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sedative to give would the mand he wanted to have sex with. w monday night jim's off i'm rick williams. the big story on "action news" tonight is latest chapter in cha the sagapt surrounding bill cosby. a 2005 court deposition revealed that the famed actoror and comedian admitted to securing quaaludes with intenten have of drugging women he wanted to have sex with. his testimony that cosby hadad been trying to keep secret. "action news" reporter walter perez is live in center cityity tonight with the full story. walter? >> reporter: well, rick, as youel mentioned these developments do not go with what the cosby camp has been trying to promote through the media and different statementsnt that allegations erupted when whole thing started. sworn testimony from bill s b cosby in 2005 admitted that heit gave drugs to women he wanted to have sex with. with. the testimony was given in connection with a sexual abuse lawsuit, filed by a former temple university employee. a lawsuit that was settled
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under undisclosed terms ninems years ago.o. during questioning after cosby testified that he had obtain quaaludes, theal plaintiff's attorney askedsk cosby you gave them to other people?pe his response was yes. later cosby was asked when you got the quaaludes was it inn your mind that you were going to use these quaaludes for young woman you wanted to have have sex with? cosby's answer again was yes. he did a face time interviewew with joseph camerata a d.c. based attorney representing r three women who made similar allegations against the comedian. he says apart from what thishi does to help his case, he saysays now the public is beginning to see the truth. truth >> these documents in particular, the testimony under oath by mr. cosby they clearly would establish that with respect to that aspect,ec the drugs for sex, mr. cosby is not telling the truth. >> reporter: cosby's attorneys expressed their opposition tbyo releasing these documents d
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saying it would be an embarrassment to cosby and his family. in the end a judge decided to unseal a portion of the deposition. now, according to those documents cosby's lawyers insisted that at least two of the accusers knew they were taking quaaludes from the comedian. cosby has been accused by two dozen women of sexual misconduct during incidents dating back more than 40 years. still he has never been charged with the crime and thee the statute of limitations hass expired on most of the reported cases. joseph camerata says at the very least this latest development is a victory for the american legal system.te >> a jury brings together a group of citizens to determineer who is right and who is wrong. this is a right that we have as americans. so it is a victory for the public at large and not for anyone in particular.cular. >> reporter: well, also inl, a thosels documents when cosby wasas asked if he ever gave quaalude toss anyone without their knowledge, cosby's attorneys objected and question was never really answered. we reached out to cosby's
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osattorneys but so far those phone calls have not been return.re reporting live, walter perez, channel six "action news", rick? thanks walter. now to a developing story tonight, a devastating fire in the heart of the popularul shopping district in upper darby. flames, and billowing smokeil kept fire fighters busy all evening on 69th street, in fact they remained on the scene at this hour. "action news" reporter sharrie williams is live there as well and she has very latest on residents who had to evacuate, sharrie.e. >> reporter: rick, 25 homes,k, 25 were evacuated earlier the officials now telling me about five homes that are still in what they are calling the danger zone.on so some families back in their homes, others are not.ot a live look here on the scene they have just reactivated that ladder in the last five minutes. they say they are still dealing with hot spots along alon the back wall of where thisis fire started inside the payay less store. they are also fighting it byy
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lower ground level with thehe scene they call the squirt. they say they will be here,er throughout the night to keepee an eye on these hot spots. it was a chaotic busy scene along upper darby's popular 69th street. a four alarm blaze in this pay p less shoe story ruperted sending employees and family famil running for safety.et >> the sky was basically black. you could see the flames coming up. >> reporter: sierra sparks was a fewrr doors down from the shoehe store attending class at harrah's school of business. >> the school was getting very, are smokey. itke was, hard to breathe. >> reporter: 200 fire fighters and emergency workers weree called into battle the flames. uppemer darby fire leading the way tried to make entry but could not. minutes later the roof collapsed. out of precaution homes along the back of the burning building were evacuated and that helped his elderly parent p and his neighbor hoist deaf. >> knock on the door and they they ran up the steps and they got
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us out. out. >> reporter: they were also told to move to t safety.et >> when i came down lansdowne avenue, and i could see them on the street. >> reporter: honk day foron these firemen and women who got the up are hand and one o fire fighter was rushed to the hospital for heat exhaustion but a quick response helped minimize the fire damage with damag the pay less store where it it all started. >> that is where we wanted to contain it.n it. everything that we have done itt looks like we were able to do that. >> reporter: a live look on the scene these a fire fightersig still at work. not just one fire fighterig taken to the hospital but theyut have also had a second injury out here today dealing with heat exhaustion. ofat course, 69th street theyy say they have been revampingng this brand new movie theater will reopen in a couple weekse wee from here.from this i hs a step back and blow for this district.
