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good afternoon sara bloomquist is off. in the news a wilmington firefighter has died from her injuries months after bat thing the blaze. and ford is recalling thousands of vehicles because it's seatbelts may not work. >> the big story on "action news" at noon is a devastating fire in lehigh valley. a multi-alarm blaze damaged row homes leaving many people homeless. gray hall is live now in allentown. >> reporter: it was a dangerous and intense situation just last night in allentown. if you look behind me daylight reveals the damage and workers are here boarding up the homes that were damaged andself a hom good news in all of this no lives were lost and no serious

injuries. >> fire and black smoke. and firefighters fighting and people are running. >> fire crews battled a ferocious fire, the intense flames forced 23 people from seven families from their homes. the chaos started at 7:30 on north fulton street. >> you make sure that everybody out first. the first object is rescue. if someone is inside you go in and get them. >> fortunately there was no damage but there was a lot of damage. firefighters got the upper hand and had it under control but before it was over eight were damaged and six destroys and two may be salvageable. >> they knocked down the initial fire. and made checks to the buildings left and right and as soon as they made the checks they saw the fire was up there.

jumping from one building to the next hoping to get ahead of it. but the whole roof was on fire. >> fire is something people don't want to deal with especially before the holidays. >> my daughter was in the back bedroom and she came out and said the house next door is on fire. and i looked and i came down stairs and grabbed some things and she grabbed the animals and i looked at their kitchen and there was big flames everywhere. shooting out everywhere. >> back out live again a frightening scene here in allentown but the families grateful there was no serious injuries and no lives were lost and the red cross is assisting families impacted by the fire. live in allentown, gray hall, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you for that report. in west philadelphia the investigation continues into a deadly blaze that killed a 44-year-old man here. the fire started at 7:30 last

night. the 300 block of north 56th street. two businesses have been damaged and eight people displaced. there is no word on the victim's identify or what may have sparked the fire. the wilmington fire department continues to mourn the loss of a third firefighter that died from her injuries from a september arson. hope succumbed to serious burns. two colleagues died on the day of the fire. hope a 23 year veteran was a single mother to three girls who was just months away from retiring. >> arty met with me in september. prior to the lake view road fire to plan for her retirement this january. she was leaving the department to become a nurse as she was in the final stages of completing her nursing degree.

>> 27-year-old beatrix ruiz police say intentionally set the fire. we'll have more in the next half hour. talking temperatures, you definitely need a jacket and possibly gloves this morning as you head out the door. and some places you dipped into the 20s. that is live look at city hall. melissa magee is in for a peek at the weekend forecast. >> it was chilly this morning, windchills today in the 30s and look at the morning low temperatures, lakehurst 29 degrees and trenton 34 and philadelphia 40 degrees. right now plenty of sunshine and temperatures are slowly starting to recover and seasonable this afternoon and it's 50 in

philadelphia and 49 in allentown and 38 in the poconos. at the coast in cape may 49 and the winds are a factor this afternoon. sustained anywhere from 12 miles per hour in millville and 14 in philadelphia and 22 miles per hour out west in lancaster with the west-northwestly wind and we picking up higher gusts in philadelphia up to many 14 miles per hour. looking north and west we are tracking a weak disturbance but no precipitation for our region into late tonight. and the first weekend in december, the evening commute looks like this. 49 degrees at 4:00 p.m. and mostly sunshine and clear at 5:00 p.m. upper 40s at 6:00 p.m. and mostly clear and dry and quiet at 7:00 p.m. and that number is coming in at 45.

and we'll talk about the weather headlines, a gusty breeze from the northwest and brisk and chilly over the weekend and tracking precipitation into next week. we'll let you know when and what kind of precip is on the way. the details in the full accuweather forecast. >> thank you. in other news, the mother of a kensington toddler whose life was cut tragedily short was charged in connection with his death. police say her motive was child abuse. >> andrea whirl is charged with child abuse and obstructing justice. her son was found unresponsive at their home tuesday and died at the hospital early thursday. the boy had a las rated live and tested positive for thc the main ingredient in marijuana. police are continuing to investigate the death of a

former nfl player, joe mcknight. louisiana police think his death stems from an apparent case of road rage and the suspect is now out of jail. we are live from new york city with the latest details. >> reporter: rick good morning. we learned that the man that we learned shot the exnfl running back is released and no charges have been filed. police outside of new orleans say that there are many lingering questions about what led up to the shooting. first responders tried to revive joe mcknight who was shot during an argument at an intersection. shot on this video posted to youtube. this as louisiana police took ronald gasser into custody at the scene. and overnight gasser was released. police say that the star running back was standing outside of his

car when he shot him. but he is not facing charges as the investigation is on going. mcknight first drafted by the new york jet in 2010 last played in 2014 for the kansas city chiefs. family and friends defer stated they will never see him play again. >> this is a tragic moment. >> i raised him from 6 and been in his life from that point on and i just talked to him. just talked to him. just talked to him. looking forward tore his pro day in april and i just had a conversation with him. >> i wanted him to know that this was not a troubled kid. a young man. the boy was just trying to make it back into the nfl. that is all he wanted to do. that was his whole dream. >> there is no word yet on how or why this incident started. officials there say that aside from the gun that was

surrendered no other weapons are found and it's an ongoing investigation. channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. president-elect donald trump will likely announce the rest of his cabinet picks next week. last night trump named a retired marine core general with the nickname mad dog. announced his pick of james madis during a thank youturaly in ohio. election officials in philadelphia will conduct a recount of the presidential vote in 75 precincts here. this will happen in response to petitions filed by green party candidate, jill stein, however as a hearing the elections board turned down a stein campaign request to open up digital machines to look for signs of hacking. a recount is already underway in

wisconsin. this is a look at a career fair going on in center city right now. the line is out the door at the community college of philadelphia in the city's spring garden section. the city is hosting the fair to highlight local opportunities and workforce development and we are told that this career fair will go on through much of the day. folks trying to find employment. coming up you can see where to get free coffee on this friday. and a student bought guns to his high school in utah. how his parents stopped him before anybody got hurt. and a pro wrestling star from 1983 is put into a mental hospital. remarkable things are happening at your local acme.

