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of retaliation after she discovered porn gate. >> the attorney general came out swinging saying the indictment filed last week by minneapolis county d.a. is incomplete and inaccurate. >> it's not a story about sting investigations, proposed personal vendettas or press leaks, it's a story that begins with pornography and racial insensitivity and religious bigotry. kane says the emails shared among judges and lawyers who doctor. >> tried desperately to make sure that the emails and their attachment to it never saw the light of day. >> they buried the porn gate emails. she called on the judge in
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minneapolis county to release the emails which she says she needs for her defense, kane left without taking questions, mentioning a grand plan focusing on her. her spokesman said -- >> the grand plan it to have her removed from office. >> done by whom? >> a number of people either witnessingly or unwittingly as she said ar for the case being inaccurate and incomplete. >> they said they do not respond to statements made by accused criminals. >> we brought you kathleen kane's news conference today on 6abc.com and right now you can watch video of her entire news conference, and read more about her side of this story and we
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posted the criminal complaint filed again her by the montgomery county district attorney. >> this is new at 6:00, wilmington police made an arrest in the death of a 25-year-old mother, tyler carter of new earlier inside of a home in west seventh street, blacksheer's 4-year-old daughter and a 51-year-old woman was also shot. police have not given a motive for the shooting. we are report on this for nearly a week but philadelphia say they have cracked the craigslist home rental scam with the surrender of harry moore, sara bloomquist is live at northwest detective headquarters, with the story. >> reporter: jim, 44-year-old harry moore remains in custody here at northwest detectives tonight, as of this hour, is a
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people have come forward telling police that moore scammed them out of tens of thousands of dollars on a rental property that moore posted on craigslist. >> liz is a disabled air force veteran and mother of three and one of 15 victims that have come forward accusing harry moore of stealing from them. >> it's hard, he set us back a lot. >> moore listed his home on the fayette lane. potential representers gave him a deposit but moore came up with excuses and never came up with the keys and disappears with the money. >> it's not just us, 15 people involved 15 people displaced because of him. >> this is video that moore showed her, she gave him $3,150s in first and last months rents
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and now her savings gone she is relying on friends and family for a place to stay. >> wherever i can at this moment. i have always had my own. >> these individuals this is their life savings, they put their money together to get the property for the kids and -- >> police are in contact with moore and confessed to the scam and blamed his deceit on gambling debts. >> he is a careless scum bag and deserves to be where he is now. >> moore face a long list of charges including theft, theft by deception and fraud. investigators are hoping to get a lien on the rental property in an effort to recoup some of the money for all of the victims. in the logan section, i'm sara bloomquist, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. the former mayor of a new jersey town has pleaded guilty
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to sexually abusing a child in delaware. matthew scanpeco faces life in prison when he is sentenced next month. he was the mayor of marlboro township, from 199 2 until 2003 and he served 21 months in prison after pleading guilty to tax evasion and accepting bribes in 2005. three people remain in jail tonight accused of stealing a philadelphia council member city issued car, blondelbrown says the car was stolen on sun and they found the car on monday. the pennsylvania supreme court will take up the case involving funding for the philadelphia school district. the court agreed to hear an appeal by the district and the school reform commission, to reverse the lower court ruling
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to bar the district for costs on the teachers unions, the src voted to cancel the free teacher benefits in an effort to redirect the money to the school. a judge decided that would have to be decided through collective bargaining. the commission is set to vote on raising tolls on the burlington bristol bridge and the tacony palmyra bridge, it would go from $2 to $4 for cash and easy pass would increase by $1. well, there has been an odd but poignant twist to the story of a deadly pedestrian accident in delaware. it turns out that a man that died in the accident was an organ donor and one of his kidneys is transplanted into his daughter, ali gorman is here to
