged with invasion of privacy, police are searching for robbers that held up people by gun point in philadelphia, many are temple students and many believe the same suspects are behind six holdups and they happened between may 14th and may 22 and
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and they have taken wallets and cell phones and none were hurt. a woman and man were arrested and charged with drufrk driving in montgomery county and it's fair to say they probably never would have been charged if not for the gps in the woman's car. >> here is david henry to explain. >> reporter: well jim, they may have been looking for a room and they found one a jail cell right here at the upper dublin police station, police say they were drunk and apparently followed the woman's gps right to their doorstep. and they pulled straight up to the building right here. they were headed to the hotel two miles away and they were in two cars and richard. was following her from fords new jersey and she was leading her way to the hotel with the gps and entered a driveway for
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police vehicles only. >> the officers walk over and say why are you here this is a restricted area. >> the officers smelled officers and after a sobriety test they booked them for dui they simply walked them through the door into a jail cell how smith managed to follow her gps to the police station remains a mystery. >> operator error but in the end it worked out and got two drunk people off the street and it was an easy arrest for our officers. >> one officer tweeted out this photo of the arrest they wish it was also this easy to get aallege drunk drivers off the road. and walk them into the police station. drunk driving is a serious crime
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and they believe that a higher power many control over the gps. david henry channel 6 "action news." >> thank you david. authorities have released surveillance video that shows two suspects stealing batteries from a used car lot in philadelphia, the crime happened on may 17th at max's auto on the 500 block the men checked several cars to see if they were locked and they get under the hoods then and steal a number of batteries. >> fire destroyed three homes in the strawberry mansion part of the city. they were called to diamond and north 29th streets at 3:25 all three homes were abandoned, and firefighter his to break through the first floor of the blaze and one home partially collapsed because of the blaze. the budget for philadelphia public schools was the topic
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today and superintendant william hite was one of the officials that testified today the $200 billion spending plan needs $265 million in additional and state funs, they plan to use $80 million to cover a budget shortfall and the remaining $180 million would be reinvested in the schools. the school board will take a final vote on thursday. mayor michael nutter stopped at the school for performing arts, they saw the culture class where the students study biology from raising fish from eggs to adulthood and stopped by the school's digital design studio good now that moment real day has come and gone it's time to think about july 4th that meaned
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wawa welcome america festival. walter perez is live now. >> reporter: can you believe it the whole thing is just five weeks away at this point and at that time the parkway will be awash with food and fun and mayor nutter says nobody does july 4th quite like philadelphia. nothing says summer more than the 4th of july wawa welcome america celebration. >> so mayor nutter formerly announced the lineup for the celebration including the big name stars taking the stage on independence day. >> philadelphia's own grammy award winning band, the roots the roots are absolutely the best house band any city can have been they will be joined by top music star zbz stars including miguel and country
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star jennifer nettles from the band sugarland. once again 6 abc is the official broadcast partner of the wawa welcome america festivityies that begin june 27th and end july 4th it includes a wide variety of attraction fz theater (ations to museums, block parties be lots of food. and including the massive wawa hoagie build around city hall. >> what started 22 years ago as a small hoagie around city hall has become a five ton hoagie that serves over 21000 people that day at noon. >> it's all capped off with the 4th of july fireworks spectacular. >> we own the 4th of july. >> and as the official broadcast partner we'll one again air the big concert and the fireworks show live on 6 abc on the 4th of july, we'll see you then.
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reporting live walter perez channel 6 "action news." >> as you make plans for the july 4th holiday be sure to visit website there we posted the full schedule of events leading up to the big show on independence day. >> coming up on "action news" tonight, young engineers from a school in westchester are giving a helping hand to two children born without -- and you'll see their remarkable creations. and phillies gm rubben slams the fans. >> and today was the warmest day so far this year, i'm tracking warm days ahead i'll have all the details in the accuweather forecast. >> those stories and so much more when "action news" continues tonight.
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amtrak will install cameras in the cabs to see what they are doing. after the derailment in port richmond earlier this month. the engineer brandon bostian cannot remember anything that happened. they are trying to determine why the train was traveling at double the speed limit before the wreck. and stockton has sued caesars over the sale of the showboat casino and charges them with fraud.
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they plan to turn it over to a campus, but trump taj mahal are going back to a law from 2008. they were aware of the restriction but were led to believe it had all been resolved. what were you doing during your spring senior year of high school, chances are you were not making a prosthetic hand for children born only with one. that is what some students are doing in westchester. ali gorman has quoit the story. >> for joy having one hand is not much of an obstacle but there are some childhood basics that are a challenge monkey bars and jump rope, so students at the west town school are changing that. in their design engineering
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class they created robotic hands for the students the idea came from steel's mom who works at the school when she heard he was getting a 3-d printer she told the engineering teacher. >> i thought he was kidding. >> but the students enthusiastically took on the project. >> we thought we would put it on steel -- >> steel could not use a wrist action device he is getting an electronic device. >> they heard about joy and decided to make a hand for her too, the project is taking more than a year with the team often working into the night to make the hands work as close as possible with human hands and today joy tried hers for the
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first time by picking up a ball. >> the final version of steel's han needs more work but his mother was amazed by the test model. >> he is just thrilled to be able to hold a golf club with to hands and tie his shoes and jump rope. >> they made the hands for $200 and posted the designs online so others can build them too.
