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about the breakfast show itself. >> matt lauer has been terminated from nbc news. >> i am totally shows. one of my favorite news anchors. monday behind u >> samantha guthrie reacts in lists to check oslash prices la shock. >> just now they sent the note. down to 75% off and toys "r" dear colleagues we received a detailed complaint from a >> yea! >> how could they not be. colleague about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace this tree is 50 feet tall. by matt lauer. >> how do you recollect 15,000 lights and 100% clean energy. there is a lot to see here at reconcile your love for someone dillworth park i'll giv with bad behavior. >> it began in 2014 and continued after the games. it has been nearly three the accusers lawyer says that i am impressed by nbc's response months since the murder of jena to date and awed by th courage burley, the man charged with her death sat in court as several my client showed. and making no demands, other
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than asking that the company do the right thing. >> they thought there would be a flood of stories after this and they took strong action. >> president trump was quick to tweet but he has accusations of his own. the president has denied the accusations calling the women liars. >> lauer's firing coming one an charlie rose was fired from cbs after women came to the "washington post" after saying they were harassed by the anchor. >> and they say nbc was aware. channel 6 "action news." and matt lauer is not the latest person to lose their job overallgations over inappropriate behavior. radio host garrison keeler was fired this afternoon and minnesota public radio says they
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are terminating their contract with him. and mpr says that the claim against the 75-year-old came to light last month but did not elaborate further. and keeler retired last year. best known for creatin the popular sho home man and a fema that goes to the school. sara bloomquist joins us live and the shooter is in custody and you have the latest on the continuing investigation. >> rick, the 22-year-old shooter is held here by homicide in ody while the district attorney decides whether to file charges and if so what charges to file. and the question is whether the shooting is justified. the 21-year-old shot was a foreign student at gloucester county community college and that he first attacked the shooter who fired several times killing the 21-year-old. >> students living in the area
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of 3500 block of lancaster avenue were talking about some of them witnessed here last night. it started with an argue with a 21-year-old drexel student and her 21-year-old boyfriend. the man was face-to-face with the girl and the girl had the hands in the pocket and the oath thing i could hear the man saying was you are stupid, you are dumb, those are my friends. it sounded like a jealousy argument tme. >> the drexel student went over to see if she was okay. he went over to confront the student and punched him and tossed his glasses away. >> he was attacked by the boyfriend. and he had a permit to carry and he was shot and killed.
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>> all of a sudden i heard a younger voice screaming. and i looked outside of my window and saw the guy laying on top of his body. >> at that point i was sprinting towards my own house to get on the phone with 911. >> the 21-year-old was shot multiple times in the chest at close range. police say that the girlfriend was extremely distraught and highly intoxicated and they were not able to get much information from her last night. the 21-year-old shot and kill said from overseas and police have not yet been able to can't his next of kin. sara bloomquist, channel 6 "action news." all right thank you. there is new information about the teenager that was found dead on top of a septa regional rail train. septa police believe that ray kwan jones was electrocuted by overhead wires after he got on top of the train early friday
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morning. the fire department searched the station after a fire alarm went off and found nothing and septa locked the station for the night. jones' body was not discovered until six hours later until the train went to chestnut hill and back to the city. >> i don't know if we'll ever know why he is not on top of that train. i'm not saying this is train surfing and i don't think it was. he wa not have been surfing the trains were out of service at this hour. >> there are signs all over the place warning of the high voltage danger. psych lists are calling for more protection for bike lanes after a trash truck hit and kill aid bicyclist in sent steer. that 24-year-old emily fredericks was the one killed. hit as a private garbage truck turned off of spruce street to
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11th street. the protesters are about to get out and do the same thing in about an hour. the driver stopped at the scene. two 16-year-olds are accused of stealing a car and leading police on a chase. the video shows what happened when the driver lost control and slammed into a concrete barrier at 1:00. the vehicle burst into flames and the teenagers were taken to the hospital. "action news" is waiting for new information police say they followed the stolen car from delaware county on to northbound i-95. the crash happened on the exit ramp in south philadelphia. time for a check of the accuweather forecast. meteorologist adam joseph has the latest on what is a mild wednesday. boy oh boy was it nice today. back to back days of sunshine mimicking off of one another, the splendid 60s.
