attention. she was ambushed by a gunman while sitting in her parole car. walter perez is live with more on sergeant young's homecoming today. >> reporter: that is right. you know the headline here is that sylvia young is home, and that is amazing when you consider that last friday night she was the intended target of 18 shots fired in her direction. >> you can see the emotion on sylvia young's face when dozens of colleagues stood at attention. >> sergeant young will return to duty when she is physically and mentally ready to do to. >> she has a rode ahead of her but they she wants to come back and that is the biggest thing. >> she was nearly killed when a gunman opened fire on her squad car in philadelphia. the suspect is identified address nicholas glen.

she was hit repeatedly but survived mainly because she was wearing a bulletproof vest. and we spoke to jessie hartnett who was ambushed this past january as seen in this surveillance video. hartnett recently underwent his ninth surgery hopes to return to the job. >> something that i always wanted to do, and to have it taken away from me gives me the extra push to get back. i hope i can go back, i don't want to be retired. >> meanwhile after a bloody rampage, commissioner ross referred to as one of the most violent acts he has seen in some time. >> it's nothing short of miraculous that she is here to receive this warm welcoming and it's like this and not at a gravesite. >> nicholas glen's rampage ended

with one person dead. glen was cornered and shot and killed. >> walter thank you. bombing suspect ahmad rahami was on the fbi's radar two years ago. rahami's father alerted the feds expressing his concerns that his son may be a terrorist. he later recanted saying his son was hanging out with the wrong crowd. and they disclose that rahami was captured he had a notebook with extremist ramblings with him. he is charged with the attempted murder of police officers in the shootout that led to his capture, held on 5$5.2 million bail and the flow of information flowed seamlessly to make a quick arrest. >> along with information that comes from the community, we saw it yesterday. that tip came from the community and information flowed and an arrest was made.

>> he says there are no state lines when it comes to tracking down terrorism. >> world news will have the late of on the bombing investigation coming up at 6:30 after "action news." now, to an "action news" exclusive tonight, controversy and scandal surrounding a k-9 unit at the trenton police department. officers are underarrest for hiring a prostitute while on duty. nora muchanic is following the story and live at the k-9 unit in trenton with the latest. >> reporter: rick, i want to be clear. officers are being investigated nobody is under arrest at this point. law enforcement officials tell us that an investigation is underway, into alleged misbehavior probably involving a prostitute and while the investigation continues, the k nonpartisan academy is locked up and shut down. >> it is in fact an active investgation. >> that is ernie parry confirming to "action news" that

the k-9 unit is currently under investigation for allegedly bringing a prostitute into the unit's headquarters on state street. >> the fact of the matter is, i will not tolerate any activities conducted in my office that my officers are involved in that is going to reflect poorly on this city or on this police department. >> sources say that a member of the k-9 unit is alleged to have brought a prostitute into the building surrounded by a chain link fence concealing her identity from cameras mounted outside but her presence was captured on cameras inside of the building and several of the k-9 officers knew about the prostitute's presence. >> are the officers involved on active duty or desk duty. >> i can't even go into that right now. >> search warrantses were executed to extract evidence. and acting prosecutor, would not

talk specifics. >> it's the office policy not to comment on any internal affairs investigation that may be going on but something could be forthcoming. >> in the meantime, the k-9 unit is locked up while the investigation continues. live in trenton, i'm nora muchanic, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. a philadelphia teacher is under investigation tonight after the video surfaced online showing him physically fighting with a student. you can see the two purging and kicking each other and at one point the student is put in a head lock, and it unfolded in lincoln high school, the argument started after the student was late to class and students say the teacher tried to call security and the phones did not work and went to another classroom but was confronted in the hallway. >> he pushed him and pushed him back a bit. >> the goal is to get to the

bottom of this, to make sure this doesn't happen in the future. >> the teacher had to get stitches and police charged the student with assault. the two women seen in this video were using stolen credit cards, the video from the wawa on aramingo avenue, was recorded less than an hour after reporting her wallet stolen. it was taken from her purse when she was at the oyster house restaurant on the night of august 5th. a delaware high school is celebrating a big award, the school will receive $10 million from a national contest given by a famous widow. vernon odom has the story. >> reporter: miss wick's design class at design high, one of the most unique charter schools in the nation, 300 students are here mostly from the newark

area, high income to homeless all chosen after interviews to assess their motivations and quest for learning. the school was awarded $10 million to help rethink american high schools which is chaired by the widow of apple computer founder, steve jobs. >> it's it's design thinking process used in businesses more and more and they learn how to identify a problem and how to generate possible solutions. >> and we use process based learning and they don't like the tradition feel how schools were set up. and it's mostly textbook work. >> now in the second year of operation, is one of only ten schools chosen to get the $10 million grant. that is out of 700 schools in all that apply.

