fall victim to heartless teens. >> and fire strikes in buck's county tonight. those stories and more next on "action news." >> "action news," delaware valley's leading news program with jim gardner. ♪ >> it was last friday when eight-year-old dorothy deeegan was stabbed in the head allegedly by a 21-year-old neighbor. tonight the girl is home with

her mother and father healing with the horrific memory embedded in her wound. the big story on "action news" is the update about the heinous stabbing attack in collingdale. dann cuellar is with collingdale police. you are the first to speak with the girl's parents tonight. >> that's right, the eight-year-old girl is hope recooperating from her injuries. her parents are speaking for the first time about the ordeal at the hands of her crazed neighbor. >> it makes me sick in my stomach. >> sarah and her husband spoke with "action news" days after their daughter was stabbed in the head. here she is at the hospital recooperating from injuries. her 21-year-old neighbors is responsible for the attack. >> she had a knife in her hand. >> horrified, deeegan says he

took his shirt off and wrapped it around his daughter's bleeding head waiting for police to arrive. >> it's not easy seeing your child like that. >> after being rush today children's hospital doctors placed stitches in her head to save her life. the woman said she was not happy with the child's baby sitting skills. >> she's too young to baby sit. >> it was just lies. no baby sitting. >> your daughter never baby sat? >> no. >> neighbors say police have been called to the suspect's home so many times they practically live there and recently she was chasing her boyfriend down the street with a hammer. >> she has a long history of bad behavior and stab an

eight-year-old and say she was baby sitting. who is going to believe it? >> the suspect is being held on $250,000 cash bail which she has not been able to post. she is scheduled for a preliminary hearing next tuesday. i'm dann cuellar, channel6 "action news." jim? >> dan, thank you. an upper darb by home is in need of repair after a car came through the front window. chopper 6 was over the 7100 block of marshal road. police had surveillance video of the car crashing into the building at 8:00. a bedroom was on the other side, fortunately the only nern the house was not hurt. police say the driver was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. classes are scheduled to start on time at pennridge hospital in

bucks county after a small fire there tonight. the sprinkler system extinguished the blaze that damaged three classrooms on the third floor. the fire was caused by an electrical malfunction. we prefer to tell stories about the best in people but this is the opposite. two people trying to stare down cancer fall victim to thieves. jeanette reyes spoke to the victims tonight. jeanette? >> jim, the newlyweds are no strangers to heartache and disappointment when it comes to their health but tonight they are dealt another blow this time from a heartless criminal. >> life has been anything but easy. ashley wood is a five year

cancer survivor, her husband is fighting esophageal cancer. >> he was placed on hospice nine days before the wedding. >> "action news" was there two weeks ago as they tied the knot by the restaurant as part of a contest they had won. although that was bittersweet, the latest incident is beyond words. they were going to run errands when he went to the garage. >> his bike was stolen. >> a $7,000 loss and a crushing blow for a couple in the battle of their lives. >> i was like, i don't wish anything bad on people, but i don't understand why people do this stuff. >> you are trying to get better and they steal from someone sick? >> back in 2015 someone stole

thousands of dollars of stuff while the couple was out on one of their many doctor's appointments. >> they took money. >> dealing with liver failure and pain as a result of cancer, there is little that lifts his spirit like his bike and atv. >> if you have any kind of heart, bring it back. >> the couple tells me the bike has strobe lights underneath. they hope someone will recognize it and report it to police. mostly they want their stuff back no questions asked. jeanette reyes, "action news," wphl-17. >> jim? >> a car in a crash was h an els

supposed to stop something like this from happening. the vaifty board is over seeing the probe. the operator of the striking train remains in critical condition. the gloucester city prosecutor has charged a man from monroeville with killing a bicyclist out for a ride with her husband. >> ortega is charged with wreckless driving last wednesday in franklin township. 57-year-old susan kinnen died at the hospital. her husband john was treated and released. >> police say a burglar who dropped from the ceiling at the food market in montgomery township could be responsible for other crimes. this surveillance video is from last monday morning. the same day police think he broke into a deli by climbing

