camden. you reported that the defendant is detained for another shooting. how did the police connect the dots. >> reporter: you are right jim, the child has been in juvenile detention since january 9th, she turned herself in because of a shooting in 2015. and it was ballistic evidence that connected her to the 13-year-old's murder. >> a community is reacting after 13-year-old nathaniel plummer's life was taken before he had a chance to live. police say that a 13-year-old girl is responsible for his death and is now in jail. >> the suspect surrendered to police in connection to a 2015 shooting and ballistic evidence connected her to nathaniel's murder. >> i was in shock. i was sad. sad for the family. sad for both parties. >> this neighbor did not want to

show her face on camera but she heard the shots and called police and was disappointed that no one else came out to help. >> you see someone laying there and i didn't know if it was a boy or girl or young man or old man. and me being me, my instinct was to help them. >> a community facebook page was set up to honor nathaniel's young life. people are shocked and heart broken that the victim and suspect are only teenagers. >> it's the lack of father in their homes. because education begins at home with their parents. we encourage parents to come together. >> we went by what is believed to be the 13-year-old's home. it has parents reviewing their relationships with their kids. >> try to save them look for signs, try to before it too

late. >> reporter: back out live, prosecutors have not released a motive but i can tell you a detention hearing is scheduled for friday. live in camden, gray hall, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. a one time philadelphia chief deputy commissioner who resigned in 2010 amidst an ethics scandal faces charges of fraud. it charges renee tartagleone with fraught and theft. all while serving as the board of director and she bought the building and eventually charging $75,000 a month. a senate committee made its recommendation today on whether the full senate should take up the removal of attorney general, kathleen kane, there is a definite opinion but with a catch. john recaawlins has the story.

>> reporter: we believe it should be decided by the full senate. >> the matter should kathleen kane be removed from office. could the state's top lawyer legally do they are job with a suspended law license but they warned a senate vote should not go forward but wait until the supreme court decided on whether kathleen kane should get her license back. they said there could be a real mess if cane is removed only to see the court restore her license. >> i think prudence dictates that that be answered first. that the supreme court provides us with direction on that. >> many of the committee did not actually recommend if kane should or should not be removed. as for today's wait for the court message, kane's

spokesperson said this. >> the attorney general believes the decision to wait for the supreme court is the appropriate one even though she continues to believe that the committee's attempt to remove her from office because of this obscure provision is unconstitutional. >> all eyes should be on the supreme court depending on its decision does, they could use the little known provision of direct removal. in harrisburg, john rawlins, channel 6 "action news." we have less than a week until the iowa caucuses, hillary clinton is making a detour to philadelphia, the democratic presidential candidate is attending a fundraising tonight at the navy yard, jon bon jovi is the featured performer. >> rick williams will be in

des moines for the iowa caucuses, we'll watch for live reports for the first elector ali vent of the 201 race. our kofrm begins on "action news" tomorrow night at 11:00. call him professor michael nutter, the former mayor will join the faculty of columbia university school of international and public affairs in new york. a professor of professional practice and urban policy and nutter won't be wanting for a lunch date, his daughter olivia is a junior at columbia. police in camden and burlington counties are still trying to track down a man suspected of trying to lure young children in separate incidents 11 days ago. sara bloomquist is live now in evesham township. what kinds of leads do police have >> reporter: they have

surveillance video of the suspect's vehicle and they sure are hoping it helps. they are alarmed there were two incidents, one in oakland and one in evesham, in both incidences the man offered children candy. this video shows two boys 10 and 11 walking down the street in the area of peter heard way in evesham township just before 5:00 on january 16th, a black sedan pulled down the block with two people inside and a man and possibly a teenage girl. >> they stopped when they were playing in their front yard and the driver asked if they wanted candy. >> later evesham police learned of a similar incident earlier that same day in oaklyn, a man and woman in a black sedan approached three kids in that case. >> the description was a little off but the driver also asked

the juveniles if they wanted candy. parents are on edge taking precautions and monitoring information from police. >> the a good reminder -- >> have you to keep your guard up and keep your eyes open and everyone is pretty well aware of that and pretty good about that. >> your children need to run and go to a family's house or a neighbor's house and yell for help and get away from the situation. >> now, the man in the car never actually asked the kids to get in the vehicle, still investigators are treating this as an attempted luring, there is a discrepancy in the description of the passenger, the children described her as a teenage girl and in oaklyn they described the man and woman in their 60s or 70s. police in either community want to hear from you if you have any information.

