walked off the job tonight setting down their instruments and picking up picket signs instead. friday night jim is off i'm monica malpass and the big story on action news is the philadelphia orchestra on strike. it all comes on what was supposed to be opening night but management and musicians could not find any harmony. action news reporter john raul lynns is at the kimmel center on broad street tonight, john. >> hi monica this surprised walk outcomes at a time that seems to be maximum impact and not only was there to be a concert but an integral part of a black tie fundraising for the orchestra. the black tie fundraiser was a go but no music. outside there was a brass ensemble with the picketing musicians all this unexpected after talks stalled came a vote to walk out tonight, to the disappointment of fans. >> very disappointed, so disappear pointed to fly in from

ohio and i heard about the orchestra for years and years this is my first time to see it so yeah i was very disappointed. >> i was a little upset you know as a singer myself i understand musicians have to eat so if they are not coming to terms with them and giving respectable pay then i understand why. >> there was a last-ditch effort to try to strike a deal, both sides said they were close. >> we came very close to finding a deal and our musicians decided it wasn't quite enough and decided to walk out. >> the orchestra offered a three year deal that would boost starting pay from the current 127,600 a year to a minimum 135,000. ♪ but the union says that falls far short of the 152000 boston musicians make. and that over time philadelphia will lose top talent to other orchestras. >> we have usually been around boston salary and at this point in time without better increases

we would be as much over a 30 year career a musician would be 1.8 million behind the boston symphony member. >> no scheduled talks until next tuesday, no scheduled concerts for this weekend. performances on saturday and sunday have been cancelled because of the walk out. live in center city john rawleins channel six action news monica. >> thank you john someone was shot tonight during a home invasion in delaware county happened at 7:30. the action cam was on the scene as pennsylvania state police troopers investigated in the unit block of north penal middle town township, authorities releasing few details of the circumstances of the shooting or the identity of the person shot. philadelphia's police commissioner is concerned tonight over the number of shots fired at a violent suspect on wednesday night. 32-year-old christopher sole was killed after a stabbing and slashing spree that injured five people including three children.

nine officers then fired 109 shots at sole after he refused orders to show his hands and commissioner richard ross called it contagious gun fire. >> 109 rounds gives a significant cause and concern regardless of what the circumstances are it's not an indictment of the police officers but it may be a significant training issue that we need to address in addition to any other things that come up in the investigation. >> ross said the medical examiner has not yet determined how many bullets actually struck sole two knives were recovered but no gun. the night officers who fired are yet to be questioned by investigators. wet weather pattern will continue through much of the weekend rain and cloudy conditions are going to start up again in the morning before we get to turn off the faucet. metrologist cecily tynan is following it with the tracker double scan and will the sun show up?

>> pieces of sun by sunday and the sun not appearing tomorrow and storm tracker six double scan showing the heaviest rain is over but the spinning in the ohio valley and batch of showers that will be pushing to the north as we head through the overnight hours mainly across south jersey and delaware these are areas that don't need my more rain. look at the accumulated rain since wednesday the lehigh valley 1-2" but progressively more as you head to the south and parts of kent and sussex7-12" of rain and flooding there and the flood warning continues for much of kent and sussex county until 12:30 tonight a lot of roads have been flooded out and it will be damp tomorrow but skies will bright enon sunday. really the big weather story is what is happening in the caribbean, hurricane matthew is now a category five hurricane, that is as high as it gets on the scale packing winds 160

miles per hour. the eye is clearly defined right there heading towards jamaica and cuba and more information on the path and what it could mean for us in the accuweather forecast monica. >> thank you cecily it's a bad break for the philadelphia 76ers literally top draft pick ben simmons has a broken broke in his foot and he rolled his ankle in practice yesterday and x-rays today reveal a fractured meta tarsal bone and no word how long he will be out of the line up and jamie apody will have more later in sports. no sirens just the sollem precision going to the catholic church for a fallen firefighter and paid respects to christopher leach and they were killed in the line of duty last weekend and police say a fire they were battling was arson, the 28-year-old woman accused of setting it is now facing charges

of murder. and he was laid to rest in a private ceremony today. tomorrow a public memorial will be held to honest both men at the chase center in wilmington at 1:00 p.m. it was a high-speed tribute to those fallen firefighters at dover international speedway the winning car in the k and n proseries race bore the fire department logo on the hood and kyle benjamin invited the tracks fear services team to join them in victory lane and salute the fallen heros. a large sinkhole is keeping families out of their homes in bethlehem and they have been condemned and unsafe because the ground underneath the houses has been eroding and in the 700 block of north new street. the shifting soil has severed sections of the gas and water pipelines there and that caused the evacuation of dozens of people in the neighborhood earlier, most of them though were let back in today. city officials say the erosion is now under control.