into an air vent. investigators are trying to determine if he also broke into costco earlier this month. >> representatives continue to get an earful. >> the congress is in recess this week and traditionally lawmakers come home to hold town halls to see what their constituents have to say. >> like tom cotton today, they are confronted by angry citizens, many organized democrats upset with president trump and worried about losing their healthcare. crlt was in new jersey tonight where citizens wanted to meet with republican tom mcarthur. what happened tonight? >> it was more civil than boisterous. many were upset that the

congressman didn't attend. he welcomes the candid conversations but not at the cost of making a spectacle. sheets signaled yeas or nays, no booing was allowed. >> i think the screaming and yelling and chanting is counterproductive to what we are trying to do. we are trying to get answers to questions. >> i have chosen not to -- >> we caught up with congressman tompson at the diner. >> that was set up from a script of an organization called indivisible. i feel bad for my constituents that want a real dialogue but i'm not going to get baited into an outside group taking over. in allentown an empty suit was

hung for the congressman that didn't show up. >> do you feel it's worth being here? >> armed with signs some refuted what the white house called paid protesters. >> it's not us. >> i would like to get paid. >> i think he needs to know this many people are interested in what he's doing, calls people in a town hall and doesn't show up. look at this crowd. it's amazing. >> now congressman mcarthur held a teletown hall this evening inn lieu of attending here. a lot of people were able to call in for a q & a session by phone. jim? >> christy, thank you. >> the trump administration has

ended protection for transgender students. betsy devos lifted the guidelines set by the obama administration. it's now up to the states and local school districts to decide the issues. >> one day since his boss spoke out against anti-semitism, vice president pence visited the cemetery where 150 head stones were damaged over the weekend. pence said there is no place in america for hate trid. >ed.>> if all of the political s is freaking you out and spiking fights, stay turned for the report minutes away. >> and investigators may solve a

murder mystery. they caught their murder on tape. >> weekend rain followed by a february reality check, i have it all in the seven-day forecast. >> meet the neighbor, what the discovery of seven nearby planets mean for the search for extraterrestrial life. the sixers make a trade, but it's not who you are expecting -- or who you are expecting if we want to be grammatically correct. ducis rogers with details when "action news" continues tonight. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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destroy native american sites and pollute rivers. >> a video cam may have captured the voice of a murder of two teenagers. libby recorded the man on her phone. the clip is three words and she likely recorded it as the crime was about to occur. >> that's it. german and her friend abby williams were killed while on a hike. this man was scene on the trail at the same time. he is considered a suspect. >> astronomers can barely contain their excitement about a new discovery today seven planets around a new star. all could harbor water and potentially life. three have the right characteristics, rocky like earth and not too far from their

star. the system is located 40 light years away from us in the constellation aquarius. >> if discovery gives us a hint that finding a second earth is not a matter of if but when. >> nasa researchers are launching a mission to look for by-products of life like oxygen and methane. results won't be back for five years. the presidential election has been over for several weeks but the combative exchanges among family and friends hasn't subsided. erin o'hearns explains why politics is so hard on relationships. >> exhausting,

depressing,agetives of political tension and spill over into our personal lives. experts urge us all to take a political timeout. >> i unfriended everyone on my facebook that was pro hillary because those people couldn't share my core values. >> robert even ended a 45 year friendship with the godfather of his fun over the facebook post intended to be a joke. he explained the fallout. >> he pretty much said i can't be friends with you of the you you are un-american. >> they haven't spoken since donald trump's inauguration. >> i teared up a little. >> that's not where it ended. when robert's sister kathy said she wasn't sheer she was voting

for trump she received a disturbing text. >> forget you knew me. >> this is a common scenario played out across the country, family, friendships and even marriages are being separated due to i deal logical opinions. >> people are fighting. i think half don't know what they are fighting about. >> psycho therapist esther caplin say she has seen an increase in stress over political differences with loved ones. she believes heated debate has brought feelings to their

