for casino plans in south for casino plans in south philadelphia. that's next philadelphia. >> it is thursday night aunt big story on "action news" tonight is breaking news from washington township, new jerse jersey. this is amateur video of fire tonight that attacked a home in the 00 block of lafayette street and that hour

authorities of the house say this is a crime scene. for what that means exactly let's go live to the fire location and "action news" reporter jeff chirico. jeff, what you can tell us from there. >> jim, sources tell us that this may have been started after a domestic dispute and that one person is in police custody right now. let's take a look at the scene. you can see the washington township fire department wrapping up this job and this fire was relentless. you can see it destroyed the garage. there's a hole in the roof above it and another hole in the roof above what appears to be living room. now let's show what you this looked like 8:0 tonight this is viewer i'm sorry witness video just after the neighbor's called 911. you see flames shooting through left side of that house. we are told that 6 people were inside at the time. two adults and their four grandchildren and we're told

grandmother ran out of the house with the kids screaming for help. >> we just heard yelling and carrying on when we on the door we realize the the house was on fire and called 911 and they're running down the street. >> terrible. we're two weeks before christmas. it's -- the house looks like it will be a total loss. it's heartbreaking. >> you can see the family had hung christmas wreemings right there on the id window. we can only math tlin were christmas gifts inside this house for those four children likely damaged or very likely destroyed. once again, everyone inside made it out okay and those four children and their grandparents are okay. and we do not have an identity on that person in custody however police here tell us the fwlosster county prosecutors office will be releasing details shortly. we're live in washington township new jersey jeff jeff chirico "channel 6 action

news". >> thank you, jeff. firefighters in delaware county battled a barn fire tonight the blaze broke out after 9 in 400 block of west 24th up land and no animals were in the karen. unseasonably warm temperatures brought out the strollers in manayunk tonight than is just start of a stretch we see temperatures soar to near record levels. let's get the full story from accuweather and cecily tynan at the "action news" big board. >> temperatures rising all week long and today they spiked into the 60s. 6 degrees. that's 16 above normal high for this time year and temperatures will be rising as we head through tomorrow and actually even throughout weekend. each day we get warmer. rights now it's still not that cold, 49 still above normal high this time of year in philadelphia. allentown 41. wilmington 4. millville 39 and sea isle city currently 51. we have clouds cover. satellite 6 and action radar showing a lot of high, thin

clouds over us and also with calm winds we could have fog developing in the overnight hours. there could be fog for morning commute and temperatures even at the low for the day tomorrow, not that cold for december. 44 degrees in philadelphia. and millville, 38, allentown 37 and wilmington 40. what's ahead i'm tracking even warmer air for the next three days and record highs and then this warmth will end with rain i'll have all the details in the accuweather forecast, jim. >> thank you, cecily, 6abc.co 6abc.com/weather has everybody you need to know for the days ahead including realtime scans from stormtracker 6 live. philadelphia second is casino is major step closer to reality tonight. philadelphia city council today unanimously approved zoning for the new tas facility which will be called stadium casino. the project will rise at 900 packer avenue and with current

holiday inn will be rebuilt to luxury hotel and casino will be accompanied by a conference center and 2600 car garage and restaurant and entertainment venues and official say stadium casino will produce 3,000 construction jobs and 2,000 permanent jobs. people of all religions gathe gathered in rittenhouse square to show solidarity tonight♪ an emom, rabbi and christian pastor gave prayers at this vigil inter faith for the terror attacks that some are blaming on islam. donald trump anti-islam and anti-muslim stance has not hurt him in the presidential polls or so it would seem quite the opposite. republican front runner continue to soar. a new cbs times poll taken

before and after trump said we should ban muslims from the united states says trump surged 13 points since october to 35 35%. cruz trails with 16% and carson 13% and rubio at 9%. >> and this was the scene today as fbi sent differs into the suxt cmbee lake in san bernardino california 13 miles north of where 14 parakilled in holiday party shootings of december and fbi officials say they are searching for possible evidence only because they learned syed farook and tashfeen malik spent time here from time time katherine knott faces time sgrail convicted after salt for the incident 16

