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this is where a 19-year-old woman was sexually assaulted at gunpoint this morning. the attacker is still at large and police are asking for your help as they desperately try to bring him in. it is tuesday night and the big story on action news tonight is an ugly crime amid the beautiful surroundings of norris town farm park the location the 2500 upper farm road in the norristown park the victim jogging at 10:50 this morning when she was confronted by a gun toting man who may have been wear agree mask action news reporter christie ileto was live at the scene tonight christie what did police learn tonight if anything that will help them catch this guy. >> reporter: jim sources say the suspect grabbed the teen from behind attacked and disappeared and it happened fast and authorities say they only have a vague description of who this person could possibly be. park rankers shuttered entrances and turned away joggers from the

norristown farm park residents we befuddled by the extra security until we explained and authorities were combing through an area where a 19-year-old was allegedly sexually assaulted in broad daylight. >> i heard somebody say were calling the police, call the police. >> reporter: visiting from texas valicity saunders had no idea the assault happened so close. >> i'm still in shock right now, it's really crazy. >> the person who did it where did they come from. >> reporter: in a dark hoodie sources say the man approached the teen behind on the trails armed with a gun and not clear on the trail where the alleged assault unfolded but focused on a wooded area not far from the main entrance. >> that is crazy that something like that would go on. >> reporter: popular for cyclists and drivers and the constant foot traffic does not makeup for the isolated areas along the trail. >> little pockets where like the corn like covers everything so like nobody can really see you and anything can really happen.

>> reporter: uncertainty and those who regularly come here calling for more patrols. >> more security lights or whatever and hate to happen to anyone's child especially mine. >> reporter: very frightening and this evening the victim was released from the hospital and authorities only have a vague description of the suspect that he is african/american wearing a black hoodie and armed and with information who the person could possibly be is asked to contact the police montgomery county christie ileto action news. >> bill cosby's attorney wants off the case for the retrial and the document that defense lauren brian mcmonagle filed today in montgomery court seeking to withdraw and reveals cosby is working on hiring new attorneys and is asking to be given 20 days to do so, the comedian's first trial ended in deadlock in june and retrial scheduled for

november. police in philadelphia and haverford are trying to zero on a man who opened fire at officer brook and ardmore the second claiming the life of a 29-year-old man and detectives in philadelphia annie mccormick you have the latest. >> reporter: jim that is right 24-year-old derrick rollins is considered armed and dangerous and the u.s. maritals to try and apprehend him with ties to other areas in the state however not ruling out he is still here in the city. 24-year-old derrick rollins on the run tonight wanted in connection with the haverford homicide of john lee and for a shooting incident in philadelphia that occurred just 45 minutes before lee's murder. police say the shooting incident happened in overbrook park, rollins allegedly unloaded his weapon at two residents in a car the pair told police they followed him in his volvo to 77 and sherwood the victims were confronting him after he was

caught peeking in a window. >> took off and fired 17 shots hitting the back of the car and passenger door. >> reporter: police believe it brought him to 2300 haverford record and encountered lee as the 29-year-old left a pizza shop and shot in the torso on his way to his friend's apartment and believe it was random and authorities confirmed the bullets from both scenes are from the same gun and residents are stunned. that kind of violence in a town that rarely sees anything like that it was really shocking. >> very scared, want to know if he was arrested or if they found him and you know just kind of all different things. >> reporter: at a national night out event officials fielded questions. >> people are relieved and know we identified the person and we are hot on his trail. >> reporter: overnight a break in the case led police to rollins volvo at 51 and locust in west philadelphia and raided an address there linked to him

the delaware district attorney said the main goal right now is to capture him. >> right now the first and foremost is take him in custody on a philadelphia warrant and then we will be able to complete the delaware county warrant the haverford township warrant and deal with those issues. >> reporter: and jim court records show that rollins does have past drug and weapons offenses, there is now a 5,000 reward for any information that does lead to an arrest and a conviction, 215-546-tips is the number and he is armed and dangerous and if you encounter him you can also call 911 reporting live in west philadelphia annie mccormick with action news back to you. >> thank you a daredevils dangerous climb to the top of philadelphia city hall is drawing a lot of attention tonight including from authorities. he recorded his as sent sometime before july 21 when scaffolding surrounded the statute of william penn and did it without

