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firefighters find a person dead insized a camper on a delaware property and a 7-year-old boy from allentown is killed in a drive by shooting in florida. but the big story is the return of milder weather after a brief taste of winter, sky 6 hd showing you the gloomy view at the jersey shore in cape may, the overnight rain is dying down with a few spotty showers lingering right now. david murphy is tracking the latest from accuweather. >> the last from the bulk of the showers are right down at the shore and pulling off the coast shortly, this is the end of the rain for you other than drizzle that may linger into the early part of afternoon, wider view from stormtracker 6 live double scan we had concerns north of philadelphia with frozen precipitation and that line has moved north of boston, if you have travel plans to new york or boston are you out of the woods in terms of precipitation. nothing else coming to the west. we got .79 inches in

philadelphia, a decent rainfall, it was coming down heavy at times during the morning commute and some downpours at night as well. .82 at the airport and it doesn't look like anybody went up over an inch. future tracker 6 showing you the rest of way we'll see clouds for a while and there is a chance that the clouds start to lift and down south you'll see late day sunshine before it dips down over the horizon, temperatures are not too bad 51 in philadelphia, and 57 in dover and 40 in allentown and 40 in reading and it will stay cooler up north than down south. 59 degrees in philadelphia, under mainly cloudy skies well above average, that is good, breezy and adding to a somewhat chill quifeel and tonight's overnight low 46 degrees, still well above average and tomorrow is another above average high. we'll check that out for you and

sara when i come back we'll take an early look at new years eve and new years day. >> looking forward to that thank you. the large storm system moving across the midwest is causing another day of major travel headaches, nationwide 800 flights are canceled today, and chicago's two main airports are feeling the worst of it, and the dallas airport is struggling to get people in and out. it was the deadliest tornado system to hit the dallas area in 88 years. now to the latest on pennsylvania's budget battle. tom wolf has released emergency funding for the public schools and public services but sent the latest plan back to lawmakers, suggesting they return from holiday break asking them to complete a budget he can sign.

john rawlins is live now with more. >> reporter: after days of silence, the soft spoken governor had tough unflattering words for the budget that landed on his desk last week, the budget produced by the republican approved legislature and called it a ridiculous document and would use a line item veto to do deal with it. >> i am expressing the outrage that all of us in pennsylvania should feel as the republican legislate has tried to dump on us. >> it was not balanced and lacked funding for penn state and pitt. public schools have been borrowing money to stay open during the six months of public stalemate in harrisburg, wolf will finally release emergency

funding for schools and some said they could not make payroll past january 29th and now a school closing crisis is averted. >> the philadelphia school district will be able to reopened as planned. >> wolf was emphatic, the legislature needs to come back to harrisburg and do their job. come up with a balanced budget. >> they can throw around the nonsense they want, they ran off, ran off before they did our job and left us with a real mess. >> so the folks here at the governor's office says the emergency funding will start flowing quickly but at best a short-term fix from schools that are borrowing heavily and the governor says there needs to be a realistic budget passed and that the legislature should come back to harrisburg to do its

job. >> john thank you. >> now wolf's budget announcement frees up money for the philadelphia school district, superintendant, william hite reacted this way. >> we can operate further into the school year without the full budget but understand this is only a partial budget not all the moneys that would be coming to philadelphia so naturally that will allow us to go much longer into the school year, will it allow us to go through the school year? i don't know yet. >> again philadelphia's public schools were slated to close on january 29 without a resolution to the bumgt stalemate. one person was found dead inside of a camper in townsend this morning. the vehicle was parked on pine tree road, investigators are not sure how the fire started or how the person died. >> a 7-year-old boy from

allentown was killed in a drive by shooting in florida, authorities have identified amir castro in richmond heights, 25 miles outside of miami, his tamly said he recently moved there and castro was struck by a bullets when someone opened fire on a relative's house and the suspects were driving in a white pickup truck and the motive remains unclear. >> a teenager known for affluent-za defense is now back in custody after he was tracked across the border in mexico. >> reporter: well, just within the hour we here learned from authorities just last week on christmas eve investigators had information that couch and his mother were in mexico and they

