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the larger group living right here in the city. sunday night, i'm sarah bloomquist, walter has the night off. the big story on "action news" is new concern for safety of the officers on the streets of philadelphia. a tipster tells investigators that edward archer, the the man accused of shooting officer jesse hartnett is part of the bigger group made up of men with even more radical beliefs. "action news" reporter jeff chirico live at police headquarters and he picks up the story from there, jeff. >> reporter: sarah, as you can imagine, tensioning are running high. the department has shared the information with all personnel as it investigates that information's credibility. the it came from an anonymous woman who told an officer last night what she knew about that group of radicalized men. throughout the city, police are on alert after learning from an anonymous source that a group of radicalized muslim men may be targeting them. >> very alarming, tensions are high and we have to be
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vigilant. >> reporter: according to this police incident report an unnamed woman told an officer saturday night that the threat is not over and that the offender that shot police officer hartnett is part of the group that consists of three others and that the defendant, edward archer, is not the the most radical of the four. archer of yeadon was charged with attempted murder for the attack on officer jesse hartnett allegedly in the name of islam. the report continues, the three other male is still frequent 6100 block of pine and for police to be careful. john mcnesby is president of the fop. >> i don't know whether this is a big conspiracy. whether it is islam. whether it is isis or just kooks on the street but they are urban terrorist. >> reporter: meanwhile police released this video of era salt on a officer saturday night. it shows the man trying to grab the cop's gun inside penn presbyterian medical center. the the hospital security subdued them. police say it had nothing to do with the shooting of officer hartnell who is
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recovering in that same hospital. the the assault and new threat, leads to uneasy feelings. >> to have that close to where i live at where my children play and where my son sleeps, where i sleep, it is scary. really scary state to even think about. >> reporter: and the incident report also identifies two mosques where edward archer allegedly worshiped. police are taking precautions. they are now you patrolling, two to a car, until further notice. we are live at police headquarters, jeff chirico for channel six "action news", sarah. turning to the weather now we are in for a dramatic drop in the temperature overnight, after a mild sunday, monday morning will come as a bit of the shock. meteorologist melissa magee is at the big board with the first check of the accu weather forecast, melissa. >> sarah a, temperatures are already tumbling after record high in philadelphia of 65. we're's down in the the 40's. forty-two in the city. upper 30's for wilmington. the just 39.
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thirty in the poconos. thirty-eight in will allentown. forty-three along the coast in sea isle city. here's the big story for tonight. we have gusty wind coming from the westerly direction gusting as high as 37 miles an hour in philadelphia a. the a as high as 35 in the poconos. 29 miles an hour in wildwood, new jersey. so it makes it feel lake right now we've got wind chills in the 30's. the the call from accu weather for rest of tonight, clear, windy. much colder. we will bottom out at 26 in the suburbs, 29 in philadelphia a. it will be all about the numbers, as you wake up tomorrow morning. the future tracker have showing at 6:00 in the morning numbers along i-95 corridor will feel like the upper teens, to 20 degrees. five in the poconos, just 15 in reading. so some big changes heading our way. we will talk about what we can expect for rest of tonight, we're staying with the wind out of the westerly direction. grab extra layers because temperatures will be a good 30 e had earlier today as far as
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the the highs and snow showers or a few of them are likely on tuesday. we will talk about the details with the full and exclusive a accu weather forecast, sarah. >> melissa, thank you. high tides caused flooding here in new castle delaware earlier this evening. the action cam was on the scene as rescue crews helped a woman to safety. her car was surrounded by rising water near the new castle airport. the creek overflowed it banks, spilling out on to airport road. and fire fighters continued to monitor the hot spots, after a fire broke out in a vacant building in camden. flames started to pour out of the building a at federal and 17th streets just before 5:00 o'clock tonight. the fire was brought under control just before 7:00, no injuries were reported. officials have not yet said how the fire started. some frightening moment for a woman pumping gas at a wawa in bucks county tonight. she nearly became victim of the carjacker, but thanks to the bravery of other customers the the one thief was scared away. "action news" reporter christie lleto is live in
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trevose with this story, christie. >> reporter: well, sarah, police say they are still looking for the the suspect. apparently the victim was able to get a away from that suspect by getting the attention at nearby pumps. apparently she was screaming and repeatedly honking the the car's horn. crime scene tape wrapped pump number 12, erie sight at what bensalem police tell a "action news" could have ended far worse. >> unaudible. >> reporter: calls for help came sunday night when detective say a man tried to carjack a woman just finished pumping gas at this wawa in trevose. the police say suspect tried to push victim from the driver's seat into the passenger seat and that is when the victim started screaming and beeping the car's horn. the gas station regulars struggled to make sense of the brazen attack. >> it the is frightening. i'm happy that she's able to getaway. >> this is a well lit area.
