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bloomquist, and meteorologist, david murphy. good afternoon sara bloomquist is off. breaking news police are at the scene of a crash involving a car in the city's frankford section. and an investigation is underway for a robbery on the popular schuylkill trail. and the precautions now being taken. the big story is the escaped suspect who has been taken into custody. chopper 6 hd was over the scene, and brought into custody here. and was caught hours after being able to escape a police cruiser all while being handcuffed. it happened when a car slammed into the cruiser on the roosevelt boulevard. bob brooks is live with the latest. >> reporter: rick, first this suspect crashed three cars and then was arrested for it. and then if you can believe it, he escaped from police by kicking his way out of a police

cruiser. >> after a morning spent on the run from the philadelphia police, the man that kicked his way out a cop car was caught. cameras caught the moment they took him into police head quarters. he is accused of crashing a total of three cars including his own on roosevelt boulevard. calls came in for an erratic driver and before they got the suspects to stop, he ran into one police vehicle and slammed into this white suv. but after he was arrested. he managed to kick his way out of a police cruiser busting open the door and police say he ran down the boulevard and temporary got away still handcuffs. and it was here on godfrey avenue that they caught the suspect. >> neighbors did not hear anything but they were not shocked. >> nothing surprising me anymore. now-a-days, everything is so

crazy. thank god they got him that is all. >> a woman says something like this hits too close to home. >> it's scary, you have your doors locked and everything is locked afraid to go outside and you don't go out once the sun goes down. >> we hate to hear people feel that way. and police will not release the name of the suspect until he is officially charged. when we get that information we'll bring it to you. bob brooks, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. talking weather now. the sun is shining for your friday but it's not as warm as it was yesterday. lets go outside and take a look at sky 6 hd right outside of city hall. meteorologist, melissa magee, is in for david murphy and has the track of your sunny forecast and also snow on the way tomorrow. >> we are tracking more snow in time for the weekend and a bit of a change today. it's cooler than it was yesterday across the region when

we had record highs and temperatures in the 60s. right now we are coming in at 48 degrees in philadelphia, 8 degrees above average, not too bad. 45 in reading and 43 in the poconos and 49 degrees in cape may. look at the 24 hour temperature change, it's 15 degrees cooler than the same time yesterday and 14 degrees cooler in lancaster and 15 degrees just 24 hours ago in the poconos. and if you step outlarity today for the evening commute. we have you covered. 4:00 p.m. sun and temperature of 45 and 42 at 5:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. 41 and mostly cloudy at 7:00 p.m. tonight temperature of of 49. the clouds are increasing because we are tracking moisture from the south that makes its way northward and future tracker 6 showing you that 9:00 in the morning we are dry, but the snow approaches from a southeast to

northeast direction as we go out tomorrow afternoon. we'll talk about what to expect. this is a minimal precipitation event. light snowfall in the region in the afternoon and evening between noon and 7:00 p.m. tomorrow, just a coating to an inch. we'll have all the details coming up in the exclusive accuweather forecast. >> thank you. with light snow in the forecast, stay with 6abc.com/weather through the weekend, stormtracker 6 live double scan radar will show you what to expect and when. and follow our meteorologists on twitter and facebook for updates as well. breaking news out of the city's frankford section, police and firefighters are on the scene of a serious crash here it happened on frankford avenue and church street. one person was injured and taken to einstein medical center. we are following breaking news out of ocean county, the search it on for a missing

fisherman in egg harbor. police are searching for the missing clam fisherman. he called the coast guard that his boat ran aground last night. they found his boat but he was not there. the man at the center of the clergy sex abuse scandal is back in court. a judge could dismiss the case against william lynn, they claim that prosecutors withheld probable evidence in his case. he spent two years in prison. the first catholic official in the city. once the judge makes the decision we'll send out an alert on the 6 abc app. and police say that a man wearing a red ski mask and armed with with a weapon armed someone overnight here and got away with cash and a cell phone. it happened before 1:00 this morn on the trail near walnut

