yes, the key word here is a fluid situation, not long ago we did see an armored vehicle in and around the prison and we are awaiting an update. a news conference is set up behind me here and we should have a live picture and if that briefing starts we'll switch to it. we were ridgely told that we would get it at 4:00 and moved to 4:45 and now we are told it should start any minute. officialed are keeping a tight lid on the situation confirming only that there is a hostage situation and it had gun at 11:00 this morning and reports of a smoke situation inside of building c. a flow down unit and medium security unit that a blanket was set on fire and multiple hostages were taken and at least four corrections officers and one counselor, there have been

injuries one a 35-year-old corrections officer struck numerous times with a mop ringer as well as being beaten by inmates. he was transported sometime ago and reported awake and alert. we don't know a lot of things here. we don't know how much hostage takers are involved and building c houses between 100 and 150 people. how many are involved is not clear or if they have made demands. we were told there were communications with the hostage takers and authorities here but we don't know the nature of the conversations they had. we are waiting for an update from the department of corrections here and also the state police at this point apparently we are still not going to hear from them right now, when they do start peeking we'll switch back to them immediately. >> live in smyrna, john rawlins, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you john.

>> 6abc.com has on going conference of the situation in smyrna delaware for you, can you find the latest information and photos of the scene and live video from chopper 6 hd and the action cam. >> and "action news" is on the grown and in the air in delaware as this story continues to unfold and updates continue throughout the newscast. a main line teacher is behind bars tonight accused of creating and maintaining an inappropriate relationship with a 16-year-old student. the teacher taught at a child facility in radnor. and vernon odom is live with the details. >> reporter: good evening. they have thrown the book at this young teacher, lilly dozens of counts of sexual assault and corruption of a minor and police say she has confessed. nina scott of downingtown a 28-year-old teacher is in jail tonight charged with nearly 70 counts of sex crimes involving a

16-year-old female student. she taught at a village at radnor a school for students with behavioral problems and a year long investigation by radnor and downingtown police. >> some incidents or assaults occurred at the school's property. and some unknown parks in the area and also at her home and apartment in downingtown. >> during a routine search of the students room and they found a journal and letters from the teacher to the student. >> they fired scott and there is no further comment and the victim is transferred to another school and scott's bail is set at $100,000 and they will amount a defense. >> she is innocent first and foremost. we are reviewing the charges and allegations, alligations are

proof of nothing they are just alligations. >> scott is the mother of a 2-year-old, the court barred her with contact with the alleged victim or with a minor with father-in-law adult present. >> the only way to describe what this teacher did is down right disgusting and it just goes to show you that sometimes the vetting process has to be even more circumstance inspect so we know exactly the type of people we have surrounding our children. >> late toe the village issued a statement saying they have cooperated fully with the investigation. live at police headquarters in radnor, i'm vernon odom, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you vernon a berks county couple is facing charges in the death of their own 2-year-old daughter. investigators say that ella grace foster died of pneumonia and her parents chose not to give her medical care because of

their religious beliefs they do not believe in medication or doctors and believe that ella's grace's death was the will of god. they have been released on unsecured bail. police want your help tracking down two brazen armed burglars that ambushed employees at a hotel. it happened at the super 8 in mount laurel. hotel officials say they have never been targeted by thieves before and nora muchanic has the story. >> this is the video that police want to you see. a hooded suspect jumps on to the counter and scoops up cash and feet away another suspect pulls out a gun and points it at a startled desk clerk. it happened at the super 8 in mount laurel. >> he was aggressive with the gun in her face. you can imagine how she must

have felt. >> the suspects two black males were in hooded coats and one wore a mask and it appears that the robbery was carefully planned and executed. >> they knew what they were going to do and had no problem pulling a gun on a female employee. i would expect someone would know where the cash drawer was behind the counter, he had knowledge it appears. >> never in all of my years it never happened before super 8 hotel manager says an armed robbery here is highly unusual. and the hotel is cooperating with the investigation and the clerk that had the gun pointed at her was shaken up but not injured. >> she is okay a little traumatized but i talked to her so she is doing better. we want to get these guys off the street when need the public's help to do that. special suspect number one that comes through the front door

zbrz if you recognize the suspects or have any information about this robbery. they want to you can't them immediately. in mount laurel, i'm nora muchanic, channel 6 "action news." president trump made his first unscheduled trip as commander and chief less than two weeks into office. two hours ago president trump and his daughter ivanka left the white house and boarded marine one. it bad revealed that the pair headed to dove airport base for the transfer of the navy seal killed in yemen. >> meantime, the fight continues tonight over president trump's cabinet picks. karen travers with more from the white house. president trump adding a key member to his cabinet. the senate confirming rex tillerson as secretary of state. the early buzz was that tillerson the former ceo could be in jeopardy because of his close ties to russia but the

