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search for a missing teenager from south jersey after she was spotted at a crime scene last night next on action news. how do you know so much about tv and internet? the internet. right. streaming is only as good as your internet. so get the best internet - with the 100% fiber-optic network - get fios - now just $79.99 per month for fios gigabit connection plus tv and phone. action news, delaware valleys leading news program with metrologist melissa magee, jeff skversky, sarah bloomquist and walter perez. ♪ sunday night and the big story on action news is developing news the f.b.i. is now joined in
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the search for a missing south jersey teenager. >> 14-year-old girl was last seen a week ago until last night and turned up on a scene of attack on a sheriff deputy in philadelphia. >> annie mccormick spoke to the girl's mother and is live from the federal building in center city with the latest annie. >> reporter: and sarah and walter you are right they are involved from the try state area it was a week ago tonight her family says that she ran away from home and now their fears are mounting after police say she may have been at the crime scene last night and they are also concerned she may be part of a human trafficking ring. >> oh, my god i feel like she could be anywhere. >> reporter: rose ann shares her heart break after learning authorities were close to finding her daughter 14-year-old hanna jones a task force looking for the teen tracked her down saturday night around 11:30 to south philadelphia near 7th and big ler believing she was in this car with 32-year-old deven
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harley it was then police say harley allegedly drove towards two philadelphia sheriffs deputies hitting one knocking him to the ground. when investigators located the vehicle and harley hanna was no where to be found. her mom says this is not the first time her daughter has put herself the street. this is the longest she has been missing and not in contact with family. >> she has told us in the past she just puts herself out there on the streets and she is doing it herself but i don't think she understands that these people are waiting for kids like her to get them involved in trafficking. >> reporter: hanna was last seen last sunday outside her mom's burlington county home. >> there are literally posters everywhere. >> reporter: her mom has not stopped searching for her since she ran away and is looking for any and all leads and to get a message to her daughter. >> please come home hanna we love you we want to help you, we want you safe please call us, reach out to someone who can
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reach us because we love you. >> that 32-year-old suspect is expected to be charged with aggravated assault that sheriff deputy we are told is okay and did suffer injuries to his arm to get a better look at hanna jones you can head to 6abc.com there you can also see contact information for multiple law enforcement agencies, if you do see her you can call 911 reporting live in center city annie mccormick 6abc back to you. >> more to come on the story thank you and from our delaware newsroom a 15-year-old girl was shot today playing on a playground in wilmington and struck in the ankle and rushes to the hospital and happened just after 5:00 p.m. along 600 of pine street so far no arrests have been made. the family of a man murdered in a well-known recording sued yo this weekend is speaking out tonight report slow -- report
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slocum was found there and reporter christie talked to relatives and is live now with more, christie. >> reporter: sarah family members say that --ic was his life to me when i know he was going down to the studio. >> reporter: this time woods says her cousin robert slocum didn't return home from the superior sound studios the 38-year-old lifeless body discovered with multiple stab wounds and bullets to his head and back. >> whoever y'all are you people who did this to my brother y'all took the last thing from me. the last thing from me that i can remember my mom and my dad. >> reporter: both parents deceased his sister chokes back
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tears and saying her brother wasn't perfect but working to turn his life around the father of five spoke of music and providing for his kids the youngest daughter celebrated her first birthday the day his body was discovered. >> it was sad news and it was people standing in disbelief we love the babies and everything but because of the mixed emotions and feelings you know a lot, it wasn't what it would have been. >> reporter: police did not immediately reveal a motive or disclose if he knew his killer but family says they don't know of anyone who may have had issues with him and focus on helping his children heal. >> his kids can't see him again i can't see my brother so whoever y'all are you need to turn yourself in you really do. >> reporter: now late tonight the studio wrote on the instagram page it prides itself on providing a safe environment for its recording artists anyone with information about his killer is asked to contact
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detectives, live in northern liberties christie with channel six action news. >> thank you a public school in philadelphia will remain closed tomorrow as the effort to remediate a mold issue and in german town it was shut down after mold was discovered in some classrooms officials say the mold invest take has been linked to issues with the hvac system and school faculty members still expected to go to world at freedman academy. >> a weekend with more mild temperatures than we usually see for mid october but about to feel more fall-like and metrologist melissa magee is here now with the first check of the accuweather forecast melissa. >> sarah we had a fair amount of cloud cover overnight and despite the clouds temperatures still managed to climb slightly above average and plenty of sun down in wild wood and 76 degrees and dover 75, philadelphia stuck in the gray conditions so a high temperature of 72. 70 allentown and west chester
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coming in at 66. outside tonight most spots in upper 60s lower 70s 71 millville 69 philadelphia, 63 in the poconos and 70 degrees in lancaster. we are tracking some changes storm tracker six live double scan radar 3d showing you a cold front from new england back to the mid-atlantic and showers in reading and some of our north west suburbs so this will continue to work its way to the south and east as we go throughout the rest of the overnight hours and into the start of the day tomorrow. so right now in philadelphia it's coming in at 69 degrees the big changes that we have a pocket of cold air it's 34 in bismarck nd and not that cold tomorrow but 51 st. louis and 59 degrees in memphis so we will be tapping into seasonably cool air for the start of this week so a few showers overnight tonight it's cooler on monday with a bit of a fall feel overhead and it's sunny and dry stretch for the rest of this week we will take a closer look for an exclusive accuweather sarah.
