handguns and he will have to give them up to police if he wants to stay out in pretrial freedom. >> charles robinson was in a hurry as he rushed in and out of court. >> it was expected there would be testimony after a woman said that he molested her while living in her home. and the prosecutors decided to drop the most serious of the counts. >> a criminal intent charge for trying deviant sexual intercourse, he tried but didn't succeed. >> in exchange robinson waived the preliminary hearing so the victim did not have to talk about the indecent assault.

>> the victim was in a room in the courtroom and was anxious and hopeful that did not come to pass. >> in announcing the charge yesterday, they spoke of his affiliation with youth groups and a person that answered the person's phone was instructed to a no comment. they said if someone else believes if they were a victim what should they do, he said can't police or the da's office. >> the victim chose to speak to a trusted friend first before coming forward and that is also an option. >> in that final element, the prosecution offered a plea deal to robinson, if he pleads guilty, the sentence would be one to two careers in jail, and probation and registered on megans list for the rest of his

life. philadelphia police want your help tracking down the man that shot a 75-year-old woman in the face during a robbery. it happened on new years eve morning in the city's may fair section. the suspect was trying to take the victim's handbag and today police released surveillance video before the attack and the suspect's car driving away from the scene, the victim's daughter told "action news" that her mother is at home recovering but she'll never be the same. >> i don't think she will tell us how she really feels and for that, i think we need to get her a little emotional help. but so far it's going to be a long healing process. >> vernon odom will have more on today's developments in this case and this investigation, coming up on "action news" at 5:00. well, the sunshine largely disappeared but the temperatures back on the warmer side as we get a check of the accuweather

forecast. lets head outside to adam joseph. >> a lack of sun but impressive in january with mainly full cloud cover temperatures back above normal. 44 in philadelphia and new york city 46 and richmond 50 and low 50s for charleston west virginia and binghamton 39 degrees, but everybody on the east coast had a change in temperature toward the positive. 5 degrees warmer than yesterday in binghamton as well as philadelphia and 7 degrees warmer in new york city and degrees warmer in rich monday and the numbers continue to climb the rest of the week and the upcoming weekend. but we are tracking a beast of an ocean storm off the carolinas, we are just getting grays by the cloud cover from this storm, this heads out to sea and you look to the west and there is clearing and that will move in late tonight and first thing tomorrow morning, as you look at the accuweather

forecast, continued warming and the trend continues with warmer temperatures and we are looking at a soaking rain here through part of your weekend, we'll have the timing and how much to expect and just how warm brian the temperatures are going to get coming up in the full accuweather forecast. >> thanks adam very much, the recent cold snap is great for the ski resorts in the poconos, one by one they open up later in the week thanks to winter's late arrival and this is another warm and wet weekend, gray hall is live now at blue mountain, many he has the latest. >> reporter: when you talk about temperatures in the 60s and 70s in december that is good news for some folks but for the skiers, the warm weather is a big disappointment. >> skiers rejoice after a battle with mother nature, snow is here and places like blue mountain is

open. >> despite the slow start, the average season is 180 days and we are on target for that. >> the season got on to a slow start because of warm weather, thursday was the first full day of business on blue mountain and skiers were more than ready. >> i was so upset and i really wanted to go down and hoping to come over for spring break. hoping it would get super cold but it was 70 degrees, blue mountain is open on a limited baseis but any time on the slopes is better than none. >> if you have to wait you have to wait. >> first time this season the lifts are open and my legs can't take a long day any ways. forget about the long start to the season, if the weather conditions cooperate, places like blue mountain can open through april. >> perfect condition would be cold and no humidity and no rain

and no nothing. we just want it to be nice and sunny and colder obviously. >> all right back out live, workers on blue mountain anticipate on staying open throughout the season that is of course the weather cooperates and they would like to see some natural snow. gray hall, channel 6 "action news." >> some day soon i hope gray. stick with 6abc.com/weather to keep up with the changing forecast, you can rely on constant updates from accuweather and storm tracker 6 live radar. it's exactly five years since casey lynn prim of audubon, new jersey went missing, 23 years old she disappeared on january 23rd, 2011, and her family saying she was struggling with drug addiction, five longs years have past and she has yet to find her or hear from her.