final vote was 56-43 and now another of trump's cabinet nominee could be headed for defeat. two republican senators will vote no on betsy devos, for secretary of education. citing her lack of experience with public education but the white house was unequivocal. a spokesperson saying they are 100% confident she will be the next secretary of education. >> an excellent qualified educator for teachers and parents, the games that are being played with betsy devos are sad. >> but it could go down to the wire and republicans may need vice president pence to break a tie assuming that no other senators cross party lines. >> this news coming after a tense morning between democrats and republicans. earlier today republicans on the

senate finance committee vote food move forward with two cabinet nominees despite no democrats being present and now steve mnuchin and health secretary tom price will head to a full senate vote. and democrats on the senate environment public works committee boycotted their meeting stalling the vote on scott pruitt. he called them of engaging in obstruction and political theater. and they have doubts on the pick of the person picked to fill the vacancy on the supreme court. neil gorsuch. we'll have more at 5:30. >> time for a check of our "action news" traffic report midweek. >> time to go live to matt pellman and see what is going on. >> february is tarnished by a bunch of traffic troubles. but typical volume on 42.

southbound side stop and go. more stop as you look at this camera, walt whitman bridge to 295, a slow pace along 42. slow this afternoon in voorhees because of an earlier get along 73 by virtua voorhees hospital. but 12 miles per hour on the southbound side. keep that in mind if you head to the voorhees diner for dinner this evening. wrapping up an opening for a northbound ship at the burlington bristol bridge. tra could be moving shortly but the turnpike connecter is closed and extra people are using route 1, the super highway, 13 miles per hour through the langhorne area this afternoon. but normal delay as long 95 and the schuylkill, a crash in landsdowne along plumstead after few. >> all right thank you matt. we want to take you live to delaware where they are starting the news conference. >> good evening. thank you for being here. >> we'll give you a brief statement. and at this point we will not

take questions afterwards due to the active nature and ongoing investigation taking place. i am sergeant richard brotts. public information for the delaware state police with us are represent hes from the fbi department of corrections and the delaware state police. we are currently working with our local allied agencies which include fire departments and paramedics. we are doing everything we can to assure the safety of everyone involved and using all of our available resources. the preliminary investigation shows the incident occurred at 10:32 today here at the vaughn correctional center in delaware. a correctional office made a call for immediate assistance for c building that houses over 100 inmates.

at this point correctional officers responded to assist and the facility was placed on lock down. it was at this time five department of correction employees were taken hostage, since that time one hostage has been released. at promptly 2:40 p.m. that one correctional employee and transported by ambulance to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. at this point if we know if there are other injuries or persons injured. working with the department of correction, the fbi and the delaware state police we continue negotiations to abobtain peaceful and safe resolutions. you have questions and we'll work with our department and allied agencies to get the information as it becomes available. the department of correction will attempt to provide updates on an hourly basis. >> can you spell your name.

>> richard. bratz. >> are you listening to officials with the department of corrections state police updating the media and public about the hostage situation at the james t. vaughn correctional center. as he reiterated. five hostages remain there. and we'll continue to follow the story for you on air and online. we'll take a quick break.

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time now for accuweather at the "action news" big board. >> cecily tynan is here with a look at head at this evening and tomorrow cecily. >> the start of february doesn't feel like it. temperatures in the 40s, we reached a high of 50 degrees, 9 degrees above normal. philadelphia 48 and allentown 43 and wilmington 45 and the atlantic city airport 45 degrees. this continues the trend of wednesday warm, we have five wednesdays in a row with temperatures running 10 to 15 degrees above normal.

we tend it cool down by the end of the week and this is what is happening this week. satellite 6 along with action radar showing lots of clouds today amazing we hit 50 despite the cloud cover and miles per hours up in the position but it's generally a quiet night with partly cloudy skies and temperatures no the that harsh to this time of year. 28 in allentown and 31 in wilmington and cape may 33 degrees with light winds, tomorrow we are back with the sunshine and temperatures begin to step down. 7:00, 34, reaching a high of 44 degrees around 1:00 and then temperatures dropping into the 30s by 7:00. and don't let the numbers deceive you, we'll have winds tomorrow up to 20 miles per hour. so generally windchills will be in the 30s. future tracker 6 showing at 1:30 tomorrow afternoon you'll want the winter coat and 29 in allentown and reading and