surface that they were previously unaware of. >> ca caplin says it's importano find interests outside of politics. take time away from the television instead of engaging in a political discussion, talk about interests you have in common. finally, listen to one another and respect opinions different than your own. >> the difference at hand between my brother and i is the right to have different opinions. >> after we interviewed tom and robert, they agreed that the political differences were notworth their friendship. i'm erin o'hearn, "action news." >> some people might laugh, but it's serious. >> i have been careful not using

the word "snowflake" in case it's misinterpreted. that was a joke, don't post my facebook page. tracker 6 -- i got the elbow, though. showing no rain, no sno snowflas tonight. temperatures mild, our normal high this time of year, a 30 year average is 46. we are holding at 47-degrees at 11:00 at night, allentown, 42. wilmington 43. we have winds out of the southwest pulling up the warm air. we have a pretty decent amount of cloud cover. the combination of the two means temperatures are not dropping much at all. the bus-stop forecast, a light jacket is all you need, 48 at 6:00, 8:00, 51-degrees. it's not bright and sunny. lots of clouds, perhaps areas of

dense fog, aversion setting up for the morning, warmer air at the surface. you get the clouds and fog at 7:30 in the morning. in afternoon, we see sunshine and temperatures are climbing close to 70-degrees. 70 in philadelphia, 71 wilmington, allentown, 68. an "action news" viewer tweeted me, they are so happy they are taking their parents to the beach. take sweatshirts because you have wind out of the southwest off the bay it's a lot colder, temperatures in the 50s, ocean temperature 42-degrees. warmer friday, 75-degrees. we are looking at temperatures, 20 to 30 above average ohio valley to the mid atlantic. that rolls through saturday night with a round of showers and thunderstorms. behind the system, it feels like

february on sunday. the exclusive forecast, lots of clouds, sunshine by the afternoon. it's going to be warm, 70-degrees. friday could hit a record high of 75. that would tie for the warmest temperature ever recorded in philadelphia in february. saturday, almost as warm, 74-degrees. rain, gusting thunderstorms possible, anytime between 4:00 and 9:00. 4:00 in the afternoon and 9:00 at night. temperatures crash on sunday, back to the average high 46. windchills in the 30s. the cold air doesn't last long. monday and tuesday back to the 50s with rain. wednesday, march mildness, 65-degrees. looks like next thursday temperatures drop back to the upper 40s. >> out of control. >> ups and downs. >> don't bundle up tomorrow. talented young singers

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appetizer. what about the main course. they have a trade tonight but not with okafor. the sixers are sending ersan ilyasova as a second round draft pick. he averages 14 points per game. twitter is a back up center. as for okafor, he's still a sixer for now. pacers, lakers and bulls are the latest teams that have shown interest. the trade deadline is tomorrow afternoon at 3:00, okafor is playing the waiting game like the rest of us. >> keeping my phone on, see what happens. the deadline is tomorrow. i'm one of the guys that could be traded. i'll see where i end up. >> joel embid practiced today. he has missed two weeks with a

knee injury. he is questionable in friday's game and saturday's game against the nix. >> i hope they'll let me play. oipt to play.i want to play. >> last time the flyers and capitals met they were on the wrong side of the shutout. flyers down 2-0. braeden schenn, a goal. flyers down 2-1. late in the game, a score. fliers lose 4-1. villanova in a tight one after the break.

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>> villanova entered the night with two blemishes on the season, one at the hands of butler. bridges with the turnover. martin finishes other end. villanova falls 74-66. it's their first loss at the pavilion since 2013, 48 game home win streak. st. joe's against st. one bon s. joe's loses 83-77. temple hosting central florida. mark williams with a good look at it. owls can't secure the rebound, temple falls 79-61. >> temple women winning 101,

make it 102. owls lose 90-45. not a good night on the local college basketball season. >> ducis, thank you. finally, restaurants teamed up to benefit big brothers and sisters. they held an all you can eat tasting at the brewing company. the bar also kicked in offering 20 brews to wash it down. "jimmy kimmel live" next followed by "nightline." he's airing the 2012 special with oprah winfrey. action news continues at 4:30. for cecily tynan, ducis rogers, and the entire "action news" team, i'm jim gardner. goodnight. ♪ ♪

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