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girl who has been missing since october 27th, john rawlins is live at lyndon avenue in torresdale. what are police saying there? >> reporter: well jim, we should stress that at this point nothing official coming from police, the body located here is not positively identified here, but that said the family member of the 14-year-old said that the police reached out to that family today. a 911 call to police, someone reporting a body floating in the delaware river and philadelphia marine units responded to the ramp off lyndon avenue, the body of a hispanic female, juvenile was recovered. authorities used divers in the river last week looking for a 14-year-old girl, pamela flores, the family launched a major campaign online looking for
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their daughter, her backpack and cell phone was found near the tacony palmyra bridge, video shows someone falling or possibly jumping into the river. >> by phone this afternoon we spoke with pamela's sister who said this afternoon that police had come and got and in contact with the family, it's thought that the body that was loebted here was the body of her sister but at this point, there is still no positive identification, the family members are going down to the medical examiners office tomorrow to view the body to see if it is their missing loved one. john rawlins, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. pennsylvania attorney general, kathleen kane says she has complied with the judge's order to hand over any information she has about possible leaks by a judge in the jerry sandusky sex abuse case. kane's spokesman says she met
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the deadline but later this afternoon, the court said that kane did not give evidence supporter her claim of leaks, now she is ordered to appear for a closed door hearing tomorrow. mayor elect kenney was outdoors today after the sweeping victory in philadelphia, he enters the transition stage to be sworn in to be the city's next mayor, david henry is live now at city hall. >> reporter: jim kenney was a shoein after he won the primary back in may and he admits he started to get his ducks in a row back then and the transition process officially began today. >> how are you? congratulations. >> congratulations. >> the campaign is over and now the real work begins, jim kenney inherits a city on the move but a city with lingering problems like crushing poverty and failing schools, he launched his
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transition process at jackson elementary in philadelphia, a signal that education say top priority, and promises to find $60 million needed to launch city wide preschool. >> we'll find the money, we'll get the money, find it in our budget and go to companies and philanthropists and anybody that want tods help. >> he sees gold in the delaware, convinces that the city can more than double their business at the ports, expanding from 450 to a million containers to me doesn't seem difficult. >> he has no plans for now to chop business and wage taxes. kenney came short of an official announcement but made it clear that deputy police commissioner richard ross will replace commissioner ramsey retiring in january. he will work to improve relationships in the communities
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they serve. >> there are problems between the police and our citizens, and there are different issues, but the civilians are in charge of the police, not the police in charge of civilians. >> kenney says he will work closely with city council and will remain a regular guy from south philly, i come from an area the mummers area, you can't get a big head because if you do, they'll call you out. i have to go down there and they'll call you out and put you in your place. >> the transition has begun and they will tell us tomorrow who is on his transition team. david henry, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. a montgomery county attorney is under arrest tonight facing charges of child pornography. george dider is accused of using a work computer to view pictures
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of underage children performing sex acts, they found 24,000 image searches on the computer and the montgomery county district attorney said that didder told a colleague that he was doing research for a sexual graphic novel he was writing and the jury went home without making a decision in the case of chaka fattah jr., today was the first full day of deliberations at this federal corruption trial, prosecutors have charged the son of the veteran philadelphia congressman of 23 counts of bank and tax fraud, fattah jr. has chosen to represent himself. "action news" caught up without side of court today. >> i'm not nervous at all, i'm looking forward to the jury's decision no matter how long it takes. >> he says the government is after him because they want to bring down his father who also faces corruption charges. the jury will reconvene in the
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morning. the city is on the brink of expansion to change how much business it can do and how many jobs it can create and how many money it can make. >> in the navy yard, the bat simone legree going on for the port of philadelphia to stay relevant. >> there is great potential here. >> they are fighting for other east coast sites for attention of big businesses, after several failed attempts to develop the eastern corner of the navy yard it looks like the ship will sail launching the biggest expansion in generations. >> i want to create good jobs and the place that gets the economy in southeastern pennsylvania moving even faster than it is moving right now and i am willing to wait and see what the best offer is. >> what has changed?