the police department continuing to investigate this case, they say she was last seen in the jair of arch street in philadelphia, the next day she called her mother but have not heard from her since and they say she they have not given up hope. >> we want her to know, no matter what has happened, you know she is loved and welcomed home -- just come home no questions asked. just come home. >> casey if you see this, we want you to know that we love you, and we miss you and we want you home. >> casey lynn would now be 28 years old and she is around 5'9", 138 pounds and a tattoo of a butterfly on her hip and pierced nose, anyone with information is urged to contact

the police, they tell us today they believe she is still alive and out there somewhere. >> lets hope they get a lead thank you. the philadelphia police foundation launched a new scholarship fund today for children of officers who were killed or disabled in the line of duty, the action cam was at the philadelphia police administration building for this morning's building, the connelly foundation will jump start the fund with $300,000, the group will match every $100,000 raised by the philadelphia police foundation up to half million dollars total. matt pellman is standing by in the traffic center with one situation behind you. >> it's a major situation, in the southbound lanes of the roosevelt boulevard extension, this happened 15 minutes ago, it's blocking all the southbound lanes here past the ridge avenue off ramp, we have vehicles

pulled off to the side and people up here out and about helping the victims of crash and fluid all over the roadway and bunch of police officers on the scene and they came in the wrong way on the boulevard to get to the accident scene and southbound all lanes are blocked and traffic at a complete stand still from broad street, no parts of the boulevard extension come down hunting park avenue or the lincoln drive, no problems there at this point. on the boulevard there is a crash on the southbound approaching bybury road and bristol township, an accident at 413, coming down from bucks county, 95 southbound is slow because of an earlier disabled vehicle by cotman and northbound the travel time is bad because of mid-day construction, we have seen delays much of the afternoon coming out of northbound 95 and look for a crash involving a pedestrian at

stewart avenue chester pike 13, and tinicum township at 291. and let grab the ipad and do the commuter report on this friday, people are complaining about the complete stand still on the boulevard because of that crash, and lincoln looks fine, that is your better bet this afternoon. we'll check it again in the next half hour. >> thank you matt. still ahead here on a thursday afternoon, new flights are coming to philadelphia, the airline bringing ten new routes to phl this spring. >> plus, more than a dozen miners were trapped 80 stories underground, see the dramatic rescue as they made it to the su surfa surface. >> you thought last night's power ball was huge wait until this weekend. caring for someone with alzheimer's means

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it was an incredibly harrowing ordeal for 17 miners in upstate new york a reece cue in a town called lancing. the miners spent hours underground and today they are unarmed and called inspiring. big cheers as 17 miners finally saw the light of day. trapped nearly 900 feet below ground for nearly 10 hours. >> they persevered the best way they could, how they managed the situation. >> they started their shift at the biggest salt mind in the country near ithaca, upstate new york. when their elevator stopped working. for nearly 10 hours, the miners huddled together for warmth below ground while the workers worked feverishly aboveground.

local police and fire used a crane lowering this basket down and lifting out several workers at a time. >> we practice mine evacuations regularly every year and that practice is coming into play today. as they emerged. each of the 17 miners waited. until everyone of their co-workers was safely on solid ground. their spirits are tremendous. i don't know -- i'm inspired by them to be quite honest with you. >> again even though they were shaken up and freezing all 17 are said to be doing okay today. mining operations will be shut down for the rest of the week as mine inspectors investigate what caused that elevator to malfunction. scary moments there but a happy ending. >> the ending we want to see. did you deal. meantime a terror

investigation is underway after a knife-wielding man was shot and killed outside of a police station, police say the man was wearing an explosive vest as he threatened officers, a cell phone and piece of paper with an isis emblem and a written claim of responsibility in arabic was found with the man's body, this happened one year to the day after i deadly assault on the french satirical newspaper, charlie hebdo. now a look at closing numbers on wall street -- a difficult day there, the concern about china devaluing the yen sent stocks into a nose dive down 400 points and the dow closing 392 points down, the nasdaq off 146 and the nasdaq said to be increase and the s&p 500 off 47 points on the day, the dow's worst start to the year since 2008.

