to hold him. that means the driver is on the loose somewhere and there is a massive drag net to track him down. 12 people were killed when a truck plowed into the popular market in berlin and authorities have determine that the original driver, was assaulted. he was from poland, and was assaulted and killed by one or more hijackers and the dead passenger in the front seat was in fact the polish driver. there is a big christmas market just outside of city hall in philadelphia. that is where walter perez is live tonight. walter are city officials here increasing security given what happened in berlin? >> reporter: they are jim. you know the security presence at city hall is strong but city officials are clear that no specific threats against philadelphia have been reported. >> added security measures are now in place around the christmas village outside of

city hall. mayor jim kenney says that is in response to the deadly terror attack in germany and the decision was made purely out of an abunnance of caution. >> we have larger vehicles parked at the entrances to our own christmas village around city hall. police vehicles and trash trucks, we don't have an imminent threat but obviously taking precautions when something like this happens. >> meanwhile, thomas bower the organizer of the christmas village says he is heart broken of what took place in his home country of germany we are thinking about the family members and friends. it's a tragedy. >> 12 where killed be others injured after someone drove this truck into the market in berlin and isis has taken responsibility for the attack.

what happens hits home cured in an open air market like the christmasville able. >> i thought about it, we are exposed to all of these roads and everything but you can't live your life in fear. >> you hate to see it happen but this is how we live now. thomas understands that public spaces like the one occupied by the christmasville able can no longer be presumed to be safe. >> the police take care not just now but all been here making sure it's a safe place. >> reporter: now, the attack in germany comes after long scale attacks in europe. including france. but no specific attacks have been reported in philadelphia. >> thank you walter. world news tonight will have more on today's developments from berlin. that is next at 6:30 here on channel 6. >> tonight police in cumberland

county, new jersey, are desperately seeking this man, 32-year-old jeremiah monel. his wife's body was found. and now we live in cedarville where police found an important include. >> reporter: jim, we are 15 min as way from the crime scene. this is a fairly remote highly wooded area, and this search has been on going since early yesterday morning but it has picked unand intensified in the last few hours after jeremiah monel's truck was found near the railroad tracks here. the search began by grown and air. this is the truck that police found abandoned in cedarville kicking off the manhunt on going. at one point to helicopters hovered over head keeping a perimeter on the ground keeping

an eye on railroad tracks. he is accused of killing his wife, tara o'shea in her home yesterday morning. friended say it was in fronts of their 12-year-old son and he is on the run ever since and charged with murder. >> reporter: and jim we have seen the activity here die down and pick up again within the last few minutes, police will not elaborate on what they have found if anything so far but they will keep us posted as soon as they find something. reporting live cumberland county, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. fire destroyed a townhome today and damaged an adjacent home in newcastle, tell wear. firefighters were called to the scene at 11:30 this morning, the flames raced through the second floor of the home. fortunately everybody made it out safely. the red cross is now helping out the family. we have no word on the cause. philadelphia police have

conducted a major drug sweep in kensington that yielded hundreds of thousands of drugs and 170 arrests. vernon odom is live at police forensic science center in north philadelphia. you have the full story. >> reporter: i do jim. we have seen all of this many times before, the police trying hard the drugs and the guns and the cash and all of those people addicted to drugs. dangerous elements all from the mean streets. >> drugs. soliciting. different things of the sort that may happen that the cameras or people or cops don't see. >> that is what long time homeowner will fowler sees from his home every day. he lives a stones throw from kensington avenue and the heroin addicts seem to be everywhere you turn. they did a sweep over $50,000 in

heroin, $130,000 worth of powdered cocaine and penty of crack and oxycontin and marijuana. lots of crash and guns. a massive number of arrests, a flood of apparent overdoses, much of it experts believe attributable to the opioid fentanyl. stronger than street heroin. >> we targeted organizations that we believe was laced with fentanyl and using technology we borrowed from the national guard and identified fentanyl laced packages. >> we have locked up 170 adults. and juveniles. >> there assessment of the massive police sweeps. >> i am sober for three months now and it's a hard thing, it's

actually very hard thing to do and it's not going to change down here. >> i don't think any of it will change. >> they have been trying to change it for years and it keeps coming back. it's never going to change it's kensington. >> jim, police say tonight that 10 per of those arrested during the sweeps were so-called out of towners, meaning suburbanites. >> thank you vernon. the man accused of setting off bombs in new jersey and new york pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted murder. ahmed rahami made an appearance today facing charges of trying to kill police officers during his capture in september in lyndon, new jersey. prosecutors say no plea deal will be offered.

