the search for violent armed robbers that preyed on a disabled man and saving precious items from hurricane irma flood waters -- next. ♪ ♪ "action news," delaware valley's leading news program with jim gardner. ♪ ♪ >> said the governor of florida, this situation is unfathomable. he was referring o the deaths of eight elderly people whose

bodies were found in a sweltering nursing home. this has turned into a criminal investigation. we go live to the satellite center and news reporter dann cuellar. >> jim, the question that remains tonight is how was this allowed to happen? >> from the air, the desperate effort to save senior citizens would be seen. a life and death situation at hollywood hills. the first sign of trouble came this morning with a call about a heart attack. it became clear that it was more serious. >> the facilities are hot. we made the decision to evacuate the patients from the facility. eight people dead, three at the

nursing home, five later at the hospital. the precise cause yet to be determined. several suffering from dee hydration and heat exhaustion. they had fans but no air conditioning. >> we believe it may be related to the losses of power and the storm, but we are conducting a criminal investigation not ruling anything out. >> the temperature was 90 but it felt 102-degrees. what's also troubling is that the nursing home is yards away from one of the biggest hospitals in, in the area. >> the fact that it's down the street, we don't have control over what happens in the facility. police are looking into reports that the windows wouldn't hope. the health department had been in contact with the nursing home in the last three days and told them to call 911 if there was any problem. >> how does this happen?

>> it's a sad state of affairs. we depend on the facilities to care for our most elderly population. >> other homes are being evacuated after first responders were ordered to check everyone in the area. jim? >> dan, han thank you. the effort to restore power to 7,000,000 people. it's been a slow process and could take more than a week to get everyone back online. it will be life saving. six people died of carbon carbon monoxide poisoning from generator. for many, there is no power, no self service and no water. tourists have been evacuated from the ravaged islands. on st. thomas many lives have been ruined as have the police

station and main hospital. >> now to cecily tynan tracking the remnants of irma at the "action news" big board. >> jim, double scan live showing what's left of irma over the ohio valley. what this will do is lift north of us tomorrow. as it does, it drags a cold front through bringing another round of downpours, maybe thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon. we have a lot of moisture in the air in the form of water vapor, water droplets combined with wind and fog. visibility down to half a mile, two and a half in allentown, a mile in millville. philadelphia not bad now. the visibility up since six hours ago. tomorrow morning, there will be a lot of clouds with areas of fog. some of it dense. suburbs 64, philadelphia 69.

we are troped with tropical humidity, tomorrow another round of showers. we brighten up in time for the weekend. we have details on that in the seven-day forecast. jim? >> thank you, cecily. big news breaking out of washington. it appears president trump and democratic leaders have come to a deal on da ca. chuck schumer and nancy pelosi came to the white announcing that we agreed to enshrine the protections of daca into law and work out border security excluding the wall. this could mean a huge sigh of relief for dreamers, another case of trump making a deal with the democrats. sarah sanders says omitting the

wall was not agreed to so we'll see how this plays out. >> a pedestrian struck by a pickup truck tonight on rockwell drive in stanton delaware. he is now at christiana hospital being treated for serious injuries. state police investigating whether charges should be filed. a multiple shooting in philadelphia, an hour ago second street near lippincot at least four people were shot. police drove one person to temp university hospital because of the severity of the person's injuries. we are trying to get more details about the other victims. philadelphia police continue their search for a man and woman who put a disabled man in the hospital with a bullet wound to the stomach. annie mccormick is live at penn presbyterian with the latest on the story. annie? >> the victim remains in the

intensive care unit. there is new video showing a closer look at two people police believe are responsible. they are hoping the public can help > identify them. a shooter and her accomplice sizing up a 60-year-old man before shooting him in the stomach. her accomplice opened the door for him before he went to the atm to take out cash, 1:30 in the morning on the 1200 block of north 53rd street. >> the female pulls out a gun and shoots him. >> this video giving hope for leads. >> it's odd to have male and female doing robberies, especially this age group. it's odd to have a female with a gun initiating the robbery.

