>> mom. >> what? >> with no apology and in all of your power, with integrity, grace, and generosity, you blazed a way. [ cheers and applause ] not just for us, your children, not just for women, not just for black folk or singers or performers or entrepreneurs, but for all of us! [ cheers and applause ] we are so proud to present you with the american music award for lifetime achievement. [ cheers and applause ] >> wait, wait. thank you, thank you, thank you. hold this. calloway has something to give to me. >> i'm so proud of you. thank you. >> she brought me my fanny pack.

here we go. this is all about love. all about love. this says it all. this is my family. and i'm sending love out there to all of you, each and every one of you of our global family. and i really, really love being here, and i feel so humbled by this. yeah. [ cheers and applause ] i love you so very much. and i think you know that. i really love you so much. and i will hold on to that beautiful honor. thank you so much. thank you, thank you, thank you. [ cheers and applause ] thank you. >> it's been an incredible show, everybody. should we all say good night? read that. >> grandmommy, i'm so proud of you. i love you all, too. >> can you say good night in the

prompter? >> have an incredible night. good night, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> we love you so much, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> announcer: american music awards nominees are based on key fan interactions as reflected in billboard magazine and on billboard.com, including album and digital song sales, radio airplay, streaming, social activity and touring. these measurements are tracked by billboard and its data partners, including nielsen music and next big sound. the voting is administered, monitored, and verified by telescope inc., an independent vote management company and the results remain confidential until the time of presentation. air travel provided by american airlines. ♪

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her, she treated everyone like her own child. >> a beloved third grade teacher is killed when fire breaks out in her rocks borough home and students alumni family and friends are mourning sheila hawkins as they try to find out what sparked the blaze sunday night and big story is the death of her toucher in her roxborough home not far from where she taught students. >> not able to escape the burning house despite the efforts of firefighters and neighbors this morning and we are live at the school with the full story annie. >> reporter: and walter and sarah she worked here since 2004 but had been in the school district since 1992 the school district telling us tonight they will have support on hand in the classroom when students return. >> lost a great teacher, lost a mother, lost a grandmother. >> reporter: he is talking about

his mother-in-law 62-year-old sheila hawkins on sunday before 8:00 a fire trapped hawkins in the renz street home. >> no flames just smoke. >> reporter: two neighbors heard screams for help. >> i got dressed and you could see them hanging out the window. >> then we grabbed the extension ladder from the van because there was no fire department at that time. >> reporter: they threw up a ladder rescuing steeples and son and firefighters arrived saving his wife, crews rushed hawkins to temple university hospital hand had third degree burns and had cardiac arrest and died at the hospital. >> treated everyone like her own child. >> we wish the lady would have survived that is all what it comes, we wish we could have

done more that's all. >> reporter: devastated neighbors again pulled together to help the family and in just a few hours they filled bins with necessities like clothes and shoes and gift cards to show their support. >> roxborough and everybody pulls together and i'm not surprised at all. >> reporter: and the red cross is also assisting the family, the fire department is still working to figure out a cause, for now live in roxborough anthony mccormick channel six action news back to you. after a fire destroyed a senior living facility in west chester some are unaccounted for and they say their top priority quote is now and always has been the health and well-being of their residents this weekend agents with atf local field division and national response team arrived at the scene but they were un una -- unable to

access the building because it's unstable and 27 were injured during the blaze and at this time it's still unclear just how many people remain missing. today the community came together to help those victims, a good will fire company opened its doors to accept donations and tonight they can accept no more people brought everything from walkers to clothes and toiletries. we are completely at capacity at the fire house from the out pouring of the community members that came together to you know donate stuff to these members that lost their home and lost everything they had. >> reporter: stop by the fire department tomorrow and get items their loved ones need. moving on to the accuweather forecast it was a windy day with temperatures dropping as day turned to night and metrologist melissa magee is here now with our first check of the accuweather forecast melissa. >> yeah walter we had the wind

earlier today and dealing with the cold and it's colder and can feel the difference and looking at 24 temperature change 19 degrees colder in philadelphia the same time yesterday keep in mind on saturday night we were dealing with a warm front lifting through the region and temperatures were mild 21 colder in wilmington and 20 degrees colder there in millville new jersey. the winds certainly starting to relax a little bit from where they were earlier today. this morning we had winds gusting any where from 40-50 miles per hour but we've got a westerly wind 12 miles per hour there in philadelphia, 10 for reading and lancaster and 7 degrees there or 7 miles per hour in dover double scan 3d showing an area of low pressure that is out in new england starting to exit but the wind on the backside coming from the west to northwest direction so we are starting to find some lake effect snow showers set up down wind of the lake and a flurry or two is likely in the poconos but as the wind shifts

and turn more west and then west southwestly overnight tonight that lake effect activity will start to shut off but it's all about the cold as we get into early tomorrow morning future tracker wind chill on i-95 corridor numbers will feel like we are 20s, 14 poconos early tomorrow morning and as i advance this in the afternoon hours most spots will have wind chills in the 30s so a bit of a difference on the way in monday more details on that plus what we can expect for thanksgiving on thursday for the accuweather forecast. >> thank you and high winds took down scaffolding in new york city injuring five people today. it happened at broad way and prince in soho and they were thrown to the streets trapping people under need and bystanders were helping to dig people under the rubble under the subway station and there was no train stopped there at the time and if there had more people could have been hurt.

