for the first time we have heard from his mother. she talked today to "action news" reporter vernon odom who is at police headquarters and vernon, what did she have to say? >> reporter: jim, she said a number of things including this. no mother should have to endure this. it's not right. it's not right, she said, my first born has been taken from me. >> (crying). >> reporter: shamika smith and her family tried desperately to console each other outside aria torresdale hospital. her son, 16-year-old messiah chiverton remains on life support, the doctors saying they cannot do anything to prevent the inevitable. he sustained a gunshot wound to the head wednesday afternoon in the 2100 block of maggie avenue in what police say was a confrontation between teens from different high schools. >> i really just want them to just stop the violence. this don't make no sense.

i shouldn't be here. no mother should have to go through this. like this isn't right. this isn't right. >> he played football. he boxed. he went to school. he was loving. all of my grandchildren love him to death. >> reporter: the gunman was 18-year-old muhammad goode who was was chased down by a police officer who saw the incident. police have charged goode with attempted murder but that will be upgraded to murder one. students free to travel the city at will after school is dismissed is a serious problem police say. >> part of the issue is a lot of public -- the school kids have the free access trans passes and they're roaming over the city in after school hours and we're experiencing some problems with it here and there. >> reporter: as for fast acting police work in this case, chiverton's family is reaching out in gratitude. >> another person that stands out for me is the police officer that drove my grandson to this hospital. i just want to know what his name is so i can just hug him and thank him.

'cause he wasn't left on the sidewalk to be a spectacle for everyone to see. >> reporter: jim, muhammad guide will be denied any chance at bail. i'm vernon odom channel6 "action news" at police headquarters in center city. >> thank you vernon. here's one of the questions of the day. might the u.s. pull out of the iran nuclear deal? well, president trump moved closer to doing that today. trump moved to decertify the iran nuclear deal which in effect forces congress to come up with a better plan within 60 days. the current agreement deals only with iran and nuclear bombs but trump wants the agreement to cover a range of what the president calls iran's destructive actions. trump said if congress cannot arrive at a better agreement, he will terminate the deal. world news tonight with david muir will have much more on the iran nuclear situation,

that is next at 6:30 right after "action news." we just received an update from the monroe township school district in gloucester county. classes had been canceled all week because of mold. now we know what the plans are for next week. "action news" reporter bob brooks is live at the school administration building in williamstown and bob what's the story there? >> reporter: well, jim, we just got test results back in all across the district. testing their buildings for mold. now we know class will resume next week on tuesday. after a week of canceled classes the monroe township public schools will reopen next tuesday the 17th. that's minus mol holly glen elementary. parents we spoke with are hopeful this can serve as a learning lesson for a better plan moving forward and more community involve. >> regular checks, regulations accountability. >> i hope that the town, you know, maybe gets together and goes to more school board meetings instead of when they just feel it's needed.

>> reporter: according to the district web site after a week of work testing for mold the district wide test results show the schools except for holly glen are fit for students and staff to be inside the findings released to the township and 6300 students in the district plus more staff comes after a frustrating week. first holly glen was closed for mold. then pictures inside williamstown middle school emerged on facebook show ceiling tiles saturated with black mold. after that many parents decided to pull their children out of the building until tests were done. the administration is deeming them safe. parents say they wish the district had been more opened. what has the district told you. >> really hasn't gotten any updates. >> there's been no could you tell us calls to the house. >> i haven't heard anything yet but i'm sure that they're going to go do the right thing and get the kids back in school as soon as possible. >> reporter: and there you hear they have again classes set to resume next tuesday. now for the teachers they're going to go back on monday its

going to be some kind of an in service type like day. as for the students at holly glen elementary, they're going to move forward with that plan to send them to the other elementary schools throughout the district. reporting live in williamstown, bob brooks channel6 "action news." jim. >> thank you bob. this is new at 6:00 the radnor township board of commissioner has called a special meeting for monday at 6:00. the commissioners will be electing a new board president because of in man, the current president, phil ahr arraigned on wednesday on various child pornography and child sexual abuse charges. the commissioners asked him to submit his resignation by today. ahr has not done that. monday the commissioners will replace ahr as president but by law cannot kick him off the board. the pennsylvania state police are trying to connect stolen property with its rightful owners. police say they recovered a garage full of goods, most of the nearly 150 items were power tools, weed whackers and