notified mexican officials and yesterday the authorities tracked them down. >> the international manhunt for the fugitive from texas is now over. >> after 11 days of u.s. marshal service tracking down ethan couch we can finally say he is in custody. >> this, the first image of ethan couch after his capture in mexico, his blond air is gone and his hair now dyed black. in is his mother tanya, who according to authorities refused to sit still for the picture. >> they planned to disappear, they even had something that was almost akin to a going away party before they left town. >> couch was just 16 when he killed four people driving drunk in 201, and was sentenced to probation using the affluent za

defense, saying his wealthy upbringing kept him from knowing right from wrong. couch vanished earlier this month and was a no show at his probation hearing. after this video showing him near a beer pong table. >> just being at the party where people are drinking but the fact that he left and they can prove he was trying to escape, that could do it. >> that was abc's elizabeth herr reporting. coming up a not guilty plea from the philadelphia police officer charged with murdering a teenager. plus another hover board fire is caught on camera inside of a texas mall, and david murphy has your seven-day forecast including new years eve.

the chicago police officer charged with the murder of 17-year-old laquan mcdonald pleaded not guilty, jason vandyke was arraigned this morning on official misconduct

and murder. the video shows the veteran officer shooting mcdonald 16 times and the teenager was armed with a knife and veering away from officers when vandyke opened fire. more protests are expected today in the wake of a grand jury decision not to indict the cleveland police officers in the fatal shooting of 12-year-old that was holding a pellet gun. a small group of protesters are gathered at the rec center where tamir rice was killed last year. the officers may still face discipline. belgium authorities arrested two men suspected of plotting new years eve terror attacks in brussels. prosecutors say the arrests were made after searches over the last few days, materials like isis propaganda was found. they believe they were planning

attacks similar to what happened in paris last month. more video of a hover board catching fire, this time in a mall some texas. -- the two wheel scooter exploded at a mall kiosk and a security guard contained the fire using an extinguisher, earlier a family had a hoverer board catch fire in their ocean county home. a brave teenager survive aid night lost in the woods in single digit temperatures after he became separated from a friend during a huntling trip. braden neilson was rescued just before the search became a body recovery mission, he used his cell phone to call his family but the calls kept getting disconnected after walking miles

he was finally able to reach a 911 operator. >> i saw two pairs of headlights, i think god led me the whole way through there and found me some help. >> neilson had signs of hyperthermia and rescuers say he was possibly hallucinating from exhaustion but is expected to be okay. an airline passenger was stranded at chicago airport for more than 50 hours but used his time wisely. danny roderick had plans to fly to phoenix to ask his girlfriend to marry him. his flights were canceled over and over again. he took a picture of the diamond ring and proposed over the phone. coming up on "action news" at noon, a question on the whole foods overcharging investigation, what the company agreed to do to settle the

allegations. and the company known for making magic in hollywood, how wha they are doing in real life for this 8-year-old girl.

millionaire i investor, carl icon has raised the stakes for philadelphia based pep boys, last night he upped his offer to $18.50 a share, toppling the bid from bridge stone of $70 a share, the pep boys chain is

valued at more than a billion dollars. whole foods has agreed to pay a half million dollars after allegations it overcharged customers in new york city. the city tested different types of foods and every single one was improperly weighed. they now have to be checked each quarter to make sure products are properly weighed and labeled. and doctors are shocked by auto new study on pain killers, they looked at chronic pain patient, hospitalized for overdoses, 91% of them continued to receive prescriptions for the drug even after the overdose, the boston medical center doctor says the numbers are a sign of a broken health care system. technology used in the movies now being used by patients to learn to walk, it's called motion capture technology

and helps to record people's movements, it's used by doctors to help an 8-year-old girl who suffers fromebral palsy. >> it's a walking position and to see if her current splints are doing the job they should be doing. >> small sticky volts will measure how the young girl is walking and when they come on the computer screen and show the pattern how the bones move. the "action news" team is out working on news stories for tonight beginning at 4:00. lets check in with alicia vitarelli with a look ahead. >> reporter: coming up today at 4:00, a new jersey man is behind bars this afternoon for impersonating a cop. we'll tell you about the major mistake he made while pretending to patrol the garden state

parkway, that led him to jail. and a spike for one major retailers, we'll break down the numbers from amazon coming up at 4:00 as well. and you can take us on the go watch our newscast streaming live on your smart phone or tablet. >> thank you. ño

david here now with a check of the accuweather forecast. pretty ugly morning out there. >> it sure was and the rain was coming down heavily during the rush hour. right now there may be drizzle in the region but the last actual rain shower is just leaving the coast over the last 15 minutes or so. there is the movement from atlantic city some drizzle around but the rain appears to be done. outside we had rittenhouse square this morning, there is an upstanding and noble frog saying hey kids climb on me.

