this is only a recognition of reality and also the right thing to do. and that trump will move the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem and gave no time table to that. palestinians are already protesting burning israeli and american flags and insist it will hurt the peace process and make it impossible for the u.s. to be an honest broker and there are threats of violence. the palestinians insisted that the status of jerusalem must be part of a peace plan. professor michael boyle of la salle university says there was no reason for trump to do this now but a price to pay not just for palestinians but for american interests. >> we can expect from this there will likely be some incidents of

violence in the middle east and elsewhere. for american citizens there is a security cost in the near term. >> and israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu ed he was profoundly grateful and called it an important step towards peace. the controversial decision of president trump continues at 6abc.com. and we posted opinions on what it means moving forward and the security concerns being raised tonight. mccall elementary school in philadelphia was placed on lock down this morning after officials discovered that a student brought in a loaded gun. "action news" reporter, sara bloomquist, is live at the school on south 7th street in society hill. sara what happened there? >> reporter: jim, the 13-year-old was taken into police custody without any problem after the loaded gun was found in the school building this morning. i am told by a source that the

7th grader is telling investigators that he found the weapon. he still will face charges because i am told he will bring it into the school building. the district sent a letter home with students explaining what unfolded here. >> at dismissal today parents expressed alarm when parents learned what happened at mccall elementary school a well regarded public school at 7th and pine at society hill. >> scary. scary. wow. especially at mccall -- >> 9:45 another student alerted the principal that a 13-year-old 7th grader showed him the weapon and some parents were in the library for a meeting when the school went into lock down. >> we heard on the loud speaker there was a lock down and the librarian was in the room with us and went into action. and told us what to do and where

to go and we stayed quietly huddled together for about 30 minutes. >> authorities found the loaded gun and the student was taken into custody and the lock down was lifted. police tell "action news" the weapon was stolen taken in a robbery in 2013. >> obviously it is unacceptable for there to be a weapon much less a gun in any of our schools and we take these things very seriously and take immediate action to ensure the safety of our students and staff. >> none of the children including my own had any idea what was going on and they thought it was a drill. and practiced that before. >> everybody was safe and the staff handled it very, very well. >> again tonight, the seventh grader is telling investigators that he found this weapon and i am told that his parents have no

knowledge where the gun came from but still he faces criminal charges and the school district will not comment on disciplinary action this student will face including whether he can return to mccall. i'm sara bloomquist, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. authorities in south jersey expert this day searching for a missing man from millville. 49-year-old donald ronchefski was last seen on sunday and his vehicle was last seen in the parking area of the silver run bluff reserve. where police were combing for possible signs of him today and there are no signs of foul play in this disappearance but the investigation continues. the head coach of the penn athletic club rowing team is talking about the moment that his athlete save aid woman's life after seeing her car in the schuylkill river. they noticed headlights under

the strawberry man's bridge and one dove in and brought the driver to the car and into the coach's motor boat. >> it took 45 minutes by the time i got her out on to the boat but the time i saw the headlights under the strawberry mansion bridge. >> and the rowers brought the woman to the banks to bring her to paramedics. and police are terroristicing down the thief that hit a large warehouse in the bridesburg section of the city. live now is annie mccormick, what is the latest on this? >> reporter: well jim, this is no quick crime. they say that the thief took his time more than a half hour. police are investigating if he was wearing a stolen philadelphia parking authority jacket. >> this surveillance video shows a man wearing a philadelphia parking authority uniform. taking lawn mowers and a grill and tool box and even a sump

pump from the yard of the fast way courier, the owner does not know who he is and called police. repo agent rents next door and show the us what his surveillance cameras captured. >> the way he did it. he didn't care who was around and not worried about being catched by anybody. >> we reached out to the parking authority and they sent a supervisor out to look at it. and they believe that may be a stolen uniform from a theft from one of their employees. >> and northeast detectives are working with the the state agency. >> obviously when that kind of stuff is stolen we investigate it, and rarely do we find it or does it get used in a crime. but in this case that is possible. >> according to the parking authority the uniform is out dated. we put the version of the ppa symbol seen on the thief next to

the current symbol. another curious part of the video is the person in the background running back and forth. police don't know if that say child, or an accomplice acting as a lookout. >> police hope that someone recognizes the vehicle the man was using a rear cab and passenger side damage, take a look at 6abc.com. if you have information 215-686-tips. channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. a conservative pennsylvania lawmaker is facing backlash to the reaction to an arm touching incident. democrat representative matt bradford briefly placed his hand on darrel metcalf's forearm during the committee meeting this was his response. >> i hear you.

