the way it was yesterday. the pictures tell jed yesterday's story but better today. walter perez is live at the 69 and street transportation center and john rawlins is downtown at the sheridan hotel. >> reporter: encouraging news, up beat sense all day here at the talks and that continues to this hour, that came from both camps, as well as the man that often acts as the go between, those two sides. >> on the way back. >> come back and keep on negotiating. >> it's close, close always something. it's close. >> bob brady confirming that the two sides made progress with assistant rep duane.

they want pension reforms and septa says that the union members need to pay more for their health plan and the union wants new schedules because the existing system leads to driver fatigue. there does not appear there will be a bundle of extra money coming from anywhere. >> i talked to the governor there is no money there, i talked to the mayor there is no money there. and i talked to our transportation chairman. >> apparently no readily available money from the feds either at this point at least, brady is one of those that are optimistic that the two sides are close and he says the pension issue still remains a sticking point. john rawlins, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. we'll switch live to "action news" reporter walter perez at the 69 and street terminal.

what are commuters saying tonight? >> i can't repeat everything they had to say but they are anxious for the strike to end. it came as no surprise that septa riders are getting really frustrating. >> i don't want to take away the ability to strike, but the commuters suffer. how do they work it in new york street. >> william turner suffers from kidney disease and he is already an hour late for his dialysis treatment after working several blocks out of his way for a stop where a none striking bus line is still operating and it was running a half hour behind schedule. >> if i get there to 2:00 i can only stay there until 4:00, i won't get my four hour treatment and i can't go back until friday because i work tomorrow all day. >> the people you think would benefit are taxi cab drivers but

the cabbies we spoke with say that the traffic jams at rush hour especially in center city are keeping them from capitalizing on this opportunity. >> taking the customer downtown, two or three hours going and coming back. you can charge a couple dollar extra but it take a lot of time. >> we spoke with septa strikers and hope that customers empathize. >> we have a job and families to take care of as well. we hope that the contract is fair and the riding public understands what we need is as important as what septa wants. >> there are are winners, among them the bike sharing system along with uber and lyft both reporting a rise in business the last two days. >> walter thank you. septa provides rides for 60,000 public and private charter school students, central high

school students are among those that have scrambled to find new modes of transportation. >> with the strike going on we have to walk or ride and i am not trying to walk two miles, dust this off and then -- it was a nice ride. >> carpool no other way to get here. >> you walked? how long will it take. >> an hour. >> you took a bus how long? >> around 15 to 20 minutes. >> devoted students. >> the nonprofit able bodied christian men are using their new van to shuttle those in need during the strike and the shuttle is free of charge and focused on helping students, seniors and the disabled get around during the strike. the group their mission is doing good deeded. can you find developments in the septa strike at 6abc.com/septa strike any time. we'll have details as the

negotiations go on and live updates and a full list of plans released by city government, schools and businesses. and let us remind you that the "action news" morning team will get an early start tomorrow to help you navigate the late eflt travel situation, please join us a half hour early starting at 4:00 a.m. for up to the minute information on the septa strike. word came today that a high school senior from delaware was the victim of a shooting over the weekend in chester. 1-year-old tamir germany was killed saturday night someone passing through the woods at palmer came upon his lifeless body. tamir was a senior at dupont high school in greenville, delaware. the courtroom dram continued today in the bill cosby sex assault case. they are revisiting a battle that they have been fighting in previous hearings it's up to a

judge to decide the outcome. vernon odom has the full story from montgomery county court in norristown. >> reporter: two full days of hearings on bill cosby's efforts to suppress key evidence wrapped up today. his defense team wants to block the use of a 10-year-old deposition that the 78-year-old gave in a civil case sought by andrea constand. and the d.a. promised not to use it in a criminal can trial. judge steven o'neil did not rule today and may not for equipment sometime. >> we have maintained that mr. cosby's rights are violated in a number of ways, we believe this

