elbowerman and frankfort when a man jumped in her car and sped off with her six-year-old in the back seat and shaun mccartney saw it happened and gave chase until the thief pulled over after a few blocks. >> i'm sure he looked in the rearview and saw a kid and said oh, my god i got a kid and he bailed out and leaving the kid crying and shaking and got the kid out and let him go and figured the cops would get him and ran the kid to monday and she is still hysterical but ended well. surveillance on charles street captured clear video of the man who fled on foot and man foot continues at this hour. tufts officer says they will step up patrol on the weekend from now on to prevent chaotic and violent scenes from happening again a huge group of young people roamed on oxford beating and robbing temple

students at random and a policeman was injured and a horse punched in the face boys 15-17 have been arrested. the shooting last tuesday in philadelphia's rittenhouse square has an overwhelming response from the community and all came spilling out tonight and action news reporter dan cuellar is at 19 and wall nut outside the church where hundreds of residents gathered today dann what was the main message there? >> reporter: jim last week's meeting opened a pandora box of issues troubling residents in rittenhouse square and didn't waste time letting them know they wanted something done packed at holly trinity after the shooting at rittenhouse square and the final straw for residents and property owners concerned about a litany of issues at the park. >> what we are going to do about the crime that is infiltrating rittenhouse square and the park. >> it's free game and not just people smoking pot it's people

doing heroin and people doing god knows what. >> it's like you are inebriated by marijuana especially the center of the park. >> reporter: homeless population and by officials estimate 179 that have been identified. >> i walk that park and work to get defecation up, i work to cleanup all the benches that are constantly broken from the homeless. >> reporter: for his part police commissioner ross has increased police at the park 24/7 to address drugs and other problems. >> i don't want people smoking marijuana across the street from my house so you should not have to contend with that, all right. [applause] additionally officials announced a formation of a task force with police various agencies and groups to tackle the various issues. >> and then work and come up with creative ideas of how we can be helpful and how to solve some of these things because right now people are just angry, angry and threatened since the

shooting. >> reporter: now police announced the arrest of a 17-year-old in connection with the shooting over the weekend and announced they have arrest warrant for a second person. by the way the victim continues to recover after being shot five times after he tried to stop that robbery in progress. live here in rittenhouse square i'm dan cuellar channel six action news. >> dann thank you philadelphia police are looking for a thief whose crime took a lot of brass literally. the crook ripped off a 7 foot section of metal railing from the staircase outside the union league on broad street and center city which collapsed some of the support pillars and stone work into rubble. this all happened at 3:00 in the morning. action news obtained surveillance video of the apparent suspect minutes later around the corner with a metal rail wrapped up, loaded on to a cart and pushed out of frame. the union league says it is working to restore the staircase as soon as possible with a venue

booked for up coming weddings and social events. ♪ pat toomey and katie mcginty came together at a stage at temple university to debate the issues and each other for a final time. the debate was sponsored by channel six and league of women voters and we think it was informative and no doubt contentious. live at temple tonight is action news reporter jeannette reyes and jeannette you have the full story. >> reporter: well this is certainly a spirited debate and going into it numerous polls show the two in a virtual dead heat and one of the strategies was frequent mentions of the other persons ties to their presidential candidate and that ended up putting one of them this a tough spot. unlike the presidential debate tonight senator pat toomey and kate mcginty did not for go the handshake but pleasantrie ended

after that. >> illegal and predatory in 30 plus states. >> she has the nerve to attack me for what a bank did, a bank that i was an investor in when she was using the exact same device herself. >> reporter: the topics from action news from jim gardner varied from abortion and drew predictable responses. >> i come on the side of life and i'm pro-life. >> it's a decision for parents, for families not for politicians. >> reporter: to police brutality. >> i am happy to say black lives matter. >> it's my view that all lives matter and i think police get that. >> reporter: but one of the most anticipated moments of the debate was the incumbent republican stance on donald trump, neither endorsed or denounced him. >> don't you think your constituents the people of pennsylvania deserve to know if you are going to support the nominee of your party? >> i don't think my constituents care how much one is going to vote. >> reporter: mcginty embraced the opportunity to voice her support for hillary clinton.

