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>> thursday nights and the big story on "action news" tonight

is the winds of change and they're heading our way. get ready for wind gusts of 40 miles an hour tomorrow. and let's get right to meteorologist cecily tynan at the "action news" big board, cecily. >> jim those winds will continue to first half of the weekend. reason why, satellite 6 and action radar showing the spin in the atmosphere and strong low pressure moving towards quebec at the same time high pressure tryinging to move inform from the south and creates a tremendous frsh you're gradient leak hey wind tunnel effect winds out of the west, northwest and winds will howl through the day tomorrow and even into saturday. so tomorrow will be one look at the strongest winds. winds increasing through the day sustained 15 to 30 miles an hour and wind gusts up to 40 miles an hour. saturday, the winds sustained out of the west northwest 12 to 25 miles an hour and wind gust up to 35 miles an hour and for the first time this season i'm talking about wind chills. future tracker showing saturday

morning we're looking at wind chills in the low to mid 30s. it's going to feel like winter. and speaking of winter, stay tuned in a few minutes i'll talk about the upcoming winter and how much snow to expect and how cold it will get in my winter season outlook coming up after the 7 day forecast jim. >> thank you, cecily. one spern in the hospital tonight following this house fire in lower moreland, montgomery country. and chopper 6 was over the smoky scene on the 200 block of cranberry drive. and firefighters say they were able to place the fire under control within an hour. and they have not figured out yet what caused it. >> and firefighters were also busy any dmrosster country tonight. they extinguished a blaze in washington township at the clusters at washington copied owes off begantown road and managed to put it out before anybody was hurt. it's yet another embarrassment for the secret service and there's a delaware connection. 37-year-old secret service officer has been arrested and charged with sending obscene

images and texts to someone he thought was 14-year-old girl. "action news" reporter dann cuellar is live in the satellite center and dann operative word here is thought. >> that's right, sgrim jiment. details are lurid. here's what we know. a secret service officer assigned to white house has been arrested after caught newspaper a sting sending naked pictures of himself to someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl in delaware. arrested is 3-year-old secret service officer lee robert moore who turned himself into authorities after a complaint was filed against him by state police in delaware complaint details a series of live chats between moore and delaware state police officer posing as a 1 4-year-old girl from haslet delaware and kharning documents say moore went on the social media app meet 24 a messaging service that according to web sites let's users feel the taste of love. he's alleged to have sent make ed pictures of himself to the undercover officer requesting to meet in person to have sex.

in interview with investigators moore is said to have admitted sending some of the text messages while on the job at the white house. and according to the complaint, the two later moved to kixx another messaging service that let's users exchange photos and videos online and later moore reached out again saying he deleted kik account to be safe saying "do you know how many fake female profiles are throughout a guy needs reassurance to talk to be who he thinks he's talking about and not "i shutter to think" unquote. >> and he's thought to have his favorite peerps in dover delaware it's the latest high profile scanned toll rock the secret service. live in the sat center i'm dann cuellar, "channel 6 action news." >> thank you, dap. four middle school students in the tredyffrin east township has been charged with a sexting scandal. a 1-year-old girl was fresh urd by boyfriend to sent inappropriate picture of

herself. when they broke up the boy september the pictures to other boys starting online smear campaign. they call it stolen valor a 5-year-old south jersey man was arrested on charges of imperson nateing a member of the military. and authorities say even worse, he dressed up like this yesterday on veteran's day. but, police in galloway township say michael porter is not a soldier. and shouldn'ting wearing uniform of active duty service. he was taken into custody not far from the fighter wing air national guard base. >> city of philadelphia is negotiating new franchise agreements with comcast and as part of the process, the public had the chance to speak out today about the giant cable and internet provider. council and comcast got an ear full. "action news" reporter chad pradelli is live at city hall tonight, chad pradelli. >>reporter: jim, the new deal will be for 15 years there's a

lot of money on the table for the city. residents tonight here in council chambers they say the new deal should be about more than just dollars and cents. philadelphia residents went before city council and voiced their concerns. >> we need the city to hold comcast accountable and brj the technological divide. >> they want more discounted services and prod under the circumstances for poor and especially students in the philadelphia school district. >> i would like to see them successfully negotiate comcast funds for teacher to nurture digital litcy in school. >> loudest concern was customer service. comcast ranks among worst of fortune 500 companies. mark was denied new service after previous tenant racked up an unpaid bill unless he presented a new police in person. >> they treated me like a criminal, con artsist seeking to move any service to a new home. >> we heard be needed to improve the way our customers experienced their services and what interactions were.

