jersey is under arrest for a relationship with a student. but a person of interest in custody in connection with the murder of a philadelphia psychiatrist. they identified the person as howard baker, police say he was strangled and robbed. police tell "action news" that they do have a person of interesting and are waiting to question him tonight. with more on that chad pradelli is live at philadelphia police headquarters. >> reporter: that is right rick, a source tells me that person of interest is in custody, he was picked up yesterday on a parole violation but homicide detectives here in philadelphia are awaiting his arrival to question him and learn more about what happened in that hotel room. >> investigators say that howard baker was strangled inside of his room at the roadway inn at 12th and walnut.

>> was on the floor and naked with a leather belt wrapped around his neck and he was pronounced on the scene and the cause of death is strangulation. >> surveillance cameras show baker checking into his room at 3:00 p.m., later he and another man are seen entering the hotel and then baker returns later that night with another man and the second man leaves the hotel at 12:30 yesterday and baker never emerges from the room, the second visitor we are calling a person of interest. a light complexion male, carrying the victim's backpack and his wallet. >> it's unclear if it was caused by a sex act gone wrong or a robbery. the 75-year-old was a

psychiatrist with practices in wynnewood and center city. police say that baker's wife had no idea he was checking into the hotel, he told her he was going a bar to watch the eagles game. >> she didn't know he was there and we are trying to backtrack his lifestyle and get answers to those questions. >> we reached out to the roadway inn for a common and the company had no comment. i'm chad pradelli, channel 6 "action news". thank you chad we are following a developing story now, "action news" learn that one of six americans killed in afghanistan grew up in wincoat, montgomery county, peter daub died in a bombing yesterday, and we are are live in landsdale

where he spoke to taub's father dan. >> he attended cheltenham high school and tonight they are distraught over his loss. family members confirm that peter taub was among the soldiers killed in that attack. >> he was a good person, a real good personality, funny and thoughtful and he was a really good family man. loved his wife and more so he loved tis daughter. >> taub's father didn't even know his son was in afghanistan, he told them he was deployed to saudi arabia because he did not want them to worry. >> he found direction and discipline. and just became a real man. >> peter taub leaves behind a pregnant wife and a 3-year-old daughter, and the family worried

about their well being started a go fund me site, that has so far raised over $8,000. >> pete's wife and daughter needed financial assistance so he took it upon himself to help them out. >> taub's body and that of five others will be flown to andrews air force base where they will be honored. we are live here in landsdale, montgomery county, i'm dann cuellar, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. pennsylvania supreme court justice michael akin is suspended in connection with the so-called porn-gate email scanal, they say that emails with lewd content were insensitive and inappropriate. the ruling comes one day after akin's tearful testimony where he apologized and said his

actions did not warrant formal discipline. this could result in his removal from the bench. the pennsylvania state police may lead the rulings in officer-involved shootings for the philadelphia police department, commissioner charles ramsey started to talk about the agreement three months ago. >> with the pennsylvania state police as the lead investigative agency, if there is an officer-involved shooting where a person is injured, killed or any in custody death that occurs while a person in our custody. >> news of the proposed plan came after a six month status update detailing the police department's progress in implementing reforms regarding deadly force, they commended the philadelphia police department for making strides on 91 recommendations. it was in response to an increase in officer-involved

shooting. monsignor william lynn will get a new trial after his landmark convince was overturned for a second time. the supreme court made the ruling today and lynn will seek to have the church official released from an upstate prison. he was charged after -- and is back in prison since the conviction overturned was reinstated. lynn served about two years of his three to six year term. police in gloucester township arrested an employee with allegations that she committed sex acts with another student for two years, police say it happened when the 41-year-old suspect was an aide at the middle school and the crimed began off school property and began when the student was 14 years old. she was fired after her arrest.

