dann cuellar is live in bensalem township where police are searching another property and have just taken someone into custody. trish, let's begin with you. a lot to talk about. what are these late developments. >> reporter: well, jim, the bucks county district attorney has said this has been like finding needles in a haystack. they're following strong leads and resources from all over bucks county are being used to find these four men officials say they now believe that will foul play is involved. on day two of the exhaustive search for four young men, investigators focused on several locations in solebury township including a field on upper mountain road off of route 202. >> we dedicated a ton of investigative resources there. we're not exactly sure what we are going to find there but we're pretty confident that the investigation is proceeding in the direction that we believe that it would. >> reporter: a tented area was set up near a backhoe on the rural property. this is all part of the search for 19-year-old dean finocchiaro of middletown township, 19-year-old jimi patrick of newtown

action news reporter dann cuellar has been monitoring the situation all night and dann what is the story? >> reporter: well i can tell you this jim a midnight news conference by the bucks county dc da is unprecedented but search teams uncovered something significant for the first time the search was not called off like it has been, it has not been broken off until daybreak and chopper six hd is over the scene where it's going on lights and generators were brought in as we saw medical teams rather teams in medical scrubs going in and out of the tents where a considerable amount of digging has been going on all da matt weintraub would say is that they uncovered several important pieces of evidence. he later added this note. >> we are going to find something for sure i have no doubt of that, no doubt of that. can't really confirm more. >> reporter: with key clues said to be uncovered at the 90 acre farm owned by the family of cosmo dinardo action news learned that cadaver dogs have been doing important work that as well as other important tools. >> we have been utilizing just some amazing r

dann cuellar talks to her. >> the smoking age in new jersey changes to 21. we'll tell you why governor chris christie says the issue hits close to home. >>> the big story on saturday, 5:30 a.m., the hot temperatures are hanging around for yet another day. we may end the day with fireworks in the sky courtesy of mother nature. it's all quiet right now across the area. as we take a live sky6 live hd picture over center city. there's quiet now with the exception of storms in south jersey, keep the umbrella handy, storms some of them potentially strong will pop up a bit later today. meteorologist chris sowers is here to help you plan your weekend with the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, get rid of this heat man. >> reporter: now you know why i like the winter so much? >> fall is better. >> reporter: that's my ideal time of the year. nobody likes this, nobody enjoys this kind of humidity. there's the view in cape may where you had heavier downpours first thing this morning, most of them have pushed out to sea. some locations have picked up a quarter to

dann cuellar is in ben salem where the farm owners have other property. trish, start with you. the search called for the night. what kind of night has this been there? >> reporter: well, like you said, jim, detectives are done for the night. it was a long and tiring day. and they will be back first thing tomorrow. they have been focusing on a property just down the road from here. and it is owned by the denardo family. as chopper 6 flew over one of the search sites, detectiveses could be seen near a barn on a rural property on lower york road. earlier in the day investigators were seen searching through rubble. a front end loader and shovels and metal detectors looked for clues. neighbors watched waiting for news. >> it's sad. it's a beautiful little town and you hear this all the time. never thought something like this happen here. >> reporter: the property is owned by sandra denardo according to records and the focus of the exhaustive search. 19-year-old dean of middletown, 19-year-old jimmy patrick of newtown, 22-year-old mark sturgis and 21-year-old tom mio have been missin

we're live in here in pennsauken, i'm dann cuellar channel6 "action news."ica back to you. >> thank you dann.toric bones? excavated from olde city during a construction dig last winter. that's the question officials are asking tonight. the remains pleased to be s were in a storage unit but that's apparently not the case for all of them. "action news" reporter john rawlins live in olde city with more. good evening, john. >> reporter: good evening, monica. it appears some of them are missing. we talked by phone with the rutgers camden professor kimberly moran who was overseeing much of the work of the recovered remains. she confirmed after checking their field records that the belief is that 12 of the remains are missing. as workers dug the foundations for a 21st century building they discovered bones and coffins, this site had once been an 18th century graveyard belonging to the first baptist church. work was stopped and experts were called in to exhume the remains that were found six to 14 feet beneath current ground level. >> one of the goals of this projec