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the delaware river dredging project is almost done making the river deeper and able to welcome in bigger ships and attract new businesses and new businesses mean new jobs, they with calling for 3700 new jobs making $40,000 a year to $80,000 a year with pension and full benefits. >> it's unskilled. it's important to understand that, not everybody goes to college these days, so far the port has interest from other types of businesses, containers and auto and energy and distribution, businesses have two more weeks to submit their applications, the deadline is november 18th. >> when we are done here, we are in competition with new york and also with world ports because of what we are able to do here and export here, our relative proximity to rail and freight and to air. >> the port authority hopes to
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have the south port development underway by 2017. in the navy yard, eva pilgram, channel 6 "action news." there is bad business news tonight, for the lehigh valley, the craft heinz company announced they are shutting down their plan in mack macungie. the closures will take place over the next one to two careers, philadelphia mayor, michael nutter, held a news conference to highlight the importance of my brothers keeper initiative. known as mbk philly, it's part of a national effort laurnled last year by president obama to increase opportunities for young men of color. >> this is not quick or easy work, we started the ball
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rolling but we have much more work to do if we want to see more results. >> mbk philly will host a two day summit on race and equal the. coming up she won the lottery and did not buy a ticket. we'll hear from the woman that cashed in by voting yesterday. and sam bradford talks about gaining confidence as the season goes on. ducis rogers has that story. it feels like the summer season, today 80 degrees, 20 degrees above normal. condition last forever though, i'll let you know when cooler air returns in the accuweather forecast.
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authorities have identified a man killed in northampton, bucks county. authorities say that ronald key was driving westbound on bustleton pike and attempts to pass a dump truck and struck the rear and spun across the roadway and hit a utility pole, the driver of the truck was not hurt. the crews had to rescue one person after a crash in chester county, this was the scene on marshall thorndale road in west bradford township at 6:15, police have not said what led to the crash and one person was taken to the hospital. family, friends and fans paid tribute to new jersey legends today, hundreds of people attended a memorial service at beth el synagogue in
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margate. the long-term sports show host, pinky kravitz, he was known as mr. atlantic city, because of his love for his home town. he died at 78, he was host of pinky's corner. american airlines took time to honor dozens of employees for their roles in the vietnam war, this marks the 50th anniversary of the first ground troops in vietnam and to mark that event, each veteran received a pin in appreciation for their service, it took place at philadelphia international airport american airlines holding similar events throughout the country to pay tribute to our nation's veterans. today is national eating healthy day and people in center city philadelphia learned about smart food, the american heart association teamed up with chef and author bud cohen, to talk about the importance of healthy
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cooking and eating and put on a live demonstration to see how easy healthy cooking can be. well, the lucky philadelphia voter who won $10,000 just forecasting her ballot yesterday was back on the job this morning, bridget conroy is a crossing guard in south philadelphia, her surprise win was the talk of the neighborhood today, the nonprofit organization, philadelphia citizen offered the prize as a way to encourage voter turnout. that was not her motive for voting and they wish they had. >> other people were like i should vote now and i said yes, you should. >> it's a nice incentive? >> she says that she is grateful and will put the money towards bill and toward a new car or vacation. for the girl scout meeting...
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for seventy-two months on 2015 silverado light duty models. cool time to go shopping. recently asked patients to rate the quality of over 3,500 hospitals. fewer than 10% received 5 stars. among them was cancer treatment centers of america in philadelphia. cancercenter.com/eastern. that's the right price! it's that low. what other things on this list "can't be right?" looks like a list full of "can't be right's." seriously? at giant, prices have just dropped on thousands more items. my giant. tony romo was practicing
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today but not to worry, he will not be playing sunday night. >> we'll get to that in a second but the eagles take on the cowboys in dallas on sunday, forget chip kelly and his personnel decisions and the receivers and their drop issues, if the eagles turn this around most of the burden falls on one player, sam bradford. >> we put ourselves in bad situations. >> sam bradford wants to get rid of that bad taste in his mouth, he has among the most interceptions in the nfl and among the worst ratings too. >> we shot ourselves in the foot too many times, we have said that after several of the games and we just got to find a way to eliminate the self-inflicted wounds and when we do that, we are a fair offense. >> sam takes the blame.
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>> he did homework like watching game take and watch the the week two dallas loss when he turned the ball over three times and he cringed watching it. >> for me i don't like turning on the tape, it was bad. but i think we have come a long ways from that game. >> lets hope so, because the birds were bad again the boys and shut out until the fourth, and he believes in himself and this team and why not dallas has not won since they beat us in september. jeff skversky. channel 6 "action news." jason peters did not practice today, the tackle is still dealing with the back issue that took him out of the carolina game. and as for dallas, tony romo threw today at practice, his first work since breaking his collar bone in the week two game, romo is on the designated
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return list, not eligible to come back until week 11. time to check in with analyst, ron jaworsky, jaws says despite their flaws, the eagles can get better. >> this team is not a well oiled machine at the moment, but i think if the players believe in themselves and the system they have a chance, you need to be pioneers, what will you do the next game and the rest of the season, if you can't get yourselves stoked up for the dalles cowboys, you can't get yourself ready to play football, they are fresh coming off a by week, i will guarantee you this, chip kelly has made adjustments, i have inside information. >> we shall see. the sixers visit milwaukee tonight and the flyers are at a loss, they are riding a five game losing streak, they had ap
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lead on the oilers but edmonton scored two goals in 97 seconds, the flyers lost the game 4-2 and they will visit calgary tomorrow. once again this team off to a slow start this season. some industrious new minds are getting ready for a new season of delco, iq. they took part in a session to kick off the events 68th season, delco iq is the oldest academic quiz competition and has grown to include 21 schools.