leaf blowers. investigators believe the suspect stole the tools over a two-year period in delaware and chester counties. police say victims need a receipt, a serial number or other identification to recover their stolen property. the pennsylvania turnpike commission is preparing to conduct a unique operation this weekend on the northeast extension. but they'll have to close a big chunk of the roadway between 9:00 tonight and 4:00 a.m. monday. live in plymouth meeting is "action news" reporter john rawlins. john, a weekend of inconvenience but a big payoff. >> reporter: that's the theory absolutely. they are replacing a pair of turnpike bridges that are north of allentown. now, conventional replacement would take about a year and they would have cattle chutes lane drops and all kinds of problems. what they're going to do is shut down a portion of the toll way and then slide new bridges into place. but be forewarned. if you plan on driving north of allentown expect delays.

>> it is going to be slow, yes. best advice we can give is that we are asking drivers and the traveling public to avoid this region if at all possible as far as the pennsylvania turnpike. >> reporter: starting at 9:00 the northeast extension from exit 74 mahoning valley to 56, lehigh valley, will be shut down for 55 hours. the official detour marked here in blue use u.s. 22 to the east to route 33 to the north to i80. so what's going on? this time lapse video from a similar western pennsylvania project can give you an idea. crews first build a pair of replacement bridges parallel to existing worn out bridges. once traffic stops, crews will demolish the old bridges and the new units will slowly slide into place. >> the slide of the two bridges will happen tomorrow morning at some point. >> reporter: the plan, the new bridges to be ready for traffic 4:00 a.m. monday. meanwhile congestion on two lane portions of the blue route and adjoining i-95 south on the mind of penndot

secretary leslie richards today. >> penndot is now planning to implement dynamic part time shoulder use. >> reporter: the idea to reduce congestion and emissions penndot seriously considering upgrading the paved shoulder turning it into a part time travel lane. penndot has looked at i-66 near washington, d.c. where now overhead signs signal when drivers can legally use the shoulder as a traffic lane. >> but we are hoping to come up with is a plan that will allow us to add a lane in each direction on the blue route when it is needed. >> reporter: now, officially they have to do a study of all of this. penndot already looking at the idea on the schuylkill expressway as well but it could take years to sort out. more immediate issues for drivers tonight and this weekends, the northeast extension north of allentown again the roads there for about 17 or 18 miles of it will be closed for the entire weekend. be forewarned if you're heading north, you're going to expect detours and delays. live in plymouth meeting, john rawlins channel6 "action news"

>> ♪ >> and we have breaking news live from chopper6. philadelphia fire crews are on the scene at the patha, the pennsylvania academy of fine arts in center city after smoke was seen coming from the seventh floor. the incident was reported just after 5:30. it is a 10-story building located in the 100 block of north broad street. we don't see smoke coming from the building at this point but we are trying to find out exactly what is going on and what firefighters have discovered. we do know this, traffic is blocked southbound. so far there are no injuries of any kind. we will stay on this. saint elizabeth high school in wilmington has unveiled plans for a new sports complex at camby park. this is a look at what those fields would look like. right now the school has to rent other fields for their games. school officials say the facility would include baseball and softball fields in addition to a football

field. there would also be tennis and basketball courts an playground for younger children. seems like a great project. these camden students are excited to receive the gift of brand new books. 3,000 new science books have been donated to the district courtesy of subaru. third graders got their first look at the books today. they also met with author diana aston. the books will benefit all grade levels. subaru is planning to move into its new camden facility next spring. coming up on "action news" tonight, a marine on a mission for veterans charities takes his journey through philadelphia today. >> a cherry hill salon owner returns from an emotional trip to puerto rico where she delivered supplies to hurricane victims and also had to bury her father. i'm nora muchanic. we'll have wanda morris story coming up next. >> second day in a row of cloudy damp weather with temperatures stuck in the 60's but i'm tracking a dramatic warmup right in time for your

weekend. i'll sprain in sprain in explain the accuweather forecast. >> reaction to that huge eagles win when "action news" continues tonight.