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61 yesterday and so far today 64 degrees and 13 degrees above the normal of 51 and really hardly need aid jacket today especially in the full sunshine. we are sitting at 64 right now and 63 in new york city and 70 just down the pike in washington and richmond and to the north 50s in point and buffalo and syracuse and the north wind is settling in and that ushers in more seasonable air tonight. in fact satellite 6 along with action radar with this front is just a wind shift. from the south to the north. not much in the way of cloud cover here, and as we look at the accuweather forecast. back to near normal for tomorrow. brief showers coming in with another front tomorrow night. very late. and that will set up for a cool start to the upcoming weekend. the first weekend in december. you know how cool we are talking in that full accuweather forecast. coming up in just a bit. >> adam, we'll check back in later thank you. >> in delaware a controversial plan to consolidate five
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wilmington schools into just two, will be a subject tonight with parents and officials under john carnie, three of the five elementary schools in the christina district will close next fall and the remains schools offer more services for students kindergarten to eighth grade and some of those schools are the lowest performing in delaware and they will be able to discuss is the plan. and children at the lowingal section of philadelphia is about to undergo an extensive and expensive project. a $4 million project, with a new performing arts center and outdoor spaces to offer courses in the stem field. the school district of philadelphia has approved $8.1 million for this ublic another million was donated by joseph field. and the improvements and
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expansion are critical because right now they are over capacity by 120%. >> this building was built for 1850 and now we have 3870. this gives us the ability to exnd and cate new areas to create stem classrooms. >> ground breaking is scheduled for january of 2019. you may not know this but central high school was chartered in 1836. it's the second oldest public high school in the country and about to get a facelift. >> thank you. time now for news" traffic report. >> wednesday afternoon matt pellman is in the traffic center with the latest on commute. >> reporter: we are chartering a rough course tomorrow with the turnpike through bucks county sharrie and rick, westbound lanes are blocked off at bensalem route 1 all traffic is forced off at the interchange and then you can reenter and up
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ahead there is a truck that flipped over a while ago and no westbound traffic is getting by and there are lengthy delays, just 7 miles per hour from the delaware river bridge and the route 1 not so super highway 4 miles per hour and 8 miles per hours from the super highway on down. and coming into new jersey do so via 95. and major mess at this interchange we'll keep watching it of course until it clears. on the big picture a crash on 95 itself at the betsy ross bridge and off to the side. and one on the schuylkill, westbound side approaching the boulevard two left lanes are out and vehicles on the shoulders as well. jams go back to center city. and the waze app, on this hump day afternoon 295 southbound in
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mount ephraim, a minor crash there. that is a spot that is normally slow any way. we'll check it again in the next half hour. much more ahead on "action news" at 4:00, the search for a motive in tampa, florida, now that an accused killer is underarrest. >> plus, making good on a year's old deal hear how a school counselor kept her promise to eagles running back corey clemens. she never let anything slow her down.
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against north korea. it was yesterday that the north launched another intercontinental ballistic missile. this one able to reach the east side of the united states. and tampa police have arrested the person they say is behind the murders of four people over a two month span. howell donaldson is charged with all four of the killings. police say that a tip from a co-worker from mcdonald's, led them to him and the weapon that he used forbe the shootings. people in the neighborhood are relieved. >> today is a good day. today the good guys won. today seminole heights can sleep. today there are four families who will never repair the damage or the fact that their hearts was ripped from their chest but starting to get closure now. >> although donaldson is fow
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behind bars, police don't have a motive for the deadly spree. >> a man took a real gamble when he robbed a casino at gun point on the las vegas strip. it shows the thief wearing a wig and sunglasses and bandages on the strip. he went to the bellagio and demanded money from the poker cage. they believe that her cool reaction is why no one got hurt. and shoppers ordered at a record pace earlier this week. the online giant says that customers bought hundreds of millions of products and cyber monday sales beat the record setting day prime day. it shows cyber monday sales were up 17% across the board this year. >> now, here is a look at closing numbers from wall street and the dow jones closing upsetting a record.