frontier airlines is adding flights to 10 cities this spring, austin texas, cincinnati, cleveland, milwaukee, nashville, raleigh durham and saint augustine, florida. the only non-stop flight right now is from american airlines thank is expected to make it cheaper for anyone looking to fly there. yahoo! is looking to make another round of cuts, they could eliminate 10% of their workforce about 1,000 people. they are deciding which departments will be affected. and it's coming as a widespread reorganization, aimed at turning it around, yahoo! shares fell 35% in the last year. the power ball jackpot is now the largest of any game in

history, no one hit all the numbers in last night's drawing and now the prize has climbed to $700 million, that has people dreaming big. >> i run away to an island, that is it. i buy an island and i leave everybody behind. >> us too. goodness. >> lottery officials say that ticket sales could boost the jackpot higher by the weekend and pennsylvania happens to be a lucky stay in the past 13 years 16 miles per hour ball winners bought their tickets in the keystone state. >> and no state tax on prizes in pennsylvania and delaware, not the case in new jersey, another plus. >> time for a check of the accuweather forecast. >> speaking of plus that is the way the temperatures go in the next few days, up up and away. as we look at sky 6 hd, a lot of clouds but not a dreary day,

they were thin enough we saw glimpsers of sun and now it's on the horizon. 45 degrees your temperature in philadelphia, well above the norm by 5 degrees, 42 in reading and 42 in wilmington and 48 in millville and upper 40s at the shore as well. as we look at satellite and radar, a massive storm developed out over the open waters almost resembles a spin like a hurricane or a tropical storm and that is pushed out to sea and we get scraped by the clouds because of that low but as it moves away we see clearing move away overnight and first thing friday morning, for tonight still a lot of clouds out there and not too chilly with the clouds, 32 philadelphia, 23 in allentown unwilling ton 33 and upper 30s at the shore. and many locations staying at or above freezing overnight. early sun tomorrow gives way to

increasing clouds in the afternoon and this is 3:00 with temperatures mainly in the middle and upper 40s to the south and east and clouds take over as a warm front approaches late night on friday and early saturday morning, this is midnight on saturday and a quick round of light showers passing through, 35 allentown and 41 philadelphia and we are not looking at frozen precipitation with the warm front and saturday afternoon the front lifts to the north and a lot of clouds linger and still a scattered shower or drizzle and especially the lehigh valley and the poconos, too warm this weekend for snow 38 there and 48 in allentown un52 in philadelphia and near 60 in millville and sunday's storm is developing in the four corners region in the northwest albuquerque, new mexico, and this picks up steam and energy as it lifts from the south and west and at 1:00 sunday morning, light showers arrive and heavy, steady rain to the west and this taps into strong winds out of

the southeast called the jet stream on sunday morning work could see thunderstorms, powerful winds, heavy rain all the way north into the great lakes so no snow with this anywhere on the east coast as we go lieu the second half of the weekend. early breaks of sun tomorrow and clouds thicken up at 46 and to begin the weekend a lot of clouds on saturday and a damp day and 52 degrees, and morning wind and rain on sunday, and some breaks of sun in the afternoon on sunday, and we could be near record highs here and on sunday, and we are going for 60 now, we slam back down, and back to the normal of 37 degrees, and temperatures go all over the place here we'll let you know in the next half hour. >> anybody's guess, thank you. coming up at 4:30 today, a local church is cleaning up after it's badly damaged by

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a driver was hurt after crashing into a used car lot this morning in the lawndale section of philadelphia, police say that a 41-year-old man lost control of his cadillac escalade and slammed into the lot on lea lea levitt street. he has what is described as a head injury. >> they are looking for help finding someone that stole a pack able off someone's step,

they say that a man and girl were walking on south hancock street at 1:30 in the morning, the girl tried to grab the package and it was too heavy and went to get help from the adult and they ran off together. police want anybody with information to please call them. >> police in kensington are looking for people that stole appliance, three men and a woman got in through a front window, they took a washer, dryer and a stove and three mattresses and loaded it up and took off. the martin luther king holiday festivities are getting bigger and better than ever, citizens bank and the african-american museum in philadelphia are partnering for the weekend celebration. citizens bank presented a check for $25,000 to the museum today

