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needed day off today. back to practice tomorrow getting ready for monday in chicago against the bulls. clinch hoops, temple trying to rebound today against drexel. drexel ties it at 53. drexel takes the lead. temple down one. the cherry and white fight back. temple hanging on to win, 63-60. philadelphia manager gabe cap letter on hand for the lighting of the menorah tonight. eight crazy nights for the phil i didn't say. carlos santana for $60 million. >> i think what it says about the upcoming season, our front office will search under every

stone to succeed. i never felt comfortable while thinking on your hands puts you in a tough position. tommy hunter, a guy that keeps the clubhouse fun and loose, excited to have him. >> suddenly, the rebuild is picking up. >> talking baseball in december. very cool. >> much more to come in the next half hour of news. we continue to follow the california wildfires. the largest in santa barbara. and firefighter risked his own safety to save a golden retriever caught on ice. the whole thing was caught on camera. michael: i'm thankful that

i'm alive and have a second chance. james: i'm thankful for the help and the opportunity that i received. darlene: i'm thankful to be able to help people in crisis. vanessa: i'm thankful that addiction is treatable, and that help is available. christie: new jersey is experiencing a heroin epidemic fueled by opioid painkillers. but if you or someone you love is struggling with addiction, i want you to know: we are here for you. this holiday season, choose help. call 844 reach nj or visit reachnj.gov.

♪ ♪ >> "action news" continues. saturday night. i'm walter perez. here's what's happening on "action news" at 11:30. flames in california are turning it into a ghost town. >> and a lift malfunctions crabbing chairs into one another. >> a heart warming rescue caught

on camera, the dog caught on phiiceand firefighter that broum to safety. >> the thomas fire is the third largest in california. today those in santa barbara were fleeing from their homes. >> the massive wildfire plaguing north of los angeles 13 days is flaring up again. dry brush, low humidity and winds up to 60 miles per hour fanning the flames. residents waking up in the middle of the nooght realizing the third largest fire in california's history is raging toward them. >> woke up to the roar of the fire 3:00 a.m. >> the wildfire has scorched 400 square miles for now, kills one

firefighters, 1,000 structures destroyed. the wall of fire threatening new areas, including monticito peak. there are agricultural losses like this avocado orchard. they expected a bumper harvest but the fires destroyed the crop. >> more than 8,000 firefighters from a dozen stays are working to cap contain the blaze. >> the wife of former player loren zen wright has been charged with first-degree murder. she was arrested last night in california. the body was found in the summer

of 2010, 10 days after the 34-year-old was reported missing. he was shot repeatedly. a scary day for those aboard a ski lift near state college. five people suffered minor injuries. the malfunction forced officials to shut down the lift. federal officials deny that the trump administration has banned seven words including fetus, diversity, transgender and science based. policy analysts were told in a meeting not to use the words when preparing the budget. the spokesperson from health and human services says it's a mischaracterization of what was really said. >> the luken's family who lost

two sons when their home went ablaze, is receiving much support. >> player frs the girl's team want to help even if it means putting their own dreams aside. >> we set up for the girls a fundraiser for them to go to disney. they all unanimously voted to help the family. >> the lukens share a connection to the soccer program. the dad, a sheriff's deputy coaches for providence. one of the boys who died was a member of the team as well. an amazing rescue in maryland is caught on camera. a dog is rescued by a local firefighter. tim barber from our sister station in washington d.c. has the story. >> the golden retriever was

covered in ice. the little guy was stuck in a clover until jesse climbed into the culver to rescue the dog who had been stuck for hours. >> the prince george's county firefighter picked up the frozen pooch and carried him to safety. >> i had him on my knee, coming up the beams of the ladder, stepping up. >> we put the dog in the back of the fire truck and cranked up the heat, got back to the fire station and laid out a bed and food. >> he didn't have a collar, so they hope the owner sees the story. if not, he's not ruling out adopting the dog which they appropriately named "river." >> it's an option.

i have to talk to my wife and my three-year-old. >> still to come, back up quarterback nick foles takes the place of carson wentz. we had to ask, what if foles gets hurt? also a tradition at arlington for the men and women that served our country. >> and we are tracking precipitation for sunday night. we take a look at the full and exclusive accuweather forecast. ♪ ♪ spread some cheer

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>> trenton young scharl institute enjoyed a holiday of their own. presents for 40 children were delivered. the school has taken up donations for children in trenton for 20 years now. santa claus god help from troak drivers in new jerseytow s ready and willing to lend a help hand. >> they go to the store. they don't put a price tag on what they want. they say, i would like this if i was a kid. they purchase it. they don't ask anyone to donate. they purchase the gifts themselves. i see them donating hundreds of

dollars. >> the tow for tots is a ten year tradition. >> and now melissa magee, after a cold week last week, we are warming up. >> in between we are tracking precipitation to open the doors for the warm air. sky 6 live and hd, looking from the city hall camera, looking at the brn ben franklin parkway, is calm across the area. looking at the commodore barry bridge, we have a partly cloudy sky across the region. we triggered flurries in the poconos. we are dry throughout the rest of tonight. temperatures in the 30s right now.

