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delaware county town tonight destroying homes and forcing evacuations. more than a hundred people are sent to a shelter but good samaritan neighbors are rushing in to help with clothes, food and toys for little ones forced to leave santa surprises behind. >> tuesday night. i'm monica malpass. the big story is a relentless inferno that raged for an hour and a half in the one mile square town of brookhaven. annie mccormick is there where fire crews are looking for the cause. annie? >> monica, that's right. it took an hour and a half to get the fire under control. in total, 13 families are without a home after 18 units were destroyed. >> from chopper 6hd, you can see the flames shooting out of the roof on hill top drive.

>> it was an inferno. the flames were leaping into the air 30 or 40 feet. i couldn't believe it was my bidding and place on fire. everything i have is on fire. >> first responders went door to door to alert residents. >> i called 911 right away. they told me to get out. i did. it was awful. i have never seen anything like that. >> i ran into the building to clear rooms with one of the officers to be sure no one was in the building. >> we saw neighbors helping neighbors, bringing others in out of the cold. the fire wiped out most of building c, at the time, 18 units were occupied. brookhaven fire department tells us the cold conditions didn't help. tonight, everyone is accounted

for. luckily, there were no injuries. >> they were brought down a 34-foot ladder from the third floor balcony. the family was safe. no one was hurt. >> the red cross opened at the hall. in just a short time tonight, they were flooded with donations and are asking the public to instead give monetary donations to the red cross. >> monica, the good news tonight, the number of people the red cross has to help has gone down since earlier in the evening. red paw relief, an organization that looking for pets during fires or after, they tell us six pets are in their care tonight. all are accounted for. as for t cause of fire, it is under investigation. the fire investigator will be out here tomorrow morning. annie mccormick, "action news."

back to you. >> thank you, annie. carol was the only person in her house on the 1700 block of congress drive when a fire broke out at 4:00. it took firefighters an hour to extinguish. they believe it started accidentally. >> officers were called to the mall after disruptive crowds arrived. no word of arrest but last week cherry hill police warned parents not to leave kids on their own at the mall. >> say goodbye to temperatures above freezing for the final week of 2017. the action cam found folks bundled up in antioch and it will only be worse tomorrow morning. let's check in with adam joseph. hi, adam. >> monica, we are in the freezer

and we are not climbing above for more than a week. in the city of philadelphia, 17-degrees, to the north and west, colder, 9 in allentown, 7 in reading, 3 below in the poconos, 19 in wilmington and 19 at the atlantic city airport. it >it's quiet.snow showers to thd west. there could be flurries tonight, south of the city. overall, quiet as we wake up tomorrow morning frigid with air temperatures in the teens and suburbs and the city, 21-degrees. it's a day you don't want to look at the air temperatures, but windchills near 10-degrees tomorrow morning. as we take a look throughout the day tomorrow, it stays in the teens, start to finish in "the e peak" of the day. winds 10 to 15 sustained, gusts

over 20 tomorrow. windchill harsh and colder thursday. we'll chat about this cold stretch and the possibility for light snow over the weekend coming up in a bit. >> thank you, adam. >> online to keep tabs on the plunging temperatures. it's the windchill you need to worry about. on our site you can find the seven-day forecast to prepare for the cold. whew last week a hit and run driver shattered the hopes and dreams of a family. their eight-year-old son killed and his dad injured in the crash. tonight the alvarez family speaks you ouspeaks out for thee about the horror and the impact their boy had at such a young s. dan, good evening. >> good evening, monica.

relatives say that as alvarez continues to recover from injuries, he suffered in the car crash that killed his eight kwr50er8d son. he has a long road to recovery as he continues to mourn. >> these are pictures alvarez and his son buddha. family members say at first they couldn't find a way to tell him buddha was gone until they found a way to do so. >> he's devastated. destroyed. that was his life. >> that's all he had, that boy. day and night. >> his heart was gold. he would love to feed the homeless at times lik times lik. >> buddha was feeding the homeless in kensington during the thanksgiving holiday. >> he was full of life, a free

spirit, a gift from god. it's hard. it's really hard. >> last wednesday, the car he and his father were driving in was hit by a hit and run driver. michael finn was charged in the accident. >> we can retaliate, but it won't fix anything. he's gone. >> we know he's in a better place. we are hurting. we lost a piece of us. >> buddha's dream was to be a boxer and buy his dad a volkswagen bus. >> can't be a world champion, but i promised him, i would give his dad what he wanted. >> a viewing for the eight-year-old is scheduled next friday 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. at the neil boyle funeral home in kensington to be followed by a