i understand there is hard feelings -- >> representative bradford i am a heterosexual and i like my wife. i don't like men like you might. stop touching me, keep your hands to yourself. there are people on your side of the aisle that might like it, i don't. the party is calling on metcalf to resign or apologize. bradford from montgomery county is not gay as insinuated but still in a phone interview today. metcalf doubled down on his remarks and took them further. >> the other side is continually flouting their homosexual agenda in the face of the rest of our culture and i would say i'm a heterosexual and i don't appreciate him touching me repeatedly go touch someone that may like it on his side of the

aisle. >> bradford says his claims are not true and should face punishment but declined to say what kind. okay. coming up on "action news" pennsylvania ski resorts get ready for what is hopefully a busy and snowy season and former eagles star, jeremiah trotter returns to the local football field to steer his son toward a state championship. >> the december chill arrived and temperatures this afternoon only in the 40s even dropping into the 30s in allentown. and a big change in yesterday. running anywhere from 14 to 22 degrees cooler and i'm tracking cooler air on the way as well as a chance of weekend snow in the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast. >> those stories and more when "action news" continues tonight.

this could be a big problem and penndot is facing a shortage of snowplow drivers and it's action is putting out a call for anybody with a commercial drivers license class a or b and they have a lot of turnover recently that left them without an enough crews. say it ain't so. and penndot is in search of diesel mechanics to help service the truck. the colder temperatures on the way ski resorts in the area are gearing up for brisk business and hoping for a better season than they had in reaccept sent years. >> blue mountain was able to open forever the weekend on black friday. there were enough cold nights in november to turn on the snow guns and cover five of their trails but warmer than average

conditions since then made it difficult to maintain the snow base and something that resort officials say is becoming a bit of a pattern. >> the past two winters have been hard for us. and we are excited to see what feels like normal winter temperatures that allow us to take advantage of it and blow as much snow as we can. >> and go south to bear creek mountain resort and the site is tougher for skiers and snowboard snowboarders. >> we tried to upgrade the equipment and cooling towers for the water temperature and did as much as we can to combat the inconsistent cold we have had for really the last five years. >> marketer jeff says the last two seasons were lackluster and the 2015-2016 season the slopes were only open 65 days and the standard for a good season is hundred days.

and they are adding resources like rope courses and summer camps and weddings. keeping them in the black. but the top holiday wish is simple. >> we hope for a solidly consistently cold season and provide people with close to 100 days of skiing. >> we are doing our snow dances and keeler our prayers going for a good winter, a normal winter. >> the good news is the cold winter is in the forecast so bear creek and blue mountain expect to fully open for the season on december 15th. walter perez, channel 6 "action news." a fascinating discovery is shedding light on delaware's early colonial history and archeologist uncovered 11 burial sites dating back to the late 1600s in west rehoboth? >> some remains were of african decent the earliest known of slain people found in delaware and the rest likely belonged to a former planation owner and his

relatives and now they are studying the artifacts to learn more about the earliest colonial settlers. >> and governor wolf announce reductions for standardized testing for students in pennsylvania and explains the decision for the colonial middle school at plymouth meeting today. while standardized tests can be helpful classrooms moved away from real learning and teaching to the test. beginning next fall. the state mandated test the pssa will be ministered with fewer parts over two weeks instead of three. local students were hard at work making us philly proud in north wales, the kindergartners at mary the redeemer filled more than 70 christmas stockings with toiletries and candy and good wishes and will be spent to military members deployed overseas over the holidays.

eagles continue to work for the los angeles rams. >> practicing as we speak in sunny southern california. it's not ideal but the eagles are making the best of it. so far a week long stay in southern california is going rather smoothly. the 10-2 eagles face the 9-3 rams and no zach ertz today he is still in concussion protocol and using the stadium in anaheim as their practice facility. the eagles are making it work. >> it's seamless so, you know gracious obviously for the angels for allowing us to practice there and the grounds crews did an amazing job with putting sod down and doing a great job. it's seamless and the transition is good and offices are great and players are adjusting well. and it feels like nova care. >> good. the eagles may be out of town but their practice facility is