we go throughout the overnight hours, staying cold. 23 in allentown, 26 lan cast e30 dover. 27 millville, 25 trenton and 31 in cape may. as we get to the second half of the weekend, looking at the numbers along the i-95 corridor, 7:00 in the morning, 30-degrees. one degree above the freezing mark by 9:00 a.m. sun giving way to increasing clouds and temperatures for the most part maxing out in the upper 30s, lower 40s sunday afternoon. future tracker 6, 8:00 tomorrow morning, sun and filtered sunshine across the region and area. 2:00 tomorrow afternoon, we are tracking a disturbance moving through. we had a week disturbance moving through the poconos earlier today, dipping south. a cold front coming through. 11:30 sunday night. you notice the mixed precip in

wilmington and portions of the i-95 corridor, overnight sunday into monday morning, 3:30, rain and wet snowflakes across the region. that's something we have to track as we get to the overnight hours and monday. the exclusive forecast showing you lots of clouds sunday, high temperature 40. then we get late sunday into monday, lingering rain showers over head. it's mild. a high of 47. tuesday, breezy and warmer, 56 6 for the high. wednesday, 45. back to normal, thursday, a high of 42. friday, cloudy and rain possible, 52-degrees, sunshine around next saturday, cool, high of 42. by the way, next weekend, last weekend before christmas. if you haven't gotten my gift

yet, you are running out of days. >> you know i think about you early, like everybody else. no need for the reminder. >> thank you, melissa. >> a grieving mother has come forward with a plea for help to find the person that killed her daughter. >> nancy says when she was looking through pictures of her daughter for her funeral, she noticed something that made her smile. >> nothing but this. that's what everyone said. her smile, her laugh. they miss it so much. debra gulliver was a 33-year-old trying to find her place in life. friday, november 23rd, she was dropping off applications and hanging out until saturday, jaun 24th. >> they got off the bus five of

2, and she was found 3:10. in the small span of time she was brutally attacked behind dobbin's high school. she was stabbed more than 12 times and pronounced dead at the scene. she was baffled by what happened considering nothing was taken from gulf very. >gulliver.she had a phone. she had a necklace with a diamond ring that she always wore. it was still on her neck. the city is offering $20,000 for the information that leads to the person responsible. all calls remain anonymous. for crime fighters, i'm rick williams, channel6 "action news."

>> 50,000 volunteers arrived at arlington national cemetery to lay wreaths on headstones. 45,000 wreaths were placed at arlington. 1500 other cemeteries across the country. >> military and first responders are working together to make sure hundreds of children have a merry christmas. gifts were handed out to 800 kids across the county. they organize the effort each year for children whose families don't have a lot of money to spend on christmas gifts.

>> jeff skversky and a christmas gift for the flyers, they are playing well. >> imagine going into the new year, playing expectations, changing right now. talk about hot and cold. flyers are hot. flyers are one of the only teams in the history of hockey to lose 10 straight to rebound winning six in a row. the kids get flyer td up for this. second period, down one on the powerplay. the rebound, ties it at one in overtime. there again for the point. you know where it's going, flyers win 2-1. they are out scoring teams by 12 goals during the streak. >> you have a couple of good things happen along with working hard, paying attention to detail, and sticking together. >> you get the injection of adrenaline that helps push you in the right direction. >> carson wentz going down last

week was eagle fan's worst nightmare. nick foles comes in to save the day and season. what if foles, the last eagle quarterback to play gets hurt? then what? jamie apody has more. >> the next man up mentality. >> this team is made of one person. it's a team. they are going to step in and do a good job. if carson wentz injury tells us anything, it's how fragile the team can be. nate, the man nobody knows anything about. >> how would they know much about me? if my number is called, it's my responsible to be ready. >> what is something the fans would be interested to learn about you as a person? >> i'm not related to nick.

nick and nate look related. at this rate, they might as well be, the three eagle quarterbacks, like the three musketeers. >> we are like brothers. it's tough to see carson banged up. >> how close are the eagle quarterbacks? out of knee surgery, carson wentz face timed them. he was loopy. we were talking, ordering a burger and he's trying to figure out the new plays. >> he's face timing out of surgery? >> pretty quick out of surgery. do you expect anything less out of carson? >> not at all. jamie apody, "action news." >> let's hope nick foles stays healthy and doesn't have to face time from the hospital bed. they have overcome so many

injuries. jason peters, darren hicks, jason sproles and doug pederson said it, they believe they can overcome the carson wentz injury. we'll see. >> if defense plays to a high level and they establish a run game, i think we are in good shape. look for them to run the ball a lot tomorrow against the giants. >> thank you, jeff. >> gifts part of 19th street in center city this morning. it was the donation site for the annual holiday toy drive. volunteers packed the cars making sure to distribute the items for 1500 deserving children across the region. >> a trailer filled with new toys was dropped off at children's hospital this afternoon. >> the gifts arrived count s c f

firefighters this afternoon. >> when you turn 100 years old, you ought to do it in style. the display you see there and birthday cake is for lena francis celebrating 100 years of life. she celebrated dressed in pink as you can see, surrounded by family and friends. she was formerly recognized by local municipal officials. castle is next on channel6. "action news" continues tomorrow morning at 6:00, with nydia han, gray hall and chris sowers. >> for the entire "action news" team, i'm walter perez. have a great night. see you back here tomorrow.

there are two kinds of folks who sit around thinking about how to kill people--psychopaths and mystery writers. i'm the kind that pays better. who am i? i'm rick castle. castle. castle. i really am ruggedly handsome, aren't i? every writer needs inspiration, and i've found mine. detective kate beckett. beckett. beckett. nikki heat? the character he's basing on you. and thanks to my friendship with the mayor, i get to be on her case. i would be happy to let you spank me. and together, we catch killers. we make a pretty good team, you know? like starsky and hutch, turner and hooch. you do remind me a little of hooch. (siren whoops) (police radio chatter) you drive, i'll ride. all right. (making kissing noises) on one knee? yes, that's a good girl. what's up, castle, you proposing? oh, no. just waiting for you. that's too bad. you two make a cute couple. yeah. hey, you think i should get a dog? what am i, your wife? yeah, you're my work-wife.