there is the frog and you can see there is cloud as above and no sunshine on his nose. 51 in philadelphia, a bit on the cool side and winds north at 6 miles per hour. we are hoping to be able to bump that number up a bit later in the afternoon, we are bumping up south of philadelphia close to 60 in atlantic city and 57 in cape may, and 57 in dover and millville, we are right near the cutoff between cooler air to the north and milder air to the south and whether or not we raise the numbers dramatically, is a question, and there is a shot we get 6 or 7 degrees more later into the day, there looks to be cloud cover breaking up and if we could get sunshine in philadelphia that would help the number as well. the lehigh valley stays cooler today and high of 49 degrees and now a breezy afternoon, 8 to 16 miles per hour wind and at the shore, that rainy start in the process of finishing and the

rest of the afternoon looks essentially dry and maybe drizzle around for a while. 62 degrees and a bit a breeze blowing there as well. in philadelphia, mostly cloudy skies the rest of afternoon and a bit breezy we'll go for 57 degrees, if we manage to get a break in the clouds and some sun in that will help. winds northwest at 6 to miles per hour, not as cool as it usually is this time of year. but chilly enough with that breeze blowing for coats. 46 is the overnight low, that is also well above the average low for this date and the winds fall back under partly cloudy skies and cool conditions, for the weekend commute, 57 degrees at 4:00, down to 54 at 5:30, and mostly cloudy skies and a sunny break or two, and breezy this evening, tomorrow we have cloud cover around in the morning and we are essentially thinking there may be sunny breaking and

that is still possible and looking like with this moisture on the ground we may develop fog and if you got fog it could block out the early sun we were hoping for and we are expecting clouds to fill in a little bit, tomorrow night a chance of a sprinkle or shower and especially the southern half of the region, 59 is the day's high and lots of clouds and drizzle for the next hour or two, cloudy on wednesday and fog in the morning and sunshine and thicker clouds in the afternoon and 67 is the high and late in the day or in the evening we'll see light showers, thursday clouds to sun for new years eve, 52 is the high there, a decent above average temperature for new years eve and probably holding in the low 40s by midnight and then a change for new years day, 45 is the high and a chilly mummers parade if you are headed down bring the extra gear when stay in the low to mid-40s, saturday, sunday and monday with lots of sunshine, i think i may

get my car washed in a day or two. >> i have seen your car it need its. some hotels are making a change to help the environment, 1 hotels joined the nyc carbon challenge, the waldorf astoria in times square is among the hop lar hotels taking on this challenge. >> a plan known for its pungent smell -- people lined up to take a whiff of the room, compared to an odor of a dead animal or garbage landfill, it only produced flowers every 1,000 days and only last a day or two before they collapse and the odor helps the plant survive in the wild. more ahead in the next half our of "action news" at noon, it's

official, hundreds of dupont workers will be losing their jobs.

hello again, here are the stories we are following for you at 12:30, sky 6 hd looking live at philadelphia international airport the rain is easing but weather elsewhere is causing

delays and cancellations, pennsylvania governor, tom wolf, sounds off on parts of a budget and says there is more work to do, we'll hear from an emotional governor wolf in a moment. a popular mousse it's is missing his his friend was found dead. we are getting word that 1,000 jobs at dupont are being lost after the recent merger with dow chemical. the total number of jobs is up to as many as 1700. governor jack markell released a statement, saying the announcement about the layoffs deeply disappointed especially to the thousands of delawareans that helped dupont grow and succeed for ren jagss. we'll have the latest online at 6abc.com. and starting this afternoon on