town school district. police have arrested three students from east town middle school and from valley forge middle school, more arrests could be coming. "action news" reporter, sara bloomquist is live now tonight. it sounded like this could be a nightmare for the kids and for their parents. >> and jim, police are telling us that some of these parents did check their children's phones periodically but didn't come across these sexually explicit images because the middle school students took the steps to hide them on cloud based services, they range from 11 to 15 and are charged with misdemeanors and felonies, as they arrived to vote today in their children's school bidding, they learned about the arrest of three students. the children ages 11 to 15 are accused of creating and sharing nude images and pornography,

some of it child pornography. >> it's shocking to hear that children are doing this with electronic media. >> police say some of the images the students took themselves and shared and other material was pulled from the internet and viewed by other students at home and in school. >> there is different uses of the digital images, it's unlawful for them to possess and transfer to other people. >> it began in april when images were found on one student's phone and they seized other phones and conducted interview, they found that one student took a video of the internet. and portrayed it as one of their classmates and that led to an assault outside of school and another offered to sell an image of a classmate. we work to affirm the rights of

all individuals to live and thrive in an environment free of harassment. >> parents think the criminal charges are appropriate. >> kids will do things like this, they are, but they need to understand that it is not right to do it and there are consequences obviously. >> you have to stop it at sometime. if you don't, if you let it pass, things will lead on to worst situations. >> now in addition police tell us that students took nude selfies and failed to turn off the location services on their cell phones, making them potential targets for sexual predators, police expect more students to be charged in the near future. i'm sara bloomquist, channel 6 "action news". thank you, it is election day 2015 and voters in philadelphia are choosing the city's next mayor and republican melissa murray bailey cast her ballot this morning in society

hill along with her husband, sean and 4-year-old daughter, cricket. bailey is trying to pull off a huge upset. and jim kinney cast his vote at a center city location early this morning, expectations are that kinney has a substantial lead coming into the election and democrats out number republicans 7-1, and the winner will be philadelphia's 125 mayor. it would not be election day if we didn't hear from "action news" reporter, vernon odom. live in roxborough, we have important races in the cities and the suburbs. >> we do jim, thank you for pointing that out, thank goodness we are still going strong, as usual on election night, i say the most important issue at this hour is turnout, who can get the most of their votes and their base out to the polls before closing time. turnout in philadelphia is reported low to moderate, even

here in normally heavy turnout wards like east falls, despite the low heat mayors race there are issues on the minds of the voters. >> i'm afraid to have my child alone in the street because she may get gunned down or being outside riding my bike. >> the school budget, the problem with funding the schooled has gotten out of hand. >> i thought nutter was a fine mayor and i would like to see someone continue his policies. >> there are three seats up for grabs on the supreme court today, that is unprecedented and all the political partisans are pushing to get the vote out for their choices. >> there is an extremely important supreme court election happening statewide. that is the main reason i came out. >> towns like conshohocken have loads of local posts up for

grabs and the fight for d.a. adds fire. former d.a. caster is trying to make a come back and he is against kevin steele, voters are cautious about their choice. >> i hope more people to turn out, people want things different but they are not voting for it, you have to come out to make a difference. >> i cannot go to city hall and complain or go to the bureau and complain about things not being done if i'm not a registered voter and not going to support the person i want to be in office. >> jim the pollses in pennsylvania stay open until 8:00 and the montgomery county da's race could go to the wire tonight. live in roxborough, i'm vernon odom, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. lets talk about new jersey, all 80 seats in the general

assembly are up for grabs tonight and the first time the assembly races are on top of the ticket in 16 years, democrats are expected to keep the majority. and voter turnout is light as you can see, at ewing high school, there is still time if you have not cast your ballot yet, polls close in pennsylvania and new jersey at 8:00 tonight. join "action news" for election results and reaction, we'll have complete coverage of the major races on air and streaming on 6abc.com as results are tallied in real time. closing arguments are now complete and the jury received instructions today before deliberating, the federal fraud trial of chaka fattah jr., they alleged that he used business loans for personal expenses and made false statements to the irs, fattah jr. acted as his own attorney. runners that use the