>> comcast says the company is already hiring additional staff. and building more satellite stores and implementing a new discounted seniors program. >> there is no entity public or private who has done more to address the digital divide than comcast has. >> what we want to do is try to make that eligibility a little easier for necessity of being online not luxury. >> and city says it received roughly 17 million from comcast last year in franchise fees and they expect that number to grow in the coming years under a new agreement. i'm live outside city hall, chad pradelli, "channel 6 action news." >> jim. >> chad, thank you. chopper6hd was over one of several marches by local students today in philadelphia. and this was called the million student march for the number of people who organizers hope would turn out across the country and the protesters called for higher minimum wage for campus workers and free

college tuition and forgiveness of student debt. and the university of missouri has selected one of its first african-american law school graduates as interim president as it's deals with widespread racial unrest. michael middleton believed the four campus university system until a permanent successor can be found and his predecessor stepped down this week on protests over his handling of racial complaints and the school has been be siegeed biracially charged threats on social media. drexel university stripped bill cosby of honorary degree he was given in 1992. president john fry says cosby alleged misconduct stands in clear opposition to the schoo school's values. cosby has never been charged with a crime and he denies he sexually assaulted women. drexel's neighbor the university of pennsylvania says while it is troubled by the allegations, penn does not rescind honorary degrees.

>> still to come on "action news" tonight we're getting late word into the newsroom about the man they called jihad i john the terrorist that executed several americans and target of drone strike to debt him. >> and plus literal life savers we're there as two pennsylvania couples involved in a kidney swap meet the person that donate todd their spouse. cecily. >> future tracker showing wind gusts near 40 miles an hour. more details on this in the weekend and also take a look down the road in my winter season outlook. >> ducis rogers with an agitated ron hextall to say the least on the current state of the flyers when "action news" least on the current state of the flyers when "action news" continues tonight.

>> breaking news from syria where u.s. forces targeted

islamic state assassin known as jihady john. "abc news" sour says forces killed british citizen mohammed nyzee in an air strike earlier today. he was the terrorist shop in be headings as well as u.s. and british workers and japanese journalist and number of of other hoingt tams. he was hit as he left a building and enderd a vehicle. >> we may be seeing isis trying to move into lebanon for the first time and doing so in decidely deadly fashion. pair of suicide bombings killed 43 people and wounded 239. the explosions happened in a southern suburb of beirut which is a his bell laugh stronghold. >> and a military man that survived a suicide attack in afghanistan received the medal of honor.

captain growburg received the military highest hon other and prevented depths of brigade and deterred a suicide bomber. but four of his fellow soldiers were killed. he said today if i could give the medal back and have the guys back it would have been yesterday. it is called thanks for giving and that's what two couples had a chance to do in the lehigh valley thanking each other other for a life saving exchange. mark norman and stanley slavinski are alive because of that exchange. and "action news" reporter christie aleto tells the story from lehigh valley hospital cedar dmreingt allentown. >> normans and slavinski's were strangers until tonight and the couples are linked through a kidney swap done last december. >> you donated. >> to mark. >> right. >> and monica donate todd me. >> both mark norman and stanley slavinski had kidneys damaged

from high blood pressure and needed a trance plant. she was a match to her husband and donated her kidney to mark ultimately helping four people. >> she didn't vice president to accept this four way versus just donating to her husband. but they did. >> the the normans call is selfless and barbara says it's sensible. >> none of us were related by againetics. genetics. it made sense. >> kidneys are in short supply and parents can wait an average of four years for a plans plan plant. >> this say life-long connection between the four of you. >> i hope so. >> we're all part of each other. >> physically. >> they'll always be connecte connected. >> we'll always be connectd this is both mark and stanley's first thanksgiving with healthy kidneys. in allentown, "channel 6 action