there has been arrest and a murder at a mercer county new jersey applebee's 27-year-old noel powell taken in custody accused of walking up at the bar in lawrenceville after midnight on november 14 and shooting 23-year-old devin smith in the head police have not released the motive. a man is in the hospital tonight after getting hit by a car in the roxborough section of philadelphia hit by an suv crossing 7900 henry near summit at 5:30 this evening and rushed to einstein for treatment and driver of the suv a 63 year old man did stop at the scene. a car carrying three people slammed into an occupied apartment building in new castle county this was the scene along kloster and the car crashed in the windows of a first floor unit just before 5:00. two adults and a child were inside the vehicle. they were not injured. nobody inside the home was

injured as well but three apartments have been declared structurally unsafe. the 6abc dunkin donuts thanksgiving parade is just days away now and participants are putting the finishing touches on their performances and action news reporter christie ileto is live on the ben franklin parkway to show us how people are getting ready hi christie. >> reporter: kay there sar that is right we met up with some performer whose have been practicing for weeks and the next couple days taking center stage in the spot on the parkway in front of the art museum and what will be the country's oldest thanksgiving parade. >> we have been having a lot of practices learning step by step and i've been watching them on tv and i'm excited i get to do it this year. >> reporter: hundreds of children packed the hilton hotel ballroom polishing their two step for the 6abc dunkin donuts thanksgiving parade. >> going on the 98th year of the philadelphia parade so it's sort

of a landmark. >> i mean it's like been a tradition for a really long time so everyone likes to watch it. >> reporter: drawing thousands of spectators and hundreds of performers. >> ready to roll for the wonderful experience. >> reporter: like mary ellen who picked up tap dancing over the summer. >> very excited once this a lifetime. >> the experience of the parade is electrifying, just amazing to see all the people come together and to celebrate and to have a good time. >> reporter: and aesthetically preparations started from the fencing to the bleachers and the next couple of days we will really start to see the parkway transform into the parade route christie ileto for action news. >> thank you christie and tune in for the 6abc dunkin donuts thanksgiving parade and rick williams and cecily tynan lead our coverage of the holiday tradition and the live coverage

begins at 8:30 on thursday morning. newer acts to gramry award winners hit the stage tonight for the american music awards. >> amazing show that featured ground breaking duets and we are joined live from la with more, hi tonya. >> reporter: hello sarah and good evening to you walter and of course this was a nonstop performance talking from start to finish the artist collaborations and performances were off the charts and of course there were even some big surprises. ♪ everybody hurts ♪ sometimes the 2017 american music awards kicked off with a moving rendition of rem by kelly clarkston and the winner of the night is imagine dragons for duo and group and kidney transplant

surgery, selena-gomez performed live for the first time ever. ♪ and i will always love you christiana aguilera and pink's daring hotel outdoor climb and the big winner of the night. >> right there at the profile of artist of the year, thank you ama. >> reporter: and of course everyone still talking about pink's performance there and if you enjoyed the performances and florida georgia line you get to see them on dick clark's new york's rocking eve with ryan seacrest live from los angeles

tonya and back to you. >> very cool and much more to come on action news after this week's feast the race is on to find the best deals we will run through some of the best for black friday and share shopping strategies experts recommend. in the memories of everyone who saw the space shuttle challenger and a moment from the doomed flight in space. jamie apody has the latest score when action news comes right back.

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president trump had harsh words for three ucla basketball players accused of shop lifting in china and revisited the topic after ball minimized the president's role in getting them released and said ball wasn't very grateful and should have left them in jail the players did thank the government and the

president after they returned to the u.s. alabama's three largest newspapers are now calling on voters to reject republican senate candidate roy moore, he refused to get out of the race amid sexual misconduct allegations and say moore is unfit for office conservatives say accusers are lying and presidential aid said on abc this week if the president didn't believe the women he would be campaigning for moore. actor jeffrey tambor may leave the show transparent after being accused of sexual harassment and the 73-year-old said in a statement the statements are simply and utterly untrue an attack says he pressed against her in aggressive manner and inappropriate and sexual statements amazon says last week his assistant made similar allegations and he said in a statement he is sorry if his

actions have been miss interpreted or hurt anyone. it's a long delayed mission accomplished an object from the doomed space shuttle challenger is in space more than 30 years after it was supposed to go up the story from abc tom. >> reporter: it's an image seered in our memory the crew of the space shuttle challenger heading to the launch pad on the trip alison taking a soccer ball signed by his daughter janelle and fellow teammates from clear lake high school in texas then this image which we will never forget challenger exploding 73 seconds after lift off. >> the shock in the nation has given way to grief. >> on a florida beach they are gathering the bits and pieces, the drift wood of tragedy in space. >> one of the items recovered in the accident debris that soccer ball, you can still make out the team's message, good luck shuttle crew, 1986. they didn't really tell you too

