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trump's travel ban. hundreds remember a correction's officer in delaware and fire destroys a home in philadelphia. that's next. trulia knows the house is only half of it. and with 34 map overlays like playgrounds, demographics, schools, and more... you can find the right house and the right neighborhood for you. trulia. the house is only half of it. ♪ ♪ >> "action news," delaware valley's leading news program with jim gardner. >> it is friday night and the big story on "action news" tonight is president trump's immigration travel ban in a dramatic ruling tonight has been
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blocked by a federal judge. the travel ban sparked massive protests at airports across the country including philadelphia. it has divided the country. tonight a judge in washington put a ban on the enforcement nationwide of seven majority muslim countries traveling to the u.s. the court will determine whether or not to block the ban permly. the department of justice will file a emergency stay of the order and defend the executive order of the president that we believe is lawful and appr tuned. flames attacked a rojas in philadelphia and spread to other dwellings. one man was rush today the hospital with burns. dann cuellar is live, close to the fire police will allow him to be. dan what is the latest from the 4900 block of north carlisle?
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>> jim, firefighters are on the scene managing hot spots that fueled by highinds.g a fire on person w injured after jumping for his life from a second floor window. >> chopper 6hd was ove of north. >> there was fire everywhere. >> fire commissioner adam teel say high winds played a significant role. electrical wires and transformers blew. it was a wall of fire sending over 100 firefighters in to do battle. >> once it's out of the building of origin it can spread. that happened here.
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of one man jumped from a second story window rush todaed to the hospital with burns to his hands and face. >> i'm sick to my stomach. i might seem normal, but it's hitting me. end of the day, everything i have was in there. i don't have nothing. >> the cause was not determined but residents say the fire started in an abandoned row home occupied by a squatter. >> he has too much going on. a crack house, i don't know. >> all you know it spread to your house. >> it was abandoned and it cost me my house whatever he had going on in there. >> the fir fire marshal office s investigating what has turned out to be a busy day for firefighters, six or seven fires they battled today.
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meantime residents lost seven row homes. >> back to you, jim. >> thank you, dan. this was a day wracked by emotion as delaware mourned the loss of correction's office steven floyd. officers stood at solute as floyd's body came out of the medical examiner's office for its trip to the funeral home. newly minted cadets gave sergeant floyd's son a medal and posthumously made him lieutenant. he was taken hostage by inmates wednesday at the james t vaughan correctional facility. tonight they held a memorial at the park. >> it was an emotional night for
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hundreds gathered to remember lieutenant steven floyd the 47-year-old grandfather hailed a hero for saving officer's lives. >> he always thought about others before himself. >> floyd's grieving widow and children were among those at the candle light vigil at the park. so too were officers in the uprising. >> officials say floyd warned prison staffers to flee after fs trap. they honored floyd by increasing funding to prisons. >> lieutenant floyd may have been our death, but it's ourblat make him the last.
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>> the song we closed the program with, hero," it fits him. it fits him the "t." >> when i heard he saved other lives, that's how he was. >> flags are at half mass. delaware may be a small state but it has a big heart. jeff chirico, channel6 "action news." >> doctors are treating a 26-year-old man after he was struck by an suv in north philadelphia. chopper 6 was over the scene on grant avenue. the victim was running across the road when he was hit a 6:15. no charges have been filed. the news is not good for those that travel the detecter bridge between pn opinion and new jersey. it will be april before it
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reopens if all goes well. a fracture has crews working around the clock. temporary supports are being erected but a permanent fix will take at least eight weeks. police are searching for a man that stole a vehicle last night with a toddler inside. surveillance video shows the suspect carrying the 1 19 month old girl in her carrier. he took her out of the car and dropped her three blocks away. she is okay and reunited with her family. jmt4312 is the license plate number. >> this is the man that killed a young mother inside her port richmond home in 2014 when her two-year-old daughter was in the home. james jones is charged with the murder of stephany dzikowski.
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jones attended vigils for dzikowski and even went to her funeral. the trump administration responded to the firing of a ballistic missile by iran. it ordered sanctions against individuals and companies involved in procuring ballistic missile technology for iran. michael flynn said the days of turning a blind eye to iran's hostile and belligerent actions to the united states and others are over. lockheed martin announced a new deal for 90 stealth fighters the company says will save $728 million an 8% cost reduction. the pentagon expected cost saving, but lockheed said this, president trump's involvement
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accelerated negotiations and sharpened our focus on driving down the price. >> vice president mike pence will visit philadelphia tomorrow. he is set to speak at congress hall on independence mall. the speech will be 12 noon to the federalist society. the event is closed to the public but we'll stream live on "6abc".com. it's expected to be about the role of the courts and the man on the right, supreme court nominee judge neil gorsuch. >> the picture painted by the economy by today's job report still to come. plus the museum becomes the site of an attack, information from louver. >> and a nine-year-old girl calling police about her drunk driving dad.
