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 her

way home from the supermarket carrying two bags in moments she was shot in the face in broad daylight. the driver was driving this pearl or white colored nissan maxima, when he approached and tried to steal her pocketbook, he said do you want to get shot and she said no and resisted and he shot her point blank in the face and made off with $400 in cash and her cell phone, the bloody victim in the state of shock walked two and a half blocks to her home. >> you take a lady, 75 years old fighting for her pocketbook and you shoot her in the face. there is nothing more heinous than that. >> this woman is home after surgery and recuperating and anxious to get back to her job as a non-teaching assistant. >> she is in pain and i don't think she ever will tell us how she really feels and for that we

need to get her a little emotional help. but so far it's going to be a long healing process. police say the gunman was driving this nissan maxima, an '04 to '08 model with a sky view roof last seeing fleeing northbound on torresdale. >> it's cowardly, she was very lucky i would say. and she was lucky the bullet went this way instead of opposite direction and like i said our main concern is pretty much get him off the street. >> rick the gunman is described as a latino or light skinned black male in his late 20s or 30s, if you can help police solve the case give them a call right away. >> vernon thank you, prosecutors are offering a plea deal to a

chester county man for sexually abusing a young family member. charles robinson will head to trial after waiving his preliminary hearing, police say between 2010 and 2014 robinson repeatedly molested a family member. police in kensington are asking for your help to find the group that stole appliances from a home on north howard street. a surveillance camera captured the crime on december 26th, police say that three men and a woman got inside of a house through a front window and took a washer, dryer and a stove and three mattresses and loaded them into a truck and drove off. they hope that someone has information to track down these suspects. >> a massive rebuild is complete and a landmark restaurant once damaged by fire is reopen tonight. in huntington, new jersey, the

inn had to be completely rebuilt. they even brought back the same popular money you they had before the fire in march. the inn was built in the early 1700s and george washington even visited there once. it's finally cold enough to open the slopes in the ski resorts in our area. >> as soon as the temperatures dropped. the snow machines were put into high gear, here is our hd camera, spring mountain opened last night with one trail and two lifts, a big victory for them. and business is back at blue mountain and gray hall is there with more on the happy skiers. >> reporter: hi rick and monica, it's like christmas for many of these skiers, they say they are waiting on this colder weather and as soon as they got the green light they hit the slopes. >> the seasons are getting later and later every year, i don't know if that is climate change

or what. >> after an unusually warm start to the season, the skiers are excited that the cold weather arrived it means they can hit the slope. >> overall it's not bad, a good opening day considering the lousy weather we have for skiing. >> blue mountain opened for skiers despite blowing snow earlier in the season the ground was not cold enough. >> we had an unexpected slow start to the season but we are excited we were able to open today and get everybody out on the slopes. >> even if it's open on a limited basis, skiers will take what they can. everybody is staying still for the favorable cooler temperatures but the warm start to the season was a disappointment. >> i was so upset i was wanting to go down and hoping to come over for thanksgiving break and it would be super cold and super nice and it was like 70 degrees, hopefully we get natural snow soon. snow lover says they will take

advantage of the conditions and spend as much time on the sloped as possible and 60s and 70s are great temperatures for some, skiers say it's january and they want it to feel like it. >> you have to wait, you have to wait and unfortunately it was all along the east coast. >> you it's hear now and we are excited about it. >> and back out live workers here on blue mountain say they anticipate being open throughout the season if the weather cooperates, right now 9 trails are open and six more this weekend and by january 15th all services will be available. live tonight on blue mountain, gray hall, monica back to you. >> thank you. a new scholarship will help out families of philadelphia police officers killed or disabled while protecting the city, the police foundation announce the children of police scholarship fund this morning, it helps them attend private or