he is accused of setting off a pipe bomb in seaside park. and two former chris christie allies convicted in the bridge gate case are seeking new trial. they claim that jurors acting improperly. they say that some jurors deliberated on a day when the judge ordered them not to as attorneys resolved a legal issue and that the government failed to prove their case. rafael rob who was serving 12 years in prison for murdering his wife but rob may have hurt his case today after admitting to previous perjuries that during a hearing today. rob was petitioning to access $100,000 in frozen accounts upon his release. during cross examination he aadmitted to having a french bank account and those were not previously disclosed and the hearing stopped and robb withdrew his position and it's

unclear if prosecutors will consider the charge of perjury. this landfill at joint mcguire ft. dix air base will be fit with solar parents. when it's complete it will produce renewable energy every year enough to power 2500 homes. this will be the largest military solar installation in the northeast. coming up on "action news" buck county middle schoolers host a senior party. the lessons they learned by mingling with those with a bit more life experience. and it's official lane johnson is back in the lineup for the eagles. and sky 6 hd looking at a beautiful shot of the center city skyline, mostly clear and quiet and temperatures improving for the first day of winter. details in the accuweather forecast. >> those stories and more when "action news" continues.

big doings in philadelphia. the spring garden street connecter project that links northern liberties to the waterfront is just completed. an hour ago the waterfront corpse unveiled the new look at the city's spring garden section and the underpass is transformed into a light show and new sidewalks and additional lighting and septa portalled have been added. something new. two families in delaware will have a brighter holiday thanks to the generosity of the

colonial school district. the families received dozens of wrapped kids to make the holiday memorable and they donated 70 coats to children in the school district. new at 6:00 young people in buck county brought the holiday spirit to hundreds of folks that are certainly young at heart. "action news" reporter, nora muchanic has that story from langhorne. ♪ ♪ tive and grader at maple point grade school sang their hearts out for a senior party. the band and school orchestra entertained hundreds of guests from the area nursing home. there is something special about children singing any time of year especially during the holidays. more important the students were encouraged to talk to the seniors here to interact with them and make a connection. and so they asked their guests about themselves. taking notes about what their

recipe is for a happy life. >> and that is to love everybody and get along. >> what do you think is a successful life. get an education. >> and pursue whatever you feel in your heart you can do. don't let nobody take your dreams from you. >> one is to never look back and enjoy every day. >> and i think that is actually a really nice thing. >> today too many students are all about the technology and texting and their cell phones and want them to have the opportunity to interact with their grandparents and get advice and life lessons to be learned. it seems the students were listening, i love this project because we get to know about seniors we never met before and we get to learn a lot about them. >> you see what they think about how successful life is and they have already live aid long time. i think it's wonderful they get a chance to interact with us and we get to enjoy them.

>> the party was a big success using conversation, music and song. i'm nora muchanic, channel 6 "action news."

for the first time since he began serving the 10 game suspense for a failed drug test. johnson remains his workouts at home in oklahoma and he will start at right tackle against the new york giants. the birds went 2-8 in his absence and taking responsibility for some of the team's struggles. >> it's on my mind all the time even now when i'm with the team and things could have happened

different with the season. not that one player can do everything. but i could have helped in many ways. >> we could have been 4-0 after the detroit game. all i can do is go play and do enough talking, i can talk all day but it will be showing. and proving that through the rest of my contract. >> to baseball now. the phillies picked up another asset they will likely trade at the deadline. they inquired clay buchholz for josh toe bias. he went 12-1 in 2013 with a sub 2 era but insistent since. he is an excellent candidate to be traded late in the season. basketball now the sixers have one of the worst records in the nba and the pelicans are not much better and the two meet tonight at the wells fargo center. and this is a pleasant sight.

ben simmons doing practice on the cord. no official word when he'll return but could be next month. the sixers and pelicans met six weeks ago and they got the better of them and their star, anthony davis. >> we have to follow the game plan, and i think as long as we do that, we are going to do a good job as a team. last time we -- and we played good defense on them. >> college football now the temple owls make their second straight bowl appearance next week and tuesday they face wake forest in annapolis money in the military bowl. the senior class wants a bowl victory before they ship on out and could win 11 games for the first time in team history. >> for the older guys we want to go out as winners and we know we have a chance of doing something that was never done here before. and go in and win a game and for

the young guys it's just the beginning of their next season. send them out right and send us off right. >> they are playing at the naval academy. >> where they won the conference championship. >> that was like three weeks ago they played that game. an employee that stayed with the same company in south jersey for a half century is ready for retire. nancy has spent 50 years at the regional medical centers campus, the company threw a party for her and they shared 50 reasons why they love her. after she officially retires, she plans on traveling around the country.