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cecily? >> the windchill is 18-degrees. i'm tracking milder weather on the way. i have what you can expect in the seven-day forecast. >> and jim, doctors are testing an alternative treatment to prevent heart attacks in high risk patients. it's keylation they ar therapy. many doctors discredited it, but it could work and the government is funding the trial on heah check. >> ducis rogers with love and support for a superbowl quarterback when "action news" continues. ♪ ♪ (vo) shop all makes, models and colors in your neighborhood...
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all with worry-free ownership. head to your neighborhood enterprise car sales and let the people who buy more vehicles than anyone... shift your thinking about buying your next one. >> an egyptian national brandishing machetes was shot four times as he charge td at soldiers near the louver in paris today. he was taken down before anyone was hurt. officials called this a terrorist attack. the attacker was in paris on a
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tourist visa. he is in critical can't. >> police received a 911 call from a little girl who said her father was driving drunk with her and her sister in the car. wesleybergner was headed to his mother's home on the coastline and drinking along the way. >> i know my daddy is drunk and he's the only one driving. i think we'll get in a wreck. >> are you in the car with him? >> yes, and he's driving fastly. >> the nine-year-old told the dispatcher she didn't want her dad to go to jail. police arrested him when he arrived at his mother's house and faces a long list of charges. >> andrew oswald died of a heroin overdose last week at the age of 23. his parents decided to include information about his addiction
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in his obituary in hopes that it will help other people. they say they need to share the story to raise awareness. >> i'm not going to let his death be in vein. i'm going to shout from the mountains and fight as long as it takes. >> andrew was raised in hamilton townshitownship but was living n pennsylvania after being in a drug rehab program there. he started using again and died of an overdose. >> health reporter sally gorman has details. >> we are talking about a high risk of patients. someone that has diabetes and has a heart problem, they have higher risk of another heart problem or risk.
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the government has a clinical trial for this population. it could lead to a new treatment or prove the skeptics right. >> lori an hopes the infusion given as part of a clinical trial will help her heart. >> i have 17 grandchildren. >> heart disease runs in her family. both grandfathers died of heart disease. she had her first heart a attack at 47. she has diabetes putting her at a greater risk of problems. one of several doctors nationwide involved in a trial to see if keylation can help. it means to bind to. the treatment uses an int venus solution to bind to metals in the blood. the body then flushes them out. it's fda approved to treat led
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poisoning but it's been used for other uses including heart disease. >> the theory is to rid the body of the heavy metals so the body functions better. >> the theory is not proven but it's getting another look after tests were published a few years ago. >> it was surprising to everyone seeing the data. >> the biggest results were in patients with diabetes. a 43% reduction in deaths. the nih has funded a $37 million double blind trial to see if the first results can be replicated. there are plenty of skeptics, including a presentive cardiologist at penn medicine. he doesn't buy the theory and the first trial -- >> we don't believe the results.
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>> he says there were technical issues and it's just one trial. he doesn't object to patients enrolling in the tests, >> healthy diet is important. medicines are important. >> like all patients in the trial, ann doesn't know if she's getting keylation or placebo. patients get one injection each week with vitamins. >> i believe it will help me. if the results are as effective as the first time, this may be a preventible way to reduce heart disease, stroke and death in millions of americans. >> most experts agree keylation is safe if done as part of a
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clinical trial. they are looking for volunteers. you must be at least 50, have diabetes and a previous heart attack. it's going to take a while to get results. the first took ten years. >> i was just going to ask. >> six or eight years before we see if it's working. >> we'll do a follow up at that point. >> maybe i'll still be here. >> where else? obama care has had 5% fewer signups this year according to numbers released this year. the enrollment deadline was tuesday. the health and human services department believes 9.2 million people signed up, half a million fewer than last year, but that doesn't include california, new york and others that run their own markets. january saw a burst of hiring with the economy growing 227,000
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jobs. unemployment up to 8.4% as more americans started looking for work. as today's labor department tempered by no growth in wages. still an overall positive job's report last month. >> that's good. >> what about the forecast? >> it's pretty good for the weekend. cold to start, moderating sunday. double scan live showing we are dry out there. old glory is blowing in the wind typically at night the winds slack off. we have high pressure building in now. that's keeping the wind speeds up there right now, sustained out of the northwest, 14 miles per hour in philadelphia, 15 at the atlantic city airport. reading and the poconos reporting 20 miles per hour. add that to the air temperature, it feels like 18 in