and chancellor last september and prosecutors say knott and friends were on the town last year when they saw the couple and spewed profanity laced slurs and the dispute turned physical. knott's attorney says his client never touched victims. two other suspect pleaded guilty in this case. >> west chester university students are warned about a man exposing himself near campus. the first incident happened saturday morning at 3. a student was walking in the 4 400 block of south new stwleet a man stepped out from alley. a similar incident happened to two students sunday at 4 a.m. long south darling ton and police say the suspect is a bald than his 40s with glasses and possibly drvz a dark blue mini van and police charged 7 lehigh university football players in connection with an apparent revenge crime. investigators say students broke an off campus home last

month and police say they were seeking retribution for alleged attack on fraternity president. but it turns out they went to the wrong house. police charged 21-year-old brian githens assault for punching a man and the others face criminal trespass. >> america's military men and women around the world will have eyes fixed on philadelphia this weekend and play the 116 army-navy game at the linc saturday and the city is welcoming service academies with on arms and "action news" reporter dann cuellar is live in center city and dann, not to be crass about it but city is hoping thousands of visitors that will be here will on wallets. >> oh, absolutely jim. >>reporter: as you well know the rivalry between army-navy football is huge and the economic impact if in our city it's seen as our bowl game in economic terms. the army-navy game has a rich

history of not just rivalry but pomp, pageantry and patriotism unmatched anywhere. >> there's a ton of people that come to the game and they spend a whole lot of money and there's significant economic impact for us here in philadelphia which is why we always want to be the host city forearmy navy games. >> and the game may be twob days away and feingtstive 'tis have gone and at the union league they gathered for the gala which supervised on behalf of vet rapz and military communicate. >> i it kicks off the whole weekend with the army-navy sglaim we all know who will sglin go navy. >> as you can see there's rivalry here today. >> i have something to tell yo you. >> all right. >> oh, no. >> there you go. >> they have no chance. >> army has no chance. >> the reason he has a shirt like that he knows what part he should wear opt front we're hoping they show up.

>> i think you see how it shapes up for the game. they're expecting 50,000 visitors for the city and as for money spent on hotels, bars and restaurant. >> we did a study saevrl years ago that showed a $5 million economic impact for the city. we think aat this point that's probably conservative number. >> last time they posted in 201 they played in a driving snow storm. that will not be the case with temperatures expected in the 60s. >> weather will be great and we think people will come early and stay late and come and enjoy all that philadelphia has owe offer. >> by the way the city is in the third year of five year contract as hosts of the army-navy football game. and next year it will be back in baltimore before coming back to philadelphia in 2017 we're live on the parkway center cit city, dann cuellar, "channel 6 action news." >> contract negotiations for the next five years. thank you, dann. philadelphia city council held its final section of 015 today

and mayor nutter took the opportunity too bid farewell to the chamber where he once worked. >> the many ups and many downs and tragedies and triumphs we've seen together over the last eight years has just been an incredible experience a think for all of us certainly for me to be mayor of my hometown. >> and nutter also thank ited council for providing 400 million in new annual revenue for schools and helping to drive down violent crime during his tenure and his term ends next month. >> they left flowers at his statue at rowan under arrest glassboro to hon ar the men that transformed the school and henry rowan died at the age of 9 and donated 100 million dollars to glassboro state college in 199. and the money created a school of engineering and began to turn the college into a major university and economic engine for south jersey.

>> and still to come on "action news" tonight, runaway train. officials are investigating how a boston train got away from the station without an operator and building bikes. volunteers spent the night assembling gifts for children in need. cecily. >> temperatures climbed into the low 60s today. even warmer air is waiting in the wings and it's -- i'll let you know how warm it gets and when it hoovz out. >> and several major airlines got a popular -- been a popular grivt planes and shawn demarco and chip the saga continues grivt planes and shawn demarco and chip the saga continues when "action news" continues. ♪

