had 1600 bullets with them that they didn't fire and over 4,000 mores rounds at home and left an explosive device at the shooting scene that failed to work and one victim, nicholas falsino here with his former wife had ties to cape may -- >> reporter: in this normal bucolic southern california town, why would a young couple carry out a scheme that they call a mission to kill. >> if you look at the mission and the amount of armaments and

ammunition, there was obviously a mission here. >> survivors say something was clearly off about syed farook minutes before he and his wife opened fire at the inland regional center, he left agitated from the christmas party and returned sometime later with an arsenal and guns and reams of ammunition and pipe bombs which fortunately failed. >> there was a remote control device that appears to not have worked in this case. the pair was clearly prepared for more, the house and the suv where they escaped the scene, there were more than 6,000 unspent rounds and 12 unexploded pipe bombs and automatic weapons. they were planning something. >> clearly they were equipped and could have done another attack. we intercepted them before that

happened. >> farook was born in the united states by pakistani parents but traveled to pakistan in 2014 to meet his wife with whom he had a daughter. as a result they are combing every aspect of his life and on his computer to discover what led this pair to this carnage and as of now they have not defined it terrorism. >> that is the big question for us, what is the motivation for this? >> and fbi officials say they will not rush to jumts judgment when it comes to designating this as a terrorist act, that is the building you see behind me there, very much preserved, and cars in the parking lot and the owners of the cars having been taken away by police as they

processed the scene and police are inside of the building, and there is a reenactment, learning more about how and why this happened. there is a news conference happening and for now live in san bernardino, california, brian taff, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you brian. lets switch live to eva pilgram in cape may courthouse, new jersey. eva what have you learned about nicholas thalasinos. he worked at the county health department for more than a decade before he moved out west and his ex-wife and youngest son still live in the delaware valley. >> i came home from work yesterday and saw it on the news and i figured he would just be fine.

>> it was not until early this morning that my oldest son that lives in new jersey, called and let me know that he heard from nick's current wife, jennifer, she called to let him know that he hadn't survived. >> annette talked to us this afternoon about finding out that her ex-husband nicholas was killed in the attack and her younger son, jacob was killed in the attack. >> i loved my father he was a good person. >> he worked at the cape may county health department until 1992 and went to california to be with his current wife, jennifer. they found out this morning he was one of the victims. >> they got a facebook message, a message from his wife. and that is how i got informd this morning, and he was also an inspector in california and a job his wife says he was proud

to do. >> he was a health inspector and worked on the hazmat team in cape may county, he was an inspector out in california and did food inspections and wanted to do his job to make sure his community was safe. >> and there thornton says that after what happened in california, they are looking to step up security at county offices here in cape may county. we are live here at the cape may department of health, eva pilgram, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. president barack obama spoke from the white house this morning, he offered thoughts and prayers for the victims and the president then again called for action to prevent more heart ache. >> we have to present ourselves as a society to take basic steps that would make it harder, not impossible, but harder for individuals to get access to

weapons. >> president obama ordered u.s. flags to be flown at half staff in honor of the shooting victims. we have another report coming up later tonight from brian taff, brian is the only local reporter covering the mass shooting in california, his live reports continue tonight at 11:00 and tomorrow here on "action news." and david muir has a special edition of world news tonight live from san bernardino, that is tonight at 6:30, following this broadcast. the new jersey assembly today postponed a vote to override governor christie's veto of a gun safety bill when it became clear that the senate did not have the votes. christie vetoes the bill that would require notification of law enforcement before expungement of mental health records of perspective gun buyers. a philadelphia police officer is recovering after a crash in fort richmond, the officer's cruiser collided with

another car at east allegheny and jasper street. the crews are slammed into a pole and the officer is in stable condition. officers say that santiago strangled his girlfriend and he pled not guilty to the murders of 34-year-old nadia ramirez and her daughter, hennessey of vineland. a judge ordered santiago to be held on $2 million bail. it was two weeks ago that a sexting scandal erupts in lafayette hill, today authorities went to the school to give the students an education about the extraordinarily risky behavior. vernon odom was there. >> not here to scare you or

invoke fear. >> reporter: the ninth and tenth graders listened to this lecture about the consequences of sexting this session is long been planned but timing in the wake of local law enforcement officials investigating inappropriate photos showing up here on a photo sharing website. >> it's not okay to take sexually explicit photos of yourself and sending it to a boyfriend or girlfriend or retaining photos sent to you by a friend or someone else. >> they are promoting a new law that is less serious than child porn. those that share explicit photos could be served with charges. >> if it's from a hacked website, if you get a picture

and didn't ask for it, what should you do? >> after the one hour session today i spoke with several students. >> the stuff that happened is not funny and is not a joke and people will get in trouble for it, and it's not something to mess around with. >> someone started this drop box and there are pictures of more upper classmen i'm sure. >> so far nobody is charged in the sexting scandal at least 150 individuals are under criminal investigation by two local police departments and the local d.a. i'm vernon odom, channel 6 "action news" in plymouth meeting. >> coming up on "action news" the city of philadelphia is set to ring in the holidays, we'll take you to city hall where the tree will light up tonight and ahead, ducis rogers with more on the eagles and whether the defense is ready to take on tom brady and the patriots. >> the winds of change today,

windchills in the 30s and 40s, the big bump up comes amid the accuweather forecast. >> those stories and more when "action news" continues tonight.