poconos feeling like 19 degrees and friday morning you step outside for work or school. feeling like winter again, future tracker 6 showing the windchills at 7:30 generally in the teens and down to 1 degree in the poconos and the core of the cool air is moving in on saturday. the five-day at 5:00 with an accept down in temperatures, for grown hog day. 44 degrees and windchills in the 30s. on friday a weak disturbance in the south will bring us more clouds and 35 degrees, and saturday sunny and the core of the cold air 34 degrees, sunday it clouds up with the possibility of flurries or sprinkles it doesn't look to be much. partly sunny and 42 and another storm will affect us in the middle of next week and adam joseph will have details on how coming up in the seven-day forecast. >> we'll of course continue to follow the breaking news out of smyrna delaware, chopper 6 hd was over the scene five hostages were taken hostage and one was

released and four others still held hostage. we'll have an update at 5:30.

"action news" at 5:00 continues now. we are watching the hospitalable situation at the vaughn sentner delaware. officials just wrapped up a news conference. dann cuellar is live. >> reporter: hey guys the situation is on going as we speak. about 0 minutes ago authorities collectively from the delaware state police and the fbi gave us a brief briefing telling us this is ongoing and they with working to resolve this and negotiate this peacefully. chopper 6 hd is over the scene here, where they house 2500 prisoners and a flow down unit these are priss unders coming out of maximum security. building c is where it it is unfolding and the entire prison remains on lock down, a hostage

situation that began at 10:32 a.m. unconfirmed is that there are as many as 30 inmates id in the situation and officials were not confirming that. >> a correctional officer made a radio call for immediate assistance from within c building that houses over 100 inmates, at this point correctional officers responded and the facility was placed on lockdown it was at this time five department of correction employees were taken hostage. since that time. one hostage has been released. at approximately 2:40 p.m. this afternoon that one correctional employee was released and transported by ambulance to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. >> and we have since come to learn that the officer is now at the christiana hospital with

facial injuries apparently he was beaten, and no questions were being answered to the ongoing nature of the situation and no word on what type of weapons were involved or how otherwise the prisoners came to cop on dear the employees. the situation is still developing and unfolding. no negotiation, we still have a hostage situation as we speak. involving four correctional officers and unconfirmed reports are that there is as many as 30 inmates involved. i'm dann cuellar, channel 6 "action news" back to you guys. thank you for the update. now to the latest on president trump's supreme court nominee, neil gorsuch. he calls him an almost perfect man but democrats apparently are not buying. he got quick praise from

republicans but democrats hinted a filibuster could be on the way. stephanie ramos is here with more. >> the battle for confirmations heat up on capitol hill. president trump predicting his nominee, neil gorsuch will be quote, approved very, very quickly. >> the jury is still out whether or not democrats will pull out all the stops to block neil gorsuch from a lifetime job on the supreme court. >> he got an unanimous endorse many. the son of a former reagan admissionstration official. but this process may not go as smoothly. >> the republicans kept the seat open a year despite president obama nominating a universally liked and respected judge who never even got a hearing. >> tenses are running high with democrats boycotting many

nominees, at the white house president trump picking a nominee to the high court and trump giving the senate majority leader the green light. to use the so-called nuclear option if the democrats try to hold up the option. the option means the supreme court nominee can be confirmed by a simple majority rather than 60 votes in the senate. >> i say if you can, mitch, go nuclear. chuck schummer is gathering up for a fight. >> judge neil gorsuch has repeatedly sided with corporations overworking people. >> and we learn that the first phone call that judge gorsuch made was to meric who never got a hearing last year. >> world news tonight with david muir will have more on president trump's nomination for the

supreme court and what challenges he may face. watch it tonight at 6:30. following "action news" at 6:00. we brought you a story from the lehigh valley at 5:30. the man convicted of killing a good samaritan in 2015, they found noble guilty of first degree murder of andrew white but not guilty of robbery than prompted prosecutors to drop plans to drop the death penalty. a suspected thief is behind bars tonight after leading police on a wild chase this morning. "action news" reporter annie mccormick picks up the story from west philadelphia. >> reporter: chopper 6 hd over 40th and aspen with an arm the robbery suspect is hauled away in handcuffs after a brief pursuit this morning. >> there was a while we were getting reports of robberies one after the other. >> police were on the lookout for an armed robber that struck three west philadelphia