comcast will continue to operate in philadelphia for the next 15 years, today mayor michael nutter signed the legislation that renews the city's franchise agreement with the cable giant, comcast agreed to increase service for seniors and low income philadelphians, and philadelphia will get 5% of comcast revenue, last year that was $18 million. amtrak has implemented technology along the northeast corridor, called ptc. john rawlins when to the facility in wilmington to find out exactly how it works. >> you accelerate the train and this is how it works, you start to move here, we have a green light, chris and i are not really moving but in this on screen virtual world, the locomotive quickly accelerates

in a 25 miles per hour straight away but something is looming ahead of me, what is the operator is distracted or worse yet wants to trigger a high speed derail many, that is when the positive train control takes over the alarm sound. >> i can't do anything, it won't give me power and it applying the brake to the train, it took over the brakes of the train and is slowing me down. >> this is ptc at work. >> yes, i couldn't speed up if i wanted to. >> last may eight people died when amtrak 188 traveling at more than 100 mile derailed at frankford junction. amtrak will not discuss the incident given the ongoing investigation but as of last saturday, ptc is operating along

the northeast corridor including the frankford curve. >> we have safety on the northeast corridor for yours but this puts a new measure of protection on ton of it. >> he shows us that ptc can reduce the number of trains running red or stop signals, and as for the ntsb investigation into what went wrong with train 188, no date is set yesterday for it's final report. and still to come on "action news" tonight, philadelphia district attorney seth williams speaks out about porn-gate and demarco murray talks about his role on the team as the eagles get ready to take on the red skin. >> i have rain on the way and i'll talk about record warmth and rain on the way.

controversy continues to swirl around the philadelphia district attorney's office, because three of his prosecutors involved in the so-called porn-gate scandal. williams has refused to fire the men and sat down with vernon to tell us why. >> i think all of that is repugnant, and should not be sharing that while at work. >> he is talking about porn-gate, racist and homophobic

emails that went through the system. kathleen kane uses them to fight against her enemies for allegedly releasing secret grand jury testimony. caught up in the scandal pat fino, and williams refuses to fire them from city government after pressure from activists and city council members he hid them in the base out of public view. >> i am not defending the emails they shared or did that while at work, it makes no sense to me how the attorney general was running the office. >> but as the political pressure is rising, williams is setting the stage for dumping the trio in other shoes drop. >> if there is more information

and a more complete picture i may take other action. >> he says attorney general kane his bitter enemy may have started the probe into his campaign spending. >> the d.a. says that he will run more re-election in 2017 but here nearly two years out it's too early to assess whether or not this side show in the porn-gate scandal will generate a serious challenge to seth williams. the gloucester county animal shelter says they are over capacity after more than 100 cats were rescued from a hoarders home. they generally have 140 cats but this ricking care of 230. >> they are stressed out and stripped from the environment they know but as things progress they get used to they see the

hands reaching for them are not harming them. >> to encourage cat adoptions, the shelter is offering reduced rates, $25 if you take a cat adopted from the pitman hoarding house. >> and now a generous gift this morning the montgomery sheriff of and the wheels program donated a custom bike. this adaptive bicycle gives andrew a sense of freedom while enhancing his mobility. my giant.

you got your big games... ...and regular games. get it all at a great price... ...and the holiday season is won. everything in one place. my giant. christmas came early for a dozen deserving kids, 16 children for the men methodist home for children, they had several surprises for the kids and they got their own lockers with jerseys and sneakers and the players got to play santa

giving each child what was on their wish list. >> we know what is on the eagles wish list, a big win against the red skins. >> no choice, they have to. they have a lot of must have wins, saturday is the real must win, because if they lose to the red skins there will be no playoffs, and the talk is around the $40 million running back that doesn't do anything. chip kelly down plays the whole thing but something suphere. last year's leading rusher aren't you good enough to deserve more carries. >> of course you have a lot of pride in yourself and confidence in myself and i have a lot of confidence in the other guys as well. i am happy to be here and will continue to help the team no matter what it is, one or two plays whatever. >> how tired are you of answers these questions. >> really tired, i never dealt

with anything like this in my life, it's more frustrating than anything, i guess it's how it is. >> i don't know if byron maxwell or derek roe will be playing they were not in practice today. the d gave up 800 yards to a rookie running back. can they fix their issues by saturday? they have to. >> it doesn't matter what happens so far this year, it's an up and down season and everybody has felt that but the good thing is what we set out to do last spring is still right in front of us, and most people, but a lot of teams are in the situation packing it up thinking about next year wrerks not there. >> the giants 6-8 are still in this thing and their hopes ride on whether they have o'dell beckham jr. he is appealing his one game suspension for his