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an all-time high closing up 104 points, up today. and the nasdaq and s&p 500 unfortunately down on the day. >> had is the story how hard work and determination clearly pays off. nearly a decade ago eagles running back corey clem et made a bet with his guidance counselor if one day he played in the nfl he would give her her bmw and so this guidance counselor mary beth from the glassboro district fulfilled the promise, here is pictures of two of them her handing over the keys to the 1995 bmw to corey and saulz expected one day she would do just that and corey eyed the car throughout high school and she knew he was a talented kid with a big dream. she saw this coming. why not give him added incentive
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to fulfill it. >> i told my husband corey a ninth graderle loved this car he said make the promise to him. and we did. nothing like a good push from the people that care about us and help us through the journey. corey says he will take extra care of the car, that was their baby. and she expects nothing in return just that he continues to fulfill his childhood dream. >> a greatment or someone that believes in you. >> he should somehow return the favor though. >> i bet he will. we'll keep an eye on that story. >> time now for a check of the accuweather forecast. >> we are driving into mild conditions.
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as we take a look at the weather center live on sky 6 hd ben franklin bridge, a crystal clear sky we have a few high clouds passing by and that is actually a cold front shifter our winds now from the southwest to the north and east. as we eye towards the weekend it's wednesday and on wednesdays i like to give a preview here for saturday and sunday. clouds and some simfine here on saturday. a lot of high cloud cover and cooler with a high of 49 degrees and on sunday sunshine gains control once again and milder as we go back above normal at 55 degrees. right now temperatures are holding near 60 or better for many locations. pottstown and longwood gardens, media 60 degrees and 63 in center city. and mid-50s for slatington and bethlehem. and 61 in hammonton. and claymont, delaware coming in at 61 degrees and brigantine 61
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and the same for cape may. where is the front? if you look at satellite 6 along with action radar it's right about here, you see the ribbon of clouds that passed through limited moisture with that but north of that the north wind is coming in and the chill will really arrive tonight. with this front coming through and the lack of moisture it's good timing because you can possibly spot the international space station here this evening. set your watch or phone. it's visable from 5:35 to 5:38 and traveling to the northeastern sky and directly above your head. so look straight up there for the 3 minute window and see that passing through the sky and it will be dark enough to see it. seasonably cool and 37 philadelphia and 36 in dover. and future tracker 6 temperatures as we go into
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tomorrow morning, a chill near freezing north and west and 36 in philadelphia and tomorrow afternoon high clouds around and temperatures go bnto the low to mid-50s and cooler than the last two days and a little bit above normal and early friday morning, 2:30 a.m. that is when we get a hit of showers with the second front. your fewer day at 4:00 forecast, 54 and cooler and partly sunny and earlier showers friday morning and 2:00, 3:00 in the morning and mostly sunny and 53. and milky sky 43 and brighter and fielder back to 55. and temperatures go up more next week we'll chat about it the accuweather forecast. >> take a quick break and more news when we come right back.
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like. the 140 square foot house will have youth sports programs and use the for the delaware home games and built on an old industrial site. and a pop-up gift shop at jefferson and east falls helping cancer patients, students had hand crafted gifts and accessories today. and they were made by someone in the fashion merchandise and program at the school and all the proceeds are donated to a nonprofit in marlton, new jersey, the group provides support for family affected by cancer. there are new flag as long the ben franklin parkway, students from the ben charter school designed the banners to represent a philadelphia neighborhood that matters to them. it's meant to showcase the students diverse backgrounds and the young artists were on hand to check out their work on display and each got a certificate for their hard work.