schuylkill trail in center city philadelphia and spring garden are becoming impatient waiting for police to do something about assaults by teenagers on bicycles. john rawlins is live now in spring garden. >> reporter: jim, they have beefed up their bike patrols on the trail uniform bike patrols and uniform bike patrol as well. the lake-effectest insaccident is the indecent assault a 29-year-old runner that occurred on sunday afternoon at 3:00. >> i think you may have a situation right here that young people think this is a game and pranking people so to speak, but at the end of the day it's an indecent assault. >> the incidents have been referred to the special victimed unit. >> make your kids aware this is not a game. >> problem as long the popular

stretch of the trail surfaced over the summer on social media by runners. there was an initial report of sexual harassment that triggers others to speak out. >> others chimed in about a group of teens that were riding on the trail and harassing runners and commuters and bikers. >> in response police bike patrols have increased and councilman johnson will have a public meeting including police and trail users to discuss other possible trail safety improvements from cameras to emergency phones as for the teens who have been harassing users. >> if there are young people hanging out on this trail and getting involved on things that are no good we want to address that, you can't assault or grope individuals than could be taken as a felony. >> johnson uses the trail himself, wants the city to get

ahead of this problem, his public safety meeting is set for thursday at 1:00 p.m. fourth floor, city hall. >> thank you john. coming up on "action news" tonight, investigators and cleaning crews spent this day at a home in wayne where a hoard of munitions and chemicals were discovered. the eagles get back after a by week. ducis rogers has more on the mash match-up with the taps cowboys. it felt like september, it's 15 degrees above normal. i'm tracking even warmer air on the way. >> those stories and much more when "action news" continues tonight.

police have been present at the home in the unit block of marlin road in radnor for a second day today, that is where they found munitions and suspicious chemicals yesterday evening, back at the scene is christie, have police been able to answer their questions about this property? >> well jim police did conif i am that no explosives were inside of that home trk but moments ago cleanup crews hauled away all the suspicious chemicals that were inside to be analyzed. "action news" was there as professional cleaning crews carted away plastic tubs with toxic chemicals. they were discovered in the home monday night. >> there were several chemicals that are extremely toxic and dangerous, they were used in

photography not an evil purpose, but they were old. >> it was a tip-off during a property check along with those chemicals rounds of ammunition were found, that is what cause the positive hits from bomb stiffing k-9s but no explosives were ever found. a man that lived there for decades called it unnecessary. >> messy does not explode, messy is just messy. >> they say that the homeowner is a licensed homeowner, our top priority is the neighborhood and the safety of this gentlemen. >> once everything is removed. the home will be professionally cleaned and be inspected before anyone can live in it. >> reporter: now police say that the homeowner is not facing any charges and he is cooperating with the county, reporting live

in wayne. channel 6 "action news." >> thank you christie students at ryder university in lawrence township new jersey are voicing their concerns after the school decided to eliminate 13 majors. the university has announced the cuts and said it will be laying off 14 full-time faculty members because of budget cuts. the university's president says because of declining enrollment and costs, they have a 7$7.6 million deficit. >> i have to change my major or transfer schools and i can't fntly do that. >> the university wants to invest in new majors like criminal justice and health care management and cutting slower enrollments like art and philosop philosophy.

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dallas is 2-5 and on life support and before the eagles can worry about that they have to clean up their own house. >> bye bye by week, the birds are back and the time off came at the perfect time. >> it gets your mind away and you can recharge in the middle of the season, we have a long haul in front of us, the way the season has been it's a roller coaster as far as emotion. >> chip kelly not a fan of rest. is it good to step away for a bit. >> i would rather keep training to be honest. >> it gets you out of your rhythm. >> in evaluating the season thus far, chip kelly feels comfortable with their quarterback situation as for what he sees in the offense. >> missed opportunities, too many drops, that is the first thing i think with everybody, we