locations all at or near bus stops between 6:15 and 6:45 this morning and then a sergeant on the case noticed something at 52nd and market. >> he came up upon an individual trying to rob another individual and the bad guy jumped into his car and the suspect got behind the wheel of this lexus and a short pursuit that ened with a flat tire at this dead enand from there the suspect ran until his capture a few blocks away and he dropped a gun that was later recovered and now police are looking to see if there is more victims. >> anybody out there robbing other individuals and doesn't have any forethought for human life is dangerous. >> southwest detectives are handling the case and calling it an ongoing investigation and looking for a search warrant to look i side of the lexus and anyone that thinks they may have been a victim of the attempted

robbery at 52 and and market to come forward. reporting outside of the 19th destruct, channel 6 "action news." a pennsylvania mayor is arrested by police and charged with vandalism, for vandalizing 14 graves we constructing a cell phone tower. he allowed the workers to cover it in dirt while building the cell phone tower. some of which date back to 1919. a rite-aid employee is recovering tonight after being violently attacked by an armed thief. best goshen police are hoping that a sketch of the suspect will give them leads in the case, the assault happened last friday at the store of the 1300 block of phoenixville pike in westchester and he said he deactivated the alarm when a

suspect walked up and attacked and forced him to open a safe and empty is and hand over the money. >> out of 14,000 nominated towns, bristol bureau made to the final eight that could bring $5,000 to the town. the small revolution on main street is annest to discover small towns and revitalize them. and part of a series featuring shark tank. and nationwide voting begins on february 9th and for more physician on how to vote go to our website at 6abc.com. >> good luck. yes, time to see how lucky we need to be on the traffic scene tonight. >> matt pellman is in the traffic center. >> our vote for worst area today is 95 in delco, rick and monica, we saw huge delays here this morning because of an overturned truck. that is not out there this

afternoon just a whole bunch of southbound volume and earlier sun glare, and a sea of brake lights lighting up in delco, elsewhere in darby borough a house fire. and normal delays on the schuylkill and 95 but lets zoom into this red zone, the vine street expressway plenty of red westbound brake lights and white eastbound headlights stacked up across town and the vine closes at 11:00 for overnight construction. and west rockville a crash near state road near keystone drove and a wreck in mercer county hamilton township along 295 southbound near 535 off to the side and causing slowing and burlington county the smith field jackson field bridge is closed for construction and 206 gets you around that. >> thank you.

still ahead heart stopping video out of texas when a truck becomes stuck on a set of train tracks with the train fast approaching. and will the famous groundhog see his shadow tomorrow? you will be surprised how much people are willing to shell out. >> i'll give it to you for free. >> i'm just saying. cold air in the northern plains despite we started so warm this month today. we'll talk about when the more typical winter air moves in in the accuweather forecast. >> plus, ducis rogers has a preview of the sixers mavericks match-up in sports.

officials in texas hope that newly released surveillance video will make drivers think twice before stopping on train tracks, the video show the home this truck pauses on the tracks and the crossing arm comes down behind the truck trapping it. and another driver came over to lift the arm but the train slammed into the front of the pickup truck but fortunately the two men inside survives.

and ducis rogers is here and the sixers take on the mavericks. >> they are out on a four game road trip and joel embiid is home and will not play against the mavs or tomorrow in san antonio and embiid has the knee bruise and he explains what he plans to do in the interim. >> just spin him around and jahlil and nerlins will occupy the spot. and the flow of the game in how people are doing. with different match-ups and judge that as it relates to who plays more. the all start break could be a good thing or bad thing, we'll say it was awful. the flyers laid an egg last night in carolina in their first game back, the 5-1 score shows

the defense was bad but the oh fenwas worse. the flyers had won three straight before the all start break. >> you can't throw it out at this point in time. they were ready and we weren't. you know. we didn't deserve to win that hockey game. if we play like that we are not getting to the playoffs. we are four days away from what should be a national holiday, the fast approaching patriots and falcons, the nrg stadium is set for super bowl li and matt ryan has come a long way from his days in exton, the 31-year-old ryan is asked what advise he could give his 10-year-old self. >> i would say enjoy the moment, some of my favorite memorys with the kids i grew up with playing on our local teams, football basketball or baseball and high school or all of those things, they are as good of memories as

you can make. >> and temple football added players on national signing day. and athleticism was not the pop priority but character and fit were. >> we were putting it together to get the recruiting class done and make it the smart signing day the biggest priority was that they fit in with our players. the big thing with us was to know the guys moving forward and bring the right kind of guys foo the program. >> one recruit that coach collin was able to keep was this guy, george reed a six to receiver from abington high school. and the penn state class is ranked top, and wade a defensive back from western pa and coach franklin is pleased with his class. >> at the enof the day we have the right people here and it's about football i get that and about academic fit and fits in

this community. and the thing we work hard for is the culture and chemistry in the locker room. and guys that compliment the unbelievable locker room that they have. and some kids get to have a college education. >> always good thank you ducis. and and tomorrow is the day when the most famous groundhog makes the winter prediction and people are willing to spend big, the hotel booking website recently looked at hotel rates in punxsutawney, and the average price shot up to $450. that is more than a typical hotel room is going for in houston where the super bowl is being played this weekend. fios is not cable. we're wired differently. welcome to 8 and a half maple street. it's half a house. and even though it only has half a kitchen,

