for a second straight season, gray hall is outside of lincoln financial field with reaction from fans but first we go to jeff skversky, outside of the nova care complex. >> he did not even give chip kelly the option of staying on as head coach, that was not even on the table and lurie called him in yesterday and flat out fired chip kelly and extremely disappointed with this football team and said it was one of the toughest seasons he ever had to endure, jeffrey lurie speaking to the media for 20 minutes, this is the frs time he has fired a head coach in season and he wants to have a coach that opens their hearts to players, kelly did not have the best relationship with his players and there was tension over the

years with the front office and that doomed him in and he misses the playoffs the last two years, lurie says he took a risk in hiring chip kelly and a bigger risk to give him full control and now holding kelly accountable. >> you are either all in or find a new coach in terms of the trust and so the choice was lets see if that will work. and in terms of you know the results, part of that is the reason we are here today. before practice today the owner, jeffrey lurie held the team meeting before they take on the final game against the new york joins on the road, offensive coordinator, pat shermer is the interim coach for this last game and the players were just as shocked and caught off guard as

you were. >> i didn't see it coming, i don't know if anyone did, i got the news and i was shocked. >> it's the nature of the business, the guy in charge is going to take it, you can't get rid of 53 players, not everything falls on chip, but he kaz books was calling the shots and has to take the brunt of it. >> we'll have more reaction coming up on "action news" at 5:30. at 6:00 eagles offensive line man lane johnson was critical of chip kelly's communication skills, his first ever draft pick in 2013. jeff skversky channel 6 "action news." >> thank you jeff. well the action cam was outside of chip kelly's home in haddonfield, new jersey, he recently bought the home and we knocked on the door fwlu was no

answer. >> lets go live to gray hall live outside of lincoln financial field, gray fans are still in shock that chip kelly was fired before the season was finished. >> reporter: bribe you are absolutely right, many thought the coach should have the opportunity to coach the final game but most agreeing it was time for him to go. >> in the beginning it was a honeymoon and now the honeymoon is over and reality sets in and what have you done for us lately. >> many fans were glued to tv screens to catch news conferences from ceo jeffrey lurie for firing kelly, customers showed up at chickie and petes, says it's a move that was long overdue. >> the players didn't like him, the fans didn't like him. have to cut him loose. after three seasons as head coach. >> i believe chip has a good heart, he was not here to fool

the people and i intended on making something and it didn't work. >> the team didn't have it, with chip out of the way they got a breath of fresh air for the last game, hopefully they can win it. >> the team is 6-9 after going 10-6 two years in a row. three seasons in charge and never making it to the super bowl and many say firing kelly was a smart play. >> i'm already excited about next season, i don't care who they pick, it gives me a chance to get excited about the birds again. >> when it comes to firing kelly with one game left, fans were surprised. >> chip doesn't know how to call plays, he brought a college game to the professionals and it doesn't work. >> the playoff chance is now over but there is one final game that happens sunday against the

giants and the fans say they are rooting for eagles victory. gray hall, channel 6 "action news." back to you. >> for more on the firing of chip kelly and reaction now from fans and the sports world head to 6abc.com, we are constantly updating articles with information as soon as it comes in. now, to what has been the other big story of this day, the arrest of bill cosby, over the past two decades, more than 40 women came forward with allegations that the comedian assaulted them but he was never charged until today. the comedian went before a judge in elkins park and he appeared frail and needed help walking and the charges filed said he drugged and sexually abused a woman that worked at temple university in 2004. john rawlins is live with the latest. >> reporter: mr. cosby is back home at this point after being

processed at the cheltenham police department and he had his mugshot taken there and he was here at this office where his bail terms were announced. cosby arrived in the suv, he has maintained his innocence, and he and his attorney had nothing to say to reporters. cosby who had a cane stumbled going into court and appeared to have trouble with his eye sight. 10% bail meant $100,000 for cosby in money or property. and surrendered his passport and was told he could lose his bail and be jail if he tried to have contact with andrea constand. new information from her civil case against cosby came to light just this year, in 2004 constandard worked for temple university and viewed cosby as a