we are live here in solebury bucks county i'm dann cuellar channel six action news jim. >> dann thank. let's switch live to action news reporter annie mccormick at peddlers village and we said at the top of the broadcast it's a grim episode but it's attracting enormous amount of attention. >> reporter: jim it is and spanning through several communities within bucks county as you can imagine residents and visitors are all watching closely, praying for a good outcome. >> everyone is very concerned and like worried and all the people are spooked. >> reporter: the search for the four missing men is captivating residents and visitors near the search area from peddlers village to new hope. >> this does not happen in solebury and doesn't happen around here. >> feel very bad about the whole thing. >> feel for the families you know. just heart wrenching i can't believe something like this is happening so close to here. >> reporter: employees of local stores say customers in the community are asking questions. >> a few people have asked if we know anything or heard anything and what we feel abo

cuellar is live in new hope just a mile or two from where the bucks county victims were buried and dannou have the end of the week update. >> reporter: that's right jim the gruesome and disturbing case involving drugs, murder and burials by two cousins on a sprawling farm has left many here in shock and disbelief and as much as some would like they just can't seem to stop talking about it. >> i feel they probably never know why it happened, all right, but it just makes you sad. >> it's peaceful here and tranquil and not what you would think about it around here. >> shocked. >> i wouldn't want to be parents and feel so bad for the family. >> reporter: in cosmo dinardo confession is public and dined out with his 20-year-old cousin as accomplice arrested last night in philadelphia and he confessed and both charged with murder and related offenses and being held without bail and tells investigators on july 5 he agreed to sell jimi tar patrick four pounds of marijuana for 8,000 and drove into his families 90 acre form when patrick only had 800 dinardo offered to sell him a shotgun instead an

at the office of the dea, i'm dann cuellar, monica? >> it is a not guilty plea for the mayor of pennsylvania. ed polanski denies deals for contractors. >> a judge today sentenced a man to 27 years for killing his wife while she was driving. he slashed her throat and went to die as he went to a diner covered in blood. fortune pled guilty to aggravated manslaughter last month. >> a plan was voted to raise $2.2 billion. half of it will be borrowed against the money owed to pennsylvania from the 1998 tobacco settlement. law enforcers want to impose a tax on shale drillers as well. the state is the number two natural gas producer in the country behind texas. consumers would be hit too, 5.7% for personal usage. there will be increases on electric bills and cellphone and expansion of "star fix" for online purchases. governor tom wolf agrees with the outline of the plan. the plan now goes to the house where leader haves questions and concerns. >>> in the new jersey governor race, kim introduced her running mate, the cuban born mayor ofburg cou

defected to the ruling pa rty‘s infected dann defected to the ruling party's side.ews forfinancial or main reasons for producing fake news for financial or political gain. 0nline lots of people looking for click bait, offline they are looking to spread political propaganda. what can be done? the report authors suggest that politicians need to reaffirm the value of mainstream media and consumers need to be a lot more discerning about what they consume. ina consume. in a roundabout way it might be the prevalence of fake news that makes people sit up and think about what dann whether what they watch, see or hear is true. see you in a couple of minutes. hello. if you havejointly hello. if you have jointly over recent evenings you will know we have been majoring on the effects of the south asian monsoon and other areas of concern across asia. tonight i thought we would move over towards north america, where thursday looks like being another very hot day right through the heart of the usa. some of the temperatures pushing towards 40 celsius. much of the heaters contained

dann cuellar has more on how the drug epidemic affect families. >> in pennsylvania 13 people die from each day. >> that was her gateway drug. >> reporter: nicole is living with the reality of the devastating numbers. she lost her sister tony to the opioid epidemic. >> every single day she struggled for her life. nobody expected we were going to have to learn to live our lives without her, that's not something we want to accept. >> reporter: you could say 57-year-old linda of drexel hill is one of the lucky ones, she used heroin at the age of 18. she has been clean for 16 1/2 months. >> i hope to god and pray to god i'll never go back, because of the type of person i am, i will go back just to die. >> reporter: she has advice for anyone thinking of trying to per hundred or fentanyl or fentanyl related substances, don't do it. >> this is serious stuff now. >> reporter: this stuff is very powerful. >> yeah. >> reporter: once you get on it, you're done. you're done. >> reporter: the experts are telling us while we don't have the numbers from 2017 we'll surpass the numbers from 2016. dann