>> a woman from cherry hill has returned home after a visit to her native puerto rico for the funeral of her father. she also brought a little sunshine to the storm ravaged island. new jersey correspondent nora muchanic has the story. >> you can't really understand the magnitude of how bad it is until you are there. >> reporter: cherry hill salon owner wanda moore as returned from home to deliver

supplies and bury her father. the lack of power added an extra level of pain to this vietnam veteran. >> i could slowly see his bodi compose in front of us and it was a very difficult thing to watch. >> reporter: wanda documented her travels to remote towns that fema and the red cross haven't reached. >> i just want to show you the conditions that people are living in with no electricity, the fan's not working. and no water. >> reporter: wanda says many towns she was the first outsider to visit since hurricane maria devastated the island last month. a container full of supplies sent from new jersey didn't arrive until thursday, but wanda used some of the $50,000 in go fund me donations collected to buy food and water for storm victims. >> she opens the bag and she sees the water and she starts to hysterically cry. so my god i didn't know you guys were going to give me water and just starts crying. a drink of water, that's how bad it is.

>> reporter: wanda's trip to puerto rico was difficult and emotional but she's determined to keep raising money and going back to the island to help in the recovery there. >> if you have a heart, you can't, you can't stop. i have to continue this -- this journey until i see that puerto rico is back on its feet and it's going to take a long time. >> reporter: in cherry hill, i'm nora muchanic channel6 "action news". >> 31 days, 31 cities and 31 marathons. that's the goal for marine veteran rob jones. jones' journey began yesterday in london. today he began his state side tour along kelly drive in philadelphia. jones lost both of his legs after stepping on an ied while serving in afghanistan in 2010. jones' mission is to raise money for veterans charities and we have a link on 6abc.com if you want to track jones' journey or donate to his cause paulsboro's a very proud community.

it's been on the decline with the closing of the refineries and there's no jobs in the community. if there's no jobs, there's no education, there's no food on the table. what's important is the children. steve sweeney... he fought for 'em. this is where he's from. steve sweeney's been here since the beginning. steve spearheaded the whole project and really brought it to fruition. it would've never been done without steve. it was a pride in building this port and then knowing that we're coming back.

after 8 years of chris christie, is kim guadagno the change new jersey really needs? guadagno is christie's hand-picked successor. says she's "proud to be part of the christie administration." guadagno was chris christie's right hand as our schools came under attack, critical services were underfunded, and our credit rating was downgraded...11 times. from the bridge to the beach, we've seen it all, and we've had enough. kim guadagno isn't the change we need.

kim guadagno isn't >> a lot of smiling around the tri-state area today. >> all because of the eagles. this team has some magic behind it right now. enter yesterday's game against the panthers we were cautiously optimistic. it's okay to get excited, this team is for real. this team got fletcher cox back. in the second quarter cox forced cam newton to a a bad throw. that led to one of the three touchdown passes. this went to zach ertz. ertz only caught two balls on the night and guess what, both were td's. wentz and ertz hooked up again in the third. this gave the birds an 18-10 league. nelson agholor got into the mix. the eagles won 28-two improve to five and one things are great. coach doug pederson has a problem, a good problem. he has to keep his team hungry and grounded. >> it's tough. it's a fine line because these -- the players are --

you know, they're going to read and they're going to listen to the -- all the media outlets on tv and stuff and just hear how people are talking about them and saying how good and how great they are, but i got to keep it real, too and that comes from me and, yeah, we're winning these games but there's a lot to fix. >> check this out from inside the eagles locker room immediately after the game, that's safety malcolm jenkins absolutely feeling it. he's doing that with his cleats on. to basketball,. sixers make believe season draws to a close tonight. they'll face the miami heat. this game will be played in kansas city not too far from where joel embiid attended college. embiid will see action tonight. coach brett brown says he'll play about 15 minutes. in wednesday's game against the nets embiid scored 22 points in 15 minutes. the coach says don't read too much into that.