>> life at 10 other schools that stretch from washington, d.c. to oakland california, this school will be under a microscope as experts assess how all the innovative experiments pan out. >> it's hands on. >> our media classes are letting us choose what kind of art or media you want to do and you can focus on that. >> it's funded by the state government and the nine other schools getting the $10 million award are split between charter and traditional public schools. i'm vernon odom, channel 6 "action news." philadelphia city leaders gave an update on the renovation project at love park today. the mayor unveiled an inactive rendering of the new welcome center allowing visitors to picture themselves at the location. cash and building materials is being donated for the location and it's expected to be completed next spring.

still to come on "action news," a civil rights icon helps to get out of the vote in philadelphia. and the eagle's lane johnson appeals his suspense as the eagles win game two behind rookie quarterback, carson wentz. and there is plenty of summer like weather heading our way but a cool down is coming in our accuweather forecast. i'm really good at war. i love war in a certain way. including with nukes, yes including with nukes. i know more about isis than the generals do, believe me.

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when firefighters responded to the state condos on south broom street they found several propane tanks and gas canisters inside. according to the wilmington license and inspections the water damage made the two units uninhabitable. >> "action news" is about to give you a fascinating look into the forecast. tomorrow morning we are about to launch a weather balloon. cecily tynan is here with a preview of this important tool. >> that is right, adam and i spent the afternoon outside of the studio inflating the first ever 6 abc weather balloon, it's launched in a way that we can show you how information is collected to create the accuweather forecast you see every day. it's inflated with 55 cubic feet of helium and ready for launch tomorrow. >> it's important because weather balloons are launched across the world every single

day, 800 globally, at the same time and this is our first one at channel 6. >> these guys go high, 20 mile as above the surface and the assent takes two hours. as it goes up it gets vital information about temperature and wind speed and wind direction and when it's on the edge of space it will pop and the parachute helps to bring it down to earth and takes 45 minutes to reach the surface and we can find it because of this right here. this is the gps, one of the instruments on the pay load now. >> this instrumentation collects temperature and pressure and it goes up into the atmosphere we need to know every level, because that is how it is ing t ingested into the computer models. the nam and the euro model.

>> this was developed by someone that works at the international space station. this is light and weighs a pound and a half. this sensor there can get the temperature 75 degrees below zero farrenheifarenheit. and then it comes down and we'll retrieve it. >> watch the launch tomorrow it will be exciting. >> that is right be sure to tune in to "action news" tomorrow morning at 4:30 as we launch the balloon live. karen rogers is doing the honors and we'll show you how to track it live at 6abc.com. i hope a lot of science teachers also program their dvr, this would be a great teaching tool. >> all right sounds cool thank you. civil rights activists georgia congressman george lewis is encouraging people to get out and vote.

congressman lewis worked for years to pass the initial voting act in 1965 and was one of the reasons he was awarded the liberty medal last night. i can't vote for donald trump given the things that he said. trump should not be supported. i believe he's disqualified himself to be president. i just cannot support donald trump.

eagles come off a big win last night but have the latest on their right tackle. lane johnson. >> the joy of that 2-0 start overshadowed by the lane johnson suspense and he is now starting at peel process. he is suspended 10 games for violating the substance policy for a second time. and he plays sunday against the steelers and the birds have a by after that. should he lose the appeal, his suspension will start, and the eagles need to keep the offensive line intact to make sure that carson wentz doesn't get killed. in the nationally televised game

they said eagles has a quarterback. he won the first two games with zero turnovers in the process. he showed no jitters on a road game in a hostile environment. and wentz 21 for 34 for 190 yards and a touch down in the third quarter. eagles score 26 unanswered and the wentz wagon continues to be on a role. >> it's cool but i'm trying not to make it bigger than it needs to be. a lot of things going on and a lot of eyes on us tonight. it's a football game. we only get so many of these and take advantage of your opportunities. >> the game is not too big for him. he is not putting too much on him, whether it's monday night football or practice. he comes out and is poised and makes great decisions and now he has to go to work and put it behind us, he put it behind him

to get ready for the steelers. >> you'll win game if you don't turn the ball over, and making great throws and taking the ball away on defense and that equals victories. >> the eagles offense did not have turnovers but they forced three of them. they picked off jay cutler in the third quarter and the defense is taking opportunity. >> this is a great job and we can only get better from here. get better each week and get ready for each game each week and try to get a win every week, but everybody has been doing well getting the defense down and being able to attack and dominate. >> eagles beat up chicago and now lets see what the phillies can do, they host the white sox. >> and temple owls get back to practice getting set for charlotte. trying to move past their loss to penn state that left them 1-2 on the season.