parochial schools. the connelly foundation kick started the fund by donating $300,000. today 18 philadelphia schools were recognized for being top performers but the accolades come after lawmakers haggle over how much money to give the cash strapped schools. >> the school progress report is in and ann frank elementary school topped the list for academic progress. they thanked the staff and students. >> i'm encouraged by the success of several schools and hard work of others. >> dr. hite is encouraged by schools like ann frank that made vast improvements, 80% of the schools in the philadelphia school district are among the lowest performing schools. >> clearly the loss of a billion dollars over the four years of corbett, had a major impact on

the lack of progress in some of these schools. >> in these remarks mayor jim kenney hinting to lawmakers saying they have to settle governor wolf's budget that allocates $160 million to get the district out of debt and christopher lewis had a forward message. >> without education we won be where we want to be. some try to get some money to local schools. >> last month governor wolf released emergency funds to local schools, which according to hite would be forced close january 29th without the money, it's unclear how long into it's school year the money will last. there were donations and grants by the nonprofits and he reiterated they cannot rely on the private sector to get the kids the education they deserve. >> this sets the bar for the

need, and hopefully this will be a tool we can use in harrisburg to explain why we need the resources we need. when you provide the resources children do flourish. >> u.s. stocks had their worst day in the last three months because of spreading fears because of the health of china's economy, look at the numbers here, the dow jones ended down 4-points and the nasdaq down 16 points and the s&p down also. and technology and financial companies were among those hardest hit and china's stock market slipped 7% and traded was automatically suspended as a result. china's economy is the second largest in the world and a drive of global growth. u.s. citizens took their oath of allegiance in a ceremony in mount laurel, new jersey, they watched two dozen people

take the pledge and get their documents and a special day for this monmouth county woman, katherine became a citizen 48 years ago but later realized the flag she received had the wrong name on it and they corrected the mistake. >> time for a check of the "action news" traffic report thursday night. >> matt pellman is in the traffic center. big problems we have tonight. >> dealing with since 4:00 this afternoon in east falls on the ruse development extension as you head to the twin bridge to the schuylkill expressway nasty crash and one vehicle facing sideways and a lot of debris on the roadway and police are on the scene so traffic is not getting by, southbound traffic being forced off right there on to ridge avenue being put into the heart of east falls and it's gridlocked through east falls as we go to the next camera shot.

boulevard delay at 9th street and it's a parking lot, if you know someone coming south or normally comes south tell them not to get any farther south than ninth street, at this point detour off and head to hunting park. and use lincoln drive, the crash at east falls is cleared but the southbound boulevard remained closed at ridge because of that nasty accidents. and the crash in lower providence along ridge pike at hillside avenue. in pottstown a wreck at hanover street. more to come on "action news" at 5:00, how much sugar is too much. new dietary guidelines are offering advice to help keep your health on check. cecily. >> our warming trend has begun i am tracking a soaking rain over the weekend where and when the

heaviest rain will fall in the accuweather forecast. >> all right see you then.

17 miners trapped in one of the world's deepest salt mines are said to be in good health tonight season trapped 900 feet below ground starting their shift when the elevator they were riding in stopped working and the emergency crews rushed in to use the crane to lift the miners to safety. >> it's impressive to see how well they manage the situation, state officials are investigating the incident. in health check there are new rules to the road on healthy eating, the latest on dietary guidelines are out. >> at least one part is drawing fire tonight, health reporter and registered nurse is drawing fire on that and the overall message. >> the goal is to help americans eat healthier to prevent heart

disease and diabetes, some recommendations are new, no more than 10% of calorie shoz come from sugar that is 12 teaspoons of sugar, one can of 12 ounce soda has 9 teaspoons of sugar. here is more on the guidelines zblrk what is in and what is out with the new dietary guidelines, as expected more colorful vegetables and fruits and lean protein and whole grains and dairy are encouraged but this is not a green light to chow down on butter and bacon, many foods with cholesterol are high in saturated fats and sodium should be kept under 2100 milligrams a day, it likely effects everyone, the average american consumed 3400 a day mostly from processed

foods, added sugar is high on the hit list mostly from drinks like soda, americans should aim for 200 calories from sugar a day or less. the 2015 report calls for more lean proteins from seafood, meat, poultry seeds and soy and nuts. and they are calling for a more environmentally diet lower in red and processes meats and that processes meats raises the risk for some cancers and that men ages 14 to 70 eat too much protein overall and they should lower their intake. >> of course these guidelines are not one size fits all and they do include a veg tearan option, they have this online tool called choose my plate and this allows you to go in and do changes you can make to make

