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afternoon and it will continue as a cold front pushes forward west to east tonight. lets get the latest from double scan live radar from cecily tynan. >> the rain arriving on schedule this morning, a couple of light showers, and it's damp, double scan live radar, a batch of rain working across parts of delaware and buck county and see it in yellow here, this is having a big impact on the evening commute. people are getting heavy rain and the blue route and route 309 and 202, and 611 and all of this is advancing to the east in the overnight hours, as the cold front presses through. in lancaster county it's dried out and we see this plume of moisture generally out of the south and the actual cold front we are tracking is right there in central pennsylvania, first we get rid of the rain and we get the cooler air moving in as we head through the day
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tomorrow. cool temperatures, mild and 64 currently, 67 degrees currently, that is 12 degree as above normal, as we look across the great lakes, the northern plains, temperatures are stepping down as we head through the weekend. this is what to expect for tonight, the rain is clearing the coast for tonight and the w winds turn to the northwest. we have details on when it arrives and how chilly it will feel coming up in the full accuweather forecast. >> thank you cecily. as the rain continues, stay on top of the forecast at 6abc.com/weather. count on stormtracker 6 live double scan radar to give you real time views of what is coming in the next hour and even the next few minutes. in paris there is certainty that the mastermind of the terrorist attack was killed in
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yesterday's raid in paris. police were able to identify one of the two people killed was abdelhamid abaauoud, they used his fingerprints, we could hear the police communicating with the woman in the apartment who blew herself up. she was his abdelhamid abaauoud's cousin meanwhile the search continues for the attacker that managed to escape. police released this video, it shows him shooting through the window with customers and workers diving for cover, nobody was hurt. he aims his weapon at a woman on the terrace outside but his gun jams and then he flees the scene. world news tonight with david muir has the latest on the attacks investigation in paris, that is next at 6:30 next on
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channel 6. princeton university joins other colleges across the country protesting racism on campus. nora muchanic is live on campus tonight. what is the thrust of the student's demands. >> the students are asking two remove all traces of a racist former president and asking to educate the faculty and staff to be more racial licensetive. >> it's day two for princeton university students camped out in the president's hall, they are holding a sit-in demanding better treatment of african-american students on campus. >> racist is not just an individual level but through structures and institutions like princeton. >> they are demanding they acknowledge the legacy of former president woodrow wilson and his removal of his likeness and name
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throughout the campus and training for faculty and staff. >> some people told me that professors have said the "n" word in class, we believe that cultural competency training is important, so professors know what is appropriate and what is not. >> there are instances where i question my presence here and i am uncomfortable in my black identity. we are targeting woodrow wilson but it's about a lot more. >> 14 or 15 are still inside of the president's office, they were asked to leave, but they refused. >> if you refuse to leave the build you are in violation of the university regulations. >> today they got a call from former princeton professor and
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activist cornell west, protesters are told they could face disciplinary action but they remain. >> that lobby is packed right now, wall-to-wall students are waiting for results of another meeting with administrators that is going for a couple of hours right now. jim, the sit in continues at this moment. i'm nora muchanic, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. philadelphia mayor-elect jim kenney showed support for workers protesting at philadelphia international airport this afternoon, the employees of three airline service contractors, manned picket lines to demand higher wages and protest unfair labor practices, the rally was coordinated with workers in new york, newark, ft. lauderdale and boston. and a secret service officer waived his preliminary hearing in wilmington today.