i'm sara bloomquist, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. the neshaminy high school basketball coach captured on camera in a physical altercation with a referee is officially off the team. the school board voted to dismiss jerry divine of his coaching duties, divine remains as a special education teacher at the school and the district attorney filed a summary harassment charge. could drones be deployed across philadelphia in an effort to improve public safety. the answer could be yes. a study found that drones would be a useful tool in detecting dangerous buildings, city controller says it would not replace inspectors but enhance workers ability to do their jobs more quickly and efficiently.

coming up on "action news" tonight, a south philadelphia restaurant is the target of vandaled for the third time in two months. and the pope's fiat arrives at the philadelphia auto show with a special driver behind the wheel. >> be careful behind the wheel to tonight, temperatures dropping quickly and icing could be a problem. i'll track big changes over the weekend. and jaime apody with eagles scouting news.

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individual or group of individuals that painted despicable graffiti on the window of a bar. >> for the second time in two months this is what lou found on the window, racist graffiti aimed at african-americans specifically. >> lou's mother says his father bought the bar back in the 50s and her son is the proprietor. serving a diverse crowd, so he is unclear on the reason for all of this vandalism. >> we have the black crowd and spanish crowd and white crowd, people come from all over, it's pretty popular around here. >> no explanation, nobody has seen anything or knows anything. it's sad. >> if police can catch the

culprits they will face a hate crime and defacing property charges. >> we have been there a long time and the the bar business we get used this kind of nonsense once in a while. >> it's sad that someone -- you know it's the world we are living in. it's just sad. >> the station bar and grill is open for business as usual tonight, closing time is 2:00 a.m. after that police will be on the lookout for these racist vandals, they could use a tip call to help make an arrest. i'm vernon odom, channel 6 "action news" in south philadelphia. volunteers hit the streets of philadelphia today to try and track homeless youth, the group will spend the evening interviewing homeless people living on the streets and trying to get them into shelters. experts estimate that 9% of shool students have experienced

homelessness at one time or another. >> inside there were two people that helped to make the pope's visit particularly special. chuck keating the director of the band was behind the wheel and bobby hill in the passenger street, who sang for the pope and became quite a celebrity. and he is the father of michael keating, the young man with cerebral palsy, the boy the pope blessed on the tarmac in philadelphia. and join us on saturday at 7:00 p.m. for a special auto show preview. alicia vitarelli, karen rogers and adam joseph will give you an inside behind the scenes look. more than 700 cars fill the ultimate showroom at the convention center. we'll have test drives and the latest technology and the must see items at the auto show

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nfl coaches have converged on mobile, alabama and doug peterson is no exception. >> doug peterson on his first official business trip hopes to do just that. joining howie roseman and jeffrey lurie in mobile alabama, this is new for him, everything will be from here on outs. >> you are here in mobile looking at the senior bowl talent, what are you learning? >> that you have to watch everybody. you have to watch all phases of the game and in the past it was just offense, but now look at defensive guys and it's fun to evaluate the entire field instead of just one aspect of the game. >> what is the biggest challenge as a new head coach? >> i think just evaluating your personnel and evaluating the

talent on your roster and using your scheme to really make everything fit and everything gel. it's a unique situation, there is a tremendous amount of talent on the football team on both sides of ball and getting those guys to believe in what you are selling, i think is the biggest challenge going forward. >> well, in mobile might he be selling the future of a quarterback, sam bradford to sign a contract any day or franchise him or wait for the draft. howie roseman says there is time to figure it all out. >> quarterback is the most important position on the field, but have you to evaluate the players on your team and evaluate the draft and players in the free market and make a decision. >> check out temple product matt, the defensive tackle turning heads and killing the

tackle dummies down in mobile, alabama i need one of those at my house the tackling dummies. >> why? >> it would be fun. not only do the capitals have mike richards but the best record in the league but all the flyers have at this moment is a three game losing streak. steve mason won't play with a lower body injury that is linger for sometime. and the flyers are seven points out of a playoff spot, they can't afford to hit the all-star break farther behind. >> as frustrated as we are right now and how bad we want to get in the playoff spot, we have to stay focused. the flu is ravaging the sixers, it stopped jahlil okafor from making it's trip last night they didn't need him. the suns cold from the field. nerlins noel there 25 points.