mentor. she contends he gave her pills and assaulted her and he says it was consensual. despite the case being a decade old, the new information makes it a solid case. there is no question as far as pills being provided to her and not a question as to the occurrence of what went on, of the digital penetration, and we have gotten that from statements, from depositions -- >> well, mr. cosby's attorneys put out a statement and said they would mount a vigorous defense for mr. cosby and would be exonerated in court. and it appears to imply that bringing this case was somehow political coming on the heels of the montgomery county d.a. race.

john rawlins, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you john. word of the charges against cosby came out this morning and became the biggest sporty on social media. >> alicia vitarelli joins us now. with what people are saying including andrea constand herself. >> bill cosby became the number one trending topic on twitter but first, i want to show you the last tweet posted by andrea constand on twitter, this picture of her tattoo that reads tell someone and a wrist band that says consent say movement to talk about when sexual consent is given and when it isn't. and now to the court of public opinion, ed diaz tweeting is it me or has our childhood just been torn to pieces. ashley, angry at people defending cosby, it's as bad as

saying she got what she deserved. nobody deserved that. some are defending him. >> cosby has a right to defend himself, if they are not true he needs to fight to clear his name and reputation, even celebrities weighing in today. judd apptow tweeting these women will tell their stories in a court of law. and that is what everybody is waiting to hear as it plays out in a court of law right here in elkins park. >> thank you alicia. our coverage of this story continues on 6abc.com, where we streamed the d.a.'s announcement today. this is where you find the latest developments on this story as soon as they become available. now lets get caught up on the evening commute. >> can you believe, we only get to do this afternoon commute one more time of 2015, we are going to miss it.

here on the schuylkill expressway westbound side it's jammed solid from the blue route to this point approaching 202, have an accident and emergency crews including penndot on the scene and it's on the side and look how people are coming to a dead stop to watch what is going on. the westbound schuylkill heading toward king of prussia and the mall, and coming off the schuylkill on the eastbound side of the vine, you are jammed solid to broad, there is a disedged vehicle on the side and along arch street at 6th and 7th, watch out for police activity and a crash at cobb's creek at 53rd and baltimore, septa's route 34 trolley is shutting busing between 61st and the 40th street portal. they are all on a modified weekday schedule and tomorrow night late night regional rail

trains will help you get home from the festivities in center city. we'll check it again monica and brian coming up in the next half hour. still ahead on "action news" at 5:00, diabetes patients that experience problems with their vision have new hope to save their sight. dense fog advisory is issued for parts of our area and we are tracking cooler temperatures and the return of sun. >> we'll go over all of it and much more when "action news" at 5:00 continues next.

the so-called affluenza scene will remain in mexico for the time being, he was taken into custody along with his mother tanya, he was wanted for violating probation from killing four people in arunk driving crash. officials have not said how long his mother's deportation is pushed back. mayor rahm emanuel says there are big changes for the

department so officers know when they can use a gun versus when they should use a gun, this is one step of improving the relationship between the community and police. >> to recognize the degrees in between so they can respond appropriately to each individual situation. >> today's announcement comes after criticism of chicago police and one facing murder charges in the death of a 17-year-old, and officers shot and killed two people when responding to a domestic disturbance. >> vision loss is one of the most feared complications of diabetes and now they are delivering sight saving drugs to some patients. ac ali gorman has the story.