still full of action. the birds are letting st. joe's prep use it as they get ready for the state championship game in hershey. jaime apody checks in on the hawks. >> a local football dynasty. the st. joe ez hawkses ranked seventh in the nation, they will play for their fourth state title in three years. >> it's always exciting and all the teams are great and great to see the school spirit. >> and this year expert help from someone that knows what he is talking about. former eagles star, jeremiah trotter his son is a freshman for the hawks. >> my brother saw me in the championship game in atlanta and i was doing an interview and he was in my arms. so yes, time flies. jeremiah trotter jr. a linebacker that wears 54 of

course, a big name and number to live up to. dad was a four time pro bowler with the birds and young jeremiah dreams of playing on sundays. >> is that tough to be jeremiah jr. is that tough? >> no, my father never pressures me. >> it's great to work with a player with those skill sets. a wide range of skill sets, and he makes he look good. >> he is better than me. at this age he is twice as good a linebacker than i was. >> look at this hit he laid on an opposing quarterback this season -- >> everyone at school has seen that, they always talk about it at school. >> what kind of feedback to you get. >> they say i blew him up and he went 10 yards back. >> what did you say when you saw

that? >> i forgot i was old and started jumping up and down and i had to go ice that night. >> the axe man is his son's number one fan. in south philadelphia, jaime apody, channel 6 "action news." and trotter sr. says it's hard to watch him play than when he was playing the game. >> you get more nervous. thank you. meteorologist, cecily tynan, with the accuweather forecast when we continue in just a moment. sorry. i can't make it.

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teasing? >> it's the real deal with have an opportunity for snow but not a huge storm. especially along the coast on saturday and monday in the lee valley. and the action cam looking at camden along the waterfront today where it was cloudy and it was breezy and now we are live on sky 6 hd taking a look at the rothman ice rink at dillworth park a lot of people bundled up having a dry afternoon. and tomorrow will be the nicest day in the next week or two. lots of sunshine and seasonable. and temperatures dropped down to a high of only 40 for friday, saturday, sunday and monday. i'm tracking the threat of snow showers over the weekend.

part of the reason why, 43 in philadelphia and down 34 and atlantic city airport 42 and reading currently 37. so satellite and radar showing the front that moved through last night that brought us that quick round of rain. has stalled down to the south and what this is doing is bringing us cloud cover and we have a small area of high pressure that builds in tonight and that forces the clouds farther to the south and we clear out tonight and it's going to be typically cold for early december and 23 degrees and 36 for stenner city. and tomorrow the high pressure over us lots of sunshine and temperatures where they should be for december 7th. 48 in philadelphia and allentown 46 and the same in trenton and cape may 49 and wilmington 48 degrees. this is typically the time of year i am talking about snow because allentown today. and the average first snow of the season measurable snow

anywhere more than a .10 inch. atlantic city typically the first snow not until the 23rd of december and atlantic city has the best chance of seeing snow this weekend and watching the coast with the low pressure is pull ago way from the coast and not hugging, what this means snow showers brush areas southeast of philadelphia and saturday morning into the afternoon. and we are looking at a slushy coating to perhaps an inch on grassy surfaces as it stands now in extreme southern new jersey and parts of delaware have to continue watch that and the low shifts and the forecast could change. so the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast. sunny and seasonable and 48 degrees and clouds drop to 40 on friday. and saturday snow showers southeast and 48 degrees and sunday a chance of showers north of philadelphia and the high only 39 and monday partly sunny and 41 and tuesday for hanukkah we have another cold front that

brings us a chance of snow showers and behind that front, this is the real deal an arctic blast on wednesday with a high of only 34. i'll have an update on "action news" at 11:00. christmas came early for 35 police k-9s in montgomery county. they were presented with brand new premium dog beds from big barker. the donation was made at the lower providence police department. the idea is to give the hard working k-9s a comfortable night's rest after a long day at work. abc world news tonight with david muir is next on channel 6. and "action news" continues at 10:00 on phl 17 and please join us for "action news" at 11:00 here on channel 6. for the entire "action news" team i'm jim gardner, we hope you'll join us at 11:00.

tonight, several breaking stories as we come on the air. the state of emergency now including los angeles. multiple fires burning out of control. one of america's busiest highways shut down for a time. fire raging on both sides. the other major story tonight. president trump's monumental shift on u.s. policy. officially recognizing jerusalem as the capital of israel. planning to move the u.s. embassy there. tonight, swift reaction from some of america's most drafted allies. some calling it regrettable, unhelpful. al franken tonight revealing he will make about announcement tomorrow. is the senator resigning? amid a growing number of senators who now say he must go. donald trump jr. answering questions for several hours on capitol hill about that meeting with a russian lawyer. amid the bigger question, what, if anything, did