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explain how this happened. >> a tragic story but it has a silver lining. anthony jenkins offered to donate a kidney but because of a heart attack he couldn't. he could give it to her after he passed away. >> i love you aunt c.c. >> hand made cards from a niece is helping stacey knox through this difficult time, stacey battled diabetes since she was a little girl and when her kidneys failed, she when on the transplant list. anthony jenkins could not be a donor because of his own health. friday night jenkins accidently stepped into the path of a car. >> i got a beat on my door at 1:00 in the morning that my dad
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got hit by the car and that he wane doing well. >> stacey could not have dreamed of what happened next. she told them that her dad wanted to be an organ donor and she was waiting for a kidney there was no guarantee he would be a match but he was. stacey had three hours to get from southern delaware to the university of the hospital of the pennsylvania where she received her father's kidney monday morning and the gift didn't stop there. >> someone else got the other kidney and his liver. >> some day stacey hopes to meet the other recipients, to tell them what a fun, loving guy her dad was, she missed him but knows he is at peace. >> i know my dad is proud and happy that he was able to give a life again. >> stays yes says that if you want to become an organ donor
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make sure it's on your license or i.d. his dad spoke about it but had not changed his license, and by the way prognosis for stacey is good and the kidney is working. >> talk about the circle of life happening quickly good right in the same family. >> thank you. coming up on "action news" tonight, a local artist creation is the focal point at the basilica when the pope visits next month. and jeff skversky is live with an update on how a philadelphia native rookie, rashid bailey is doing. we have a drop if the hupt and that high is bringing sunshine for the lower 48 but this high heats things up this weekend we'll have the numbers in accuweather. >> and he is standing right there.
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septa is holding a septa lottery for the pope's passes, people have another day to enter for three day passes to ride the high speed line and trolley routes 101 and 102, you can find a link at our website at 6abc.com. art is central to the church and it will be when families and the pope come to philadelphia next month and it's quite a moment
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for a local artist. >> for artist neil carlin, the pope visit was enough for him. >> they finish a song and they are waiting for the second when the applause comes or it doesn't, but that comes for what is named the iconic image for the upcoming meeting of families in philadelphia. carlin has been commissioned many times over the past few yours to create artwork for catholic churches across the country. when he got this call, he knew it had to be a true original and the archdiocese could not be happier. >> it's the first painting of its time with the holy family extending to the grandparents. we love the painting. >> the grandparents being mary's mother and four, saint ann and sane joakim on the left. and jesus as a toddler in the center to represent him as the
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savior of the family and the church itself. >> from a design sense, i wanted to make sure the first thing you look at all the figures are organized that the first thing you look at is the figure of christ and the last thing you look at before you look away. >> but this bar oak style painting has details at the basilicas of st. peter and paul. when the pope comes next month. >> the work i do now is mostly at the parish level and this piece is going to be seen on the world stage. >> if you would like to see more of carlin work, a link can be found at 6abc.com. >> and you can get updates on the pope's upcoming visit by following at 6 abc pope on twitter. we are posting the latest news and tips and pictures as we get ready for the pope's arrival in
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september. i'll be in bun argentina. authorities are expanding a program that improves the homes of low incomes residents. darryl clark announced the second phase of get fit, the homes in mantua have already benefitted and phase two is in philadelphia, one homeowner receive aid new roof, a heater and fuse box.
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we are bearing down on the first preseason game, lots of questions to be answered. >> the health and the receivers and the running back.