street. the suspect ran away and amtrak police and philadelphia police both responded. no reports of injuries, we'll have a live report on the live investigation coming up in just a little bit on "action news" at 12:30. the u.s. department of justice just released the final report on the philadelphia police department. the initial report was released in may of 2015. the department is implement many of the 91 recommendations in the report. and commissioner ramsey ordered it in 2014 after increase in officer-involved shooting. and chaka fattah will likely be headed to prison later this month. he was allowed to remain free while appealing his decision on racketeering charges. he was convicted in june of using more than $600,000 in

government grants and nonprofit funds on personal and campaign expenses. in washington the justice department's inspector general is turning the tables on fbi director james comey, he wants to know if comey and the rest of the fbi department followed proper procedures over hillary clinton's emails during the presidential election. lana zach is live with more. >> and president-elect trump has responded to that today. >> good afternoon, as one of the many topics he is weighing in on on twitter today. as far as the president-elect goes, he says publically he has not decided if he would like comey to remain the head of the fbi when he becomes president. this has wide ranging implication. >> the fbi does not comment on investigations. i would never comment on

investigations whether we have one or not in an open forum like this. we never confirm or deny on an investigation like this. >> they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive highly classified information. >> his news conference and reopening the clinton case just 11 days before the election are now under scrutiny by the expecter general of the justice department. >> the policy is you don't do it close to an election, you don't want anybody to think that the department is acting to influence an election. >> and also under investigation, an assistant attorney general that leaked information to the hillary clinton campaign and the trump campaign specifically rudy giuliani. he hinted to fox he knew about comey's bombshell in advance. >> we have a few things up our sleeve that could turn things

around. >> what are hillary clinton's people complaining about with respect to the fbi, based on the information they had she should never have been allowed to run. >> the president-elect went on to say that clinton was guilty in the same series of tweets and that has legal scholars shakes their heads to call a private citizen guilty by a modern american president or president-elect. reporting live from washington, lana zach, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. by the way president-elect trump says his team will have a full report on hacking within 90 days and again dismissing the account that russia has damaging information about him. trump tweeted about him this morning that the document includes totally made up facts and that congress is taking the steps to repeal the affordable care act. and to vote on a measure making

it easy to repeal a law without a filibuster from house democrats. the cuban government is praising president barack obama's decision to end the wet foot, dry foot policy allowing cubans that arrive in the u.s. to become permanent residents. thousands have been blocking to the u.s. since 2014 since the u.s. and cuba started diplomatic relations. closer to home a philadelphia high school is celebrating an impressive accomplishment today. 100% of the senior class is accepted in a four year college. [ applause ] the highly motivated students at crystal ray erupted in cheers when they heard for the first time that all 80 seniors received acceptance letters from colleges and universities. members of the class of 2017 say

they are extremely proud. >> i am exciting that my whole class got accepted into college. >> i am proud of my classmates and the work we put it and it's paying off. >> this is four years in the making for our terrific senior class and they have hearts on fire for college. and we have a great staff that ignites the fire. >> and last year's senior class had a 100% acceptance rate as well. new information about a mystery illness that caused flight attendants to become sick on a flight. and see the high tech gadget a man was using to get through tolls.

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and the potential for a significant ice storm is increasing. a small memorial is set up near the home where six children died in a house fire in baltimore. the mother of the family was able to escape along with her 8-year-old daughter that manage to the save two of her brothers and six others were trapped inside. the third floor of the home collapsed. and the mother and two boys we main in critical condition. and investigators are be back at the scene today to figure out how the tragic fire started. >> and they have met on the tarmac after several flight attendants became sick, the captain reported that the de- e de-icer was falling from an air vent in the form of a white powder. and the agent says the powder is not toxic. none of the passengers were sick. >> a driver used a high tech

device to avoid paying a $1.25 toll on a highway in central florida. state troopers say that 27-year-old joshua west used a remote control device that dropped the shield over the license plate on his car. he was pulled over and arrested him. charged with theft and cheating it's a felony. >> not worth having a felony charge on your record. don't use the road if you can't afford it. >> it's unclear how many times west may have used the device to avoid paying the tolls. fiat chrysler ceo responds to cheating on emissions tests. when "action news" continues.