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criticizing their knowledge of baseball ask they said bring some young players up from the big leagues now saying quote they don't understand the game and they don't understand the process, there is a process and then they blank and complain because we don't have a plan. today the predictable apology. >> one i would like to apologize to the fans, because i'm a fan myself and i understand the passion and the knowledge that our fans have for our game and the other major sports and all the sports in philly. the comments were not meant to dis dis disparage our fans. >> the phillies take on the mets tonight. and the eagles have more organized activities today, evan
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mathis is not in attendance, the eagles gave him and his agent the ability to seek a trade, mini camp is in three weeks and that is mandatory. making to the wnba is not easy but for one local product it's a piece of cake considering what she has been through. >> with almost 30 tattoos and a pinpoint focus britney folko is focused. >> i don't show a lot of emotion on court. >> the former engineering and science high school star finished her season at depaul and was taken in the second round of the wnba draft by san antonio. >> that is her dream since starting to play basketball. britney's father mike should know, a former corrections officer that lived to brick her
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athletic daughter to practices all over the city and that changed in one incident. >> april 21st 2003, a guy hit me from the back and got out of his pickup and got into an altercation and shot me. >> mike was left paralyzed from the neck down, the guy that shot him was high on drugs at the time. >> i was angry about it even now i'm angry about it a little bit and i know he is. >> my coaches they all say the games that he is at are probably my best games. >> i don't know i don't get to many games she likes to show off when i'm there. >> basketball may be just a game but for this father and daughter this is the bond that holds them together. >> i feel bad about the situation but you can't be sad about it because he is still here. >> she may have given up about
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the basketball if i was killed that day, you never know why you are here or what are you here for. >> jaime apody channel 6 "action news." >> we wish britney and her family the best as she continues her career in san antonio. >> cecily tynan with the accuweather forecast when we continue in just a moment. we work weekends here. because it
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a great afternoon for a flight on drone 6, we are above the belmont plateau and you can see people out there playing softball. actually channel 6 softball team is playing this evening. the accuweather highlights show it's warm and dry and finally tracking rain on the way and temperatures so far this month running 5 degrees above normal and this trend continues it could be one of the top warmest mays in history. as far as rain though we have hardly gotten a drop, that is to and a half inches below normal. i am tracking a good possibility of showers and thunderstorms tomorrow, the chance of rain 30% and a 60% chance and then it drops on friday and it's back to the 70% chance on sun as a
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cold front moves in today's high is 89 degrees, so far this year. also dew points in the low to mid-60s, it's slightly on the humid side and allentown 87 and reading 86 and wilmington 84 and the ocean temperature 57 degrees on the beach only in the 60s, a sea breeze dropping temperatures into the mid-70s, satellite 6 along with action radar showing a mix of clouds and sunshine and a system to the west clipping us tomorrow afternoon the stropgest lift is north of our region and that mean a risk of severe weather is low but finally showers and thunderstorms, future tracker 6 showing 8:00 in the morning could have a couple of isolated showers not a lot of activity, it blossoms at 4:00 in the after none and moving over to the
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western corridor at 8:00, not everyone will see them but everyone has a good risk of downpours, we need 15 minutes of heavy downpours and could get some lightning and low risk of strong winds and hail and we won't see tornadoes with this system. so the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast we match today's high tomorrow and warm and humid 89 degrees and afternoon thunderstorms and on thursday, a cold front moves in and 86 degrees and a chance of thunderstorms and best chance is east of the i-95 corridor behind the system on friday and we dry things out and partly sunny and temperatures down a notch and 85 degrees and muggies return on saturday and warm and huld and 88 on sunday a cold front moving in and we'll bring showers and thoms and dropping the temperature to 81 degrees and a wave of low pressure developing brings us more rain into monday morning and it's a lot cooler at 76 degrees and a
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mixture of clouds and sun. and the humidity returns tomorrow but finally clouds and thunderstorms. never so happy about rain before. world news tonight with david muir is next on channel 6, and "action news" continues at 10:00 at phl 17 with brian taff adam joseph and ducis rogers and please join us for "action news" at 11:00 here on channel 6. for cecily tynan ducis rogers and the entire "action news" team we hope you'll join us for "action news" at 11:00.
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tonight, the urgent search. a mother and two young children inside, their home ripped from its foundation. swept away in the deadly floods. states of emergency tonight. an american city under water. the suv flipping over. we fly you over the flood zone this evening. and now, new storms from texas up to detroit, hitting at this hour. blown away. the bounce house, the children inside as it came unhinged. ten passenger planes fighter jets scrambled and the warning tonight from the fbi to anyone behind the threats. breaking news involving your tax information, stolen. the thieves using an irs website, more than 100,000 americans affected. and your cell phone bill tonight. how to knock off hundreds right now. free websites the simple steps. are you renting phone equipment without even knowing it?
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