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sexting scandal. it is tuesday night and the big story on "action news" tonight, is the fall out from the sexting bust in lower township. students from the high school and middle school are involved in the probe. "action news" reporter kenneth moton is live outside the county prosecutor's office, in cape may courthouse. kenneth? >> reporter: jim, so far it is one, 18 year-old student and 19 juveniles. the prosecutors said the prevalence of sexting is concerning and criminal in schools. tonight a parent of the one of the charge boys told us those inappropriate pictures were like trading card to those boys and the boys are not the only ones to blame. it is a sexting investigation that involves two cape may county schools and several young boys accused of trading pictures of nude female classmates. >> i think it is everybody should have self respect for themselves and these things should not occurred. >> reporter: tuesday prosecutor office charged 20 male student from lower cape
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may regional high and middle will school with invasion of privacy. april 23rd a female student told school officials that boys were passing around name pictures of her friend by text. police seized nearly 30 cell phones and discovered images of partially nude or nude girl a parent of wouldn't of the charged boys did not want to be identified. >> girls know that the boys trade them, and it is kind of a game that the girls want to be involved in. >> reporter: she's not defending her 14 year-old son's alleged actions but says it was several girls who shared the photos no feast males have been charged. >> they need to step back and take a if you will look at the this. the girls are just as responsible as the boys. >> reporter: superintendent christopher kobic said he could not get into detailed but say problem could be more widespread, more students, more nude pictures. >> obviously the school district, doesn't have a cell phone plans for students. so, what we will do is sit
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down the student cell phones. >> reporter: parents we spoke with said they have had conversation was their kids about the impact their actions can have on their future. >> don't be stupid. don't do stuff to come back and bite you later. it is not worth it. >> reporter: those 20 students were charged but they have not been arrested. many of their parents have retain attorneys and we're told that they are cooperating with this ongoing investigation. that charge, invasion of privacy is a third degree crime which could come with jail time for that one adult student, jim. reporting live from cape may courthouse kenneth moton for channel six "action news" good thanks kenneth. a different kind of problem at the new jersey shore. atlantic city school district was forced to layoff another 32 teach tours day. this was part of the second wave of state mandated cuts. the at tonight's school board meeting the state monitor overruled an attempt to spare the teachers jobs. he says that he knows the moves are difficult but it is
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a simple matthey ways. >> the bottom line is that we don't have enough money to pay for the budget that we had at issue. all of those teachers in this years budget, the budget will be 20 million-dollar less next year. we don't have enough money to pay 20 million-dollar for the teachers. >> reporter: including the first wave of layoffs of 140 staffers, plus retirement, the the district is shedding about 220 jobs. another three dozen tenured educators were bumped to different position is today the board did not eliminate extracurricular programs and sports. philadelphia police are desperate thely trying to track down a predator apparently who struck twice at least twice now police say he invaded a home on the 1800 block of south rosewood street early yesterday and then sexually assaulted a woman. law men think he is salesman robbed and tried to sexually assault a woman inside the home on the 1700 block of south chadwick street in march.
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live at special victims in hunting park tonight is "action news" reporter dann cuellar with more on this, dann? >> reporter: well, jim, in this latest case sources tell us that the guy was hiding in the shower for several hours, and waited for the victim. andrew roommate in the other room to go to sleep. then he struck. >> i think that this individual is dangerous. >> reporter: captain john darby of the special victims unit putting it bluntly about the man scene in the composite sketch they believe is responsible for assault and robberies. one of the victims who spoke exclusively with "action news" would agree. >> he grab me by hair and throat, i thought he would kill me. >> reporter: thirty year-old victim who does not speak much english said she awoke to find a man tank in the bedroom in the 1700 block of chadwick in the middle of the night demanding sex and money. she was with her two young children and together fortunately they managed to fight him off. >> the the idea of using children, you know, just their presence alone using that as a
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shield or a means to get what you want, it is, you know there is something wrong about that folks. >> reporter: that was back in march. monday morning at 4:30 police say a 35 year-old woman awoke to find a man standing in her bedroom demanding money. >> she offers a small amount of money but obviously the situation deteriorated. this male actually sexually assaulted the female in her bed, before he left the the location. >> reporter: in both instances police say predator was wearing red orr range gloves, possibly with fingers having been removed from the gloves. the cases have others here's wondering what they would do if they woke up to find a stranger standing over their bed in the middle of the night. >> i would be scared to death. i would be scared. >> reporter: yes. >> you wake up and somebody standing overtop of you that you don't know, my god how did he get in? >> reporter: well, police believe that in both cases the suspect, the person, the