well, santa stopped in hunt can park today to see the boys and girls that made the nice list, mrs. claus handed out (s at the annual holiday party and youngsters from the elementary school were incite invited to meet santa personally and there were officers from their community. a noble thing to do. lets get the accuweather forecast from melissa magee. >> it's chilly right now jim, temperatures getting milder as we get into wednesday for the first day of winter. here is stormtracker 6 live double scan you see it's dry and no issues with precipitation and cold outside and in fact we were outside earlier today at bellevue state park in bellevue, a beautiful shot of the sky, you

see a few cirrus clouds as well. calm winds and it stays cold through the rest of tonight. looking at lhighlights. the suns direct rays are over the tropic of capricorn and the shortest night of year. a seasonable start to continuer, in the 30s by 11:00 a.m. and lower 40s by lunch time tomorrow. and conditions slowly coming on the upward trend as we go throughout the day. 41 at 5:00 p.m. and back down into the upper 30s at 7:00 p.m. tomorrow evening. here is satellite sheriff it's mostly clear and quiet and a few clouds streaking across the region and a ridge of high pressure to the south and that continues to work its way into the eastern half of the u.s. as we get into wednesday the return southwesterly flow pumps in the milder air. partly cloudy and a december chill ahead and 18 in the suburbs for the overnight low

and dropping down to 26 in philadelphia. here is the forecast for us on wednesday, high temperature for the first day of winter coming in at 45 degrees, turning milder with the southwesterly wind and the area of low pressure over the great lakes and midwest. this heads our way as we get into thursday. by then a high temperature of 50 degrees as the front moves on through it turns breezy by afternoon, and in the wake of that you tap into the strong northwesterly winds, the sun to clouds and get the day started on thursday and turning much colder as we head into thursday night. as you head to the linc the eagles at home as they take on the giants, kickoff 8:25 and prime time match-up and windchills are not 20s even though the kickoff temperature is 38 degrees, once we get into the fourth quarter, in at 35 with the northwesterly wind. here is the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast milder start to winter tomorrow high temperature of 45, and on thursday turning breezy in at 50

for the high as much colder into thursday night. we drop down to 31 and on friday abunnant sunshine and 46 for the high. saturday for christmas eve some sun and a shower around earlier, otherwise we are in at 48 and hanukkah beginning at sun down. partly sunny for christmas day and in at 49 and monday mostly cloudy and a high of 48 for the start of kwanzaa, and as we get into next tuesday, much warmer, up to 55 degrees, a good 13 degrees above normal. and chilly right now, the pattern change is on the way and starts for the first day of winter ironically and as we get into the holidays this weekend temperatures on the mild side. santa claus had a busy day in philadelphia. he and a special guest checked out the holiday sights and sounds at franklin square, mayor jim kenney dressed up as buddy the elf and helped santa meet with dozens of kids.

they also enjoyed the franklin square spectacle made up of 50,000 lights and takes place every evening until new years eve. world news tonight with david muir is next on channel 6. and "action news" continues at 10:00 on phl 17 with brian taff, sharrie williams and ducis rogers and please join us for "action news" at 11:00 on channel 6. for cecily tynan, melissa magee and ducis rogers and the entire "action news" team i'm jim gardner we hope you'll join us for "action news" at 11:00. where things come from?

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. tonight, the manhunt. the christmas terror attack. what we've now learned. authorities believe the driver of the truck was hijacked. he'd be eating in a diner and had just called his wife. tonight, isis now claiming responsibility. and authorities here in the u.s. now on high alert. images coming in right now of the explosions in mexico tonight. in an open-air market, fireworks ignited. at least 60 injured. homes set on fire. also developing, the new video from inside the assassination. the russian diplomat, gunned down. tonight, we learn, the shooter was a member of the police riot squad. the travel nightmare in this country, just days until christmas. the passengers and their luggage, piled up. and the major federal investigation breaking late today, a million vehicles here in the u.s. the new rollaway