>> i do stand with secretary clinton because she is focused on standing up for families and rebuilding the middle class. >> reporter: given the opportunity to move past the bitterness and mug slinging scene for weeks and political ads from each camp they responded with this. >> the fact is there is only one person in this campaign whose ad had to be taken down because they were so dishonest. >> what is dishonest is what is senator has just said there is actually only one candidate on this stage who had to take his ad down and that was senator toomey. >> reporter: and of course jim in their closing statements each can't debt used it as an opportunity to win over voters and mcginty said she would fight for the middle class which her opponent opponent abandon and a toomey said she is loyal to hillary clinton and would be a rubber stamp for her jeannette reyes.

the latest poll out shows hillary clinton with a five point lead over donald trump among likely voters. the cnn-orc poll shows clinton 49% and trump with 44 and that is the same margin as earlier this month and libertarian gary johnson lost support down to 3% and donald trump however doesn't believe the polls telling supporters today that they are a part of the media's effort to rig the system against him. >> they are phony polls put out by phony media and i'll tell you what all of us are affected by this stuff and what they do is try and suppress the vote this way people don't go out and vote but we are winning this race. i really believe we are winning. >> reporter: trump is blanketed florida with campaign events and tonight he was this tampa and conceded that pennsylvania may no longer be within reach making the sunshine state a must win battleground for the republican

nominee. hillary clinton tonight is raising money for a fundraiser with kevin spacey and stevie wonder for her birthday and campaigned in massachusetts with senator elizabeth warren. >> actually i think they were in new hampshi new hampshire weren't they and ms. clinton is focusing on congressional races and hoping democrats down the ticket she says she is done debating donald trump publically. . >> i don't even think about responding to him any more. >> reporter: and this reminder with just over two weeks to go until election day, you can download our free 6abc news app to get breaking alerts and read about the latest from the campaign trail. other news bridgett kelly was back on the stand today in her defense in the bridge gate trial and the former aid to governor chris cressty testified she told the governor the democratic mayor of fort lee thought the

jams may be political pay back and christie consistently denied any idea of the lane closers going on in 2013 and kelly will be back on the stand tomorrow to face cross examination from federal prosecutors. atlantic city will lay off 100 workers slash expenses and pay down half a billion in debt and sell the land to turn the fortunes around and unveiled the five year plan tonight which was passed in special session by city council and officials intend to use 110 million from the sale of baiterfield airport and issue more than 100 million in bonds to pay down debt. the plan could even create a small surplus. >> the plan checks off all the boxes, no tax increase, low on the budget, low of head count and more importantly it leads atlantic city, residents and taxpayers down a golden road to

fiscal improvements. >> reporter: relies on a tax refund settlement with a borgata yet to be worked out and state officials must decide if the plan is acceptable or if they will continue with the take over of atlantic city assets and decision making authority. uber x and lyft will be legal in philadelphia after a law passed tonight and governor wolf said he will sign it and gave the green light to ride sharing companies allowing them to operate every where in pennsylvania. the philadelphia parking authority had twice initiated crash crack downs on services as they were operate but now governor wolf says philadelphia schools will benefit because the law requires uber x and lyft to share a small portion of their revenue with the philadelphia school district. still to come on action news tonight obamacare premiums on the rise and a police ride along turns way too close for comfort for someone taking part in a

citizen's academy plus pediatricians say parents don't need to get the nursery for the baby to come home because there is a new recommendation on where infants should sleep and it's not the nursery cecily. >> tracking cold for the season and freeze for wednesday morning and following that much needed rain and details in the accuweather seven-day forecast. >> and ducis rodgers on flyers on ice in montreal when action news continues. most people owe the bank.

