sunday night as we begin with breaking news tonight, a mass shooting inside of a church in texas has left at least 27 people dead. >> officials say a man walk in the baptist church there during morning services and then simply opened fire this all happened in the small town of souther land springs, 30 miles south eat of san antonio. >> "action news" reporter anni e mccormack is following us with the very late developments and joining us live. >> sarah and walter death toll stand at 27 with at lee 30 wounded. we're still await to go hear

more details from officials and also members of that community are waiting to hear the names of those deceased. aerials over first baptist church in sutherland springs, texas now scene of the bloody massacre with a death toll and number of wounded still rising a witness reports seeing a man walk in the church and begin shooting around 11:30 central time this morning. church service began at 11:00 a.m., sunday school at 9:45. local officials are following a brief pursuit, gunman was shot and killed, texas rangers , fbi, and atf, all responding, securing the area around the church. multiple helicopters were called into transport wound todd area hospitals. the town is 40 miles outside of san antonio with the population of only several hundred, the possibly to a thousand. also outside of the crime scene today... >> unaudible. >> reporter: people holding on to each other, showing support through tears and prayers, a

local pastor from another church in town, offering word of comfort. >> devastating for us, for our community, but with god is in control. he is still in control. no matter what happened we still stand on the fact to be absent from the body toys be present with the lord. everyone in that church, that died we know that they are in the presence of our loved jesus christ right now. >> reporter: officials tonight are releasing responses including president trump who in a tweet said may god be with the people of souther land springs, texas, fbi and law enforcement are on the scene and i'm monitoring the situation from japan. multiple sources do tell abc news that the shooter has been prelimblily identified but his name is not released. they describe him as a white male in his 20's, from outside of san antonio, right now, at this hour, authorities are going through his social media accounts, on his facebook page , they say in recent days he displayed a ar15 style

weapon, again they are still going through all of this information, and more details are to come throughout the night. for now reporting live from the satellite center, annie mccormack for channel six "action news". >> tragic story. thanks, anne. stay tuned for channel six world news sunday will have very latest on the texas church shooting at 6:30 right here after "action news". an update on the story we first brought you on friday, discovery of the body in cobbs creek. "action news" has learned that it was that of the 21 year-old woman art student in philadelphia, and police say that she was strangled. her name is key era johnson from southwest philadelphia and she attended hushing college according to a police source. johnson went missing on thursday and her family reported her missing the following day. police say she was found face down in the creek bed, the cause of the death is strangulation. no one has been arrested and police are searching for any witnesses or anyone with any information.

gun violence taken life of the 16 year-old and left a 12 year-old injured. shooting happened just after midnight when someone opened fire on a group of people sitting on the porch. "action news" reporter christie ileto is live at the scene with the details, christie? >> reporter: family members say marquis houston was hanging out, with his friends and one of his brothers just up the street when he found himself staring down the barrel of the gun. he was then murdered, steps from his family home. >> i was in my room. i heard eight gunshots. >> reporter: wanting to remain anonymous this woman ran to help her neighbor 15 year-old marquis houston. >> i started to, comfort him and said i could not do nothing. hes was laying on his side. i saw saw all of the blood. i check the pulse. i checked his wrist and his neck. >> he heard shots. he tried to wake him up. my nephew wouldn't wake up. he had tears in his eyes. it was a very traumatic

experience for his brother. >> reporter: witness says gunman approached the 16 year-old, hanging out with his friends on the 2700 block of 19th street. the shots were fired, with at group of kid. twelve year-old was shot in the seat, marquis shot multiple times in front of his home. >> i just cannot stand how this has happened to him. like we don't know. we don't know what the motive would be. we don't know why him. it has to be sick. >> reporter: it is not clear if the victims knew the gun man but his family is asking the shooter to dot right thing >> turn yourself in because if you don't, the law got you, turn yourself in. it is ridiculous, senseless, redick lust. >> reporter: now that 12 year-old who was shot in the thigh was taken to st. christopher's and listed in stable condition but anyone who may have seen this gunman during the incident or has information of his whereabouts is asked to contact the detectives. live from north philadelphia, christie ileto for channel six "action news". >> christie, thank you. a woman suffered smoke

inhalation when a fire broke out in a new castle delaware home. fire fighters were dispatched to the unit block, of gene avenue just before 11:00. it took them 20 minutes to put out flames month. man in her 60's was taken to christiana hospital. investigators have not said how this fire started. time for a check of sports jeff skversky is here. lets talk about the eagles. my goodness, complete come nation with the broncos. >> fair to say everybody is on the went wagon at this point. >> at least around here. >> wentz wagon. >> jay train, we will see how this thing finishes, wow, what a start by the eagles, they are now eight-one for the first time since 2004, super bowl season and how about this history, every other team the eagles started eight-one, they ended up playing for either the super bowl or nfl championship. carson wentz and eagles beat up on the denver broncos today , how about on the opening drive, wentz, lofting it up to alshon jeffery 32- yard, one of his two touchdowns today. wentz ties his career high were four scores and he has