dann cuellar looks at the facebook monitoring unit. >> a crowd estimated of 500 people gather for a socialedia driven event. of soon things get out of hand. >> drinking, disorderly, disrespectful to police. police ordered the crowd to shut down but some didn't want to leave and threw bottles at the officers. there is the question of why police didn't have a heads up. >> that involved the people at the location enjoying festivities. it got out of hand and disruptive. >> as part of the mission, officers monitored a slew of surveillance cameras across the region. they monitor social media for signs of potential problems like flash mobs. there were no realtime cameras at the rec more and the event was billed as a barbeque and not a flash mob that would have triggered alarms. >> people plan to disrupt where they are to the place they disrupt. >> in the world of social media many young people are plugged in 24-7. >> snap chat and instagram are the top favorite platforms. >> what do you like about insta instagram. >> you should be able to go live. >> to be sure most everyone is out to have fun an

dann cuellar is live in montgomery county. to cecily tynan with the action alert. >> double scan showing the storms rolling through on schedule. they are focused on delaware and south jersey. there is a severe thunderstorm warning for parts of new castle, salem, cumberland and atlantic county. some storms pack wind gusts up to 60 miles per hour. that can cause damage. the line of storms i'm tracking over the delaware bay right now moving east at 30 miles per hour. this view alone, we have had close to 170 lightning strikes. sea breeze all in the path of the storm as it pushes east. it will start to weaken once it encounters the coast with cooler air. part of the problem with flash flooding, this is the third stormy night in a row. we have a flash-flood warning in effect until 1:45. do not drive into flooded roads, turn around and don't drown. it's hard to tell how deep the water is. lehigh university reporting a funnel cloud at the same time a radar that showed rotation. flooding, close to two inches of rain and trees damaged

dann cuellar, "action news" wphl-17. >> allentown mayor pawlowski says he's innocent and welcomes his chance to prove it. he is accused of exchanging contracts to donors for contributions. there have been six guilty pleas of people close to the mayor. pawlowski says corruption didn't reach the top. >> i want to make it clear to everyone, i have never done anything wrong. nor have i personally accepted a dime other than my salary as mayor. >> prosecutors accused former reading mayor vaughan spencer of similar crimeses saying he put a for sale sign up in front of city hall to put his office up for sale to the highest bidder. >> the walls came down in west philadelphia when a home collapsed with people still inside. then later, as the giant machines tore down the remaining unsafe structure. the residents of seven south ruby street say they heard creeking before a loud boom as the building split apart. one woman was left hanging for dear life from a second floor banister. neighbors crimed up to rescue her. no one was hurt in the ordeal and the couple's cat was also saved. lost was a mural

dann cuellar has the details. >> reporter: the gruesome and disturbing case involving drugs murders and burials by two cousin have left people in shock and disbelief. >> we'll never know why it happened. it just makes you sad. >> it's peaceful and tranquil, it's something you wouldn't think of around here. >> i'm shocked. i am shocked that anybody could do something little. >> i wouldn't want to be their parents. >> the painful and graphic case is detailed in the cosmo dinardo confession made public. sean kratz his cousin was his accomplice, he too, confessed and both were charged with related offenses. he said on july 5 he agreed to sell jimi patrick 4 pounds of marijuana for $8,000 and drove him to his family's 9-acre farm. when he had $800, he offered him to sell him in a shot gun. instead he shot him and used a backhoe and buried his body. cosmo dinardo planned to sell dean finocchiaro a quart are -- quarter pound of marijuana. cosmo dinardo meets up with tom meo and mark sturgis. he shoots tom meo in the back and mark sturgis runs away. he runs him over with a backhoe. the next day

dann cuellar has the details. >> reporter: the disturbing case involving drugs and murders and burials by two cousins left many in disbelief. >> we'll never know why it happened, but it makes you sad. >> it's peaceful here, very tranquil, it's something you wouldn't think of around here. >> i'm shocked, i'm shocked that anybody could do something like that. >> i wouldn't want to be their parents, i feel sorry for the family. >> reporter: the painful and graphic cases detailed in cosmo dinardo made public, he diamond out sean kratz ass as his accomplice. he was arrested. he tells investigators he agreed to sell jimi patrick 4 pounds of marijuana for $8,000. when patrick had $800. he offered to sell him a shotgun instead he shot him and used a backhoe to bury the body. he agreed to sell dean finocchiaro marijuana, but picked up his cousin, they took him to the farm where he shot him in the head. he meets up with tom meo and mark sturgis. the car was left at his parents property and they head to the farm where kratz is working. he shoots him in the back and falls to the ground screaming.

