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equipment that is what happened to lindsey richards as she drove on the pine street expressway in philadelphia this morning it was bad and it could have been worse. it's tuesday night and the big story on action news tonight is a close brush with catastrophe for a motorist on 676. a metal bar being used for construction on the ben franklin parkway above her crashed on to her moving car. live at 20th and the parkway tonight is action news reporter christie lleto christie what exactly happened there? >> reporter: it's no secret that construction crews have been in the area making repairs to bridges for quite some time but lindsey richards never imagined metal would fall on her car and shatter some windows and land on her dog. >> it hit right here shattering like the frame. >> reporter: a mid morning drive became petrifying behind the wheel. >> the next thing it's flying through the back. >> reporter: lindsey richards

claims traveling under the 20th street bridge this foot long piece of metal fell on to her car. we didn't know what happened and the cars behind us saw it too so i don't know if anyone is going through the same thing right now. >> reporter: after it went through the windshield and shattered the back window she and her boyfriend said it hit their dog in the torso sitting in the back seat. >> a little sensitive but more shook and you know just and shocked still. >> reporter: it's unclear if the falling debris is construction related or old age of the bridge but that strip of highway in center city is under going four years of repairs as part of penn dot 65 million to preplace structurally deficient bridges including 20 street and it's penn dot project say the contractors held responsible for damage in the work zone and making buckley and company aware of the quote falling debris. >> if i had my nephew in the car

that is damaging a child you know like badly so like that is the main issue is like you guys need to do something about this. >> reporter: now penn dot says richards should contact the contractor to submit a claim and state police are also aware of this incident though there have not been any other reported incidents of this kind reporting live in center city christie lleto action news channel six. >> gunshots rang out again in southwest philadelphia tonight. police responded to the 5600 block of ridge wood street at 8:30, officers found a 25-year-old man shot in the stomach, they took him to penn presbyterian hospital where he is now in critical condition and the last week and a half police in the southwest detective division responded to at least nine shootings, two of them were deadly. in west philadelphia tonight a 37-year-old was shot twice in the head and once in the neck. the incident happened on the 5100 block of irving street at

6:30 and rushed to penn presbyterian where he is in critical condition, police are searching for a shooter. the family of a man gunned down in delaware over the weekend is sharing his story in hopes of catching his killer. 66-year-old charles mayes was shot several times while driving near the 2200 block of lamont street in willington saturday afternoon and rushed to the hospital but did not survive and his sister says the recent out break of violence in wilmington has been hard to comprehend. >> why so much killing. >> uh-huh. >> and then when it touches home why did it happen? why would someone want to just take a life? the man is almost like a life doesn't matter any more. >> reporter: mays niece tells action news she has no idea who would want to hurt her uncle describing him as a man who constantly went out of his way to help others. it has been raining most of the day but the big problem is the

fog and this is sky six looking into center city from temple university on north broad street as you can see the fog is almost completely obscuring the view how long does this last, what about tomorrow, let's check in with metrologist cecily tynan and accuweather cecily. >> jim low clouds and fog will be lasting into the morning hours and could cause some problems for your morning commute but double scan live showing that the steady rain is moving out, the heaviest rain is now lifting up over new england and actually parts of new england expecting 6-12" of snow, we have one more batch of showers moving in right now and that should be the last of it. but the problem is that the air is so saturated with moisture we have light winds, we have pretty warm air and that is producing fog. visibility down to a half mile in millville atlantic city airport the same and reading visibility at one mile the poconos three 10ths of a mile

and use caution with fog, with damp roads, a good idea to take things slow, don't forget to use those low beams as you are driving tomorrow with some of that patchy dense fog then temperatures will be rising, the high was five above normal and look to the south and temperatures are in the 50s, that air mass moves our way tomorrow and it stays here at least seven days, very rare to have temperatures in january 10-15 degrees above normal for a week straight. i'll talk about when we will see the sunshine in addition to the warm air coming up, in the full accuweather forecast jim. >> thank you cecily and urge you to tune in the morning news beginning at 4:30 and matt o'donnell and edwards and murphy and karen rogers will help you navigate any issues with the morning commute. philadelphia's district attorney has been ordered to pay an unprecedented amount of money to the city's board of ethics the