safety gear and without permission. >> i'm on top of the clock tower city hall in philadelphia. >> reporter: the mystery climber identifies himself as carson king from washington. police are figuring out trying to figure out whether they are going to pursue him fortre trespassi trespassing. the white house acknowledged that president trump did take part in crafting a statement about his son's meeting with the russian lawyer. the washington post has reported that trump dictated don junior's first statement that said the meeting only concerned the adoption of russian children by american families. don junior's e-mails later revealed that don junior was endiced by the russian lawyer of dirt on hillary clinton as part of the russian government's help to elect his father but press secretary sarah sanders said today the president did not dictate but quote weighed in and then she said this. >> the statement that don junior

issued is true. there is no inaccuracy in the statement. the president weighed in as any father would based on the limited information that he had. this is all discussion frankly of no consequence. >> reporter: president trump's choice to head the fbi christopher wray has been overwhelmingly confirmed by the u.s. senate the vote was 92-5, wray replaces jim comey who of course was fired by trump amid the investigation into russian meddling and wray asserted independence during his confirmation hearing saying quote my loyalty is to the constitution and to the rule of law. former reading pennsylvania mayor vaughn spencer will remain free until trial after pleading not guilty to are up corruption charges today and no comment of allegations leaving the federal courthouse in center city philadelphia and prosecutors say vaughn bribed the city council president and tried to sell his office for campaign

contributions and from new jersey governor christie signed a bill giving back pay to workers who were furloughed including state parks were forced to close july 1-3. that shut down also led to the infamous picture of governor christie lounging on island beach state park which was closes to the public. it is a bizarre case of animal abuse. a group of men forcing a juvenile alligator to drink alcohol. they also stuck a cigarette in its mouth and the video was shared on snapchat and now the pennsylvania spca is on the case. that's because a tipster believes the cruelty case took place in northeast philadelphia. philadelphia's high tech police helicopter whoaed the crowd as it came down for a special landing at snyder plaza in south philadelphia. the chopper's appearance was the main attraction for national night out here. it is an annual community

building program to connect police officers with the people they serve. not to be outdone with the philly phanatic put on a show to entertain the youngsters and back to bases by the camdon community some of the youngest trained like a police officer and tried on some of their gear. firefighters even demonstrated what it takes to fight back flames. still to come on action news tonight late developmenst and the man with the hat and hit target stars and brush up before bed the risk of gum disease in other parts of their body cecily. >> back in the 90s the high 91 four degrees above normal the

heat wave and we will have more on the accuweather forecast. plus contact sport and jeff skversky with the eagles live hitting at training camp went action news continues tonight.

the search is on tonight for a man in the red pickup truck and served as his get away car police are calling him the baby formula bandit and action news dann cuellar has the story. >> reporter: it's a strange case a guy going around in an old red pickup truck stealing baby formula admittedly there always has been a market for baby formula but this guy has a big appetite and hit this target on rock in bensalem sunday after 1:30. >> took 12 cans off with a value of 200 which is about 16, 17 a can. >> reporter: the next day he hit a target in 200 mill road in the

oaks section of upper providence and got in a scuffle with a loss prevention worker and strange and before you start feeling story for the guy. >> it's not a guy stealing baby formula for the baby that is not what is happening here folks. >> reporter: it's weirder and the thief could be out to resell it on the streets that seems highly unlikely. >> we are finding it they are using similac a safe item to cut drugs with and cutting coke and primarily, we have not seen it with heroin but you can cut coke you can probably cut meth with it. >> reporter: surveillance cameras and good ones at target pictures of the man being sought and captured the redford ford ranger he fled in. >> got to get him off the street and adding to the drug problem we have out of control in delaware valley. >> reporter: if you see him or know who he is you are asked to

call bensalem police, dann cuellar. >> maybe his worst crime is wearing a dallas cow boy hat. the peanut butter prison escapeees and shows brady kilpatrick handcuffed and in police custody in florida after breaking out of alabama prison along with 11 others on sunday and used peanut butter to cover up an exit number and tricked a naive prison guard convincing him to open up that door which they used to get out. a 17-year-old has been detained after jumping from a plane at san francisco airport tonight officials say he opened an emergency exit over the wing and jumped out when the 737 from panama city florida landed. maybe that is panama city panama check that out. a construction worker caught the air field and caught him before