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time for accuweather meteorologist cecily tynan, is here to tell us when is the warm-up begins, starting today

temperatures in the mid-40s, made it up to 45 degrees and it comes with clouds, coming from the ben franklin bridge, with brightening of the skies, all in all a quiet day and evening, the situation was very different this date, 20 years ago. you remember what you were doing standing outside of the studio. the blizzard of 96, the biggest snow storm in philadelphia's history, started in the wee hours of january 7th and continued through the 8th, 30.8 irngs of snow. a close second six years ago in february, 28.5 inches of snow and hopefully we won't have another snow storm quite that big, this year a big change we are looking at warmth building across the east and philadelphia it's warmer than this time yesterday, charlotte 7 degrees warmer and atlanta 14 degrees

warmer and sunday up near record highs. 44 in philadelphia allentown and reading 41 and millville 46 and wilmington 43 degrees, not harsh at all. satellite 6 along with action radar showing this system that threw us the clouds today is actually pretty potent off the coast and this is going to continue to spin and move away from land and this is a fish storm but if you look to the west you'll see more clouds moving into the ohio valley, associated with the warm front moving in tomorrow night. the call from accuweather tomorrow night, mostly cloudy skies and not that cold for january, 23 in allentown and 23 in wilmington and trenton. as we head through the day tomorrow, more clouds than sunshine, 43 degrees by 40 books 4:00, making it up into the mid to upper 40s, this is when the warm front moves through and could bring us showers, and behind that system on saturday.

mostly cloudy and perhaps a few hours of drizzle and generally dry and temperatures at 1:00, 52 degrees and areas to the south sees breaks of sunshine and could make it up into the upper 50s and by sunday, about 60 degrees but also it will be wet and windy, the five-day at 5:00, tomorrow early breaks of sunshine and the clouds take over, 46 degrees and saturday mostly cloudy and somewhat damp and warm, 52 degrees and monday look at that, the high of 60 degrees and it's not going to bright and sunny, heavy rain in the morning, gusty winds behind the system and cools off dramatically on monday and feeling colder with the winds and tuesday bumping up to 41 and colder air returns perhaps with a touch of snow adam will talk about that in the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast. >> it is january after all. i'm ready for balmy weather. coming up in our next half our off "action news" at 5:00,

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"action news" at 5:00 continues now with new details involving breaking news from the east falls section of philadelphia, the eastbound lanes of the boulevard remain closed due to a police investigation, authorities tell "action news" that this is all stemming from a domestic dispute that a man stole a car with his girlfriend's mother inside of it and the man drove against traffic in the southbound lanes and smashed head-on to another car and tried to flee from police by jumping over the boulevard twin bridge, the man as well as the woman in the other car and driver were taken to the hospital and it's causing major traffic headaches in the area. >> for that lets head to mountain pellman with how to get around this. >> that explains the response on the roosevelt boulevard this evening, southbound lanes remain closed and investigators are still out here and they haven't moved the vehicleses involved at

all and the others are still facing sideways, police remain on the scene, there could be cleanup as well. there is fluid and glass on the roadway as well. all southbound traffic on the boulevard is forced off on the ridge avenue off ramp into east falls and that means traffic is gridlocked and coming down the boulevard you see speeds of teens or less from the closure point at ridge avenue, here is what you can do, head for hunting park avenue, and that will take you down from the kelly drive, there from the schuylkill expressway toward the city, coming down from german town lincoln drive southbound but the boulevard southbound not where you want to be this afternoon. extra slow on 422 westbound after a crash on oaks and ewing township closing bear tavern road and scotts road, better bets there. >> back over to you. >> check back in later. >> in other news a man wearing a