62000 fine comes after officials determined that seth williams violated the city's ethics code and board says he failed to disclose 89 gifts worth 160,000 as well as five different sources of income. the fine is the largest imposed by the board in its ten year history, williams issued a statement tonight saying these mistakes were my own and accept full responsibility for my failure to do everything that was required of me as a public official and williams also apologized to the people of philadelphia. four days before leaving office president barack obama has commuted the sentence of chelsea manning, obama's clemency means the transgender army intelligence officer will leave prison in may having served six years of a 35 year sentence for leaking classified military and government documents to wikileaks. she handed over 700,000 documents and was convicted of violating the espionage act.

house speaker paul ryan called manning's clemency outrageous. ♪ president elect donald trump made his first visit to washington in weeks tonight, of course in three days he will be spending a lot more time there. trump attended what is called the chairman's global dinner which is a preinauguration event that drew almost 150 diplomates and ambassadors and of course vice president elect pence was also there and told the group we have great respect for your countries, we have great respect for our world. trump told the group trump by the way is heading back to new york tonight for a meeting with governor andrew cuomo tomorrow and he is being talked about as a potential democratic candidate for president in 2020. russian president putin latched out today at the obama administration calling them worse than prostitutes, those his words for spreading false

rumors to under mind donald trump's legitimacy that again putin's words. the russian leader told journalists that russia did not collect compromising information on donald trump when trump visited moscow in 2013. a white house spokesman says it sounds like the trump people sent putin their talking points. be sure to stay with action news for continuing coverage of donald trump's inauguration this friday arc shun news actions brian taff and sharrie williams are heading to washington for all the events leading up to the swearing in and the ceremonies and the parades to follow, you can see the reports from the nation's capitol beginning tomorrow on action news at 4:00. 4:00 p.m. it was inauguration day for newly elected firms across the state of pennsylvania, former montgomery county commissioner was sworn in as the attorney general in harrisburg and succeeds kathleen kane who resigned in august after being

convicted of perjury and other charges and joe took the office to become pennsylvania's treasurer the ceremony was at camp curtain academy in harrisburg and he served as president and ceo of the national constitution center and chairman of the pennsylvania state board of education. and to dover delaware where john carney became the 74th governor and democrat took the oath on legislative mall and bethany hall long was sworn in and filed last week but governor kim officially launched her campaign for the state's top job and made the announcement and has also served as a federal prosecutor in the county, still to come on action news tonight orlando police capture a fugitive wanted for gunning down one of their own, the mistake that led officers right to markeith loyd and a rescue home in south

jersey is offering some tender loving care to some of the most vulnerable animals during the end of their lives. cecily. >> damp anding to guy out there but foggy and tracking brighter days and we will have that in the seven-day forecast. t reacting to progress the sixers are

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where are you hiding. >> reporter: fugitive wanted for killing his former pregnant girlfriend and orlando police sergeant is now in custody 41-year-old markeith loyd was taken to the orlando police department tonight in the handcuffs belonging to master sergeant deborah clayton and loyd had been the folk isof a manhunt since clayton was killed

in a walmart parking lot on the ninth and wanted for questioning in the death of his former girlfriend and tracked loyd to abandon loyd by tracking his cell phone and armed with two handguns at the time. prosecutors claim the wife of the man who opened fire inside the pulse nightclub in orlando knew her husband was going to carry out the attack and noor sal salman was charged with aiding and abetting and her husband was killed with a shoot out with police. denied bond with a man charged of killing five people at the fort laud lauderdale airport and been in touch with like minded people in jihadi chat rooms who were also planning attacks and could get the death penalty if convicted. former u.s. homeland security