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it started on the second floor but pay less fire officialsic telling me at this point seven stores have been affect by heat, smoke or water damage. they are not sure how the fire started but fire keeps telling me itli is not intentional. i they will look into it as accidental but putting their finger on it will take time. we are live from upper darby sharrie williams for channel six "action news". >> rick. >> sharrie, thank you. y one person had to be rescued in delaware county this evening. around 9:00 o'clock heavyvy rains caused rocky run creek cre to overflow and flood near 200 block of chester heights.st one persoern was trapped ined their vehicle and had to bee rescued by the fire department. and, on the weather frontnt tonight some parts of our area are under a flash floodlo warning thanks to heavy rains and pop up storms. meteorologist adam joseph is at the big board with the latest on storm tracker sixck double scan, adam.m. >> most of us didn't see a a drop of rain this evening and a others are saying, one momentom in time please shut their water off and then right now
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most of the area is in the dry with double scan live radar with the exception off lancaster county, getting downpours and then are storms, passing to the western part of the lancaster county. we have that flash flood warning in effect, until just jus aftert midnight, for parts of par the bucks county near bedminster hilltown, perkasie and as far north where 3 inches of rainfall earlier this evening but still dealing with high water in that part of the country. hard owe 2 inches of rain. that extend down to perkasie. then we will move west of 30930 and east of 611 and veryer little fell. wel. also had flash flooding in parts of the delaware county,y, chester county and thatat warning has expired but again, one area, very small area, seeing between two and 3 inches of rain near vineland, edgemont and upp toward new town square and route three. even that area all of the flooding has subsided. at the same time i was gettingti many pictures on facebook and twitter. a viewer sent this to me, from
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sinking spring on my twittertter account just showing a couple of things here. the towering cumulus cloud with tumhat sunshine kind of glistening and glowing thewi tops of the cloud darkerke cloud below that particularr sunlight and there you can see that rain shaft at very smallll minute area, getting that heavy rainfall. that isnf a very clear picture of what hit or miss storms storm look like, rick. we will talk about more coming in tomorrow and then a bigig drop in humidity by end of thee week in the accu weather forecast. >> we will check back in later, thank you. a community came together this evening to march against violence in philadelphia. overhi the fourth of july weekend a 17 year-old girl was killed in one incident, three male victims wereid murdered in separate shootings over last three days. days. members of the drug program called one day at a time, organized this stop the violence march. residents and community leaders also participated.te police still have not made an arrest in the stabbing death of a 17 year-old girl, anita cotton was kill in the
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walgreens parkingil lot at broadroad and hunting park around 3:45 sunday morning. teenager had been to penso landing with a group of friend and outdoors they headed to south street where they ran into another group of girls from the neighborhood.ei >> we don't know, what the original fight was all aboutut but we just know that it carried over on south street s where there was an altercation, uniform did a great job of coming and dispersing that.t. they got on the subway on two different carts. theyff got off, all at the samesa time and we had a second altercation.al >> police say surveillance video shows cotton and anotherno girl had each other by the hair. they said other girl jabbed upward with the sharp object andbj caught her in the neck.k. she took two steps and fell to fel thel ground. police say they have multiple pieces of surveillance video vid from that evening that shows cotton was the agreeser, attacking the girl who eventually killed her. a handy man is behind barss tonight for murder of an elderly east mt. airy woman. thirty-seven year-old leroyer
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wilson was arrested saturday. police say he has a lengthy rap sheet in florida. they believe the eight five-year old victim caughtau him stealing and then suspect beat her and slit her throat last week. h police are looking in the possibility that he may have stolen from other neighbors.. authorities are still looking for two or men who have been using, the victim's credit card. the driver of the dump truck whop was seriouslyerio injured when he crash in the guardrail this afternoon hason has been cited.ited five. three-year old theodore heartel was accused off following too closely. troopers says he was traveling south on rangelhill road in bear delaware when trafficn slowed down. he hit the brakes.ke the truck went in the median hitting a wire guardrail. 20 tons of dirt spilled on the roadway. good news for scores of sco there residents in south philadelphia, they haveia running water once again. early this morning a 6-inch water main broke in the 2100 block of wood stock. ten to 20 homes had as a much as a foot of water in the
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basement. fifty homes in all lost water service. crews spent all day working to fix the problem. shortly after 6:00 this evening, things returned to normal.norm and, audit reveals that a salem county clinic gave at least five children the wrong vaccination. program in question is shotsts for tots at memorial hospital n1 case, flu mist was administered to a one year-old child. minimum age is two.wo in another case the chart wass so unreadable health officials o could not tell what theat t patient actually received. recei but the more significant mistake was that of a two-year old boy who received a shot of gardasil a vaccine for hpv.v. that boy is now at risk of potentially, harmful side effects. >> last week i got a lettert out indicate ago this we will be paying medical monitoring costs for all five cases andd we're hopeful and certainly the child will be in our prayers and i hope your viewers put the child in their
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prayers. >> operations at the clinic,li have been suspended.ed delran native carli lloydoy and rest of the women's world cup champions are back in the u.s. tonight. just a short time ago they arrived at los angeles international airport.ir they played quite a game last night against japan. j lloyd scored three times and help her team bring home their first championship since 1999. women's sock are team will bem honored at a rally tomorrow in los angeles.s. they even got a congratulations call from presidentti obama today. he says he looks forward to welcoming the team to the white house to celebrate. we will hear from carli lloyd coming up a little bit later in sports. s you can also watch reaction from her hometown of delran burlington county on six abc.com. we have a look at her soaring profile following last night's stunning performance right r there right now on six abc.com. and still to come onto "action news" tonight proofig that some of us age faster then others. oth
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also president obama pays a visit to the pentagon, latest on the campaign against isis and video that landed a florida state university football player in hot water, the punch in the face he delivered, to a woman. adam. rick, most of the country seeing very typical summerum heat and humidity this afternoon but we are trackingck a break in the humidity for us locally. we will let you know when in when the accu weather seven day. we will hear from former phillies player jimmy rollins about his departure in sportspo when "action news" att 11:00 comes right back.