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"action news" continue with meteorologist, adam joseph, alicia vitarelli, sharrie williams and brian taff. >> it's 4:30 and "action news" continues with a bill involving the bedroom, who wants lawmakers to report relations as lobbyist as gifts. >> plus one super model and one super bowl champ, the chef that whips up food for tom and giselle is sharing recipes and spoiler alert it's not all that exciting. we'll explain. >> and how to you say controversial in japanese, the commercial for this new translator is not clever just creepy. >> we begin in camden county, where a church is wondering why

it's become a target. someone desecrated the sanctuary leaving thousands of dollars in damage behind. we turn to sara bloomquist live in lyndonwald with more on this story. >> parishioners here at saint lawrence church are absolutely sick over there. yesterday morning some of them walked into the church and vandalized the place tipping over things on the alter and throwing things through the stained glass windows. parishioners want to no why someone did it and police want to know who did it. parishioners are saddened that someone would do such damage to their church. >> it's just devastating. it makes me sad. why would anyone want to do this. >> yesterday morning within a very small window when the church happened to be empty between 11:30 and noon, a person

or persons entered the church which is open all day to allow for prayer, they broken several stained glass windows by throwing votive candles through them. >> i was shocked and then my attention turned towards the person that did it, what a shame, something is going on in their life and they would take it out on the church. they knocked over the papal flag and threw the crucifix on the alter to the floor, lyndonwald officers collected evidence they hope leads them to a suspect. >> we hope to find pieces of glass that they can fine fingerprints from. >> the windows are one of a kind and donated years ago and probably irplaceable.

they will pray for the person that broke them. >> the lord is here and he will always be here. but it's a shame that such damage was done to this beautiful place of worship where we come to worship our god. >> now police want to hear from anyone that may have seen or heard something suspicious, they continue to look for surveillance video and so far have not found any, the church is planning to set up a go fund me site, to help pay the cost of these repairs. i'm sara bloomquist, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. we have breaking news now to get through at the 4:00 hour, chopper 6 hd is flying live now over the accident on the roosevelt boulevard extension, we showed this to you in the first half hour and we learnd this happened at 4:10 in the southbound lanes near the ridge avenue off ramp, what we hear

involving this wrecked vehicle at least one person was in this vehicle who is now transported to temple hospital, we don't know the e contents of that person's injuries but this accident you are taking a look at and there is someone being treated there on the roadway, firefighters and paramedics are busy with this accidents on the roosevelt boulevard, we do know so far that one person is taken to temple hospital and others are injured and being attended to. this is also causing backup and traffic delays in this area so you should definitely avoid it or let those you know in the area what is happening here and they can find another way around. we'll keep an eye on the breaking news and bring you updates as we get them. a 20-year-old man was critically wounded by a man in the german town section today. it happened in the section of west pen street and german town

avenue at noon, the victim was shot once in the head and they also confirm that they took one person into custody about 90 minutes ago though investigators did not release the victim's name. he is in critical condition. police in egg harbor township believe this mother was high on drugs when she crashed her car into the building with her child in the backseat. she is accused of crashing into it's motel and her 4-year-old daughter was not hurt, police say they found drug related items in her car, mcdaniels is facing possession charges in addition to child endangerment. all lanes are back open following a messy accident in the northbound lanes, chopper 6 hd was over the scene on 7 a in mercer county, where a tractor trailer overturned at 9:00 this

morning, spilling garbage and debris all over the highway, the driver was not seriously hurt but kept the road shut down for hours, investigators are figuring out why the tractor trailer flipped. first year medical students in camden attended a different type of class this afternoon. they learned to protect themselveses with a hands on seminar. thanks to instructors from the school in cherry hill, it's the israeli art of self-defense taught to soldiers, the soldiers at the cooper school of rowan university want students to be aware of their surroundings and now how to keep them safe. nora muchanic was there for the seminar and will have more coming up at 5:30, and a familiar face there, rick williams's wife was in attendance. rick is a guy as well. >> i put my money on his wife.