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montgomery county authorities are renewing their plea for information in an unsolved murder case from 1993, on this date 23 years ago the body of judy barnyok was found. and she suffered a blunt force head injury and a 10,000 there's

reward is still available for any leading to the arrest and conviction of her killer. today marks the one year anniversary since the san bernardino terror attack in california. there are no reported threats of violence, police will be extra vigilant. farook and his wife opened fire at a holiday party. emails being shared by the fbi just now revealed that malik rejected to the christmas setting and was upset that her husband, a county employee had to go. and before the attack farook posed with four co-workers for a picture in front of the christmas tree. and a boy walked into his high school armed with a shotgun and handgun as well. it was the quick actions of another student, his teacher and his parents that prevented what could have been a tragedy.

>> he fired a shot into the ceiling of his classroom. his parents were on the way to the school and rushed to the school and heard the shot and ran towards the sound, they disarmed the boy before anyone was hurt. >> the teacher and a student in that room immediately engaged him verbally in trying to talk him out of doing this. i believe those seconds played a big role in the outcome today. >> it's still not clear what charges the boy may face. secretary of state john kerry met with pope francis, kerry a practicing catholic met with the pope in vatican city. kerry introduced him to his staff and took pictures, he is in italy to participate in the rome mediterranean dialogs focusing on security in that region. it is a big weekend for several local football teams, a look at who is going head to head this weekend.

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next for maryland to play in the acc championship game. they lost to houston last year. and the naval academy is looking for the first conference win in their history. the owls won six games in a row. good luck temple. our own ducis rogers will be in maryland as well. until game day. you can watch the game saturday at noon here on 6 abc. and number seven penn state plays number six wisconsin in the big ten title game and fans are headed to indianapolis to see the big game. if the penn state wins, the nittany lions could have a chance to compete for a championship. good luck to penn state as well. melissa magee is back and a good weekend for football and good weekend to be out for holiday shopping. >> we are going to be dry and temperatures are seasonable. but on the chilly side.

we'll show you stormtracker 6 live double scan radar, no issues with precipitation, it's dry this friday afternoon. chopper 6 hd high above the skies earlier today. there in lehigh county, we have plenty of sunshine and nice, calm picture. things are nice and calm as well as we head into the rest of our weekend. right now in philadelphia, we are coming in at 50 degrees, the dew point at 28 and the air is nice and dry and the pressure 29.96 and the west-northwestly wind at 14 miles per hour with higher gusts and the ocean temperature now coming in at 50. 38 north and west of town in the poconos and upper 40s for reading and allentown, and millville 51 after a morning low temperature only at the freezing mark and 50 in cape may and 49 in trenton. the winds are blustery out of the west northwest. the current peak wind gusts in lancaster, 39 miles per hours. and gusts as high as 29 miles

per hour in philadelphia and 24 miles per hour at the coast in atlantic city. here is satellite 6 along with action radar it's quiet across our region but look off well to the north and west across interior portions of the northeast a weak frontal boundary moving on through, we'll stay rain free for the rest of tonight and the front helps to reenforce the cooler air as we get into the start of our december weekend. a setup for friday, mix your of sun and clouds and westerly wind 10 to 20 miles per hour with the highest gusts and max out at a seasonable temperature today coming in at 51 degrees, an area of high pressure to the south, that will work its way closer to our region as we get into the weekend, partly sunny saturday and sunday and seasonable conditions and numbers are in the 40s and there is a rumble of energy to the north and west as we get into late sunday into monday and that could bring precipitation our way as we close out the weekend and head into the work week. we talk about temple away taking

on navy, kickoff at noon 47 degrees for the temperature and mostly sunny, the fourth quarter 50 degrees for the temperature with a northwesterly wind at 15 to 25 miles per hour. today a cool breeze and high temperature of 51 and on saturday a chilly wind with a high temperature of 49 and sunday sun to increasing clouds and 47 for the high and late sunday as we track the ripple of energy moving on through there could be rain here in philadelphia with a few flakes north and west overnight sunday and closer to dawn on monday morning. otherwise it's partly sunny on monday afternoon and high of 50. on tuesday tracking the next system moving on through, it's raw and wet, a high temperature of 48. wednesday some early morning rain showers and otherwise mostly cloudy and 52 and cloudy with rain on thursday high at 53. next weekend it's much colder after that. >> get ready thank you.

well, a local high school teacher may have a new career on television. in october richard curtis beat out 20 other finalists to cohost and has already been on the show twice and is headed back to live with kelly late this month. he is set to cohost december 12th to the 14th. he is a television teacher in buck county. we wish him luck.

"action news" at 12:30 continues with rick williams sara bloomquist and meteorologist, david murphy. hello again sara is off and here are the stories we are following for you now on "action news" at 12:30. a mother in philadelphia is facing charges after her 12-year-old son was killed. we have the latest on that. and the former new york jets running back was killed during an apparent road rage incident and a witness describes the moments before the shooting and surveillance cameras capture the moment before a school bus crashes into a house in florida. now the details, a wilmington firefighter is being remembered for her bravery. hope died last night months after the arson left her severely burned. vernon odom talked to the fire chief in wilmington and he is there now with more on the sad story. >> reporter: good afternoon.