news." >> the food bank of new jersey held its annual fund raising gala tonight at the west end mount laurel. guests were treat todd las vegas themed event and former philadelphia eagles star john runyan and wife loretta served as cochairs tonight and meanwhile we here at 6abc are pitching in to feed neighbors in need. we ask to you join us next wednesday for live telethon to benefit phil abundance called connect, share and give. it will frun 4 p.m. until 6:30. ♪ the philly pops festival brass quinn test kicked off their christmas concert season tonight with carols and holiday classics at frank lip scare in philadelphia followed by opening night of electrical spectacle as the park turned on twinkling light displays for christmas. >> beautiful display at

franklin park. tonight in philadelphia. we have the accuweather forecast which tonight is really a 97-day forecast. >> that's rite. i'm talking about wind and then about the winter sfwln so let's goat it. stormtracker 6 double scan showing that right now we have dry conditions. cold front moved through and the cooler air has not arrived quite yet. it's still 58 degrees in philadelphia. average high 61. allentown 53 and sea isle city 6 and wilmington 56. satellite 6 along with action radar showing this will be the wind machine. you see low pressure this is the same low responsible for midwest tornadoes for snow in colorado. this low pressure is heading east. we have high pressure trying to move in from the south. that coots a wind tunnel effect and winds will be increasing through the day. morning rush hour not a big factor. it will be somewhat breezy, cool, mostly clear, 6:00, 48 by

8:00 and 50. then by afternoon this is when we will be wind whipped with wind gusts near 40 miles an hour. temperatures 58 degrees and seasonable where we are right now. that will be the high tomorrow. there's secondary front moving through on saturday. it will come through dry and this will on the door for some much cooler air. the high only 52 degrees and it will still be windy with wind gusts 5 miles an hour before lie pressure moves in and decreases wind and begins to warm us up for second half of the weekend and big warm-up next week. so the exclusive accuweather 7-day forecast. wind whipped tomorrow. 58 the high. saturday, still windy and 52. sunday, though, plenty of sunshine. 59. you're heading to eagles due fins game. it's looking beautiful 1:00, 57 by 4th quarter 55. winds west at 6 to 1 miles an hour and winds will turn southwesterly. that warms us up. 64 monday and 66 on tuesday and

70 on wednesday and then thursday a little cooler with rain and high of 68. that's next seven days here's what to expect this winter. >> during the past five years we have had wild swings of winter weather only four inches of snow one season to as much as 68 inches. last winter started mild and february was one of the cold easton record. half of the months temp never climbed above freezing, total snow 27" slightly above average and hit by ice storm and deadly morning of freezing rain. with this winter be as harsh. you heard now we're in midst of near record el nino. what is that? typically east west trade winds keep eastern pacific cool ocean water and during el nino trade winds ease and louz warmer watt to move east towards coast of south america and inxlunss

weather patterns around the world. you see the warm water in red. in addition to that another factor i'm watching is what's known as pacific decadal ossilation in a warm phase bringing warm water along the west coast. what this can do is magnify affects ofel kneeo. el nino and this is a split, slow pattern it pushes polar jet stream north allowing mild pacific air to invade the us and locks cold air up north for much of winter and meantime this intensifies moisture supply along the southern is jet. increasing potential stormyness across the south into the mid-atlantic. with a mild air in place this favors a lot of rain. not a lot of snow and at least early in the season but there's signs that late in winter we get shots of arctic air in the north f cold air arriving in north is same time as moisture moving from south the jet

streams phase and come together and this creates blocking and this can create really big snowstorm. it's really all about the timing. so if you look at the five strongest el nino winters since 1950 shows extremely wide range as little as that zero. no snow at all to close to 4" of snow. and one of the strongest el nino's on record 82-83 started mile in december and got snow and progressively got colder and one big blockbuster storm in february brought more than 21" of snow. that's 60% of entire season snowfall. so all it rally takes is one big storm to produce a snowy winter. and now one factor to consider is just how deep the supply of cold air will be this winter and research has shown a strong indication is amount of snow that falls over siberia during the month of october. and now this year the snow pack you can see it in orange is above average. like last year. so there's a lot of cold air