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philadelphia, 14 in allentown, 17 in wilmington, 15 in trenton, 18 in atlantic city, the windchill in the poconos three degrees below zero. winter is back. we have a cold shot lasting through the day tomorrow. satellite 6 and action radar showing energy moving through. that's out of here. the skies are clearing out nicely. tomorrow, loads of sunshine. it will be cold all day long. we have a bit of a breeze. the windchill at 9:00 in the morning, 17 in philadelphia, 8 in lancaster, 10 in allentown, 0 in the poconos. it stays cold even in the afternoon, windchills generally hovering in the 20s. sunday, clouds up first half of the day but it feels a lot more comfortable, windchills in the afternoon mid to upper 30s. temperatures in the mid 40s
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sunday. we continue to warm up next week and i track a potent storm system tuesday and wednesday. it's slow moving, dynamic and comes in pieces. first we have a warm front tuesday with a round of rain. temperatures in the upper 40s near 60. we have a cold front wednesday. this comes with more rain, a potential for a rare february thunderstorm and wind gusts up to 50 miles per hour behind the system thursday and friday next week. temperatures drop back to the 30s. the accuweather forecast bright sunshine and cold tomorrow, 36-degrees, windchill in the teens and 20s. sunday, lots of clouds first half of the day, snow flurries lehigh valley and poconos. in the afternoon, sunshine. 48-degrees. monday, a decent day, partly sunny with a high of 46 and tuesday, a warm front moving in
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periods of rain a high of 48-degrees. wednesday, 58 but periods of rain. perhaps a thunderstorm and high gusting winds. behind that, back to winter, 35 thursday and windchill in the teens and 20s. friday a high of 36-degrees. a quiet weekend and very cold tomorrow. >> all right, cecily. the philly pop celebrated the 50th anniversary of the beatles' album lonely heart's club band tonight. ♪ >> that would be a yellow submarine. the concert featured music from that album. other songs by the beatless as well. there was a special performance by a band called the classical mystery tour that dress and sound like the beatless. the celebration of the chinese new year took place in china
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have a new superbowl champion. tom brady and the patriots add to their legt legacy or falconse their mark? matt ryan is certainly cable. he's close to his goal, a goal he's had for some time. >> it's what you dream about as a kid, playing in this game. you know, winning this game. that's where your thoughts are in your backyard when you are ten years old and playing with your brothers. that's where it was for me. >> they are chanting matte. they are polling format ryan. his alma martyr had a pep rally in his honor this afternoon. >> carson wentz has been in
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houston all week. being this close to the superbowl is making him want it more. >> watching the playoff games from my coach, i don't want to be here again. i want to be playing. now being here, it's fun to be here and experience this. i don't want to be here in this capacity. >> michael vick has decided to require. the former eagle quarterback last played for the eagles in 2015. he is the all time leading rusher. more when we come back. (vo) maybe it was here, when you hit 300,000 miles. or here, when you walked away without a scratch. maybe it was the day your baby came home.
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>> the flyers have the night off tomorrow afternoon hosting the l.a. kings. the flyers are back on the practice ice this morning holding the wild card spot in the co conference. tomorrow is the second game of an important five game home stand. >> they are crucial games. a lot of good stuff last night against the canadians and we are looking toward the kings tomorrow. >> to the phillies, hernandez is getting a bump in pay. they avoided arbitration with a $1.25 million deal. by the way, players report to clear water a week from monday. >> matt howard for the quakers, 10 up in the second half, ending
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19-6 run. harvard 69-59. that's sports. >> thank you, ducis. visitors to the philadelphia auto show tonight had a chance to enjoy great music. ♪ ♪ that is audra mclaughlin singing the classic song "angel from montgomery." mclaughlin was a finalist in a televised music context. "jimmy kimmel live" nengs followed by "nightline." "action news" continues at 5:30. for cecily tynan, ducis rogers and the entire "action news" team, i'm jim gardner. have a great night and a good weekend. ♪ ♪ ♪
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>> dicky: from hollywood, it's "jimmy kimmel live!" tonight -- samuel l. jackson -- from "frontier," jason momoa -- this week in unnecessary censorship, and music from kehlani. and now, from where i stand, here's jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: very nice. thank you. i'm jimmy, i'm the host of the show. thank you for watching, thank you for coming. i'm glad you're here, i'm glad i'm here. this is a special night. i'll be making a visit to sesame street later in the show, and i'm going to bring everyone with me. can you tell me how to get to -- see, they don't all have to be edgy jokes.

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