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vo: donald trump and pat toomey anhave plenty in common --. they're both putting pennsylvania women at risk. even after trump bragged about sexually assaulting women, toomey stood by him. on women's health - both trump and toomey would defund planned parenthood. on abortion: trump: "there has to be some form of punishment" toomey: "i would suggest that we have penalties for doctors who perform them." pat toomey and donald trump: too dangerous for pennsylvania women.

a civilian woman on a ride along with a police officer in california got a terrifying firsthand account of the damangs of job. [gunfire] the officer tried to make a traffic stop but instead the driver took off and fired on the police cruiser two bullets hit

the windshield, and mercifully no one was seriously hurt and the woman was with the officer as part of a citizen's academy to show how police work. obamacare enrollment opens a week from tomorrow and tonight we learn premiums will jump sharply up by double tickets a report from the obama administration itself says a mid level benchmark plan on the federal health exchange will see premiums spike an average of 25%. government officials say taxpayers subsidies will cushion the blow and meanwhile with major national carriers scaling back involvement 1-5 consumers will be left with one choice of insurer and check on 11:00 doctors are recommending a change about where babies should sleep. new guidelines by the american academy of pediatrics say that infants should be sleeping in the same room as their parents for at least the first six months but preferably until they are one-year-old.

but even though newborns should be in the same room they should not share a bed. the doctor's group maintains babies should be in their own firm crib or bass net laid flat on their backs with no blankets or bumper pads. the point of this is to reduce sids or sudden infant death syndrome and doctors say it can cut the risk 50% and keeping them current on vaccinations and preventing smoking around newborns can also reduce the risk of sids. let's get the latest from accuweather now the seven-day forecast and metrologist cecily tynan. >> reporter: cooling things off and a sunset with everyone this is from kathleen l.b.i. brant beach and the sun is 6:08 and notice just enough cloud cover to reflect the light to make things interesting and a good

amount of blue skies and now our skies have cleared and temperatures are beginning to drop. philadelphia 53, kate may 59, allentown 49 and reading 50 and wilmington 48 degrees and satellite six along with action radar showing a lot of clouds bubbling up behind a cold front that passed through this morning and now we clear things out very nicely so tomorrow morning bright sunshine for the school bus but it will be chilly, a good idea for the jackets and wind chills will be in the 30s at 6:00 and 39 by 8:00, 40 degrees and we will see loads of sunshine tomorrow but temperatures close to 10 degrees cooler than today so lehigh valley mostly sunny, much cooler with a high of 53 degrees. philadelphia today hit 65, tomorrow no where near that, 56 degrees bright sunshine but winds out of the northwest 12-20 miles per hour so the wind chills in the 40s and atlantaic city a chill in the area with gusty wind out of the northwest

the high only 57 degrees so winds will diminish on wednesday morning and we will have really our coldest air mass so far this season so a freeze watch has been posted for the outlying suburbs northwest philadelphia suburbs almost in south jersey the coldest temperatures will occur near dawn with temperatures dropping around 32 degrees so that means the end of the growing season for good part of the viewing area and future tracking showing as we head through the day on wednesday we will see high thin clouds in the afternoon ahead of this system pulling out of the ohio valley and this will bring us rain on thursday at 10:00 you will notice the bulk of rain in northwest suburbs and you will also notice that it could begin as a bit of a wintry mix in the poconos so definitely a sign of the times talking about a little bit of snow mixing with the rain across the poconos thursday morning. so the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast bright sunshine and breezy and cool tomorrow with a high of 56 and wednesday starting with a freeze