available to the north. and i think we will into some of this during the second half of the winter. so, this is what i expect this winter. the active southern jet with give us above normal precipitation. however, the december and january will be relatively mild. so a lot of storms will either be all rain or quickly change to rain. however, when we get into february it gets a lot colder. and we could get one or two big snow storms if things line up. and so as far as snowfall we can expect near normal this winter, 20 to 4" and i have to say, this is a low confidence forecast. why? well if the el nino pattern holds strong the sea saw goes down little as 12". but if we can get strong late season blocking, that can create a very snow didn't winter, dips the other way up to 3" of snow. so one thing is certain. you'll need to stay tuned to the accuweather forecast each

night because things can change very quickly this winter. >> so i know that's a lot to digest. we have more details on 6ab 6abc.com comparing to last winter like last wipt are a mild start. remember last winter we didn't have one big snowstorm the biggest was 7 1/2" and we had with pidley ones. >> drips and drops torture. >> we'll have fewer storms and fewer snow days and better chance of couple really big storms in february. >> we've been trying to get to you talk about winter decadal ossilation. >> yes. >> and you timely did. >> it's impressive to us. thank you, cecily. pacific decatal ossilation. >> yes. >> city of philadelphia is debuting attraction at ice skating range they reveal the roth man institute cab up which will be steps away from the

rink at dilworth park city hall and it will allow skaters to get something to eat and have a hot chocolate to warm up without having to take skates off. ice skating season kicks off tomorrow at noon. hundreds showed up tonight for the philadelphia zoo sixth annual global conservation gala. guests had a chance rub elbows and noses with this year's residents as well as celebrate a great cause. tonight gala honored some of the zoo's most generous and innovative reporters and 6abc president and general manager bernie prazenica and jim kinney were on happened to show their support tonightone of the most celebrated events on hindu calendar this week, the festival of lights, began yesterday. tonight on the steps of philadelphia city hall, indian dance groups shairz shared their art with passers buy and

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>> flyers wanted to get off to a good start. thipz were okay and wept south. >> bottom dropped out. >> what's going on it. >> they cannot score. >> they cannot defend. >> can't stop pukz. >> it's a bad combination. >> flyers playing bad uninspired hockey lately. entering the night the flyers dropped 7 of last 8 game and gmhextall is demanding his player become accountable. >> accountability demand of each other and yourself and there's nights you go out and play and you don't feel good and you travel and don't feel good too bad you got to go out there and play your [bleep] off. >> flyers and caps tonight kicking off in second period. game tide flyers in power play. claude giroux unleash as i laser. fifth of the season. 2-1 flyers that's electric t for them. washington goes on to score four unanswered goals and jason takes three shots two go in. and we're tied at.

45 seconds later justin williams former plyer will scorch the caps win 5-2 and flyers drop 8 of 9. >> it's not a position we want to number now. we need to stick together and it's the only way we will come out of it. >> i felt like we were in the game all the way through even when we went down by 2 i felt like if we could get one we're right there and we just could not get that one. >> and eagles safety malcolm jenkins completed his concussion protocol and he's on track to play sunday against miami and jenkins returned to practice today and missed past two days and he admitted today he suffered that concussion in the 2nd quarter of the game against dallas and then didn'tel it the coaching staff until after the game and realized he should have come out of that contest. >> those protocols are in place i got tested right after the game and every single day after that and saw independent doctor this morning and all of them got the green light and at the end of the day it's based on how i feel ran around a

little yesterday practice and full blown today and doesn any issues. and i feel confident now go out and play. >> more eagles coverage ahead. ron jaworksi tells us why he thinks the dolphins will be

>> doll tens are losing steam and miami 3-5. ron jaworksi breaks down the match-up. >> these are the only two teams in nfl that run this style of

offense and tan shil a good trigger man and he's had a very solid season and he can run the football as well. and i believe they have exposure tore wide receivers and jar are vis landri is a heck of a receiver. i expect the dolphins to be able to move the ball in eagles defense and eagles offense i think will move it better. >> phillies don't figure to be active in the free agent market but need arms today they sign former cubs reliever james russel and philadelphia sports hall of fame welcomed new members gathererred to honor gary mad of course even dick vermeil and areas and they all gathered in one room. >> thank you, ducis, "jimmy kimmel live" on channel 6 followed by "nightline". jimmy's guests julia roberts and cast of abc blackish and music from future. "action news" continues at 4:30 with tamala edwards, matt o'donnell, meteorologist david murphy and karen rogers with traffic. for "action news" i'm jim traffic. for "action news" i'm jim gardner, good