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in less than two weeks of training camp you are playing a preseason game. for the eagles it's this sunday against the colts. jeff skversky is live at camp with more. >> reporter: hey with games around the corner, how about this confidence, demarco murray believes he can defend the rushing title even though he is limited even though he touched the ball 500 times and even though he is expected to see fewer reps with darren sproles. once again in and out of drills, spent time with the trainer again and during team drills, he is in and out. just trying to get his body right, you have to wonder if he is a little bit behind. murray says is he not. it appears he is managing the
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reps and they did something similar in dallas. >> i know my role and i am always one to compete at a high level. there are times when the guys are there and at the end of the day, i know what i want to do. >> while murray is a lock to make the team, rashid bailey is trying to make the roster as a rookie free agent out of del vail college, he led the division in receiving, after a slow start bailey is catching on. >> you come here every day and you work hard. that is all they expect from you, work hard and you'll have a job, so every day i work in here it's like reset, reset, okay now get better today. i have watched some guys leave this building it's all about getting better every single day. >> early in the spring he didn't know diddly, he was out there
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running around and fnow he make few errors and he catches the ball. >> pat shermer doesn't know if bailey will be able to make this team, they are deep at receiver but they want him to play well enough to make another team if it's not with the eagles. ducis? >> thank you. "action news" sports sunday, our new sports show debuts this sun at 11:35 after "action news" at 11:00, brandon graham will be our cohost. tom brady and commissioner, roger goodell were in a courtroom today the judge was hearing beefs over the four day suspense. both sides filed lawsuits, the judge pressed the nfl's attorney for direct evidence against brady. meanwhile the courtroom sketch
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artist was having a bad day. that was suppose to be tom brady. >> the phillies are out scored 6-4, and this afternoon they wrap things up with the d'backs, phils down 2-1 in the third inning, filling in for franco and blanco ties it. and brandon rough, two men on and opposite power, right now the phillies lead this game 7-4, we are in the seventh inning, that is a look at sports. >> aaron nola is starting. >> so far so good. adam joseph has it's forecast in just a moment.
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we had the midweek words from accuweather forecast from adam joseph. >> right now on live double scan live radar any showers that popped up were out of our viewing area well to the north of i-80 this afternoon and we are smooth sailing here s. as we look at the highlights, it's picture perfect today and we mimic that tomorrow with the low humidity and we take a shot here on sky 6 hd, you can see an aabundant amount of sunshine and fair cumulous clouds, dew points drop to the 50s after being in the 70s yesterday when it felt tropical and it brought the downpours and thunderstorms and
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now be have a void in the amount of moisture in the atmosphere today. 81 in wilmington and no sea breeze at the shore and equally mild there with temperatures in the lower 80s and the poconos right now 67 degrees, you can see the showers right along i-80, a couple of them trying to puncture south of there and they are falling apart now that the sun is lower on the horizon and in the sky the clouds are falling apart. overnight tonight it turns comfortable and cool in some of those north western suburbs, mid to upper 50s for lows and 58 in toms river and a lot of stars upstairs and the stars share the sky with some meteors, we have the perseids they peak at dawn, they don't compete with light in the sky because of the new moon, you want to look to the
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northeast after the midnight hour, and the meteors are moving at speeds of 25,000 miles per hour and some as high as 160,000 miles per hour. 83 tomorrow is the your high temperature, wall-to-wall sunshine and low humidity to the west, and the high will split here at the end of the week and return winds from out of the south and they heat things up and 88 will top it off. 78 is the ocean temperature, still pleasant rights now as we look at the high tomorrow, 81 degrees and nice again and a late sea breeze could develop and overall it's warm on the san. the exclusive accuweather forecast, 83 and gorgeous tomorrow and wall-to-wall sunshine and low humidity despite the bump up in temperature and the heat and humidity comes back in full force, low 90s for highs and could be an isolated storm
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saturday afternoon but overall a hot, humid dry weekend and that spills that the new work week, monday through wednesday temperatures in the low 90s, tuesday into wednesday, the front will stall afternoon thunderstorms, heat wave number four for the year begins this upcoming weekend. >> thank you adam. >> abc world news ton with david muir is next on channel 6. "action news" continues at 10:00 on phl 17 with brian taff and adam joseph. and join us for "action news" at 11:00 here on channel 6. for cecily tynan, ducis rogers and the entire "action news" team. i'm jim gardner, we hope you'll join us for "action news" at 11:00.
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we have several breaking stories tonight. the deadly explosions. two massive blasts in china, the mushroom cloud glowing in the sky, the walls crashing in. several dead, hundreds reportedly injured. our bob woodruff standing by in china tonight. also breaking, former president jimmy carter just revealing he has cancer. his message late today. the police officer fired opportunity after shooting and killing this unarmed football star. the officer now claiming tonight the police chief acted too quickly in firing him. tom brady's last chance to get that suspension lifted, today the quarterback coming face-to-face with the nfl commissioner. and tonight the judge revealing which way he might be leaning. and could she be the biggest great white shark ever captured on video? nearly 5,000 pounds.

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