and they swept the series against the sun. improving to 7-39. they need to play the suns more often. >> you can shrug me any time you want. >> you want to shrug something. business leaders gathered in winfield heights to talk about the future of the city avenue district. general manager, bernie prazenica was there as they talked about more space and restaurant area to the city avenue area.

relatively speaking it was almost spring time. >> 45 degrees, saturday we were at 30 so a lot better. plenty of melting going on stormtracker 6 live double scan showing we have dry conditions out there tonight. very quiet and the action cam in fairmount park where look at that sky bright blue sky and sunshine and that snow is all very quickly melting away, and this is why, look at these temperatures, saturday during the blizzard, 30 degrees and sunday 34 and monday 40, and yesterday we peaked at 50, and cooler at 45 degrees and that is 4 degrees above normal and the snow pack is diminishing quickly. allentown this is the reason why the kids are off of school, they have 22 inches but what is down from 32 inches. philadelphia 22.4 inches, our fourth biggest snow storm on

record and now only 9 inches left on the grown and wilmington went from 16 to 4 and atlantic city more than a foot of snow fell and that all melted. the melting will continue through the week and the problem is the falling temperatures, right now 41 degrees and philadelphia and allentown 35 and trenton 39 and atlantic city airport 37 and wilmington 36 degrees, temperatures tonight across the board will be dropping below freezing and you do want to be careful driving tonight and tomorrow. there are icy patches, satellite 6 along with action radar showing why temperatures are dropping quickly we don't have much cloud cover, a little bit of cloud cover along the coast and morning clouds giving way to afternoon sunshine and when you don't have clouds to insulate the earth, any warmth from the sun absorbed from the surface during the day the overnight low 20 in philadelphia and allentown frigid, down to 12 and trenton 17 and the boardwalk in atlantic city, 24 and wilmington 18

degrees and be careful for the refreeze, the day tomorrow nice but cooler with a high of 40 degrees, this coastal low i am talking about is heading out to sea and we get a clipper heading through thursday night into friday morning. could bring a quick flurry or snow shower and the two low pressure fades, far away from us so we don't get precipitation but we get a rapidly deepening low and high pressure to the southwest. what you get is a wind tunnel effect, friday the high 39 degrees, but wind gusts of 25 to 35 miles per hour and as we head through the weekend temperatures are climbing but friday feels on the cold side. so the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast tomorrow is nice, sun with a few building clouds mainly in the afternoon not quite as mild as today with a high of 40 and friday blustery and flurries in the morning and

perhaps a quick snow shower and a high of 39 degrees, this weekend a lot better than last weekend, saturday partly sunny and 42 and we bump it up to 49 degrees on sunday and partly sunny skies as well. and monday up to 52 degrees, but there is a bit of a price to pay because we'll see clouds and occasional showers and again lots of clouds on tuesday, with a high of 50 degrees, wednesday still mild with a chance of rain developing and a high of 54 degrees. enjoy the mild air, the first half of next week because there is indications that the cold could return by the end of next week. >> three straight days over 50 in february is a heat wave. >> close to that. finally a local organization is marking a milestone, 50 years of care. the joy bells performed at the kickoff of anniversary

activities from mel mark. the original resident and her family helped to raise a commemorative flag and mel mark is caring for people with intellectu intellectual disabilities since 1966. "action news" continues at 10:00 on phl 17 and join us for "action news" here at 11:00 on channel 6, for jaime apody, ducis rogers and the entire "action news" team, i'm jim gardner we hope you'll join us for "action news" at 11:00. at wegmans we believe the best way to help you

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tonight, the no-show. five days to iowa, and donald trump says no to fox news. he says he will not appear in their debate. taking aim at the moderator, meg begin kelly. what she's now saying tonight. and, the statement from donald trump released just moments ago, revealing his own special event. also breaking tonight, the tornado touching down. multiple reported twisters. the woman in her car, thrown to the other side of the interstate. the standoff with the militia suddenly turning deadly. the shootout. an armed rancher killed. we're on the scene tonight. the abc news exclusive. we take you inside the jail, the urgent manhunt for three dangerous fugitives who escaped. one described as hannibal leger the. and just coming in, word of an air scare this evening. the american airlines