prosecution at cosby's trial this spring say critical one. it was intense between cosby's legal team and the prosecution in court today. who will get to testify against bill cosby in the sexual assault trial. the da wants to call 13 women that claim that cosby drugged and molested them in years past and some go as far back as the 60s and prosecutors say it will show a pattern of the defendant's history. the defense says it's testimony is too old to be reliable. and most are represented by gloria allred. >> it's the question of is this a signature act, common what we call an mo. most of the womens names are already established as the cosby scandal exploded. but the defense steele wants to

them to stop using their names and that alligation brought on screaming matches between kevin steele and judge steven o'neal says they could use the names of 11 women because they are already out here. but they did not talk to them on the departure but they talk tomorrow. >> my mom loves you. >> thank you. >> reporter: jim the hearing resumes tomorrow morning it was scheduled for two days here. live at the montgomery county courthouse in norristown, i'm vernon odom, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. the federal government is investing in camden in a big way. today officialed announced a substantial grant to redevelopment the community. they have awarded camden $13 million that money along with other public and private

financial help will be used. joined mayor dana redd and other officials for at announcement this morning. organizers plan to build more than 300 mixed income units and residents are excited for the future. >> i can't wait to see the new community. we wait for so many years when i see it, they start working on it i'll believe it. >> the project is expected to be completed in five years. we have had stories about bandits taking packages off stoops and front porches and stories about burglars taking christmas items but this is a story about someone stealing packages full of donations for a neighborhood coat drive. it doesn't get more despicable than that. sara bloomquist is live in the northern liberties section of philadelphia. >> reporter: well jim, this

thief likely had no idea what was in the packages or intended for needy children at the school where the victim teaches but this is part of a -- they too were targeted by the very same suspect. >> this package thief walked by several times, casing the house before making his move on taking packages from the font step of the house at the 800 block of lawrence in northern liberties. danielle chevy is the homeowner. >> he cleared out three of the four packages on the stoop even though they were covered by decor and took off in five seconds. >> it was last friday at 4:30 in the afternoon chevy did not realize what happened until she track aid package and checked the surveillance footage and saw the thief in action. >> it's someone that doesn't

care if they get caught and are not afraid of getting caught. >> one was a package she purchased and others were coats she is collecting from friends on social media for children at the east child school in philadelphia. >> kids 8 to 14, kids that didn't have hats and gloves and coats, essentials they need to go to and from school. >> look at the suspect, dark jacket, dark colored jeans and black skull cap and a distinct backpack. chevy spotted him twice in the neighborhood. >> there he was walking down the street probably 100 feet behind an ups truck dropping packages and low and behold later that day i was coming up spring garden there he was again. >> now chevy posted her video on

the northern liberties community page, she soon heard from five or six of her neighbors saying they too were victimized but saw the guys stealing packages from other steps, so far nobody is able to get the police there fast enough to make an arrest. i'm sara bloomquist, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. a man mistook the gas pedal for the brake and ended up driving into a business in hockessin, delaware today. the driver drove his porsche box ter through the dry-cleaners. the damage to the building was extensive. and the driver was cited for careless driving. who would feed rat poisoning to a pair of beagle puppies, that is what they are trying to find out in jackson, ocean county. >> last month this beagle puppy, becky became serious ill his

owner mike brought him to the vet. the diagnosis was rat poisoning and his little brother jimmy had it in his system too. it was horrifying to him and his wife, ann that wonder how and why anyone with poison their dogs. >> they are sick, something wrong with them. who would think of that? poison an animal? >> the dog as long with another beagle named toby live in the backyard pens along with chickens that roam the property. the puppies became sick after police came to their house at 2:00 in the morning. >> two stupid cats, they make a noise and the dog went crazy. what is their job. that is what they do, we talk and they bark. >> this is not the first time they have had their animals

poisoned. two years ago the animals died. at the urging of their veterinarian they report tropical disturbance to police who refer tropical disturbanc referred it to the spca. >> this is not normal. >> i hope not. that is sad. >> they spent $2,000 on vet bills and medications, thankfully becky and jimmy are on the mend but they would like no know who has repeatedly given rat poisoning to their puppies and why. i'm nora muchanic, channel 6 "action news." >> in philadelphia, former pennsylvania governor, ed rendell led a panel of judges today to determine the winner of the 2016 citizen challenge. the essay contest was for fourth and fifth graders from the philadelphia region held at the constitution center. the question posed to the students was this, should be do away with the electoral college.