>> barry jacobson does not have diabetes but he is familiar with it. >> my father and grandmother are diabetes. >> and he started having a diabetic problem in one eye. >> i thought it was computers because i look at them eight hour a day. >> blood leaks from tiny vessels the spot in the back of the eye where vision is sharpest, and this shows a normal mack la, but this is jacobs. macular aedema is the leading cause of diabetes vision loss and there is medication to slow the leakage but they have to be injected every four to six weeks and recently the fda approved a new option, a rod of steroids

implanted into the eye and it lasts three years. >> tiny little rods of slowly dissolving material. >> dr. sinclair believes it's long life of the implant makes it easier for patients to keep up with their care. >> jacobson says it's anesthesia makes it bearable and hopefully will have good vision in his eyes for a long time. >> he went on vacation and saw all the sights perfectly with both eyes, many insurance companies are covering the costs but not for people with glaucoma or increased pressure in their eyes. a pair of south jersey twins are giving back to the medical team that helped them through a rough start to life. rebecca and lynn say delivered

50 hand made blankets to the neo natal care unit. they were inspired by the blankets a nurse gave them when they finally went home. >> this is something they feel is special to have from the day that they are born. >> wonderful way to give back, they want the blankets to be symbols of comfort and hope for nick umph family

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accuweather at the "action news" big board, adam joseph says dig out the sunglasses. >> it's been about 10 days since we have needed them looking at center city, it's fog and that will change, dense fog is setting up north and west of the city of philadelphia, mild and dismal, 10 days straight with cloud cover dominating the sky, the last full sunny day, have you to go back to december 20th, but there is a string of sunshine in the forecast. 43 in allentown and 47 in reading and 50 in wilmington and still mild despite we have had the lack of sun today. visibility in the city as you saw on sky 6, 10 miles, same down to the coast, and we see the areas to the north and west get a little bit gray so to speak here on this map, down to a .10 of a mile in allentown and

2.5 in leading and throughout lancaster county, close to a half mile visibility. allentown does not have a dense fog advisory but it's bad right now, be cautious driving around in that county, up into the poconos a dense fog advisory supuntil 6:00 in the morning with the visibilities down below a quarter mile. rain down to the south and most of this gets pushed off the coast and misses us but we get scraped with a few showers, at 8:30 a few specs of green here and there and temperatures stay warm and remain warm at midnight maybe even near 60 down to the south and by 7:30 tomorrow morning, the clouds start to move out and the rain is long gone and the temperatures stay warm and even the fog begins to disperse. overnight a period of light

rain, .10 to .25 inch. and the heavier stuff or more in southern new jersey or delaware but it ends before dawn. and the accuweather forecast sun rushes on new years eve and sunshine sticks around on friday way chilly breeze for the mummers and feels like the 30s and over the weekend wall-to-wall sunshine and that continues into monday and still a little above normal on scan sunday and then arctic air comes in and temperatures only 39 degrees on monday. we'll show you the accuweather forecast in the next half hour guys. >> thank you. more to come in our next half hour of "action news" at 5:00, we'll continue our coverage of the arraignment of bill cosby. also, ahead a man and his dog stuck on the roof of a flooded house all night long how

the dog almost foiled the whole operation.

"action news" continues with meteorologist, adam joseph, rick williams and monica malpass.

a frail bill cosby appeared before a judge to answer a sex assault charge and hear from an attorney for dozens of women accusing cosby of similar allegations have to say. plus, eagles owner, jeffrey lurie reveals what went wrong with chip kelly. and now it was an institution here and now a long time family business is closing its doors. a frail looking bill cosby is booked on charges that carries a sentence up to 10 years behind bars, a starkly different image than we have ever seen before. vernon odom is live at the cheltenham police department, where he was booked today. >> reporter: tonight one of bill cosby's lawyers says they will come back with a vigorous defense of this showbiz legend,

the charges of one monique presley says are unjustified. >> he had already posted 10% of his $1 million bail, the charge is aggravated indecent assault against this woman. former temple employee, andrea constand. who says he lured her to his mansion and plied her with wine and pills and sexually violated her. >> he urged her to take pills that he provided and to drink wine, the effect of which rendered her unable to move or respond to his advances and he committed aggravated indecent assault upon her. >> her original complaint was dismissed by former d.a. bruce caster and claims her story differenters from her statement years ago and nearly 50 women

have come forward to accuse the renowned entertainer setting them up for molestation with wine and pills, he has repeatedly claimed the sex consensual. >> this is chopper 6 hd video of bill cosby returning to his home tonight. i spoke with one of his long time neighbors. >> his profile was so loving and perfect. and he did a lot of good, he gave a lot of money to temple university. and luckily he was smart enough to leave the board. >> before they kicked him off there was those threats. tonight bill cosby's next court date is set for january 14th, live in elkins park, i'm vernon odom, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you.