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>> the weather could be iffy, no weather woes if you try to head to someone's house or local watering hole. >> we are going to your house. >> you want to come to my house? >> bring dessert. >> you are all invited. >> live on double scan live radar we'll show the clouds passing through the area and early morning sunshine and a few sprinkles down toward cape may and a drop or two but most of that is in the cloud cover and evaporated before hitting the ground. the acts cam out on this first day of february along the schuylkill river here, and a lot of clouds and mild temperatures if you are away from the wind, if you were anywhere near where there is open air or along the river, you have the westerly win to kick in and feel cool at times, as we say hello to february. there are bright spots here as we are now climbing out of the depths of winter, the average high is 41 degrees, it jumps up

to 46 degrees and the sunrise 7:09. 6:36 a.m., and sunset going from 5:21 to almost 6:00 and you gain almost a half hour of daylight alone. despite the temperatures are warming you see daylight, the snowiest month out of the winter season and get close to 9 inches this month. still 48 philadelphia and allentown, and dover, and along the shore in the lower and mid-40s, satellite and radar if you are up earlier this morning you see a decent amount of sunshine and the clouds took over and a ripple of energy passing through and did not spark much in the way of showers and snow showers here, and they are starting to fall apart and that is the trend overnight and 32 degrees for center city.

the wind 5 to 10 miles per hour. bring on the sun, it will be back in full force, a gusty breeze 44 in philadelphia and 45 in millville certainly not going to feel like the numbers. we have to track the windchills with a northwesterly wind at 20 miles per hour, have you to subject a good 10 degrees from the air temperatures tomorrow and this is what you want to follow and dress accordingly and it will only crack near freezing or so and drop below freezing one the sunsets in the evening, the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast we'll start to tumble back here with the numbers tomorrow and a lot of sun, and chilly breeze and cold with limited sun and the clouds win out on sunday at only 35 and saturday 44 and lots of sun and cloudy on super bowl sun and this point only a sprinkle or flurry possible in the afternoon

of 40 degrees and then we go back up into the temperature department in the middle of next week and with the warmer air comes in rain during the day on tuesday and continues into wednesday but no big snow storms. on the horizon at this point. we like february so far. >> and this reminder many of us keep 6abc.com/weather handy on our desktops and home screens, and we invite you to do the same. stormtracker 6 live double scan is right there for you 24 hours a day and our meteorologists check in on twitter and facebook. and big celebrity news dion say and jay z announce they are expecting twins. beyonce announced a photo of her being pregnant and said in part, we have been blessed two times over and the high-profile couple are already parents to their daughter blue ivy, she leads all grammy nominees with nine and due to perform at the ceremony

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a new chorus of croaks is filling the certain store sciences in center city. 15 species of colorful frogs were unveiled they range from fiery red to blue and bright green there and they are among breeds disappearing worldwide. this hopes to the public on saturday. pretty. right now jim gardner and the "action news" team is standing by with these stories next at 6:00. we continue to follow breaking news from delaware's largest prison where inmates took guards hostage. and a five decade coverup of sexual relationships between faculty and students at a school in buck county. and a berks county couple is charged in the death of their toddler for not seeking medical care. those stories are up next.

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"action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with ducis rogers and cecily tynan, and jim gardner. you are looking live at the vaughn correctional center in smyrna, delaware, at this moment, four employees are being held captive by inmates. every correctional facility in the state of delaware is on lockdown.

it's wednesday night and the big story on "action news" tonight is the hostage situation still going on at delaware's largest prison. police converged on the james t. vaughn correctional facility late this morning, authorities say that four prison guards and a counselor were taken hostage by inmates, one hostage has since been released. john rawlins live at the prison tonight. what is the latest. what do we know? >> reporter: we have clarification, this started at 10:30 this morning with a phone call or radio call forever help from a corrections office insized building c. sergeant richard brotts picks up the story. >> we know that a correctional officer made a radio call for immediate assistance from inside of c building and correctional officers responded to assist and the facility was placed on lock