fake explosive vest threatened paris police officers with a butcher knife before he was shot and killed. it happened outside a police station outside of the cathedral, evidence collected from the suspect suggests he had an agenda, alex marquette has the latest from paris, france tonight. authorities here in paris identified this young man that carried out the attack at the police station stoed today and he was from moroccan -- and later today he approached two police officers with a meat cleaver, shouting ala akbar god is great and he did have an isis flag on paper. what took place today is significant because it's the first anniversary of the charlie

hebdo massacre where 12 people were killed last year and this follows the deadly paris attack by deadly militants in which 130 people were killed. on the surface this looks like a city back to normal but france is still under a state of emergency, this is a city, a country that is still very much on edge. >> thank you alex. world news tonight with david muir has more on the thwart add tack in paris today. you can watch that after "action news" at 6:00. a man no stranger to law enforcement is behind bar, malcolm william they say shot another man after arguing before the shooting, william has 18 prior drug and gun convictions and is now charged with murder. a driver suffered head

wounds when he flipped the suv into a parking lot into the lawndale section overnight. and the driver some how lost control and slammed through a fence and into a lot. and the suv ended up on its side, and it's not clear what caused him to lose control, no one else was injured. >> allentown lehigh county, several people are lucky to be alive. as people were overcome by carbon monoxide, this is the scene at 10:00 a.m. when emergency crews arrived they found seven people suffering from co poisoning and several people were unconscious, there were no carbon monoxide detectors in the building. >> this happened at midnight, 2:00 in the morning when everybody is asleep it's a different outcome, the only way you'll know is through a detector. they took in fans to air out the building and once it was safe they let everyone back in and it's not clear what caused the

co leak. >> i'm here now with the search for a trio of armed thieves in south jersey, gloucester township says the suspect used guyses and weapons and intimidation to rob three convention stores, surveillance videos of each armed robbery was released today, they happened at the 7-eleven along the church street in gloucester township on september 11th, one walked to the counter and asked for cigarettes and pulled out a large enough and demanded money, one returned there a week later and one tried to escape detention by crawling on the floor and they took the money and ran, the third incident happened at the nick knack store in washington township on december 30th, this time only two of the men returned. the frightened clerk moved away with his arms held high as the crooks threatened him with a large knife and they grabbed the

crash and left. no one was hurt during the robberies, but authorities want to get the men off the street before they strike again, we posted video on our website at 6abc.com. you can take another look at the suspects. well, a family in camden county is asking for your help to find their loved one, casey prim's mother and sister spoke out five years before she disappeared. she was seen leaving home in audubon on january 23rd in 2011, she has not been heard from since. her family struggles with addiction but was able to get help them. >> i want her to know no matter what happened. she is loved and welcomed home, just come home that is all. no questions asked. just come home. >> anyone with information about casey prim should contact the

camden county prutsers office. the cooper medical school in camden future doctors are learning how to save lives, their own. a special self-defense class was taught how to survive the tough streets of their communities. nora muchanic has the story tonight. >> first year medical students are typically immersed in bio chemistry and how to diagnose and care for patients, but the medical school of rowan university these doctors are learning more than medicine and being taught the basics of a hand to hand fighting system designed for israeli soldiers. >> it's pure, ikechuku ndukwe stink

providing tools they need in an emergency. >> they are teaching them how to use punches, knees and elbows to defend against an attacker. >> i'm going to take my thumb and drive it into his eye. >> it freaks me out but it's life or death i have to do what i have to do. >> some someone came out me, i don't know what to do. now i feel like i have a better sense of myself. >> these students hope they never have to use it, but they like learning the skills, something they will never find in a medical book. >> you think strength and muscles and body builders but this is stuff that i could be able to do if someone came up to me on the street. >> hope i never have to use it but it's nice to have in my arsenal just in case. >> there was a familiar face in the story. >> my wife is a dean of the medical school and she is very