attorney glory allred, addressed the charges from her office in los angeles, saying that the statute of limitations have prevented her clients from taking legal action, but is appy these charges are filed. >> for many of my 29 clients, alleging they are victims of bill cosby seeing him christmasly charged and facing a criminal trial is the best christmas present they have ever received. >> one says she was sexually assaulted at the playboy mansion when she was just 17 years old and is pursuing a civil case. >> over the years he received 16 hon hairy degrees, but more than a dozen have rescinded them, brown, fordham, marquette and boston university and locally

drexel, lehigh, and franklin and marsh have taken back the degrees. his honorary degree still stands tonight and penn has not taken a stand on its degree. the coverage of this story continues at 6abc.com, where we stream the district attorney's anoupgsment earlier today and you'll find the latest developments in this story as it becomes available. the other top story, the fallout from the firing of head coach, chip kelly, jeffrey lurie talked about it and the search that is already on the way. >> reporter: jeffrey lurie desperately wants to win a super bowl, chip kelly would not win many games let alone a super bowl. jeff lurie says it had to be done now. they called kelly into the meeting yesterday afternoon and

by the time he arrived the decision was made. as for the timing with a game to go in the season, lurie said he wanted to get a jump on the coaching search, here is what the owner is looking for in a new coach. it sounds like he is implying chip kelly fell short. >> you need tremendous collaboration, trust and respect, and smartness. agility, you have to have a lot going for you to achieve peak performance and leadership. that was the decision was made to move on with a new leader as a head coach. >> very telling right there, lurie says this team has plenty of talent on the roster, he does not believe this is a major rebuilding project to get the birds back on track but the first order of business is finding a new head coach and the search has already begun. in a few minutes we'll go to the nova care complex where jeff

skversky is standing by live to hear from players. a grocery store in the logan section of the city sustained fire damage when crews were sculled to the torres grocery store at the corner of the west fisher avenue, they found fire in the basement and heavy spoke throughout. residents above the store were able to get out okay and crews got the fire under control in minutes. philadelphia police say this man is responsible for shooting an 11-year-old girl walking home from school earlier this month. the girl was walking down laz earn street when she heard gunshots and one struck her in the foot. philadelphia police are looking for three people in connection with a shooting that happened in the city's could be creek section sunday afternoon, investigators say the man in the red pants was captured on

surveillance video shooting another man on the 5900 block of spruce street, this shows the man run ago way with a woman and another man, if you have any information please call police. they have been in business since grant was president. nora muchanic has the story. >> these are difficult days for the kirby family as long time customers come in to say good-bye the the feed business they run in medford is closing its doors. >> it's not easy and all the people coming in and wishing us well. they are like family. i'm just devastated. >> i love this place -- >> it's part of us, it breaks our heart to let it go. >> for six generations the kirbys are selling feed for

horses, goats and cows and hu s hunting and fishing and farm supplies. >> there was a time that people rode their horses here to pick up their feed and there was some here for them topped with molasses for a treat. >> the business was started in 1875 by charles kirky and his brother william on church road and the family has hand written store receipts from the 1800s, whether it's your dog or cat or horse, you went to kirbys and they had the answer. >> but with competition from big box store and a mild winter having farmers buying less feed, the kirbys find themselves deep in debt. >> it's a charm, you get the "little house on the prairie" feeling when you walk up here. >> sophie will not be there to

greet customers anymore. >> have to believe that things will turn out okay. >> in medford, i'm nora muchanic, channel 6 "action news." time to go with matt pellman. it's busy around the area malls to make returns or do shopping while they are off at school or work or heading to the king of prussia mall trouble at the king of prussia mall, still this accident and emergency crews on the scene, it's still on the shoulder but people are still slowing down leading to a stand still from past the conshohocken curve approaching 202, a crash in east norton, and one in chest ever county at gulf road and west goshen look for a crash along westchester pike, route 3 nearburg road.