>> police believe both are between 16 and 20 years old and they think they live in the neighborhood. >> it's a real tragic for something like that close to home. friends and family say they are sickened that the disabled man was assaulted. investigators believe robbing hinton of of his cash was the motivate. in the end, they left the money behind. >> a robbery of a 60-year-old man who couldn't defend himself. they have a gun. they could have stopped any action they wanted to. they decided to use the gun immediately then try to do a robbery. >> if you have information for the police that could help them with this case you can remain anonymous, call 215-686-tips. annie mccormick, channel6

"action news." >> thank you, annie. an autopsy shows the college freshman killed month died by blunt force trauma injury. easton police say they are investigating a chain of events that started saturday before williams was discovered u unconscious outside his dorm on sunday. 2,000 people packed the basilica today for the funeral of gerard grandzol killed outside his home last week when he told attempted carjackers that his two-year-old daughter was in the backseat. an out pouring of th care has bn put on go fund me.

>> one person was killed and three injured at a shooting at a spokane high school today. because of the courage of several people. it could have been worse. >> two heros and maybe more. friends say the alleged shooter handed them notes warning he may do something soon stupid that could get him killed or jailed. the students alerted counselors but that didn't stop the tragedy. >> there is a fourth victim. >> the gunfire started 10:00 a.m. their time. kids saw the student come to school with a did you have will bagduffel bag but heoften sold a shock. >> the student's gun jammed so

he pulled a second gun. a student tried to talk him out of the violence. >> a student walked up to him, engaged him and was shot. that student did not survive. he then fired more rounds down the hallway striking three more students. >> three other students were shot. >> he tells me is he is the only shooter. the janitor used cloth to cover the heads of the students sha died. the student was described as nice and funny but obsessed with breaking bad. >> the school had a drill yesterday. there was a vigil at a nearby

church to help the community cope. jim? >> residents of middletown township gathered in language horlange hornto march against h. the principal is glad to see the community come together to resist this type of thinking. >> there are so many here to demonstrate we won't tolerate hate in any of its forms. police are looking for the person responsible for the vandalism at the school and other locations in the township. still to come, details o from harrisburg on a budget funding plan with no new taxes and the cause of the chopper crash that

killed country star troy gentry. a restoration company is taking in photographic storm survivors to save these precious memories. cecily? >> the high today, 74. i'm tracking a trend toward warmer air. i explain when in the seven-day forecast. >> ducis rogers preparing for the chiefs. it's another star performance from you know who. if it's almost unbelievable when "action news" continues tonight. ♪ ♪ i'm danny.

you're danny? i'm steve. joseph, i'm steve. how are you? nice to meet you sir. no different from everyone else. they just want a job. they want respect and they want dignity. steve called fairly frantic. you know, he had a premature baby and i think he had just been given the diagnosis that she had down syndrome. lauren brought out the best in me. she made me a different person. lauren's the spark that started the fire. the goal is keep places like this open so all people, regardless of disability, have an opportunity for employment.

♪ ♪ this was a late night for pennsylvania's house of representatives, the republican controlled body approved a state body approved funding plan with no new taxes instead borrowing $1 billion to fill the state's $2.2 billion budget gap, reallocate money from mass transit, environmental protection and economic development. the plan may be rejected by

democratic governor tom wolf who says it fails to solve the state's underlying problems. it faces push back from republican and democrat democrae in the state senate. investigators say engine trouble was to blame for the crash that killed troy gentry last week. the pilot suffered problems on take off. he tried to perform a maneuver to glide the helicopter down. instead it crashed killing 50-year-old gentry and the pilot. gentry was half of the award winning duo, montgomery/gentry. local musicians in restaurants in doylestown are donating their time and talents to hurricane relief. a concert venue was on wells

road tonight. organizers collected cash and nonperishable items. they'll distribute everything to hurricane victims in texas and florida. call it the pressure memories company. a new jersey firm is stepping up to help victims of hurricane irma and harvey salvage their most precious memories. christie ileto has the story. >> we have seen devastation to photo collections calling us saying, what can we do? >> a maze of photos dry out. these boxes came from florida and texas after hurricane irma and harvey. >> if the rest of the photos

