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passenger plane nrunz engine trouble and is forced to turn around for an emergency landin landing. it is friday night. and the big story on "action news" tonight is a midair emergency. flight 669 took off from philadelphia at 8:50 this evening exist inked for seattle and flames were reported shooting from left engine visible enough to prompt paerms to call 911. air bus 320 circled half an hour and landed safely 9:20 the plane had a calm, cool and collected pilot at the controls as we hear from this talk with the tower. >> we got 142 plus 3 and fuel was 39.2. >> okay. >> sorry we have left engine right now we think it's failur failure. >> flaming debris and -- out of
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the left engine sdmrt plane landed safely and nobody on board was hurt. >> three people were rushed to limerick township and happened west ridge pike in south limerick road. two vehicles collided and one of them toyota camary had a utility pole. two medical helicopters had to be dispatched to the scene. philadelphia police are still trying to track down the gunman who murdered a 22-year-old woman last week and tonight friends and members of her family held a vigil of remembrance. and "action news" reporter jeff jeff chirico is live. another emotional night for the community. >> that's right, jim, this is a neighborhood in mourning. you can see the memorial the candles burning in the memorial outside of home she was murdered in just last week. this is also a neighborhood on edge because the killer is on the loose and today, folks here gathered to try to encourage people who know what happened
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to talk to police. >> what do we want. >> justice. >> for stephanie. >> heavy heart marchers marched through port richmond demanding justice for stephanie gunned down in her home on the 3000 block of armingo avenue last week and her-year-old daughter was nearby. ryan is her brother. >> i know she's looking down on us smiling to get justice for -- >> we want to find out who did this and bring the person in. >> and more than 100 family and friends were shirts with her picture and carried signs through the streets the 2-year-old grew up on they don't think it was random home envision but a close family friend cannot imagine who would want to hurt the loving young mother. >> she deposit have any enemies and gotta long with everybody and she has a magnetic personalityty. you are drawn to her when you heat her. >> police have surveillance that may show the perpetrator
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running down the road. >> she will understand one day and she will have to grow up knowing that it's not fair, no child in this world should go through what she's goingto through. >> we need answers please, this baby has to grow up with no mother now you know. >> it's for everybody this person is in and out on the street and nobody is safe right now. >> neighbors handed out flyers asking for people to call police if they know anything. philadelphia police are not saying much about their investigation and they're not revealing information about any leads they may have now. as in any murder in philadelphia here there is a 20,000 reward leading to the killer's capture and conviction and of course, you can remain anonymous. live in port richmond. jeff chirico "channel 6 action news." >> jim, thank you, chad, three men were shot late this afternoon along the 3000 block of north b street in philadelphia and this evening
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one of the victims died of his wounds. the man fall early 0s were rushed to the hospital in a private vehicle before an ambulance arrived. and police have yet to disclose the circumstances surrounding the gunfire and they say the shooter remains at large. >> and nothing but a charred shell remains tonight after a fire swept through this home in hammonton, atlantic county and firefighters called for a second alarm to battle the plays that ended up gutting wood frame house on the 300 block of first avenue and fortunately, nobody was hurt. james holmes who killed twelve people and left 70 wounded inside a colorado movie theater in 2012 will spend the rest of his life behind bars. and instead of facing a sentence of death. and a jury made up of nine women and three men shu could not agree on unanimous sentence. >> the court will impose sentence of life in prisonment without possibility of parole. >> as the verdict was red the
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family of victims began to weep and some left the courtroom before the entire verdict could be heard sfwla our lives are forever altered and the thought that this monster gets toe have visitation with his parents and gets to receive mail and pictures of his very strange girl friends, is very hard to accept. >> the trial took three months and was filled with emotional testimony from first responder responders, family members, and surviving victims. some of whom are in wheelchair wheelchairs. one still has a bullet in his heart. >> a well known drug rehab facility was on the scene of turmoil tonight as several residents needed rescuing. "action news" reporter dann cuellar is live outside the house in east falls, philadelphia, dann what is the
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story there. >> well, jim it's supposed to be a remember has been enter center and yet another incidents here. a slew of mrapss had to respond to number of residents overdos overdosing on synthetic drug known as k and as is often the case the patients became violent and police had to be called. >> "action news" was on the scene around 6:00 here in the 3200 block of henry avenue and calls to 91 is reported that four men, had overdosed and were acting pretty crazy. >> when paramedics initially got her to transport all four males toe nearby hospitals they were acting unruly and they were being about a little violent. >> police had to be called to bring things under control. the men three in 40s and none in 20s aperiod to be on the new sin thikt drug called k. >> it's synthetic marijuana that has been more prevalent here in philadelphia and it's a strong type of synthetic marijuana that causes users to become violent and also to hallucinate. >> police and paramedics had to