>> when you start talking about legitimately the start of the year, preseason isn't even close to what the nba season is and then the nba season isn't even close to what the playoffs are and so you can't be tricked in preseason and i think we'll all make better judgment of how far along is he really when you really play an nba game. >> the flyers have been in action for more than a week. we have yet to see them firsthand. that will change tomorrow night with the home opener. flyers will host the washington capitals. orange and black off to a start. the flyers say they like the way their roster is comprised. >> i think our team is incredible. we got a little more offense in the back end this year. and i really think we have four lines. >> when pete mackanin was

reassigned to the phillies by an adviser role his staff's future appeared in limbo. today the phillies announced larry bowa will return as an adviser to the general manager. roy halladay has been out of baseball since 2013 but he's keeping himself busy. he has taken up flying. he and his wife brandy bought an icon aircraft a5. this plane can land on water. looks like something out of the future. halladay says flying has been a passion of his since he was a kid but he couldn't become a pilot until he retired from baseball. that aircraft by the way we made a phone call, $389,000. >> okay. >> didn't know what you wanted to do with your money. >> it's not that. coming up on "action news" cecily tynan with the accuweather forecast. when we and continue in just a moment. >> ♪

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>> that incredibly important weekend accuweather forecast. >> and a dramatic warmup over the weekend, jim. today the action cam taking a look in ventnor where it certainly wasn't a great beach day. it was cloudy surf is up with that wind off the ocean and even a few showers at times. let's go live on sky6 taking a look at dillworth park where we have oktoberfest going on and the made in philadelphia fall festival. great night to be there. but definitely do want a jacket. it's cool out there and it's damp. the accuweather highlights will show you, yes, we have a cloudy start to the weekend. i'm tracking one more summer-like day on sunday temperatures up near record warmth but then don't get used to it. the coolest temperatures so far this season will be moving

in on monday night. so, fall will return. right now temperatures stuck in the 60's. 66 degrees in philadelphia. our high today 67. 1 degree below normal. so, seasonably cool. allentown 63, trenton 63 and atlantic city airport 65. and in cape may, 64 degrees. satellite and radar showing that we have been stuck in the clouds pretty much all day long and you can see that swirl off the coast of the carolinas. that's low pressure and it's also been tossing a few light showers across the shore. that low pressure kind of dies out as we head through the weekend and that will allow or winds to shift but tonight a cloudy damp night with a few spotty showers especially east of philadelphia. 55 degrees in the suburbs. about 60 degrees for center city. future tracker showing don't expect much sunshine tomorrow. 8:30 in the morning lots of clouds, some areas of spotty drizzle as we need into the afternoon, could see some brightening in the skies, best chance would be across the lehigh valley and the poconos but still a chance of a shower

across south jersey. so, if you're heading to the linc, temple homecoming taking on the uconn huskies plenty of clouds, winds on the light side temperatures warmer than today. the first quarter 70 degrees, by the fourth quarter 73. future tracker showing sunday morning plenty of low level moisture stuck. so, we wake up with a good amount of cloud cover. i think fog will be an issue early sunday morning. but then the winds shift out of the southwest and they pick up. wind gusts up to about 30 miles per hour on sunday afternoon. so, the sunshine is back as well as the warmth. temperatures soaring up into the mid 80's but this is one day of it. by sunday night, a round of some showers with a cold front. behind that front winds shift out of the northwest on monday and that will bring us much cooler air. so, the exclusive accuweather 7-day forecast tomorrow, it's mostly cloudy, another damp day but warmer than today, 74 degrees. sunday morning fog, afternoon wind. it will be warm and humid,

84 degrees. by monday, back down to 65 degrees. overnight low 46. the coolest night so far this season. on tuesday we drop to 64 degrees. and the second half of the work week just gorgeous, loads of sunshine, high pressure in control, 71 degrees. on wednesday, thursday up to 73 and friday bump it up to 74 degrees with plenty of sunshine. so, one last summer-like day on sunday and then fall moves in. next week is looking really nice. >> thanks cecily. abc'sabc's "world news tonight" with david muir next on channel6. "action news" continues at 10:00 on phl17. please join us for "action news" at 11:00 here on channel6. for cecily tynan, ducis rodgers, the entire "action news" team, i'm jim gardner. we hope you'll join us for "action news" at 11:00. >> ♪ fran grenier.

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tonight several breaking headlines. the las vegas massacre. the sheriff late today and the new timeline now revealed tonight. when did the hero security guard did shot? when did the massacre begin and how long did it take for police to arrive as we also learn who else, the gunman, was aiming for. also the health care bombshell. president trump's midnight move. his effort to disassemble obamacare killing billions in subsidies that help cover the costs of care. your will hear from american families affected. the iran nuclear deal tonight. the president revealing he will not certify it calling it unacceptable. worldwide reaction coming in. the new concern in california at this hour. the wildfires and the death toll growing, worsening winds expected this weekend