taking the $1,000 grand prize was chestnutwald elementary school. bringing bikes and carrying armfuls of toys, they delivered toys to the salvation army this half afternoon. the visit is part of governor christie's annual season of service program to provide for those in need. coming up on "action news" the bandit that swiped dozens of address numbers off homes has a change of heart. where the digits turned up today. and temple university has a new football coach we'll introduce you to the man that will lead the temple owls. >> seasonably cold here but the air mass in parts of canada as low as 7 degrees below zero.

we are tracking a wintry mix in the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast.

a philadelphia neighborhood has its share of holiday intrigue this year. someone is going around stealing 1's and 0's from numbers on the front of people's homes. now all of a sudden they have shown up again. live on the 2200 block of east amber street in east kensington. here is bob brooks. >> reporter: well jim, there are a number of possible

explanations of why this happen. this story is odd. they are called the binary bandit stealing 1's and now they are finally hanging it up. if you head down amber street in east kensington you'll see homes missing their 1's and 0's, the odd theft being blamed on the notorious binary bandits, the duo believed to be a man and woman and megan caught one bandit on a camera in september stealing a 0 from her home. >> there is the bandit taking the 0 and running away. >> there say mystery. >> in is speculation that there is an art installation. >> probably an art project, that is the rumor going around and i

went to art school and i can imagine someone doing something like this. >> now the bandits have a change of heart. overnight a man comes to megan's durand drops off a garbage bag and walks away and her husband gets up to go to work. >> it's the 1's and 0's and we stare at each other in shock and disbelieve. she spread them out for police. she really has no explanation. >> we want answers. >> she is just glad that it seems like the binary bandits have a change of heart. but this experience is not something she will forget soon. >> a nine out of ten for weird and bizarre. >> reporter: very weird indeed? this is reported going on in other neighborhooded as well. the police came here to the home and took the numbers as the

investigation continues to figure out who the binary bandits are and what exactly they were doing with the 1's and 0's, reporting live bob brooks, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. philabundance and dunkin' donuts customers were both winners today. the coffee shop on cotman avenue in northeast philadelphia served up free coffee to the first 500 customers, dunkin' donuts donated $1,000 to the philabundance food bank and it was part of the dunkins brewing joy program ♪ ♪ the sounds of the season just the first of several visits lined up this week at the delaware county courthouse in media, these boys and girls are from holy academy. and the annual holiday song fest continues into next monday.

it didn't take long for temple to find a new football coach. >> just a week. jeff collins is the new head coach at temple. he will be formerly introduced tomorrow at 11:00. collins takes the reins of a program on the rise. a native of georgia, spent the last two seasons at the university of florida. as a defendantsive coordinator, florida was ranked sixth and ten and nationally. and prior no that was at mississippi state and his former boss is singing his praises. >> we are really excited about the opportunity for him and his family at temple. it's a place that has really done a great job and he'll carry that on. i'm really excited for him moving forward. >> from temple's football team to the basketball squad. the owls have a tall order tonight, they visit top ranked and undefeated villanova on the main line. jaime apody is live at the

pavilion with a preview. >> reporter: not only that ducis, these villanova seniors have never lost a big five game in hire entire career, that has never happened before and tonight is the final one. and they play a temple team who has not lost in the big five this season and this game is for the big five championship and these teams post challenges for each other. >> we can't take a possession off we have to pay attention to how opportunistic they are. that is what these guys are they are great on the defensive end and attack when they get the opportunity. so we have to maximize our possessions. >> they have guys coming off the bench that can light you up. and put up big numbers, their starting five can all score. they got great balance and explosiveness offensively.