the family is pleading for help dann cuellar spoke with the family. >> reporter: the horrific accidentcene haunts the family of christopher cooper of northeast philadelphia struck by two vehicles after losing control of his motorcycle. >> they kept going and they have not turned themselves in yet. >> reporter: family members say cooper who worked for the philadelphia water department was an avid motorcycle rider. he was ridings wife's bike in christiana delaware. suddenly he somehow lost control and was thrown from the motorcycle and landed on the roadway. he was subsequently struck and killed by two cars whose drivers did not stop and render aid something unbelievable to his widow a registered nurse. >> it's unbelievable to think there are people on it there in the world like that, i care for everybody. >> i want the people to come forward admit to their mistakes. there's got to be front end damage to their vehicles. >> reporter: witnesses say the vehicle was 2014, 16 mazda iii and honda accord with front end damage. >> somebody has to see who hit christopher. >> i'm pleading with the

dann cuellar talked with the family. >> reporter: the horrific accident scene from last sunday nightly of 45-year-old christopher cooper of northeast philadelphia struck by two vehicles as he lay on the road after losing control of his motorcycle. >> they kept going they have not turned themselves in yet. >> reporter: family members say cooper who worked for the philadelphia water department was an avid motorcycle rider. sunday night at 9:00 p.m. he was righting his gsx on i-95 northbound in christiana delaware under the sr one fly over ramps. as you wouldly he lost control and was thrown from the motorcycle and landed on the road. he was struck and killed by two cars, whose drivers did not stop to render aid. something that's unbelievable to his widow a registered nurse. >> it's unbelievable for me to think there are i'm out there in the world like that, i care for everybody. >> i want the people to come the other day and admit to their mistake. >> reporter: witnesses described the vehicle as a silver 2014 to 16 moss did a three with front right damage, honda accord with front end d

the man's family told their story to "action news" reporter dann cuellar tonight. >> the horrific accident haunts christopher cooper of northeast philadelphia struck by two vehicles as he was thrown from his motorcycle. >> family members say, cooper who worked for the philadelphia fire department was an avid motorcycle rider. sunday night he was riding his wife's suzuki gsx in christiana delaware under the sr1 flyover ramp. suddenly he lost control and was thrown from the motorcycle and landed on the roadway. the drivers did not stop to render aid, something incomprehensive to his widow, a registered nurse. >> it's uncomprehensive i believable tothink there were pe world that day. i care for everybody. there has to be front end damage on their vehicles. >> witnesses describe the vehicles as a honda accord with front end damage. >> someone had to see who hit christopher. there has to be witnesses to come forth to tell us who hit him. >> he was a man loved very much. my life was taken from me now. >> if anyone has information that could prove helpful, you are asked to call the delaware state

i'm dann cuellar, channel6 "action news." >> rick?e philadelphia police union is offering a $5,000 reward to catch the vandal or vandals that wrote anti-cop graffiti." kill a cop, save a life." >> mayor jim kenney says he's angered by the hate speech and they'll use every tool to pursue criminal charges against the suspect. >> tonight good fellowship ambulance and ems training held a graduation ceremony. >> 14 paramedics receivedatn. they were greeted by applause from family and friends. >> a health check on whether dog owners have a leg up on those without pets. two out f towners that climbed to the top of the ben franklin bridge and f time. >> what killed sea world's last whale born in captivity. today's high, eight degrees below normal. we are tracking a chance of severe storms. we have details on when in the accuweather forecast. >> carson's comfort, ducis rogers hoa here for the qb on hw this season will be different on "action news" tonight. ♪ ♪ whoa! you're not taking these. hey, hey, hey! you're not taking those. whoa, whoa! y

dann cuellar talks to her. >> the smoking age in new jersey changes to 21. we'll tell you why governor chris christie says the issue hits close to home. >>> the big story on saturday, 5:30 a.m., the hot temperatures are hanging around for yet another day. we may end the day with fireworks in the sky courtesy of mother nature. it's all quiet right now across the area. as we take a live sky6 live hd picture over center city. there's quiet now with the exception of storms in south jersey, keep the umbrella handy, storms some of them potentially

dann cuellar joins us live from center city with more on her story. good evening, dan. >> good evening, monica. in historic vote among 83 judges, kelly hodge was named the first african-american woman to head the office of the philadelphia district attorney. she is a former assistant d.a. in the office. she tells "action news" she never imagined returning as district attorney even on an interim basis. >> i'm humbled and honored. it's something i couldn't imagine or conceive of. >> that is kelly hodge after being elected in the first judicial district. this to fill the remaining term of disgraced d.a. seth williams. her first priority? >> to restore faith in the community in the office and looking to the transition that will take place in the next few months. >> hodge started in 1987 as a public defender in richmond defender. she was appointed as philadelphia's safe school advocate in 2011 by governor tom corbitt. currently, she's in private practice with the law firm in blue bell. >> i enjoyed the time there. i'm happy to do this for the timeframe i h