>> you hear that rick? i can hear him from the newsroom now. you are in trouble now. >> we are looking at warmer temperatures and you said soaking rain, it's a powerful storm passing through saturday night into sunday morning, heavy rain and near record high temperatures maybe a thunderstorm. for now all things are quiet at sky 6 hd at philadelphia international airport, a few breaks of sun on the horizon as the sun is soon to set, 43 is the air temperature and above normal once again and a calm wind and no windchill out there and i'll tell you, this scene here today is different than 20 years ago on this date when we were in the middle of the blizzard of 1996. the question today we go back to the classroom, how much snow fell at philadelphia international airport did we see two feet, 30 inches or 3 feet of snow? tweet me your answer the first tweet is that correct gets a

shout-out. >> thank you. the camden city school district is achieving the fourth straight year of rising graduation rates. in real numbers camden city's graduation rate in 2015 was 64%. how a high school diploma improves their lives and increased their chances. now the federal government is lending advice, monica malpass is live in the newsroom with details on this this afternoon. >> hi brian, new guidelines released by the obama administration is backing away from the old rules about sugar and dietary cholesterol,

interesting updates here, they say there is strict new advise on sugar and added sugar should be only 10% of your daily calories, ali gorman will break down what that amounts to and a complete list of guidelines to improve your health, and the philly fanatic surprises a bunch of students, how the beloved mascot helped to kick start a program. we'll have that and more at 5:00. >> thank you monica. a south philadelphia institution will host several honored guests in the coming year, frank olivara launched the guest chef series, the first was philadelphia coach sally isenberg, she whipped up a vegetarian cheesesteak with broccoli and avocado and topped off with a farm fresh egg. all the proceeds of this

sandwich and other sandwiches from the guest chef series goes to the chef charity of choice. it's time again for the nation's largest indoor agriculture event, the pennsylvania farm show kicks off this weekend and the big announcement in harrisburg included the unveiling of a 100 pound sculpture made out of butter, it's all about displaying the best of the state's agriculture, it runs in harrisburg through january 16th. coming up on a thursday afternoon, hear cell phone savings from ditching the contract and switching providers, we'll show you how to cut the bill by $20 a month and a matt moanry mystery, do you know who this bride is, if so you may want to give her a call and tell her her big day is cemented in philadelphia history. we'll explain.

on health check today at 4:00, a chef for one of the most famous couples in the world is unveiling, giselle and tom brady's diet secrets. personal chef alan campbell says 80% of their diet is vegetable and whole grains and the other is lean meet like organic steak, chicken and wild salmon. >> they don't consume commonly eaten things like caffeine and dairy and white flour, they avoid all of those, this diet sounds strict but that is what keeps him on the top of his game in the nfl and giselle one of the most sought after models in the world. >> other foods are of limits, they don't eat white sugar or

flour and the chef doesn't cook with olive oil, instead he uses coconut oil. >> i'm over here taking notes. big talkers now and the big question out of missouri is sex between a lobbyist and a legislator considered a gift. republican congressman bart courtman says that lobbyist that has a relationship with a lawmaker or their staff disclose it to the ethics commission they are considered a gift and have to be included on the monthly lobbyist disclosure forms and the gift doesn't require a dollar amount after two missouri lawmakers were forced to resign after scandals involving interns. this has people talking big time in two languages, this is called ely and kisses for tokyo,

the guy name dean walks around town translating his english into japanese trying to get girls to kiss him. >> want to try and kiss with you. okay. >> the internet is divided here, you can't say the actual translation device is not working and mainly people find it creepy and sleazy and sexual harassment, many girls swat him away, and some run away quickly, there is one very one interesting moment. just a little bit -- >> ha, ha, ha. lets try no one is looking. >> so -- they kiss and wonder if they exchange numbers, this is going viral but not in a good way. finally it's the wedding day candid that lives on in

philadelphia history, but who is the love park bride that doesn't know her big day is being finalized at philadelphia's tallest and newest attraction, it's part of an interactive exhibit a kiosk that gives visitors an up close look at spots across the city, and we happen to notice when you zoom into love park there is a bride there, gown bouquet and all, someone lifting her train as she walks, the picture was taken on halloween between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. the pictures were taken by paragraphers that climbed up there to get the pictures, we found the picture because they didn't know what was there and now the folks want to know is that you? do you know the bride in the picture? it would be fun to include that

shot taken more than 1,000 feet in the air in your wedding album. >> i have a feeling we'll get to the bottom of this, lets find her and the groom too. lets not forget him. >> all right alicia thank you. time for a check of a busy commute out there this evening. >> lets check back in with matt and you have the update for us. >> lets get to the bottom of what happened here at the ruse development boulevard, what we are searching is not so positive. southbound lanes shut down by the ridge avenue off ramp in ridge falls because of this accident involving a vehicle facing sideways, have you fluid all over the roadway and an ambulance there because people were injured and a fire truck and number of police officers, it appears that the activity happening on the off ramp has cleared as has the activity in the northbound lanes, the lanes are blocked.