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this generally is not the type of area where you tend to see crime, and carjackings. >> i'm here by myself most of the time just pumping gas like this on a daily basis. it is scary like to think something like that would happen around here. >> it can happen anywhere and i think it can happen to anyone at any point and that is what is so scary about this, scary part. >> reporter: now police say they have no clear leads on the suspect only that he was wearing dark colored clothing. the they are reviewing surveillance footage to get an id. reporting live, christie lleto for channel six a "action news", sarah a. >> christie, thank you. a seven month-old baby has died one week after police say her mother, high on drugs, rolled over on top of her. it happened in a home on monmouth avenue in ventnor, new jersey. the little girl was found found unconscious and unresponsive. baby's mother, lisa scalea was arrested with child
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endangerment and drug possession. she could face even more serious charges now. investigators found heroin, oxycodone, a and other drugs in the home. pennsylvania attorney general kathleen kane faces a final senate committee hearing this week. with her job the at stake, kane says that she plans to skip the meeting. lawmakers are decide if you go she should be removed from office on the ground that she cannot perform her duties while her law license is suspended. tuesday's hearing is to get kane's side of things. her spokesperson said she will submit a written statement of some sort by noon time tomorrow. the power ball jackpot is now more than a billion dollars. after nobody matched last night's winning numbers. the jackpot is so big, and so unexpect, that roadside billboard like this one in buffalo, new york don't have enough spaces to show the total. even though the next drawing is still days away many people hit the stores first thing this sunday morning to try their luck again. "action news" reporter chad pradelli has more. >> reporter: lottery machines
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bused inside this south philadelphia a sunoco a as, patron snatched power ball tickets no one took home the top prize of roughly 950 million saturday night. now the the potties expected to swell to more than $1.3 billion. >> i have 19 grandchildren, 12 great grandchildren are. so you can imagine what i would do with it. >> reporter: how about that kind of money? >> wow, a lot of things. >> reporter: what would you do? i have to think bit. travel a lot. >> reporter: robert kavanaugh decided to get his tickets today to beat the mad rush are expected as we get closer to wednesday's drawing. morgan coburn bought a ticket but just one. >> it will only take one. >> reporter: debbie here didn't want to give her last name but she bought a bundle of ticket for herself and co-workers. >> it goes over 300 million, then we will start doing the pool. >> reporter: how many people contributed. >> fifty-four. >> reporter: how many ticket. >> today 170. >> reporter: some people have
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a method to pick the numbers that will make the millions. >> some pick birthdays, people ages. >> reporter: others just let the the computer spit out the numbers. the odds of winning the grand prize are roughly one in 300 million. >> $1.3 billion. >> probably one and a half by the time it is said and done. >> reporter: as for the richest lottery in the world it is called el gordo in spain the christmas lottery, and it once reached 2.4 billion dollars. we will see where this power ball heads. in south philadelphia, chad pradelli for channel six "action news". a young boy from bear, delaware gets to be one of the first lady's michelle obama's guests of honor during tuesday's state of the union. >> i was really excited and really happy that we would be going to the state of the june beyond. >> she called and she said the the the first laid would i like to invite brayden to be her guest at the state of the union address, do you think you will be able to fit that
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in the schedule. i said anything else in the schedule we will move. absolutely we will go. >> twelve year-old brayden and his mom christie are getting ready to head to washington d.c. brayden started a non-profit called bray's brown bags which gives healthy food to those who cannot afford it. his mom still cannot believe what is happening. brayden first met mrs. obama during a white house kid state dinner as part of the let's move campaign. is there much more to come tonight on "action news", it is warm up to hollywood's biggest night, the the oscars, golden globes were handed out tonight and we will tell you who took home the big a award. unexpect act of kindness on the new york city subway train, heart warming video that shows a humble man helping a stranger in need. plus a search for new head coach forbidder is in full swing with the fresh round of interviews. jeff skversky tells us hot eagles owner is talking to now when "action news" comes right