>> villanova actually looking to win their 17th straight dating back to last season and temple has already knocked off two nationally ranked' opponents this season. you never know who will happen at the pavilion. >> we'll be watching thank you. to football only three games to go for the eagles, they limp into baltimore and hopefully not just going through the motions. a big criticism of the offense is the run to pass ratio, wentz is on pace for 600 pass attempts this season a franchise record. >> in a perfect scenario do you want to throw that many passes at the end of year? no. are there silver linings in it? in other ways? i'm sure there are. there is no doubt that carson is seeing a lot. every kind of pressure and every

kind of coverage and seeing what throws he can make and what he condition make and how to improve here. those are all good things that i think will help him in the long run. >> when you fall behind in games you throw the ball a lot. 613 that is a lot of passes. >> i wonder if it's a record for a rookie quarterback. >> i'll find out. cecily tynan and the accuweather forecast when we continue in just a moment.

so as recently at last night we were saying if folks send us

their holiday light pictures they may get on the air. here are the festive photos, as always we want to see your favorite holiday lights. send them to us on social media using #6abcaction and can you also post them to our facebook page or email them to jointheaction@6abc.com. and in all seriousness some of them are gorgeous displays and some puppies and kids. it's holiday time. >> not just lights a lot of pictures. family photos and baby pictures and puppy pictures. if you haven't put your lights up yet do it tomorrow. because you won't want to do it thursday or friday because of the coal and you won't want to do it over the weekend because of the messy weather heading our way. you have been warned. stormtracker 6 live double scan showing out there tonight here in philadelphia and the surrounding areas we are dry but there say weak cold front producing some snow showers generally across parts of the

poconos, mt. pocono now we have a snow shower over lake harmony lifting up to the north and a weak system and strong arctic boundary pulling through and that brings us 60 hours of below freezing temperatures, this is the time to find the real heavy jacket. the hats and gloves, you'll need them by thursday and also don't forget to bring the pet fz at this time. they need to stay warm and if you have not done so already disconnect your hoses and shut off your outside water so your pipes don't freeze. in addition to the cold temperatures, winds are gusting on thursday, up to 40 miles per hour. so once we get past 9:00 in the morning, we'll have windchills in the single digits, it's not a situation where it's cold in the morning and then warms up it's brutally cold through the day on thursday. right now you step outside not that bad. 41 town from 44, 1 degree below

normal. the poconos 29 with some snow showers and cape may 40 and trenton currently 39 degrees. satellite 6 along with action radar showing you we have the weak front up to the north and west pulling through late tonight and low pressure to the south that is heading directly east we are kind of in the zone between the two. the air is sinking and that means it's drying, we won't see much activity and could get a sprinkle or flurry overnight and not much more than that. 38 in allentown and 30 in wilmington and trenton and cape may 35 degrees, seasonably cold. tomorrow a nice december day. a few cumulous clouds in the afternoon and a little bit colder but not a windy day. 42 degrees and all in all not bad at all. the big change comes with the arctic front that is through midnight tomorrow night you will feel and hear the winds, wind gusts, 30 to 40 miles per hour

temperatures are not really moving at all. the lehigh valley at 5:00 and across the shore about 15 degrees and the high pressure builds in on friday and it will be very cold, the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast sun and clouds tomorrow and 42 degrees and thursday the biting winds, and flurries and 24 degrees and friday not as windy and still brutally cold and 27 and saturday we have the winter storm. it cuts to the west and what this means it pulls in warm air and will start as snow after midnight friday night, a period of icing before a gradual change ore to rain and the biggest concern is the far north western suburbs before the change over to rain. on sunday mild and periods of rain and 55 degrees, a dreary weekend and monday the sun is back and brisk and colder and 34 degrees and tuesday partly sunny and 39 degrees. a lot of details to iron out with saturday, we'll have more

details through the end of week but saturday morning could be very icy. >> operation warm descending on a philadelphia school this afternoon. they helped the children try on their bran new winter coats. they outfitted more than 100 preschoolers and kindergartners, operation warm provided winter coats to 2 million children across the country since 1992. and "action news" continues on phl 17 at 10:00 with brian taff and ducis rogers and join us for "action news" at 11:00 here on channel 6. for cecily tynan, ducis rogers and the entire "action news" team i'm jim gardner we hope you'll join us for "action news" at 11:00.

tonight, inside trump tower. the president-elect emerging from the elevators with kanye west. what the two then said. and it came just hours after mr. trump's choice for secretary of state. critics pouncing on rex tillerson's relationship with vladimir putin. breaking news tonight. a hung jury? what we've just learned, and what the judge just ordered in the case of the florida wife accused of plotting to kill her husband. police staging this scene, telling her her husband had been killed. the grandfather, 73 years old, unarmed, shot and killed by police. tonight, his family says, he had dementia. new surveillance right here tonight. the arctic blast moving in this evening. 100 million americans facing wind chills 10 to 20 below zero. and the major recall at this hour. the popular kitchen appliance.