the most in the nfl. end of the half new running back jay ajayi making his debut, not bad, 46-yard his first touchdown, and his first game. and how about this love for corry clement, the glassboro native, the rookie, three total touchdowns, eagles win and they win big 51-23. most points they have scored in four years. they have won seven in a row. they are eight-one. they are the best team in football. >> we are where we are because of that group in the locker room. they are playing with a lot of confidence. they love to play together. they practice extremely well during the week and they prepare themselves and they are doing little things right. that is what you want out of your football team. they do that, these types of games will happen. >> doug pederson says he is not surprised, that they are eight-one even though everyone else is because we have seen how they work, practice, day in and day out, and it is

unbelievable. >> how strange would it be if the head coach said, wow, aim really surprised they are good that is the flip side. >> fun side. >> thanks, jeff. eagles had a nice day to play today. >> little overcast but the rain moved out and mild temperatures, moved n meteorologist melissa magee has our first check of the accu weather forecast, melissa >> walter and sarah, not a bad finish to the first weekend of november, although, temperatures were on the mild side, despite a fair amount of cloud cover, ahead today, and yesterday's high temperature, 59 and today we had 68, so well above normal of 60 degrees for this time of the year. looking at the numbers outside this evening, it is 62 in the city. same thing in allentown, lehigh valley. reading, lancaster in the poconos temperatures coming in at five to -- 52. daylight saving time has come to an end. sunset at 4:53 this afternoon. the skies will be dark, tonight, so 7:00 p.m. that temperature coming in at 62. sixty-one at 8:00 o'clock. staying in the lower 60's at

nine, 10, 11:00 tonight and it will be mild for november, underneath mostly cloudy skies here's storm tracker six double scan radar 3-d, we are tracking the cold front, back through ohio valley and great lakes. this front has punch with it right now and as it continues to travel east of the appalachian is a lot of this energy will start to fall apart and we are tracking moisture as we get into tomorrow afternoon. we will talk about what we can expect, lots of cloud around for the rest of this evening, patchy fog developing, during the overnight hours, and then showers are likely mainly monday afternoon, and steady precipitation to the south of the city in the wake of the cool front and it will cool down for the middle half of the week. we will look closer with the full and exclusive accu weather forecast, we will send it back over to you, guys. >> okay, thank you. still to come on "action news" the eagles game wasn't the only great thing happening at the linc today, the nfl launched a new initiative to help the men and women who served our nation to find, good jobs. plus, it was a trip back in time in delaware today to

the days when steam power ruled. we will head out to the linc with more reaction on the eagles big win today when "action news" comes right back nobody delivers more for south jersey than steve sweeney.

he stood up to north jersey special interests to increase funding for our schools. he stopped christie's commuter tax, saving south jersey residents over 200 million dollars. and he led the charge to pass paid family leave. aarp applauded sweeney for freezing property taxes for seniors and cutting prices on prescription drugs. "i got to take my hat off to him. he's a man of his word." steve sweeney. because there's more work to do to get south jersey's fair share.

♪ >> allow to us do what we need to do. >> philadelphia celebrated bravery and sacrifices of those who served in the u.s. military. the third annual philadelphia veterans parade made its way through center city to day. alycia slit rel i one of the host, sharrie williams there talking to people along the parade route. parade of service member, marching bands and first responders made its way from jfk and north 16th street, down to fifth and market street. >> very nice, all right. mercer county new jersey paid tribute to veterans as well during ceremonies at catholic war veterans powe in trenton. all branches of search is were honor. then group moved outside for wreath laying and gun solute to fallen veterans. tribute ended with the playing of taps.

nfl set aside sometime to honor service members today as well. >> the league and eagles are going extra mile to let those who served our country let them know they have somewhere to turn for help. "action news" reporter bob brooks has this story. >> reporter: meet marine veteran josh, who came to the eagles game and says he is certainly leaving impressed for something other than the football game. that is because of the partnership between the eagles , toyota to help our veterans. >> because, you know, when i got out of the marine core 35 years ago things like this didn't exist. >> reporter: what you are seeing is higher up here owes initiative that happened before today's game at head houseman place at the linc toyota and eagles goal to help veterans transition in the work force after serving our country. he says hiring a vet should be an easy decision. >> having a veteran is like having four people, you know in, other word, a person as multi faceted and capable of doing anything. >> reporter: veterans and their families can meet representatives with hiring our heroes to begin process of finding a new job.