. >> now to "action news" reporter dann cuellar in gloucester county.eing how people are preparing for possible flooding there. good evening. >> good evening. flash flood watches have been issued, but they are hoping for the best. they are urging people to be aware and keep an eye out. >> through the years, residents have seen flash flooding that happen suddenly and with little warning. >> the streams can't handle the rain, so it runs into my backyard, a stream here and a stream there. i have a lake in my backyard for a period of time until the water can recede into the lake. >> down the shore, visitors plagued by closed beaches earlier due to bacteria, hope it's not a wash out. >> we have made due. my son is digging holes to china. we are having a good time because we are with family. we are monitoring the storm. emergency management officials are paying close attention. we look at storm drains to make sure they are clear. >> the owner of nick's salon is watching the forecast too. she's used to storms like this but hopes for the best and keeps sandbags

video shows williams entered the intersection in her black toyota she stops and cut off by a does dann that turns left -- n that turns left in front of her, her car is hid by another and the husband died from injuries he suffered in the crash. williams has not been charged in the crash. >>> we're getting a look at the mess left behind from a violent confrontation by a passenger on delta flight. the flight turned back to seattle after it took off to beijing. joseph hudek tried to pry open a security door. he hit a person over the head with a wine bottle. he escaped a chokehold and being hit by wine bottles himself. a flight attendant and passenger suffered non-life threatening injuries. >>> a huge greater attacked a worker in florida. the gator grabbed on to the worker's arm as he was looking for gulf balls. he has undergone surgery and expected to survive. he was taken away by a fish and wildlife team. he is paid by the golf course to resteve balls from the water. -- retrieve balls from the water. >> reporter: let's get you outside and we'll show you what's going on here in our neck of

dann. >> do you have enough to file homicide charges for at least the one victim?ing we are going to look at very very closely. i feel that we bought ourselves a little bit of time in charging mr. dinardo with the stolen car case today and getting that 5 million bail. it is my hope that he does not post that but that is his provocative of course if he can post it but we are going to start looking seriously at the homicide charges and, in fact, we already have pursued that option. >> do you suspect additional of the four reported boys? >> yes i'm sorry, no, i misunderstood you. not at this time. >> okay. >> what kind of condition were the remains in? >> i don't want to comment on that, but you can draw some logical conclusions they were found inside a 12 1/2 foot deep hole we had to excavate. >> that is a pretty big hole, one person there or were there other people involved in this? >> i really can't say we are still examining the evidence the investigation as you all know has taken two tracks. it has been about recovery on one side and about ascertaining what actua

dann cuellar is live in bensalem township where police are searching another property and have just takenrish, let's begin with you. a lot to talk about. what are these late developments. >> reporter: well, jim, the bucks county district attorney has said this has been like finding needles in a haystack. they're following strong leads and resources from all over bucks county are being used to find these four men officials say they now believe that will foul play is involved. on day two of the exhaustive search for four young men, investigators focused on several locations in solebury township including a field on upper mountain road off of route 202. >> we dedicated a ton of investigative resources there.

becomes one of the biggest challenges facing police forces across the country, officers are falling danndisabled refugee who was beaten to death and set on fire outside his home was repeatedly failed by the police, a report finds. in a moment, volvo becomes the first major car maker to say it will phase out petrol and diesel—only cars in two years' time. sport now, and a full round up from the bbc sport centre. including everything that has happened at wimbledon today! we will come to that in a moment. but in the last 15 minutes or so... the british and irish lions have named an unchanged side for their deciding test against new zealand on saturday in auckland. coach warren gatland has kept faith with the team that levelled the series in wellington last weekend. so here it is... liam williams was the only real fitness doubt, but he's selected at fullback. mako vunipola continues in the front row despite suggestions his lack of discipline may cost him his place. and sam warburton will once again captain the side trying to win a series against the all blacks for the first time since 1971.