the moment this coming sunday night turns into monmorning you'll have 24 hours to enter septa's rail lottery. you'll be able to purchase one day regional rail passes for the weekend of september 26th that of course is the weekend that pope francis was scheduled to be in philadelphia for the world meeting of families. once it ends on monday night fraudulent entries will be removed the follow thursday august 5th. the lottery system is chosen in part to avoid the mad rush of customers becomes available.

it doesn't matter what time you enter your lottery submission, everybody has the same chance of being selected no matter what time you make your entry. >> there are approximately 350,000 regional rail passes minus the 201 they sold last week before the website crashed. they will release more information next week. if you don't win the regional rail lottery, hope is not lost, you can use tokens and passes on city transportation we'll have 750,000 city transit papal passes to sell. >> reporter: so one again to be clear we are talking about regional rail papal passes you'll have 24 hours all of

monday to submit your requests and if you win the pass will cost you $10 more information can be found at 6abc.com. we are keeping you up to date on the latest pictures news and tips on the papal visit on twitter and follow our account at 6 abc pope. a nurse at the chester county nursing home in westchester is arrested for allegedly stealing morphine from the long-term facility annie mccormick is live at the d. a.'s office. >> the suspect karen howit work there had for 15 years. authorities escorted 36-year-old

karen howit after alleging she stole morphine and other drugs from the home a nursing facility. they contacted authorities earlier this year when they noticed the powerful drugs were missing. >> the mage herb concern is that the end stage opinions will not get their pain medication and they will be suffering, it took an early turn when they investigated dillard her livein boyfriend. >> when we traced it back we found it was subscribed to a patience under this facility's care. >> the investigation continued and police believe that instead of destroying medication for patients that already died and

she abruptly quit mid-june after police interests interviewed her and what involvement if any dill aard had. >> this is an ongoing investigation whether or not the morphine was being sold out of that house. >> reporter: and the suspect does face a slew of charges including theft and fraud she does remain in jail on $50,000 bail. reporting live in westchester annie mccormick channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. >> the man that led oakland police on a two hour two state chase last night has been released from the hospital and is now in police custody. we now know that robert ritter's alleged crime before all of this began last night. police say he stole $10.50 worth of underwear from a shop-rite. "action news" reporter john rawlins, is here, sometimes the

fact is a bit stranger than fiction. >> reporter: well, the retail theft issue is the latest in a long line of issues with mr. ritter, in a statement from police he faced several no bail warrants connected to domestic abuse issues here in new jersey that may explain why he was reluctant to stop. >> they said a dangerous man ritter was behind the wheel of this car and it started in oakland, and moved to philadelphia and moved through populated areas in and around old city, two police cars were struck before the van fled back to new jersey but not for long after a brief pause at the depford mall it went back to berlin, they worked to slow and

force the van off the exit only to see the driver break away finally on a lightly traveled stretch near the airport, a pennsylvania state trooper was given the green light to do a pit maneuver using the front of his car to nudge the van and allows the trooper to make a stave stop. >> to continue in a straight line and bring his vehicle to a stop and allows the fleeing vehicle to rotate and eventually stall and when it does that you can apprehend the driver and last night as everybody had seen on tv it was done successfully. >> ritter of blackwood was arrested by philadelphia police in a statement they say that he has an extensive violent history, did oakland police ever consider it breaking off the department so far not taking questions philadelphia police

say they were only assisting asked if under its new pursuit policy would they have broken off the chase. >> we know who the driver is and know his vehicle and residence we have probably terminated the pursuit you have to keep in mine neighborhoods. >> reporter: well, the lieutenant making it clear that they did not initiate this chase but only assisted. the call to continue or break off the chase apparently up to oaklyn and they are not taking questions on that particular issue. >> thank you john. >> "action news" viewers caught up in the action captured the drama from a different perspective. this was i-76 in camden bernie

senus this video from center city philadelphia. if you see breaking news send the videos to jointheaction@6abc.com or share on social media using #6abcaction. well, new jersey state troopers out on patrol will soon be quipped with body cameras, the state will spend 1.5$1.5 million of its existing budget to outfit the troopers with the technology and goal is to promote accountability and transparency. >> so that truth rules the day not emotions not agendas and not personal bias. >> troopers will be required to activate the body cameras during traffic stops, arrests and protests, the cameras will be phased in over the next nine months. a woman has died after a

nasty crash in newcastle this morning. state police say that 29-year-old joanne hess of smyrna, delaware turned into the path of a truck just before 7:00 the impact push's hess's nissan no a parking lot where it struck a sign and a light pole. she was rushed to christiana hospital where she later died. a gloucester county home gutted by fire later this morning will have to be torn down the blaze erupted on buckingham court on monroe township at 3:30 a.m., the flames quickly spread consuming part of the roof, fortunately the family was not at home at the time. >> coming up an 8-year-old received a ground breaking transplant at the hospital of philadelphia. and the nfl rules on tom brady's

appeal on his suspension over deflate-gate. >> we are heating up we hit 90 in philadelphia the start of heat wave number three i'll let you know how long it lasts and how to expect widespread storms.

there is an emotional development tonight among the tragedy of the hit and run in juniata section of philadelphia. the victim's beloved dog max is

found and returned to the family, he he play a role in a special needs boy whose father was hurt in the crash. the dog ran to a house in the neighborhood and they called police and they reunited max with his family. the medical community is talking about an extraordinary milestone that happened here in philadelphia. doctors at childrens hospital performed the first bilateral double hand transplant on a child. ali gorman has the story. >> 8-year-old zion harvey was all smiles as he walked out for a news conference at childrens hospital announcing his successful operation the first child to receive a double hand transplant and is now undergoing intensive hand therapy. but overall he feels --