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predator, got in through an unlocked door or window. so tonight with this person still out there they are urging everyone to make sure that they lock their doors and windows before going to bed at night. we're live at special victims unit i'm dann cuellar for channel six "action news". >> thanks, dann. surveillance video shows two wanted men who police say had been on a spree robbing people, at gunpoint. many of the victims are temple university students. up investigators believe that these suspects are behind at least six armed hold ups in north philadelphia, over just the past two weeks. the suspects have been stealing wallets and cell phones fortunately no one has been hurt. the the deadly derailment of amtrak train 188 on may 12th is prompting amtrak to put cameras in all locomotive cabs. it will begin installing 70 new amtrak locomotives in the northeast corridor plus keystone services between new york philadelphia and harrisburg. the cameras will record the
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actions of all train engineers. brandon bostian the amtrak engineer of 188 which accelerated to 106 miles an hour before reaching the curb at frank for junction says he does not remember anything that happened. a state of emergency has been declared in text a and oklahoma flood have killed at least 15 people, 13 others are still missing. in just 24 hours the the city of houston was hit with a quarter of its yearly rainfall. the the water covered neighborhoods, and highways. it looked like rivers. dispatchers have responded to more than 900 emergency calls with rel over half being water rescued. we are monitoring double scan radar as the month's settling weather is moving in our area. let's check with meteorologist cecily tynan. >> jim, showers and thunderstorms are just what we need. double scan live is showing this classic comma shape. now that is, the signature of a strong cold front and that is moving to the east.
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leading edge of cooler, dryer air and that will be moving into an air mass, like we had today, when it moves in tomorrow. the this was the warmest day so far this year. philadelphia 89 degrees, allentown and reading hit 90. wilmington 86. even at the shore 84 degrees in wildwood before a sea breeze kick up the wind and temperatures dropped down in the 60's there it will be just as warm tomorrow. slightly more humid. this is really been a trend this may. temperatures running 5 degrees above normal this could be one of the top three warmest mays in philadelphia's history. we have barely gotten any rain. only a little more than half inch of rain. that is two and a half inches below normal. with that cold front moving in tomorrow we will see scattered showers and thunderstorms. this really shows that we have an 80 percent chance of showers popping up, tomorrow. 60 percent chance on thursday, it is rock dry by friday and backup by end of the weekend.
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we will talk about that. also the best chance of when you'll see the rain coming up in the full accu weather forecast during the day tomorrow jim? >> all right cecily. tomorrow's rain should quench a thirsty forest in the the new jersey's pine land and reduce risk for wild fires. plan of the attack for the state forest fire service includes lighting back tires to burn off areas that could ignite and in conditions they described as a tinder box. dried out pine needles covering the floor helped spread the blaze along surface white dry soil can keep it going underground to watch out for signs of trouble, state fire fighters are staffing all 21 of the look out towers with spotters perched 125 feet in the air to scan for smoke on the horizon. of course, officials are reminding have been to be careful when going for a picnic or cook out. all it takes is one cigarette or campfire carelessly snuffed out. word came that the under age teenage driver who was at the wheel when a crash killed
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second three of her friend will not go to jail. that was decision today in wayne county court. "action news" reporter sharrie williams is live from the satellite center with the details on that, sharrie. >> reporter: jim investigators say it was the dad who gave this under age teen permission to use his suv to run out to get breakfast. well, minutes later three teenage boys were dead and today, you're right no jail time but ordered to pay restitution, community service and write apology letters to the families. now 16 year-old the teenage girl who had accepted responsibility, of a deadly crash, in the poconos is now a free person. she left the wayne county juvenile probation offices today. we are not directly revealing her identity, because she's a minor who was in the tried as an adult. last year on august 30th she was behind the wheel of this chevy suburban when investigators say she lost control, and rolled the vehicle several times killing three bucks county teens. ryan lesher, cullen keffer and
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shamus digney, all would have been sophomores at council rock high school south. >> we hepp miss blair learned a valuable life lesson, all of this and she understands that she hurt a lot of people, created a lot of sadness and misery. >> reporter: it was an emotional day in the the courtroom as family members shared stories about the boys, and how their promising lives were cut short. the teen, behind the wheel was 15 years old, under age, at the the time. the state troopers say her father michael wear, gave her permission to drive. >> he need to be convicted and sentenced to the fullest extent of the law. >> reporter: as for the young driver a judge decide that had she should not be in a detention facility but instead given probation. >> this girl is going to be devastated for the rest of her life because you her father chose to act as a buddy rather than to be a father. >> in the courtroom the teenage driver told the