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lee moore is charged with trying to solicit a 14-year-old delaware girl for sex. moore surrendered during an undercover online sting and he admitted to sending the messaged while on duty at the white house. moore's parents along with his wife and newborn child were in court this afternoon. his attorneys plan to request that he be released to the custody of hi family in maryland. the owner of a south jersey skating rink -- john carlo turned himself in on two charges of manufacturing two counts of child pornography and accused of showing obscene material to a child. back then carlos was released on 2 million there's bail, he owns the franklin skating center on delsy drive in frank lynnville. there is more trouble in the
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allentown school district. we are talking about violence and this is six girls, that are busted for drinking alcohol in school. "action news" reporter, vernon odom, has the story. >> >> reporter: dismissal time at drexel middle school, six girls, five of them 11 and the other only 12 were busted for drinking vodka inside of the building, the cops were called and so were their parents, one of them admitted his little girl brought the booze from home. here is the reaction from fellow parents. >> more parents need to be involved on what the kidded do, and what is in their book bags. >> it's a tough few weeks for trexler and the school district of nearly 17,000 student, rowdy and disruptive students have been rampaging, just weeks ago a
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teacher was injured trying to break up a fight and four cops were injured in an after school riot at allen high. >> the students will lash back and hit and fights break out and you know it becomes a riot. >> the embattled school superintendant discussed the prom. >> i don'ttory there is one thing that will fix it. >> the school board will have their meeting but there is nothing on the agenda about dealing with this on going student behavior crisis. republican presidential candidate, carly fiorina was in philadelphia today to address a c conference of business leader, she was one of several speaker
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addressing a number of economic issues. coming up on "action news" tonight, we'll hear from the montgomery county man that pulled off a big win at the world series of poker championship. and jeff skversky with an eagles injury report as the team prepares for the tampa bay buccaneers. >> i am tracking a system moving through over the weekend that brings us big changes. i'll have the detailed in the accuweather forecast. >> those stories and more when "action news" continues tonight.
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this check will go a long way to feeding the hungry this holiday season, bank of america gave the check, it's part of the bank's give a meal program, they volunteered and then packed and shipped the meals. verizon wireless opened a shop in kipg of prussia, products are arranged in lifestyle zones broke and down into fitness tech gear and entertainment and home monitoring, as part of the opening, verizon gave a $10,000 donation to the lauren house, helping families affected by domestic violence. his name is joan mckeen of north wales montgomery county. he won 2 million there's for winning the world series of
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pocker last week. matt o'donnell greeted him here and played a few hands. >> we'll do $200, $400. >> reporter: it's best to say good-bye to your money early, with mckeen the 2015 world sear whys of poker champ. >> do you talk a lot? >> not normally. >> his flush was slightly better than mine. >> i got the flush on the river. >> why do you like numbers? >> i just do, i like them better than letters, i always liked math more than english in school. >> he earned a degree at northwest university and his friends laughed weapon he announced he would play poker full-time. he pocketed 3.6 million there's in prize money from the tournament in las vegas.
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>> you want to try to get into the better odds, sometimes you lose with better odds. the best thing to do -- get plenty of -- and cut losses when needed, and put a scare in an opponents, and use it to their advance. >> probably not. >> have you to read your opponent. like reading the opponent and taking advantage of them. >> it may not go on very well. >> was the first out in the tournament. the rest went all in to speed things up but mckeen would have slowed us down eventually. his future plans? to play nor poker. >>
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still waiting to hear something from the team. chip kelly praising his work ethic, the same old story from sam bradford. he is yet to pass his concussion test, he is not expected to start on sunday against tampa, jaime apody has more on the banged up birds. >> sam will not practice today. >> a -- jason peters back at practice and his back miraculously better. >> it's good seeing him out there, kicking again, he looked good. >> he went more today than we saw in the last couple of weeks, he looked good and quick with his feet and not showing signs of any pain or anything. >> they would like to be intact to get the run game going.
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they managed a measly yards in last week's game against miami. >> it died down and when that dies down the offense dies down, it's everything we can't be one dimensional, so the passing game can open up, ryan matthews has yet to be seen since suffering a concussion last week. you have guys to step in, kinon has been a great player and sproles a dynamic player, murray spent this week working with handoffs with mark sanchez. >> having it's defense having to respect and that could help us in the running game. >> all right jaime, the struggling eagles have been here before, they made the playoffs
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in 2013, despite starting 4-5, can they do it again, at some point they have to say the buck stops here and will it come sunday against the bucks. they run a play faster than any other team in nfl history with mark sanchez running the show they snap the ball even quicker and the bucks seem unphased by the fast moving offense. >> personally the first time i have been a part of a group that played them but we'll get set and ready to go, if they have the time we should have time to do the same thing. >> college hoops, the toughest opener in history, a blowout look for carolina. things get complicated for temple, in puerto rico, they go more than six minutes in the second half without a basket and nearly blow it again minnesota
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and here they come down 2, and temple takes the lead and then devon coleman takes over scoring 12 of his 15 in the final seven minutes, temple wins, 75-70, next up ranked butler for san jose. flyers the last team in philadelphia to win at home. 26 days ago. >> almost. cecily tynan with the accuweather forecast when we continue in a moment.