was fair and just and to the point. >> montgomery county d.a. kevin steele is under the collar blasting the defense team who in open court revealed the names of the 13 women who agreed to testify of bad pattern of behavior by cosby. >> i hope they respect those people we have real victims out there and they are going through a lot with this and i hope that everybody understands that the difficulties that they are all having. >> it's cosby hearings stand in recess until mid-december. at the close of today's hearing, judge o'neil said he may in fact move cosby's current date up sooner. in norristown, i'm vernon odom, channel 6 "action news." we have six days until election day it's a dead heat

according to a new abc "washington post" tracking poll. that means it's updated every day. hillary clinton and donald trump are deadlocked at 46% and yesterday trump was ahead by one point and 3% of likely voters support gary johnson and 2% for jill stein. and a monmouth poll has katie mcginty leading pat toomey for the u.s. senate seat. here 47% to 44% and that is within the margin of error. which is 4.9%. in delaware hundreds of fourth and fifth graders have chosen whom they want to be president. they cast their votes in a statewide mock election. students here in bear stood in line to make sure their voices are heard. the results will be on friday. coming up on "action news" tonight. atlantic city officials are fighting a financial takeover by the state, and eagles wide

receiver, josh huff speaks about the charges he now faces after the traffic stop on the walt whitman bridge. >> it was a sunny and warm november day with a high of 70 could get warmer tomorrow before this front brings severe weather to the midwest and brings big changes here. i'll explain in the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast. >> those stories and more when "action news" continues tonight.

owe. these guns and drugs and bundles of cash are the result of a three stay sweep in southeast philadelphia. the raids took place last week

and resulted in 64 arrests and officers seized 15 guns, three cars and $16,000 in cash and $23,000 worth of narcotics, they conducted the raids to make sure they were off the street before halloween. officials in atlantic city are reacting today by the reaction by the state of their five year financial recovery plan. this is not a happy day at city hall. nora muchanic has the story. >> it will be a disaster if they come in and take over. the city did what they had to do. >> but the department of affairs says they did not. they rejected the recovery plan. >> they are basing it on information that they said was not clear enough and we are providing all the backup information, after that we'll certainly going to be going to court. >> the city proposed cutting 100

employees and settling taxes with the casinos and selling property. the state called it deficient. they said it seemed like a foregone conclusion. >> the plan was not to see if the plan would work but to review it. >> if the state take over happens the state could control city assets and renegotiate city contracted and make all decisions. >> if the state of new jersey comes here they will give reads of atlantic city up to a 40% tax increase, they want us to raise taxes and this plan doesn't do that. >> governor christie said in five years he would turn around atlantic city, as you see this is the result. >> city officials maintain this will not lead to fiscal stability the next step is to approve the takeover and the city says they will go to court

to stop that. nora muchanic, channel 6 "action news." philadelphia mayor, jim kenney unveiled his plan today to help the city become a healthier place to live and kenney made the announcement on the roof of the philadelphia free library in center city. the plan includes increasing access to healthy foods in so-called vulnerable neighborhoods and targets the environment by maintaining parks and trees and cutting down on litter and this could change the health of children and create new jobs. y25pky yi0y

eagles and eagles fans should be focused on the giants but they are focused on josh huff. >> where he is from he says there is always someone out to get you and he carries a gun at all times when not at the practice complex for protection but huff has explaining to do. he spoke with owner jeffrey lurie and coach peterson. he apologized for the arrest with a gun and hollow point bullets and marijuana in his car and said every athlete walks in his shoe. >> i am from houston and you can't trust people and someone is all out to get you. i have been known to -- i mean you got to protect yourself. even back in houston i always

have a gun on me. i've lost people to gun violence. they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. >> huff says that every professional athlete has a gun and peterson says he will play on sunday and wait for the legal process to play itself out. both of these teams are 4-3 and the birds cannot afford to go -- in the nfc 0-3. >> the a human game for them too, we are both 4-3 and both teams need a win, they know the situation and to do we. >> teams that want to go to the post season, have to handle their division and we have put ourselves in a hole. and the winning of this game is

probably a must. the sixers play the second of a back to back. embiid did not make the trip. and the flyers yet to win two games in a row this season will try again tonight as they host the red wings, the first game of another back to back, the fourth in the first 20 days of their schedule. the red wings have not beaten the flyers in philadelphia in 19 years. the phillies have a new hitting coach and he did not have to travel far. matt stairs just has to head down from the broadcasting booth. he replaced henderson. and the philly native will defend his world title against connor mcgregor from ireland.