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did you say it was 80 degrees today? >> it was 80 today in philadelphia. at the airport. the last time we were 80 in november was back in 1993. it's unusual, we have two more days of the warm air and then things begin to change for the weekend. >> get the sweaters back out. if you like to wear sweaters. >> you can wear them on sunday. stormtracker 6 live double scan showing there is no rain out there, tomorrow evening we could have a few sprinkles showing up on double scan live radar and today the action cam was out and about at logan scare, look at that sky, bright blue and sunshine and a lot of people out enjoying this weather and yes this is unusual.
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the accuweather highlights show you that we have the impressive warmth today and on friday, we have another run for the records, and jim was right, we reached a high of 80 degrees in philadelphia today, one degree shy of the record set in 1974 for this date and the last time in the 80s was november 15th, 1993, the last time we were in the 80s in november. heading in friday, these are the record highs and i think we'll likely be tying these records, philadelphia the record high 79 and 78 in allentown unwilling ton 79 and the atlantic city airport 77 degrees. that will be a surge of warm air ahead of a cold front and behind that front temperatures reach more seasonable levels for the second half of the weekend. today felt like the middle of september, philadelphia 80 degree, 1 degree shy of the record high and reading 77 and
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mt. pocono, 1 degree shy of the record high and millville warmer than philadelphia, 84 degrees, that sandy soil in millville can really warm up quickly. right now temperatures are cooling off, 69 degrees and allento allentown 68 and millville 61 and sea isle city a concern temperature of 60. satellite 6 along with action radar showing the fly in the ointment tomorrow, a weak disturbance that will bubble up and winds from the southeast it brings us more cloud cover with a few showers, tonight the clouds are rolling in and showers developing as well. 55 in the city and allentown 46 and cape may 56 degrees, future tracker showing tomorrow it's not going to be like today and yesterday, with bright blue sky, lots of clouds with a few scattered showers in the morning, mainly light showers in
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the afternoon and temperatures in the 70s, on friday ahead of this cold front, this is when we get the surge of warm air with a record tying high of 79 degrees, but we'll see a few showers, future tracker showing a line of showers developing in the northwest suburbs at 5:00 and moving through philadelphia at 8:00 and behind the temperature step down for your weekend, so the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, cloudy and spotty showers and mild tomorrow 74 degrees on friday record warmth, 79 and evening showers and saturday temperatures drop down to 65 degrees and partly sunny skies and sunday bright sunshine and yes sunday you can grab the sweater and feeling like november again, 58 degrees, look at what happens next week, we'll begin to warm up again, 61 on monday and tuesday 64 and clouds and a shower and wednesday should be beautiful for veterans day and plenty of sunshine and two more days of
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record warmth and things begin to cool off for one day really. >> on sunday. >> thank you cecily. channel 6 "action news's" world news tonight is next on channel 6, and "action news" continues at 10:00 on phl 17 with brian taff and sharrie williams and ducis rogers, and join us for a special report at 11:00 here on channel 6, some people say astronomically high water bills are threatening to drive them out of one local town. i'm nydia han, homeowners in one local township are experiencing sticker shock when they open their water bills. >> it's horrible. >> to have the bill triple is financial hardship. >> imagine getting one for $684 or $1500, tonight on "action news" at 11:00. we hope you'll join us for "action news" at 11:00 tonight.
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breaking news tonight on the passenger jet that broke apart in the sky. new intelligence suggests it might have been a bomb. and at that hour, britain going even further. suspending flights to that region. new images of the smoking wreckage and what injuries to passengers in the back of the plane could reveal. and was isis involved? also breaking, flights halted at an airport here in america. shots fired, not far from the runway. the police standoff. families told to stay inside. the attack on a college campus. the suspect targeting students and faculty. we're on the scene tonight. the stunning reveal. the officer and father who radioed for help, found shot and killed, the massive manhunt. but tonight, we learn it was all part of an elaborate plan. and, they thought she might never walk on her own. until she

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