we are getting ready for the holiday christmas tree, the holiday official tree in the city hall courtyard, sara bloomquist is live at the scene, we enjoy this tradition so much every year and here we go again. >> reporter: i have a lot of friends here tonight and the holiday season is here, i want

to show you the tree that is going to be illuminated later tonight. the 45 foot tall tree is adorned with led lights and 100 of them on the star alone and you can see across the courtyard, all the lights, right here in city hall. they have been setting up all day for this celebration, both our 6 abc production team along with city employees getting ready for the christmas tree lighting tonight. our coverage of the tree lighting ceremony begins at 7:30 right here on 6 abc hosted by our own rick williams and cecily tynan, it's sure to be a fun and festive night for everyone, people festive already. we are here in the courtyard at city hall getting ready for the tree lighting

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their first loss of the season though, and tom brady torches defenses. our jeff skversky looks into if our birds are up to the challenge. >> stafford fires to the end zone! >> the eagles are coming off the worst two game stretch in history. the d is torched for ten touchdown passes and 83 points and now they face arguably the greatest quarterback in nfl history, the patriots tom brady. >> i'm excited this week because we seem to maybe raise to the level of play and i'm excited to you know, hopefully watch us raise our levels of play to go up against one of the bests. >> he will go down as one of the best but he can be beaten, we have to have confidence we can go out and beat him. >> they could luck out big time, he may be without his top three

targets, gronkowski is hurt and amendola is banked up too. >> did they lose brady? that would do it. it speaks to how good a football player tom is. >> and tom comes in fired up the patriots are coming off their first loss. >> i have calmed down a bit and we are facing a great apopant in the eagles and we have to be at our best. >> new england is just that, they have not lost back to back games since 2012, and brady has never lost to the eagles. jeff skversky, channel 6 "action news." a watched pot never boils and an anticipated game never gets here, feels like we are talking about the temple houston game for about a month now. saturday is the championship game and the prize for winning

it is huge, a trip to a major bowl, jaime apody asks coach rule about that. >> how do you get them to not look past this, i know these guys and you probably too are dreaming of new years day? >> absolutely, we dealt with this all season long, first it was penn state and then the big cincinnati win and we have had big events and our kids foeg us on playing football, things they can control, there are good things to come after this game, win or lose. >> do you embrace the challenge of playing on national take, are you on abc for the second time this season. >> our kids are big game kidded, they like to go out with a lot of energy and they love the adversity, and they love to play football, i think we'll play well on tv versus a great opponent. >> get on the owls band wagon

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. looks like clear sailing as far as the forecast is concerned. we have warming temperatures, not feeling like december other than today. as we look at double scan live radar a few clouds but the sunshine really took control along with the gusty winds in fact the winds were between 30 and 45 miles per hour earlier today but they have since started to relax. in fact, here are the official peak wind gusts, 34 miles per hour at 10 miles to that in reading and wilmington clocking in at 39 miles per hour and wilmington 38 and peak wind gust in trenton of 30, and that happened mostly in the first half of the day. as we look at the windchills in the region, feeling winter like in the poconos at 28 degrees and at the shore, windchills around 39 to 44 and in the city of philadelphia, not too bad considering it's the beginning of december, feeling like 41

degrees and we have meteorologist, cecily tynan, live in center city at city hall where she is getting ready to help light the christmas tree. cecily perfect weather for it, and you are eating too. >> i am eating healthy stuff, i had black bean soup and a veggie burger but also some french fries. we are getting ready for the christmas tree lighting ceremony and a lot of people are here and they are cheering for the holidays now, i want to show you this christmas tree, it's unbelievable. it's the biggest tree they have had here at city hall, it's 45 feet tall and came from central pennsylvania in gettysburgs, they are putting on 500 christmas ornaments and 7,000 lights. this should be spectacular when it's lit at 7:30 tonight, there

are great things to do here at dillworth park, the rothman ice risk and erin o'hearn will be here showing off their skating skills. and they have a cabin here with hot chocolate. back to you adam. >> enjoy yourselves down there, keep thatwarm. >> once you bump up past the mountains it drys up here. a chill here in the air and 30s in the deep south of southern new jersey and delaware and mostly clear and thankfully the winds diminishing, high pressure is in control for the next three days and will compass canada and deep south to midwest, a slow moving high and that means

sinking air and no precipitation, that includes friday, saturday and sunday. as we take a look at the temperatures versus normal for this time of year, 3 degrees above normal tomorrow and 6 degrees above that on saturday and 10 degree as above normal on sunday. sunny and less wind tomorrow at 52 degrees, and 54 that is the number on saturday and again wall-to-wall sunshine, sunny and extremely mild here on sunday, 58 degrees, hanukkah begins at sun down on the dry and fairly mild side, and then monday itself, a decent amount of sun and clouds are building in the afternoon of 55 degrees, we'll be watching a coastal storm that will develop near the carolinas and could scrape our region and no matter what, it would be all rain for everybody around here at a warm 52 degrees. clouds to sun wednesday and 52 and maybe a few lingering morning showers and partly

sunny, and we move the temperatures back up on thursday, and statistically for philadelphia, next week on thursday, that is our overall first measurable snowfall as we look at climate and nowhere near that. >> typically -- >> yes typically. >> averaging out the last 30 years or so. >> world news is david muir is next on channel 6. "action news" continues at 10:00 on phl 17, with brian taff, sharrie williams, adam joseph and ducis rogerss and join us for "action news" at 11:00 here on channel 6. for cecily tynan, adam joseph, 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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tonight, a special edition of "world news tonight" on the scene here in california. the deadly shooting rampage. authorities on the young couple's mission to kill. the discovery inside their home. a dozen explosive devices. and what they found inside that suv. they were wearing tactical gear, opening fire during a holiday work event. 14 dead. did they have help? was it a terror attack? also, from inside the rampage, the harrowing stories now emerging tonight. my interview with farook's coworker, who shared a cubicle with him, sitting at the table with him before the horror unfolded. and, surviving a shooting. so many across this country imagining what they would do if a gunman walked in. elizabeth vargas tonight on what authorities say you should do to survive.