watch and chilly the high only 53 degrees and thursday is the day you will need the umbrella. periods of rain could get up to about 3 quarters of an inch of rain and is good we need the rain 58 degrees. we dry things out on friday 58 and heading to the weekend saturday will be milder for the temple game but also a threat of some showers mostly cloudy skies 65 and on sunday 62 and monday halloween not too scary at this point spooktacular should be dry and seasonable with a high of 62 degrees so looking good for halloween looking cold for tomorrow. thank you cecily it was an entertaining evening in center philadelphia and they hosted the barry moore award for excellence in theatre and hundreds packed the theatre to see 27 awards handed out to local actors directors and designers, this year's award celebrated diversity and e merging artists. jimmy kimmel live coming at 11:35 after action news and here

is jimmy with a preview of tonight's show. >> thanks jim hello philadelphia and guess what the president is here. >> do have to remind everybody that michelle and i will still be alive. [laughter] and you know hopefully you invite me on to the show once in a while. >> i'm just saying good-bye. >>

flyers up in montreal and here is ducis rodgers. >> they are up there where was their offense? back here the flyers exploded six goals in the last game over the weekend and tonight hit the road in montreal and offense no where to be found and flyers down 1-0 and war check in front and perfect deflexion and tied at one and still tied and deep in the third period and montreal starting a power play and brandon gallagher and flyers lose 3-1. the eagles are still basking in yesterday's win over minnesota and six games in and don't know what to make of the team and one

week they are world beaters what gives? >> it's the way the business works it's national football league and sometimes it is a struggle each week and it's the competition, the way the game goes and how you are feeling that particular day but both units really took it upon themselves to play better. >> reporter: look who is up next, the cowboys and eagles will meet sunday at the road game and huge game and winner on top of the division and cowboys are rolling right now at 5-1. >> limit mistakes and not the turn overs we have and no penalties it's going to be a close game. >> the game mean as lot this early they are in first place we are 4-2 it's just a big game this year and it's going to come down to the end and see what happens. >> reporter: an injury note to pass along and quarterback ron brooks is out for the season and suffered a ruptured quadriceps

in the game over the vikings and sixers ready for the game and explain why t katie: i'm katie mcginty and i approve this message.

vo: donald trump and pat toomey have plenty in common -- they're both putting pennsylvania women at risk. even after trump bragged about sexually assaulting women, toomey stood by him. on women's health - both trump and toomey would defund planned parenthood. on abortion: trump: "there has to be some form of punishment" toomey: "i would suggest that we have penalties for doctors who perform them." pat toomey and donald trump: too dangerous for pennsylvania women.

wednesday night the sixers will tip off their nba season and set to host the oklahoma city thunder and they are almost set, the season is two days away and coach bret brown says there is still more work to be done. >> the template is sort of there like the foundation is sort of

there but as feeling like you are really polished up and nice and pretty right now in any of the areas no. >> union will open the playoffs wednesday against toronto single elimination and winless in the last 7 matches and not exactly how you want to enter the post season but their coach has the right mindset. >> the pressure is on them, my guys should be loose, nothing to lose we are going on the road on a quick turn around and short rest and not many people are giving us a chance we have been a good team when we are considered the under dog and my guys responded well-being in that situation. >> reporter: he is embracing that roll and that is sports. >> all right thank you and members of the philadelphia eagles had a welcomed night out to mix and mingle for a good cause. the jenkins foundation hosted its third annual bow ties and bourbon events in center city and included live jazz and entertainment and silent

auctions and sharrie williams was there for the charity and helped to fund the jenkins foundation education programs for those in under served communities. jimmy kimmel live next on channel six followed by night line and jimmy has one guest he would be president barack obama. action news continues at 4:30 with edwards and metrologist david murphy and karen rogers with traffic and sharrie williams and adam joseph and ducis rodgers and brian taff i'm jim gardner. most people owe the bank.

but pat toomey actually owned a bank. and when he went to washington, he voted to change the laws... to benefit wall street and banks like his. voting to gut consumer protections that crack down... on predatory lending and fraud. to take money from you and... line the pockets of wall street millionaires like... himself. pat toomey: out for himself, all in for wall street. dscc is responsible for the content of this advertising.