these incidents occurred. the victims are all students, women between 18 and 20 years old, none of them were harmed. it's happening on south new street. the second nearby. two creepy crimes they hope do not escalate. reports of a middle aged man flashing two students near westchester university campus. >> i don't understand why someone would do that. this is one of the more residential streets in westchester, the studentses are more over that way. so that actually surprises me. >> westchester borough police believe these are crimes of opportunity, the first happened saturday morning at 3:00 a.m., a 18-year-old student was walking along south new street when a white male in his 40s stepped out from an alley and he shine

aid flashlight at his midsection, described as being balled and having a gut. possibly driving a minivan. >> it's upsetting to hear about men showing off their bodies to young girls. >> a man with a similar description struck again the following morning that two students were walking along south darlington when a man approached. police say he exposed himself and took off, jessica mctaggert lives nearby. >> i'm not too worried about it but it's concerning that westchester needs to be taking care of and i'm sure they are. >> the university did send out email alerts so students were aware about what happened. anyone with information is asked to call westchester borough police we posted that information on our website at

6abc.com. katherine scott, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. these are the seven lehigh university football players that are now charged in an apparent revenge crime and one of them punched a man in the face. they say they were seeking retribution for an alleged attack on a fraternity president and they apparently went to the wrong house. police are warning atm customers in toms river to be extra vigilant after two robberies this week, the first happened monday afternoon at the bank of america on route 37, the 68-year-old woman entered her pin number when the man pushed her out of the way and withdrew cash from her account. and a 19-year-old woman was robbed when she tried to make a cash deposit at the wells fargo

last night. >> the vote was unanimous today. philadelphia city council approved the zoning for the city's second casino to be built near the stadium complex in philadelphia. jeff is live at the site where the casino will rise from the asphalt, jeff two pieces of good news, 3,000 construction jobs and 2,000 permanent jobs. >> reporter: and they will pay living wages, one of the questions the city made of the developers, the site to turn this holiday inn into a hotel and casino. >> with that vote city council cleared the way for the $250 million hotel and casino in philadelphia. it's expected to be an economic boon for the city and for the 5,000 local people the

developers plan to hire. the jobs must pay living wages in all stages, including construction and professional services and vending and contracting, must represent a diverse demographic makeup. they negotiated with owners, for a minimum $12 an hour wage for all employees and contractors. >> i worked with them to set e diversity goals. >> according to the plan it will be renovated in a luxury hotel with more than 200 rooms and a conference center and spa and 2,000 slat machines and developers expect to benefit from the nearby sports stadiums that draws more than 8 million visitor a year, donald clark who works at the holiday inn is

looking forward to the project because the $12 minimum wage would be a raise. >> i find this interesting and good for philadelphia. >> there is one more hurdle the state supreme court needs to rule on the challenge to the developers gaming license, penning that construction could begin in early 2016 and the casino could open in 2018, we are live in south philadelphia, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you jeff. a 52-year-old truck driver says he condition believe he is alive after a serious accident caught on camera on i-95 in ridley park. delaware resident patrick novak gave us dash-cam video gave us every moment after his truck tipped on its side and it happened after it approaches the ridley park exit northbound, police are still investigating what caused him to lose control.

today chopper 6 hd gave us a better look at the destruction caused by last night's four alarm fire in pennsauken. the body shop on the 3400 block of haddonfield road, 70 firefighters are on the scene as the blaze spread to the apartment over the store. investigators cannot say what sparked the fire. don't tell that to the folks that were enjoying the warm temperatures along the schuylkill river today, we moved past 60 degrees and the sun made it feel warmer, but as a wise man once said you ain't seen nothing yet. lets get the factses and figures from meteorologist, cecily tynan. >> people wearing shorts and short-sleeves and exercising today and it was comfortable because the high shot to 62 degrees, the average high is 46,

that is 16 degrees above normal. and over the next three days, and temperatures will be climbing even higher, right now you need a light jacket and 55 in philadelphia and wilmington 53 and trenton 55 and sea isle city 51 and millville 46 degrees and allentown 47, satellite 6 along with action radar showing the system that brought us showers early this morning, moved offshore quickly. a good amounts of sunshine earlier today, and clouds are beginning to built in and tonight partly cloudy and temperatures slow to drop off, at 7:00 still 53 degrees and by 8:00, 52 and 9:00, 51 and 10:00 dropping down to 49 degrees, but over it's weekend and into monday, the jet stream is well up to the northern and not feeling at all like december, it will feel like early october and we are making a run for the record not just one day but three days in a row, our