dangerous. >> she practices on you too. >> no -- >> woo -- >> still to come, one carrier is expanding their reach where frontier airlines will fly to now, and students who show a commitment to reading have a green surprise at their school. >> temperatures moving up to 45 and 50s and 6:00 to the south and that is heading in our direction, maybe records over the weekend. >> all right jaime apody has the latest on the head coach search for the eagles. ♪ every auto insurance policy has a number.

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president obama is set to make his case for tighter gun control measures during a town hall meeting, it's taking place at george mason, virginia, after his announcement of new executive actions curbing gun violence, the goal is to have a convation with both sides of the issue, the national rifle association nra announced they will not send representatives. >> the effect of the fact that

we were able to suspend the medical device tax. >> meantime pat toomey was one of the cosponsors to expand background checks in 2013 in the wake of the sandy hook shooting in connecticut. "action news" spoke to him about whether he support the the president, he expressed concern of an executive order by passing congress. >> americans should enjoy the second amendment, but it's not an infringement to do a background check. >> he would like to see more specifics about the plan before rendering a final opinion. >> a bill to control where the public access new jersey beaches, bays and rivers are up for final approval in the legislate your, the bill reinstates the environmental protection guidelines before it was struck down, this is a tech

quality, and governor chris christie has to sign it to make it other. and the burlington county courthouse is more secure the building consolidated all the entrances into one, it has an x-ray machine to survey belongings, they will continue enclosing and connecting the courtyard before the administration building and the courthouse. time for sports and jaime is here now and the search continues for an eagles coach. >> names names. if adam gais is still their guy, the eagles have backup plans and he met with the browns and dolphins and the giants coming up next and the eagles requested an interview with paul gunther and they interviewed ben mcdoo

he is only 38 be the joins had two straight 6-10 seasons under him but compared to a young andy reid and speaking of reid they will interview his guy on sunday. jeffrey lurie is still talking to andy and respects his opinion. and we have yet to hear from another former eagles quarterback on the subject until now. ron jaworsky will not interview for the job. >> you look at the eagles coach hunt now, what is the best fit for a broad situation. >> it's interesting because people want to try to figure out who the coach is going to be, do they want offense? do they want defense or special teams, and i look at it in this way, i don't care why wha side of the football they come from, i want the best coach, and it's

not about being right as a football analyst or a fan or people out there, it's about getting this right for the team. get the best coach. >> fresh off their trade the new look flyers play in minnesota tonight and the new look sixers host the hawks and elton brand is inactive, he is not physically fit enough for the job yet. the sixers are on the upswing 3-3 the last six games and despite their overall record that makes for a much different atmosphere. >> this is no 4-33 jim it's not even close, these guys are great and you look at the practices and we come off a few wins, there have been days you say uh-oh but almost all the time we spent with these guys have been pretty good. >> he was drafted in the 62nd round of phoenixville high school as a favorer to his dad's

buddy, tommy lasorda and now mike piazza is headed to cooperstown, he and ken griffey jr. is honored today. >> you know i got to see the pennant celebration the dodgers had against the phillies in 77 and be in the clubhouse and things i said brrks that is pretty powerful as a kid to be in and not only be in a big league game but watch a pennant winning celebration, it's inspiring. >> he used to be a bat boy for the dodgers when they came to play the phillies, he is now going to coopers town. he looks like he could still play. the philly fen@c started off in a great way, the

stubs hear made great strides in reading and they encouraged them to keep at it. the phillies are heavily involved in local schools and today was obviously a grand slam. wow. the internet is crazy fast here. i know, right? it's so nice to have everyone over. hi hey. mmm. i just laid an egg. does anybody want it? joey, you want some gasoline? yes, please. mom, guess what? i married a clown and we're having tiny little clown babies. mhm. i just bought a hammer. with internet fast enough for everyone, your guests might get a bit carried away. get out of the past. get fios.