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one more day and then it's cold. >> it's seasonably cold. >> cool. >> exactly. today certainly was not cool it was warm though. stormtracker 6 live double scan showing rain free conditions out there. and what a gorgeous day. this photo posted on my facebook page, joe from landsdale says this is his backyard and this fall foliage is peaking now and a great day to get outdoors. this is a great day of november warmth, philadelphia up to 76 degrees ahead of a cold front and that cold front will knock temperatures down to more typical november levels for friday and for the weekend. so the arrival of the cold front

it will be moving in from the northwest to the southeast. with a line of showers perhaps even a gusty thunderstorm, best chance of a thunderstorm is south of philadelphia, the key times tomorrow afternoon about success in the far northwest suburbs and moving off the coast at 7:00 and everyone could see a brief wind gust up to 45 miles per hour as the cooler air blows in. right now it's pretty warm out there. philadelphia 66 and trenton 65 and atlantic city airport 67 and reading 6 and the poconos very warm 65 degrees. satellite 6 along with action radar showing good amount of sunshine a few high, thin clouds are beginning to move in. ahead of the cold front, the low pressure associated is bringing cold weather to illinois and up over new england and we get the trailing cold front and it could bring us a broken line of

showers and thunderstorms, tomorrow morning it will be mild and overnight lows close to the normal high for this time of year. 61 and a little bit of patchy fog could develop and i don't think we'll see that in philadelphia and out lying suburbs, 6:00, 56 degrees and the same at 8:0057, a mild morning for the commuters who many of them have a long wait to work. a lot of people even walking to work. 7:30 tomorrow morning some patchy fog across south jersey and 58 degrees already and heading into the afternoon, by lunch time 72 degrees in philadelphia, you can see the showers and thunderstorms across the northern and lehigh valley and the poconos, it moves through the i-95 corridor at 4:00, 5:00 and could have an impact on the evening commute and moves off quickly at 7:00 and moves off on friday.

and 61 for the high and that is the normal high and the dominant high pressure is big and that controls our weather not just through the weekend but most of next week. we have a pretty nice run, the seven-day forecast showing it's warm tomorrow and afternoon showers and thunderstorms, 76 degrees and friday 61 degrees and windy and the weekend gorgeous for the unit cup and monday mostly sunny and 60 and turn the blocks back one hour for day light saving time. and we drop down to 69 degrees on monday and tuesday election day we are voting for sunshine and we'll get it, 62 degrees and wednesday clouds mixed with sun and a high of 62 and an update on "action news" at 11:00 with more on the front. abc world news with david muir is next on channel 6. and "action news" continues on phl 17 with brian taff, sharrie

williams, adam joseph and ducis rogers and please join us for a special health check report at 11:00 on channel 6. a local family is trying to turn their painful loss into a national movement that could save hundreds of lives. health reporter and registered nurse ali gorman has a preview. >> if your out an a restaurant and someone started to choke unable to breathe, would you know what to do? one local family is urging more people especially restaurant workers learn how to help. i'll have what you need to know to save a life, on "action news" at 11:00. for cecily tynan and 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. katie: my mom was a restaurant hostess

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tonight, breaking news. the new tracking poll. hillary clinton, donald trump, where this race stands next six days out. and are there new pathways for donald trump? he and his family make the case tonight. president obama, vice president biden, bernie sanders, arguing, there's just one choice. and the alarming image. the church set on fire. the words spray painted on the side. also tonight, the deadly ambush. two police officers targeted and killed in separate patrol cars, shot through the window. breaking late today, the new flash point over the pipeline in the west. demonstrators clashing with police. and the other pipeline, the explosion, the state of emergency. and now, worries over gas prices. new reporting tonight on the mystery illness in 33 states. the 6-year-old boy who has died. and we are on the verge of history.