the owls did get thomas back for the game and he talked to us today about bouncing back. >> it's not tough at all, we have been in the situation plenty of times you think about last year losing to notre dame and my freshman year we had tough losses to like fordham and places like that. we can't dwell on our losses we learn from them and try to move past them. we want to win them all but that comes with football. >> don't forget to catch temple football play book on saturday morning, i had a chance to sit down with coach rule, we'll talk about the game saturday at 9:45 a.m. here on channel 6. former temple player comes to town with the steelers this weekend. >> big game coming up thank you. it was a tee time for a good cause this morning. "action news" anchor, matt o'donnell hits the links for the divine 9 tournament in malvern.

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meteorologist, cecily tynan is here now with a closer look at the forecast that is more summer than autumnal. >> by the weekend temperatures cool off but the start of fall will feel like the middle of summer. stormtracker 6 live double scan showing no rain out there despite a lot of cloud cover, we are live on sky 6 hd taking a look at the commodore barry bridge and showing shades of gray today. a little more in the way of

sunshine areas farther to the north and west. more clouds to the southeast and temperature-wise, philadelphia 83 degrees, we hit 82 degrees despite the cloud cover, that is 5 degrees above normal and trenton 80 and cape may stuck in the clouds with the current temperature of 74. can you feel the moisture in the air south of philadelphia, millville 72 and dover 74 that is tropical and here in philadelphia humid and 66 degrees, part of the reason why, this actually underneath my name -- this is actually what used to be tropical storm julia, the remnants and that is throwing tropical moisture our way in the form of high clouds and humidity, it's also hanging up the cold front that moved through, tonight partly cloudy and mild and high humidity and patchy fog developing again, 59 degrees in the suburbs, 68 in

center city. the dew points drop during the day tomorrow so not as muggy but warmer. a high of 86 degrees in philadelphia and cape may 78 and wilmington 85 degrees. thursday as fall arrives at 10:21 it feels like summer, double barrel high pressure over us and that brings us loads of sunshine and high of 86 degrees, a lot of people are in the mood of getting out their fall clothes and making hot chocolate well you'll be able to do that by sunday this is when high pressure will move on it and bring us unseasonably cool weather with temperatures in the low 70s. in the meantime, we are in the height of tropical storm season, we have tropical storm karl more than a thousand miles south of the bermuda. it doesn't show a direct hit but

passing just east of the bermuda but close to a category 2 hurricane by saturday afternoon, so even if it doesn't get a direct hit, it will cause problems. if you plan on traveling there this weekend look at the track of karl and consider changing your plans. the exclusive accuweather forecast hot and not as humid. warm and 86 degrees and summery start to fall on thursday and 86 degrees and friday the first day of fall warm and humid, 88 degrees, saturday for the temple homecoming, temperatures trending down 80 degrees and a possibility of an isolated shower and sunday football weather, feeling like fall, breezy and cool for the eagles game, the high is 72 degrees and monday seasonable with a high of 74 and tuesday get a little bit warmer and clouds and sunshine with a high of 86 degrees.

summer holds on a couple of days warmer and fall weather arrives over the weekend. >> thank you cecily. >> it's all about community, for employees of air mark today. employees took their work out of the office to follow volunteer at local organizations part of the building community day and here in philadelphia mayor jim kenney gave everybody a pep talk before they got to work in north philadelphia. abc world news tonight is next on channel 6, "action news" continues at 10:00 on phl 17. and then join us for "action news" at 11:00 on channel 6. i'm rick williams have a nice evening, we hope to see you tonight at 11:00. when it comes to risking social security on the stock market...

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tonight, breaking news. new surveillance of the bombing suspect, pulling a suitcase, carrying a backpack. authorities say, about to place the bombs in new york city and new jersey. and tonight here, we have now learned, the fbi is questioning someone else. his wife. because was he acting alone? and what his own father said about his own son before. also developing, the outrage tonight. the father of four, his suv breaks down, then shot dead by police. tonight, for the first time, the officer's defense. the deadly plane crash. the spy plane crashing down over america. flash point. the syrian refugees coming to the u.s. our year-long investigation. and tonight, donald trump's son comparing refugees to poisonous skittles, asking, would you take the chance? we got straight to amman to ask,