after three months of stalemate and scabingly new jersey's leaders reached a deal to resolve the transportation funding crisis good news for drivers is the state will have money to fix roads and bridges, the bad news is the money is coming out of consumers' pocket every time they fill up at the pump action news reporter jeff chirico is in cherry hill live for us with the first gas hike since 1988 jeff. >> monica the days of paying among the lowest gas prices in the country will soon be over for drivers in new jersey governor chris christie and democratic leaders in the legislature announced their by partisan plan late this afternoon, the plan includes taxes and leaves some drivers frustrated. 23 cents may not seem like much but new jersey drivers know it will add up quickly. >> pretty big price i mean it will probably be another 5-6

dollars. >> for someone that doesn't make that much money living paycheck to paycheck it hits me a lot. >> it's a common reaction we got after breaking the news that lawmakers reached a deal to raise the state's gas tax to pay for transportation projects. >> 23 cents is ridiculous because obviously that is way too high, the gas is already 1.85. >> new jersey drivers pay among the lowest taxes and the hike lower than pennsylvania taxes may mean crossing the river to fill off and won't offer jamal not much savings. >> coming over the bridge to save five bucks but if you are here it's cheaper. >> when it starts flowing they will restart road and bridge construction projects that have been frozen and for some motorists that alone the worth the cost. >> i'm on the roads. >> do you mind paying 23 cents if they fix the roads and bridges? >> probably not. >> as long as they are doing their job and keeping their word i'm okay with it.

>> as long as the money goes to fix the roads and bridges. >> and not other places. >> the tax will be off set by a small cut in the sales tax, the elimination of the estate tax and credits for veterans and the working poor, the plan must now be passed by the legislature and signed by the governor a spokesperson for governor christie could not tell me when that gas tax will go into effect, reporting live in cherry hill new jersey jeff chirico action 6. >> a south jersey college student the phrase burning a hole in his pocket literally came true today his eye phone exploded in his pants pocket during class this morning and dar rain was reaching for a pen in his 9:30 class in rowen when he felt a hot burning sensation on his leg classmates noticed something too. >> it was super hot so i flinched grabbed it threw it on

the ground and kicked it because it was on fire. everyone in the classroom jumped obviously, some people were just terrified and the professor made us all evacuate the classroom. >> out of no where we hear a fizing and popping sound and a gray mass of smoke comes from his pocket and they glance at it what is that and realize that is his phone that just come busted in the middle of class. he is lucky he was not seriously hurt apple says it will investigate the claim involving the iphone six plus but cannot comment at the time and earlier this morning samsung recalled galaxy note 7 after dozens of reports of exploding batteries still to come on action news tonight after days where this was all we saw tonight the full video has been released from california police on the shooting of an unarmed man and world leaders thought it was a good idea to compare himself to hitler today cecily. >> not only has it been raining it also has been cool the high

today only 63 degrees i'm tracking brighter days ahead and details on that and the latest track on a now category five matthew in the accuweather seven-day forecast. check this out more than cute the public debut for a monument for baby pandas, 23 of them to be exact, how adorable. high school highlights on the way and jamie apody will tell us about the sixers top pick getting sidelined when action news continues tonight.

tonight police outside san diego released video with the fatal encounter with a man in california officers say they thought 38-year-old alfred was armed when he took what appeared to be this shooting stance and pointed something at them, turns out it was a vapor smoking device and officers fired multiple shots at them there have been protests and violence for three nights there now. officials are asking for calm since they have released the full tape. ♪ politics now donald trump told a crowd in michigan tonight he expects to spend 100 million of his own money in the campaign. he also tried to revive the white water scandal of the clintons from the 1990s, meanwhile there is an on going war of words over trump's late night tweets the republican

nominee took to twitter at 3:00 a.m. this morning unleashing a tirade against former ms. universe calling her disgusting and accusing her of having a checkered past and a sex tape and a pawn of the clinton campaign. clinton brought this up during monday's debate citing here as trump's disrespect for women of the beauty queen gaining weight and called the new attack quote unhinged even for him and questioned what kind of person gets up at 3:00 a.m. to send angry tweets. meantime the president of the philippines shocked the world today comparing himself to adolf hitler and happy to slaughter 3 million drug addicts. >> hitler the philippines but you know are victims. >> the latest threat he has made in his anticrime agenda since

taking office three months ago. he does not discriminate between drug dealers and drug users, reports suggest 3,000 have been killed and nearly 700,000 others surrendered in fear for their own lives. these are 1.5 billion space craft saw in the final moments as it crash landed on a comet and it was meant to crash and brought the end the 12 year mission for the rosetta probe and it was bitter sweet for engineers who had to say a final farewell and you may remember another launched in 2014 a smaller probe in file the first manmade object to touchdown on a comet and learning so much every time they do one of these incredible and let's learn more about the weather and it's not so great. >> greatening a little on sunday but i don't want to promise it will be a bright and sunny draw but a little bit better than the past 2.5 days and storm tracker six double scan and taking baby