mass collision burial also in kensington. live at temple university hospital, channel6 "action news." monica? >> thank you, dan. >> police say a murder suspect took his own life after firing a hundred shots during a standoff in bethlehem. cep hart shot his own mother. she was found dead in the front yard of the home on dennis street. he then fired on the first officer to arrive at the scene narrowly missing his head. that officer and another took cover between cars. an armored vehicle known as the bearcat arrived. cep hart fired 26 shots at the bullet proof vehicle. >> it was his tent to take other bodies wearing blue uniforms. >> after nine hours, cep hart

committed suicide, shooting himself in the head. the pentagon is not commenting on a lawsuit filed over gun background checks. new york and san francisco say the defense department failed to report significant numbers of disqualifying numbers like dishonorable discharges of service members to the national background check system. this came to light during the texas massacre. the gunman that killed 26 people at a church there was criminally convicted by the air force. had that information been reported to the data base, the killer wouldn't have been allowed to legally buy a gun. a suspect is in the hospital after leading police on a crime spree that allegedly included a crime spree.

trish hartman tells the story from start to finish. >> it was here in the 5200 block of church road that police say the suspect started his crime spree. the victim's mother tells us the family was coming home from a christmas party and the car was filled with gifts and her diabetes medication. according to the victim, the suspect put a gun to her head and stole the rental car and took off. later, he was seen on surveillance camera with a gun to the employee in the store. hthe vehicle was found empty. when the suspect returned, the officers followed. >> they attempted to stop the vehicle. it came to a rest with a

civilian vehicle behind me. the plain-clothed police officer approached the suspect and gave commands the suspect didn't follow. >> during the course of the confrontation the officer discharged his firearm striking the male in the chest. >> the suspect was taken to penn presbyterian. the officer will be off duty pending an investigation. trish hartman, channel6 "action news." >> tonight, the fbi is asking for your help finding the bank bad it. surveillance video caught him holding up the bank at gunpoint 11:30 saturday morning. the suspect is 6' tall with a thin build. a reward is being offered for his capture. >> water, water everywhere. today at a strip mall in philadelphia, an eight inch pipe burst sending water into stores and even a nearby islamic

center. salt crews were called in to prevent the water freezing over. now the leak is patched but it could be several days to repair the road. still to come on "action news," you may be surprised where a chunk of your christmas returns end up. it's not back on shelves or at deep discount stores. a health check higher amount numbers, more mothers to be admit to smoking marijuana while pregnant. we'll tell you their reasoning. >> and eg eagle winning ways off the field at a charity event tonight. >> i it's 42-degrees. today, 33 for the high. we are going to the teens and 20s. we'll chat about it in the accuweather seven-day forecast. >> i'm cold hearing it. >> the eagles with home field >> i'm cold hearing it. >> the eagles with home field advantage and looking ahead to

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>> back from grandmother's house they go. aaa says it's one of the busiest travel days of the season. it seems calm at the philadelphia interrnational airport, weather is causing havoc back west. >> from the northeast to the midwest, people are seeing white. >> a lot of snow. >> in erie, pennsylvania, a snow emergency, four and a half feet of snow falling in 36 hours, traveling there coming to a complete stop. drivers backed up for miles. lake effect snow burying upstate new york. >> i could only go about 20

20 miles per hour. >> backing up to kalamazoo and kansas. >> keeping the locals from doing traditional activities. >> the girls wanted to go ice skating, and we tried. >> in utah, a deputy punched through a frozen pond to save an eight-year-old boy. >> i had a short time to get that boy out of the water. >> at boston's logan airport, flights were delayed for hours. >> everything's fine. >> a jetblue airplane hit an ice patch spinning off the runway. >> thankfully, no one was injured. >> there seems to be no relief in sight. the polar air will move into the eastern united states with temperatures dropping below zero. those temperatures stick around