fiat chrysler is refuting charges by federal regulators that it cheated on emissions standards. that they failed to disclose the use of software allowing some suvs and pickups to evade emissions standards. some analysts suggest that fiat chrysler's problem was not intentional deception like vw. and a teacher shaves his head to show kids about bullying. when the boys classmates started

making fun of them and ask the him to bring barber clippers to school and the next day the boy went to work shaving the principal's head. >> i have a mother with cancer and a father-in-law that did not win the battle against cancer. he hopes that his students understand that everyone needs support now and again. the "action news" team is out working on news stories tonight beginning at 4:00. like this one. freebie friday today. we have a number of freeways to help you stay healthy from important screenings to workouts we have you covered and an inauguration invitation mixup. a printing error has phones ringing off the hook at a police department.

meteorologist, melissa magee, if you like yesterday you will be disappointed. >> that is true. no more record highs, we were in the 60s earlier today. even still. but it looks like temperatures are cooling off later tonight and the snow tomorrow. here is stormtracker 6 live double scan radar you see we are not tracking any precipitation so temperatures not too bad right now, get out and enjoy while you can on your lunch break. sky 6 hd there in spring mountain in montgomery county, you see the skiers having some fun there. and you may get snow from mother nature as early as tomorrow as we track a system moving in from the south. right now in philadelphia we come in at 48 degrees, 45 in reading and 33 in the poconos and 50 for wilmington dover and millville 53 at the coast in atlantic city. and 49 in cape may. the wins are sustained 13 miles per hour in millville and as high as 18 in the city and reading, we are tapping into a

northwesterly wind and that will help to get temperatures cooler by day's end and in advance of a cold front and moisture we are tracking. here is satellite 6 along with action radar a front moved through last night and sagging to the south and the cold air is lagging behind that. we'll track that and that will funnel in later on this evening. if you step out on the town, maybe some plans tonight and the evening planner looking like this, 39 degrees by 7:00 p.m. mostly cloudy sky and upper 30s and extra layers are needed tonight and upper 30s by 10:00 and 11:00 p.m. here is the setup for saturday, the cold air sets us up for what is to come. a light snow and sleet event on the way and high pressure is to the north and arctic high pressure is in place and we are tracking this weak area of low pressure to the south, this area of low pressure is having a hard time fighting the cold but dry air to the north.

so it doesn't look like we'll find a whole lot of precipitation and a minimal snowfall event across the region. future tracker 6 showing you 9:00 in the morning a cloudy start and dry to the day on saturday and little afternoon we'll track snow approaching there in south jersey, and also into delaware, by 4:00 things start to fill in a bit with some snow on the i-95 corridor and areas to the south and east maybe a sleet line in wildwood and central delaware. 7:30 or a little after that, the snow tapers off from a west east direction. as far as expected snow not a lot. a half inch in lakehurst and westward into reading and lancaster, just a few flakes in the poconos and allentown. this could make for slick spots but little snow falls on the way tomorrow. here is the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast bresk and colder today.

temperature around 48 this afternoon and slowly falling off. sunday 44 for the high a milder day for the second half of our weekend, for monday martin luther king day, partly sunny and 41 and we warm up on tuesday a high of 50 and damp and 54 on wednesday with periods of rain and more rain likely on thursday and 59. still more ahead in our next half our of "action news" aat 1:30. scary moments for a big rig when it slides down a highway. and president obama has just one week left in the white house, the legacy he is leaving behind.

"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 at 12:30. a suspect that fled from officers after he was arrest said is back in police custody this afternoon. and the search is on for the masked man that robbed a man and woman at gun point along the schuylkill trail. and the big story we are following for you now is the changing temperatures outside. sky 6 hd showing you the center

city skyline on this friday afternoon. the temperature is going down and that could mean snow for us this weekend. meteorologist melissa magee joins us out sides with what to expect. >> we have changes on the way as we get into the start of our weekend as the snow will approach from a south to north direction. but it's a little cooler this afternoon. philadelphia coming in at 48 after yesterday we had record highs across portions of the region. right now in reading 45 and 50 in dover. we are tapping into the northwesterly wind and winds sustained to 40 in trenton and 18 miles per hour in trenton and reading. and they are coming out of the northwest and will feel cooler in comparison to yesterday. evening plans, the planner looks like this, 7:00 p.m. tonight at 39, a big drop-off in our temperatures, 8:00 p.m.