steps showing we do have midst and drizzle out there, really no organized heavy rain so we are getting a break and starting to get better and temperatures have not gone anywhere with winds out of the northeast and philadelphia 63 down from our high or 62 down from our high of 63 barely moving at all cape may 66 allentown and trenton cool 57 degrees. satellite six along with action radar showing here is the spin been tracking that for days now that is the cutoff low it is starting to weaken and head to the north so what this will do is gradually dry out our atmosphere but you can see the plume of moisture coming off the atlantic mainly the form of clouds but there are showers off the coast of the carolinas and moving through in the overnight hours so tomorrow is not going to be a great day and kind of like today raw, damp and dreary rounds of rain in the morning winds not as strong as yesterday, northeast 10-20 miles per hour. yesterday we had winds of course the 40 miles per hour in

philadelphia. no sun until sunday and even on sunday the sunshine will be limited so future tracker is timing out the showers around 8:00 and showers especially south of philadelphia heading through the day more of a drizzle are missed by 4:00 but you can see that very thick cloud cover sunday morning looks like another round of showers moving in around 8:00 and then as we head into the afternoon still a possibility of a couple isolated showers but you can see some breaks in the clouds so again we will still have some clouds but skies begin to brighten somewhat. meantime the big story is hurricane matthew. yesterday morning this was a tropical storm. now it is literally exploded to a category five hurricane, that is the highest category on the simpson scale there is the eye right there, very well defined, maximum was 160 miles per hour. and the official track still has it heading to jamaica and cuba making that turn. this is new information now, now

hitting jamaica as a category four hurricane late on monday. this could bring up to about two feet of rain causing mud slides and flooding heading through cuba still is a cat four and heading to the bahamas and weakening to category two and big question will it ride up the eastern sea board and out to sea or stew in the bahamas and too early to tell and time is on our side and time to track the storm and the accuweather seven-day forecast cool damp and dry and 69 and sunday a possibility of a shower 75, monday much better 77. tuesday 72. wednesday and thursday pretty good seasonable partly sunny 70 and friday increasing clouds with a high of 72 degrees. officials in jamaica are already trying to gather up about two thousand homeless people in shelters and serious situation and you can track it on 6abc.com. >> thank you so much cecily.

call it a cluster of cuteness this pile of baby pandas made a public debut in china's breeding center and 23 adorable babies in all, experts say recent improvements in technology led to the baby boom nearly doubling the number of cubs born compared to last year and all so sleepy. in the wind conservation efforts have been so successful pandas were recently

jamie is here with sports and literally a bad turn for the 6ers. >> a bad break you could call it the 6ers season so much promise and took an unlucky term and ben; mondays the prize over all draft pick broke a bone in his foot during scrimmage and no table for his return and opened preseason tuesday and regular begins on october 26 and we caught up with henderson tonight

after the news was announced. >> he will be fine, we have a small setback and the team will be fine we have a lot of talent and working really hard and clearly he is a young kid get excited about starting the season but you know it will take his time with his rehab however long it takes and get back on the floor as soon as he can. >> henderson threw out the first pitch at the phillies and howards last uniform and declined to speak but a long standing ovation given from the crowd before his bat and when he stepped up to the plate, no. no. no. looks like a home run but settled for a long double. one for four with two strike outs for howard and bruce did homer and the mets trying to wrap up a wild card beat the phillies and two to go for ryan howard and a week for wentz and player of the week and month and

racking in endorsement deals and b, ye on the streets of his hometown and announced a partnership with eagles quarterback and also building him a new pickup truck it's wentz world and we are living in it playing ivy league opener against dartmouth and get it and christon and beating 27-24, 1 and 2, and temple football play book with the coach tomorrow at 9:45 a.m. here on channel six and of course high school huddle co katie mcginty: franny, johnny, mikey, maureen, jimmy,

joey, ricky, eileen, me, and colleen... all 10 of us raised on a policeman's salary and a mom working as a restaurant hostess. imagine trying to do that today, with washington looking out for the favored few. i'll bring a different point of view to the u.s. senate -

working class roots and the mother of three, i'll put middle class families ahead of wall street. i'm katie mcginty and i approve this message because it's your turn to get ahead. play a new play for kids to hang out and play and tonight was the grand opening at 32 and reed and the police athletic league has athletic and educational

opportunities for children and keeps them out of trouble and helps them establish relationships with men and women who protect us on the streets very nice. high school huddle is next here on channel six followed by jimmy kimmel live and night line and action news 5:30 with hall and then for bryan bryan, sharrie williams, adam joseph, ducis rodgers, i'm monica malpass and have a great weekend