police arrived. police say the body of a 30-year-old texas woman was found buried on an ocean city maryland beach just with an arm above the sand. a beach goer called police after discovering the body in a large hole investigators say she had been out with family and was separated and believe the death is an accident and life guards say that accidents like this is why they do not allow deep holes in the sand. there was one additional danger from north korea's latest ballistic missile launch just been revealed it nearly hit a passenger plane. the missile fell to earth in the waters off japan where an air france 777 had just been flying ten minutes before, more than 300 people were on board. analysts say if the missile had broken apart on reentry things could have turned tragic. in mere hours sometime after midnight the u.s. military will

launch it's icbm from a base in california and the test of minute man three is the fourth this year and pentagon officials say it's meant to send a message as a deterrent and ensure our nuclear arsenal will be ready in a worst case scenario. new jersey snore corey booker is introducing legislation to legalize marijuana nationwide. it's part of his new racial justice bill booker announced his measure in a facebook live video and says the legislation is needed because the federal marijuana prohibition unfairly affects poor and minority citizens. health check at 11:00 one way to ward off cancer could be as simple as taking your dentist advice of brushing and flossing everyday a new study of more than 65,000 women found those with gum disease had a 14% higher risk of cancer. the risk nearby doubled or nearly doubled for gallbladder

cancer and tripped for esophagus and researchers are not sure yet what causes the link but believe it may have to do with chronic inflammation in both diseases. ♪ happening tomorrow it is a prime day for jobseekers. amazon plans to hire 50,000 workers in a day long blitz and the fulfillment center in robbinsville mercer county is one of ten sites nationwide. managers will be hiring candidates on the spot. the majority of the positions will be full time including health and retirement benefits. the job fair goes from 8:00 a.m. to noon at 50 new canton way this robbinsville if you are interested in attending, if you want a job with amazon we have more information at 6abc.com. but it will be hot for those waiting online but well worth the wait. >> bring a lot of water if you are waiting in line it will be another hot day tomorrow and the action cam on south broad street where it's a warm, somewhat

humid summer night. philadelphia didn't receive a drop of rain. but northeast philadelphia kind of got 2.5" and i love this photo that is posted on my facebook page because it literally shows how lightning can strike out of the blue. we have blue skies, we have a rainbow and we also have a pretty vivid cloud-to-ground lightning strike over northeast philadelphia at 6:00 and what we had today pop up air mass thunderstorms pretty common in the summer the reason we get them part of the reason at least the trigger is the sun. the sun heats the ground, you get the rising parcel of air, we have the warmth, we have the humidity and with the uneven heating on the ground this is when we got pop up thunderstorms, hard to tell exactly where they will happen but they usually happen late in the afternoon during the heating of the day and we do have a chance of more of these as we head through the week, about 30% chance tomorrow and thursday, friday ahead of a cold front

bump up 40% and the weekend we dry out nightly and when the sun sets the air mass thunderstorms fall apart and exactly what happened today. satellite and radar showing we had an isolated thunderstorm in northeast philadelphia also some of the lehigh and burkes county and fizzled once the sunset and now a little cloud cover moving our way. temperatures show you it's still pretty warm philadelphia 79 degrees allentown 73, wilmington 78, cape may 76. you have to head to the poconos to have cooler air 61 degrees and dew points show you it's pretty humid out there, dew points generally in the mid 60s to low 70s and that's where they should be staying right through friday. they have a little bit of some drier air mixing in on thursday but generally it's a warm humid week that is the way we start the morning ute and 6:00, 73 and by 8:00, 77 tomorrow a repeat performance of today hot with a high of 90 and scattered thunderstorms popping up in the