and westbound schuylkill is barking up approaching 6 as well. and normal slowing in delco atoward the blue route and in chester watch for a broken down tractor trailer, it's partially sticking out into the right lane. speeds in the 20s as you head down to christiana, on this wednesday afternoon. monica and brian back over to you. still to come on "action news" at 5:00 tonight, a scare at o'hare airport when a plane slides off the runway, later a dramatic rescue, how a dog complicated an effort to get their dog off the roof of their home. more showers are pushing in at the present time, we'll look at double scan live radar and talk about fog in the exclusive

accuweather seven-day forecast. >> sunshine adam thank you.

there were scary moments for passengers arriving on flights from chicago o'hare airport when the plane slid off the runway,

the flight was coming in from seattle this morning lands safely and then slid when it reaches the runway's turn you've point and the plane had to be towed off the runway. nobody was hurt here. ducis is here with sports and jeffrey lurie explaining the axing of chip kelly. >> he said he did it now to get a head start on the coach search. jeff lurie said it was an important decision that had to be made and that he is constantly evaluating the team and did not like where chip kelly was taking it. kelly was told to hit the road, the search is already on for kelly's replacement, lurie says the new coach will not get the full control that kelly enjoyed in his last season and there seems to be no ill will for kelly at least not from the

owner. >> look forward to watching chip is succeed wherever he go, because i think he really will but i also look forward to a real improvement in where we are headed and you know look forward to the 2016 season where we'll have an opportunity with a new head coach and new leadership and the opportunity for the players and the organization and everybody involved to perform up to their maximum. >> jeff skversky joins us now from the nova care facility with player reaction. jeff? >> hey ducis, eagles players say they didn't feel like chip kelly lost the entire locker room but the centsment is this, when you make bold and unpopular decisions like getting rid of lasean jackson and lesean mccoy, and jeremy maclin chip deserves

to take the fall. pat shermer led them on to the practice field for the first time today without chip kelly, guys saying it felt strange out here, it felt weird, some are still in shock and chip kelly is no longer the head coach of this football team. tackle lane johnson, kelly's first ever insight into chip's relationship with some players, that he was unapproachable and intimidating. >> maybe the intimidation factor a little bit. a hard guy to approach and people didn't feel comfortable do that. >> i don't know what his relationship was with other people but i had a great relationship with chip, he gave me an opportunity after being injured for two years and i will forever be grateful for that. it's just tough. him not being here. >> did chip lose the locker room in your opinion?

>> negative. you will lose some people but people were ready for the game. >> he didn't lose me i know that. >> and now the other big decision is on top of getting a new coach what do you do with the quarterback situation, he wanted sam bradford and bradford wants to come back, broad ford does not want to learn a new system we'll see how that plays out. more of that coming up at 6:00. jeff skversky, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. it's interesting when the coach is still in place, you hear wisconsin perfects and now the coach is gone, some players are teeing off on him. >> lots of questions to be answered ducis. still to come on "action news" a situation where every second counted. a life saving rescue onp to have a roof of a flooded home, how a