drop too many balls, we are first in the league in drops however you look at it. matthews dropped six passes, he used the by to step back and hopefully fix that. >> you want the quarterback to trust you and to have a quarterback like sam that will go to me and trust me, there is that other end, okay if i was in his shoes would i trust me? and i want to be that guy for him. >> the eagles have to make sure they don't drop the ball again against dallas on sunday. >> the cowboys will be without running back joseph randall, the team cut him today, he was dealing with a personal issue, he was tops on the team in rushing touch downs. temple's matt rule is ready to move on, they will be in dallas to face smu, they remain in the top 25 despite the loss to notre dame and a tough pill

to swallow and that rings true for his players. >> i don't know if our team has let it go yet and that is a scary thought, life moves on, nobody cares about what happened, hopefully all our coaches let it go, let it go quickly. the flyers takes them to edmonton tonight, it doesn't start well last night, as a result they are riding a four game skid, the flyers managed one goal against the canucks, it was a beauty from claude giroux, he tied the game and then they went on to score three unanswered goals, steve mason is ranked last. when have you not won the world series fz 30 years, a parade is not just appropriate but mandatory. the royals paraded down the street today hundreds of thousands of fans were there to witness it, they dismissed the mets in five games and there was

a lot of bravado through the microphone. >> guess what, cy young winner, not on our team beat him, rookie of the year, not on our team we beat them. mvp of the whole year, sorry guys not on our team, but we beat them too. >> no i in team. >> there is an e if you are creative though. cecily tynan has the accuweather forecast when we continue in just a moment.

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you know what? >> what? >> it's just too warm. >> you got to be kidding me. for some people it is too warm. it will cool off by sunday. i thought it was perfect. i liked it. >> it was magnificent. >> it will be warmer tomorrow and even warmer by friday. stormtracker 6 live double scan showing we do not have rain out there, not even a cloud in the sky and this is a gorgeous photo, bob posted this on my facebook page, this is from elkins park, pennsylvania, it shows the fall foliage that is peaking and i like this shot, it's focused on the reflection of the leaves on the water, you can't even see the leaved on the trees but you can see the green on the lawn that there was plenty of sunshine today and it was a great day to get outdoors if you like things on the warm

side respect the accuweather highlights shows you it was unusually warm today and we have a carbon copy on the way tomorrow. 76 degrees and 15 degrees above normal, the warmest november day, from november 16th 2005, the warmest day in ten years and loads of sunshine and the afternoon high, the same as today, 76 degrees in philadelphia, and allentown, 72, it will be colder on the beach, upper 50s so cape may 65 degrees and atlantic city 66. right now it's comfortable and mild, 66 in philadelphia, trenton 68 and millville 58 and sea isle city 58 and satellite 6 along with action radar showing the high pressure is to the west and that is seeing all the moisture out of the atmosphere, clouds over in canada, and we

are stuck with clear skies and it will be clear and comfortable and mild for november, saw for philadelphia and allentown 4-and trenton 46 and millville 42 and cape may 50 degrees, tomorrow the high pressure is dominating the weather, 76 degrees, wall to ball sunshine feeling more like late september and november. we'll stay on the mild side, the high pressure stays on mild side and that picks up moisture in the way of clouds, but a possibility of a spotty shower and friday is even warmer ahead of a cold front that is heading in and that changes the weather fork the weekend. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, if you like today you'll like tomorrow, plenty of sunshine and 76 degrees, it clears up on thursday with a spotty shower and ahead of the cold front bumping our high up to 78

degrees this is close to a record high, the record high for philadelphia 79 degrees and allentown 78 and wilmington 79 and atlantic city airport 79, all the records are close. on saturday 65 degrees, a good amount of sunshine and sunday if you like it feeling like november you'll like sunday more, 58 degrees and 61 on tuesday monday and tuesday 62 degrees. >> thank you cecily. abc's world news tonight with david muir is next on channel 6. "action news" continues at 10:00 on phl 17 with brian taff, sharrie williams, and ducis rogers, and please join us for a special consumer report at 11:00 here on channel 6, the popularity of unmanned aircraft systems or drones is growing and that has the government

concerned. i'm nydia han, drones are on tap to be a hot ticket item this season, that makes the retailers happy and has the government scrambling. >> there are reckless people out there. >> why is the government eagerer to keep tabbed on the drones, and what to look for when cho e choosing a drone. >> 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. for the girl scout meeting...

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