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from 2:00 to 6:00 p.m., enjoy any medium latte >> the train left the sthaition morning at 6 and did so without an engineer. the train had 50 people on board and ran through four stations before they could bring it to a halt by cutting off power. fortunately, nobody was hurt and officials say the train was tempered with by someone knew

what they were doing. >> nikki minaj pledged to a philadelphia judged to keep her boyfriend on track with his parole rules. 28-year-old meek mill violated par knoll 2009 drug and gun case by repeatedly change his i court approved travel schedule. the judge threatened to throat rapner jail over his infractions and menage testified that he never had structure in his life until she came along and he's "getting a customed to being an adult." >> reality television personality kristin cavalari told the faxly they located her brother's body. he was reported missing november 27 when his car was found abandoned in u taw. his cellphone and laptop wered in the the vehicle and there was no blood or any sign of foul playch the cause of death has yet to be determined. the three largest u.s. airlines are baning a popular item on many wish list this

holiday season. delta, american, and united airlines announced today they are banning hover boards in checked or carry on luggage and the problem here is potential fire danger from the lithium ion batteries that power the motorized devices. jetblue airways already prohibited hover board. >> volkswagen said the program to cheat on emissions tests traces back to 2005. executives said today engineers began working on the cheating software ten years ago and after they could not find a technical solution to help them pass u.s. emission tests. back in september the company admitted to building that software into 11 million cars around the world. >> in bucks country tonight they honored police officers that gave the ultimate sacrifice. they oingted poj ekt holiday blue hiteing under the minimu minimumry of police officers

killed in the line ever duty. and the fifth annual camden holiday parade rolled down market street along with marches banz and fire police and vehicles and there was appearance by giant reindeer. the parade eded with santa claus riding on top of a fire truck. >> assembling 100 bicycles 100 wheels is anywheretive than ghan 2008. they donated deserving children. organizer say the project gets bigger every year because the need is there. >> we get feedback from social services we partner with and they tell us the need they have and impact that one little action has. it's tremendous. >> since the beginning the program has delivered over 530 bicycles. tremendous effort at holiday time and we have just extraordinary accuweather forecast the getting warm ep

and warmer. >> i think youngsters will got a lot of use out of bikes this weekend. it will feel like spring. stormtracker 6 double scan showing we have dry conditions out there and we have cloud cover. but sky6 taking a look overbroad street and city hall. this is temple university sky6 camera and these clouds are high and thin enough that temperatures dip a little and still compared to december standards it's not that cold. 49 currently in philadelphia. and normal high for this time year in the afternoon 46. each warmer than that now. allentown, though, a little cooler, 39. the same in millville. trenton 47, wilmington 44 and reading 43. and some of the suburbs temperatures drop to dewpoint. we'll see patch patchy fog again overnight and satellite 6 and action radar showing again we have cloud cover now over us and center of this low pressure is moving well up north. these clouds do not contain

rain and they'll be breaking up quickly in the morning and the bus stop forecast against patchy clouds and fog especially suburbs and mild already. by 8:00, 47, jack set necessary sary and kid don't have to bundle up and fog breaks quickly and temperatures off to races. 7:00, 45. by 10:00, 55. 1:00, 62. that was high today. 4:00, 63. i think we'll make it up to of 5. and that will tie the record highs and next three days the record highs all 65 degrees and all different years and tomorrow we'll likely tie that. saturday could break it by one degree and sunday surging up to 68 degrees. shattering old record high of 65 di three degrees. where is cold air. cold air is locked way up to the north. jet extreme north of us when

the cold air arrives we will not be getting arctic air. temperatures next week will be well above normal. not as balmy as the next four days. >> so the exclusive accuweather 7 day forecast you like the warm air getting outside tomorrow and maybe take a lunch break in and out park. 65. mostly sunny skies. tieing that record if you cannot get outside tomorrow don't worry saturday warmer, 6 66. army-navy game on sunday 6 also on new record. definitely don't have to bundle up for eagles game. monday, 68, clouds building through the day and rain developing in the afternoon and evening with that cold front of that cold front slip will you quickly monday night, tuesday, breezy, cooler, but still mild for mid december. 56 degrees. wednesday sun and clouds with high of 58 degrees and then on thursday moisture moves in and buttock we're not talk snow we're talking rain showers mos mostly cloudy and high of 56