janet has been hospitalized with complications from cancer, she is the current university of california president has been under going treatment for five months, a side effect from medication sent her to the hospital. and she was successfully treated for breast cancer in 2000. she was a two-term democratic governor of arizona before serving in president obama's cabinet from 2009-2013. health check at 11:00 the pennsylvania department has the operation for those who want to operate medical marijuana dispensaries and made available on the website can be submitted between february 20 and march 20th, pennsylvania's medical marijuana law was enacted last year it permits patients to take the medicine in several forms but not in the form that can be smoked. the city of philadelphia has ended the brief ban on sitting on walls in rittenhouse square

and the signs were removed today following protests on social media. that included a tweet from mayor jim kenney over the weekend that read sit where you want, a nonprofit group that manages the park says the decision to impose the ban stem from recent vandalism and marijuana smoking and officials say those concerns are legitimate the ban was an overreaction, beer drinkers are toasting and the new rules allow you to buy six packs at more locations across the state. in the past distributors could only sell cases, 12 packs and kegs. the new law also allows bars to begin selling beer at 9:00 a.m. on sundays even if they are not selling food at the same time. most of us have heard of hospice care but have you heard of hospice care for dogs? it's happening.

it does exist in burlington county and jeannette reyes is there. >> reporter: it's heartbreaking and deeply fulfilling for michelle allen. >> we started about two years ago trying to pull dogs that had really no hope of getting better. announcer: at first glance the nearly two dozen dogs at her south hampton home don't seem to have anything out of the ordinary but take a closer look. he had seizures, he had an anal tumor and came in a diabetic coma. has a brain tumor and seizures we are managing. >> reporter: this is monkey's house a hospice for senior dogs one of a handful around the country. >> i probably turn away to dogs a day in e-mail and cross posted people on facebook will ask me to tag me on dogs and it's really hard to say they don't meet the criteria when at 6:00 they will be killed. >> reporter: named after one of the first aging and ailing dogs

to receive care here. >> it's hard losing them, it's hard seeing them as they get ready to pass, the actual moment when it happens every single time there is such a sense of peace. >> reporter: allen started the organization two years ago in her own home. she currently has 23 dogs, 50 volunteers and a veterinarian's constant guidance plus the unfailing support of her husband of more than 30 years. >> it gets frustrating at times but it's rewarding when you come home from work and there are 15 dogs meeting you at the door. >> reporter: field trips to the shore and medical treatments add up about 3500 a month, still to allen it's worth every dime. >> make sure they are spoiled and know where the treat door is and where the fun places are to run on walks, make sure they are just truly truly loved. >> reporter: always looking for some help, if you would like to help out dogs like lillie here you can donate your time or money, that information is on our website at 6abc.com.

reporting in south hampton jeannette reyes channel six action news. quite a story there. okay, accuweather forecast cecily tynan. >> our days will be getting a little bit brighter over the next two days and still have lingering showers and we are showing this is really the last batch of it that is moving in right now. most of it is light but if you look at that yellow ban really stretching from the pennsylvania turnpike crossing route 1 on to i-95 that is a heavier downpour and moving to philadelphia and should be here within the next 15-20 minutes and more showers across lancaster, gradually as we head through the day tomorrow we will begin to dry the atmosphere out and right now you can see the temperatures are well above freezing here, philadelphia 43 degrees, allentown, 38, wilmington 44, cape may 44 and temperatures essentially holding steady overnight, the problem is the fog.

visibility in some areas really low millville atlantic city airport a half mile, philadelphia under a mile, mount pocono three tenths of a mile and the fog will be lingering into your morning commit and satellite six shows the steadier rain in the morning lift to the north and a few light showers left over but again tomorrow morning some fog, it will be on the damp side but not looking at any rain just some drizzle here or there at 6:00, 41 degrees by 8:00, 42 so no icing here and temperatures tomorrow will climb back into the 50s, 52 degrees in philadelphia that is 12 degrees above normal, cape may 50, allentown 47, clouds will be hanging on but once we get the winds kicking up we could see a few peaks of sunshine by mid to late afternoon but really the sunny day will be arriving on thursday, a slice of nice high pressure right over us providing us mostly sunny skies,