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check out the dramatic rescue in missouri as a man and his dog were plucked from the roof of a flooded home, that house was starting to leave its

foundation and that situation was urgent and the dog did not see it that way and the owner was able to tug him in and that caused the man to fall into the water and the crews managed to get him back on the boat and he was on the roof all night long. >> lets check the weather that is more than okay. >> we are dealing with rain and mild temperatures and no flooding and another round of rain coming in as we speak. we are looking at double scan live radar a few specs of green here and there west of philadelphia, throughout lancaster county and this will continue to expand as we get closer to the 8:00, 9:00 hour especially midnight when the heavier rounds are expected to pass through, as we look at the action cam down the shore, the dreary skies we dealt with for ten straight days in a row and

choppy waters but some brighter skies are just around the corner. but until then, we are dealing with low visibility quakertown 3 mile visibility in northern buck county and a half mile in lancaster and 2.5 in reading and .25 in the poconos and less than that in allentown and despite that allentown has the lowest visibility they don't have a dense fog advisory issued right now by the national weather service, if you are in and around this area near northampton and the lehigh valley, be cautious until 6:00 in the morning and the fog could continue to expand to the south and east overnight. 52 in philadelphia and millville and dover 51 and lower 40s i should say for allentown and upper 40s for reading and upper 30s for the poconos. satellite and radar this conveyer belt of moisture

working its way to the east and working easterly and it will slide to the south overnight and just get clipped by the northern fringe of it, at 11:30 you'll hear the rain intensify a little bit and maybe a couple of downpours around and warm with temperatures in the 50s as the rain arrives but it's a quick hitter and will be out of here by 2:00, 3:00 in the morning and by 7:00 some lingering low clouds and fog some in locations but when the sunshine the wind gets to work it's like a big blow dryer, and during the middle part of the morning and afternoon sunshine takes control finally and still mild for the last day of the your, with temperatures in the lower 50s and as we ring in the new year, midnight 40 degrees with windchills in the mid-30s and then the mummers day parade, bundle up because first thing in

the morning when the parade goes underway, windchills are around freezing and it will be a bright day and lots of sun and breezy in the afternoon and highs in the low 40s and windchill reese main in the upper 30s. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, you are seeing this correctly, sunshine seven days in a row, returns tomorrow at 50 degrees and a chilly breeze for the new year at 46 and normal for the weekend is 41 and 43 to 45 and the first real shot of arctic air, we'll call it arctic but it really isn't when you say 49 degrees but for us it feels that way and it stills lingers on tuesday at 40 degrees and then we move the temperatures back up once again to the upper 40s by wednesday with the sunshine sticking around so a good looking seven-day forecast, a flip of the chandler and a flip of the year and the pattern changes. >> adam thank you.

right now the "action news" team is standing by with these stories next at 6:00. dozens of women have accused him of assault for years but bill cosby faces his first criminal charges. >> it's a risk and sometimes it doesn't work out when you take risks. >> the chip kelly era has come to an end and team coverage from the fallout from that is ahead. for rick williams and adam joseph, jaime apody i'm monica malpass join me next for "action news" at 6:00. >> good night. thousand-dollar bill. with 'cash4life', the great game from the pennsylvania lottery, you could win a thousand dollars a day for life! you could buy a new house! or maybe even treat yourself to a trip to the islands.

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with ducis rogers, meteorologist, cecily tynan, and jim gardner. mr. cosby is charged with aggravated indecent assault and this is a felony. >> bill cosby once known as america's dad is now an accused felon, he was assisted in a montgomery county courtroom to hear the charge against him. i'm monica malpass, the big story on "action news" is the arrest of bill cosby. the felony charge of indecent assault stems from an alleged event at his home in 2004. first lets go to john rawlins in the elkins courtroom today. cosby has been accused by dozens of women but never charged until today.

>> reporter: many accusation s that are here date back to the 1970s and 80s and they are past the statute of limitations and this is said to have taken place in early 2004. and cosby's attorney says they would mounts a defense for the completean and he would be exonerated in court. cosby used a cane and seemed to be having trouble with his eyesight. bail was set at $1 million and 10% was putting up $100,000, and he could lose his bail and be jailed if he tried to have contact with andrea constand. >> bill cosby is charged with aggravated indecent assault, a felony of the first degree. >> in 2004 constandard worked fo