frontier airlines adding non-stop flights from philadelphia to 10 new cities starting this spring, it will fly from phl to austin texas, cleveland, kansas city, raleigh durham and indianapolis and saint augustine florida. and the new competition is expected to make it cheaper for everybody looking to fly there. meteorologist, adam joseph, is here now to tell us about the milder temperatures heading our way and so is precipitation. >> the temperatures go way up, and we have a couple of rounds of precipitation and that is for the upcoming weekend, as we look at double scan live radar a lot of clouds out there today, they were mainly high and midlevel clouds and sunshine was breaking through at times but no precipitation within the cloud cover, despite we had a lot of clouds today, temperatures bumping above the average, we hit 45 degrees in philadelphia,

5 degrees above normal, 44 and 41 in allentown and 43 wilmington and above freezing in the poconos and the numbers aren't going to drop quickly here this evening because of the clouds trapping the heat. when you have a clear sky then all of that heat can radiate quickly into the atmosphere and you see a super drop in temp after sunset, you see clear skies to the south and west and that pushes in late tonight into the first part of your friday, and here is the big ocean storm, that threw the clouds back our way through the day today and what is heading out to sea and the next feature say warm front right here showers break out along that from the gust coast and wichita, kansas. tonight mainly cloudy and breaks in the clouds later on tonight and not too chilly and flip the number at the city to 32, tomorrow 46 degrees and high pressure is in eastern parts of

canada and that wedges in northeast wind and drier wind so we can break the cloud cover up and the first part of the day with the high temperature of 46, then the warm front arrives and as that pushes through on saturday, we'll have a round of light showers and drizzle and warmer at 52 before that next low arrives, that is associated along the boundary that is attached to the warm front, we call this the great lake cutter that low pulls over the great lakes and the eastern part of the lake and that surges warm air, and a rain event not only area wide locally to new england, into eastern canada, record high temperatures on sunday, even a possible thunderstorm and strong winds sunday morning, and a general heave inch to inch of rain. early breaks tomorrow and mainly cloudy in the afternoon and 46, overnight friday showers and

drizzle, and 52, and heavy rain sunday morning, and strong winds, and some drying in the afternoon and future tracker showing an inch of rain and the higher amounts look to be north and west of philadelphia and quick clearing and a cool down here on monday, a blustery day with a high of just 37 degrees and a small bump up on tuesday and 41 and stays dry, and a reenforcing shot of cold air and highs below average, but no real true arctic air no big snow storms and a healthy amount of rain here in the upcoming weekend. >> by the way this is the 20th anniversary of an event that all of us remember well the blizzard of 96, we have video of that huge storm on facebook and thousands of you have shared it with your friends, check it out at facebook.com/6abcactionnews.

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a cardboard contraption that costs less than $20 online is now priceless for a family in florida, google cardboard helped littlegan and they could not come up with an operation to save her you the 3-d technology helped them map out a heart and she was abe to make a full recovery. >> incredible. and now the roosevelt boulevard extension, the driver going the wrong way to cause a serious head-on collision. we are live. >> now for the entire "action news" team i'm rick williams have a nice evening. good night.

christie there is a lot to figure out here. >> reporter: that is right jim as police process the scene we have a major backup on the boulevard extension lanes, it's cluttered and congested for the last few hours and the reason why is this accident over to my left, collision crews are on scene processing this crash that started out as a doe messed sick squabble. chopper 6 hd was thereafter police say a man drove off in a car with his girlfriend's mother inside and was driving southbound in the northbound lanes and collided head-on with another vehicle, he jumped off the boulevard twin bridge and was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries and our cameras were rolling when three women were put in separate ambulances and one was in the car with the suspect