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respond here numerous times over such incidents and back on may 8 a slew of paramedics had to rush here after twelve cases of facility reportedly od'd on k. chopper 6 was over the scene as patients were loaded into ambulances and transported to area hospitals. >> there's been a lot of young people add less epts and teen aim rz as well as young adults that wept to emergency rooms and had psychosis and myocardial infractions and death. >> the courthouse houses public and private referrals for drug and alcohol and mental health issues officials here had no comment and one resident that did not want to be identified for fear of retaliation says it's a joke to call this place a rehab center. >> it's completely -- it's it'sry dig uwhat it s people are falling every day and ambulances apicking them up. >> the department of corrections will surprised a
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team to sweep the place for drugs and thnt drugs return and everything will be like it has been. again no comment from officials at the facility. live in east falls, dann cuellar, "channel 6 action news." >> thank you, da l dann. investigators now say own he of concerner bakery in overbrook in philadelphia was shot during a struggle as two thieves attempted to rob her store. and she was shot in the neck this morning at her shop best cake bakery police believe the robbery was planned they took her apron knowing that's where she kept her cash instead of register and thieves may have had more inside information. >> what we're understanding from people she pays employees fridays. it clearly was a setup robbery as far as we're sglernd it was second crime here in the past week. last friday she managed to fight off would-be thieves and tonight is in critical condition. >> former eagles fan favorite
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irving prier has been convicted for his role in mortgage scam jury found 52-year-old former eagle applied for multiple mortgage loans in quick success while using same property as collateral. he was vick it of con-artist sevrpinging a 21 month sentenc sentence. his mother was also con vingted in the scheme and faces up to ten years in jail. >> pennsylvania attorney general kathleen kane is expected to surrender tomorrow to face charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. kane is charged with leaking secret grand jury information to a you newspaper reporter and lying about it under noming oath. she will be processed at the montgomery county detickettive bureau in norris southern and aryaned over closed circuit tv by a judge in collegeville. >> only "action news" was there as bicycle belonging to 1 11-year-old boy found dead in delaware country earlier this week was recovered by police. and aquan late more's body was
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found in darby creek monday and his bicycle today found in glenolden. his backpack was also found today. investigators do not suspect foul play. they say he drowned. secret service is trying to dispel rumors about security restrictions for papal visit. agency says neither it nor city of philadelphia will be screening pedestrians walking a cross the ben franklin bridge. secret service says visitors should expect some kind of law enforcement presence to ensure safe passage but will not be forced to go through check point with metal detectors. delaware river port authority that operates the bridge says it's not ready to disclose security plan. however the ben franklin bridge will be closed to car traffic from friday september 25 at 10 to monday at noon on the 28th. >> and what to do with all those pilgrims on the parkway
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next month who want to tweet and text and post photographs of the pope. well the splits is underway to putp three dozen small cellphone antennas like this one installed today near the central library across from the free library. verizon and att to triple capacity at a price tag of 47 million. they're making preinstructions based off new year's eve in times square, new york, off of super bowls and wawa welcome america on the parkway. >> that's what we do. we spend our living planning for events like this and executing events like this. and it is our expectation when you press send that call or data session will go through. >> good thing forsetty residents and tourists. many of these network improvements will be permanent upgrades. >> and we also learned today that pope francis will speak from the same lectern that president lincoln used to
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deliver the gettysburg address and this historic luck turn from the speech in 186 is in a private collection and curren currently on display at the union league of philadelphia and it will be used for the pope's speech at independence hall on saturday, september 26. with so many angles to cover on the papal visit we established a special pope channel on the web site at 6abc.com. you can find all the latest details from traffic, and transit restrictions to how residents and businesses are getting prepared the pope channel at 6abc.com. >> tonight the first night of musikfest have bethlehem. before the big act took the stage tonight folks could take in a little music because they ate dinner in one ever many outdoor venues. musikfest features top national acts from tonight to 16th of august as well as smaller bands on ten. maic it more than ten stages.