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a christmas display in camden set a unique record the largest underwater christmas display in the world. the 18 foot tree was installed at the shark tank and adventure aquarium. scuba santa and his elf got to install the last piece and in all the display weighs 2000 pounds and has 1500 lights and 400 corals acting as the ornmanies. very nice. and 6 abc is helping you get ready for the holiday season. cecily tynan and i are hosting a special from dillworth park featuring the deck the hall light show. watch philadelphia celebrating the holidays here on 6 abc live at 7:30 tonight. >> we'll be watching. hopefully good weather for you guys. much more ahead in the next half hour of "action news" at 4:30. >> we'll look at the best and worst buys in december. >> and a south jersey carpenter
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many single people celebrating. why a teen that set oes out to raise money for a childrens hospital owes them $200,000. >> and a gruesome murder victim found in a south philadelphia lot. how social media played a part in her death. and we start with a south jersey carpenter who did not allow the loss of of his leg to stop him from using his tools. and then found himself the victim of a crime for the second time. walter perez is here to explain this story. >> haddon township police are investigating this case and hoping for some information from the public to help break this case. meanwhile, as you mentioned this is not the first tim this victim had to deal witrt set ba. donald haines a carpenter from
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sal salem, new jersey, faces his share of adversity. he lost his leg years ago by being shot by an armed invader. and this set back him reeling. hically o livelihood. he was doing work on a home and locked his inside of the homeowners garage planning toomehe next toget it. he found t lock was p all thement was 30 years of hand andtuff he disability does not stop him but slows him down, so afloat financially until the next one so this is a major set back. took everything, they y took hearts. haines' business partner and
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fiance jaime aadmits she ionaldf the strongest people she ever met. >> god did not take away his ability to be what he wants to be. he struggles at times but he gets through. go back to work but whoever did this, karma comes around. >> and so once again investigators from haddon township are working this case and anyone with any is asked to call police. >> thank yo well, pole have newails abo of a young east philadelphia t yesterday and now svictim was s times and then set on fire. oman believed to be in her 20s was f in the lot near the male suspect's apartment complex. and they are in the process of
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charging him. they believe that the two met on social media but have not yet reveal aid motive for the murder or released any names. neighbors friends and famliz of a long time may fair resident beaten by a of teenagers will gather to honor his life. a vigil for kevin cullen is set to begin at 7:00 tonight along laring street theame area that cullen lost his lif sunday evening.and they believe they w trying to rob him and it violent. five former hockey players face charges after this brawl in march. prosecutors anderson and ryan greco planned a simultaneous attack on central bucksuring the final quarter game one had to be
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hospitalized for aroken nose and collar bone and concussion. they are due back in court in a garbage truck caught fire hours. chopper 6 hd was over the charred vehicle after 11:00t u s in the northbound lanes of the highway near expressway exit e was contained trafficas backed up for miles. determined a cause of that fire. chopper 6 hd flew owner a second fire of a dump truck on south gulph road. smoke could be seen at one point from the schuylkill expressway. the truck was carrying 50 pou of stones caught fire due to a mechanical issue. >> time now for an update on the forecast. adam joseph in the weather center with the latest on the
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digits. that are going up but still plummet. >> they will tumble down back t seasonable normsextyou know wha? not bad this time of as we numbers now they are 63 in philadelphia and trenton and wilmington, 62 degrees the atlantic city airport. and the lehigh valley on the brink of 60 degrees, we were about to say good night to the sun here with a glow on the horizon and a clear sky and a front passed through with cloud cover and behind that front temperatures stepping down a bit. sau st. marie and green bay and check 47. we are not talking arctic air but average air for this time of year. we'll chat about how school it gets in the next several days. there is an area of showers passing through and i'l have
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the timing for that as well. with tax filing season just around the corner, authorities want to protect you and your scams. today the officials from the irs and the pennsylvania department of revenue spokeere i center city. and gave tip for preventing identity theft and warning sending personal information to your tax official with uncured email and the irs will never can't you text message, email or sociamedia. or asking for your credit card number over the phone. and a trial of aormer bosnia m what played out on live television. >> today's hearing involved a bosnia general convicted of warg to spend the r
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ame street danced andll t little ones thereeceiving treatment. the holiday sho as today. smthat is nice to see th is owo you'll pay more for in what designation. >> and she wants to raise money for the childrens hospital and she did. the only problem the washington sed so muchty hey! yeah!? i switched to geico and got more!
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a shooting in nevada scared localesidents as it playe out a man opened fire on to the streets below in downtown reno and police shot and killed the man before you injured anyone else. witnesses heard the shots from above and immediately thought of stephan paddock's rampage two months ago. atrange twist paddock once own aid buig a and two criminals played dress up to heist. and it's all an act and they used masks to be elderlyowner td employee was forced tonlock le than 3 minutes to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars worjewe
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a burglary remains under investigation here. thieves broke into ania distillery and stole more than $900 bot of a more than a quarter million dollars. this shows it's individuals beside the razor fence and one man climbs it and knocks the camera over. the family says they will probably go out of business during the busy holiday season. >> big talkers now and this year is danny massina, over the charity.she raised over $200,000 wow right? sort of. here is how the story plays out she tweets this pledge she will personally donate 50 cents for every retweet and favorite to
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st. jude's childrens hospital. fast forward to hundreds of thousands of likes and favorites, and she owes about $210,000. clearly out of her budget and she turns to crow raises more than $50,000 of actual money and still in shock over the power of that one lihe silver lining here is that the viral aware ness all of this has raisd st. judes. >> if you worry mun is looking over your shoulder. google as an answer and the new technology is putting prying eyes on the spot. c net says that google is look working on when someone is appearing at your profile. taking a snap chat style photo.