temperatures keep going up and i'll talk about how warm it will get and track the rain on the way in the full accuweather forecast. >> thank you. tonight the accuweather team is getting ready for winter, from the mountains to the shore we get a look at the long range prediction and go behind the scenes to see what it takes to put the forecast together from start to finish, preparing for winter's wrath tonight at 7:30 right here on channel 6. "action news" is in rittenhouse square tonight where they held a prayer vigil late this afternoon, religious leaders are asking everyone to cool it especially with anti-muslim hate speech. lets go will have to erin o'hearn. >> reporter: the vigil just wrapped up but the divisiveness in this country over how to deal with terrorism has not. the message from religious leaders is combat it with

respect and compassion. >> ultimately people are good and ultimately beyond the shock value and sensationallism this will come true. >> and that came through if prayer. >> we are out here we want to put a face to what a muslim american is. >> the climate is leaving people feel frightened and threatens but they are comforted with flowers and cookies after a severed pig's head was left outside of the building. >> we show the love and attention we can show and tolerance for individuals like these guys that threw the pig's head. i don't have any hostility to these individuals. >> that message of forgiveness is post an tonight. the high school next to the

mosque says that engaging in verbal messages with someone like donald trump -- >> feel like donald trump is a poor, poor soul and empty and lost his basic conscious and lost his humanity. but leaders of an inter denominational, had different feelings and demanded the gop disqualify trump from the trezal race. >> when we hear that muslims must be temporarily banned from coming into the united states hitler comes to mind. >> organizers say tonight it wasn't about donald trump, but people are moving forward. erin o'hearning channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. coming up on "action news" tonight, a lay away angel visits a buck county kmart and the reaction from the woman that

benefitted from a person she has never met and the opposite side of the christmas spirit was in a delaware neighborhood. we will have the latest on the eagles saga today, the chapter demarco murray. jeff skversky has that story when "action news" continues tonight.

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insurance coverage has expanded nationally and you may now be covered. contact your health plan for the latest information. police are searching for packages thieves in newcastle, delaware, the suspects were traveling in a silver minivan and witnesses observed one man exit the vehicle on tuesday afternoon, he took boxes that

were delivered to his doorstep on chelwin road and left in the van that had a temporary delaware registration. a bucks county mom says she has a thank you for the person she never met. denel walton got a call from the kmart in feasterville that her lay away was paid off at the kmart. she has 8-year-old twins and both have developmental issues and the lay away was filled with toys for them. >> thank you, thank you for doing this that is really sweet of you. and so kind of you to not know us and go in and pay for our lay away. >> she hopes that her lay away angel sees this and knows just how much his or her simple act of generosity meant to her and her family. the free library of philadelphia announced a program

at the correctional facility, starting in february the prison will use internet service from libraries to connect people using live video conferencing. they will use a temporary library card with details on library support. a philadelphia woman is leaving her post as a school crossing guard after 43 years on the job, 85-year-old willy fullwood, received a standing ovation as she arrived today. she began her career in 1972 and spent most of it to help students cross johnson street. she says she feels grateful. >> it's good to be here and i thank the community and i thank the police district for allowing me to work this long, because

one time i thought they may have taken me off the corner because of my age, but they didn't. i am happy about it. >> fullwood was recognized today with a city council citation and please commissioner charles ramsey says it's impossible to count the number of children whose lives she may have saved.

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so much drama it will have no impact on the game but it's fun. >> fun and interesting, but not so much fun if are you lesean mccoy, he is mad at chip kelly and chip kelly understands that. mccoy made it cloud and clear he will not one out and shake his hand on sunday. how did chip feel about shady's slight of hand. jaime apody has more. >> i'm not talking to chip, he

condition call me or shake my hand. >> that was shady mccoy yesterday and i asked chip kelly to respond and he was as candid as we ever heard him. >> that is his choice and how he was traded was not handled right, i did not get an opportunity to talk to him and it's a lesson we should never do and i felt bad i didn't get to talk to him, he didn't answer and i know he was angry and rightly so, he was the leading running back here and he was disrespected and it was wrong and i was part of it so it's on me, i will always shake his hand, if he extended his hand to me, i would shake his hand. >> and his current running back is not happy either. demarco murray says he has no idea how word on that got out and it's no big deal. >> how hard is it to take a