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tri-state a rea getting a tad water logged at this hour.
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one viewer asked on facebook if the rain would let up for dinner, i said if you want to grill dinner at 9:00. kind of a european dinner. stormtracker 6 live double scan showing a few breaks in the action along the coast, shutting off in berks and lancaster county, a band of heavy downpours working through delaware county crossing route 3 and route 30, near manayunk and heading to bucks county, this will gradually slide to the east in the evening hours, temperatures show you that it was a warm rain, 68 if philadelphia and that is 12 degrees higher than normal. allentown 63 and the same in trenton and millville 63 and sea isle city 61 and wilmington 62.
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satellite 6 along with action radar showing this plume of moisture ahead of the cold front, that is right there with a break in the clouds across pennsylvania, that continues to push to the east, that means the rain is rolling off the coast from 11:00 tonight and by then we'll see the clouds breaking along the i-95 corridor, and once the rain moves out the clouded break out quickly, showing what a difference a day makes, grab the sunglasses, wall-to-wall sunshine and grab a jacket, it's seasonably cool and a high of 65 degrees, right where we need to be this time of year, we have low pressure to the north and east, and high pressure from the west, get a bit of a wind tunnel effect, 12 to 20 miles per hour. heading into saturday, the high pressure builded over us and that decreases the winds and temperatures are down a notch and another front rolled through saturday night and what this
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will do is bring us the coolest air mass of the season, it cools down on sunday and gets chillier on monday with temperatures stuck in the 40s, a big weekend for the weekend, the philadelphia marathon weekend, for the rothman 8-k, winds not a big factor, light at 10 miles per hour, sunday more the marathon, mostly sunny and cool, and wind s 12 to 20 miles per hour. if you are running the marathon a good idea to dress in layers you can throw off and all the clothes goes to charity. monday breezy and cool on and the fourth quarter 47, it will be dry for the eagles, the
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exclusive accuweather forecast, sunny and breezy and seasonable. 55 degrees and we drop it down to 54 on saturday and the cold front moves through and this could bring a round of showers, but early sunday morning around 4:00, showers and i think this is overdone, not quite that heavy and showers are out of here at day break, 50 is the high and look at monday, the high only 46 degrees, the coldest air mass so far this season. but we moderate on tuesday, mostly sunny and 50, wednesday the big travel day, looking great, mostly sunny 54 and an early look at thanksgiving, fantastic, good amount of sunshine and mild for this time of your, with a high of 58 degrees, so turkey day should not be fowl. >> i was work on that. >> looking great for the parade. >> knock on wood. >> abc's world news tonight with david muir is next on channel 6,
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"action news" continues at sock on phl 17 with brian taff and sharrie williams, and ducis rogers and please join us for a special report at 11:00 on channel 6, in light of recent church shootings, many are left to question the security at places of worship to leave their flock. wendy saltzman has a preview. >> packing in the pulpit, why area pastors say it's necessary to have a gun on the job. >> there is nothing wrong with the righteous use of force for a good end. preaching security as a way to protect themselves in their house of worship. >> we have to protect ourselves, it's a gun free zone, and a target for criminals. >> i think it's my responsibility to protect the flock, don't miss my exclusive investigation coming up tonight on "action news" at 11:00. >> for cecily tynan, jeff
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tonight, breaking news, now three separate threats to america from isis. washington, d.c., the white house, even new york's times square pictures in the background. and tonight here, the rare move late today. the fbi, the attorney general, the nypd all responding. and the three people with suspected terrorists ties who flew into the u.s. where did they land and are u.s. authorities tracking them? also tonight, our interview. inside the moment of terror. the gunman opening fire on a cafe, people diving for cover. some running to the basement, others frozen on the floor. tonight, you will hear what it's like to have to decide what to do in that moment. tonight, authorities say the ringleader of the paris attacks was, in fact, killed by s.w.a.t. teams. and now, the woman who blew herself up. we know who she was and what she said right before she

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