>> happy. >> -- he now walks with prosthetic legs and and learned to do things without his hands and received a kidney transplant. his mother says ultimately the decision was his. >> it was no more of a risk than a kidney tran plant i felt i'lling to take the risk for him if he wanted it. >> we rehearsed and knew our steps. >> it was a team effort by 40 doctors nurses and specialty staff from chop, pen medicine and shriners it took ten hours to attach the bones nerves and muscles. >> we put all the parts back together, so they would not just look like hands but function as hands. >> zion thanks his family. >> i want to say to you guys

thank you for helping me through this bumpy road. >> everyone also thanked the donor family that chose to remain anonymous zion will spend more time here for rehab at chop and then go home to baltimore and doctors say his new hands grow with him but they cannot predict how much. ali gorman, channel 6 "action news."

so the phillies wheeling and dealing has begun, they are willing to trade with someone in their division which is unusual for baseball. the deal of sending jonathan papelbon to the nationals is in the works. they would get a double a pitcher in return. after his assistance and that

his next year option is picked up and he is the closer. >> he said 1,000 times or a million that he would not go somewhere that there is a closer. so the nationals have to grapple with that. >> it doesn't so many like it's a matter of if but rather when cole hamels gets moved. the phillies told interested teams to make their best offer by tomorrow. to the nfl, the appeal has been heard and tom brady's suspense stands he is to miss the first four games of the nfl season roger goodell announced the decision saying there was information that points to brady having his cell phone destroyed even though investigators wanted to examine it. brady has reportedly authorized

the baseball organization to appeal it in federal court. and the eagles will open up an intriguing training camp, it will have a new look with demarco murray leading the attack but cannot do much if the offensive line does not do their job. >> now jason kelsey is a smart athletic run blocker but not big and physical he needs two big physical guards to help him get that push because if it's not there, then demarco murray doesn't see the hole and he has to bound outside and then demarco murray is turning into who lesean mccoy, and where he is? playing in buffalo because he bounded outside too much. >> the training camp starts on sunday and i'll be with you with all the action from day one. this hire does make news,

the arizona cardinals hired jen welter as an assistant linebacker coach. she played in the indoor football league before coaching in that same league. >> i can show these guys you can overcome any limitation i am 5'2" 140 points, i should never have been able to do it sometimes have you to be a little smarter. >> finally tonight, when you go to the ball game keep your head on a swivel. yankees rangers game, that foul ball scared the daylights out of that youngster there he was not paying attention but the xroen in front of him does. cecily tynan with the accuweather forecast.

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big story is the heat. it's hot and getting hotter tomorrow and thursday i'm tracking a front that brings us a round of thunderstorms in the afternoon. tomorrow though, you combine the temperature with the dew points generally in the 70s, we are locking at a heat index of up to close to 100 along the i-95 corridor and northwest and southeast not much better it will follow 95 to close to 100 degrees tomorrow with the heat index you definitely need to take it easy, on thursday future tracker showing ahead of a cold front we see a round of thunderstorms developing and could contain damaging wind gusts, and what that cold front will do is knock down the heat and humidity on friday we could still technically be in a heat wave into the week and next week, 91 in philadelphia down from a high of 93 allentown and reading 90 and millville 87, you can see what a shower does the atlantic city airport rain

cooled 76 degrees, the heat index make its feel like 95 in philadelphia and same in wilmington and 90 in wildwood and 90 in allentown and read and 93 degrees in trenton, it's certainly a warm evening, satellite 6 along with action radar showing most of the showers and thunderstorm activity is across virginia and west virginia and that really stays to the south if you look to the north you see that line of clouds associated with a jet stream and this is a ridge of high pressure and this stays in place tomorrow we have high pressure down to the south and this will continue to provide that heat pump with the hot humid air and hot here and even hotter areas south and west where temperatures are above 100, tomorrow get set to sweat the high 94 degrees and the heat index up around 99 and thursday the temperature will likely drop a couple of degrees, 92 degrees and it will be more humid and the heat index on thursday soars up to 101 i think

thursday will be the most po oppressive day of the heat wave, 75 degrees and along the beaches, temperature in the mid-80s and the afternoon high of 88 to 89. the exclusive accuweather forecast, the heat continues tomorrow, 94 degrees and thursday 92 and officially making it heat wave number three, gusty thunderstorms with the cold front and friday if we hit 90 we are still technically in the heat wave but it won't feel as oppressive and saturday back up to 92 degrees and sunday sunny and hot and monday 91 and that drops temperatures back near normal with a high of 88 on tuesday. the heat wave likely continues through the weekend and again thursday will be the most oppressive day. finally tonight we have word of a new pilot program that is helping students cope their

reading skills on track during the summer months. the play street book club launched today in philadelphia it it provides five free books at 16 locations across the city, that also serves federal funded meals, a good combination of food and books, abc world news is next on channel 6, "action news" continues at 10:00 on phl 17 with adam joseph, brian taff and ducis rogers and please join us from "action news" here on channel 6. for cecily tynan ducis rogers and the entire "action news" team, we hope you'll join us at 11:00.

>> tonight the stunning confession right here. the woman at the center of the prison escape breaking down in court today, pleading guilty. revealing the sexual relationship, the real plan with those two escaped killers and the pills she was supposed to give to her husband. also breaking tonight, the bombshell, the nfl saying quarterback tom brady destroyed his cell phone and nearly 10,000 text messages gone. while they were investigating. the emergency call. the pilot of a passenger plane and his call for help. the plane, he said had less than five minutes left of the fuel. capsized boat two boys missing at sea. a pilot radioing in what he saw. and the american dentist who paid to kill one of the most beloved lions in the