backseat to the other guys? >> it's hard, i have never been in this situation, but like i said every guy in the locker room wants to go out there it's not just me. >> are you happy here? >> yes, i am happy here and i love the guys and coaching staff and ownership ship. >> does he want to be here next year? he said 100% yes. >> we'll see how much he plays on sunday. moving on one of the greatest players in nba history, former sixer and hall-of-famer, dolph shayes passed away at 96. and sixers are trying to regroup after losing by 51 the other night to san antonio. >> we didn't have the effort that we needed the other night,

the competitiveness, forget how old they are or what their resumes say, that is what holds us together. flyers in st. louis tonight later in about an hour and a half where they have every reason to single blues. the flyers have not won out in nearly ten years and have not scored a goal in st. louis in five years. espn's college game day back here on saturday, for the army navy game. they have never been here and now twice in the same year. cecily tynan with the accuweather forecast when we continue in just a moment.

you thought today was warm? just wait. >> get your golf clubs out this weekend, you may want to go find some and get outside. stormtracker 6 live double scan showing that we have rain free conditions out there tonight, but double was working overtime just two years ago today. this is the scene, david posted this on my facebook page from upper darby, we had 10 inches of snow on the ground this date two years ago, remember the eagles-lions game we had 8 inches of snow. compare this to what is going on now, sandy tweeted this from marlton and the daffodils are starting to bloom and the reason why? the temperatures made it up to

62 degrees today and 16 degrees above average and the record high was 71 in 1966. but the low was the normal high for this time of year. right now 55 degrees in philadelphia, still mild, millville dropped down to 46 and trenton 55 and reading 51 and wilmington 53 degrees, a light jacket a good idea if you head out tonight, satellite showing we had early morning showers and then sunshine and a few clouds are beginning to roll in and with the cloud cover overnight partly cloudy skies and temperatures are mild and cooler suburbs and 44 for center city and calm winds and we could have patchy fog developing, and it burns off quickly and another day with bright sunshine and at 7:00, already 45 degrees, 10:00, 55 and by 4:00, 63 degrees, and

we likely hit a high of 65 tomorrow than will tie the record high and that is warm but gets warmer over the weekend, this moves over our region on saturday and we get the flow of winds, so 66 degrees on saturday, and feeling like october, 68 degrees and arctic air and a jet stream to the north and even after the cold front moves through on monday, cooling off and temperatures still in the 50s, so no sign of that arctic air moving in as it typically does in september. blame el niño, or give it credit if you like it like this. the exclusive accuweather forecast tomorrow we tie the record high, 65 degrees and the record is 65 for the next three days, so saturday we beat it by one degree and sun we smash it by 3 degrees and some areas could actually hit 70 and monday not a record, the record high is 69 and it will be mild 68 degrees but periods of rain

especially late in the day and monday night with a cold front and behind that front, it's cooler on tuesday but still relatively mild, 56 degrees and wednesday a mixture of sun and clouds and 58 degrees and thursday mostly cloudy with the possibility of a shower with a high of 56 degrees so the next three days temperatures in the 60s and even beyond that we are looking at temperatures in the 50s. >> i don't know how much time we have, you have a show coming up? >> our winter weather special, at 7:30, it should be a pretty good show. a warm start and cold finish. >> really? abc's world news is next with david muir and "action news" continues at 10:00 on phl 17. for "action news" i'm jim gardner we hope you'll join us at 11:00.

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breaking news. we're on the scene tonight. divers in a lake after the terror in california. the fbi searching the lake for possible clues and tonight, investigators on what brought them there. also breaking, the city now on alert this ooechk after a u.s. warning. authorities now trying to prevent a specific terror event, telling american citizens there to be on the lookout. the runaway commuter train. passengers trapped inside with no conductor. pounding on the door for help. two major storm systems we're watching tonight. the state of emergency. drivers trapped there on a highway. and the reported tornado. >> wow! >> storms turning deadly already. and the scandal at the citadel. under fire after this image of cadets singing christmas carols. the outrage tonight.