temperature up to 54 degrees with this high pressure moves on, this low pressure will begin to move from the southwest and that means friday we likely will end the day with some light rain into the evening hours so the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast a little bit gloomy but getting a bit brighter than today, morning drizzle and mostly cloudy and milder with a high of 52 degrees, thursday is the day to get outdoors, 14 degrees above normal, 54 degrees mostly sunny skies, on friday we start the day with sun, it clouds up, light rain developing late in the day friday evening 51 degrees and saturday a transition day and could have an early morning shower and clouds breaking for sunshine with a high of 55 and sunday mostly cloudy, 50 degrees and monday our next storm system and looks like this could bring us heavy rain 1-2" and also high winds with a high of 50 and tuesday early rain then clouds with a high of 52 degrees the next week

temperatures holding every day 10-15 degrees above normal looks like this pattern likely will persist right into the end of the month and see a pattern change by about january 27 and finally cold air along with that should at least come a chance of some snow. >> i was going to say another half month without any possibility. >> very quiet. >> all right, quiet is good. days before president elect donald trump takes to the oval office the national constitution center is looking ahead, the center hosted a town hall tonight focusing on president trump's plan for the first 100 days more than 200 people packed in the auditorium to hear the panelist made up of journalists and professors discussing the incoming administration's agenda. ♪ the sounds of kenya filled the tabernacle baptist church tonight in the west oak land section of philadelphia, the

concert was put on by a singing group from day star university in nairobi and the group is traveling around the united states to raise money for their students and jimmy kimmel at 11:35 after action news and here is a preview of tonight's show. >> hello philadelphia here is what someone paid us to do tonight, is it edible? it is absolutely edible, it is made out of gummy bear material. >> oh, my god. >> it's a gummy vin diesel and -- [laughter] ♪

sixers host toronto tomorrow night and something to look forward to. something to look forward to in terms of bead and are the sixers the hottest, perhaps and their january 26 team against the rockets will be nationally televised by espn at 8:00 and smiles around the sixers practice these days and have won

six of the last eight games and back in action tomorrow against toronto and bead has been a part of the recent success and not just him credit the entire team for working hard and dare i say in the process. >> need to get validated for the things that we have been doing. you know, i can't say it enough. we don't do anything differently. we just are starting to get rewarded and i'm pleased like the spirit of our guys just to even see them and feel the gym is at an all-time high. >> reporter: good to see, all right so the flyers they are in the midst of a lengthy break that is not the all-star break, the flyers last played on sunday 5-0 loss to the washington capitals and won't play again until saturday at home against new jersey devils, it's a new wrinkle in the nhl schedule with the breaks giving the fliers and lost 11 of the last 14 games and the odd break could be a blessing. >> they are part of the schedule so it doesn't matter whether you

like them or not like them. you know sometimes you never know how things are going to turn out. you might not think it's an ideal time for the break but in all honesty maybe this break is the best thing for us for everybody to get away for a couple of days. >> reporter: we hope so and still ahead the phillies are less than a month from spring training hear which the where should you start when you're told you have cancer? start with a specialist. start where you'll find advanced technology, precision treatment options and truly

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pitchers and catchers report to spring training and getting the side eye there and were in burkes county for the reading phillies banquet to rub elbows and did not make a big splash in the off season but accomplished their goals. >> we got the stats and rotation and bolstered our bullpen with bneya and mecheck and deeper in the bullpen to make us win more games and addition of kendrick and will rub off of some employers and saunders is a nice hitter and should be improved over last year. >> reporter: starter noel is 100% in heading into spring training and had his 2016 season cut short due to an elbow injury and did not require surgery but

rehab went well. >> my elbow is feeling great. all right, finally the school district of philadelphia hosted a community forum to promote diversity. parents packed into the district's headquarters tonight in spring garden, experts and advocates that work with immigrants, refugees and lgbtq individuals took part in a panel discussion, superintendent william height also talked about how that can do a better job welcoming families and jimmel kimmel next followed by night line and jimmy has vin diesel and katie and action news continues at 4:30 with edwards and matt o'donnell and ed murphy and karen rogers with traffic, for the entire news team i'm jim gartner have a good night.