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>> okay melissa thank you as you get your workweek started tune into sack shun news starting at 4:30 tomorrow morning for the latest forecast as well as the traffic and transit information you need to get where you are going. officials in northern california say conditions are gradually improving and firefighters are beginning to get the upper hand on more than a dozen wildfires winds are expected to diminish during the evening hours but warm dry conditions are expected to linger for several days. containment numbers all on the major fires are rising and meanwhile some neighbors in the hardest hit areas are beginning to come home but conditions in certain neighborhoods are still very dangerous. >> we understand that the desire to get back in their homes everyone wants to be at home unfortunately there are conditions that are out here that still do not allow us to let the public back in not only for their safety but our safety as well. >> reporter: forecasters do have some good news and say a storm system moving into the area could bring rain to northern california later on this week.
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efforts to restore power to puerto rico are moving along but very slowly the army corps of engineers has contracted with more companies hoping to speed up the process despite the progress 85% of homes and businesses remain without power. the governor wants to have 95% on the grid by mid december. this morning four members of philadelphia's sheriff's office left for the island taking aid and supplies to help with the recovery effort. everyone traveling on this trip had family in puerto rico. >> continuous support we are going to need your continuous support throughout the journey, it's 21 long days that we will be spending out there in puerto rico. >> reporter: puerto rico's law enforcement network has been stretched thin especially since many lost their own homes to hurricane maria. with that say it was a celebration to lend a helping hand. ♪
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the wonderful sounds of puerto rico filled north philadelphia during a benefit concert for the island this gathering was organized to benefit united for puerto rico and initiative created by the island's first lady. all proceeds will go to relief effort following hurricanes irma and maria. there is much more to come tonight on action news secretary of state rex tillerson is asked directly again whether he called the president a quote moron. >> and colin kaepernick takes legal action against the nfl not being picked um by a team and what he alleges team owners did to keep him unemployed. and the birds fans keep agree close eye on nfc teams today and what they saw giving them more to cheer and jeff skversky has sports when action news comes right back.