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and still to come on "action news" tonight. highmarks for septa when it comes to safety. and a local park taps goat power. >> live on sky6 looking a penn's landsing this gorgeous friday night. i'll have details what to expect for the rest of the weekend and shore and poconos in the accuweather forecast. >> and day five at eagles training camp that and more >> and day five at eagles training camp that and more when "action news" continues. patients recently rated their care experience at
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>> the whitehouse has lost support of leading jewish democrat in the senate for nuclear deal with iran. and new york senator charles shumer says he will vote against approving the deal. and it would be notable split with president obama and democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton by the number three democrat in the senate and possible successor to senate minority leader harry reid and white house spokesman says shumers position is not typical of majority of jews in this country. >> majority of american jews
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who support this agreement. the individuals advocating for the defeat of this agreement are the same people who made the same arguments in 200 3 in the march to war against iraq. >> and two jewish members of house also announced today they'll vote against the deal. >> patco says some of the trains are sudden epically stopping short. it has happened 43 times between may and july this year enforcing passengers to evacuate. it is only been affecting older trains no, i patco figured it out and it has a problem with brake pads they're working on temporary fix. they're already in the process of replacing all the older trains with new ones over the next year. and a new government report out tonight braces septa as one of the only two commuter rail roads in the country on track to install mandatory safety technology by december 31 that is the deadline. and so-called positive train
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control systems automatically slows speeding trains. and you may recall hearing about this system from may's deadly amtrak crash because authorities say the devices would almost certainly have prevented the disaster had they been installed and u.s. job market is chugging along with solid gains and employers added 2 15,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate held steady 5.3% and negatives in today's labor reports are that only 6 in 10 adults are working and lowest level in 31 years and wage growth remains slow. hourly pay rose 2.1% about half pace considered to be healthy. >> a bucks county community is putting some goats to work and we're not kid around. you get that? okay. [ laughter ]. >> five mixed breed pigmy goats hired by east rock hill township do landscaping the
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natural way and good goat will do that they feast on vegetation humans would rather avoid such as poison ivy and they mowed down lawns on hillsides with ease and that would be harder for machines and goats, brownie, mill ng, cookies cream and cinnamon honey are employed at all you can eat buffet at park avenue detention basin for the next week. on "healthcheck" -- you want to do that again. >> abbaa. >> on "healthcheck" at 11 sober erring statistics. even though everybody knows dainkers you may be shocked how many people still drivring and drive. estimated 4.2 million americans have driven while impaired within a month before the study. even more startling 3700 respondents drove drunk every single day. typhoons sadlor made land in tie twan striking with force
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of category 3 hurricane as strong as katrina. soldiers are evacuating people from small villages. last time a few soon of this strength hit taiwan. 461 people were killed. let's talk about the eekd accuweather forecast from cet. >> certainly we're getting opposite of that. we're getting quiet conditions. dry conditions. and stormtracker 6 live doubling scan showing this is what you want to see as we head towards the weekend. we're dry out. there the rain that was lingering across the shore since the afternoon cleared out and this photo was tweeted to me from the dell dl bay and in new jersey and dell bay bliss twitter handle sunshine which is appropriate that yes the clouds were holding on all day long until the sun was setting and then they got this picture of the clouds clearing out and this will lead the way to gorgeous weekend. satellite 6 along with action radar close up showing that