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presidential race now, democrat hill willry clinton received endorsement of planned parenthood today. planned parenthood's president says it wanted to begin reminding voters about what she called the republican date's extreme positions on woman's health. the endorsement the is the group's first in the presidential primary. donald trump is back ago way from his proposal to impose a big tax on foods imported from china. now says he doubts the charge would even be necessary. trump is confident china would change behavior to avoid their tax and start trading more fairly. last week trump told new york times he wanted to impose a 45 . the white house chief of staff says he is appalled by comments joachim el chapo guzman made during his interview with a actor sean penn. on abc this week dennis mcdonough a says he is horrified that the drug lord would brag about moving more
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heroin then anyone in the world. guzman was recaptured on friday a after six months on the run. meanwhile penn and actress kate castille are under investigation for that interview. police in italy are investigating the murder of an american found dead in her florence apartment. investigators say ashley olson was found inside her bed, her neck was bruised and scratched. the 35 year-old from florida was well known in her florence neighborhood and that is lived there since 2012. >> i can't imagine the person who would hurt her. she's gentle. kind. boot pull. friendly, lovely girl. it is an awful shock. we've got a great community here of people and everybody loved her. >> police are questioning her friend and boyfriend, but they say they don't have a suspect just yet. italian news outlets say the the boyfriend, who was a local artist, became worried when he had not heard from olson in a few days. in new york, three
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suspects were in custody in connection with the brutal gang rape in a brooklyn playground. this is surveillance footage of the young men considered suspects in the deli before the the attack. the new york times reports that a 14 year-old and two, 15 years olds are in custody. on thursday night, 18 year-old victim was walking with her father through the park. five young men with the gun separated the man from his daughter, and then they took turns raping the girl. the father returned with police, but the the the suspects initially got away. also from new york city a very different scene, a touching moment of kindness was captured on camera inside a moving train on friday night. take a look at the man on the right shirtless and shivering. another man, complete stranger, literally gives him the shirt off his back. temperatures in manhattan that night were near freezing, clearly the man needed help so this good samaritan gave him a hand guiding the the man's arms in the sleeves, after the
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shirt was on the good samaritan disappears from the video and then came back with the hat. he put the hat on the man's head and then walked away, expecting nothing in return. still to come on "action news" tonight, one of the most gripping drama as on television, american crime, tackles some tough topics. alycia vitarelli talks to the stars of the show coming up. taking a look at center city from sky 6hd from temple university, back at the sky line, a chilly, windy night out there. meteorologist melissa magee has your exclusive accu weather seven day forecast when "action news" comes right back.
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this massive snow sea creature hanging out in the front yard. three brothers built the 18-foot octopus to raise money for charity. it took them about 500 hours, to get it just right. they make a new sculpture every winter a attracting people from all over town. their goal, to raise $10,000 to help bring clean water, to
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haiti. pretty good. >> um-hmm. >> we are on the dissent tonight, back into that territory where it could snow here. >> right. i like what you said earlier today the honeymoon is over. >> true. >> all of that mild air is coming to an end tonight, sarah a. we will show you storm tracker six live double scan radar. we are dry on the radar screen after earlier this morning we had a good soaking across the region. the moisture departing and cold air setting up shop across the the a area. we will show you outside sky six live hd from our wilmington delaware camera. looking closely at the camera it is kind of of shaking in the wind. the wind will be a factor for the the rest of tonight and then we will have cold eras you wake up tomorrow morning. parts of the -- hard to believe we are tracking wind chills early tomorrow morning after record today. philadelphia we had a record high of 65, breaking the old record of 63 setback in 1960. sixty-five in wilmington. trenton had a record today.