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inside two trucks shattering windows in nearby buildings. somolia blame al-shabab and the u.s. military stepped up drone strikes against that group. secretary of state rex tillerson is once again refusing to deny he called president trump a quote moron tillerson made the rounds on the sunday morning talk shows but during an exchange on cnn he was asked to address the report and here is his answer. >> i'm not going to dignify the question i call the president mr. president they are destructive games of the town and not helpful to anyone so my position on it is i'm not playing. >> reporter: meanwhile the president spent today playing golf with key congressional republicans tomorrow mr. trump is scheduled to meet with senate majority mitch mcconnell hoping to strike a deal on healthcare and tax reform. former nfl quarterback colin kaepernick filed a grievance against the nfl alleges the
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owners clueded to keep him out of the league for his national anthem protest and garagos is representing him and no one picked him up from march and the nfl has not responded to the grievance british authorities are investigating sexual assault to disgraced movie mogul harvey weinstein and they say one woman says she was assaulted several times when 2010-2015 and actress anthony also went to scott lard yard on wednesday she says if weinstein raped her in london during the late 1980s the president of france meanwhile announced today he is trying to get weinstein's legion of honor award revoked. >> 100 local vets got a welcome home tonight after an emotional journey. [ sirens ] they had a police and motorcycle escort returning from an honor flight trip to the vietnam war memorial in washington d.c. the trip is a small thank you
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for their service and sacrifice. among the vets was merlin hoppel who served in world war ii, korea and two tours in vietnam. more to come on action news one of the 18,000 pair troopers to land in normandy on d day and today he jumped to celebrate his birthday. and melissa magee has the exclusive accuweather seven d-d forecast when action news comes right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪
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breast cancer today at the making strides walk at citizens bank park our own rick williams was there along with other walkers and many teams among those raising awareness and fun for the american cancer society the money will be used for research and patient support programs. time for a check of the accuweather forecast with metrologist melissa magee after a cloudy cool weekend. >> yeah it really was. i mean the clouds were hanging
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on tough this weekend but more sunshine returning as we get into monday and talk about details and show outside sky six live in hd from temple university camera looking at the center city skyline lots of clouds moving on and once again here is a picture of the commodore berry bridge and locked in with a fair amount of cloud cover and the problem over the weekend not a whole lot of sunshine yesterday and even today but we do have some improving conditions as we get into our monday. look at storm tracker six live double scan radar and you can see we are tracking precipitation for a cold front moving through and moving into some northwest suburbs so we are dealing with the rain and same in slating down and ham berg and fleet wood and reading this hour and the moisture will pivot to the south and east as we go throughout the rest of the overnight hours and first thing tomorrow morning and then behind that a cooler change on the way right now in philadelphia it's 69, 67 in allentown, 70 in atlanta kaeser at the coast in cape may 71 dover coming in at
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72 degrees. we are looking at satellite six with action radar and frontal boundary we are tracking and as this moves on through you will not find a lot of precipitation but you notice the moisture from new england all the way back through the mid-atlantic and portions of the ohio valley that swings through overnight tonight and early tomorrow morning then we have a pocket of cooler air waiting in the wings off to the north and west so for the rest of tonight mostly cloudy those showers arriving during the overnight hours we will drop down to 60 and in philadelphia 53 allentown, 60 cape may 57 dover and 52 lancaster and future tracker six and timing out the precipitation during the overnight 3:30 in the morning notice the showers along i-95 corridor and the moisture really hangs on if you are south and east of the city by 8:30 tomorrow morning so right along the coastal sections of new jersey and down into delaware we are still dealing with a little wet weather but you notice the wind direction will start to change and a cloudy start still
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across the region but we will tap in a northwest wind and the northwest wind will help to scour out the cloud cover as we get into tomorrow afternoon so clouds breaking for some late-day sunshine, in fact, here is the set up this high pressure takes over so a blast of fall on the way this week temperatures a little bit more seasonable in the 60s and lower 70s. something else to keep in mind another change we are tracking overnight monday into early tuesday morning a frost advisory already issued for the poconos patchy frost is a big concern here also in the pine barrings of new jersey and tuesday morning could be in the middle 30s the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast showing sunshine by tomorrow afternoon and cooler and high of 64 more of a fall feel by tuesday holding on to 64 for a high. on wednesday it's a warmer day still nice in at 71. thursday sunshine and clouds in at 75 for the high. on friday high pressure continues to take over so that