conduct against carolina. regardless of whether it's upheld, he should be around to play the eagles the final week of the season. temple against toledo in the boca bowl, the owls are the 1.5 point favorites. the all american senior linebacker and best defensive player in nation will surely play next season with the temple 80s. >> it's going to be a great game and i'm looking forward to. anymore time i put on shoulder pads i get real excited. i have one more opportunity and i'm going to enjoy the heck out it. >> tyler looking sun burned. the sixers look for an all important win, and they host the grizzlies at the wells fargo

center. and the hawks said we will never die, they took on in the double header, miles had an incredible game, career-high 36 and 15 rebounds, his fourth double-double and scored double digits in all 11 games. they are 9-2 not a bad start for st. joes.

meteorologist, cecily tynan here now with the balmy accuweather forecast for the holidays. >> it's a shame i got you a nice

wool gift, and i have to return it. >> i got you skis and i have to return them. >> water skis would work. >> these are for snow. a warm and wet stormtracker 6 live double scan showing a break in the action with the rain right now, there is another wave moving in tomorrow and this could bring us heavy rain, and the accuweather highlights show you a wet start to winter and i am tracking christmas warmth on the way today and today a quarter inch of rain and pretty light rain and tomorrow we are looking at a pretty nice soaking and unfortunately it's a travel delay and fog and rain causing problems with travel and we look at an inch of rain. in the meantime i'm tracking a few record days of warmth, hitting it tomorrow night ties the record day for warmth, shattering the record high of 64 that is an all time december

record and then on christmas day, 68 degrees and that ties the record high and sunday looks like we could also have a record high, temperatures are mild feeling like spring rather than the first day of winter. millville 60 and millville currently 59 degrees, satellite 6 along with action radar showing again we are getting a break in the action, the light steady rain from earlier today has moved on and if you look to the south this system is reloading and this will pull up moisture here and you can get severe weather in the tennessee valley tomorrow and tonight lots of clouds and i think tonight's problems will be dense fog developing overnight, 44 in the suburbs and 52 in center city. and the light winds and wet ground the fog will be dense by tomorrow morning. future tracker showing 7:00 in the morning, the clouds are in place and temperatures in the 50s, not a lot of organized moisture that early and then by

11:00 the steady rain is moving up from the south and west continuing into the afternoon hours lifting up to the north and by 5:00, 61 in philadelphia and a slug of moisture in the evening and look at these temperatures, 65 in philadelphia and 70 in dover and tomorrow night will be warm and wet and what this does is unleashed a surge of extremely warm air on christmas eve. we are looking at temperatures 25 to 35 degrees above average in the 70s and that cold front moves through during the evening of christmas eve and behind it cooler air and temperatures in the upper 60s on christmas. so really not feeling like the holidays at all. the exclusive accuweather forecast, tomorrow it's foggy and rainy and don't forget the umbrella with a high of 66 degrees and thursday the all time record of 76 degrees, a round of rain and then the first half of the day on christmas dry

and then rain developing and tying the record at 65, and 66 on saturday and sunday regard warmth again, 6 degrees and more rain moving in on monday and cooler and damp and tuesday mostly cloudy and milder with a high of 57 degrees, so the n week we are looking at above normal temperatures every single day we have the opportunity for showers. abc world news is next on channel 6 and "action news" continues at 10:00 on phl 17 and join us for "action news" at 11:00 here on channel 6. for jim gardner, meteorologist, cecily tynan, ducis rogers, i'm rick williams, have a nice evening. ok, we're here.

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tonight, the fallout. what donald trump said about hillary clinton. some arguing, trump went too far with the words he used in his attack. >> she got [ bleep ]. >> tonight, the clinton team now responding and what this little girl asked the candidate. late today, the panic at the mall. shots fired inside. the stampede of holiday shoppers trying to escape. the deadly driving. the chain reaction accidents just as millions hit the road for the holidays. 40 million americans facing severe storms through christmas eve. accused army desserter bowe bergdahl in court. tonight, in his own words, describing what the taliban did to him. and the great made in america christmas is back. so many of you sending in your ideas. tonight, the famous "i love lucy" moment. and something in that scene made in america.