another cool thing that is happening is toyota has created a resume engine builder where veterans can come down, plug their skills in and it will build them their own resume. you can see it is user friendly all you need to do is follow along. we spoke with the president of the tri-state toyota dealers association, paul mueller. >> obviously we appreciate your service and we want them to know that and do what we can do to help them a simulate back into a regular civilian kind of job. >> reporter: also at the game was u.s. congressional medal of honor recipient marine sergeant dakota myers, who works with the toyota and program and had word of encouragement for vets looking for work today. >> don't give up, i mean listen, it is your transition, you have to own it but first you have to take spent for it and nobody will do it except you, nobody will help new your service, nobody made you successful. >> reporter: for those who are watching this and weren't able to come down to the game, you might have some questions about hiring our heroes, but we will tell what you we will

do we will linc their information up to our web site at six abc.com and check it out there, reporting from the linc, bob brooks, channel six "action news". up next on "action news", much more on the eagles, amazing win today. >> we will go live to the linc where jamie apody has post game reaction when "action news" comes right back.

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ask us how specifi can help you reach your potential. marshall museum turned back the clock to the turn of the 20th century with steam powered trains and cars were a way to travel. visitors can get a ride on the stanley steamer wagon on miniature steam train, marshall museum has one of the largest collections of steam powered vehicles, on earth. speaking of steam, the eagles steaming forward here. >> yes. >> steaming ahead. >> not running out of steam. >> the j train.

forget wentz wagon, j train every time they started eight- one they went to the other the super bowl or nfl championship game. eight-one. eight-one can you believe it carson wentz and the eagles are on fire. wentz was with the most touchdowns in the nfl, most in eagles history to start a season. it is adding up to this eagles are the best team in football. bird beating up on the broncos today, jay ajayi making his debut. wonder if he fits? he fits (opening drive, he has play action setting up this carson wentz loves it up alshon jeffery 32-yard score. jeffery with two touchdowns. that is as many as he had all last year. broncos trying to answer. not up in here. patrick robinson, picks it you have, brook ozwe willer, eag also loud fewest points in the nfl, no touchdowns, and it sets up this, wentz to glassboro native corry clement , the rookie, unleashing three total touchdowns today, eagles out scoring teams by 55 points in the first, and second quarter wentz on fire, no zach ertz,

no problem, tray burton, bang, touchdown, wentz ties his career high were four touchdowns, the eagles runaway witt, end of the half, jay ajayi, add joost, his first touchdown, and in his first game. 46-yard. eagles win, 51-23. it is most points they have scored in four years. it comes, oh, by the way against best defense in the nfl. eagles are eight-one. they are the best team in football. lets go live in the linc to jamie apody, eagles riding the wentz wagon, j train, you name it. they are off to their best start in 13 years. >> did i expect this eight-one start. >> no? did i expect eagles to puppet more than 50 points against top defense in the league? absolutely not. this eagles team, it just continues to defy expectations , and that is what makes them, just so fun to watch, and you know what right now their key is to stay humble and hungry, through it all. >> we're definitely just want

to stack up, the opponent getting ready to play will come even harder, you know, and when we break that, and, we look forward to that, that is something that we keep out in front of us, and keep motivated because we know everybody will have their shot we have tons of games out there, about us as a team, owe even if, defense, us as individual. so we feed off that. >> we will never settle. we will enjoy this break that we have, and we will come back , we have a good dallas team to go up against next and we're never going to settle. is there always things to learn from in film. >> amazing, they keep talking about they weren't perfect they want to get better. you are like really. within of the things i took from the locker room talking to chris long, who played for patriots last year they won the super bowl. when i asked him about eagles owe even if and shook his head like he has never seen anything like it. it is time to start dreaming. live from lincoln financial field, jamie apody for channel

six "action news". >> they scored so many points they ran out of the fire works at the linc. much more on the eagles coming up on "action news", sports sunday, at 11:35. brian westbrook, former eagles great will join us in the studio to talk about this remarkable, eight-one start. they will go in the bye week they are refresh, they can exhale and then dallas cowboys in two weeks. >> they are legitimate. >> thanks, jeff. still to come a check of your workweek forecast. >> taking a live look at sky six over commodore barry bridge check of your exclusive seven day forecast when "action news" comes right back why are south jerseyans turning against steve sweeney? it's because sweeney's been exposed as a double dipping pension padder.