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and they are suppose to unveil this next week and the goal is to safe guard information especially for people that work on the go. okay, finally. clever christmas cards, one california family not only nailed it thi holiday greeting is seen around the this is the seawright family and they love over the top christmas card. mom and dad, excited one of their children happily engaged followed by this one holding the sign, expecting and finally emily. just emily. single. you know, no big news, with unattached peepsitter. my current relationship status emily. emsays this is not originally family thought it was funny and emily is happy being single as e
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ly christmas >> enjoy whatever stage of life are you in. >> i used topdat highways. >> matt pellman with the update. >> he is always in trouble. good afternoon. we have drivers that are not happy with their situation this afternoon. here along route 1 and the pennsylvania turnpike in bucks badly jammed along 1 and the tun pike itself and westbound past 1, past bensalem an overturned truck blocking both lanes, it's taking forever and you don't want to get anywhere near the pennsylvania turnpike near the route 1 interchange. and single digit speeds on the westbound tun pike jammed in both directions with 4 miles per hour along route 1.
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what do you do? i would bring either one or 95 or if you take one you have to bail by the time you get to 95 and through lanorne the traffic is a mess. and the truck broke down along the vine street expressway coming north of washington avenue and the crash north of the betsy-and it's crash on the schuylkill approaching the boulevard route 1 is off to the side. back to university city and still working on the trash truck fire on the ramp 42 black horse pike to the expressway and 42 freeway. they have a lane blocked. it's jammed coming north at turnersville 42 the black horse pike. and a craestbou5, i just cleared. we'll check it again in the 5:00 hour. n the move today. thank you. >> stepping outsi sky 6 hd taking a live look at the ben
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we have had a beautiful stretch of days. >> a change coming this week but bigger change at the end of the next week. we have that to talk about. >> should i say bah humbug now? >> finally it will feel like winter. we have plenty of day as head of warmth here. sky 6 hd over the philadelphia international airport there is a little bit of high cloud cover and any cirrus clouds made of
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ice crystals play-off the longer wave lengths of light and there is pink above the tarmac as we look at numbers now 63 in philadelphia and 62 in trenton. 62 for wilmington and same for millville and dover in the low 60s and upper 60s to the north and west and cooler air moves in behind the front and last night we didn't have a drop in temperature and look at the hour by hour forecast we start at at degrees here at 6:00 this evening, by midnight temperatures down to 44 and tomorrow morning in the upper 30s for philadelphia and 20s for some of the suburbs towards the lehigh valley. and satellite 6 along with action radar very little going on in the eastern half of the countryh that warmth and aga front jus ssed t that is now nf north dakota, so dakota and it's northern plains and that is what will come through here late tomorrow night. than will bring a quick
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opportunity of some rain, so mostly clearoronightnd i is what is draining in the air look at day plan back to near normal on thursday, normal is close to 50 degrees, we'll be in the mid-50s tomorrow afternoon it will feel a tad cooler but still really nice morn ith cloud cover during oone comes through and a quick hit of rain and 45 in philadelphia early in the morning and 42 allentown and the front is off the coast and temperatures hold stea gnt and 38 allentown and readi see morning rush are the sun is coming back dealing with sun e
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december 7th through the 13th, the new outlook that looks at all the warmth is displaced to . the west coast. what happens on theest coast opposite of the et. like a seesaw. below average temperatures for this week period but the greatest below looks to be the core of the cold over the tennessee and ohio valley but we g hity a chill here. as we look at the exclusive her cooler tomorrow and 53 and mostly sunny on friday and milky sky and 49 is average for that date and milder for that date on monday and sun and clouds and monday 53 degrees and near 60 come tuesday and a lot of cloud as head of a front and rain tuesday night into wednesday and waedrm wnesday 54 degrees. a it wld b right after that rain on wednesday, and thursday where the bottom will drop out and highs for areas in the
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