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dry stretch continues a high temperature of 76. lots of sunshine next saturday 78 and warm for october next sunday we are back up to 80 degrees so 60, 70 and 80s on the way. >> a little of everything thanks melissa. a world war ii pair trooper who dropped in normandy celebrated his 95th birthday by dropping out of a plane at 14,000 feet a big moment as norman thomas landed in virginia this morning and he served with the iconic 101 airborne screaming eagles during the war one of 18,000 paratroopers who landed on normandy and did not jump until he was 88 and came up with a bucket list and number one on the list is sky diving and said another item on the list is living to the age of 101 the same number as his beloved military division. next on action news. the eagles on top of the nfc but we have a long way for the next game and jeff skversky has a preview when action news comes
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preseason predictions don't mean anything. >> week six the eagles are tied for the best record in all of football who saw this coming. >> i did. i did not see this coming the eagles are sitting pretty tonight at home on their couch tied for the best record in the nfl that is right the eagles are in sole position of the number one spot in nfc and division heading into monday night football in a day everyone is looking up at the eagles right now including the redskins washington barely survived against the 49ers and kurt cousin have three touchdowns and they win 26-24 and are 3-2 and they come here monday night looking for revenge after the eagles beat them in the opener. >> i think that's why you play in the nfl for games like this coming up, to play against a really good team at their place and have a chance to put yourself in the hunt for the division and the nfc and we have to measure ourselves against good football teams and the eagles are one. with item games to go including
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washington the eagles are in the driving seat in nfc and working in their favor six of remaining games are at home where they have dominated of late but the biggest factor helping the eagles today not only does green bay go down but packers lose mvp quarterback aaron rodgers and breaks his collar bone and could miss the rest of the season with rogers out the vikings run away with the game winning 23-10 and have the second best record in the contrends and by the way without sam bradford too look at the best teams this the nfc the eagles on top at 5-1 the eagles are trying to keep things in perspective and stay grounded. >> after six games you don't celebrate a successful season. >> i mean it's early obviously we still have a lot of football left but we are excited with we are we are at. >> can't get too high one week at a time and see where we are at at the end of the year. >> reporter: more on the eagles coming up, on sports sunday in about 7 minutes are the eagles
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for real and is carson wentz does he deserve to be in the mvp and we will talk about that and eagles lost to andy read and the chiefs who are perfect no more and big red in trouble in pittsburgh and ben rothlisberger to brown and not flipping over water cooler and steelers win 19-13 and 5-1 tied for the best record in football with your eagles. well oh, no no joe joe at sixers practice today sixers star joel embiid is out with a sprained ankle and to get rehab on his knee but sixers coach brett brown says he expects a bear food embiid to practice and play wednesday against washington and he is not expected to start that game but come off the bench in the opener against the wizards because he has been limited in the pre season with shoulder and knee issues and don't want to throw him out there in the fire. >> it's not hard once you step on the court give it your all and it's not the first time i
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come off the bench and used to both roles and a team player so what i can do to help the team win i do it. >> reporter: game two of nlcs and cubs don'ters tied bottom nine two outs and justin turner gone the three run shot and only the second walk off post season opener in dodgers history the other kurt gibson 29 years ago today. la wins 4-1 and they take a 2-0 series lead. we kick it to soccer and union eliminated from playoff contention this week and today they blow a 2-1 second half lead to chicago and he has a hat trick with back to back goals in the second half and they lose 3-2 one last game next sunday on 6abc another season and another year of no post season for the union. >> all right. >> thanks jeff and up next, on action news you may have heard of swimming with the sharks how
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about yoga with the sharks. we will show you an unique and relaxing event at the adventure aquarium when action news comes right back. when you're a double-dipping pension-padder like steve sweeney, it's important to maintain a certain... lifestyle. that's why sweeney spent over a hundred grand of his campaign funds on high-priced meals and other gifts. we're talking fine cigars, fancy watches, pricey restaurants, and expensive wines - all to charm the type of folks who helped him raise your taxes 145 times. too many in south jersey
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550,000 shark tank the hour long class led by an aquarium biologist also a certified yoga instructor and guests were invited to stay around afterward to tour the aquarium. finally dogs from across the delaware valley got all dressed up for the very important place to go it was the fourth annual fundraising dog walk held here at wilson farm park in wayne delaware county nine regional nonprofits will benefit from this event some dogs even showed off performing tricks and navigating an agility course and today is the kickoff for national dog show month in philadelphia. >> action news sports sunday is next here on channel six and action news continues at 4:30 with david murderty and tamala edwards and karen rogers and dave murphy and from walter perez and melissa magee and jeff skversky and i'm sarah bloomquist have a great night and great week ahead. ♪ ♪
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look complete at the 10, the 5 and the touchdown goes and week six in the nfl finds the eagles all alone on the nfc east calling the stunning victory thursday in carolina. >> it's great 5-1 baby. >> reporter: the redskins survive a scare from the niners setting up a prime time show down next monday night at the lynx. >> rogers is hurt. >> say what? big trouble in title town. aaron rodgers is out indefinitely with a fractured collar bone are the eagles now in
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