afternoon hours. we do it again on thursday. ahead of that cold front and that front will sneak through late on friday and what this will do is bring us much cooler air right in time for the weekend so if you are down at the shore tomorrow nice beach day mix of sun and clouds and humid and 83 in atlantic city and for the beach 84 so the exclusive forecast muggy and hot and scattered thunderstorms and do it again thursday and 91 friday and 92 degrees but then the cold front sneaks through saturday morning probably coming through dry and look at the impact on the temperatures 84 degrees saturday, sunday 82 degrees low humidity. we stay in the conform zone monday 83 and tuesday a little more humid with some thunderstorms and a high of 85 degrees so the next three days hot and humid the weekend though will be beautiful. >> reality is so sharp. >> it's neat. >> could you make it rain in the studio? >> i could. i can make it snow in the

studio, stay tuned. >> wait for that. okay, all right, i did not expect that. one of many communities in our area that participated in national night out. this year the event was hosted by the marple police and the brew hall fire department. there was something for everybody including a car show even the k-9s appeared to be there and let's see the dogs the k-9s appeared to have a great time with the kids. neighbors committed to looking out for one another and being more aware of their personal safety. children who attended national night out got to try on police gear and pretended they were protecting their community and they demonstrated techniques they use in the field the k-9s always a hit and also some classic cars on display and held of the town's tricentennial celebration and last night we told you about a retiring police

k-9 and ton we get to meet the three newest graduating a bomb sniffing german hair pointer and jax is a black lab and dutch shepherd mix trained to detect drugs as is abbo a german shepherd. ♪ it's blinds to go's anniversary summer bogo sale. buy any blinds or shades and take half off your next item. all blinds! all shades! the entire store! buy one get one half off. it's our biggest sale of the year! come celebrate and save. blinds to go. blinds for life.

it's blinds to go's anniversary summer bogo sale. buy any blinds or shades and take half off your next item. all blinds! all shades! the entire store! buy one get one half off. it's our biggest sale of the year! come celebrate and save. blinds to go. blinds for life. phillies locked in a tight one in anneheim. >> 15 of the 19 on the road including tonight and not see the phillies around here for a while and looking to win six in a row for the first time in months in anneheim and as good of a starter aaron nola has been a tough test facing a mike trout and two time mvp and grew up for the first time in three years and phillies strike first and tommy joseph hot and three hits yesterday and two tonight including in the first and

phillies have a 1-0 lead in the fourth, trout is one for two in the game. check this out tonight it's boston one of the best catches you will ever see. cleveland's austin jackson. wow, a home run, take another look over the wall and right center and somehow some way he can hold on to that baseball. on the first day of live tackling three of the eagles newest stars stays out of harm's way and misses practice for personal reasons and tory smith sidelined with injuries neither sound very serious and feels like the hottest day in training camp so far today the sun beating down on practice former eagles coach dick talking with pederson and quarterback carson wentz doesn't have receivers and they are still beating up the

starting corners and listen to patrick robinson he rips himself. >> it was a terrible day for me. it was terrible. and for the d b's and we got a lot of expectations for us. and i didn't have a good day today. and sometimes you got to have some days like that but you got to bounce back. >> just being here, being away from north dakota. >> reporter: remember the north dakota family that was crying on action news over their love for carson wentz, well wentz saw the story on 6abc that went viral so carson why do you think you get this kind of response? >> i don't really know. i don't really know. i tell you what i'm a normal dude who has been blessed to play this game but it's definitely humbling and also really cool to recognize that i have that influence, i'm very fortunate. >> everyone is on the wentz wagon and still to come the look

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allen iverson finally apologizing to days after failing to show up for a big three tournament game in dallas on his instagram account and ai gives no excuse for his unexcused absence the current number one pick markelle fultz looking sharp in number 20 threads and unveiling the

uniforms have slightly different with a nike swoosh and stub hub ad the first to have an ad on their jerseys and monet davis back on the mound pitching at the great american ballpark in cincinnati three years after being a star and leading the dragons and pitching for the junior rbi team and 16 and unfortunately gives up two runs and a loss but it's great for the one and only monet davis on the mound in a phillies uniform looking good, playing professional. >> looks good out there and jimmy kimmel live next on channel six followed by night line and he has kate and alexix and music from justin moore and continues at 4:30 with edwards and matt o'donnell and karen rogers and dave murphy and from brian taff sharrie williams adam

joseph ducis rodgers and cecily tynan i'm jim gardner.