were left in a closet in the water in the albums, the entire collection would do this. >> the new jersey based company specializes in photo restoration. >> we orient them and prepare them scanning each image print and film. eventually digitizing it to be preserved. an intricate process for a company that stands and saves 4,000,000 photos a month. >> they have lost their home, their furniture. it can be replaced. photos and family memories can't. it brings a bit of joy back to everybody. loss, losses, losses -- we don't lose this. the company won't send them back to clients in florida and texas until they say they have a safe, dry place to store them. christie ileto, "action news."

>> what is the situation right now? >> we have a lot of fog out there right now. sky 6 live at the center city skyline which you can't see thanks to low clouds and fog. bruce neumann takes great mcts. yopictures. you can see the wind, a reflection adding to the fog developing. dewpoints, it feels humid. 68-degrees in philadelphia. wilmington, cape may, atlantic city dewpoints in the 70s. if you look at the next several days, tomple in the low 60s, drop on friday and rise for the weekend. the good news for the weekend, we get the showers out of there. looking at temperatures now, close to the dewpoints in the air, practically saturated, bad hair night. cape may, 72. trenton, 71.

reading, 68. satellite and radar showing we have one band of rain, heavy downpours, a feeder band associated with what is left of irma. that has moved on. if we widen it out, we have leftover moisture from what used to be hurricane irma. what this will do, it will slide through tomorrow afternoon. future tracker showing tomorrow morning, 8:00, lots of clouds. good idea to allow extra time tomorrow morning. as we head into the afternoon, showers beginning to develop, especially north and west of philadelphia. it swings through later at night, could get tense thunderstorms. tried, trying to shake the showers, but we have a few more rolling through in the afternoon. we get rid of them in time for the weekend. latest on hurricane jose, maximum winds, 80 miles per hour.

drifting west at three miles per hour. it looks like it continues to meander, close to the weekend, generating large swells and rip currents. it's a great weekend to be on the beaches. you don't want to swim on unguarded beaches. the exclusive accuweather forecast, we do this again, tomorrow like today, high humidity, showers rolling through in the afternoon and evening hours, 78-degrees. friday, clouds and sunshine, 82-degrees. showers developing in the afternoon. the weekend looking nice. both days, 83 on saturday and sunday. monday, partly sunny, 81. tuesday, clouds mixed with sun and a high of 80. average time this time of year, 79. fall arriving and temperatures

in the upper 80s to near 90. fall arrives, it feels like summer. >> when do we go to eastern standard time? >> a couple of weeks later. >> i think october. >> i think it's november. >> we'll check it out. here we go. they are celebrating a bright beginning in camden. officials cut the ribbon on the 200 block of federal street. average class size, 22 students. there is an honor's program and even its own swimming pool. "jimmy kimmel live" after "action news." here's jimmy with a preview of tonight's show. >> thanks, jim. hello, philadelphia. here's what all of the kids will snap chat about tomorrow. this is a hard job. it pumpkinfernturned out to be t of ways. >> for you.

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>> penn state has what should be a layup this week. saturday, nittany lions host penn state. coach franklin is not getting overconfident. >> the first time playing them, the thing that jumps out to me the same team went to wisconsin last year and was leading in the fourth quarter. so they are going to be used to playing in big 10 type environments on the road. >> we have hockey. flyers, rookies, check out

overtime. nnolan patrick, flyers lose 4-3 in o.t. veterans report to camp friday. >> thank you, ducis. a big honor tonight for channel6. the crown lights were lit up to honor the 47th anniversary of puerto rican panorama host diego, the longest running english language program in the world focused on hispanic issues and latin culture. that's saying something. in the world. >> "jimmy kimmel live" live followed by "nightline." guests sloane stephens and music from 21 savage. "action news" continues at 4:30. if are the entire "action news" team, i'm jim gardner.

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