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sixty-three for both allentown and atlantic city. the right now temperatures are tumbling fast. forty-two in the city. thirty in the poconos. thirty-seven in reading a long the coast in sea isle city, 43. lower 40 a's in dover. but factor in those wind that for the the most part are sustained anywhere from 15 to 25 miles an hour but we have gusts ranging from 30 to 40 miles per hour. so it feels like 17 degrees in the poconos. thirty-three in philadelphia. we have a current wind chill in atlantic city of 32. it feels even colder as you wake up tomorrow morning. the here's satellite six with action radar. is there the area have of low pressure departing taking that moisture with it. we are tapping into what is on the back side of the storm. we have westerly winds and lake effect snow showers at this late hour down wind of the eastern great lakes. call for accu weather for the rest of tonight, clear, windy, 29 for overnight the low in the city. twenty-four in lancaster. thirty-one the overnight the low at the boardwalk. future tracker six showing you
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you need extra layers waking up tomorrow morning. wind chill numbers along i-95 corridor 20 in the city. nineteen in wilmington. it will feel like 22 in wildwood. five in the poconos. the teens north and west of town. not much in the way of improvement as we get in the a afternoon hours. 3:30 tomorrow afternoon, more like 25, even though air temperatures will max out in the middle to upper 30's. bundle up the kid as they are waiting for the the bus heading over to school. 6:00 a.m. 30 degrees. 8:00 in the morning that temperature coming in at 30 under knees mostly sunny skies. exclusive accu weather seven day forecast is showing you much colder today. we are calling for a good 30-degree temperature drop, in comparison to what we had overhead today. not as cold on tuesday but increasing cloud, and, in fact, tuesday afternoon in the evening we are tracking shortwave that will move on through. so a snow shower or two. that is likely as we go throughout the evening hours. we are not calling for much in the way of accumulation because temperature is up to 44 but higher risk of snow
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higher north and west of town. reenforceing shot of cold air mid week. coldest day of the week. high is 31. thursday, sunshine and clouds. thirty-six. backup in the 40's. as we get into friday a high of 44. saturday, 42. rain is likely as we get into next week even. the brace yourself for the cold tomorrow, sarah. >> it is back. >> all right melissa, thank you. you can find the seven day forecast and live look at storm tracker six double scan radar anytime of the day on our web site. just head to six abc.com/weather. it was a big night for hollywood at seventh third annual golden globe award handed out the in beverly hills, california. ricky jarvis was back at host this year and didn't waste anytime poking funds at the stars during his opening mono log. he took a swipe at actor hundred shawn penn who interviewed mexican drug lord el chapo. >> i am going to hide it, okay. not even sean penn will find
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me. >> generally surprised kate winslet won first a award of the night she took home best supporting actress in the feature film for steve jobs, matt damon won for his role in the martian and lady gaga got an award for american horror stories but sylvester stallone got a standing ovation for his work in creed. >> i want to thank my imagery friend rocky balboa for being the best friend i have ever had. >> taking a look a at some of the other big winners tonight best actress in the comedy went to jennifer lawrence for joy, leonardo tea cap preowe won best actor for his role, and the the film also took home the final award of the night for best motion picture. well, it is show known for pushing boundaries especially on network tv. american crime has gotten major award buzz for tackling tough topics of racial relations. this season is focusing on a new but just a sensitive issue. alycia vitarelli spoke about
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the the second season with the two stars and a discussion it is sure to spark. >> something happened at captain's party, that has unfolded. >> reporter: american crime is no stranger to controversy, or delicate affairs. this season is no exception. >> if somebody messed him up, they touched him, that is rape. >> you need to be very careful with that word. >> reporter: story of the public high school student in indiana accusing members of the private school championship winning basketball team of sexually assaulting him and then posting pictures of it on line. >> he was drug. his girlfriend was there. >> came in, made a statement, six times used the tracy don't know or i'm not sure. >> reporter: felicia hudson is determined to protect her school. >> she's back, whatever corporation she's in, whether it is a private school or fortune 500 company. she's very intelligent. she's 20 steps ahead of
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everybody else. she sees every situation from a macro point of view. >> reporter: timothy hutton returns to the show, this season he plays coach dann sullivan, whose life is his team. >> he is a a good husband, good father, and all that but he is absolutely determined to be the best possible coach to these young men. >> reporter: american crime is anthology, different story each season lasting just a few episode each. stars said they think the show is such a hit because it is so topical and so current. >> what is being discussed in these stories last year and certainly this year as well, these are issues people talk about at home, in living rooms, around kitchen tables are the are. >> you don't want to watch a tv show about an issue. you can read a paper or article about that. you want to watch because of the story a and you want to know what happens next, because it grips you. >> reporter: american crime's first season also earned ten emmy nominations including one win for supporting actress for regina king. american crime airs wednesday's at ten right here
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