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it was a rare visit to the pentagon for president obama. he was there to get an update on the campaign against isis. the president says that theth u.s. is doing a better job when it comes to stopping plans for large scale attacks however, he says smaller operations carried out by a lone wolf recruited by terror
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network are much more difficult to contain.ta >> this will not be quickck thinks a long term campaign. isil is opportunistic and it is nimble. >> over the weekend there wase was a wave of u.s. air strikes in eastern syria. isis acknowledge the strikes kill ten fighters to day more than 5100 air strikes have hav been carried out against extremist target. nearly 2,000 of those strikes were in syria to help ground forces.fo leaders of the germany and france say they respecthe greece's vote against terms of the international bail out. out. they say doors remained opened to negotiations. greek banks are just dayseg froms running out of f money each citizen is only allowed to withdraw the equivalent of $67 a day. european leaders will meade tomorrow in us before tolls determine whether or not toll b relax demand on greece whilee giving desperately needed funding. the south carolina senatea has voted to permanently
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remove thely confederate flag from thera state house. today's vote was 37-three.th the bill allows the state to remove the flag as soon as it passes the house and it is signed by governor nicki haley. the house could vote as earlyly as tomorrow, there was a push to remove the flag after nine african americans were gunnedd down during a bible study last l month at a church in charleston.ston shocking video. tonight florida state university football player deandrere johnson punching a woman in the bar. it shows johnson pushing a woman before grabbing her armhe and punching her in the face. incident happened last month m at a nightclub johnson turned himself into police a few days later after an arrest was issued, an arrest warrant was issued and suspended indefinitely from fsu's football team. tea a endm. to nasa car race is raising new questions aboutio your safety in the stand. just seconds after dale a earnhardt junior crossed the finish line to win coke 0400e
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drivers began behind him, began colliding.ng the crash sent austin dill on's car airborne slamming him in the safety fencela at the daytona international speed way. impact at 200 miles an hour sent debris flying in the stand, 13 fans were injured dylann though only had minor injuries. health check tonight scientific proof that somero people age faster then others, on the outside and the inside. researchers at duke universitye looked at a thousand adults who are all, 38 years old. when they took a closer look at certain markers of aging they found that their biological ages raged from 30 to 60.. participant whereby logically older a and aging faster scored lower on tests of strength, balance coordination and iq, so what s determines how fast we age and how we slow it down, unfortunately the study did notth address those questions but for those wondering meteorologist adam joseph is 16. i so there you go. >> yeah, i only wish, to go
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back. no no i like it where i am. >> now, as we take a look at double scan radar, i think back in the day they had such fitted suits. double scan, showing most of the area dry after a pretty active evening in spots. there is. still one area on on double scan live radar where a then are storm downpour are passing through right through heart of the lancaster countynt near smithville, kirkwood and as far east as oxford gettingti a couple rain drops there andnd a few left over lightening strikes, the storm has really fallen apart as it worked away from maryland, moving to the north but still getting some pretty heavy rain in parts of the lancaster county but no flooding at this present time tim in lancaster count which that downpour. seventy-seven in philadelphia,la same for wilmington. all areas in the mid 70's,s, very uncomfortable 70 degreesde with all that humidity, flooding in off the atlantic ocean. the dew point which in our
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area in the heart of the summer hardly ever get to around 75, 76 degrees, it is pretty rare, you can see many areas of touching that to theto t south so that is truly tropical air, a lot of water droplets water vapor in the atmosphere and so wet you can ring it out, it literally pores. we saw that here this evening. satellite and radar it is in response to low pressure to the west. it is a little energy that is rolling through the atmosphere from the southwest to the north and east, sparking someome of those spotty downpours and storms, and as that continues to drift through tomorrow morning, we will have summer soup for morning rush. there could be an isolated downpour and a couple of locations with temperatures between about 74 and 76 degrees. and a front, we will wait for this until wednesday so ahead of it tomorrow is hot and it is humid but that energy lifts to the north soo any spotty storm would be in the first part of the day tomorrow, as opposed to the second half of the day but we still hit 90 degrees.de