caught spending campaign money on lavish dinners and fine cigars for his pals. investigated for being a lobbyist and a senator at the same time. sweeney voted to raise taxes 145 times while our economy continues to struggle. south jersey is a mess, and it's time to take out the trash. on november 7th, make a change. dump sweeney.

melissa is looking ahead to some rain this week. >> yeah, it stays mild for novas we get into monday, monday afternoon we have those umbrellas on stand by and we have showers that will work their way in. we will show you picture outside, sky six live in hd from temple university camera looking at a beautiful shot of the center city sky line, it is quiet but a few cloud moving in the region. sky six live in hd, another the weather december from being penns landing, you can see it is quiet across much of our region. as we track our chance of precipitation, chance of rain this week, monday we have a 07 g moisture as cold front works its way in the region. on tuesday, 20 percent chance of finding precipitation, maybe instability shower popping up by afternoon. most spots should stay dry. then we are dry wednesday, thursday, friday. by middle half of the workweek

temperatures will be cooling down as well. it was in the cool today. temperatures above average, we had a high temperature today, of 58, in philadelphia, 68 i should say. sixty-two in the city. sixty-two allentown. fifty-two in the poconos. sixty-two in lancaster. over in millville 60 and along the coast in cape may coming in at 60 degrees. we will widen out temperature profile here still 62 in the city. seventy-three in atlanta but looking off to the north and west it is below freezing mark in bismarck, north dakota a temperature coming in at 24. fifty-one in chicago. we have that vision of cooler air to the north and west and warmer air to the south and east. we will be more than likely find unsettled weather. that is what we are tracking, satellite six with action radar, showing that frontal boundary stretched out from the great lakes and the ohio valley, so this boundary certainly packing a bunch right now. tornado watch box's cross this region. this front will continue to travele of the appalachians as we get into monday afternoon and it will lose a lot of the

energy. for rest of tonight, mostly cloudy, dry, temperatures for the most part holding steady in the 60's. sixty overnight low in the suburbs. we will drop down to 62 degrees in philadelphia future tracker six timing it out 6:00 o'clock in the morning mostly cloudy, areas of fog, developing as we get into early tomorrow morning and otherwise a few sun breaks , closer for that cold front. 3:00 in the afternoon, notice rain developing along the poconos, down into lancaster setting up as well on the i-95 corridor. can't rule out thunder with temperatures still so mild and above average but once that front, moves through by 11:00 cloud will break apart, we have clear skies on the back side and cooler air funnels from the north and works its way south. the exclusive accu weather seven day forecast showing on monday we have a warm day. high temperature up to 72. we are tracking afternoon showers in the wake of that on tuesday some much cooler afternoon, high temperature of 58, sunshine and cloud on wednesday, a high of 55. we will stay in the 50's on

thursday, a partly sunny sky, high temperature of 55. on friday, seasonal at 57, and usually veterans day, remaining cool, and high temperature of just 50 and then on sunday mostly cloudy, and high of 58. we are up tomorrow and then temperatures steady in the 50 's with the cool down this week, guys. >> melissa, thanks you. student into "action news" tomorrow morning at 4:30 a.m. for very latest forecast to start your week as well as the traffic, and transit information that you need to get your morning going. world news sunday next here on channel six with the very latest on the horrific shooting in texas. don't miss "action news" at 10 on phl17 tonight. then we are back here again on six abc at 11:00. for melissa magee, jeff skversky, walter perez and the entire "action news" team, i'm sarah bloomquist. we will see you right back here at 11:00 o'clock. >> ♪

ethan anyone else. they just want a job. they want respect and they want dignity. this is a nice place. yeah. he plays basketball with lauren. 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. deep down in his heart he feels for people who are disadvantaged. lauren's a light in everybody eye. she's the spark that has started the fire. the goal is to keep places like this open so all people, regardless of disability, have an opportunity for employment. see, i love you. i love you guys too. you know that. yeah. 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 why arit's because sweeney'sing been exposed as aeeney? double dipping pension padder. caught spending campaign money on lavish dinners and fine cigars for his pals. investigated for being a lobbyist and a senator at the same time. sweeney voted to raise taxes 145 times while our economy continues to struggle. south jersey is a mess, and it's time to take out the trash. on november 7th, make a change. dump sweeney.

tonight, breaking news. the massacre inside an american church. more than 25 killed. families and children among the dead. worshippers in the middle of a sunday service when eyewitnesses say a man walked in and opened fire. >> we all know and we're all prepared to hear names and know every one of them. >> the pastor losing his 14-year-old daughter in the shooting. dozens injured. tonight, the effort to save lives. plus, the investigation into the gunman. and his connection to the church. why he may have chosen a house of worship. and the hunt to track him down. the fbi on the scene as investigators try to figure out