for a few days. >> president trump is again aiming at the fbi with his twitter comments calling it tainted responding to a fox news report stating that russia ties are wrong. dossier is wrong. fbi can't after all of this time verify. the president passed a milestone, spending a hundred days, a third of his presidency at one of his properties. >> a magnolia tree planted at the white house by andrew jackson is coming down. the tree is weak and poses a safety hazard. first lady melania trump and her staff explored every option before deciding on the partial removal. wood will be preserved. >> shoppers were busy with holiday returns, but it's the

impressive sales that are making news, despite fears of going brument and 7,000 closings, the remaining retailors wracked up a boost in spending. that made it the best shopping season since 2011 according to figures released today. online shopping increased 18%. the biggest day was black friday but the second biggest day was this past friday. as for all of the unwanted stuff, there is a chance returned presents will end up in the landfill. a company calleddaed arturo sayt adds thousands of pounds. half of them make it back to store shelves at full price. often returns are returned to

the discounters, but it is often cheaper to throw out. >> more and more women say they are smoking marijuana while pregnant. researchers tracked hundreds of thousands of mothers to be. in 2009, marijuana use 4% to 7.1%. pot use is higher among mothers under 24 years old. two out of ten women between 18-24 say they used pot while pregnant and many say they use it to help with anxiety. >> >> for the first time, playing video games too much and too often will be considered a mental health disorder. the world health organization will add gaming disorder to the official list of disease diseast year. the sign, being untiebl control

when to play and choosing games over other interests in life and playing despite negative results. >> members of the eagles spent time with their youngest fans today. matt collins and some of the cheerleaders visited the ronald mcdonald house. for brayden brenner of york, pennsylvania, it was a dream come true. >> he went through a week of being in patient due to holidays. this makes it special. >> you have to make time for kids. i'm a firm believer in giving back to the community, being there for kids. >> he recalls adults who made an impression on him. he made a nice one. the mercury is about to take a

serious tumble. >> 42 the normal this time of year. we could be close to 20-degrees below normal for afternoon highs before the seven day is over. >> wow. >> take a look. let's start in the weather center. the one place loving it is the ski resort. this is live on sky 6, spring mountain. the snow guns are fired up. if they want to, they can leave them on for seven days straight, great weather to make man-made snow. it's not good as natural snow. we have the cold, maybe we'll add to this for the weekend from mother nature. arctic arrival here to stay. brutal windchill at times. not only is it going to be cold, the winds are a factor at times and snow to begin the weekend if everything comes together just

right. 17 in reading, 22 in allentown, 20 in trenton. 21 in millville and the atlantic city airport, temperature in the 20s. you don't want to look at air temperatures so much over the next few days. you want to look at windchill. the car thermometer may look cold but it's colder with the wind. 9 in allentown, 17 in reading, 27 in philadelphia feels 10-degrees kohler at 17, 19 in wilmington and 20 in millville. one thing we have going for us is little from upstairs. most of the country is quiet. the wet weather stays to the south as jet streams stay separate for the next couple of days. they try to phase on saturday to the north and east. tomorrow, the commuter forecast start to finish, temperatures don't climb that much tomorrow.

in the morning, mid 20s. lunchtime, mid 20s, evening, mid 20s. windchill in the teens most of the day tomorrow. a frigid day but a quiet date. wednesday, a storm developing off of our coast. it's too late to give us precipitation or snow at all. sun and clouds, 28-degrees with chilly winds around the great lakes. thursday, colder at 26-degrees. a clicker over the great lakes thursday. a lot of clouds friday, maybe a flurry but no big storm friday. witneswednesday, 16 in philadel. memphis 19. 13 below in bismarck. thursday afternoon, little changes. teens across the area in the northern half of the country. as we get into friday afternoon, feel like temperatures in the

20s. one below in chicago, 12 below bismarck. the seven-day forecast, the common is two to start every afternoon in the seven-day forecast. partly sunny tomorrow, cold thursday, windchill in the tees both days. friday, there could be a period of light snow. right now, doesn't look to be a big system. we start the new year frigid, 24. as the ball drops, single digits in the mid atlantic and for the mummer's parade, brutal that morning. >> thank you, adam. >> today marks the beginning of kwanzaa. they kicked off the part with a unit any celebration.

children had themes of the african-american holiday. there were the seventh principle there. each day is dedicated to unity, createty and faith. >> peco is lighting up the holidays. mayor jim kenney turned boathouse row into the celebration. one house is aglow for the first timnight with the candle flame. over the next week the houses along the river will be lit in green and red.

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