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and then front collapses and closes in on wednesday which would be another trigger inri the atmosphere to get some of those downpours and storms going a little more activect here on wednesday then it was today and it will be tomorrow.w. seventy-five is the ocean temperature right now with the shore.shor eighty-two for aire. temperature. sun, cloud, very humid againin with just a stray chance of the downpour or thunderstorm. overall tha decent day at the shore f you had hear thundernd just get inside. you don't want to take any chance west that lightening. the l exclusive accu weather seven day forecast hot and humid tomorrow. 90 degrees. best chance for downpours andnd storms would be wednesday and thursday with that frontha showily pushing through.ou thursday our temperatures dope bounce down from that 90 degrees, and then that front sinks way to the south here on friday which will openpe the door to refreshing air much lower humidity, on friday of 86 degrees. the same 8 for saturday, a beautiful day before that humidity and heat starts to kickback upo sunday into monday
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and when humidity returns thatet is when chance for downpoursnp and thunderstorms will make a come back in that seven day forecast. >> thanks, adam. well, starting tomorrow,om tomorrow morning actually, a your favorite drink at star bucks will cost you more. company is raising prices anywhere from a nick toll 20 cents, it haics been about a year since coffee giant raisedse its prices. food prices at star
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ducis here with sports. phillies out west facing the dodgers and jimmy rollins. >> yes, they get to see their old friend tonight in l.a..a strange to see role minutes dodgers blueol almost as as strange to see him batting just point 208. he saw writing on the wall with the philness full rebuild mode. rollins is happy to say too leave for los angeles. >> i'm glad to have gotten out when i did but i'm glad too have gotten here. ruben and i spoke about wherere i wanted to go. i said, los angeles. they were able to get a deal done. that helps out when you can can go somewhere where you wanting to if you have to leave as opposed to just where ever youou end up. >> phillies and dodgers
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rollins batting ninth tonight. ego says ouch. t freddie galvis, little man has some pop, two run home run, his third of the season. game tied at two. bottom of the second, andre either, second rbi double to bring in puis. dodgers back on top three-two. third inning ryan howard, struck out earlier with two men on, not again a towering three run blast his 14th of the h season.ea right now phillies lead five-three. we are in the third. it is taps and that is it. phillies lone representativere for the all-star game will be closer jonathan papelbon. he has converted all 14 of the save opportunities papelbon will be making his sixth career all-star appearance. nba summer league is underway and so is jahlil okafor's nba career. under watchful eyes of theye brett brown and sam hinkie, sixers topic starts tonight against san antonio. he has nice moves.
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okafor finish with a game high 20 points on ten of 22 shooting. not bad. he also grabbed nine rebound and blocked two shots in 29n 29 minutes of action. glaring hole in his game is free throw shooting, he goes zero for four from the line. they will t certainly work with him on that. sixers lose, 74-71.71 still ahead more from carli lloyd as she continues to live out the dream but we will see how serena gets best of venous aga
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why not? not the delran, new jersey native knows a thing or two about being a leader, sports world is still a buzz about her three goal performance lastt night against japan. she won golden ball and was the tournament a's best player. lloyd made round in the morning talk showse today and she admitted that she's running on no sleep. >> i haven't slept a wink yet barely been able to get through text messages and some of the social media stuff.tu i had some teammates tellingel me that mr. president, tweeted me and got to meet joe by tone day so that wase pretty cool, but it is, i don't thinkhi it is all sunken in yet. >> and novac djokovic in the tough match with kevin anderson. it was suspended due toue darkness before the fifth set. they will resume tomorrow. serena williams facing sister venous. we have seen this before. thisis is easy for serene a match point, serena wins six-four six-three to advance to the quarter finals.
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serena owns a 15-11 edge all time over her older sister. >> okay good that is sports. >> thanks, ducis. d this dog in north carolina has a soft spot. willie is a boston terrier who had taken on mothering duties.ut his owners adopted two little kittens at three weeks old after their mother died. willie stepped in the role as mr. mommas you can see there.re his family says they could nott be more proud of him what a a perfect way to end tonight's newscast. jimmy kimmel live next, next, followed by night line. jimmy ease guest bill hater and music from phil sellwig. "action news" continues at 4:00 are 30 with tamala edward, matt o'donnell meteorologist david murphy and, karen rodgers with traffic. for the entire "action news" team i'm rick williams, haveav a night evening, we will seeill you tomorrow, good night.
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