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finally the clouds clearing the coast this afternoon an actual low pressure that brought us overnight showers and showers early today down the shore is moving off the coast of virginia and it will be strengthening as it moves northeast and not close enough to bring us any rain but there could be a few clouds especially across the shore tomorrow and also some wendy conditions with rip current. right now it's a quiet friday night. comfortable. 74 in philadelphia down from high of 87. allentown 7. trenton 70. millville 67 and avalon 7 and wilmington also 7 degrees and tonight mostly clear, surpriseable, 59 in cooler suburbs and 68 center city. comfortable friday night. the high pressure is bringing us winds out of the north east. that's a drier flow of air. low humidity, lots of sunshine, nice day, 87. few clouds from low pressure. that low pressure says good-bye sunday high, thin clouds coming
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if and fillederd sunshine and again seasonable high of 87. if you are down the shore, though, be careful that increased rick of rip current don't go swimming when the lifeguard are not on duty. breezy, sunshine, 77. sunday winds not as much as factor. really better of two days this weekend with high of 80. up with in the poconos upper lows low to mid 50 and afternoon high tomorrow 77 and mixture of sun and clouds high of 7 9. but full day in the moun taps. the exclusive accuweather 7 day forecast most hi sunny tomorrow 87 degrees. den lots of sunshine high of 8 87. on monday a warm front moves through and that brings us slightly more humid conditions with possibility of a thunderstorm in the afternoon. high of 86 degrees. tuesday, we have a better chance of thunderstorms develop ago head of cold front. we'll be in the warm, humid sector of storm and till will be muggy, high of 8. quick hit by wednesday, clea
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clearing thing down. partly sunny, 85 and looks dry thursday to friday with temperatures mid 80s. usually this time of year we're explaining about heat and humidity. that this weekend. >> thank you cecily coming up on "action news" phillies out west and eagles novacare and on "action news" phillies out west and eagles novacare and when we continue in a
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he feels as good as he's felt all season and hopefully he can start producing after missing six weeks with bum ankle chase utley back in uniform tonight in san diego don't get used to saying us every day. phils every day second baseman appears to be over. utley expected to be out four days a week right now. leading off first at bat, he's still watching, 0-batting average down 177 and third inning aaron nolan in trouble and off deep right, don brown. miss plays it off the wall. two-run triple. brown makes up for it solo hom homener next upping and phillies down-1 in the fifth. >> coming into training camp all focus on sam bradford and left knee. eagles quarterback feels great. others do not. big names mia today at camp. jamie apody has more. >> couple of injury concerns today.
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kiko alanzo out with a concussion. and how about demarco murry. murry was back in uniform after missing today with illness he did not do a lot. missed bulk of camp workouts. more rots for forgot ep man. in addition to running back he took represents returning kick today and doesn't mind plague second fiddle for murray. >> you wait for him to come back and he's the man. >> matthew is many of the new comers expected to make impact on the team. sam bradford. byron maxwell and the guys feel super deep at all these positions. you have to wonder how the faces will mesh together. malcolm says that's going fine. >> we bring in quality guys that want to win and are come pentive and everybody comes to work every day with' attitude. >> got to love the confidence. >> bradford looked great toda today. standout.
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poise in the pocket especially red zone. that's it from eagles training camp. jamie apody, "channel 6 action news." >> all right. jamie the guy the eagles traded for sam bradford nick foles gets a new deal deal. foles signs year extension worth 24 1/2 according to espn. foals signed through 20 17 and bradford deal up at the end of the season. bradford deal up at the end of the season. we're every day - the freshest food acme and low acme prices.eed, and right now you can save even more
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temple coach trying to keep their national perception to the curb. >> people are looking at us different. i get the sense when i go to media days they very feelings is just simple same old temple that's the feeling we get we don't care to be quite honest. we know what we are who we are my goal to be better this year than last year. >> hopefully better in 2006 that they were in 2014. >> "action news" continues at 5:30, for cecily tynan, jeff skversky, ducis rogers and the entire "action news" team, i'm jim gardner have a good night entire "action news" team, i'm jim gardner have a good night and great day
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