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parents that she was sorry. men time michael wear her father has been charged, and again, he is a accused of giving his daughter permission to use his suv. his trial jimmies expect to start over the summer. live from the the satellite center sharrie williams for channel six "action news". thanks sharrie. forty-nine year-old christopher murray had has pleaded guilty to strangling his wife. connie murray was murdered last august in penny pack park in philadelphia the christopher murray admitted he snapped when his wife was upset when he was texting with another woman n court murray called connie his first and only true love, he faces 20 to 30 years in prison. the the kappa delta row fraternity of penn state university has been suspended for three years' effective today. fraternity has been linked to a secret facebook page containing photographs, of nude and semi nude women university officials a say members had engaged in sexual harassment and hazing, and there was quote a persistent
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climate of humiliation for several females. still to come on "action news" tonight taxpayer beware, we will tell you about the irs breach that has exposed 100,000 people to identity theft tonight. plus what a fort lauderdale official was saying about the act of nature that sent a bounce house flying with kid inside. and a new study revealed how waiting a few minutes after a baby is born to cut the court how it could lead to benefits years later, cecily. it will be warm tomorrow, more humid today and tracking more storms on the way. not everyone will see them. i'll explain them with future trashing six in the full accu weather forecast. and the phillies general manager on the hot seat after comments, controversial comments about the the fans, ducis rodgers with that story when "action news" continues tonight
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the city manager for fort lauderdale florida is calling memorial day bounce house incident a quote, freak act of nature, that no one could have prepared for. the house was on a beach with three children inside, video call the inflatable structure being thrown into the the air hurled into the air by a waterspout. house slammed in the concrete basketball pole before landing in a parking lot. all three kids inside were injured but they will be okay. so far one family has retained a lawyer. irs says professional cyber crooks have stolen data on more than 100,000 taxpayers. but the agency says it appears that the computer thieves already knew about their victims, and they got past security screens requiring social security numbers addresses, and birth dates. officials believe that the crooks used the get transcript service to return, and access
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old tax returns, in order to steel identities and claim fraudulent refund. irs will notify you if you have been affect. amazon is hiring, on line retailer has put in an order for 6,000 full-time jobs across the country. some of those openings are in three facilities in the tri-state area in pennsylvania, in lehigh county. middletown delaware in new castle county and robbinsville, new jersey in mercer county. new employees will work in fulfillment centers taking items from the warehouse packing them up and shipping them out. on health check at 11:00 tonight evidence that it may be wise to wait a little bit before cutting the cord. swedish researchers studied nearly 400 births and here's what they came up with. babe business their umbilical cord clamped after three minutes rather than immediately grew up to have better fine motor control and slightly better social skills, by the time they were four
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years old. it was more significant for boys, than for girls. there were no differences in iq. researchers say that the extra few minutes at birth may in the provide a dramatic benefit but it is simple and it does not hurt, doesn't hurt baby and doesn't hurt you. >> now they tell us. >> accu weather forecast and cecily tynan. >> finally we have some showers and thunderstorms on the way but storm tracker six live double scan is showing they are not arriving just tonight. it is a dry night and it feels like summer. we have had just enough cloud cover to create some beautiful sunsets, michael says he sent this to me from somerdale. you can see some of that sun break go through clouds and it felt like a summer night. in fact today's high 89 degrees in philadelphia warmest date so far 2 degrees above normal. dew points were in the low to mid 60's. that is slightly humid but due
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points are rising in the upper 60's tomorrow. you will notice muggies even more tomorrow. but right now it is definitely warm. philadelphia a 75. allentown 78. allentown and reading hit 90 today. wilmington 74. millville 70. wind off the ocean on the beach it is cooler. sea isle city 64. ocean water temperature a chilly 57. satellite six with action radar is showing showers and then are storms moving through ohio. this is part of the cold front that is slowly moving east and what this will do is bring us the opportunity for some much needed showers and thunderstorms. but not everyone will see them tomorrow. future tracker showing 8:00 o'clock in the morning we will see some clouds here and there warm start to the day. as we head to the afternoon. the most intense showers and thunderstorms will be in the far northwestern suburbs around 4:00 o'clock. this is great news because berks county, lehigh valley is under a maryland rate drought. it will begin to move in
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philadelphia around 8:00 o'clock and then really dissipates as it head into south jersey by tomorrow night. ahead of that system it is a warm day. as far as a threat this is mainly a rain event. heavy downpours. could get some lightening v low threat of is he rear weather with damaging wind or hail. we won't see any tornadoes in the system. there is in spin in the atmosphere. tomorrow highs will be similar to today 89 degrees in philadelphia allentown not quite as warm as today 85. in millville 86. wilmington 86. future tracker showing the actual cold front will move through on thursday. so that means that the areas of south jersey that really missed the storms tomorrow will likely see some thursday night and then behind that system some slightly cooler and dryer air arriving onfully. the exclusive accu weather seven day forecast warm, humid, afternoon thunderstorms. best chance. north and west of philadelphia thursday the scattered thunderstorms, pennsylvania mainly across south jersey, 86. partly sunny friday, less humid. a little bit cooler.