8 miles per hour coming down from 9th street and in east falls a crash at ridge and mid vail, so falling speeds and steer clear head for hunting park or southbound lincoln drive. elsewhere, bristol township still a crash on new falls road at 214, by the giant and burger king. in warminster a wreck at gibson avenue. and lower providence by the pizzeria, and one more crash on ridge pike near hillside avenue. we'll check it again in the 5:00 hour. >> thank you, meteorologist, adam joseph, standing by with the exclusive accuweather forecast coming up next.

all right meteorologist, adam joseph, keeping his eye on

the weekend because it's thursday and we can start thinking about it. it's not the best of weekends and it's dreary and warm and we get a decent amount of rain and we'll time the two, 20 years ago today, and we are in the middle of the blizzard of 96 everyone is talking about this one, how much fell, two feet 30 inches or three feet. >> b or c, let go with c. >> it's b 30 inches. 30.7 inches officially at philadelphia international airport. got to love you two. the greatest snowfall ever in philadelphia, we haven't had one storm close to that since or before. as we look at double scan live radar, nothing going on and clouds upstairs today and glimmers of sun poking through

the cloud cover, mild afternoon 43 in allentown and 42 in philadelphia and 47 in millville and atlantic city 48 degrees, as we look at satellite 6 along with action radar, a pretty big storm the spin is just off the coast of the carolinas, that is what pulled some clouds back our way and that heads out to sea and we catch a break for much of the tomorrow in the ohio valley here, a warm front associated with low pressure near wichita, kansas, that swings through here friday night early saturday morning, for tonight mainly cloudy and some clearing late and not too chilly, 23 in the suburbs and flip that number in center city that is where we sit at the freezing point, high pressure brings in sunshine on friday especially during the morning hours, high temperature of 46 degrees and then as this warm front pushes through on friday night and saturday, there will be a round of drizzle or

showers, 52 degrees and it is very warm to begin the weekend and another area of low pressure that will have a lot of energy with it, pulls along this boundary to our west for the second half of the weekend, we'll call this a great lake cutter, surging warmth up the atlanta see board, this is all rain atlanta to canada, record high temperatures with this storm, near 60 in philadelphia, maybe a thunderstorm and gusty winds sunday morning and an inch to half inch of rain, that includes the poconos. the exclusive accuweather forecast early breaks of sun tomorrow and clouds thickening to 46 and patchy drizzle saturday and dreary at 52 and some breaks of sun in the afternoon and a high of 60 degrees and cold air gets pulled in behind it, and monday 37 and bounce up on tuesday before more

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"action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with jaime apody, meteorologist, cecily tynan, rick williams and monica malpass. it is thursday night, we begin with breaking news from the roosevelt boulevard extension and it was the scene of crash from the southbound lanes, it was right before the bridge near the schuylkill and two people were receiving treatment from rescue crews on the scene here and police activity on the off ramp below the scene traffic is being diverted but it's slow going there. >> motorist that use the southbound boulevard should use

an alternate route, and matt pellman will be along soon with more in the "action news" traffic report. now the latest on the storch for the man that shot an elderly woman that was walking home after grocery shopping. the daughter of the victim spoke out today. >> hopefully this guy is off the streets and it doesn't have to happen to anyone else. >> the 75-year-old victim's daughter says she was shot in the face during the robbery, the suspect is still on the loose and they hope that surveillance video will lead to an arrest. vernon odom is live outside of northeast detectives with the latest on the investigation. >> reporter: tonight rick and monica, police tell me they received multiple tip calls since we aired the robbery attempt murder at noon, they are running down all of these leads at this very hour. this is surveillance video recorded at torresdale and princeton of a resident on h