degrees. so the next four days record warmth on the way and then even when it cools off it's still relatively mild. i actually saw people driving convertibles with the top down today. >> i think you'll see a lot more of that. >> warm enough for that. >> quite an theeng was at kimle center for performing narcotics philadelphia and children's hospital presented evening with vienna boys khooir chair. >> and the program featured vevring holiday favorites and us tree an waltzes to classical masterpieces and the event will benefit the choir and department of international medicine at children's hospital. that was just some of the sounds from the overbrook school for the blind winter star holiday concert tonight and performances given by encore singers and junior choir and soloists. definitely a picture worthy at

a moment for loved ones tonight. >> the francis phil center was spreading cheer in north philadelphia. dozens of children were treated to a pizza party and short chat with you know who. at the end of event everybody with you know who. at the end of event everybody went home with a present the centers for medicare and medicaid services recently asked patients to rate the quality of over 3.500 hospitals. fewer than 6% received 5 stars. among them was cancer treatment centers of america in philadelphia.

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it was too pricey and agent didn't want to renegotiate. mccoy does not want to shake chip kelly's hand we know that. and chip says he doesn't plame him. wow the eagles' coach in fact blames himself for fumbling trade. how about a very candid chip kelly today. >> how he was traded was not handled right and i said that before. i did not get an opportunity to talk to him. and it's a lesson we should never go do and i felt bad i did not get a chance to talk to him i called him he didn't answer my phone call i know he is missed and should be pissed and rightly sew and he was disrespected taken was wrong an because i was part of it it's on me. i understand where he's coming from if he doesn't want to shake my handy understand that i will always shake his handen if he extends his hand to me i would always shake his hand. >> mccoy's replacement demarco murray is happy here and loves the eagles and believes he's a good fit.

murray claims he's not one top go to chip kelly or jeffery laury to complain about the carries and he has no idea why his talk on the plane with the owner is talk of the town. >> it's not the first time i sat next to tory. he's my boss. communication is there. >> are you surprised it became as big as as a deal as it is. >> gentlemen, very surprising like i said i can't control anything i can't control and i don't know how it got out there and like i said, it's just communication with my boss the guy i work for. so i think it was definitely made a lot bigger than what it really is. >> he's just talking to the boss. >> flyers had every right to singt blues when he go to st. louis and they have not won there in ten years and in fact the flyers have not scored a goal out there in five years. and flyers get another shot tat in st. louis after 173 minutes without a goal and they get three in the second. matt reed on the rebound.

flyers take the lead and two to go in the second and claw giroux what a move and what a finish. flyers go on to win 4-it's their first win here since december 2005. their first win here since december 2005. we'll be right

>> six eringz get guard tony roton in the starting lineup since last season. doesn't make a difference. what do you think. sixers trying to rebound in brooklyn after losing by 51 monday. end of third, jeremy grant scores six points off the move. sixers up four as we go to the

fourth. but they blow. it sixers out scored 30-17 the the rest of the way andrea barnyarny sixers lose 191. they're 1 in 22. one of the greatest players in nba history has pass away. former sixer and hall of famer shays died at the age of 8 because of complications from cancer. he is third on the sixers all time franchise scoring list and check bednarik award named after late eagles great is not as prestigious as saturday's heisman but don't tell that the. matkevich is recognized as best defensive player and senior linebacker will get one last shot this play for temple owls in twelve days. >> do you think the notre dame temple game that got so much

national publicity helped him. >> i would think. >> i would think the bottom line he's tremendous line back erin he'll be in the nfl. >> please touch museum was sights of family fun tonight salvation army and wells fargo hosted party for families in need. the winter wondrerland included car sell rides and visit from santa claus and wells fargo donated toys for youngers and 50,000 check to the valsation army. >> jimmy kimmel is live. next. "action news" continues at 4:30. now, for the entire "action news" team, i'm jim gardner, now, for the entire "action news" team, i'm jim gardner, good

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