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85 degrees. we will get back in the warm muggy air mass on saturday. 88 degrees. before a stronger cold front arrives on sunday this will bring us some showers and thunderstorms. 81 degrees. that rain will likely link inner to monday. monday looks rainy and cool. 73 degrees. tuesday, clouds mixing with sun and a high of 75 degrees. so pack the umbrellas, some areas will need them tomorrow and areas that don't get them will see them on thursday. well, they announced the line up for this years wawa welcome america celebration today. the stars includes grammy nominated singer/song writer miguel and sugar land jennifer nettles, along with philadelphia's of course the the routes. six abc is proud respond the official broadcast partner of the eight day celebration and free family fun runs from june 27th through july 4th and usual with the big concert festivity will include movie screening and vendors block parties, and needless to say lots of food and fire works.
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phillies have had issues on and off the field. >> these comments came out of left field jim. ruben amaro junior should be worried about his team disappointing start but he has to worry about a team employee ripping the fans. wait that employee is omar a himself. gave an interview to csn.com where he criticized phillies fans knowledge of the developmental side of the baseball, and amaro was talking about some fans insistence that the team promote promising young players to the big league now rather than wait. he a said this about a said fans quote they don't understand the game. they don't understand the the process. there's a process and they blank and complain because we don't have a plan. today we apologized. >> i understand the passion and the knowledge that our fans have, for our game and other major sports and all of the sports in philadelphia. so the comments weren't meant to disparage our fans by any stretch of the imagination, i
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probably used my word incorrectly or poorly. >> you know is what disparaging is putting a mets uniform on a fanatic doll. third inning, michael caps a three run frame with this two run single. phillies are in a three to nothing hole. they get to the mets bull pen. the bend been reveer, lights out triple. he drives in a pair of once. it is three-two mets. next batter freddie galvis will single past a drawn in infield. he scores. game tied at three. later in the evening michael franco had zero for 12 slump. galleries comes in. four-three. now tied at four, wilbur flores singles off elvis. that is the ballgame. phillies lose, five -four. still to come, lebron james is heading back to the nba finals plus rangers try to stope limb nation in tampa.
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another round of eagles organize team activities began today, once again evan mathis is a in show. guard has been up happen bye a contract. these work outs are voluntary. nfl finals, lightening trying to close off rangers. the route is on. he scores the second of his three goals on the night. rangers win seven-three. game seven is friday night back in new york. nba eastern conference finals calves looking to sweep atlanta irving is back. lebron james was never gone. he is beneficial of the hawks turn over there more lebron in the second quarter. this game is a laugher. he scores 23. cleveland takes it by 30, takes the series in four. lebron james is heading to his fifth straight nba finals. that is sports. finally tonight a group of montgomery county students
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hit the football field today for a special event. plymouth white marsh high school has a program called best buddies. the program pairs mentally challenge students with their peers. today's game took on students from cheltenham high school and our own jamie apody attended this event along with her family, today. jimmy kimmel live next on channel six followed by night line. a "action news" continues at 4:30 with tamala edward, matt o'donnell, meteorologist david murphy and karen rodgers and traffic. for cecily tynan ducis rodgers and the entire "action news" team, i'm jim gardner good night. >> ♪♪
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