much at the time so i didn't know what was recovered. >> reporter: the ball made its way back to clear lake high school until another astronaut corned shane kimbro choose children also went to that school asked if he could take something into space. >> i was asked to take the soccer ball to space and get it to the destination it was intended. >> reporter: he carried the ball into orbit. here it is floating in the international space station 30 years later mission accomplished. the colonel brought that ball back to clear lake high school and right by janelle's side the same friends by her side back then her soccer team from 1986. >> and now it's my distinct honor to present it back to the owners of the family. [ applause ] for shane to take it back it not only was a mission complete but also added a lot of closer knowing that that was the only thing that got returned back to

space and fulfilled that one particular edition. >> great story. tracking colder weather for the start of the thanksgiving week. a look right here at the philadelphia international airport already a chilly night outside and metrologist melissa magee has the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast when action news comes right back.

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parkway for this year's philadelphia marathon and pounded the pavement be gingriching at 7:00 and wind and cold presented an added challenge but not enough to stop most of them from finishing the 26.2 mile course the race made its way through the city and ended on the parkway a 25-year-old from albuquerque was the first to finish add did it in 2:16 congratulations to everyone who crossed that finish

line. the wind went away and the cold is sticking around. >> it's cold and you can certainly feel the difference how we started the day to how temperatures are setting up now and show you what is going on outside sky six live and hd from temple university camera looking at center city skyline with a partly cloudy to mostly clear sky across the region and because of that temperatures are starting to cool down considerably from where they were when we started our day. so as we walk over to the weather sun tear it's all about thanksgiving we have a preview of what we can expect as we get into our holiday just four days away from thanksgiving we've got the turkey and all of the fixings there as we get ready for thanksgiving and i think that turkey is trying to get away because thursday it is all about the numbers and of course the big feast as well so looking at the outlook on the holiday below average temperatures temperatures for the most part will be in the 40s and start the day out on thursday in the 30s high pressure dominates our region and we've got dry and

light winds which means the parade balloons should be a go flying high up in the sky. we will check out the numbers right now so quite a contrast from how we started our day, the high in philadelphia was 62 degrees but that is a little deceiving and reached shortly after midnight for majority of the day and temperatures in the 50s and right now in 40s, 41 in the city 48 allentown and reading and cape may we have a temperature of 45 but you factor in the constant winds and the wind is 34, 30 lancaster and 30 trenton and 36 beach haven and showing an area of low pressure moving out into new england and away from that region and the winds on the backside are coming in from the west to northwesterly direction and starting to see those lake effect snow showers set up down wind of the lakes and some of that flurry activity is starting to drift into the poconos maybe a flurry or two in the lehigh

valley once the wind shifts and is west southwest as we get in monday a lot of the activity will start to die down and it's all about the chill as we get in the short workweek on monday and it's colder and drop to 32 suburbs and 36 in philadelphia for the overnight low on monday here is our set up high pressure is in control so lots of sunshine on the way, it's a chilly day, a high of just 46, a ridge of high pressure on tuesday moves off shore making way for a cold front off to our west so right in front those two systems which means it will be milder by then, a high temperature of 58 sunshine to get the day started sun giving way to clouds and as we get in tuesday night and wednesday as the cold front gets closer a shower or two is likely as we get into late today into early wednesday the travel forecast though a lot of folks out and about getting are ready for the holiday and an early shower for

thanksgiving and dry and a little on the chilly side and seven-day forecast high of 46 and sun and milder on tuesday at 58 early shower on wednesday and sun and 52 sunny and brisk for the 6abc dunkin donuts thanksgiving parade high temperature of 45 for black friday for the shoppers partly sunny 58 and next sunday colder at 46 guys. >> melissa thank you the bo biden foundation had the first 5k walk run for protection here in wilmington delaware to continue the work of former vice president joe biden's late son and spent much of his career to prevent children from abuse and neglect. bethenny united church of christ celebrated 110 this morning and rededication church was on 6500 rising sun avenue

and opened it to everybody including former members who no longer live in the area and northeast philadelphia the screw issue federation spent the day packing up and distributing thanksgiving meals for families in need. and part of the food project at find life more than 100 turkeys will be distributed to local families. dozens in wilmington got help staying warm this winter and provided with coats curtesy of keith supply on lancaster supply and cameron d hamilton a murder victim and they wanted to do positive things in communities effected by violence and the foundation also sponsors book bag give aways and toy drives and action news is exposing a car hack that thieves are using to steal your vehicles and here is investigative reporter with a preview. >> reporter: as cars get smarter so do car thieves. >> the cars are nothing but computers on wheels. >> reporter: i'm wendy we will